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*TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In response to Logan Paul`s ``No Handlebars``. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
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* ''Noenemies''(2017-Present)

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* ''Noenemies''(2017-Present)
''Noenemies'' (2017-Present)
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New Album released in May 2017


* ''The Circle In The Square'' (2011-Present)

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* ''The Circle In The Square'' (2011-Present)
(2011-2016)
* ''Noenemies''(2017-Present)
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* BoastfulRap: Handlebars is a subversion, it starts childish then gets scary.

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* BoastfulRap: Handlebars is about how the narrator can do anything, building up from riding his bike with no handlebars through various political and scientific actions up to ending the planet. It's a subversion, subversion of this trope though - it starts childish then gets scary.out silly, but by the end it's downright ''terrifying.''
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an oppressive dictator who can "end the world in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!". [[IronicEcho Also, he can ride his bike with no handlebars]].

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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an oppressive dictator who can "end the world planet in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!". [[IronicEcho Also, he can ride his bike with no handlebars]].
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* PrecisionFStrike: Towards the beginning of ''Stop the Apocalypse:''
---> "What the fuck is that barreling towards our metropolis?"
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an oppressive dictator who can "end the world in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!".

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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an oppressive dictator who can "end the world in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!". [[IronicEcho Also, he can ride his bike with no handlebars]].
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Definitely not a brick joke, or a joke of any kind.


* CrowningMusicofAwesome: Most of their songs.

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* CrowningMusicofAwesome: CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Most of their songs.



* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an oppressive dictator who can "end the world in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!". [[BrickJoke Also, he can ride his bike with no handlebars.]]

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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an oppressive dictator who can "end the world in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!". [[BrickJoke Also, he can ride his bike with no handlebars.]]
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movin\' to ymmv :U


* TearJerker: Superhero: "I won't need any one to save me!/ I will see my baby/ I will see my baby..."

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Their albums include:
Flobots Present:...Platypus (2005-2006),
Fight With Tools (2007-2008),
Survival Story (2009-2010),
The Circle In The Square (2011-Present).


Also, they have a {{webcomic}} on their [[http://flobots.net/ site]]. The comic Rise of the Flobots: Architects of Change is created by member D.J. Coffman (13) and features stories based on the fans and their music with a [[AlternateUniverse scifi twist]].

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* AnimalMotif: The [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi platypus]] shows up often in their songs. They even named an album after it.
** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.

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Their
'''Their
albums include:
Flobots
include:'''

* ''Flobots
Present:...Platypus (2005-2006),
Fight
Platypus'' (2005-2006)
* ''Fight
With Tools (2007-2008),
Survival Story (2009-2010),
The
Tools'' (2007-2008)
* ''Survival Story'' (2009-2010)
* ''The
Circle In The Square (2011-Present).


Square'' (2011-Present)

Also, they have a {{webcomic}} on their [[http://flobots.net/ site]]. The comic Rise site]], entitled ''Rise of the Flobots: Architects of Change Change''. It is created by member D.J. Coffman (13) and features stories based on the fans and their music with a [[AlternateUniverse scifi twist]].

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* AnimalMotif: AnimalMotif:
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The [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi platypus]] shows up often in their songs. They even named an album after it.
** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] Rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.




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Removing Nightmare Fuel potholes. NF should be on YMMV only.


* BoastfulRap: Handlebars is a subversion, it starts childish then gets [[NightmareFuel scary]].

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* BoastfulRap: Handlebars is a subversion, it starts childish then gets [[NightmareFuel scary]].scary.

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* {{Aesop}}:Wouldn't be one of their songs without one.

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* {{Aesop}}:Wouldn't be one of their songs without one.one or four.



* BraggingRap: Handlebars is a subversion, it starts childish then gets scary.

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* BraggingRap: BoastfulRap: Handlebars is a subversion, it starts childish then gets scary.[[NightmareFuel scary]].


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*OriginsEpisode: The song, If I, was mostly this.


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*TakeThat: The Effect gives a brief one the the band 3Oh!3.

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* BraggingRap: Handlebars is a subversion, it starts childish then gets scary.
**The Effect plays it straighter: "It's the F-L-O-B-O-T-S/ What did you expect?/ You wanted us to move you from right to left..."



* ShoutOut: In any song you may have references to current events, politics, pop culture, historical events, and other music.

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* ShoutOut: In any song you may have references to current events, politics, pop culture, historical events, religion, and other music.



* TearJerker: Superhero: "I won't need any one to save me!/ I will see my baby/ I will see my baby..."



* TookALevelInBadass: In the comic according to the [[{{Exposition}} data logs]] on the origin of Camp Vulture and the Frobots themselves, Flobot #13 used to be a diplomat model.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: In the comic poor Flobot #13 goes on [[spoiler: an effective suicide mission to retive vital information and send it back the goodguy's in the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Vulture]] and got blown up in the process. Later he gets what is effectively his mind/soul stolen by the PsychoForHire.]]


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* TookALevelInBadass: In the comic according to the [[{{Exposition}} data logs]] on the origin of Camp Vulture and the Frobots Flobots themselves, Flobot #13 used to be a diplomat model.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: In the comic poor Flobot #13 goes on [[spoiler: an effective suicide mission to retive retrieve vital information and send it back the goodguy's good guy's in the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Vulture]] and got blown up in the process. Later he gets what is effectively his mind/soul stolen by the PsychoForHire.]]

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** GreenAesop: Airplane Mode and Cracks in the Surface from Survival Story are good examples.
* BadFuture: The prediction of several of their songs if humanity doesn't get their shit together and do something. The comic also have a bad future where there was at some point a second civil war, the enviornment is so degraded that the sky is perpetually smog filled and a weird green color, and the United States of America is lead by a quite oppresive government that isn't opposed to hirering [[PsychoForHire mercenaries]] to take care of insergents.

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** GreenAesop: Airplane Mode and Mode, Cracks in the Surface Surface, and Defend Atlantis from Survival Story are good examples.
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*ApocalypseWow: Defend Atlantis. By waves and water, not to mention an invasion by starfish.
* BadFuture: The prediction of several of their songs if humanity doesn't get their shit together and do something. The comic also have a bad future where there was at some point a second civil war, the enviornment environment is so degraded that the sky is perpetually smog filled and a weird green color, and the United States of America is lead by a quite oppresive oppressive government that isn't opposed to hirering hiring [[PsychoForHire mercenaries]] to take care of insergents.insurgents.



* CreatorCameo: The comic creator's [[CodeName code number]] is 13 and the yellow Flobot sceen on a mission in the begining of Architecs of Change has a 13 on the lower part of his face.

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* CreatorCameo: The comic creator's [[CodeName code number]] is 13 and the yellow Flobot sceen seen on a mission in the begining beginning of Architecs Architects of Change has a 13 on the lower part of his face.



*DownerEnding: The end of the music video for Handlebars. Also a prediction from some of their songs if we can't get our shit together in time.



* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an opressive dictatior.
* LaResistance: In the comic the Flobots and the people at Camp Vulture are this. In the majority of their songs they urge the people to wake up and become pascifist gorilas to fight back agaist this destructive sociaty.

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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an opressive dictatior.
oppressive dictator who can "end the world in a holocaust!/ in a holocaust!/ in a HOLOCAUST!!". [[BrickJoke Also, he can ride his bike with no handlebars.]]
* LaResistance: In the comic the Flobots and the people at Camp Vulture are this. In the majority of their songs they urge the people to wake up and become pascifist gorilas pacifist gorillas to fight back agaist this against destructive sociaty.society and media mind control.


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** The end of the music video for the song Circle in the Square looks sort of like Hindu holiday, Holi.

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** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.

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** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively. negatively.
** [[CirclingVultures Vultures]] show up a few times as well.
*{{Aesop}}:Wouldn't be one of their songs without one.
**GreenAesop: Airplane Mode and Cracks in the Surface from Survival Story are good examples.



** Also count as RobotMe since the main comic Flobots are also the band members and the comic creator.

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** Also count as RobotMe since the main comic Flobots are also the band members and the comic creator. creator.
*ShoutOut: In any song you may have references to current events, politics, pop culture, historical events, and other music.
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* {{Fembot}}: In the main comic story one of the Flobots in the flashbacks is female and probably #101.

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* {{Fembot}}: In the main comic story one of the Flobots in the flashbacks is female and probably #101.#33.



* {{Telepathy}}: The Flobots of the comics have this but they can't exactly control where their messages go. One message ended up going back in time to a ParallelUniverse to a doe in the woods another made it to the founding fathers. [[spoiler: The strange messages from nowhere that the main characters from the comic stories Vote For Change and Iraq are messages from the Flobots in a parallel universe to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong try and prevent their BadFuture from happening there as well]].]]

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* {{Telepathy}}: The Flobots of the comics have this but they can't exactly control where their messages go. One message ended up going back in time to a ParallelUniverse to a doe in the woods another made it to the founding fathers. [[spoiler: The strange messages from nowhere that the main characters from the comic stories Vote For Change and Iraq are messages from the Flobots in a parallel universe to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong try and prevent their their]] BadFuture [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong from happening there as well]].]]

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*LaResistance: In the comic the Flobots and the people at Camp Vulture are this. In the majority of their songs they urge the people to wake up and become pascifist gorilas to fight back agaist this destructive sociaty.



* RediculouslyHumanRobot: In the comics the Flobots are freedom fighting robots originally created to help put an end to the second American Civil War and bring back peace and prosparity. Came in two models the diplomats and defenders. The defenders also double as potential KillerRobots if they have to, but both models prefer to settle things peacefully.

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* RediculouslyHumanRobot: RidiculouslyHumanRobots: In the comics the Flobots are [[AdaptationalBadass freedom fighting robots robots]] originally created to help put an end to the second American Civil War and bring back peace and prosparity. Came in two models the diplomats and defenders. defenders to protect the diplomats. The defenders also double as potential KillerRobots [[KillerRobot killer robots]] if they have to, but both models prefer to settle things peacefully.



* TookALevelInBadass: In the comic Flobot #13 used to be a diplomat model.

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* TookALevelInBadass: In the comic according to the [[{{Exposition}} data logs]] on the origin of Camp Vulture and the Frobots themselves, Flobot #13 used to be a diplomat model.

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** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.

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** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.



BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the comic [[spoiler: Flobot #69]] works for [[PsychoForHire Lt. Farrior]]. There are hints that he was reprogramed.

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BrainwashedAndCrazy: *BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the comic [[spoiler: Flobot #69]] works for [[PsychoForHire Lt. Farrior]]. There are hints that he was reprogramed.


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*CreatorCameo: The comic creator's [[CodeName code number]] is 13 and the yellow Flobot sceen on a mission in the begining of Architecs of Change has a 13 on the lower part of his face.


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*{{Fembot}}: In the main comic story one of the Flobots in the flashbacks is female and probably #101.


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*RediculouslyHumanRobot: In the comics the Flobots are freedom fighting robots originally created to help put an end to the second American Civil War and bring back peace and prosparity. Came in two models the diplomats and defenders. The defenders also double as potential KillerRobots if they have to, but both models prefer to settle things peacefully.
**Also count as RobotMe since the main comic Flobots are also the band members and the comic creator.


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*TookALevelInBadass: In the comic Flobot #13 used to be a diplomat model.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Lt.Farrior's room is littered with easily dozens of Flobot heads.

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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Lt.Farrior's room is littered with easily dozens of Flobot heads.heads on a shelf.

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* BadFuture: The prediction of several of their songs if humanity doesn't get their shit together and do something. The comic also have a bad future where there was at some point a second civil war, the enviornment is so degraded that the sky is perpetually smog filled and a weird green color, and the United States of America is lead by a quite oppresive government that isn't opposed to hirering [[PsychoForHire mercenaries]] to take care of insergents.

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* BadFuture: The prediction of several of their songs if humanity doesn't get their shit together and do something. The comic also have a bad future where there was at some point a second civil war, the enviornment is so degraded that the sky is perpetually smog filled and a weird green color, and the United States of America is lead by a quite oppresive government that isn't opposed to hirering [[PsychoForHire mercenaries]] to take care of insergents.insergents.
BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the comic [[spoiler: Flobot #69]] works for [[PsychoForHire Lt. Farrior]]. There are hints that he was reprogramed.


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*DeadGuyOnDisplay: Lt.Farrior's room is littered with easily dozens of Flobot heads.
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* {{Telepathy}}: The Flobots of the comics have this but they can't exactly control where their messages go.


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* {{Telepathy}}: The Flobots of the comics have this but they can't exactly control where their messages go.

go. One message ended up going back in time to a ParallelUniverse to a doe in the woods another made it to the founding fathers. [[spoiler: The strange messages from nowhere that the main characters from the comic stories Vote For Change and Iraq are messages from the Flobots in a parallel universe to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong try and prevent their BadFuture from happening there as well]].]]
*ThirteenIsUnlucky: In the comic poor Flobot #13 goes on [[spoiler: an effective suicide mission to retive vital information and send it back the goodguy's in the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Vulture]] and got blown up in the process. Later he gets what is effectively his mind/soul stolen by the PsychoForHire.]]

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** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.

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** [[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.negatively.
*BadFuture: The prediction of several of their songs if humanity doesn't get their shit together and do something. The comic also have a bad future where there was at some point a second civil war, the enviornment is so degraded that the sky is perpetually smog filled and a weird green color, and the United States of America is lead by a quite oppresive government that isn't opposed to hirering [[PsychoForHire mercenaries]] to take care of insergents.






* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CrruptCorporateExecutive then to an opressive dictatior.

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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The main character from the song Handlebars goes from being able to ride his bike [[TitleDrop with no handlebars]] to a CrruptCorporateExecutive CorruptCorporateExecutive then to an opressive dictatior.dictatior.
*MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the music video for Handlebars at the end [[spoiler: there is a riot lead by the main character's brother who gets shot when the police put down the riot along with several other rioters]] the look on the main character's face says it all.





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*OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Jonny 5's real name is Jamie Laurie and the other MC Stephen Brackett is also known as Brer Rabbit.

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* BetweenARockAndAHardPlace: the song The Rose and The Thristle.

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* BetweenARockAndAHardPlace: the song The Rose and The Thristle.Thristle.
*CodeName: Every member has a numerical one. MC Jonny 5's is obvious. The others are:
**Stephen Brackett is 0.
**Jesse Walker is 101.
**Kenny Ortiz is 69.
**Mackenzie Gault is 33.
**Andy Guerrero is 17.
**Joe Ferrone is 79.
**Stated earlier D.J. Coffman is 13.

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!!Examples from the band band, the music, and the musiccomic



**[[YouDirtyRat rats]] show up a few times as well. Sometimes in a neutral light and sometimes negatively.
*BetweenARockAndAHardPlace: the song The Rose and The Thristle.



* EarWorm: Some of their songs like Handelbars and Circle in the Square.

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* EarWorm: Some of their songs like Handelbars and Circle in the Square.

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Also, they have a {{webcomic}} on their [[http://flobots.net/ site]]. The comic Rise of the Flobots: Architects of Change is created by member D.J. Coffman (13) and is based on the fans and their music with a [[AlternateUniverse scifi twist]].

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Also, they have a {{webcomic}} on their [[http://flobots.net/ site]]. The comic Rise of the Flobots: Architects of Change is created by member D.J. Coffman (13) and is features stories based on the fans and their music with a [[AlternateUniverse scifi twist]]. twist]].

!!Examples from the band and the music
*AnimalMotif: The [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi platypus]] shows up often in their songs. They even named an album after it.
*CrowningMusicofAwesome: Most of their songs.
*EarWorm: Some of their songs like Handelbars and Circle in the Square.

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An American alternative rock and hip-hip group. Had a hit with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRtcBy_GMI Handlebars]]" in 2008.

Also, they have a {{webcomic}} on their [[http://flobots.net/ site]].

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An American alternative rock and hip-hip group.group from Denver, Colorado. Had a hit with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRtcBy_GMI Handlebars]]" in 2008.2008.
Their albums include:
Flobots Present:...Platypus (2005-2006),
Fight With Tools (2007-2008),
Survival Story (2009-2010),
The Circle In The Square (2011-Present).


Also, they have a {{webcomic}} on their [[http://flobots.net/ site]]. The comic Rise of the Flobots: Architects of Change is created by member D.J. Coffman (13) and is based on the fans and their music with a [[AlternateUniverse scifi twist]].
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An American alternative rock and hip-hip group. Had a hit with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3jBaDXZpY Handlebars]]" in 2008. (That video has extra ''Series/DoctorWho''.)

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An American alternative rock and hip-hip group. Had a hit with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3jBaDXZpY com/watch?v=waRtcBy_GMI Handlebars]]" in 2008. (That video has extra ''Series/DoctorWho''.)
2008.

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