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6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/king_star_king_characters.jpg]]
7	->''"Twelve trillion years before the alleged Big Bang lived King Star King: the greatest hero who ever was, is, or shall be!"''
8	-->--'''Narrator'''
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10	''King Star King'' is an short-lived cartoon from Creator/AdultSwim, and easily one of their most polarizing shows to date (and that's ''really'' saying something). Despite losing a pilot contest to ''Übermansion'' (Later renamed ''WesternAnimation/SuperMansion''), the series was greenlit for 6 additional episodes. The pilot episode aired on [[{{Creator/Toonami}} Toonami]] in late 2013 alongside ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' during an daylight saving time, prompting a ''very'' mixed to negative reaction from the Toonami viewers, who went online to either praise the show or hate it. As a result, ''King Star King'' has a strong {{hatedom}}.
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12	The series revolves around the titular character, King Star King (Tommy Blacha): a perverted demigod who was kicked off the Heavenly Realm and gets served to work in the Wafflezone restaurant. As he must battle his amnesia to defeat the evil Spring Bunny and rescue his love Snow White.
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14	At least, that's how it goes for the pilot and first episode. After King Star King and his new friends hilariously (and violently) fail to save Princess Snow White, they undergo a variety of nightmarish and disjointed adventures.
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16	In February 13th, 2023, a special named ''King Star King!/!/!'', taking place years after the end of the series, got aired.
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18	The show is perhaps best described as ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Superjail}} Superjail!]]'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on bath salts]]. With its graphic gore, non-stop over-the-top sexism, grotesque drug-fueled surrealism, deviant sexual behavior, and completely random, nonsensical plots, ''King Star King'' is - to put it mildly - definitely not for everyone. Like many other Creator/AdultSwim shows such as ''Series/TheEricAndreShow'' and ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'', ''King Star King'' is about as polarizing as a show can possibly be.
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20	'''''YOU'LL NEED [[BrainBleach BRAIN BLEACH.]]'''''
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23	!!This show provides examples of ''nothing'', considering the amount of commented out examples:
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25	* AcidTripDimension: The entire show takes place in one.
26	* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: A vast understatement.
27	* AntiHero: Virtually everyone is a [[NominalHero Type V]].
28	* BizarreAlienBiology: If characters having random everyday items for organs is of any indication.
29	* BlackComedy: Of the very sadistic and depraved kind.
30	* BloodyHilarious: Although the writers made the sadistic, nonchalant violence more gross than humorous in this case.
31	* BodyHorror: Very frequent, and usually PlayedForLaughs in some way (although, given the nature of the show, it can be ''very'' hard to tell when the writers are trying to be funny or not). Almost every scene features some sort of 'injury', from eyes bursting to heads being broken open, and yet the characters are all fine in the next scene.
32	* TheBully: Tim Tumor. He even sings a little jingle about how awful he is.
33	* CartoonCreature: Gurbles looks like an fluffy piece of fecal matter with human arms and a long-nosed head in the belly, but it's justified that he is actually some kind of alien bear.
34	* CloudCuckooLander: Everyone.
35	* ComedicSociopathy: Though how much of it is meant for comedy is anyone's guess.
36	* CrapsackWorld: An unusually surreal example.
37	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Pretty much every single death on the show (of which there are ''many'') qualifies as this.
38	* CuteAndPsycho: Burger Bitch, just without the "Cute" part.
39	* DerangedAnimation: The absolute epitome of this trope.
40	* DirtyCoward: Hank Waffles. His cowardly nature is what attracts Burger Bitch to him, as she is [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn turned on by cowardliness]].
41	* DisposableSexWorker: Every single female character, with the possible exception of Snow White.
42	* DumbMuscle: King Star King.
43	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot episode has a slightly different style due to having been animated by Mirari Films (of ''WesternAnimation/TheDrinkyCrowShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'' fame) rather than {{Creator/Titmouse}}, who animated the rest of the series.
44	%%* EldritchLocation: Lots of places.
45	* {{Gorn}}: This show is seriously messed-up and sadistic in the gore department.
46	* GrotesqueCute: Some of the female characters and child characters on the show can be said to qualify as this.
47	* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Every female character.
48	* InsaneTrollLogic: It's pretty much the only kind of logic found on the show.
49	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Of the disturbing variety.
50	* JerkassGods: God Star God.
51	* NighInvulnerability: The titular King Star King and his partners are practically unkillable. This is shown impressively when King Star King had all of his internal organs (including ''his freaking brain'') shot out with a machine gun before getting hit with a [[NukeEm nuclear Easter Bunny egg]]. He not only got up after this ordeal, but he only needed a cigar and 2 alcoholic beverages to heal himself.
52	* PsychopathicManchild: A large number of characters.
53	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: It's not every day you come across a show that has the "Ode to Joy" playing in one scene, followed by "Hungarian Dance #5" in the next.
54	* QuarterHourShort: As with the vast majority of the [adult swim] line-up.
55	* RandomEventsPlot: Using the word "plot" is ''definitely'' stretching things, but the show is certainly about as random as anything can possibly get.
56	* ReallyGetsAround: Again, pretty much everyone on the show.
57	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King Star King calls himself royalty so apparently that's not just his name. What he is the king ''of'' remains uncertain.
58	* SceneryGorn: Full of loads and loads of it.
59	* StuffBlowingUp: And how! Almost everyone in the show is shown exploding from ''something'', to the point that it's almost ''OnceAnEpisode''!
60	* SurrealHorror: And ''how''.
61	** SurrealHumor: Well, if it's [[NightmareFetishist your thing]]...
62	* TestosteronePoisoning: As expected for a parody of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse''.
63	* WorldOfBuxom: Nearly every female character has ''huge'' breasts with constant bouncing.
64	* YourHeadAsplode: Seen many, many, ''many'' times.

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