I’m going to level with ya. This article doesn’t so much have a strict theme (Nickelodeon, Disney, etc.) so much as it has a bunch of funny webcomics that I frantically e-mailed my editor begging to use. But it does bring the lols. I’ve assembled some of the funniest webcomics around featuring your favourite characters from video games and movies. I can guarantee that you haven’t seen all of these. I know because it’s my job to find obscure and hilarious images from around the web, and most of these were brand spanking new to me too.

Some of these artists are among the most talented cartoonists making free web content, and not simply because they can draw a passing Mario. They possess that rare combination of a comedian’s timing and a cartoonist’s sensibilities. What I love about webcomics is that they often boast a dark sense of humour you just can’t get away with in traditional media forms. That has everything to do with the level of their independence. There’s no censor board hovering with a black pen behind them. So as you read these, it feels like you’re kicking back with one of your friends as they deconstruct the plot holes of wholesome Disney movies or games. If you laugh out loud half as much as I did collecting these, you’re in for a swell time.

Here are 25 Kids Character Comics.

24 Super Smash Bros. Special

As the name might suggest, Smash Bros has been nothing but a smash for Nintendo stock. Switch owners are eagerly awaiting any news of the next installment on the new console. But has anybody ever stopped to think about what the characters are going through when you force them to duke it out? At some point, you must’ve wondered why the Mario family was trying to throw themselves off ledges and beat each other to a pulp with hammers? This comic implies there’s a kinda Toy Story premise going on every time you boot up Smash Bros. Characters who love each other have to battle to the end for your sick, gladiatorial satisfaction. Peach and Mario and Yoshi and Kirby suffer a hundred ends a night— each more brutal than the last. They fight for the day the console will break and they will finally rest. And it’s fun!

23 Gunslinger Used Shoot! It's Super Effective!

Pokémon is fraught with logic problems. Take for example this comic from the ever-talented Berkely Mews, which so ably demonstrates my point. Trainers who have reached that boiling point in an argument often duke it out by standing on the sidelines and letting cute little monsters do all the fighting for them. This guy just nopes and shoots the competition. It’s probably the most realistic thing that would happen. Can you really say that people in the heat of an argument would stop and make someone else do all their fighting while they strategize? Then again, old men in offices play essentially the same game with young peoples’ lives on the frontlines so maybe this isn’t all that far-fetched.

22 Tastes Like Chicken

I can’t look at Willy Wonka’s face in the last panel without breaking at least a smirk. If you think this comic is so ridiculous and implausible, let me put this to you: the only thing unbelievable here is that Wonka himself hasn’t taken a bite of that yummy oompa-loompa himself. Do you really think the old shut-in who lives in a giant edible factory with all his foreign species servant laborers wouldn’t start wondering what one of them tasted like? You can eat everything else. I can just see the rest of this scene, though. There’s a growing red puddle where the Oompa Loompas used to be and the kids’ mouths are covered with red as Willy Wonka tearfully tries to turn it into a song.

21 Letsa Get Rid Of Evidence, Mama Mia!

Everyone’s favorite mustached Italian plumber runs around savagely ending goombas all willy-nilly, but have you ever stopped to think about the consequences of just one of these deaths? This comic actually thinks about the collateral damage that Mario’s slapdash frolicking has when he accidentally makes a goomba exploded. That goomba had a mother, a father, maybe a lover. What follows is a dark descent into what the reality of taking a life would be. Forced to cover his tracks, Mario digs out a shallow grave and falls into a bout of deep depression before the toadstools put together their inevitable case against him. Then it’s only a matter of time before Mario makes his final jump in prison— from which he will never come down.

20 Her Heart Is Sub-Zero

A classic spin on the old “FINISH HER” from Mortal Kombat. This one-panel comic is artfully done and the icicles on Sub Zero’s face are a nice touch.

We’ve all been there. Your girl or guy leaves you because you’re spending too much time playing Mortal Kombat. It’s not so much that you’re spending all your fine playing video games instead of being together, it’s more that your ex can’t handle that you’re so into a franchise that hasn’t been relevant since the nineties. Bro, you don’t need her. The only thing that’s sub zero is that girl’s heart. She— she wasn’t even that— OH GOD SHE WAS THE GREATEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME.

19 Hurts As Much As A Real Boy

When you wish upon a star/you better be careful that your dark-age contemporaries don’t burn you for trafficking with black magicks.

This might now funny for some of you. Rest assured, it’s plenty funny for me. Here’s a fun fan theory. What if Jiminy Cricket was really Satan all along? Think about it. He claims to be Gepetto’s conscience, but then maybe Gepetto’s just evil and morally bankrupt? Plus, who likes crickets anyway? They’re loud and keep people up all night while they try to get it on with other crickets. Plus, wishing upon a star is really wishing upon a great big dense mass of fire, the closest thing to hell that exists in the universe. Solved it, guys.

18 Link's Gonna Make The Pain Go Away

The House of Skulltula in LoZ: Ocarina of Time is indeed harrowing. To jog your memory, or perhaps for those who never experienced the godliness of Ocarina (in which case you should stop reading right now and get on that), the House of Skulltula was a side-quest. A once-wealthy family had been cursed into becoming half-human, half-spider hybrids. This comic pokes fun at the animation, but they were deeply unsettling. I should have been enough to boost the rating of the game up to M. Ocarina boasts a family friendly veneer, but the mere existence of the Skulltula family and their curse belies Hyrule’s morally depraved underbelly. For the arachnophobes out there, it wouldn’t be enough just to burn the house; you’d need to burn down the Nintendo 64 with the Ocarina cartridge still in there as well.

17 I Only Regret I Have But 57 Lives To Lose

There are plenty of existential head-scratchers in video games, specifically the Mario games in general. Like, does he just Groundhog Day every time he dies or does he really get reborn, Kenny McCormick-like, into a new body? This comic envisions the latter interpretation... and it’s expectedly awful. By respawning into a new body, his old body is left to fester in the spot he perished. All Mario has to do overcome a hazardous fall is get a game over again and again. By doing so, Mario climbs over the bodies of the fallen to reach his goal. It’s a perfect metaphor for corporate culture. Do away with the competition and use their bodies as a ladder to the top!

16 The Deathly Hellos

In the magical world of Harry Potter, wizards and witches can’t naturally speak to snakes. In one of the very first scenes in the series, Harry bro’s out hard with a snake during Dudley’s zoo party, a testament to JK Rowling’s plotting, foreshadowing, and lore-sprinkling magic.

Harry learns the truth about his powers in The Chamber of Secrets when Malfoy summons a snake into the middle of a duel and Harry charms it by speaking Parseltongue. None of the other kids understand — and it would appear, neither does the snake. Maybe Harry doesn’t quite possess the Parseltongue he thought he did, as his first college girlfriend will later gently break to him (Shut up! YOU’RE projecting!)

15 Attack First, No Questions Later

One of the longtime complaints against the video game medium is that it promotes violence. And if you were an early nineties housewife or house husband, then spying on your precious little darling corrupting himself with The Legend of Zelda would only seem to confirm your greatest fears. “Look at those horrible depictions of violence rendered in glorious cutting-edge 8-bit splendour,” you would have proclaimed. It’s true, for all of The Legend of Zelda’s family-friendly rep, you really are going around solving all your problems with a sword. Link doesn’t even speak. He points his sword first, and then doesn’t even ask questions later. Then again all the great heroes in all the great myths just use their fists or swords— and there’s nothing morally problematic about those legends, right? Right?

14 How Do YOU Like It?

Think the aliens are jerks? Congratulations. Now you know what it felt like for every rarely-visited hobby shop owner during the Pokémon Go craze. Imagine them as they suddenly heard the front door bells chime with the promise of a customer in the first time forever — maybe they could pay for their daughter’s operation after all — only for you to use their Pokéstop and forsake them to their lonely desolation once more. Hope you feel good about yourself, Brian. That’s right, I just scrolled through TheGamer Facebook fan pages and chose a random subscriber. The rest of you are like, “who’s Brian?” But the one Brian who plays Pokémon Go who read this is going to be freaking out.

13 We're Not Worthy!

The notion that being a girl who plays games is somehow rare and noteworthy harkens back to a benighted time in the nineties or early ‘00s. That was a time people were still getting stuffed into lockers for playing DND instead of rolling initiative for hot dates. Damn it’s a good time be alive, but I digress. One of the ways nerdy dudes get such a bad rap — aside from the whole vampirically subsisting in their mother’s basement stereotype — is that boys tend to put girls who play games on a pedestal. That’s not true of everyone of course. I think it can work both ways, and it’s even natural to idealize the opposite gender when you’re a teenager so long as it’s not creepy and you eventually grow out of it. This comic offers the best prescription to my mind. Gamer guy or girl, bond over the fact you both love games.

12 When You Need My Ledge

You used to call me on my cell phone/late night when you neeeed myyyy ledge.

If there’s one thing I’ll never get tired of, it’s Drake Hotline Bling memes. I know, I know. All he does is brush something off in the second panel and then approve of something in the fourth panel, but gosh dang it, it’s gold every time.

Here we have Assassin’s Creed Drake loving dem ledges. When an assassin is sneaking around town, he’s got to have some footholds for maximum sneakiness. Ezio or Drake or whatever can’t very well perform a leap of faith without first shimmying up, can he? As you will recall from Drake’s masterclass in awkward dancing, the Hotline Bling music video, we can assume that Drake/Ezio climbs walls the same way Drake dances. That is, not well.

11 Mario Vs. Crippling Lower Class Malaise

Mario Odyssey is a strange one, and that’s saying something for a video game series premised on an Italian plumber eating mushrooms to save a princess from a dragon monster thing. In Mario Odyssey, Mario gets to visit all kinds of new worlds— from the prehistoric land of the dinosaurs to the mean streets of New York City. Yeah. As this comics shows, the difficulty setting of that level is set to the max for reasons that have nothing to do with platforming. Mario can’t eke out a living as he subsists on minimum wage. For the real struggling Italian plumbers out there, this comic is less laugh out loud and more cry out loud.

10 You Know You'd Still Go See It

The summer’s favorite buddy duo is back— except this time they’re in the wrong Ragnarok. If you didn’t know, Ragnarok Online was an MMORPG from the year 2002. The characters battles cute little monsters, such as the one Hulk so viciously squished to a pulp. The joke ends there. It’s just the name that’s similar. But let’s be real. Marvel could release this exact movie next year and we would all whine about how bad it looks— on the way to the cinema to watch it for the third time. If it’s directed by Taika Waititi, you’re gonna be there and you don’t get a choice. That’s legally binding. In fact, Marvel would probably release a whole slew of Avengers/Ragnarok Online spinoffs with their own branching spinoff universes AND YOU KNOW YOU WILL GO TO EVERY DANG ONE.

9 Oh No... What Have You Done!?

Ever wish you could be transported into your favorite video game worlds? With VR, it’s becoming more of a real possibility every day. And if Skyrim modders are any indication, the true heroes of modern gaming, it will be a fruitful word indeed. That is, if you act appropriately. Left to your own Grand Theft Auto-induced rampaging devices, Pallet Town could be laid to waste real quick. All it takes is one unethical hacker and suddenly you could be Kanto’s greatest threat since Team Rocket— worse because you would be actually good at being Team Rocket. I’m gonna call it now and say it isn’t long before someone makes a sick and twisted Pokémon game where you can eat Pokémon and use them for furs and worse. The most sick and twisted part? I kinda wanna play it, dawg.

8 Link's Pot Problem

What devilry be this? Actually reaching into pots and withdrawing their contents instead of breaking them? Heresy! As any Zelda fan is distinctly aware, there’s a great big triforce-sized hole where Link’s conscience should be. He just invades people’s homes and takes what he wants. You could argue he’s doing it for the good of Hyrule and to deadest the great evil that is Calamity Ganon or whatever, but the fact remains he should still ask. Link goes around breaking into people’s homes like soldiers used to feel entitled to walking into people’s homes and spending the night. Maybe if Link had ever asked politely, someone would have told him how to work the advanced pottery technology. No wonder he has no respect for the villagers if he thinks they’re spending all the time making pots for later destruction to store their valuables.

7 Prince Eric's Shallow Waters

This comic points out Prince Eric’s shallowness with unfailing logic. He needs to fall in love with Ariel in three days, but her inability to speak in that time might be the problem? Let’s be real. I DON’T THINK HE MUCH CARES. This is a guy who keeps a girl he can’t actually talk to around for three days just because she’s hot. And then he immediately falls for the next hot girl because she’s hot too. In fact, there’s an argument to be made that he’d like her less if she were talking. It’s not like they’d have a lot in common.

“WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE BODY OF WATER, ERIC?”

“Yours, gurl. Why don’t you get a little closer--”

“I LIKE TURTLES.”

6 Just An Everyday Chosen One

Young Adult fiction has taken the book industry by storm in recent years. It’s the genre that has all your English teachers tossing their half-finished manuscripts and bemoaning the state of modern literature— as they secretly contemplate selling their soul for a piece. The genre is not without its tropes and failings, some so obvious that even tweens reach new heights of eye-rolling whenever they pop up in books. Adam Ellis lampoons these failings all too well with this comic. Often, YA tends to have “chosen ones” who are essentially Mary Sues— meaning stand-ins for the author and impossibly perfect in every way. There will, of course, be a couple of indistinguishable guys fighting over female protagonists. *Cough* Twilight *cough*. Sorry I was coughing. Now my throat is clear, I can say it loudly: TWILIGHT.

5 You Lost Just Reading This

Ah, Dark Souls. The game so unapologetically difficult that I once walked in on it and I lost, even though my roommate was playing. The point of this comic will strike close to home for all fans of the franchise. No matter what you do, you’re never more than a few steps away from your next Game Over screen. You can’t even open it as a gift without getting a game over. But the franchise knows its demographic well: sado-masochists. No matter how hard they make it, we keep crawling back for more. With a remastered Dark Souls coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year, FromSoftware is thrilled to tap into a new child demographic and make them suffer too.