History WebAnimation / RatboyGenius

[[http://www.youtube.com/user/ratboygenius Ratboy Genius]] is a Website/YouTube channel full of videos that are [[DerangedAnimation better seen for yourself than described.]] There are several ongoing series on the channel that are interconnected. The first and foremost is ''Ratboy's Kingdom'', which follows the adventures of titular character Ratboy Genius and his exploits throughout his kingdom.

* KnightOfCeberus: Big Fish Boss quickly becomes this. For comparison, [[EarthShatteringKaboom he orders his army to destroy an entire planet]] during his very introduction. Even Little King John was nowhere near that level of vileness.

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: In Galactic Superheroes 3, everybody pronounces "Galaxy" as "Galic-SEA." [[IncrediblyLamePun considering this episode involves a giant fish out to take over the galaxy, this can't be coincidence.]]
* ActionFigureSpeech: Used in the earlier episodes, for the hand-drawn characters before the 3D models with moving mouths were used.
* AnotherDimension: In the later series, different dimensions come into play.
* AuthorTract: One episode is all about how awesome Abraham Lincoln was (enough that there's an entire course dedicated to him at Kingdom University). Another episode describes Lincoln's assassination in somewhat disturbing detail.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In ''Happyman on the Red Planet and George'', none of the characters have any trouble breathing in space.
* BigBad: Big Fish Boss
* BigFun: Though he seems like an antagonist at first, the Caveman is revealed to actually be a fun, friendly guy who just wants to play ball! (With stones)
* CanonWelding:
** In Little King John: THE FLOOD 6, [[spoiler: Sneezy is revealed to be from the future and to have been one of the many friends of the Galactic Superheroes.]]
** In Starship Genius 5, [[spoiler:it's revealed that the world Little King John exists in is an entire dimension created from Ratboy Genius' dreams, linked to that of the Galactic Superheroes through the flooding waters, and that the mysterious structure he found is the Starship Genius of that dimension.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Knock knock! It's me! The Ratboy Genius!"
** "[=WHEeEeEeEeEeEeE=]! I'm the Ratboy Genius! [=WHEeEeEeEeEeEeE!=]"
** "Yay for me, the Ratboy Genius!" Usually followed by Summer Solstice Baby chiming in with "Yay for Baby!"
* CharacterNameAlias:[[spoiler: Sneezy is Dodger's cover name.]]

* CoolBoat: Ratboy's yacht, the boat on the Ratboy Canal, and the red boat in the underground tunnel.
* CoolCar: Ratboy's little red buggy and Happyman's car.
** Also the rollercoasters/minecarts.
* CoolShades: Ratboy occasionally dons these in later episodes.
* CreepyCentipedes: Little King John [[VillainSong sings about]] turning little black worms into centipedes.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:George]].

** ''Happyman on the Red Planet and George'' is also pretty dark, especially once the connection between George, Fred and [[spoiler: Sue]] is explored.

* DarkReprise: The song "Meet the Caveman" includes segments of "Potato Knishes" redone in a minor resolution.
** The pilot episode of ''Ratboy Genius Dreams Minecraft'' features the main theme in minor and at a slower tempo.

* {{Egopolis}}: The Ratboy Genius lives in The Ratboy Kingdom, near Lake Genius and the Ratboy Canal.
* EvilCounterpart: Little King John to the Ratboy Genius. He's even a PaletteSwap of him with a crown, and kidnaps Little Summer Solstice Baby to try and make her fall in love with him. Also, unlike Ratboy, he is way more OffModel then he is.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Quite a few characters fall into this, including the titular character. Leaping Friend is Ratboy Genius' friend who's always leaping, Very Tall Friend is his friend that's very tall, and Mr. Big Arms has big arms.
* ForeShadowing: In the fourth episode of ''The Flood'', [[spoiler:Sneezy is able to understand the Hoo Hoos. This is because [[ObviousInHindsight he once knew the Galactic Superheroes]] ]].

* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler: George is revealed to be this before ending up on the Red Planet.]] He's the navigator for the Galactic Superheroes' space ship and he's also the muscle of the group, doing both with great pleasure.
* GrumpyOldMan: Old Fingerhead
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''The Flood'', Little King John becomes more altruistic, even rescuing other survivors and building a new island for them to inhabit.

* ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace: One video has Ratboy go to Mars and talk about how he sees faces and other objects in the formations. This convinces him that there used to be life on Mars.
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Fred]].
* KnightOfCerebus: Ratboy's life was all beach parties and operas until Little King John came along. Even if it is AllJustADream.
** Big Fish Boss in ''Starship Genius'' is an even better example. For comparison, [[EarthShatteringKaboom he orders his army to destroy an entire planet]] during his very introduction. Even Little King John was nowhere near that level of vileness.
* LargeHam: Little King John tends to be this a lot.
** The Big Fish Boss of Galactic Superheroes. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs A giant rainbow strobe light fish in space with a voice that sounds like it came out of the most trippy of acid dreams.]]

* MilkingTheGiantCow: Little King John does this whenever he sings. [[WordOfGod He flows with the music.]]
* MookHorrorShow: It's implied that this is what the Fish Eater is doing when he chows down on the Fish Legions in the beginning of Galactic Superheroes 3
* MoralityPet: In ''The Flood'', Little King John befriends Sneezy, which marks the beginning of his kinder demeanor.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: George, back when he was a Galactic Superhero, had four arms. [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror They were destroyed during the crash that landed him and his siblings on the Red Planet.]] ]]
* NiceGuy: Happyman.
* NonIndicativeName: A variation with the Caveman in ''The Flood'': he's a humanoid creature who lives in a cave, although other than that he doesn't seem to have anything to do with cavemen in a traditional sense.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Green Monster
* OffModel: The [[StylisticSuck intentionally bad and derpy faces]] for every character's 3D variant can be considered this, but Little King John is truly this. His body streches out, turns around faster then it should, and we see in the Dreams Minecraft series finale can even stretch out to Ratboy [[spoiler:and the escaped Summer Solstice Baby while they're flying]] so far he is practically 5 times larger then them in the perspective. You can even see his head clearly [[spoiler:far into the fly-away from the stop, and it's not until they reach the real world castle, which they were flying to, that you can't see him.]]
* OminousPipeOrgan: The creator made a music video of Little King John playing an original composition, simply titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzRKyaniuAo Fugue in D Minor]], on a pipe organ decorated with lightning bolts. As if this wasn't enough, while John plays, he constantly does his signature [[BodyHorror neck-stretching]], even moving his head disturbingly close to the camera at one point.
* OneSteveLimit: When Happyman discovers that a man named Bob ended up on the same planet earlier in the day, he immediately knows it's his friend Bob, and not anyone else by that name.
* PerpetualSmiler: Happyman is constantly smiling, even when he finds out Little King John has taken over his factory.
* PsychopathicManchild: Little King John seems unable to comprehend anyone's feelings beyond his own, exemplified in his immature selfishness when taking over Happyman's factory as well as his denial that Summer Solstice Baby dislikes him despite her repeated insults. Since the start of ''The Flood'', he's been getting better in this regard. [[spoiler:He was even willing to hear out Ratboy Genius despite having found out the truth of the flood.]]
* PortalDoor: Little King John discovers one of these, [[spoiler: and visits a nearby location. He later learns how to use it, and travels to another planet. ]]
* PunchClockVillain: Clyde works for Little King John, but when he's not at the castle he willingly helps Ratboy on his quest.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Bob.
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Sneezy/Dodger claimed he simply wanted to help the villainous Little King John build his new kingdom, but he's revealed to actually be working for Fred.]]

* SiblingRivalry: Fred and George
* SiblingTeam: Fred, George, and Sue, back when they were the Galactic Superheroes.
* StalkerShrine: In ''The Flood'', the inside of Little King John's yacht is decorated with pictures of Summer Solstice Baby.

* TakeYourTime: Ratboy Genius's girlfriend had been kidnapped, yet he spends a day riding roller coasters.
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:George]].
* TheAllegedSteed: Little King John rides on Sneezy's back while they take a tour through his new kingdom. [[spoiler:Sneezy isn't particularly happy about this.]]

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:George]].
* TwoFaced: [[spoiler: Old Fingerhead and Young Mouthbottom. They share a body, but have faces on the front and back of their head.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The Fish Eater in Galactic Superheroes. [[BigEater His gluttonous]] [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fish feeding frenzy]] enrages Big Fish Boss, causing him to kick his plots for world domination into high gear after having his Fish Legions [[BodyHorror rip the Fish Eater to pieces.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Little King John has one at the end of Episode 5.
* VillainEpisode: ''The Flood'' is about Little King John trying to find a new land to rebuild his kingdom after a flood destroys his home. [[spoiler:[[WhamShot And Ratboy Genius' hand stretches.]]]]
* VillainSong: Little King John sings two in ''RBG Dreams Minecraft'':
** After kidnapping [[DamselInDistress Summer]], he sings the creepy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFfLCuHSZ-U Potato Knishes]] song, although it's more about the things he makes in his factory than about how evil he is.
** However, he later got [[https://youtu.be/efjjmpOVzRg?t=1m1s another one]] in the first Interlude, largely about stealing Happyman's factory for himself.
* WhamShot: The very end of the ''The Flood'' Part 3: [[spoiler:Ratboy Genius' hand stretches like Little King John's.]]
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Sets off the conflict in Galactic Superheroes 3. After Fish Eater snacks on a school of fish, the survivors report the incident to Big Fish Boss, Who's sent into a rage, saying that he needs every last fish for his master plan.

* Two-Faced: [[spoiler: Old Fingerhead and Young Mouthbottom. They share a body, but have faces on the front and back of their head.]]

** ''Happyman on the Red Planet and George'' is also pretty dark, especially once the connection between George, Frank and [[spoiler: sue]] is explored.

* VillainSong: Little King John's Potato Knishes song, although it's more about the things he makes in his factory than about how evil he is.
** However, he later got a little bit better one in the Intermission, largely about stealing Happyman's factory for himself.

* PsychopathicManchild: Little King John seems unable to comprehend anyone's feelings beyond his own, exemplified in his immature selfishness when taking over Happyman's factory as well as his denial that Summer Solstice Baby dislikes him despite her repeated insults.

* MediumBlending: The series started out with hand-drawn static images on photographs. Eventually, Ratboy Genius turned into a 3D model, but it took a while for the others to catch up.

* BigFun: Though he seems like an antagonist at first, the Caveman is revealed to actually be a fun, friendly guy who just wants to play ball!

* SyntheticVoiceActor: Everybody. All the time. Even the narrator. Though, seeing as the speech is intended to be text to speech, it would be hard to make the exclamations at the end audible, since they can't really replicate easily.

* Seers: The Professor seemed to know exactly when and how Ratboy would arrive to rescue Summer Solstice Baby.

* Seer: The Professor seemed to know exactly when and how Ratboy would arrive to rescue Summer Solstice Baby.

* NonMalicousMonster: Green Monster

* Non-MalicousMonster: Green Monster

* NiceGuy: Happyman.

* SiblingTeam: Fred, George, and Sue back when they were the Galactic Superheroes.

** In Starship Genius 5, [[spoiler:it's revealed that the world Little King John exists in is the same world from Ratboy Genius' dreams and is a different dimension linked to that of the Galactic Superheroes through the flooding waters, and that the mysterious structure he found is the Starship Genius of that dimension.]]

* CanonWelding: In Little King John: THE FLOOD 6, [[spoiler: Sneezy is revealed to be from the future and to have been one of the many friends of the Galactic Superheroes.]]

* AuthorTract: One episode is all about how awesome Abraham Lincoln was (enough that there's an entire course dedicated to him at Kingdom University.)

* Foreshadowing: In the fourth episode of ''The Flood'', [[spoiler:Sneezy is able to understand the Hoo Hoos. This is because [[ObviousInHindsight he once knew the Galactic Superheroes]] ]].