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* BittersweetEnding: Lythop Liberation [[spoiler:ends with Dr. Agness arrested for her crimes and Monkey Wrench getting a job from L.A.W., but the Lythops are all still dead with only one last survivor. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And Shrike and Beebs didn't get paid for the job]].]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Lythop Liberation [[spoiler:ends with Dr. Agness arrested for her crimes and Monkey Wrench getting a job from L.A.W., giving a Monkey Wrench 400K for the bounty and a new job, but the Lythops are all still dead with only one last survivor. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And Shrike and Beebs didn't get paid for the job]].]]
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/@MonkeyWrenchSeries Monkey Wrench]]'' is a web animation released in June 2022 by Joshua Palmer, better known online as Zeurel, following the misadventures of [[HiredGuns cut-rate mercenary]] [[BashBrothers duo Shrike and Beebs]] as they cruise the galaxy in search of decent-paying contracts. Unfortunately for them, there's plenty of heavily-armed psychopaths standing between them and their next big payout, not to mention hints of nefarious happenings going on way above their paygrade.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/@MonkeyWrenchSeries Monkey Wrench]]'' is a web animation released in June 2022 series by Joshua Palmer, better known online as Zeurel, following the misadventures of [[HiredGuns cut-rate mercenary]] [[BashBrothers duo Shrike and Beebs]] as they cruise the galaxy in search of decent-paying contracts. Unfortunately for them, there's plenty of heavily-armed psychopaths standing between them and their next big payout, not to mention hints of nefarious happenings going on way above their paygrade.
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Episode 1, "The Ghost Egg", released in July 2022. Episode 2, "Lythop Liberation", released in April 2023.
Episode 1, "The Ghost Egg", released in July 2022. Episode 2, "Lythop Liberation", released in April 2023.
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A web animation released in June 2022 by Joshua Palmer, better known online as Zeurel, following the misadventures of [[HiredGuns cut-rate mercenary]] [[BashBrothers duo Shrike and Beebs]] as they cruise the galaxy in search of decent-paying contracts. Unfortunately for them, there's plenty of heavily-armed psychopaths standing between them and their next big payout, not to mention hints of nefarious happenings going on way above their paygrade.
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-->'''Shrike:''' Amigo ''that'', pendejo!
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-->'''Shrike:''' Amigo ''that'', pendejo!pendejo!
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* ButterFace: [[spoiler:Queen Potoo has a very beautiful body and a strange-looking head.]]
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* FunnyAnimal: Many of the characters resemble anthropomorphic animals, playing off that classic sci-fi trope of aliens resembling earth species. Examples include Scratch (a cat), Tyneen (a lizard/dinosaur), Nobert (a bird), Kara (a [[SeldomSeenSpecies caracal]]), and [[spoiler:Agness ([[AlluringAnglerfish an anglerfish]])]].
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* FunnyAnimal: Many of the characters resemble anthropomorphic animals, playing off that classic sci-fi trope of aliens resembling earth species. Examples include Scratch (a cat), Tyneen (a lizard/dinosaur), Nobert (a bird), Kara (a [[SeldomSeenSpecies caracal]]), and [[spoiler:Agness ([[AlluringAnglerfish an anglerfish]])]].(an anglerfish)]].
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** Less obvious, but WordOfGod says Shrike was based on a couple species of deep sea squid.
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** According to Palmer's official tumblr blog for the show, they're worth "more than USD", usually come in flat squares of copper-to-gold colour, and can be compressed into 100,000-pixel cubes known as "Voxels".
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* AngstWhatAngst: Shrike is more concerned about a scratched paint job than the fact that [[spoiler: he inadvertantly led an entire race of critters that trusted him into extinction]].
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** Kara's comscreen includes Nobert's last name, while the contract he gives Monkey Wrench doesn't. [[spoiler:This is because her contract issuer wasn't Nobert, but Queen Potoo who's looking for her missing son Nobert]]
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** Kara's comscreen includes Nobert's last name, while the contract he gives Monkey Wrench doesn't. [[spoiler:This is because her contract issuer wasn't Nobert, but his mother Queen Potoo who's looking for her missing son Nobert]]Potoo]].
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** Kara's comscreen includes Nobert's last name, while the contract he gives Monkey Wrench doesn't. [[spoiler: Something to hide, Nobert?]]
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** Kara's comscreen includes Nobert's last name, while the contract he gives Monkey Wrench doesn't. [[spoiler: Something to hide, Nobert?]][[spoiler:This is because her contract issuer wasn't Nobert, but Queen Potoo who's looking for her missing son Nobert]]
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* FunnyAnimal: Many of the characters resemble anthropomorphic animals, playing off that classic sci-fi trope of aliens resembling earth species. Examples include Scratch (a cat), Tyneen (a lizard/dinosaur), Nobert (a bird), Kara (a [[SeldomSeenSpecies caracal]]), and [[spoiler:Agness ([[AlluringAnglerfish a anglerfish]])]].
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* FunnyAnimal: Many of the characters resemble anthropomorphic animals, playing off that classic sci-fi trope of aliens resembling earth species. Examples include Scratch (a cat), Tyneen (a lizard/dinosaur), Nobert (a bird), Kara (a [[SeldomSeenSpecies caracal]]), and [[spoiler:Agness ([[AlluringAnglerfish a an anglerfish]])]].
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* FunnyAnimal: Many of the characters resemble anthropomorphic animals, playing off that classic sci-fi trope of aliens resembling earth species. Examples include Scratch (a cat), Tyneen (a lizard/dinosaur), Nobert (a bird), and Kara (a [[SeldomSeenSpecies caracal]]).
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* FunnyAnimal: Many of the characters resemble anthropomorphic animals, playing off that classic sci-fi trope of aliens resembling earth species. Examples include Scratch (a cat), Tyneen (a lizard/dinosaur), Nobert (a bird), and Kara (a [[SeldomSeenSpecies caracal]]).caracal]]), and [[spoiler:Agness ([[AlluringAnglerfish a anglerfish]])]].
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* LikeCannotCutLike: Lythop crystals are sharp enough to cut through practically anything, but when two crystals clash, they produce an energy field which stops them from cutting each other.
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* BaitAndSwitch: ProfessionalKiller Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, another bird alien with a massive bounty, almost all signs point to Nobert's impending demise... but Kara's [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to his parents]].
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** ProfessionalKiller Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, another bird alien with a massive bounty, almost all signs point to Nobert's impending demise... but Kara's [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to hisparents]].parents]].
** In the second "Scratch's Emporium" ad--this one for a stuffed Beebs plush--Beebs sees his plush for the first time. He looks supremely disapproving...and then reveals it's because Scratch was supposed to ''let him know'' when the plushies were coming in!
** ProfessionalKiller Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, another bird alien with a massive bounty, almost all signs point to Nobert's impending demise... but Kara's [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to his
** In the second "Scratch's Emporium" ad--this one for a stuffed Beebs plush--Beebs sees his plush for the first time. He looks supremely disapproving...and then reveals it's because Scratch was supposed to ''let him know'' when the plushies were coming in!
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* BaitAndSwitch: Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, another bird alien with a massive bounty, almost all signs point to Nobert's impending demise... but Kara's [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to his parents]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: ProfessionalKiller Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, another bird alien with a massive bounty, almost all signs point to Nobert's impending demise... but Kara's [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to his parents]].
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** Beebs feels that something's not quite right when the planet that's about to explode in 4 hours doesn't even show signs of tectonic activity, or that Agness wanted to save ''only'' the Lythops from such a biodiverse planet. [[spoiler:Sure enough, the planet isn't doomed and Agness has far darker plans for the Lythops]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, a bird alien with a massive bounty on him, almost all signs point to her about to assassinate him... but her [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to his parents]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, a another bird alien with a massive bounty on him, bounty, almost all signs point to her about to assassinate him... Nobert's impending demise... but her Kara's [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to his parents]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: Kara is introduced assassinating a prominent birdlike alien that had a bounty put on them. When she finally manages to capture Nobert, a bird alien with a massive bounty on him, almost all signs point to her about to assassinate him... but her [[spoiler:actual goal was to return him to his parents]].
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* ListOfTransgressions: The authorities read off a list of the crimes that [[spoiler:Dr. Agness]] committed at the end of "Lythop Liberation".
-->'''Sixty-Two:''' Illegal weapons production, arms trading, impersonating a L.A.W. Science official... ''genocide?!'' Boy! These are some hefty charges.
-->'''Sixty-Two:''' Illegal weapons production, arms trading, impersonating a L.A.W. Science official... ''genocide?!'' Boy! These are some hefty charges.
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* AngstWhatAngst: Shrike is more concerned about a scratched paint job than the fact that [[spoiler: he inadvertantly led an entire race of critters that trusted him into extinction]].
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* BilingualBonus: Shrike sprinkles Spanish into his lines, adding a few funny or sarcastic moments here and there.
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* SkewedPriorities: Before "Lythop Liberation", Beebz sent Shrike to buy a discounted artificial gravity generator for their ship so they can finally stop duct taping themselves to the bed whenever they want to sleep. Instead, Shrike spent the money on a fancy new paintjob. Beebz isn't happy about this. [[spoiler:Later on, Shrike is more upset that Dr. Agness ruined the Bucket's paintjob than with the fact that she made him an unwitting accomplice to genocide.]]
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The crystalline growths that some lythops possess are sharp enough to cut through just about anything, even the nearly indestructible stony hides of the lythops themselves. [[spoiler:Dr. Agness has killed countless lythops to forge a sword out of these crystals.]]
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* RockMonster: The lythops are a species of tiny little rock people.
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* HomeworldEvacuation: In "Lythop Liberation", Monkey Wrench is hired by a kindly scientist to help evacuate the endangered lythops from their home planet, which will soon implode. [[spoiler:Except the scientist is lying. The planet is in no danger, and her intentions for the lythops are far from benevolent.]]
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* NoodleIncident: According to Shrike, the reason humans (or "Terrans") are so reviled across the universe is due to a "galactic-wide cataclysm" they caused--when and what this cataclysm was isn't elaborated on.
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* {{Retool}}: Shrike and Beebs were characters that Zeurel frequently used in Website/DeviantArt's [[OriginalCharacterTournament Original Character Tournaments]], which followed their own canon. ''Monkey Wrench'' does away with the previous stories and much of the cast while reinterpreting the duo, particularly Shrike.
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* BittersweetEnding: Lythop Liberation [[spoiler:ends with Dr. Agness arrested for her crimes and Monkey Wrench getting a job from L.A.W., but the Lythops are all still dead with only one last survivor. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And Shrike and Beebs didn't get paid for the job]].]]
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Not often you hear caracals mentioned in animation—I just thought it stood out after the more mundane cats and lizards etc.
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* FasterThanLightTravel: Ships can achieve FTL by jumping into "blue space". It's basically hyperspace, but it leaves a blue residue smeared all over the ship when you come out.
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* ISurrenderSuckers: Scratch accosts the Monkey Wrench crew while they're traveling through blue space, threatening to blow them to scrap unless they hand over Nobert. Shrike seemingly relents and asks Scratch to send him the coordinates of his ship so he can send Nobert over. When Scratch obliges, Shrike promptly trains a cannon on that spot and opens fire, knocking Scratch out of blue space.
