Web Video / Tomotasauce

Tomotasauce is the creator of Amphibia Abridged and The Owl House Abridged, two abridged series that have the unique quirk of dividing episodes up into several smaller videos each, which are then Gag Dubbed. He has also announced that a Hazbin Hotel abridged series is in the works as well.

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Both Series

• Breaking the Fourth Wall: As per tradition with most abridged series. Most notably, plot-relevant segments are often skipped over for the sake of brevity, which occasionally leads to characters questioning how they got into a situation. Other characters generally respond that Tomota will probably dub over the relevant parts at some point.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Most female characters, when not voiced by other people, have very shrill voices due to being voiced by Tomota himself, and the art styles of both respective shows are very on the cute side.
• Crossover: Some videos feature characters from both series conversing with each other.
• Honest John's Dealership: The Owl Beast in spades, constantly asking people if they want an extended warranty on their car, even though it lives in the Boiling Isles, a place where cars don't appear to exist. Hop Pop references this during his stint in the human realm, saying that, despite not having a car, he'd like to talk to a man about his extended warranty.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Tomota is not averse to using celebrity impressions for some characters' voices.
  • Mr. Boonchuy talks like Elvis Presley.
  • The Frobos talk like Jerry Lewis.
  • Both the Owl Beast and the hologram projectors in Andrias' castle talk like Ed Wynn.
  • Principal Murphy sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • Tiny Nose sounds like Bobcat Goldthwait.
• No Fourth Wall: Everybody is constantly talking about plot threads, one's relevance to the plot and character development.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: Each video is only a few minutes long, but they're still jam-packed with jokes.
• Speak in Unison: The many Frobos, the FBI agents in Amphibia and the Emperor's Coven guards in Owl House frequently talk at the same time, and get annoyed if one of them messes it up.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Discussed; one video points out that the Frobos, Coven guards, and other characters with no visible lips get lots of screentime because they don't have to deal with Lip Lock issues, so it's easier for Tomota to write lines for them.
• Villains Out Shopping: It's incredibly common for videos to focus on the villains' mooks having long, rambling conversations on random topics, sometimes to the annoyance of the main characters.

Amphibia

• Adapted Out: Unlike the Owl House, which went back and did the episodes needed for context, Amphibia Abridged usually just sticks to the episodes that further the plot starting from "True Colors" on. However, Tomota has expressed interest in going back to Seasons 1 and 2.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Anne is a bit more worried about Marcy during the first half of Season 3, having a traumatic flashback upon seeing Pearl getting stabbed.
• Adaptational Badass: Valeriana is capable of reading minds and speaking telepathically, abilities she never hinted at in canon.
• Adaptational Name Change:
  • The Frobots are instead called Frobos here. The Cloakbot also mentions his name is Geckoid.
  • Blair is instead called Gary here, while the other two go unnamed.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Slightly, but while Cloakbot was completely devoted to killing off Anne at Andrias' command, Gecoid is shocked that he not only killed Marcy, but wants Anne dead too. He still goes along with it, though.
  • While the Core trapped Marcy in a Lotus-Eater Machine unwillingly and completely hijacked her body, here Darcy is somewhat more symbiotic, as Marcy herself can speak freely, and she willingly engaged in the Lotus-Eater Machine, which itself is less nefarious; while it was her ideal world in canon, here she just gets to play VR games while the Core controls her real body. However, the Core is acting as The Corruptor to Marcy, asking her at the end of the Christmas episode if she wants to join them in their dimensional conquest. At the very least, they consider her smart enough to join them. The Core is also more openly annoyed and even disturbed my Andrias' more heinous actions, such as pointing out how quick Andrias was to assume that they were considering killing the Calamity Trio. In "False Friend", Marcy calls out that they're just as bad as Andrias, shutting her away without giving her a choice, while the Core (through the avatar of Aldric) tries to protest that they're really trying to help, but that her friends are an issue, ultimately zigzagging this.
  • Aldrich states that, originally, the Newtopian royal family did genuinely trade with other dimensions in the form of putting on a show for them in exchange for resources, but the Core accidentally pushed a button to instead destroy one, leading Aldrich to realize that it was much easier and more reliable to just use their military power to steal the resources.
• Adaptational Personality Change: The Core is mostly silent bar some Black Speech, and during its time possessing Marcy it starts acting like a more malicious version of her (thanks to assimilating some of her quirks into its behavior.) Here, though, it actually talks outside of Darcy and Aldrich as its avatars, being something of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander that loves making fun of everybody around it, while disliking how much careless and nonchalant Andrias is.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: While the Core is still a Bad Boss to Andrias, it's more out of annoyance that the king is so petty and nonchalant about killing people. Plus, the Core comes off as the more reasonable one since most of Andrias' sympathetic moments are Adapted Out.
• Adaptational Villainy: Andrias is even worse here than in the original show, as he's significantly more petty, is pretty casual about killing innocent people, and a lot of his more sympathetic moments were removed.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Core pleads for it's life and crying out for help as Anne blows it up.
• Benevolent Boss: The Core is this to Marcy, letting her play VR games during their tenure in her body, and deeming her great enough to offer her to become one with them. Of course, this is all bribery to keep her away from her friends and assimilate her.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • Hop Pop notices when Anne turns the background into an image of ramen and asks how she did it.
  • Upon meeting Mother Olm, everyone notices that her speech is somehow always accompanied by choir singing; not even she has any idea where the sound is coming from. Though she can tell it to shut up.
  • Sprig sees the flashbacks about his and Anne's previous encounter with Tritonio, and questions if anyone else can see them.
  • When Anne admits that Darcy's impression of her voice is pretty spot-on, Darcy points out that they're both voiced by the same person. Hop Pop then insists that they stop breaking the fourth wall.
• Call-Forward: A resistance soldier questions how Andrias is fine after leaping down from his castle, and asks if he's a robot. Andrias shoots back that "B**ch I might be!"
• Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality:
  • King Aldrich wants to hang out with his friends Donald and Goofy, and Andrias has to remind him that those are fictional Disney characters.
  • One of the Frobos thinks that a human general is calling the Ghostbusters and smugly says they can't help, only be shocked when another robot points out that the movie wasn't real. He's further devastated when the guy also mentions that The Avengers aren't real either; other Frobos tell that guy off for "ruining the magic".
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Aldrich is this, telling Andrias to keep reminding himself of his failure to secure the box and live up to his ancestors' legacy by... singing the Wellerman's song, and during the final battle between Darcy and Sasha, he notices that the microwave was unplugged before noticing that the Core's connection cord has been severed. However, the Core itself isn't that much above this either, lamenting that they haven't back up their camera roll before realizing that they're dying.
• Demonic Possession: The Core does this to Aldrich to tell the then Prince Andrias how badly he messed up losing the music box. It's quite jarring to see, as it comes completely without warning.
• Dreadful Musician: King Andrias is apparently a terrible singer, with his friends in the past always dreading going to karaoke with him. He's aware of it too, even getting Marcy to spill the Awful Truth by threatening to sing.
• Embarrassing Browser History: Mr. X admits to snooping through his boss' search history for gossip. Said boss is not amused in the slightest.
• Enemy Mine: A war-beetle and war-spider brought out for the resistance's infighting briefly stop arguing to tell off a war-snail for trying to get involved in their feud.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Most of Andrias' minions and even the Core are disgusted at Andrias killing Marcy, with Geckoid being disturbed when he's tasked to kill Anne, although that doesn't stop him from trying.
  • Andrias himself thinks that wearing a mask as a villain is too edgy, and upon invading Earth he immediately asks if the pandemic is over yet so he can avoid that cliche.
• Feels No Pain: Subverted; Geckoid scoffs when his arm is about to get chopped off, saying that he already took out his pain receptors. Then he gets notified that his settings have been updated, giving him just enough time to realize that This Is Going to Suck before the pain hits.
• Fandom Rivalry: In-Universe, Hop Pop and Polly argue over whether the Raimi trilogy or the MCU has the best depiction of Spider-Man.
• Genius Ditz: Hop Pop, in terms of farming. He has no clue what avocados are despite being a farmer, although this can be justified by him being from another dimension (as was the case in the original series).
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: When confronted with Anne in the hallway, most of the guards express excitement at re-enacting the climactic scene in Rogue One, with them serving as the Rebels and Anne standing in for Vader. Anne even admits that she has no idea how she even won the fight, and that the guards were obviously unqualified.
• Hypocritical Humor: The Core calls out Sasha for blasting a hole in its castle, while it's about to destroy the whole of Amphibia.
• Inner Thoughts, Outsider Puzzlement: As the Brainwashed and Crazy Yunan and Olivia telepathically strategize, the heroes question why they're just standing around posing.
• Ironic Echo: Darcy greets Anne and Sasha with Marcy's line "No more clumsy klutzy Marcy, haha, can you believe it?" from "Marcy at the Gates", which creepily transitions from Marcy's voice to Darcy's.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Andrias, post Heel–Face Turn, tells the Calamity Girls not to think of him when Valeriana says to think of all the good things that happened in Amphibia, since he didn't really do much good. Valeriana rebuffs him, saying he did nothing good.
• Major Injury Underreaction: How does Marcy react to getting stabbed in this version?
  Marcy: A bit rude to put that knife in my chest, innit bruv? (passes out)
• Malaproper: Mr. Boonchuy's attempt at a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner is "I'm here to kick gum and chew—"; Mr. X interrupts before he can mangle the line further.
• Meme Acknowledgement: Marcy references the famous "Where I fell down a flight of stairs" meme when talking to Olivia.
• Mood Whiplash: Darcy spends some time giving a deadly-serious villain monologue to Anne and Sasha, only to get sidetracked into a petty argument with Wally.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Parodied; Andrias tells the Core that they shouldn't murder the human girls just yet, which creeps out the Core as nobody had even brought up killing them before now.
• Never Say "Die": Inverted, as despite Marcy surviving Andrias' backstab thanks to Newtopia's healing technology, everybody refers to said backstab as Andrias killing Marcy. She's even conscious enough to talk to and make fun of Andrias with the Core.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Hop Pop's "Eat the rich!" line is subtitled with "Actual Disney Dialogue".
• Obviously Evil: Lampshaded; Gary the Mushroom Man points out that everything about him and his brain juice was incredibly suspicious, and Hop Pop really shouldn't be surprised that he's actually evil.
• Pretentious Pronunciation: Gary insists that his name is pronounced MUSH-room Man, not mush-ROOM Man.
• Refuge in Audacity: Geckoid, while trying to hunt down Anne, attempts to flush her out of hiding by shouting "Red Robin!" He's genuinely surprised when she shouts back "Yum!"
• Running Gag:
  • The Wellerman's Song. The fact that the music box uses musical notation as co-ordinates is applied in full with Andrias being a singer, although he mainly just sings the Wellerman's Song. This is explained as an order from his father, Aldrich, telling him to keep singing it as a reminder for the invasion that he never lead.
  • The Boonchuys want to make frog legs out of the Plantars. Mrs. Boonchuy especially is only so far from making them into French cuisine, mentioning it every time she shares the screen with them.
  • Mr. X is obsessed with his heelies especially, bringing them up at every opportunity.
  • Throughout the Christmas episode, the videos keep cutting back to a Frobo building a snowfrog.
  • The Geckoid (Cloakbot) gets mistaken for a Muppet several times, frequently leading to the robot angrily shouting that "I'M NOT A FREAKING MUPPET!"
  • The Newt in "Anne's Limit" who repeatedly twirls whilst scatting before exploding. Grime is convinced the guy is immortal.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Andrias' father Aldrich is clearly a bit senile, forgetting several times that he has a son, and needs Andrias to remind him that Donald and Goofy are fictional. Even after getting uploaded into the Core, he falls asleep while talking to Andrias. On the other hand, he decided that Amphibia's interdimensional pursuits should turn from peaceful trading to violent genocide, solely because he thinks that's easier.
• Shaped Like Itself: Hop Pop closely inspects his bowl of noodles and declares that "this food looks like food!"
• Shout-Out:
  • Dr. Jan now sounds almost exactly like Mickey Mouse.
  • "Spider-Frog: Homewrecker"'s title is styled after the film names of the MCU Spider-Man trilogy.
  • The abridged version of "Spider-Sprig" goes so far as to lift several memetic quotes from the Raimi Trilogy, including, but not limited to:
  Pizza time!
  I offered you a good idea and you spat in my face!
  I'm something of a scientist myself.
  • "Snap Back to Humanity" ends with the Core invading Andrias's mind to tell him "Ah, bing-bong, hey, what's up, you're doing a bad job."
  • While Anne's Hallway Fight was already referencing Rogue One, the beginning fight in "Kylo Anne" one-ups this by having the guards explicitly namedrop Star Wars, while also using Kalamity Music and Kāru's mashup of "No Big Deal" and "The Imperial March" as background music.
  • While running from the FBI, Dr. Jan hums the Coconut Mall theme to herself.
  • While making his announcement to Earth, Andreas mistakenly mixes the script with another parody series. Judging by the setup and the fact that it goes into a bleeped out curse starting with B, plus the context, it's not a hard bet to say he mixed it up with Eggman's announcement.
• Spoiled by the Format: In-Universe, when Tritonio promises to go along with Anne's plan without betraying her, Sprig cites the episode's runtime as evidence to the contrary.
• Suddenly Speaking:
  • The Frobos all speak here, while only a few specific Frobots such as Cloakbot and the actual Frobo speak in the original show.
  • The Core is capable of speaking even in its spherical body, whereas it could only speak through Andrias' crown and Marcy's body in the original.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Valeriana constantly reasserts that she is just a watcher of the Calamity Box and not its creator and that she isn't suspicious at all.
• This Is Going to Suck: Sasha is grossed out when she has walk inside Mother Olm's ear, with Anne having to drag her in; she bemoans, "I should've stayed an antagonist!"
• Troll: The Core admits to Marcy that he deliberately sometimes talks Andrias via his crown at inconvenient times to make him look crazy to the people around him.
• Verbal Tic: Mr. Boonchuy gains one in this dub, sometimes prefacing his sentences with "I say, I say".
• Violent Glaswegian: General Yunan is just as violence-prone as ever here, and is given a Scottish brogue to boot.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Anne reacts to a Fan Disservice gag by demanding to know what Matt Braly was thinking when he wrote the scene.
• Worthy Opponent: Subverted when a large Frobo declares that the muscular Leopold is this, only to get quickly tossed aside.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Marcy compares the view from Newtopia's castle to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. She then asks Olivia if there are any shrines for her to complete, and where the Paraglider is.
• You Are Already Dead: A variant: Sasha incredulously asks the Core if they think she'll fall for the illusions of Anne and Marcy surrounding her. The Core responds that she already has before running up and slashing her across the back.

The Owl House

• Accidental Misnaming: The guards mispronounce Kikimora's name almost constantly, although how much of it is this and how much of it is Malicious Misnaming is unclear.
• Adaptational Badass: Somehow, the Collector. Along with having all of the powers they had in the original series, they are also a Time Master, being able to rewind time to right before they killed Belos and killing him over and over again.
• Adaptational Intelligence:
  • The Owl Beast, originally a mindless, feral monster, is now obsessed with trying to get people to accept its deals on extended car warranties.
  • The Abomitons speak this time around, even with Aussie accents to boot.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • The Collector is a lot more of a Troll in regards to Belos, to the point that, while they were able to rib at Belos without any consequence in Hollow Mind, there's an entire video devoted to the Collector messing with Belos and the latter getting mad.
  • Even Belos gets hit with this to an extent. He's far more blunt than it he is in canon and doesn't even bother to hide the fact that he's not a good guy.
  • Caleb's vision in "For the Future" did nothing but stare at Belos in disappointment, but here he's capable of speech and talks a lot like Hunter, having a brotherly squabble with him that is mostly spent talking about how Belos killed him and mimicking him insultingly. When Belos' hand falls off, he laments that the rest of his arm didn't fall off as well, as that's all the rage these days.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Hunter is really into video games and works for Belos mainly because the emperor promises to return his PS5 if he works hard, instead of any loyalty or belief in the cause. He's also much more of a Troll, eagerly making "deez nuts" jokes at the drop of a hat, much to the annoyance of everyone else.
• Brutal Honesty: Unlike in canon, Belos openly tells Lilith that he lied about their deal, proudly boasting that he's a huge liar.
• Card-Carrying Villain: In stark contrast to canon, Belos is quite open about being evil. Interestingly, the scene where he originally says "I'll do anything to save humanity from evil" is dubbed over to say "I'll do anything for a bit of online clout," right after giving a speech about how he's irredeemably evil.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Belos does not take Luz destroying the portal to the human realm well.
  Belos: Oh, you little b*tch! Son of a f*cking Titans f*ck! Piece of sh*t-
• Even Evil Has Standards: One of the guards agrees with Belos that kidnapping a child is efficient; the other guards look over and ask what the hell.
• Heel Realization: One of the previous Golden Guards had one, asking Belos if they were the good guys. Unfortunately, Belos gave him a Blunt "No" and petrified him immediately.
• Identically Named Group: Apparently, the Emperor's Coven guards are all named Steve.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: Happens to Kikimora:
  Kikimora: The Emperor's Coven is a place of sophistication and power. It's not like people just wander around the castle kicking in doors whenever they're in a mood-
  (Lilith kicks open the door)
  Kikimora: God... damn it, Lilith!
• Malicious Misnaming: Kikimora accuses the Steves of purposefully failing to remember her name.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • The Collector's puppet-ified Coven Heads, when their security is triggered, initially talk in an Elmo voice detailing the game they want to play with Eda through a step-by-step explanation before suddenly taking on deeper, rougher voices as they announce their intent to kill her.
  • After re-posessing Raine, Belos announces that he is going to do "something truly villainous and evil", before happily climbing on one of the Collector's stars while singing "ABC" to himself.
• Once More, with Clarity: Meta version. As season 3 was coming up, Tomota decided to start going over earlier episodes and dubbing the parts he skipped out that are important for context.
• Running Gag:
  • Kikimora tells people who anger her that they're "on the list"; she's aiming for an Implied Death Threat, but instead just confuses whoever she's threatening.
  • Multiple characters point out that Lilith clearly doesn't have any friends.
  • Hunter making "deez nuts" jokes. On at least one occasion, he's on the receiving end of the jokes as well.
• Shout-Out:
  • Right before getting serious in her fight against Lilith, Eda says "I protected you in middle school and now I'm going to kick your little ass!"
  • In the preview for the "Hollow Mind" crack, Hunter chastises Luz for glitching the two of them into The Backrooms.
  • Belos gives a hologram speech spoofing the infamous Real-Time Fandub Dr. Eggman rant.
• National Anthem: Kikimora orders the guards to sing the Boiling Isles' anthem, which doesn't exist; after stumbling for a moment, they come up with "We live on a dead guy, we live on a dead guy, we live on a dead guy! And it's really kinda gross!" Belos admits that it's pretty catchy.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: Upon suspecting that King was telling the truth about his power, Lilith is elated that she finally has someone to suck up to. King expresses concern for her mental health in response to this.
• Skewed Priorities: The description for the Healing Hat is mostly about how stylish it is, with there being a brief note at the end about it also being able to heal deadly diseases. Luz lampshades that whoever wrote it needs to get their priorities straight.
• Speaks in Shout-Outs: Jean-Luc speaks entirely in film references, due to having worked (and lived) in a movie theater for most of his life.
• Way Past the Expiration Date: King ate a Fruit Roll-Up he found in Luz's backpack, only for her to inform him that it expired years ago.
  King: Oh, so that explains the horrors that came after!