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[http://rpgworldcomic.com/d/20000827.html ''RPG World''] is an award-winning webcomic by Ian Jones-Quartey, part [[Affectionate Parody]], part [[Take That]], part [[Homage]] and part original spin on the idea of a ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' style console RPG and the characters who dwell in them, as well as the [[Video Game Tropes]] encountered in such games. Also full of [[Anime Trope|Anime Tropes]].
''RPG World'' was abandoned shortly before the [[Final Battle]] with the [[Big Bad]], so readers get no payoff after an [[Archive Binge]]. Back around September 2009, Jones-Quartey asked for interested fans to continue the series. Nothing ever came of that though, and in January 2010, he wrote for people to just let the series die already, and that he didn't want it to continue. As of August 2010, he has apparently deleted all the actual comics from the site, although the site itself is still intact. However some fans have preserved the series, you can download it [http://www.mediafire.com/?ydjjho4rzqh here], [http://www.mediafire.com/?q4zqnhqdy0l here] and [http://www.mediafire.com/?24xeyywzotm here].
It once crossed over with ''[[Adventurers!]]'', in a [[Story Arc]] titled "Eh It Had To Happen".
Jones-Quartey later posted [[YouTube]] shorts called ''nockFORCE'' on his [[Live Journal]] when his schedule permits. He stopped doing that since September 2009.
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* '''Cherry:''' The Lvl 50 Thief; an elven thief who can also summon, who is one part of the [[Triang Relations]] of the party.
* '''Diane:''' The Lvl 49 Mage; The magic user and healer of the party.
* '''Eikre:''' The Lvl 46 Outlaw; The enigmatic.
* '''Reka:''' The Lvl 42 Science Pirate; The [[Wrench Wench|girl]] [[Gadgeteer Genius|genius]].
* '''Dragobo:''' The Lvl 37 Cute Fuzzy Thing [[The Voiceless]] and [[Team Pet]].
* '''Howard:''' Another cute fuzzy thing and apparently the White Mage.
* '''Rabble-Rouser:''' A dance battler. The strip ended very shortly after he joined the main party.
* '''Galgarion''' - the [[Big Bad]], who had his own [[Theme Tune]] and was romantically interested in Cherry.
* ...and a [[Cast Herd]] of [[NPC]]s.
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* [[An Adventurer Is You]] - Hero and his party naturally.
* [[Aerith and Bob]] - from Eikre and Galgarion to Diane and Jeff.
* [[Affectionate Parody]] - ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', and most long-plot console roleplaying games.
* [[Artifact of Doom]] - The Mystical Keys, which are in the shape of four books. Two known books so far, the Phoenix Book and the Tiger Book, contain encyclopedic information on taking over the world and evil ethics/war tactics/strategy respectively.
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]] - Ian polled readers to find out which character in the comic would win a swimsuit competition. After the results were tallied, it was revealed that character with the second highest number of votes ("Red Haired NPC Girl") was really just Hero, the lead male character, dressed like a girl.
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* [[The Chosen One]] - Actually three of them. Hero, Cherry and Diane. Long story.
** Parodied with Hero who, while he IS someone chosen, keeps calling himself the Chosen One in Langoria, where he isn't. The elves just give up trying to convince him otherwise.
* [[Cutscene]] - usually placed at the end of a story chapter, paralleled to the end of a disc on the game. There was an [[Art Shift]] to not only color but a more detailed style to ape the fact that console games go from sprites to more elaborate animation for such scenes in games.
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]] - Eikre's Top Cut manages to OHKO a boss character the group was having trouble with as his introduction but he hasn't used the move since, and it's acknowledged.
* [[Creator Breakdown]] - The author seemed to turn against his own work based on what he expected from his fans vs. what he got. (Apparently one source of this was that he expected people to love the photocomics of himself and his friends as the ones "playing" ''RPG World'' that were put up between chapters as much as, if not more than, the drawn comics. When the readers found them tiresome and said they should be done away with, he was outraged.) This inevitably lead to...
* [[Creator Backlash]] - In what's still one of the more infamous tantrums in well-known webcomics, the author screamed out his fanbase, declared the comic abandoned to get back at them, and stormed off in a huff. He then spent some time afterwards doing all he could to breed resentment and hatred in the fandom that was left.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] - Galgarion is a borderline example of this trope. He's not exactly a moron, but his tendency to be [[Affably Evil]] makes it easy to be surprised by things like when he {{spoiler|raided the Mubble villiage and drained the souls out of most of them, including Howard's girlfriend.}}
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Cherry, usually.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]] - The inconsistency between colored and uncolored comics is [[Justified Trope|explained]] as the television set the game is being played on constantly switches between monochrome and color.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]
* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]] - {{spoiler|The ''flower'' was Galarion!}}
* [[Duel Boss]] - Jeff was looking to be one of these for Eikre when the comic went on permanent hiatus.
* [[Easy Amnesia]] - Hero had it, and there was very little that happened to help him resolve that.
* [[Eat the Dog]] - one of the filler pages.
* [[Evil Is Stylish]] - Galgarion
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* [[Foreboding Architecture]] - Galgarion's tower.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]] - Reka
* [[Genius Ditz]] - Hero
* [[Genre Savvy]] - Diane convinces Hero to escape the village when she tells him an [[Old Master|"Old Man NPC"]] wearing a mysterious cloak told them to.
{{quote|'''Hero''': An Old Man NPC?! They never say anything impure!}}
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* [[Hidden Elf Village]] - Langoria.
* [[High Altitude Battle]] - in Cherry's homeland, an elven city in the trees.
* [[Homage]] - well, sort of.
* [[Ho Yay]] - Galgarion and Jeff get this a lot. Jeff being a bit of a [[Bishonen]] doesn't help at all. It's [[Lampshaded]] in a couple of strips where the two are [[Not What It Looks Like|caught in]] [[Mistaken for Gay|compromising positions.]]
* [[Knight of Cerebus]] - Jeff, although Galgarion had a few [[Dead Serious]] moments.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] - Galgarion, as seen in [http://rpgworldcomic.com/d/20040616.html this comic].
** And Jeff was hinted to be using a variation of it in [http://rpgworldcomic.com/d/20040630.html this one].
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] - The elevator up to Galgarion's suite before the comic was abandoned.
* [[Orphaned Series]]
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] - Especially when most of them present are [[Hot Amazon|Hot Amazons.]]
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* [[Red Herring Mole]] - One of the most elaborate examples ever. The comic goes into so many ways Eikre could be Galgarion that it looks like it could be a parody of really, really obvious Moles, helped by the fact that Galgarion's ''real'' disguise is [[The Dog Was the Mastermind|so incredibly subtle]].
* [[Running Gag]] - Hero's stupidity, Cherry questioning a lot of videogame tropes, Podder-head's [[Butt Monkey|bad luck]] and his complaining about not having his arm repaired when asked to attack.
* [[Shapeshifting]] - [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Detestai, Earl, and Larry]] can change into cat monsters as their primary power, but Detestai can only perform partial transformations as she never learned how to control herself while fully transformed.
* [[Sexy Santa Dress]] - For the Christmas strips.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] - Cherry in the ballroom scene, although Hero was [[Medium Awareness|more impressed with the polygon count in the model for her]] for this particular [[Cutscene]] than with her beauty.
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* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] - Eikre
* [[Wham! Episode]] - {{spoiler|Reka's death, proving that for all his goofiness and swooning over Cherry, Galgarion [[Not So Harmless|was really Evil]].}}
* [[Yuppie Couple]] - The "Times Are Tough" guy.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Reka claims that Galgarion killed her father, an accusation he denies. Whether or not he actually did is never confirmed.
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