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{{quote|"Please don't kill us!"
''"Please don't make it so appealing!"''
|Val and Killface, respectively.}}
Killface is a super-villain with dreams of blasting the planet Earth into the sun. One problem, he wants to announce his intentions to the world and show the masses the doomsday engine ("The Annihilatrix") that will bring about their doom. And since he doesn't have the technology to
On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is Xander Crews, a spoiled sociopath of a "super-hero" named "Awesome-X" who has just executed his last remaining arch-nemesis and is now being pressured to retire by his advisor Stan, so he can finally get around to running the family business. Needless to say, after getting his hands on a promotional post-card designed to announce Killface's plans, Xander sees the perfect foil for his toy line.
An [[Adult Swim]] cartoon series (2006-2008),
Sadly the show was [[Too Good to Last]].
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In the end the production company, 70/30 Studios, shut down some time after and the creative team behind the show moved to the FX Network, where they produced ''[[Archer]]''.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Killface's obsession with his son's weight, to the point of measuring his servings, constantly weighing him, and
** Given his reaction when she shows up, one can imagine Killface's mother was one too. Of course we'll sadly never get any closure on that cliffhanger.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Killface is quite charming, unless you piss him off.
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* [[Bald Women]]: Sinn.
* [[Body Sushi]]: There was an episode in which Torpedo Vegas eats sushi this way while interrogating Awesome-X and Killface.
** A corpse?
* [[Brick Joke
** Apparently it's been here the whole time.▼
** Aw! We were supposed to get pickles!▼
** Ass
** Baffling...▼
** Boosh!
** Bum-snacking
** Jengo!▼
**
***
**
*** Cody's dowwwnnn!
** Didn't see that one coming...
** (Disappointed penguin sound)▼
▲*** Called it!
** Doin' really great.▼
** Don't you... Don't... That was our last bowl!▼
** Duh-hoy?
** God... ...dammit!▼
** Harumph!
** I f*ckin' love Chinatown!
** I ... think that's hydraulic fluid.▼
*** I wanna teabag Chinatown!
** I hate this country.
*** I ''love'' this country. You people don't care!▼
** Is that ant poison? [[Sarcasm Mode|No, that's a great plan.]]▼
▲** Jengo!
** Like to have a thought balloon over that guy's head.▼
** Me too!▼
** My God - a missile we've been hit!▼
** Oh, they just want to win. ''Ladybugs.''▼
** She said!
** Shut up!
** Slideshow▼
*** What's this slideshow... everybody's doin?▼
** Snip-Snap!
** Y'know...▼
** ... ''The town''
** Wait... damn, I had something.▼
▲** ...made headlines today, but not the good kind like you want.
** We can't ever go back to Arizona!▼
** We'll always have Vegas!▼
*** I like to call it "Lost Wages."▼
** Well, not with that attitude!
*** Not with ''any'' attitude!
**
** What the hell, damn guy?!?▼
▲*** I ''love'' this country. You people don't care!
** Woooooooow.▼
▲** My God a missile we've been hit!
▲** Y'know...
** You don't have to be crappy.
▲** We'll always have Vegas!
▲*** I like to call it "Lost Wages."
▲** Woooooooow.
▲** Baffling.
▲** Doin' really great.
▲** Don't you... Don't... That was our last bowl!
▲** Slideshow
▲*** What's this slideshow... everybody's doin?
▲** What the hell, damn guy?!?
▲** God... ...dammit!
▲** Bup-bup!
▲** We can't ever go back to Arizona!
▲** Aw! We were supposed to get pickles!
▲** Apparently it's been here the whole time.
▲** Wait... damn, I had something.
▲** Like to have a thought balloon over that guy's head.
▲** Is that ant poison? [[Sarcasm Mode|No, that's a great plan.]]
▲** Oh, they just want to win. ''Ladybugs.''
▲** (Disappointed penguin sound)
▲** I ... think that's hydraulic fluid.
▲** Me too!
* [[Chain of Corrections]]
{{quote|'''X-tacle #1''': So...who's read ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]''?
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'''X-tacle #1''': Dammit, that's ''Agamemnon!'' }}
* [[City with No Name]]
{{quote|'''Documentarian''': Wow. I assumed you were doing something else here, by the road.
'''Xander''': No, just giving back to these crack-addled skeletons that wander the streets of... [looking away] ''the Town''. }}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: the rocket launcher obtained by Simon.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The series finale {{spoiler|has Killface's mother suddenly dropping in via spaceship and demanding to know why the Earth not destroyed...and why Killface has no clothes on. The Xtacles mentions that Xander, for some unknown reason, returned with Killface to his home planet but that the last we hear of it. As the company that made both shows went under, it unlikely we'll get a resolution.}}
* [[Corrupt Cop]]: Wendall is as corrupt as it gets.
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Crimefighting with Cash]]: Awesome X and the Xtacles; Xander Crews' being unable to pay the Xtacles (and his plan to fire them) sets much of the plot of Season 1 in motion.
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* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Val
* [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]: Killface would just ''love'' to do this for real, but his inability to purchase a "media buy" handcuffs him. Sinn pulls it off in Season 2, with it implied that she secretly had the funds all along to buy TV time to announce her plans.
* [[Do Not Explain the Joke]]: Mr. Ford has a habit of doing this with his [[Double Entendre
* [[Dude, Not Ironic]]: When Xander winds up homeless, the documentarian says it's ironic how he's now living in cardboard boxes produced by the company he used to own. Xander says that's not what irony means, while the documentarian replies that that's ''exactly'' what irony means.
* [[The Dragon]]: Sinn to Killface, Stan to Xander
* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: Awesome X and the X-ticles, a team of well-funded badass normals. [[They Fight Crime]].
* [[Egopolis]]: Crews Tower. As a fellow narcissistic sociopath, this is a fitting [[parody]] of [[Donald Trump|Trump Tower]].
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Well, embarrassing ''real'' name, for Killface.
{{quote|'''Xander''': ''[laughing]'' ''Evelyn!?''
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* [[The Faceless]]: The Xtacles
* [[Fauxreigner]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]: in the final episode of season one, behind Val, is a billboard which reads "Stop global warming". It features Ta'quil and Baby Lamont. At the beginning of season two, it is revealed that Killface {{spoiler|rescues Baby Lamont ''and'' stops global warming}}.
* [[Gag Penis]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzxgyUHImnA MASTER CYLINDER!]
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Xander Crews.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Almost every character is a pretty despicable human being (or whatever Killface is), as noted above.
* [[Lego Genetics]]: Watley, Antagone
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: LET'S DO THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis...{{context}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: when Xander showcases his action figure, the briefcase contains a muffin,<ref>[[media:Frisky_dingo_muffin_s1e2.jpg|Muffin in briefcase]]</ref> lampshading the fact that the action figures are a MacGuffin.
* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]: Sinn
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: Antagone gains this.
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'''[[Beat]]'''
'''X-tacle 2:''' Put that back. }}
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The reason why Simon and Killface had to leave Arizona is constantly teased in season one; it's implied that the incident involved illegal bunny-knife fights, which Simon was involved in. In S1E9:
{{Quote|'''Killface''': "He's taken the knives! Notify all the pet shops! My god it's Arizona all over again!"}}
* [[Not So Harmless]]: Stan. Val, too.
* [[The Odd Couple]]: Xander and Killface, when they team up.
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{{quote|'''Xander:''' ''"...I would not call that making love. I would call that... [[Buffy-Speak|the Shame Spear... of... Hurt.]]"''}}
* [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic]]: Constantly averted. Characters stutter, talk over each other, and sometimes even lose their train of thought.
* [[Retcon]]: Grace Ryan reverses her ant transformation with the help of pills.{{context}}<!-- MOD: How is this an example of Retroactive Continuity? -->
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] with her Ret-Con pills.
* [[Riches to Rags]]: Xander at the beginning of season 2; he's gone from the head of a company with billions of dollars to living in a refrigerator box.
* [[Running Gag]]: Scores of them, including Killface's ringtone, Killface's lack of insurance, wearing a tallboy as a thong, the Half 'n' Half, people who are supposed to get pickles, being picky about counting to three, establishing boundaries, Xander randomly asking "What are we doing?", Simon pushing bowls of cereal off tables, [[City with No Name|referring to the city where everything takes place as "town"]], Darcel Jones of Team Jaguar and how she's always more professional than Grace Ryan...
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'''Xander''': Snip snap!
'''Killface''': Snip snap indeed! }}
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The entire Presidential campaign arc. By the end of it, it's revealed that
* [[Shout-Out]]: Often subtle and used for one-off jokes. A prime example would be the poster of [[Nubile Savage|Raquel Welch]] (with Xander's face poorly Photoshopped on), kept by Ronnie in the X-Calibur's holding cell which hides the escape hole behind it just like ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''.
* [[Stupid Sacrifice]]: Taqu'il.
* [[Take That]] / [[Genius Bonus]]: At one point Nerl exclaims "Thank you [[Ronald Reagan]]! Your legacy is intact." The Reagan Administration's policies regarding funding and privatization of mental institutions are considered by some to have added many mentally-ill and mentally-disabled persons to the homeless population.
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** Simon. I ''dare'' you to be able to tell what he's saying (without Killface's help).
** Stan's clones. HARRUMPH!
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]] - not merely are the supposed "[[Anti-Hero|hero]]" and "[[Anti-Villain|villain]]" unsympathetic, but just
** Except for Baby Lamont. And arguably Watley.
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Xander Crews.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Originally the show would have been about the Xtacles with Killface as the big bad and Xander and his wife (who ended up becoming Grace Ryan) only making occasional appearances. When the title was changed from "Whisky Tango" to "Frisky Dingo", the plan was to have "Frisky Dingo" be an insulting nickname for the team (who would still be called Whisky Tango).
** Also of note: Had the show not been cruelly cancelled like it was, the first half of season three would have taken Xander and Killface to Killface's homeworld, where we would learn that Killface was the spoiled rotten prince of his people and explored him acting like a grown up spoiled brat towards his people....
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]:
** They're probably somewhere near Seattle. When driving to Vegas Killface says "16 hours in the car..." A mile marker with different cities on it seems to indicate they are driving south to Vegas. Assuming a 70-75 mph speed limit you end up somewhere in the vicinity of Washington state/northern Oregon
** Although the freeway map on GPS screens, and certain street names correspond with Atlanta, where the show was produced (and home of Cartoon Network).
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