History WebAnimation / CharlieTheUnicorn

* UnexplainedRecovery: The banana king in "charlie teh unicron 2". One scene after pink and blue shoot him, he's back up no worse for wear without explanation.

* NoNameGiven: The two unicorns who aren't Charlie. [[FanNickname We just call them]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pink and Blue]]. [[spoiler: It turns out Steele originally referred to them as "Lolz" (Blue) and "Roffle" (Pink), when writing scripts, but never implemented the names and accepts the names Blue and Pink. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/whoarepinkandblue/comments/4a4npy/possible_clues_in_a_night_of_spatula_madness/ Fathomos, Jason Steele on Reddit, discusses it here.]]]]

** [[spoiler:Part Four of the finale concludes Nyx's story/prologue, ending with his death at the hands of the spinning cubes.]]

** Nyx is similarly sane compared to everyone around him.

* EverythingExplodesEnding: All the songs that are sung to Charlie involve the singer exploding. This is how he defeats the Millipede.

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale reveals that, the whole time, the series was set in a post-apocalyptic world. 10,000 years before Charlie's time, two demons were unleashed upon the world and preceded to kill pretty much everyone. Almost every character in the series is simply a meat puppet being controlled by the demons, including Pink and Blue. The only reason they've left a few survivors like Charlie is to torment them. When you think about it, it's a lot like the setting of ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', what with a RealityWarper bringing about the apocalypse and leaving a few survivors out of CruelMercy.]]

* BodyHorror: All over the place, such as when Pink literally loses their head and grows several mutated fish heads in its place.

* DidYouSeeThatToo: When Frogrus appears in Part Two, Charlie asks the other two unicorns for confirmation that they see it. They, of course, do not give it to him.

* LighterAndSofter: Probably the most family friendly of [[Creator/FilmCow Film Cow's]] works, who is otherwise known for ''very'' morbid BlackComedy. Not that the series isn't deranged in its own way, of course.

* PsychopathicManchild: Pink and Blue act very much like a pair of sugar-high kids dragging someone along on a pretend adventure - they speak childishly, often make up monsters and exaggerate fanciful things that are obviously not there, and tend to get distracted along the adventures by playing kids games (like "the floor is lava") and making silly jokes. Only in this case, a great deal of the things they imagine up are hellishly real in some way, much to Charlie's torment - which they are totally callous towards. This extends all the way to the end of the fourth video [[spoiler: where they attempt to kill Charlie simply because they've gotten bored with the "games" they've been playing with him.]] The finale reveals that [[spoiler: they've been trolling and murdering people for over ''10,000 years'' purely ForTheEvulz]].

* RealityWarper: Pink are Blue, [[spoiler: due to all the magic they've siphoned]]. Lamphaded by Charlie in episode 4.
-->'''Charlie''': I'll don't understand how you do these things!
* TheReveal: The last twelve minutes of the finale has three of these. [[spoiler:First, we find out that the whole Nyx and evil spinning demon cube story is set ''10,000'' years before Charlie was even born. Then, we find out that the pink and blue unicorns, as well as every single other wacky, singing fantasy creature Charlie has encountered since the first episode are actually dead bodies being used as puppets by the demon cubes, and that Charlie is just their latest plaything. The final reveal tells us that the spinning cubes are just two of an entire legion of interdimensional "chaos spirits" that, a long time ago, were weaponized by a powerful unicorn sorcerer who's name incidentally was also Charlie. One of them rebelled and killed the sorcerer, and along with its compatriot, escaped into the real world and set in motion the events of the series.]]

** The [[AWildRapperAppears rap breakdown]] from "In the Ocean Blue" is the "[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokérap]]," [[RecycledInSpace with fish!]]

* BraggingThemeTune: ''I Am a Millipede.''

* MagicEater: The Cube Demons of the finale. [[They're actually chaos spirits enchanted with magic siphons by a unicorn sorcerer also named Charlie]].

Then there's the spin-off/parody/mindscrew videos, [[http://www.filmcow.com/charlietehunicron.html charlie teh]] [[{{Franchise/Transformers}} unic]][[NamesTheSame ron]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Nz8p3EP7A&list=PL772AD75DE1C94F98 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHrImhFnZY 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIRHtn0-34&list=PL772AD75DE1C94F98 3]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve2axCkztF0&list=PL772AD75DE1C94F98 4]]). Be warned that the only thing that you will learn from watching these is that the Liopleurodon is named Leo. No joke. There's also a dragon at the Poconos, and unicorns puke rainbows, and they are also pyromaniacs, and they like pancakes. WordOfGod says that they're basically what Charlie the Unicorn would be like if it was written by [=YouTube=] commenters.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: The starfish... WANTS TO BE WITH YOU FOREVER!
* ActuallyIAmHim: Fool! Charlie did speak to the weasel, for [[spoiler:the Blue unicorn ''is'' the weasel]]!

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: As part of the intentional suckiness of "charlie teh unicron", none of the characters are quite right. Charlie is much more meek and passive than aggressive and surly, and Pink and Blue are much more lucid and mature, using curse words and behaving violently, recontextualizing their random behavior as trollish and memetic rather than childlike and unsettling.

** In "charlie teh unicron 2", Pink suggests they all make out. Due to the ambiguous gender this trope may apply.
** The Starfish.

* AntiHero: Charlie the Unicorn.
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale reveals that, the whole time, the series was set in a post-apocalyptic world. 10,000 years before Charlie's time, two demons were unleashed upon the world and preceded to kill pretty much everyone. Almost every character in the series is simply a meat puppet being controlled by the demons' HiveMind, including Pink and Blue. The only reason they leave a few survivors like Charlie is to torment them. When you think about it, it's a lot like the setting of ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', what with a RealityWarper bringing about the apocalypse and leaving a few survivors out of CruelMercy.]]
** [[spoiler:The reason they tormented Charlie specifically is because someone who happens to share a name with him enslaved them and put these chaotic beings into cubes in the first place and worked them to death with no labour laws. So from their point of view, this is payback.]]
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: The three of them can breathe underwater, which Charlie decides he's not even going to ask how. In Episode 4, [[spoiler: they actually do go to space]]. Again, no problems with breathing.

** [[spoiler:The finale reveals that the spinning cube thing]] is this to the entire series. The pink and blue unicorns [[spoiler:are merely corpses that it has been using as puppets to speak to its victims]].
** "charlie teh unicron 4" has [[spoiler: the Grand Slamwich-loving waitress.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: In the course of the series, those two sweet, dimwitted friends of Charlie: knocked him out to steal his kidney, his TV, and his horn [[spoiler: just so they could make a snowman]]. That's if you don't count merely ''being near them'' as a horror in itself. The fourth one reveals that [[spoiler: they really are just trying to kill him, most likely out of boredom, and that they are planning to do this to other people too.]]

** [[spoiler:The Grand Finale features Charlie using his cynicism to exorcise Blue and Pink, sending them back to their realm forever. However, the ending reel shows various locations from the series, now completely devoid of life. This along with the backstory of the two demons give the impression that though Charlie is now free, he’s also completely alone in an utterly dead world that only had any life at all because it was being puppeted. A line from Episode 4 implies there may be other survivors; according to WordOfGod, [[https://twitter.com/FilmCow/status/1452035134878883842 Charlie will one day find them]], though it won't be easy. This is on top of Charlie having already expressed sadness over Blue and Pink being corpses. At least he still has the ghost of Starfish.]]
* BodyHorror: The "demonstration" of 3D in one of the [=YouTube=] Live promos.

* BrickJoke :

** From charlie teh unicron:
---> '''Pink:''' Oh no way!\\
'''Blue:''' That crap's still burning!\\
'''Pink:''' Man, that is from last episode, how is that still goin'?
** [[spoiler:The starfish returns]] at the end of Charlie the Unicorn 4.
** The waitress from the end of "charlie teh unicron 2" [[spoiler:returns at the end of "charlie teh unicron 3". She's working at a Red Lobster now, but she still suggests that the group orders a basket of Grand Slamwiches, to the dismay of Blue and Pink]]. Then [[spoiler: she returns as the BigBad of "charlie teh unicron 4". She also appears in the Film Cow short, "The Robber", preventing George from finally getting his eggs by replacing his order with 2 orders of Grand Slamwiches.]]

** In charlie teh unicron 2, Pink points out in Denny's that the fire was from the episode before. Blue Lampshades this by asking how it was still burning.
** In the GrandFinale, Nyx, in this exact order, visits an underwater utopia and encounters a society of giant, talking arthropods living in outer space. Back in episode three, Pink and Blue take Charlie to what appears to be the ruins of an underwater city, and in the following episode, they take him to the moon where they meet a giant, talking millipede. [[spoiler:With the revelation that Charlie's story is set 10,000 years after Nyx's, it would seem Pink and Blue are putting Charlie through Nyx's footsteps.]]

* CannibalLarder: The Order of Tuletary Weasels keeps a walk-in freezer full of sliced up voles, because they were very hungry and voles are easy to deceive.

* CassandraTruth: By all appearances, the threat in the GrandFinale seems to be real (or at least gets scenes that have nothing to do with Charlie), but after Blue and Pink tell him about it Charlie refuses to believe any of it really exists, since every other adventure they dragged him on was just an excuse to torment him.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The starfish.]]

** The fourth one has Charlie's horn held together with a band-aid.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Double Subverted in the Hot Topic video. The blue unicorn is in a room full of lava, and then proceeds to be set on fire from the heat. Then in the next scene, it's not on fire anymore, but still in the room full of lava. Assuming that the blue unicorn bursting into flames had anything to do with the heat.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: A world that is shaped by two sadistic unicorns was bound to be this, at least for Charlie.
** Magic City: Magic City: City of Magic appears to be a [[OneNationUnderCopyright barely-disguised corporate-run hellhole]] under Mayor Sluv's thumb. [[spoiler:Until the monster gets there. The it ends up just being a hellhole.]]
* CreepyTwins: Pink and Blue. There's no confirmation as to whether or not they're actually twins, but they certainly have several traits of this trope (almost identical, always in synch with each other, etc.) [[spoiler:It makes sense when we learn in the GrandFinale that they're actually corpses being puppeted by a HiveMind, meaning that it's essentially the same being speaking through both of them.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The GrandFinale really ups the level of seriousness for the serious. It includes blood, gore and dismemberment, the world and Charlie are in genuine peril here, and the exact nature of the pink and blue unicorns is revealed. It, in Charlie's words, is all "very upsetting.
* DeadpanSnarker: Charlie

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Charlie, this is redundant, Charlie!

* DidYouSeeThatToo: When the Frogrus appears in Part Two, Charlie asks the other two unicorns for confirmation that they see it. They, of course, do not give it to him.

* DownerEnding

** Episode three ends with [[spoiler:Pink and Blue knocking out Charlie again, this time with sleeping gas. Then when Charlie wakes up, he finds himself in the middle of a snowy and is in shock after realizing that his horn has been cut off. Charlie then sees a snowman in front of him with his horn acting as the nose and [[ContinuityNod his kidney stuck on the bottom side of it]]]].

** Pink and Blue seem to really be some sort of insane gods who have chosen Charlie as their plaything. The fact that some of the stuff they summon is genuinely disturbing backs up this theory.
** Charlie himself seems to agree.
--> '''Charlie:''' I'm not even gonna ask how I'm still alive, cause you know what I think? I think I died long ago and you two are my eternal punishment.
--> '''Blue''': You're like a constant downer, huh?

** To say nothing of the Millipede.
** The unnamed monster of the GrandFinale: a cube-shaped being that feeds on magic and [[spoiler:can puppet people’s corpses. Part Four reveals that there are actually two of them.]]
*** Part Four of the finale reveals that Pink and Blue [[spoiler:are actually the latest hosts to the cubes]].
*** By the end of the finale, we find out that the cubes aren't even the creatures' true forms [[spoiler:but rather self-sustaining containment devices that amplify their powers. As far as we know, they are amorphous spiritual creatures who lack any physical form.]]
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: [[invoked]] Charlie [[InUniverse briefly indulges in this line of thought]] in the third episode, when he conjectures that he's already dead and the other two unicorns are his eternal punishment. Note that they don't ''deny'' this... [[spoiler: Ironically, Charlie is the only one who ''hasn't'' been DeadAllAlong.]]

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The only things that ever seems to truly take Pink and Blue by surprise is [[spoiler: Charlie surviving the fourth episode through Starfish's love and the fact that in Part Four, he seems to cross over into the cube's realm without dying, also thanks to the Starfish's aid.]]
* ExactWords: In episode 4, the two other unicorns promise Charlie that if he enters the Cavern of the Red Wind on the moon, it will be the last he ever sees of them. [[spoiler: This is because they plan to [[DetonationMoon blow the moon up,]] and him with it.]]

* {{Flanderization}}: In the first episode, Pink and Blue were... unsettling, but had few if any of their reality warping powers. Their ability to screw with the laws of nature get stronger each episode.

'''Charlie:''' ...What.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Throughout episode three's song, Starfish keeps going offscript to flaunt how much he loves Charlie. [[spoiler:This makes sense, given the fact that he is one of the few characters to not be a part of the HiveMind, and thus is not actually part of the song]].
* ForTheEvulz: Nyx asks why the spinning cubes seem to want to just torment and kill everything. The cube, in his flesh host puppet, simply responds that they find it funny. [[spoiler:Now knowing the nature of Pink and Blue, this really puts their actions in perspective.]]

** "[=YouTube=] Live" ends with [[spoiler:the entire world merging with Website/YouTube and going into maintenance mode where Music/RickAstley comes out of a [[BrickJoke portal again]], to presumably kill Charlie, Pink and Blue.]]
** "Charlie the Unicorn and the Tomb of Horrors" (Often known as "Hot Topic") ends with [[spoiler: Pink and Blue and telling Charlie to not speak to "The Weasel" before Blue immediately saying that he was actually the weasel the whole time. [[CaptainObvious Pink then yells out that they are all naked]], abruptly ending the short.]]
* GoingToSeeTheElephant: The plot of the first episode.
* GoKartingWithBowser: In unicron 2, after Pink and Blue kill the Banana King, they go with Charlie and the Banana King to eat at a Denny's. [[UnexplainedRecovery The Banana King is completely fine.]]

--> '''Charlie''': ... You know what I think? I think I died long ago and you two are my eternal punishment.

* HappinessIsMandatory: Becomes text by episode 5, where the dolphin's song is all about Charlie being wrong for not being happy, and it's all on him to feel different.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Starfish]]

* HiveMind: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale reveals that, assumedly, the population of the ''entire world'' outside of Charlie and the Starfish is being controlled by only two demons, whom use Pink and Blue as their main avatars.]]

* JackassGenie: Pink and Blue promise Charlie that they will [[spoiler: never bother him again if he enters the Cavern of the Red Wind. Cue bomb, so there will be no more Charlie to bother.]]
* KarmaHoudini: For all the crap they put Charlie through, the pink and blue unicorns don't get much comeuppance. A TheBadGuyWins scenario in this case! Episode 4 implies they've [[spoiler:been getting away with this sort of thing even longer than they have been doing it to Charlie, and they've also gotten away with ''killing'' the others when they got bored.]]
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, the power of Charlie's cynicism seals Pink and Blue back to their realm; freeing him from their torment]].
* LessDisturbingInContext: Norwell tries to claim this about the walk-in freezer full of sliced up voles. The context is that they were very hungry and voles are easy to deceive, so not really less disturbing at all.

* LampshadeHanging: In the second and third episodes, Charlie takes note of how each time, the singer explodes. The third episode also has him realize that their adventures are always just [[spoiler:some ploy to steal something of his]].

** The GrandFinale has Nyx repeat the pattern--they head to Magic City: City of Magic on foot (Land), enter Sea City: City of the Sea ([[CaptainObvious Sea]]) and finally are summoned to space by the bugs (Sky).

* LimitedAnimation: Pink and Blue simply bounce between their front and back hooves, as opposed to Charlie, who has a proper walk cycle.
** [[spoiler:That's why, when they walk normally in the Grand Finale, it's a WhamShot.]]
* MadeOfExplodium: Anything that sings, apparently.

* MacGuffinEscortMission: The plot of the second episode.
* MagicEater: The unnamed EldritchAbomination of the GrandFinale is one of these.
* MakeAWish: [[spoiler:The starfish tells Charlie to do this to escape the bomb in episode 4.]]

* MeatPuppet: [[spoiler:Mayor Sluv’s corpse gets used as one by the Magic Siphon. Later, we learn that the Cube Demons do this as a matter of course, and that - thousands of years later - this includes Blue, Pink, and nearly everything Charlie has encountered on his misadventures.]]

* MindScrewdriver: The GrandFinale [[spoiler:reveals that most of said nonsenical scenes are fabrications created by the Chaos Spirits that are deliberately made that way to make Charlie suffer]].

* NoNameGiven: The two unicorns who aren't Charlie. [[FanNickname We just call them]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pink and Blue]].
** [[spoiler: It turns out Steele originally referred to them as "Lolz" (Blue) and "Roffle" (Pink), when writing scripts, but never implemented the names and accepts the names Blue and Pink. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/whoarepinkandblue/comments/4a4npy/possible_clues_in_a_night_of_spatula_madness/ Fathomos, Jason Steele on Reddit, discusses it here.]]]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: The other two unicorns appear to be childish and stupid, but the occasional line of insight [[spoiler: and the fact that all of the episodes are plots to steal things from Charlie]] seem to suggest that they are ''very'' odd [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]] or at least {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}s with magical powers and odd goals.

* OneNationUnderCopyright: Magic City: City of Magic is this, with Sluv Industries as the ruling body,
* [[spoiler: OneSteveLimit]]: [[spoiler: The reason why the chaotic cubes love to torment Charlie so much.]]

** Charlie considers his adventures to be ridiculous, and wishes his the other two unicorns would stop repeating everything.

* OrganTheft: [[spoiler:"Aw, they took my freakin' kidney!"]]

* PreMortemOneLiner: From charlie teh unicron. Pink and Blue drag Charlie to go with them to kill the Banana King for selling candy at their street.
-->'''Banana King:''' Y'all need to learn some economics!\\
'''Pink:''' Well, you need to learn some ''DIE!!''
* PsychopathicManchild: Pink and Blue act very much like a pair of sugar-high kids dragging someone along on a pretend adventure - they speak childishly, often make up monsters and exaggerate fanciful things that are obviously not there, and tend to get distracted along the adventures by playing kids games (like "the floor is lava") and making silly jokes. Only in this case, a great deal of the things they imagine up are hellishly real in some way, much to Charlie's torment - which they are totally callous towards. This extends all the way to the end of the last video [[spoiler: where they attempt to kill Charlie simply because they've gotten bored with the "games" they've been playing with him.]]

* RealityWarper: Pink are Blue may be this. Lamphaded by Charlie in episode 4.

* TheReveal: The last twelve minutes of the finale has three of these. [[spoiler:First, we find out that the whole Nyx and evil spinning demon cube story is set ''10,000'' years before Charlie was even born. Then, we find out that the pink and blue unicorns as well as every single other wacky, singing fantasy creature Charlie has encountered since the first episode are actually dead bodies being used as puppets by the spinning cubes, and that Charlie is just their latest plaything. The final reveal tells us that the spinning cubes are just two of an entire legion of interdimensional "chaos spirits" that, a long time ago, were weaponized by a powerful unicorn sorcerer who's name incidentally was also Charlie. One of them rebelled and killed the sorcerer, and along with its compatriot escaped into the real world and set in motion the events of the series.]]
* RunningGag: Characters singing to Charlie before quickly exploding right after.
* SatelliteCharacter: In the "charlie teh unicron" spinoffs, Charlie himself really doesn't do much but sit back and watch whatever 4channian craziness Pink and Blue are up to.

--> "Charlie! ''Charlie!'' '''''CHARLIE!'''''"

* SelfDeprecation: charlie teh unicron is a self-parody by the creators that makes fun of the original. According to WordOfGod, it's also a TakeThat to fans who email Filmcow with suggestions for future Charlie the Unicorn episodes, "a parody of what Charlie the Unicorn would be like if it was written by random internet people".
* SerialKiller: [[spoiler: It's implied in episode 4 that Red and Blue have killed many people before Charlie out of boredom.]] [[spoiler: In Part Four of the finale, this is confirmed to be very much true, though the true scale of their malicious activities is far more horrific.]]
* SequelEscalation: Each short gets more insane than the last one, it goes like this: The first short involves Charlie, Pink and Blue looking for Candy Mountain, the second short involves them bring an amulet to the Banana King, the third short is about Charlie being taken to the future where he then has to go underwater to finish building a snowman, and the fourth short involves them going to the moon to fight the Millipede Queen to save the Cavern of the Red Wind.

* ShaggyDogStory: The first three episodes end with [[spoiler:the two crazy unicorns robbing Charlie, the entire insane journey having just been an elaborate plot to steal his kidney, TV, and horn, respectively]]. [[spoiler:Good news is, he finds his kidney again in the third episode...]]

** The [[AWildRapperAppears rap breakdown]] in "In the Ocean Blue" is the "[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokérap]]," [[RecycledInSpace with fish!]]

* SpinOff: Kinda? The only real difference between "charlie the unicron" and the main series is that Pink and Blue act more adult and lose the EldritchAbomination feel. Plus Charlie is less of a straight man and more a bystander. Weird things still happen, they just seem more "normal", in the sense that you could believe that's just how the universe works in this world.

'''Starfish:''' '''''I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FOREVER!'''''
** (His face as he says this and [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Patrick]]-like voice really drive it home.)

* TakeThatAudience: Why charlie teh unicron was made.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Episode 4 is the first time in the entire series where Charlie successfully manages to avoid being screwed over by Pink and Blue.
* TimeTravel: Possibly. Notable in that the three unicorns live in a forest, so there is absolutely no visual difference between the "present" and the "future". Their future clothes disappear when they're in the future.

* UnexplainedRecovery: In episode 3 Charlie [[spoiler:loses his horn as it's the last missing piece to the snowman. In the Hot Topic and [=YouTube=] Live shorts (which may or may not take place after episode 3), he has his horn again. The fourth episode shows that he taped his horn back onto himself, and by the fifth, it's completely healed.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Charlie, three times. Not that they are complicated plans. Granted, Charlie seems to know that something bad is going to happen, yet goes with them anyway.

** Compare Blue and Pink's voices in the first segment to their voices in the Hot Topic video. Or the Charlie teh Unicron videos.

* AmbiguousGender: Charlie lampshades this in the second episode: "Guys? Guys? Or girls. I'm not really sure ''what'' you two are." WordOfGod says that their genders are deliberately not specified because [[RuleOfFunny it's funnier that way]].
** [[spoiler:The revelation that they're ageless, shapeless demons from another dimension that have already possessed a whole world's worth of creatures makes their genders even less relevant.]]

-->'''Charlie''': I'll never understand how you do these things.
* TheReveal: The last twelve minutes of the finale has three of these. [[spoiler:First, we find out that the whole Nyx and evil spinning demon cube story is set ''10,000'' years before Charlie was even born. Then, we find out that the pink and blue unicorns as well as every single other wacky, singing fantasy creature Charlie has encountered since the first episode are actually dead bodies being used as puppets for the spinning cubes, and that Charlie is just their latest plaything. The final reveal tells us that the spinning cubes are just two of an entire legion of interdimensional "chaos spirits" that, a long time ago, were weaponized by a powerful unicorn sorcerer who's name incidentally was also Charlie. One of them rebelled and killed the sorcerer, and along with its compatriot escaped into the real world and set in motion the events of the series.]]

* SerialKiller: [[spoiler: It's implied in episode 4 that Red and Blue have killed many people before Charlie out of boredom.]] [[spoiler: In Part Four of the finale, this is confirmed to be very much true. Though, the true scale of their malicious activities is far more horrific.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Charlie the Unicorn:''' ''I think I found a loophole in my security system...'']]

* MindScrew: PlayedForLaughs.

* TheReveal: The fourth part of the finale has two of these. [[spoiler:First, we find out that the whole Nyx and evil spinning demon cube story is set ''10,000'' years before Charlie was even born. At the end, we find out that the pink and blue unicorns as well as every single other wacky, singing fantasy creature Charlie has encountered since the first episode are actually dead bodies being used as puppets for the spinning cubes, and that Charlie is just their latest plaything.]]

** [[spoiler:The reason they tormented Charlie specifically is because an alternative version of him enslaved them and put these chaotic beings into cubes in the first place and worked them to death with no labour laws. So from their point of view, this is payback.]]

** [[spoiler:The Grand Finale features Charlie using his cynicism to exorcise Blue and Pink, sending them back to their realm forever. However, the ending reel shows various locations from the series, now completely devoid of life. This along with the backstory of the two demons give the impression that though Charlie is now free, he’s also completely alone in an utterly dead world that only had any life at all because it was being puppeted. A line from Episode 4 implies there may be other survivors, though the chances of finding one seem incredibly low. This is on top of Charlie having already expressed sadness over Blue and Pink being corpses. At least he still has the ghost of Starfish.]]

* CreepyTwins: Pink and Blue. There's no confirmation as to whether or not they're actually twins, but they certainly have several traits of this trope (almost identical, always in synch with each other, etc.)

** [[spoiler:The Grand Finale features Charlie using his cynicism to exorcise Blue and Pink, sending them back to their realm forever. However, the ending reel shows various locations from the series, now completely devoid of life. This along with the backstory of the two demons give the impression that though Charlie is now free, he’s also completely alone in an utterly dead world that only had any life at all because it was being puppeted. A line from Episode 4 implies there may be other survivors, though the chances of finding one seem incredibly low. This is on top of Charlie having already expressed sadness over Blue and Pink being corpses.]]

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale reveals that, the whole time, the series was set in a post-apocalyptic world. 10,000 years before Charlie's time, two demons were unleashed upon the world and preceded to kill pretty much everyone. Almost every character in the series is simply a meat puppet being controlled by the demons' HiveMind, including Pink and Blue. The only reason they leave a few survivors like Charlie is to torment them.]]