Webcomic / Wigglyverse

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The Wigglyverse is a series of comics by Jacob "Floatyspacecat" Lawrence that have been running since the first Covid lockdowns in 2020. It started as a collective fever dream in a Good Omens Discord and grew legs and ran away to Instagram where it has been for the last five years. The comics follow the lives of worm-on-a-string Caerwyn Wiggly and his friends Heidi Babger, Odin Biscuits, and Gary^note whose parents have the surnames Barrett and Rowland, but which name Gary took hasn't yet been revealed. The series takes place in a fantastical version of Wales where Funny Animals and several fantasy creatures live and being queer is more normalised (though bigotry still exists).

These comics contain examples of:

• Adults Are More Anthropomorphic: Most of the anthropomorphic animal characters seen act like humans, but young kittens Simón and Garfunkel tend to act more like actual cats.
• Always Identical Twins: Averted with Simón and Garfunkel Biscuits — they may be twins, but they have different fur colours. Justified, as they are based on two real-life cats owned by a friend of Jacob's.
• Animals Not to Scale: Furfs, Jace's parent, is a giant possum. Fellow possum AJ towers over the land and is big enough to reach into Heaven itself.
• Birds of a Feather: Gary and Odin both have a strong interest in LGBT+ topics, which helps cement their friendship. It starts in primary school when they discuss starting a gay-straight alliance following a lesson on family units and later on they start a webshow called The Gay Agenda.
• Boomerang Bigot: Though he's grown out of his childhood homophobia, Gary could be considered a retroactive example of this as he's biromantic asexual.
• Cast Full of Gay: There are more queer and transgender characters in the comic than there are straight or cisgender ones. Out of the main squad, Caerwyn is gay and trans, Heidi and Odin are bisexual, and Gary is biromantic asexual. In fact, the only character who has actually been confirmed as straight is Quantum Star Toffee.
• Coming of Age Story: A major part of the story is the main gang becoming more rounded characters in their adolescence.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Heidi had this as a child, but outgrows it by adolescence.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Angels, possessed dolls, giant possums, and mothmen are just a few of the many creatures that inhabit the Wigglyverse.
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Heaven in the Wigglyverse is depicted as a cloudy realm. However the skies are purple and full of twinkling stars as opposed to the usual blue skies version of this trope.
• Foreshadowing: In the arc leading up to Caerwyn going on puberty blockers, he begins experiencing cramps, which are later confirmed to be menstrual cramps, as he is transgender and beginning AFAB puberty.
• Former Bigot: Gary grew up parroting his mother's close-minded beliefs on non-traditional families until the squad called him out on it. After that, he worked towards becoming a better person and became friends with them, even getting involved in LGBT+ issues and realizing his own queerness.
• Funny Animal: One of the main species in the Wigglyverse, with the main cast including a badger, a cat, a polar bear and a possum.
• Happily Adopted:
  • Heidi is legally adopted by the Wiggly family in her teens so she wouldn't be looking for a home after leaving foster care and take a break before starting university. They later go on a family trip to Italy together.
  • The Everfloof family seems to accept haunted doll Bee as a member almost immediately after she comes to life.
• Happily Married: Peter and Beni Wiggly, Caerwyn's fathers, love each other dearly and a flash-forward to Caerwyn's adulthood shows that they are still together in old age.
• Hollywood Genetics: Unlike the rest of his family, Simón is orange, while most of the Biscuits have black fur. Justified in that the Biscuits are all based on real cats and their owner.
• Interspecies Adoption: The Wiggly dads, both worms, adopt Heidi, a badger, and treat her as their daughter.
• Interspecies Romance: Caerwyn, a fluffy worm, marries Stu, a frog. They later have a hybrid tadpole-worm child in a flash-forward.
• Living Toys:
  • Bee is a doll possessed by the spirit of a deceased girl named Grainne.
  • The Wiggly family are living worm-on-a-string toys.
• New Baby Episode: The Biscuits have a story arc involving Julia's pregnancy with Simón and Garfunkel, leading into their birth and infancy.
• Non-Heteronormative Society: Downplayed. The Wigglyverse version of Wales treats same-sex couples as equally as opposite-sex ones, with no distinctions made. There are also several transgender and non-binary characters too, and transphobia seems to be virtually nonexistent. However, there do exist a few bigoted characters, so it’s possible that the comic’s world is not free of discrimination, and just chooses not to focus on it.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: As there are no human characters in the Wigglyverse, every non-binary character is this. For example, Jace is a possum who uses they/them pronouns.
• Our Angels Are Different: Angels in the Wigglyverse appear as grey-skinned humanoids with only eyes on their faces.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Gary's mother Jane is a recurring antagonist. She is both homophobic and transphobic^note though she claims not to be the former as she voted for marriage equality and was the source of Gary's childhood bigotry. As a result, her husband Dave divorced and became estranged from her, raising Gary alone.
• Reactive Continuous Scream: When Jace finds out their doll Bee is alive, both of them do this. It also marks the point where Jace's speech transitions from a single "a" to a string of "a"'s.
  Jace: AAAAAAAAAAAA
  Bee: aaaaaa
• Reformed Bully: Gary starts out as a bigoted bully to the main squad and later undergoes a Heel–Face Turn, becoming a friend to the squad as well as a main character.
• Sparkling Eyes of Excitement: Caerwyn had these all the time as a child. He loses them permanently when he can't fit into his favourite boot anymore and realises that Growing Up Sucks.
• Sudden Anatomy: Caerwyn has hidden legs under his fluff that he can expose whenever he wants.
• Tuckerization: Many of the characters are based on people Jacob knows. For example, the Biscuits family are based on his friend Julia and their cats Odin, Simón and Garfunkel.
• Turn of the Millennium: The bulk of the comic follows the gang growing up in this period, with their adventures being drawn from Jacob's childhood and adolescence.