Early Installment Weirdness/Web Video/Web Animation

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Examples of Early Installment Weirdness in Web Animation include:

  • The first Teen Girl Squad episode is the only one where the "IT'S OVER!!!" ending card is actually written on top of the last scene rather than on a separate card.
    • The first Halloween Episode of Homestar Runner (the website the above spun off from) is the only one in which Homsar does not appear (it was released before the second Strong Bad Email ever, which marked the character's debut).
  • The first Retarded Animal Babies animation had the animals recite the alphabet. It is also the only episode in which the episode number does not dot the "i" in "babies" in the title (Hamster's head is substituted instead).
    • Also, Puppy wouldn't develop his sex-crazed personality until Episode 2. He wasn't even in the part of Episode 1 with the naked chick.
  • Helluva Boss: Stolas in the pilot and 'Murder Family' is much more authoritian and dominant. In the later episodes, the show establishes he's much more submissive in the bedroom. Also he's a flat out Abhorrent Admirer to Blitzo, where as it's much more complicated in later episodes.
  • RWBY: In the "Red" trailer, Ruby battles werewolf monsters rather than the Grimm monsters established in later episodes.[1] In addition, the trailer features an abundance of bloody decapitations and flying appendages, as opposed to Grimm simply being reduced to dust when they perish.[2] The "evaporation" effect is present in the trailer, but instead of black dust/mist, the Grimm turn into flower petals.
    • Similarly, beforehand a lot of the time, characters would say the creatures of Remnant are called monsters. Later episodes and seasons would just have them be referred to as different types of Grimm.
    • In volume 1, background characters were black silhouettes with minimal animation.[3] Starting in volume 2 they had actual background characters, fully rendered. The black silhouette characters would be used a few times in RWBY Chibi for gags though.
    • Yang ditches Ruby in the second episode for her so-called friends (which are in fact some of the black silhouettes mentioned above). Not only is this mostly out of character for Yang (in later volumes and again RWBY Chibi, she's much more overprotective of her half-sister), but as far as the third episode aside from Ruby mentioning Yang ditching her, she is never seen with them again, preferring to stick with her team.
  1. ↑ Monty Oum would later explain that these were in fact the earliest conception of beowolves, before the Grimms' common features were established.
  2. ↑ One particular decapitation, though, gets a Call Back at the climax of V1E8.
  3. ↑ Rooster Teeth later admitted that they had overlooked the need for background characters until it was too late into the production of volume 1 to do the job right, and the black silhouettes were a stopgap measure.
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