Line #24 YMMV/Zoofights


1	* {{Adorkable}}: There's something endearing about how enthusiastic Croctopus is about building boats.
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Elohim isn't evil, he was just trying to save us from Seanet!]]
3	* BadassDecay: Some competitors actually become less impressive after their post-round upgrades.
4	** [[spoiler: Ultraphant was rendered brain-dead after its fight with Drillbjorn, so its Losers' League incarnation was just its mindless body being controlled by a series of tubes with no other upgrades.]]
5	** [[spoiler: Dreadnautilus and its subsequent form Aggronautilus were both extremely powerful fighters. However, its incarnation in the Royal Rumble, Squidiot, was a complete JokeCharacter.]]
6	** [[spoiler: Brut-05 was always fragile thanks to its lack of armor, but it was also highly maneuverable and had a ton of firepower at its disposal. As Hog Wild in the Losers' League, however, it was reduced to a gun-wielding warthog in a wheelchair pulled by hyenas. As a result, it did very little to Snake Pilgrim and lost badly.]]
7	** [[spoiler: Black Rabbath's incarnation in the Losers' League, Thumperstruck, is far weaker than the Metal-powered monstrosity the Pangolins fought against.]]
8	* EnsembleDarkhorse: During the voting for Sturgeon General and Smash Gordon, some people voted for Smash Gordon's bulldog, Nelson, due to Gordon's implied unintelligence. To the fans' delight, Nelson survived.
9	** Among the many monsters that have appeared, [[JokeCharacter Wolfbike]], [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Steamcrab]], Oh, the Huge Manatee! and [[IronWoobie Croctopus]] have gained a substantial amount of fans.
10	** The Mangolin' Pangolins gained a whole lot of popularity [[spoiler:from their glorious first round victory against the Hippos.]] Their [[spoiler:victory against Black Rabbath]] just fueled the Pangolin hype even more.
11	** A couple of the spectators have themselves acquired a following, especially Gezora the giant squid bartender. Zoofights 5 also offers the ridiculously nonsensical rivalry between, of all characters, Matthew Lesko and [[Franchise/SonictheHedgehog Dr. Robotnik]]. [[spoiler: Lesko managed to win all seven of Robotnik's Chaos Emeralds and used them to transform into Super Lesko, forcing Robotnik to face down the now dangerously powerful salesman for the good of the world.]]
12	** Among the WCW fighters who showed up in the Zoofights VI Royal Rumble, Biguana stood out from the rest for being charmingly oblivious to what was going around him. [[spoiler: Also, he was the only WCW creature to kill a Zoofights competitor: specifically, Angsteater.]] [[spoiler: And he now returned as Giguana.]]
13	** Teslacorn (sorry) Only because we don't know anything about her.
14	-->We know not what she cares about, or even if she cares at all. We do not even know how she functions, although we do know [[CaptainObvious she is a horse]].
15	** After his epic struggle against [[EldritchAbomination Hyperfauna]], [[BadassNormal Once Were Walrus]] flew right into this territory.
16	** Of course, one can't ignore the original darkhorses of Zoofights, [[FireForgedFriends Mechos and Red Banana]].
17	* GameBreaker: [[spoiler: Seanet]]. Fortunately, [[spoiler: Seanet decided to pull out of the tournament to face down the other Game Breaker of Zoofights 4, Elohim, instead]].
18	* GeniusBonus: Several competitors are based on decidedly obscure creatures (Dunkleosteus, anyone?). Another great Genius Bonus is the name of Slammonite's finishing move: The Cambrian Explosion.
19	* [[HilariousInHindsight Hilarious At That Very Moment]]:
20	** ZFV fighter Smash Gordon (a rules-skirting cave man) debuted at the same time Gordon Brown was being smashed in the UK elections. Major Failure swears this was completely coincidental.
21	** Mr. and Mrs. Major Failure are Brits so this has to be a coincidence: The symbol of the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague San Diego Chargers]] used to be a rearing horse and now it's a lightning bolt. If Teslacorn gets to the semifinals but loses the penultimate match she's the perfect unofficial mascot. [[spoiler: She did, and has now been defeated by a ball of water.]]
22	* JustHereForGodzilla: Did reading Zoofights 4 and 5 make you want to see Space Amoeba for a better look at [[EnsembleDarkhorse a certain spectator]]?
23	* MemeticMutation: A number of phrases and running gags have caught on amongst the fans.
24	** "We sort of cloned a seventh tapogre. :shobon:"
25	*** In its early months, the Zoofights Forum was plagued with spambots, which were affectionately referred to as tapogres after the pathetic Zoofights 3 entrants.
26	** "Happy to be a wolf. Ecstatic to be a motorbike. Wolfbike."
27	*** Wolf. Bike. Wolf. ''Bike.'' Wolfbike Wolfbike WOLFBIKE AROOOOOOO
28	** "A Gorillion Dollars" was originally just a one-off joke picture. It eventually evolved into a much sought-after prize (15 votes redeemable on any match!) and even an emoticon on the Zoofights Forums.
29	** Croctopus' CatchPhrase, "I'm building a [[RougeAnglesofSatin bote]]".
30	** The Snapture acting like a very angry Music/KanyeWest.
31	** After Bull Market's osmium phone weapon and the in-fight reveal of Luchadillo having an osmium shell, osmium itself became both an oft-suggested upgrade and an AscendedMeme.
32	** "X? ''X?!'' '''''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCK X!!!]]'''''
33	** The Manglin' Pangolins were given quick one-line descriptions of their personalities on their blueprints. It soon became common practice to refer to them by always including the tagline, as in "Drillz (he's the leader)". This meme also ascended.
34	* MoralEventHorizon: Hardcore Prawn crossed the line when he [[spoiler:threw Fight Rider to his death right after he had offered his hand to save Prawn from the pit of lava below.]] Even though combat pragmatism is a perfectly acceptable tactic in Zoofights, this act was considered below the belt by a lot of those who voted for the Prawn, costing him a good chunk of his fans.
35	* NeverLiveItDown: Barbarramundi is best known as "That stupid fish that screwed over Sting Kong."
36	* NightmareFuel:
37	** It's emphasized both in-universe and in people's votes that Burger Lord is bad news.
38	** [[spoiler:Huggles T. Bear weaponises it in the second round, with his laser being upgraded into a device that causes waking nightmares as well as its regular beam.]]
39	** What a few SA voters put for Hippos With An Eating Disorder instead of its proper name: [[spoiler: '''Whatever the fuck that thing is, PANGOLIN-HIPPO-ABORTION, fuckmaremonstrosity, Hippo Monstrosity,''' and '''[[TheRuntAtTheEnd Weird Hippo Thing]].''']]
40	* ReplacementScrappy: [[spoiler: Hyperfauna for Swanmass. This trope is probably the reason why Hyperfauna lost to Once Were Walrus in a landslide.]]
41	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: [[spoiler:Thumperstruck]] was booed by the Zoofights spectators for general lameness and [[spoiler: past failures.]] He took all of this to heart and went balls-out crazy when it was actually time for him to fight. Needless to say, people gave him a lot more respect when he was rampaging.
42	* RootingForTheEmpire: There are always people who vote for the competitors that are likely to become tournament-ending god-beasts, or have ''already become'' tournament-ending god-beasts. All the major Big Bads have or had a good deal of votes and fans. The only exception seems to be [[spoiler: Hyperfauna]], which was a rare case of a villain receiving absolutely no support once it was revealed.
43	* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: In 2007 Major Failure wrote an [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2287843 acid trip report]] with [[{{Series/Deadwood}} Al Swearengen]] as his "spirit guide" (the "actual" Al Swearengen, not rollplaying him).
44	-->'''[=MrGreenShirt=]:''' Zoofights suddenly makes much, much more sense.\
45	'''saberwulf:''' Holy shit, now I understand how he came up with Achilles Eel and Croctopus. [[DontExplainTheJoke The Major does a fuckload of drugs.]]
46	* TheWoobie: Croctopus. He is completely delusional and believes that he is at Zoofights not to fight and kill, but to ''build boats''. He is made to be a sympathetic creature, depicted in a positive, non-bloodthirsty light.
47	** IronWoobie: Croctopus.

Context YMMV / Zoofights