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Bunnykill is a flash series hosted on Newgrounds by Finnish animator Juuso "Mottis" Andelin. The stories follow a white rabbit named Snowball slicing, hacking, slashing, shooting, gunning, and blasting his way through legions of grey bunny Mooks. The main draw of the series is the juxtaposition of cutesy cartoon bunnies getting shot up and sliced into bloody pieces. Mottis was not attempting to tell a "coherent" story with Bunnykill; instead, like The Legend of Zelda franchise, each episode is stand-alone, taking the same characters in multiple directions and in different roles.

The series is commonly described as Madness Combat with bunnies. In terms of animation and choreography, this is a very apt comparison, as admitted by the animator himself. Bunnykill distanced itself quite a bit in the story department from its inspiration, with Madness Combat becoming Darker and Edgier while BunnyKill explored more fantastic settings such as a Star Wars parody and feudal Japan.

Mottis announced on 5/1/13 that he was no longer working on the series, mainly due to the stress of creating episodes by himself, and that he'd be moving on to other endeavors.

A short tribute collab named Bunny Kill: Resurrection was made, you can watch it on Newgrounds.

Characters include:

  • Snowball: A white rabbit who is the main character of the series. He is an assassin who wields a variety of weapons, but seems to favor a katana.
  • Smoke: A black rabbit with sunglasses. He first appeared as the Big Bad of the first episode, was Snowball's employer in the second episode's prologue, appeared in the third episode as a partner to Snowball, and is once again the Big Bad in episode 5.
  • Dust: A brown rabbit with a red mohawk. He appeared as the Big Bad of Bunny Kill 2 and was the final enemy of Bunny Kill 3. In 5, he's the target of a rescue mission until Smoke makes him temporarily Brainwashed and Crazy and he subsequently kills Snowball, and becomes the new protagonist of 5, going on one hell of a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the ones responsible.
  • Professor Sludge: A tan Mad Scientist rabbit with wild Dr. Wily style hair and a scar down one eye. He was the Big Bad of Bunny Kill 3, and appears as Smoke's partner in 5 before being betrayed by Smoke, who leaves him behind to be the first victim of Brainwashed and Crazy Dust.
  • Ruby: A pink rabbit who is currently the only female cast member. She first appeared in Bunny Kill 4 as Snowball's Fire-Forged Friend.
  • Flint: A tan rabbit with Scary Shiny Glasses who doesn't seem to talk much. First appeared in Bunny Kill 4 as that episode's Big Bad, and makes a small cameo in 5 as Snowball's Mission Control and turns out to be the one behind the Psycho Serum experiment who deliberately sent Snowball to his death on the orders of an as-yet-unnamed figure.
  • The Minions: The mooks. They range from standard mooks, to Mecha-Mooks, to Giant Mooks and more, but they rarely last more than a few seconds against Snowball.

Mottis' account at Newgrounds, with the videos, can be found here.


Tropes include:

  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: All the blades. All of them. Every blade appears to be strong and durable enough to block bullets.
  • Alternate Continuity: Each episode takes place in its own continuity.
  • And Now for Someone Completely Different: Dust becomes the protagonist of episode 5 after he's forced to kill Snowball while Brainwashed and Crazy.
    • The fourth movie eschews any of the previously established characters in favor of Snowball and new enemies, making it the only episode without Smoke, and the only episode other than 1 without Dust.
  • Anyone Can Die: Even the protagonist.
  • Art Evolution: The art and animation become smoother with each passing episode.
  • Ax-Crazy: Professor Sludge is pretty much the only character who doesn't like getting his murder on.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: The portable minigun turret in 5.2 takes a long time to set up (with a progress bar even), but if Dust didn't have a riot shield handy he'd be Ludicrous Gibs. Even still, its knockback is enough to keep him pinned until the ammo belt gets jammed due to lack of maintenance.
  • Back-to-Back Badasses: Inverted. In 4, Snowball and Ruby are initially front to front badasses, and later instead decide to flank Flint.
  • Badass Boast: In Episode 5, Dust messages the traitor with a final message of "Shut the fuck up. I'm coming for you next, punk. Expect me."
  • The Berserker: Dust's performance in 5.2 is a marked contrast to Snowball's previous examples; where the white rabbit fights with impeccable skill and speed, Dust starts his episode with a short scream of anguish after being forced to kill Snowball and rampages through the facility after Smoke, using brute force attacks, overwhelming strength, and his katana-shotgun thing to just blow past any defense that the bunnies in his way can muster.
  • Boss-Arena Idiocy: The minigun operators in 5.2, due to Smoke's mistake. He defends himself with a bullet-proof shield while the minigun is setting up, and drops it when he flees into an elevator, allowing Dust to use it in turn to save himself from the first few volleys and shoot one of the minigun crew in the head.
  • Bitter Sweet Ending: The fourth episode. Snowball defeats Flint, but not before Flint kills Ruby. Mottis said she would likely come back if enough people liked her, though.
  • Blade Brake: Done a total of 3 times by Dust in 5.2: once to stop himself from falling off a truck into the street, twice to slow down a car.
  • Bottomless Magazines: Averted with a vengeance - if it needs bullets, it needs reloading. 5.1 even has a moment during Snowball and Dust's fight where both of them run out of ammo for their respective weapons at the same time, and both have to spend a moment rapidly reloading before reengaging each other.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Dust in 5, courtesy of Sludge's Psycho Serum. He snaps out of it only after killing Snowball.
  • Butt-Monkey: Professor Sludge, who goes down like a complete chump in both of his appearances.
  • Chase Fight: The latter half of 5.2, on a highway. And it is awesome.
  • Call-Back: The death of the two ninjas in the fifth episode is the same as in the first: the first is stabbed by his friend, the second gets stabbed with two swords, then lifted bodily up to slide further down.
    • The second ninja uses teleport spam similar to what Smoke used in 1 and what Snowball himself used during his Super Mode in 4. Snowball knows the trick by now and correctly guesses where the next strike will come from.
  • Cool Shades: Smoke is never seen without his blue sunglasses. They're all that's left of him in 5.2 after Dust is done with him, letting off one last shine before getting minced by a helicopter.
  • Cool Sword: Snowball and Dust always get their hands on these: Snowball's trusty katana in 1, 4 and 5, Dust's several katana in 2 (one of which Snowball takes), the lightsabers (including Dust's Double Weapon) in 3), and of course Dust's awesome Swiss-Army Weapon in 5. Smoke, who normally prefers handguns, uses a purple lightsaber in 3, and Flint summons katanas with a thought in 4.
  • Dead Sidekick: If Snowball is partnered up with someone in a Bunnykill flash, chances are they will be dead by the time the flash is over.
    • Smoke is killed by Dust in 3 after a battle reminiscent of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan vs. Darth Maul from The Phantom Menace.
    • Ruby is killed by Flint in 4, taking the shuriken for Snowball and triggering the mother of all Unstoppable Rages in Snowball.
    • 5 looked like it would be going this way too, only for Snowball himself to end up as this for Dust, who recovers from being Brainwashed and Crazy only after killing him.
  • Death is Cheap: Thanks to the Alternate Continuity, characters killed in one episode can come back in another.
  • Decoy Protagonist: Snowball himself in episode 5.
  • Determinator: The robot walker from the third episode that chases Snowball for most of the animation, and Dust throughout the entire second half of 5..
  • Double Weapon: Dust in 3 wields a double-bladed lightsaber reminiscent of Darth Maul. Ruby in 4 wields a double-bladed staff.
  • Driven to Suicide: One mook in 3 who is sleeping on the job wakes up and finds that Snowball has killed everyone he is stationed with. He proceeds to shoot himself.
  • Dual Wielding: Most anyone who uses a melee weapon has a chance of pulling this trope. Snowball in particular is pretty much guaranteed to mow down Mooks faster and take down Elite Mooks in the next few moments once he gets his hands on two katanas.
  • Elite Mooks: The ninjas in 1, agents in 2, the jetpack duo in 3, the red ninjas in 4, and the invisible teleporting bunnies in 5.
    • Every installment after the first has darker grey bunnies that are slightly more competent and better-armed compared to basic Mooks.
  • Exploding Barrels: Prevalent throughout 5 but only utilized on a few occasions.
  • Face Palm: One of the ninja Elite Mooks in 4 does this after giving a katana to a basic mook and sending them to fight Snowball, only for the mook to die after about two seconds.
  • For Science!: Professor Sludge's entire character, according to the credits for 5.2.
  • Flash Step: Various forms of short-range teleportation are used in the fourth installment; Flint even uses the pose of Goku's Instant Transmission. Smoke can also do this in Bunnykill 1, leading to a Teleport Spam move that reduces Snowball to You Can Barely Stand.
  • Fluffy the Terrible: The main character is a One-Man Army named "Snowball."
  • Friend or Foe?: Snowball and Ruby fall into this when they run into each other in Episode 4. As anyone in the Bunnykill world that stands out amongst the endless mooks tends to be a dangerous elite enemycontext  or a boss fight, both of them could be forgiven for immediately attacking each other.
  • Fuuma Shuriken: Lots of them get thrown around in 4. Mainly by Flint, who can pull an infinite supply of them from thin air.
  • Gatling Good: Or not so good, as two mooks find out when they only manage to stall Dust long enough for Smoke to escape to the helicopter on the roof. Smoke would have made a clean escape if the minigun's feeding belt hadn't jammed.
  • Giant Mook: There's a giant bunny in the first episode.
  • Grotesque Cute: The series features adorable anthropomorphic bunnies getting messily butchered.
  • The Guards Must Be Crazy: ZigZagged in 5.1, where some of the mooks do rather stupid things like not sounding an immediate alarm at something suspicious like a grappling hook on the side of the building or gunshots, but others will investigate and move in groups, keep alert upon finding a dead comrade, and are rightfully paranoid when they turn around to see that a comrade who's supposed to be standing there no longer is.
  • The Gunslinger: Smoke, who shows a marked preference for revolvers and guns over melee weapons.
  • The helicopter blades damage several cars and shred the underbelly of a cargo truck without slowing down, constantly chasing the truck through several tunnels without crashing.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: Given a choice between a sword and any other weapon, Snowball will go for the sword.
  • Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: For the most part, actually averted. Almost all the mooks are actually good shots with their weaponry, and Snowball has to keep moving while focusing on Parrying Bullets if he can't dodge. At worst, they shoot where he was a half-second ago.
  • Invisibility Cloak: Used by a pair of Elite Mooks in 5.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: They're the only swords to appear (other than lightsabers in 3). Additionally, Snowball seems to favor katanas more than just about any other weapon.
  • Kick the Dog: Flint in killing Ruby, Snowball's only Love Interest thus far.
    • Smoke gets one in 5 by activating the Psycho Serum injector, turning Dust Brainwashed and Crazy and ultimately leading to Snowball's death. Leaving his own partner to be killed by the aforementioned Dust was also a serious dick move. He's also a colossal dick to his mooks in the second half, deliberately shoving them into the way of his pursuer to save his own hide.
    • Anytime Snowball kills a surrendering or fleeing mook.
  • Mecha-Mooks: Third episode includes robot bunnies among the mooks.
  • Milky White Eyes: Dust sports a pair of white eyes, in marked contrast to all other rabbits having black eyes. In 5, they're a sign that he's Brainwashed and Crazy.
  • Mix-and-Match Weapon: Dust's weapon in 5 is a sword with a gun built in that fires what appears to be high-caliber rifle rounds.
  • Mook Chivalry: For the most part, averted. The vast majority of enemies in the episodes will dogpile on Snowball or his allies with every fighter and weapon they have, and coordinate their attacks with varying degrees of competence or failure.
  • Mook Horror Show: Two examples in Bunnykill 5. In Volume 1, the first two ninjas seem to run the course of a short revenge flick, with one accidentally killing the other thanks to Snowball's dodging, and the dying one passing their sword to the other to give them a better shot. In Volume 2, a SWAT bunny loses an arm and spends the entire next scene trying to stumble away from Dust's rampage, with Minions actively trying to help them get away. Both situations end badly, with the second ninja getting stabbed by Snowball with their ally's sword, and the SWAT Bunny meeting a death by firing squad that'd make Robocop feel lucky, courtesy of Dust using them as a meat shield.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Dust, after killing Snowball in 5.
  • Never Found the Body: The instant the unknown figure in 5.2 gets this from Flint concerning Dust's vehicular death, Genre Savvy kicks in and they immediately command Flint to get the hell out from where they are. Sure enough, Dust shows up the next moment and murders Flint before threatening the one who set up the whole scheme.
  • No Ending: Shortly after announcing the series' cancellation, Motis claimed that he was "never going to continue the story" after Episode 5; the next planned animation — Episode 5.3 — was a prequel, and then Negative Continuity would have taken over as usual for Episode 6.
  • Non-Action Guy: Professor Sludge. Sadly, he's in a World of Badass, so of all the named characters he tends to die the quickest after appearing in person.
  • Not Quite Saved Enough: One mook in episode 5 part 2 who gets his arm ripped off by Dust manages to escape for a few moments while Dust tends to his colleagues. Dust even lets him live once said colleagues are dead. Unfortunately for him, Dust ends up needing to use him as a Bunny Shield.
  • Not the Fall That Kills You…: Dust falls god-knows-how many stories off the roof of a building after missing Smoke's helicopter, and all that happens is he lands on top of a truck, and keeps going. The ending implies he broke several ribs.
  • One-Man Army: Snowball, obviously. The other named rabbits (asides from Dr. Sludge) are guaranteed to be at the same caliber.
  • Playing with Syringes: What Professor Sludge and Smoke were doing to Dust in 5. And the syringe was full of Psycho Serum.
  • Professional Killer: Everybody except Professor Sludge.
  • Reliably Unreliable Guns: A jam in the minigun is what gives Dust the chance to take it out and catch up to Smoke in 5.2.
    • Truth in Television; if a belt-fed gun is crew-operated, it's crew-operated for this very reason. Someone has to make sure the belt doesn't twist and cause a jam.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Following Snowball's death in the climax of the first half of 5, Dust goes on one hell of a rampage in the second half, and kills not only Smoke, but Flint, who it turns out was behind the Psycho Serum thing in the first place and deliberately sent Snowball to his death on the orders of an as-of-yet unnamed figure. And Dust is going after him next!
  • Unstoppable Rage: Snowball unleashes the fury in 4 when Flint crosses the line.
    • As does Dust throughout the second half of 5 in response to Snowball's death.
  • The Voiceless: Everybody. Some get quotes during the credits, though, and Smoke speaks to Snowball with simple pictures in thought balloons.
    • Averted thrice in 5'. During the intro, characters have text dialogue; and at the climax, a character actually gives a voiced scream ( Dust breaking out of the Psycho Serum trance) and in the 2nd half one of the mooks performs the Wilhelm Scream during the highway chase in the finale.
  • Wham Episode: Episode 5 turns the series formula right on its head by having Snowball killed for the first time in the entire series, and subsequently the first episode where Snowball ultimately isn't the main protagonist.
  • White Bunny: The aptly named Snowball.
  • Wilhelm Scream: Let out by a mook during the Chase Fight scene between Dust and Smoke.
  • World of Badass: Professor Sludge is the only character, named or unnamed, who isn't a fighter. And he's a Mad Scientist.

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