History WebAnimation / MyPride

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''My Pride'' is an animated Web series by
[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz0mnXPHa-luJf9-amkTjkw Tribbleofdoom]]. It follows the story of a disabled lioness named Nothing looking for a new pride to call home. The series starts off with her father and brother being killed off by a rival lion and goes from there.

* MouthFlaps: Averted. As a cost-cutting measure and stylistic choice, the characters open their mouths to speak but their lips do not move while they speak ''at all'', making the show look more like a MotionComic than an animated work during conversations. The saved budget is put to good use, [[AnimationBump as every ''action'' in the series is animated quite fluidly, including when a character who is speaking changes from one facial expression to another.]]

''My Pride'' is an animated Web series by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz0mnXPHa-luJf9-amkTjkw Tribbleofdoom]]. It follows the story of a disabled lioness named Nothing looking for a new pride to call home. The series starts off with her father and brother being killed off by a rival lion and goes from there.

* MouthFlaps: Averted. As a cost-cutting measure and stylistic choice, the characters open their mouths to speak but their lips do not move while they speak ''at all'', making the show look more like a MotionComic than an animated work during conversations. The saved budget is put to good use, as every ''action'' in the series is animated quite fluidly, including when a character who is speaking changes from one facial expression to another.

* CriticalResearchFailure: It’s treated as a sin and a legitimate reason to not accept a male lion as a pride’s leader if they receive help from another lion during the challenging process… Even though lions, often related, in real life regularly team up on older males to stake claim for a pride with the two sharing responsibilities and females.

* MouthFlaps: Averted. As a cost-cutting measure and stylistic choice, the characters' mouths do not move when they speak ''at all'', making the show look more like a MotionComic than an animated work during conversations. The saved budget is put to good use, as every ''action'' in the series is animated quite fluidly, including when a character who is speaking changes from one facial expression to another.

* UnexplainedAccent: Most characters speak in fairly generic American accents; Powerstrike and several characters closely related to her such as Sharptongue and Farleap are British, which doesn't stick out too much, but Rain's very thick Southern American drawl and Barkmane's mild Scottish brogue can be a bit jolting.

* Critical Research Failure: It’s treated as a sin and a legitimate reason to not accept a male lion as a pride’s leader if they receive help from another lion during the challenging process… Even though lions, often related, in real life regularly team up on older males to stake claim for a pride with the two sharing responsibilities and females.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A moment from the very first episode that foreshadows something all the way at the end of the first season. As cubs, Nothing tried to play a game called "Mane and No Mane" with Fire, but he brushed her off, saying females couldn't be manes and that he didn't want to play the game with her. In episode ten, [[spoiler: Nothing, enraged and grieving over Feather's apparent death, challenges Firemane for real]].

* UnexplainedAccent: Most characters speak in fairly generic American accents; Sharptongue's gentle mid-Atlantic and Powerstrike's posh British don't stick out too much, but Rain's very thick Southern American drawl and Barkmane's mild Scottish brogue can be a bit jolting.

* ShownTheirWork: even though Pride Law is unfair, the aspects of it is based on real life Lion behavior.

** Rain tells Nothing to leave Feather to die.

* {{Xenofiction}}: The characters may talk and have laws and a religion, but their worldview and behavior are strongly informed by being lions.

* AnimalNamingConventions: Lions living under Pride Law have names generally following the pattern of {descriptor}{noun}. Females remain nameless (referred to as "daughter", "sister", etc.) until they come of age, when they're given names describing their best aptitude after a testing ceremony. Males are given naturalistic or attribute names (such as Fire, Feather, Quick, or Proud) immediately, but they're ostensibly incomplete until they claim a pride and earn the "mane" suffix to their birth name. It's notable that the names of Prideless and historical characters don't follow this convention at all.

* FantasticNamingConvention: Lions living under pride law have names generally following the pattern of {descriptor}{noun}. Females remain nameless (referred to as "daughter", "sister" etc.) until they come of age, then they're given names describing their best aptitude after a testing ceremony. Males are given names immediately, but they're ostensibly incomplete until they claim a pride and earn the "mane" suffix to their birth name. It's notable that the names of prideless or historical characters don't follow this convention at all.

* WouldHurtAChild: It's an accepted part of Lion society that No-Manes kill the recently born offspring of the prides they take over.

* HitMeDammit: Thinking Nothing has nothing to live for after [[spoiler:seeing Fire attack Feather and "kill" him]], she challenges her brother for the Pride and demands for him to fight her.

ReducedToRatburgers: Nothing and Feather end up lost in the Prideless Stretch and eating things (in Nothing's words) that "vultures wouldn't touch".