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Earthworm Jim
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Yes, it's every bit as messed up as the video game on which it's based.A Saturday Morning cartoon adapted from the side-scrolling action game for the Super Nintendo and Genesis by Universal Cartoon Studios and aired as one of the launch series of Kids' WB!, Earthworm Jim is the saga of Jim, once an ordinary earthworm until a super-suit fell from space, and he crawled inside it and was mutated into a slightly-goofy superhero. With the assistance of his sidekick Peter Puppy (who has a tendency to turn into a hulking purple monster when provoked, but turns back if calmed down, usually by tickling) and the beautiful Princess What's-Her-Name (who was changed from her typical Damsel in Distress role in the games, with backstory portraying her as a ditzy stereotypical beauty type, into an Action Girl), Jim battles an assortment of oddball villains, including The Evil Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed Slug-For-A-Butt (Princess What's-Her-Name's evil sister); the bird-headed mercenary Psy-Crow; the aptly-named Mad Scientist Professor Monkey-For-A-Head (and his sidekick, Monkey Professor-For-A-Head); Evil The Cat, the diabolical feline ruler of Planet Heck; and Bob the Killer Goldfish.Rife with Postmodernism, this show played with and subverted about five tropes per week. The first season included mid-interval shorts, usually revolving around a brief glimpse of some villain not involved in the main story, but the second season dropped this.Doug Langdale, creator of later Disney series The Weekenders and Dave the Barbarian, helped bring this show to life, given Doug TenNapel's opposition to it (though they both worked together to bring us Project G.e.e.K.e.R. shortly after this show).A DVD set of the complete series was released in 2012.In late 2021, Interplay Entertainment Corp. (which owns the Earthworm Jim franchise) announced that a second animated series, Earthworm Jim: Beyond the Groovy, was in development. | |
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Creator Cameo: The Great Worm Spirit's true form, revealed in "Hyper-Psycrow", turns out to be Doug TenNapel. This is even lampshaded when he brings up the ending credits to prove it. He's actually voiced by Jeff Bennett, however, and not the real TenNapel. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jeff Bennett's voice as the narrator is a take on John Cleese; he'd use essentially the same voice as the narrator in another Doug Langdale show, Dave the Barbarian, as Lord Bravery in Freakazoid!note one episode had Freakazoid threatening to replace his own narrator with the one from this show; weirdly enough, Bennett was present in that scene, but as Cave Guy and as Angry Archer in Transformers: Animated. | |
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All Men Are Perverts | |
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All Men Are Perverts: Jim frequently. One of his "incredibly advanced worm brains" always asks where the girls are. Also, when presented with a birthday cake, Jim excitedly asked if a girl was going to jump out of it. In addition, the episode where Evil Jim used a ray gun to create evil copies of Princess What's-Her-Name and Peter Puppy had Jim exclaim "Ooh, Cat Fight!" in response to seeing the Princess get into a brawl with her evil twin. | |
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Jekyll & Hyde | |
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One episode is partially driven by Jim turning himself into the police and going to jail after finding out that another, more evil-looking worm in a super suit has been committing crimes around Terlawk and coming to the conclusion that he's developed a Jekyll & Hyde Split Personality (while outright rejecting Peter's theory that he just has an evil clone.) | |
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Madness Mantra: Peter often tries to keep himself calm by reciting the first few lines of the "Litany Against Fear" from Frank Herbert's Dune. It rarely works. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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In the same episode, Peter's interpretive puppet show using condiments describing his Heroic BSoD devolves into something like this, until Peter's just having everybody throw up by dumping the condiments onto the table. | |
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Whenever Peter gets depressed, he goes to talk to Snot. Who, naturally, can't talk. Then he tries some manner of elaborate performance to try to explain his feelings, and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Peter's angsting over being fired from being Jim's sidekick in the series' first episode is reminiscent of a person taking a breakup very hard. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Peter Puppy. A terrifying monster when he's angry, an adorable cartoon animal the rest of the day. | |
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Hulking Out | |
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Hulking Out: Peter Puppy is a good guy, but if he gets scared or hurt, his monstrous alter ego takes it out on whoever is in the vicinity, which usually is Jim. | |
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Clothes Make the Superman | |
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Clothes Make the Superman: Jim is only sentient because of the energy from his suit mutating him from being an ordinary annelid. Although the boost to size and intellect is permanent, all of his strength, firepower and physical abilities are due to his suit. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Not only is the Narrator prone to being corrected by the characters, he's also at one point bullied into reading a scene transition by Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head which skips over the two actually having to do what the transition says they've done. The episode "Wizard of Ooze" takes this to extremes: The narrator continually takes a sarcastic, defeatest and cranky attitude towards his job through the episode, at one point even asking the audience to read a book and calling his agent in the middle of the show. Jim snaps him out of it by threatening him with a jar of vocal chord-eating parasites. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Bob has this happen to him on numerous occasions, especially in the mid-intervals. One of the more notable examples is when he finally manages to make his fishy minions intelligent enough to understand him by mutating them to have giant brains (they become intelligent enough to realise he is a dangerous megalomaniac who must be destroyed and blast him with psychic powers). He also tries giving the minions an actual demonstration of what he means by destroying things (a bigger fish leaps out and starts beating him up). The episode "Exile of Lucy" has Queen Slug-For-A-Butt dethroned by her henchmen for having no compassion for others. She is exiled to earth where she makes friends with Jim's Nosy Neighbor and returns, having learned her lesson about friendship, only to kick her henchman off the throne herself. In one episode, Evil Jim decides to make Evil twins of Jim's closest friends. Of course, while Evil Peter Puppy is a dangerous thug, Evil Peter's monster-form is an intelligent good guy who mauls the bad guys. Likewise, Evil-Princess What's-Her-Name is a brainless bimbo. Evil Jim realized that making the exact opposite of a fearless warrior may not have been the best idea. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: One of the gags involves a Reality-Breaking Paradox 'destroying' the cartoon universe, removing all colours and inking and reducing the 'surviving' characters to sketches. Thankfully, the writers/animator will helpfully restore the universe afterwards. On at least one occassion, Jim and Peter are seen sending a something by mail to the animation staff as thanks for restoring their universe so the show can go on. Sometimes Jim or Peter would turn and address the audience with an Aside Glance. | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Princess What's Her Name. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: Jim, Peter Puppy, and practically everyone else in the entire series. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Exploited in one episode, when Jim thwarts Evil the Cat's summoning of a giant clown to destroy the universe by calling the "Department of Apocalyptic Affairs"; a bureaucrat then drives up and serves the clown with directions to a form for a permit needed to destroy the universe. The form itself is a giant stack of paper, and the guy wants it done in triplicate; the clown then walks off, dejected at the thought of having to fill out "3 billion years" worth of paperwork. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: The episode "Trout!" has Jim fighting a nutlog that's too hard to eat, and even withstands his laser blasts. Later, he's trying to find a way to get Queen Slug-For-A-Butt to stop shooting lasers at him with her scepter. Peter says the scepter is made out of the hardest substance in the universe. Jim corrects him that there is something harder. He throws the nutlog, which breaks her scepter. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Woman / Dog: Princess What's-Her-Name and Peter Puppy. | |
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Comedic Hero | |
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Comedic Hero: Earthworm Jim being the Idiot Hero implies this. | |
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Cardboard Prison | |
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Cardboard Prison: Lampshaded by Peter in "Opposites Attack," who questions why they don't throw villains into a jail that will hold them longer than two months with paper-thin security. Jim simply demands not to have his tactics questioned. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: The show begins with Jim already a superhero; outside the opening titles, it's never explained how the Super Suit got lost and fell to Earth, outside of a line in "Bring Me The Head of Earthworm Jim" where Professor Monkey-For-A-Head states that, as in the first game, Psycrow lost the suit (the circumstances here are unknown, given Major Mucus was Adapted Out). The Cold Open at the start of every episode also has Jim and Peter always trapped in some new bizarre situation by one of the villains. | |
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I Just Want to Have Friends | |
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I Just Want to Have Friends: Evil Jim's motivation in "Opposites Attack". | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: When Evil Jim creates an evil clone of the Princess she has the exact same personality as the Princess from the original video games. As in the end of the first game, the first episode ends with a cow being dropped on the Princess. In the promo for the new cartoon, Jim mentions he was in rehab for a little while (the screen freezes and diplays the text "25 Years"). The promo was released in 2021, 25 years after the original cartoon ended. | |
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Disability Immunity | |
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Disability Immunity: Jim cannot be defeated by really bad sounds or smells, as he has no ears or nose. Overlaps with Forgot I Could Fly as this rarely comes into effect until one of the characters explicitly mentions this. Note that this doesn't ever stop Jim from being able to hear or smell normally. | |
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Easily Detachable Robot Parts | |
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Jim likes to show off his suit's abilities in the openers, everything from modular floating limbs, to inflatable rip-chords, to Swiss-Army Claws. Though these tactics often suffer from Critical Existence Failure despite how useful they look. | |
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Damsel out of Distress | |
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Damsel out of Distress: Though Jim will never admit it, Princess What's-Her-Name rarely needs to be saved. In fact, Jim and Peter sometimes need HER help to get out of a jam. The only time she was legitimately captured was at the hands of her sister, Queen Slug-For-a-Butt, who'd been fighting her for years and could match her Insectikette strength. | |
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Ice-Cream Koan: The Master of Wow-Lin, whom Jim claims to have studied under. He spouts nothing but useless platitudes so nonsensical, even Jim is quick to realize he's "a senile old bat-nugget". | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: A Show Within a Show included "The Inert Gases Song": | |
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Acting Unnatural | |
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Acting Unnatural: Jim observes the fibers in an evil sofa that brainwashes people into becoming couch potatoes. Said fibers turn out to be alive, and one of them shouts "We're being watched! Act natural!", followed by the fibers indulging in Not So Innocent Whistling. | |
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Butterfly of Doom | |
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Butterfly of Doom: In "Sword of Righteousness", Jim learns of the eponymous sword's "Portal of Time" ability and decides to play a trick. He hands Peter a penny and tells him to watch Lincoln's face change. He then travels back to the Gettysburg Address and interrupts Lincoln mid-speech, shaving his beard off (to which Lincoln says "That's a big goodbye to my credibility") When he returns to the present, expecting everything except the penny to the be the same, he instead finds that Peter is now a southern gentleman who looks like Colonel Sanders and Jim himself is now known as "Earthworm Bubba". The sword orders Jim to go back and fix everything, and forbids any further time traveling. The whole fiasco lasts less than two minutes. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: Evil the Cat gets one... in Malice the Dog. | |
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Missing Steps Plan | |
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Missing Steps Plan: | |
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Artifact of Power | |
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Artifact of Power: The Orb of Quite Remarkable Power. | |
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Performance Artist | |
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Performance Artist: Peter Puppy has used interpretative dance, splatter paint puppetry and poetry recital to describe his inner sadness. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Snot, who speaks only in slurps. Also, Monkey Professor-For-A-Head. | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Evil the Cat is more of an Omnicidal Maniac that didn't think past the "destroy the universe" part. Although in one episode, he claimed he was alive before the start of time and would be around when it ended (although didn't adequately back up either of those Badass Boasts with evidence) so he may yet have a plan. Other than gloat. Well, he could explain it if someone gave him an orange. No, wait! An onion! | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: There are characters from the original game who never appear in the cartoon, most notably Major Mucus, Chuck and Dr. Duodenum. (Major Mucus did appear in the show's pitch reel, which was used for early Kids WB promos, though.) | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Subverted. Unlike in the games (where the monkey ate the blueprints), Professor Monkey-For-A-Head can replicate the super suit at will. It's just that he can't power the damn thing without another Battery of the Gods and when he went to them to try and get a new one, they turned him into a bread maker. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Professor Monkey-For-A-Head, and his close associate, Monkey Professor-For-A-Head. | |
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Recursive Reality | |
Earthworm Jim / int_352151a3 | comment |
Recursive Reality: In "The Great Secret of The Universe", the whole universe is inside a giant snowglobe, which is owned by a child as a souvenir. | |
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RealityWarping | |
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Reality Warping: What the Orb of Quite Remarkable Power enables one to do. | |
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Not a Date | |
Earthworm Jim / int_37d99981 | comment |
Not a Date: Princess What's-Her-Name's usual response when she's out with Jim, sometimes taken to extremes. In "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim" Jim attempts to set up an elaborate date for himself and the Princess, when the Princess merely invited him out for pizza. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
Earthworm Jim / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: Minor superhero Johnny Dactyl appears in a cloud of blue smoke and attempts a dramatic speech to terrify the villains. Sounds like something Jim Cummings has done before. | |
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Vocal Dissonance | |
Earthworm Jim / int_3a88a563 | comment |
Vocal Dissonance: The Nameless One is a horrific monster Evil the Cat summons who looks like he came straight from Hell.... but he's voiced by Ben Stein in his typical calm, flat monotone. | |
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Mad Libs Catchphrase | |
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"By the Great Worm Spirit" (et cetera...) | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: The characters quite freely realize they're in a TV show — not only does the narrator get involved with the plot at times, but they sometimes check the script, comment on their budget or ratings, etc. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
Earthworm Jim / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: In the second episode, Peter says that their front door was reinforced after an incident with an old lady from UNICEF. How Jim and Peter wind up in nasty situations seen in The Teasers. According to "Hyper Psy-Crow," Psy-Crow fought in the Vietnam War and was pulled into a foxhole by the Great Worm Spirit. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
Earthworm Jim / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Peter Puppy has a form of this. The spirit possessing him grants him intelligence and anthromophism, at the cost of going One-Winged Angel if anything pisses off, hurts, or scares him. One episode has him cured of this - reverting him to a normal, non-talking puppy - but he gains it back in order to save Jim's life. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Many conversations throughout the entire Earthworm Jim TV series revolve around this trope, with characters comically stating the obvious. (Earthworm Jim sees Psycrow's brain) "PSYCROW'S BEHAVIORAL CONTROL CENTER!" | |
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Off to See the Wizard | |
Earthworm Jim / int_4028c4e | comment |
Off to See the Wizard: "The Wizard of Ooze". | |
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Spin-Off Babies | |
Earthworm Jim / int_403ffe5c | comment |
Spin-Off Babies: One of the mid-interval shorts was a trailer for Young Earthworm Jim. | |
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Fluffy the Terrible | |
Earthworm Jim / int_41d5f145 | comment |
Fluffy the Terrible: In "the Great Secret of the Universe" Evil the Cat unleashes a beast of Lovecraftian proportians who he believes is known as "The Nameless Beast". The beast corrects him by revealing his true name: Rosebud. | |
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Non Sequitur, *Thud* | |
Earthworm Jim / int_41feb209 | comment |
Non Sequitur, *Thud*: After Peter goes back to normal once, when Jim and Evil Jim kept throwing his monstrous form at each other: | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
Earthworm Jim / int_43b154c9 | comment |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Dan Castellaneta's interpretation of Jim lacks the thick southern drawl of his games counterpart, replacing it with a cliched hammy superhero dialect. | |
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Boisterous Weakling | |
Earthworm Jim / int_44e06bb6 | comment |
Boisterous Weakling: The Sword of Righteousness is a hopeless bag of douche who has clearly never won a fight before, yet he still thinks he can somehow boss the real heroes (Earthworm Jim) around. "NOW, JIM. EXPLOIT HIS WEAKNESSES! SUMMON THE WARRIOR WITHIN! FEEL THE BURN! DESTROY HIM WITH HIS OWN EVIL!" | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
Earthworm Jim / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: "Superheroes and evil twins go together like peanut butter and...evil peanut butter!" In the same episode, Peter's interpretive puppet show using condiments describing his Heroic BSoD devolves into something like this, until Peter's just having everybody throw up by dumping the condiments onto the table. | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy | |
Earthworm Jim / int_4508b16b | comment |
The Guards Must Be Crazy: Jim, Peter and Snot sneak into a research facility to get Jim's suit back by...walking right through the front entrance, past a pair of security guards. And greeting them. | |
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Screams Like a Little Girl | |
Earthworm Jim / int_46e53efd | comment |
Screams Like a Little Girl: Jim, which is no surprise given who voices him. It's pointed out to him in one line from "Upholstered Peril": | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
Earthworm Jim / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: One of Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head's plots to steal Jim's suit involves setting up a fake dry cleaners next to his house. Said dry cleaners is just Psy-Crow's spaceship with a sign on it (it even says "Not Psy-Crow's Space Scow" at the bottom), and the guy running the front desk is the Professor with a mustache and a cowboy outfit, complete with ludicrously large hat to hide the monkey. The Professor talks like he normally does, except with added cowboy slang. Then a banana peel falls out of his hat, which he blames on head lice. Jim completely falls for this. From "Assault and Battery": From "Hyper Psy-Crow": Lampshaded in "The Great Secret of the Universe". Evil the Cat tries several paper thin disguises, until he gets frustrated and appears at Jim's door as himself using the direct approach. Jim then naively does exactly what he wants. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
Earthworm Jim / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: During the prologue to the Book of Doom episode, Jim and Peter enter Psycrow's ear canal and head straight for his brain. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
Earthworm Jim / int_4dbd3706 | comment |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Parodied in an episode where, after his super-suit has been swapped for a weaker version, Jim tries various generic ways of gaining super powers (including space radiation and radioactive arachnid bites). One of his attempts is to tell the viewer he will get powers if the audience were to "Believe! Believe and clap very hard!" prompting | |
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Blaming the Tools | |
Earthworm Jim / int_4f4cd5b1 | comment |
Blaming the Tools: Inverted in "Sword of Righteousness" where Jim becomes the chosen wielder of the titular sword who berates him with every failure, making him feel worthless. However, when the sword reveals that nobody who wielded it ever won a fight, Jim realizes the problem is the sword itself rather than him, prompting him to discard the sword and go back to how he usually fights. | |
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Place Worse Than Death | |
Earthworm Jim / int_4fdd0d29 | comment |
Place Worse Than Death: Jim searches a book about hideously dangerous places. | |
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Single-Biome Planet | |
Earthworm Jim / int_515189ab | comment |
Single-Biome Planet: La Planeta de Agua! Arriba! | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms | |
Earthworm Jim / int_51561f43 | comment |
Hurricane of Euphemisms: The retirement home where Puce Dynamo, the world's first super hero, lives, as seen in "Hyper-Psycrow", crossing over with Political Overcorrectness: | |
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Affably Evil | |
Earthworm Jim / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Most of the villains despite their card-carrying nature possess this to an extent (Evil the Cat especially likes to balance movie nights and romantic affairs alongside the torturing of minions and attempted complete and utter destruction of the universe). | |
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Evilutionary Biologist | |
Earthworm Jim / int_546e23f6 | comment |
Evilutionary Biologist: The episode "Darwin's Nightmare" revolves around Bob the Killer Goldfish's trying to "evolve" himself into a higher lifeform, recognizing that his fishy body is a physical limitation in his particular line of work. What makes this a bit strange is the fact that Doug TenNapel is a creationist and the fact that Bob talks like a caricature of a fire 'n' brimstone Southern Baptist preacher (with a slight Mexican accent). Comes complete with Evolutionary Levels; Bob goes from a goldfish to a giant lungfish to a T-rex to a human to a human with a giant skull-piercing brain, super-intelligence & psychic powers and finally ends up a goldfish again. | |
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Improbable Infant Survival | |
Earthworm Jim / int_550754dc | comment |
Improbable Infant Survival: Lampshaded in "The Origins of Peter Puppy," where the flashback shows Jim tossing a monstrous Peter into a bus full of orphans. A shot of the bus shows everyone is okay and a disclaimer asks us to note that. | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
Earthworm Jim / int_55ec42d7 | comment |
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Parodied in the second episode, which features "Ye Newwe Printyng Shoppe: Free Spelling Correkshun". | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
Earthworm Jim / int_58e43f17 | comment |
Cats Are Mean: Evil the Cat in the Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist category. | |
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Does Not Like Spam | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5973fab5 | comment |
Does Not Like Spam: Peter really hates haggis ever since he learned how it is made. At one point, he's turned into a haggis, much to his dismay. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: Occassionally, Jim and his friends will team up with their enemies to take on a greater threat. In "The Anti-Fish," Jim and Peter have to work with Bob and Number 4 to save the Great Worm Spirit and the whole universe. This is only after the titular villain betrays Bob, and Bob realizes that he can't rule a universe if its destroyed. In "The Exile of Lucy," the Princess is forced to go to a deposed Queen Slug-for-a-Butt to stop Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head. | |
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Two Beings, One Body | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5b94bbed | comment |
Two Beings, One Body: Professor Monkey-For-A-Head, and also Monkey Professor-For-A-Head, his inverted version. In "Conqueror Worm", during the climactic showdown with Jim and Evil Jim, they slam into each other, causing them both to end up inside Jim's suit. This is also an effect of the "Worm Mind Meld", at least at a psychic level (in real life, it simply consists of Jim wrapping his worm body around the target's head). | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Everything for the Planet of Easily Frightened People. In "Evil in Love," Jim, Peter and the Princess get sent to the nightmare realm and face Morpheus. When the initial scares fall flat, Morpheus makes them face their worst fears: a full bathroom, haggis and a perfume saleswoman. | |
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Brown Note | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: According to 'Book of Doom', if all of the Reeking Beasts of the Malodoron system see a fondue fork, they will emit a sound that will shatter the universe. Thankfully for the universe, there's one Reeking Beast who's not only near-sighted, but possibly bonkers. | |
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Batman Can Breathe in Space | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5ed3ace2 | comment |
Batman Can Breathe in Space: All of the characters, but Jim and Peter most prominently. However, they can't breathe underwater, obviously. Even Bob the Killer Goldfish must remain in his bowl. | |
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Big Eater | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Princess What's-Her-Name, to go along with her Action Girl status. She doesn't crave food, but whenever she has it (especially on a "date" with Jim) she eats ravenously. | |
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Finger in a Barrel | |
Earthworm Jim / int_5ff71094 | comment |
Finger in a Barrel: Jim does this to Henchrat in "The Egg Beater" episode. It causes the cheese gun to explode backwards on Henchrat. | |
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Nosy Neighbor | |
Earthworm Jim / int_611a1a5e | comment |
Nosy Neighbor: In "The Egg-Beater" Mrs. Bleveredge, Jim's next-door neighbor demands Jim return the Egg-Beater he borrowed, only to become a Chew Toy as Jim takes her from planet to planet in search of it. She returns in the episode "Exile of Lucy" becoming friends with Queen Slug-For-A-Butt. The very next episode "Hyper Psy-Crow" shows her sitting in a throne to the right of the Queen. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Peter slowly but surely sinks into this after Jim's wrongful imprisonment in "Conqueror Worm". | |
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Death Glare | |
Earthworm Jim / int_627264e0 | comment |
In "Sword of Righteousness", Jim learns of the "Eye of Truth", which requires him to simply stare at anyone in order to force them to admit their darkest secrets. Jim attempts this on Peter, but Peter thought he was being challenged into a staring contest and unwittingly shoots a Death Glare right back at him. | |
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Grievous Harm with a Body | |
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Grievous Harm with a Body: In "The Egg Beater" episode, Jim gets Henchrat's cheese gun to backfire, causing Henchrat to be covered in quickly hardened cheese. Jim then uses Henchrat's body to flatten Evil The Cat into the ground. | |
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Insectoid Aliens | |
Earthworm Jim / int_63f22889 | comment |
Insectoid Aliens: All natives of the planet Insectica, such as the soldier-caste Zerbs, Queen Slug-for-a-Butt, and Princess What's-Her-Name. | |
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Brought Down to Normal | |
Earthworm Jim / int_66ea7e5c | comment |
Brought Down to Normal: Relatively speaking, to the extent that a hyper-evolved worm in a super-suit can be: Jim once had his super-suit replaced with one that gave him the strength of an ordinary person. An ordinary, really big person, as Professor Monkey-for-a-Head found out the hard way. Played more straight in "The Origin of Peter Puppy" when Jim tries to cure Peter's transformations by disposing of the demonic spirit possessing him. The spirit was unfortunately also the source of his intelligence and anthropomorphism, and its exorcism turned him back into a normal non-anthro dog. | |
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Morally Superior Copy | |
Earthworm Jim / int_672c49e9 | comment |
Morally Superior Copy: In "Opposites Attack", Evil Jim makes a ray to create evil copies of Peter Puppy and Princess Whats-Her-Name in order to have a team of his own against Jim which eventually lead to the capture of the heroes whom he presents to the other villains. When he does so though, he drops his ray and accidentally zaps all of the villains, creating copies of them that are nicer and morally heroic (except for the copy of Professor Monkey-for-a-head, whose copy is just swapped personality of his two minds with the monkey acting like the professor and the professor acting like the monkey). In the end, Jim gets a hold of the ray and zaps Evil Jim with it a few times, resulting in multiple heroic Earthworm Jims. Evil Jim realizes how much trouble he and the other villains are in. | |
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Planet of Hats | |
Earthworm Jim / int_67f26dcc | comment |
Planet of Hats: Almost every planet in the universe is one, from the Planet of Very Tall Things to the Planet of Easily Frightened People (Psycrow loves this planet). | |
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Earthworm Jim / int_69ebf1d7 | comment |
"Bang!" Flag Gun: In "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim", after Jim gets the weak suit: | |
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Earthworm Jim / int_69fb91e8 | type |
Chewing the Scenery | |
Earthworm Jim / int_69fb91e8 | comment |
Chewing the Scenery: The end of Peter Puppy's rant about Jim being wrongfully imprisoned. "The TWIIILIGHT OF THE CONNNDIMENTS...WEEP for them, WEEP FOR THEIR SORROWWWWWWW-HO-HO-HOHHHHHW!!!" | |
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Meaningful Name | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Pretty much everyone/thing/where has one of these, whether it's the Boulevard of Acute Discomfort, or Henchrat, or the Orb of Quite Remarkable Power. Whats-Her-Name's name was retconned into being meaningful when a flashback revealed she got her name from being The Unfavorite. | |
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You No Take Candle | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6cdc784f | comment |
You No Take Candle: From Henchrat and Walter. Also crops up randomly spoken by other characters. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6d57a234 | comment |
Lemony Narrator: Present in many episodes, but up to eleven in "The Wizard of Ooze" when he is downright jaded at what's transpiring. | |
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Cloudcuckooland | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6d6e3015 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Galaxy: Everyone gets one or two Cloudcuckoolander moments, though most of them get saved for Earthworm Jim. | |
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Heroic Comedic Sociopath | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6e8a4791 | comment |
Heroic Comedic Sociopath "Note to self: do not throw super-villains at buses full of orphans". Don't worry. The orphans were fine. | |
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The Teaser | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6e8b95dc | comment |
The Teaser: Every episode begins with the heroes doing something different - usually fighting an unrelated villain. It usually doesn't relate to the main episode, though every episode has some manner of Call-Back or Brick Joke to it and in the second season there are more instances where the teaser is at least somewhat relevant to the main plot. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: Subverted at the end of "Hyper Psy-Crow" Psy-Crow tries to do this, but Jim says otherwise—opting for Drop the Cow. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
Earthworm Jim / int_6ef9d3fe | comment |
Christmas Episode: Also the last episode. | |
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Idiot Hero | |
Earthworm Jim / int_7289b368 | comment |
Idiot Hero: Jim is this and has four incredibly advanced worm brains. The fact that they can form coherent sentences makes them advanced for worm brains. | |
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Killer Rabbit | |
Earthworm Jim / int_74828aea | comment |
Killer Rabbit: Again, Peter Puppy, but a heroic variant. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
Earthworm Jim / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: After her episode, Malice the Dog had to leave Evil the Cat to star in her own in-universe series. | |
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Prison Rape | |
Earthworm Jim / int_758c3034 | comment |
Prison Rape: Parodied. In said Prison Episode, Jim's cellmate Walter uses him as dental floss. | |
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Our Presidents Are Different | |
Earthworm Jim / int_75c952bf | comment |
Our Presidents Are Different: The president of the United States of America is this in the series. Whenever the characters become confused at how different he is, he explicitly points out in every episode he appears in to be "one of those generic presidents TV shows use to keep from being dated". | |
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All Myths Are True | |
Earthworm Jim / int_776a06eb | comment |
All Myths Are True: The Great Worm Spirit Jim prays to eventually becomes a recurring character, as does the legendary Giant Fur Bearing Trout. The Greek Gods show up in one episode as well. | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
Earthworm Jim / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: In the first season after several episodes that gave no indication Jim and Peter were close to anybody in Terlawk, "Grayson, young genius inventor and president of the local Earthworm Jim fanclub" turns up and is given a conspicuously overblown introduction by Jim. Nonplussed, Grayson states "Um, yeah, I know who I am". | |
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"Fantastic Voyage" Plot | |
Earthworm Jim / int_78cdd5f6 | comment |
Fantastic Voyage Scene: The intro to The Book Of Doom, unfortunately for Psycrow... | |
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Relax-o-Vision | |
Earthworm Jim / int_7962aeec | comment |
Relax-o-Vision: In the opening - just as Peter Puppy's about finished transforming and about to maul Jim, there's a sudden shift to a shot of Jim relaxing in a hammock and napping. It cuts back to a rather mangled Jim after a few seconds. | |
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For Want of a Nail | |
Earthworm Jim / int_79a60aec | comment |
For Want Of A Nail: In "Sword of Righteousness", Jim decides to test the titular sword's time-traveling powers by shaving Abe Lincoln's beard. When he returns, Peter is dressed like Colonel Sanders and Jim is now "Earthworm Bubba". note The implication being that Lincoln's beard being shaved off caused the Confederacy to win. | |
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Laughably Evil | |
Earthworm Jim / int_7c9933de | comment |
Laughably Evil: The ENTIRE Rogues Gallery is friggin' hilarious. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
Earthworm Jim / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In "Hyper Psy-crow", the Puce Dynamo, who is the world's first superhero, delivers a scathing one to every other superhero after him in his acceptance speech. | |
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Lame Comeback | |
Earthworm Jim / int_7f298d3d | comment |
Lame Comeback: "Don't play dumb with me, you... dumb guy". | |
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How We Got Here | |
Earthworm Jim / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: One episode starts with Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head gloating over how they defeated (and taxidermied) Jim, and most of the episode is spent in flashbacks explaining how they got to that point. Turns out their taxidermist was Peter in disguise, and Jim wasn't really taxidermied at all. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Earthworm Jim / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: From the second episode, when Evil is making a potion, he says that it will require the most loathsome things in existence: eye of newt, black cat's bone boiled twice at midnight, and a "you may already have won" letter. Later on, a list of evil devices invented by Professor Monkey-for-a-Head starts off normally, but ends with the pay toilet. One episode had Jim fight Queen Slug-for-a-Butt and ask Peter to give him a hammer, an anvil, and a squeaky toy, all of which Jim uses to attack the Queen. We also have this gem from a later episode The Christmas Episode gives us this. And from the Narrator in "Sword of Righteousness" | |
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Tome of Eldritch Lore | |
Earthworm Jim / int_815556aa | comment |
Tome of Eldritch Lore: Evil the Cat once tried to destroy the universe with one of these...and a fondue fork. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Jim (male mutated giant Texan Earthworm) insists that he and Princess Whats-Her-Name (female deformed Insektikan — an alien race descended from insects) are a couple. The Princess makes it fairly clear that she is not interested in him and has never given him reason to believe that she is, Jim merely chooses to ignore her denials to fit in with his own delusions, which results in her being more openly irritated by his claims in the second season. There is also Peter Puppy (male Earth dog possessed by a demonic spirit) and Grogamel the Destroyer (female alien) in one first season episode, and Evil the Cat (male demonic feline) and Malice the Dog (female demonic canine) in a surprisingly romantic relationship in one second season episode. | |
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Badass Boast | |
Earthworm Jim / int_86b21114 | comment |
Although in one episode, he claimed he was alive before the start of time and would be around when it ended (although didn't adequately back up either of those Badass Boasts with evidence) so he may yet have a plan. Other than gloat. Well, he could explain it if someone gave him an orange. No, wait! An onion! | |
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Parental Bonus | |
Earthworm Jim / int_86daf505 | comment |
Parental Bonus: Peter reading a framed letter from President Truman. "Thank you for your kind offer to end World War II, but we have a bomb we wanna try out". | |
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World of Ham | |
Earthworm Jim / int_86ee8070 | comment |
World of Ham: Oh yeah. When you've got Dan Castellaneta, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings and Charlie Adler among the voice cast, ham is going to be the main course. | |
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Badass Santa | |
Earthworm Jim / int_879b744c | comment |
Badass Santa: The episode "For Whom The Jungle Bell Tolls" reveals that Santa is actually the Norse God of Judgment. "May the Naughty tremble!" In the same episode, while under the Queen's Mind Control, Santa shows some espionage and gadgetry knowledge, attempting to destroy Jim with "The Kissing Ball of Death" which Jim averts, then steps on. | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8829dfa0 | comment |
What the Hell Is That Accent?: Psy-Crow's voice sometimes sounds like he's from New York, other times it's just strange sounding. | |
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Talks Like a Simile | |
Earthworm Jim / int_88dee3b3 | comment |
Talks Like a Simile: Jim and Peter in the denouement of several episodes. "Once again, evil is as grass beneath the mighty lawnmower of justice!" To make it worse, sometimes the characters don't complete their similes. | |
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Trigger-Happy | |
Earthworm Jim / int_88e5066d | comment |
Trigger-Happy: While the villains display this at times, nobody's more trigger happy than Jim himself. | |
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Batman Cold Open | |
Earthworm Jim / int_88e7f8b8 | comment |
Batman Cold Open: With rare exceptions, all episodes open this way. Season 1 episodes used villains who weren't antagonists in the main story, but Season 2 reversed this. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
Earthworm Jim / int_89434320 | comment |
Protagonist-Centered Morality: Inverted. Jim attempts to model heroic traits but is often looked at as a loony by his friends and other superheroes, who prefer just to play poker in their secret lair. | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8a8b2a87 | comment |
And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Jim informs us of the hazards of drinking too much coffee in "Hyper-Psycrow": | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8af7b342 | comment |
Sibling Yin-Yang: The Princess and The Queen. Moreso in the fact that by alien standards Queen Slug-For-A-Butt is considered the pretty one while her sister Princess What's-Her-Name is considered hideously deformed. An unrelated episode featured the Princess being okay with being hit by a ray gun that made her gigantically fat as "this look is very popular on her planet". | |
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One-Shot Character | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8bc5b86e | comment |
One-Shot Character: Grayson, immediately dubbed as "Terlawk's Resident Boy Genius and President of the Earthworm Jim Fan Club" only appears in the episode "Upholstered Peril," conveniently providing scientific explanations for the evil furniture, and subbing for Peter, who is turned into a zombified couch potato. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: Though Peter remains completely loyal to Jim, in Season 2, he becomes a lot less patient with Jim’s shenanigans. | |
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Nose Nuggets | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8d1ec905 | comment |
Nose Nuggets: Take a guess as to what Snott is. | |
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Kid Sidekick | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8e0bedfe | comment |
Kid Sidekick: Peter Puppy. | |
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Prison Episode | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8e6a882b | comment |
Prison Episode: "Conqueror Worm". Jim turns himself in to the police in one episode after hearing about his Evil Twin committing crimes and coming to the conclusion that he's actually developed a Jekyll & Hyde-style Split Personality. Including all the amenities of your basic old-timey prison, such as the chain gang and "completely pointless rock breaking". | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The Christmas Episode "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls" features one for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as using him would require paying royalties for The Rudolph Company. He is not named, but it is obvious who he is supposed to be because he has a red nose and bitterly mentions how Santa bars him from the reindeer games and only called for his help because of his nose. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8f900ccd | comment |
Overly Long Name: The Queen's full name is Queen Bloated, Pulsating, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed, Slug-For-A-Butt, which is said in full at least once in every episode she's in. | |
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Battle Discretion Shot | |
Earthworm Jim / int_8fe962f3 | comment |
Battle Discretion Shot: So many, no surprise as this is a mid '90s action-comedy show. A particularly zany one happens in "Conqueror Worm" where Jim and Evil Jim fight behind the back wall of a shopping mall that contains stores that sell chainsaws, baseball bats, and killer bees. Just before a battle between Jim and hundreds of Zurbs in "The Egg-Beater": | |
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Rubbery World | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9191eaae | comment |
Rubbery World: In "Sword of Righteousness", Jim bounces off of a pair of rubbery planetary rings after being hit by a giant golf club. | |
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Redundant Rescue | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9536245b | comment |
Redundant Rescue: In "Sidekicked", as Princess What's-Her-Name insists. Jim seems to be too busy giving a hero monologue to hear her. Also in "Conqueror Worm", Peter and Snott come to bust Jim out of prison only to find out he had just left once he realized he actually had an evil twin. | |
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Cutaway Gag | |
Earthworm Jim / int_961c6c22 | comment |
Cutaway Gag: "We now interrupt Earthworm Jim for three seconds of dancing turtles" (turtles pop out and sing a few bars of a classical tune) "We now return to Earthworm Jim". For added fun, these are usually done with absolutely no provocation or lead-in whatsoever. | |
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Villains Out Shopping | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9ae0ead1 | comment |
Villains Out Shopping: Done frequently. Often a premise for mid-interval shorts in the first season with one of the Rogues Gallery in the lead role. | |
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Evolutionary Levels | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9b76b81 | comment |
Comes complete with Evolutionary Levels; Bob goes from a goldfish to a giant lungfish to a T-rex to a human to a human with a giant skull-piercing brain, super-intelligence & psychic powers and finally ends up a goldfish again. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Hamsternator, Turns-His-Eyelids-Inside-Out-Boy, and Zantor are overall incompetent and useless heroes, yet in one episode they somehow become the heads of a hero council and seemingly have enough power to make Jim a sidekick and make Peter a hero. Ultimately downplayed though as at the end of the episode both Jim and Peter ignore their judgment and switch their roles back, bringing into question how much actual authority they have. This council also only appears once. | |
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Dead Guy on Display | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9bfb2f41 | comment |
Dead Guy on Display: In the episode "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim", Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head reminisce about defeating such heroes as "the mighty Ultra Walrus", "the heroic Captain Giraffe", and Earthworm Jim himself, all of whom they've kept as mounted heads on their wall. Naturally, Jim turns out to be a subversion, since he's just pretending to have been defeated and is biding his time until he can recover his supersuit from them. | |
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Time Travel | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9d6427ec | comment |
Time Travel: "The Anti-Fish" shows two "easy" methods of time travel. There is the Sewer of Time, where each manhole leads to a different time period. The other one is the Restaurant of Time, which automatically takes you to a specific period based on what you eat. The only catch for the second method is dealing with a Shockingly Expensive Bill. Worst Case Scenario, you have to work to pay off the bill, which can take "pseudo-years" to finish. | |
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Whole Episode Flashback | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9d6e002e | comment |
Whole Episode Flashback: "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim" is framed as Psycrow and Professor Monkey-for-a-Head reminiscing on the time they finally defeated Earthworm Jim and stole his Super Suit (all of which happened yesterday). | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: Sometimes, the villains anticipate that their defeat is going to hurt and/or if Jim is going to hit them really hard. | |
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Most Definitely Not a Villain | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9e08b900 | comment |
Most Definitely Not a Villain: Such dialogue usually accompanies Evil the Cat's paper-thin disguises. "Did I mention I'm not a cat?" | |
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Leitmotif | |
Earthworm Jim / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: Bob's is a televangelist type theme song, which plays when he gives his "Destroy! Destroy! Destroyah!" speeches. | |
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*Crack!* "Oh, My Back!" | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a13bda01 | comment |
*Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": Lower Back Pain Man. | |
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Dumb Muscle | |
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Dumb Muscle: The slow Number 4 who holds Bob's goldish bowl being an prime example out of many muscular cats. | |
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Furry Reminder | |
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Furry Reminder: Jim admits he wet the burrow when he was young and is seen eating dirt in an episode. | |
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Drop the Cow | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a4500ace | comment |
Drop the Cow: Literally, Once per Episode, also the Trope Maker. Even lampshaded when he told Psycrow that there would not be a Here We Go Again! ending in his show. Psycrow asked what Jim would prefer as an alternative and he drops the cow. | |
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Orifice Invasion | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a5a3ae2b | comment |
Orifice Invasion: After Jim and Peter are shrunk down to microscopic size by Psycrow's "Professor Monkey-for-a-Head's patented Reducing Cream in lotion or ointment form", guess how they stop him? Jim uses the Pocket Rocket to fly straight into his right ear canal, which contains literal object representations of ear bones. Psycrow's reaction: "GAHHHHHHHH!!! WORM IN HEAD. WORRM INN HEADDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" | |
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Infinity +1 Sword | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a5e02e9e | comment |
Infinity +1 Sword: The Sword of Righteousness claims to be a legendary powerful sword. Subverted as it turns out none of its wielders have ever won a fight with it. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Peter Puppy is now Jim's right hand man. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: In two episodes Queen Slug-For-A-Butt is dethroned, but ends up back in charge at the episodes' closing. In the first, "Queen What's-Her-Name", Princess What's-Her-Name decides to set up a constitutional democracy on Insectika; Slug-For-A-Butt wins the election in a landslide because no one else ran against her. In "The Exile of Lucy", Slug-For-A-Butt is called back in to help fight Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head when all other options have been checked. (And not for lack of trying on the Princess' part). In another episode, Peter Puppy is cured of his evil side, and he is eventually forced to take it back to save Jim from Evil the Cat. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a796d2a6 | comment |
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Lampshaded in one episode that features a Running Gag where the heroes are attacked at point blank with ridiculous amounts of gunfire, only for the bad guys to miss every single shot. Every single time it happens, one of the characters will point it out. | |
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Reality-Breaking Paradox | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a8d6bd1f | comment |
One of the gags involves a Reality-Breaking Paradox 'destroying' the cartoon universe, removing all colours and inking and reducing the 'surviving' characters to sketches. Thankfully, the writers/animator will helpfully restore the universe afterwards. On at least one occassion, Jim and Peter are seen sending a something by mail to the animation staff as thanks for restoring their universe so the show can go on. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
Earthworm Jim / int_a94eaaa4 | comment |
Odd Friendship: Queen Slug-for-a-Butt and Mrs. Bleveredge. | |
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Close-Enough Timeline | |
Earthworm Jim / int_aadcbbe4 | comment |
Close-Enough Timeline: The universe gets destroyed, but is quickly rebuilt... except the main character in Death of a Salesman is now named Urkel. | |
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Intelligible Unintelligible | |
Earthworm Jim / int_abbda0ea | comment |
Intelligible Unintelligible: Jim and Peter have no trouble understanding Snot. No one has any trouble understanding Monkey, either. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Psy-Crow. Also, Earthworm Jim being more of an Cuckoosnarker on occasion and Peter Puppy - especially in the second season. He's still pretty loyal. | |
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I Ate WHAT?! | |
Earthworm Jim / int_b1191cb2 | comment |
I Ate WHAT?!: Peter has this reaction to eating haggis in the third episode. | |
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Omnicidal Maniac | |
Earthworm Jim / int_b1619b3c | comment |
Omnicidal Maniac: Evil The Cat's ultimate goal is the destruction of the universe, often in ridiculous ways, such as using a particularly bad lounge singing act. | |
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Retcon | |
Earthworm Jim / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Whats-Her-Name's name was retconned into being meaningful when a flashback revealed she got her name from being The Unfavorite. | |
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City of Adventure | |
Earthworm Jim / int_b408c009 | comment |
City of Adventure: Lampshaded by two bystanders who witness the rampage of a giant Psy-Crow on Terlawk in "Sword of Righteousness". One of them says it might be because of something he painted on a space probe when he worked for NASA. Said probe actually reads: "Hey stupid aliens! I dare ya to destroy Terlawk". | |
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Obfuscating Insanity | |
Earthworm Jim / int_b4fce1ab | comment |
Obfuscating Insanity: A scene from the "Sword of Righteousness" episode. Jim gets sent flying all the way into outer space by a giant golf club. Up there in outer space, right above Earth, there is a spaceship crew worker chatting with one of his crew mates on the spaceship. | |
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Take That! | |
Earthworm Jim / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: In the episode "Darwin's Nightmare", Jim and Peter are seen watching a pastiche of Jacques Cousteau on television. Peter says that the Cousteau parody is a little "special". After the diver says that fish are the highest form of life, Jim and Peter then say in unison that he is "very, very special". Note that "special" can be used as a euphemism for mentally handicapped. Another episode's mid-show short had a 50s-style educational short showing us how Evil the Cat produces evil things (from the kid's point of view)— homework, vegetables, and an Expy of Bob Saget. One episode opens at the White House with a big sign out front that reads "Days Without A Scandal". Cue worker coming in and making the number a zero. "Politicians! Always making promises they can't keep!" | |
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ColdOpen | |
Earthworm Jim / int_b5785433 | comment |
The Cold Open at the start of every episode also has Jim and Peter always trapped in some new bizarre situation by one of the villains. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ba236071 | comment |
In the episode The Great Secret of the Universe Jim gives Evil the Cat a snow globe because it's exactly what he asked for and he wouldn't tell him what he really needs. | |
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Pelts of the Barbarian | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ba23caad | comment |
Pelts of the Barbarian: Jim comes across the Sword of Righteousness, which tries to encourage Jim to dress like a real hero, which includes viking style furry clothes as well as a wig. Then it turns out the sword doesn't know what it's doing, and always failed to help a hero win a fight. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
Earthworm Jim / int_bb0c0a4d | comment |
Fiery Redhead: Princess What's-Her-Name. | |
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Heavy Voice | |
Earthworm Jim / int_bb3bdc50 | comment |
Heavy Voice: Princess What's-Her-Name gets one after being subject to Professor Monkey-For-A-Head's Fatomic Ray Gun. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
Earthworm Jim / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: A minor case, but when Psycrow is about to get hit by a train, he says "Maximum suckage!". | |
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Berserk Button | |
Earthworm Jim / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Peter had lots of these. Inverted slightly as Peter himself expresses in the first episode he has no control over his Berserk Button induced alter ego and spends most of it trying to apologize vigorously for brutally attacking Jim earlier on. In the episode "Upholstered Peril" it is revealed Professor Monkey-for-a-Head really, REALLY hates fruit carts. Why? Because a fruit cart — A STINKING fruit cart — killed his pa! | |
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Must Have Caffeine | |
Earthworm Jim / int_bddb820f | comment |
Must Have Caffeine: Psycrow in "Hyper-Psycrow", after drinking a lethally high dose of espresso. This makes him quite a match to Jim. | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
Earthworm Jim / int_be6f7ae7 | comment |
Brief Accent Imitation: In the episode "Upholstered Peril", there is a scene where Jim blasts an evil killer beanbag using his ray gun, then using a bowl to catch all of the beans from the beanbag. Peter has been zombified into a couch potato, so Jim encourages him to eat healthier by giving him the beans. Jim says with a Southern drawl, "Here, little buddy! Try some RAY-FRIED BEANS. Them's good eatin'!" Several episodes seem to wish that Jim kept his Texan accent from the video game: | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: Professor Monkey-For-A-Head tried to get another Battery of the Gods, and the gods turned him into a living breadmaker as a result. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
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Weaksauce Weakness: Jim has a horrible weakness to "Wormtonite," which only appears once and has unpredictable horrible effects on him. Rather than coming from some bizarre alien planet, it's just something the two found in their fridge (Peter thinks it used to be cheese). | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c26e2b1 | comment |
New Powers as the Plot Demands: From "The Origins of Peter Puppy," the Earthworm Mindmeld. Jim likes to show off his suit's abilities in the openers, everything from modular floating limbs, to inflatable rip-chords, to Swiss-Army Claws. Though these tactics often suffer from Critical Existence Failure despite how useful they look. When Peter is given the suit, he finds other functions that not even Jim is aware of, such as gelatin moulds. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": This has been said by Jim when Peter plays with Jim's suit controls in the cold opening of Sword of Righteousness. He even said this when he was effectively stripped of his hero status and demoted to sidekick in Lounge Day's Journey Into Night. Peter even said this when Jim lets in Morty & Eileen to sing a rendition of the show's theme song at the end in that same episode. | |
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Mooks | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c36cba70 | comment |
Mooks: The Queen and the Princess both have an army of "zurbs," identical red-shelled ant-like creatures. | |
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No, You | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c37a7fd9 | comment |
No, You: In "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim", Psy-Crow turns Jim's own battle cry against him once he gets the Super Suit: | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c3fbac64 | comment |
Bestiality Is Depraved: After Jim defeats a wild ape in "Peanut of the Apes", | |
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Couch Gag | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c4d09d24 | comment |
Couch Gag: The many, many variations of the "cow falls on somebody" closing gag. Sometimes it would fall on Jim, sometimes on the villain, sometimes on the very thing Jim spent the entire episode trying to save. And let's not forget the Evil Cow from "Opposites Attack": | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c59cfa2e | comment |
Felony Misdemeanor: Apparently condiment theft is a truly atrocious crime in the Earthworm Jim universe. In "Opposites Attack" Jim blows up a waitress with his ray gun for the heinous crime of not washing her hands before leaving the restroom. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic: Jim has this, to the aggravation of his sidekicks. One episode is partially driven by Jim turning himself into the police and going to jail after finding out that another, more evil-looking worm in a super suit has been committing crimes around Terlawk and coming to the conclusion that he's developed a Jekyll & Hyde Split Personality (while outright rejecting Peter's theory that he just has an evil clone.) In the episode The Great Secret of the Universe Jim gives Evil the Cat a snow globe because it's exactly what he asked for and he wouldn't tell him what he really needs. | |
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Way Past the Expiration Date | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c7502712 | comment |
Way Past the Expiration Date: In "Sword of Righteousness", Jim and Peter eat vending machine sandwiches with a sell-by date of June 14, 2006 — B.C. Jim's has a powerful sword in it. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To, of all things, Dune and Pulp Fiction. The description of haggis is, word for word, from one of the flashbacks in Highlander. "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, no, no, Mr. Jim! I expect you to fry!" From another episode: In "Darwin's Nightmare" after Jim and Peter lose their intelligence, the two become dim-witted idiots who often annoying laugh at the stupidest of things. The two bank robbers that appear at the beginning of "Upholstered Peril" look remarkably like Vincent Vega and a white, blond Jules Winfield. They even have a brief conversation about the French word for a certain food (cheese in this case). After Jim’s reckless use of the Sword of Righteousness results in a bit of deforestation, the Sword chews him out with a “Your stupid mind! Stupid!� | |
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And You Were There | |
Earthworm Jim / int_c8db76f6 | comment |
And You Were There: Appropriately, at the end of "Wizard of Ooze". Upon returning home, Jim and Peter are greeted by the Princess, Walter, the Hamsternator and the Grim Reaper. | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ce1d78bc | comment |
Peter Puppy sometimes eats haggis, the one food that he doesn't like, before being told what it is. He, or someone else, states verbatim that the dish is "the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach". The irony iz that he loved haggis until finding out the cooking method. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
Earthworm Jim / int_d1affec1 | comment |
That Came Out Wrong: From "Conqueror Worm": | |
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Run the Gauntlet | |
Earthworm Jim / int_d302b1c5 | comment |
Run the Gauntlet: in "The Egg Beater", Jim has to face all his usual enemies, first one by one, then all at the same time. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
Earthworm Jim / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: Evil the Cat wants to invoke this on the entire universe whenever he appears, but never considers what he wants to do after. He does come close more than once. Jim and Psycrow actually managed to destroy the universe by accident when fighting while powered up in "Hyper-Psycrow". Luckily, it was easily undone. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
Earthworm Jim / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Well, it's a lot easier than always having to say "Princess What's-Her-Name". | |
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Earthworm Jim / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
Earthworm Jim / int_dae5c997 | comment |
There was one episode where Evil Jim got hold of a gun that made Evil Twins of anything it hit (he wanted to make duplicates of the sidekicks so he would have some friends); unfortunately, the opposite of an Action Girl isn't particularly useful, and pissed off Evil Peter Puppy (who loves haggis) becomes a civilized monster. Eventually it was discharged against all the villains; Evil The Cat becomes Good The Cat who has antacid furballs, Evil Professor Monkey-For-A-Head becomes Monkey Professor-For-A-Head (they run away together), Evil Queen Slug-For-A-Butt is an old lady more concerned about knitting, and since evil Jim is already the opposite of Jim blasting him with the gun creates another Jim, lots and lots of other Jims. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
Earthworm Jim / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys: In "The Anti-Fish," Evil Jim does a better job of wooing the Princess than Jim ever did. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
Earthworm Jim / int_db4b76d1 | comment |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Jim's assorted variants on his "Eat dirt!" line. | |
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Earthworm Jim / int_dd3272bb | type |
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? | |
Earthworm Jim / int_dd3272bb | comment |
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: In one episode Jim goes through a bunch of replacement sidekicks who all have useless powers, like Turns-His-Eyelids-Inside-Out Boy, Zantor (Master of the Flying Toupee) and A Shadow (with the ability to make shadow puppets). Several end up joining the Galactic Justice League, with the addition of several other heroes with useless powers, like Lower Back Pain Man. The actual superheroes in Jim's universe aren't much better. There's the Hamsternator (who can stuff anything in his cheeks), Johnny Dactyl (a "mysterious" type, who's really a whining Mama's Boy), and the Space Crickets (two inches tall, and always on vacation). | |
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Who Writes This Crap?! | |
Earthworm Jim / int_dd891949 | comment |
Who Writes This Crap?!: Nearly mentioned word-by-word by Peter Puppy in "Darwin's Nightmare", when Jim catches wind of Bob's plan to take over the galaxy by receiving a page of the script on his fax machine. | |
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Fantasy Pantheon | |
Earthworm Jim / int_df1a0454 | comment |
Fantasy Pantheon: There's the Great Worm Spirit, the Anti-Fish, Evil the Cat and even the Odd Job Gods standing in for the Greek pantheon. | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e08f95fd | comment |
Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: In one episode, where Bob's attempts to waken the Anti-Fish with methods involving shouting at him really loud, banging him repeatedly on the eye with a big mallet, and cramming dynamite in his mouth before setting it off have failed, Bob muses that they need a noise so horrible it can wake the dead. He then promptly orders #4 to fetch some bagpipes. When the episode cuts back to them, with #4 collapsing from exhaustion and the Anti-Fish still fast asleep, Bob disgustedly proclaims that it's pointless to keep trying, since "if the bagpipes won't wake him, then nothing will". | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e0c470a1 | comment |
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Psycrow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head capture Jim at one point by threatening the narrator. | |
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Earthworm Jim / int_e116fedc | type |
Play-Along Prisoner | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e116fedc | comment |
Play-Along Prisoner: Jim only stays in prison because he's convinced that all the evil deeds Evil Jim committed were done by a split personality. Once he finds out he really does have an evil twin, he promptly burrows underground and escapes. | |
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Manchild | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e150c4c7 | comment |
Manchild: Jim likes to read fuzzy-wuzzy animal pop-up books, collect snow globes, play with junk in the attic, and watch the "Mister Bunny-Butt" show. Sometimes crossed with Skewed Priorities as Jim often cares about saving his object of immaturity more than actually saving the universe. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e2a41c3b | comment |
Literal-Minded: When Evil Jim proclaims himself to be Jim's exact opposite ("What you love, I hate! What you hate, I love!") Jim tries to throw this back in his face later on. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: "Wizard of Ooze" to The Wizard of Oz. | |
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Odd Job Gods | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e491684a | comment |
Odd Job Gods: When Jim goes to get a replacement for the Battery of the Gods, he meets the God of Puns, the Goddess of Disco, and the God of Nasal Discharge. | |
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Expy | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e5421161 | comment |
Another episode's mid-show short had a 50s-style educational short showing us how Evil the Cat produces evil things (from the kid's point of view)— homework, vegetables, and an Expy of Bob Saget. | |
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Determinator | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Jim in general counts for this, but especially when he's trying to win the Princess' affections. | |
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Earthworm Jim / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
"Did I mention I'm not a cat?" | |
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Catchphrase | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e6b5d22f | comment |
Catchphrase: "Guh-roovy!" "EAT DIRT, [Blank]! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" "By the Great Worm Spirit" (et cetera...) In Season 2: "Don't question me..." Also: "Get off my back, man!" Peter's Madness Mantra for when things get really bad: "I must not fear, fear is the mind killer, fear is the little death that brings total oblivion." Evil has "A minor setback..." Bob has "Destroy! DESTROY!" which never succeeds in getting his minions to actually destroy anything. Princess What's-Her-Name has "What do you mean, 'relationship'?" whenever Jim brings it up. His response is to laugh it off as if it were a joke. | |
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Earthworm Jim / int_e8491efa | type |
Don't Fear the Reaper | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e8491efa | comment |
Don't Fear the Reaper: Death, in his standard "Grim Reaper" garb, becomes an affable semi-regular character in the second season of the show, first appearing in "Opposites Attack" lamenting that Jim survives jumping a chasm on his Wormcycle ("Dangit, I was sure I had 'im that time!"). Later on he becomes "The Tin Reaper" in the episode "Wizard of Ooze" taking departed souls to the mall of eternity, secretly coveting the free frozen yogurt the eternals enjoy. He later appears as himself in Jim's house in the same episode, assuring Jim "Don't worry it's just a social call". Finally, he appears among a variety of mythical characters in "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls" expressing jealousy over Santa Claus being everyone's favorite. | |
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Easily Conquered World | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e8d730c4 | comment |
Easily Conquered World: Evil Jim manages this in "Conqueror Worm" in apparently just a couple of days, not only by curbstomping the military, but also by going straight to the President of the USA: | |
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Aside Glance | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e8e3807 | comment |
Sometimes Jim or Peter would turn and address the audience with an Aside Glance. | |
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Exact Words | |
Earthworm Jim / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
The fact that they can form coherent sentences makes them advanced for worm brains. | |
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Klatchian Coffee | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ea9b44a4 | comment |
Klatchian Coffee: The octuple espresso that gets Psycrow seriously hopped up in "Hyper-Psycrow". It's even labeled "Certain DOOM!" in the espresso machine. | |
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Jerkass | |
Earthworm Jim / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Most of the villains, but Psycrow and the Queen really stand out here. | |
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Big Ball of Violence | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ed23decc | comment |
Big Ball of Violence: Whenever Jim fights Peter's Monster form. Also in the episode "Trout" when Jim fights Queen Slug-For-A-Butt. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ee7ed46e | comment |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Instead of fight evil, the Galactic Justice League would rather goof off or play poker (especially when Bob is $4 ahead). | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
Earthworm Jim / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Jim's four brains. Their thoughs are "I'm hungry", "I'm cold", "I'm itchy", and "Where are the girls?!", respectively. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
Earthworm Jim / int_ef20dac5 | comment |
He's still pretty loyal. | |
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet | |
Earthworm Jim / int_f01a1b71 | comment |
Insignificant Little Blue Planet: One episode had Princess What's-Her-Name angrily write in her notes that there is no intelligent life on Earth after seeing Jim and Peter play with stuff they found in the attic. | |
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Once per Episode | |
Earthworm Jim / int_f05444a4 | comment |
Once per Episode: Most episodes have Peter Puppy turning into a monster whenever he gets hurt or scared. Every episode ends with a cow falling from the sky for no reason. It usually lands on Jim. | |
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Evil Twin | |
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Evil Twin: Evil Jim. There was one episode where Evil Jim got hold of a gun that made Evil Twins of anything it hit (he wanted to make duplicates of the sidekicks so he would have some friends); unfortunately, the opposite of an Action Girl isn't particularly useful, and pissed off Evil Peter Puppy (who loves haggis) becomes a civilized monster. Eventually it was discharged against all the villains; Evil The Cat becomes Good The Cat who has antacid furballs, Evil Professor Monkey-For-A-Head becomes Monkey Professor-For-A-Head (they run away together), Evil Queen Slug-For-A-Butt is an old lady more concerned about knitting, and since evil Jim is already the opposite of Jim blasting him with the gun creates another Jim, lots and lots of other Jims. Evil Jim at one point lampshades the illogical nature of the 'copy that stands for everything the hero doesn't.' | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: | |
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Reverse Psychology | |
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Reverse Psychology/Briar Patching: Sometimes the villains do it to Jim, and sometimes Jim does it to the villains, but it always works. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Peter Puppy sometimes eats haggis, the one food that he doesn't like, before being told what it is. He, or someone else, states verbatim that the dish is "the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach". The irony iz that he loved haggis until finding out the cooking method. Whenever Peter gets depressed, he goes to talk to Snot. Who, naturally, can't talk. Then he tries some manner of elaborate performance to try to explain his feelings, and Hilarity Ensues. Whenever "La Planeta de Agua" is said, a trumpet jingle and a chorus yelling "¡Arriba!" plays. | |
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Democracy Is Bad | |
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Democracy Is Bad: In one episode, Jim helps Princess What's-Her-Name liberate her homeworld and institute free elections. However, the populace shallowly votes based on appearance, and by insect standards, the Princess is hideous and her evil slug-for-a-butt sister is considered far more attractive. | |
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Doomy Dooms of Doom | |
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Doomy Dooms of Doom: Jim loves these. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: When Jim and Peter are tied up and left at the mercy of a swarm of flesh-eating ants in "The Sword of Righteousness". | |
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Go-Karting with Bowser | |
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Go-Karting with Bowser: In "The Exile of Lucy," the heroes play poker with Bob, who promised not to try to destroy anyone. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Never, ever piss Peter Puppy off, doing so proves you're Too Dumb to Live. | |
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Bigger on the Inside | |
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Bigger on the Inside: Jim's suit, which has tunnels big enough for Jim and Snott to casually crawl through, complete with giant killer security robots wandering them. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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To make it worse, sometimes the characters don't complete their similes. | |
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Anti-Mentor | |
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Anti-Mentor: The Sword of Righteousness claims to be a great sword and tells Jim the he must be taught how to properly wield him in order to truly become a hero. However, once the sword reveals that nobody that has wielded him has ever won a fight, Jim recognizes him as this trope and immediately discard him and all his lessons. | |
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