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David Gonterman (also known by his pen name of Daveykins [=FoxFire=], or David Foxfire) is a long-running internet celebrity (for many negative reasons). He has also been known as 'The EdWood of the Internet' and 'The Internet's Most Dangerous Cartoonist'. Opinons vary on his work ranging from SoBadItsGood to SoBadItsHorrible.
A {{fanfic}} writer (or '[[SpellMyNameWithAnS fanfict]]' as he spells it) and cartoonist, he first started posting on various websites sometime around 1995. His most famous works include ''Blood and Metal'' (a fanfic of the Archie Comics ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series), ''Sailor Moon: American Kitsune'' (a crossover of ''SailorMoon'' and ''PowerRangers'', amongst others), and his original webcomic ''[=FoxFire=]'' (retroactively renamed ''Scarlet P.I.''). Most of his fame comes from his outspoken views on several topics, such as race and sexual orientation, and his generally hostile demeanor towards criticism of his work. Other earmarks of his style include powerful MartyStu characters, a KudzuPlot that never follows through on important elements, and how his art style hasn't even evolved over more than a decade of drawing.
His biggest break was probably [[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/APRILFOO.GIF the guest strip]] he did for ''[[WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]'' that appears to be a half-assed attempt at tying it to the plot of ''[=FoxFire=]''. As usual, it makes no sense whatsoever.
David Gonterman remains probably the most well known internet celebrity to gain his position through notoriety. He is frequently cited when the topic of bad fiction and overreactive writers/cartoonists comes up. It feels like he has stumbled upon just the right formula to maintain a "prominent" image for over a decade without having anything really positive being said about him. For that, we salute him.
He seems to attend the [[{{Macross}} Shoji Kawamori]] school of continuity, i.e. pick and choose whatever you want from the previous stories and throw the rest out, although several of his works can be assigned to several different [[TheVerse 'verses]].
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'''''The Davey Crockett Trilogy'''''
A trilogy of tangentially linked stories incorporating the character of David "Davey Crockett" Kintobor. Technically, ''Blood and Metal'' was released first, with ''The Piasa Monster'' being written as a prequel. Not to be confused with the historical figure of Davy Crockett.
''[[http://www.tuxedojack.com/godawful/nauseating/gonterman/gonterman-Piasa.txt The Piasa Monster]]''
When a monster attacks St. Louis, local resident Davey Crockett fights and kills it. Less than 24 hours later, a black history teacher makes an attempt on Crockett's life, causing a racial riot in the process.
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/text.html Blood and Metal]]''
Davey Crockett gets sent off to Mobius to fight against Robotnik. Having lost an arm due to the racial riot in the previous story, he is given a cybernetic replacement. Using the abilities granted to him by this machinery, he racks up more kills than Sonic in a short period of time before taking down and defeating Robotnik once and for all.
This story was the "breakout" (such as it is) for Gonterman, having been decently popular within a couple online communities. It ended up incorporating a number of cameos of people Gonterman met and also inspired many collaborative projects.
A {{Remake}} of the story is currently in the works, though according to Gonterman the new story will not have any basis in the SonicTheHedgehog universe.
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/text.html Sailor Moon: American Kitsune]]''
An important piece of Gonterlore, and the most infamous. A crossover of ''Sailor Moon'', ''Power Rangers'' and everything else, including the kitchen sink. Many villains from the Sailor Moon and Power Rangers universes team up, and Sailor Moon is knocked clear over the Pacific and caught by Davey. As an interesting note, this is the same Davey who had lived a long, full life on Mobius... who has been reincarnated on Earth as a kitsune due to the interference of [[TricksterMentor Old Man Coyote]]. Davey and company then go on a disjointed, near-plotless adventure to defeat the villains.
The infamy comes from the chapter where Davey goes on a long rant about how people kept on telling him he was gay during high school, and therefore he's justified in killing the homosexual villain and his minions (who are also gay). (Even [[PuppetChaos politically incorrect gits]] thought it was offensive) All of the other heroes agree with his justification.
This story was abandoned after eleven chapters during a point when internal strife was breaking apart the makeshift alliance of good guys. Due to Gonterman's [[CreatorBacklash subsequent disownership of this work]], it's unlikely we'll ever find out what happened next.
This trilogy provides examples of:
* AuthorFilibuster: Davey's speech about homosexuality. Summarized, it consists of: "When I was in school, some kids called me gay. IT WAS A LIVING HELL!" Sailor Moon cries and tells him he's perfectly justified in killing gay people because of this.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Davey and Usagi
* TheCameo: President Barack Obama appears in the remake. ''I am not kidding''.
* CaptainErsatz: Eric in the new version is apparently a homage to someone else's anthro character.
* CanonDefilement: Tons of it. See WallBanger below for a particularly offensive example.
* DeadFic
* DidNotDoTheResearch: With a hint of TheyJustDidntCare.
* ExpansionPackPast: Davey and Ed.
* FanficChopSuey
* {{Flanderization}}: Most of the characters from the external canons only had one or two of their character traits kept intact, being defined exclusively by the traits that Gonterman viewed as most vital.
* HollywoodCyborg: Davey.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Davey shooting and destroying Lord Zedd's throne, located on the moon, from the Earth, using a ''sawed-off shotgun.'' Oh, and with Lord Zedd not getting hit by a single pellet in spite of ''sitting in the throne at the time.''
* InformedFlaw: In the remake, Gonterman informs us in supplemental materials that Eric likes beer a little too much. This doesn't seem to play at all into the plot.
* KudzuPlot
* LukeIAmYourFather: Davey/Eric's father is Robotnik/Alberrect.
* MartyStu: David "Davey Crockett" Kintobor. GodModeSue to the max. Ed also has many of the CommonMarySueTraits (including an uncomfortably straight CursedWithAwesome {{wangst}} scene), but his status as a secondary character keeps him from this.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Davey's cybernetic arm, Ed's closet, and many miscellaneous objects that Davey has collected.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Davey Crockett himself, but also the introduction of the Sailor Senshi to the Morphing Grid and the highly modified Battletech robots.
* OldShame: Gonterman seems to have expressed personal distaste towards these works, and the current remake seems to be him trying to eliminate the elements that led to him being labeled a racist.
* OutOfCharacter: All the ''SailorMoon'' characters, but especially Usagi.
* PlanetEris: Here's a fun game: take a shot with each new reference to a completely different canon. Your liver won't make it through to the end.
* TheRemake: ''Blood and Metal'' was rewritten twice, with a third rewrite in the making, the first part of which is completed. You can see a preview for the latest incarnation [[http://bloodandmetal.foxfirestudios.net/912Preview.pdf here]].
* TokenMinority: In the remake, Gina the hospital intern.
* TricksterMentor: Old Man Coyote in the original version.
* WallBanger: The revelation that Usagi was conceived through artificial insemination, aborted, and given up for adoption, making her secretly the sister of David Kintobor. This adds a very creepy incest element to earlier scenes, with later scenes still continuing elements of this relationship (somehow made ''creepier'' by the lampshade hanging Gonterman employs, showing that he didn't just forget the earlier scene like he frequently does but is actually aware of it).
* {{Squick}}: In the latest incarnation, Eric/Davey has sex with a hot (human) chick... ''after'' he's turned into a furry. She's also [[TokenMinority black]]
* ShoutOut: You could argue that in the preview for the new BAM, Gonterman has made a shoutout to TV Tropes! D:
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'''''Scarlet P.I.'''''
Two separate but interrelated strips. The first series, which was named ''[[http://www.furnation.com/FoxStudios/archive/ComicStrip/FCS.html FoxFire]]'', ran for 240 strips before being dropped without a resolution. After a recent comic convention, Jim Goodlow comes home to find a package with a fursuit in it. He's surprised to find out that it's a sentient creature and needs to a symbiotic relationship to survive. This female fox "Zoot", Scarlet (introduced as Susan for some reason), becomes Jim's crime fighting alter ego as he continues his career as a professional cartoonist. Things get a little confusing from that point on.
In 2004, a total ReTool and reboot was started under the name of ''[[http://daveykinsfoxfire.deviantart.com/gallery/#Scarlet-PI-Strips Scarlet PI]]'', with there currently being 123 strips and counting. Jim Goodlow reappears, but is changed from a cartoonist to a prodigy cop that can't get a job. (Interestingly enough, he's also StraightGay, but it instead just feels like repentance on Gonterman's part.) After failing to find a job, he happens upon a box dumped near his apartment. It contains an advanced prototype female fox fursuit, which was created by a corrupt corporation (not an AlienInvasion this time, [[BenevolentAlienInvasion Benevolent]] or not). Of course, he leaps right into it due to wanting to seduce men, investigating the corporation as an obligatory exchange.
This webcomic provides examples of:
* AlienInvasion: The villains in the original.
* AuthorAvatar: Jim Goodlow in both incarnations.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Sort of. [[PuppetChaos This Troper]] is working on a 'dramatic reading' of the original [=FoxFire=]. It's slow going.
* FurryFandom: This series owes its existence to this.
* FridgeLogic: So, um... if a corporation can make advanced suits that can meld with organic beings, ''why the hell are they using them as theme park animals''? And in the original, how can Scarlet ''have a daughter''? Why is Pippikin so horny?
* {{Interquel}}: There's a few side-stories on one of Gonterman's site that appears to take place sometime during the new series. The Scarlet P.I. novel is one of these, too.
* InstantFanClub: Scarlet gains a lot of fans overnight.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Blatantly avoided. Gonterman simply uses the names and likenesses of the celebrites he lampoons.
* KudzuPlot: You know those evil badguy Zoot suits Gonterman spends around twenty strips establishing as the badguys? It's dropped for Scarlet becoming a cop. And there's some wrestling and baseball in there somewhere. And some naked skunk thing, too.
* GodModeSue: Scarlet.
* He's a cartoonist who needs a job! She's an alien symbiotic costume! TheyFightCrime.
* MindControl: Evil Zoots get hosts through this. One of them even has hypno eyes.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Scarlet becomes a psionic capable of teleportation within just one strip.
* NoEnding: Both incarnations of the strip; although you could make the argument that the first one has a sort of ending with Scarlet and Jim riding into the sunset; or in this case, the furry convention circuit.
* OrphanedSeries: The original. The new series seems like it might be orphaned as well.
* ThePuppetmasters: Good Zoots get permission from their hosts. Evil zoots don't.
* UnusualEuphemism: "''Oh yerf''" (which is a TakeThat to yerf.com, which Gonterman had some drama with); along with the standard furryism of 'yiffing'
* {{Retool}}: The second series, while also a remake, drastically reinterprets various characters; Jim is now a police officer; Pippikin is now one of the heroes; and the enemy this time is a terrestrial [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil version of Disney]]
* {{Squick}}: The implications of the Zoot sex scene. The T-shirt that just simply says "Me so yiffy" on it. The existence of Rael the Transvestite Bunny.
* TheCameo: Rael the Transvestite Bunny is based on a ''[[http://raelbunny.deviantart.com/ real person]]'' ('''Do not click if you are faint of heart, or [[HomestarRunner faint of butt]]''') ...repeat, a 100% real person. There are numerous other cameos of various celebrities, mostly sports figures, in the old incarnation of the comic.
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''''The Packbellverse''''
These stories and comics intially seem unrelated, but they are apparently set in the same universe due to the many crossovers of various characters. Most of them incorporate the character of Adam Packbell, if at least only tangentially.
''[[http://www.foxfirestudios.net/packblog/WebBook/index.php?page=6 Lost Boy Found]]''
A self-published ''PeterPan'' fanfic(t) about a Lost Boy named Adam Packbell. The advertising blurb claims that it is "equal parts autobiography, adventure story, and ''{{Shrek}}''-style parody of every recent novel set in Neverland including the official sequel". Adam Packbell is a central character in many of the Planewalker-verse comics and books.
''[[http://gonterman.kicks-ass.net/displaystrip.php?comic=3&strip=1 Night Soldiers]]''
A ''SailorMoon'' inspired story about a young witch in a southern community. After Sue "comes out of the broom closet", life goes well for her as everybody accepts it. However, her lifestyle is threatened when a [[HornyDevils succubus]] attacks and kills a couple people, with only her able to stop it. It abruptly ends before she starts her journey, so what happens is unknown. Like ''Fauna Force'', this was meant to steal the audience from its source of inspiration.
''[[http://gonterman.kicks-ass.net/displaystrip.php?comic=10&strip=1 Baka Breakers]]''
The plotless adventures of a robotic foxgirl and her boyfriend (three guesses as to who he's supposed to represent). Can't really describe it further than that.
''Livewire Latte''
A continuation of Baka Breakers, with Adam Packbell (yes, the one from Lost Boy Found) running a coffee shop in a small town roughly 70 miles from Vegas, or 'Sin City' as Gonterman loves calling it. Is mostly SliceOfLife, [[MundaneFantastic except]] for the [[RobotGirl android]] {{catgirl}} Tara and the [[FurryFandom anthropomorphic mice]] running around; as well as the hints to Adam's magical side. Arguably half-decent for the first three dozen pages or so, ''precisely'' due to its less ambitious, slice-of-life style... at least until the TokenMinority Japanese girl comes in.
''[[http://gonterman.kicks-ass.net/displaystrip.php?comic=12&strip=1 Planeswalker]]''
An original story based loosely on ''MagicTheGathering'' done in a MagicalGirl style. In ancient times, a portal between Earth and Dominaria was briefly opened and sealed off, leaving artifacts behind containing the souls of mages. In modern times, a young girl named Jamie came in contact with one of these books and became infused with a spirit of a Planeswalker. The symbiotic creature now act as a paragon of justice... when not just being a giant {{Jerkass}}. Adam Packbell appears in a YuGiOh-esque tournament based on Magic, and Richard Kronos and Sue from Night Soldiers appear in the audience.
* AuthorFilibuster: Some of Adam's blog entries are these toward things such as trolls and lawyers. On a smaller scale, some of the characters' dialogues present Gonterman's views on things such as Ritalin, parenting and [=MSTings=].
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Adam uses this in ''Lost Boy Found'' to bring the fairy he found back to life, albeit using a computer program to find websites via a search engine about the belief in fairies being true and to make a clap spound through the speakers.
* DesignatedHero: Copper Mystrian, Adam's adoptive father, uses hypnosis to assemble an army of girls [[NightmareFuel dressed like dolls]] (along with a few guys, [[BiTheWay which raises questions]]), he uses some of these girls as a harem, which typically confers insta-villian status. And he's still one of the good guys. Gonterman writes this off as just a [[MoralDissonance vice]].
* MundaneFantastic: Magical Lost Boys, fairies, android catgirls and other blatantly magical and science-fiction elements exist in a world that's more or less the 'real world.'
* ReVision: Each individual story or comic adds more to the overall backstory for the universe without overwriting it.
* {{Sexbot}}: Aline, who apparently is a stripper, or a hooker?, who also kills terrorists in Afganistan or ... something.
* SliceOfLife: Livewire Latte
* SuetifulAllAlong: Gonterman's attempt at LampshadeHanging in ''Baka Breakers''.
* TheCameo: Gonterman has a less-than-flattering cameo of his real self when Adam looks through a magic mirror in Livewire Latte. Characters from other comics and stories appear in short cameos in both Planeswalker and Livewire Latte.
* MindControl: Copper Mystrian gets a lot of mileage out of this.
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'''''Other Gonterman Works'''''
''Fauna Force''
Gontman's response to Sonic the Hedgehog, ''Fauna Force'' starred Johnathan Brisby, originally introduced in the Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers/Secret of NIMH crossover story ''The Rangers of NIMH''. Johnathan, an accomplished street magician, stumbles upon a lion who has recently turned a small cadre of humans into animals via a process known as 'furricization' (a none-too-subtle play on roboticization from the Sonic universe) and takes them in to form a team that can fight against the unnamed villain. It was intended to "steal" the audience from Archie's ''SonicTheHedgehog''... SoYeah.
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/kissingcontest.html The Kissing Contest]]''
An inept Disney ScriptFic of sorts, which includes Gonterman's self-insert being praised by Disney executives as an insightful genuis for portraying {{Pocahontas}} as a "donamatrix" in his fanfiction and a paragraph-long sidenote about how none of the Disney characters actually died in their films.
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/441.html Kitsune .44]]''
Scott Trucker, a Texas Ranger, gets sent back in time to Feudal Japan after a tornado scoops him up. He becomes part of a war against another time traveler that has taken over a sizable portion of Japan. As the site hosting the comic points out, the self-insert isn't named after Gonterman this time, but the hairstyle is a dead giveaway.
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/SONIC199/ The Mobius Chronicles]]''
Sort of the follow-up to ''Sally Protest'', ''The Mobius Chronicles'' diverges from issue 47 of the official ''SonicTheHedgehog'' comic book. Of course, Gonterman promptly makes himself the main character. {{MST}}ed [[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/5091/index.htm here]], [[http://www.thoughtviper.com/miststh2/index.htm here]] and [[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/6339/sth3indx.htm here]].
''[=NiGHTS=]: The Third Dreamer''
A rare Gontercomic about ''[[NightsIntoDreams NiGHTs: Into Dreams]]'', ostensibly a spinoff from Archie's own ''[=NiGHTs=]'' miniseries.. The plot does not seem to exist until about two pages before the comic abruptly stops, when the titular 'third dreamer' is revealed. Notable for containing the most strangely rugged Gonterman insert known to date. Who beats Charles Barkley in a one-on-one basketball game and dunks right over his head. Seriously. He also has an [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/puppet_chaos/ALI-AL-GONTERCHEZ.jpg uncanny resemblance]] to Ali Al-Saacchez of Gundam00. Hide your women, lock your doors and get in the Gundam!
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/nitro1.html NiTRO]]''
David Gonterman gets fed up with the [=MSTs=] of his work, creating a reactionary comic in which he [[strike:[[NeverSayDie defeats]]]] brutally kills his most vocal opponents and takes over the Satellite of Love. Also includes a bunny {{Sexbot}} for no real reason but AuthorAppeal. The source of the infamous "Clinton Jobs".
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/RANGERS.TXT The Rangers of NIMH]]''
Medical equipment is being stolen by Nimnul. After meeting up with Johnathan Brisby, the Rescue Rangers go out to stop him. Pretty much the gold standard for both [[RougeAnglesOfSatin blind trust in the spellchecker and absolutely no proofreading whatsoever]], its first sentence reads "The Ranger's where flowing a leaded of break-ins." Usual tripe that wouldn't be too exceptional except for the fact that it created Johnathan Brisby, who became Gonterman's mascot of sorts.
''[[http://www.thoughtviper.com/smmyst/smusaindex.htm Sailor Moon USA]]''
After the US cancellation of ''SailorMoon'', David ends up catching said character after an explosion in Japan launched her across the Pacific. An AdaptationDistillation of ''Sailor Moon: American Kitsune''. Note: link is to a "FanArt" {{MST}}, since the unaltered artwork is generally considered to be lost.
''[[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/sally1.html Sally Protest]]''
A reactionary comic made when he discovered Archie Comics' plan to kill off Sally in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' comic continuity. After assigning his own sense of outrage at the idea to, uh, everyone else in the world, David consoles an outraged Sally, offering a solution.
The above and Gonterman's work in general provide examples of:
* AscendedFanboy: David in ''Sailor Moon USA''.
* AuthorAppeal: Anthropomorphic foxes, robot girls, masks, gothic lolita fashion (namely in the ''Lost Boy Found'' universe) and mind control.
* ConnecticutYankee: The driving point of ''Kitsune .44''.
* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: The opening of ''Kitsune .44''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Davey-Kins thinks [[{{Sonichu}} Christian Weston Chandler]] is a failure.
* KavorkaMan - Unintentionally evoked in pretty much everything he creates.
* RelationshipSue: Pick a female lead. Any female lead.
* MartyStu
* TheMoorcockEffect: It seems that anything written in his post-fanfiction era is linked to another one of his works, which is in turn linked to something else. It's possible that everything he's ever written takes place in the same world, and that the 'remakes' are just glorified, massive retcons.
* NoEnding: He rarely finishes anything, leading to this.
* GodModeSue: Pick a male protagonist. Any male protagonist.
* MegaCrossover: Everything is liable to crossover with everything else.
* OrphanedSeries: Most of them. Only thing that really got finished was ''Lost Boy Found''.
* RobotGirl: Roll-chan in ''[=NiTRO=]'' and Tara Kit in ''Baka Breakers'' and ''Lost Boy Found''. The latter also mentions one named Aline Rabbit who works in Las Vegas's Red Light District.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: ''The Rangers of NIMH''.
* ThirtySuePileup
* UnfortunateImplications: Gonterman's portrayal of women as being {{Living Prop}}s for his self-inserts.
* UnsoundEffect: [[http://www.thoughtviper.com/smmyst/p5.htm DRAMATIC ENTRANCE!!!]] [[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4413.html AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN FIRE!!!]]
* UnusualEuphemism: At the end of ''[=NiTRO=]'', Roll-Chan reveals she gave Gonterman some "Clinton Jobs."
One trope fortunately averted:
* [[{{Rule34}} Rule 34]]: Who knows if someone else made some, but unlike [[{{Sonichu}} Christian Weston Chandler]], Gonterman has never subjected us to "on-screen" sex.
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Websites detailing Gonterman's work:
* [[http://foxfirestudios.net/main.shtml FoxFire Studios]] - The official David Gonterman website. Note how he has the nerve to offer ''autographed copies'' of his "work."
* [[http://daveykinsfoxfire.deviantart.com/ DaveykinsFoxFire on DeviantART]] - The official [=DeviantART=] page maintained by him.
* [[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/ The Gonterman Shrine]] - A website that compiles some of Gonterman's more infamous older works. It hasn't been updated since May 2001, but it feels just as current now as it did back then. Contains the entire published texts of ''Blood and Metal'' and ''Sailor Moon: American Kitsune'', amongst others.
** [[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/phrackin.html This section]] delves deep into Gonterman's psyche, analyzing and exposing his mental and life issues to the entire world.
* [[http://gonterman.kicks-ass.net/ MSTron]] - An MST3k style website that includes ''[=FoxFire=]'', ''Night Soldiers'', ''Baka Breakers'', and ''Planeswalker''.
** [[http://lardpirates.com/chain/4/ The 'Viewtiful Gonterman' chain at Lard Pirates]], which is "picking up where [=MSTron=] left off."
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