Not So Different/Web Comics

Examples of Not So Different in Web Comics include:

Parodied in Adventurers!, when the Big Bad pulls the second type of Not So Different moment on the hero in this strip, and has it fall flat almost immediately since the only examples he could come up with were their similar heights and shared penchant for pointy hair. He admitted that he probably shouldn't have made it up on the fly.
Lampshaded in this entry of Arthur, King of Time and Space.
This Girl Genius strip has Gil realize this about his father, Baron Wulfenbach.

Gil: ...Oh. Oh, no. This must be how my father feels -- all the time!

- Agatha implied this to poke fun at both of her suitors.
- An awkward moment with Dingbots and Sparks. And with Tarvek vs. Klaus right on the next page.
- Tarvek counterattacks whenever Gil tries to claim a moral high ground. And after being provoked into the rant says it straight (while Agatha still pokes fun at them both):

Tarvek: I'm guessing you might be just as much of a sneaky, manipulative weasel as me. Probably even for a lot of the same reasons.

Not said by a villain, but comparing a Corrupt Corporate Executive to his son: Rollie, of Gene Catlow, explains exactly how Steven Avariss is like his father. It boils down to an aspect of their personalities that could be good or bad, depending on how it's applied.
Parodied in this strip of Gastrophobia, where Pneuma's attempt to invoke this falls completely flat.
In Erfworld, Stanley declares that his enemy Ansom rules by "violence and fear" (with "just like me" implied though not admitted), not by "nobility" as he likes to believe. Later, it becomes evident that Ansom and Stanley are both fighting for their respective visions of the Titans' will.
Almost lampshaded in this The Order of the Stick comic, though it doesn't quite have its normal purpose or effect especially considering the character making the speech is himself is unnatural through divine magic but doesn't recognize this in the speech. Later on, Shojo gives Belkar this line, kicking off what's effectively a Chaotic Good Break Them by Talking.
- Belkar and V definitely have this going on. The characters hate each other and are nearly opposite in personality and intelligence (V is an elfeminate Insufferable Genius; Belkar is macho and rarely thinks before acting, being pure Id). Despite this, the two are practically identical in their readiness to solve problems with violence. In one of V's And That Would Be Wrong moments, he justifies himself by saying that he was only representing "the halfling's" (Belkar's) point-of-view.
- "Are we talking about?.."
In Order of the Stick fancomic Anti-HEROES, Finx attempts a Not So Different speech when facing down Aldran. Aldran responds by deconstructing it before declaring I'll still win.
Sluggy Freelance has a rare example where all the people involved are good guys (or at least Designated Good Guys). Mad Scientist and Badass Longcoat Riff has always taken the view that Aylee, an originally man-eating alien is too big of a threat to the world to be allowed to live. Eventually Torg delivers the Not So Different speech on Aylee's behalf:

Torg: We're her family, Riff. This is her home now. She's not going to destroy it anymore than you would ... with your various nuclear isotopes and biological pathogens ... OK, bad example. Actually, it's not! Riff, with all your dangerous scientific experiments, I put it to you that Aylee is less likely to threaten humanity than you!

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal demonstrates the underutilized tactic of trying this on God.
Happens a lot in Lightbringer, and the titular character quickly becomes tired of it:

Lightbringer: It's the same damn speech I keep hearing. "You're just like me." "We both want the same thing." 'why are you fighting against me?" The Gentleman told me it. The Smiling Man said he used to be just like me. Werres told me we fought the same fight. And now Darkbringer is using the tired old bit.(...) I'm sick of evil people telling me I'm like them.

- Also, one interesting example was when Police Chief Eddie Crane tried to arrest Bruiser, former cop turned into Vigilante Man after death of his kids. Bruiser said he knows what Crane did to murderers of his own family, making Crane left him go.
Sarah from Weregeek recently met a pack of non-geek girls and proceeded to make a rather disturbing discovery.
In Goblins Forgath tries to invoke this to persuade his specist partner Minmax that their new snake-girl companion is in fact a perfectly normal and sound being and thus shouldn't be slaughtered for XP as Minmax is eager to do. Hilarity ensues.
In Slightly Damned Angels and Demons appear to superficially follow their associated tropes of good and evil, but the more that is learned about the angels, their magic, talismans and how they interact with demons, the more doubt is thrown onto the binary assumption.
Sinfest had a lot of such moments between Slick and Monique.
- And gives us a strange variation in this strip, where Fuchsia, formerly a Depraved Bisexual succubus and Torture Technician for The Devil, in the midst of a Villainous Crush and a High Heel Face Turn, listens to her love interest, Criminy, relate a story that could very easily be about Sinfest's main character, Slick, and comes to realize that she has a lot in common with the Damned Souls that she formerly took delight in tormenting. Her response, in a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, is to sit with the Damned and hold their hands, offering them comfort.
- Seymour was rather distressed when he "met the enemy".
In Drowtales, despite being a Superior Species the drow in particular are not actually that different from the goblin races. Just take a look at how the drow consider the goblin races. Now take a closer look at the drow. Ironic that the ones who consider halmes akin to locusts almost destroyed their own planet for mana-based life a millenia ago, isn't it?
In Advance Wars, there are three main missions in which Black Hole calls this; the most significant is Sonia's A Mirror Darkly, in which she and Lash play a game of chess (with artillery and neotanks, natch), but both of Grit's missions in the Blue Moon campaign section show Lash and Grit invoking this trope, too.
Kirby and King Dedede in Brawl in the Family. It's King Dedede who's called out on it, stating that for all his faults Kirby still has the differences that make him good.
El Goonish Shive as a throwaway gag pointed out the important difference between traditional corsets and modern faux-corsets. Though it's still not clear whether a good exorcism can fix this.
- Luke and Tedd both have detected that the other has a magic ability (though Tedd had an advantages of more comprehensive senses and already knowing what the hell is going on). Then they played a Collectible Card Game and found out they have built basically the same deck. «So annoying!».
Homestuck: Jade is so frustrated with her newly resurrected dream self that she begins verbally and physically beating her. Then Karkat comes pestering with a "friendly" reminder that this behavior isn't unlike his own...which she had gotten quite pissed off at him about not much earlier.
- Vriska attempts this with Terezi, but given that Vriska is arguably a Complete Monster who has greviously injured other trolls just for fun while Terezi only ever murdered 'bad' trolls or to seek revenge, and given that Alternia is a Crapsack World anyway, it falls flat.

AG: Cause even though you got all these highfalutin morals and fancy reserv8tions, you know as well as me that a killer is a killer is a killer!

In Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic Arachna has a rather dim view on "good" folk. Broch thinks it's worse than that, though.
Amazing Super Powers had fun with an ex- pro wrestler running for office:

Reporter: Mr. Annihilator, how would you reconcile the fact that Professional Wrestling is fake while political office is very, very real?

In No Rest for The Wicked,
- Red and The Witch, as Perrault pointed out.
- Claire and her parents, according to her.
xkcd offers Fashion Police and Grammar Police
Belzebubs has half of amusement derived from combination of over-the-top posturing and the observable fact that beyond said posturing (and occasional self-inflicted complications, in that it's not easy even to cut a cake the Tru Black Metal Way) the characters don't differ from other people on the street all that much. Or as the blurb put it:

Belzebubs is a “trve kvlt mockumentary” focusing on the everyday challenges of family life: raising kids, running a small business, and making time for worship. Except the kids are named Lilith and Leviathan, the business is a black-metal band, and the worship… isn’t exactly aimed upstairs.

Full Frontal Nerdity explains Mythos cultists.

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