Imagine Spot: A lot of Me Gusta moments result from the characters realizing that their current (mundane) activity is similar to something awesome, like an action movie scene, and immediately imagining themselves in that spot.Idiot Ball: Expect anyone with the Herp Derp face to carry it proudly.I Lied: Pretty much the point of the "I Lied!" face, though more often Played for Laughs than for drama.Hair-Trigger Temper: Rage Guy himself.Guilty Pleasures: Whatever the Me Gusta guy reacts to.Gonk: A lot of the rage faces are intentionally ugly.
Glasses Pull: The astonished variation is done by the Mother of God guy.Gender Flip: Some of the rage faces have a female variant that is entirely redrawn from the original.Freddie Mercopy: The comics have the " Freddie Mercury pose ◊" which means an awesome victory, and even has a variant, the " So close pose ◊".First World Problems: A lot of things that infuriate the Rage Guy are everyday minor inconveniences.Filler: More often than not, "True story" is used to fill up a fourth panel in a comic that would otherwise only be three panels long.Face Framed in Shadow: The "Oh God, Why?" guy.Everything's Better with Rainbows: The Puking Rainbows Guy represents the supreme adoration and happiness.Enraged by Idiocy: The "Are You Serious?" guy.Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: The Trolldad.The Determinator: The Actually It's Not Okay guy.Death Glare: "What's All This Racket?" guy.Deadpan Snarker: Cereal Guy tends to be portrayed as this.Dastardly Whiplash: Sported by the "I Lied!" guy.Cut and Paste Comic: All faces, especially the multi-purpose Cereal Guy.Curse Cut Short: The Rage Guy's "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU".Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Several of the supporting faces (such as "You don't say", "True story", and "Watch out, we've got a badass") are trace-overs of real people.This contrasts with the common usage, where the Trollface simply annoys/pranks people without a problem. The creator's next use had him actually pull the face (called "cool face") to nervously cover from a police officer. Characterization Marches On: When the Trollface was originally created, he was actually shown as desperate and unsuccessful into pissing off his target.Captain Obvious: The "You Don't Say?" guy is used as a response to obvious statements, itself taken from a contour drawing of Nicolas Cage in the film Vampire's Kiss.Atomic F-Bomb: The Rage Guy's signature "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU".Nowadays, that is no longer the case but the title stuck. Artifact Title: Early strips universally ended with the Rage Guy raging.Abusive Parents: The trolldad occasionally hits this point.Alice and Bob: Most characters in the rage comics go by the names Derp, Herp (both male), Derpette, Derpina (female), and derivatives.Longer comics are also common, but they are almost never broader than two panels in a row (since most websites that host rage comics have a picture width restriction). The character reacts, often with uncontrolled rage if the previous panel ended in failure.The character does something about it (alternatively: a Beat Panel).The main character is introduced doing something ordinary.The most common rage comic template consists of four panels (not unlike Yonkoma) arranged in a 2x2 for better browser readability: While the format has largely died out since 2016, rage comics are still considered an iconic part of early 2010s Internet culture, and some of the characters and formats that originated in them are still used today. More "rage faces" have been introduced, and by the early-mid 2010s, hundreds of rage comics were produced and uploaded online every day, alongside LOLCats and other memes.
The original rage face was the "Rage Guy", to whom the format owes its title. Originating as a collection of anonymous webcomics posted on 4chan back in 2008, the format quickly spread across the web, thanks to its accessibility (pretty much anyone with Photoshop and online access can produce a rage comic within minutes) and the catchiness of many "rage faces". Essentially a Cut and Paste Comic format with a shared pool of recurring face sprites, most rage comics tell short anecdotal stories with a punchline from their authors' lives. "rage face comics" are not a single webcomic per se but a massive agglomeration of unrelated webcomics by different authors across the interwebs, united only by their distinct style and topics. Clockwise from bottom-left: Trollface, Everything Went Better Than Expected Guy, So Much Win Guy, LOL Guy, Rage Guy, Cereal Guy, Pokerface, Fuck Yea Guy, Forever Alone Guy under the table: Oh God What Have I Done? Guy
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