Chugworth Academy - TV Tropes
- ️Wed May 09 2012
Chugworth Academy was a webcomic drawn by Dave Cheung that ran from 2003 to 2008 focusing on the wacky exploits of a group of students. While the website has lapsed, it can be viewed at least in part through the Wayback Machine
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This comic provides examples of:
- The Ace: Sally is a straight-A student, down to earth, and a near-pro level tennis player. Her only real flaw is liking Kiyoshi.
- Animesque: From the art to the basic premise, it's thoroughly anime-inspired.
- Artifact Title: Other than keeping some of the female leads in schoolgirl outfits, the comic winds up having very little to do with Chugworth Academy itself.
- Asian Speekee Engrish: Kiyoshi's Japanese father constantly swaps his Ls and Rs. ong.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Ellice, Sally, and (usually) Chloe.
- Brainy Brunette: In contrast to Ellice, brunette Sally is a straight-A student.
- Career-Ending Injury: Sally breaks her legs due to Kiyoshi's idiocy, ruining her shot at a tennis title and causing them to break up.
- Companion Cube: Chloe's stuffed bear with a pierced ear. She often talks to it.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: One early arc had Chloe running foul of the RIAA, who in the Chugworth universe have their own cops and are not shy about Police Brutality.
- Don't Explain the Joke: it has a gag where an extremely apathetic Straight Man and Wise Guy act has the Dope Slap replaced by the narrator Explaining The Joke.
- Dumb Blonde: Ellice is a sexually-active, dumb blonde.
- Emo: After Sally breaks up with him, Kiyoshi becomes a stereotypical emo kid. His own father sees him and thinks he's a random girl.
- Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Part of the Author Appeal, there's a great deal of sex scenes both between those in a committed relationship and those who are... not.
- Fanservice: To the point where some strips are simply drawings of girls without any words being said.
- Only Six Faces: A common complaint about the comic is that, hair and clothing aside, characters' faces are pretty interchangeable.
- Nipple and Dimed: Female nipples are never shown, though plenty of skin is shown throughout.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Bobby constantly speaks in street slang.
- Really Gets Around: Ellice. She even sleeps with Kiyoshi's father.
- Shout-Out: Tyrone has a rich Uncle Bill, butler named Gregory, and a short cousin named Charleston.
- Take That!: A couple of strips were done as a Take That! to people requesting Rule 34 of the female characters... one of which was a Bait-and-Switch, and did show a naked character—Kiyoshi.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Part of the reason Demitri Splammodopolis hates Kiyoshi, as Demitri's father loves Kiyoshi and ignores Demitri.