History WesternAnimation / EgoTrip

'''Overlord Mandark:''' [[BigNever NEVER!]]

'''Dexter:''' ''(butting in)'' Reunion, schmunion! I want my Neurotomic Protocore, you glutenous, old hack!\\

* BaldOfAwesome: Action Dexter is bald and he fights to end Mandark's tyranny.

* BroughtDownToNormal: As Number 12, Dexter shows none of his ability for scientific achievements and is a yes-man with a whiny voice, satiring salaryman culture; only halfway through does he go back to being a {{Badass}}.

* BadassBeard: Action Dexter has one.

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: The robots that arrived to destroy "the one who saved the future"? They were created by the four Dexters themselves, who were so upset about Dee Dee (unknowingly) stopping Mandark and stealing their thunder that they tried to exterminate her for payback. When present day Dexter realizes he only created the robots he destroyed, he relents to a more proportionate revenge of just sulking and refusing to talk to Dee Dee.]]

** Dee Dee wandering into the time machine after Dexter head off into the future [[spoiler: She ends up arriving in the middle of the climax and does what she does best, push the world saving button out of curiosity.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: The robots that arrived to destroy "the one who saved the future"? They were created by the four Dexters themselves, who were so upset about Dee Dee (unknowingly) stopping Mandark and stealing their thunder that they tried to exterminate her for payback. When present day Dexter realises he only created the robots he destroyed, he relents to a more proportionate revenge of just sulking and refusing to talk to Dee Dee.]]

* VillainousValor: After all the Dexters gain a HeroicSecondWind over their Mandarks and make a break for the control panel, the Mandarks refuse to lose to Dexter again and desperately fight them to a standstill. Even the sadistic CEO Mandark, who just got a brutal revenge beating by Twelve, is not a ThinSkinnedBully and just gets back up and angrily wrestles Twelve on even ground. Hell, even the ''brain in a jar'' Mandark somehow puts up a resistance.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The fact that the robots from the future didn't fight back while Dexter was destroying them is a hint that he wasn't the one they were really after]].

* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: A serious version. In attempting to harness the Protocore's powers, Mandark inadvertently set the positive flow to negative. Not only did the negative neurotomic energy twist Mandark's mind, making him more insane than ever, it numbed the minds of everyone in the world. In order to undo the damage, the Protocore had to be reset to positive.
* KickTheDog: Mandark makes his torture of Number Twelve public on the office's television screens, for only being ''nearly'' late.

* RewatchBonus: As mentioned above in {{foreshadowing}}, [[spoiler:the robots that come back to the present don't actually attack Dexter after alerting him of their purpose, nor try to fight back as he destroys them. The first time through, it just seems like Dexter just managed to react fast enough. The ''second'' time, you realize that the robots had plenty of time to destroy him while he was running around screaming during his initial panic: they didn't because he wasn't their target.]]

* VillainousValor: After all the Dexters gain a HeroicSecondWind over their Mandarks and make a break for the control panel, the Mandarks refuse to lose to Dexter again and desperately fight them to a standstill. Even the sadistic CEO Mandark who just got a brutal revenge beating by Twelve is not a ThinSkinnedBully and just gets back up and angrily wrestles Twelve on even ground. Hell even the ''brain in a jar'' Mandark somehow puts up a resistance.

* WhatTheHellHero: Dexter gives this to Twelve after the shock of seeing how weak and fearful he's grown up to be.

* {{Trumplica}}: Everything about Mandark, in his older versions, embodies this, aside from the ''literal'' FatBastard; in fact, it's a weird mix of him and Kim Jong-Un, sort of, due to Mandark being AsianAndNerdy, and being half-Asian.

* BadBoss: Mandark, totally. He ''publicly'' uses an electric whip on Number 12 for ''almost'' being late.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:That the robots from the future didn't fight back while Dexter was destroying them is a hint that he wasn't the one they were really after]].

-->[[spoiler:''Time travel hurts my brain.'']]

* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: During the FinalBattle [[spoiler:just before Dexter can push the button and restore the protocore to normal, undoing Mandark's reign, Dee Dee finally appears and presses said button instead. The Dexters don't take it well]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While in Number 12's cubicle, Dexter finds the Protocore and the plans for the knowledge spreader. Unfortunately, when he convinces 12 to check out the future with him, they leave those things out, allowing Mandark to swoop in and use the technology for his own conquest.

** "Stop the typing. Stop the typing. Stop the typing. Stop the typing. Stop the typing. [[SuddenlyShouting STOP THE TYPING!!]]"

* RewatchBonus: As mentioned above in {{foreshadowing}}, [[spoiler:the robots that come back to the present don't actually attack Dexter after alerting him of their purpose, nor try to fight back as he destroys them. The first time through, it just seems like Dexter just managed to react fast enough. The second time you realize that, with Dexter's initial panicking, the robots had plenty of time to destroy him: they didn't because he wasn't the target.]]

* StableTimeLoop: ''The whole special''. [[spoiler: Dexter's trip to the future was instigated by robots who were seeking to "destroy the one who saved the future". While in the future, he inadvertently allows Mandark to steal the Protocore and create a BadFuture. After much fighting and teaming up with his selves from various time periods, the day is saved by... ''Dee Dee'', who wanders in from the main era and [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo does her thing]]. Furious at having their thunder stolen, the Dexters create an army of robots to destroy Dee Dee... the same robots that Dexter encountered at the beginning. When he realizes this, Dexter has a minor breakdown trying to figure it out, then decides to screw it and get a sandwich. And all this [[WhatAnIdiot because he unintentionally pointed Dee Dee towards the time machine]] instead of the lab's actual exit.]]

''Ego Trip'' is an hour-long TV special of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' airing on Cartoon Network in 1999 as the show's GrandFinale (assuming you [[FanonDiscontinuity don't count the two seasons made without Genndy Tartakovsky]]).

* GrandFinale: This movie was intended to serve as the definite end to the show, though the series was subsequently renewed for two more seasons. Though, in a way, it kinda was this as this was the last product of the old guard of the series, including Genndy working on it and the original models and animation in general.

* GrandFinale: This movie was intended to serve as the definite end to the show, though the series was subsequently renewed for two more seasons. Though, in a way, it kinda was this was the last product of the old guard of the series, including Genndy working on it and the original models and animation in general.

* VisualPun: Once Twelve gains his resolve to fight Executive Mandark, images of a [[Film/TheWizardOfOz lion, tiger and bear]] come out of his body with Exective Mandark adding...

* GrandFinale: This movie was intended to serve as the definite end to the show, though the series was subsequently renewed for two more seasons.

* GeekPhysique: Young adult Dexter, a.k.a. Twelve, is tall, lacks any muscle mass, and still maintains his intelligence.