Planeta Absurdo



""This planet is a kind of Earth's distortion. What we would get if Earth was reflected in a mirror. A mirror we would first get drunk and then beaten. Its inhabitants call it "Earth", we will call it the Absurd planet.""

- "Introduction to Planeta Absurdo"

Planeta Absurdo is a Spanish webcomic created by Sr Mejillón (also known as Mull). Its several stories take place in an alternate Earth that combines hi-tech and epic fantasy. A place where heroes from comic-books and those from fantasy tales team up in order to defeat evil forces. A planet where Hilarity Ensues every minute.

Some of the heroes in Absurdo are Queen Numismática, a goddess from another world exiled in Absurdo; Jystmo le Bobo, a clueless lemon-eating paladin; Rayamanta, a raging princess and wizard; the Great Flowder, a very dumb yet powerful hero; Jolie and Ajezno, Flowder's sidekicks and brains; Talerdo Limalimón, a thief with a directional sense similar to Ryoga Hibiki's; Kurochán, a female assassin with a killing curse followed by a ghost girl; and so on.

Up to date, the main stories are the following:


 * Cómo destruir el universo en tres simples pasos (How to destroy the universe in three simple steps).
 * En busca del Sagrado Molgrim (The quest for Holy Molgrim).
 * La Coleccionista (The Collector).
 * HOYGAN SOMOS HALENIJENAS (HAI WE R ALIENZ). In this one, the author made a "Tropes special" in pages 291, 292, 293 and 294.
 * Going Berserkito.

"Compra saaaaal... ¡que no queda!"
 * Aerith and Bob: Flowder, Jytsmo, Rayamanta, Kenny
 * A God Am I: Numismática, Atz4rx0rz and Findelmundo are gods, though their powers are quite limited.
 * Being a God - or better - is Kenny Welles' ultimate goal. In The Collector
 * In the same story,
 * Action Girl: Most of the female cast, being Kurochán the best example of this trope.
 * The Alcoholic: El Berserkito. Due to this, he has an imaginary friend, Pepe, everytime he's drunk, which is all the time.
 * All Your Base Are Belong to Us: This happens to the LCP in HAI WE R ALIENZ.
 * Alt Text: Page 294 has it. Will you find it?
 * Alternate Universe: Absurdo is a very messy and crazy alternate Earth.
 * Amplified Animal Aptitude:.
 * Anachronism Stew: Taking in account this world mixes heroic fantasy with superheroes...
 * Also, a knight riding a jet bike and a ninja riding a giant squid.
 * Anime Theme Song: Parodied and then animated and sung  by a fan called Rabarga/Águila calva.

"El Berserkito: That monster has paralyzed me with a blue boa. Pepe: A blue boa? Really? El Berserkito: Yes, why? Pepe: How many times have you been paralyzed by a blue boa? El Berserkito: ... Never. Pepe: And how many times have you imagined it? El Berserkito: Every Tuesday at... oh! So everything was in my head."
 * Let's top it with an ending.
 * Anticlimax: You would think that is a tough rival through the story starring it... but then it is beaten with just a club.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:advice of queen numismatica for avatars, gods, spirits and plumbers
 * Art Evolution
 * Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Collector.
 * Attending Your Own Funeral: When some people die in Absurdo, they can get a glimpse of their corpses when Death comes to them. They act like nothing happened.
 * They're not even impressed by Death himself!
 * A better example comes thanks to Dark Pijama. Since he acts like an MMORPG character, he has respawn points, and it isn't strange for him to respawn near his dead body.
 * Badass: Most of the heroes, but specially Kurochán, the female assassin. She's so cool and bad ass she has her own ratings made by readers themselves!
 * Naked Colectivo Talerdo is even more badass than the original!
 * Battle Royale With Cheese: Usually happens, specially in the HAI WE R ALIENZ story.
 * Big Bad: Every story has its own one.
 * How to destroy the universe in three simple steps doesn't make it clear until the end,.
 * The quest for Holy Molgrim stars a new and dangerous cult.
 * The Collector seems to have the titular Collector as the main bad...
 * HAI WE R ALIENZ has some aliens and some clones created using a substance called Colectivo (Colective) around.
 * Blob Monster: The Colectivo.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Jolie tries to show the other characters that they're in a webcomic and literally punches the Fourth Wall.
 * Calling Your Attacks: Jystmo miserably fails at this. His master's "Ataque kármico para desfacer entuertos" is turned into "Ataque kamikaze de los tres perros muertos".
 * The immortal guard's ultimate martial arts move has an interesting name: Pedantic Berenjena Assault!.
 * An attack so awesome it has its own fighting game input.
 * Chess with Death: Death vs Flowder. And it's just damn fun!
 * City of Adventure: Ciudad de Los Patos
 * Cloudcuckooland
 * Constructed World
 * Colon Cancer: Behold! Die definitive maschine: Ze Gigawasher 2.0: Ze Revenge: Now with more protons! - El Mejillón
 * Cool Sword: Deisi's daisho.
 * Cursed with Awesome: Kurochán's curse forces her kill anyone nearby. This makes her one of Absurdo's best assassins.
 * She's so awesome her victims don't know that their dead even when Death itself appears to take them!
 * And Death is Kurochán's biggest fan.
 * Dead Partner: Kurochán is followed by the ghost of a young girl called Meyko. Being so different from each other, making them sort of an odd couple, funny consequences are expected.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: What else would you call beating the likes of ?
 * The Ditz: Jystmo and Flowder.
 * Talerdo is a bit of this too.
 * Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: In HAI WE R ALIENZ,.
 * Drunken Master: El Berserkito.
 * Elements of Nature: According to Flowder, they are water, fire, propane, butane and Bill Murray.
 * End of the World Special: The final part of How to destroy the universe in three simple steps.
 * Epiphanic Prison: Best explained with this example...

"Dr. Mong: Why do you make things so complicated? If you could introduce your robot in their ship, why didn't you just steal it? Kenny Welles: You'd be a terrible villain, Dr. Mong!"
 * Evil Is Stylish: After Kenny Welles revealed his Double Reverse Quadruple Agent...

"Pianof: And Carmen Elektra. Meleketengue: Err... Excuse me... Did you say Carmen Elektra? Pianof (to Master Arnault): See? I told you she should be between the chick and the friend, it wouldn't be that obvious."
 * Evil Plan: Villain Kenny Welles has lots of them and tries to make people think things happen according to his plans. Even things that contradict other things.
 * Expy: Talerdo to Ryoga.
 * Fan Service: Girls in this comic go around with those tight costumes...
 * Cirle deserves a special mention: everytime she turns into a werewolf, her clothes are ripped apart, so once she's back to normal... you can guess it.
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink
 * Fantasy World Map
 * Fantastic Measurement System: In Absurdo, they use TPH for distances. What is TPH? Tiro de Piedra de Hulk (Hulk's Stone Throw), based on how far a stone thrown by The Incredible Hulk would travel.
 * And for speed, they have TPHPH (Tiro de Piedra de Hulk Por Hora / Hulk's Stone Throw Per Hour).
 * Five-Man Band: Parodied in the first story, though the group only needed three members: a very stupid hero, a hot raging chick and a bulky yet loyal friend.


 * Funny Animal: Cats of Parque Infierno are quite intelligent.
 * Muridians are a species of genetically-altered hamsters that are 3-foot tall and can talk.
 * Fusion Dance: Kenny Welles and Molgrim
 * Gadgeteer Genius: El Mejillón, a scientist and hero with a heavy German accent. But truth to be told, most of his inventions are either stupid or useless or both.
 * Gambit Pileup: Involving the Colectivo and Kenny Welles. Pretty obvious, isn't it?
 * Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: And suddenly, naked Colectivo Talerdo.
 * The Grim Reaper: Absurdo's Death is on par with the Discworld's one.
 * And even though he has a scythe, he doesn't use it for removing souls from their bodies. For that, he just beats the crap out of them with his De-Soul-Ator.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Idiot Ball: Flowder. His stupidity allows him to defy reality itself.
 * Improvised Weapon: Jystmo uses traffic signs to attack, and Talerdo has a frying pan as his main weapon.
 * Cows and other animals look good enough for improvised projectiles.
 * Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Every police chief in Absurdo.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: Rikkipollo.
 * In the Name of the Moon: Dark Pijama's version could be dubbed '''In The Name Of The XP".
 * Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Boltrin from Dragon Mail, Monty from Las Paridas de la Guarida, Draco from Desi Y Draco... though there aren't many of them, if you think of it.
 * One of Kenny Welles' alter-egos is the Bastard Horse (Caballo Hijoputa) from A Friki's Life.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: El Berserkito
 * Leeroy Jenkins: He would be proud of El Berserkito.
 * Leet Lingo: Atz4rx0rz, God of Chaos, needs a translator due to his leet speech.
 * Poli's speech is quite weird, messing letters in every word she pronunces.
 * The clones from HAI WE R ALIENZ speak in HOYGAN, a Spanish variant.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters
 * The Lost Woods: Parque Infierno, a forest maze where anyone can get lost.
 * Magical Girl-cat: Poli, the girl-cat, turns into.
 * Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game: That's how life goes for Dark Pijama, to the point that he has respawn points, collects loot he later equips - sometimes with amusing consquences - and goes in main and side quests.
 * Master of Disguise: Kurochán. Her favourite disguise is Mr. T.
 * El Mejillón's spying machine, with a touch of High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
 * Meaningful Name: Jystmo le Bobo could be translated as Jystmo the Fool.
 * There's a forest simply called Forest/Bosque.
 * Are you Flowder? could be a good way to check someone's stupidity.
 * Mutant: Deisi is a mutant Muridian, making her look more human-like than hamster-like.
 * Narm: Giant enemy Colectivo appears. For Dark Pijama, it's just the final boss.
 * No Sense of Direction: Talerdo is Absurdo's Ryoga.
 * It is taken to the extreme in the second part of The Collector, were we see that his problem makes him able to violate time-space laws and travel long distances with only one step.
 * One Woman Army:
 * Our Werewolves Are Different: Cirle is a monster huntress... and a werewolf as well.
 * Petting Zoo People: Poli is a girl-cat (not to be confused with a cat-girl) and Jolie is a something-girl (it hasn't been stated what she actually is... squirrel? dog? fox?).
 * Due to her nature as a mutant Muridian, Deisi is sort of a hamster-girl.
 * Punctuated for Emphasis: Better not confuse Stonecow with Monroe.
 * Revolving Door Casting
 * Rule of Cool: What fuels this comic. Every single hero and heroine follows it.
 * In fact, you have to be of a great level of coolness to handle the Mighty Hammer Molgrim.
 * And there's a council called "Consejo de los Hombres Guays" (Council of the Cool Guys), leaded by this comic's clueless Dumbledore the Great Pianof.
 * Running Gag: Jystmo's passion for lemons and Flowder's ultimate stupidity.
 * Talerdo getting lost is worth mention.
 * The kiwi pie recipe.
 * Superhero
 * Shape Shifter: The Colectivo can take anyone's appearance and powers.
 * Shout-Out: Some characters and locations seem to be taken from the author's and his friends' games in City of Heroes.
 * Mister Felipe Du Foncey is an obvious rip-off of Doctor Strange. Even Flowder and Ajezno confuse him with Stephen...
 * Mighty Hammer Molgrim, once held by Thotoro, son of Pudin... Hmmm... Where did I hear this before?
 * Jystmo once dreams about himself starring Street Fighter II and Super Mario Bros..
 * The Squad: The LCP (Liga de los Chalados Peligrosos / League of the Dangerous Crazyfolk). Some of its members are Dark Gaze, El Mejillón, Poli, Stonecow, El Berserkito and Dark Pijama.
 * The "Escuadrón Findelmundo" (Worldsend Squad), leaded by the titular Findelmundo, Numismática's rival. She's followed by Ninja Rikkipollo, flame woman Teresita, Pianof's defective clone Puntopé, mute guy Flush...
 * Stupid Sexy Flanders: Happens with naked Colectivo Talerdo.
 * Super Drowning Skills: Jystmo likes this.
 * Taking You with Me:
 * Technology Porn: El Mejillón is an expert on this.
 * Together in Death:
 * Time Travel
 * Unsound Effect: Nearly every sound effect suffers of this.
 * Weapon of Mass Destruction: There are many items that could cause the end of the world as we know it, be it antique sticks, Death's scythe, the Mighty Hammer Molgrim, powerful gems...
 * You ALL Share My Story
 * You Monster!: What you'd say after the Colectivo reveals its plans.