History Website / Mortasheen

* CrapsackWorld: Played with, it's definitely a seriously sucky place to live by our standards, but the in-universe inhabitants consider it Utopian. Wreathe has our reaction to Mortasheen... [[KillEmAll and wants to murder them all for it.]]

* YourHeadAsplode: A common result of dealing with Unknown. Also how teleporters work. Also how Buffume fight. High Sanity can do this. Also... well, let's just say this shows up somewhat.

* FlipFlopOfGod: WordOfGod has stated that humans were the ones who turned the world polluted long before Mortasheen existed. This claim though is contradicted by the game's Kickstarter page which says that Mortasheen's waste processes are what destroyed most of the world.

* BrokenAesop: One of the ideas of the game is that just because the inhabitants of the titular city are horrifying-looking by human standards doesn't make them evil, and that their BodyHorror ecosystem has every right to exist. Except, by any sane standard, the inhabitants of Mortasheen ''are'' evil. They care less about their environment than humans do as they turned the entire planet into a toxic wasteland, drove most types of nonmutant species to extinction and ''filled an entire ocean with garbage''. This is not to mention that they also treat humans like lab-rats at best.
** Humans are canonically the ones who made the world that way before Mortasheen city or any of its inhabitants would have existed.

** On the flip side, there's Wreathe, who are painted in the narrative as a closed-minded WellIntentionedExtremist society who cannot tolerate anyone different from themselves. But given the things Mortasheen does, the people of Wreathe have some ''very'' legitimate reasons to fear them and want to destroy them.

* AuthorAppeal: Of a sort. Those familiar with Wojcik's other work will be aware that he's [[http://www.bogleech.com/comics/comic123-biodiverse.htm downright contemptuous]] of dolphins, for various reasons. Absolutely any monster that resembles or is based on a dolphin will be AlwaysChaoticEvil or otherwise thoroughly repellant.

** There's a LogicalExtreme in the form of Axabod, a titanic lifeform whose body and organs constitute an entire subterranean cave system.

* SlasherSmile: Seems to be the defult expression of many of the various monsters running around.

* BloodyHilarious: Oh yes. Wojcik himself said of the game (actually a failed prototype originally conceived as a flash game) that he envisioned the battles "playing out like an ''WesternAnimation/ItchyAndScratchy'' cartoon".

''[[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]]'', created by Website/{{Bogleech}} owner Jonathan Wojcik (AKA @/{{Scythemantis}}) and developed by Cat-Powered Raygun Studios, is an upcoming Cronenbergian {{Mons}} universe set in the eponymous Mortasheen, an ancient biomechanical megapolis where genetic engineering has become more popular than the Internet, filled to the brim with [[MonsterClown nightmarish clowns that cause hallucinations]], [[BodyHorror horribly mutated monstrosities]], [[MixAndMatchCritters grotesque fusions of humans and insects]], and [[CrapsackWorld who knows what else]]... all of which [[DarkIsNotEvil live in general harmony]], and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality honestly wonder why they freak humans out]]. Think of it as the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids''--except even more gross and weird than that would suggest.

''[[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]]'', created by Website/{{Bogleech}} owner Jonathan Wojcik (AKA @/{{Scythemantis}}) and developed by Cat-Powered Raygun Studios, is a {{Mons}}-like BioPunk universe set in an enormous biomechanical city in a polluted world where genetic engineering has become more popular than the Internet, filled to the brim with [[MonsterClown nightmarish clowns that cause hallucinations]], [[BodyHorror horribly mutated monstrosities]], [[MixAndMatchCritters grotesque fusions of humans and insects]], and [[CrapsackWorld who knows what else]]... all of which [[DarkIsNotEvil live in general harmony]], and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality honestly wonder why they freak humans out]]. Think of it as the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids''--except even more gross and weird than that would suggest.

** [[spoiler: Additionaly, ARE has discovered that ''its own AI'' is a crapshoot, as several of its Celestial Engines have developed odd quirks that ARE finds really weird, ranging from the merely weird - like Engines assigning genders to themselves - to the worrisome, like survivor's guilt.]]

''[[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]]'', created by Website/{{Bogleech}} owner Jonathan Wojcik (AKA @/{{Scythemantis}}) and developed by Cat-Powered Raygun Studios, is a {{Mons}}-like BioPunk universe set in an enormous biomechanical city in a polluted world where genetic engineering has become more popular than the Internet, filled to the brim with [[MonsterClown nightmarish clowns that cause hallucinations]], [[BodyHorror horribly mutated monstrosities]], [[MixAndMatchCritters grotesque fusions of humans and insects]], and [[CrapsackWorld who knows what else]]... all of which [[DarkIsNotEvil live in general harmony]], and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality honestly wonder why they freak humans out]]. Think of it as the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids''--except [[UpToEleven even more gross and weird]] than that would suggest.

''[[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]]'', created by Website/{{Bogleech}} owner Jonathan Wojcik (AKA @/{{Scythemantis}}) and developed by Cat-Powered Raygun Studios, is a {{Mons}}-like BioPunk universe set in a polluted world where genetic engineering has became more popular than the Internet, filled to the brim with [[MonsterClown nightmarish clowns that cause hallucinations]], [[BodyHorror horribly mutated monstrosities]], [[MixAndMatchCritters grotesque fusions of humans and insects]], and [[CrapsackWorld who knows what else]]... all of which [[DarkIsNotEvil live in general harmony]], and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality honestly wonder why they freak humans out]]. Think of it as the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids''--except [[UpToEleven even more gross and weird]] than that would suggest.

* AliensAndMonsters: The "Unknown" class makes up the aliens, everything else is monsters. Unknown are fantastically odd monsters in the game, capable of tons of status effects, but not very heavy on the damage... except for the [[TheBigGuy Meteor Series]], who reverse the trend.

''[[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]]'', created by Website/{{Bogleech}} owner Jonathan Wojcik (AKA @/{{Scythemantis}}) and developed by Cat-Powered Raygun Studios, is a {{Mons}}-like BioPunk universe filled to the brim with [[MonsterClown nightmarish clowns that cause hallucinations]], [[BodyHorror horribly mutated monstrosities]], [[MixAndMatchCritters grotesque fusions of humans and insects]], and [[CrapsackWorld who knows what else]]... all of which [[DarkIsNotEvil live in general harmony]], and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality honestly wonder why they freak humans out]]. Think of it as the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids''--except [[UpToEleven even more gross and weird]] than that would suggest.

* DeviousDolphins: The Dolfury.

* CoolOldGuy: Harlan Ellison, for the people of Wreathe. This bearded, bushy eyebrowed old man is the beloved Governor of all Wreathe's multitudinous peoples. Also from Wreathe, General Pompeii, commander of their ground forces, who is a beloved FatherToHisMen, though he's somewhat excitable. It just makes the people love him more. He's also the Avatar of the MRS Celestial Engine, a trilobite-based giant robot that can [[DishingOutDirt control the ground, causing earthquakes and fissures]]. [[spoiler: Pompeii is also secretly being controlled by MRS possessing his cybernetics, while Harlan Ellison is the Avatar of ARE itself, the supercomputer that secretly rules Wreathe!]]

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Played with. [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/spexecutor.htm Spexecutor]] is a highly intelligent monster in the shape of a pair of glasses with legs.

* ButtMonkey: Humanity! Also deconstructed; the main reason Wreathe is so dangerous is that the humans there are so sick of getting kicked around. The culture there is based on both vengeance against the entire world and a utopian society. [[spoiler:In reality, Wreathe was secretly founded by a supercomputer named ARE, because it loved humans with all its heart and hated to see them suffer at the hands of the world they lived in.]]

* SanityHasAdvantages- [[InvertedTrope No, no it doesn't.]] Going sane renders your mad scientist ''weaker''.

* AdorableAbomination: Played straight in general terms, but inverted in how it's used--the monsters have hideous appearances and adorable personalities rather than the other way around. It's interesting to contrast this setting with ''TabletopGame/{{Pokethulhu}}'', which uses the more common adorable-appearances evil-personalities combination.

''[[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]]'', created by Website/{{Bogleech}} owner Jonathan Wojcik (AKA @/{{Scythemantis}}) and developed by Cat Powered Raygun Studios, is {{Mons}}-like BioPunk universe filled to the brim with [[MonsterClown nightmarish clowns that cause hallucinations]], [[BodyHorror horribly mutated monstrosities]], [[MixAndMatchCritters grotesque fusions of humans and insects]], and [[CrapsackWorld who knows what else]]... all of which [[DarkIsNotEvil live in general harmony]], and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality honestly wonder why they freak humans out]]. Think of it as the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids''--except [[UpToEleven even more gross and weird]] than that would suggest.