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Britain's most famous [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|"Adult"]] comic (it is the only non-porn title to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021021237/http://www.ppa.co.uk/public/downloads/retail/research/PPA12ppMMMFMbrochurevMay26.pdf considered] an "adult publication" by the British Professional Publishers Association), ''[[Viz]]'' began as a satirical fanzine in Newcastle and has grown hugely since.
Many of the characters and stories are deliberately exaggerated stereotypes, and there is a solid core of people in the UK who can't get enough of [[Subverted Kids Show|the sight of the word "fuck" in a talk balloon in what looks like a children's comic.]]
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A typical issue will contain a few strips that appear in virtually every issue, a few more that are less frequent, and a few one-off strips that [[Captain Obvious|only appear once]]. The one-offs often feature [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|celebrities]] or historical figures in ludicrous or obscene situations.
At its best, ''Viz'' can be funny, well written, downright witty and even occasionally thought-provoking. At its worst... let's not go there.
During the 1980s, ''Viz'' was repeatedly threatened with prosecution by
Not to be confused with North American anime importer [[Viz Media]].
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Viz contains so many tropes that one can confidently predict that this page is going to grow. Here are a few obvious ones for a startoff.▼
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▲''Viz'' contains so many tropes that one can confidently predict that this page is going to grow. Here are a few obvious ones for a startoff.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Eight Ace.
* [[All-Natural Snake Oil]]: "The Modern Parents"
* [[
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: [[Sid the Sexist]] had a few animated shorts.
** There's more. Sweary, corrupt TV presenter Roger Mellie, The Man on The Telly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYglDJUtGBE also had a series] ([[NSFW]]). The voice of Roger may sound [
** Billy the Fish. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytz2hDT_9LE Observe].
** Not forgetting the [[Claymation]] version of The Fat Slags ([[NSFW]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zt999ueHW8 footage here]) over a decade before the film version.
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* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Raffles the Gentleman Thug
** Also Victorian Dad.
*** Mr Logic. Most of the
* [[Ascended Meme]]: The internet-ism "fap" being included in Roger's Profanisaurus.
* [[BBW]] The Fat Slags. It might not sound like it, but The Fat Slags is all about two heavily overweight women who nonetheless have sex several times a day, with a different man almost every time.
* [[Big Ball of Violence]]
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]/[[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[British Accents]]:
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Sid The Sexist.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Sid the Sexist.
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Parodied in a Goldfish Boy strip, where a hotelier demands that the Reverend Brown, the [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|strip's actual main character]] perform the last rites on a dying guest. Brown points out that he's a Church of England priest and therefore has no idea how to do the Catholic last rites, but the hotelier is completely unable to grasp this point.
* [[Conviction
* [[Death
* [[Designated Hero]]: Parodied in Jack Black and his dog Silver. He's an amateur detective who gets people punished often using legal [[Loophole Abuse]] to see if they have
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Terry Fuckwitt, Ratboy and Suicidal Sid have all had girlfriends that look like female versions of themselves with [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]. One issue of Spoilt Bastard had his mother dating a man who had a daughter. The daughter was a [[Spoiled Brat]] girl named Angelica, and the father was a [[Spear Counterpart]] to Spoilt Bastard's mother.
* [[Double Entendre]]:
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: [[Meaningful Name|Cissy]] Timpson, Spoilt Bastard's mother.
* [[Fake Rabies]]: One comic strip ran a story about the then recent opening of the Channel Tunnel. An apparently rabid French dog emerged on the English side, and the main character exclaims "Oh no! In a [[Million-to-One Chance|million to one scenario]], a rabid French dog has made it through the Channel Tunnel!" The dog is shortly followed by its owner who explains that far from being rabid, it ate some soap, which it had mistaken for cheese because [[Dirty Foreigner|we do not have soap in France]].
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* [[Gasshole]]: ''Johnny Fartpants''.
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Parodied in "Raffles the Gentleman Thug", in that Raffles isn't (usually) a thief but just a gratuitously violent and bullying [[Jerkass]].
* [[Has Two Thumbs And]]:
* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: The writers get quite creative with their synonyms. The recurring feature and spin-off book "Roger's Profanisaurus" is built on this.
* [[Jerkass]]
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* [[Kavorka Man|Kavorka Women]]: The Fat Slags. They're tremendously overweight and [[Big Eater|eat a buttload of food]], yet they still manage to bed some studs.
* [[Long Runner]]
* [[Nephewism]]: Jack Black is always shown spending every school holiday staying with his Aunt Meg. The "Ferdinand the Foodie" strip includes Ferdinand's nephew Jamie as a regular character. The trope is used in an interesting way in "The Modern Parents". Malcolm and Cressida's sons find their parents so irritating they wish they would disappear forever so they could be adopted by their Uncle Eddie, and in fact they end up staying with him and his family quite often after the parents have got themselves into trouble yet again. When Eddie's wife appears she makes no secret of the fact she hates Malcolm and Cressida and would rather their kids came to see them on their own.
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: The Modern Parents.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
* [[No Communities Were Harmed]]: Originally, most of the comic's strips were set in Fulchester, a stand-in location that was meant to be just a generic British town, with some occasional similarities to Newcastle, the comic's hometown. In more recent years though, most strips actually are set in Newcastle, the main exceptions being Roger Mellie (mostly set in London), The Fat Slags (set in Mansfield, according to [[Word of God]]) and The Boy Scouse (set, as you'd expect, in Liverpool). The only strip that seems to still be regularly set in Fulchester is Billy the Fish.
* [[Nostalgia Filter]]:
* [[Not Even Bothering
* [[Oop North]]: In "Fat Slags". In the 30th Anniversary issue they lampooned the way London based media tends to present the whole of northern England as one place by having The Critics comment on Viz's anniversary. They referred to Newcastle as a [[You Fail Geography Forever|"tiny Lancashire mill town"]] (a jab at the ''[[Fat Slags]]'' film, where Fulchester was depicted this way even though it's meant to be an [[Expy]] of Newcastle) and having [[You Fail Geography Forever|"Merseyside Docks"]].
* [[Pink Mist]]: the ending of any Big Vern strip.▼
** Billy the Fish was a parody of ''[
** Roger Mellie sent up the 'nice on screen, horrible person elsewhere' television presenter by not even pretending to be nice on screen.▼
** Even ''[[
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: In one Sid the Sexist strip, Sid and his friends get ensnared by a clip joint -- a club which lures you in with attractive women, then charges you an extortionate amount for otherwise inexpensive drinks -- and are then charged £1,400 for four pints of beer. Although it was intended to be an exaggeratedly huge amount, the artist later found out that £350 per drink is actually ''normal'' for a clip joint, and that the only unrealistic thing in the strip was that most clip joints don't actually bother serving any real alcohol, and just serve various mixtures of fruit juice instead.
* [[Reality Warper]]: Terry Fuckwitt is such a stupid twat that he forgets how the laws of physics work, leading to [[Mind Screw]] stories.
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]:
* [[Rhymes
▲* [[Satire Parody Pastiche|Parodies and Satires]]: many, of the most heavy-handed kind!
▲** Billy the Fish was a parody of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_of_the_rovers Roy of the Rovers]'' and other football comics, intentionally playing up the bizarre situations and [[Contrived Coincidence|contrived coincidences]] used to create drama.
▲** Roger Mellie sent up the 'nice on screen, horrible person elsewhere' television presenter by not even pretending to be nice on screen.
▲** Even ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' wasn't safe; a one-shot had Dr. Poo - "He flies round the universe looking for somewhere to have a shit". More [[Affectionate Parody|affectionate]] than the rest, it featured the [[Crazy Awesome|Fourth Doctor]] and enough [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] to choke a Sea Devil.
▲* [[Rhymes On a Dime]]: Most of the characters and strips have rhyming names, often lampshaded with absurdly contrived rhymes like 'Tony Slattery and his Phony Cattery'.
* [[Snowlems]]: In the '90s the comic would feature a seasonal parody of ''[[The Snowman]]'', in which the snowman is a violent, drunken pervert who takes the young boy drinking and gambling with him.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: As in the [[Unusual Euphemism]] example below, visual [[Sound Effect Bleep|Sound Effect Bleeps]] (not always involving actual sound effects) are often employed on the cover so it can be displayed in shops, or simply for humorous effect. One recent cover featured the word "bollocks" partly obscured by a smoke cloud. And then there's the "Continental Europe" poster, in which the first O <s>quite possibly</s> ''certainly'' wasn't an O but had a seagull hovering over the top of the letter.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Timmy "Spoilt Bastard" Timpson.
* [[Spoonerism]]:
* [[Straw Critic]]: The "The Critics" strip consists entirely of this trope.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Millie Tant▼
* [[Strawman Political]]: Millie Tant (lesbian feminist), The Modern Parents (trendy liberal/environmentalist), Victorian Dad (reactionary), Major Misunderstanding (reactionary), Billy Britain (racist/fascist), Meddlesome Ratbag (right-wing [[Moral Guardian]]), Young Jack Black (leans towards fascism). All are buffoons and/or hypocrites.
** Actual politician Baxter Basics ''isn't'' an example of this, as his strips tend to be more about his corruption than partisan politics.
** In fairness, those strips started out as parodies of people who claimed to hold a certain political stance while not actually understanding anything about the stance in question, and they tended to make some very valid and well thought out points. Unfortunately, [[Flanderization]] set in afterwards...
▲* [[Straw Feminist]]: Millie Tant
* [[Subverted Kids Show]]: The art style owes a lot to British children's comics. The content... less so.
* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]]: The one-off strip "Tubby Tucker the Big Fat Person".
* [[Suicide
** Occasionally occurs with Terry Fuckwitt as well, but something always stops him succeeding.
* [[Take That]]:
** As mentioned above, the response to D.C. Thomson's copyright complaints, the full title being ''D.C. Thomson the Humourless Scottish Git''.
* [[Tar and Feathers]]: In "Jack Black And His Dog Silver" in one issue, a palaeontologist is tarred and feathered for believing in evolution.
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* [[Toilet Humour]]: Where to '''''start'''''?
** Well, a good place might be with Billy Bottom, whose strips are always about his adventures while trying to take a crap...
*** Ditto for ''[[Doctor Who
** The various Bottom Inspectors strips portrayed a totalitarian regime where the secret police had the right to, well, inspect everyone's bottom. Various critics claimed this was political satire; in fact [[Word of God|the writers just wanted an excuse to print]] [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|as many words for "buttocks" as they could find in their thesaurus.]]
* [[Universal Adaptor Cast]]: It's fairly common for there to be strips where the characters are out of their usual setting and in other scenarios such as Victorian times or the far future, or are used in parodies of other work. Examples include The Fat Slags in a parody of Batman and Jack Black in a parody of manga.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Most characters curse explicitly, but Sweary Mary had to invent a new oath ("fitbin", apparently really rude, if it meant anything) in order to appear on the cover which would be displayed in shops. Raffles the Gentleman Thug renders all obscenities into Edwardian English, "Fornicate this ordure!", "It's micturating down" "Onanists!" etc.
* [[The Vicar]]:
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Inverted by Roger Mellie; the TV executives are usually the ones insisting that viewers want to watch highbrow material, whereas Roger's pornographic retoolings of popular shows inevitably end up being massive hits.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]:
** Sometimes you get both. One of the strips featuring Biffa Bacon had him at a restaurant, where he thought the chef was insulting him by giving him such a small amount of food, which Biffa decided to respond to with violence. Unfortunately the owner of that particular restaurant happened to be [[
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