History FanFic / GarfieldInAlongCameASplut

The story was eventually removed by the author, not long after admitting it was a joke TrollFic and [[CreatorBacklash disowning it. ]]

* MoralDissonance: Garfield shatters every window in a five mile radius by listening to music, breaks Jon's TV and kills Abe Lincoln (the latter unintentionally), kicks Odie to the moon for a petty reason, eats all of Jon's Cheese Nips, snaps Doc Brown's neck for no reason at all and gives him a measly twenty bucks for the car and to pay for his broken neck, has no problem running down other people to escape as opposed to running down fruit carts--but we're still supposed to root for him.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Subverted; Jon Arbuckle is involved in a horrible accident involving a baboon fused with a cat.

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the [=Delorean=], runs down [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[Film/TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[Franchise/BatMan The Batmobile]] and ComicBook/LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down, however.]]

* RealityEnsues: Garfield runs down so many people in the [=Delorean=] trying to escape the Splut, that it inevitably slows it down, prompting Blade Runner to show up and give it a boost of speed.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Splut. And during the car chase, a "Franchise/{{Terminator}} flying machine" (presumably referring to an [[http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/HK-Aerial HK-Aerial Drone]]) comes completely out of nowhere and, for no given reason, begins chase. And then the Death Star appears...

* BigEater: Garfield is canonically a glutton, but he never ate three years worth of cheese nips in mere minutes! And he apparently has to eat every two minutes or he dies.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Despite the story mentioning Superman living on Earth, Krypton is somehow still around--until the Death Stars super laser gets deflected by the Splut away from Earth, which the story says ends up destroying Krypton. The Death Star itself getting blown up also counts.

* FlatCharacter: The Splut is given no personality traits or clear motivation, [[TheBlank no expressions,]] or [[TheSpeechless even a voice]]. It's practically a force of nature out to harm Garfield and anything that gets in its way, although the story informally describes it as sentient, evil and having eyes, and considering Garfield fooled it with an impossibly flaccid variation of HeWentThatWay, it's certainly not very smart.

* LampshadeHanging: A lot of the stories humor relies on it when it's not relying on its sheer absurdity.

* NoSell: The Death Star fires it's planet-killing super laser with the Splut in its path, and not only is the pie completely unharmed by it (the beam simply splits off into fragments on contact) it flies right into its cannon and destroys it from the inside!

* POVCam: The story briefly switches to the Pie 's viewpoint during the chase scene.

* ReferenceOverdosed / ShoutOut: Enough to [[ShoutOut/GarfieldInAlongCameASplut get it's own page.]]

* UnflinchingWalk: Or flight in this case; just after the Splut destroys the Death Star, it emerges unharmed from its explosion and immediately continues it's chase after Garfield.

* VillainProtagonist: Meta example; "Metroid"'s goal besides saving whales is to resusicate the Mama Bran, who wants to kill the human race!

* WaveMotionGun: The Death Stars planet killing super laser, which proves to be [[NoSell completely useless in destroying the Splut.]]

--> "...[[Franchise/{{Metroid}} the Mama Bran]], who wants to [[KillAllHumans commit genocide on the human race]]; [[CaptainObvious and we all know that's not nice.]]"

* TheCameo: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]; a footnote mentions that ''Literature/TheUglyBarnacle'' was scheduled to make a guest appearance, but cancelled his appearance at the eleventh hour due to his ugliness killing his crew.

''Garfield in: "Along Came a Splut"'' (or ''Garfield Has a Bad Day'') is a ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' FanFic written by one Bagel Brain (or Kilroy Smythe Umbrick).

* BlackComedy: The scene where Abe Lincoln is brutally killed off as soon as he appears by a shard of glass from Garfield's tv impaling him in the head, because he's supposed to be dead to begin with.

* TheCameo: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]; a footnote mentions that TheUglyBarnacle was scheduled to make a guest appearance, but cancelled his appearance at the eleventh hour due to his ugliness killing his crew.

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the [=Delorean=], runs down [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[Franchise/BatMan The Batmobile]] and ComicBook/LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down, however.]]

* GainaxEnding: Not that anything in the fic made sense before, but the ending takes the cake: Garfield and the Splut [[spoiler:recreate the ending of ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey'', up to the part where Garfield becomes a star child... who makes a DreamworksFace and says [[Film/AChristmasStory "Drink more Ovaltine."]]]]

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Garfield plays ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' in the beginning, which apparently stars a guy [[IAmNotShazam named Metroid]], and it involves him saving the whales and resusicating the Mama Bran. Later, he encounters Film/BladeRunner (as in, a guy ''named'' Blade Runner, who runs on roller blades).

* RandomEventsPlot / MindScrew: The story makes ''no sense whatsoever.'' It's like the literary equivalent of a YoutubePoop.

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the Delorean, runs down [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[Franchise/BatMan The Batmobile]] and ComicBook/LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down, however.]]

* CoolCar: Garfield uses [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture the Delorean]] for the bulk of the story. The Batmobile also makes a brief cameo as Garfield runs into it during the chase.

* DeathSeeker: [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald [=McDonald=]]], after falling on hard times, happily ends his life of hollow product placement by letting Garfield run him over with [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture the DeLorean.]]

* FasterThanLightTravel: Garfield pulls this off with the DeLorean in space to try and escape the Splut, but it turns out it can do exactly the same thing.

* FlyingCar: The Delorean. It was already capable of this in the movies it hails from, but this story adds the ability for it to travel through deep space.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Splut starts off being invulnerable, but then gets SuperSpeed and RealityWarping abilities as the story progresses, with no foreshadowing beforehand. The DeLorean also gains this by being able to fly in space and go past light speed (while it ''could'' fly and time travel in the movies, it was never shown or implied to be space travel worthy or to be able to go that fast).

* RealityEnsues: Garfield runs down so many people in the Delorean trying to escape the Splut, that it inevitably slows it down, prompting Blade Runner to show up and give it a boost of speed.

* RememberedICouldFly: Garfield remembers at the right time that the DeLorean can fly, and immediately takes advantage of it.

* {{Troperiffic}}: The entire story is only 1,288 words long and has very little dialogue, but it has a substantial amount of trope filled content in spite of that, largely for its [[RandomEventsPlot bizarre, stream of conscious narrative]], [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover numerous character crossovers and cameos]] and [[ReferenceOverdosed numerous pop culture references.]] It uses at ''least'' 116 tropes total, not including YMMV tropes.

* ProductPlacement: Garfield eats Cheese Nips in the story. The story also mentions Ronald [=McDonald=] being disillusioned with his status as this. [[spoiler: And at the end, Garfield tells the reader to [[AChristmasStory "Drink More Ovaltine."]]]]

-->-- The fic's summary

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Splut. And during the car chase, a "{{Terminator}} flying machine" (presumably referring to an [[http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/HK-Aerial HK-Aerial Drone]]) comes completely out of nowhere and, for no given reason, begins chase. And then the Death Star appears...

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the Delorean, runs down [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[Franchise/BatMan The Batmobile]] and ComicBook/LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down, however.]]

* OwMyBodyPart: [[SpongeBobSquarepants Fred Fish]] screams his trademark phrase "MY LEG!" when Garfield runs him down while driving.

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the Delorean, runs down [[McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[Franchise/BatMan The Batmobile]] and ComicBook/LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down, however.]]

** The TropeNamer is directly referenced when Garfield runs over LexLuthor, who was stealing forty cakes.

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the Delorean, runs down [[McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[Franchise/BatMan The Batmobile]] and LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down, however.]]

* CoolCar: Garfield uses [[Film/BackToTheFuture the Delorean]] for the bulk of the story. The Batmobile also makes a brief cameo as Garfield runs into it during the chase.

* DeathSeeker: [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald [=McDonald=]]], after falling on hard times, happily ends his life of hollow product placement by letting Garfield run him over with [[Film/BackToTheFuture the DeLorean.]]

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: ''Garfield'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''StarWars'' and many others all feature in the story.

* NeckSnap: Garfield does this to [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] for no reason whatsoever, although it doesn't kill him.

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the Delorean, runs down [[McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[BatMan The Batmobile]] and LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down, however.]]

* FlatCharacter: The Splut is given no personality traits or clear motivation, [[TheBlank no expressions,]] or [[TheSpeechless even a voice]]. It's practically a force of nature out to harm Garfield and anything that gets in it's way, although the story informally describes it as sentient, evil and having eyes, and considering Garfield fooled it with an impossibly flaccid variation of HeWentThatWay, it's certainly not very smart.

* InformedFlaw / PlotHole: The story says Garfield has to eat every two minutes or he dies, but for the rest of the story he goes through at least ten minutes worth of crap with no repurcussions.

* NoSell: The Death Star fires it's planet-killing super laser with the Splut in its path, and not only is the pie completely unharmed by it (the beam simply splits off into fragments on contact) it flies right into its cannon and destroys it from the inside!

* FlyingCar: The Delorean.

* {{Homage}}: A chase scene plays out [[LampshadeHanging "not unlike]] ''Film/EvilDead2''".

* LampshadeHanging: A lot of the stories humor relies on it.

* WaveMotionGun: The Death Stars planet killing super laser.

* CarFu: Garfield, while driving the Delorean, runs down [[McDonalds Ronald McDonald]], [[SpongebobSquarepants Fred Fish]], [[TheFrenchConnection Popeye Doyle]], [[BatMan The Batmobile]] and LexLuthor while he's desperately trying to escape the Splut. [[RealityEnsues This eventually ends up slowing it down! however.]]