Axe Cop/YMMV

• And the Fandom Rejoiced: Fans of Axe Cop have been clamoring for a Crossover with Dr. McNinja since day one. When it was announced, both fandoms rejoiced. When it finally started, the site's traffic caused the server to slow to a crawl for the next two days and advertising costs on axecop.com suddenly increased twentyfold.
• Ass Pull: The Secret Agent Brothers consistently use contrived solutions one after the other in their missions.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: Drawn by an expert hand... with a six-year-old as the writer.
• Big Name Fan: After receiving numerous Twitter messages about it, Simon Pegg read Axe Cop and liked what he saw. He went on to recommend it himself on his own Twitter, along with other cast members of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  • The Ben 10 crew are fans too, and sent Malachai a signed Ben10 poster as a birthday gift (he's a fan). Very awesome.
  • A staff member from The IT Crowd asked for a copy of the CHOP poster to place on the set.
  • Rich Werner, creator of Plants vs. Zombies, provided a rendering of Zombies Vs. Plants for Ask Axe Cop #53. And of course, both Ethan and Malachai are fans of Plants vs. Zombies.
• Complete Monster: Hasta Mia, who killed her own dog parents after deciding she could do whatever she wanted. Lobster Man, her brother, is out to stop her.
• Crazy Awesome: MANY examples (see page image), including a T-Rex that breathes fire, has a "super duper fast bite", wears cop glasses, has "robot machine gun arms", and can fly into space, and can also transform into a dragon with rocket wings.
  • Wexter plays the violin.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In a Halloween Ask Axe Cop, he is asked to design the scariest haunted house ever. The hypothetical family is left horribly, horribly traumatized. Then? A mechanical spider-camera hands them a DVD of their experience to enjoy in the future.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: You never would have expected this to spawn from a webcomic, but here it is, and it is glorious.
• Designated Hero: Many of the actions of Axe Cop and company would be morally questionable in a story that was meant to be taken seriously.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Happens once to the Moon Warriors in the strip drawn by Malachi. Its done so hilariously though that this is proof that when played for laughs Tropes Are Not Bad.
• Dude, Not Funny: Axe Cop locking a baby in a closet to keep her from eating, and putting cyborgs nearby to punch her any time she cries, drew quite a few complaints.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Several, most notably Baby Man, Wexter, Mr. Stocker, and Bomb Joe.
  • The Secret Agent Brothers' minions, Dave Chicken and his car, also qualify.
  • Bat Warthog Man is now having his origin story told in the main series.
    • And then the comic topped all of those combined with the fan reaction to Army Chihuahua.
  • Super Axe, Axe Cop's classmate from fighting school and the only axe-wielding superhero, already has a fanbase clamouring for him to team up with Axe Cop some time.
• Nightmare Fuel: Various cases, but particularly the Baby Head Squid. That's some (perhaps unintentionally) creepy stuff.
  • Baby-Man's family, in large part because it's just so surreal. The shadowy drawing style and total lack of dialogue on the page that introduces them suggest that this may have been intentional.
• Memetic Badass: Axe Cop With Lemon doesn't get to stick around for long, but the fandom still declared him as being even better than the already-awesome Axe Cop.
• Memetic Mutation: REEEET!
• Misblamed: According to one interview, Moral Guardians wil occasionally call Malachai's childhood into question based on Ethan's more graphic artwork.
• Moral Event Horizon: Keeping with the Parental Abandonment themes, Hasta Mia crosses this after murdering her parents.
• The Scrappy: Lobster Man and his domineering attitude earned a number of haters in his first few appearances. This didn't last long when his backstory revealed him as the brother of Hasta Mia desperate to stop her.
• Squick
  • Or, rather, "Plink."
  • What Axe Cop thinks of Lobster Man's plan to attack Hasta Mia.
  • The real final villain of the Ultimate Battle.
  • At the end of Bad Guy Earth, Axe Cop prays for God to make everyone on Earth poop in their pants. Cue Reaction Shots.
  • The original draft for the epilogue of Axe Cop Babysits Uni-Baby had the Magic World Police forcing Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier to eat their own poop and drink their own pee for the rest of their lives, which they get around by cloning themselves. Fortunately, Ethan refused to draw the comic this way, so the story was changed so that they would eat the rabbits that were too old to use instead.
• Too Cool to Live: The Moon Warriors and Fwinky Dog.
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Axe Cop(with lobster mental powers), Drag-Tri-Ghostacops Rex, Sockarang(a bum-Santa Claus man with socks for arms that he can shoot as boomerangs), Wexter the Dragon T-Rex with Machine Gun Arms and Rocket Wings, Presty the Teleporting Pug, Ralph Wrinkles the Talking Dog that Knows Karate, the Moon Warriors, the Baby Family, Zombie Lobster Man, Zombie Hasta Mia, Zombie Fishy Fish, the Zombie Cop army and an entire army of superheroes vs. Doctor Doo Doo and his fecal army. It's as awesome as it sounds.
• Unfortunate Implications: Chapters 81 and 82 paint Axe Cop as a misogynistic slavemaster. In this universe, specialists can be bought for as much as $10.