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** Among the WCW fighters who showed up in the Zoofights VI Royal Rumble, Biguana stood out from the rest for being charmingly oblivious to what was going around him. {{spoiler|Also, he was the only WCW creature to kill a Zoofights competitor: specifically, Angsteater.}} {{spoiler|And he now returned as Giguana.}}
** Teslacorn (sorry) Only because we don't know anything about her.
{{quote| We know not what she cares about, or even if she cares at all. We do not even know how she functions, although we do know [[Captain Obvious|she is a horse]].}}
* [[Game Breaker]]: {{spoiler|Seanet}}. Fortunately, {{spoiler|Seanet decided to pull out of the tournament to face down the other Game Breaker of Zoofights 4, Elohim, instead}}.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: Several competitors are based on decidedly obscure creatures (Dunkleosteus, anyone?). Another great Genius Bonus is the name of Slammonite's finishing move: The Cambrian Explosion.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Hilarious At That Very Moment]]:
** ZFV fighter Smash Gordon (a rules-skirting cave man) debuted at the same time Gordon Brown was being smashed in the UK elections. Major Failure swears this was completely coincidental.
** Mr. and Mrs. Major Failure are Brits so this has to be a coincidence: The symbol of the [[American Football|San Diego Chargers]] used to be a rearing horse and now it's a lightning bolt. If Teslacorn gets to the semifinals but loses the penultimate match she's the perfect unofficial mascot. {{spoiler|She did, and has now been defeated by a ball of water.}}
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** The Snapture acting like a very angry [[Kanye West]].
** After Bull Market's osmium phone weapon and the in-fight reveal of Luchadillo having an osmium shell, osmium itself became both an oft-suggested upgrade and an [[Ascended Meme]].
** "X? ''X?!'' '''''[[Precision F -Strike|FUCK X!!!]]'''''
** The Manglin' Pangolins were given quick one-line descriptions of their personalities on their blueprints. It soon became common practice to refer to them by always including the tagline, as in "Drillz (he's the leader)". This meme also ascended.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Hardcore Prawn crossed the line when he {{spoiler|threw Fight Rider to his death right after he had offered his hand to save Prawn from the pit of lava below.}} Even though combat pragmatism is a perfectly acceptable tactic in Zoofights, this act was considered below the belt by a lot of those who voted for the Prawn, costing him a good chunk of his fans.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:
** It's emphasized both in-universe and in people's votes that Burger Lord is bad news.
** {{spoiler|Huggles T. Bear weaponises it in the second round, with his laser being upgraded into a device that causes waking nightmares as well as its regular beam.}}
** What a few SA voters put for Hippos With An Eating Disorder instead of its proper name: {{spoiler|'''Whatever the fuck that thing is, PANGOLIN-HIPPO-ABORTION, fuckmaremonstrosity, Hippo Monstrosity,''' and '''[[The Runt At the End|Weird Hippo Thing]].'''}}
* [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]]: {{spoiler|Thumperstruck}} was booed by the Zoofights spectators for general lameness and {{spoiler|past failures.}} He took all of this to heart and went balls-out crazy when it was actually time for him to fight. Needless to say, people gave him a lot more respect when he was rampaging.
* [[Rooting for Thethe Empire]]: There are always people who vote for the competitors that are likely to become tournament-ending god-beasts, or have ''already become'' tournament-ending god-beasts. All the major Big Bads have or had a good deal of votes and fans. The only exception seems to be {{spoiler|Hyperfauna}}, which was a rare case of a villain receiving absolutely no support once it was revealed.
* [[This Is Your Premise Onon Drugs]]: In 2007 Major Failure wrote an [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2287843 acid trip report] with [[Deadwood|Al Swearengen]] as his "spirit guide" (the "actual" Al Swearengen, not rollplaying him).
{{quote| '''MrGreenShirt:''' Zoofights suddenly makes much, much more sense.<br />
'''saberwulf:''' Holy shit, now I understand how he came up with Achilles Eel and Croctopus. [[Don't Explain the Joke|The Major does a fuckload of drugs.]] }}
* [[The Woobie]]: Croctopus. He is completely delusional and believes that he is at Zoofights not to fight and kill, but to ''build boats''. He is made to be a sympathetic creature, depicted in a positive, non-bloodthirsty light.
** [[Iron Woobie]]: Croctopus.
** [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Monster Truck from ''VI'', a slipshod combination of a tiger and a truck [[And I Must Scream|that howls with agony for every minute of its continued existence.]] It currently wishes to make the world pay for making it what it is.
 
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