Trivia / Mundo Canibal

• Actor Existence Limbo: Due to Phelippe G. Neto's departure after 2012, the Donizildo family stopped appearing forever despite being some of the most popular characters of the series. Mr. Donizildo does have a silent cameo in the 2019 episode "iT Encontra Carlinhos", but even then, it was just recycled from an older animation featuring him.
• Acting for Two: The voice cast was composed entirely just by Rodrigo Piologo, Ricardo Piologo, Phelippe G. Netto and Rogério Vilela (with a few guest voice actors in a handful of episodes). After the discontinuation of Mundo Canibal, the Piologo brothers remained as the only regular voice actors of every character.
• Amateur Cast: As noted above, the voice actors are either the production team or friends of theirs, as it would be too expensive to afford a professional voice actor. The Piologo Brothers say this was a positive factor to contribute to the Stylistic Suck feel of the animations.
• Approval of God: In 2006, the website released an animation introducing the character "Direitêro", an anthropomorphic burger with two right hands; in the end, they explain that the character was actually based on the mascot of a burger restaurant in their town (named "Vail Lanches"), which also was a burger mistakenly drawn with two right hands. The owners of the restaurant not only approved of the animation, they replaced their former mascot with Direitêro.
• Banned Episode: Three animations have been removed from the official channels by YouTube:
  • The original upload of "Natação das Teta" from March 2011 on the Mundo Canibal channel got removed at an unknown point, due to Donizete having one of her nipples exposed, complete with a live-action nipple plastered into a Gross-Up Close-Up. The same animation was later republished in 2018 in the channel "Irmãos Piologo", with the nipple being censored with a red star. That upload, however, was later privated deliberately by the brothers (see Keep Circulating the Tapes and Uncredited Role below for more detail).
  • The old animation "Show de Elézio" was removed from "Mundo Canibal" around 2019 or 2020 for violating one of the policies. Although it wasn't specified what, the animation features a completely naked girl on the audience (although her private parts are censored) and Elézio showing his penis (which is censored by a huge black bar as well).
  • In September 3, 2023, the 2013 animation "Galinha Piroquinha" was banned from the "Irmãos Piologo" channel because of its prominence of sexual content while featuring the presence of children (as it's a parody of children's nursery rhyme cartoons, but with inappropriate content added in). It was the first exclusive animation from that channel to get banned.
• Corpsing:
  • Multiple of Pastor Metralhadora's first solo animations have him make shooting noises several times, then say "Rojão 13 tiros", and the screen then smashes to black as he bursts into laughter.
  • Something similar happens in "Salvando o Ai Para", in the scene where Pastor Metralhadora says the final quote, Rodrigo is clearly trying to hold his laughter and ends up failing.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Some outside sources describe Whatahell as a trans woman, but in reality, he's just an effeminate gay man.
• Channel Hop: Since the website's creation in the 90's, the animations were all posted in the Mundo Canibal website. In 2011, an official YouTube channel was created containing almost all animations created until then. A couple years later, the Mundo Canibal website was discontinued, with the new and remastered animations migrating to the Piologo Brothers' YouTube channel, although the original channel was kept, as well as unofficial uploads (which used to be copyright-striked, but not anymore).
• Creator Backlash:
  • The "Deforméd Baby" segments were discontinued because, even for a dark humor series, the creators thought it was going too far (all the shorts were just Deforméd Baby getting mauled and/or killed for no reason).
  • Rodrigo Piologo, in general, doesn't talk too kindly about his earlier works, due to the lower quality of the art and animation compared to today. When rewatching, in 2021, the animation "Mertrix Recagando" (which was originally made in 2003), he was actually surprised that it was much more well-made than he expected.
• Descended Creator: Rogério Vilela, besides being the co-creator and producer until 2013, also voiced some characters such as Carlinhos, Maloqueiro Popai, Companheiro Pop-Up, and more. Also, in "Família Feliz", Carlinhos' mom is voiced by Marcelo Campos, who was one of the producers of Fábrica de Quadrinhos (the studio which was responsible for producing the website) at the time.
• Creator's Favorite: Rodrigo's favorite character is Carlinhos, while Ricardo's is Chuq Nóia.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: In multiple occasions, the Piologo brothers have stated that Ricardo Piologo's favorite animation is "Prestachion 13", due to its retro-game style, and Rodrigo's favorite is "Bonequicha", due to having been the first one to go viral on the internet.
• Doing It for the Art: According to the Piologo brothers, they spent multiple years producing the animations just for the sake of it, even through their flash animations back then were getting an extremely low number of views. Besides, they actually had another job and, after coming back home, would have a snack and then spend all night producing the animations. It was only around 2004, after "Avaiana de Pau" went viral, that they truly started gaining profit off the website.
• Exiled from Continuity: Characters created by Rogério Vilela, such as Beto o Magnífico, PeFeGos and Maloqueiro Popai, are permanently discarded due to him having no involvement in the current animations anymore. However, they still appear in post-2014 reuploads of older animations featuring them (but their solo episodes are not reuploaded), and Stamp makes a small appearance on a picture frame in a 2016 video-game.
• Inspiration for the Work:
  • Deforméd Baby was created after the Piologo brothers watched Tin Toy and thought the baby looked so awful, he was like a "deformed baby", and thus, the character was created to make fun of him.
  • Tomelirolla was created in inspiration of a friend of the Piologo brothers who would often repeat the phrase "tome-lhe rola" (roughly translated to "take this dick"). They note that said friend has no physical resemblance to Tomelirolla whatsoever at all, and only his phrase was incorporated as the character's name and catchphrase.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • After the old animations had their audio remastered to replace copyrighted songs, their original versions remained available only through unofficial video uploads. However, the original versions of "Aparição de Toalete Girl" and "Bushit Contra Ataca" (with the original music) and the war-tank choice of "Casa Nova" are lost forever, as they are not available anywhere on the internet.
  • As of 2023, almost all episodes featuring Sr. Donizildo, Donizete, Whatahell or any other characters voiced by Phelippe G. Neto were removed from the Piologo Brothers' official channel and are only available in unofficial uploads now; some of their remastered versions are now lost as well (including the 2018 remasters of "Produtos Podre Shop" and "Juão Rombu no Supermercado"; the 2019 remasters of "Pequeno Delito" and "Chuq Norris"; and the 2020 remaster of "Cotoco"). However, episodes where Phelippe's character played a minor role still remained.
  • Similarly to the above, Rogério Vilela also published a HD upload of "Maloqueiro Pô Pai" in October 2014, on his official channel. Some years later, he privated many videos of his channel, including this one, and there is no other trace of the HD version anywhere else on the internet now.
  • In 2009, "Avaiana de Pau" received a fully remastered version, which led to its original 2004 version being taken off the website. Reuploads on other parts of the internet (both video recordings and reposts of the Flash file) still remained, though.
  • While the Mundo Canibal channel, made in 2011, published most of the existing animations, the pre-2006 ones were only the remastered versions made for the first and second DVD (the latter of which was never released). Some animations/videos there did not have a finished DVD version and thus, were never published on there, being available only in unofficial reuploads. In 2023, the old Mundo Canibal channel was purged, which resulted on many other videos becoming this as well due to never being published on the Piologo Brothers' new channel.
  • Strangely, none of the PêFêGôs' animations were ever posted on the Mundo Canibal channel; neither the three included on the first DVD, nor the rest which were going to be on the second DVD. This resulted on the remaining animations' remasters being completely lost media now, if they were ever made on the first place.
• Meaningful Release Date: The 2011 animation "As Aventuras de Osama no Fundo do Mar" (originally made as a satire of Osama Bin Laden's then-recent death) was republished and remastered on the Piologo Brothers' new channel in September 2021, both 10 years after the original release date, and 20 years after 9/11 including the month.
• Uncredited Role: In 2020, Phelippe G. Neto requested for his name to be censored from all animations he participated in (only in the Piologo Brothers' current channel; in the old channel, his name was intact), with it being blurred from the pre-existing videos and completely removed from the subsequent videos. This was done after the Piologo Brothers and Rogério Vilela got sued because of the 2012 animation "Whatahell Prostituto", starring Phelippe in the lead roles as Mr. Donizildo and Whatahell, due to prominent homophobic and transphobic scenes. Although Phelippe wasn't involved, he was scared that it could affect him, since he had left the team long since and was focusing on his family and personal life, not wanting any of that to interfere on his current life. In April 2023, both the old and new channels got every video starring Phelippe privated, although there wasn't any apparent scandal involving them in this case, and episodes where he has a minor role remained.
• Unfinished Episode:
  • There was a planned CGI animation starring Boby Psicótico and Gayzinho in 2007, which was part 2D and part 3D, and was meant to appear in the cancelled second DVD. Everything had already been modeled and animated, with the only thing missing being the final render. However, the original animator suddenly vanished, so three years later, a new animator was hired for the project; she took a more cartoonish take on her Boby model, unlike the first version which was more realistic. However, nothing else was said about the project since then and it was quietly cancelled. Carlinhos also was going to have a 3D animation, but nothing was shown other than his model.
  • In 2020, an animation called "Homossexuclóvis" was produced, whose plot involved a fashion show featuring multiple different kinds of homosexual people. The episode was completed but never released due to being potentially very polemic, although the character still appears on promotional images featuring all the characters.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: Boby Psicótico was redesigned in 2020, with a smoother, rounder appearance. The Piologo brothers stated they find the new version to be much superior, as the former design was too ugly and unprofessional-looking. In spite of this, most fans prefer Boby's former design.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: An impromptu variation. In 2020, the Piologo Brothers were doing a livestream producing the animation "Lulinha, o Boneco Inocente", a political satire animation about a toy of Brazilian politician Lula (and president from 2003-2010 and since 2023). At one point, there was a scene where the Lula toy cut off his owner's pinky finger using a cleaver, stealing it to himself and lying that he didn't steal anything. One person on the live chat suggested that it would be funnier with a sickle instead of a cleaver, since the former is a part of the communist symbol (as an allusion to Lula being a left-wing politician). After reading this comment, the Piologo brothers actually liked the idea and, right there, replaced the weapon while showcasing the process live: as he always does, Rodrigo drew the sickle on paper, doing it over the original drawing; then exported it to the computer, and afterwards Ricardo colored the sickle and added it to the scene, replacing the cleaver. What made it easier is that the weapon is seen being held by the Lula toy for a few seconds, but it cuts his owner's finger off-screen, so it was only necessary to change one drawing.
• Orphaned Reference: The updated credits of "Homem Dúvida" feature the episode's name written backwards, along with the phrase "put a mirror in front of your TV to discover what it spells". It apparently makes no sense to say "TV" instead of "computer", since it is an internet animation - however, the episode was featured in the first DVD, hence why that phrase is there. The same phrase was kept in the website version, however, where it does not really make sense.
• The Other Darrin:
• Phelippe G. Neto, the iconic voice actor from the website, left in mid-2009 which led to inconsistencies and alterations on his characters' voices.

  • Starting in 2009, Sr. Donizildo started making a few small cameos with Ricardo Piologo's voice, with Donizete and Whatahell being voiced by Rodrigo Piologo. Phelippe eventually returned in 2011 and 2012 to voice them in two more animations, "Sr. Donizildo e a Sacola Ecológica" and "Whatahell Prostituto", but left permanently afterwards, which caused the characters to be retired due to being too associated with him.
  • Boby Psicótico was voiced by Phelippe G. Neto since his introduction until "Black Teletubi" in 2008. After more than two years being Out of Focus, he returned in October 2010 with "Boby Psicótico e a Banda Gaystart", now voiced by Rodrigo Piologo.
  • Similarly, Tomelirolla was introduced in 2007 with Phelippe G. Neto's voice, but it only lasted a while; Phelippe's last speaking role as Tomelirolla was in "Tomelirolla in Heternia", from February 2009. Later in the same year, Tomelirolla started being permanently voiced by Rodrigo Piologo instead.
  • Cotoco only appeared with Phelippe's voice twice: one in his debut "Cotoco" and one in "Tomelirolla in Heternia". Interestingly, he's voiced by Rodrigo Piologo in 2009's "Cotoco Aprontando Peripécias", however Phelippe still participates in that animation in the role of Sr. Donizildo. From "Discovery Cotoco Channel" onwards, he was permanently recast to be voiced by Ricardo Piologo. The same happened with his devil sidekick Papai Legal, who was voiced by Phelippe in the introductory animation and then by Ricardo in every subsequent appearance.

  • Carlinhos was voiced by the co-creator Rogério Vilela since the beggining until 2012. After being absent for several years, with Rogério's departure from the Piologos happening between that time frame, Carlinhos returned in 2019 being now voiced by Ricardo Piologo. Afterwards, he reappeared being voiced by Rodrigo Piologo in a 2022 short.
• Prop Recycling: Besides reusing elements and assets from earlier animations on later ones, the Piologo Brothers also reutilize various elements for the animated videoclips they produce for the child-friendly channel Gabriel Beleléu, usually backgrounds, textures and effects.
• The Pete Best: Until mid-2002, the animations' credits featured the names of Marcelo Campos, Octávio Carrielo and Eduardo Schaal, which were partners of Fábrica de Quadrinhos until the former two left in a split-up of the studio. Eduardo's last credit was in "O Herói do Dia" in 2004, with the next animation after it being "Avaiana de Pau" which, needless to say, was what made the site big.
• Playing Against Type: Within the series itself. Ricardo Piologo mostly voices more effeminate characters, females, and most child characters, due to his voice being naturally higher-pitched than Rodrigo's. However, he also voices Chuq Nóia, who's the embodiment of Testosterone Poisoning.
• Schedule Slip: Until 2012, the website released, on average, one animation per month (with, on occasion, some months having two and other having none). Since 2013, after the move to the "Irmãos Piologo" channel, they started publishing only sporadically. In 2017 and 2018, there were only one and two new animations published respectively, with all the others being just remastered reuploads of older animations.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: While most animations are released a just few weeks or months after their production starts, some of them can take several years to be finished. For example, "Hello Crente" was created in October 2012 when the Mundo Canibal website was still online, but it was only released in November 2018, six years later, as an independent animation instead.
• Sleeper Hit: The Mundo Canibal website existed in obscurity for almost a whole decade. Then came two animations in 2003 and 2004 - "Bonequicha" and "Avaiana de Pau" - which turned into an instant hit in Brazil, with thousands of people sharing the videos through their cellphones and by e-mail (back then, there weren't any major video websites). This, in turn, caused the site as a whole to become much more popular.
• Troubled Production: The second DVD. While the first one only took one year to be produced and was released in late 2006, the second one went through multiple years of Development Hell and ended up being quietly cancelled.
• Vaporware: The second DVD, as noted above. Its cancellation was never announced, but no news were said about it since 2009.
• Write What You Know:
  • In the end of "O Troco", Mr. Donizildo angrily tells his daughter "Congrats! You shoved my weekend up your ass!". This phrase was originally said by his voice actor Phelippe G. Neto in real life, after he and his friends had drunk the entire day and he got angry for wasting the weekend drunk.
  • The phrase "Coisa linda de Deus" ("Beautiful thing from God") is used to describe the Wooden Avaiana Flip Flops by one father in the first animation. This was based on a friend of the Piologo brothers (who has no involvement with Mundo Canibal) saying "Teta é coisa linda de Deus" ("Tits are a beautiful thing from God").
• Write Who You Know: Several characters were based on people the crew knew.
  • Donizete's trademark screechy, annoying, high-pitched voice was based on a girl the Piologo Brothers and Phelippe knew. However, unlike Donizete, she was actually a pretty girl and didn't really speak loudly.
  • Mr. Donizildo was inspired on Phelippe G. Neto's dad; like the character, he was very ignorant, angry, yelled a lot, and was mean to his child for no reason whatsoever.
  • Boby Psicótico's voice came from Phelippe doing an impression of a voice mail made by his brother-in-law with a scary voice, saying "You called the right place, but at the wrong time!"
• What Could Have Been:
  • The idea for "Avaiana de Pau" was originally conceived from the desire of making an animation where the main "character" was an inanimate object, not a person. The initial idea was for it to be just a regular wooden plank, which kids would use to hit each other with, but then was changed for a wooden flip-flop to make it more relatable (as back then ^note  and to this day , most Brazilian kids were spanked by their parents with flip-flops as punishment for misbehavior).
  • After the first DVD was released in 2006, there was a second DVD planned for release in 2008, which was in advanced stage of production and was going to contain every single other animation that was absent in the first volume. Due to lack of time, the release was postponed to 2009 and then 2010, but ultimately it was never released. The episode of Mr. Donizildo at Whatahell's English class was originally made as a DVD exclusive, but since it was taking too long, the episode was released regularly in the official website instead.
  • In a 2014 event, the Piologo Brothers announced that several animations would be getting a "10 years later" sequel - Avaiana de Pau, showing what happened to the kids seen in the short; Bonequicha, showing the little girl now grown-up with her Bonequicha doll forgotten, until it comes back for revenge; Boby Psicótico and Gayzinho as adults; and Carlinhos twenty years later, as an obese man. Ultimately, only the "Avaiana de Pau" sequel ended up being produced, while both Boby Psicótico and Carlinhos staying the same age.
  • In the same event mentioned above, a sneak peek of the episode "Boby Psicótico & Drogy Guaraná was shown, revealing several drawings in the Flash file, one of which featured Maloqueiro Pô Pai sitting on Drogy's neck. By the time the episode was released in March 2015, the Piologo Brothers had already parted ways with Rogério Vilela, who created the character and thus, they couldn't use him in the episode anymore. In the final version, the brothers' own original character, Capitão Crack-Verna, is featured in the scene instead (which also became an Early-Bird Cameo, as his solo cartoon only came out in March 2016, one year later).
  • Maloqueiro Pô Pai was originally planned to be voiced by professional voice actor Nizo Neto; however, his network did not allow it and the character was voiced by Rogério Vilela himself instead. Had he voiced the character, he would have been the only professional voice actor in the whole series.
  • During the initial development for "Boby Psicótico na Feira de Anime", the Piologo Brothers were unsure if the main character visiting the anime fair would be Boby Psicótico or Pastor Metralhadora. Ultimately, Boby became the protagonist, with Pastor Metralhadora showing up at the climax to punish him. During most of the episode, Boby literally believes that he ended up in Hell instead of just an Anime Fair, which is likely a remnant of the previous concept.
  • According to the storyboard of "Avaiana de Pau 2", the Corinthians kid would have originally had a different future; it appears that he would have been arrested and, after watching Corinthians lose on TV, he blamed the other inmates for the team's loss (just like his dad used to blame him) and hit them with his Wooden Avaiana Flip Flops. In the alternate ending that eventually got used is a different; he watches the loss on a building's rooftop, jumps off of it, but ends up landing on a bus full of Corinthians players, making the bus burn, the players die and him get hospitalized. His grown-up design in the first version was different as well, having a mustache instead of a stubble.
  • In "Hello Crente", there is a scene where Elézio shows his penis has the head of Brazilian president Lula, wearing a prison shirt and cap (a reference to the real one having been arrested), and he says "I am arrested, you jerk!" This is a reference to a line said by a Brazilian politician about Lula (in the third person) which happened in October 2018, only one month before the animation was posted. Given the episode had been in planning since 2012, the change was obviously made at the last minute and, for most of its production, Elézio's penis had something else (given that, a few seconds before, Pastor Metralhadora says a joke proverb about "cereal-balls growing in the tip of one's penis", it's likely that it would just have several pores in it instead).
  • In "Zueira Júnior e o Maloqueiro Fantasma", Maloqueiro Fantasma was going to be black, but he was changed to white because the Piologo brothers thought someone would probably associate his skin color with the fact he's a stoner, as well as because they had already gotten recently sued for other, older animations. Similarly, Biciclayton from the eponymous 2021 animation was also originally conceived as a black kid, but ultimately became a blonde white boy to avoid possible criticism due to the character being The Chew Toy throughout the entire cartoon.

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