History Film / PGPsychoGoreman

* {{Homage}}: PG's initialism name is a reference to ''Film/{{ET}}''

* AntiHero: Mimi. She's a BrattyHalfPint who uses PG's powers for her own purposes. The only thing keeping her from being a VillainProtagonist is that the PG is opposed by an EvilHero.

* AmbiguouslyGay: "I do not care for hunky boys… or do I?"

* TheNameless: PG didn't have a name (though he was known as the Arch-Duke of Nightmares) until Mimi and Luke give him one.

** Somewhat with PG. The closest thing he had to a real name was s "Arch-Duke of Nightmares" before Mimi and Luke discovered him. Mimi calls him Psycho Goreman, but he is constantly referred to as PG for short.

* AssholeVictim: The group of thieves that PG kills who themselves had claimed they murdered a person when they first see PG.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Mimi and Luke's family is too messed up to actually say they love each other, but they can show it indirectly like when they sing Mimi's "I'm the Heckin' Best" song together, or when Mimi apologizes to Luke through the knocking code. [[spoiler: It's enough to teach PG the PowerOfLove....which he then uses to destroy the world]]

** Mimi and Luke's dad really gets angry when people call him lazy despite the fact he is.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Plan B after [[spoiler: Pandora is defeated is for the Planetary Council to all kill themselves]]

* ButtMonkey: Luke is this. He is constantly treated like crap by Mimi and not even PG can remember his name and only refers to him as "Mimi's brother."

* DownerEnding: PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:PG wins his fight against Pandora, leaving him free to conquer the earth and the rest of the universe, which he follows through on, though he agrees to spare Mimi, Luke, and their parents.]]

** A cop mutated by PG tries to kill himself but to no avail.
** [[spoiler:The Planetary Alliance considers suicide when PG kills Pandora and is completely free in the movies post credit scene.]]

* EatenAlive: PG believes it is a great honor to be eaten and eats those he believes to formidable opponents.
* EmotionallyTongueTied: Mimi is too prideful to say out loud she is sorry but does so via Morse code knocking.

* EvilVersusEvil: PG is a world-destroying alien monster, but Pandora and the Planetary Alliance are not much better and just as villainous in their own way. Mimi even more or less says evil versus evil during the final battle.

* FreudianExcuse: PG's violent cruelty and hatred of all light can be pretty clearly traced back to being the oppressed slave of a race of shining white theocrats claiming to personally serve the Gods. [[spoiler: He's too damaged and too DrunkOnTheDarkSide to actually reconsider his monstrously evil goals, however, even when he discovers love and friendship.]]

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: When Luke asks if monsters are real, his father blithely states that humans are the real monsters, so yes, monsters are real. His mother chastises him for being inappropriate. Mimi later takes this message to heart when she gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide.

* KnightTemplar: Pandora is the intergalactic version of this; she wants to rid the galaxy of evil but she is a tyrant in her own right. It's even in the name of her race.

** [[spoiler:Inverted during the first half of PG's battle with the Paladins of Sydion. When PG is restrained from fighting the Paladins as punishment for telling them to kill Mimi, the battle between intergalactic fiends is given a suitably epic depiction, but then all the embellishments are removed, making the fight look like childish flailing. Subverted in the second half of the battle after PG apologizes and is allowed to fight back.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: Susan. For the first half of the film, she comes across as the put-upon OnlySaneWoman until PG arrives. When she realizes she can use him to take revenge on Greg for his laziness and manipulation, she doesn't hesitate. When Pandora [[spoiler: turns her into a Templar to help stop PG, Susan immediately abandons the mission and ignores PG to instead straight-up murder Greg.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Somewhat with PG. The closest thing he had to a real name was s "Arch-Duke of Nightmares" before Mimi and Luke discovered him. However Mimi calls him Psycho Goreman but he is constanly refered to as PG for short. can't remember Luke's name and only calls him "Mimi's Brother"
* PoliceAreUseless: The two police officers who see PG and try to attack him, are swiftly killed or mutated (then later) killed by him. Granted PG is a powerful alien monster.
* ThePowerOfLove: Mimi and Luke try to teach PG about love [[spoiler:and in the end discovers the feeling of love-which he then will use as motivation to destroy the galaxy]].
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The film has a twisted sense of morality that is centered around Mimi, her family and PG. for example, Mimi only gets infuriated at Pg for ordering his friends to kill Mimi and Luke and she punished PG by restraining him and letting the other aliens assault him while refusing to let the restraints go until he apologizes to her. For all the other villainous acts PG commits such as ravaging cities, Mimi and her entire family let him do this as long as PG promises to spare them.

* ReligiousBruiser: Pandora strongly believes in the gods and also believes she is destined by them to beat PG
* RuleOfThree: PG's disembodied head has to instruct Greg three times in how to find him.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Spoken word for word by the kids' father; Luke takes it to heart as Mimi gets increasingly DrunkOnTheDarkSide.

* AffectionateParody / DarkParody: Of family scifi films of the 80s/90s, but especially ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Let's start with the fact that PG sees eating those he sees as worthy opponents as an honor and go from there.

* BrattyHalfPint: Mimi is this.

* KickTheDog: During her first appearance, Pandora orders one of her servants to summon a human, who she immediately crushes into a small cube of gore, just in case you started thinking she was a good guy.

** Mimi and Luke's game of Crazy Ball is rendered as an epic battle, with dynamic camera angles and driving music. This is lampshaded when the film drops all the embellishments and shows the game for what it is: two kids shouting rules while tossing balls in the air.

** Goreman's henchmen have silly, cartoonish costumes that look straight out of ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.

* TookALevelInKindness: Subverted with PG. [[spoiler:While he has grown fond of Mimi and Luke and their parents, he is still a evil world-destroying monster who plans on conquering the galaxy at the end of the movie. Granted he does spare Mimi, Luke and their parents in the climax like he said he would.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Mimi might be an actual psychopath, seeming to very rarely feel remorse for all the bad things she does (she can only say sorry to Luke for her constant bullying of him through their knocking code, not with words) and taking a disturbing amount of glee vicariously through PG's violence.

* VillainProtagonist: Mimi. She uses Goreman to apply disproportionate revenge and ends up helping him so that he can destroy the galaxy.

** The humans in this film aren't exactly black-and-white, either.

* BadBoss: During his fight with [[spoiler:The Paladins of Sydion]], PG also takes out [[spoiler:his own underling]].

* AssholeVictim: The group of thieves that PG kills who themselves had claimed they murdered a person when they first see PG. [[spoiler:The Paladins of Sydion and Pandora also fall under this.]]
** The kid who PG blows up for saying he was wearing a costume.

** [[spoiler: Inverted during the first half of PG's battle with the Paladins of Sydion. When PG is restrained from fighting the Paladins as punishment for telling them to kill Mimi, the battle between intergalactic fiends is given a suitably epic depiction, but then all the embellishments are removed, making the fight look like childish flailing. Subverted in the second half of the battle after PG apologizes and is allowed to fight back.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: PG tries to kill Mimi and Luke at various points and later obliterates a kid who makes fun of how he looks. He eventually gets over killing Mimi and Luke by the climax. [[spoiler:Pandora isn't above this, either.]]

** Inverted when PG fights the Paladins of Sydion. The battle between intergalactic fiends is give a suitably epic depiction, but then the film suddenly removes all the embellishments, making the fight look like childish flailing.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Mimi might be an actual psychopath, seeming to very rarely feel remorse for all the bad things she does (she can only say sorry to Luke for her constant bullying of him through their knocking code, not with words) and taking a disturbing amount of glee vicariously through PG's violence

* WouldHurtAChild: PG tries to kill Mimi and Luke at various points and later obliterates a kid who makes fun of how he looks. [[spoiler:Pandora isn't above this, either.]]

* AwLook!TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Mimi and Luke's family is too messed up to actually say they love each other, but they can show it indirectly like when they sing Mimi's "I'm the Heckin' Best" song together, or when Mimi apologizes to Luke through the knocking code. [[spoiler: It's enough to teach PG the PowerOfLove....which he then uses to destroy the world]]

* AwLookTheyDoLoveEachOther: Mimi and Luke's family is too messed up to actually say they love each other, but they can show it indirectly like when they sing Mimi's "I'm the Heckin' Best" song together, or when Mimi apologizes to Luke through the knocking code. [[spoiler: It's enough to teach PG the PowerOfLove....which he then uses to destroy the world]]

* BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: Plan B after [[spoiler: Pandora is defeated is for the Planetary Council to all kill themselves]]

* EvilVersusEvil: PG is a world-destroying alien monster, but Pandora and the Planetary Alliance are not much better and just as villainous in their own way. Mimi and Luke's father even more or less says evil versus evil during the final battle.

** Also firing on an unarmed individual. PG is large and menacing, but is brandishing no weapon.

** PG's home planet is called Gigax, a reference to Gary Gygax, the creator of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

** PG's home planet is called Gigax, a reference to Gary Gygax, the inventor of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* RuleOfThree: PG's disembodied head has to instruct Scott three times in how to find him.

* TheCameo: Rich Evans of WebVideo/RedLetterMedia provides the voice of Death Trapper. He even delivers his de facto catchphrase, a shrill "Oh my god!"