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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails

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17 feature instances
9 referencing feature instances

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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Various cartoons and toy lines, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s, used repulsive slimy creatures and ooze to appeal to kids, especially boys (hence the trope name pun). Keywords were "gross", "slime" (or if you're British "gunge") and "ooze". Toys often focused on some gimmick based around some goopy liquid, and most of these franchises had an obsession with the toxic waste theme. That meant lots of villains, and sometimes heroes, based on mutant abilities, bizarre chimeras, and distorted bodies. The ooze often appeared with a brightly unnatural Sickly Green Glow. The theme gradually went away when more conventional comic book heroes started getting their own cartoon adaptations. Slime made a comeback in kids toys in The New '10s, though in addition to the traditional gross-out ooze aimed at boys, sparkly, rainbow, or "unicorn poop" themed slime toys aimed at girls also started to become popular. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })See also Boys Like Creepy Critters, which uses the same idea of "gross" being cool to boys. Examples:
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_10e9182d	comment	Tales from the Crypt and its animated series were kind of the sophisticated version of that.
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_1a4b3ea2	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Early Digimon designs such as Numemon, Raremon and Sukamon very much took this trope to heart, but as the series went on Digimon started to focus more on badass, cool, and cute looking mons, though slimy gross-out mons are still quite prominent, even if they're mainly treated like jokes nowadays. Interestingly, Monzaemon X, released in 2019, incorporates the glittery pastel rainbow slime that had become a trend in girls toys in its design.
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_2d311a08	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_2d311a08	comment	The formula was copy-pasted for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which included "ooze" and featured humanoid creatures covered with garbage and insects.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_2d311a08	featureApplicability	1.0
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)	hasFeature	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_2d311a08
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_46769f69	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_46769f69	comment	The villain of the '90s movie is a Blob Monster named Ivan Ooze who invokes this trope in-universe, selling children slime that brainwashes their parents.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_46769f69	featureApplicability	1.0
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_46769f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie	hasFeature	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_46769f69
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_4be3aedd	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_4be3aedd	comment	Initially, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers cashed that cow too, with many of their adversaries looking like Otto Mann's acid dreams (Rita Repulsa probably took lessons from Rob Zombie himself). The villain of the '90s movie is a Blob Monster named Ivan Ooze who invokes this trope in-universe, selling children slime that brainwashes their parents. While the decision to adopt the show in the '90s probably came from this, the original Japanese Super Sentai series has a long history of really bizarre, disgusting monster designs. While the first few shows mostly had thugs in ridiculous costumes, Denshi Sentai Denziman's Vader Monsters entire gimmick was that they came from a planet where people had entirely different ideas of beauty and ugliness and were made by the designers to be as grotesque as a TV budget would allow. The franchise has never really looked back since.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_4be3aedd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_5d4da198	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_5d4da198	comment	The Spider-Man 3 toy line had a wave called "Ooze Attack", where the figures came with accessories that launched ooze and slime from them.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_5d4da198	featureApplicability	1.0
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_5d4da198	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man 3	hasFeature	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_5d4da198
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_64dd58b2	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_64dd58b2	comment	One curious piece of merchandise for the Harry Potter films was the Slime Chamber, which doesn't exist in either the films or the books. The sole reason for this toy's existence seems to be "kids love toys with slime".
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_64dd58b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_64dd58b2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_70da6e51	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_70da6e51	comment	Goosebumps is not far from that.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_70da6e51	featureApplicability	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_88652dbc	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_88652dbc	comment	Mixels has the Glorp Corp, a Mixels tribe that is based around goo and slime. Their figurines use transparent green pieces to invoke their slime.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_88652dbc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_8e82c366	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters got that directly from the movies. Its toy line sold all sorts of ugly ghost creatures that looked closer to extreme mutants than spirits. It also included synthetic "ectoplasm".
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_8e82c366	featureApplicability	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_986e857e	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_986e857e	comment	The Ben 10 toy line had a series called DNA Alien Heroes, where most of the alien figures had clear chests with oozing slime, some slime launching gimmicks and even some figures had the clear chests where you can see the muscles.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_986e857e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_9eb9a496	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_9eb9a496	comment	The Mutant League games are a nice example; they even spawned a cartoon that lasted more than one season.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_9eb9a496	featureApplicability	1.0
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_9eb9a496	featureConfidence	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_b8e7bb8	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_b8e7bb8	comment	While the decision to adopt the show in the '90s probably came from this, the original Japanese Super Sentai series has a long history of really bizarre, disgusting monster designs. While the first few shows mostly had thugs in ridiculous costumes, Denshi Sentai Denziman's Vader Monsters entire gimmick was that they came from a planet where people had entirely different ideas of beauty and ugliness and were made by the designers to be as grotesque as a TV budget would allow. The franchise has never really looked back since.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_b8e7bb8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_e23ff2b1	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_e23ff2b1	comment	The Masters of the Universe villains, the Evil Horde, got an entire playset based around this concept, the Horde Slime Pit. A claw would reach up to ensnare an action hero, and then a dinosaur skull would open its jaw to drop the official "slime," a green semisolid that came in a canister, similar to the Ghostbusters goo.
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_ee6c1abc	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_ee6c1abc	comment	Parodied in the Strong Bad Email "Action Figure", one of the features Strong Bad lists his hypothetical action figure having is oozing radioactive goo.
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_f066e883	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_f066e883	comment	Creepy Crawlers was also spawned from a toyline, this time without the stylish look upgrade for the cartoon.
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_f066e883	featureApplicability	1.0
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Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_f88e66d6	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails / int_f88e66d6	comment	Mighty Max was created as a toyline specifically to cash on that trend, although its animated version was toned down with a graphic style closer to Batman: The Animated Series.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails	processingCategory2	Toy Tropes
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie / int_2671a5be	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Sputnik / int_2671a5be	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise) / int_2671a5be	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
SPStudio	seeAlso	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_2671a5be	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Immortal Man (Webcomic) / int_2671a5be	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
Creepy Crawlers / int_2671a5be	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails
The Real Ghostbusters / int_2671a5be	type	Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails

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