History WesternAnimation / EgoTrip

* FutureBadass: Action Dexter is tall, manly and very muscular, much to the joy of present Dexter and Number 12... well, save for losing his hair (Old Dexter reveals he wears a wig).

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dexter calls Braindark a "lame brain", and Older Dexter can't help but laugh at it even with his terror at being around his former employer.

* BaldHeadOfToughness: Action Dexter lost his hair and gained some serious muscle during his nonstop digging to escape from Mandark's tower, and he's a stone-cold {{Badass}} acting as a one-man [[LaResistance resistance]] against his nemesis' tyrannical anti-science reign. The younger Dexters are overjoyed at how cool they grow up to be and share a brief moment of shocked disappointment about losing their hair in the future, but he does have a [[ManlyFacialHair radical orange beard]].

* BaldHeadOfToughness: Action Dexter lost his hair and gained some serious muscle during his nonstop digging to escape from Mandark's tower, and he's a stone-cold BadAss acting as a one-man revolution against his nemesis' tyrannical anti-science reign. The younger Dexters are overjoyed at how cool they grow up to be and share a brief moment of shocked disappointment about losing their hair in the future, but he does have a [[ManlyFacialHair radical orange beard]].

* FutureBadass: Bad Future Dexter is tall, manly and very muscular much to the joy of present Dexter and Twelve... well, save for losing his hair (Old Dexter reveals he wears a wig).

** At the ending, when the Dexters are going back to their own times, they repeatedly say "Goodbye, Dexter!" to the present Dexter.

''Ego Trip'' is a made-for-TV animated film of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', which originally aired on Cartoon Network in 1999 as an hour-long special that would serve as the GrandFinale of the show's first run.

''Ego Trip'' is an hour-long TV special of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' airing on Cartoon Network in 1999 as the GrandFinale of the show's original run.

* 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- ''Dee Dee'' was.]]
* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: InUniverse. Unlike Dexter, who sounded different throughout the different stages of his life (with Action Hero Dexter even sounding like TheAhnold), Mandark retained the same voice he had as a kid, even when he's overlord. This unfortunately gives away the surprise that he's Number Twelve's boss.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Twelve, whenever he hears Executive Mandark's voice, emits a shrill shriek and goes into a TroubledFetalPosition.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Twelve has this reaction when Action Dexter explains how Mandark became Overlord.
-->'''Action Dexter:''' Then, darkness fell. Somehow my most prized invention, the Neurotomic Protocore, fell into Mandark’s clutches!\\

* YouAreNumberSix: Apparently, in the future, everyone is referred to as a number, and being a no-number [[SeriousBusiness is a crime punishable by imprisonment]].

* BaldOfToughness: Action Dexter lost his hair and gained some serious muscle during his nonstop digging to escape from Mandark's tower, and he's a stone-cold BadAss acting as a one-man revolution against his nemesis' tyrannical anti-science reign. The younger Dexters are overjoyed at how cool they grow up to be and share a brief moment of shocked disappointment about losing their hair in the future, but he does have a [[ManlyFacialHair radical orange beard]].

* BigBad: Executive Mandark and Overlord Mandark, the ones most directly responsible for the BadFuture. The former is the one who eventuallys turn the world into a dystopia, and the latter rules it with an iron fist.

'''Twelve:''' (''quietly'') Oh my gosh, we left the core out in my cubicle!\\

!!Air date:
* December 10, 1999 (USA/Canada)
* January 7, 2000 (Portugal)
* January 14, 2000 (Brazil)

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'''Original air date:''' December 10, 1999

* 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.

** Dexter behaves similarly to Old Man Dexter in a season 1 episode titled, of course, "Old Man Dexter." The film version even has him repeat certain lines from the episode during his introduction ("Who put these stairs here?!" And "Oh, my hip!").

* CallBack: Executive Mandark stepping on 12's glasses mirrors a similar shot in the episode "Dexter Dodgeball," when a school bully does the same.

* BigBad: Executive Mandark and Overlord Mandark.

* NonSerialMovie: ''Averted'', since it's TheMovie and was ''intended'' as the GrandFinale, although some {{Fanon}} treats it as such, because ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' ''has'' NegativeContinuity anyway.

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: All four Dexters try to ''kill'' Dee Dee for saving the world instead of them.]]

* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: Unlike Dexter, who sounded different throughout his different selves (with Action Hero Dexter even sounding like TheAhnold), Mandark retained the same voice he had as a kid, even when he's overlord. This unfortunately gives away the surprise that he's Number Twelve's boss.

* SameVoicTheirEntireLife: Unlike Dexter, who sounded different throughout his different selves (with Action Hero Dexter even sounding like TheArnuld), Mandark retained the same voice he had as a kid, even when he's overlord. This unfortunately gives away the surprise that he's Number Twelve's boss.

* 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 accidentally pointed Dee Dee towards the time machine]] instead of the lab's actual exit.]]

[[caption-width-right:270:"I can't wait for the future!"]]

-->'''Mandark''': There are two types of people in this world, Number Twelve. There are those who can barely support their families. Scratching and scraping for any morsel of food they can find. Then there's the strong. The powerful! The elite! With luxuries that others can't possibly dream of. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech But you, Number Twelve, are]] ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech neither]]''.

* YouAreNumberSix: Apparently, in the future, everyone is referred as a number, and being a no-number [[SeriousBusiness is a crime punishable by imprisonment]].