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1''[[https://www.amvhell.com AMV Hell]]'' was a collection of works and a website for [[FanVid Anime Music Videos]] ([=AMVs=]) which parody whatever anime[=/=]songs[=/=]sound clips are used within the individual clip. The [=AMVs=] usually do this in one of two ways: a fairly normal (often pop) song with metaphorical lyrics set to a clip that suggests a more literal interpretation of the lyrics (often creating extreme LyricalDissonance), or a song[=/=]sound clip that is already weird[=/=]funny[=/=]obscene set to a corresponding weird[=/=]funny[=/=]obscene anime. The clips are rapid-fire and use flipping channels on television as a framing device. ''AMV Hell'' influenced imitators who have often described their videos as "AMV Hell style". Originally the videos were created by Zarxrax and SSGWNBTD before ''AMV Hell'' became a host of content created and contributed by other creators.
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3Releases by the original ''AMV Hell'' creators:
4* "AMV Hell" and "AMV Hell 2: Son of AMV Hell": Simultaneously released in May 2004, the first was a fun little experiment that could be (and often was) shown at conventions without fear of inappropriate content, and the second filled with less family-friendly content.
5* ''AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture'': Released in September 2005 and roughly an hour long, by creators Zarxrax and SSGWNBTD plus dozens of contributors.
6* ''AMV Hell 0'': Simultaneously released with ''AMV Hell 3'', it used a series of clips from hentai which were submitted but excluded from the other video, making this one unsuitable for convention showings.
7* ''AMV Hell Divided By 0'' (stylized ''AMV Hell /0''): By SSGWNBTD and released in 2008, it was in the same style as ''AMV Hell 0'' but used more fetishistic hentai.
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9In 2006, ''AMV Hell Championship Edition'' was produced by multiple creators via a weekly contest; contestants were given specified songs and told to make the funniest video they could, then the winning entries became a compilation. ''[[ColonCancer AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell 4: The Last One]]'' featured over 250 videos from numerous creators and ran for an hour and a half. After July 2009, ''AMV Hell'' became a host for curated submissions by many other creators, rather than works by the original ''AMV Hell'' team. These included ''AMV Hell 5: Dedicated to Dio'' (dedicated both to Music/RonnieJamesDio as well as an AMV creator whose works had graced previous ''AMV Hells''), ''AMV Hell 6: The End Of The Universe'', ''AMV Hell 6.66: This is (Not) The End'', ''AMV Hell 7: Attack on 10 Year Anniversary'', and ''AMV Hell 8: The Deepest Point''. The ''AMV Minis'' had a "first season" containing submissions 5-10 minutes long, a "second season" capped at 7 seconds, a "third season" that challenged creators to stick with a certain theme (for instance, creating videos based around mondegreens) with winning entries compiled into a "Final Destination" episode, and an ''AMV Minis Challenge''.
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11!!The AMV Hell series, including the AMV Hell Minis entries, contain the following tropes:
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13* AffectionateParody:
14** ''2'' contains a parody of the "Evangelion Opus" [[FanVid AMV]]; ''3'' contains parodies of the "Danger: Low Brow Humor", "Euphoria", and "Shounen Bushidou" [[FanVid AMVs]]. For good measure, ''0'' does a second parody of "Euphoria" by mixing ''Anime/RahXephon'' with Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence's "Faggot".
15** ''3'' also has a parody of Kevin Caldwell's "Believe".
16** ''3'' contains an edited version of the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' end credits (mixed with ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''), and ''4'' contains a version of the second season ''Manga/DeathNote'' opening mixed with ''Anime/LuckyStar''.
17** AMV editor Vic Bond 007 is infamous for his use of the lens-flare special effect. ''3'' features a clip attributed to "Vic Bond 008" that consists of nothing but lens flares set to "Blinded by the Light".
18%%* TheAristocrats: This appears in ''Divided By 0'', narrated by [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Nyamo]].
19* AscendedMeme: Creator/MediaBlasters has used signs that only say "[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Gentlemen, behold! CORN!!]]" (referencing an infamous clip from ''0'') to advertise ''Boku no Sexual Harassment'' at conventions.
20%%* AxCrazy: ''Divided By 0'' does this one literally.
21* BlackComedy: The team took this to its literal extreme in ''0'' and ''Divided by 0''; you '''will''' be offended by these two videos, guaranteed. ''0's'' disclaimer even says that "this stuff is so bad we never should have even made it".
22** ''5'' has a clip where dead babies crawl out of the ground; the anime is ''Manga/DetroitMetalCity'', and the song is Tragedy's metal cover of [[Music/TheBeeGees "You Should Be Dancing"]].
23%%* BlackComedyRape: "[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Gentlemen, behold! CORN!]]" and its sequel "Gentlemen! I bring you...MORE CORN!"
24* BookEnds:
25** ''0'' starts and ends with the above-mentioned "Corn" scenes.
26** An AMV Minis episode devoted to [[MemeticMutation Internet memes]] begins and ends with segments set to the "[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Fabulous Secret Powers]]" video.
27%%* BrainBleach: ''Divided by 0'''s closing credits do their best to ruin sex forever. BreakingTheFourthWall can be scary indeed.
28* BrickJoke:
29** AMV Minis S1 E2 started off with a clip using Creator/MontyPython's "Argument" sketch... then a few clips later comes back to another clip by the same contributor using a different part of the same sketch.
30** At the start of ''AMV Hell 6.66'' [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendou]] plans to bring the end of the universe by building [[Creator/LewisBlack a Starbucks across from another Starbucks]]. The second-last clip before the credits has Shinji screaming after seeing a NERV-branded Starbucks. The last clip is full of StuffBlowingUp (set to the 1812 Overture).
31* BRollRebus: A lot of humor in the series comes from visually representing metaphorical lyrics in a literal sense. Probably the most notable examples are the credit sequences to 4 onwards, all of which are synced up with the credit songs' lyrics.
32%%* CensoredForComedy: The 18th episode of AMV Minis' third season has this as its theme.
33* ColonCancer: ''4'''s full title is "AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell 4: The Last One".
34** While ''5'' was eventually released under the more manageable title of "AMV Hell 5: Dedicated to Dio", during its development phase, it was advertised on the animemusicvideos.org website as "AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture III: AMV Hell 5: [[LampshadeHanging Your Banner Is Too Big]]". For at least one con appearance, the last bit was instead noted as "Your Subtitle Is Too Big".
35%%* CoveredInGunge: The series has a little of this all over, but it mainly concentrated it into ''0'' and ''Divided By 0''.
36* CreatorsApathy: Zarxrax [[note]](though the voiceover was actually performed by izumiyagami)[[/note]] does this in-universe in the opening of ''6.66.'' Displeased with the submissions he's received (and following a BigNo), he decides to "just throw some random videos in and hope there are some good ones." (All the "rejected" clips shown are ultimately credited at the end.)
37* CreatorThumbprint: Some of the more prolific editors have source materials that they use repeatedly, but other editors tend to avoid. N.P.C.C.'s notable use of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' clips became blatant enough to reach RunningGag status over the course of the third season of AMV Minis.
38* {{Deconstruction}}: Of all entries, ''0'' does this to the famous "Euphoria" AMV. Both use clips from ''Anime/RahXephon'' and a specific set of visual effects, but where "Euphoria" presents a gentle world by using calm clips from the show and the song "Must Be Dreaming", ''AMV Hell 0'' uses "Faggot" by Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence and far more violent clips to send a simple message: "Okay, 'Euphoria', here's what the show was ''really'' like."
39** Both "Euphoria" and the ''0'' version were by the same guy, meaning he essentially deconstructed his own work.
40* DoubleMeaningTitle: In addition to being a reference to ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', ''6.66'''s title is also alludes to the NumberOfTheBeast, as well as to how only a third of the rough cut's content survived to the final version.
41* EscalatingPunchline: The ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA]]'' skits in ''2'' certainly qualify. The first two have the original somber orchestral music from the original scene, the third has ChirpingCrickets, and the fourth has Creator/AdamSandler's song from ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'' ("WON'T SOMEBODY KILL ME PLEASE? KILL ME! I WANT TO DIE!") The final one has the EVA crushing and dropping its victim, [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch except it's Unit-01's head that falls into the LCL rather than Kaworu's]]]]. Save for the last clip, every one of these shows the same exact image.
42%%* FanVid
43* FormulaBreakingEpisode: The second season of AMV Minis featured episodes comprised entirely of WesternAnimation (inspired by [[RealLife the earthquake/tsunami in Japan]]) and live-action clips. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4T0oOArLVc The latter]] can be jarring, but still finds itself well within the AMV Hell spirit.
44* FreezeFrameBonus:
45** Music/TayZonday's head shows up in the ''Manga/BarefootGen'' Hiroshima nuclear blast clip from ''Divided by 0''.
46** Several such bonuses show up in the ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' "Master of Puppets" clip from ''5''.
47** [[WebOriginal/LOLCats Ceiling Cat]] appears in the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' clip from ''Divided by 0''.
48%%* GallowsHumor: ''Divided By 0'' does this one literally.
49%%* GirlWatching
50* GrandFinale: ''7'' serves as this for the main series, while the "Final Destination" entry for the AMV Minis' third season closes that part of the series off.
51%%* GrandTheftAutoEffect: Particularly memorable clips tend to be referenced in videos of the song that have nothing to do with the clip.
52* InJoke: One such example is the [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi"]] clip from ''3'' where [[Anime/{{Trigun}} Nicholas D. Wolfwood]] is carrying around a massive Star of David instead of a cross. This is at least partially inspired by a Jewish cosplayer calling himself "Rabbi Wolfowitz" who would go to conventions doing exactly that.
53%%* IntercourseWithYou
54%%* KickTheDog
55%%* MundaneMadeAwesome: The "Previously" segment at the beginning of ''4'' counts.
56%%** And [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Tomo, Kagura and Osaka]] combining their intellects... to the sound "[[CombiningMecha Destiny Combining]], [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]]! [[CatchPhrase Just who the hell do you think we are]]!?!?!"
57%%** "[[Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}} Koyaanis]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYs9IP7aWY qatsi...]]"
58%%* MushroomSamba: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRTjtpkLGoA I'M ON SHROOMS!]]
59* NeverTrustATrailer: Parodied at the end of ''1'', which ends with a trailer for ''2'' showing clips from titles such as ''[[Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaa,]]'' ''Manga/{{Akira}},'' ''Anime/PrincessMononoke,'' ''Anime/ReadOrDie,'' and ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', interspersed with text like a fake "Triumphant!" quote from Creator/RogerEbert and "Featuring none of the scenes shown here!"
60* OnceAnEpisode: Each of the mainline AMV Hells start with a clip featuring boobs, set to some kind of hard rock/metal.
61** Though the original cut of ''6'' had one, ''6.66'' [[AvertedTrope lacks one]].
62** Each entry from ''3'' onward also has [[{{Epigraph}} an opening quote]] (initially inspired by ''Film/KillBill'', but has since become a RunningGag in its own right).
63* {{Pun}}: This crops up from time to time with things like [[Anime/ParanoiaAgent Shonen]] Franchise/{{Batman}} or Microsoft [[Anime/ExcelSaga Excel]].
64* RapidFireComedy: Most clips last no more than thirty seconds at most, and far more run far shorter.
65** The first episode of AMV Minis' second season forced contributors to make clips that lasted no longer than seven seconds.
66* RedundantParody: One clip from ''4'' features [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Sol Badguy]] to the tune of ''the song he is named after''.
67** AMV Minis X4 set a scene from ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' to "Walk This Way" by Music/{{Aerosmith}}. The scene was the "Walk this way" scene -- ''which is what the song was named after''.
68* RunningGag:
69** ''AMV Hell 2'' had one spoofing the the long shot of EVA-01 grasping Kaworu from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
70** ''AMV Hell 3'' has a series of variations of the "Ellen Fleiss" parody segment from ''1''. (The [[http://www.amvhell.com/index.php?pageid=amvhell3 credits]] for ''3'' refer to them as "[[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] Cutaways".)
71** A [[VisualPun visual example]] is found in the [[http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/celebrity_and_showbiz/watch/v6330212H2dfz9ry deleted scenes]] from ''3'', beginning at the 7:24 mark.
72** ''4'' has repeated clips to Music/ImogenHeap's "Hide and Seek".
73*** AMV Minis' WesternAnimation special (S2 X1) had three such jokes in ''one clip''; after the third, the video editor crashes, [[LampshadeHanging stating that]] "the [[Series/TheOC Dear]] [[Memes/SaturdayNightLive Sister]] quota for this video has been exceeded".
74** In a case of either a RunningGag or everyone going to the same well, ''5'' had several clips set to "[[VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack Alw]][[Music/{{Erasure}} ays]]".
75*** ''5'' also features about three clips set to "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Halo]]".
76** ''6.66'' features a series of bits involving a nature show parody featuring Urd from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' as the "sake badger".
77*** A running gag carried over from its rough cut involves setting Terry Crews's Old Spice ads to ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred''. [[note]]One bit spoofs the "[[VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack Alw]][[Music/{{Erasure}} ays]]" running gag from ''5''.[[/note]]
78*** The use of songs by [[Music/TheAdventuresOfDuaneAndBrando Duane and BrandO]] may count as well. Though seemingly unrelated, [[http://www.amvhell.com/index.php?pageid=amvhell6 there are]] seven such clips in ''6.66''.[[note]]All by the same contributor, [=HaarTheDragonLord=].[[/note]]
79*** The original cut of ''6'' had "Fus roh DAH!" from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'''s trailer. Only one such clip survived in ''6.66''. [[note]][[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Guess which one.]][[/note]]
80** One of them did so many variations of the end of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' that it really turned into an [[OverlyLongGag Overly Long]] RunningGag.
81** ''7'' uses different clips of [=Malcom McDowell=] and James Earl Jones' dramatic readings of Facebook posts in Sprint commercials (featuring [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Tamaki]] and [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Armstrong]] as [=McDowell=] and Jones, respectively), and a trio of clips feautring [[Anime/DragonBallZ Fat Buu]] as [[Creator/FilmCow Zulway, God of Mercy]].
82** The [=AMV=] Minis Challenge season has multiple appearances of the main character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'', usually as a cameo in a different series or as a framing device for said series.
83*** The trailer for ''7'' has a ''Jem'' gag right at the end, too. Can't stem the Jem!
84* ScoobyDoobyDoors: One clip does this with the cast of ''Manga/OnePiece'', with [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Fred and Daphne]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext fly by on a carpet in the background.]]
85* ShockSite: ''0'' contains a scene of [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Sakaki]] opening a [[spoiler:Last Measure]] link.
86* ShoutOut: Griffith's fondness for singing show tunes in the earlier videos is a reference to the ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' English dub outtakes, where Griffith's VA was a former Broadway singer. He started to sing sometimes if he forgot or flubbed a line (or just felt like doing so).
87* SoundtrackDissonance: Much of the humor comes from such juxtapositions.
88** Quite possibly the ultimate example: in ''5'', we get a clip of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie Unicron eating a planet]] set to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWi7CLoZ2Q Parry Gripp's "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom"]].
89** The third season of ''AMV Minis'' had challenges based around HeavyMetal and SickeninglySweet music. In the latter case, some entries were genuine SugarBowl, while others were SugarApocalypse.
90* {{Spoiler}}: Hoo boy. If you don't want ''Manga/DeathNote'', ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', ''Anime/CodeGeass'', and possibly ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', ''Anime/PerfectBlue'', ''Manga/OnePiece'', and ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' spoiled, you should approach with caution. And don't even '''start''' on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''... In fairness, though, spoilericity is definitely hampered by a severe lack of context in almost all cases, the only real exceptions being the pretty blatant deaths.
91* TakeThatCritics: The frequent appearance of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' in AMV Minis' third season earned a great deal of negative feedback, partly due to the argument that a Western-produced cartoon didn't belong in an anime compilation. In the 19th episode of that season, [=OutrageousChaz=] assembled a video that mocked the naysayers; voting for that episode saw that specific clip tie for the first place spot.
92* VisualPun: The series loves to sprinkle these about, like the sketch in AMV Hell 5 with a Raichu synced to the lyric "[[Music/SaraBareilles I'm not gonna write you a love song]]".
93* VulgarHumor: ''0'' and ''Divided by 0'' thrive on this at times. At least a quarter of ''Divided by 0'' is dedicated to coprophilia jokes.

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