Kermit Kombat is an animated webseries made by Rocky Pinnicle and released on Newgrounds. While the first installment
was a lone interactive Flash game with... dated graphics, the sequel instead became a movie with three separate parts. The series itself revolves around the author himself, Rocky, getting into a battle with Kermit the Frog after finding a picture of him kissing his girlfriend in his wallet.
Kermit Kombat provides examples of:
- Adaptational Jerkass: In The Muppets franchise, Kermit the Frog is usually portrayed as a mild-mannered Nice Guy who often acts as the voice of reason. Here, he actively challenges Rocky in a fight to the death after being provoked, and is more prone to acting out in violence.
- Art Evolution: The animation has significantly improved in Part II compared to the original.
- Author Avatar: Rocky Pinnicle.
- Back from the Dead: Kermit, thanks to his fellow Muppets.
- Berserk Button: Kermit (unintentionally) eats Rocky's glasses while using his finisher move. Big mistake.
- Bob REALLY hates squirrels (or "squirrelies").
- Beware the Quiet Ones: In order to gain enough time to hack into Kermit's cybernetic mainframe, John asks the silent Maci to distract the frog. And he does... with extreme prejudice.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In episode 3 of Part II, Dingus shows up with his crew to seek revenge against Rocky for breaking his neck, which he states happened earlier that day. One of his cronies tries correcting him, saying that it happened "two years ago" which is a reference to
the time gap between episodes 2 and 3. This promptly earns him a Dope Slap. - Bribe Backfire: Kermit tries to bribe Rocky and ultimately fails.
- Critical Existence Failure: Kermit blows up into pieces due to Rocky's use of the all-powerful Kamehameha.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Kermit versus the Dingus Crew.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Rocky fights and ultimately kills Kermit because he found a fake photo of his girlfriend kissing the frog in his wallet.
- Dodge the Bullet: In the original game, Rocky performs this with Bullet Time in the "Magic Finger" option.
- Finish Him!: Kermit's sad attempt at this is using his elongated tongue against Rocky. He ends up eating Rocky's glasses.
- Flipping the Bird: Kermit's "Magic Finger" in the original game.
- Funny Animal: Bob, Rocky's pet cat.
- Harassing Phone Call: Kermit tries to make a threatening call to Rocky, but he ends up with Bob on the line.
- Insistent Terminology: Bob always refers to squirrels as "stupid squirrelies".
- Jerkass: Dingus and his aptly-named "Dingus Crew".
- Offhand Backhand: Kermit responds as such after Elmo annoys him too much. Angered, Elmo tries retaliating by pulling out a gun (of course, with Rumble in the Morning's "Elmo's Got a Gun" playing in the background), but he immediately gets his head blown off by Kermit's Arm Cannons.
- Orphaned Series: Episode 3 of Kermit Kombat II sets up a currently unresolved Cliffhanger, with Rocky still training with "Macho Man" Randy Savage and a newly-transformed Boot going up against Kermit.
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: Bob overheads Rocky talking about training (as in, karate training) but mistakes it as him "seeing a Pikachu".
- Name Drop: Kermit himself does this in the first part.
- Shout-Out: I mean, the title gives it away, doesn't it?
- Rocky uses the Kamehameha on two separate occasions: once when killing Kermit, and nearly a second time when he has a Heroic BSoD spotting a Pez dispenser with Kermit's face on it.
- Cookie Monster pretty much recites the opening to The Six Million Dollar Man while Kermit is being rebuilt, complete with him saying "We Can Rebuild Him".
- Kermit interrupts X's quest and steals one of his power-ups, killing him with it.
- Those Two Guys: Statler and Waldorf both show up at the end of each episode of Part II, riffing the series as expected. That is, until episode 3, where Waldorf is revealed to have died of old age due to waiting so long for it to come out.
- To Be Continued: Occurs in the first and immediately resolved in part one of the second.
- We Can Rebuild Him: Kermit is reconstructed by the Muppet crew as a super-enhanced Cyborg, a la Six Million Dollar Man.
- Wham Episode: In the third episode of Part II, it's revealed Kermit's fight with Rocky was all planned by Miss Piggy and Bob, with the photo of Kermit kissing Rocky's girlfriend being forged by the cat and placed inside his wallet, causing the conflict of the original Kermit Kombat game.
