A long time ago, there was a race of humans who are able to transform into any living thing. However, this prevented the people from living normal lives, so one man created armbands that locked people into their current form. It only worked when the wearer kept it on at all times.
One girl took that armband off...
Good Morning, Macy! is an animated Fantastic Gender Bender Comedy created by Mikuru Fan.
Macy Fulton, a high school girl is turned into a boy in the night by removing the armband. All questions arise from why Macy changed at all, since removing the armband would default the wearer to their original form.
This work provides examples of:
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council: The Student Council of Aldrin High School can declare paintball wars on other middle schools, supervise and control classes, and get their own cafeteria. It's implied that they also have an underground base.
- Adaptation Distillation: The in-universe adaptation of Frankenstein removes a lot of important scenes from the book.
- Alpha Bitch: Yates downplays this trope.
- Ambiguous Gender: The genders by birth of some of Macy's ancestors have never been stated.
- Artistic License – Physics: The CWA breaks many laws of physics. Lampshaded.
- Attractive Bent-Gender
- Author Appeal: Gender-blending and extensive shots of driving/transportation systems.
- Be Yourself
- Book Ends: The show ends on the same day as the first episode. In the ending, Macy wakes up as a girl, as it should have been. Macy also looks in the mirror as she did when she was turned into a boy.
- Boyish Short Hair: Kim's female form, as the transformation keeps hair length.
- Camera Abuse: Lots in the Frankenstein adaptation. However, it's mainly caused by accidents by an inexperienced camerawoman than a deliberate stylistic choice.
- The Cassandra: Emilio Greenfield is an exaggeration of this. Despite providing numerable and credible evidence that Macy is a girl turned into a boy, no one seems to believe him.
- Cerebus Syndrome: The first season was a fairly episodic fantasy comedy. The second season surrounds the drama and implications of Macy's gender bending.
- Curse Cut Short: Many instances of the self-interruption variant by Macy.
- Decon-Recon Rollercoaster
- Drives Like Crazy: The main reason Kim doesn't have a car.
- Edible Bludgeon: Garlic and maple syrup are the only two items needed to use magic.
- Embarrassing First Name: Averted. Kim does not care about what other people think about his name.
- Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!: Parodied with "Macy and Yates at the Alps? Working Together Has Never Been So Fun! Time for a Snack!" The title has nothing to do with the events in the episode.
- Fantastic Comedy
- First Law of Gender Bending: Inverted. Macy is stuck in her boy form for at least two years. In contrast, Kim can change between his male and female forms at will.
- Gag Series: Most of the first season is fairly comedic, before Cerebus Syndrome kicks in.
- Gender Bender: Macy and his/her father, Kim.
- Genre Savvy: Macy in general, with Kim for gender-bending stories in particular.
- Grand Finale
- Groin Attack: Apparently, Kim thinks that the Buddhist middle way is this. In the first scene and later the third episode, he uses it on a courthouse worker and gets arrested.
- The premise of Men Getting Hit in the Groin revolves around the humour of this.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Kim appears to be this in early episodes, but as Characterization Marches On, his hate for women seems to come from not understanding them.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Kim decides to give up his body to the scientists to save Macy, as he can change at will but Macy can not, and Macy is one of the last people in the world with the ability to change genders.
- Hollywood Law:
Word of God admits that he had no idea how identification and documentation worked when he wrote the first three episodes. - How We Got Here: The show starts off with a piece of a scene from the third episode.
- I Call Him "Mister Happy": If Gabe Fulton asks you if you want to be introduced to Little Stephens, say no!
- Jackass Genie: Wali.
- Just Woke Up That Way
- Large Ham: Wali, the genie.
- Last-Name Basis: Yates is called by her last name.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Macy, as he didn't cut his hair after turning into a boy, and the transformation keeps hair length.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Emilio says this after people finally believed that Macy was a girl, then she was taken away by scientists for research.
- An early joke from the Frankenstein adaptation has Macy say this verbatim.Macy (as Victor): My God, what have I done?Macy: I'm trying to be faithful to the text here!
- An early joke from the Frankenstein adaptation has Macy say this verbatim.
- Pronoun Trouble
- P.O.V. Sequel: Emilio's Truth Club.
- Real Men Hate Sugar: Parodied. To prove his manliness, Macy is asked to destroy a cake. Macy apologizes to himself, then smashes the cake while crying, with the scene portrayed as if Macy was murdering someone.note
- Refuge in AudacityKim: I already stole some of her stuff; I might as well make it obvious!
- Rule of Funny
- Sadist Show: Downplayed.
- Scenery Porn
- Second Law of Gender-Bending: Averted with Macy, who would rather skin his arm than stay as a boy for the rest of high school. Kim prefers being in his normal form as well, though he's more open to changing into his female form.
- Self-Proclaimed Liar: Kim. He's even told that he's lying to his own parents.
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock
- Show Within a Show
- Men Getting Hit in the Groin, an America's Funniest Home Videos-esque clip show about men getting hit in the groin.
- Aldrin High School Presents: Frankenstein: The ModernER Prometheus!
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Macy.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Somewhere in the middle. Finagle's Law is in full effect, though the show also explores positive ideas.
- Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Heavily towards the silliness side.
- Stalker with a Crush: Yates, on Macy.
- Student Council President: Selma Yates.
- Stylistic Suck: The in-universe adaptation of Frankenstein. Sometimes it's faithful, but badly executed, sometimes Artistic License is abused and overused, and sometimes it looks In Name Only, Depending on the Writer.
- They Would Cut You Up: Thanks to Emilio, the world does find out about Macy's gender-bending, and a small group of mad scientists take her away.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: It's a gender-bending comedy. What did you expect?
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Macy is selfish and meddling, and Kim is a thief and a liar. However, they both have plenty of redeeming qualities.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: How gender bending is supposed to work.
- Weirdness Censor: With the exception of Emilio, nobody seems to notice that boy-Macy and girl-Macy are the same person.
- World of Snark
