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* SurpriseCreepy: The first book showed the Baby Mernimbler as soft, cute, and adorable. This one has an image of a skinned one and...''yeesh.''
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* KillEmAll: The Bletchlings' modus operandi. They go around slaughtering and destroying every living thing they can find once every thousand years. [[spoiler: By the end, they succeed in destroying the world.]]
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* LemonyNarrator: UpToEleven. The narrator is incredibly [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], goes off on insane tangents, [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophically]], and has a talent for ComicallyMissingThePoint.
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* LemonyNarrator: UpToEleven. The narrator is incredibly [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], goes off on insane tangents, [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophically]], and has a talent for ComicallyMissingThePoint.
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* HollywoodAcid: The Plumph secretes a corrosive acid sloop to protect itself from predators. [[WhatAnIdiot Unfortunately, when it retracts its eyes, they come into contact with the sloop and it blinds itself painfully.]]
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* HollywoodAcid: The Plumph secretes a corrosive acid sloop to protect itself from predators. [[WhatAnIdiot [[BlessedWithSuck Unfortunately, when it retracts its eyes, they come into contact with the sloop and it blinds itself painfully.]]
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* SurpriseCreepy: The fire book showed the Baby Mernimbler as soft, cute, and adorable. This one has an image of a skinned one and...''yeesh.''
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* BigEater: The Adult Mernimbler is a vicious predator that eats everything it sees, [[RealityEnsues then dies of chronic indigestion.]]
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* BigEater: The Adult Mernimbler is a vicious predator that eats everything it sees, [[RealityEnsues then dies of chronic indigestion.]]
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* BizarreAlienLocomotion: Parodied with the Horosi Horasi and Edgor. The Horsasi is one of the fastest Flanimals on the planet thanks to its unique attribute: five legs that go absolutely mental, propelling it forward at top speeds of fifty miles per hours in short bursts. The Edgor, meanwhile, is shaped like a giant blue hand and has a top speed of one mile per day. At its slowest speed, [[MindScrew it actually moves slower than some Flanimals that don't move at all.]]
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* BizarreAlienLocomotion: Parodied with the Horosi Horasi and Edgor. The Horsasi Horasi is one of the fastest Flanimals on the planet thanks to its unique attribute: five legs that go absolutely mental, propelling it forward at top speeds of fifty miles per hours in short bursts. The Edgor, meanwhile, is shaped like a giant blue hand and has a top speed of one mile per day. At its slowest speed, [[MindScrew it actually moves slower than some Flanimals that don't move at all.]]
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* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Really treads the line between both. On one hand, all complex life on the planet is dead. On the other, the Sploon is still around and the narrator speculates it could gradually evolve to repopulate the world with brand new life.]]
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* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: BittersweetEnding[=/=]RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler: Really treads the line between both. On one hand, all complex life on the planet is dead. On the other, the microscopic Sploon is still around and the narrator speculates it could gradually evolve to repopulate the world with brand new life.life, this time without the threat of the Bletchlings.]]
* EnemyMine: Flanimals that have long been enemies, or just jerks to each other, come together to fight the Bletchlings.
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: The Flanimals start gaining the upper hand against the Bletchlings...only for millions more to arise, thanks to a particularly large number of their eggs surviving over the last thousand years.]]
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* KillEmAll: The Bletchlings' modus operandi. They go around slaughtering and destroying every living thing they can find. [[spoiler: By the end, they succeed.]]
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* KillEmAll: The Bletchlings' modus operandi. They go around slaughtering and destroying every living thing they can find. find once every thousand years. [[spoiler: By the end, they succeed.succeed in destroying the world.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:The Bletchlings succeed in killing off all other Flanimals, but they've also guaranteed that there will be nothing to sustain their next generation.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:The Bletchlings succeed in killing off all other Flanimals, but they've also guaranteed that there will be nothing to sustain their next generation.]]generation, which will leave the planet basically empty, aside from the Sploon]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Bletchlings are described as evil down to the cellular level. So much so that consuming it would turn ''another'' Flanimal evil to eat their brain. If you took a Bletchling brain, ground it up, and injected it into a [[BystanderSyndrome Glonk]], the Glonk ''would smash your face in.''
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Bletchlings are described as evil down to the cellular level. So much so that consuming it the brain of one would turn ''another'' Flanimal evil to eat their brain. evil. If you took a Bletchling brain, ground it up, and injected it into a [[BystanderSyndrome Glonk]], the Glonk ''would ''[[OOCISSeriousBusiness would smash your face in.'']]''
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* BigEater: The Bleak is a giant creature that can consume anything, but lacks any digestive fluids. The Flanimals it eats inside thrive.
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''Flanimals'' is a series of children's books by Creator/RickyGervais and illustrated by Rob Steen. It depicts a world filled with bizarre, inadequate, or just plain useless creatures known as Flanimals and their behavior, accompanied by humor of [[SurrealHumor all]] [[BlackComedy kinds]], [[PerfectlyCromulentWord strange terminology]], and one ''hell of a LemonyNarrator.
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''Flanimals'' is a series of children's books by Creator/RickyGervais and illustrated by Rob Steen. It depicts a world filled with bizarre, inadequate, or just plain useless creatures known as Flanimals and their behavior, accompanied by humor of [[SurrealHumor all]] [[BlackComedy kinds]], [[PerfectlyCromulentWord strange terminology]], and one ''hell ''hell'' of a LemonyNarrator.
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* CerebusRetcon: All the previous books described the Flanimals in present tense. ''Day of the Bletchling'' reveals [[spoiler: they've all been extinct for some time now.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Without a doubt the darkest installment in the series, depicting an AlwaysChaoticEvil species, the ensuing war against them, and [[spoiler: the extinction of all complex life on the planet]]. The narration is far more somber and serious as well.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Without a doubt the darkest installment in the series, depicting an AlwaysChaoticEvil species, the ensuing war against them, and [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the extinction of all complex life on the planet]]. The narration is far more somber and serious as well.
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* FinalBattle: The Flanimals of the world unite to take on the Bletchlings. [[spoiler: Tragically, it's not enough.]]
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* TheHero: Parodied. A Loan Figger,one of the most populous creatures inside the Bleak, steps out to combat the Bletchings. With all the Flanimals watching, he picks up a rock and hurls it at an approaching Bletching...only for the rock to bounce back and hit him in the face. Followed by the Bletching squirting him with acidic goo. Still, the act encourages the other Flanimals of the world to unite agains the Bletchlings.
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* TheHero: Parodied. A Loan Figger,one Figger, one of the most populous creatures inside the Bleak, steps out to combat the Bletchings. With all the Flanimals watching, he picks up a rock and hurls it at an approaching Bletching...only for the rock to bounce back and hit him in the face. Followed by the Bletching squirting him with acidic goo. Still, the act encourages the other Flanimals of the world to unite agains against the Bletchlings.
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: The Bletchlings succeed in killing off all other Flanimals, but they've also guaranteed that there will be nothing to sustain their next generation.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: A Grundit and Puddloflaj die holding hands.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Bletchlings succeed in killing off all other Flanimals, but they've also guaranteed that there will be nothing to sustain their next generation.]]
* TogetherInDeath:[[spoiler: A [[spoiler:A Grundit and Puddloflaj die holding hands.]]
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Random new Flanimals that were never described or foreshadowed appear throughout the books and the narrator treats them as if they've always been around.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Random new Flanimals that were never described or foreshadowed appear throughout the books and the narrator treats them as if they've always been around.
* InsistentTerminology: The "P" in the Verminal Psquirm and Hordery Psquirm's names aren't silent. They're really pronounced "Psquirm."
* LivingGasbag: The Pong Flibber is a massive sack of gas. When it danger, it expels its gaseous insides to escape. The predator just has to follow the smell to find the creature completely deflated.
* LivingGasbag: The Pong Flibber is a massive sack of gas. When it danger, it expels its gaseous insides to escape. The predator just has to follow the smell to find the creature completely deflated.
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* InsistentTerminology: The "P" in the Verminal Psquirm and Hordery Psquirm's names aren't silent. They're really pronounced "Psquirm."
* LivingGasbag: The Pong Flibber is a massive sack of gas. When it danger, it expels its gaseous insides to escape. The predator just has to follow the smell to find the creature completely deflated.
* LivingGasbag: The Pong Flibber is a massive sack of gas. When it danger, it expels its gaseous insides to escape. The predator just has to follow the smell to find the creature completely deflated.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Mulon, easily the most intelligent being on the planet, cares about all living beings and would never intentionally hurt another Flanimal. They enjoy coming up to the surface to watch life on land.
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* NietzscheWannabe[=/=]TheAntiNihilist: The narrator switches between these two modes throughout the story. Not surprising, really. [[spoiler: By the end, he's mourning the loss of the Flanimals and admits that he liked all of them. However, when the Sploon is revealed to still be around, he has hope that there will come another day when Flanimals return.
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* NietzscheWannabe[=/=]TheAntiNihilist: The narrator switches between these two modes throughout the story. Not surprising, really. [[spoiler: By the end, he's mourning the loss of the Flanimals and admits that he liked all of them. However, when the Sploon is revealed to still be around, he has hope that there will come another day when Flanimals return.]]
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''Flanimals'' is a series of children's books by Creator/RickyGervais and illustrated by Rob Steen. It depicts a world filled with bizarre, inadequate, or just plain useless creatures known as Flanimals and their behavior, accompanied by humor of [[SurrealHumor all]] [[BlackComedy kinds]], [[PerfectlyCromulentWord strange terminology]], and one ''hell of a LemonyNarrator.
The series consists of four books. The first two, aptly titled ''Flanimals'' and ''More Flanimals,'' describe most of the life on the planet. The third, ''Flanimals of the Deep,'' details the aquatic life on the world. The final book, ''Day of the Bletchling,'' depicts the emergence of the titular creature and takes the series in a ''very'' [[DarkerAndEdgier different direction...]]
!! Tropes applicable to the series as a whole.
* AsYouKnow: Parodied.
* AuthorTract: Since this was written by Gervais, it's not hard to see where all the comments about "[[{{God}} Grob]]" being a dusty older superstition come from.
* BlackComedy: A lot of the humor comes from the horrible lives that the creatures lead, while the narrator is happy to inform us that it's nothing to worry about. After all, they're going to die anyway.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Gervais manages to find entirely new terms to describe the same body parts over and over.
* CrapsackWorld: The Flanimals almost all lead horrible lives in various ways.
* LemonyNarrator: UpToEleven. The narrator is incredibly [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], goes off on insane tangents, [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophically]], and has a talent for ComicallyMissingThePoint.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Enough to rival a Dr. Seuss book.
* SeriesMascot: The Grundit, the dimwitted blue brute with yellow lumps all over its head.
* SurrealHumor
* RememberTheNewGuy: Random new Flanimals that were never described or foreshadowed appear throughout the books and the narrator treats them as if they've always been around.
* TooDumbToLive: The vast majority of Flanimals, really.
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* AllForNothing: The Bimble Spernt runs around wildly, always managing to avoid its destination. It dies of exhausting in the exact place it started.
* BigEater: The Adult Mernimbler is a vicious predator that eats everything it sees, [[RealityEnsues then dies of chronic indigestion.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Print spends its day leaping off of tall rocks and landing on its head with no problem. If it sprains its ankle, it dies.
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: The Plamglotis is born without legs, so it swallows its hands to walk on them. This means it can't eat anything.
* BizarreAlienSenses: The Hemel Sprot's eyes are oriented backward so it can only see where it's been, never where it's going.
* BlobMonster: The Coddleflop. Because its soft top is vulnerable, it's developed a defense mechanism. Namely, flipping over and revealing its equally soft bottom.
** The Puddloflaj is a subversion. It looks like a fat blob, but's almost 100% water, like a balloon.
** The Splunge is a goo bag filled with nerves. It's so terrified of everything that it Splunges at birth, causing both parents to do the same. Splunges who try to avoid this fail [[MindScrew because they've already done it.]]
* BodyHorror: The Offledermis is born inside-out. It lives like this to avoid its own smell.
* BystanderSyndrome: The Glonk stands around doing absolutely nothing. Then it dies.
* CuddleBug: The Clunge Ambler goes around trying to cuddle things. Since he's weird, sweaty, and smells funny, he usually gets beaten up and buried. He never learns his lesson.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first book is quite different from the rest, lacking the lemony narration and is comparatively light on the BlackComedy.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Honk is a creature that, well, honks. By honking, we mean it makes the ''loudest noise on the planet'' for absolutely no reason.
* The Sprot Guzzlor eats sprots.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Underblenge has suckers so powerful that they are impossible to pry off, which is useful for suffocating prey. Too bad it can't move from the rock it was born on.
* {{Jerkass}}: The Grundit goes around trying to ride Puddloflaj, uses their babies as water bombs, kicks and eats Gum Spudlets, uses Coddleflops as frisbees, and sometimes dips Gum Spudlets into Coddleflop brain juice. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It actually improves the flavor.]]
* LetsMeetTheMeat: The Gum Spudlet is simply described as "Grundit food." It's not happy about this, but there's nothing it can do about it.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The Munty Flumple wanders around and falls in love with any Flanimal it sees. It'll stand there for days on end until whatever it's staring at moves.
* MetamorphosisMonster: The Mernimbler starts out as a cute little puffball that feeds on honey water and the softer bits of clouds. The adult is a vicious hulking predator with crooked horns, CreepilyLongArms, and an absurdly large mouth.
* {{Oculothorax}}: The Wobboid Mump is an eyeball in jelly. Its only function is to look around and find a purpose for its existence, but it can't due to ironically being blind.
* PaperThinDisguise: The Flemping Bunt-Himmler looks like a squashed baby Mernimbler, which he feeds on. He's completely exposed when they all turn into adults.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: When the Honk isn't honking, it's sleeping.
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* AndIMustScream: The Plappavom, lacking any mouth parts, digests its own body slowly to power its sole bodily function: looking around to see how pointless its existence is.
** The Mung Ungler. See DeathSeeker.
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: Parodied with the Horosi Horasi and Edgor. The Horsasi is one of the fastest Flanimals on the planet thanks to its unique attribute: five legs that go absolutely mental, propelling it forward at top speeds of fifty miles per hours in short bursts. The Edgor, meanwhile, is shaped like a giant blue hand and has a top speed of one mile per day. At its slowest speed, [[MindScrew it actually moves slower than some Flanimals that don't move at all.]]
* DeathSeeker: The Mung Ungler has large "rear milky puddings" that weight it down, so other Flanimals come to suckle on them against its will. Internally it screams "Roll on death."
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Much like the Sprot Guzzlor, its cousin the Sprot Tumbler likes to likes to roll the Sprots around. The Sprot Oggler just likes to watch them. The Sprot Mungler mimics the Oggler until the last minute, then the Sprot is mungled senseless.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The Skwunt has eyes inside its mouth, which Flanimals come to poke for a laugh. It closes its mouth to stop them, but it's also afraid of the dark and opens up screaming. This leads to Flanimals coming from all around to poke its eyes for a laugh.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Parodied twofold.
** The Grommomulunt is the larval stage of the Munt Fly. With no mouth, ears, nose, legs or internal organs to speak of, the creature looks forward to its transformation. However, the only change it undergoes is that it loses its eyes. Then it sheds its skin, but since it lacks any skin underneath, its inside just leak into the ground.
** After running around wishing it could fly, the Dweezle Muzzbug sheds its legs to get some rest. Since legs falling off is one of the most painful things ever, it completes its transformation into a "screamy death-thing."
* InsistentTerminology: The "P" in the Verminal Psquirm and Hordery Psquirm's names aren't silent. They're really pronounced "Psquirm."
* LivingGasbag: The Pong Flibber is a massive sack of gas. When it danger, it expels its gaseous insides to escape. The predator just has to follow the smell to find the creature completely deflated.
* SurpriseCreepy: The fire book showed the Baby Mernimbler as soft, cute, and adorable. This one has an image of a skinned one and...''yeesh.''
* UnstoppableRage: The Squat is the angriest creature in the universe. Whenever it meets another Flanimal, it completely slaughters and eviscerates them in seconds. Enraged that it can't keep destroying them, it ends up destroying the next Flanimal it meets even quicker.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Yet another ParodiedTrope. The Gronglet feeds by snorggling up micro-flugs, creatures so small that they can't be seen. Since this is insubstantial, it starves shortly after it's born. Its cousin, the Spleg, has slightly greater snorggling abilities, meaning it doesn't starve until the day after it's born.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: The Spryflajer has flippers that look like tennis rackets.
* BornAsAnAdult: Apparently all Blamps are slow and old. Even the young ones.
* CryingWolf: After the narrator goes off on another tangent, he brings up the story about the Groy who cried Molf.
* DeathSeeker: Much like its land-based relative, the Ungler Water Mungler wishes for death. Having adapted to live in the ocean, its rear milky pudding have become float baps. This makes it turn upside down in water and drown, finally putting it out of its misery.
* DemBones: The Brones give off this look, being skeletally thin with large jagged teeth. The Skrolls are so thin that ''each of their ribs'' is visible.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Parodied. The narrator points out that, since Clumbs and Splungi can't move, they really don't need eyes. All they can use them for is to see the thing that's going to eat them.
* FlatCharacter: Literally with the Flambol, according to the narrator. Not only is it a flat, floating shape, but it's a shallow, self-centered vegetable with no personality.
* HollywoodAcid: The Plumph secretes a corrosive acid sloop to protect itself from predators. [[WhatAnIdiot Unfortunately, when it retracts its eyes, they come into contact with the sloop and it blinds itself painfully.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Mulon, easily the most intelligent being on the planet, cares about all living beings and would never
intentionally hurt another Flanimal. They enjoy coming up to the surface to watch life on land.
* {{Kaiju}}: The Skrakalor, an ancestor of the Mernimbler, was a massive behemoth CoveredInSpikes that preyed on Plugons, the ancestors of Mulons.
* MindScrew The Spryflajer uses this to confuse its prey. Just when the prey thinks they can't be
* NightmareFuel: In-universe, the narrator is horrified of Skrolls, but prefers not to get into it.
* SequelHook: The book ends with the egg and adult diagram of a Bletchling, the most terrifying Flanimal that has ever existed.
* {{Worldbuilding}}: This book goes into the greatest detail about the Flanimal world and the evolution of life.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Bletchlings are described as evil down to the cellular level. So much so that consuming it would turn ''another'' Flanimal evil to eat their brain. If you took a Bletchling brain, ground it up, and injected it into a [[BystanderSyndrome Glonk]], the Glonk ''would smash your face in.''
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: A [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 Class 4]] at least. The only life left on the planet by the end is the microscopic sploon.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Bletchlings are like huge, bloated green flies with human-ish mouths, [[OverlyLongTongue long pointed tongues]], and take to the sky every thousand years, [[TheSwarm swarming in the millions]] and [[OmnicidalManiac killing anything in their path]].
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The Bletchlings kill off all other Flanimals. However, they've also doomed themselves to extinction.]]
* BigEater: The Bleak is a giant creature that can consume anything, but lacks any digestive fluids. The Flanimals it eats inside thrive.
* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Really treads the line between both. On one hand, all complex life on the planet is dead. On the other, the Sploon is still around and the narrator speculates it could gradually evolve to repopulate the world with brand new life.]]
* BlindMistake: The Hord Shuffler is a blind creature that likes to scuttle around in dark places, but is usually found in bright open spaces. They've got no idea where they are.
* CerebusRetcon: All the previous books described the Flanimals in present tense. ''Day of the Bletchling'' reveals [[spoiler: they've all been extinct for some time now.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: No mention is made of any of the aquatic Flanimals, but it's safe to assume [[spoiler: they were also wiped out by the Bletchlings.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Without a doubt the darkest installment in the series, depicting an AlwaysChaoticEvil species, the ensuing war against them, and [[spoiler: the extinction of all complex life on the planet]]. The narration is far more somber and serious as well.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Hapless Prey is a type of sprot. It really just exists to be prey, drawing attention to itself by sweating at the first sign of danger.
* FinalBattle: The Flanimals of the world unite to take on the Bletchlings. [[spoiler: Tragically, it's not enough.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Parodied. The Monk Worm has the ability to regenerate if it's cut in half. Unfortunately, both halves grow new tail ends, so the head just watches the blind, double-bottomed sprute sack wiggle around until it starves. Then the head starves and dies.
* TheHero: Parodied. A Loan Figger,one of the most populous creatures inside the Bleak, steps out to combat the Bletchings. With all the Flanimals watching, he picks up a rock and hurls it at an approaching Bletching...only for the rock to bounce back and hit him in the face. Followed by the Bletching squirting him with acidic goo. Still, the act encourages the other Flanimals of the world to unite agains the Bletchlings.
* HollywoodAcid: Bletchlings shoot a sort of goo or webbing from their abdomens, which coats their prey and then melts them into a puddle.
* KillEmAll: The Bletchlings' modus operandi. They go around slaughtering and destroying every living thing they can find. [[spoiler: By the end, they succeed.]]
* NietzscheWannabe[=/=]TheAntiNihilist: The narrator switches between these two modes throughout the story. Not surprising, really. [[spoiler: By the end, he's mourning the loss of the Flanimals and admits that he liked all of them. However, when the Sploon is revealed to still be around, he has hope that there will come another day when Flanimals return.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: The Bletchlings succeed in killing off all other Flanimals, but they've also guaranteed that there will be nothing to sustain their next generation.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: A Grundit and Puddloflaj die holding hands.]]
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The series consists of four books. The first two, aptly titled ''Flanimals'' and ''More Flanimals,'' describe most of the life on the planet. The third, ''Flanimals of the Deep,'' details the aquatic life on the world. The final book, ''Day of the Bletchling,'' depicts the emergence of the titular creature and takes the series in a ''very'' [[DarkerAndEdgier different direction...]]
!! Tropes applicable to the series as a whole.
* AsYouKnow: Parodied.
* AuthorTract: Since this was written by Gervais, it's not hard to see where all the comments about "[[{{God}} Grob]]" being a dusty older superstition come from.
* BlackComedy: A lot of the humor comes from the horrible lives that the creatures lead, while the narrator is happy to inform us that it's nothing to worry about. After all, they're going to die anyway.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Gervais manages to find entirely new terms to describe the same body parts over and over.
* CrapsackWorld: The Flanimals almost all lead horrible lives in various ways.
* LemonyNarrator: UpToEleven. The narrator is incredibly [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], goes off on insane tangents, [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophically]], and has a talent for ComicallyMissingThePoint.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Enough to rival a Dr. Seuss book.
* SeriesMascot: The Grundit, the dimwitted blue brute with yellow lumps all over its head.
* SurrealHumor
* RememberTheNewGuy: Random new Flanimals that were never described or foreshadowed appear throughout the books and the narrator treats them as if they've always been around.
* TooDumbToLive: The vast majority of Flanimals, really.
[[folder: Flanimals]]
* AllForNothing: The Bimble Spernt runs around wildly, always managing to avoid its destination. It dies of exhausting in the exact place it started.
* BigEater: The Adult Mernimbler is a vicious predator that eats everything it sees, [[RealityEnsues then dies of chronic indigestion.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Print spends its day leaping off of tall rocks and landing on its head with no problem. If it sprains its ankle, it dies.
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: The Plamglotis is born without legs, so it swallows its hands to walk on them. This means it can't eat anything.
* BizarreAlienSenses: The Hemel Sprot's eyes are oriented backward so it can only see where it's been, never where it's going.
* BlobMonster: The Coddleflop. Because its soft top is vulnerable, it's developed a defense mechanism. Namely, flipping over and revealing its equally soft bottom.
** The Puddloflaj is a subversion. It looks like a fat blob, but's almost 100% water, like a balloon.
** The Splunge is a goo bag filled with nerves. It's so terrified of everything that it Splunges at birth, causing both parents to do the same. Splunges who try to avoid this fail [[MindScrew because they've already done it.]]
* BodyHorror: The Offledermis is born inside-out. It lives like this to avoid its own smell.
* BystanderSyndrome: The Glonk stands around doing absolutely nothing. Then it dies.
* CuddleBug: The Clunge Ambler goes around trying to cuddle things. Since he's weird, sweaty, and smells funny, he usually gets beaten up and buried. He never learns his lesson.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first book is quite different from the rest, lacking the lemony narration and is comparatively light on the BlackComedy.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Honk is a creature that, well, honks. By honking, we mean it makes the ''loudest noise on the planet'' for absolutely no reason.
* The Sprot Guzzlor eats sprots.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Underblenge has suckers so powerful that they are impossible to pry off, which is useful for suffocating prey. Too bad it can't move from the rock it was born on.
* {{Jerkass}}: The Grundit goes around trying to ride Puddloflaj, uses their babies as water bombs, kicks and eats Gum Spudlets, uses Coddleflops as frisbees, and sometimes dips Gum Spudlets into Coddleflop brain juice. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It actually improves the flavor.]]
* LetsMeetTheMeat: The Gum Spudlet is simply described as "Grundit food." It's not happy about this, but there's nothing it can do about it.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The Munty Flumple wanders around and falls in love with any Flanimal it sees. It'll stand there for days on end until whatever it's staring at moves.
* MetamorphosisMonster: The Mernimbler starts out as a cute little puffball that feeds on honey water and the softer bits of clouds. The adult is a vicious hulking predator with crooked horns, CreepilyLongArms, and an absurdly large mouth.
* {{Oculothorax}}: The Wobboid Mump is an eyeball in jelly. Its only function is to look around and find a purpose for its existence, but it can't due to ironically being blind.
* PaperThinDisguise: The Flemping Bunt-Himmler looks like a squashed baby Mernimbler, which he feeds on. He's completely exposed when they all turn into adults.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: When the Honk isn't honking, it's sleeping.
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[[folder: More Flanimals]]
* AndIMustScream: The Plappavom, lacking any mouth parts, digests its own body slowly to power its sole bodily function: looking around to see how pointless its existence is.
** The Mung Ungler. See DeathSeeker.
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: Parodied with the Horosi Horasi and Edgor. The Horsasi is one of the fastest Flanimals on the planet thanks to its unique attribute: five legs that go absolutely mental, propelling it forward at top speeds of fifty miles per hours in short bursts. The Edgor, meanwhile, is shaped like a giant blue hand and has a top speed of one mile per day. At its slowest speed, [[MindScrew it actually moves slower than some Flanimals that don't move at all.]]
* DeathSeeker: The Mung Ungler has large "rear milky puddings" that weight it down, so other Flanimals come to suckle on them against its will. Internally it screams "Roll on death."
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Much like the Sprot Guzzlor, its cousin the Sprot Tumbler likes to likes to roll the Sprots around. The Sprot Oggler just likes to watch them. The Sprot Mungler mimics the Oggler until the last minute, then the Sprot is mungled senseless.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The Skwunt has eyes inside its mouth, which Flanimals come to poke for a laugh. It closes its mouth to stop them, but it's also afraid of the dark and opens up screaming. This leads to Flanimals coming from all around to poke its eyes for a laugh.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Parodied twofold.
** The Grommomulunt is the larval stage of the Munt Fly. With no mouth, ears, nose, legs or internal organs to speak of, the creature looks forward to its transformation. However, the only change it undergoes is that it loses its eyes. Then it sheds its skin, but since it lacks any skin underneath, its inside just leak into the ground.
** After running around wishing it could fly, the Dweezle Muzzbug sheds its legs to get some rest. Since legs falling off is one of the most painful things ever, it completes its transformation into a "screamy death-thing."
* InsistentTerminology: The "P" in the Verminal Psquirm and Hordery Psquirm's names aren't silent. They're really pronounced "Psquirm."
* LivingGasbag: The Pong Flibber is a massive sack of gas. When it danger, it expels its gaseous insides to escape. The predator just has to follow the smell to find the creature completely deflated.
* SurpriseCreepy: The fire book showed the Baby Mernimbler as soft, cute, and adorable. This one has an image of a skinned one and...''yeesh.''
* UnstoppableRage: The Squat is the angriest creature in the universe. Whenever it meets another Flanimal, it completely slaughters and eviscerates them in seconds. Enraged that it can't keep destroying them, it ends up destroying the next Flanimal it meets even quicker.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Yet another ParodiedTrope. The Gronglet feeds by snorggling up micro-flugs, creatures so small that they can't be seen. Since this is insubstantial, it starves shortly after it's born. Its cousin, the Spleg, has slightly greater snorggling abilities, meaning it doesn't starve until the day after it's born.
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[[folder: Flanimals of the Deep]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Spryflajer has flippers that look like tennis rackets.
* BornAsAnAdult: Apparently all Blamps are slow and old. Even the young ones.
* CryingWolf: After the narrator goes off on another tangent, he brings up the story about the Groy who cried Molf.
* DeathSeeker: Much like its land-based relative, the Ungler Water Mungler wishes for death. Having adapted to live in the ocean, its rear milky pudding have become float baps. This makes it turn upside down in water and drown, finally putting it out of its misery.
* DemBones: The Brones give off this look, being skeletally thin with large jagged teeth. The Skrolls are so thin that ''each of their ribs'' is visible.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Parodied. The narrator points out that, since Clumbs and Splungi can't move, they really don't need eyes. All they can use them for is to see the thing that's going to eat them.
* FlatCharacter: Literally with the Flambol, according to the narrator. Not only is it a flat, floating shape, but it's a shallow, self-centered vegetable with no personality.
* HollywoodAcid: The Plumph secretes a corrosive acid sloop to protect itself from predators. [[WhatAnIdiot Unfortunately, when it retracts its eyes, they come into contact with the sloop and it blinds itself painfully.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Mulon, easily the most intelligent being on the planet, cares about all living beings and would never
intentionally hurt another Flanimal. They enjoy coming up to the surface to watch life on land.
* {{Kaiju}}: The Skrakalor, an ancestor of the Mernimbler, was a massive behemoth CoveredInSpikes that preyed on Plugons, the ancestors of Mulons.
* MindScrew The Spryflajer uses this to confuse its prey. Just when the prey thinks they can't be
* NightmareFuel: In-universe, the narrator is horrified of Skrolls, but prefers not to get into it.
* SequelHook: The book ends with the egg and adult diagram of a Bletchling, the most terrifying Flanimal that has ever existed.
* {{Worldbuilding}}: This book goes into the greatest detail about the Flanimal world and the evolution of life.
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[[folder: Flanimals: Day of the Bletchling]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Bletchlings are described as evil down to the cellular level. So much so that consuming it would turn ''another'' Flanimal evil to eat their brain. If you took a Bletchling brain, ground it up, and injected it into a [[BystanderSyndrome Glonk]], the Glonk ''would smash your face in.''
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: A [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 Class 4]] at least. The only life left on the planet by the end is the microscopic sploon.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Bletchlings are like huge, bloated green flies with human-ish mouths, [[OverlyLongTongue long pointed tongues]], and take to the sky every thousand years, [[TheSwarm swarming in the millions]] and [[OmnicidalManiac killing anything in their path]].
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The Bletchlings kill off all other Flanimals. However, they've also doomed themselves to extinction.]]
* BigEater: The Bleak is a giant creature that can consume anything, but lacks any digestive fluids. The Flanimals it eats inside thrive.
* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Really treads the line between both. On one hand, all complex life on the planet is dead. On the other, the Sploon is still around and the narrator speculates it could gradually evolve to repopulate the world with brand new life.]]
* BlindMistake: The Hord Shuffler is a blind creature that likes to scuttle around in dark places, but is usually found in bright open spaces. They've got no idea where they are.
* CerebusRetcon: All the previous books described the Flanimals in present tense. ''Day of the Bletchling'' reveals [[spoiler: they've all been extinct for some time now.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: No mention is made of any of the aquatic Flanimals, but it's safe to assume [[spoiler: they were also wiped out by the Bletchlings.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Without a doubt the darkest installment in the series, depicting an AlwaysChaoticEvil species, the ensuing war against them, and [[spoiler: the extinction of all complex life on the planet]]. The narration is far more somber and serious as well.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Hapless Prey is a type of sprot. It really just exists to be prey, drawing attention to itself by sweating at the first sign of danger.
* FinalBattle: The Flanimals of the world unite to take on the Bletchlings. [[spoiler: Tragically, it's not enough.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Parodied. The Monk Worm has the ability to regenerate if it's cut in half. Unfortunately, both halves grow new tail ends, so the head just watches the blind, double-bottomed sprute sack wiggle around until it starves. Then the head starves and dies.
* TheHero: Parodied. A Loan Figger,one of the most populous creatures inside the Bleak, steps out to combat the Bletchings. With all the Flanimals watching, he picks up a rock and hurls it at an approaching Bletching...only for the rock to bounce back and hit him in the face. Followed by the Bletching squirting him with acidic goo. Still, the act encourages the other Flanimals of the world to unite agains the Bletchlings.
* HollywoodAcid: Bletchlings shoot a sort of goo or webbing from their abdomens, which coats their prey and then melts them into a puddle.
* KillEmAll: The Bletchlings' modus operandi. They go around slaughtering and destroying every living thing they can find. [[spoiler: By the end, they succeed.]]
* NietzscheWannabe[=/=]TheAntiNihilist: The narrator switches between these two modes throughout the story. Not surprising, really. [[spoiler: By the end, he's mourning the loss of the Flanimals and admits that he liked all of them. However, when the Sploon is revealed to still be around, he has hope that there will come another day when Flanimals return.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: The Bletchlings succeed in killing off all other Flanimals, but they've also guaranteed that there will be nothing to sustain their next generation.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: A Grundit and Puddloflaj die holding hands.]]
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