Web Animation / Negas

"Mamadas, mamadas pendejas!" ^note Bullshit, fucking bullshit!

— An annoyed Negas using his usual Cluster F-Bomb.

Negas is a Mexican animated comedy YouTube channel created by Ricardo Adrián Lozoya, a.k.a R.A.L.

Twenty-something Negas moves to Mexico DF to work as a White Collar Worker in a soulless and bureaucratic corporate machine. Hilarity Ensues thanks to his eccentric coworkers and an inept boss with the power to teleport.

It wasn't always, though. Originally when it began in 2006, the series focused mostly on Ral (an Author Avatar of R.A.L's childhood) and his nonsensical adventures with his friends Ranito and Keto. It also portrayed Ral's cynic older brother, Negas (an Author Avatar of R.A.L's adult self). However, R.A.L worked at a similar company at the time and his spot-on jabs at the culture made the office-themed series the most popular. After realizing this, R.A.L gradually reworked the series to focus almost entirely on Negas's workplace. In the process, the other employees at the maquila became more prominent characters while prior supporting characters such as Ral were Demoted to Extra.

It is another of the most lucrative YouTube cartoons of Mexico, together with PoGonYuTo and Vete A La Versh. The miniseries can be found on the IrreverenToons Youtube channel.

• Raltoon (2006-2011) ^note A Slice of Life about Negas's younger brother and his classmates at the streets of Chihuahua.
• Don Makila (2010-ongoing) ^note Negas's misfortunes at the maquila he works for.
• DF me le cuento (2012-2013) ^note Negas dealing with the traffic at Mexico's streets or subway.
• Ena Gena (2010-2012)^note A hikikomori boy living in Chihuahua. All episodes consist of him playing videogames and being indifferent to everything else around him, which brings nothing but trouble.
• Poppa Peg (2015-2017) ^note A parody of Peppa Pig, which consists of her being flanderized into a whiny, obnoxious, man-hater Bratty Half-Pint.
• Moni and her Homosexual Hair (2016) ^note A Valley Girl and her sentient (and homosexual) hair.
• Pinchimono (2013-2016) ^note The misfortunes of an Ax-Crazy sentient blob with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
• Niño Ratta (2016-2019) ^note An obnoxious gamer kid making meta references. A Character Exaggeration of the gamer boys seen around the Internet.
• Cherc (2020-ongoing) ^note A parody with a Camp Straight version of Shrek.

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Negas provides examples of:

• Adaptational Dumbass:
  • Ernie from Sesame Street in Veto y Enryke.
  • George Pig and Mummy Pig from Peppa Pig in "Poppa Peg" are just a bunch of idiotic and brainless buffoons who only ever say a few words and have little of relevance to state.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh in "Wini el Putz".
  • Peppa Pig and Daddy Pig in "Poppa Peg", Peppa is rude, selfish and inconsiderate while Daddy Pig is grumpy and hateful of his entire family to the point that he's killed them multiple times over slighting him.
• Adaptational Villainy: The Sun from Teletubbies in "Teleshoobies", whereas in the original series it is a typical nice inhabitant of the world of the Teletubbies, in the Negas video it appears in is a corporate shill who brainwashes Negas to help promote consumerism.
• Aloof Big Brother: Negas shows up at times in Raltoon, but is mostly off with his own life. His default attitude regarding his little brother Ral tends to be disdain or at least cool reserve.
• Ambiguously Gay: Paulo, the jerkass Bad Boss.
• And a Diet Coke: Moni thinks in a diet is perfectly okay to eat a salad topped with a bucket of fried chicken. When her Prehensile Hair calls her out on it, she claims it's okay, because she's drinking diet coke.
• Author Appeal: The various bland products and videogames references.
• Author Avatar: The author has three in the series. They even share his Big Ol' Eyebrows.
  • Negas, the cynic adult who's disillusioned about his life.
  • Ral, the innocent child who's unaware about the Crapsack World he lives in.
  • Pinchimono, the violent and emotional blob who prefers to screw the rules and dive right into a situation.
• Art Evolution: The web animation's art style is rather sketchy in the original chapters but becomes much more professional as the series progresses.
  • Later on, the Don Makila sketches take a more sketchy and chaotic style. R.A.L explains this is for two reasons: 1) He feels this way they convey better the frustration of being a drone stuck in a dead-end job and 2) he thinks the deformed characters look funny.
• Bad Boss: Paulo Chinguetas. He treats his underlings badly, especially Ñoñostacio and Negas. He also favors the Wapper, because he is good-looking. In later episodes, he's subdued to Flanderization.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Negas has some peculiar ones. Also, his brother Ral.
• Black Comedy
• Boisterous Weakling: Niño Ratta, who declares himself to be the best gamer and hacker ever. Far from the truth, he's actually a 13-year-old geek who sucks at everything he does.
• Bratty Half-Pint:
  • Niño Ratta and Poppa.
  • Also Keto, Ral's rebellious friend who's always talking about anarchy.
  • Alvin during a Shout-Out to Alvin and the Chipmunks. He starts baudmouthing Simon, Theodore and even Negas, who was taking care of them. Eventually, Alvin becomes so bratty and annoying that Negas shoots him to death with More Dakka. Combined with an Atomic F-Bomb and Negas threatening to kill Theodore, because he is a Ridiculously Cute Critter and because he likes Justin Bieber.
• Butt-Monkey: Ñoñostacio, even more than Negas.
• Catchphrase:
  • Negas: Mamadas, mamadas pendejas! (Bullshit, freaking bullshit!)
  • Checker: Ay, que rico! (Aww, so yummy!)
  • Paulo: Aurururururu!
  • Ral: Amigo! (Buddy!)
  • Don Cuco: Que chingados andas haciendo, puta?! (The hell are you doing now, bitch?!)
  • Niño Ratta: Te boi a jakear! (I'm gonna hack ya!)
  • Ganso Donal: Amo a jugah, papu!(Let's play, buddy!) and Me estoy quemando! (I'm burning!)
• Camp Gay: Checker Cuckis, who is after anyone, as long as it is a guy. He also lusts after Negas.
  • Moni's homosexual hair is a lighter example, though it's notable in that R.A.L voices him with the exact same voice as Checker.
• Camp Straight: Cherc and Donkey.
• Cluster F-Bomb: A good portion of the narrative.
• Comedic Sociopathy
• Comic-Book Time: Lampshaded a few times.
  • In Raltoon's Christmas Special, Keto and Ranito complain that by the end of the year they'll still be in elementary school.
  • In one episode by Ratta's teacher "Today is the last day of classes, but since we live in an atemporal world, it's going to be the same year forever and ever".
• Couch Gag: The Poppa Peg episodes have many:
  • Poppa will introduce herself "I'm Poppa the pig!" followed by a random, usually unrelated character, also presenting themselves (usually Poppa will yell "PUTO, CAÓN!" (Faggot, bitch!) at them.
  • The title appears with the subtitle "Created by: ___" each episode having a different creator (Satan, Hitler, Trump, The Dollar at Thirty Pesos, Capitalism, Justin Bieber, ETC.)
  • At the end of the episode, the title is shown again, though this time we see Poppa's after she was killed, and a new "Created by: ____" gag.
  • The video ends with an advertisement for "Leshe Shabo" (Dude Milk), followed by a new variant of said milk (Light, gluten-free, baby, chocolate, etc).
• Cranky Neighbor: The Stubborn Old Man, who often whacks Negas (and Checker) with his walking cane for little reason at all.
• Crapsack World: It is actually a flanderized Mexico City, but still, you can and probably will die at any given point by criminals rampaging about; crime runs rampant, the police is wholy corrupt and on top of that even the protagonists aren't without their own screwed-upness.
• Depraved Homosexual: Checker, Checker, Checker...
  • Niño Ratta's teacher as well. Unlike Checker, the problem is not that he tries to flirt with everybody, but that the main target of his affections is Ratta's classmate, Albertito.
• Deadpan Snarker: Negas’s prominent trait.
• Distracted by the Sexy: In the "Negas VS. Wapper" episode, Paulo makes them work hard in order to get a bonus as he records them in order to make a video "How to be and not to be at the Maquila". After complimenting the Wappers’s atributes and style and complaining about Negas’s plain and ordinary face and clothes, he declares that the winner is Wapper because he is hot. Negas is not amused.
• The Dilbert Principle: Don Makila is full of this.
  • Not only Paulo is horrifyingly inept as a boss, but the manager is a sexual harasser that gets away with his actions due to his high position.
  • Incompetent workers are often promoted quickly, whereas those who know what they're doing suffer from limited advancement opportunities, such as Negas.
  • Despite Ñoñostacio's intelligence, he is held back because he's too useful as Paulo's servant and errand boy.
• Dragged into Drag:
  • Negas is dressed in a frilly pink fairy dress during the Morfo advertisement for Schick.
  • Checker cosplaying as Michonne during the parody of The Walking Dead (wearing a disturbing Uncanny Valley Makeup no less!)
• The Eeyore: Negas. He actually has a Meaningful Name, since it's a pun on the word "negative".
• The Fundamentalist: Ratta's classmate, Moises Amenes, a highly religious boy who claims everything is a sin, except for sunday school, The Bible and The Bible 2.
• Jerkass to One: Cherc might be a flamboyant Camp Straight, but is especially mean to Random Soldier, who just wants to be friends with him and Donkey. It gets so bad that Donkey and even R.A.L himself call him out on this.
  Cherc: I dunno, I don't feel safe in this scrappy car, Donkey.
  Donkey: Let's just get going, Cherc. It'll be fine.
  Random Soldier: Well...it's gonna be hard to pay my car, Cherc. You see, yeah....the economic situation it's bad these days.
  Cherc: Bullshit! Here people are poor just 'cause they want to!
  R.A.L: *briefly breaks character to laugh offscreen* Hehehe. Fucking Cherc, you asshole.
• Free-Range Children: In Raltoon, Ral and the other kids seem to run around town without much adult supervision.
• Incompatible Orientation: Checker towards any male in the series.
• Let's Meet the Meat: A couple of Poppa Peg episodes end with Daddy Pig slicing her into ham slices and serving them as dinner.
• Nietzsche Wannabe: Negas in earlier chapters. Would someone so snarker usually be that philosophical?
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Nobody ever seems to age, despite the fact that their adventures could easily take months or even years. Justified, since it's a Gag Series.
  • What makes this especially odd, is that Negas, actually does grow up, going from being in his late twenties to early thirties.
• Not So Above It All: Negas mocks Ñoñostacio for being a weaboo, only to start fanboying for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when he thinks nobody is watching him.
  Negas: I can't believe he forced me to watch that shit! Fucking manchild!
  TV: Coming up next....Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
  Negas: HELL YEAH! *proceeds to hum the opening song out loud*
• Occidental Otaku: Ñoñostacio and Niño Ottaco.
• Pokémon Speak: Poppa's mother, Mothafucka, can only say one word: "MOTHAFUCKA!". With a stereotypical black man voice, even.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Negas has ones during the Throw the Dog a Bone episode, when he realizes that the girl he spent the night with, put him some Alka-Seltzer in his pocket.
• Really Gets Around: Checker.
• Ridiculously Successful Future Self: As shown in the episodes "El Chavo" and "Santa exists", Negas becomes a physicist, gets married and wins a Nobel Prize. He even becomes more of a snarker than he already is. His grandson lampshades it.
  "I'm Negas' grandson, Negas Mc Fly! Don't ask how the grumpy asshole was able to reproduce, but he did, okay?. Get it over with."
• Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!:
  • The Wapper in his debut episode.
  • Niño Ratta's teacher openly swoons and praises Albertito, while dismissing his other students for being "ugly".
• Sdrawkcab Speech: The Grays in Niño Ratta speak like this. They even listen to music this way (when the audio is reversed, it's revealed that the weird, otherwordly music they dance to is actually a cumbia).
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In the future episode, Doc from Back to the Future appears to Negas’s grandson, in order to create a time paradox to prevent Justin Bieber’s birth.
• Stylistic Suck: The Niño Ratta animations. Among other things, the characters are barely animated, they briefly blink out of existance, background objects ocasionally move to higher layers and a good chunk of clothes, objects and backgrounds are blatant cases of GIS Syndrome (the pattern on Ratta's mom's dress even has a stock image watermark on it).
• Surrounded by Idiots: Negas firmly believes this, even during his Not So Above It All moments. He's not entirely wrong considering he lives in a Crapsack World.
• Take That!:
  • The DFme le Cuento videos take a lot of jabs at the general state of Distrito Federal (Federal District), Mexico's capital, as well as the political climate of the early 10's.
  • The Burger Kin miniseries is a long one directed at the Burger King restaurants chain (which have a widespread presence in Mexico).
  • The Battlefield 4 promo makes blatant jabs at the Mexican Army (and other armies in general), the Narcos^note the name given to the organized crime network in Mexico, capitalism in general; as well as some less overt jabs at the Vietnam War due to parodying Forrest Gump and even a quick one against Battlefield 4 itself regarding the new army dog feature.
  Negas: "Dan comida gratis y te pagan por matar o morirte, como el narco ¿Verdad? Pero obvio pagan chingos menos, aunque de eso a estar de nini hipster tiramierda o hacer monos para drogadictos, pos eso."^Translation "They give you free food and pay you to kill or die, just like the narco, right? But of course they pay you a fuckton less, but between that or being a shit-spewing hipster NEET or making stuff for drug-addicts, well that."
• The Dog Bites Back: When Paulo teaches Negas his technique of popping out of nowhere. After he proceeds to explain how did he learn it, Negas uses it and escapes. Subverted in the end, when as Negas drives away, Paulo pops out in the car; freaking out poor Negas and crashing his car. Apparently, Paulo did it to give a lesson on how to be more attentive to surroundings, but Negas starts insulting him, since his car is now destroyed.
  • Averted. In later episodes, Negas uses it to escape from his co-workers when they start being too annoying.
• They Killed Kenny Again: In general characters die repeatedly through the videos but never once does it ever stick.
  • Negas himself has been killed a few times, such as getting gunned down by a drug-addicted version of Choco Krispis' mascot, Melvin in "Chaka Krispis". He also dies in "Rais Mamex Maxx" where the titular insecticide sets him on fire from its potency and then blows up Earth for good measure (unless that was just an advertising exaggeration).
  • The titular character of Poppa Peg is killed in every single episode, only to return on the next one.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Most of Don Cuco's dialogue, when talking with Niño Ratta.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: The advertisement episode for Alka-Seltzer. Negas goes to the disco where he finds a girl, who takes a liking to him, even with the Deadpan Snarker traits. Another much better looking man asks the girl to dance, but she prefers to dance with Negas, much to the latter’s joy. After they dance all night and have sex, he goes for his job reunion the next day, obviously tired, only to find that the girl left him an Alka-Seltzer in his pocket. Cue Negas smiling, a success at the reunion and the possibility to see the girl again. Considering how much crap he goes through and how badly he often is treated in the series, he really deserves it.
  • Ocasionally, Don Cuco will show he appreciates his stepson, Niño Ratta, in his own twisted way. Usually when Ratta is upset about his biological father rejecting him.
• Unexplained Recovery: If a character is killed onscreen or offscreen, they are very likely to return on the next episode without any explanation or even acknowledgement of their deaths. Heck in one Niño Ratta episode, Niña Unik killed herself twice.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Negas is an unpleasant cynic who is judgmental and bitter towards everyone, especially those he sees as morons.
  • Niño Ratta is selfish, arrogant, dumb, and all-around obnoxious. His antics are so extreme that the constant abuse by Don Cuco actually come off as being warranted half the time.
  • Poppa is self-centered, full of herself, and just plain mean-spirited and hypocritical all around. So when whatever she's doing blow up in her face and leave her thoroughly humiliated, it's all too easy to laugh at her misfortune.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As shown in the "Children's Day" episode, this is the case with Negas, Checker and Ñoñostacio who each had a certain event drive them into their current selves.
  • Negas was a cute little boy who thought the best of people and loved to play with his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles dolls. And then, his Raphael doll breaks and we see him now as a hysterical young man who Hates Everyone Equally....
  • Checker used to be an average innocent child, until Michael Jackson lured him to a van with promises of candy. Fortunately, RoboCop killed him before he could molest Checker. Meanwhile, the boy found a collection of Twilight films and saw them all in a day...turning him into the Camp Gay he is now.
  • Also Ñoñostacio was an outgoing-child who was an overachiever and loved playing sports. Until one day a vendor tried to sell them some Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and convinced him that he would be succesful at life if he collected them all. Afterwards, he becomes a slobbish Occidental Otaku.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: According to Word of God this seems to be the case with Negas, Don Cuco and Papa Cerdito.
• Verbal Tic: “Hurururururu”, used by Paulo when popping out of nowhere.
  • Ral makes a "Ploop" noise whenever he blinks.
• When He Smiles: Negas, especially during the Throw the Dog a Bone episode mentioned above. He even points it out to the girl he dates in that episode.
  Negas: Hi, wanna dance with me? See, I can smile. *grins*
• World of Snark: Are you really surprised?

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