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Russell grew up with a crew that convinced him that anybody who didn't belong to the crew, sailor or landlubber alike, wasn't worth any mourning or afterthought and simply was an enemy, although the crew treated another like VitrolicBestBuds at worst. They also warned him that he never should admit to being a pirate, as that would cost him his freedom and land him in gaol for a lifetime.

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Russell grew up with a crew that convinced him that anybody who didn't belong to the crew, sailor or landlubber alike, wasn't worth any mourning or afterthought and simply was an enemy, although the crew treated another like VitrolicBestBuds VitriolicBestBuds at worst. They also warned him that he never should admit to being a pirate, as that would cost him his freedom and land him in gaol for a lifetime.
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Possibly about the same age as Disco Bear (we can tell from ''Ipso Fatso'' that [=DB's=] an ex-star) or somewhat younger. We do know that he was successful in many areas, including the piano - Cro-Marmot might simply have been interested in history and based his Artist's Name on his favorite historical period. Then [[AWizardDidIt somebody]] [[GreenEyedMonster became jealous of him,]] and decided to give him a FateWorseThanDeath (that may have backfired, given Marmot's PerpetualSmile). Proof: Flaky has a picture on her watch where he isn't encased in ice, which would be pretty hard to take if he was frozen before the camera was invented.

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Possibly about the same age as Disco Bear (we can tell from ''Ipso Fatso'' that [=DB's=] an ex-star) or somewhat younger. We do know that he was successful in many areas, including the piano - Cro-Marmot might simply have been interested in history and based his Artist's Name on his favorite historical period. Then [[AWizardDidIt somebody]] [[GreenEyedMonster became jealous of him,]] and decided to give him a FateWorseThanDeath (that may have backfired, given Marmot's PerpetualSmile).a PerpetualSmiler). Proof: Flaky has a picture on her watch where he isn't encased in ice, which would be pretty hard to take if he was frozen before the camera was invented.
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'''Flaky'''

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'''Flippy'''

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'''Lumpy'''

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'''Handy'''

[[WMG: Handy's injury is recent.]]
... despite the series spanning over a decade. He is always wearing bandages, as if still in recovery, and has yet to have any prosthetics fitted. And, of course, he constantly forgets he's missing his arms, which you'd think he would get used to eventually. Possibly, he is cursed to suffer the same debilitating injury every time he "comes back" after the credits roll.

[[WMG: Handy has HandyFeet]]
How would the guy get things done offscreen without using his nonexistent hands? He uses his feet of course!
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[[WMG: Handy's injury is recent.]]
... despite the series spanning over a decade. He is always wearing bandages, as if still in recovery, and has yet to have any prosthetics fitted. And, of course, he constantly forgets he's missing his arms, which you'd think he would get used to eventually. Possibly, he is cursed to suffer the same debilitating injury every time he "comes back" after the credits roll.
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[[WMG: If the Ants are brought back, they will fall into KarmaHoudiniWarranty]]
Given how infamous they are among the fandom for [[KarmaHoudini never being punished]] for their sadistic actions, should they ever come back, the tables could turn against them to satisfy the fans. Episodes could end either with Sniffles winning or at least the Ants dying first.

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Restoring some parts of the story that I had erased for a petty reason and acted rude about it. I'm sorry I did it in the first place.



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* Shippers assemble! I've been working on this theory for a long time. Besides the proofs you put, I'd like to point out another two. Remember ''Double Whammy''? The first time Flippy flips out, he kills everybody and bathes in their blood. The defenseless Flaky comes by and screams, causing Flippy to go back to his usual self. Why would Flaky's screams wake him up? Also, in ''Party Animal'', there is a moment where the flipped out Flippy is looking for prey. He sees poor Flaky inflated because of her allergy and thus unable to move. What does he do? Ignores her and keeps looking for victims.
* Flippy is known to come out of his flips if he hears loud noises. And maybe he didn't attack Flaky in ''Party Animal'' because ''she looked nothing like Flaky.'' Flipqy consciously killed Flaky 4 times anyways.
** Actually, Flippy killed Nutty too, in that episode, and Nutty looked ''nothing'' like Nutty. He was just a spinning tornado. Why wouldn't he have killed Flaky too? On the contrary, Flippy's view actually lingered on Flaky while he was searching for victims, but he just went to kill Sniffles anyway, whose only nose could be seen outside a barrel. It would have been much easier for Flippy to go and kill Flaky, but he didn't do it. Someone actually stated at one point that the creators didn't make Flippy kill Flaky because she was the one who had organized his birthday party, implying that Flippy had become too attached to Flaky to kill her during the series, even as his psychopatic, evil self. That's why he didn't flip out and kill her in ''Without A Hitch'' either, when he could have easily done it there as well, because he wasn't cured completely. (''Random Acts Of Silence'' was released after ''Without A Hitch'' and he flipped out there).
* Yes, but that was in the beginning of ''Happy Tree Friends''. In latter episodes, he apparently gets closer to Flaky (the signs that they're becoming really good friends - Flaky even might be Flippy's best friend- are mentioned by the first two fellow tropers), which determines him to have feelings for her, feelings that might interfere with Flippy's instinct to kill her. There are two episodes in which he doesn't kill her actually: ''Party Animal'' and ''Without A Hitch'', even though he could have easily done it.
* I already explained why he didn't kill Flaky in Party Animal. And Flippy might have been cured in ''Double Whammy part 2''.
** He's not. He flips out in ''Random Acts of Silence'', an episode that aired much later.
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felt i should make flaky's more justified


** Flaky only killed in paranoid self-defense, but was put there anyway due to some sort of misunderstanding.

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** Flaky only killed in paranoid self-defense, but was put there anyway due a coward that did little to some sort of misunderstanding.help people so she could save her own hide.
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[[WMG: This was to be a paradise.]]
The world these people live in is intended to be a lovely paradise, and it has been for a very long time. Accidents happen, and the people were blessed with incredible resilience and the ability to endlessly be repaired, no matter how catastrophic their injury. A technology capable of generating a replacement body when the previous one is liquefied or otherwise completely lost even exists, though it has the downside of temporarily regressing the mind of a subject (which is why characters are sometimes adults and sometimes child-like). Arguably, it's still lovely, but Happy Tree Town is now the resting place of a cursed idol that even at extreme ranges makes daily life absurdly dangerous and forces the people to be as flimsy as foam. Most of the town's medical personnel have fled when they noticed the trend, leaving Lumpy mostly in charge, and only the most oblivious or foolish citizens yet remain in Happy Tree Town. The experience of death typically erases the most immediate memories leading up to it, and so the people don't develop PTSD from repeated trauma... with the exceptions of Lumpy and Flaky. Flaky remembers everything, every time, and is now anxious about almost everything. In Lumpy's case, it's more that he's too oafish to begin with and literally cannot regress to a dumber state than he usually exists in, though if he stays intact for long enough he develops additional expertise, such as lumberjacking. The idol's hateful influence is why the wildlife are so bizarrely vicious, and why things seem to just abruptly break if it results in direct harm. Most of the rest of the world continues to be fine, but it can still occur anywhere; the nexus of it is just Happy Tree Town. The existential dread of all this is completely lost on the entire cast.
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Some powerful [[AWizardDidIt magician]]/RealityWarper/someone with the Lamp of Lumpy the Djinn once wished that only natural death should be permanent, so no one would die before he should. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor And thus, every death and injury from violence, accident or poisoning is only temporary.]] Which are the only deaths we have seen reversed. Illnesses and conditions are not affected however, thus explaining the permanence of Flaky's dandruff (the eponymous "flakes") as well as her [[LovableCoward phobias and paranoia]], Petunia's SuperOCD, and [[JekyllAndHyde Fliqpy]].

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Some powerful [[AWizardDidIt magician]]/RealityWarper/someone with the Lamp of Lumpy the Djinn once wished that only natural death should be permanent, so no one would die before he should. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor And thus, every death and injury from violence, accident or poisoning is only temporary.]] Which are the only deaths we have seen reversed. Illnesses and conditions are not affected however, thus explaining the permanence of Flaky's dandruff (the eponymous "flakes") as well as her [[LovableCoward phobias and paranoia]], Petunia's SuperOCD, OCD, and [[JekyllAndHyde Fliqpy]].



Long before the series began, the Cursed Idol was created alongside the Earth in the HTF parrallel timeline, and thus held the universe in balance. But, shortly before the series, someone tampered with it Indy style and instead of the Idol harvesting its power from the peace and tranquility, it instead harvested its power from the bloodshed from the Tree Friends' excruciating deaths, and therefore to make sure that this power wouls not run out everyone who dies must be brought back to life. Everything that happens before the 'Tampering' would remain when any Tree Friend is resurrected. Handy and Russell lost their limbs before the Tampering, as did the Mole and Sniffles with their eyesight; as with Petunia's SuperOCD, she got it prior to the Tampering. With Flippy/Fliqpy, ''Operation Tiger Bomb'' takes place before the Tampering, explaining Flippy's PTSD and why we never see his teammates in other episodes. Same goes for Nutty's sugar addiction and Lammy's schizophrenia. Pop's wife died before the Tampering. This also explains why more people seem to die around it (''Treasure These Idol Moments'', ''Idol Curiosity''), so it can get more power.

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Long before the series began, the Cursed Idol was created alongside the Earth in the HTF parrallel timeline, and thus held the universe in balance. But, shortly before the series, someone tampered with it Indy style and instead of the Idol harvesting its power from the peace and tranquility, it instead harvested its power from the bloodshed from the Tree Friends' excruciating deaths, and therefore to make sure that this power wouls not run out everyone who dies must be brought back to life. Everything that happens before the 'Tampering' would remain when any Tree Friend is resurrected. Handy and Russell lost their limbs before the Tampering, as did the Mole and Sniffles with their eyesight; as with Petunia's SuperOCD, OCD, she got it prior to the Tampering. With Flippy/Fliqpy, ''Operation Tiger Bomb'' takes place before the Tampering, explaining Flippy's PTSD and why we never see his teammates in other episodes. Same goes for Nutty's sugar addiction and Lammy's schizophrenia. Pop's wife died before the Tampering. This also explains why more people seem to die around it (''Treasure These Idol Moments'', ''Idol Curiosity''), so it can get more power.
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[[WMG: The characters are revived with electricity.]]
Suspected in the ''Slap Happy'' iOS game, where if Cuddles ends up dying, he has to be electrocuted to be revived.
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[[WMG: The entire series is just written/drawn by a high schooler.]]
Some high schooler was a professional writer. One day, his friend asked him to come up with a series about cute animals dying in horrible ways. He accepted it and now makes and sells these comics to the public. Because there was no lore to his comics, the dead animals come back to life.
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The Tiger army seen in "Operation Tiger Bomb" may not be the only enemy soldiers Flippy had to fight. On one of his missions, he may have been sent to Flower Hill to aid in the fight. However, while on the mission, he gets captured and sent to a Flower Hill P.O.W. camp. A riot soon breaks out there, and Flippy (who is still shell-shocked from the events of "Tiger Bomb") goes on a rampage and escapes the camp. He then goes around killing every enemy soldier he could find.

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The Tiger army seen in "Operation "[[Recap/HTFOperationTigerBomb Operation Tiger Bomb" Bomb]]" may not be the only enemy soldiers Flippy had to fight. On one of his missions, he may have been sent to Flower Hill to aid in the fight. However, while on the mission, he gets captured and sent to a Flower Hill P.O.W. camp. A riot soon breaks out there, and Flippy (who is still shell-shocked from the events of "Tiger Bomb") goes on a rampage and escapes the camp. He then goes around killing every enemy soldier he could find.

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