History VideoGame / ToontownOnline

->''"Ever wondered what it'd be like to love life as a toon? Well, here's your chance..."''

[[caption-width-right:350:''Are YOU Toon enough?'']]

->''"Are you Toon enough?"''

Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Toontown Online'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is pretty much what it says in the title]]: a town full of Toons, online! It's an {{MMORPG}} featuring falling flower pots, cream pies, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick corruption of humanity]].

You play as a colorful cartoon animal of your choice, living in an equally cartoony world. In Toontown, there's plenty of fun to be had, with Trolley Games, go-kart racing, mini-golf and all sorts of other activities in store. However, the town has become infested with Cogs, robotic businessmen who wish to transform the whole city into a dull, gray corporation. To keep Toontown vibrant and fun, the Cogs must be fought back with a variety of practical jokes, such as the aforementioned pots and pies.

** Toonfest 2023 gave the facility managers and facilities themselves an upgrade, turning the Factory Foreman, Mint Supervisor, Office Clerk and Club President into minibosses with distinctive appearances.

* AdaptationalBadass: In Toontown Online, the old Sellbot Field Offices took over street buildings, and the shopkeepers inside those buildings were caged up and needed to be rescued. With the new Field Offices that take over Toon [=HQs=], those same rescued shopkeepers are now members of the Toon Resistance that help guide Toons through the Offices.

* ''[[https://corporateclash.net/ Toontown Corporate Clash]]'', originally known as ''Project Altis'', with a focus on creating new content, including new Toon species, new bosses, and storylines told in comics and [=ARGs=]. Currently active. [[VideoGame/ToontownCorporateClash Has its own page.]]

* ''[[https://corporateclash.net/ Toontown Corporate Clash]]'', originally known as ''Project Altis'', with a focus on creating new content, including new Toon species, new bosses, and storylines told in comics and [=ARGs=]. Currently active.

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* AdaptationExpansion:
** The Cogs have extra units in this version of the game, as well as Manager Bosses who patrol streets and special buildings. Chief among them are a new fifth group called the Boardbots, who answer directly to the Chairman himself.
** The Toons have an extra Gag track, Zap, that only works when paired with Squirt. Each gag track also has eight levels instead of seven.
** The taskline is expanded with the addition of Ye Olde Toontown and Acorn Acres, the former of which is a brand new neighborhood and the latter of which was previously just a playground hosting the golfing minigame.
** The old neighborhoods each have an additional street with their own respective shops: Toontown Central adds Wacky Way, Barnacle Boatyard[[note]]formerly Donald's Dock[[/note]] adds Anchor Avenue, Daffodil Gardens[[note]]formerly Daisy Gardens[[/note]] adds Sunflower Street, Mezzo Melodyland[[note]]formerly Minnie's Melodyland[[/note]] adds Soprano Street, The Brrrgh adds Arctic Avenue, and Drowsy Dreamland[[note]]formerly Donald's Dreamland[[/note]] adds Twilight Terrace.
** Eleven new Toon species have been added as of 2022, bringing the total to 20.
* AdaptationNameChange: Most of the neighborhoods are renamed to remove the Disney character references.
** Donald's Dock becomes Barnacle Boatyard. In turn, Barnacle Boulevard from the original game is renamed to Buccaneer Boulevard.
** Daisy Gardens to Daffodil Gardens. All its streets are also renamed--Elm Street to Petunia Place, Maple Street to Daisy Drive, and Oak Street to Tulip Terrace.
** Minnie's Melodyland to Mezzo Melodyland.
** Donald's Dreamland to Drowsy Dreamland.
* AlternateRealityGame: 1.3.0 featured one with a COGS employee panel website, [[https//cogs.ink]]. The login details you could collect for it revealed names for 29 high-up Cogs in the game, and allowed access to 17 of their profiles individually[[note]]the Hires & Heroes managers, and the department secretary's account, the latter featuring an employee list and unique interviewer notes[[/note]]. The High Roller's login was added in the April 2022, and is also accessible (with drectly accessing it being the only way to read his profile).
* ArtEvolution: Halloween boss Count Erclaim used to have a pretty standard Bloodsucker head, but traded in the look in the Halloween 2020 event for a unique, [[TwoFaced half-skeletal]] face.
* BadBoss: The CLO, who drops her team of Cogs into a trapdoor for [[DisproportionateRetribution one of them suggesting taking the Toons' gags]].[[note]]Note that Cogs normally do this anyway when defeating Toons.[[/note]]
* ChainLightning: Zap attacks can jump between Cogs.
* EndOfAnAge: The "Break the Law" event culminated in the dismantling of the old Lawbot HQ, the Chief Justice resigning, and the CLO being hired, rendering the old boss fight and headquarters layout gone for good.
* ElectricJoybuzzer: The level 1 Zap gag is a Joybuzzer; the Toon holds out their hand, and the Cog leans in to shake it only to get zapped.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Robert is unwilling to hire embezzling snake Saul G. Cog for the scandal it could generate and fires him in the usual Toontown manner.
-->'''Chairman:''' MOTHERBOARD OF MERCY! We can't have a scandal like that attached to the company!
* FloralThemeNaming: In the original ''Toontown Online'', the streets of Daisy Gardens are named after trees; in ''Corporate Clash'', its [[AdaptationNameChange renamed counterpart's]] streets are all named after flowers, with the names in question being {{alliterative|Name}} to fit in with the rest of Toontown's street naming schemes.
* ForeverWar: Lampshaded by the Multislacker, who feels the whole 'Toons vs Cogs' fight is a pointless waste of time since it never ends.
-->I find the whole 'Toons vs. Cogs' thing to be kind of pointless. You show up here, you wreck my dad, and he just gets repaired and keeps going. At the end of the day, we're all just wasting time.
* FunWithAcronyms: "Cogs" is an acronym for their corporation's name, the '''C'''oal, '''O'''il and '''G'''as '''S'''yndicate.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: The Public Relations Representative was locked in the dungeons so long he went mad from the isolation and frequently glitches out, stumbles over his sentences, and lambasts both the Toons attacking him and the Cogs that sent him here.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: In the cutscene preceding the CLO boss fight, the CLO gets fed up with a group of Lawbots she is supposed to be training on corporate law and open the floor underneath them to reveal a chute, the Lawbots calmly stand up, and then proceed to actually fall.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Unlike ''Online'', the Toons and Cogs aren't always in the right or wrong, as Ottoman loves plants, talks at length about his family situation, and praises how the Chairman is a loving father to his son, while the Toons can be arrogant and self-centered and caused the ''death'' of a high-level Cog, inspiring his family to take revenge. The Rainmaker boss fight has her lament how she just wanted to play ''TabletopGame/TicTacToe'' with Barnacle Bessie and got a piano dropped on her.
* HighVoltageDeath: The Zap gag track, introduced in ''Corporate Clash'', involves attacking Cogs with electricity.
* JekyllAndHyde: The Chainsaw Consultant's normal personality is mild and even friendly, but his personality override turns him into a bloodthirsty Toon-saddening monster who hurts his own employees.
* KazoosMeanSilliness: In ''Corporate Clash'', the kazoo is the new level 1 Sound gag.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: The Chief Justice, aka John Robolts, decides to retire rather than be fired by the Chairman, giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as well.
-->'''Chief Justice:''' You know, Bob, when you told me about your brilliant oil drilling plans for Toontown, I didn't know what purpose I would serve. I was just a law student at the time, and I certainly wasn't versed in corporate law. You knew what you were in for when you hired me. Looking back, it was quite the jestful choice on your end. I joined the company thinking I could work in a cushy executive job out in the middle of the Drastically Dry Desertland. But once that wizard turned on the super-duper air conditioner, my attitude changed quite drastically -- pardon my pun. I tried to voice my concerns to Robot Resources, but honestly, that department happened to be even more inept than me, even though I quite literally ran a governmental law office inside of a corporation. The fact that you haven't attempted to fire me before this time makes it quite clear that you are lacking as a leader, that you would rather have someone else fill in your shoes. Your tiny, minuscule shoes. It brings me ''great'' pleasure to tell you, Bob, that you have been an awful boss and an even worse leader. I hand in my resignation with a clear conscience. And furthermore, just like how this company went from rags to riches, here is my final act of justice, returning this rag on my face to eventually lead you astray from riches. I'm finally retiring. Goodbye Bob, may this company forevermore be a burden to your existence. And thanks for nothing, except my pension!
* LevelGrinding: Even more relevant to this server due to ExperiencePoints being how you unlock new gag tracks and increased health, as opposed to the original and ''Toontown Rewritten'' where this is accomplished by completing certain tasks.
* MeetTheNewBoss: The Chief Justice was replaced with Chief Legal Officer in the 1.1 update, with the C.J. having left due to having done poorly and practicing criminal law instead of corporate law, but choosing to retire instead of being fired while giving his ex-boss a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. His boss fight was taken over by The Stand-in/Atticus, while the CLO gets a brand new boss fight.
* MythologyGag: Cogs refer to themselves as Suits, which was their original name early in ''Toontown'''s development.
* NamedByTheAdaptation:
** All Cogs have been given names to go with their titles.
*** To name the classic four, we have Chief Justice John Robolts, Chief Executive Officer Craig Edgar Oilcan, Senior Vice President Allanwrench Bravecog, and Chief Financial Officer Chris P. Dolair.
*** The brothers at the top of the Boardbot hierarchy are Chairman Robert Cyger and Chief Operations Officer Thomas Saggs.
*** The Chief Legal Officer's name is Diane Morsecode.
** On the Toons' side, the Toon HQ Officers are unnamed in the original game, but receive ThemeNaming in relation to their neighborhoods' themes. The main exception to this rule is Toontown Central, whose Toon HQ is instead restaffed with prominent [=NPCs=] from the original game.
** The name of the Boardbot Department Secretary is Jennifer Jones.
* NintendoHard: The Overclocked CLO, a harder version of Clash's exclusive Lawbot CLO fight, added in February 2021. It is much harder than the standard version in many ways. [[spoiler:The Cog round includes a fight with four high-level managers with an average of 4000 HP each, and tons of unique cheats up their sleeves such as banning the use of certain gags or making you face up to six Cogs instead of the standard four. This leads up to the enhanced fight against the CLO herself, which now includes so many new hazards (as well as using her highly-damaging tornado attack much more often) that you will never know a moment of peace until it's over. The strategy of attracting Cogs to her respawning location after she is trapped so she can be immediately stunned again also doesn't work as she now surrounds herself with Operations Analysts [[HumanShield to absorb attacks]] and she cannot be stunned until they are destroyed. Her respawn itself can also do damage now unless the player jumps with the correct timing.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: In a first for the game and overall lore, the Chainsaw Consultant's post-battle dialogue has him swear as he realizes what his personality override has made him do.
-->'''Chainsaw Consultant:''' Ugh... That ''damned'' override...
* PunnyName:
** The head of ''Cathal Ray Toby'' Bravecog, the Multislacker, is a ''Cathode Ray Tube'' television.
** And then there's the Pacesetter, Graham Ness Payser, whose frenetic mannerisms would certainly make you think he should take the ''[=FitnessGram=] Pacer'' test.
** Holly Grayelle, the Gatekeeper, is a fairly generic knight, yes, but given the AlternateRealityGame has her password as "hollylooya," it's a safe bet she'd love to quest for the ''Holy Grail.''
* PutOnABus: Again, to avoid legal trouble with Disney, the Mickey Mouse characters are no longer seen roaming around the playgrounds. Heck, the playgrounds themselves are ''[[AdaptationNameChange renamed]]'' to avoid even ''mentioning'' those characters!
* RedOniBlueOni: The Cyger brothers fit this to a tee; Chairman Robert's explosively temperamental red to Chief Operations Officer Ottoman's nearly unshakeable blue.
* RoamingEnemy: The Regional Managers are a set of Boss Cogs that can occasionally be found roaming the streets of each neighborhood. Other than being significantly more powerful, they can be fought like any other Cog.
* ShoutOut: One of the HQ Officers in Ye Olde Toontowne's 'Elder Headquarters'[[note]]Toon HQ[[/note]] is named [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings 'Dangalf']].
* SpeechImpediment: The Duck Shuffler can't pronounce ''s''[='s=] correctly, instead pronouncing them as ''th''.
* SpritePolygonMix: Notably downplayed in comparison with the original game as many objects that were previously flat textures have been 3D modelled, including treasures and lampposts.
* StaticElectricity: The Rug and Balloon gags from the Zap track work by the Toons rubbing the object and then electrocuting the Cog by touching it.
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: The Cease and Desist move can be used against a Cog to immobilize them and prevent them from attacking for a limited number of rounds. To Sue a Cog with this, a Toon throws a book at the targeted Cog in question.
* TragicVillain:
** The Chainsaw Consultant wishes he never went to work for the Chairman due to a personality override program that turns him into a monster.
** The Rainmaker just wants to be left alone and had a piano dropped on her when she tried to befriend Barnacle Bessie, and her Cog attacks aren't always under control.
* UnflinchingWalk: John Robolts smirks as the Chairman's temper explodes behind him.
* UnseenNoMore: The leader of the Cogs, the Chairman, is revealed at the current ending of the game, "The Final Battle, For Now". His appearance is a rather short man with a chair for a head, and a ''very'' fiery temper.
* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Very common during this server's (ongoing as of October 2019) development phase, especially in Ye Olde Toontowne due to the antiquated grammar they are trying to "get right".
* WhamLine:
** In "Weekly Meeting", the CEO hears only a single word, and this ''after'' he and the other bosses lose most of their shares of the company.
--->'''FIRED.'''
** In the "[[WhamEpisode Day of Reckoning Comic]]", the long awaited fate of CJ is revealed with this line:
--->'''The Chairman:''' John Robolts, you are...\\
'''Chief Justice:''' [[TakeThisJobAndShoveIt Resigning.]]
* XRaySparks: The higher-level Zap gags (level 6 and up) cause Cogs' skeletons to briefly become visible.
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: The level 8 Zap gag is a yellow lightning bolt.
* ZeroEffortBoss: The "Boredbot"[[note]]A spoof of the Boardbots only accessible during the annual April Toons event[[/note]] Chief Operations Officer, Ottoman. His "boss fight" is a cutscene where you watch him work for about 22 minutes, rambling about the Chairman.
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* AlternateRealityGame: 1.3.0 featured one with a COGS employee panel website, [[https//cogs.ink]]. The login details you could collect for it revealed names for 29 high-up Cogs in the game, and allowed access to 17 of their profiles individually (the Hires & Heroes managers, and the department secretary's account, the latter featuring an employee list and unique interviewer notes.) The High Roller's login was added in the April 2022, and is also accessible (with drectly accessing it being the only way to read his profile.)

* AlternateRealityGame: 1.3.0 featured one with a COGS employee panel website, [[https//cogs.ink]]. The login details you could collect for it reveal profiles for most high-up cog in the game, save for the Litigation Team, division heads, Cyger and Saggs, John Robolts, the Witness Stand-in, and the Counts.

* PowerUpLetdown: The reward for defeating the Chief Justice is the ability to summon a Cog, a Cog Building, or a Cog Invasion. This would be extremely handy early on in the game with the innumerable amounts of Toontasks that require you to defeat specific Cogs, but as a high level Toon who is already reaching the end of Toontasks at this point in the game, it's nearly completely useless unless lower-level Toons need it--especially in comparison to the other three boss rewards (OneHitKill to any Cog, instant Laff/gag/bean refills, and SOS Toons to help in a pinch), it has virtually no real utility for how hard you have to work to get it.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Some Toontasks have the reward being "Clothing Tickets", which you can use to buy clothes.

* JudicialWig: The Chief Justice wears a white wig.

* BreakingPointSwearing: In a first for the game and overall lore, the Chainsaw Consultant's post-battle dialogue has him swear as he realizes what his personality override has made him do.
-->'''Chainsaw Consultant:''' Ugh... That ''damned'' override...

* PersonalRainCloud:

* PieInTheFace: The main theme of the Throw track. You start with throwing cupcakes before moving up to the Fruit Pie, Cream Pie, Birthday Cake, and Wedding Cake gags. (The pies come in both "slice" and "whole" variations, too.)

* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: The upper floors of a Cog building are the perfect place to grind gag experience, giving multipliers of up to 3x. Unlike other locations, this also stacks with the invasion bonus, allowing for up to 6x the normal experience gain.

* PeninsulaOfPowerleveling: The upper floors of a Cog building are the perfect place to grind gag experience, giving multipliers of up to 3x. Unlike other locations, this also stacks with the invasion bonus, allowing for up to 6x the normal experience gain.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Unlike ''Online'', the Toons and Cogs aren't always in the right or wrong, as Ottoman loves plants, talks at length about his family situation, and praises how the Chairman is a loving father to his son, while the Toons can be arrogant and self-centered and caused the ''death'' of a high-level Cog, inspiring his family to take revenge. The Rainmaker boss fight has her lament how she just wanted to play tic-tac-toe with Barnacle Bessie and got a piano dropped on her.

* BonusFeatureFailure: The reward for defeating the Chief Justice is the ability to summon a Cog or a Cog Invasion. This would be extremely handy early on in the game with the innumerable amounts of Toontasks that require you to defeat specific Cogs, but as a high level Toon who is already reaching the end of Toontasks at this point in the game, it's nearly completely useless. It comes off as a JokeItem especially in comparison to the other three boss rewards (OneHitKill to any Cog, instant laff/gag/bean refills, and SOS Toons to help in a pinch) and has virtually no real utility for how hard you have to work to get it.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Getting 137 laff pretty much counts as this. Not only does this require you to complete every toontask, you also have to max all four of your Cog suits, win every racing trophy, win every gardening trophy, win every golfing trophy, and win every fishing trophy. Needless to say, it takes a pretty long while to get that far. Even most high level Toons haven't accomplished this.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Each normal battle can have up to four Toons and four cogs. Boss battles can have up to eight toons, although they'll be split into two groups during the regular combat rounds.

* BlindedByTheLight: The "Razzle Dazzle" cog attack involves pulling out a sign with some extremely shiny teeth on it, so shiny that they hurt to look at.

* BoringButPractical: Throw and Squirt, the two gag tracks you start out with. They are simple "use to damage a cog" gags, but they have fairly good accuracy (especially Squirt) and can deal extra damage against lured cogs.

** The lure gag track consists of fake cogbucks used to make Cogs come closer to the user, to use another gag or temporarily stun them.

* FakeUltimateMook: The "bosses" of Cog buildings and Cog facilities aren't all that much stronger than ordinary Cogs in the same environments. Although the Clerk of a DA office is a level 12, ''every floor'' of the office contains a level 12. Likewise, each hole of a Cog golf course contains at least two level 11 v2.0 cogs, which are the same level as the Club President.

* FourIsDeath: There are 4 kinds of cogs; Bossbots, Lawbots, Sellbots, and Cashbots.

* HumanCannonball: Cannons become a form of transportation in the Cannon Game, where toons have to shoot themselves into a water tower. They also appear in the Chief Justice battle, where toons have to shoot themselves into jury seats to prevent them from being taken by cogs.

-->''"I've had enough of these pesky toons!"''

* {{Slapstick}}: Toons' main attacks come in the form of "gags" that subject cogs to AmusingInjuries, including slipping on a BananaPeel, sinking in [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], getting a PieInTheFace, getting [[AnvilOnHead hit by an anvil]], etc.

* TinyHeadedBehemoth: The Head Hunter is one of the taller cogs, but has an unusually small head, hence its name.

--->'''[[http://www.mmocentralforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4055323#post4055323 joey19982]]:''' By voting for Slappy people thought they would change the future of Toontown, however they chose the exact same path that the toons before them chose. You changed the wrong variables. If Flippy had won, though... The outcome may not have been much, much worse.

* JekyllAndHyde: The Chainsaw Consultant's normal personality is mild and even friendly, but his personality override turns him into a bloodthirsty toon-saddening monster who hurts his own employees.

* FlowerPotDrop: The level 1 Drop gag is a flower pot. When used, a flower pot containing a yellow flower (specified in supplementary material to be a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudbeckia_hirta black-eyed Susan]]) drops on a Cog, damaging them and flattening their head for a bit.

* ChekhovsGun: The 'treasures' that heal you in the main playgrounds reappear in the CFO battle and the golf course in Chip n' Dale's acres reappear in the CEO battle.

* FlowerPotDrop: The level 1 Drop gag is a flower pot. When used, a flower pot containing a yellow flower drops on a Cog, damaging them and flattening their head for a bit.

* ReactorBoss: [[spoiler:''Boilers'', huge Cog furnaces that inhabit/power the annexes of Sellbot Field Offices. Take one down, and its annex is finished.]]
** Especially the story-exclusive Kaboomberg Four-star Boiler. It is, so far, the only Boiler you will face in a Playground, helped by the fact it was either flooded with Toon teams or you struck a key annex. Whatever the case, once it's doused, those numbers drop ''fast'', from the 200s all the way down to cleared.

** Getting far enough into the game reveals [[spoiler:the locked-down district of Kaboomburg, where the Cogs successfully invade Daisy Gardens and turn the entire playground into a hazardous Cog-filled area]].

* AdaptationExpasion: