Madness Combat: Difference between revisions

So, hey, wouldn't it be just NEATO to add them both together in a series of flash animations!?

 

 

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.

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

* [[Flash Step]]: Tricky.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the rave room in ''Apothesis'', one mook whom Hank missed sees the slaughter before him, and decides to [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|sit back and enjoy a smoke.]] At least until he gets crushed by a door.

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

** 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]]}}.

* [[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.}}

* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: A mook in Avenger gets his face blown off. A literal FOUNTAIN of blood spouts out of his face-crater, flooding three quarters of the room to WAIST HEIGHT.

** {{spoiler|As of Abrogation, this has happened to the Auditor. Remember kids, [[Monster Clown|Monster Clowns]] are NOT part of a healthy diet!}}

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

* [[Informed Flaw]]: Hank's mental retardation from episode 9 onwards. After his transformation and resurrection, he uses intelligent tactics ([[MacGyver|MacGyvering]] up a bomb and tossing it at [[Elite Mooks]] after distracting them with the corpse of {{spoiler|Deimos}}), uses the environment to deploy traps, hangs back to let Sanford take care of enemies armed with guns, makes use of martial arts, and [[Genre Savvy|keeps his gun trained on the exit when riding an elevator]]. He also adapts quickly to the Auditor's changing tactics. If anything, he's more careful than before his resurrection.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]]}}.