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[http://www.thenoobcomic.com The Noob] is yet another gaming [[Web Comic]], which sets itself apart from most others by focusing almost entirely on parodying [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]]. The story originally revolves around Ohforf'Sake, the [[Player Character]] of an [[The Everyman|Everyman]] gamer who [[Walking the Earth|wanders aimlessly]] and [[Idiot Hero|cluelessly]] around the world of [[
As the comic has gone on, the focus has shifted from Ohforf himself to various other characters in the game world, including the Outcasts (a band of [[Player Killing|Player Killers]]/[[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Heroic Comedic Sociopaths]] whose storyline included a pastiche of ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]''), another, smarter, female newbie called Hypatia, Sir Bob the veteran player, the hapless members of a roleplaying guild and the game developers themselves. The comic spends much of its time mocking [[MMORPG]] tropes and the absurdities of the genre, along with the players and developers of such games, but with [[Affectionate Parody|far too much insight to be truly malicious]].
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* [[Bowdlerize]]: Parodied. When a player named himself Dick Tracy, a GM changed his name to !@%& Tracy (and banned him for a week).
** The Devs briefly introduced a filter to censor all homophobic comments, which rendered D34dly incomprehensible. It was gay.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Baron Wolfgang Von Epeen became the leader of Efficient Omniscience and decided to talk trash to Absolute Endgame - even after he was told that one of the developers was in their guild.
* [[Call Back]]: Arsemode has shown up several times, in increasingly elaborate variants.
** Quantum-arsemode!
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** And there was the time the devs included Limb-Loss (a parody of Stat-Loss as was used in a [[Ultima Online|real game]]) for PKers when they were killed as a form of karmic retribution. This is the reason Fred the Dread has a hooked hand. And Drakoola had killed so many players before dying himself, he is literally only a nose by this point.
* [[Loud of War]]: OhForf is punished by listening to the bards, and temporarily goes crazy.
* [[Old Shame]]: Before he became a PKer, Dakilla was part of a role-playing guild.
* [[Overused Copycat Character]]: Spoofed, with all the elves trying to think of new ways to call themselves [[The Lord of the Rings|Legolas]]).
** Ohforf [http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=3 got his name] because the guy playing him got frustrated after being unable to find a new version of a famous fantasy character.
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* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: ([[In-Universe]]). Al, one of the developers, is also a PvPer who despises all non-PVP content and constantly fights with the other developers when forced to work on "carebear content". [http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=285 He later gets his revenge.]
* [[Stripperific]]: Parodied. Hypatia complains about it, and not to mention the cover for the game's patch...
* [[Shout-Out]]: Directly to ''[[City of Heroes]]'' at one early point. Not to mention that in many ways Clichequest seems to share a little too much in common with ''[[Ultima Online]]'' and ''[[
** Given the name of Clichequest, it's not exactly likely to be a coincidence...
*** The Noob shouts out to Everquest repeatedly. Over and over again. From the gag about the elven population dwindling because the newbies walk out of the treetop city and fall to their deaths (city of Kelethin), or when the new expansion was marketed by including a 3D bustline on the package (Firiona Vie), to the author acknowledging that one of the strips was based on an experience of "camping" a monster for 17 days...
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