History Characters / Zoofights

* ShoutOut: To the CareBears, TeddyRuxpin, and maybe [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Lotso Huggin' Bear]].

** [[spoiler:His second appearance is a ShoutOut to ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet.]]

* BodyHorror: ''It had crocodiles and hyenas stitched into its insides.'' And when it became Hyperfauna, ItGotWorse.

** ItGotWorse. The one time her creator did win, it was using another RP character. Who was it, you ask? [[spoiler: Hella Jeff, of all people!]]

* ItGotWorse

** [[spoiler: A certain drunken surgeoneer may have implanted a [[BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]] into his chest. Are we going to have to worry about stripe-lions on top of stretch-lizards?]]

* ShoutOut: To the CareBears, TeddyRuxpin, and maybe [[ToyStory Lotso Huggin' Bear]].

* ShoutOut: Possibly to [[{{Futurama}} Slurm and Hypnotoad]].

** Round 2: [[spoiler: DoubleDragon]]

** [[spoiler: DoubleDragon]]

** Round 3: [[spoiler: GhostBusters]]

Although hailing from various countries was a staple of later stories, in Zoofights 1 only a few entrants used their home country to provide character. The Cosmonaut Gorillas were one example, hailing from Russia. Over the course of the tournament they were beaten up worse and worse until what was left was "nailed together into a roughly apelike form" and given a Sega Genesis for a head, resulting in the Royal Rumble Winner and {{Crowning Moment Of Funny}} Sega Gorillesis.

The most (in)famous of all Zoofights 1 combatants, the villain of Zoofights 1 started out as a relatively harmless-looking gang of ten swans with gorilla arms. After they lost in a {{Curb Stomp Battle}} to the Laser-Eyed Hippos, though, the Zoofights team reanimated them for the Loser's League by "scooping up all the swan parts into a pile, turning on every machine in the area, and hiding behind a steel barricade with crucifixes". The ensuing Swanmass is a "heaving, quivering mass of necrotic swan flesh, groping along the ground in a fleshy cataclysm of beaks and hands. It's like a sea anemone from your darkest nightmares." Swanmass lives only to consume, and if left unchecked will absorb every living being on the planet into itself...

Retired police chief John Burnell, from ''America’s Scariest Police Chases''! He appears near the end of Zoofights 1 to battle Sega Gorillesis in an exhibition match, but soon winds up joining Mechos, Hulkaphant, and Porky Punisher in the final battle against Swanmass.

* ChestBurster: Used against [[spoiler: Reanimammut]].

* WarriorPoet

* HighAltitudeBattle: [[spoiler:In the semifinal against Steamcrab.]]

Not a single entity, but a group entrant composed of a giant ten foot tall badger led into combat by a mob of unruly drunks, tramps and various other dregs of society.

A monstrous bipedal Rhinocerous with its fists replaced with living, biting tiger heads. It was previously designated for riot control in British India, only to be retired from duty due to being too brutal.

* [[spoiler:TheAntichrist: As [=McGarry=], even summoning the horsemen of the apocalypse.]]

* GunsAkimbo

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: As Bisondreadnought, he rams himself into From Hell during the final match of Zoofights III, destroying the two of them in the process.]]

{{Big Bad}} of Zoofights 3, Jack the Ripper is never directly encountered. Instead, he leaves unsettling letters to the readers, eventually unveiling his plan to destroy all of London (and probably the rest of the world as well) with his unearthly creation, [[spoiler:From Hell.]]

--> '''Major Failure''': Oh Riot Yeti you stupid motherfucker.

* [[spoiler:{{Dropped A Bridge On Him}}]]
* {{Laser Blade}}: As Chompa.
* {{Lightning Bruiser}}
* [[spoiler:{{Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome}}: He ends up drinking himself to death during his victory party.]]

* AGodAmI

Hailing from Antarctica, Glaciosaur is an Ankylosaurus adapted to live in extreme cold. Later in the tournament, he is joined by The Penguin, a sunglasses-wearing, rifle-toting {{Badass Normal}}.

* {{All American Face}}: As Wrasslopod.

* ShoutOut: Kriegbehemot's armor looks very {{Warhammer40000}}-ish.

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: No indication of it at the end of Zoofights 4, but it’s revealed at the start of 5 that, in the future, the Seanet experiments still happened because nobody warned Japan about what happen when Seanet appeared in the past and tried to take over. As a result, Zoofights 5 opens with Seanet controlling the world.]]

* {{Killer Rabbit}}

* TakingYouWithMe: Attempted against Captain Croctopus. [[spoiler:It fails, and the nuclear blast ends up [[BodyHorror fusing the Sturgeon General to his tank and giving him cancerous tumors all over his body]].]]

* CoolHat

* CombatPragmatist: Pretending to be unable to move, blinding his opponent with rage with acts of vandalism, and ''distracting his opponent with an arm-wrestling match'' are some of Smackula’s more notable techniques.

* [[spoiler:RedHerring: Clearly this malevolent psychic vegetable that can control corpses is the {{Big Bad}}, right? Wrong!]]

* TheDrifter: No human crew, no known motive, no knowledge of his origins. H.H. Johnson puts it best: “What is he? ''What in the Singularity is he?!''”
* TurtlePower

* Half RedScare,
* Half WickedCultured

* [[spoiler: [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Fitebeastitarian:]] New Croak drank a carbonated beverage made from the squashed remains of its predecessor, and cannibalized several of his tadpole brethren while in space.]]

* [[spoiler: TimeTravel: He can travel through time if he can get up to 88 mph, but it's not clear how effective this is.]]

* [[spoiler: GenderBender: As Cash Cow; now has a carbonfibre ''pant''suit and a cute scarf.]]

* AlwaysMale: Aversion

* MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate: In name only.

* ConspicuousCGI: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWWFh0604AA Her intro]].

"Hare Metal is an eldritch blend of British steel and forbidden rural energies that, frankly, we do not understand."

* [[spoiler:InfernalRetaliation: Prying open Hare Metal's ribcage to get at his burning organs is a very bad idea. Just ask Pepsimian.]]

* HermeticMagic / InstantRunes: Hare Metal was created by music exec mages and his blueprints are written in runes.

* PsychicPowers

* CoolHat: Winged helmet (not a [[LooneyTunes "magic hewmet"]])

* ARMS 'N DANGEROUS -- A ball of Big Muscley Arms controlled by an ameoba, this is the reason for the recent shortage of BMA in the tournament. [[spoiler: Killed by Final Mantisy who infected the amoeba, causing it to tear itself apart]]

* OCTOPUS CRIME -- An octopus that cannot stop commiting felonies. [[spoiler: Double-KO'd with Carp. A. Diem by Mental Ben and Nightmare]]

* THE LESSER OF TWO EAGLES -- Couldn't get the good eagle, had to get the shit one. Carries picture of brother [[spoiler: the Neccesary Eagle]]. [[spoiler: Killed by Carp. A. Diem.]]

* MIKE BISON -- Mike Bison's gonna Punch Out. [[spoiler: Double-KO'd with Dolphin Lundgren by Mahammut Kali]]

* BIGUANA -- A really BIG iguana. Seriously. He’s quite big. [[spoiler: Ate Angsteater, then kicked to death by Mahammut Kali]]

* COMMODORE DISASTER with GEKKO -- A dollar-store Major Failure and his creepy lizard pet. [[spoiler: Final KO: Crushed to death when Muhammut Kali sat on them]]

* [[spoiler:CurbStompBattle]]: [[spoiler:The Losers' League competitors destroy them when they attempt to attack.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: They were set up as the main competitor to Zoofights earlier on, and the end of the first round hinted that they would soon play a major role in the story. [[spoiler:The Zoofighters of the Royal Rumble demolished them with ease.]]

* AmbiguousInnocence

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: "Herb" tended to go off on H.H. Johnson-style intellectual rants, sometimes not even making a cursory effort to correct himself after he realizes what he’s saying.

* TheGamblingAddict

* [[spoiler:DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Double Pangolins vs. Black Rabbath. The two brothers manage to take down the borderline EldritchAbomination of Metal and recieve barely a scratch in the process.]]

** Round 1: 80s shows such as TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles and StreetSharks.

** Turns out it to have been a non-issue. [[spoiler:There was no friction whatsoever.]]

* ShoutOut: Part TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, part Series/TheATeam.

** [[spoiler:His second appearance is a ShoutOut to NightmareOnElmStreet.]]

* ThisIsSparta: "This is blasphemy. This is madness. This. Is. '''ACHILLES' EEL.'''"

* {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}}: As Burger Lord. It's emphasized both in-universe and in people's votes that Burger Lord is bad news.

* [[spoiler:NightmareFuel: Weaponises it in the second round, with his laser being upgraded into a device that causes waking nightmares as well as its regular beam.]]

* NightmareFuel: What a few SA voters put instead of its proper name: [[spoiler: '''Whatever the fuck that thing is, PANGOLIN-HIPPO-ABORTION, fuckmaremonstrosity, Hippo Monstrosity,''' and '''[[TheRuntAtTheEnd Weird Hippo Thing]].''']]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: (sorry) Only because we don't know anything about her.
-->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 [[CaptainObvious she is a horse]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Mr. and Mrs. Major Failure are Brits so this has to be a coincidence: The symbol of the [[AmericanFootball 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.]]

* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: In 2007 he 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).
-->'''[=MrGreenShirt=]:''' Zoofights suddenly makes much, much more sense.\\
'''saberwulf:''' Holy shit, now I understand how he came up with Achilles Eel and Croctopus. [[DontExplainTheJoke The Major does a fuckload of drugs.]]

* BigBad: As always in Zoofights, it’s not clear at first, and in Round 2 he even shows an incredibly sympathetic side, but after he [[NotQuiteDead bursts from the wreckage of the Aircraft Carrier Full of Hate]], [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel screaming as]] [[ObviouslyEvil lightning flashes across the sky and]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom his dead, unseeing eyes light up the area like lighthouses]], it becomes rather clear that he no longer has good intentions.

* [[spoiler:HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Uses weaponised Nightmare Fuel in the second round, with his laser being upgraded into a device that causes waking nightmares as well as its regular beam.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: What a few SA voters put instead of its proper name: [[spoiler: '''Whatever the fuck that thing is, PANGOLIN-HIPPO-ABORTION, fuckmaremonstrosity, Hippo Monstrosity,''' and '''[[TheRuntAtTheEnd Weird Hippo Thing]].''']]

* [[spoiler:NightmareFace: At one part in the finale, her face distorts into a beaked shape. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment It's never mentioned again]] and only exists to [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scare the piss out of you.]]]]

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted; he's just too adorable.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Gordon the gecko.
--> "DO NOT ''EVER'' LET THIS LITTLE GIT INTO [[ForScience SURGINEERING]] AGAIN. It is not cool to replace other fighters' IV drip bags with rotten offal."

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* {{MIB}}: In Zoofights 6:

** Also to FinalFantasyI, and its 6 classes.

* DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere

* DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere

* [[spoiler:IGotBetter: Akumu was killed off alongside Gezora during the Zoofights 5 Loser's League Royal Rumble, but he returned alongside Gezora after the semifinals.]]

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead / IGotBetter: Gezora died and then got better in ZFV.]]

* RussianGuySuffersMost: The Sturgeon General’s final incarnation as Chernoble (and the following battle) is practically a TearJerker.

* [[spoiler:IGotBetter: He just keeps coming back. He'd probably enter Zoofights 6 if he was allowed.]] [[spoiler:And he has!]]

* RussianGuySuffersMost: The Sturgeon General’s final incarnation as Chernoble (and the following battle) is practically a TearJerker.

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: After being eaten by one of the hippos in the first round, Sawz was accidently fused to its body. He's not too happy about his former {{Nakama}} throwing him to his death.]]

* [[spoiler: MagnificentBastard]] KO! ...[[spoiler: Suckers! *cue robot army*]]

* [[spoiler: CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted, this is Zoofights. If a creature is smart enough to cheat it's smart enough to win.
** Ladies and gents, your King of Beasts]]

* [[spoiler: MagnificentBastard]] KO! ...[[spoilers: Suckers! *cue robot army*]]

* [[spoiler: CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted, this is Zoofights. If a creature is smart enough to cheat it's smart enough to win.]]

* AmbiguousGender / NoGender: Gezora refers to itself as "it".

!! Huggles T. Bear / [[spoiler: Round 2: Teddy Kruger / Loser's League Royal Rumble: Mental Ben]]

!! The Berlin Walrus / [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: The Cold Warlrus]]

!! Croaka Cola / [[spoiler:Losers' League Round 1: New Croak / Losers League Royal Rumble: Diet Croak]]

!! Monster Truck / [[spoiler: Round 2: Delorelion / Round 3: Monster Truck II: Fight Rider]]

!! Bull Market / [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: Cash Cow]]

!! Murducken [[spoiler: Round 2: The Osmium Chef / Losers' League Royal Rumble: Lawn Moa]]

!! Playing Mantis / [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: Neuromantis / Losers' League Royal Rumble: Final Mantisy]]

!! Cray Fish [[spoiler: Round 2: Krilldozer / Round 3: Hardcore Prawn]]

!! Mangolin' Pangolins [[spoiler: Round 2: Double Pangolin (Drillz (the leader) and Hammerz) / Round 3: Two Bad Ass Pangolins]]

!! Hippos With An Eating Disorder / [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: Hippangopotalin with an Anger Disorder / Losers' League Royal Rumble: Angsteater]]

!! PEP-Simian / [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: Crystal PEP-Simian / Loser's League Royal Rumble: A Jar Of Frog Piss]]

!! Hare Metal [[spoiler: Round 2: Black Rabbath / Losers' League Royal Rumble: Thumperstruck]]

!! Gadadhara / [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: Kali Babar / Losers' League Royal Rumble: Muhammut Kali]]

!! Luchadillo [[spoiler: Round 2: Muertodillo / Round 3: Armor Dio]]

!! Achilles' Eel / [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: Double Eelix]]

!! Teslacorn [[spoiler: Round 2: Horsepower / Loser's League Royal Rumble: Nightmare]]

* TakeAThirdOption: The many "friendship" votes for them and [[spoiler: Armour Dio]].

* TakeAThirdOption: The many friendship votes for him and [[spoiler: the Two Badass Pangolins]].

* ShoutOut: Probably to MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic (but using only that for your vote will earn ''negative points'' [[spoiler: Modifying an ''actual'' My Little Pony is okay]])

* OneWingedAngel: Reveals a second, even more monstrous form after [[spoiler:Steamcrab selfdestructs and destroys his outer shell]].

* [[spoiler:{{Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome}}]]

* KnightTemplar (ironic, considering what the Inquisition did the the Templars)

!!Wolfbike / Wolf Patrol

* JokeCharacter

* {{Body Horror}}: ''It had crocodiles and hyenas stitched into its insides.'' And when it became Hyperfauna, {{It Got Worse}}.
* {{Crazy Prepared}}: The crocodiles and hyenas were in there just in case the enemy managed to get inside Hyperfauna – and it happened.

* [[spoiler:{{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}: Of Swanmass.]]

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: If he had any sort of accuracy with his lasers Chompa wouldn’t have lasted ten seconds.

* RunningGag: [[LookAroundYou Bless you, Mecha-Ants. Blants.]]

* CrazyPrepared: In round 2, Punchules had apparently been studying Batman comics, because when his Bane-inspired opponent broke his spine the clever bat revealed he brought a spare.

* DrugsAreBad: Defied; after the damage he took from Sting Kong in Round 1, Banebarrimundi ‘’required’’ copious shots of venom to stay alive.

*** ItGotWorse: The one time her creator did win, it was using another RP character. Who was it, you ask? [[spoiler: Hella Jeff, of all people!]]

** Almost but not quite--[[spoiler: Thumperstruck pisses off ALL the Losers League Royal Rumble fighters, who team up to destroy him (he does get a good hit on Angsteater and a Horatio Caine one-liner before he dies).]]

!! Gadadhara \ [[spoiler: Losers' League Round 1: Kali Babar / Losers' League Royal Rumble: Muhammut Kali]]

* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler: ISeeDeadPeople: could contact his ancestors as Muertodillo and is surrounded by a swarm of them as Armor Dio.]]

* A TOTALLY RADICAL CAT WITH ONE LEG -- ON A SKATEBOARD [[spoiler: First KO: Killed itself by drinking the Frog Piss]]

* ShoutOut: Maybe to TheQuestion, who's also detective without a face, and The Question's own expy [[{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]], who has amoeba-like blobs on his mask.