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* [[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.

** 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.}}

** 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.

** 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]].'''}}

* [[Rooting for the 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 on 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).

 

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