A new animated series for the oddballs, the dreamers, and the ones who don’t fit in.
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory is an animated show on Apple TV+, produced by Bento Box.
William, a creative kid, gets astray from his Boarding School and ends up in the magical world of sprytes. Using creative wisps, he is the subject of a prophecy to help the sprytes win against the disarrays, but things are not as simple as they seem...
Tropes:
- Above Good and Evil: Used in a rather mature way by Nyx. When Wolfboy comes to see what the disarrays do as "good", she tells him to think more in terms of "necessary", showing that despiste she giving everything for them she still maintains some common wisdom. Unfortunately this only makes her more of a hypocrite considering she views humanity as evil.
- Art-Style Dissonance: The show has a rather childbook-like character and set design (helped further by the low budget), which is all fine and good for the whimsical first season. Then comes season 2 and its themes of genocide and trauma...
- Dark Is Not Evil:
- The disarrays, the spirits in charge of destruction, are initially seen as evil, but as the series goes on it becomes apparent their role is just as vital to existence as that of the sprytes. Seth is a disarray that becomes a main character in season 2.
- One of the primordials has a demonic appearence... but is so harmless as to try to hide themselves to prevent others from being frightened. Seeing that they are not evil gives Seth confidence and pride in being a disarray.
- Darker and Edgier: Season 2 is definitely a lot more mature than season 1, delving into the mental stress and trauma that being the chosen one is as well as showing a history of genocide between sprytes and disarrays and Nyx's intention to pull a Final Solution on humanity.
- Light Is Not Good: As the series goes on, it is revealed that the sprytes have a serious case of Fantastic Racism, attacking the disarrays and even attempting genocide on them once with balls of light. In the present day, Nyx attempts to kill off humanity.
- Our Fairies Are Different: As in folklore they are divided into light and dark groups, neither good or evil: the creative, luminous sprytes and the gloomy disarrays.
- Straw Hypocrite: Nyx was banished due to her sympathy for the disarrays, protecting them from genocide. Now she plots genocide against humanity.
- Wind Is Green: Wind is strongly associated with the forests. Its also a seperate element from sky, since both have individual primordials.
- Wizarding School: Well, factory, but the eponymous factory doubles as this as it takes interns, teaching them all about magic.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Nyx is a Well-Intentioned Extremist, championing for the peace between disarrays and sprytes. Then she reveals her solution for that is to commit genocide o humanity. All the while the show retains its child-like aesthetics.
