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1''Human Centipede: The Musical'' is a comedic adaptation of ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''. It can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gLagIYMHVE here.]]
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3!! This musical provides examples of:
4* AdaptedOut: Instead of Katsuro, we have Steve as the front piece of the centipede.
5* AxCrazy: Voller.
6* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kranz and Voller begin the play wishing they could handle an exciting case again. Well, they get one, and it ends up [[spoiler:killing them]].
7* BreakTheCutie: Steve.
8* BreakingTheFourthWall: Lindsay's actress "revolts" during the feeding scene. Later, she disgustedly asks why this is even a musical.
9* BrickJoke: Butt cocktails.
10* CallingYourAttacks: Steve cries out “Stab!” twice: once when he [[spoiler:stabs Heiter]], and again when he [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide kills himself.]]]]
11* ContractualGenreBlindness: Lindsay and Jenny display [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] on numerous occasions, yet they never apply it.
12* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Lindsay]]
13* {{Determinator}}: Steve.
14-->'''Steve:''' [[Film/GalaxyQuest Never give up! Never surrender!]]
15* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Steve.]]
16* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Most of the main characters, especially [[ThePollyanna Steve]], have them.
17* EvilIsHammy: Heiter.
18* FauxAffablyEvil: Heiter, who explains [[BodyHorror how the human centipede will be created]] [[VillainSong in song.]]
19* ForTheEvulz: The reason why Heiter kills the truck driver.
20* GermanicEfficiency
21-->'''Lindsay:''' I haven’t seen a street sign in a while.
22-->'''Jenny:''' That’s so weird. I thought Germans were supposed to be, like, really efficient.
23* InHarmsWay: Kranz and Voller.
24* JugglingLoadedGuns: Kranz and Voller, during their introduction.
25* {{Keet}}: Steve.
26* LargeHam: Voller.
27-->'''Voller:''' '''I smell''' '''''danger!''''' '''I want''' '''''more!'''''
28* LosingHorns: Played after Lindsay's escape plan fails.
29* LyricalDissonance: Dr. Heiter’s VillainSong, along with the penultimate number, an upbeat song about how [[spoiler:everyone dies.]]
30* MoodWhiplash: Heiter interrupts Steve’s cheerful music number by drugging him and dragging him offstage.
31* MusicalisInterruptus: Heiter does this to Steve and Lindsay on separate occasions.
32* {{Narm}}: Lampshaded.[[invoked]]
33-->'''Narrator:''' This would be sad if they didn’t look so amusing.
34* NoDeadBodyPoops: Averted.
35-->'''Narrator:''' Just so you know, everybody... you poop when you die!
36* NoodleIncident: That time "when the whole damn town got rabies."
37* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Heiter, Kranz, and Voller.
38* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Kranz and Voller lament that they no longer get called on any interesting cases. Naturally, they immediately get called to investigate Lindsay and Jenny's screams after their musical number ends.
39* OrphanedPunchline: During Kranz and Voller's introduction.
40* PlotHole: One lyric states, "Steve smiled until his last teeth were gone", but Steve is at the front of the centipede.
41* ThePollyanna: Steve retains his cheerful demeanor even when he wakes up tied to a bed and finds out that he’ll be part of a human centipede.
42* RaceLift: In the movie, the male member of the centipede was a JapaneseTourist named Katsuro. Here, he's a white guy named Steve.
43* RockBottom
44-->'''Jenny:''' What are we gonna do? We blew a tire, and we don’t know where we are! This literally could not be any worse!
45-->'''Narrator:''' Or could it!?
46* SpoofAesop: The final song is all about this.
47-->'''Everyone:''' Don’t sew your mouth to my butt, and I won’t sew my butt to you. If we all keep our butts to ourselves, we can change the world.
48* ScreamingAtSquick: Kranz doesn't handle the sight of the centipede well.
49* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Before bleeding to death, Kranz shoots Heiter in the head.]]
50* ThatsWhatSheSaid
51-->'''Jenny:''' We’re dangerously unprotected.
52-->'''Lindsay:''' That’s what she said.
53* ThisIsReality
54-->'''Jenny:''' We don’t know where we are, and we don’t have phones, and we’re just two girls, and the horror movie really writes itself here!
55-->'''Lindsay:''' Okay, relax. This is real life, not a horror movie.
56* TitleTheAdaptation
57* ToiletHumor: A cornerstone of the plot.
58-->'''Narrator:''' Poop jokes! This is ''[[TrueArt art!]]''
59* TranslationConvention: All of the dialogue is in English.
60* ValleyGirl: Lindsay and Jenny.
61* VillainSong: The means through which Dr. Heiter explains the [[BodyHorror procedure.]]

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