History Trivia / MurderDrones

* ScheduleSlip: It was originally announced that the remaining six episodes of the show's first season would air throughout 2023. In November 2023, it was announced that the final two episodes have been delayed into Spring 2024.

* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: To Liam Vickers' other web series ''WebAnimation/InternecionCube''. Among the many similarities are robots with text appearing on their face-plates, horrific [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] {{Mechanical Abomination}}s made of BodyHorror that can seemingly [[TheVirus turn ordinary people into more of themselves]], a snarky loner schoolgirl who ''is'' one of said abominations, adult humans appearing with obscured faces and glowing eyes, and an ApatheticTeacher voiced by Vickers. IC-0n in particular is somewhat reminiscent of V.

*** Vickers also provided several [[ShrugOfGod Shrugs of God]], like how everyone has a "suspiciously half-censored" photo in their room obscuring their missing family member (based on FreezeFrameBonus of the inside of Uzi's personal closet in the Pilot, a photo showing Uzi as a baby being held by her parents that lacks the part with her mother, either due to burning or melting), and how there's definitely no significance in whoever killed Uzi's mom.

*** The way that robots "reproduce" is that the drones messed with the assembly line for them to implement their code into pill-shaped drones before moving them into a fully grown body once their A.I. develops.
*** Vickers also provided several [[ShrugOfGod Shrugs of God]], like how everyone has a "suspiciously half-censored" photo in their room obscuring their missing family member and how there's definitely no significance in whoever killed Uzi's mom.

*** The Worker Drones acquired their clothes and hair from human corpses. Also qualified as ShrugOfGod since Liam says he'd "like to think that they did" until he confirmed it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg4En4sOHFM this video]].

*** When series production was much smaller, the anti drone sentinels were originally going to be just orb shaped robots instead of Velociraptors.

** At Glitch X, Liam revealed that Thad was originally going to have a larger role in the series when it was going to be more of a slice of life series before the eldritch horror storyline became the main focus. Similarly, the Murder Drones lust for oil due to basically being robotic vampires was originally going to be a bigger plot thread during this phase before the storyline was altered between the pilot and the rest of the series.

** At Glitch X, Liam revealed that Thad was originally going to have a larger role in the series when it was going to be more of a slice of life series before the eldritch horror storyline became the main focus.

** Episode 2 was originally supposed to be about a ZombieApocalypse.

* SleeperHit: Despite the lack of connections to the main [=SMG4=] series that ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' and ''WebAnimation/SunsetParadise'' had on their side, ''Murder Drones'' became a runaway smash. Within two weeks, the pilot garnered more views than ''Meta Runner''’s pilot did in two ''years'' (''Murder Drones''[='=]s 4 million against ''Meta Runner''[='=]s 3.1 million), and hitting twice as many views in one month (5 million) than ''Sunset Paradise''’s pilot did in 8 months (2.5 million). By October 2023, the pilot has surpassed 25 million views, still the most viewed video on the GLITCH channel by a huge margin… until the pilot for ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' surpassed that number in 10 '''days'''.

* SleeperHit: Despite the lack of connections to the main [=SMG4=] series that ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' and ''WebAnimation/SunsetParadise'' had on their side, ''Murder Drones'' became a runaway smash. Within two weeks, the pilot garnered more views than ''Meta Runner''’s pilot did in two ''years'' (''Murder Drones''[='=]s 4 million against ''Meta Runner''[='=]s 3.1 million), and hitting twice as many views in one month (5 million) than ''Sunset Paradise''’s pilot did in 8 months (2.5 million). By September 2023, the pilot has surpassed 22 million views, still the most viewed video on the GLITCH channel by a huge margin, with the next biggest non-''MD'' video being the aforementioned ''Sunset Paradise'' pilot at a mere 4.1 million.

* BreakthroughHit: For Glitch Productions. While ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' and ''WebAnimation/SunsetParadise'' had decent followings, most of their initial hype came from the connections to ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers [=SMG4=]]]''. ''Murder Drones'', their first fully original IP made with a third-party creator, on the other hand, became a runaway smash that solidified their place as a major player in the indie animation scene.

* SleeperHit: Despite the lack of connections to the main [=SMG4=] series that ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' and ''WebAnimation/SunsetParadise'' had on their side, ''Murder Drones'' became a runaway smash. Within two weeks, the pilot garnered more views than ''Meta Runner'' did in two ''years'' (''Murder Drones''[='=]s 4 million against ''Meta Runner''[='=]s 3.1 million), and hitting twice as many views in one month (5 million) that ''Sunset Paradise'' did in 8 months (2.5 million). By June 2023, the pilot has surpassed 19 million views, still the most viewed video on the GLITCH channel by a huge margin, with the next biggest non-''MD'' video being the aforementioned ''Sunset Paradise'' pilot at a mere 3.9 million.

* ActorSharedBackground:
** WordOfSaintPaul reveals Tessa is an Aussie, just like her voice actress Daisy Rose.

** Elsie Lovelock, Michael Kovach, and Nola Klop have worked together before on ''VideoGame/PoppyPlaytime''.

* LyingCreator:
** Liam claimed that the robots will never wear pants. In episode 2... ''then'' 3...
** A {{downplayed}} example with the Reddit AMA. A question asked if JC Jenson purposefully designed the Disassembly Drones to overheat once the job was done. Liam confirms that they ''were'' designed that way, but left out the detail that [[spoiler:JC Jenson didn't make the Disassembly Drones]].

* LyingCreator: Liam claimed that the robots will never wear pants. In episode 2... ''then'' 3...

* TheWikiRule: Like ''Meta Runner'' before it, ''Murder Drones'' is covered as a part of [[https://supermarioglitchy4.fandom.com/wiki/Murder_Drones SMG4 Wiki]] (despite having absolutely no connection to the main [=SMG4=] series) and has its own wiki [[https://murder-drones.fandom.com/wiki/Murder_Drones_Wiki here]].

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/BiancaAlencar's two best known dubbing roles are [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic a benevolent princess]] and [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls a happy, upbeat younger twin sister]]. Lizzy is about as far away from those roles as you could get.

** Elsie Lovelock, Michael Kovach, and Nola Klop have worked together before on Poppy's Playtime.