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I might be a cynical thickhead with a complete lack of empathy for my fellow man, but at least I admit that I'm a cynical thickhead with a complete lack of empathy for my fellow man.
Kenny, summing up himself
Should be KennyMan666, without the spaces, but this wiki software is balls.
25-year-old troper who hails from the frigid northlands, because one troper always hails from the frigid northlands. Half Kenny, half Man, half 666.
Writer and general website manager of Next Era, which can be found here .
Has a very sporadically active blog about shmups, called Just One Credit.
Pages created:
Working on the Swedish page translation.
Things I enjoy:
Tropes that apply:
- Author Appeal: I tend to make my characters, especially the females, gay or bisexual for... some reason.
- Badass Longcoat: Two of them. The first being explicitly an Ouendan longcoat (made by my mother, no less), originally worn when cosplaying Doumeki Kai in a group cosplay. Ignore the guy in orange. The second one being more suited for use when it's cold outside, and higher quality in general.
- Butt Monkey/Cosmic Plaything: A two-year period kicked off by a burglarized apartment was a complete disaster.
- Crowning Moment of Awesome by way of Crowning Music of Awesome: Judging by the reaction to it, the song Farväl Konvent (Farewell Convention), Swedish lyrics to the song Yasashii Uta by J-Rock band MUCC about that another con has passed and we'll meet again another time, sung at the closing of Animecka-con, was this. We got the grandest round of applause on the con, and one of the grandest rounds of applause I've heard at any con. Which is extra impressive, considering it was a small con, and the audience can't have been over fifty people. I think even fifty is pushing it.
- Also, reactions to my Swedish adaptation of Marukaite Chikyuu have nudged it in this direction too - people who aren't me have joked that it's Sweden's new national anthem.
- Also also, any time me and a friend of mine sings Anything You Can Do in front of a crowd. A crowning moment within the crowning moment is that she can reliably hold the tone for seventeen seconds (look it up).
- Deadpan Snarker: I try.
- Dethroning Moment of Suck: While it WAS only indirect - all I had done was invite the girl and her then-fiancé to my birthday party, which meant she met my brother - me having a hand in breaking up an engaged couple was not exactly one of my proudest moments. They didn't last, either, which made it into an even larger Wall Banger for me. I quickly decided to stay the hell out of the whole thing after I realized what had happened.
- Four Temperament Ensemble: Going by this, I'm the Melancholic (almost everything listed there is spot on), and there's a clear Phlegmatic (who also fits Supine in the five temperament version). The Choleric says she only seems to be that way, which is good enough for me to label her one. And finally, the Sanguine has all of the positive traits listed... but the negative ones apply to me instead of her. I can't win.
- I Keep Using That Word: Very mild case here, since I only do it when talking to myself, but I use the word "cycle" for two different things and neither of them is correct use of the word.
- Jerkass: I seem like a nice guy until you get to know me.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: I have one friend in particular that I constantly make fun of, and if I get the slightest opportunity to riff on him, I take it. However, I make it no secret that I see him as one of my closest friends, and I've repeatedly told him that if he ever wants to talk, I'll listen. Specifically, one time when I saw him being depressed, I told him that I wouldn't ask, but if he wanted to get it off his chest, I'd listen. I managed to get him to be apathic rather than depressed... so I literally pulled him down to the basement where the karaoke was set up.
- Lyrical Shoehorn: I write Swedish lyrics to songs, mostly for tracks that are originally Japanese, which are either just translations or parody lyrics. I find myself having to resort to this a lot for both kinds.
- Only Sane Man: "I'm surrounded by morons!" is something I find myself saying all to often.
- Speedrun: I'm a speedrunner. Ufouria and Umihara Kawase are my primary running games, and is also running obscure Japanese doujin Duo Princess.
- The Faceless: I turned into this on my online Japanese lectures, as I have no webcam for my desktop and doing it on the netbook (with built-in camera) made a lot of text too small to read. Thus, I did it via the desktop, and the others could hear me perfectly but obviously couldn't see me. The next semester I got into the class with actual lectures in classrooms, thus ending this trope for me. Happened again on another online class.
- Theme Naming: I like doing this, especially when it comes to electronic equipment. As such, my desktop is named Iserlohn, with the HDDs/partitions Yang Wenli, Reinhard von Lohengramm and Oskar von Reuenthal. My laptop is named Chaos which doesn't tie into anything, but the hard drive is partitioned into 666 and Shiva. My USB sticks are named after True Final Bosses in Cave games, specifically Hibachi and Evaccania DOOM (shortened to Evac DOOM because the full thing wouldn't fit). And while my handhelds aren't named as such, they still follow a theme via the keyrings that have been put on them: small Totoro on the cell phone, middle Totoro on the Nintendo DS and big Totoro on the PSP.
- The Lancer: I'm never the successful guy. Also plays this entirely straight in the Five-Man Band known as Studio Daikon, actively being a contrast to The Hero guy.
- The Smart Guy, too: For the Five-Man Band making up the website crew.
- Sunglasses at Night: My eyes have grown accustomed to fairly low light, so I often wear sunglasses when normal people wouldn't need them. Has done it literally at least once.
- TVTropes Has Ruined My Life
- Unacceptable Targets: While I normally enjoy and often even encourage porn of comics, shows and games I enjoy, I have a few holy grails. Namely, Yotsuba&! and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I don't mind Donald Duck porn (and will admit to having a strange... not like as much as a peculiar fascination of works of a particular artist, that aren't even that good), but will not accept Scrooge partaking in it. Loco Roco would be listed, if it weren't for the fact that porn of that is altogether beyond the appliances of art (though I have now seen Patapon rule 34... it's creeping closer).
- Walking Shirtless Scene: While I might not quite have the physique to pull off a straight example, on a convention I was to in early 2011, I went for the extra manly outfit of an unbuttoned gakuran, sarashi, black pants, getas and a white headband with karaoke written in katakana on it. And of course, no shirt.
- You Make Me Sic: My brother is the cause of it. My brother is seven years older than me.
From square one, creativity has always been a primary thing. This led to creations, most of them from early school time, most of them done in school together with friends. The... well... "notable" ones were the Alien Saga (following the three friends Brother Square, Brother Triangle and Brother Round on their... "adventures" in space) and the Piranha Saga (following two Piranha friends on their... adventures underwater). Sagas not related, they were illustrated stories. Then there was what for a lack of better title shall be known as the K Saga, as both main characters in that held the initials K.K. It was planned to be large but never got anywhere. A started project, with large plans but that never really led anywhere was a magazine. Only a few pages were created.
Then there were all the imaginary video games he created in pictures and text, including:
Samples of a few of the above creations, with commentary, can be found here and here.
Additionally, there was Behemoth III...
Tropes that apply to works of Kenny's past:
- Aborted Arc: The final pages ever produced for the Alien Saga seemed to be introducing a new plot, but the story was never finished and thus it never became known what the Melnorme had to do with the Mycon.
- Art Shift: The K Saga was drawn by two people. It showed.
- BFG: In Quake X. Called "The Absolute Murder Weapon". Required three different kinds of ammo to fire. A design that makes no sense. Definitely made things die.
- Cool Ship: The towering (literally TOWERING) spaceship of the main characters in the Alien Saga was a sight to behold. Probably equipped with antigravity engines, as it had no thrusters or anything else at all.
- Cosmic Retcon: The ending of Mega Man & Proto Man V was this, reverting back to even before the first game, but with all characters present, and Light and Wily being friends. It was pretty terribly executed and written like a train wreck.
- Did Not Do the Research: EGADS. For starters, Shub Niggurath is not a person. Shaped. Thing.
- Game Breaker: Zap Cold in Mega Man 64, which was a freezing effect, worked on almost any enemy, several bosses were affected and it was possible to switch weapons with the effect active.
- Hijacked by Ganon: In Mega Man Pocket 2, the villain was supposedly a Dr. Khan. Guess how that turned out.
- Mega Man & Proto Man did it, too. In the second game, it was "Skull Master". In the fourth game, Wily actually died in the opening cutscene, but still managed to pull it off - his brain was the final boss. This was due to aliens. The fifth game was, out of nowhere, hijacked by Sigma.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Some robot masters went on to become real. Mega Man Pocket had Oil Man, but this one was spitting oil and lighting it on fire. Pocket 2 had Sword Man, and 64 had Shark Man. Even better, Roll becoming a playable character in Mega Man Powered Up, being a close combat character to boot!
- Jumped the Shark: If it didn't happen before, then the final Mega Man & Proto Man game definitely did this, by introducing Roll and King as playable characters, as well as Sigma as the Big Bad.
- The Alien Saga most likely jumped the shark when the first of the two other main characters was introduced. His name does not translate well, but he was a diamond shape. And if not then, then the moment was with no doubt when the second extra character, shaped like (and implied to be) a cloud, was introduced.
- Lost Forever: Sadly, none of the Sagas remain these days. The Alien and Piranha Sagas being most likely lost to history is extra sad, as those were the good ones.
- Magic A is Magic A: When aforementioned Cool Ship had been drawn, we realized a scale problem - the ladder and door to the ship was MUCH smaller than the characters. The solution? From the ship's chimney (yes, it has one), a stream of yellow asterisks rained down on the characters, shrinking them so they could enter (and presumably enlarging them when they got out). Later, these same asterisks were used by a hotel on a different planet (and it was never stated that they originated from the planet the story started on), which was similarily too small.
- Name's the Same: Both the Alien and Piranha Saga were joint efforts, made by Kenny and one other person. Both of them were named Markus.
- Old Shame: Oh god, Behemoth III. Kenny's first dive into fanfiction. Terrible, terrible Star Wars fic. Never released anywhere.
- Recurring Boss: No fewer than four different versions of a creature called "Ga Don" appeared in Dr. Wily's Castle in Mega Man Pocket. They were, however, meant to be four different creatures.
- Retcon: In the original run of the Alien Saga, two more characters were introduced to the main trio of friends. The final chapter of that run, essentially a bonus chapter, involved one of them going to his home planet and one of the original characters also moving there. When Kenny revived the Alien Saga on his own later, the two extra characters were nowhere to be seen, and no mention was made of them or the planet move. Due to the original story not having any timeline or backstory, for that matter, it IS possible that the revival was a prequel, but...
- Also, the imaginary Quake II becoming Quake X when the real Quake 2 was released. And Ultra Death being retooled into an add-on/mod for Quake X rather than its own game.
- Shout Out: Even back then, Kenny was a huge Star Control fanboy. The final pages made of the Alien Saga namedropped and pictured several Star Control aliens, with some deviation from canon, but the Piranha Saga in particular was MADE of it. The two piranhas were even named Zoqfot and Pik, and what became the main antagonist was a giant octopus named Kohr-Ah. One page seemed to exist for no other reason, it was filled with Star Control aliens reimagined in fish form. Yes, there was a Chmrr fish with three smaller fish circling it.
- Starfish Aliens: The three Aliens were literally a red square, a blue triangle and a yellow circle. With faces, arms and legs. When the Star Control aliens started appearing, most of them were also talking Starfish Language. Interestingly, the species created in the image of another didn't speak the same language as their creators.
- Tear Jerker: Bass' death scene when playing as Mega Man in Mega Man & Proto Man 2 was sort of touching.
- Throw It In: Brother Round ended up having hands that looked more like wings, due to it happening by mistake in the first drawing of the characters. We decided to keep it, as it looked pretty good. A later introduced character got the same kind of hands.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Mega Man 64 had, of course, eight new robot masters. One of them was Nazi Man, who threw swastika shuriken. Perhaps also qualifies as Stupid Jetpack Hitler.
- Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: The CONGRATULATIONS messages supposed to come after episodes in Quake X needs to be seen to be believed. It approaches the levels of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences at times. This has a lot to with that it's essentially a "Blind Idiot" Translation from Swedish to English. A snippet from the endgame text:
Then you killed the Minotaur have you walk through 8 episodes of Quake to find the seven runes of earth magic.
- Also, the episode five ending text is bad even by THESE standards:
You take Ultra Grenaders life and rune then the big tank was exploded. You grip the fifth rune. 2 runes each... then game Quake!
Kenny is now considering reviving and retooling the Alien and Piranha Sagas as hand-drawn webcomic-like things, with deliberately semi-shitty art (alright, alright, it's because Kenny can't draw by hand for shit). It would follow the same format as it did in the past, with pages where the top half consisted of a picture and the lower half of a few lines of text. The K Saga, however, is best left dead.
It would probably also be done in Swedish, due to tradition, but a translation could be provided...
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