History WebAnimation / Purgatony

->''This is hardly working,''\\
''This is hardly living:''\\
''This is my job!''

** [[UpperClassTwit Prince Narplebottom]] from episode 5 is hideously deformed as a result of incest, to the point where his arms and legs don’t function properly, one of his eyes is oversized, and he [[PottyFailure constantly soils himself]]. He also seems to bruise and break bones easily, and just a few seconds out on the baseball field is all it takes for him to turn into a mangled, bloody mess.

* CassandraTruth: when Tony tells Samael of his plans to meet Pambela, the demon breaks down in tears and wails how that woman will destroy Tony and break his heart, reciting his own relationship with a fellow demoness that got him kicked out of Hell and into Purgatory. Tony dismissed it as overreaction over their relationship being between two inherently evil creatures. Turns out, [[spoiler: Samael was right, and Tony is DrivenToSuicide in result... not that he can actually succeed]].

* CessationOfExistence: The Soul Shredder allegedly does this, and Death threatens Tony with this throughout the series. [[spoiler: Death made it up, it's just a coffee grinder. He can't destroy souls, but he convinced Tony it did so he could motivate Tony through fear.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: Tony reaches one at the end of episode 8. [[spoiler: Tony learns that, because he never worked up the courage to tell the woman he loved how he felt before he died, she moved on and fell in love with someone else. After presumably sending her to heaven, Tony asks Death to shred his soul and "make me not exist".]]
* DirtyOldMan: In Episode 5, Coach Cruthers reveals he knocked out Tony and used a BedTrick to have sex with Tony's sixteen year old girlfriend.
* TheDogBitesBack: Episode 7 ends with this. The entire office has been treating Tony like dirt the whole season, and in this episode specifically are betting on him and trying to manipulate him for personal gain. So he rigs his last case so that everybody who bet loses all their prize tickets and he wins them all. He then uses them to buy out the entire prize shop.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Max is deathly pale, gaunt, and has black hair.

** In episode 5, Coach Cruthers repeatedly knocked out Tony as a child so as to play baseball in his place and win the game, effectively denying Tony a chance to develop baseball skills and inflicting brain damage on him in the process. If that wasn't bad enough, Cruthrs also knocked Tony out on his prom night and used a BedTrick to have sex with young Tony's 16 year old girlfriend.
** In episode 6, when Tony is sent to Earth to get people to sign up to pre-approved packages, he spoke to a racist old woman who was pre-approved for Hell. She actually didn't mind this … until she learned that her husband who died before her would ''also'' be in Hell.
** In episode 7, Tony at one point sends an elderly nun to Hell. While he might have just been being negligent, it could also have been this trope.
* ExtraEyes: Tony's supervisor Jeremy is an exaggeration of this trope, being a demonic ball of eyes with tentacles hanging from the bottom and kept aloft by bat wings.

* FreezeFrameBonus: one that [[RewatchBonus changes the entire finale in Episode 8]] if you look closely, making the episode much less of a comedy and more of a drama. [[spoiler: If you read Pambela's entire file, you can see that their relationship with Tony was much more than it seems. She was only 14 at a time (born in 1993, died in 2007), while Tony was an adult. She also died very soon after Tony, possibly on the same day, and waited for 17 more years in Purgatory for someone to interview her. She did not live a happy life she described ("she deserved more from life"), never married and basically her entire story was a lie - most likely [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim to spare telling Tony all of that truth]]. And then even in death, with nothing to lose, he still couldn't admit his feelings, leaving her ultimate fate unknown. One look at her file, and their backstory becomes much more dramatic than it appeared.]].
* FullNameBasis: It's not Chad. It's not Bradley. It's Chad Bradley.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: {{Defied}}. Tony's work computer does not get porn.

* KarmicJackpot: In episode 7, when the entire office is betting on Tony's cases and trying to manipulate him, Max is the only one who tells him what's going on and who doesn't partake. In the end, when Tony rigs the last bet and buys out the prize shop with his winnings, Max reminds him of this and in gratitude Tony agrees to buy Max whatever prizes he wants. [[spoiler: Max gets enough plastic spiders to cover his body, as well as a Chinese finger trap.]]
* LightIsNotGood: In episode 7, an angel named Dameon is a compulsive gambler who threatens to stab Tony for losing him a bet. He also claims that Harold the Heinous, a rapacious Viking, "had a beautiful soul" and should have gone to Heaven.
* LoserProtagonist: Tony is fat, short, lazy, depressed, and hates his (after)life and job.
* TheLostLenore: Tony was this to Pambela, a woman who he loved but lacked the courage to confess his feelings to. She felt the same way, and after Tony died she opened her own restaurant and named it Purgatelli after Tony.

* OpenMindedParent: God is apparently this. In episode 6 He's willing to let a Satanist into Heaven for being a good person, and in episode 7 Tony reveals that being unbaptized, uncircumcised, or gay doesn't matter with regards to where a person's soul goes. The opening song outright says people are judged "on a good-bad divider", suggesting that a person's character is all that matters. [[spoiler: well … that and the competency of their case worker.]]
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Angels are no less fallible than devils. In fact, most of them are shallow douchebags.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons act like normal people.
* TheParagon: Pambela Easily, Tony's lost love, qualifies if her case description is anything to go off. It lists her notable virtue as "many" and her notable sin as "burnt brownies", and the Note section outright stars with "A good human".

* PetTheDog: when Death first met Tony, [[spoiler: he wanted to spare him and send him off to lunch minutes before the building collapsed. Tony ignores his advice, and ends up in Purgatory]].

** In Episode 5, Death plays a baseball game against the Devil and bet 40,000 souls on he outcome. [[spoiler: All of those souls go to Hell without judgement, and it's mostly Death's fault.]] After this, Death apparently makes the same bet with dog-souls at the end of the episode.
* PragmaticVillainy: Since Death is AboveGoodAndEvil, whenever he does something that could be portrayed as nice, it's always actually for a pragmatic reason.

--> '''Harold''': "Harold the Heinous!"\\

'''Tony''': "Nope no no no no! That's enough!"
--> '''Harold''': "I' was going to say 'anus'."

* TheWorfEffect: If Tony needs to be humiliated and Chad Bradley is the antagonist, Chad Bradley is perfect at everything. If Tony needs to be humiliated and Chad Bradley is on his side, Chad Bradley is useless.

* HornyDevils: A succubus tries to seduce Tony in episode 7, though it's only for TheBet.

* CrapsackWorld: Turns out it's not just life that's a soul-sucking drag. The afterlife is just as bad. So it's less Crapsack World and more Crapsack ''[[UpToEleven Existence]]''. If it weren't so funny, it'd be a CosmicHorrorStory.

* AntiHero: Tony is an average joe, so he's neither good nor evil. Though he does try to do the good thing (kinda, he's insanely lazy) and sometimes, he makes impulsive and selfish choices (like when he condemed thousands of innocents to Hell just to spite Coach Carruthers).

* PunchClockHero: Judging mortal souls is just a boring, unfufilling office job to Tony.