Pietà Plagiarism/Web Comics

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Examples of Pietà Plagiarism in Web Comics include:

• Kevin and Kell, normally a very gag-based comic, had one here, following the death of Danielle.
• Parson pulls one of these in Erfworld.
• There's at least one in the Walkyverse.
  • At least one? If a major character dies and leaves a body, there's a greater chance that this will happen as the series goes on. In Shortpacked, it was used for unconscious characters, considering how Death wasn't so cheap there.
• Breakfast of the Gods gives us (spoiler warning) this. And yes, that is Tony the Tiger cradling the lifeless body of Cap'n Crunch.
  • Later on the inversion, Cradling Your Kill is used: the Pietà pose is of an enemy holding his victim.
• Occurs near the end of the first volume of fantasy comic Garanos.
• Pastiched by Dasien and Mindmistress on this cover in The Crossoverlord.
• In one of two pages being added to the second printing of Girl Genius Volume 6 to fix a layout issue, Agatha tends to a freshly dead Lars.
• Done with the accidentally slaughtered Raccoon #1 in The Intrepid Girlbot.
• Rumble Bee of Super Stupor strikes this pose with her mentor when he ceases to exist during the Cataclysm in this strip.
• Seen in Juathuur here, with inverted genders.
• Dominic Deegan shows this trope during a flashback to the slaughter of a group of students by a sadistic Infernomancer.
• El Goonish Shive. Grace is shown doing it in this comic, right after knocking the guy out with a sleeper hold.
• Weapon Brown: ME GOYLE!!
• In Blue Yonder, Iron Agent carried Jared like this after the injuries he suffered.
• Karate Bears need a mop.
• Homestuck manages to pull it off both seriously and mockingly at the same time thanks to Sburb's kiss-revival system.

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