50 Fun Facts About Homestuck

Which Homestuck track began life in an EarthBound fan hack and later reappeared in Undertale?

Megalovania was written in 2008 for a Halloween-themed hack and remixed for Homestuck in 2011, four years before it became a boss theme in Undertale.

Which unpopular typeface fills Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, the strip by Homestuck's Dave Strider?

Comic Sans sits beside shaky lines, spray-paint smears and heavy JPEG artifacts in the strip. Its print edition was proudly billed as 'the worst comic strip ever'.

Which baking brand revolts Homestuck's John Egbert, despite the cakes all around his bedroom?

Betty Crocker is no throwaway gag: a later heroine of the story turns out to be the heiress to the brand's fortune.

Despite the name MS Paint Adventures, which program did Andrew Hussie mainly use to draw Homestuck?

Adobe Photoshop drew almost everything. Only the first page of Hussie's first adventure was made in Microsoft Paint, after which he decided the program was not feasible.

Which game's beta does John Egbert install in Homestuck, triggering Earth's destruction?

Sburb works like a sandbox game that lets its players reshape the real world, and its premise was inspired by games such as The Sims and EarthBound.

What is John Egbert celebrating on April 13, 2009, the day on which the story of Homestuck opens?

His thirteenth birthday doubles as the comic's launch date, and Homestuck published its final chapter on the same day exactly seven years later.

Which crowdfunding site raised nearly $2.5 million in 2012 for the Homestuck game Hiveswap?

Kickstarter backers met the $700,000 goal in under 32 hours, and the campaign finished as the third-highest-funded video game the site had then seen.

Which actor, Rufio in the 1991 film Hook, became a Homestuck fan and inspired one of its trolls?

Dante Basco began reading after friends told him Rufio appears in the story. A new troll, Rufioh, was then written with the actor's own typing quirks and personality.

Which restaurateur and TV host appears as a character in Homestuck, as does Barack Obama?

Guy Fieri shares that odd honour with the rap duo Insane Clown Posse, who also turn up in the story as themselves.

Which Nicolas Cage film supplies the stuffed bunny that becomes an important prop in Homestuck?

Con Air and its toy rabbit are among several celebrity in-jokes in Homestuck, whose hero John Egbert has a passion for really terrible movies.

Through which chat application do Homestuck's four main kids, who have never met, keep in touch?

Pesterchum conversations carry much of the plot, since Homestuck tells its story through instant message logs as well as panels and animations.

Which household tool does John Egbert, Homestuck's first hero, adopt as his weapon of choice?

A hammer makes John the odd one out among his friends: his best friend Dave Strider fights with a katana and Jade Harley with a hunting rifle.

Which craft tools does the occult-loving Rose Lalonde use as her go-to weapons in Homestuck?

Knitting needles are also her hobby gear: Rose is a keen knitter whose formal, overwrought way of writing contrasts with her messy room.

What is the name of Jade Harley's dog, an all-powerful First Guardian of Earth in Homestuck?

Becquerel shares a remote island with Jade, and merging with him later hands her the powers of a First Guardian.

Which blind troll in Homestuck was taught by her guardian to 'smell' and 'taste' colours?

Terezi Pyrope lost her sight to a former friend before the story begins, and the trick gives her a limited form of vision.

Which troll is shown marrying Rose Lalonde in the credits sequence at the end of Homestuck?

Kanaya Maryam was first ordered to troll Rose and grew attached instead. The credits show the pair wed and managing the brooding caverns together.

Which cave-dwelling troll in Homestuck is known for role-playing and for acting like a cat?

Nepeta Leijon is raised by a two-mouthed feline guardian named Pounce de León, and her character embodies fans' love of shipping.

Which astrological sign belongs to Karkat Vantas, quick-tempered leader of Homestuck's trolls?

Cancer fits a pattern: each of the twelve trolls carries one sign, which also bears their blood colour and reflects their personality.

Which villain attacks John Egbert early in Homestuck and later becomes a near-invincible monster?

Jack Noir gains that terrifying power by accident, after a troll sabotages key events in the kids' session.

What is the name of the trolls' home planet in Homestuck, the setting of the spin-off game Hiveswap?

Alternia lies in a different universe from the kids' Earth, and Hiveswap's human heroine is transported there by accident.

Which coordinator of Homestuck's music team voices John Egbert in the 2025 animated pilot?

Toby Fox joined the music team after posting piano covers on a fan forum, years before he created the video game Undertale.

Which Joyce book did PBS Idea Channel liken Homestuck to for its length and complexity?

Ulysses came up again when a Tor Books writer called Homestuck 'the first great work of genuinely hypertext fiction'.

Dave Strider's aviator shades in Homestuck were supposedly worn by which Starsky & Hutch actor?

Ben Stiller's shades hide Dave's eyes entirely, part of the look of a boy 'so cool he only appreciates things ironically'.

Which Homestuck animation drew so many viewers on release that it crashed the website Newgrounds?

Cascade strained Megaupload as well, because so many of the comic's readers rushed to watch it the moment it was uploaded.

Which soft drink is Gamzee Makara obsessed with in Homestuck, a habit borrowed from juggalo culture?

Faygo is one of several juggalo touches given to Gamzee, who also believes firmly in miracles and in the coming of the Dark Carnival.

Which publisher began releasing hardcover Homestuck books with new commentary in 2018?

Viz Media also had its staff convert the comic's ageing Flash pages into HTML and video files, so that they would outlive the software.

Which animator's company SpindleRoo announced the Homestuck animated pilot released in 2025?

Vivienne Medrano said audience reaction to the 11-minute pilot would decide whether it grows into a full animated series.

Which earlier Andrew Hussie webcomic ended just three days before the Homestuck beta appeared?

Problem Sleuth, a hard-boiled parody about three trapped detectives, ran for more than 1,600 pages and was Hussie's first adventure to get a proper ending.

The Homestuck Epilogues dropped pictures for pure text styled after fan fiction on which website?

Archive of Our Own was the model for a sequel told in two rival timelines, which arrived exactly ten years after the comic began.

In late 2016, Homestuck gained a credit sequence and extra panels presented as a story on which app?

Snapchat even figures in the plot of that coda: the villain Caliborn sends John a snap, calling him out to their final battle.

What is the name of the caste system in Homestuck that fixes each troll's rank and lifespan?

Hemospectrum rank runs from short-lived rust-bloods at the bottom up to fuchsia, the colour of the heir to the troll throne.

Karkat Vantas types in dull gray throughout Homestuck in order to hide which mutant blood colour?

Candy red sits outside the trolls' blood castes altogether, and it would mark Karkat for execution if it ever became publicly known.

What do the trolls of Homestuck call the guardian beast that raises each young troll?

Lusus creatures in the story include a giant spider, a muscular centaur and a winged bull named Tinkerbull.

Troll romance in Homestuck follows a complex system whose relationship categories go by what name?

Quadrants come in four kinds, and the whole system was specifically designed to encourage shipping among the comic's fans.

In Homestuck's troll romance, what is a platonic soulmate who calms a partner's aggression called?

Moirail bonds pair off unlikely trolls: the hot-headed leader Karkat Vantas pacifies the murderous Gamzee Makara by becoming his.

Which god tier title does Jade Harley earn in Homestuck after she is carried to her quest bed?

Witch of Space is a title with reach: backed by a First Guardian's might, Jade shrinks the four planets of the kids' session to carry them away.

Which god tier title is held in Homestuck by Vriska Serket, the troll raised by a giant spider?

Thief of Light suits a troll who dreams of being a pirate and fights with a set of eight legendary eight-sided dice.

Which game mechanism lets Homestuck's kids reset their session, making their ancestors the players?

The Scratch comes at a price: resetting the session also summons Lord English, a villain who seeks dominion over all of reality.

What is the name of the realm that Homestuck's kids escape to as meteors bear down on their homes?

The Medium is where the stakes come out: once there, the friends learn that Earth is doomed and that they must create a new universe.

Rose Lalonde and Dave Strider set out in Homestuck to destroy which object, only to create it?

The Green Sun turns out to be the source of every First Guardian's power, and one source of the immortality of Lord English, the story's overarching villain.

Which human girl is the heroine of Hiveswap, swapped across the universe with a troll boy?

Joey Claire trades places with a troll and must find her way home, in a story with only loose ties to the original comic's cast.

Which outside studio was first hired to develop Hiveswap before production moved in-house?

The Odd Gentlemen were known for The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. Hiveswap's first act finally arrived in 2017, three years later than first expected.

Which troll boy trades places with the human heroine at the start of the adventure game Hiveswap?

Dammek ends up on Earth as the heroine lands on his planet, and a companion game was announced to tell his side of the story.

Which 2013 dating simulator, with Andrew Hussie as creative director, featured Homestuck characters?

Namco High belonged to the publisher Namco Bandai, and three Homestuck characters were introduced into its cast.

Which 2021 visual novel did Andrew Hussie base on their time as 'leader' of the Homestuck fandom?

Psycholonials follows two girls caught up in a messy clown-themed revolution, and Hussie began appearing in clown makeup after its release.

What nickname was given to Homestuck's year-long hiatus, taken while its author worked on Hiveswap?

The Gigapause was the most infamous of the comic's named breaks. Updates otherwise came fast, sometimes 10 to 20 pages in a single day.

Whose joke about the name MS Paint Adventures led Homestuck to gain a character called Ms. Paint?

Ryan North asked why the site never followed the adventures of a 'Ms. Paint', so Hussie obliged with a minor Carapacian character.

John Egbert's first fetch modus in Homestuck sorts his items by the logic of which data structure?

A stack means only the last item stored can be used, which is why John cannot reach his fake arms once smoke pellets sit on top of them.

Which actor plays 'Geromy' in the Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff movie described within Homestuck?

Donald Glover's film belongs to a future entertainment empire built on the strip, whose makers pranked audiences by selling films that did not exist.

Which Hiveswap composer became director of Homestuck: Beyond Canon when that comic returned in 2023?

James Roach said the '^2' was dropped from the title because the story 'isn't actually a sequel in the traditional sense'.