Line #49 WebAnimation/BestFiends


1	Starting in mid-2017, Seriously Entertainment teamed up with animation studio Creator/ReelFXCreativeStudios to create web shorts for ''VideoGame/BestFiends''.
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3	Each short look into a snippet of Minutia. Whether looking at the lives of the Fiends, the Slugs attempting to thwart them, or a combination of the two, they highlight the personalities of the characters that are only small blips in the game.
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5	The web shorts often connect with the game, having their own page in the app to watch them, along with various challenges around the time of release that give trivia questions related to the short.
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7	The shorts themselves can be found on the game’s Website/YouTube account, the playlist containing them can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1f_4ljw6efAXndWWWyIWAVoGYXRf8N1O here.]]
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9	[[folder:Shorts in the series]]
10	* "Boot Camp" – Released May 25, 2017
11	* "Visit Minutia" – Released September 1, 2017
12	* "Fort of Hard Knocks" – Released July 18, 2018
13	* "Baby Slug’s Day Out" – Released September 13, 2018
14	* "Howie’s Gift" – Released January 10, 2019
15	* "Temper’s Adventure" – Released June 27, 2019
16	* "The Immortal Cockroach" – Released September 12, 2019
17	* "The Fight Before Christmas" - Released December 5, 2019
18	* "King Slug Industries" - Released January 9, 2020
19	* "Slug Swap" - Released May 29, 2021
20	* "The Demon of Sweet Street" - Released October 22nd, 2021
21	* "Temper's Adventure 2: Part 1" - Released January 10th, 2022
22	* "Rumors" - Released June 3rd, 2022
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25	!!The shorts provide examples of:
26	* ADayInTheLimelight:
27	** "Boot Camp" and "Fort of Hard Knocks" focuses on the Slugs, only having the Fiends show up at the very end. Meanwhile, "King Slug Industries" doesn't feature any Fiends, only focusing on the Slugs.
28	** "The Immortal Cockroach" focuses on Lapoleon, with him being the only Fiend in the short.
29	* AllCGICartoon: The series is done in all CGI, in contrast to the game’s 2D style.
30	* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the ''Best Fiends'' game.
31	* AssassinationAttempt: The plot of "The Immortal Cockroach". The Slugs have a crack team of assassins sent out against Lapoleon, who they have mistaken for the Fiends’ leader. Unfortunately for the Slugs, he’s unkillable, being a cockroach.
32	* AnAssKickingChristmas: "The Fight Before Christmas" features Howie up against Slug Nick in a kung fu-esque fighting scene.
33	* BadBoss: "King Slug Industries" reveals that King Slug is ''not'' a pleasant guy to work for.
34	* BadSanta: Slug Nick, on principle of still being a slug, is not a nice guy, and ends up attacking Howie. However, [[spoiler:the other Fiends still see him as an average Santa figure, so they aren't too pleased with the resulting carnage]].
35	* BigFancyHouse: "The Immortal Cockroach" reveals that Lapoleon lives in one.
36	* CameraAbuse: The shorts love this trope.
37	** "Howie's Gift" ends with a botched magic spell launching Howie into the camera, slowly sliding down in pain after.
38	** "The Immortal Cockroach" starts to end the same way, with an explosion launching Lapoleon into the camera. [[spoiler:Instead of reacting in pain, he simply peels himself off, dusts himself off from explosion ashes, and walks away as if nothing happened.]]
39	** "The Fight Before Christmas" ends this way, with [[spoiler:the other Fiends throwing Howie out to the front yard for the Slug-mas kerfuffle]].
40	* ChristmasEpisode: "The Fight Before Christmas", in a parody of ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas''.
41	* DiegeticSwitch: In "The Immortal Cockroach", Lapoleon puts on an instrumental record of [[StandardSnippet "La Vie en Rose"]] in the beginning of his introduction scene. It then switches to the background music for the majority of the short afterwards.
42	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption:
43	** According to "Boot Camp", the slugs flat-out set themselves up to fail and get defeated by the Fiends. [[TallPoppySyndrome Those who succeed at the slugs' training gauntlet will simply be put through it again]] [[spoiler:only to get walloped worse than they would have been if they had just failed the first time]].
44	** In "The Immortal Cockroach", every attempt to off Lapoleon by the Slugs is thwarted by pure luck, along with Lapoleon just straight up being unkillable.
45	* HiddenPurposeTest: The short "Howie's Gift" tells the story about how Howie, the wizard lizard, managed to get his "greatest gift" when he was younger, going through three tests to prove that he is brave and kind of heart to earn a power beyond his wildest dream. It turns out [[spoiler:he was ''always'' a wizard. The gift was how he got his British accent]].
46	* LeavingFoodForSanta: "The Fight Before Christmas" has a plate of cookies left out for Slug Nick. [[spoiler:He eats them all in one go and smashes the plate over Howie's head.]]
47	* MagicalProfanityFilter: Howie has a very bad cursing problem, and for the sake of Kwincy, he has the ability to self-censor himself. This means a ''lot'' of censor bleeps in his vocabularity.
48	* {{Retraux}}: "King Slug Industries" uses old VHS effects for the orientation film and credits, to fit the "poor working environment" of the company.
49	* ShiftedToCGI: Inverted, "Slug Swap" changes to a flat art style, compared to the CGI style of the previous shorts.
50	* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: Hank and Roger's scheme in "The Immortal Cockroach", posing as delivery men to give Lapoleon a delivery. [[spoiler:Lapoleon's more irritated at how cliche the "bomb trick" is, rather than it being a bomb in itself, since he's immortal.]]
51	* SoundEffectBleep: The episodes bleep out Howie’s swearing, referencing how he’s forced to self-censor himself around the others thanks to his bad mouth.
52	* SoundtrackDissonance: A majority of "The Immortal Cockroach" has the Slugs accidentally offing each other or themselves during their attempts to do the same to Lapoleon, all while all a bright and jazzy instrumental of [[StandardSnippet "La Vie en Rose"]] plays in the background.
53	* StandardSnippet: "The Immortal Cockroach" uses an instrumental of "La Vie en Rose" through the short, fitting Lapoleon’s French manner.
54	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "The Immortal Cockroach", one of the attempts to off Lapoleon is a plate of poisoned fruit. The fruit itself is obviously wrong, coated in an obvious cloud of green poison, but Lapoleon, being a [[NighInvulnerable cockroach]], eats it no problem and ''belches out'' the poison. The Slug that was attempting to poison him is dumbfounded, and eats a remaining single cherry to see how he failed, only to immediately keel over.

Context WebAnimation / BestFiends