History WebVideo / JettersAbridged

* BigBrotherBully: UpToEleven with Mighty, when flashbacks reveal that he taught Shiro how to fight by using bombs on him.

''Jetters Abridged'' was an AbridgedSeries of the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime. It was created by Creator/ThornBrain of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', and written and voiced with fellow [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs MidnightFrogs]] [=BigTUnit1=] and codeblackhayate as [[https://www.youtube.com/teambulgebomb Team Bulge Bomb]]. It has been on indefinite hiatus since 2014 with no likelihood of a return.

On the opposite end, Mujoe is the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain incompetent but sympathetic]] captain of the Hige Hige Bandits who must deal every day with a useless robot workforce, his alcoholic father/boss Bagular, unrequited love for the local bartender Mama, and a massive crotch bulge that makes everything he says sound wrong. His teammates are the MadScientist Dr. Mechadoc, [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots an army of the group's namesake robots]] [[PokemonSpeak who only speak in "Hige's"]], [[VocalDissonance the one Hige with a deep voice]] who speaks English, and the mysterious cyborg Max.

The series did not have a consistent update schedule, to the point of it becoming a running joke outside the series. Episode 3 was released on November 30th, 2011, Episode 4 the next year on September 3, Episode 5 the ''[[RunningGag next]]'' year on June 21 and Episode 6 on Valentine's Day, [[OverlyLongGag 2014]]. There were plans to resume ''Jetters'' with a consistent schedule following ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'''s conclusion in December 2015, but that idea was put to rest after Creator/TheMidnightFrogs went into indefinite hiatus, and Thorn and Travis concluded their working partnership for the foreseeable future due to Travis' hectic life.

* BlackComedy: Death and suffering are used frequently as comedic tools. The Jetters are perpetually broke and hungry, the people they help turn out to be bigger villains than the Hige Hige Bandits, everyone does horrible things to each other, and if you're not a main character you're likely to get killed and eaten.

** "Don't interrupt me" is said by Mighty in Episode 1, then Birdy in Episode 2, both when nobody is saying anything.

* CloudCuckoolander: All of the characters are nuts, but Birdy is the standout. Everything he says is a OneLiner or thought comparable in style to Creator/StevenWright and Creator/JackHandey, though he says it in such a cool-headed, calm and collected manner that you can't tell if he's insane or just really deep. If there was ever a case of MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext, Birdy said it, mostly because what he says is never in context to begin with.

* MadScientist: Dr. Mechadoc.

* MushroomSamba: The dream sequence/{{cold open}} in Episode 5 is a drug dream Shiro is having.

* NoIndoorVoice: Gangu.
* NoMouth: The Bombermen. Thorn ''loved'' editing the first episode since there was so little lip-syncing.

* PhysicalGod: The Bombermen have the powers of gods, including creation from nothing, revival of the dead, and instant killing, (when Louie gets involved, all three can apply). Mighty [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in the first episode.

* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: To ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged''.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** Mujoe's entire intro scene is one big "Hey look! He has a giant bulge in his crotch!" The kicker: he's sensitive about his bulge every point after.
** This exchange in Episode 3 about Shiro's trap for the Hige Hige Bandits:
-->'''Shout''': "Wow! What'd you use? Pepper spray?"
-->'''Shiro''': "Nope. HIV. Hige Immunodeficiency Virus."
-->'''Shout''': ''[{{Beat}}]'' "Are you sure...?"
-->'''Shiro''': "[[JustForPun I'm positive!]] ''[Beat]'' Lllladies."

** The theme song, "Bulge Bomb", is a parody of "Car Bomb" by Negativland, and instead of car parts it lists off various silly things in Anime/BombermanJetters and the fan translation (hence "'Fire' in English is called 'Fire'").

** Housing Bomber's two lines are parodied from "Brick House" by the Commodores.

** Top Bomber says (with rolled R's) "Guru guru", the Japanese onomatopoeia for spinning. The abridged series adds him ending every sentence with "-ururu", and thus Mujoe hates him and [[DisproportionateRetribution sends him to a nebula]].

-->'''Shiro''': ''*[[DissonantSerenity Smiling]]*'' "We're horrible people."

''Jetters Abridged'' was an AbridgedSeries of the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime. It was created by [[Creator/AustinScholl ThornBrain]] of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', and written and voiced with fellow [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs MidnightFrogs]] [=BigTUnit1=] and codeblackhayate as [[https://www.youtube.com/teambulgebomb Team Bulge Bomb]]. It has been on indefinite hiatus since 2014 with no likelihood of a return.

The series did not have a consistent update schedule, to the point of it becoming a running joke outside the series. Episode 3 was released on November 30th, 2011, Episode 4 the next year on September 3, Episode 5 the ''[[RunningGag next]]'' year on June 21 and Episode 6 on Valentine's Day, [[OverlyLongGag 2014]]. There were plans to resume ''Jetters'' with a consistent schedule following ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'''s conclusion in December 2015, but Creator/TheMidnightFrogs going into indefinite hiatus, and Thorn and Travis concluding their working partnership for the foreseeable future due to Travis' hectic life, put that idea to rest.

* IdiotHero: Defied. Thorn specifically wanted Shiro to not be a stupid protagonist like is found in every other abridged series (including [[WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged his own]]), though Shiro could still exhibit naivete due to being a child. Every other character, however... Let's just say there's a reason [=BigTUnit1=] calls the Jetters a "ragtag team of suck".

* MostAnnoyingSound: Invoked with Top Bomber's "Guru guru" and "-ururu" verbal tics. InUniverse, Mujoe hates him because of it.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Mujoe's ringtone is AC/DC's "Big Balls".

* NoMouth: The Bombermen. Thorn ''loved'' editing the first episode.

* PatronSaint: Meta example: WordOfGod says Creator/JackHandey and Creator/StevenWright are Birdy's patron saints.

* ArtShift: While most of the series' footage is taken directly from the original anime, the ColdOpen dream sequence in Episode 5 is drawn by Creator/TheMidnightFrogs' artist Teddy.

->''[[TimeBomb 3! 2! 1! 0!]] [[AfricanChant NO MOUTH, FRACTIONS, MAN WITH NO PANTS! BIRD, ARMADILLO AND MOUSE-ROBOT!]] [[CaptainObvious FIRE IN ENGLISH IS CALLED "FIRE"!]] [[TheYoshi RIDING ON THE BACK OF A DUCK-BUNNY!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis BUUUUULGE BOOOOOMB!!!]]''

* LargeHam: The villains [[BoisterousBruiser Mujoe]] and [[MadScientist Dr. Mechadoc]]. [=BigTUnit1's=] inspiration for the latter was Creator/MarkHamill's version of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.

''Jetters Abridged'' is an AbridgedSeries of the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime. It was created by [[Creator/AustinScholl ThornBrain]] of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', and it is written and voiced with fellow [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs MidnightFrogs]] [=BigTUnit1=] and codeblackhayate as [[http://youtube.com/teambulgebomb Team Bulge Bomb]].

The series does not have a consistent update schedule, to the point of it becoming a running joke outside the series. Episode 3 was released on November 30th, 2011, Episode 4 the next year on September 3, Episode 5 the ''[[RunningGag next]]'' year on June 21 and Episode 6 on Valentine's Day, [[OverlyLongGag 2014]]. Thorn hopes to have a new episode out in 2016 and, with ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'''s episodic series concluded, maybe even give ''Jetters'' a consistent schedule.

[[BreathlessNonSequitur Also]] [[https://twitter.com/JetterBirdy Birdy has a Twitter]]. [[http://askthebirdy.tumblr.com And a Q&A blog]].

The series does not have a consistent update schedule, to the point of it becoming a running joke outside the series. Episode 3 was released on November 30th, 2011, Episode 4 the next year on September 3, Episode 5 the ''[[RunningGag next]]'' year on June 21 and Episode 6 on Valentine's Day, [[OverlyLongGag 2014]]. Thorn hopes to have a new episode out in 2015 or 2016, and once ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'' is finished he intends to focus on ''Jetters'' and give it a consistent schedule.

* TheAce: Mighty. [[JerkAss And he]] ''[[JerkAss knows]]'' [[JerkAss it]].

* AGodAmI: Averted with the Bomberman. Though they have god-like powers, they are responsible with them and treat them like a part of growing up.

* BlackComedy: Death is used frequently as a comedic tool.

** "RAAAAAAID!"
** "If a showerhead could talk, it would probably say 'Ksssssssssshhh...'" "'...sssssshhhh, squeak squeak. You take too fucking long to shower'. That's what my shower would say to me."
*** "Don't interrupt me."
** Shiro dreams about cobras raining down on him at the start of Episode 5. Later on he summons a rain of cobras in real life.

* ButtMonkey: Bongo. Everyone hates him for no reason whatsoever.[[note]]An unintentional CallBack to the ''Jetters'' play through [[LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO Thorn and Travis]] did; by the end of the let's play, [[{{Irony}} ThornBrain stated that the only character he still liked was Bongo.]][[/note]]

** Birdy made two separate vocal appearances in ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', both of which referenced ''Jetters Abridged''. The writers are still deciding if the two series take place in the same universe or if Birdy is just that transcendental, given that ''Jetters Abridged'' is written to never reference ''SFA''.
** According to the SFA Ask Blog, ''Podcast/AskGiroDoroSFA'', the Keronians have tried to invade Planet Bomber, only to fail. Giroro and Dororo make a comment on how lucky they are that the super-strong Bombermen are peaceful.

* DesignatedHero: Mighty in-universe. He fights crime, rescues orphans, rebuilds dams, etc, but he also [[WhatTheHellHero punts children]] [[RefugeInAudacity like footballs]], kidnaps girls to pass them off as {{distressed damsel}}s on whole other planets, and apparently [[HandsomeLech hits on women like a total sleaze]]. Everyone lampshades it to hell and back. By Episode 5, it's clear that he was a BunnyEarsLawyer: complete JerkAss, but was otherwise great at everything.

* HijackedByGanon: An inverted running gag in the series. The people that hire the Jetters are always more evil and a greater threat than the Hige Hige Bandits. Hell, as of Episode 4 the ''Jetters'' are more evil than the Hige Hige Bandits.

* VerbalTic:
** Like in the original, Bongo ends most sentences with "Bongo", even if it's just a one-word sentence.
** Also like in the original, Top Bomber says (with rolled R's) "Guru guru", the Japanese onomatopoeia for spinning. However he also ends every sentence with "-ururu", and thus [[DisproportionateRetribution Mujoe sends him to a nebula]].

* DubNameChange: Subverted with Shiro. His name is shorted from "Shirobon"[[note]]"White Bomber" in most translations[[/note]] in order to make it sound more like a name and easier to say. However Episode 6 shows that his full name is still "Shirobon", but he doesn't go by it.

''Jetters Abridged'' is an AbridgedSeries of the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime. It was created by [[Creator/AustinScholl ThornBrain]] of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', and it is written and voiced with fellow [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs MidnightFrogs]] [=BigTUnit1=] and codeblackhayate as [[http://youtube.com/teambulgebomb Team Bulge Bomb]]. Thorn and Travis promoted the series on Website/SomethingAwful while doing [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] of ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'' and the ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'' [[RecursiveAdaptation game]] on LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO, both of which influenced their portrayal of the characters.

''Jetters Abridged'' is an AbridgedSeries of the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime. It was created by [[Creator/AustinScholl ThornBrain]] of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', and it is written and voiced with fellow [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs MidnightFrogs]] [=BigTUnit1=] and codeblackhayate as [[http://youtube.com/teambulgebomb Team Bulge Bomb]].

The series does not have a consistent update schedule, to the point of it becoming a running joke outside the series. They promoted the series on Website/SomethingAwful while doing [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] of ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'' and the ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'' [[RecursiveAdaptation game]] on LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO, both of which influenced their portrayal of the characters. Episode 3 was released on November 30th, 2011, Episode 4 the next year on September 3, Episode 5 the ''[[RunningGag next]]'' year on June 21 and Episode 6 on Valentine's Day, [[OverlyLongGag 2014]].

-->'''Shiro:''' "Lick the frog, you said."

** Episode 4 also featured "[[EarWorm Redial]]" as elevator music.

* OneSceneWonder: Enforced with Birdy, who had to be purposefully pulled back to this after Episode 3 when [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs Mugiwara Yoshi]] noted that Birdy's overuse in that episode was more annoying than funny, to which Thorn and Travis agreed.

* MushroomSamba: The dream sequence/{{cold open}} in Episode 5 is drug dream Shiro is having.

* MythologyGag: Episode 3 included a few references to [[LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO Thorn and Travis']] {{Lets Play}}s of the ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'' and ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'' games.

* NoIndoorVoice: Gangu

* NonSequitur: Not that Birdy ''doesn't'' say things in-context. They're just ''usually'' this.

* OneSceneWonder: Birdy. [[InvokedTrope He had to be purposefully pulled back to this]] after Episode 3 when [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs Mugiwara Yoshi]] noted that Birdy's overuse in that episode was more annoying than funny, to which Thorn and Travis agreed.

** AGodAmI: Averted. Though the Bombermen have god-like powers, they are responsible with them and treat them like a part of growing up.

* ShaggyDogStory: Shiro's quest to find answers to his destiny on Sibarelu. [[spoiler:The whole quest was in his imagination to begin with, but it only culminates in a "[[ItMakesSenseInContext behind]]" {{pun}}.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Episode 5 shows that Mujoe has a very strained relationship with his father.
* WhatTheHellHero: Have we mentioned Mighty's a JerkAss?
** [[LampshadeHanging Shiro lampshades this]] in the first episode:

* AffectionateParody: The series takes a chunk of its humor from poking fun at [[Anime/BombermanJetters the original series]] and [[VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} the video games]].

* {{Double Entendre}}/{{UnEntendre}}: Most of Mujoe's dialogue is this, due to his eye-drawingly large bulge.

** Also Dr. Ein in the same episode:

* MushroomSamba / ArtShift: The dream sequence/{{cold open}} in Episode 5.

* TheChewToy / TheyKilledKenny: Louie, who dies in every episode, sometimes several times. Though his death is never seen and often happens with no viable explanation, the characters will usually acknowledge the death, and after the first episode it's pretty easy to tell when Louie has died.

* AffectionateParody: The series takes a chunk of its humor from poking fun at the original series, and in at least one case the VideoGame/BombermanJetters video game.

* BadBoss: The mole boss in Episode 4.

** "'''Oh no, cobras!!!'''"

-->'''Shout''': "Shiro, why is it whenever you move, you put us deeper into the red?"

** Shiro, Episode 6:

** Mujoe, when he and Mechadoc are discussing defeating the Jetters:

* CouchGag: Something different happens with Mujoe at the end of every title sequence, usually involving the [[GroinAttack crotch]].

* DesignatedHero: Mighty in-universe. He fights crime, rescues orphans, rebuilds dams, etc, but he also [[WhatTheHellHero punts children]] [[RefugeInAudacity like footballs]], supposedly kidnaps girls ([[FridgeBrilliance from other planets]]) and passes them off as [[DistressedDamsel Distressed Damsels]], and apparently [[HandsomeLech hits on women like a total sleaze]]. Everyone lampshades it to hell and back. By Episode 5, it's clear that he was a BunnyEarsLawyer: complete JerkAss, but was otherwise great at everything.

*** JerkAssDissonance: Played with. It's clear that Mighty's a jerkass hero that everybody inexplicably loves, but nobody denies this either. Shiro even straight-up admits to Mighty being a jerk in the first episode.

''Jetters Abridged'' is an AbridgedSeries of the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime. It was created by [[Creator/AustinScholl ThornBrain]] of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', and it is written and voiced with fellow [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs MidnightFrogs]] BigTUnit1 and codeblackhayate as [[http://youtube.com/teambulgebomb Team Bulge Bomb]].

->'''Title Theme''': [[TimeBomb 3! 2! 1! 0!]] [[AfricanChant NO MOUTH, FRACTIONS, MAN WITH NO PANTS! BIRD, ARMADILLO AND MOUSE-ROBOT!]] [[CaptainObvious FIRE IN ENGLISH IS CALLED "FIRE"!]] [[TheYoshi RIDING ON THE BACK OF A DUCK-BUNNY!]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis BUUUUULGE BOOOOOMB!!!]]'''

''Jetters Abridged'' is an AbridgedSeries of the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime. It was created by [[Creator/AustinScholl ThornBrain]] of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'', and it is written and voiced with friends [[Creator/TheMidnightFrogs BigTUnit1 and codeblackhayate]] as [[http://youtube.com/teambulgebomb Team Bulge Bomb]].

Shiro is a young Bomberman whose brother, [[TheAce "the legendary Bomberman" Mighty]], disappears (and everyone thinks dies) suddenly [[SecondEpisodeMorning after the first episode]]. Shiro takes up Mighty's position in [[SpacePolice the Jetters]], an intergalactic crime-fighting team pitched against the outrageous thief organization, [[HarmlessVillain the Hige-Hige Bandits]], all while sorting out his issues with his late {{Jerkass}} brother[[spoiler:, and slowly losing his mind when he realizes Mighty might not be dead]]. Shiro's teammates include the [[MeaningfulName easily irritated Shout]], the doddering old scientist Dr. Ein, the CloudCuckoolander extraordinaire Birdy, and the [[ThoseTwoGuys unloved and useless pair of Bongo and Gangu]].

On the opposite end, Mujoe is the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain incompetent but sympathetic]] captain of the Hige Hige Bandits who must deal every day with a useless robot workforce, an alcoholic father/boss, unrequited love for the local bartender, and a massive crotch bulge that makes everything he says sound wrong. His teammates are the MadScientist Dr. Mechadoc, [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots an army of the group's namesake robots]] [[PokemonSpeak who only speak in "Hige's"]], [[VocalDissonance the one Hige with a deep voice]] who speaks English, and the mysterious cyborg Max.

The series does not have a consistent update schedule, (as Travis puts it, "If I'm not working, I'm working"). They promoted the series on Website/SomethingAwful while doing [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] of ''[[VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} Bomberman Hero]]'' and the VideoGame/BombermanJetters [[RecursiveAdaptation game]] on LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO, both of which influenced their portrayal of the characters. Episode 3 was released on November 30th, 2011, Episode 4 the next year on September 3, Episode 5 the ''[[RunningGag next]]'' year on June 21 and Episode 6 on Valentine's Day, [[OverlyLongGag 2014]].