History WesternAnimation / VBirds

->''"We are the [=VBirds=], it's who we are."''

* PeekABangs: Wow and Boom both have hair covering their right eyes.

* BareYourMidriff: Wow and Boom's outfits show most of their stomachs. The sparkly costumes the girls get in the fourth short also include a crop top, making Bling and D:Lin apply too.

* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Many of the news articles show the [=VBirds=] have already deeply entrenched themselves in keeping up with Earth (especially British/European) pop culture. They gossip about and crush on then-popular boy band members, play newly-released video games, and keep up with soap operas and reality TV shows.

* ShakingTheRump: Present in some of the girls' dances, mainly Boom's.

* StockFootage: The "Virtuality" video reuses many of the same shots multiple times. For instance, one shot of D:Lin riding a dance pad through space is shown about four separate times.
* TeamHandStack: The girls sometimes do a variant of this, where instead of laying their hands flat they each form a V-sign.

* TheQuietOne: D:Lin is the least talkative of all the girls; she doesn't even say anything by herself in the ''SM:tv Live'' interview.

--> ''[[SuddenDownerEnding "Enjoy yourselves while you can, [=VBirds=], for you will never escape your dance machine prison!"]]''

In real life the [=VBirds=] were a virtual animated band created by [[Creator/CartoonNetwork Cartoon Network UK]], with the actual music created by a team of musicians. Their single "Virtuality" was released in 2003, being promoted by a series of six minute-long shorts that aired on Cartoon Network and other UK children's channels, a music video, a website, an interview with [[Creator/AntAndDec Dec]] on ''SM:tv Live'', and even a contest to win merchandise and tickets to see the [=VBirds=] open for British boy band Blazin' Squad. While the song was moderately successful, no more singles were released afterward, and the franchise died out by the next year.

* AllThereInTheManual: The ''SM:tv Live'' interview and official website (now offline) gave more information about the [=VBirds=] than the shorts, like insights into their personalities and the girls being sisters.

* AnimatedMusicVideo: The shorts all collectively act as one for "Virtuality", though "Virtuality" also has its own separate music video with different footage.

* FourFingeredHands: Averted; both the [=VBirds=] themselves and Dec's animated design from the ''SM:tv Live'' interview have five-fingered hands.

* FunnyAfro: When the girls are being shrinked, Bling's afro isn't quite caught up to speed and ends up being (comparatively) huge for a few seconds.

* MsFanservice: Boom calls herself "the pretty one" in the ''SM:tv Live'' interview, with this trait being presented by giving her the skimpiest clothes, a flirtatious personality, and a fondness for ShakingTheRump.

* TeamHandStack: The girls do a variant of this occasionally where instead of laying their hands flat they each form a V-sign.

* VirtualCelebrity: Cartoon Network UK's stab at one, with a real-life single and opening for a real-life boy band.

[[InUniverse In-universe]], the [=VBirds=] are a girl group comprised of four alien sisters (Wow, Boom, Bling, and D:Lin) who hail from Planet V. As punishment for refusing to partake in King He:Lin's Dance Farms, they are shrunk, placed in a spaceship, and sent off to Earth. Landing in a fun-fair's arcade room, the ship reforms itself into a VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution-esque arcade cabinet (the Dance Machine) where the girls are forced to dance along whenever it is played. In spite of their condition, they manage to remain famous pop stars, now performing for a different audience.

* AliensOfLondon: All the girls have British accents despite Planet V being far from Earth.
* AllThereInTheManual: The ''SM:tv Live'' interview and official website (now offline) gave more information about the girls than the shorts, like insights into their personalities and the girls being sisters.

* BareYourMidriff: Wow and Boom. The outfits the girls get in the fourth short have Bling and D:Lin apply too.

* CelebCrush: An entry on the website's newspage revealed Boom has a crush on Creator/OrlandoBloom to the extent that she writes to his website on a regular basis and sulks around waiting for a reply.

%%* CoolShades: Bling.

* FourFingeredHands: Averted.

* MsFanservice: Given that she wears the skimpiest clothes out of all the girls, has a flirtatious personality, and likes to [[ShakingTheRump shake the rump]], this is presumably Boom's role.

%%* PeekABangs: Wow and Boom.

* CoolShades: Bling.

* PeekABangs: Wow and Boom.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Boom has purple hair, D:Lin green, and (of course) Bling with blue. Wow doesn't usually qualify (her hair is a more realistic orange), but some official art makes her hair as red as her outfit.

%%* BigBad: King He:Lin.

%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Wow is phlegmatic, Boom's choleric, Bling sanguine, and D:Lin melancholic.

* GamerChick: One news article is dedicated to describing D:Lin's expertise at playing VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness, with Bling calling her a "natural". The other [=VBirds=] are said to enjoy playing games as well.
%%* GirlGroup: The [=VBirds=].

%%* TheQuietOne: D:Lin.
%%* VirtualCelebrity

* BigBad: King He:Lin.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Wow is phlegmatic, Boom's choleric, Bling sanguine, and D:Lin melancholic.

* GirlGroup: The [=VBirds=].

* TheQuietOne: D:Lin.
* VirtualCelebrity

In real life the [=VBirds=] were a virtual animated band created by [[Creator/CartoonNetwork Cartoon Network UK]], with the actual music created by a team of musicians. Their single "Virtuality" was released in 2003, being promoted by a series of six minute-long shorts that aired on Cartoon Network and other UK children's channels, a music video, a website, an interview with [[Creator/AntAndDec Dec]] on SM:tv Live, and even a contest to win merchandise and tickets to see the [=VBirds=] open for British boy band Blazin' Squad. While the song was moderately successful, no more singles were released afterward, and the franchise died out by the next year.

* AllThereInTheManual: The SMTV interview and official website (now offline) gave more information about the girls than the shorts, like insights into their personalities and the girls being sisters.

* TheExile: The V-Birds are exiled from Planet V for refusing to participate in energy-harvesting Dance Farms.

* GamerChick: One news article is dedicated to describing D:Lin's expertise at playing VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness, with Bling calling her a "natural". The other V-Birds are said to enjoy playing games as well.

->''"We are the V-Birds, it's who we are."''

[[InUniverse In-universe]], the V-Birds are a girl group comprised of four alien sisters (Wow, Boom, Bling, and D:Lin) who hail from Planet V. As punishment for refusing to partake in King He:Lin's Dance Farms, they are shrunk, placed in a spaceship, and sent off to Earth. Landing in a fun-fair's arcade room, the ship reforms itself into a VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution-esque arcade cabinet (the Dance Machine) where the girls are forced to dance along whenever it is played. In spite of their condition, they manage to remain famous pop stars, now performing for a different audience.

In real life the V-Birds were a virtual animated band created by [[Creator/CartoonNetwork Cartoon Network UK]], with the actual music created by a team of musicians. Their single "Virtuality" was released in 2003, being promoted by a series of six minute-long shorts that aired on Cartoon Network and other UK children's channels, a music video, a website, an interview with [[Creator/AntAndDec Dec]] on SM:tv Live, and even a contest to win merchandise and tickets to see the V-Birds open for British boy band Blazin' Squad. While the song was moderately successful, no more singles were released afterward, and the franchise died out by the next year.

!!''V-Birds'' provides examples of:

* GirlGroup: The V-Birds.

* NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture: Averted; Planet V was where the V-Birds had their first No. 1 single, implying that's there's enough music to maintain a record chart, and Bling says they had "millions and trillions" of fans.

* SiblingTeam: The V-Birds refer to each other as sisters in a few of the news articles.

* TechnoWizard: D:Lin is described as the V-Birds' "gadget-meister".

--> ''[[SuddenDownerEnding "Enjoy yourselves while you can, V-Birds, for you will never escape your dance machine prison!"]]''

In real life the V-Birds were a virtual animated band created by Cartoon Network UK, with the actual music created by a team of musicians. Their single "Virtuality" was released in 2003, being promoted by a series of six minute-long shorts that aired on Cartoon Network and other UK children's channels, a music video, a website, an interview with [[Creator/AntAndDec Dec]] on SM:tv Live, and even a contest to win merchandise and tickets to see the V-Birds open for British boy band Blazin' Squad. While the song was moderately successful, no more singles were released afterward, and the franchise died out by the next year.

* GamerChick: One news article is dedicated to describing D:Lin's expertise at playing VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness, with Bling even calling her a "natural". The other V-Birds are said to enjoy playing games as well.