God is creating the Earth. But this isn't your typical Genesis story. Rather, God is in fact an amateur coder using the "Multiverse" software and is a single father trying to wrangle in his kids, especially a certain mustached one and a a red horned one. Meanwhile, his creations try to live out their newly-made existence.
Tales From The Multiverse is a comedic animated Short Film from YouTube channel Omeleto. It can be found here
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Not to be confused with Tales from the Dark Multiverse, which couldn't be any more different if it tried to.
This work contains examples of:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: One of the subplots revolves around an anthropomorphic fish and shrimp who apparently just got hitched, seeing as how the fish is dressed like a groom and the shrimp a bride. They're flying in space in a rocket when an Adam falls on their cockpit and they're sent careening throughout the cosmos.
- Adam and Eve Plot: Featuring the Trope Namers themselves. When God starts creating, he drops an Adam and an Eve. After God sees the chaos his original program has devolved into, he deletes it and starts over, simply dropping another Adam and another Eve onto the now cleared Earth.
- All Animals Are Domesticated: Subverted. The caveman thinks he can put the baby T-Rex that landed in front of him on a leash like a pet, but it eventually becomes clear that it's still a ravenous wild animal by nature and starts eating his fellow villagers.
- Bearded Baby: Baby Jesus is recognized as such by having that iconic beard.
- Being God Is Hard: More specifically, being God means being an expert software programmer and needing to wrangle in your kids' chaos.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: An in-universe case. The fish, shrimp, and Adam somehow manage to fly beyond the computer into Heaven, where they hit God's neck like a mosquito.
- Comical Coffee Cup: God has one that says, "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
- Divine–Infernal Family: Satan is depicted here as one of God's kids, who constantly fights with his brother Jesus, which distracts Dad from his work.
- Funny Animal: Two major characters are an anthropomorphic fish and an anthropomorphic shrimp.
- God Is Inept: God's programming skills leave much to be desired, which creates "loose ends of creation", as the description puts it, that cause cosmic chaos.
- Grandpa God: God is designed as an especially cartoony take on how he looks in religious art.
- Hollywood Prehistory: The first attempt at Earth God created is one where cavemen and dinosaurs coexist with one another.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: The caveman we follow feels lonely because he lacks companions, either his fellow cavemen or dinosaurs. When a T-Rex egg hatches on his table, he's elated, but soon realizes he's made a big mistake.
- The Operators Must Be Crazy: The two angels God put on duty to answer any calls for help from his creations are too busy playing their harps to do their job. Unfortunately, this means a T-Rex accidentally being unleashed on this world's civilization goes unnoticed until it's too late.
- Satan: Here, he's a bratty toddler who fights with his brother.
- Sibling Rivalry: Jesus and Satan are depicted as two brothers constantly scuffling with each other, which interferes with God's work.
- Struggling Single Mother: Gender-flipped. God is a single father here, which means he has to deal with Jesus and Satan's bickering all by himself.
- Surreal Humor: One of the subplots is about an anthropomorphic fish and shrimp flying in a spaceship when Adam falls on them and causes their ship to go haywire. No, it doesn't make any more sense on a second rewatch.
