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** One bit of {{Fanon}} that's stuck due to the various paradoxes of ColorblindCasting: We know it's unlikely that someone who looks like Creator/CoreyDorris (who is black) would have a biological daughter who looks like Mariah Rose Faith (who is white, and very fair-skinned) in RealLife, and since they've only appeared in a stage show or staged readings we're free to imagine them any way we want -- but fans doing FanArt have pretty quickly come to a consensus that the "real" Bill looks just like Corey while the "real" Alice is mixed-race or black (possibly with bleached blonde hair).
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** One bit of {{Fanon}} that's stuck due to the various paradoxes of ColorblindCasting: We know it's unlikely that someone who looks like Creator/CoreyDorris (who is black) would have a biological daughter who looks like Mariah Rose Faith Casillas (who is white, and very fair-skinned) in RealLife, and since they've only appeared in a stage show or staged readings we're free to imagine them any way we want -- but fans doing FanArt have pretty quickly come to a consensus that the "real" Bill looks just like Corey while the "real" Alice is mixed-race or black (possibly with bleached blonde hair).
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*** Confirmed with the introduction of Peter Spankoffski, played by Nick Lang in ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'''s "Abstinence Camp" and Joey Richter in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die''.
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*** Confirmed in in ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'''s "Killer Track" when it comes to Duke and Miss Holloway (albeit in the saddest fashion possible), plus they're playing Karen and Mark Chasity in ''Nerdy Prudes Music Die''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The word "sniggle" is a real word, referring to a form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniggle fishing for eels]] (or the hooks used for this kind of fishing), based on the obsolete word "snigs" to mean eels. The Tickle-Me Wiggly jingle refers to Wiggly as a snig, and though he's not especially eel-like, the commercial does present him as having an aquatic theme and Uncle Wiley as a fisherman, so this may well have been fully intentional.
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** There's a fair amount of HoYay shipping too, mostly tongue-in-cheek jokes about Jon Matteson and Creator/JeffBlim, which they've happily exploited for FoeYay jokes on Jeff's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/Chowda64 Rim Tim Timmy Fun Time Hour]]'' podcast about Jeff's incessant {{Yandere}} bullying and dominating Jon.
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* FoeYay: Quite a bit as of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', between Uncle Wiley, a.k.a. Wilbur Cross, and his ArchNemesis General [=MacNamara=], and the highly controversial "Barnroe" ship between Becky Barnes and Linda Monroe. (The latter of which is mostly tongue-in-cheek but has incurred some serious pushback because valorizing Linda's bullying and emotional abuse as "pulling pigtails" hits too close to home for some fans.)
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* FanNickname: Two of the Lords in Black, Pokotho and Nibblenephim haven't been given official cutesy nicknames yet, but fans have pretty quickly decided (or, perhaps more accurately, deduced) they're called Pokey (or possibly Po, in imitation of the Series/{{Teletubbies}}) and Nibbly.
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* GrowingTheBeard: Although a lot of older fans may have resisted the new direction Starkid took with ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', there's just as many fans who love the new, more mature Starkid and even say that in comparison to the Hatchetfield shows it's hard to rewatch the old shows in the same light, especially since a lot of the immature humor [[SocietyMarchesOn has aged poorly]].
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* GrowingTheBeard: Although a lot of older fans may have resisted the new direction Starkid took with ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', there's just as many fans who love the new, more mature Starkid and even say that in comparison to the Hatchetfield shows it's hard to rewatch the old shows in the same light, especially since a lot of the immature humor [[SocietyMarchesOn has aged poorly]].poorly.
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* MemeticSexGod: Hidgens, probably more than any other Starkid character ever. Probably accentuated by the ironic contrast between his passionate LargeHam acting/singing/dancing and the fact that it's text he's spent almost all of his life completely alone with only [[CargoShip Alexa]] for romantic company.
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** On the other side of the gender line, a ''ton'' of fans LoveToHate Creator/LaurenLopez as Linda Monroe in more ways than one, including being openly jealous of the male cultists she forces to wait on her and kiss her feet in ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/NickLang has admitted that Becky Barnes is, in fact, his favorite of all the Hatchetfield characters and he thinks of her as "a true hero", slightly validating the minority of fan complaints targeting her as a MarySue. (Perhaps in order to fend off these complaints, Becky has been OutOfFocus for Season One of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', with the one story she appears in being one where [[spoiler: she tragically dies]].)
** He's revealed that among his other favorite characters is -- to some fans' surprise -- Linda Monroe (which he loves in the LoveToHate sense), a character who remains TheGhost throughout all of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season One, and that this is because the first ever ''Nightmare Time'' story he and Matt wrote is about Linda, and is one they're still saving for the possibility of filming for real after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is over.
** He's revealed that among his other favorite characters is -- to some fans' surprise -- Linda Monroe (which he loves in the LoveToHate sense), a character who remains TheGhost throughout all of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season One, and that this is because the first ever ''Nightmare Time'' story he and Matt wrote is about Linda, and is one they're still saving for the possibility of filming for real after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is over.
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* {{Fanon}}: There's a lot of it floating around, some of it more serious, some of it less.
** On the less-serious side are goofy memes about various {{Unexpected Character}}s being the "real latte hotté", i.e. someone unexpected Ted has a crush on (because Ted is headcanoned as an AnythingThatMoves pansexual), which as MemeticMutation has ended up encompassing every Hatchetfield character that exists and every actor in the Creator/TeamStarkid orbit.
** There's similar jokes that have really harshly been {{Jossed}} by later canon, like the Homeless Man never actually being possessed by the evil force and "just vibin'" [[spoiler: {with any Homeless Man jokes becoming a FunnyAneurysmMoment after "Time Bastard")]].
** Also, there's been a ton of lore that's spun out from the Lords in Black reveal, like trying to associate the five Lords in Black with the five senses (Pokotho = Hearing, Blinky = Sight, Tinky = Smell, Nibbly = Taste, Wiggly = Touch) or with Entities from ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives''.
** There's some bits of {{Fanon}} that have been more-or-less confirmed by WordOfGod to be true at this point -- one of which is the GrandfatherParadox of [[spoiler: the Homeless Man continuing to exist in timelines where "Time Bastard" doesn't happen]] being explained by the timelines not splitting until Hannah Foster is born in 2005, another of which being that Pokotho, the blue Lord in Black, is the HiveMind from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' who sent the Meteor. Also, the fandom has pretty much figured out from copious hints on social media that the "Hot Chocolate Boy" from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', rumored to play a major character in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'', must be Ted Spankoffski's "nerdy younger brother" mentioned in "Watcher World".
** One bit of {{Fanon}} that's stuck due to the various paradoxes of ColorblindCasting: We know it's unlikely that someone who looks like Creator/CoreyDorris (who is black) would have a biological daughter who looks like Mariah Rose Faith (who is white, and very fair-skinned) in RealLife, and since they've only appeared in a stage show or staged readings we're free to imagine them any way we want -- but fans doing FanArt have pretty quickly come to a consensus that the "real" Bill looks just like Corey while the "real" Alice is mixed-race or black (possibly with bleached blonde hair).
** Similarly, when it comes to FanArt, fans have had brief interactions with Creator/NickLang on social media talking about how they imagine Creator/LaurenLopez's characters -- the consensus between both {{Fanon}} and WordOfGod is that Emma Perkins looks pretty much exactly like Lauren, while her other characters diverge from her in various ways. Fans, for instance, are pretty likely to imagine Linda Monroe as having blue eyes as opposed to Lauren's brown, in keeping with Linda's [[ThoseWackyNazis weird implied Aryan-supremacist]] gloating over her "four beautiful blond boys".
** Re: disability/mental illness representation, it's nearly a universal consensus among fans that Hannah Foster's AmbiguousDisorder is autism, and that Paul Matthews shares it.
** On the less-serious side are goofy memes about various {{Unexpected Character}}s being the "real latte hotté", i.e. someone unexpected Ted has a crush on (because Ted is headcanoned as an AnythingThatMoves pansexual), which as MemeticMutation has ended up encompassing every Hatchetfield character that exists and every actor in the Creator/TeamStarkid orbit.
** There's similar jokes that have really harshly been {{Jossed}} by later canon, like the Homeless Man never actually being possessed by the evil force and "just vibin'" [[spoiler: {with any Homeless Man jokes becoming a FunnyAneurysmMoment after "Time Bastard")]].
** Also, there's been a ton of lore that's spun out from the Lords in Black reveal, like trying to associate the five Lords in Black with the five senses (Pokotho = Hearing, Blinky = Sight, Tinky = Smell, Nibbly = Taste, Wiggly = Touch) or with Entities from ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives''.
** There's some bits of {{Fanon}} that have been more-or-less confirmed by WordOfGod to be true at this point -- one of which is the GrandfatherParadox of [[spoiler: the Homeless Man continuing to exist in timelines where "Time Bastard" doesn't happen]] being explained by the timelines not splitting until Hannah Foster is born in 2005, another of which being that Pokotho, the blue Lord in Black, is the HiveMind from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' who sent the Meteor. Also, the fandom has pretty much figured out from copious hints on social media that the "Hot Chocolate Boy" from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', rumored to play a major character in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'', must be Ted Spankoffski's "nerdy younger brother" mentioned in "Watcher World".
** One bit of {{Fanon}} that's stuck due to the various paradoxes of ColorblindCasting: We know it's unlikely that someone who looks like Creator/CoreyDorris (who is black) would have a biological daughter who looks like Mariah Rose Faith (who is white, and very fair-skinned) in RealLife, and since they've only appeared in a stage show or staged readings we're free to imagine them any way we want -- but fans doing FanArt have pretty quickly come to a consensus that the "real" Bill looks just like Corey while the "real" Alice is mixed-race or black (possibly with bleached blonde hair).
** Similarly, when it comes to FanArt, fans have had brief interactions with Creator/NickLang on social media talking about how they imagine Creator/LaurenLopez's characters -- the consensus between both {{Fanon}} and WordOfGod is that Emma Perkins looks pretty much exactly like Lauren, while her other characters diverge from her in various ways. Fans, for instance, are pretty likely to imagine Linda Monroe as having blue eyes as opposed to Lauren's brown, in keeping with Linda's [[ThoseWackyNazis weird implied Aryan-supremacist]] gloating over her "four beautiful blond boys".
** Re: disability/mental illness representation, it's nearly a universal consensus among fans that Hannah Foster's AmbiguousDisorder is autism, and that Paul Matthews shares it.
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* FoeYay: Quite a bit as of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', between Uncle Wiley, a.k.a. Wilbur Cross, and his ArchNemesis General [=MacNamara=], and the highly controversial "Barnroe" ship between Becky Barnes and Linda Monroe. (The latter of which is mostly tongue-in-cheek but has incurred some serious pushback because valorizing Linda's bullying and emotional abuse as "pulling pigtails" hits too close to home for some fans.) This is, as is often the case, mostly driven by HoYay -- there's pretty much ''no one'' among the ''Nightmare Time'' fandom who ships Wiley/Miss Holloway or Tom/Jane-as-a-Car.
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** Then there's the tongue-in-cheek CrackShip between two {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, with people deciding that Blinky from "Watcher World" being so similar to Wiggly from ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' meant they had to be "boyfriends". This was, hilariously, instantly sunk with a fandom-wide AbandonShipping announcement once "The Witch in the Web" established that the Lords in Black are all "brothers" to each other. (Metaphorical siblinghood or not, the fandom is against IncestYayShipping.)
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* FoeYay: Quite a bit as of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', between Uncle Wiley, a.k.a. Wilbur Cross, and his ArchNemesis General [=MacNamara=], and the highly controversial "Barnroe" ship between Becky Barnes and Linda Monroe. (The latter of which is mostly tongue-in-cheek but has incurred some serious pushback because valorizing Linda's bullying and emotional abuse as "pulling pigtails" hits too close to home for some fans.) This is, as is often the case, mostly driven by HoYay -- there's pretty much ''no one'' among the ''Nightmare Time'' fandom who ships Wiley/Miss Holloway or Tom/Jane-as-a-Car.
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* ActorShipping:
** People who've been squeeing over speculation that Creator/JoeyRichter and Creator/LaurenLopez were dating since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days were rewarded by Joey and Lauren having their first ever significant scene together in a show since "Granger Danger" in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', with a ''very'' DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything scene with Uncle Wiley "seducing" Linda Monroe into Wiggly's service. (They then had their shipping validated by Lauren and Joey officially announcing their engagement in 2020, followed by them performing their first duet together since "Granger Danger" in Episode Two of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', "Peanuts!")
** Robert Manion is a current fan-favorite target for ActorShipping (since he's the resident younger PrettyBoy and has a large EstrogenBrigade). There's a lot of Mariah/Robert shipping -- ironic, since up until "Forever & Always" they'd never appeared as a couple or even significantly interacted in a show, and is based mostly on social media banter and the two of them doing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QIM3znzZ7I killer cover]] of "Seventeen" from ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}''. (They ''would'' have played a couple in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' but Mariah had to bow out of playing Lex Foster due to being cast in ''Theatre/MeanGirls'', which led to Robert and Mariah having a tongue-in-cheek "falling out" online.) That said, Robert and Angela had strong enough chemistry in their brief time together as Lex and Ethan in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' that they got shipping goggles directed at them too.
** Curt Mega and Kim Whalen have been together since they were teenagers and married since 2010, so the "shipping" is less intense, but a lot of their fans were very excited to see them both officially join the cast of ''Theatre/BlackFriday''. They still haven't played a couple onstage in the Hatchetfield series, but Duke and Miss Holloway in ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'''s "The Witch in the Web" get a lot of ImpliedLoveInterest flirting in.
** There's a fair amount of HoYay shipping too, mostly tongue-in-cheek jokes about Jon Matteson and Creator/JeffBlim, which they've happily exploited for FoeYay jokes on Jeff's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/Chowda64 Rim Tim Timmy Fun Time Hour]]'' podcast about Jeff's incessant {{Yandere}} bullying and dominating Jon.
** People have also pointed out HoYay of a more wholesome nature with Robert and Jon's relationship as roommates, especially after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic quarantine started, with their goofy married-couple bickering and domesticity (especially after they started streaming ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' together). That said, HoYay shipping and jokes about Robert have receded a lot, ironically, after he actually did come out as bisexual on social media and did so with an accompanying [[TearJerker emotional story about how being in the closet]] [[TheOneThatGotAway cost him a possible relationship with a dear friend he was secretly in love with in the past]].
** People who've been squeeing over speculation that Creator/JoeyRichter and Creator/LaurenLopez were dating since the ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' days were rewarded by Joey and Lauren having their first ever significant scene together in a show since "Granger Danger" in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', with a ''very'' DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything scene with Uncle Wiley "seducing" Linda Monroe into Wiggly's service. (They then had their shipping validated by Lauren and Joey officially announcing their engagement in 2020, followed by them performing their first duet together since "Granger Danger" in Episode Two of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', "Peanuts!")
** Robert Manion is a current fan-favorite target for ActorShipping (since he's the resident younger PrettyBoy and has a large EstrogenBrigade). There's a lot of Mariah/Robert shipping -- ironic, since up until "Forever & Always" they'd never appeared as a couple or even significantly interacted in a show, and is based mostly on social media banter and the two of them doing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QIM3znzZ7I killer cover]] of "Seventeen" from ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}''. (They ''would'' have played a couple in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' but Mariah had to bow out of playing Lex Foster due to being cast in ''Theatre/MeanGirls'', which led to Robert and Mariah having a tongue-in-cheek "falling out" online.) That said, Robert and Angela had strong enough chemistry in their brief time together as Lex and Ethan in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' that they got shipping goggles directed at them too.
** Curt Mega and Kim Whalen have been together since they were teenagers and married since 2010, so the "shipping" is less intense, but a lot of their fans were very excited to see them both officially join the cast of ''Theatre/BlackFriday''. They still haven't played a couple onstage in the Hatchetfield series, but Duke and Miss Holloway in ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'''s "The Witch in the Web" get a lot of ImpliedLoveInterest flirting in.
** There's a fair amount of HoYay shipping too, mostly tongue-in-cheek jokes about Jon Matteson and Creator/JeffBlim, which they've happily exploited for FoeYay jokes on Jeff's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/Chowda64 Rim Tim Timmy Fun Time Hour]]'' podcast about Jeff's incessant {{Yandere}} bullying and dominating Jon.
** People have also pointed out HoYay of a more wholesome nature with Robert and Jon's relationship as roommates, especially after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic quarantine started, with their goofy married-couple bickering and domesticity (especially after they started streaming ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' together). That said, HoYay shipping and jokes about Robert have receded a lot, ironically, after he actually did come out as bisexual on social media and did so with an accompanying [[TearJerker emotional story about how being in the closet]] [[TheOneThatGotAway cost him a possible relationship with a dear friend he was secretly in love with in the past]].
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** Notably, in the early stages of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''' Kickstarter campaign, LesYay shippers shipped Emma and Charlotte together just based on their ''character descriptions'' (the spunky {{Tsundere}} barista and the ShrinkingViolet {{Dandere}} office worker), possibly just because of the punny PortmanteauCoupleName "Emmalotte" (i.e. "omelette"). This led to a minor WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings moment when a minority of fans accused Creator/NickLang of being homophobic for directly [[ShipSinking sinking this ship]] when asked about it -- since the Paul/Emma pairing and Charlotte/Ted/Sam LoveTriangle is central to the plot -- which pretty much completely died down once the actual story of the musical was revealed, including the canon gay ship between Alice/Deb. That said, of course, the Emma/Charlotte ship still exists (because nothing in fandom truly dies), even though it now requires fans to extrapolate a ''lot'' from Emma and Charlotte's minimal interactions in ''TGWDLM''. (They have one conversation, in which Emma has difficulty even remembering Charlotte's name.)
** From the same show came the "Tedgens" (Ted/Prof. Hidgens) ship, which is based solely on Creator/JoeyRichter's highly committed acting in the "Showstoppin' Number" scene, where despite the direness of the situation Ted can't seem to help EatingTheEyeCandy and sincerely appreciating the drama of Prof. Hidgens' pitch for ''Workin' Boys''. Hilariously, this one Starkid actually ''followed up on'': [[spoiler: "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" shows Prof. Hidgens and Ted in an AlternateTimeline as friends and partners-in-crime]], and "Time Bastard" has a significant scene of Ted and Hidgens DrowningTheirSorrows together.
** Notably, in the early stages of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''' Kickstarter campaign, LesYay shippers shipped Emma and Charlotte together just based on their ''character descriptions'' (the spunky {{Tsundere}} barista and the ShrinkingViolet {{Dandere}} office worker), possibly just because of the punny PortmanteauCoupleName "Emmalotte" (i.e. "omelette"). This led to a minor WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings moment when a minority of fans accused Creator/NickLang of being homophobic for directly [[ShipSinking sinking this ship]] when asked about it -- since the Paul/Emma pairing and Charlotte/Ted/Sam LoveTriangle is central to the plot -- which pretty much completely died down once the actual story of the musical was revealed, including the canon gay ship between Alice/Deb. That said, of course, the Emma/Charlotte ship still exists (because nothing in fandom truly dies), even though it now requires fans to extrapolate a ''lot'' from Emma and Charlotte's minimal interactions in ''TGWDLM''. (They have one conversation, in which Emma has difficulty even remembering Charlotte's name.)
** From the same show came the "Tedgens" (Ted/Prof. Hidgens) ship, which is based solely on Creator/JoeyRichter's highly committed acting in the "Showstoppin' Number" scene, where despite the direness of the situation Ted can't seem to help EatingTheEyeCandy and sincerely appreciating the drama of Prof. Hidgens' pitch for ''Workin' Boys''. Hilariously, this one Starkid actually ''followed up on'': [[spoiler: "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" shows Prof. Hidgens and Ted in an AlternateTimeline as friends and partners-in-crime]], and "Time Bastard" has a significant scene of Ted and Hidgens DrowningTheirSorrows together.
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** Becky Barnes has only just got out of a marriage to an abusive monster, and is surrounded by malicious gossip from the townsfolk who blame her for not leaving him, since everyone thinks he ran off with another woman. To make matters worse, Linda gleefully makes it clear that ''everyone'' knew what was happening to Becky, but did any of them try and help? Nope. [[spoiler:She also carries a lot of guilt for stabbing her husband and possibly killing him, and lives in fear of him either coming back for revenge, or his body being discovered.]]
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** Becky Barnes has only just got out of a marriage to an abusive monster, and is surrounded by malicious gossip from the townsfolk who blame her for not leaving him, since everyone thinks he ran off with another woman. To make matters worse, Linda gleefully makes it clear that ''everyone'' knew what was happening to Becky, but did any of them try and help? Nope. [[spoiler:She also carries a lot of guilt for stabbing her husband and possibly killing him, and lives in fear of him either coming back for revenge, or his body being discovered.]] It gets worse in the plot of "Jane's a Car", where she gets to witness her new boyfriend Tom go through rapid SanitySlippage [[spoiler: and then, as far as she knows, gets betrayed and murdered by him.]]
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* EvilIsSexy: Professor Hidgens is played by PrettyBoy Robert Manion, so of course there are plenty of fans who find the character attractive.
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* JerkassWoobie:
** Ted is an absolute asshole and spends most of his stagetime being utterly insufferable. Then came "Time Bastard," in which we find out [[spoiler:he UsedToBeASweetKid before having his heart broken, and his ultimate fate of being driven to madness before eventually being murdered and having his soul [[AndIMustScream trapped in the Bastard's Box for all eternity]] is so horrible, practically ''no one'' really deserves it. Worse, the Langs have confirmed that becoming the insane Homeless Man is Ted's fate in ''every'' facet of Hatchetfield multiverse.]]
** Lex is more a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but she's still very prickly and deeply cynical. However, given what sort of person her mother is, and the fact that she's been PromotedToParent for her beloved little sister with almost zero help from the adults in their lives, she's kind of earned the right to it.
** Ted is an absolute asshole and spends most of his stagetime being utterly insufferable. Then came "Time Bastard," in which we find out [[spoiler:he UsedToBeASweetKid before having his heart broken, and his ultimate fate of being driven to madness before eventually being murdered and having his soul [[AndIMustScream trapped in the Bastard's Box for all eternity]] is so horrible, practically ''no one'' really deserves it. Worse, the Langs have confirmed that becoming the insane Homeless Man is Ted's fate in ''every'' facet of Hatchetfield multiverse.]]
** Lex is more a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but she's still very prickly and deeply cynical. However, given what sort of person her mother is, and the fact that she's been PromotedToParent for her beloved little sister with almost zero help from the adults in their lives, she's kind of earned the right to it.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: There's been some pushback from fans who don't think a DarkerAndEdgier tone and big, complex storytelling is really playing to Creator/TeamStarkid's strengths, especially from many older fans who gave lukewarm reviews to ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where the Hatchetfield series ''really'' ramped up the CerebusSyndrome.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: There's been some pushback from fans who don't think a DarkerAndEdgier tone and big, complex storytelling is really playing to Creator/TeamStarkid's strengths, especially from many older fans who gave lukewarm reviews to ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where the Hatchetfield series ''really'' ramped up the CerebusSyndrome.CerebusSyndrome.
* TheWoobie:
** Charlotte is a LoveMartyr towards her philandering, dismissive husband Sam. She makes a genuine effort to fix things, attending counselling and trying to spend time with Sam, but he blows her off in favor of screwing around with his younger girlfriend. And while she does have an affair of her own, it's with [[{{Jerkass}} Ted]]... who ''does'' seem to have genuine affection for her, but he CannotSpitItOut, and she won't leave Sam anyway.
** Becky Barnes has only just got out of a marriage to an abusive monster, and is surrounded by malicious gossip from the townsfolk who blame her for not leaving him, since everyone thinks he ran off with another woman. To make matters worse, Linda gleefully makes it clear that ''everyone'' knew what was happening to Becky, but did any of them try and help? Nope. [[spoiler:She also carries a lot of guilt for stabbing her husband and possibly killing him, and lives in fear of him either coming back for revenge, or his body being discovered.]]
** Hannah Foster has an abusive, neglectful mother who couldn't care less about her, and her AmbiguousDisorder and psychic powers mean she can't really connect with other people. Her older sister Lex adores her, but there's only so much she can do, and in at least one story, they've been seperated, leaving Hannah on her own. To make matters worse, her powers make her ''very'' interesting to the various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s running around.
* TheWoobie:
** Charlotte is a LoveMartyr towards her philandering, dismissive husband Sam. She makes a genuine effort to fix things, attending counselling and trying to spend time with Sam, but he blows her off in favor of screwing around with his younger girlfriend. And while she does have an affair of her own, it's with [[{{Jerkass}} Ted]]... who ''does'' seem to have genuine affection for her, but he CannotSpitItOut, and she won't leave Sam anyway.
** Becky Barnes has only just got out of a marriage to an abusive monster, and is surrounded by malicious gossip from the townsfolk who blame her for not leaving him, since everyone thinks he ran off with another woman. To make matters worse, Linda gleefully makes it clear that ''everyone'' knew what was happening to Becky, but did any of them try and help? Nope. [[spoiler:She also carries a lot of guilt for stabbing her husband and possibly killing him, and lives in fear of him either coming back for revenge, or his body being discovered.]]
** Hannah Foster has an abusive, neglectful mother who couldn't care less about her, and her AmbiguousDisorder and psychic powers mean she can't really connect with other people. Her older sister Lex adores her, but there's only so much she can do, and in at least one story, they've been seperated, leaving Hannah on her own. To make matters worse, her powers make her ''very'' interesting to the various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s running around.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/NickLang has admitted that Becky Barnes is, in fact, his favorite of all the Hatchetfield characters and thinks of her as "a true hero", somewhat validating the minority of fan complaints targeting her as a MarySue. (Perhaps in order to fend off these complaints, Becky has been OutOfFocus for Season One of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', with the one story she appears in being one where [[spoiler: she tragically dies]].)
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* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/NickLang has admitted that Becky Barnes is, in fact, his favorite of all the Hatchetfield characters and he thinks of her as "a true hero", somewhat slightly validating the minority of fan complaints targeting her as a MarySue. (Perhaps in order to fend off these complaints, Becky has been OutOfFocus for Season One of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', with the one story she appears in being one where [[spoiler: she tragically dies]].)
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* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/NickLang has admitted that Becky Barnes is, in fact, his favorite of all the Hatchetfield characters and thinks of her as "a true hero", somewhat validating the minority of fan complaints targeting her as a MarySue. (Perhaps in order to fend off these complaints, Becky has been OutOfFocus for Season One of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', with the one story she appears in being one where [[spoiler: she tragically dies]].)
** He's revealed that among his other favorite characters is -- to some fans' surprise -- Linda Monroe (which he loves in the LoveToHate sense), a character who remains TheGhost throughout all of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season One, and that this is because the first ever ''Nightmare Time'' story he and Matt wrote is about Linda, and is one they're still saving for the possibility of filming for real after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is over.
** He's revealed that among his other favorite characters is -- to some fans' surprise -- Linda Monroe (which he loves in the LoveToHate sense), a character who remains TheGhost throughout all of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season One, and that this is because the first ever ''Nightmare Time'' story he and Matt wrote is about Linda, and is one they're still saving for the possibility of filming for real after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is over.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In November 2020, a movie called ''Black Friday'' was announced -- a HorrorComedy with very similar plot elements not only to [[Theatre/BlackFriday the Hatchetfield play of the same title]], but with a little bit of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' thrown in too! [=StarKid=] fans were outraged, but Nick Lang took it rather well, sure it's a coincidence and eager to see the film when it comes out.
** The end of the "feud" on social media was director Casey Patrick Tebo saying he'd watched Starkid's ''Black Friday'', liked it a lot and would love to [[https://twitter.com/caseyshoots/status/1328856214793555976?s=20 put a Wiggly doll in the movie]] as an EasterEgg, though we'll see if it actually happens.
** The end of the "feud" on social media was director Casey Patrick Tebo saying he'd watched Starkid's ''Black Friday'', liked it a lot and would love to [[https://twitter.com/caseyshoots/status/1328856214793555976?s=20 put a Wiggly doll in the movie]] as an EasterEgg, though we'll see if it actually happens.
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** In November 2020, a movie called ''Black Friday'' was announced -- a HorrorComedy with very similar plot elements not only to [[Theatre/BlackFriday the Hatchetfield play of the same title]], but with a little bit of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' thrown in too! [=StarKid=] fans were outraged, but Nick Lang took it rather well, sure it's a coincidence and eager to see the film when it comesout.
**out. The end of the "feud" on social media was director Casey Patrick Tebo saying he'd watched Starkid's ''Black Friday'', liked it a lot and would love to [[https://twitter.com/caseyshoots/status/1328856214793555976?s=20 put a Wiggly doll in the movie]] as an EasterEgg, though we'll see if it actually happens.happens.
** Before ''that'', a Christmas movie called ''Jingle Jangle'' was released shortly after ''Black Friday'', seemingly right in the vein of Hatchetfield's Christmas movie parody ''Santa Claus Is Goin' To High School''.
** In November 2020, a movie called ''Black Friday'' was announced -- a HorrorComedy with very similar plot elements not only to [[Theatre/BlackFriday the Hatchetfield play of the same title]], but with a little bit of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' thrown in too! [=StarKid=] fans were outraged, but Nick Lang took it rather well, sure it's a coincidence and eager to see the film when it comes
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** Before ''that'', a Christmas movie called ''Jingle Jangle'' was released shortly after ''Black Friday'', seemingly right in the vein of Hatchetfield's Christmas movie parody ''Santa Claus Is Goin' To High School''.
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* GeniusBonus: "Bliklotep" is a name that, like the Franchise/CthulhuMythos' "Nyarlathotep", is a made-up word attached to the Egyptian suffix "-hotep" meaning "peace", often used in RealLife as the name of a Pharaoh when attached to the name of an Egyptian deity (Rahotep, Amenhotep, Sobekhotep, etc.) The GeniusBonus comes in when you remember that one of the ubiquitous symbols used by the Pharaohs was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus wadjet eye]].
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** "Bliklotep" is a name that, like the Franchise/CthulhuMythos' "Nyarlathotep", is a made-up word attached to the Egyptian suffix "-hotep" meaning "peace", often used in RealLife as the name of a Pharaoh when attached to the name of an Egyptian deity (Rahotep, Amenhotep, Sobekhotep, etc.) The GeniusBonus comes in when you remember that one of the ubiquitous symbols used by the Pharaohs was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus wadjeteye]].eye]].
** In "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", Professor Hidgens asks Lucy for $30 million to fund ''Workin' Boys''. While this sounds like a reasonable budget for a film, it would be the third most expensive Broadway show of all time. Add on WordOfGod's confirmation that ''Workin' Boys'' is a RealTime plot in which seven guys mill around on a football field reminiscing for three hours, and it's a pretty brilliant joke about just how delusional Hidgens is about this show.
** "Bliklotep" is a name that, like the Franchise/CthulhuMythos' "Nyarlathotep", is a made-up word attached to the Egyptian suffix "-hotep" meaning "peace", often used in RealLife as the name of a Pharaoh when attached to the name of an Egyptian deity (Rahotep, Amenhotep, Sobekhotep, etc.) The GeniusBonus comes in when you remember that one of the ubiquitous symbols used by the Pharaohs was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus wadjet
** In "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", Professor Hidgens asks Lucy for $30 million to fund ''Workin' Boys''. While this sounds like a reasonable budget for a film, it would be the third most expensive Broadway show of all time. Add on WordOfGod's confirmation that ''Workin' Boys'' is a RealTime plot in which seven guys mill around on a football field reminiscing for three hours, and it's a pretty brilliant joke about just how delusional Hidgens is about this show.
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* EvilIsSexy: Professor Hidgens is played by PrettyBoy Robert Manion, so of course there are plenty of fans who find the character attractive.
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* MemeticSexGod: Hidgens, probably more than any other Starkid character ever. Probably accentuated by the ironic contrast between his passionate LargeHam acting/singing/dancing and the fact that it's text he's spent almost all of his life completely alone with only [[CargoShip Alexa]] for romantic company.
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* GeniusBonus: "Bliklotep" is a name that, like the Franchise/CthulhuMythos' "Nyarlathotep", is a made-up word attached to the Egyptian suffix "-hotep" meaning "peace", often used in RealLife as the name of a Pharaoh when attached to the name of an Egyptian deity (Rahotep, Amenhotep, Sobekhotep, etc.) The GeniusBonus comes in when you remember that one of the ubiquitous symbols used by the Pharaohs was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus wadjet eye]].
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** A borderline example, with [[spoiler:"[=Droid23=]" being used for Emma 2 and Paul 23. "Falsekins" has also been used.]]
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** Holloduke = Miss Holloway / Duke Keane
** Tedgens = Ted Spankoffski / Henry Hidgens
** Tedgens = Ted Spankoffski / Henry Hidgens
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* PortmanteauCoupleName:
** Paulkins = Paul Matthews / Emma Perkins
** Lexthan = Lex Foster / Ethan Green
** Barneston = Becky Barnes / Tom Houston
** Perkston = Jane Perkins / Tom Houston
** Emmlette = Emma Perkins / Charlotte
** Charted = Charlotte / Ted Spankoffski
** Paulkins = Paul Matthews / Emma Perkins
** Lexthan = Lex Foster / Ethan Green
** Barneston = Becky Barnes / Tom Houston
** Perkston = Jane Perkins / Tom Houston
** Emmlette = Emma Perkins / Charlotte
** Charted = Charlotte / Ted Spankoffski
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** The end of the "feud" on social media was director Casey Patrick Tebo saying he'd watched Starkid's ''Black Friday'', liked it a lot and would love to [[https://twitter.com/caseyshoots/status/1328856214793555976?s=20 put a Wiggly doll in the movie]] as an EasterEgg, though we'll see if it actually happens.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In November 2020, a movie called ''Black Friday'' was announced -- a HorrorComedy with very similar plot elements not only to [[Theatre/BlackFriday the Hatchetfield play of the same title]], but with a little bit of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' thrown in too! [=StarKid=] fans were outraged, but Nick Lang took it rather well, sure it's a coincidence and eager to see the film when it comes out.
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* MemeticMutation: Fuck Clivesdale![[labelnote:Explanation]]Hatchetfield has a SmallTownRivalry with their neighbors Clivesdale-even residents who hate Hatchetfield hate Clivesdale even more. Naturally, the SharePhrase "Fuck Clivesdale!" has caught in in the fandom, almost to the level of a VerbalTic that pops up any time Clivesdale is mentioned, even in passing.[[/labelnote]]
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* CerebusSyndrome: Although Starkid addressing real-world issues in their shows is in fact OlderThanTheyThink, the Hatchetfield series is nevertheless a major shift toward DarkerAndEdgier storytelling that directly addresses unfunny issues like PTSD, DomesticAbuse, the decay of relationships under the pressures of late capitalism, etc.
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* BrokenBase: One that was inevitable with the major change in direction for Creator/TeamStarkid away from goofy pop-culture parody musicals and toward an original HorrorComedy series -- and one that Nick Lang has said may be regrettable but was necessary, since he thinks of the former genre as a fad of TheNewTens that was rapidly running out of steam.
* CerebusSyndrome: Although Starkid addressing real-world issues in their shows is in fact OlderThanTheyThink, the Hatchetfield series is nevertheless a major shift toward DarkerAndEdgier storytelling that directly addresses unfunny issues like PTSD, DomesticAbuse, the decay of relationships under the pressures of late capitalism, etc.
* GrowingTheBeard: Although a lot of older fans may have resisted the new direction Starkid took with ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', there's just as many fans who love the new, more mature Starkid and even say that in comparison to the Hatchetfield shows it's hard to rewatch the old shows in the same light, especially since a lot of the immature humor [[SocietyMarchesOn has aged poorly]].
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: There's been some pushback from fans who don't think a DarkerAndEdgier tone and big, complex storytelling is really playing to Creator/TeamStarkid's strengths, especially from many older fans who gave lukewarm reviews to ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where the Hatchetfield series ''really'' ramped up the CerebusSyndrome.
* CerebusSyndrome: Although Starkid addressing real-world issues in their shows is in fact OlderThanTheyThink, the Hatchetfield series is nevertheless a major shift toward DarkerAndEdgier storytelling that directly addresses unfunny issues like PTSD, DomesticAbuse, the decay of relationships under the pressures of late capitalism, etc.
* GrowingTheBeard: Although a lot of older fans may have resisted the new direction Starkid took with ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', there's just as many fans who love the new, more mature Starkid and even say that in comparison to the Hatchetfield shows it's hard to rewatch the old shows in the same light, especially since a lot of the immature humor [[SocietyMarchesOn has aged poorly]].
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: There's been some pushback from fans who don't think a DarkerAndEdgier tone and big, complex storytelling is really playing to Creator/TeamStarkid's strengths, especially from many older fans who gave lukewarm reviews to ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where the Hatchetfield series ''really'' ramped up the CerebusSyndrome.
