History WebAnimation / AlienStage

* {{Animesque}}: Per the norm for a Vivinos work, Alien Stage is Anime inspired.

* CreatorThumbprint: Quite a few for Vivinos appear in this work, such as a lesbian couple being at the center of the story, the story being darker than it appears to be on the surface, and a character being AxeCrazy.

''Alien Stage'' is an ongoing series of animations by the creator Vivinos, also known for their WebAnimation/PinkBitchClub series. So far a prologue and six episodes have been released, as well as two additional shorts.

* SideStoryBonusArt: Vivinos occasionally posts presumably non-canon fan art of the ''Alien Stage'' characters on her social media, mainly Instagram, though some was posted on her official Twitter before it was deleted. She also occasionally streams herself drawing fan art of the cast.

* ObsessionSong: ''"Unknown (Till The End)"'' is a very {{Yandere}}-like one.

* RedFilterOfDoom: This happens at the end of Round 2 [[spoiler: right after Till smashes his guitar. Till's guitar is actually a lower-class alien named Freddie, so him smashing it into pieces in front of the aliens must be comparable to killing a dog.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot:
** [[spoiler:Sua's death is only shown through blood splattering on Mizi.]]
** [[spoiler:Also, may or may not be used to show Till killing his opponent in Round 2.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: An interview with Mizi and Sua reveals that the children of Anakt Garden are brought up with the belief that dying on stage while singing is an honor and that even when they die, they will brought back to some place called Great Anakt.[[spoiler: Seems like it isn't enough to cancel out the grief of loss though.]]

* RedFilterOfDoom: This happens at the end of Round 2 right after Till smashes his guitar.

* CrapsackWorld: Boy is it ever. [[spoiler:: Humans are a slave race to what may be the entire rest of the galaxy and are routinely abused at worst and treated as entertaining pets at best. Either way, humans are still disposable as can be seen with the losers of the titular Alien Stage show. There are some like Mizi who had good alien parents but that doesn't shield them from seeing the person they care for the most die right in front of them for said aliens' entertainment.]]

* ImpliedRape: In the flashbacks to the bar in the beginning of Round 6, [[spoiler: Till attacks his alien abusers, injuring one of them in the eye. They easily overpower him and possibly put him on some kind of drug to sedate him. Moments later, the same alien Till attacked is seen naked with a bandaged eye, its large hand gripping and roughly stroking the head of a weakened Till who has lost all strength to fight back. We can only imagine the horrors that he endured.]]

* ImpliedRape: At the flashbacks in the beginning of Round 6, [[spoiler: Till attacks his alien abusers, injuring one of them in the eye. They easily overpower him and possibly put him on some kind of drug to sedate him. Moments later, the same alien Till attacked is seen naked with a bandaged eye, its large hand gripping and roughly stroking the head of a weakened Till who has lost all strength to fight back. We can only imagine the horrors that he endured.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: A very cruel one indeed. [[spoiler: Just before Sua dies in round 1, we see the scores of both her and Mizi. Mizi is one point above her and so she's soon shot for losing despite the fact that the two of them were performing a duet.]]

* DownerBeginning: Downer might be too weak a word. Tragic is more appropriate. To wit, [[spoiler: we learn that the Earth has been taken over by cruel aliens that have enslaved the human race and turned them into pets. The lovely duet the two characters were singing? The two characters shown through flashbacks to mean the world to each other? One of them dies and it's technically the fault of the other one.]]

* DeadlyGame: The loser of each round is killed at the end.

* HateSink: The titualar aliens. Not a single one of them seem to regard humanity as anything more than entertainment and they are frequently shown abusing our characters. A prime example is [[spoiler: when Sua is killed in Round 1, several of the aliens can be seen cheering.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: An interview with Mizi and Sua reveals that the children of Anakt Garden are brought up with the belief that dying on stage while singing is an honour and that even when they die, they will brought back to sommeplace called Great Anakt.[[spoiler: Seems like it isn't enough to cancel out the grief of loss though.]]

* LoveHurts: A common theme throughout the series. Every hardship that the characters go through can be traced back to their love for another character. [[spoiler: Though that comes with the cavet of their ailen overlords putting them through brutal conditions just for their entertainment.]]