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"Kings of Power: 4 Billion%" is a web animation created by [[Paul Robertson]] with music done by Cornel Wilczek, released in 2008 as his second short film, after "Pirate Baby Cabana Battle 2006". It is a short, 15 minute film done in 2D 16-bit graphics, all hand designed, and is a marvelous piece of work, without any dialogue and very little plot.

[[Mind Screw|It's also batshit-insane]].

Basically, it seems that the author was trying to see how much he combine of the following: [[Rule of Cool]], [[Refuge in Audacity]], [[Gorn]], [[Pixel Art]] and as [[Troperiffic|many videogame references and conventions]] he could get away with.

It can be seen in multiple places on the web, but [http://vimeo.com/7861415 here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5qW9_ex0g&feature=related here] are good places to start you off.

[[Needs Wiki Magic Love]].
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=== Tropes present in this animation: ===
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Apparently,  {{spoiler|the little girl's name is [http://probertson.livejournal.com/37973.html Kathy]}}.
* [[Big Bad]]:  {{spoiler|the little girl, of all people}}. [[Mind Screw|Maybe]].
* [[BFS]]: the geeky girl carries one.
* [[Bloody Murder]]: {{spoiler|The little girl's attacks all involve self-mutilation and propulsion of the resulting blood and/or organs.}}
* [[Body Horror]]: done multiple times, all meticulously and caringly animated, to point one might suspect the author has something of an interesting case of [[Fetish Fuel]].
* [[Boss Rush]]: much of the movie consists of this, albeit only with only one confrontation per boss.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: the soundtrack is amazing!
*  {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]}}: it seems that way. [[Mind Screw|Maybe]].
* [[Dual Boss]]: the Violence Kings.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]
* [[Final Boss New Dimension]]: horribly, and awesomely, played straight with big dose of [[Gorn]].
*  {{spoiler|[[Fighting Your Friend]]}}:  {{spoiler|again, the little girl}}. [[Running Gag|Maybe]].
* [[Gainaxing]]
* [[Genre Shift]]: at the very least, from an sidescroller brawler to an [[Shoot'Em Up]] and back a couple of times. Kinda.
* [[Gorn]]: most of the movie has plenty of this throughout, but wait until you see the final 2 minutes or so.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Bury me deeper lest my love reach you in the eternal resting place.
* {{spoiler|[[Hopeless Boss Fight]]}}: depending on how you interpret things, again.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|the Violence Kings aren't really the final boss}}. [[Overused Running Gag|Maybe]].
* [[Mirror Boss]]: the elegant dressed guy goes through one.
* [[Mind Screw]]: just what the hell is going in this movie? No, really, any ideas, anyone?
* [[Rule of Cool]]: you can strongly suspect the movie is made with the purpose of achieving as much of this as possible.
* [[Shape Shifter Swan Song]]: The Violence Kings.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Bosses include a Buddha statue and a Poring wearing the papal tiara, the Violence Kings are defeated with "The New Ultimate Jesus", which is apparently a fusion of hundreds of crucified mythical and pop-culture heroes that can use an attack called God Rush, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|which involves several gods rushing the target]], and the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] make an appearance.

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