Xploshi (born September 8, 2002) is a Scottish web animator who makes short Comedy Horror cartoons filled with Deranged Animation à la MeatCanyon or Pilotredsun.
Her cartoons often parody established IPs but occasionally feature original concepts and a mix of both authentic parody and Stylistic Suck. Aside from parodies, Xploshi has also created the Soulcorp analogue series, which can be viewed here
and whose tropes page is here.
The Xploshi channel can be viewed here.
Xploshi's works provides examples of:
- Acid-Trip Dimension:
- Two of these appear in Wario Robs a Museum. Wario winds up accidentally teleporting to one when using his teleportation phone, and a hapless security guard gets thrown into another via Portal Picture.
- Cyber Hell from Breaking Bad: The Game, which rapidly erodes Walter White's sanity and facial integrity.
- Adaptational Villainy: Anyone who was heroic in their home series becomes either this, or Adaptational Abomination. For example...
- Gumball is very protective of his Arl-O's cereal, so much so that he BANISHES Darwin to another dimension just for eating it.
- Donkey Kong really doesn't like it when Diddy gives him a banana with spots.
- Sir Topham Hatt feeds Thomas to...well, whatever that pit is supposed to be.
- The Angry Birds are much more interested in killing the pigs than saving the eggs.
- Piglet tampers with Pooh's IV drip by putting battery acid in it.
- After the End: A few episodes reference a "Grand Collapse", apparently traumatic enough that entertainment media has to reassure players that it's okay to have repressed memories of the Collapse.
- Analog Horror: Her videos in general have this aesthetic, but "TEETH - What is It?", "Spectrescope TV Advert" and "Teaching Tobias" in particular tap into the genre, looking like old television informational footage discussing surreal and upsetting concepts in a matter-of-fact tone.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Xploshi's mascot is a beanie with a human woman's body.
- Apocalypse How: Played for Laughs in the Talking Flower video, which ends with the player trying to mute the Talking Flower... causing it to turn into a monster and start running around the world killing everyone, with no way to stop it.Woops! Your flower has escaped. Humanity has approximately 7 hours left.
- Armor-Piercing Question: In The Simpson: A Life Well Wasted, Ned says that Homer's family has left him, but Homer refuses to believe it. Ned angrily responds with "If I am lying, then why are you crying?", with the scene cutting to a crying Homer... who then shrivels up and phases out of existence.
- Artistic License – Biology: In Pooh's Fantastic Adventure, Winnie the Pooh is hospitalized after eating 49-year-old honey, with the implication being that the honey has gone bad. In reality, honey is one of the few food items that essentially NEVER goes bad: honeypots have been found in the pyramids full of honey that have never spoiled.
- Berserk Button:
- DON'T eat Gumball's cereal. Or else, he'll banish you to an alternate dimension.
- You'd better not give Donkey Kong a banana with spots on it, or he'll eat you.
- Violent Vincent does not take kindly to other ringtone mascots. In Vincent Claus is Coming to Town, he kills Gummy Bear with a booby trapped Christmas gift, and he shoots Crazy Frog dead in Land Mines. When Boney Bee is shown as an up-and-coming ringtone mascot, Vincent puts a stop to it immediately by shooting his hive down, though his expression reads moreso of putting Boney out of his misery.
- Under NO circumstances should you mute the Talking Flower from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, or it will wipe out the entirety of humanity within approximately seven hours.
- When the player chooses "You are an unpleasant person." as the lesson learned in Montybear's Wonderful Give-O-Ween, Montybear prevents them from choosing the option or exiting the game, tries to access the player's Documents folder, and covers the screen in Montybear faces.
- Big "SHUT UP!": In "Sonic The", Sonic screams at Tails to shut up with a Nightmare Face and a demonic voice, seconds after he tries to talk to him.Sonic: STOP TALKING. STOP TALKING RIGHT NOW. NEVER SPEAK AGAIN.
- Break Up Song: BONEY BEE: LOVE STINGS is all about Boney Bee lamenting about his girlfriend breaking up with him in song form.
- Blunt "Yes": From Montybear's Wonderful Give-O-Ween:PlumpyBear: "Diet Pills? Are you calling me fat?"
Montybear: "Yes"
[Montybear force-feeds PlumpyBear the Diet Pills, causing him to shrivel into nothingness.] - Cassandra Truth: Referenced in the first "Violent Vincent" song, courtesy of Vincent himself.I am going to kill your family/And the cops won’t believe you when you say it was me
- Charlie and the Chocolate Parody: In a parody of the Tim Burton film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka needs a new successor after Charlie dies in a vat of boiling sugar. He meets the new five kids at his factory...
- The Chew Toy: Arthur is stuck as one in the appropriately named "Arthur Ruins Everything".
- "Dear John" Letter: Boney Bee receives one from his girlfriend Emily, which is the setup to the song in his video.
- Despair Event Horizon: Wonka fails to keep any of the kids alive, each of them getting killed from being turned into caramel to being frozen and to choking on digital Wonka Bars. Wonka fully crosses it when Henry Potts, the child that reminded him of Charlie and the one he deduced would survive the tour and win the factory also dies after eating a bucket of poisoned candy. Or he could've passed the Rage Breaking Point from having to witness another group of bratty children fail to win his chocolate factory. Or both.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- A prime example in her Gumball parody videos, when Gumball (or "Guball") catches Darwin eating his Arl-O's cereal. How does Gumball react? By banishing his goldfish brother to "the dark dimension."
- Another example with her Donkey Kong parody, in which Donkey Kong EATS Diddy for giving him a banana with spots.
- In Pingu's Fairground Fun, when another penguin sneaks in to steal a few licks of Pingu's cotton candy, he swallows him whole! In addition, if the viewer answers the quiz at the end of the episode incorrectly, they are permanently marked as a threat to national security.
- Driven to Suicide: When one of the pills he was delivering accidentally blows up Jess's head, Postman Pat is implied to do this, walking off the edge of reality and melting away, possibly as a metaphor for Pat jumping off a cliff.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Her earliest videos were animated very simply and lacked the surreal horror and VHS-style effects she'd later become known for. She also had an androgynousnote human avatar instead of the "beanie creature" she's known for today. Here's an example of her early work.
- Eaten Alive: A recurring fate of many characters.
- Donkey Kong eats Diddy after he gives him a spotted banana.
- Pingu swallows another penguin whole for licking his cotton candy.
- Eric Cartman telekinetically turns a pizza place employee into a pizza and eats it when they can't make his order.
- The Hungry Birds each devour a pig after being slung at them.
- Epic Fail: Miss Goggins tasks Pat to deliver a box of pills to her house. As in, drive all the way to the bridge and back instead of taking them on the spot. That's looking at a typical, short-minded old lady in this video.
- Pat actually fails the delivery himself. While driving back to Miss Goggins' house, the pills just start bouncing around in the back of the truck. The last pill ends up blowing up Jess' head.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Whatever Vincent read in the viewer's government files is enough to make him recoil in shock before giving a disapproving nod. Makes one wonder what did they do to warrant such a reaction from him.
- The Exile: Arthur gets punished with being sealed in a concrete cube outside city limits in "Arthur Ruins Everything".
- Fell Asleep Driving: In Wake Up Jeff DVD Game, Jeff falls asleep while driving the Big Red Car and you need to shout into the DVD's provided microphone to wake him up. If you don't, as the video demonstrates, he drives off a cliff and is completely erased from the contents of the DVD.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: Waterman Sam is in the middle of one; he goes to save Norman from a flood by firing a flamethrower, only for his entire world to be flooded. Sam then gets provided with another chance with a GUI, he presses it, and continues the cycle.
- Harmless Freezing: Averted with Petunia Plantar in "Wonka's Golden Eggs" who freezes to death after licking Wonka's liquid nitrogen-flavoured ice cream.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Cartman turns a pizza place employee into a pizza when he's told they're out of pizza.
- Insistent Terminology: They are not spotted bananas. They are insufficient bananas, and do be careful with them lest Donkey Kong unhinge his jaw.
- Ineffectual Death Threats: The premise of Violent Vincent is about this, featuring the titular alien making threats to kill the viewer's whole family, yet has no proof to back up his claims, with the description even stating that his threats are empty. Subverted in Vincent Claus is Comin' to Town, where he not only shows that he has the viewer's IP address and government files, but also shows him killing Gummy Bear with a dynamite-trapped present.
- Interactive Narrator: In "Pooh's Fantastic Adventure", Pooh can hear the narrator and each time he talks, Pooh is less and less happy about what he has to say.
- Lethal Chef: The player in Ronald's Mac Factory creates a burger so vile that not only does it make Ronald violently throw up, but it causes over 600 deaths in the real world.
- Licensed Game: A couple of videos are about these.
- "Inspector Gizmo: The Missing Treasure's" is a parody of 90s edutainment software that ends with "Gizmo" being horribly injured and requiring the player to call for medical attention.
- "Breaking Bad: The Game" is a supposed promotional Flash game for Breaking Bad that features absurd levels of Fake Difficulty while remaining relatively germane to the show and then suddenly pivots to Walter White being required to guard the opening to and then stay sane within "Cyber Hell" for no adequately explained reason.
- "Ronald's Mac Kitchen" is about a promotional game where Ronald McDonald tasks the player with creating a burger that will be served in real McDonald's restaurants. Giving a random child the ability to create a real burger recipe works out about as well as you'd expect.
- "Inspector Gizmo: The Missing Treasure's"
- Lighter and Softer: Compared to other channels that make Subverted Kids' Show parodies, her animations of other shows, films, and games thankfully lean more towards Surreal Horror Lightmare Fuel rather than gross-out and allusions to real life horrors. Putting that aside, said versions of pre-existing shows tend to lean more towards Black Comedy compared to
her original stuff. - Lightmare Fuel: A lot of the humor comes from things that are both absurd AND creepy, such as...
- Linda vaporizing Candace with laser eyes.
- Ned Flanders driving Homer into despair with deepfakes and autotune.
- Gumball banishing Darwin to another dimension for eating his cereal.
- Winnie the Pooh getting his power cut off due to outstanding bills, hospitalized after subsequently stress-eating expired honey, and ultimately murdered by Piglet putting battery acid in his IV drip.
- Postman Pat walking off the face of the Earth and melting in outer space after a failed delivery.
- Donkey Kong eating Diddy after being given a banana with spots.
- Not so much with her original stuff, which just dips into straight-up horror.
- Not so much with her original stuff, which just dips into
- Lyrical Dissonance: Violent Vincent is a parody of the Jamster ringtone mascots, which were typically cutesy CGI characters with heavily artificial voices singing cutesy songs. Vincent, however, is a cute alien who sings about homicidal urges and threatens the listener.
- Mercy Kill: Vincent apparently does this to Boney Bee at the end of the LOVE STINGS music video, given his expression.
- Monumental Damage: THANKS TV ends with the player being prompted to "Throw the traditional Thanks Brick at our oppressors!", with the player successfully hurling a brick at Big Ben.
- Nightmare Face: Shows ups in almost all her videos, often accompanied by a sudden, jarring shift from Stylistic Suck artstyle to a detailed style reminiscent of photomanipulated images found in Creepypasta with hollow eyes and horrific visage. Specific examples include "CHOWD: The Game", "KIRBY SAFETY VHS (2003)", and "DONKEY KONG: THE MOVIE".
- The Noseless: Xploshi's avatar has no nose. This is lampshaded in a YouTube community post where she claimed that she smells childhoods that haven't been ruined, before commenting that said smell must be extremely strong, since she can feel it despite not having a nose.
- Parody Assistance: "Breakfast at The Wattersons'" features Junky Janker, the third voice actor for Gumball.
- "Baldi gets bullied" features Mystman12 voicing Baldi, It's a Bully, and Playtime.
- Ret-Gone: "Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat and his [OBJECT MISSING]"
- Surreal Humor: Most Xploshi videos combine surreal humor with Surreal Horror.
- Take That!: Wake Up Jeff DVD Game (SCARY EDITION). Not only does its Stylistic Suck make fun at the more low-quality attempts at Analog Horror, but it was made in direct response to YouTube falsely flagging the previous, very clearly not-kid-friendly video as "For Kids" under their COPPA policy.
- The original edition of the parody, according to a comment made by Xploshi, also takes a potshot at the Beauty and the Beast: Special Edition DVD game which was infamous for its unfairly precise quick time events and stilted presentation.
- The original edition of the parody
- Telephone Teleport: Wario Robs a Museum has Wario break out his WarioTech Dimension Phone to teleport himself into the museum when his Wariomobile breaks down. He accidentally sends himself to an Acid-Trip Dimension first, though.Wario: Whoops. Wrong number.
- Took a Level in Badass: In Violent Vincent's first video, he merely threatens the viewer with destroying their life without anything to back his statements up, and the description states that his threats are completely empty, yet, in his second video, his threats seem to carry more weight, as he reveals that he genuinely has the viewer's IP and government files, and even kills the Gummy Bear with dynamite on a present. His third video gives him even more merit, as he's shown littering an entire city floor with land mines, later reveals that he has shot Crazy Frog dead, and then blows up a building's top half with a well-aimed kicked land mine.
- Your Head A-Splode: "Postman Pat: The Pills" has Jess' head explode after he unwittingly swallows the last pill that Pat accidentally dropped.
