WMG / Toonstruck

The game

Drew's middle name begins with an A.

Just to make the Punny Name complete.

The game depicts Judge Doom's origin story.

Drew turning into a toon may not have ended well.

Count Nefarious Was Once a Man.

Like Drew, maybe he was a normal human who somehow got stuck in the toon world. Even if he is Ambiguously Human, he does look starkly realistic in comparison to the other toons, and he might have gone through an Evil Makes You Ugly transformation.

• Although might be a jossed idea, because if you look at a picture in Nefarious' study you see a woman that looks like him (which Drew thinks is either a relative or just him in drag). Which could mean he's a born toon.

Drew is introverted, but only around people, not toons.

Considering how overworked Drew is, and considering some of the stereotypes of artists, Drew seems surprisingly amicable with the toon characters he meets. On the other hand, he doesn't like his Mean Boss in the real world. Maybe Drew is reserved around most people, but he loves being an animator so much that, when given the chance to actually talk to toons, he finds it much easier to talk to them.

The mouse in the pub was originally from Zanydu and followed the bartender back to Cutopia.

The bartender mentions how the mouse first appeared after he visited Zanydu for vacation. The mouse has many traits of Zanyian: obnoxious, mischievous, and of course, rude.

Spike the Clown is also from Zanydu, and he was originally a Non-Ironic Clown.

This would make his backstory even crueler. Just imagine being taken from your home, dragged to a dark castle in a hellish landscape, and brutally brainwashed into becoming a monstrous version of your former self.

Bricabrac is an Unwitting Pawn.

The cutscene at the end of Disk 1 makes it ambiguous as to whether or not Bricabrac knows that he's making machines to help a psychopathic manipulator take over the world. Hopefully he is just as unaware of who he's working for as Chipper and Sparky are. He seems so friendly and lovable, so to have him be another Bitch in Sheep's Clothing would be kind of depressing.

Since the game took place in the 90's and zany cartoons were becoming the norm, Flux would have had a chance to shine if Drew looked for work elsewhere and they would have instantly accepted Flux due to him fitting more of the cartoon image of that era.

Only problem is if Drew was under contract and couldn't easily go out and find new work, which is especially why he would be work very hard to please Sam Schmaltz, since he could also have the power to blacklist him from working anywhere else. On the other hand, he could have had another company give him an offer and he'd take it under Schamltz nose until he safely take his notice and finally leave.

Due to being on air since the 80's, The Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show was showing great decline overtime due to the changing tastes of children at the time. As mentioned in the above theory, children were gravitating more towards zany cartoons of the 90's in contrast with the cutesy ones found in the 80's.

Sam Schmaltz of course being oblivious to that fact but still think that Bun Bun could use a revamp to draw in an audience which probably wouldn't have helped her popularity. Even if Drew did what he wanted, he still would blame him for no one getting very interested in the new characters in the revamped show.

Nefarious knows that the Robot Maker is planning on rebelling against him but uses his service to keep an eye out on him and he still thinks he can benefit from his inventions.

As the old saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And as much of a Smug Snake Nefarious can be, he also can be Genre Savvy when he actually pays attention to potential threats. And given he has Miss Fortune helping him scout out future meddlers she probably would have told him about Robot Maker's ambitions. When Robot Maker finally pulls the mask off Nefarious probably plans to finally get rid of him.

Nefarious also suspected that Ms. Fortune might plot against him one day. That's why he had those sunglasses to reflect her hypnosis.

It's good to be prepared in advance for these things.

Sequel guesses

Potential areas to visit in a sequel.

It'd be boring if the second game just revisited the same cute, zany, and evil areas as the first, even if it did bring back the Malevolator and Cutifier (and even make a Zanifier) to play with their identities. The best thing to do would be to introduce new areas of the cartoon world to visit, based on other types of cartoons. How about...

• Anim-edo, the anime land. You might have to fix (or disable) a Humongous Mecha or help out a Magical Girl.
• Gross Point, the Gross-Out Show land. Probably an ally of the Malevolands.
• Monochropolis, the old-timey 1930s cartoon land.
• Actionville, a land based on action cartoons from different eras of animation.
• Cgisle, a land filled with CGI characters which would be a newer formed one due to how CGI became more common after the game premiered.

If the second half of the game was released, then Flux and Drew would have rescued King Hugh.

I think it's obvious that the part about King Hugh being held up somewhere else would have been resolved in the sequel and probably would have been helpful in bringing Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun down.

If the second half of the game was released, then Drew would have decided to stay in the toon world.

He seems more in his element in the Toonstruck world, so it would make more sense for him to stay there instead of being tied to a job that has become a dread to him.

• If that happened, Sam Schmaltz would lose his best animator and would likely scramble to find a new one. This would be either a good dose of karma, or a chance for him to have a Heel Realization and become a better person.

Fluffy would have fought Count Nefarious and won.

There would be an exchange like this:

Nefarious: No... impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could this happen?
Fluffy: You're forgetting something, Nefarious! I'm the star! I'm the hero, and everyone loves me! And you're just a mean, rotten bad guy! When good guys fight bad guys, the good guys always win! Huhuhuhuhuh!

• After this, Nefarious would either die or possibly team up with Drew and Flux to stop Fluffy.

Spike the Clown would have returned and had a bigger role.

This would better explain why he is the game's mascot.

In the end, Fluffy would be Ret-Gone.

Her defeat would somehow erase her from the toon world. (It could possibly involve Drew coming back to the real world and literally erasing her model sheet, or another drawing of her.) Without Fluffy, Sam Schmaltz would face a financial crisis that is not entirely undeserved. Either his company would go down, and Drew would start his own, or Drew would save the company by pitching The Flux Wildly Show.

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