History WebAnimation / CharlieTheUnicorn

--> "[[NonSequitur We're on a bridge, Charlie!]]"

In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY first installment]], originally released on Website/{{Newgrounds}} in November of 2005, Charlie is coerced into venturing to the magical Candy Mountain. [[http://www.filmcow.com/charlietheunicorn2.html A sequel]] came out three years later, this time following their quest to return the magical amulet to the Banana King. The following year saw [[http://www.filmcow.com/charlietheunicorn3.html a third episode]] about saving the future. Popular demand led to the creation of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbF9nLhOqLU a fourth installment]] three years later. A GrandFinale was [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1556971210/charlie-the-unicorn-the-grand-finale funded through Kickstarter]] and was set to be released in six installments, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HvyUSZcDk4&t=3s the first]] being released in October of 2019. The completed Finale was released on October 23, 2021, finally bringing the series to a close.

* CurbstompBattle: Practically a [[spoiler:curbstomp ''apocalypse''. After the Order of Tutelary Weasels unleashes the chaos spirits on Charlie the Unicorn's world, they kill the overwhelming majority of its occupants. We never see any weapons or methods of resistance with a hope of success employed against them. Indeed, City of the Sea actively collaborates with them, giving up useful information in exchange for gold and a promise not to be exterminated for awhile. The only being who is shown trying to fight back, Nyx, ends up likely making the situation even worse by releasing ''another'' chaos spirit because he doesn't know what he's doing. Ghost Norwell's song admits that his civilization put up "barely a fight."]]

** [[spoiler:Part Four of the finale concludes Nyx's story/prologue, ending with his death at the hands of the spinning cubes.]]

* ForTheEvulz: Nyx asks why the Cubes seem to want to just torment and kill everything. The cube, in his flesh host puppet, simply responds that they find it funny. [[spoiler:Now knowing the nature of Pink and Blue, this really puts their actions into perspective.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nyx is characterized as a voice of reason trying to stop a force for evil in the world [[spoiler: but arguably the whole crisis with the Chaos Spirits is to a significant degree his fault. He arrives at the door leading to the other dimension with the intent of studying it because he fears it might be dangerous, but he has no expressed contingency plans for what to do about the danger, and is never shown attempting to stop the Chaos in any way except a late HailMary. The Order of Tutelary Weasels didn't know the door to the other dimension existed and apparently didn't even want to go explore the cave containing it until Nyx arrived and expressed his intentions. During a climactic confrontation the villain calls Nyx out on having no real idea what he's doing.]]

* SequelEscalation: Each short gets more insane than the last one: The first short involves Charlie, Pink and Blue looking for Candy Mountain, the second short involves them bringing an amulet to the Banana King, the third short is about Charlie being taken to the future where he then has to go underwater to finish building a snowman, and the fourth short involves them going to the moon to fight the Millipede Queen to save the Cavern of the Red Wind.

* SequelEscalation: Each short gets more insane than the last one: The first short involves Charlie, Pink and Blue looking for Candy Mountain, the second short involves them bring an amulet to the Banana King, the third short is about Charlie being taken to the future where he then has to go underwater to finish building a snowman, and the fourth short involves them going to the moon to fight the Millipede Queen to save the Cavern of the Red Wind.

* SelfDeprecation: "charlie teh unicron" is a self-parody by Filmcow that makes fun of the original. According to WordOfGod, it's also a TakeThat to fans who email Filmcow with suggestions for future Charlie the Unicorn episodes, "a parody of what Charlie the Unicorn would be like if it was written by random internet people".

* SpinOff: Technically. The only real difference between "Charlie teh Unicron" and the main series is that pink and blue act more adult and lose the EldritchAbomination feel. Plus charlie is less of a straight man and more a bystander. Weird things still happen, they just seem more "normal", in the sense that you could believe that's just how the universe works in this world.

* HiveMind: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale reveals that, assumedly, the population of the ''entire world'' outside of Charlie and Starfish are being controlled by only two demons, whom use Pink and Blue as their main avatars.]]

* GoKartingWithBowser: In "charlie teh unicron 2", after pink and blue shoot the banana king, they go with charlie and the banana king to eat at a Denny's. [[UnexplainedRecovery The banana king is completely fine.]]

* {{Flanderization}}: In the first episode, Pink and Blue are... unsettling, but have few if any of their reality warping powers. Their ability to screw with the laws of nature get stronger each episode.

** [[spoiler:Part Four of the finale concludes Nyx's story/prologue, ending with their death at the hands of the spinning cubes.]]

* CurbstompBattle: Practically a [[spoiler:curbstomp ''apocalypse''. After the Order of Tutelary Weasels unleashes the chaos spirits on Charlie the Unicorn's world, they kill the overwhelming majority of its occupants. We never see any weapons or methods of resistance with a hope of success employed against them. Indeed, City of the Sea actively collaborates with them, giving up useful information in exchange for gold and a promise not to be exterminated for awhile. The only being who shown trying to fight back, Nyx, ends up likely making the situation even worse by releasing ''another'' chaos spirit because he doesn't know what he's doing. Ghost Norwell's song admits that his civilization put up "barely a fight."]]

** [[spoiler:The Grand Finale features Charlie using his cynicism to exorcise Blue and Pink, sending them back to their realm forever. However, the ending reel shows various locations from the series, now completely devoid of life. This along with the backstory of the two demons gives the impression that though Charlie is now free, he's also completely alone in an utterly dead world that only had any life at all because it was being puppeted. A line from Episode 4 implies there may be other survivors; according to WordOfGod, [[https://twitter.com/FilmCow/status/1452035134878883842 Charlie will one day find them]], though it won't be easy. This is on top of Charlie having already expressed sadness over Blue and Pink being corpses. At least he still has the ghost of Starfish.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Episode four ends with [[spoiler:Pink and Blue attempting to destroy both the [[DetonationMoon moon]] and Charlie out of [[ForTheEvulz pure boredom]] with a massive bomb. However Starfish comes just in the nick of time and saves Charlie's life by making a wish at the cost of his own [[FlayingAlive skin]]. Pink and Blue are then shown back on earth celebrating the destruction of the moon and the death of Charlie. However thanks to Charlie's wish, he teleports right next to them much to their surprise. The episode then abruptly ends with Starfish's skinless body landing on earth yelling out "YOLO!"]].

** In "charlie teh unicron 2", pink points out at Denny's that the fire was from the episode before. Lampshaded by blue who asks how it's still burning.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: In the course of the series, those two sugary, dimwitted friends of Charlie: knock him out to steal his kidney, his TV, and his horn [[spoiler:just so they can make a snowman]]. That's if you don't count merely ''being near them'' as a horror in itself. The fourth episode reveals that [[spoiler:they really are just trying to kill him, most likely out of boredom, and that they are planning to do this to other people too.]]

* ButtMonkey: Charlie.

* {{Narcissist}}: The Millipede.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: As part of the intentional suckiness of "charlie teh unicron", none of the characters are quite right: charlie is much more meek and passive than aggressive and surly, and pink and blue are much more lucid and mature, using curse words and behaving violently, recontextualizing their random behavior as trollish and memetic rather than childlike and unsettling.