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** ''[[Deus Angst Machina|Funky Cancercancer]]'' has become the accepted [[Fan Nickname]] for ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'' following the [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-5/01-a-talking-car-joins-the-cast/cancer/ parody strip].
** [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-9/10-faz-gets-his-comeuppance/hatefuck/ "For your information, Mike and I pound each other every night in the most epic of hatefucks."] The line [http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=10808 started a meme] in which people would take panels from other comics and edit it in to see if it worked. Willis claimed in his blog that the Roadblock one was his favorite.
** [[Red Hood and
* [[The Scrappy]]: Malaya for some. Some find her grating and annoying and hate her constant bitching while contributing nothing. The fact that she was created as the result of a fan's bitching doesn't help matters.
** It really says something when her pet iguana, Fuckface, is a [[Ensemble Darkhorse|vastly more popular character]] despite doing nothing but sitting around with the same facial expression.
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** Ken falls under this for some for being a flat-character whose main plot has come to revolve around being a [[Dogged Nice Guy]] for Malaya, who is actively disinterested in him. [[Loving a Shadow|His blindness to her faults and the largely superficial basis for his attraction]] tends to make people dislike him and dislike her more too.
** Amber is one for those who can't get past the way she started her relationship with Mike.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Or maybe just [[Hypocrite|hypocrisy]], but Willis often makes points about just how terrible and oppressive and [[Jerkass|just plain mean]] straight white males are by putting his own arguments in the mouths of minorities (gay men, black women, etc.). Since he is himself a straight white man, it could easily be considered appropriation, where he makes use of the struggles and trials of others to make his own points.
** [http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-14/03-totally-babies/imagine/ He also said that he makes comics on sexism for people who already agree with him]. This was apparently in response to people asking him to try and be a little clearer, for the people who might misunderstand him (who are implicitly imaginary). [http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1682 In the next comic], he said that the people represented by the strawman were really just trying to "justify sexist attitudes". Because there couldn't possibly be any flaw on ''his'' end.
** Sexual assault, occasionally bordering on potential rape, is often played for comedy.
** Willis seems to see no issue with [http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=886 exposing young children] to sex and nudity. Recent pages having Ultra-Car pleasure Malaya in public view and even drawing a porn comic in which two parents try to have such loud sex the other will wake their child.
* [[Villain Decay]]: Mike is getting it ''hard'', leaving behind the central concept that he "just was" as he was.
** Although Mike was generally the flattest character in the Walkyverse for [[Rule of Funny|comedy]] [[Refuge in Audacity|purposes]], he did have a few hints of depth every now and then, especially in his relationship with [[The Woobie|Dina]]. For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131122072528/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20031015.html this comment] to Joe suggested that Mike may have actually cared for Dina and caused a firestorm of debate about Mike's character when the strip first aired.
** Faz even moreso. He has lost any semblance of power and has been so thoroughly defanged that he can no longer plausibly threaten Amber or Ethan - he's just a [[Butt Monkey]] now.
** [[He's Back]]. Mike's {{spoiler|marriage proposal}} to Amber is almost certainly his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moment of...Being Mike]]. {{spoiler|A whole year ago he found out that Jacob had a crush on Amber, as well as a sex adiction. He had also promised that when Amber's mom Stacy came to visit, he ''wouldn't'' bang her. So he switched the numbers of their (his and Jacob's) appartments and stole Stacy's phone so that when she came back to look for it, she would end up knocking on the door of Jacob and get seduced by him. Then Mike recorded the resulting sounds and edited them into an actual marriage proposal}}. [[Magnificent Bastard]] indeed.
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