History WesternAnimation / XAVIERRENEGADEANGEL

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "World of Hurt, BC", Xavier reasons that, [[InsaneTrollLogic since every cigarette you smoke takes 17 minutes off your life and every slice of bacon you eat takes 9 minutes off your life, smoking and eating bacon really quickly would allow you to go back in time.]] It works. He then goes returns to the present by [[VulgarHumor vomiting all of it out]].

Created by PFFR--the minds behind ''Series/WonderShowzen''--for Creator/AdultSwim, ''Xavier: Renegade Angel'' is, on the surface, about an angel who has defected from Heaven. Good luck finding out what it is ''really'' about, though. The eponymous Xavier is either an actual fallen angel or just a cosmic abomination that was abandoned by his mother. Forced to WalkTheEarth because everyone hates him, Xavier seeks enlightenment and tries to help people--but at worst, he invents problems where none exist and causes tons of carnage, and at best, he somehow gets ''everyone'' to put aside their differences and join together for the common (and usually justified) goal of ''beating him senseless''.

** 60's Style Animation like WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine

** A surprisingly subtle example in the very first episode. When a redneck dies after [[ItMakesSenseInContext drinking a giant bottle of AIDS]], he sees a vision of his dead grandmother... whom he then proceeds to make out with. In the final episode of the series, [[spoiler: Xavier sneaks into an asylum and does the same to his own mother.]]
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou

--> '''Xavier''': ''(Annoyed)'' Well, ''[Roman salutes, mimicking waiter's measuring gesture]'' ''Higher-[[OverlyLongGag elllllllllllll]]'' Meat-ler!

* LeftHanging: the Season 1 finale.

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Among the damage Xavier has caused either directly or indirectly: burning down his own house and killing both his parents, turning an entire town into an infected computer in "What Life D-d-d-Doth", creating a massive living explosion which cannot dissipate in "Weapons Grade Life", wounding ''God'' causing a rain of blood in "Bloodcorn", blowing up the Burning Person effigy and killing all but 2 of the people at the festival in "Escape from Squatopian Freedom", turning the Earth into one homogeneous mass and then destroying it in "Vibracaust", making a massive tornado in "El Tornadador", literally tearing a hole in the fabric of space time in "Haunted Tonk", and stopping the rotation of the Earth thus causing the entire world to freeze over in "Going Normal".

--> "I han't never seen him this heated since The Incident!"

-->'''Xavier''': The pride I feel for finally fingering my father's killer is dampened only by the fact that I promised to kill my father's killer. I fingered myself. To death...

* {{Anticlimax}}: The first season has Xavier on a quest to find his father's killer, however in "Shakashuri Showdown" he learns [[spoiler:he was the culprit all along]] and immediately the quest stops with no resolution. By the next season he doesn't bring it up again [[spoiler:and has learned nothing from the Shakashuri battle against himself, of which we also never learn the winner (although given both are exactly alike it hardly matters who won or lost as Xavier loses and wins regardless)]].

** While traveling back to the present in episode 6, Xavier goes too far and ends up in the year [[Music/{{Rush}} 2112]].

* CrapsackWorld: Even ignoring [[PersonOfMassDestruction Xavier's]] presence in it, nearly every location shown in the series is a dilapidated shithole inhabited primarily by [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]]. The rare characters who are genuinely good-natured always end up meeting gruesome ends thanks to [[DoomMagnet Xavier]]. Then again, so does everybody else. On top of all that, reality-distorting supernatural horrors seem to be commonplace, though they generally only cause problems when [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Xavier]] provokes them.

** In episode 8, something similar happens to Xavier himself. However, it should be called "GagEye",´cause Xavier has a third eye there.

* GrossoutShow: Oh yeah.

* DerangedAnimation: The entire show looks like it was rendered through a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. Cranked up with "Damnesia You", the episode where the winners of a contest get their films shown in an ExcusePlot where Xavier goes to different dimensions to figure out his identity. Styles shown in the episode include:

* MixAndMatchCritters: Xavier is covered in thick fur, has six nipples, a beak, backwards bending legs, and a snake for an arm. Not even Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s sure what he's supposed to be.

The show was animated in 3D with (some) motion-capture all done in {{CGI}}, which allowed for a vast range of [[UncannyValley strangeness]]; [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs it is all pretty damn trippy]], to say the least. If you were to combine in equal parts ''Wonder Showzen'', the works of Creator/CarlosCastaneda and Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, ''Series/KungFu1972'', ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' and the graphics and tone of ''VideoGame/Postal2'' you would get something similar to Xavier. Do not take this as license to WatchItStoned--it might make more sense, but it is just as likely that you will be utterly terrified from the sensory overload.

* BookEnds: "Damnesia Vu" begins and ends with Xavier hovering above a checkered floor, indicating that he's learned absolutely nothing, per usual, after being subjected to seven different realities of himself. Subverted with the sequel episode "Damnesia You", in which the episode begins the same way but ends with his severed head lapping up his own blood. The visual acts as a metaphor for the episode: interpretation of Xavier, the character and the show, has been fundamentally altered thanks to the fan input that constitutes the episode, but it's still recognizably him/the same show.

** "Other kids could be cruel. They'd call me names. Dweeb. Chimp. Honkey. Dweeby Chimp. Honkey Dweeb. And worst of all, Chomsky Honk. Did you know there's over 87 combinations of those soul-scalding words? I found out the hard way."
* BreakTheHaughty: Xavier does this to the spoiled child of the above mentioned rich old man to teach him humility and charity.

** Becomes a DefiedTrope in a later episode:

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Chief Master Guru parodies this, and also has Asian Indian traits (A Bindi and a Vishnu Statue on top of his Totem Pole). It's strongly implied that he's neither, and is plainly a total fraud.

** In episode 8, something similar happens to Xavier himself. However, it should be called "GagEye", ´cause Xavier has a third eye there.
*** To make matters worse, the eye also EJACULATES A SENTIENT DOG-LIKE SPERM.

Created by PFFR--the minds behind ''Series/WonderShowzen''--for Creator/AdultSwim, ''Xavier: Renegade Angel'' is, on the surface, about an angel who has defected from Heaven. Good luck finding out what it is ''really'' about, though. The eponymous Xavier is either an actual fallen angel or just a cosmic abomination that was abandoned at birth. Forced to WalkTheEarth because everyone hates him, Xavier seeks enlightenment and tries to help people--but at worst, he invents problems where none exist and causes tons of carnage, and at best, he somehow gets ''everyone'' to put aside their differences and join together for the common (and usually justified) goal of ''beating him senseless''.

->''"Unload your troubles unto me, even if it's tough to swallow. [[AccidentalInnuendo I'm used to swallowing huge loads.]]"''

* BlackComedy: Tons.
** BlackComedyRape: Xavier mentions in the GrandFinale that "this is my first time, not counting rape". It's unclear if this is meant to be interpreted as him being a rape victim or a rapist. And then he finds out that [[spoiler:the woman he's having sex with is his mother.]]
** BookEnds: "Damnesia Vu" begins and ends with Xavier hovering above a checkered floor, indicating that he's learned absolutely nothing, per usual, after being subjected to seven different realities of himself. Subverted with the sequel episode "Damnesia You", in which the episode begins the same way but ends with his severed head lapping up his own blood. The visual acts as a metaphor for the episode: interpretation of Xavier, the character and the show, has been fundamentally altered thanks to the fan input that constitutes the episode, but it's still recognizably him/the same show.
** DeathAsComedy: Many, many characters die in hilarious ways throughout the series, including two episodes (possibly 3 depending on what actually happened in the GainaxEnding of "Bloodcorn") ending in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt PlayedForLaughs.
** SuicideAsComedy: "Xavier's Maneuver" begins with Xavier seeing a window cleaner and thinking he's about to jump, so he tries to talk the guy out of killing himself. Instead, Xavier's speech convinces the guy to leap to his doom and splatter on the ground into a grisly mess.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: "Fate. Destiny. Fatestiny. People throw these words around like tennis balls. But I eat balls for breakfast."

* DrivenToSuicide: Many, many characters, often caused by Xavier himself. He even managed to talk a non-suicidal window cleaner he thought was about to kill himself into jumping off the building.

* {{Expy}}: Xavier's character design is very similar to Wonder Showzen's character He-Bro.

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds [=/=] PersonOfMassDestruction: Xavier is this in spades. Among the damage he's caused either directly or indirectly: burning down his own house and killing both his parents, turning an entire town into an infected computer in "What Life D-d-d-Doth", creating a massive living explosion which cannot dissipate in "Weapons Grade Life", wounding ''God'' causing a rain of blood in "Bloodcorn", blowing up the Burning Person effigy and killing all but 2 of the people at the festival in "Escape from Squatopian Freedom", turning the Earth into one homogeneous mass and then destroying it in "Vibracaust", making a massive tornado in "El Tornadador", literally tearing a hole in the fabric of space time in "Haunted Tonk", and stopping the rotation of the Earth thus causing the entire world to freeze over in "Going Normal".
* MindScrew: The entire point of the show. If you are sober (or drunk on plain ol' liquor), prepare to be confused. If you have taken any other kind of mind-altering substance, prepare to be wowed, terrified, or both.
** It's almost a parody of {{Mind Screw}}s, while it may seem completely nonsensical, each episode can be attributed to different philosophical themes, but in the end of pretty much every situation, the moral of the story is, "Don't read too deeply into things or fucked up shit like this happens!" Seriously, every problem he creates can be attributed to him trying TOO HARD to be philosophical and spiritual.
** The creators half-jokingly claim that the show was meant to warn viewers about the dangers of spirituality.

* OrganAutonomy / EvilHand: Xavier's left hand is a snake with a mind of its own - and a taste for eating ''babies.''

* StylisticSuck: Invoked, as it adds to the weird and uncanniness of the show. The show's crude CGI graphics were achieveable on consumer-grade PCs even back in 2007, but they fit with the show's overall weirdness.

* StylisticSuck: Invoked, as it adds to the weird and uncanniness of the show.

The show was animated in 3D with (some) motion-capture all done in {{CGI}}, which allowed for a vast range of [[UncannyValley strangeness]]; [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs it is all pretty damn trippy]], to say the least. If you were to combine in equal parts ''Wonder Showzen'', the works of Creator/CarlosCastaneda and Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, ''Series/KungFu'', ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' and the graphics and tone of ''VideoGame/Postal2'' you would get something similar to Xavier. Do not take this as license to WatchItStoned--it might make more sense, but it is just as likely that you will be utterly terrified from the sensory overload.

* TheDrifter: Xavier is kind of like a parody of the lonely, wandering hero who stumbles upon a community threatened by a MonsterOfTheWeek or other problem like Caine from ''Series/KungFu''.

* WalkingTheEarth: A parody of these kinds of shows, specifically ''Series/KungFu'', ''Anime/FistOfTheNorthStar'' and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' (with a dash of ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' and ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'').

* ShoutOut: While traveling back to the present in episode 6, Xavier goes too far and ends up in the year [[Music/{{Rush}} 2112]].

* NegativeContinuity: The show has very little continuity even between individual ''scenes'', let alone episodes.

* FalseDichotomy: When [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext a guy with a barcode for a head]] holds a gun to Xavier and asks him "Do you believe in God?" he demands Xavier answer yes or no. This results in Xavier, for once, being actually insightful about the loaded nature of that question and eventually managing to overload the shooter so badly he [[DrivenToSuicide pulls the gun on himself.]]