Line #22 WebAnimation/MedicalIsland


1	''Medical Island'' (메디컬 아일랜드) is a Korean-American web flash/CGI shorts series created by Studio Animal and was a collaboration between the animation producers Margaret Dean and Michael Polis. It was available on the Studio Animal, Zango and Crackle websites during the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]]. Episodes one to eight were released in 2003, and episodes nine to eighteen were released in 2005. Studio Animal uploaded all 18 episodes to {{Website/YouTube}} which can be found from their [[http://www.studioanimal.co.kr/?s=medical+island website]] (all the speaking dialogue episodes there are in Korean, while many English dubbed episodes are no longer available).
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3	''Medical Island'' is set at a prison-like medical facility ruled by Dr. Franken, who once ended up on a barren island and befriended Lala the alien mouse before founding the facility. Utilizing an army of nurses, he conducts horrifying surgical operations at his kidnapped patients, who may attempt to escape.
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5	Until the second half of its run, this comedy/horror series was mainly free of dialogue, and in spite of its highly deformed characters and colorful graphics, it's definitely not for children due to graphic violence and nudity.
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8	!! ''Medical Island'' contains examples of:
9	* AdorableEvilMinions: The nurses, whose super deformed design make them appear like dolls or little girls. One of their inhumane activities is sinking an ocean liner in the first episode.
10	* TheAlcatraz: Medical Island, which hosts the fortress-styled hospital, is an island remote from civilization. Why Dr. Franken arrived there in the first place was that a train struck him and sent him flying towards Lala's spaceship above the then barren island.
11	* {{Main/Artshift}}:
12	** Episode 6, which is a backstory for Dr. Franken and the founding of Medical Island, uses cutout-styled animation.
13	** Episode 13 is primarily presented as a monochrome manhwa featuring both super deformed and {{Animesque}} characters, complete with speech balloons.
14	* ArtificialHybrid: The patient in the first episode is a man retrieved from an ocean liner that had been sunk by a nurse's submarine. During the subsequent operation on the captive man on Medical Island, his head gets attached to a chicken's body and wears a glove on his head.
15	* CloneArmy: Episode 5 reveals that the nurses and residents are clones produced by a giant fetus that resembles Lala.
16	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Some scenes, including the exterior shots of the facility, are rendered in computer-generated graphics while the characters are Flash animated. It's noticeable in some camera movements.
17	* FrankensteinsMonster: Dr. Franken was born as one in a laboratory. Onlookers in the laboratory become frightful of him, exiling him outside before he wanders across towns, farms, and cities and terrify those on his path.
18	* {{Main/Gorn}}: Gore and blood frequently show up. Plus, there are shots of internal organs and bones tossing up in the air by Dr. Franken.
19	* MadDoctor: Dr. Franken oversees Medical Island's heinous operations, such as episode 1's attaching of a human's head on to a chicken's body, and he eventually stages a revenge war against civilization for rejecting him when he was a FrankensteinsMonster.
20	* PlantPerson: Narta can sprout vines, flowers, and carnivorous plants, as a consequence of a plant-human hybrid experiment.
21	* PsychoElectricEel: In episode 2, a nurse electrocutes Ting at his butt with a rod attached to an electric eel.
22	* PuttingOnTheReich: The ceremony in episode 7 shows the nurses and Dr. Franken performing a hand salute akin to the Nazi salute.
23	* ReforgedIntoAMinion: In episode 4, a nurse hits a wall and wakes up very surprised that she's in a strange and grotesque facility. Once she faints, she's given a pair of shades and returns to being an indistinguishable member of her flock.
24	* TheScream: Dr. Franken does one in the aftermath of his room and gigantic portrait being ravaged by Muan at the very end of episode 5.
25	* SeriesFauxnale: Episode 8, where [[spoiler:the facility gets destroyed during a failed attempt for Dr. Franken to bring out war. Lala replaces it with a [[BiggerIsBetter big new one]] on a new adjacent island before the "End" screen]].
26	* SinisterShades: The nurses on duty wear shades. [[spoiler:The New Nurse in episode 4 finally obeys follows her unit's command once she's forced to wear a pair of shades.]]
27	* StockScream: There is liberal use of stock scream effects when characters panic or die.
28	* SuperSexOrgans: China Boy can expose his genitals, producing a bright flash that stuns the opposite-sex nurses. It's not effective against the male zombies.
29	* TearsOfBlood: Happens to Dr. Franken, whose blood drips to the "Project Revenge" book in the ending of Episode 6.
30	* TornadoMove: Muan unleashes a trailing whirlwind that violently pushes the staff during his chase in Episode 5.
31	* VillainOpeningScene: The series begins with Dr. Franken eating an adorable tennis-ball like creature before the camera zooms out of his control room and reveals the titular setting.
32	* VillainProtagonist: Dr. Franken is shown as the show's central character due to his leadership, tragic backstory, and the first story arc's escalation into his revenge war plot against the people outside Medical Island.
33	%%* Mooks: Residents.
34	%%* HeroAntagonist: Dr. K and Resident Evil. They hate Dr. Franken.
35	%%* BreaktheCutie: New nurses.
36	%%* DudeLooksLikeaLady: Sadu.

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