Anger Management
is a fanfiction of The Loud House.
It focuses on Lynn stealing Lincoln's stuffed rabbit Bun-Bun, then when it ends up damaged through landing on a formula Lisa made, he beats her up so badly that it hurts to walk. This embarrasses Lynn and she spends a sizable chunk of the story trying to make him angry again so they will fight again, because she wants to win this time.
Lincoln, meanwhile, is grounded for beating up Lynn, but he wants to go to a convention, so he's trying his best to be extra good so that he will be let off his grounding early.
This story has become infamous in the fandom for its mean-spiritedness, in a similar vein to The Boy Who Cried Idiot and Lincoln is Done.
Not to be confused with the series or the film.
Anger Management provides examples of
- Adaptational Badass: Lincoln is not good at sports in canon and can even be beaten by his six-year-old twin sisters in the show, but in this story, he can beat up his stronger sister Lynn, who in canon easily beats him at boxing.
- Adaptational Jerkass:
- Downplayed for Lincoln. While he spends most of the fanfic being good, it's only to prevent himself from being grounded, and he is very violent towards Lynn over a stuffed animal. The real Lincoln is rather diplomatic.
- Lynn spends the majority of the story trying to deliberately make her brother mad enough to pulverise her, just to stroke her own ego.
- Lynn Sr., who canonically is a very nervous, non-violent man, spends the entire story being proud of Lincoln for "sticking it" to Lynn, even when he knocks her unconscious.
- Luna, Lana, and Lincoln's school friends are impressed that Lincoln beat up Lynn and (with the exception of Luna and Clyde) they don't sympathise with Lynn for being beat up. Lana even thinks it was "awesome" that Lincoln beat up Lynn.
- Adaptational Wimp: In canon Lynn is normally a tough sports girl who could lift her second eldest sister Leni but in this story is easily beaten by her younger brother Lincoln twice who is shown to be bad at sports.
- Alliterative Title: Conversed when Ronnie Anne watches a show called Stellar Sentry.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Ronnie Anne owns an orange stuffed toy hippo named Lincoln, who was apparently in a pile of multicoloured hippos.
- Annoying Laugh: Luan and Lynn are often described as laughing in an "obnoxious" way, as is Flip once.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: Lincoln says, "No one can spoil my fun, not even—-" and then Clyde sees Lynn and says, "Lynn!".
- Baby's First Words: Downplayed— Carlitos says his first words that weren't an imitation of someone: "Wuv Nie Nie. Wuv Wonnie Anne."
- Baby Talk: Lynn mocks Lincoln by saying things like "Does wittle Winky want his bunny wabbit?".
- Backhanded Apology:
- When Lincoln is made to apologise to Lynn, he says, "Sorry I didn't hurt you more".
- When Lynn is made to apologise to Lincoln, she thinks, "Sorry you aren't lying on the floor crying like a baby."
- Bathroom Search Excuse:
- Lynn runs out of the gym in embarrassment, claiming she has to pee.
- Lynn runs into the bathroom later to spray water on her face, but claims she needs to take a dump.
- Later, when Lynn tries to go into Lincoln's room and Lynn Sr. catches her, she claims she was going to the bathroom.
- Batman Gambit: Lucy tricks Lynn into thinking of a rhyme for her poem by telling her Lincoln is a better poet and making her jealous.
- Beef Bandage: Discussed when Leni wants to make Lynn a steak for her eye, having heard of the treatment.
- Beneficial Disease: Downplayed— Haiku describes her cold negatively, but likes the pallor it gives her.
- Berserk Button: Lincoln's is anyone hurting Bun-Bun. He beats Lynn twice for it.
- Big Sister Bully: Lynn beats up Bun-Bun and teases Lincoln about it, and after he beats her up she decides to try to annoy him to purposefully make him want a rematch. Ways she does this is sneezing on him and stinking up the bathroom.
- Big "YES!":
- Chandler shouts, "YES!" when he wins a prize in the raffle.
- Lincoln shouts, "YES!" when his parents end his grounding early.
- Bizarre Beverage Use: Lynn tries to give Lincoln a shaken-up can of soda, but Lola ends up opening it instead.
- Blatant Lies: Ronnie Anne claims her underwear is Carlota's, even though Carlota has a much larger posterior.
- Bring My Brown Pants: Discussed. Bobby wonders if Ronnie Anne wet the bed because of the horror movie she watched, but he also thinks it could have been the soda she drank.
- Butt-Monkey: Lincoln is constantly tormented by Lynn's pranks and later she temporarily gets Luan involved.
- Call-Back:
- Lori is working at Gus's Games 'n' Grub, which she did during "The Waiting Game", and rigs the raffle so that Lincoln wins. This is what starts the plot by allowing him to go to the convention.
- Lincoln's "victory undies" he wins in "Undie Pressure" are a plot point— he keeps his tickets in them and then later Lynn steals them.
- The fight protocol seen in "Brawl in the Family" features again when Lynn's sisters try to keep her and Lincoln from fighting by separating them.
- Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: After making herself sick, Lynn says she has to "take a wicked dump".
- Character Exaggeration:
- Lincoln loves Bun-Bun and can be a bit protective of him, but here he is actually violent to Lynn for damaging Bun-Bun.
- Lynn is a sore loser and likes to one-up people, but here, she doesn't care at all about her brother and tries to make him mad just for the sake of wanting to win a fight.
- Closet Geek: Downplayed. Lincoln is relatively open about his geeky habits, but still doesn't self-identify as a geek.
- Continuity Nod:
- Lana once does a version of "Lincoln's victory dance". Lincoln did a victory dance in "Come Sale Away".
- Lynn tells Ronnie Anne that Lincoln reads Princess Pony and tried to flush a comic down the toilet, while Lincoln reveals to Ronnie Anne that it was actually Lucy who did it. This happened in "Sleuth or Consequences".
- Lynn mentions that Luan made embarrassing videos of Lincoln, which happened in "Making the Case".
- Lynn brings up a time Lincoln wore makeup as a baby. This happened in a flashback in "The Whole Picture".
- Ronnie Anne saw The Harvester, which was a movie Lincoln watched in "The Price of Admission".
- Copycat Mockery: Lana teases Lynn by saying, "I'm Lynn— I got beat up by my little brother and can't mud wrestle my way out of a wet paper bag".
- Cut Himself Shaving: Lynn tries to pretend that she got her injuries falling downstairs and accidentally punched herself in the eye.
- Dark Parody: Lucy says, "Cross my heart and hope to die, as crimson tears flow from my eyes" (downplayed though, since the original poem still involves injuries and hoping to die).
- Denied Food as Punishment:
- As punishment for beating up Lynn, Lincoln has to not snack between meals.
- Lynn's punishment for stealing Bun-Bun involves not eating dessert.
- Dirty Kid: Lincoln and his friends have all read an adult comic and find Mrs. Johnson hot when she cosplays as the main character.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Lincoln beats up Lynn TWICE over a stuffed animal.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Carlitos, and Lynn when she's mocking Lincoln, pronounce their "R"s as "W"s.
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Discussed when Bobby reveals that Ronnie Anne wet the bed the night before.
- Embarrassment Plot: Played for drama. The reason Lynn wants to hurt Lincoln back is because she's embarrassed at being defeated by someone physically weaker than her.
- Entertainment Above Their Age: Eleven-year-old Lincoln and his friends have read an adult comic and are quite pleased when Mrs. Johnson cosplays as the main character.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Lana might be grody, but even she doesn't like to use the toilet in front of Lincoln.
- Luan is an overzealous prankster, but she'd never prank someone as revenge or to try to make them mad.
- Eye Scream:
- During the first big fight, Lincoln gives Lynn a black eye.
- During the mud fight, Lana throws mud in Lynn's eye.
- A discussion is implied when Lucy's poem has the lyric "crimson tears flow from my eyes", hinting that there's blood in the tears.
- Faint in Shock: Discussed. Clyde is described as looking like he might faint when he sees Lori, but he doesn't.
- The Fashionista: Exploited when Lola is about to attack Lynn for (accidentally) making her eat mayo instead of vanilla pudding and spraying soda on her, but Lynn says that she can't go outside drenched in soda and with makeup running.
- Filthy Fun: Exploited. Lynn and Lana mud wrestle so that she can mess up the bathroom with the mud.
- Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower: One of the ways Lynn tries to rile Lincoln up is by flushing the toilet while he's showering.
- The Food Poisoning Incident: Invoked when Lynn deliberately eats a sandwich that disagrees with her so she can clog the toilet.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Rita yells, "Lynn Loud Jr!" for trying to anger Lincoln.
- Fun with Flushing: Discussed when Lynn pretends like she's going to flush Bun-Bun.
- Gamer Chick:
- Sam apparently learnt a video game, so Luna wants to learn it as well.
- Leni learnt how to play a video game at Chaz's house and has gotten rather good at it.
- Getting Sick Deliberately: Lynn eats a sandwich that she knows has gone bad so that she'll get food poisoning and clog the toilet, then she can piss Lincoln off.
- Goofy Print Underwear: Ronnie Anne wears bunny underwear.
- Go to the Euphemism: Lynn refers to pooping as "making room for breakfast" (which is actually biologically incorrect, since poop isn't stored in the same place as food) and later as "making a deposit in the porcelain bank".
- Green Around the Gills:
- Lola turns green when she accidentally eats mayonnaise instead of pudding.
- Lincoln turns green when Lynn claims she needs to poop while he's in the shower, and then later when she does poop.
- Grossout Fakeout:
- Zigzagged when Lynn flushes the toilet while Lincoln's in the shower. It's unclear if she's actually pooping or just pretending to.
- When Lincoln says, "Oh boy!", Clyde thinks he needs to go to the bathroom but he's just excited.
- When Lynn and Lisa are talking in the bathroom, the former tells Lynn Sr. that she "had to go a bit more than she thought".
- Happy Dance:
- At the beginning, Lincoln is excitedly hopping up and down while waiting for the results of a raffle.
- Lana is said to do a "victory dance" when she wins the mud wrestling match.
- Hidden Depths: Mrs. Johnson, Lincoln's teacher, is revealed to read an adult comic.
- Insult Backfire: One of Lynn's attempts to rile up Lincoln is telling him he smells of lavender (perhaps because she thinks that's an "effeminate" smell?). However, Lincoln likes the idea of smelling like lavender and when he finds that he doesn't, he considers using Lori's deodorant.
- Intentional Mess Making: Lynn sneezes on Lincoln, then later spreads mud all over the bathroom and even deliberately gives herself food poisoning so she can clog the toilet, all in attempt to make Lincoln angry.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: At the beginning, Lynn tries to say her injury isn't severe, only to barely be able to walk when she gets up.
- Joke of the Butt: Carlota teases Ronnie Anne by saying that Ronnie Anne has a small butt but will probably soon fill out and become curvy like her or chubby like Rosa.
- Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Discussed when Bobby claims that horror movies give Ronnie Anne nightmares.
- Lame Pun Reaction:
- When Luan makes a joke about Lincoln "using his head" (i.e. headbutting Lori), her sisters groan.
- Lincoln groans when Luan jokes about "a-salting" him with salt.
- Zigzagged when Lincoln groans after Luan gets him with a water balloon and claims he's "wet behind the ears". It's hard to tell if he's groaning about the pun or about how she soaked him.
- Least Rhymable Word: Lucy stalls Lynn by claiming she needs a rhyme for "orange".
- Literal Ass-Kicking:
- Lincoln kicks Lynn on the butt during the first fight.
- Lana hits Lynn on the butt during the mud wrestling match.
- Lost Toy Grievance: Exaggerated. Lincoln goes nuts on Lynn when she damages Bun-Bun, and when she does it the second time, he outright knocks her out.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Lisa and the parents tell Lynn off for trying to provoke him after the second fight, she realises she was "being a complete jerk" and bursts into tears.
- Nasal Trauma: During the first fight, Lincoln punches Lynn in the nose, giving her a nosebleed.
- Nosebleed: Ronnie Anne's nose bleeds when she imagines Lincoln in a suit.
- No Sympathy: Lynn Sr., Luna, Lana, and Lincoln's friends are all impressed that Lincoln "stuck it" to Lynn and barely seem to care that she's injured.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lynn becomes afraid of Lincoln after he beats her up.
- Pepper Sneeze: Invoked when Lynn deliberately puts too much pepper on her food so she'll sneeze on Lincoln.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
- Lincoln says that Lynn took his victory undies without permission "Just. Like. Bun-Bun."
- When talking about being beaten up, Lincoln yells, "HE! GOT! LUCKY!".
- Say My Name:
- Defied when Lincoln wants to scream Lynn's name in frustration but decides not to lest he get in trouble.
- Played straight when Lola yells Lynn's name for accidentally making her eat mayo instead of vanilla pudding.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Lynn tells Lincoln that he has a girly scream and that she finds it funny.
- Shaking the Rump: Lynn shakes her butt when she steals Lincoln's victory undies.
- Ship Tease: While Ronnie Anne isn't dating Lincoln and insists she's not in love with him, she wrote her and his initials in her notebook, kissed a photo of him, and got a nosebleed while imagining him in a suit.
- Shout-Out: Lana initiates the mud fight with "It is on like Donkey Kong", and later, Luna tells Lincoln that "Girls just wanna have fun", which is the name of a song.
- Snarking Thanks: Characters often insincerely "thank" one another for being rude (it's done by Lucy to Lynn for saying she needs to take a dump, Lincoln to Luan for seemingly pranking him, etc).
- Sore Loser: Lynn is so displeased about losing to Lincoln in a fight she spends the whole story trying to annoy him into a rematch.
- Speak in Unison: The twins thank Lincoln for making their school lunches in unison.
- Staircase Tumble: Discussed when Lynn lies that she got her injuries falling downstairs.
- Stink Snub: Inverted. Lynn insults Lincoln (because she thinks he'll take it as saying he's girly) and later Lana (because she's The Pig-Pen) by saying they smell like lavender.
- Sweetie Graffiti: Ronnie Anne wrote her and Lincoln's initials in her notebook.
- Tears of Joy:
- Luan cries happily when Lynn wants her to teach her how to prank.
- Luan cries laughing when she and Lynn are pranking Lincoln.
- Lincoln cries laughing when it's revealed that Ronnie Anne wets the bed.
- Ronnie Anne and Frida cry for joy when Carlitos says his first (non-imitation) words.
- Toilet Humour:
- Lynn farts in the air vent.
- When Lynn is trying to make Lincoln angry, she gives him Dutch ovens.
- Luan said she would make a joke about toilet paper, but it would be "tearable".
- Tears of Remorse: Lynn cries after being beaten by Lincoln a second time due to feeling guilty about bullying him.
- Too Much Information:
- Lucy chides Lynn when the latter says she has to take a dump.
- When Lynn poops (or possibly pretends to poop) and says that it felt so good she feels like she could float, Lincoln says, "Too much information!".
- Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: Lynn loses her appetite after Lincoln beats her up.
- Twitchy Eye: Lincoln's eye twitches in anger when Lynn steals his victory undies.
- Unconventional Food Usage: When trying to anger Lincoln, Lynn pranks him into stepping in grape jelly, dumps salt on his breakfast, switches his pudding with mayo (although Lola ends up eating it instead), dumps flour mixed with laundry powder on him, and puts honey and molasses in the shampoo bottle.
- Uncool Undies: Ronnie Anne is embarrassed by her bunny-print underwear.
- Unmanly Secret: Downplayed for Ronnie Anne's secrets about watching romcoms, wearing bunny underwear, and allowing Carlota to put makeup on her. She is a girl, just a tough one.
- Water Guns and Balloons: Lynn and Luan get Lincoln with a water balloon.
- Working Through the Cold: Haiku shows up at school with a cold.
- Would Hit a Girl: Lincoln gives Lynn two extremely violent beat-downs and also headbutts Lori.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Discussed when Liam is surprised that Lincoln hit one of his sisters, since he didn't strike him as the type to hit girls.
- You Are Grounded!: Lincoln is grounded for beating up Lynn, and she is later grounded for trying to anger him.
- Your Makeup Is Running:
- Exploited when the soda that sprays on Lola makes her makeup run, so Lynn convinces her to fix her makeup rather than attacking Lynn.
- When Ronnie Anne cries, some mascara runs down, surprising Lincoln as Ronnie Anne usually doesn't wear makeup. It turns out that Carlota put it on her.
