Tails Gets Trolled

The cover of Chapter 1.

For the first chapter of the comic, see here.

Tails Gets Trolled is a webcomic created by Lazerbot. Originally released on 2011, it focuses on the titular character, Tails, being trolled which slowly leads to a series of events centered around revenge, multiple opposing factions, betrayal, necromancy, the clap, weed, romance, and more.

Premise

The story of Tails Gets Trolled begins with Tails being trolled in the first chapter. Tails and friends soon enter conflict with The Trolls and things begin to spiral out of control as they realize that there is much more going on in the world than a conflict between the two groups. Tails and his friends are separated in the ensuing chaos and are split into their own journeys (mostly) centered around dealing with the Trolls.

Summary

 

The story starts with tails walking down a forest, where they encounter retard double threat who troll tails. Tails, upset, goes to sonic for help. Sonic suggests using peace to stop trolls while shadow speaks against the idea. Sonic and Tails then encounter the trolls who trolled tails, and their attempt to make peace failed. After this, Knuckles, Shadow, and Tails encounter retard double threat once again, to which shadow starts insulting them in return right before killing them. They then bury the bodies. Elsewhere, troll king is informed that Butter tits and The Dick Taker are slain, and tells pori to find and warn shadow, and so he does, only to be met by mario, at this point, pori gets away, and so does mario. Shadow tries to warn sonic that trolls are after tails, to which the 2 argue before being encountered by pori, the Brothers from another mother gang, and Brandon, who begin insulting amy and are slain shortly after. Elsewhere, silver gets trolled by alex, which angers him, the scene then switches to mario and his brother, luigi who killed a group of trolls trolling a goomba. The two trolls are slain shortly after. The scene then switches to tails, who catches alex trolling kirby(or a creature resembling kirby), tails attempts shadow's ways of dealing with trolls and fails miserably. Elsewhere, shadow gets a group of people and they form the troll slaiyers, they then come up with a plan to kill all the trolls, which ends up being the justen bever concert, which is built with the help of Coyote, after shadow killed the Road Runner. The scene then focuses on tails and sonic, sonic vows to kill the trolls after having found out about tail's encounter with alex. The next day, the troll slaiyers get ready, everything is set in motion and everything seems to be going well for the slaiyers, but things take a turn for the worst when fudd and alex reveals daffy, who is the trolls' hostage. It is then revealed that luigi told the trolls, and explain his reason for betraying the slaiyers, which results in the mario brothers fighting. As luigi delivers the final blow, shadow bails out mario by killing daffy, which angers bugs, who destroys the remote that can detonate the explosives the building is rigged with. Angered, shadow shoots bugs, which shocks everyone. Shadow then punches alex, only to get the favor returned to him as Garry arrives. The slaiyers then flee back to bug's place. The scene goes to sonic, who kills eggman, takes his emerald and searches for the trolls, and succeeds in doing so. Sonic and the troll king fight, While both their allies join in on the fight. Sonic's friends, barring vector, are slain, garry's face is burned and troll king kills sonic. Shadow hears this news as well as mario's true intentions, and mario flees with Yoshi. Meanwhile, luigi reveals his intention to troll king, and tears his arm off, only to be cornered by Garry, Hindo, and Alex and defeat by a Word of Death. Elsewhere, tails just left a waterpark and is captured by The defenders, and pacman explains his story. The scene switches to Silver and is group. They infiltrate troll fortress and silver enter a troll off with Underbite Troll. Silver then breaks in to the laboratory, to which Heimerdinger explains his situation, silver is then caught by troll king, and flees. Rob, elmer, and the others fight various trolls including alex, and nightfall comes. Troll king then encounters mario, and they begin their battle.

History

The comic began in 2011, when the first three pages were released on DeviantArt on October 10th, with further pages being released in a similar manner. The comic would continue on steadily up until 2015, taking a 2 year break until the most recent chapter, Chapter 22: The conclusion Part 2, was released in 2017. The script (and notes for what would occur in the following chapters) would later be released in text format on August 27th, 2017.

After releasing Chapter 22, Lazerbot had attempted to reboot the series with Tails Gets Trolled Polished, which received a lukewarm reception from fans, and did not continue past the first chapter. On December 2017, the comic was placed on hold until November 2019, where the cover for Chapter 23: The conclusion - Part 3 was released, with a team of volunteers drawing out the script released in 2017. Upon completion, Lazerbot returned and continued the story beginning with Page 19 of Chapter 23.

On April 26th, 2021, it was announced that Lazerbot would no longer work on Tails Gets Trolled due to personal reasons. The next day, however, his brother, Embergram announced that he will be continuing the series in his absence.

For a more in-depth look into the development process and delays behind Tails Gets Trolled, see Hiatuses of Tails Gets Trolled.

Staff

Lazerbot
Role	Chapters
Creator
Story Writer	All
Character Designer	All
Main Scriptwriter	1 - 15~
Artist	1 - 22
Active Involvement	1 - 24
Guest Artist	23 - Present

Embergram
Role	Chapters
Active Involvement	All
Ideas	1 - 5~
Story Writer	5~ - Present
Main Scriptwriter	15~ - Present

Art Team
Role	Chapters
Artists	23 - Present
Active Involvement	23 - Present

~ = rough estimate, not exact

Reception

The comic gained much of its notoriety upon being discovered by Something Awful, and a thread was created on February 18, 2012. Many of its users expressed bewilderment at the rather bizarre and graphic depictions of Tails and friends being trolled and the ensuing chaos, leading to an article being made on the front page for the comic on February 28, 2012. Something Awful user Aramek would later provide voice overs for the first few chapters, leading to an eventual audiobook/dramatic reading to be published on YouTube under the account "tailsgetstrolled". One of the SA users behind this project also produced ten songs based on the first ten chapters of the comic, and music videos for the first two songs. The original tailsgetstrolled YouTube account has been abandoned, but has been succeeded by a newer one titled ultimatetailsgetstrolled.

A Know Your Meme article for the series was also added on March 16th, 2012. Later that same year, on May 23rd, a TVTropes page was also created for the series.

On May 2nd, 2018, YouTuber Ben Saint of the Pro Crastinators Podcast uploaded an extensive lecture focused on explaining the happenings of Tails Gets Trolled which has gained over ~220k+ views.

The comic has also gained a notable following on the "Video Games" and "Comics & Cartoons" boards of 4chan, with "dumps" (group readings) happening from time to time.

The Unsettled Tom meme, gaining popularity around March 2019, originates from the comic.