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[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Slogan}} Evil is Our business, and business is good]].[[labelnote:]]From left to right: Demencia, 5.0.5. (back), Black Hat, Dr. Flug, & a Medusa head (floor). [[/labelnote]]]]
->''"Problems with heroes?"''
-->-- '''Black Hat'''
''Villainous'' (''Villanos'' in Spanish) is a Creator/CartoonNetwork animated series created by Alan Ituriel. The show was the winner of a "Pitch Me Anything" contest hosted by the television network in conjunction with Mexican creative arts festival Pixelatl. It is the third original animated production to come out of Cartoon Network Latin America following CN Mexico's ''[[Wrestling/ElSanto Santos vs the Clones]]'' miniseries and CN Brazil's ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother''.
The series follows the misadventures of the infamous Black Hat, a vulgar and sharply dressed narcissistic inhuman fiend who does his part to make the world a little more vile and its heroes a little more dead. Aiding him (with varying degrees of consent) are his cohorts: the meek scientist Dr. Flug, the adorably failed bestial genetic experiment 5.0.5., and his biggest and most violently deranged fangirl, Demencia.
''Villanous'' began as a 10-episode MiniSeries that premiered May 15, 2017 and was distributed through the Cartoon Network Anything App, with episodes first being released in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8NwDptljM Spanish]] (fansub [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wdXO651Po here]]), with them becoming officially available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7OBPwR_Lms in English]] weeks later.
A "[[https://youtu.be/ySUx2rgjkPg second phase]]" began December 21, 2017. This consisted of eight additional minute-long shorts, a series of 11-minute ''Villain Orientation Videos'' in which Black Hat and company critique the work of various CN villains, and a more formal 11-minute {{pilot}} episode. Most of these are available in this playlist [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_6LtW9tXrxipWrolroDtI3qzSOTiSfxK here]], with those not linked available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rnhhYJwow here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAe0nqo2dk here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT1MTdMGwB0 here]]. English fansubs can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2ap9kpO7b6USwyWuGh8jfCfrtEHpRDW here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2ap9kpO7b67qqJl1ZEUpRt8ZQVqb0Gn here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5bff4LR7_s here]]. This second phase also included a short series of comics that can be found on Cartoon Network Mexico's [[https://www.facebook.com/cartoonnetworkmexico/photos/ Facebook]] and [[https://twitter.com/CartoonMX/media Twitter]] feeds, with unofficial English scanlations available [[https://imgur.com/a/JJquR here]].
On September 8, 2018, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGX7UjPZtc4&feature=youtu.be teaser trailer]] for a full-length series was released, with a pilot episode for said series being released June 2019. After some delays, the series would debut on both Creator/HBOMax Latin America and Cartoon Network Mexico on October 29, 2021.
''Villainous'' has also had a number of crossovers with other Cartoon Network properties outside its own various shorts. In October 2018, the HalloweenEpisode of the CN Latin America web series ''Toontubers'', which stars [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Mordecai and Rigby]] as gaming [=YouTubers=], had the characters used by the Black Hat Organization as test subjects against the animatronics of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Freddy Fazbear Entertainment]], which Black Hat recently bought in a corporate takeover (original version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKfSkxr1SnU&ab_channel=CartoonNetworkLA here]], ENG Sub, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neiIgoX4uvs&ab_channel=BlackHatOrganization here]]). In October 2020, the characters would made their [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros United States debut]] in the ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'' episode "Villainy in Monte Macabre."
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!!This series features examples of:
* ActorAllusion: In "The Foul Flower," Flug mentions that 5.0.5 [[LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} makes reaction videos on the internet. He also does lets plays.]]
* ActuallyADoombot: According to Flug, the Black Hat that was turned to stone in "[[Recap/OKKOLetsBeHeroesS2E18CrossoverNexus Crossover Nexus]]" was actually a Black Hat clone.
* AffablyEvil: Aside from the fact that he proudly advertises himself as an EvilGenius, and that he has absolutely no problem with enacting horrifically painful and monstrous experiments on test subjects, who can range from well-known villains from other shows to his own sentient robots, Dr. Flug is relatively reasonable and easy to get along with (if you're not any of the narrators, that is.) He's polite, dotes on 5.0.5. like a loving parent, is disgusted with Demencia's impassioned violence to the point of nausea, and Penumbra's Instagram page shows that he sent her a birthday gift of a jar of chloroplast to try and help her with her environmentalism research, along with a card that read, "Hope you have a happy birthday! Better days and more surprises are coming! --Flug"
* ArmsDealer: The cast, although not all of their products are strictly weaponry.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Bad Security", Flug's exterior security system includes a small army of laser-spewing drones, a flaming hellscape, and a bunch of kids mercilessly pelting the intruder with snowballs.
* ArtificialGravity: One episode advertises and demonstrates a device that simulates a low-or-zero gravity environment, but Black Hat is enraged that it wasn't in the form of a ray gun.
* BigBad: Black Hat and the Black Hat Organization.
* BigWhat: Black Hat and Flug were less than happy to find out Mojo Jojo inadvertently created his own heroes.
* BlackComedy: Much of the humor involves [[LaughablyEvil Black Hat]] [[ComedicSociopathy abusing his minions]]. In ''The Lost Cases of Elmore'' it's implied that they ''killed'' [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the Townsville's narrator]]...and it's PlayedForLaughs.
* CapeBusters: One of Black Hat Organization's services is providing consultation to super villains who'd like a hand dealing with their respective archnemeses.
* ContinuityNod: Some impressive ones include:
** The WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack orientation guide [[SamuraiJack/TropesSeason5 ending with Aku]] [[RetGone disappearing from existence.]]
** One orientation guide shows [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the Gangreen Gang]] watching but Ace is missing and a Music/{{Gorillaz}} poster can be seen in the background.
* CrapsackWorld: The more that is revealed about the ''Villainous'' universe, the clearer it is that Black Hat has far more influence in world affairs than the shorts suggest. The best example (so far) is a newspaper article in podemosbailar.com about the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world. There is a hat in the picture of the CEO office. Can you guess what color it is?
** There's also the fact that he can easily help conquer planets if he gets paid for it.
* CreepyJazzMusic: The teaser trailer features this as the background music. Black Hat's leitmotif, [[https://soundcloud.com/kevin-manthei/villainous-black-hat-mischief?in=kevin-manthei/sets/villainous-music-from-the-cartoon-network-series Black Hat Mischief]], is also in this genre.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Staunchly averted. While the main characters are villains themselves, Black Hat Organization mainly sells their services to other supervillains as consultants or mercenaries. In-universe, most of the shorts are infomercials meant to sell Flug's inventions (and any random malevolent detritus laying around their base of operations.)
* DarkActionGirl: Demencia, and she's proud of it.
* DarkIsEvil: Black Hat is dressed in black, has black skin, and is a sadistic demon.
* DecoyProtagonist: While Black Hat is initially framed as the main character, the show appears to focus primarily on Flug, 5.0.5., and Demencia with Black Hat as a peripheral BigBad.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: "Bad Security" has Flug and Black Hat standing outside Hat Manor and showing off the security system Flug made around their base, and when Black Hat says to turn it off so they can go back inside, Flug nervously says that he didn't consider that they might need to be able to deactivate it from the outside.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: ''Everyone'' has these except Black Hat, who has antennae instead.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:"Dreadful Dawn" ends with Penumbra unknowingly going home empty-handed since she planned to use his captivity to make him listen to her and the Umbras' plight and let her restrict daily sunlight, but Demencia ate him and Penumbra's soul is now owned by Black Hat. Furthermore, Flug, Demencia, and 5.0.5 expect praise from Black Hat since Flug's plan to defeat Sunblast worked, but instead he's ''furious'' at the trio for luring Sunblast to the island in the first place and plans to punish them for their incompetence. However, it's later revealed that Black Hat found out about Sunblast's predicament and managed to extract him from Demencia's stomach and send him back to Penumbra.]]
* DrosteImage: In a short advertising a statue-making machine, Black Hat angrily exclaims that the first statue that comes out doesn't look like him at all, first in the exact same pose as the statue, and then in the same pose as a picture of him on the wall, with the caption underneath it saying, "NO HE DOESN'T."
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W6r33aTel4 The original 2012 shorts]], enough said.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: According to Flug in one of the orientation files videos, there are a many female villains who are respected and recognized in the world of villainy, and this equality between villains of any and all types extends to Black Hat Organization's policy as stated on their website's FAQ.
-->'''Black Hat Organization FAQ:''' Black Hat Organization does not discriminate any kind of villain in terms of age, gender, species, bodycount, or otherwise. Black Hat Organization helps any and all villains to begin their path to villainy with accessible resources customized to the villain in question.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: 5.0.5. loves Flug just as much as Flug loves him, which is to say, very much.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Alan Ituriel once said in a stream that Demencia considers 5.0.5. and Flug her family, and thinks of Flug as an older brother.
** Flug dotes on 5.0.5. like a devoted father, constantly praising him and treating him with boundless kindness and love, and when the Dapura Repulsa flower forces him to spout cruel things about 5.0.5.'s hobbies, he chases after him frantically apologizing as soon as Black Hat rips it off.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While Black Hat himself doesn't seem to have any high standards, he, along with his clones and Flug, were outright disgusted with Earl. Also, despite him considering himself the evilest thing imaginable, [[EqualOpportunityEvil he doesn't discriminate against any villains]] and provides support to them through his company. While he's willing to hold an entire family hostage to make a client pay off their debts, he does sometimes make sure that they got their promised part of a deal, as [[spoiler:after the events of ''Dreadful Dawn'', he found out that Demencia ate Sunblast and caused Penumbra to go home empty-handed, so he retrieved him from Demencia's stomach and sent him off to Penumbra.]]
** Flug [[SoftSpokenSadist clearly takes great pleasure in torturing his test subjects, so much so that he tells Mojo Jojo before experimenting on him that]] [[FateWorseThanDeath the way he's about to be treated won't kill him, but he might wish that it did,]] but he's disgusted to the point of nausea with the way that Demencia [[BattleDiscretionShot beats the hell out of Sunblast.]]
** In the crossover episode with ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino,'' Flug loudly and angrily objects to Demencia eating a baby that she sees on the street, and beats her over the head until she spits him out.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Played with, as while Black Hat does seem to understand how things like [[ThePowerOfLove love]] and [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]] can be used against villains (and rather effectively), his methods of preventing it with the Dapura Repulsa flower completely misses the point of why those things work in the first place.
* EvilerThanThou: Black Hat is the king of this trope.
* EvilInc: Black Hat Organization, to be precise.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Black Hat (choleric) - AxCrazy, bossy and short-tempered leader who will always make his anger at his followers known, even if they don't want want it.
** Flug (melancholic) - the neurotic, [[AffablyEvil mostly polite but still dedicated to his boss]] intellectual of the group.
** Demencia (sanguine) - enthusiastic, hyperactive wild girl who is rather emotionally unstable.
** 5.0.5. (phlegmatic) - TokenGoodTeammate of the group, a friendly and easygoing young bear who just wants everyone to get along.
* ExactWords: During the villain orientation on the [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Delightful Children from Down The Lane]], Dr. Flug and 505 go to the manor to deliver their newest birthday cake. Flug leaves to get Father and the Delightful Children and tells 505 to only give the cake to the children. 505 proceeds to give the cake to first children he sees-Sector V.
* GenreSavvy: Black Hat and his underlings to a lesser extent are all very aware of the flaws that plague most {{Card Carrying Villain}}s and go to great lengths to ensure they maintain their diabolical standard without succumbing to [[VillainBall dismantling their own schemes]] through [[PragmaticVillainy arrogance or ineptitude]].
* GenreThrowback: As you can tell by the ThickLineAnimation and an aesthetic inspired by shows such as ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' and ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', it looks like Creator/CartoonNetwork is revisiting their roots this time around.
* GoodIsNotNice: Sunblast is an arrogant {{jerkass}} who fights Penumbra, [[AntiVillain who barely constitutes a villain,]] and he derives immense of joy he gets from beating people up, which makes it seem like he probably just does it for the attention and not because he cares about protecting the people of Atreno City.
* GrayingMorality: By the show's basic premise morality is as [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] as a lemur's butt. However, in the series proper we do get to see that "villain" and "hero" are more like labels than moral descriptors, as Penumbra is as AntiVillain as they come, and Sunblast is a total asshole.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Black Hat is this for all of Cartoon Network, supplying the other villins with tech and schemes.
* HiddenDepths: In one of the Orientation videos, a viewer asks a complicated question that requires Flug to do some extremely convoluted math to answer. He busts out a calculator, Demencia takes out a piece of paper and a pencil, and they both start working at the same time. It takes a good deal of time to do, with the calculator tape winding all the way around Flug's head by the time he's finished, and he finally announces the extremely long answer. But if you look over to Demencia, she's [[DitzyGenius smugly holding up her paper with the exact same answer on it, which she figured out just as quickly and using only mental math.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Black Hat, maybe. Aside from his unnatural appearance, he's also shown over the course of the episodes to be able to shoot eye beams, shapeshift at will, give life to inanimate objects and even tear portals to other dimensions just by scratching his nails on a blackboard.
* HumanHeadOnTheWall: While he's certainly not human, in the "Demencia wuz here" short you can see that Black Hat has [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall the Beast's]] head mounted on the wall. And in a picture frame next to it is [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven's/Rose Quartz's]]/[[spoiler:Pink Diamond's]] gem.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Demencia is so infatuated with Black Hat.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Black Hat winds up having no sympathy for Lemongrab's various dysfunctions and ends his Orientation video by [[spoiler:murdering him to make lemonade.]]
** This is the fate of pretty much every villain that angers Black Hat with their ineptitude.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Assuming the Villain Orientation videos are canon, then the world of Villainous shares the same universe/multiverse with every other Cartoon Network show.
* MediumBlending: Used frequently in the Villain Orientation videos.
* {{Medusa}}: Her head powers the statue-making machine in one short.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: All of Black Hat's minions to a degree. Averted in following videos except for 5.0.5.
** Flug is very skilled in inventing new gadgets and weaponry for Black Hat, but these devices often come with huge design flaws that wind up bringing much pain to him and his compatriots. He He also has sandwiches as the "most evil thing" he can imagine (according to Alan Ituriel, this is because he had a traumatic sandwich-related event occur in the past.)[[NotSoHarmlessVillain However]], he shows his sadistic streak [[ColdBloodedTorture to Mojo Jojo]] at the end of "The Lost Cases of Townsville" and whenever we see him experimenting on test subjects, whether they be other villains or his own sentient robots, and in "The Lost Cases of Elmore" he uses a shrink ray to shoot a plane out of the sky and put it in a glass globe [[AndIMustScream with all the passengers inside.]] [[FridgeHorror He puts it on a huge wall lined with other planes, assumedly with countless more trapped or dead passengers inside.]]
** 5.0.5, by his very nature, is also one of these, as he's the result of a failed attempt at creating a destructive monster who wound up being boundlessly gentle instead of terrifyingly bloodthirsty. The narrator in the Villain Orientation videos calls him a "happy accident."
** Demencia is Black Hat's AbhorrentAdmirer which annoys him to no ends, and mostly just plays PokeThePoodle pranks when she's not mindlessly obsessing over Black Hat. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain That being said]], see HiddenDepths, [[spoiler:HeroKiller]] and EliteMook in her character page.
* MythologyGag: The song in the trailer says that you can call 1-800-Black Hat for reasons ranging from dealing with any hero, or if you're a parent with a terrible child. One of the ''Villainous'' shorts prior to Cartoon Network involved Black Hat listening to a pirate captain grouse about his misbehaving son.
* NailsOnABlackboard: Done by Demencia to deface a drawing 5.0.5 drew. Then Black Hat does it, seemingly tearing open another dimension that lets out a sound that's so unbearable to Demencia and 5.0.5. that they get on the floor and cover their ears, and it even cracks Demencia's teeth.
* NonDubbedGrunts:
** 5.0.5's growls are left intact in all the dubs.
** Demencia's flirty growl in "Sculpting Evil" is the same in English and Spanish.
* NothingIsScarier: Black Hat's pet snake, Lil' Jack. When asked to see her in the ''Orientation Q&A'' video, Black Hat gives a curt "No," followed by a shot outside of a large, extremely fast blur dragging an unlucky boy into a sewer.
-->'''Flug:''' I think it's her lunch time right now.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The whole cast save for [[BearyFriendly 5.0.5.,]] who couldn't hurt a fly.
* PinkIsErotic: [[MsFanservice Miss Heed]] is a flirtatious superheroine and influencer with pinkish skin, hair, and clothes, decorated in [[HeartSymbol heart shapes and motifs]]. Her outfit [[BareYourMidriff bares her midriff]] and her abilities involve brainwashing others with pheromones in her perfume.
* ThePowerOfLove: To combat this empowering heroes or causing villains to have second thoughts, Black Hat puts the Dapura Repulsa flower up for sale during the Valentine's Day special; a parasitic plant that can [[Main/HatePlague turn a person's affection for others into disgust.]]
* RapidFireComedy: The shorts have one joke happen after another, though this might be because they're only one minute long.
* RightHandCat: Spoofed in "Dreadful Dawn," 5.0.5. sits on Flug's lap, but the fact that he's bigger than any of the cast and probably weighs more than a couch ends up nearly crushing him, and Flug desperately asks him to get off.
* ShrinkRay: "Bigger, Badder" has Black Hat demonstrating such a device on 5.0.5 and unintentionally enlarging him, prompting him to advertise it as creating giant, destructive monsters instead.
* ShoutOut:
** Most shorts and episodes have at least one passing reference to other Creator/CartoonNetwork original series in the background. These can also be found in recurring elements, such as Black Hat's [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/b78ab8224dbac8ae3d66aa06bc2a5a6e/tumblr_oq9rmrWfCA1sqv60so1_1280.png portrait]] seen in multiple episodes having [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn's sword]] (the first one, to be specific), [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Bubbles' octopus doll]], [[WesternAnimation.StevenUniverse Steven's shirt]], [[Westernanimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Grim's scythe]], and [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Sector V's treefort]] amongst the wreckage.
** The inner security system in Black Hat's mansion utilize weapons such a [[VideoGame/AngryBirds bird in a slingshot]], [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 a flamethrower]], and a [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe piranha gun]] among the weapons.
** When Demencia reactivates the anti-gravity device and is left floating in the air along with everyone else, she says, [[Literature/{{It}} "We all float."]]
** [[http://globegander.tumblr.com/post/160876854966 One of the statues that 5.0.5 creates in the last commercial]] has him eating Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, who is clutching the Oscar he won for his performance in ''Film/TheRevenant''.
** Easter Eggs in the videos, when put together and analyzed by fans, revealed a group opposing Black Hat called "Men Without Hats," whose website, sure enough, is called "Podemos Bailar" (We Can Dance, a lyric from [[Music/MenWithoutHats "The Safety Dance"]].)
** In "Dreadful Dawn", when Sunblast is throwing the villains around like a lasso, one of them drops a cup that looks like [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} Ms. Challice's]] [[https://imgur.com/a/Wga8rj0 head]]. Not to mention when Demencia is attacking him, she tells him "[[Film/AvengersAgeofUltron The sun's getting real low!]]" like another [[ComicBook/BlackWidow certain redhead.]]
** In "The VVV", after Black Hat merges a man and a horse together after a woman said that she wanted to date them at the same time, the woman suddenly finds a dark rose and says "[[Series/LaRosaDeGuadalupe And this rose?]]"
* SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness: In the Christmas short, Black Hat shows off a robot in his image known as the Hat-Bot, which Flug demonstrates how evil he can make it behave through a scale which from highest being the most evil and lowest being the least evil:
** [[DarkIsEvil Almost Black Hat]]
** Line Art and Clean Up
** [[invoked]][[VideoGameMoviesSuck Video Game Movie Adaptation]]
** Shipping Fees
** Taxes
** [[TakeThatAudience Fanfic Writer]]
** [[SelfDeprecation Cartoon Producer]]
** [[PokeThePoodle Toaster That Burns Toast]]
** [[BearyFriendly 5.0.5]]
* SoftSpokenSadist: Flug rarely raises his voice and is generally a nervous wreck, but he's still very much a villain, as seen at the end of the WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Orientation Files episode; when he has Mojo Jojo strapped to an exam table in his lab, he's clearly having an ''amazing'' time calmly and quietly explaining how [[ColdBloodedTorture the toxin he's about to inject him with]] [[FateWorseThanDeath won't kill him, but it'll be so agonizing that he'll wish that it would.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'', another CN animated show that followed the exploits of a dysfunctional supervillain organization. Only difference is that the Black Hat Organization is much more professional and malevolent about their evil actions.
** In the same respect, some people also see it as one to ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil''.
* StockSoundEffect: The ship used in the pilot sounds identical to the speeder bikes from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Demencia and Flug once provided the page image.
* StylisticSuck: The ''Black Hat Villain Orientation Video'' has shaky footage, retro filters, shills the other products in Black Hat's catalogue, and is poorly edited with many rough cuts and technical difficulty cards left in.
* StunnedSilence: Rather than his [[HairTriggerTemper usual reaction]] to Demencia's actions, Black Hat and his clones can only stare in shock at the buff clone, and remain that way until the video ends.
* TakeThat:
** The Villain Orientation videos, which are ultimately Black Hat (and later, Flug) calling out the villains of other Cartoon Network shows for their various failings.
* TheIllegible: When Flug is writing things intended to be read by other people, his handwriting is fine, but when it's for himself, it's absolutely unreadable. The narrator in the Orientation Files, in live action, holds the script that Flug wrote, looking like a swarm of loop and scribbles with maybe one or two visible letters, and comments that he can barely make out what it says, but Flug says that his handwriting is just fine. The production team got the crew member with the worst handwriting to make it.
* TheStinger: At the end of "Boo!-Lldozing", [[spoiler:Bulldozer]] is still roaming in the forest in terror until he finds a certain cave...with [[WesternAnimation/WeBareBears three familiar bears inside.]]
-->'''Ice Bear''': Ice Bear will call the police.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Flug assumes one after making it past the outside security system, only to find himself surrounded by the ''inside'' security system.
* VillainProtagonist: Right in the title, baby.
* WouldHurtAChild: As the last orientation video shows, Black Hat Organization has no problem in taking care of the [[{{WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor}} Kids Next Door Organization]] if they try to go against them.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Miss Heed has 23 houses. [[spoiler:When Sunblast breaks into one of them to save Penumbra, he finds this out and realizes that he got the wrong house and will have to keep searching.]]
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->''"Problems with heroes?"''
-->-- '''Black Hat'''
''Villainous'' (''Villanos'' in Spanish) is a Creator/CartoonNetwork animated series created by Alan Ituriel. The show was the winner of a "Pitch Me Anything" contest hosted by the television network in conjunction with Mexican creative arts festival Pixelatl. It is the third original animated production to come out of Cartoon Network Latin America following CN Mexico's ''[[Wrestling/ElSanto Santos vs the Clones]]'' miniseries and CN Brazil's ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother''.
The series follows the misadventures of the infamous Black Hat, a vulgar and sharply dressed narcissistic inhuman fiend who does his part to make the world a little more vile and its heroes a little more dead. Aiding him (with varying degrees of consent) are his cohorts: the meek scientist Dr. Flug, the adorably failed bestial genetic experiment 5.0.5., and his biggest and most violently deranged fangirl, Demencia.
''Villanous'' began as a 10-episode MiniSeries that premiered May 15, 2017 and was distributed through the Cartoon Network Anything App, with episodes first being released in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8NwDptljM Spanish]] (fansub [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wdXO651Po here]]), with them becoming officially available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7OBPwR_Lms in English]] weeks later.
A "[[https://youtu.be/ySUx2rgjkPg second phase]]" began December 21, 2017. This consisted of eight additional minute-long shorts, a series of 11-minute ''Villain Orientation Videos'' in which Black Hat and company critique the work of various CN villains, and a more formal 11-minute {{pilot}} episode. Most of these are available in this playlist [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_6LtW9tXrxipWrolroDtI3qzSOTiSfxK here]], with those not linked available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rnhhYJwow here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAe0nqo2dk here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT1MTdMGwB0 here]]. English fansubs can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2ap9kpO7b6USwyWuGh8jfCfrtEHpRDW here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2ap9kpO7b67qqJl1ZEUpRt8ZQVqb0Gn here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5bff4LR7_s here]]. This second phase also included a short series of comics that can be found on Cartoon Network Mexico's [[https://www.facebook.com/cartoonnetworkmexico/photos/ Facebook]] and [[https://twitter.com/CartoonMX/media Twitter]] feeds, with unofficial English scanlations available [[https://imgur.com/a/JJquR here]].
On September 8, 2018, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGX7UjPZtc4&feature=youtu.be teaser trailer]] for a full-length series was released, with a pilot episode for said series being released June 2019. After some delays, the series would debut on both Creator/HBOMax Latin America and Cartoon Network Mexico on October 29, 2021.
''Villainous'' has also had a number of crossovers with other Cartoon Network properties outside its own various shorts. In October 2018, the HalloweenEpisode of the CN Latin America web series ''Toontubers'', which stars [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Mordecai and Rigby]] as gaming [=YouTubers=], had the characters used by the Black Hat Organization as test subjects against the animatronics of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Freddy Fazbear Entertainment]], which Black Hat recently bought in a corporate takeover (original version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKfSkxr1SnU&ab_channel=CartoonNetworkLA here]], ENG Sub, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neiIgoX4uvs&ab_channel=BlackHatOrganization here]]). In October 2020, the characters would made their [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros United States debut]] in the ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'' episode "Villainy in Monte Macabre."
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!!This series features examples of:
* ActorAllusion: In "The Foul Flower," Flug mentions that 5.0.5 [[LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} makes reaction videos on the internet. He also does lets plays.]]
* ActuallyADoombot: According to Flug, the Black Hat that was turned to stone in "[[Recap/OKKOLetsBeHeroesS2E18CrossoverNexus Crossover Nexus]]" was actually a Black Hat clone.
* AffablyEvil: Aside from the fact that he proudly advertises himself as an EvilGenius, and that he has absolutely no problem with enacting horrifically painful and monstrous experiments on test subjects, who can range from well-known villains from other shows to his own sentient robots, Dr. Flug is relatively reasonable and easy to get along with (if you're not any of the narrators, that is.) He's polite, dotes on 5.0.5. like a loving parent, is disgusted with Demencia's impassioned violence to the point of nausea, and Penumbra's Instagram page shows that he sent her a birthday gift of a jar of chloroplast to try and help her with her environmentalism research, along with a card that read, "Hope you have a happy birthday! Better days and more surprises are coming! --Flug"
* ArmsDealer: The cast, although not all of their products are strictly weaponry.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Bad Security", Flug's exterior security system includes a small army of laser-spewing drones, a flaming hellscape, and a bunch of kids mercilessly pelting the intruder with snowballs.
* ArtificialGravity: One episode advertises and demonstrates a device that simulates a low-or-zero gravity environment, but Black Hat is enraged that it wasn't in the form of a ray gun.
* BigBad: Black Hat and the Black Hat Organization.
* BigWhat: Black Hat and Flug were less than happy to find out Mojo Jojo inadvertently created his own heroes.
* BlackComedy: Much of the humor involves [[LaughablyEvil Black Hat]] [[ComedicSociopathy abusing his minions]]. In ''The Lost Cases of Elmore'' it's implied that they ''killed'' [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the Townsville's narrator]]...and it's PlayedForLaughs.
* CapeBusters: One of Black Hat Organization's services is providing consultation to super villains who'd like a hand dealing with their respective archnemeses.
* ContinuityNod: Some impressive ones include:
** The WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack orientation guide [[SamuraiJack/TropesSeason5 ending with Aku]] [[RetGone disappearing from existence.]]
** One orientation guide shows [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the Gangreen Gang]] watching but Ace is missing and a Music/{{Gorillaz}} poster can be seen in the background.
* CrapsackWorld: The more that is revealed about the ''Villainous'' universe, the clearer it is that Black Hat has far more influence in world affairs than the shorts suggest. The best example (so far) is a newspaper article in podemosbailar.com about the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world. There is a hat in the picture of the CEO office. Can you guess what color it is?
** There's also the fact that he can easily help conquer planets if he gets paid for it.
* CreepyJazzMusic: The teaser trailer features this as the background music. Black Hat's leitmotif, [[https://soundcloud.com/kevin-manthei/villainous-black-hat-mischief?in=kevin-manthei/sets/villainous-music-from-the-cartoon-network-series Black Hat Mischief]], is also in this genre.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Staunchly averted. While the main characters are villains themselves, Black Hat Organization mainly sells their services to other supervillains as consultants or mercenaries. In-universe, most of the shorts are infomercials meant to sell Flug's inventions (and any random malevolent detritus laying around their base of operations.)
* DarkActionGirl: Demencia, and she's proud of it.
* DarkIsEvil: Black Hat is dressed in black, has black skin, and is a sadistic demon.
* DecoyProtagonist: While Black Hat is initially framed as the main character, the show appears to focus primarily on Flug, 5.0.5., and Demencia with Black Hat as a peripheral BigBad.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: "Bad Security" has Flug and Black Hat standing outside Hat Manor and showing off the security system Flug made around their base, and when Black Hat says to turn it off so they can go back inside, Flug nervously says that he didn't consider that they might need to be able to deactivate it from the outside.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: ''Everyone'' has these except Black Hat, who has antennae instead.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:"Dreadful Dawn" ends with Penumbra unknowingly going home empty-handed since she planned to use his captivity to make him listen to her and the Umbras' plight and let her restrict daily sunlight, but Demencia ate him and Penumbra's soul is now owned by Black Hat. Furthermore, Flug, Demencia, and 5.0.5 expect praise from Black Hat since Flug's plan to defeat Sunblast worked, but instead he's ''furious'' at the trio for luring Sunblast to the island in the first place and plans to punish them for their incompetence. However, it's later revealed that Black Hat found out about Sunblast's predicament and managed to extract him from Demencia's stomach and send him back to Penumbra.]]
* DrosteImage: In a short advertising a statue-making machine, Black Hat angrily exclaims that the first statue that comes out doesn't look like him at all, first in the exact same pose as the statue, and then in the same pose as a picture of him on the wall, with the caption underneath it saying, "NO HE DOESN'T."
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W6r33aTel4 The original 2012 shorts]], enough said.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: According to Flug in one of the orientation files videos, there are a many female villains who are respected and recognized in the world of villainy, and this equality between villains of any and all types extends to Black Hat Organization's policy as stated on their website's FAQ.
-->'''Black Hat Organization FAQ:''' Black Hat Organization does not discriminate any kind of villain in terms of age, gender, species, bodycount, or otherwise. Black Hat Organization helps any and all villains to begin their path to villainy with accessible resources customized to the villain in question.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: 5.0.5. loves Flug just as much as Flug loves him, which is to say, very much.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Alan Ituriel once said in a stream that Demencia considers 5.0.5. and Flug her family, and thinks of Flug as an older brother.
** Flug dotes on 5.0.5. like a devoted father, constantly praising him and treating him with boundless kindness and love, and when the Dapura Repulsa flower forces him to spout cruel things about 5.0.5.'s hobbies, he chases after him frantically apologizing as soon as Black Hat rips it off.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While Black Hat himself doesn't seem to have any high standards, he, along with his clones and Flug, were outright disgusted with Earl. Also, despite him considering himself the evilest thing imaginable, [[EqualOpportunityEvil he doesn't discriminate against any villains]] and provides support to them through his company. While he's willing to hold an entire family hostage to make a client pay off their debts, he does sometimes make sure that they got their promised part of a deal, as [[spoiler:after the events of ''Dreadful Dawn'', he found out that Demencia ate Sunblast and caused Penumbra to go home empty-handed, so he retrieved him from Demencia's stomach and sent him off to Penumbra.]]
** Flug [[SoftSpokenSadist clearly takes great pleasure in torturing his test subjects, so much so that he tells Mojo Jojo before experimenting on him that]] [[FateWorseThanDeath the way he's about to be treated won't kill him, but he might wish that it did,]] but he's disgusted to the point of nausea with the way that Demencia [[BattleDiscretionShot beats the hell out of Sunblast.]]
** In the crossover episode with ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino,'' Flug loudly and angrily objects to Demencia eating a baby that she sees on the street, and beats her over the head until she spits him out.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Played with, as while Black Hat does seem to understand how things like [[ThePowerOfLove love]] and [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]] can be used against villains (and rather effectively), his methods of preventing it with the Dapura Repulsa flower completely misses the point of why those things work in the first place.
* EvilerThanThou: Black Hat is the king of this trope.
* EvilInc: Black Hat Organization, to be precise.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Black Hat (choleric) - AxCrazy, bossy and short-tempered leader who will always make his anger at his followers known, even if they don't want want it.
** Flug (melancholic) - the neurotic, [[AffablyEvil mostly polite but still dedicated to his boss]] intellectual of the group.
** Demencia (sanguine) - enthusiastic, hyperactive wild girl who is rather emotionally unstable.
** 5.0.5. (phlegmatic) - TokenGoodTeammate of the group, a friendly and easygoing young bear who just wants everyone to get along.
* ExactWords: During the villain orientation on the [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Delightful Children from Down The Lane]], Dr. Flug and 505 go to the manor to deliver their newest birthday cake. Flug leaves to get Father and the Delightful Children and tells 505 to only give the cake to the children. 505 proceeds to give the cake to first children he sees-Sector V.
* GenreSavvy: Black Hat and his underlings to a lesser extent are all very aware of the flaws that plague most {{Card Carrying Villain}}s and go to great lengths to ensure they maintain their diabolical standard without succumbing to [[VillainBall dismantling their own schemes]] through [[PragmaticVillainy arrogance or ineptitude]].
* GenreThrowback: As you can tell by the ThickLineAnimation and an aesthetic inspired by shows such as ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' and ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', it looks like Creator/CartoonNetwork is revisiting their roots this time around.
* GoodIsNotNice: Sunblast is an arrogant {{jerkass}} who fights Penumbra, [[AntiVillain who barely constitutes a villain,]] and he derives immense of joy he gets from beating people up, which makes it seem like he probably just does it for the attention and not because he cares about protecting the people of Atreno City.
* GrayingMorality: By the show's basic premise morality is as [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] as a lemur's butt. However, in the series proper we do get to see that "villain" and "hero" are more like labels than moral descriptors, as Penumbra is as AntiVillain as they come, and Sunblast is a total asshole.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Black Hat is this for all of Cartoon Network, supplying the other villins with tech and schemes.
* HiddenDepths: In one of the Orientation videos, a viewer asks a complicated question that requires Flug to do some extremely convoluted math to answer. He busts out a calculator, Demencia takes out a piece of paper and a pencil, and they both start working at the same time. It takes a good deal of time to do, with the calculator tape winding all the way around Flug's head by the time he's finished, and he finally announces the extremely long answer. But if you look over to Demencia, she's [[DitzyGenius smugly holding up her paper with the exact same answer on it, which she figured out just as quickly and using only mental math.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Black Hat, maybe. Aside from his unnatural appearance, he's also shown over the course of the episodes to be able to shoot eye beams, shapeshift at will, give life to inanimate objects and even tear portals to other dimensions just by scratching his nails on a blackboard.
* HumanHeadOnTheWall: While he's certainly not human, in the "Demencia wuz here" short you can see that Black Hat has [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall the Beast's]] head mounted on the wall. And in a picture frame next to it is [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven's/Rose Quartz's]]/[[spoiler:Pink Diamond's]] gem.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Demencia is so infatuated with Black Hat.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Black Hat winds up having no sympathy for Lemongrab's various dysfunctions and ends his Orientation video by [[spoiler:murdering him to make lemonade.]]
** This is the fate of pretty much every villain that angers Black Hat with their ineptitude.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Assuming the Villain Orientation videos are canon, then the world of Villainous shares the same universe/multiverse with every other Cartoon Network show.
* MediumBlending: Used frequently in the Villain Orientation videos.
* {{Medusa}}: Her head powers the statue-making machine in one short.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: All of Black Hat's minions to a degree. Averted in following videos except for 5.0.5.
** Flug is very skilled in inventing new gadgets and weaponry for Black Hat, but these devices often come with huge design flaws that wind up bringing much pain to him and his compatriots. He He also has sandwiches as the "most evil thing" he can imagine (according to Alan Ituriel, this is because he had a traumatic sandwich-related event occur in the past.)[[NotSoHarmlessVillain However]], he shows his sadistic streak [[ColdBloodedTorture to Mojo Jojo]] at the end of "The Lost Cases of Townsville" and whenever we see him experimenting on test subjects, whether they be other villains or his own sentient robots, and in "The Lost Cases of Elmore" he uses a shrink ray to shoot a plane out of the sky and put it in a glass globe [[AndIMustScream with all the passengers inside.]] [[FridgeHorror He puts it on a huge wall lined with other planes, assumedly with countless more trapped or dead passengers inside.]]
** 5.0.5, by his very nature, is also one of these, as he's the result of a failed attempt at creating a destructive monster who wound up being boundlessly gentle instead of terrifyingly bloodthirsty. The narrator in the Villain Orientation videos calls him a "happy accident."
** Demencia is Black Hat's AbhorrentAdmirer which annoys him to no ends, and mostly just plays PokeThePoodle pranks when she's not mindlessly obsessing over Black Hat. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain That being said]], see HiddenDepths, [[spoiler:HeroKiller]] and EliteMook in her character page.
* MythologyGag: The song in the trailer says that you can call 1-800-Black Hat for reasons ranging from dealing with any hero, or if you're a parent with a terrible child. One of the ''Villainous'' shorts prior to Cartoon Network involved Black Hat listening to a pirate captain grouse about his misbehaving son.
* NailsOnABlackboard: Done by Demencia to deface a drawing 5.0.5 drew. Then Black Hat does it, seemingly tearing open another dimension that lets out a sound that's so unbearable to Demencia and 5.0.5. that they get on the floor and cover their ears, and it even cracks Demencia's teeth.
* NonDubbedGrunts:
** 5.0.5's growls are left intact in all the dubs.
** Demencia's flirty growl in "Sculpting Evil" is the same in English and Spanish.
* NothingIsScarier: Black Hat's pet snake, Lil' Jack. When asked to see her in the ''Orientation Q&A'' video, Black Hat gives a curt "No," followed by a shot outside of a large, extremely fast blur dragging an unlucky boy into a sewer.
-->'''Flug:''' I think it's her lunch time right now.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The whole cast save for [[BearyFriendly 5.0.5.,]] who couldn't hurt a fly.
* PinkIsErotic: [[MsFanservice Miss Heed]] is a flirtatious superheroine and influencer with pinkish skin, hair, and clothes, decorated in [[HeartSymbol heart shapes and motifs]]. Her outfit [[BareYourMidriff bares her midriff]] and her abilities involve brainwashing others with pheromones in her perfume.
* ThePowerOfLove: To combat this empowering heroes or causing villains to have second thoughts, Black Hat puts the Dapura Repulsa flower up for sale during the Valentine's Day special; a parasitic plant that can [[Main/HatePlague turn a person's affection for others into disgust.]]
* RapidFireComedy: The shorts have one joke happen after another, though this might be because they're only one minute long.
* RightHandCat: Spoofed in "Dreadful Dawn," 5.0.5. sits on Flug's lap, but the fact that he's bigger than any of the cast and probably weighs more than a couch ends up nearly crushing him, and Flug desperately asks him to get off.
* ShrinkRay: "Bigger, Badder" has Black Hat demonstrating such a device on 5.0.5 and unintentionally enlarging him, prompting him to advertise it as creating giant, destructive monsters instead.
* ShoutOut:
** Most shorts and episodes have at least one passing reference to other Creator/CartoonNetwork original series in the background. These can also be found in recurring elements, such as Black Hat's [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/b78ab8224dbac8ae3d66aa06bc2a5a6e/tumblr_oq9rmrWfCA1sqv60so1_1280.png portrait]] seen in multiple episodes having [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn's sword]] (the first one, to be specific), [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Bubbles' octopus doll]], [[WesternAnimation.StevenUniverse Steven's shirt]], [[Westernanimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Grim's scythe]], and [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Sector V's treefort]] amongst the wreckage.
** The inner security system in Black Hat's mansion utilize weapons such a [[VideoGame/AngryBirds bird in a slingshot]], [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 a flamethrower]], and a [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe piranha gun]] among the weapons.
** When Demencia reactivates the anti-gravity device and is left floating in the air along with everyone else, she says, [[Literature/{{It}} "We all float."]]
** [[http://globegander.tumblr.com/post/160876854966 One of the statues that 5.0.5 creates in the last commercial]] has him eating Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, who is clutching the Oscar he won for his performance in ''Film/TheRevenant''.
** Easter Eggs in the videos, when put together and analyzed by fans, revealed a group opposing Black Hat called "Men Without Hats," whose website, sure enough, is called "Podemos Bailar" (We Can Dance, a lyric from [[Music/MenWithoutHats "The Safety Dance"]].)
** In "Dreadful Dawn", when Sunblast is throwing the villains around like a lasso, one of them drops a cup that looks like [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} Ms. Challice's]] [[https://imgur.com/a/Wga8rj0 head]]. Not to mention when Demencia is attacking him, she tells him "[[Film/AvengersAgeofUltron The sun's getting real low!]]" like another [[ComicBook/BlackWidow certain redhead.]]
** In "The VVV", after Black Hat merges a man and a horse together after a woman said that she wanted to date them at the same time, the woman suddenly finds a dark rose and says "[[Series/LaRosaDeGuadalupe And this rose?]]"
* SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness: In the Christmas short, Black Hat shows off a robot in his image known as the Hat-Bot, which Flug demonstrates how evil he can make it behave through a scale which from highest being the most evil and lowest being the least evil:
** [[DarkIsEvil Almost Black Hat]]
** Line Art and Clean Up
** [[invoked]][[VideoGameMoviesSuck Video Game Movie Adaptation]]
** Shipping Fees
** Taxes
** [[TakeThatAudience Fanfic Writer]]
** [[SelfDeprecation Cartoon Producer]]
** [[PokeThePoodle Toaster That Burns Toast]]
** [[BearyFriendly 5.0.5]]
* SoftSpokenSadist: Flug rarely raises his voice and is generally a nervous wreck, but he's still very much a villain, as seen at the end of the WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Orientation Files episode; when he has Mojo Jojo strapped to an exam table in his lab, he's clearly having an ''amazing'' time calmly and quietly explaining how [[ColdBloodedTorture the toxin he's about to inject him with]] [[FateWorseThanDeath won't kill him, but it'll be so agonizing that he'll wish that it would.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'', another CN animated show that followed the exploits of a dysfunctional supervillain organization. Only difference is that the Black Hat Organization is much more professional and malevolent about their evil actions.
** In the same respect, some people also see it as one to ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil''.
* StockSoundEffect: The ship used in the pilot sounds identical to the speeder bikes from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Demencia and Flug once provided the page image.
* StylisticSuck: The ''Black Hat Villain Orientation Video'' has shaky footage, retro filters, shills the other products in Black Hat's catalogue, and is poorly edited with many rough cuts and technical difficulty cards left in.
* StunnedSilence: Rather than his [[HairTriggerTemper usual reaction]] to Demencia's actions, Black Hat and his clones can only stare in shock at the buff clone, and remain that way until the video ends.
* TakeThat:
** The Villain Orientation videos, which are ultimately Black Hat (and later, Flug) calling out the villains of other Cartoon Network shows for their various failings.
* TheIllegible: When Flug is writing things intended to be read by other people, his handwriting is fine, but when it's for himself, it's absolutely unreadable. The narrator in the Orientation Files, in live action, holds the script that Flug wrote, looking like a swarm of loop and scribbles with maybe one or two visible letters, and comments that he can barely make out what it says, but Flug says that his handwriting is just fine. The production team got the crew member with the worst handwriting to make it.
* TheStinger: At the end of "Boo!-Lldozing", [[spoiler:Bulldozer]] is still roaming in the forest in terror until he finds a certain cave...with [[WesternAnimation/WeBareBears three familiar bears inside.]]
-->'''Ice Bear''': Ice Bear will call the police.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Flug assumes one after making it past the outside security system, only to find himself surrounded by the ''inside'' security system.
* VillainProtagonist: Right in the title, baby.
* WouldHurtAChild: As the last orientation video shows, Black Hat Organization has no problem in taking care of the [[{{WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor}} Kids Next Door Organization]] if they try to go against them.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Miss Heed has 23 houses. [[spoiler:When Sunblast breaks into one of them to save Penumbra, he finds this out and realizes that he got the wrong house and will have to keep searching.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Slogan}} Evil is Our business, and business is good]].[[labelnote:]]From left to right: Demencia, 5.0.5. (back), Black Hat, Dr. Flug, & a Medusa head (floor). [[/labelnote]]]]
->''"Problems with heroes?"''
-->-- '''Black Hat'''
''Villainous'' (''Villanos'' in Spanish) is a Creator/CartoonNetwork animated series created by Alan Ituriel. The show was the winner of a "Pitch Me Anything" contest hosted by the television network in conjunction with Mexican creative arts festival Pixelatl. It is the third original animated production to come out of Cartoon Network Latin America following CN Mexico's ''[[Wrestling/ElSanto Santos vs the Clones]]'' miniseries and CN Brazil's ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother''.
The series follows the misadventures of the infamous Black Hat, a vulgar and sharply dressed narcissistic inhuman fiend who does his part to make the world a little more vile and its heroes a little more dead. Aiding him (with varying degrees of consent) are his cohorts: the meek scientist Dr. Flug, the adorably failed bestial genetic experiment 5.0.5., and his biggest and most violently deranged fangirl, Demencia.
''Villanous'' began as a 10-episode MiniSeries that premiered May 15, 2017 and was distributed through the Cartoon Network Anything App, with episodes first being released in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8NwDptljM Spanish]] (fansub [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wdXO651Po here]]), with them becoming officially available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7OBPwR_Lms in English]] weeks later.
A "[[https://youtu.be/ySUx2rgjkPg second phase]]" began December 21, 2017. This consisted of eight additional minute-long shorts, a series of 11-minute ''Villain Orientation Videos'' in which Black Hat and company critique the work of various CN villains, and a more formal 11-minute {{pilot}} episode. Most of these are available in this playlist [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_6LtW9tXrxipWrolroDtI3qzSOTiSfxK here]], with those not linked available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rnhhYJwow here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAe0nqo2dk here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT1MTdMGwB0 here]]. English fansubs can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2ap9kpO7b6USwyWuGh8jfCfrtEHpRDW here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2ap9kpO7b67qqJl1ZEUpRt8ZQVqb0Gn here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5bff4LR7_s here]]. This second phase also included a short series of comics that can be found on Cartoon Network Mexico's [[https://www.facebook.com/cartoonnetworkmexico/photos/ Facebook]] and [[https://twitter.com/CartoonMX/media Twitter]] feeds, with unofficial English scanlations available [[https://imgur.com/a/JJquR here]].
On September 8, 2018, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGX7UjPZtc4&feature=youtu.be teaser trailer]] for a full-length series was released, with a pilot episode for said series being released June 2019. After some delays, the series would debut on both Creator/HBOMax Latin America and Cartoon Network Mexico on October 29, 2021.
''Villainous'' has also had a number of crossovers with other Cartoon Network properties outside its own various shorts. In October 2018, the HalloweenEpisode of the CN Latin America web series ''Toontubers'', which stars [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Mordecai and Rigby]] as gaming [=YouTubers=], had the characters used by the Black Hat Organization as test subjects against the animatronics of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Freddy Fazbear Entertainment]], which Black Hat recently bought in a corporate takeover (original version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKfSkxr1SnU&ab_channel=CartoonNetworkLA here]], ENG Sub, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neiIgoX4uvs&ab_channel=BlackHatOrganization here]]). In October 2020, the characters would made their [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros United States debut]] in the ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'' episode "Villainy in Monte Macabre."
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!!This series features examples of:
* ActorAllusion: In "The Foul Flower," Flug mentions that 5.0.5 [[LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} makes reaction videos on the internet. He also does lets plays.]]
* ActuallyADoombot: According to Flug, the Black Hat that was turned to stone in "[[Recap/OKKOLetsBeHeroesS2E18CrossoverNexus Crossover Nexus]]" was actually a Black Hat clone.
* AffablyEvil: Aside from the fact that he proudly advertises himself as an EvilGenius, and that he has absolutely no problem with enacting horrifically painful and monstrous experiments on test subjects, who can range from well-known villains from other shows to his own sentient robots, Dr. Flug is relatively reasonable and easy to get along with (if you're not any of the narrators, that is.) He's polite, dotes on 5.0.5. like a loving parent, is disgusted with Demencia's impassioned violence to the point of nausea, and Penumbra's Instagram page shows that he sent her a birthday gift of a jar of chloroplast to try and help her with her environmentalism research, along with a card that read, "Hope you have a happy birthday! Better days and more surprises are coming! --Flug"
* ArmsDealer: The cast, although not all of their products are strictly weaponry.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Bad Security", Flug's exterior security system includes a small army of laser-spewing drones, a flaming hellscape, and a bunch of kids mercilessly pelting the intruder with snowballs.
* ArtificialGravity: One episode advertises and demonstrates a device that simulates a low-or-zero gravity environment, but Black Hat is enraged that it wasn't in the form of a ray gun.
* BigBad: Black Hat and the Black Hat Organization.
* BigWhat: Black Hat and Flug were less than happy to find out Mojo Jojo inadvertently created his own heroes.
* BlackComedy: Much of the humor involves [[LaughablyEvil Black Hat]] [[ComedicSociopathy abusing his minions]]. In ''The Lost Cases of Elmore'' it's implied that they ''killed'' [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the Townsville's narrator]]...and it's PlayedForLaughs.
* CapeBusters: One of Black Hat Organization's services is providing consultation to super villains who'd like a hand dealing with their respective archnemeses.
* ContinuityNod: Some impressive ones include:
** The WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack orientation guide [[SamuraiJack/TropesSeason5 ending with Aku]] [[RetGone disappearing from existence.]]
** One orientation guide shows [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls the Gangreen Gang]] watching but Ace is missing and a Music/{{Gorillaz}} poster can be seen in the background.
* CrapsackWorld: The more that is revealed about the ''Villainous'' universe, the clearer it is that Black Hat has far more influence in world affairs than the shorts suggest. The best example (so far) is a newspaper article in podemosbailar.com about the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world. There is a hat in the picture of the CEO office. Can you guess what color it is?
** There's also the fact that he can easily help conquer planets if he gets paid for it.
* CreepyJazzMusic: The teaser trailer features this as the background music. Black Hat's leitmotif, [[https://soundcloud.com/kevin-manthei/villainous-black-hat-mischief?in=kevin-manthei/sets/villainous-music-from-the-cartoon-network-series Black Hat Mischief]], is also in this genre.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Staunchly averted. While the main characters are villains themselves, Black Hat Organization mainly sells their services to other supervillains as consultants or mercenaries. In-universe, most of the shorts are infomercials meant to sell Flug's inventions (and any random malevolent detritus laying around their base of operations.)
* DarkActionGirl: Demencia, and she's proud of it.
* DarkIsEvil: Black Hat is dressed in black, has black skin, and is a sadistic demon.
* DecoyProtagonist: While Black Hat is initially framed as the main character, the show appears to focus primarily on Flug, 5.0.5., and Demencia with Black Hat as a peripheral BigBad.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: "Bad Security" has Flug and Black Hat standing outside Hat Manor and showing off the security system Flug made around their base, and when Black Hat says to turn it off so they can go back inside, Flug nervously says that he didn't consider that they might need to be able to deactivate it from the outside.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: ''Everyone'' has these except Black Hat, who has antennae instead.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:"Dreadful Dawn" ends with Penumbra unknowingly going home empty-handed since she planned to use his captivity to make him listen to her and the Umbras' plight and let her restrict daily sunlight, but Demencia ate him and Penumbra's soul is now owned by Black Hat. Furthermore, Flug, Demencia, and 5.0.5 expect praise from Black Hat since Flug's plan to defeat Sunblast worked, but instead he's ''furious'' at the trio for luring Sunblast to the island in the first place and plans to punish them for their incompetence. However, it's later revealed that Black Hat found out about Sunblast's predicament and managed to extract him from Demencia's stomach and send him back to Penumbra.]]
* DrosteImage: In a short advertising a statue-making machine, Black Hat angrily exclaims that the first statue that comes out doesn't look like him at all, first in the exact same pose as the statue, and then in the same pose as a picture of him on the wall, with the caption underneath it saying, "NO HE DOESN'T."
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W6r33aTel4 The original 2012 shorts]], enough said.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: According to Flug in one of the orientation files videos, there are a many female villains who are respected and recognized in the world of villainy, and this equality between villains of any and all types extends to Black Hat Organization's policy as stated on their website's FAQ.
-->'''Black Hat Organization FAQ:''' Black Hat Organization does not discriminate any kind of villain in terms of age, gender, species, bodycount, or otherwise. Black Hat Organization helps any and all villains to begin their path to villainy with accessible resources customized to the villain in question.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: 5.0.5. loves Flug just as much as Flug loves him, which is to say, very much.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Alan Ituriel once said in a stream that Demencia considers 5.0.5. and Flug her family, and thinks of Flug as an older brother.
** Flug dotes on 5.0.5. like a devoted father, constantly praising him and treating him with boundless kindness and love, and when the Dapura Repulsa flower forces him to spout cruel things about 5.0.5.'s hobbies, he chases after him frantically apologizing as soon as Black Hat rips it off.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While Black Hat himself doesn't seem to have any high standards, he, along with his clones and Flug, were outright disgusted with Earl. Also, despite him considering himself the evilest thing imaginable, [[EqualOpportunityEvil he doesn't discriminate against any villains]] and provides support to them through his company. While he's willing to hold an entire family hostage to make a client pay off their debts, he does sometimes make sure that they got their promised part of a deal, as [[spoiler:after the events of ''Dreadful Dawn'', he found out that Demencia ate Sunblast and caused Penumbra to go home empty-handed, so he retrieved him from Demencia's stomach and sent him off to Penumbra.]]
** Flug [[SoftSpokenSadist clearly takes great pleasure in torturing his test subjects, so much so that he tells Mojo Jojo before experimenting on him that]] [[FateWorseThanDeath the way he's about to be treated won't kill him, but he might wish that it did,]] but he's disgusted to the point of nausea with the way that Demencia [[BattleDiscretionShot beats the hell out of Sunblast.]]
** In the crossover episode with ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino,'' Flug loudly and angrily objects to Demencia eating a baby that she sees on the street, and beats her over the head until she spits him out.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Played with, as while Black Hat does seem to understand how things like [[ThePowerOfLove love]] and [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]] can be used against villains (and rather effectively), his methods of preventing it with the Dapura Repulsa flower completely misses the point of why those things work in the first place.
* EvilerThanThou: Black Hat is the king of this trope.
* EvilInc: Black Hat Organization, to be precise.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Black Hat (choleric) - AxCrazy, bossy and short-tempered leader who will always make his anger at his followers known, even if they don't want want it.
** Flug (melancholic) - the neurotic, [[AffablyEvil mostly polite but still dedicated to his boss]] intellectual of the group.
** Demencia (sanguine) - enthusiastic, hyperactive wild girl who is rather emotionally unstable.
** 5.0.5. (phlegmatic) - TokenGoodTeammate of the group, a friendly and easygoing young bear who just wants everyone to get along.
* ExactWords: During the villain orientation on the [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Delightful Children from Down The Lane]], Dr. Flug and 505 go to the manor to deliver their newest birthday cake. Flug leaves to get Father and the Delightful Children and tells 505 to only give the cake to the children. 505 proceeds to give the cake to first children he sees-Sector V.
* GenreSavvy: Black Hat and his underlings to a lesser extent are all very aware of the flaws that plague most {{Card Carrying Villain}}s and go to great lengths to ensure they maintain their diabolical standard without succumbing to [[VillainBall dismantling their own schemes]] through [[PragmaticVillainy arrogance or ineptitude]].
* GenreThrowback: As you can tell by the ThickLineAnimation and an aesthetic inspired by shows such as ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' and ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', it looks like Creator/CartoonNetwork is revisiting their roots this time around.
* GoodIsNotNice: Sunblast is an arrogant {{jerkass}} who fights Penumbra, [[AntiVillain who barely constitutes a villain,]] and he derives immense of joy he gets from beating people up, which makes it seem like he probably just does it for the attention and not because he cares about protecting the people of Atreno City.
* GrayingMorality: By the show's basic premise morality is as [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] as a lemur's butt. However, in the series proper we do get to see that "villain" and "hero" are more like labels than moral descriptors, as Penumbra is as AntiVillain as they come, and Sunblast is a total asshole.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Black Hat is this for all of Cartoon Network, supplying the other villins with tech and schemes.
* HiddenDepths: In one of the Orientation videos, a viewer asks a complicated question that requires Flug to do some extremely convoluted math to answer. He busts out a calculator, Demencia takes out a piece of paper and a pencil, and they both start working at the same time. It takes a good deal of time to do, with the calculator tape winding all the way around Flug's head by the time he's finished, and he finally announces the extremely long answer. But if you look over to Demencia, she's [[DitzyGenius smugly holding up her paper with the exact same answer on it, which she figured out just as quickly and using only mental math.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Black Hat, maybe. Aside from his unnatural appearance, he's also shown over the course of the episodes to be able to shoot eye beams, shapeshift at will, give life to inanimate objects and even tear portals to other dimensions just by scratching his nails on a blackboard.
* HumanHeadOnTheWall: While he's certainly not human, in the "Demencia wuz here" short you can see that Black Hat has [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall the Beast's]] head mounted on the wall. And in a picture frame next to it is [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven's/Rose Quartz's]]/[[spoiler:Pink Diamond's]] gem.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The reason Demencia is so infatuated with Black Hat.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Black Hat winds up having no sympathy for Lemongrab's various dysfunctions and ends his Orientation video by [[spoiler:murdering him to make lemonade.]]
** This is the fate of pretty much every villain that angers Black Hat with their ineptitude.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Assuming the Villain Orientation videos are canon, then the world of Villainous shares the same universe/multiverse with every other Cartoon Network show.
* MediumBlending: Used frequently in the Villain Orientation videos.
* {{Medusa}}: Her head powers the statue-making machine in one short.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: All of Black Hat's minions to a degree. Averted in following videos except for 5.0.5.
** Flug is very skilled in inventing new gadgets and weaponry for Black Hat, but these devices often come with huge design flaws that wind up bringing much pain to him and his compatriots. He He also has sandwiches as the "most evil thing" he can imagine (according to Alan Ituriel, this is because he had a traumatic sandwich-related event occur in the past.)[[NotSoHarmlessVillain However]], he shows his sadistic streak [[ColdBloodedTorture to Mojo Jojo]] at the end of "The Lost Cases of Townsville" and whenever we see him experimenting on test subjects, whether they be other villains or his own sentient robots, and in "The Lost Cases of Elmore" he uses a shrink ray to shoot a plane out of the sky and put it in a glass globe [[AndIMustScream with all the passengers inside.]] [[FridgeHorror He puts it on a huge wall lined with other planes, assumedly with countless more trapped or dead passengers inside.]]
** 5.0.5, by his very nature, is also one of these, as he's the result of a failed attempt at creating a destructive monster who wound up being boundlessly gentle instead of terrifyingly bloodthirsty. The narrator in the Villain Orientation videos calls him a "happy accident."
** Demencia is Black Hat's AbhorrentAdmirer which annoys him to no ends, and mostly just plays PokeThePoodle pranks when she's not mindlessly obsessing over Black Hat. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain That being said]], see HiddenDepths, [[spoiler:HeroKiller]] and EliteMook in her character page.
* MythologyGag: The song in the trailer says that you can call 1-800-Black Hat for reasons ranging from dealing with any hero, or if you're a parent with a terrible child. One of the ''Villainous'' shorts prior to Cartoon Network involved Black Hat listening to a pirate captain grouse about his misbehaving son.
* NailsOnABlackboard: Done by Demencia to deface a drawing 5.0.5 drew. Then Black Hat does it, seemingly tearing open another dimension that lets out a sound that's so unbearable to Demencia and 5.0.5. that they get on the floor and cover their ears, and it even cracks Demencia's teeth.
* NonDubbedGrunts:
** 5.0.5's growls are left intact in all the dubs.
** Demencia's flirty growl in "Sculpting Evil" is the same in English and Spanish.
* NothingIsScarier: Black Hat's pet snake, Lil' Jack. When asked to see her in the ''Orientation Q&A'' video, Black Hat gives a curt "No," followed by a shot outside of a large, extremely fast blur dragging an unlucky boy into a sewer.
-->'''Flug:''' I think it's her lunch time right now.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The whole cast save for [[BearyFriendly 5.0.5.,]] who couldn't hurt a fly.
* PinkIsErotic: [[MsFanservice Miss Heed]] is a flirtatious superheroine and influencer with pinkish skin, hair, and clothes, decorated in [[HeartSymbol heart shapes and motifs]]. Her outfit [[BareYourMidriff bares her midriff]] and her abilities involve brainwashing others with pheromones in her perfume.
* ThePowerOfLove: To combat this empowering heroes or causing villains to have second thoughts, Black Hat puts the Dapura Repulsa flower up for sale during the Valentine's Day special; a parasitic plant that can [[Main/HatePlague turn a person's affection for others into disgust.]]
* RapidFireComedy: The shorts have one joke happen after another, though this might be because they're only one minute long.
* RightHandCat: Spoofed in "Dreadful Dawn," 5.0.5. sits on Flug's lap, but the fact that he's bigger than any of the cast and probably weighs more than a couch ends up nearly crushing him, and Flug desperately asks him to get off.
* ShrinkRay: "Bigger, Badder" has Black Hat demonstrating such a device on 5.0.5 and unintentionally enlarging him, prompting him to advertise it as creating giant, destructive monsters instead.
* ShoutOut:
** Most shorts and episodes have at least one passing reference to other Creator/CartoonNetwork original series in the background. These can also be found in recurring elements, such as Black Hat's [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/b78ab8224dbac8ae3d66aa06bc2a5a6e/tumblr_oq9rmrWfCA1sqv60so1_1280.png portrait]] seen in multiple episodes having [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn's sword]] (the first one, to be specific), [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Bubbles' octopus doll]], [[WesternAnimation.StevenUniverse Steven's shirt]], [[Westernanimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Grim's scythe]], and [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Sector V's treefort]] amongst the wreckage.
** The inner security system in Black Hat's mansion utilize weapons such a [[VideoGame/AngryBirds bird in a slingshot]], [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 a flamethrower]], and a [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe piranha gun]] among the weapons.
** When Demencia reactivates the anti-gravity device and is left floating in the air along with everyone else, she says, [[Literature/{{It}} "We all float."]]
** [[http://globegander.tumblr.com/post/160876854966 One of the statues that 5.0.5 creates in the last commercial]] has him eating Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, who is clutching the Oscar he won for his performance in ''Film/TheRevenant''.
** Easter Eggs in the videos, when put together and analyzed by fans, revealed a group opposing Black Hat called "Men Without Hats," whose website, sure enough, is called "Podemos Bailar" (We Can Dance, a lyric from [[Music/MenWithoutHats "The Safety Dance"]].)
** In "Dreadful Dawn", when Sunblast is throwing the villains around like a lasso, one of them drops a cup that looks like [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} Ms. Challice's]] [[https://imgur.com/a/Wga8rj0 head]]. Not to mention when Demencia is attacking him, she tells him "[[Film/AvengersAgeofUltron The sun's getting real low!]]" like another [[ComicBook/BlackWidow certain redhead.]]
** In "The VVV", after Black Hat merges a man and a horse together after a woman said that she wanted to date them at the same time, the woman suddenly finds a dark rose and says "[[Series/LaRosaDeGuadalupe And this rose?]]"
* SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness: In the Christmas short, Black Hat shows off a robot in his image known as the Hat-Bot, which Flug demonstrates how evil he can make it behave through a scale which from highest being the most evil and lowest being the least evil:
** [[DarkIsEvil Almost Black Hat]]
** Line Art and Clean Up
** [[invoked]][[VideoGameMoviesSuck Video Game Movie Adaptation]]
** Shipping Fees
** Taxes
** [[TakeThatAudience Fanfic Writer]]
** [[SelfDeprecation Cartoon Producer]]
** [[PokeThePoodle Toaster That Burns Toast]]
** [[BearyFriendly 5.0.5]]
* SoftSpokenSadist: Flug rarely raises his voice and is generally a nervous wreck, but he's still very much a villain, as seen at the end of the WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Orientation Files episode; when he has Mojo Jojo strapped to an exam table in his lab, he's clearly having an ''amazing'' time calmly and quietly explaining how [[ColdBloodedTorture the toxin he's about to inject him with]] [[FateWorseThanDeath won't kill him, but it'll be so agonizing that he'll wish that it would.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor:
** To ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'', another CN animated show that followed the exploits of a dysfunctional supervillain organization. Only difference is that the Black Hat Organization is much more professional and malevolent about their evil actions.
** In the same respect, some people also see it as one to ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil''.
* StockSoundEffect: The ship used in the pilot sounds identical to the speeder bikes from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Demencia and Flug once provided the page image.
* StylisticSuck: The ''Black Hat Villain Orientation Video'' has shaky footage, retro filters, shills the other products in Black Hat's catalogue, and is poorly edited with many rough cuts and technical difficulty cards left in.
* StunnedSilence: Rather than his [[HairTriggerTemper usual reaction]] to Demencia's actions, Black Hat and his clones can only stare in shock at the buff clone, and remain that way until the video ends.
* TakeThat:
** The Villain Orientation videos, which are ultimately Black Hat (and later, Flug) calling out the villains of other Cartoon Network shows for their various failings.
* TheIllegible: When Flug is writing things intended to be read by other people, his handwriting is fine, but when it's for himself, it's absolutely unreadable. The narrator in the Orientation Files, in live action, holds the script that Flug wrote, looking like a swarm of loop and scribbles with maybe one or two visible letters, and comments that he can barely make out what it says, but Flug says that his handwriting is just fine. The production team got the crew member with the worst handwriting to make it.
* TheStinger: At the end of "Boo!-Lldozing", [[spoiler:Bulldozer]] is still roaming in the forest in terror until he finds a certain cave...with [[WesternAnimation/WeBareBears three familiar bears inside.]]
-->'''Ice Bear''': Ice Bear will call the police.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Flug assumes one after making it past the outside security system, only to find himself surrounded by the ''inside'' security system.
* VillainProtagonist: Right in the title, baby.
* WouldHurtAChild: As the last orientation video shows, Black Hat Organization has no problem in taking care of the [[{{WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor}} Kids Next Door Organization]] if they try to go against them.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Miss Heed has 23 houses. [[spoiler:When Sunblast breaks into one of them to save Penumbra, he finds this out and realizes that he got the wrong house and will have to keep searching.]]
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