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--> ''"After two years of slowly chipping away at this thing, it's finally here. Follow Runmo, as he discovers the meaning of life."''

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--> -> ''"After two years of slowly chipping away at this thing, it's finally here. Follow Runmo, as he discovers the meaning of life."''
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A surreal short film created by Gooseworx which follows Runmo, the protagonist of a platformer game, discovering the meaning of life.


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A surreal animated short film created by Gooseworx which follows Runmo, the protagonist of a platformer game, discovering as he goes on adventure to discover the meaning of life.

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* ArtShift: [[spoiler: When Runmo tears the head off of his predecessor, the animation looks markedly different from Gooseworx's usual art style.]]

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* WombLevel: After [[spoiler: getting EatenAlive by the Temp King,]] Runmo finds himself playing Gastric Giveaway, a parody of Series/WheelOfFortune where every bad spin either raises the stomach acid level or [[spoiler: kills the Temp King]].

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Pikit]]'s ultimate fate is never revealed.
* WombLevel: After [[spoiler: getting EatenAlive by the Temp King,]] Runmo finds himself playing Gastric Giveaway, a parody of Series/WheelOfFortune where every bad spin either raises the stomach acid level or [[spoiler: kills the Temp King]].King]].
* WorldWreckingWave: The arrival of [[spoiler:Grombletombus]] is marked by a purple shockwave that dissolves the world around it. [[spoiler:This is probably the reason Runmo ends up plummeting off into the abyss at the very end]].

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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: [[ParanoiaFuel The Meatball Man]].

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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: [[ParanoiaFuel [[BackgroundBoss The Meatball Man]].Man]], coming in from the background as Runmo tries to get some extra lives. We never find out if he would've actually killed Runmo, however, because he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere turns around and bolts faster than ever before at about the halfway mark]].


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* HopeSpot: An inversion during the Gastric Giveaway game, in that it seems Runmo is about to lose his very last life as [[spoiler:he spun and got Death... but then, the one to [[CriticalExistenceFailure suddenly]] die is the Temp King instead]].
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* CriticalExistenceFailure: [[spoiler: After shutting down the machine that turns lives into sludge]], Runmo immediately checks on the previously healthy (albeit obese) Dring King. [[spoiler: There's nothing left of him but [[StrippedToTheBone B O N E S.]]]]


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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The main function of the factory is to process the spent lives of Runmo, all so [[spoiler: the Dring King can have his sludge martinis.]]
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* SequenceBreaking: The entire plot is kicked off when, upon Pikit's musings, Runmo slides down the side of a BottomlessPit in such a way that he forks off into a side tunnel leading to the main facility itself.
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* RealityBreakingParadox: [[spoiler:It appears using your predecessor's head as an extra life counts as one, as reality quickly falls apart and the God of the Concept of Life comes around to chastise the one responsible]].
-->'''[[spoiler:Grobletombus Marble Eyes]]:''' Oh me, oh my. It appears a crime has been committed, a crime against the very essence of life itself... and blunders such as this... have '''consequences'''.

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* AdiposeRex/FatBastard: Both the [[ThreateningShark Dring King]] and the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Temp King]] qualify, as they are both large fat royalty sitting on a big throne, [[spoiler: the Temp King replacing the Dring King when the latter dies]]. The first one threatens Runmo and sends his soldiers after him. The other one just eats him.

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* AdiposeRex/FatBastard: AdiposeRex: Both the [[ThreateningShark Dring King]] and the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Temp King]] qualify, as they are both large fat royalty sitting on a big throne, [[spoiler: the Temp King replacing the Dring King when the latter dies]]. The first one threatens Runmo and sends his soldiers after him. The other one just eats him.


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* FatBastard: See AdiposeRex above.
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* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, he cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[spoiler: falls off the map, as apparently [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the entire world is incomplete past its first obstacle.]]]]

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* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, he Runmo cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[spoiler: falls off the map, as apparently [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the entire world is incomplete past its first obstacle.]]]]
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* AdiposeRex: Both the [[ThreateningShark Dring King]] and the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Temp King]] qualify, as they are both large fat royalty sitting on a big throne, [[spoiler: the Temp King replacing the Dring King when the latter dies]].

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* AdiposeRex: AdiposeRex/FatBastard: Both the [[ThreateningShark Dring King]] and the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Temp King]] qualify, as they are both large fat royalty sitting on a big throne, [[spoiler: the Temp King replacing the Dring King when the latter dies]].dies]]. The first one threatens Runmo and sends his soldiers after him. The other one just eats him.
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* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, he cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[spoiler: falls off the map, as apparently [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the entire world is incomplete past its first obstacle.])]]

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* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, he cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[spoiler: falls off the map, as apparently [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the entire world is incomplete past its first obstacle.])]]]]]]
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* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, he cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[falls off the map, as apparently the entire world is incomplete past its first obstacle.

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* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, he cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[falls [[spoiler: falls off the map, as apparently [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the entire world is incomplete past its first obstacle.])]]
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* PutOnABus: Pikit was dragged down into the underground factory by Runmo, hides in a living trash can with Runmo, and is never seen again.
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* AdiposeRex: Both the [[ThreateningShark Dring King]] and the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Temp King]] qualify, as they are both large fat royalty sitting on a big throne, [[Spoiler: the Temp King replacing the Dring King when the latter dies]].

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* AdiposeRex: Both the [[ThreateningShark Dring King]] and the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Temp King]] qualify, as they are both large fat royalty sitting on a big throne, [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: the Temp King replacing the Dring King when the latter dies]].
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* AdiposeRex: Both the [[ThreateningShark Dring King]] and the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Temp King]] qualify, as they are both large fat royalty sitting on a big throne, [[Spoiler: the Temp King replacing the Dring King when the latter dies]].
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* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, he cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[falls off the map, as apparently the entire world is incomplete past its first obstacle.


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* CrapsaccharineWorld: On the surface, it’s a jolly, colorful SugarBowl setting with upbeat piano music. Under the surface, [[CrapsackWorld the setting shows its true gloomy form]].
* CosmicHorrorStory: A very light and colorful story about a cute little video game character desperately clinging to what few lives he has in a vast underground industrial nightmare.
* DontFearTheReaper: The Bonekeeper is a weird rendition of the GrimReaper, with really long winding arms, a floating head, and no dialogue. However, he’s just doing his job, [[spoiler: carrying the bodies of the Dring King and the Temp King]] and buying chips at the vendor. He never directly threatens Runmo, and is content in his work.
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* BottomlessPits: [[EternalEngine and what’s under them]].

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* BottomlessPits: [[EternalEngine and what’s And what’s]] [[NightmarishFactory under them]].
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* BottomlessPits: [[EternalEngine and what’s under them]].
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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: [[ParanoiaFuel: The Meatball Man]].

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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: [[ParanoiaFuel: [[ParanoiaFuel The Meatball Man]].
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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: The Meatball Man.

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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: [[ParanoiaFuel: The Meatball Man.Man]].



* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two examples: the first being the Meatball Man who ventures to the UncannyValley with his photo-realistic facial features. The second is [[spoiler: Grobletombus Marble Eyes]]

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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two examples: the first being the Meatball Man who ventures to the UncannyValley with his photo-realistic facial features. The second is [[spoiler: Grobletombus Marble Eyes]]Eyes]], who operates on a whole new medium.
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* WombLevel: After [[spoiler: getting EatenAlive by the Temp King,]] Runmo finds himself playing Gastric Giveaway, a parody of WheelOfFortune where every bad spin either raises the stomach acid level or [[spoiler: kills the Temp King]].

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* WombLevel: After [[spoiler: getting EatenAlive by the Temp King,]] Runmo finds himself playing Gastric Giveaway, a parody of WheelOfFortune Series/WheelOfFortune where every bad spin either raises the stomach acid level or [[spoiler: kills the Temp King]].

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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two examples
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Runmo does when when he's halfway through The Meatball Man's room.

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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two examples
examples: the first being the Meatball Man who ventures to the UncannyValley with his photo-realistic facial features. The second is [[spoiler: Grobletombus Marble Eyes]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Runmo does when when he's halfway through The Meatball Man's room.room.
* WombLevel: After [[spoiler: getting EatenAlive by the Temp King,]] Runmo finds himself playing Gastric Giveaway, a parody of WheelOfFortune where every bad spin either raises the stomach acid level or [[spoiler: kills the Temp King]].

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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and [[IceCreamKoan Ice-Cream-Koans]], and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life]].

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* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and [[IceCreamKoan Ice-Cream-Koans]], and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life]].life]].
*NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two examples
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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and IceCreamKoans, and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life]].

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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and IceCreamKoans, [[IceCreamKoan Ice-Cream-Koans]], and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life]].
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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and IceCreamKoan, and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life]].

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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and IceCreamKoan, IceCreamKoans, and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life]].
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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and IceCreamKoan, and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life.

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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and IceCreamKoan, and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life.life]].
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* EldritchAbomination: [[MadGod Grobletombus Marble Eyes, The god of the Concept of Life]]. He comes out of nowhere, speaks in riddles and IceCreamKoan, and then [[spoiler: makes the very same mistake Runmo made in his first life.

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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Meatball Man.

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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: The Meatball Man.Man.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Runmo does when when he's halfway through The Meatball Man's room.
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--> ''"After two years of slowly chipping away at this thing, it's finally here. Follow Runmo, as he discovers the meaning of life."''
-->-- The video's full Youtube description.

A surreal short film created by Gooseworx which follows Runmo, the protagonist of a platformer game, discovering the meaning of life.


!! Little Runmo contains examples of:
* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Meatball Man.

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