History WebAnimation / TheBackwaterGospel

%%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Not that the Tramp seems to mind.

%%* BattleInTheRain: The entire town engages in one after [[spoiler:they stone the Tramp to death.]]

%%* DeliberatelyMonochrome: In the first scene of the film, when The Undertaker approaches.
%%* DesertSkull: Seen when the Undertaker approaches the town.

%%* TheDragon: Bubba, to the Preacher.

%©* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Not that the Tramp seems to mind.

* BattleInTheRain: The entire town engages in one after [[spoiler:they stone the Tramp to death.]]

* BookEnds: The short begins and ends with the Undertaker calmly going about his work, even whistling the Tramp's song at the end.

* BookSafe: See BadassPreacher.

* DeathByIrony: Fate is a cruel mistress is she not? There's the obvious irony where [[spoiler: the townspeople murder each other so, well, ''they wouldn't have to die''. But there is a particular irony here. Remember that one townsman that said "Well it ain't gonna be me"? Remember how he is the first to start the panic and the massacre? He becomes the one the Undertaker first measures for a coffin.]]
** Not to mention, Minister was killed by a crucifix, there's some twisted irony in that. Plus, the irony is also reversed. Bubba had absolute faith in the Minister. When the panic starts, he loses his faith and attacks the Minister. [[spoiler:They end up killing each other. Bubba is killed by the man he admires most and the Minister is killed by his greatest supporter.]]
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: In the first scene of the film, when The Undertaker approaches.
* DesertSkull: Seen when the Undertaker approaches the town.

* TheDragon: Bubba, to the Preacher.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Not that the Tramp seems to mind.

SmallRoleBigImpact: The man who yells "Well it ain't gonna be me!" Twice does two respective actions that leads to a crescendo, with him running out in a panic causing the rest of the townsfolk to flee back to their homes, and [[spoiler:when he slices a woman's head in half causing the massive fight that leaves the entire population dead.]]

* WeirdWest: Clearly takes place somewhere in the parched American Southwest in the early 20th century, with [[Humanoid the Undertaker]] providing the Weird.

* NiceHat: The Undertaker wears a black top hat.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The townspeople of Backwater kill each other until the only survivor is the Undertaker who idly sat and watched.]]

''The Backwater Gospel'' is a short film, published on Website/YouTube, about a small town called Backwater that is in a bit of a predicament. Namely, whenever the local Undertaker bicycles into town, someone dies the same day. And not before he comes into town, either.

* HateSink: You will not like the Preacher. This is a fact. The man is an EgocentricallyReligious SinisterMinister who orders the death of an innocent man in a paranoid rage and, according to WordOfGod, is apparently ''intentionally'' enforcing the fear of god in the townsfolk for the sake of procuring power for himself. It is immensely satisfying to see him [[spoiler:die horribly in the massacre at the end]].

* ArcWords: "Well it ain't gonna be me!" They're spoken twice, by the same man. Once when the townspeople are barricading themselves inside their homes to hide from the Undertaker. The second, right before he [[spoiler:kills the man standing next to him, starting a murder-riot

* AnimalMotifs: The Undertaker is associated with [[CreepyCrows crows]]. They flock around him as he rides his bike, roost above and around him and [[spoiler: the Undertaker has large black wings like theirs that that can be seen occasionally and in his shadow.]]