News reporter: Countries all over the world ordered nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 outbreak. The cities are filled with coronavirus, terrorizing the streets to infect everyone on their way. Businesses have been shut down. People are staying at home, waiting hopelessly for a solution. The world wants to return to their normal lives quickly...but how realistic is it?
(TV turns off)
Nick Fury: It is goddamn realistic.
Heroes United: Coronavirus is an animated video created by Turkish YouTuber, Mightyraccoon!
(Saruhan Saral), and was uploaded to YouTube on April 10, 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic has left nearly all of planet Earth overrun with monsters carrying the coronavirus. Nick Fury enlists the help of various heroes to combat the virus and cure the entire planet.
The video can be watched here.
Characters Featured
- The DCU: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman
- Dragon Ball: Son Goku
- Grand Theft Auto: Carl "CJ" Johnson
- The Incredibles: Mr. Incredible
- John Wick: John Wick
- Marvel Universe: Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Deadpool, Wolverine
- One-Punch Man: Saitama and Genos
- Rick and Morty: Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith
- Scooby-Doo: Shaggy Rogers
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic The Hedgehog
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leonardo
- Terminator: The Terminator (T-800)
- WWE: John Cena
Tropes present in this video:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Batman and Superman can be seen smirking after Rick shuts up Iron Man for chiding him for being late.
- Adaptational Badass: Due to his status as a
Memetic Badass, Shaggy is portrayed as a powerful being that can shoots lasers out of his fists. - Alien Blood: The coronavirus monsters appear to bleed green.
- Art Shift: On several instances, Saitama (and in one instance, Genos) shift from being 3D models to being 2D like in their source material.
- As You Know: Rick gives exposition to the heroes on the situation and explains the plan on how to stop COVID-19.Rick: For those of you with shit geography knowledge, we have seven continents in the world.Morty: Oh, Christ!Rick: Six of them are infected from COVID-19.Morty: O-oh, my God...Rick: We will split into six different groups. I'll give the groups the cure that I've developed to clear these continents. Just find a high point in those places. When I give you the mark, shoot the cure to the sky with these guns. You'll have to shoot it at the same time. Got it, morons?Superman: Why at the same time?Rick: They will have to link to each other in the atmosphere.
- Badass Normal: John Cena, John Wick, Captain America, Iron Man, Batman, Leonardo, and CJ have no super powers, but are just as capable of fighting coronavirus monsters.
- Balloon Belly: After wiping out the virus, Saitama is later seen sleeping after eating udon noodles, and has a noticeable gut.
- Big "OMG!": Deadpool lets out one while he guns down several monsters.
- Big "SHUT UP!": By Saitama (in Japanese) to Genos.Genos: MASTER! LEAVE THEM TO ME!Saitama: SHUT UP!
- The Cameo:
- Nick Fury is seen at the beginning of the video calling Rick.
- An audio-only example but Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler can be heard as John Cena attacks a coronavirus monster with the Attitude Adjustment and STF.
- Big Smoke appears when he activates a cheat that enables CJ to perform a mega jump.
- Content Warnings: The video opens with one."WARNING: This film contains violence, blood, bad language and scenes that some viewers might find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised."
- Covered in Gunge: While speeding through New York City, The Flash's suit gets covered in the virus. Fortunately, Sonic manages to disinfect him.The Flash: (looking at his contaminated suit): Look at my suit!Sonic: (holding a bottle of sanitizer) We don't want to get you infected, right?(Sonic circles Flash, sanitizing his suit in the process)The Flash: Wow, thanks.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: Mr. Incredible and John Wick get infected with the virus. Deadpool gets gassed by a monster, but doesn't get infected due to his healing factor.
- Fake Shemp: Although most characters do have voice acting in the video, several characters note exclusively "speak" through sound clips lifted straight from their source material. This is especially the case for Saitama and Genos, who speak exclusively in Japanese.
- While mostly played straight for Deadpool, Nik Zutshi does voice Deadpool for a single line after getting "infected" by a monster.
Aquaman: You good?Deadpool: They can't get me infected, so...(pulls out a pistol and shoots an incoming monster in the head) Boom. - In a Single Bound: CJ performs a Mega Jump after he calls Smoke to activate the cheat code.
- Kamehame Hadoken: Goku, of course, utilizes this against one of the monsters.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: The various heroes are split into six groups for each continent infected.
- North America: Iron Man, Sonic, The Flash and CJ.
- South America: The Terminator, Thor, John Wick, and Shaggy.
- Australia: Superman, Hulk, Leonardo, and Mr. Incredible.
- Asia: Saitama and Genos.
- Africa: Goku, Captain America, Batman, Wolverine, and John Cena.
- Europe: Deadpool, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Pretty much the whole premise of the video. Heroes from many forms of media unite to fight a deadly pandemic.
- The Nicknamer: Iron Man, naturally. His nicknames include Bald Guy (Saitama), Fake Iron Man (Genos), Robert Pattinson (Batman), The Witcher (Superman), Professor and the Kid (Rick and Morty).
- One-Hit Kill: As to be expected from Saitama. He delivers a single punch that manages to cure Asia of the virus... but not without wrecking the city they're in.Saitama: (walking away) I'm starving. Time for lunch. Let's grab some udon noodles.[beat]Genos: Okay.
- Perpetual Smiler: Possibly due to the limitations of the model, Shaggy's face is locked into a cocky smile.
- The Plague: The titular virus, and the whole premise of the video is dedicated to stopping it.
- Precision F-Strike: The first thing that comes out of CJ's mouth after he's sent by Rick to appease a complaining Iron Man, marking this the only F-bomb in the video.CJ: Shut the fuck up!
- Shout-Out: During the roll call, Iron Man calls Batman and Superman respectively, "Robert Pattinson"note and "The Witcher."note
- Sixth Ranger: When Rick summons Thor in response to Cap's remark about him being somewhere in the galaxy, Rick summons more heroes at Iron Man's request.Iron Man: Hey, if you can bring him, why didn't you bring more people to help us?Rick:...Okay?(Cue Rick summoning Terminator, Wolverine, Mr. Incredible, Leonardo, The Flash and Shaggy)
- CJ is this to the group in North America after Iron Man complains about his group only having three people where others have at least four. (Apparently forgetting that Rick only sent two people to Asia.)
Iron Man: Hey, where's my other guy?Rick: There's no other guy! It's just you, the Flash, and Sonic!Iron Man: No! Seriously?! Why are the other groups having at least four superheroes, and we got three? This is totally unfair!(Rick presses a button, causing CJ to appear in front of Iron Man)CJ: Shut the fuck up![beat]Iron Man: Who the hell are you? - Take That!: Spider-Man asks Batman and Superman (who are sporting their DCEU designs in this video) if they had quit their roles, referencing Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill stepping down from their roles as the characters.Spider-Man: Wait, didn't you guys just quit your roles?Batman: Shut up.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Deadpool expresses this several times throughout the video.
- The Voiceless: Terminator, John Wick, Shaggy, Leonardo, Mr. Incredible, Wolverine and John Cena never speak throughout the video.
- World-Healing Wave: The result of Iron Man, Thor, Superman, Goku and Spider-Man firing the cure into the sky, curing the virus.note
- Wrestler in All of Us: John Cena, naturally. He performs an Attitude Adjustment on one of the monsters and even makes it tap out to the STF.
