Status Quo Is God/Web Comics

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Examples of Status Quo Is God in Web Comics include:

  • Averted in Schlock Mercenary, where their fortunes have shifted up and down, having gone through multiple ships, and have lost and gained secondary characters on many occasions.
  • Sexy Losers had a rule, declared early on by its creator in his annotations: "Everyone is locked into their sexual perversion of choice." This meant, unfortunately, that his characters had little wiggle room—note how quickly the storyline "The Seduction of Madame X" cuts off; by the seventeenth time he's recycling jokes. Eventually, the series came to an abrupt halt, which may have been the writer realizing he was out of things he could do with the characters without breaking his rule.
  • Ménage à 3 is the typical example of this trope. Gary is a geeky virgin who never even had a girlfriend. Some girls have the hots for him, but thanks to bad timing, sexual trauma or personnal interference from his friends that are more than willing to sabotage it, rest assured that it will never happen, EVER. And since the de-virginisation of Gary is the main point of the series, as long as the authors have plot ideas, it won’t happen. When it finally does, this will probably conclude the series.
    • Got subverted HARD after ~540 strips.
  • That's what happened with Treading Ground. In 2003, strip #6 establishes the main plot: Rose has the hots for Nate, but the 21 years old guy doesn't want to have sex with the 16 years old girl until she's of legal age. After eight years (about one year in Comic Book Time), in which both character had plenty of sex (just not with each other), they finally realise they were victims of SoCalization, for 16 is legal age in their state. In 2011, strip #251 concludes the series with them holding hands... And still not having had sex together yet.
  • Insecticomics goes out of its way to show that it won't do this, particularly in the areas of Thrust's change to female and the disbanding of the Brigade.
  • In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob: Bob's roof will always, somehow, get repaired after having been destroyed earlier in the story. Lampshaded by the fact that it is unapologetically a Running Gag.
  • The cast of Sore Thumbs was missing Cecania's special ability to sell games when she went off to Romania, so Harmony got a ridiculous boob job. Once they brought Cecania back, Harmony had them removed.
  • Lampshaded and averted in PvP when Robbie wins the lottery.

Cole: Trust me, Robbie is going to walk through that door and inform us that everything has returned to the status quo.

Cole: Any minute now...

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