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  • Awesome Ego: Lolph Dundgren is overly confident and reckless, to the point that he thought reviving The One for his own purposes wouldn't Go Horribly Wrong. Even so, he almost always comes out on top against many threats to the Stickworld.
  • Awesome Music: Although most music tracks used in the series are royalty-free music that didn't belong to Zeruel82, he still uses them well in scenes where they have the most impact.
    • Ghost Chase Thriller by Sir Cubworth was first used in during The Cliff 5 when Lolph first becomes an Overseer and beats The One in a fight with greater stakes than ever before. From that point on, this theme would play whenever our heroes get caught in a battle that they escape by the edge of their teeth.
    • Thunderstorm by Hanu Dixit is used in more grim situations when the situation can get serious, such as The One splitting the Stickworld, and later putting it back together.
  • Cry for the Devil:
    • Many viewers feel this way about The One after his backstory was revealed in an episode made after The Cliff 6. Initially presented as a Generic Doomsday Villain who vaporizes most people with his telekinesis, The One is in reality a stick figure who lost his parents when others decided their powers made them too dangerous to exist. From that point on, The One simply attacked anyone under the assumption that they would try to hurt him anyway, a perspective that the audience couldn't help but pity him for.
    • The same could be said for The First Overseer when his backstory was revealed after The Cliff 7. Like The One, the First Overseer also went on the path From Nobody to Nightmare. Unlike The One however, he didn't even have the luxury of loving parents as they kept calling him weak and useless. The poor guy's wife Sarah got killed by his brother James just because he thought he didn't deserve to one, and The Nameless stick figure was forced to kill James in return before he could get to Gabriel too. That traumatizing incident led to Gabriel's father obsessing over protecting his only real family left, even before he went completely mad from becoming an Overseer. A lot of viewers hope that he could get his own Heel–Face Turn like The One, though that's not as likely considering how irreparably insane he has become.
  • Tear Jerker: Mike's wife and son, Mary and Marcus, are especially heartbroken when Mike tells them about Balthazar's prophecy that Mike would be killed by The One. Thankfully, Lolph decides to use the soul stone to revive Mike after his plan to use it for his brother fails spectacularly.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Although the characters are mostly stick figures, they have a tendency to die in a dramatic manner, even when the violence was toned down after The Cliff 5. And did we mention how often Lolph invokes This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!?

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