History WebAnimation / LittleRunmo

* SuddenSoundtrackStop: When [[spoiler:Grobletombus Marble Eyes jumps into the spikes]], the music comes to a sudden halt, fitting with [[spoiler:the MoodWhiplash and [[AntiClimax anti-climactic]] nature of the gag]].

-->-- The video's full Youtube description.

A surreal animated short film created by Creator/{{Gooseworx}} which follows Runmo, the protagonist of a platformer game. After Runmo loses two of his lives by falling into a pit, listening to the musings of a nearby tutorial character named Pikit inspires him to figure out what exactly happens to him when he falls. He then starts off on an adventure to discover the meaning of life -- his own, others', and the finite revivals the game he's in provides.

!! Little Runmo contains examples of:

* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, Runmo cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[spoiler:falls off the map, as apparently [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the entire world no longer exists past the first obstacle.]]]]
* AllThereInTheManual: A seemingly unnamed section of the cast of characters are all given names during the silhouetted CurtainCall in the credits.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: [[BackgroundBoss The Meatball 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]].

A fan-made game based on the short is being made. The full game can played [[https://juhosprite.itch.io/little-runmo here]].

A fan-made game based on the short is being made. The demo can played [[https://juhosprite.itch.io/little-runmo here]].

** At the end, [[spoiler:due to Grobletombus's death, it seems like the destruction of the universe was averted when Runmo lands back in the stage he started in, which is completely unharmed. He finally makes it past the pit that initially killed him, and is so happy to finally make it that he starts running towards what comes next... only to run right off the stage into the void Grobletombus's actions left behind, revealing that that landmass is all that's left of it, and poof into a cluster of lives.]]

** At the end, [[spoiler:due to Grobletombus's death, it seems like the destruction of the universe was averted when Runmo lands back in the stage he started in, which is completely unharmed. He finally makes it past the pit that initially killed him, and is so happy to finally make it that he starts running towards what comes next... only to run right off the stage into the void Grobletombus's actions left behind and poof into a cluster of lives.]]

A surreal animated short film created by ''Creator/{{Gooseworx}}'' which follows Runmo, the protagonist of a platformer game, as he goes on adventure to discover the meaning of life. As the short goes on, numerous tropes associated with video games are played out, constructed, deconstructed, reconstructed, and put in ways that offer quite a compelling new view.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Grobletombus 'punishes' Runmo for violating the laws of life by completely destroying and remaking the universe, in such a way that the latter tumbles into an endless abyss just when everything seems to be back to normal again. ''[[AndIMustScream Forever.]]''
--->''"Blunders such as this have steep consequences..."''

A game based on the short is being made. The demo can played [[https://juhosprite.itch.io/little-runmo here]].

* 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.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Runmo discovers the truth about his world by jumping into a BottomlessPit. Granted, he grabbed onto the wall as he was descending (which lead him to the underground factory), but still.

* AdiposeRexber: 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.

* 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.

* BerserkButton: Though it inflicts a kind of TranquilFury, ''do not'' violate the rules of nature, as far as Grobletombus is concerned. Later in the same sequence, colliding with a set of SpikesOfDoom similar to the one from the very beginning makes him ''bellow in rage'' before seemingly exploding.

* PunnyName: Dring King. As in, [[spoiler:drinking]].

* StealthPun: "Wheel of Fundus".[[note]]In anatomy, a ''fundus'' is a term referring to the area of a hollow organ, such as an eyeball or the stomach, which is furthest from the opening; in the case of the stomach, it's the dome-like section that lies above the opening where food arrives from the oesophagus.[[/note]]

* AllForNothing: After finally passing that spiked obstacle that blocked his way in the beginning, Runmo cheers, proceeds forward in glee, and [[spoiler: falls off the map, as apparently [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the entire world no longer exists past the first obstacle.]]]]

* ArtShift: [[spoiler: When Runmo tears the head off of his predecessor, the animation looks markedly different from Gooseworx's usual art style, being done frame-by-frame rather than through tweening. This is because this part wasn't animated by Gooseworx at all, but instead contributed by fellow web animator Zeurel.]]

A surreal animated short film created by Gooseworx which follows Runmo, the protagonist of a platformer game, as he goes on adventure to discover the meaning of life. As the short goes on, numerous tropes associated with video games are played out, constructed, deconstructed, reconstructed, and put in ways that offer quite a compelling new view.

* 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.

* FatBastard: See AdiposeRex above.

* 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]], who operates on a whole new medium.

* BerserkButton: Though it inflicts a kind of TranquilFury, ''do not'' violate the rules of nature, as far as Grobletombus is concerned.
** Later in the same sequence, colliding with a set of SpikesOfDoom similar to the one from the very beginning makes him ''bellow in rage'' before seemingly exploding.

* Gonk: The Meatball Man looks ridiculosly ugly with actual human face photoshopped on a vaguely meatball thing.

* DarkLifeOnLifeSupport: The Dring King is constantly drinking [[spoiler:liquefied one-ups]]. After Runmo turns off the machine supplying them, he goes back to the room... where a disembodied voice helpfully points out [[spoiler:he's been reduced to B O N E S.]]