What It Takes

What it Takes centers on Colbey, a martial artist who survives the end of the world. Armed with knowledge, experience and a machete, she is searching through what's left for a man named Peter Wolfe. You can read it here.

Tropes used in What It Takes include:

• Action Survivor - Justified in that Colbey had survival training before the flip.
• After the End - The story takes place after civilization has fallen due to an unnamed event.
• Boom! Headshot! - Subverted? Not? After all the shot went straight to the throat.
• Boyish Short Hair - Justified, as this is in part a matter of survival.
• Brand X - As evidenced by that Built Frod Tough truck.
• Cosplay - "No larping on duty!"
• Curse Cut Short - "Arthur can go fu"*kick to the stomach*
• Groin Attack - Seen here.
• Leave No Witnesses
• Living MacGuffin - She's searching for Peter, who is perfectly fine living in pretty much the last city
• Mooks - Pretty much every one of Arthur's goonies Colbey encounters. Dead faster than you say w-wai-!!*gunshot*. link. In fact you can sign up to die as a mook in the comic.
• N-Stac How does Colbey keep meeting people from before the flip? N-Stac.
• Precision F-Strike - Or rather... a Precision FS strike.
• Utopia Justifies the Means - Everything was going great with rebuilding the university until Colbey realized anyone too old, young, or inconvenient was just being executed...