Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Kraevif Theater! A show full of love, anger and laughter is about to begin, starring some familiar puppets and based on stories recorded in a mysterious diary.
ARNOLD & PUPPETS is a mini web series based on the Identity V game in a collaboration between Netease Games
and Kanaban Graphics telling some stories about everyday life at Oletus Manor.
- Adaptational Heroism: While Bane is definitely a sympathetic villain in canon, he is still a villain with no qualms about using violence or committing murder. Here, he is closer to the description of Bane before the massacre at the Manor, being a strong Gentle Giant who likes to cook for his friends and does not cause problems intentionally.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed with Kreacher. While he's still a jerkass here who steals for petty reasons, he's far from the creepy jerk who committed varying degrees of abuse that he is in canon, being mostly an inconvenience instead of a real problem.
- Ambiguous Situation: Arnold’s official description says he found a mysterious diary by accident and used it as the basis for his puppet show, while his official artwork shows items from Frederick ["Composer"], including a small notebook signed with his surname. This raises the question of whether the aforementioned diary in question belonged to the "Composer", and more importantly, whether Arnold, and this show as a whole, somehow connects to the main lore.
- Asshole Victim:
- Most of the shorts end with Joker hurt in some way, but considering that most of the problems he suffers are consequences of his own actions, it's a little difficult to sympathize with him.
- In his introductory episode Kreacher ends up beaten and put in a rocket chair by Michiko. Before that, he basically stole all of Joker and Leo's items while they were sleeping.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Tracy initially seems like a cute and friendly mechanic initially who happily helps Joker fix his television. The only problem is that not only did she start fixing the television without asking, she also didn't warn him that she was going to charge for the job, and then charged Joker 1 million echoes (which is 990,000 echoes more expensive than maintenance should be). When Joker's reaction to this information is to try to get rid of her, she later approaches him while he is sleeping and traps him in his television.
- Beware the Nice Ones:
- Michiko's character; she is a genuinely kind woman, but at the first display of rude behavior, she will activate her Prajna form and attack her target without mercy.
- Leo is a very kind and polite guy, if a little too serious, but he is more than happy to use violence if he is attacked or wronged.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Michiko is a simultaneously realistic and comical example, because although she is a cute and friendly ghost she is still a ghost, therefore, her very existence is enough to scare some people.
- Gentle Giant: The official description of Bane, being a tall, quiet guy with a gentle demeanor and incapable of intentionally hurting anyone.
- Neat Freak: Arnold's interpretation of Leo is that he is someone with a phobia of being dirty, panicking at the mere thought of being messy.
- Nice Mean And In Between: Bane is the nice, being a Gentle Giant who only commits bad actions due to lack of common sense, Joker is the mean, being a jerk who always uses violence first, while Leo is the In Between, being nice but having his violent moments.
- Perpetual Smiler: Arnold is always seen with a smile on his face, from introducing himself and his puppet show, to watching the events of the show take place. Absolutely nothing that goes on during the episodes of the puppet show, no matter how potentially gross they may be, can wipe that smile from his face.
- Predators Are Mean: Puppet Owl is well… an owl and tries to steal the love letter Joker wrote to Margaretha just to show it to Eli and make him laugh.
- Promoted to Playable: Two years after the miniseries' first teaser, Puppet Joker became playable as an A-tier skin for Smiley Face called “Mischievous Joker”.
- The Rival: Both Bonbon and Joker dislike each other and often try to outsmart each other.
- Robot Kid: Puppet Bonbon is described as acting childish and has a model that is noticeably smaller than the other characters.
- Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed with Joker who isn't exactly evil but is a violent Jerkass with little to no redeemable characteristics, especially when compared to the other hunters in the series who are completely benevolent (Bane), kind when unprovoked (Michiko and Leo), or neutral to those around them (Bonbon).
