Line #29 WesternAnimation/LupoTheButcher


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4	->''Sonnamabitch! Piece-a-shit job, I '''quit!''' Fuckin' I dunno...''
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6	''Lupo the Butcher'' is a three-minute 1987 animated film created by Danny Antonucci, [[HeAlsoDid the same gentleman who did]] ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''.
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8	Lupo, an Italian-Canadian butcher puts a large rack of ribs on a table and starts chopping. He was angrily muttering at the start of the film, but his bad mood worsens when the ribs he's chopping fall on the floor. Lupo is already yelling insults and obscenities when he accidentally chops off his thumb with the meat cleaver. Lupo runs around screaming and cursing for a while as blood splashes everywhere, until his body literally falls apart.
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10	So, not a Creator/{{Disney}} short.
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12	Appropriately, ''Lupo the Butcher'' was produced by Marv Newland of ''WesternAnimation/BambiMeetsGodzilla'' fame.
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14	Clips of the short were later used in the [[Main/CanadianMovies Canadian]] independent feature film ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet'', in which a screening of the film is raided by the titular town's CulturePolice.
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16	In November of 2020, it was announced that a [[https://animesuperhero.com/lupo-the-butcher-series-in-development-at-netflix/ Lupo the Butcher series was in-development for Netflix, but was ultimately canceled in 2022 due to creative differences.]]
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19	!!Tropes:
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21	* AllJustADream: A Converse shoe commercial has him [[CatapultNightmare waking up]] from a nightmare of a living Converse shoe about to saw him in half with a chainsaw. Relieved, he goes back to sleep, as a [[OrWasItADream giant Converse shoe creeps up from the dark]].
22	* AssholeVictim: Lupo is an absolute bastard, so it's entertaining to see his entire body start falling apart.
23	* BloodyHilarious: It's pretty funny when Lupo is running around holding a hand that is ''gushing'' blood from a severed thumb, while screaming "Goddamn, I gonna die!"
24	* TheButcher: A very, very ill-tempered one.
25	* BuyOrGetLost: There's a handmade sign in the shop that reads "THIS NO LIBARY, BUY OR GET OUT".
26	* DerangedAnimation: A butcher falls apart, ending with his severed head lying on the floor, pushing itself up by the tongue, and screaming insults. Yep.
27	* {{Fingore}}: Once Lupo chops his finger off, all hell breaks loose.
28	* FlippingTheBird: Lupo does this at one of the ribs as it bounces away.
29	* FourFingeredHands: Lupo has these.
30	* FunnyForeigner: Part of the humor, as Lupo is obviously an Italian immigrant and speaks fractured English.
31	* {{Gonk}}: Lupo is anything but handsome. He has a weird shaped bald head and horrendous teeth.
32	* HighPressureBlood: Lupo's hand spouts blood like a garden hose from the thumb, not to mention all the blood everywhere when he starts falling apart.
33	* IllKillYou: Lupo shouts this as a piece of meat falls to the ground from his cutting board.
34	* IrisOut: Subverted when Lupo's severed head squeezes its way through the iris and continues to scream obscenities and insults throughout the credits.
35	* LineBoil: Lines boiling as befits a cartoon hand-drawn in an old-timey style.
36	* MinimalistCast: Lupo is the only character.
37	* OffWithHisHead: One MTV bumper has him chopping a dead chicken's head off. It suddenly comes to life and chops ''his'' head off.
38	-->'''Lupo:''' ''(to the headless chicken)'' You stink like feet!
39	* RecordNeedleScratch: Used to transition from the opening title card to the action of the cartoon.
40	* RuleOfFunny: Why does Lupo's body fall apart? Why not?
41	* SirSwearsALot: Lupo wears out the stock of English-language bad words and falls back on [[ForeignCussWord swearing in Italian]].

Context WesternAnimation / LupoTheButcher