Line #22 Literature/TheCannibalsOfCandyland


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_cannbials_of_candyland.jpg]]There exists a race of cannibals who are made out of candy. They live in an underground world filled with lollipop forests and gumdrop goblins. During the day, while you are away at work, they come above ground and prowl our streets for food. Their prey: your children. They lure young boys and girls to them with their sweet scent and bright colorful candy coating, then rip them apart with razor sharp teeth and claws.
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3	When he was a child, Franklin Pierce witnessed the death of his siblings at the hands of a candy woman with pink cotton candy hair. Since that day, the candy people have become his obsession. He has spent his entire life trying to prove that they exist. And after discovering the entrance to the underground world of the candy people, Franklin finds himself venturing into their sugary domain. His mission: capture one of them and bring it back, dead or alive.
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5	''Cannibals of Candyland'' is an erotic horror story for the bizarro reader from the mind of Creator/CarltonMellickIII. Dark, disturbing, and absurd; this isn't the board game version of candy land you used to play as a kid.
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8	!!This work provides examples of:
9	* ArtificialLimbs: Jujub replaces both of Franklin's legs with candy prosthetics.
10	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The Candy People apparently evolved through natural mutation their candy physiologies from their cannibalistic ancestors over the course of a few generations to better catch and capture their prey. The absurdity of such a fact is later [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by Franklin.
11	* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: The title refers to the Candy People as "Cannibals". While they do eat people, the Candy People aren't human themselves, so they technically aren't cannibals.
12	%%* BizarroFiction
13	%%* BlackHumor
14	* BrightIsNotGood: The Candyland Cannibals are brightly coloured, which helps to lure children for them to eat.
15	%%* CannibalTribe: The Candy People
16	* ChildHater: Franklin despises children, mostly due to being tormented by a pre-teen bully who extorts money from him under threat of otherwise accusing him of being a child molester.
17	* ClownSpecies: A race of clowns with candyfloss hair live underground and eat children.
18	%%* FaceOnTheCover: [[spoiler:Jujub]]
19	* HalfHumanHybrid: Some time after Franklin and Jujub have sex, she lays a giant, chocolate Cadbury egg. By the end of the book, it hatches - the egg's yolk made of gooey caramel, revealing [[spoiler:a human baby with jellybeans for eyes]].
20	* LudicrousPrecision: Franklin's synthetic brain lets him estimate weights and quantities to within a few decimals.
21	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Franklin has his limbs removed with various bits of his flesh removed and replaced with candy molds across his whole body. Franklin is ''not'' screaming in agony the whole time though, simply describing the gangrenous flesh lining his ribcage as like "ants crawling all over him." [[spoiler:This can be explained away given his robot brain.]]
22	* MonsterClown: The inhabitants of Candyland are monstrous clowns who eat children.
23	* MyBrainIsBig: Franklin had his [[BrainUploading mind digitally transmitted into a mechanical brain that he replaced his own brain with]]. He can open his skullcap in order to "let it breath", the hinges becoming stuck open later on.
24	* {{Polyamory}}: Franklin's wife openly cheats on him, sharing her lover [[IncestSubtext with her live-in mother]].
25	* RuleAbidingRebel: Jujub is opposed to the way men and women of the Candy People are indoctrinated towards becoming dominants and submissives, respectively, from an early age, and is determined to live as a dominant in spite of being a woman. However, she refuses to question the system of dominants and submissives in itself.
26	* SexyJester: As you can see in the page image, the antagonist is a sexy clown girl.
27	* SwordCane: Franklin carries one, and ultimately uses it to good advantage.
28	* ThemeNaming: The Candy People are each named after a type of candy or a flavor (Jujub, Root Beer Float, Black Licorice, Wedding Cake, etc).
29	* TheyHaveTheScent: The Candy People give off a natural pheromone that attracts children to them, usually pertaining to a sweet scent people associate with candy. Jujub for example smells strongly of strawberries. Franklin uses these pheromones [[spoiler:to help dull the pain of his own stripped, rotting flesh]].
30	* WhaleEgg: The clown people hatch from giant Cadbury Cream Eggs.
31	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Franklin ponders why his parents named him after [[UsefulNotes/FranklinPierce one of the worst and saddest American presidents]], surmising that they either viewed him as an unwanted tragedy, or just picked the most handsome president without doing any more research than that.

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