, based on the webcomic of the same name. Boyfriend and Girlfriend are trolls who go around challenging people to rap battles just to beat and humiliate them. A certain yellow fox happens to be one of their unlucky victims.On November 4th 2021, a version 2 update was released which added a new song against Sonic, and a remix of "Talentless Fox" by Tsuraran, the creator of Salty's Sunday Night. Version 3 came out on February 16th 2022 adding three new songs. Later that same month, though, after some controversy regarding Hooda the Antagonist and the resulting exodus of some of the mod's team, its page on GameBanana was renamed to include the tag [dead project] at the end, confirming the mod's discontinuation.
Echolocated was working on rebooting the mod with a new team, planning to add new songs and revamp any assets from the old mod that they didn't have permission to use...which ended up cancelled yet again on September 8th 2022, cited by Echolocated as the mod getting way too big while the team was getting very little done...only for the mod to come back once more, finally releasing version 4 on May 11th 2023.
The mod currently has seven songs over two chapters released for the main story, three side story songs, and four remixes/covers.
The mod can be downloaded on GameBanana here.
Song List
Chapter 1
- "Talentless Fox" (Tails vs. Boyfriend)
- "No Villains" (Sonic vs. Boyfriend)
- "Die Batsards" (Shadow vs. Boyfriend)
- "Taste for Blood" (Dark Sonic vs. Boyfriend)
Chapter 2
- "Lonely Looser" (Silver vs. Pico & Alex)
- "Hammerhead" (Mario & Luigi vs. Boyfriend and Girlfriend)
- "All Hail The King" (Bowser vs. Pico)
Side Stories
- "Proving Nothing" (Sonic vs. Boyfriend)
- "On Your Trail" (Pori vs. Mario vs. Shadow)
- "Taste For Blood" (Dark Sonic)
Covers/Remixes
- Scars n' Stars (Scourge vs. Kirbf)
- "Presentless Fox" (Tails vs. Boyfriend)
- "No Grinches" (Sonic vs. Boyfriend)
- "Die Carolers" (Shadow vs. Boyfriend)
Upcoming
- Silver's Mission (Silver vs. Alex)
- Only Hope (Emerl vs. Troll King)
Removed
- "High Shovel" (Knuckles vs. Shadow)
- Tsuraran Fox (Tails)
- No Heroes (Scourge)
- No Bitches (Matasaki's Take) (Sonic)
- No Bitches (Penkaru's Take) (Sonic)
- Groovy Fox (Tails)
- You Can't Consent (Sonic.EXE vs. Sonic)
- Paralysis (Super Sonic vs. Troll King)
- Morons Like You (Bowser)
Provides examples of:
- Adaptational Badass:
- In the original comic, Tails doesn't even try to challenge the trolls, simply crying and running to his friends. In the mod, Tails tries to fight back in a rap battle, though he still ultimately loses.
- Dark Sonic doesn't do much of note in the original webcomic, and gets easily worfed by The Troll King. In here, his song, "Taste for Blood", is easily one of the most difficult songs in the chapter 3 update, not only because of how fast and frenetic it is, but because of the many ways he messes with the UI as he's singing.
- Adaptational Jerkass: As Boyfriend and Girlfriend replace the trolls from Tails Gets Trolled, they're turned from good-natured Fearless Fools into giant pricks that make fun of Tails for no good reason. Downplayed with Pico, who had his reasons for his bad traits in his source material, but becomes a full on troll alongside the main duo.
- Adaptational Skill: As shown in the post-"Die Batsards" cutscene, this version of Girlfriend can revive Boyfriend from the dead, like the Neutrals. Echolocated says Girlfriend has actually been puppeting Boyfriend's corpse the whole time.
- Adaptation Species Change: In the original game, Girlfriend's a demon while Boyfriend and Pico supposedly are humans. In here, they're all Trolls. Or at least, Boyfriend and Pico are, since Girlfriend's eventually revealed to be a Neutral.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Due to the crude art style, Boyfriend and Girlfriend go from a cute, easy on the eyes chibi style to something similar to the original comic, Boyfriend having fanged teeth and large bulging eyes while Girlfriend has a Cheshire Cat Grin and large bangs under her barely open eyes. Downplayed with Chapter 3 Girlfriend, who has the same physique as her canon counterpart with the bug-eyes and large grin of her Chapter 2 self.
- Adaptational Villainy: While Sonic.Exe was already a villain in his source material, he was by no means a child molester, unlike here.
- Art Evolution: Invoked to emulate the significant improvement of the webcomic's own art. Sonic in "No Villains" is slightly, but noticeably, better drawn than Tails, and Boyfriend and Girlfriend have unique sprites that give them a similar level of improvement compared to their sprites in "Talentless Fox". This happens again in the Chapter 3 songs, where the characters have received another visual upgrade to the point where they can hardly be considered Stylistic Suck. V4 dials this back, with the crude artstyle being present for more songs, and the art not improving until "All Hail the King", in which the characters all receive shading and are drawn slightly better than beofre.
- Christmas Episode: The freeplay songs "Presentless Fox", "No Grinches" and "Die Carollers" introduced in the V4 update are Christmas-themed remixes of "Talentless Fox", "No Villains" and "Die Batsards" respectively. In addition to sampling motifs from Christmas Songs (for example: "No Grinches" having motifs of "Jingle Bells"), the characters are dressed for the holidays: Tails is dressed like an elf, Sonic is dressed as Santa Claus, Shadow is dressed as The Grinch and Knuckles is dressed like a reindeer.
- Dead All Along: According to Echolocated, Boyfriend wasn't "revived" by Girlfriend after being shot by Shadow, he's actually been a corpse puppetered by Girlfriend since the beginning of the mod.
- Death by Adaptation:
- Played with; Shadow shoots Boyfriend seemingly to death at the end of "Die Batsards", but Echolocated revealed after the release of V3 that he was never alive to begin with.
- Played straight with Pico, who gets killed by Bowser partially burning him alive with his fire breath. And unlike Boyfriend, Pico wasn't Dead All Along.
- A Death in the Limelight: Pico is introduced in Chapter 2, being the most focused character of said chapter, being playable in all of the songs (Except for "Hammerhead", in which he's only in the cutscenes while Boyfriend and Girlfriend are temporarily given the spotlight), but meets his end when he gets hit by Bowser's fire breath, fatally injurring him.
- Demoted to Extra: Because Boyfriend and Girlfriend took the place of the trolls in the original comic, the original trolls are much more minor, only briefly making an appearance before Shadow quickly disposes of them. Shadow and Knuckles subsequently burying the bodies is the setting of the freeplay song "High Shovel".
- Evil Versus Evil: "All Hail the King" pits Bowser, the evil king of the koopas, against Pico, a troll.
- Flipping the Bird:
- When Shadow demonstrates to Tails how to deal with a troll, he brings out the finger while shouting "Fuck you, trolls!"
- Boyfriend gives Shadow the finger during "Die Batsards".
- Girlfriend gives Sonic the finger after "Taste For Blood".
- Minus Girlfriend E's main animation has her flip off the player.
- For the Evulz: Boyfriend and Girlfriend don't have any reason to antagonize Tails and Sonic.
- Good Is Dumb: Sonic, being the All-Loving Hero, tries to reason with Boyfriend and Girlfriend, despite them antagonizing Tails. They just end up angering him as well.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: In the V4 update, Dark Sonic splits Boyfriend in half with a roundhouse kick post-"Taste For Blood". He gets better thanks to Girlfriend.
- Mythology Gag:
- Tails has three tails instead of two as a reference to the author accidentally giving him a third tail in the early days of the webcomic.
- Sonic is still crudely drawn, but to a lesser extent than Tails. This is meant to reference the author's Art Evolution later on in the comic.note
- The names of the songs "No Villains" and "Die Batsards" reference misspellings found in the comic's first chapter spoken by Sonic and Shadow, respectively.
- Most of the health bar icons are based off various memetic faces the cast have made over the course of the comic, such as Tails crying or Sonic's happy losing icon being the face Sonic makes while talking about having sex with his girlfriend after the trolls aggravate him.
- Sonic's remark about having sex with his girlfriend to calm himself down in the cutscene leading up to "Die Batsards" is lifted directly from the comic.
- Nice Guy: Compared to Shadow, who wants to fight the trolls, Sonic prefers to try to reason with the duo. However, he is put to his limits and eventually gives up.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Once Girlfriend shows her necromancer powers to puppet with Boyfriend's corpse, Shadow, who had just murdered Boyfriend in cold blood, is completely silent. At least until he kills two trolls immediately afterwards.
- Pædo Hunt: Sonic.EXE was this in V3.5 before he was scrapped in V4 due to Hooda's actions:
Sonic.EXE: SO MANY KIDS TO HAVE SEX WITH…SO LITTLE TIME. WOULD'NT YOU AGREE?
Sonic.EXE: HAHAHA! I'M GONNA RAPE YOU!!!
Sonic.EXE: I…LOVE…MINORS!!!
- Promoted to Playable: Shadow becomes playable in "High Shovel".
- Sound-Effect Bleep: While for the most part all swearing in the mod is uncensored, Shadow's delivery of the line "Fucker!" at the end of "Die Carollers" is censored with a bleep, as opposed to the original "Die Batsards", where the line is uncensored.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike the original webcomic, at no point does Sonic actually get killed here.
- Stylistic Suck: As is to be expected from its source material, the mod is coated in a thick layer of this. Tails is drawn only slightly better than he is in the webcomic (and Sonic is only slightly better than that), Boyfriend and Girlfriend are redesigned to look horribly drawn, and the cutscenes emulate the comic while adding in oddly-placed stock sound effects. The V4 update has the cutscenes play out in panels emulating the original webcomic, and human mouth-made sound effects are used for missing notes, Shadow's gunshots, and other miscellaneous sound.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Sonic tries talking Boyfriend and Girlfriend down at the start of "No Villains", with his poses giving the impression that he's trying to reason with the two. Just as in the webcomic, though, this doesn't work out, as Boyfriend just ends up angering him as well.
- Turns Red:
- Double Subverted during "No Villains". Sonic starts out happy and chill, but briefly starts to get annoyed before immediately getting back into his happy mood. Halfway into the song, Sonic starts to get mad, then he tries to smile again but to bad effect, and then remains angry for the rest of the song.
- Played Straight with Dark Sonic, who is much stronger than his more pacifistic form and clearly out for blood. The V4 takes it slightly further by having him scream in rage mid-song and start glowing.
- Towards the end of "Die Batsards", Shadow will shout "DIE!" and begin rapidly shooting at Boyfriend, his sprites going from neutral to frenzied.
- Villain Protagonist: Boyfriend and Girlfriend take the place of the trolls in the mod's story, making them the villains that antagonize Tails and Sonic.
- Villainous Breakdown:
- In a rather loose sense of the term "villainous", anyway. Throughout the course of "No Villains", Sonic starts off with a casual smile on his face, but eventually becomes annoyed and angry, mirroring the result of his attempt to reason with Tails' trolls.
- Played straight with Shadow, who is composed throughout most of "Die Batsards" before becoming frenized and attempting to kill Boyfriend by barraging him with bullets towards the end of the song.
- Wham Shot: Girlfriend summoning red strings to bring Boyfriend back to life just seconds after Shadow shot him dead, all but revealing herself to be a Neutral.
- Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: Shadow averts this trope in "Die Batsards". And it works. He's one of the few characters throughout Friday Night Funkin's many mods to actually kill Boyfriend. Too bad Girlfriend can just bring him back up.
