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The series started off as a somewhat typical old school [[Newgrounds]]-type flash, littered with random violence, distasteful portrayals of a character resembling Jesus (also known as "Jebus" after a line from ''[[The Simpsons]]''), and the odd as'plosion or two. However, the smooth animation, witty and amusing kills, and unique art style made the series an instant hit, and the newfound fandom begged for more.

 

 

 

The later episodes tend to revolve around Hank attempting to kill Jebus and The Zombie Clown With Super Powers ("Tricky"), for some unknown reason. [[The Matrix|Matrix]]-inspired fights, ludicrously violent deaths, non-sequitur like moments and a much darker feel follow the latter part of the series. All because of the Improbability Drive, and its insane effects on everyone and everything. Or something like that. Yes, it's all that vague, though all three major characters appear to have been killed permanently after {{spoiler|the Improbability Drive was finally deactivated. That is, until two NEW protagonists revive Hank}}.

It should be noted that aside from the "official" series by Krinkels, there are a multitude of animations featuring the art style and cast of the Madnes series by other creators. Newgrounds has even hosted the annual "Madness Day"; wherein the front page is dedicated to these fan videos.

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* [[Duct Tape for Everything|Adhesive Bandage For Everything]] - Injuries can be healed by simply wrapping them up with bandages.

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Lots of mooks use fireman or battle axes, and a gigantic mook in Aggregation has an equally gigantic axe, for all the good it did him.

** There's also the battleaxe that Hank uses near the end of Antipathy.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Several times, even! The only main character not to die at least once is {{spoiler|Sanford}}. The l33t-crew-employed civilians, such as the hot-dog vendor, are also pretty safe most of the time.

** Deimos is wanted for murder, lying, thievery, conspiring, [[Heel Face Turn|betraying the cause]], and for being a smoker.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Compare the first (unofficially titled "Boombox Madness") animation with either Consternation, Inundation, or Aggregation. Madness Apotheosis is where the animation ''very noticeably'' changed.

** Zombies go from [[Palette Swap|green-skinned mooks]] to darker green mooks with gaping, bloody mouths full of teeth.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Remember those two [[Red Shirts]] who gave Hank a sword in Depredation? No? Well, they have about five seconds of screentime {{spoiler|before being crushed under a building.}} Yeah, well, they take center stage for Aggregation and a lot of the newer Madness Combat shorts focus [[Interquel|what they were doing between Madness and 6 and 7]].

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Several of the big-ticket weapons in ''Madness Interactive'', the first video game spinoff. For example, the rocket launcher is quite impressive... but it only has four shots, it blows the victim's weapon off of the screen (so you can't grab it when you run out of rockets), and it's an area-of-effect weapon, so you could kill yourself with it.

** The same could be said for the M203 grenade launcher in ''Madness: Project Nexus''; the game even lets you know that you can damage yourself with it by saying in the description that the grenades have no safety feature. It's also the only weapon that has friendly fire, which doesn't bode well when you have a squad of six teammates in Arena mode.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Pretty much everyone, but Tricky takes the cake.

* [[Bad Boss]]: The Auditor.

* [[Badass]]: Hank, Jebus, Sanford and Deimos, Tricky, and the Auditor. Pretty much all the main characters.

* [[Badass Back]]: Attacking Hank from behind usually just means you'll die ''faster.''

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Eventually, [[The Hero|Hank]] and [[Ascended Extra|Deimos]].

* [[Badass Preacher]]: [[Captain Obvious|Jebus]].

* [[BFG]]: The Auditor is fond of these, as are any [[Giant Mook|Mag Agents]] on the field. In the latter case it's justified as they're pretty big themselves.

* [[Big Bad]]: The Sheriff. Then Jebus. Then Tricky. And now the Auditor.

* {{spoiler|[[Big No]]: The death of the Auditor in Abrogation:}}

'''<small> {{spoiler|Tricky:}} YES! YES! YES!</small>''' }}

* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: Every gun in ''Madness: Project Nexus'' has a gold palette swap.

* [[Bulletproof Human Shield]]: Dead enemies usually come in handy as these. Hank's dead body in Aggregation is also used like this by Deimos, and {{spoiler|he later does it Deimos when he's killed.}}

* [[Evil Hand]]: Hank in Madness Combat 9.

* [[Excuse Plot]]

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: For just about everyone.

* [[Flash Step]]: Tricky.

* [[Giant Mook]]: Mag Agents. All featuring equally giant weapons, and they fare no better than their tinier co-workers.

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Jesus in the first episode, and the first MAG Agent shows up with no explanation. We do get one later (the Auditor's been growing them). In addition, whatever Tricky/The Auditor was... growing and deploys against Hank and Sanford prematurely in the ninth episode.

** Any time Hank gets killed with a gun, [[Badass|Jebus]] is usually the shooter.

* [[Gun Fu]]: Hank and Jebus do this a lot.

* [[Hand Cannon]]: Jebus seems to prefer having the biggest handgun in the series. He carried a Deagle until they became l33t Crew standard issue, and then he switched to a S&W 500 revolver.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Jebus is the protagonist in Madness Combat 8, [[Even Evil Has Standards|apparently having decided that the insanity has gone too far]]}}.

* [[The Hero]]: Just as the villains are constantly changing, [[Breakout Character|Jebus]] and [[Ascended Extra|Sanford]] have also had a whack at the role of the protagonist between Hank's deaths.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Kind of. {{spoiler|Deimos dies reviving Hank in Aggregation, and his corpse is booby-trapped shortly after to destroy the possessed MAG agents who killed him.}}

* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: played straight in ''Redeemer'' (second episode), justified in ''Apotheosis'' (fourth episode), and finally averted in ''Depredation'' (fifth episode).

** Then played straight again in ''Aggregation'' (ninth episode).

* [[Implacable Man]]: {{spoiler|Jebus didn't stop chasing after the Auditor in Madness 8}}.

** Incident:0011A has one of the MAG Agents as its protagonist and this.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Tricky's main weapon is a road sign that he uses as a staff, a spear and an axe. Sometimes all at once.

* [[Interquel]]: Madness Combat 5.6, 6.5, and 7.5.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Especially when they have [[Bilingual Bonus|Thai inscriptions]] on the flat of the blade.

* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: Jebus, obviously.

* [[Laser Sight]]: Against Hank sometimes. Used in a [[Eye Beams|more literal sense]] by Jebus.

*** Shot in the gut in the beginning of 6.5 (by a revolver, which in this universe [[Revolvers Are Just Better|are usually instant kills]])

*** Stabbed in the gut, then shot in the hand in 9

* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Heads are ripped off easily, and bodies are torn apart without much trouble.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Apparently, the Auditor is the one orchestrating things, given that he had his own Improbability Drive, was able to upgrade his soldiers, create Mag Agents, and infect Jesus.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Happens at the end of some installments. Apotheosis, we're looking at you.

* [[Mook Chivalry]]: Tons of it. For example, if a hero ever runs out of bullets, the next room will almost inevitably only have melee-focused enemies.

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Tricky {{spoiler|after his Reality Compromised powerup, and his demon form}} and {{spoiler|The Auditor, who is Made of... Dark Stuff, though as of Abrogation, it's averted as Hank finds that he's vulnerable to electricity attacks}}.

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Many of the characters do this, but Hank is especially fond of the move.

* [[Oh Crap]]: What appears to be ''reality itself'' in response to {{spoiler|The Auditor accidentally absorbing Tricky.}}

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Actually, they're exactly the same as the regular mooks. [[Conservation of Ninjitsu|They're nowhere near as strong though.]]

* [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]: With the destruction of the Improbability Drives, it seems that reality itself has been suffering from this. [[It Got Worse]] by the tenth episode.

** On top of this, the {{spoiler|Auditor suffers this throughout Abrogation, until his [[Phlebotinum Overload]]}}

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: As demonstrated by the first two OBSV agents.

* [[Raymanian Limbs]]: Floating hands are omnipresent in this series.

* [[Reality Warper]]: Tricky, according to his profile on the Auditor's monitor. May or may not simply be a side effect of the Improbability Drive.

* [[Recurring Traveller]]: The Hot Dog Vendor, a guy in a paper hat and greasy apron who has the privilege of being one of the few characters who has not been killed yet. The cafeteria vendor is becoming this, showing up twice and going back to reading his book.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The only way this series can get away with the body count.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]] - Jesus had an S&W500, and Sanford has a Ruger GP-101

* [[Serious Business]] - People get killed over a boombox in Madness Combat 1.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Incident: 100A

* [[Shock and Awe]]: {{spoiler|Hank gets this ability after fussing with Jebus' halo after taking it from the Auditor. It proves to be the Auditor's weakness, as it quickens his destablization.}}

** Hank's fighting style, especially with [[Guns Akimbo]], is [[Gun Kata]], as seen in [[Equilibrium]].

* [[Splash of Color]]: Mostly red (and now [[Alien Blood|yellow]]) in the midst of that colorless world.

* [[Standard Snippet]]: You can hear Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" in Madness Combat 3's main theme.

* [[The Starscream]]: Tricky could be interpreted as this.

** {{spoiler|As of Abrogation, this has been confirmed. Posthumously. It got to the point where Tricky defiantly deserted just to battle Hank, and the Auditor threatened anyone who was "caught posting paraphernalia in regards to that god damn clown" with instant death.}}

* [[Subverted Trope]]: <nowiki>Incident:010A</nowiki>, wherein Hank is {{spoiler|brutally torn apart while the man he used as a human shield calmly has a smoke in the end - a [[Running Gag]] is that anyone who smokes, dies.}}

* [[Super Strength]]: Hank, an otherwise [[Badass Normal]], can rip a man's body parts off with his bare hands [also included are hearts and ears], and impale people with blunt objects just as easily as with swords or knives. {{spoiler|As of Aggregation, he has now gotten even stronger after [[Came Back Strong|being revived once more]]}}.

* [[Sword and Gun]]: Used extensively by Hank in Apotheosis, as well as by Jebus in most of his appearances.

* [[Swords Akimbo]]: The Auditor.

* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Ever seen someone's skull being pierced by a police baton from ''[[Crazy Awesome|across the room?]]'' Hank does this with a gun, a sword in the intro for ''Apothesis'', and Jesus at least once.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The grunts in Incident:011A try to stop [[Giant Mook|Mag-Agent: Torture]] by hitting him with nightsticks.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Jebus has his longsword with "316" in binary on it and a S&W500 Revolver. The Auditor has his twin blades and (arguably) is the only character to utilize heavy weapons (Rocket launcher, minigun). Tricky also likes to use traffic sign with exclamation mark on it. Sanford seems to be fond of his hook and .357 Ruger. In several episodes Hank uses a piece of piano wire to dispatch mooks and Agents. Everyone uses different weapons throughout the series.

** {{spoiler|In Abrogation, Hank seems to have become more fond of [[Good Old Fisticuffs]], courtesy of an organic [[Power Fist]] as a result of his resurrection}}.

** '''''<big>OMG</big>'''''

* [[Your Head Asplode]]: The result of {{spoiler|Tricky attempting to use Jebus's powers to raise the dead.}}

** Of note is how the giant mook in Incident:011A meets his end: {{spoiler|A grenade launched into the back of his head, then detonating.}}

 

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