Half of the Crossover Wars, a massive web comic crossover. A group of villains with an Evil Overlord decide to take over the Web Comic universe. Their first success is the "other half" of the crossover, Cameo Comic.
After the Crossover Wars it began two separate storylines, one, Deception's Tail, follows Deception after the Wars, the other is a prequel telling of the Time of the Thingies & fills in how Zworgue came to be what he was in the Wars.
It can be found here.
Tropes used in Evil Overlords United include:
- Angels Pose: Saru, Gothia & Dotty Lampshaded as well.
- Become a Real Boy: Catnap wants to become human
- Cameo: A LOT.
- Cool Gate: The DRACO (Dimensional Reality Arcane Crossover Organizer)
- Crossover: No, seriously?
- Even Evil Has Standards: This comic
- Evil Gloating: Check
- Evil Overlord: The Editor.
- Fan Disservice: This comic
- Five-Bad Band: The Evil Overlords
- The Big Bad: The Editor
- Co-Dragons: Deception, who actually is a dragon, and Jason Fellback
- Evil Genius: Dr. Catastrophe
- The Brute: Celine Quickenice, because of her powerful telekinesis
- Dark Chick: Zworgue, at least until his final evolution.
- Fun with Acronyms: DRACO
- Funny Animal
- Genre Savvy: Just what you'd expect from someone called The Editor.
- Giant Spider: Personal servants of the Editor.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Zworgue speaking Quebeccian.
- Milestone Celebration: Information on the different Overlords revealed at 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, & 100 strips
- Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate: Dr. Catastrophe
- Multiversal Conqueror: Well, at least they tried.
- Nanomachines
- No Fourth Wall: The Overlords know they are webcomics characters.
- Noodle Incident: A reference to "a toilet plunger, a beaver, and 10 rolls of duck tape". When an explanation was asked for, the reply was "You Don't Want to Know".
- Shout-Out: In the epilogue we can see Dr. Catastrophe and Celine in the famous pose from Crisis on Infinite Earths #4
- Shower Scene: Yep!
- Talking with Signs: Zworgue, who uses a sign stolen from Framed!.
- Time for Plan B: Mindmistress's Plan B
- Villain Protagonist: Six of them, actually.