History Platform / Fireball20XL

* HeroesWantRedheads: Meta, who is in a relationship with Nilla in both ''The Scrambled Channel'' and ''Shades of Green''. Nilla's hair is more orange than red, but it still counts.
** Also Big Nasty and Nala in ''The Rogues Gallery'', who have a crush on each other, but the actual "relationship" status of the two is ambiguous.

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after accusations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and fans[[note]]though part of them have come out as gender identities other than fully female[[/note]], including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. Since then, Psyguy still operates on some media platforms online and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name Brinnstar (formerly LetsPlay/BitPolar). The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

Other things on and related to the site include ''Bastardized'', a series of parody dubs inspired by Creator/LittleKuriboh's ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' done by Psy and the rest of the Fireball 20XL cast, with occasional celebrity guest appearances, including Creator/KyleHebert as Optimus Prime in ''Transformers: Bastardized'', and ''Wha-Chow!'', an online radio show hosted by Psy where he basically records Skype conversations and then broadcasts them. [[HilarityEnsues Recently he started recording these shows live via ustream.]] Special guests on the show include Little Kuriboh and Creator/MasakoX (creator of ''Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series'' and ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'' respectively), Kajetokun (the man responsible for ''[[Memes/DragonBall IT'S OVER 9000!!!]]'' and other such videos), Pete Cappella (former voice actor of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Silver the Hedgehog]]), Kyle Hebert, and Creator/Mike Pollock (voice actor of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]]).

* LongTitle: What Jen's comic ''JI'' eventually became. It was originally called ''JI: Jen and Ivo Star in: Jen and Ivo''. After Arashi and [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Magus]] joined, it became ''JIMA'', then ''JIMAS'' with the introduction of Shadow the Hedgehog and then ''JIMASP'' when Psycho, Psy's character, joined. When the whole cast of ''Scrambled Eggs'', another of Jen's comics featuring all the different incarnations of Robotnik (including a few made up by her) joined (a result of Jen merging ''Scrambled Eggs'' and ''JIMASP''), the title went straight to hell. Lampshaded in one strip where Jen remarks "It's been a while since we've done a *insert impossibly long comic title here*!" and Ivo replies "I'd like to know HOW you just pronounced that."

* StupidStatementDanceMix: One ''TMNT: Bastardized'' blooper reel looped a clip of Cailen saying "I'm Professor Crack" with a techno beat (made by Psy) in the background.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jen absolutely HATES feminine clothing (and girly-cute things in general), to the point where she shrieks and hides behind Ivo when Cream shows up dressed in her normal outfit.

[[http://fireball20xl.com/ Fireball 20XL]] was a webcomic hub created and run by Bryon Beaubien, also known as [=SuperPsyguy=], Psyguy, and Psy. Rather than being a site that hosts comics, it's essentially a website that links to other comic websites, whose authors post on the front page of Fireball 20XL whenever they update their own comics. The idea is for people to be able to check for updates on all the different comic sites, without actually having to go to each site individually and check.

* NamesTheSame: Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly made an April Fool's Day joke about a crossover between ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' and ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' titled ''Mushroom Kingdom Hearts''. Wil's comic started before that announcement.

* NiceHat: Early on in ''That's My Sonic'', Tails [[BlackComedy kills Baby Mario]] and steals his hat.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The impossibly-long-titled comic mentioned below.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Meta from ''The Scrambled Channel'' and ''Shades of Green'' has green hair (''Shades of Green'' reveals that he dyed it green after discovering it was LoveInterest Nilla's favourite colour). Wil has blue hair, and a few other characters have interesting hair colours.

* {{Mondegreen}}: In-Universe example. See HypnoFool above. Apparently O.M.A. thought those were the actual lyrics at one point.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Jorge (of ''The Rogues Gallery'') pronounces his name like the English "George", not like the Spanish "HOR-hay". Also, apparently Psy's last name (Beaubien) is pronounced "Boob-yun", not "Boh-beean" as a speaker of French might think.

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after accusations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and fans[[note]]though some have come out as gender identities other than fully female[[/note]], including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. Since then, Psyguy still operates on some media platforms online and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name Brinnstar (formerly LetsPlay/BitPolar). The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after accusations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and fans[[note]]though some have come out as different gender identities[[/note]], including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. Since then, Psyguy still operates on some media platforms online and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name Brinnstar (formerly LetsPlay/BitPolar). The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after accusations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and fans[[note]]though some have come out with different gender identities[[/note]], including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. Since then, Psyguy still operates on some media platforms online and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name Brinnstar (formerly LetsPlay/BitPolar). The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after accusations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and fans, including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. Since then, Psyguy still operates on some media platforms online and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name Brinnstar (formerly LetsPlay/BitPolar). The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after accusations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and fans, including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. Since then, Psyguy is still operates on some media platforms online and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name Brinnstar (formerly LetsPlay/BitPolar). The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after accusations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and fans, including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. For the most part, Psyguy has disappeared from the internet, although he still operates on some media platforms and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name "LetsPlay/BitPolar". The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

* ArtShift: One of the ''Webcomic/GGGuys'' comics (drawn by the artists formerly known as Shannon) is done in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' style.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Amethyst "Ame" Lashiec, Katrine Tanya "Kitty" Navilos, and others.

* ArtShift: One of the ''Webcomic/GGGuys'' comics (drawn by who is formerly Shannon) is done in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' style.

*** Also, do not touch Jen's Dr Pepper. Or Ivo's, for that matter.
*** Don't attempt to hack Arashi if you know what's good for you. She'll hack you right back and fry your motherboard to boot. ''Remotely''.
*** Arashi also really doesn't like to see Ivo get hurt.
*** If you value your life, NEVER wake Jen up when she's napping. Magus learned this the hard way (as did Cookies and Vanilla in Author Space).
*** At one point in the comic, Ivo is told by Jen that due to the condition her teeth are in, she's no longer allowed to drink Dr Pepper, and has to switch to Diet Dr Pepper, which means everyone else does since they all live together. Ivo then calmly states that the news has caused him to have a stroke that completely destroyed the part of his brain that restrains his violent emotional actions, and explains that he will now proceed to [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon stab Jen to death with a toothbrush]] as a result of this. (She manages to talk him out of killing her by pointing out that without her, Sonic would become the hero again, at which point he gets his revenge by giving Jen metal teeth, in what is implied to be an excruciatingly painful procedure.)

Other works Psy has done include ''Samurai Pizza Cats: COLD'', a ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' fancomic written by Psy and (formerly) drawn by OMA (now on hold), ''TMNT: Cowabunga!'', a ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' comic drawn by Wil and written by Psy, and several sprite comics including ''That's My Sonic!'', ''That's My Sonic! 2'', ''Garden Chase Drive'', ''I Don't Care Anymore!'', ''That's My Sonic! 3'' (all roughly within the same series, a sort of Sonic/Dragon Ball Z parody crossover also featuring original characters), ''Save Point Java'' (which was going to be a story about Mario and Luigi traveling to different game worlds before Psy got bored with it), ''Replay Value'' (a sitcom about Wario, Bass, King Dedede and a black Yoshi named Steve living in the same house) and ''DAMN.'' (ostensibly a comic about Shadow the Hedgehog (the character, not the game), though frequently dissolves into plain randomness). Psy's latest works are Updates!, a comic featuring the Fireball 20XL staff drawn by Steph O'Dell and written by Psy, and ''Webcomic/GGGuys'', a collaboration comic written by Psy and drawn by Supa Dave, featuring Psy, Dave, Shannon (no longer goes by Shannon in real life), Liz (now goes by Riley online in real life), Johnny (all based on real people) and Amber (an entirely fictional character) parodying a different video game each comic. So far it has been wewell-receivedwinning #1 on the Joystiq Awards.

Other things on and related to the site include ''Bastardized'', a series of parody dubs inspired by Creator/LittleKuriboh's ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' done by Psy and the rest of the Fireball 20XL cast, with occasional celebrity guest appearances, including Creator/KyleHebert as Optimus Prime in ''Transformers: Bastardized'', and ''Wha-Chow!'', an online radio show hosted by Psy where he basically records Skype conversations and then broadcasts them. [[HilarityEnsues Recently he started recording these shows live via ustream.]] Special guests on the show include Little Kuriboh and Creator/MasakoX (creator of ''Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series'' and ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'' respectively), Kajetokun (the man responsible for ''[[Memes/DragonBallZ IT'S OVER 9000!!!]]'' and other such videos), Pete Cappella (former voice actor of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Silver the Hedgehog]]), Kyle Hebert, and Creator/Mike Pollock (voice actor of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]]).

* ArtShift: One of the ''Webcomic/GGGuys'' comics (drawn by Shannon) is done in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' style.

As well as managing the site, Psy has also done several (hundreds) of comics, both on his own and collaborating with others. Possibly the most well-known was his graphic novel, ''Chaos Diamonds 3'', a "fanfic gone comic" set in the Sonic universe, but featuring Tails as the hero, Amy as the love interest and Sonic as the villain. It has been drawn by several artists, with Wil Brendel having worked on it for the longest time. (One of the few comics that has actually been finished, the end giving a teaser for a sequel, ''Chaos Diamonds 5,'' though this never came to fruition.) Another of Psy's more famous works was his comic ''Greed'', a Zelda/Mario crossover featuring Wario as the hero and Link as his sidekick. Many artists have worked on this comic, too, Cailen Crow holding the record for longest time worked on it (though he eventually had to be replaced due to being too busy to work on it). ''Red & Black'', a comic that speculates and expands upon the death of Maria and just what happened on the Space Colony ARK 50 years ago, was also popular. (Drawn by Fooly, written by Psy, it was cancelled halfway through, but Psy released the complete script online so fans could see the ending.)

Other works Psy has done include ''Samurai Pizza Cats: COLD'', a ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' fancomic written by Psy and (formerly) drawn by OMA (now on hold), ''TMNT: Cowabunga!'', a ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' comic drawn by Wil and written by Psy, and several sprite comics including ''That's My Sonic!'', ''That's My Sonic! 2'', ''Garden Chase Drive'', ''I Don't Care Anymore!'', ''That's My Sonic! 3'' (all roughly within the same series, a sort of Sonic/Dragon Ball Z parody crossover also featuring original characters), ''Save Point Java'' (which was going to be a story about Mario and Luigi travelling to different game worlds before Psy got bored with it), ''Replay Value'' (a sitcom about Wario, Bass, King Dedede and a black Yoshi named Steve living in the same house) and ''DAMN.'' (ostensibly a comic about Shadow the Hedgehog (the character, not the game), though frequently dissolves into plain randomness). Psy's latest works are Updates!, a comic featuring the Fireball 20XL staff drawn by Steph O'Dell and written by Psy, and ''Webcomic/GGGuys'', a collaboration comic written by Psy and drawn by Supa Dave, featuring Psy, Dave, Shannon, Liz, Johnny (all real people) and Amber (not a real person) parodying a different video game each comic. So far it has been well received, winning #1 on the Joystiq Awards.

Other things on and related to the site include ''Bastardized'', a series of parody dubs inspired by Creator/LittleKuriboh's ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' done by Psy and the rest of the Fireball 20XL cast, with occasional celebrity guest appearances, including Creator/KyleHebert as Optimus Prime in ''Transformers: Bastardized'', and ''Wha-Chow!'', an online radio show hosted by Psy where he basically records Skype conversations and then broadcasts them. [[HilarityEnsues Recently he started recording these shows live via ustream.]] Special guests on the show include Little Kuriboh and Creator/MasakoX (creator of ''Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series'' and ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'' respectively), Kajetokun (the man responsible for ''IT'S OVER 9000!!!'' and other such videos), Pete Cappella (the voice of Silver The Hedgehog), Kyle Hebert and Mike Pollock (the voice of Dr. Eggman).

The site got over 4,000 hits per day and being on the site (or having your site in the links section) used to be considered an honor. While the site had been declining since then, after allegations of the Psyguy's emotionally and sexually abusive behaviors towards his female staff and other contacts, including minors, were brought to light on Tumblr in 2014, he took down fireball20xl.com, many of his online accounts, and all other domains that he owns. For the most part, Psyguy has disappeared from the internet, although he still operates on some media platforms and does [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] under the name "LetsPlay/BitPolar". The numerous talented artists that were originally employed under [=FB20XL=] have all since moved on to other things.

Notable former staff members of Fireball 20XL include Kirbopher, whom you may know as the creator of ''{{WebAnimation/TOME}}'', ''Go Go Parody Rangers!'', ''[=NiN10Doh!=]'' and ''[=$00pah NiN10Doh!=]'', and Mike (author of ''Webcomic/InWilysDefense'', ''Tales of Southtown'' and the new collaboration ''Webcomic/{{Fetch Quest|SagaOfTheTwelveArtifacts}}'', drawn by OMA - though Mike isn't really a part of the site anymore, updates for ''Fetch Quest'' continue to be posted on the main page by OMA).