History WesternAnimation / WeAreTheStrange

** If you listen closely to the background music when Him tells eMMMM [[VideoGame/AlteredBeast "Welcome to your doom"]] a vocal is sung. Some of the bars are similar to the Doc Gerbil chase scene music from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''.

[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs The plot]]: A young resident of Stopmo City named Blue runs away to a nearby forest to get away from an abusive boss/boyfriend. There, she meets a lonely outcast named [=eMMM=]. Having a doll's head in lieu of a real head, [=eMMM=] cannot speak or change his facial expression. His means of communication is limited to body language and random squeaks. Meanwhile, two criminals, Rain and Ori, are back in the city, wandering around and fighting monsters for... some reason. [=eMMM=] convinces Blue to return to the city with him so that they can go buy some ice cream together. Then some more monsters attack for... some reason. It all climaxes in a huge battle between two Giant Mechas over a devastated cityscape.

%% * MadArtist: M dot Strange himself.

* StockholmSyndrome: The prologue mentions that Rain kidnapped Ori. You really wouldn't know that by how they treat each other in the movie proper.

His second movie, ''Animation/HeartStringMarionette'', was released June 2012.

His second movie, Animation/HeartStringMarionette, was released June 2012.

* EffeminateMisogynisticGuy: HIM is a literally pink guy who is shown in the intro abusing a literally blue girl, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain all while claiming that women are "tools" for him to pleasure himself with and "nothing more."]]

%% * ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: "[[BondOneLiner You talk too much]]."]]

---> '''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]]''': "I love having my opinions reduced to a single lolcat."

%% * BaldOfEvil

%% * GhostTown

%% * HumongousMecha: At the end of the film. Why is it there? [[RuleOfCool Because it's awesome]].

%% * LeFilmArtistique: Despite having a lot more action sequences than these types of films usually have, it still falls squarely into this category.

* LonelyRichKid: One could arguably say [=eMMM=] is this or at least some kind of variation. Sure, he's an orphan, and sure, he lives in the wild, but he also has a ridiculous amount of toys and posessions (like a rich kid would); toys and possessions that he'd gladly give up for a real friend.

%% * MeaningfulName: Blue and [=HIM=].

%% * TheMostDangerousVideoGame
%% * MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: The posters in the ice cream shoppe are an unnerving, as opposed to humorous, use of this trope.

%% * PunchedAcrossTheRoom

%% * SurrealHorror: The Forest of Still Life.

%% * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Blue. Goes from a moaning emo to a robot-killing ActionGirl.]]

%% * YouGottaHaveBlueHair

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%% ** Rain and Ori

%% * AntiHero: Rain

* AttentionWhore: The WOOOOO! monster that literally kicks eMMMM off the dance floor and starts making other noises that sound like "YEAH" and " WHAT NOW". It gets eaten by a slime monster afterwards...and comes back.

--->'''Rain and Ori:''' You will never defeat us

-->[[spoiler:[=eMMMbot=]:]] I am an unbeatable [[spoiler:robot.]]

%% * BarbieDollAnatomy: Him
%% * BashBrothers: Rain and Ori

%% * BigBad: Him

%% -->'''Rain:''' Yeah — wooo.
* BlackEyesOfEvil
** Him
** [[spoiler:[=eMMM=] gets these after his DespairEventHorizon, which raises some questions about Him's past.]]

%% * CastAsAMask: Possibly, considering that [[spoiler:it might actually be [=HIM=] talking whenever the [=SinisteRRR=] arcade game speaks]]

%% * {{Chiptune}}: much of the sound effects and music are this.

%% * CreepyChild: [=eMMM=]

%% ** Rain in his first fight with the monsters
%% ** [[spoiler:[=eMMMbot=] versus [=SinisteRRR=], round 1]], [[LikeFatherLikeSon which actually makes sense]]
%% ** [[spoiler:[=SinisteRRR=]]] whenever he fights anybody other than [[spoiler:[=eMMMbot=]]]

%% * DarkIsEvil: [=HIM=], [=SinisteRRR=], and the monsters

%% * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:[=eMMM=], Rain is Your Father]]]]

%% * EvilGloating: Him and Rain both like doing this
%% * EvilLaugh: Rain, Ori, and [[spoiler:[=eMMMbot=]]]
%% * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:[=SinisteRRR=] and Him]]

* HeroicBSOD: Blue seemingly gets a lot; one being when eMMMM let's her play his Gameboy. She remembers aspects of her past as shown by the drawings of her a various ages during said moment.
%% * HeroKiller: [=HIM=]

* JawsFirstPersonPerspective: The movie switches to this when a monster is attacking Rain and Ori

%% * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:[=HIM=] dies after being punched by the same girl that he had punched at the beginning of the movie]]

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The Shadowy Pixelated characters who are seen wandering around are actually famous video game characters from the 80s (VideoGame/MegaMan, VideoGame/PacMan, etc.). In the original release, M dot Strange just used the unaltered versions of the characters, but - due to legal reasons - filled them in with black before the commercial release.

%% * LeftForDead: [[spoiler:[=eMMM=]]]

%% * LovableCoward: Blue

%% * MeaningfulName: Blue and [=HIM=]

%% * MrExposition: Rain, Him, and The Pasteur
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Possibly justified. One interpretation of the film could be that [[spoiler:[=HIM=] knew of Blue's powers all along and abused her for the sole purpose of keeping them from manifesting and being used against him. Once Blue was pushed to her breaking point, all of his efforts to suppress them came undone.]]
%% * NonHumanSidekick: Ori

* OneWingedAngel: [=SinisteRRR=]. [[spoiler:It goes from being an arcade game to a giant demonic robot]]

%% * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The Pasteur

%% * PerpetualFrowner: Blue
%% * PerpetualSmiler: Him

%% * PreacherMan: The Pasteur

%% * PunctuatedForEmphasis: Rain does this at least once, and [[spoiler:eMMM later does it as well through the eMMMBot's speech. Like father, like son...]]

* ReligionOfEvil: [[spoiler:Subverted. The Cult of Strange is very creepy, but they're actually the good guys. Played straight in the sense that WordOfGod refers to them as evil in the commentary, but that doesn't really match up with how they act in the movie proper]]

%% * RuleOfScary: ...and this.

%% * ShrinkingViolet: Blue
%% * ShyBlueHairedGirl: Blue
%% * SoleSurvivor: Subverted
* SoundOnlyDeath: The cat who [[spoiler:is used to lure Rain into a trap.]]

%% * TheStoic: The Pasteur
* StrawCritic: The cat who "hates everything" in the intro to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlD7EVSJFw free online release]]

* TakeThatCritics: One of the trailers made fun of people who didn't enjoy the movie

%% * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Blue. Goes from a moaning emo to a robot-killing ActionGirl]]
%% * TheUnintelligible: [=eMMM=]
%% * UnstoppableRage: Rain, once the BigBad tells him that [[spoiler:[=eMMM=] is dead.]]
%% * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Cult of the Strange

%% * WolverineClaws: Rain

''We Are The Strange'' is an independent feature-length animated film. It was made by a guy who called himself M dot Strange that premiered in Sundance in 2007 and has since been released on [=DVD=]. It can also be seen for free on [=YouTube=][[https://youtu.be/2WMm7N1IthE here]]

''We Are The Strange'' is an independent feature-length animated film. It was made by a guy who called himself M dot Strange that premiered in Sundance in 2007 and has since been released on [=DVD=]. It can also be seen for free on YouTube [[https://youtu.be/2WMm7N1IthE here]]

''We Are The Strange'' is an independent feature-length animated film. It was made by a guy who called himself M dot Strange that premiered in Sundance in 2007 and has since been released on [=DVD=]. It can also be seen for free on M dot Strange's Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlD7EVSJFw here]]

%% * CreepyCoolCrosses