History WebVideo / AMVHell

** Quite possibly the ultimate example: in ''5'', we get a clip of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie Unicron eating a planet]] set to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aXujOsWJkY Parry Gripp's "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom"]].

* OldShame: Zarxrax now considers ''0'' and ''Divided By 0'' to be this, [[https://www.amvhell.com/?download as he no longer provides download links for either video on the website]]:
--> ''"I will no longer be providing links to these. As I have gotten older, I have come to realize that some of the content in these two videos was truly reprehensible, and I don't want to contribute to spreading that any further. I would also like to ask that these not be played at conventions or other public events. Thank you for understanding."''

In 2006, ''AMV Hell Championship Edition'' was produced by multiple creators via a weekly contest; contestants were given specified songs and told to make the funniest video they could, then the winning entries became a compilation. ''[[ColonCancer AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell 4: The Last One]]'' featured over 250 videos from numerous creators and ran for an hour and a half. After July 2009, ''AMV Hell'' became a host for curated submissions by many other creators, rather than works by the original ''AMV Hell'' team. These included ''AMV Hell 5: Dedicated to Dio'' (dedicated both to Music/RonnieJamesDio as well as an AMV creator whose works had graced previous ''AMV Hells''), ''AMV Hell 6: The End Of The Universe'', ''AMV Hell 6.66: This is (Not) The End'', and ''AMV Hell 7: Attack on 10 Year Anniversary''. The ''AMV Minis'' had a "first season" containing submissions 5-10 minutes long, a "second season" capped at 7 seconds, a "third season" that challenged creators to stick with a certain theme (for instance, creating videos based around mondegreens) with winning entries compiled into a "Final Destination" episode, and an ''AMV Minis Challenge''.

* OnceAnEpisode: Each of the mainline AMV Hells start with a clip featuring GagBoobs, set to some kind of hard rock/metal.

* ''AMV Hell Divided By 0'' (stylized ''AMV Hell /0'': By SSGWNBTD and released in 2008, it was in the same style as ''AMV Hell 0'' but used more fetishistic hentai.

!! The AMV Hell series, including the AMV Hell Minis entries, contain the following tropes:

** The third season of ''AMV Minis'' had challenges based around HeavyMetal and music that TastesLikeDiabetes. In the latter case, some entries were genuine SugarBowl, while others were SugarApocalypse.

* PantyShot:
** ''4'' has a montage of this, which comes entirely from ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'', set to the audio clip of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin out-farting Michael Moore]].
** One clip in ''3'' did this, except nobody noticed because the rest of the clip involved a guy who gets boobs (and something else) in his face.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The second season of AMV Minis featured episodes comprised entirely of WesternAnimation (inspired by [[RealLife the earthquake/tsunami in Japan]]) and live-action clips. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4T0oOArLVc The latter]] can be jarring, but still finds itself well within the AMV Hell spirit.

** Each entry from ''3'' onward also has an opening quote (initially inspired by ''Film/KillBill'', but has since become a RunningGag in its own right).

* OldShame: Zarxrax now considers AMV Hell 0 and AMV Hell Divided By 0 to be this, [[https://www.amvhell.com/?download as he no longer provides download links for either on the website]]:

* OldShame: Zarxax now considers AMV Hell 0 and AMV Hell Divided By 0 to be this, [https://www.amvhell.com/?download no longer providing download links for either on the website]:

In 2006, ''AMV Hell Championship Edition'' was produced by multiple creators via a weekly contest; contestants were given specified songs and told to make the funniest video they could, then the winning entries became a compilation. ''[[ColonCancer AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell 4: The Last One]]'' featured over 250 videos from numerous creators and ran for an hour and a half. After July 2009, ''AMV Hell'' became a host for curated submissions by many other creators, rather than works by the original ''AMV Hell'' team. These included ''AMV Hell 5: Dedicated to Dio'' (dedicated both to Music/RonnieJamesDio as well as an AMV creator whose works had graced previous ''AMV Hells''), ''AMV Hell 6: The End Of The Universe'', ''AMV Hell 6.66: This is (Not) The End'', and ''AMV Hell 7: Attack on 10 Year Anniversary''. The ''AMV Minis'' had a "first season" containing submissions 5-10 minutes long, a "second season" capped at 7 seconds, a "third season" that challenged creators to stick with a certain theme (for instance, creating videos based around {{Mondegreen}}s) with winning entries compiled into a "Final Destination" episode, and an ''AMV Minis Challenge''.

%%* KickTheDog.

%%* KickTheDog
%%* {{Mondegreen}}: The third episode of AMV Minis' third season is dedicated to these.

%%* AscendedMeme: Creator/MediaBlasters has used signs that only say "[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Gentlemen, behold! CORN!!]]" to advertise ''Boku no Sexual Harassment'' at conventions.

* BookEnds: ''0'' starts and ends with the above-mentioned "Corn" scenes.

* BRollRebus: A lot of humor in the series comes from visually representing metaphorical lyrics in a literal sense, like the sketch in AMV Hell 5 with a Raichu synced to the lyric "[[Music/SaraBareilles I'm not gonna write you a love song]]".

%%* VisualPun: The series loves to sprinkle these about.

%%* BrickJoke: One contributor used Creator/MontyPython's "Argument" sketch in one of the AMV Minis.
%%** ''AMV Hell 6.66'' has [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendou]] planning to bring the end of the universe by building [[Creator/LewisBlack a Starbucks across from another Starbucks]].
%%* BRollRebus: A lot of humor in the series comes from visually representing metaphorical lyrics in a literal sense.

*** AMV Minis' WesternAnimation special had three such jokes in ''one clip''; after the third, the server crashes, [[LampshadeHanging stating that]] "the [[Series/TheOC Dear]] [[Memes/SaturdayNightLive Sister]] quota for this video has been exceeded".

''[[https://www.amvhell.com AMV Hell]]'' was a collection of works and a website for [[FanVid Anime Music Videos]] ([=AMVs=]) which parody whatever anime[=/=]songs[=/=]sound clips are used within the individual clip. The [=AMVs=] usually do this in one of two ways: a fairly normal (often pop) song with metaphorical lyrics set to a clip that suggests a more literal interpretation of the lyrics (often creating extreme LyricalDissonance), or a song[=/=]sound clip that is already weird[=/=]funny[=/=]obscene set to a corresponding weird[=/=]funny[=/=]obscene anime. The clips are rapid-fire and use flipping channels on television as a framing device. Originally the videos were created by Zarxrax and SSGWNBTD before ''AMV Hell'' became a curator of content created and contributed by other creators.

* ''AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture'': Released in September 2005 and roughly an hour long, by creators Zarxrax and SSGWNBTD plus dozens of contributors.

In 2006,''AMV Hell Championship Edition'' was produced by multiple creators via a weekly contest; contestants were given specified songs and told to make the funniest video they could, then the winning entries became a compilation. ''[[ColonCancer AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell 4: The Last One]]'' featured over 250 videos from numerous creators and ran for an hour and a half. After July 2009, ''AMV Hell'' became a host for curated submissions by many other creators, rather than works by the original ''AMV Hell'' team. These included ''AMV Hell 5: Dedicated to Dio'' (dedicated both to Music/RonnieJamesDio as well as an AMV creator whose works had graced previous ''AMV Hells''), ''AMV Hell 6: The End Of The Universe'', ''AMV Hell 6.66: [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion This is (Not) The End]]'', and ''AMV Hell 7: Attack on 10 Year Anniversary''. The ''AMV Minis'' had a "first season" containing submissions 5-10 minutes long, a "second season" capped at 7 seconds, a "third season" that challenged creators to stick with a certain theme (for instance, creating videos based around {{Mondegreen}}s) with winning entries compiled into a "Final Destination" episode, and an ''AMV Minis Challenge''.

* ActorAllusion: As a nod to the dub cast of ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', one clip in ''AMV Hell 5'' features [[Creator/LiamNeeson Ponyo's father]] quoting the BadassBoast from ''Film/{{Taken}}''.

* TheAristocrats: This appears in ''Divided By 0'', narrated by [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Nyamo]].
* AscendedMeme: Creator/MediaBlasters has used signs that only say "[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Gentlemen, behold! CORN!!]]" to advertise ''Boku no Sexual Harassment'' at conventions.
* AxCrazy: ''Divided By 0'' does this one literally.

* BlackComedyRape: "[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Gentlemen, behold! CORN!]]" and its sequel "Gentlemen! I bring you...MORE CORN!"

* BrainBleach: ''Divided by 0'''s closing credits do their best to ruin sex forever. BreakingTheFourthWall can be scary indeed.
* BrickJoke: One contributor used Creator/MontyPython's "Argument" sketch in one of the AMV Minis.
** ''AMV Hell 6.66'' has [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendou]] planning to bring the end of the universe by building [[Creator/LewisBlack a Starbucks across from another Starbucks]].
* BRollRebus: A lot of humor in the series comes from visually representing metaphorical lyrics in a literal sense.
* CensoredForComedy: The 18th episode of AMV Minis' third season has this as its theme.

* CoveredInGunge: The series has a little of this all over, but it mainly concentrated it into ''0'' and ''Divided By 0''.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The series averts this -- ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' and ''Manga/BarefootGen'', amongst other anime considered "untouchable", are mocked just to prove that they could do it.
* FanDisservice and FanService: ''0'' and ''Divided by 0'' are made largely from {{Hentai}}.
* FanVid

* GallowsHumor: ''Divided By 0'' does this one literally.
* GirlWatching

* GrandTheftAutoEffect: Particularly memorable clips tend to be referenced in videos of the song that have nothing to do with the clip.

* IntercourseWithYou
* {{Jerkass}}: A large portion of the site members count as this, if their chatbox personas provide reliable evidence.
* KickTheDog
* {{Mondegreen}}: The third episode of AMV Minis' third season is dedicated to these.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The "Previously" segment at the beginning of ''4'' counts.
** And [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Tomo, Kagura and Osaka]] combining their intellects... to the sound "[[CombiningMecha Destiny Combining]], [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]]! [[CatchPhrase Just who the hell do you think we are]]!?!?!"
** "[[Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}} Koyaanis]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYs9IP7aWY qatsi...]]"
* MushroomSamba: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRTjtpkLGoA I'M ON SHROOMS!]]

* RealSongThemeTune: Well, kinda. ''3'' featured an original bit of animation set to [[Music/{{ACDC}} AC/DC's]] "Highway to Hell", and ''5'' (in keeping with its dedication to Ronnie James Dio) had Music/TenaciousD's "Dio" set to ''Manga/KOn'' and ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''.

* TakeThatAudience[=/=]TakeThatCritics: The frequent appearance of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' in AMV Minis' third season earned a great deal of negative feedback, partly due to the argument that a Western-produced cartoon didn't belong in an anime compilation. In the 19th episode of that season, [=OutrageousChaz=] assembled a video that mocked the naysayers; voting for that episode saw that specific clip tie for the first place spot.
* VisualPun: The series loves to sprinkle these about.

'''[[center:THE WORK, WHICH [[Anime/CowboyBebop BECOMES]]]]'''
'''[[center:[[TropeMaker A NEW GENRE ITSELF]],]]'''
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'''''[[center:[[http://www.amvhell.com AMV HELL]]]]'''''

'''''AMV Hell''''' is(/was) one of the premiere [[FanVid Anime Music Video]] movements on the Internet. Each individual entry in the series uses short AMV clips to parody whatever anime[=/=]songs[=/=]sound clips are used within the individual clip, usually done in one of two ways: a fairly normal (often pop) song with metaphorical lyrics set to a clip that suggests a more literal interpretation of the lyrics (often creating extreme LyricalDissonance), or a song[=/=]sound clip that is already weird[=/=]funny[=/=]obscene set to a corresponding weird[=/=]funny[=/=]obscene anime. The rapid-fire element of the clips--as well as the use of flipping channels on television as a framing device--provoked comparisons to ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', though ''AMV Hell'' existed well before that show.

In May 2004, a handful of AMV makers released the original ''AMV Hell''. It was little more than a fun little experiment, but the idea caught on, much to their surprise. The creators simultaneously released ''AMV Hell 2: Son Of AMV Hell'', a video filled with less family-friendly content, so the first could be shown at conventions without fear of inappropriate content. (It was. Many times.) The establishment of ''AMV Hell'' as a serious franchise came with ''AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture'' in September 2005; roughly an hour long, this entry featured dozens of contributors and had no end of oddball (and often downright hilarious) shorts. The jump from short five-minute humorous snippets to an epic like that made a lot of people stand up and take notice.

Simultaneously released with ''AMV Hell 3'' was ''AMV Hell 0'', which the creators described as "the more irreverant ''[sic]'' side of AMV Hell. And by irreverent, we mean it's one of the most offensive, disgusting, pornographic, vile, worthless pieces of garbage ever conceived." Similar in concept to ''AMV Hell 2'', the ''0'' entry consisted of a series of clips with overt sexual[=/=]violent[=/=]scatological content unsuitable for public consumption (AMV Hells 1, 3, 4, and 5 were produced with convention theater showings in mind, and their content is censored to reflect this). ''AMV Hell 0'' thus has a high {{Squick}} factor and features an adult content warning before any of the nastiness begins.

June 2006 saw the release of ''AMV Hell: [[Franchise/StreetFighter Championship Edition]]'', a contest held by the ''AMV Hell'' creators in which contestants were given specified songs and told to make the funniest video they could. The top 55 videos were turned into the ''Championship Edition'' compilation. And then came the big one in September 2007: ''[[ColonCancer AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture II: AMV Hell 4: The Last One]]'', which featured over two hundred and fifty videos and ran for an hour and a half. After such an epic, the ''AMV Hell'' team swore they'd never do it again, as the effort on ''4'' almost killed them--but they didn't stick to that (of course). In September 2008, the team released ''AMV Hell Divided By 0'', which (in a case of RefugeInAudacity) deliberately set out to push the extremes of both X-ratings and poor taste. Where ''0'' was largely comprised of conventional hentai, ''Divided By 0'' jumped further still by focusing mainly on openly fetishistic content. Like its predecessor, ''Divided by 0'' has a high Squick factor and an adult content warning.

The series laid low for a few months until one of its original creators, Zarxrax, introduced [[http://amvhell.com/index.php?pageid=amvminisdownload "AMV Minis"]] in July 2009. In an attempt to maintain and provide an outlet for continued interest in the AMV Hell brand while lessening the workload of its management, Zarxrax designed the "AMV Minis" entries as a series of shorter videos released more frequently instead of feature-length events. These Minis are comparable in scale to the original AMV Hell, but are comprised entirely of submissions from other editors and do not have clips created by Zarxrax himself. The "first season" of Minis runs to thirteen episodes: eleven regular editions and two special editions--one focusing exclusively on Manga/AzumangaDaioh (a popular subject for clips and skits throughout the whole franchise), and the other a collection of "Bad Stuff" (think of it as the Minis' own ''0''). The second season launched in April 2011; the first episode of the new season responded to viewer feedback that criticized the proliferation of dialogue-based skits and skits that felt dragged out[=/=]overlong in earlier Hells and Minis by limiting submissions to a maximum of seven seconds and requiring their accompanying audio to be music or song, as well as banning skits based on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. This immediately provoked a rash of complaints moaning about a bewildering pace and a nostalgic fondness for ''Family Guy'', illustrating [[UnpleasableFanbase the unpleasable nature of the series' fans]].

While the first season of AMV Minis ran its course, the AMV Hell team developed its next full feature--''AMV Hell 5: Dedicated to Dio'', dedicated both to Ronnie James Dio as well as an AMV creator whose works had graced previous AMV Hells--alongside it. Co-creator SSGWNBTD began accepting submissions for ''5'' in September 2009; it premiered (partially) at Otakon in July 2010 (it lacked only an opening and a closing) and later premiered in full at Anime Weekend Atlanta in September 2010.

The team later announced ''two'' separate projects: ''AMV Hell 6: Franchise/FinalFantasy Hell'' and ''AMV Hell 6: The End Of The Universe''. The former was planned to have only clips either taken from or referencing parts of the ''Final Fantasy'' franchise, but this entry never came to fruition. The latter was initially planned to touch on the 2012 End of the World theory, had its rough-cut premiere at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012, and was slated for release on [[MeaningfulReleaseDate the 21st of December 2012]], but SSGWNBTD was unable to further tweak it. On the 20th of December, Zarxrax [[http://www.amvhell.com/showthread.php?26308-AMV-Hell-6-rough-cut-and-now-taking-more-entries announced]] that SSGWNBTD was "fired" from the project, released the rough cut via [=BitTorrent=], and re-opened submissions for one more month. The team finally released ''AMV Hell 6.66: [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion This is (Not) The End]]'' in April 2013, though in this state, only a third of the entry's original rough cut content remained.

After the release of ''6.66'', the third (and ultimately final) season of the Minis began. Each entry in this season focused on challenging creators to stick with a certain theme (for instance, creating videos based around {{Mondegreen}}s); after each entry was released, viewers could vote for their favorite video from said entry. The winners of each individual entry were compiled into the season's final episode (''[[Videogame/SuperSmashBros Final Destination]]'') and viewers were given the chance to vote on the best individual video of the season.

The seventh entry in the main series, ''AMV Hell 7: [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Attack on 10 Year Anniversary]]'', premiered at Otakon in 2014 and had its online release in October of the same year. On the 3rd of May 2015, Zarxrax announced that he had officially decided to end AMV Hell following the completion of the third AMV Hell Minis season, in the sense that he would no longer oversee any more projects or make any more official entries in the series. He noted that AMV Hell had run its due course: with the proliferation of internet video hosting sites such as Website/YouTube in the decade since the release of the first two entries, the series no longer needed to go on as it had in the past. With that announcement, AMV Hell appears to have finally died--though the legacy it created will live on forever.

''AMV Hell'' had a considerable influence over AMV making: imitators inspired by the series' "multiple-short-AMV-clips" style have often described their videos as "AMV Hell style". [[FollowTheLeader The series even spawned numerous imitators within other fandoms and groups across the Internet.]] In essence, [[TropeMaker the page-topping quote]] [[AscendedMeme became a reality]].

!!Releases:
* ''AMV Hell'' (5/2004)
* ''AMV Hell 2'' (5/2004)
* ''AMV Hell 3: [[TheMovie The Motion Picture]]'' (9/2005)
* ''AMV Hell 0'' (9/2005)
* ''AMV Hell: Championship Edition'' (6/2006)
* ''AMV Hell 4: The Last One'' (9/2007)
* ''AMV Hell Divided By 0'' (9/2008)
* ''AMV Hell 5: Dedicated to Dio'' (9/2010)
* ''AMV Hell 6.66: This Is (Not) The End'' (4/2013)
** original rough cut (''AMV Hell 6: The End of the Universe''), 12/2012
* ''AMV Hell 7: Attack on 10 Year Anniversary'' (8/2014)

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!!AMV Minis:
* Season 1 (7/2009 - 11/2010)
* Season 2 (4/2011 - 10/2012)
* Season 3 (''AMV Minis Challenge'') (7/2013 - 1/2015)

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Simultaneously released with ''AMV Hell 3'' was ''AMV Hell 0'', which the creators described as "the more irreverant ''[sic]'' side of AMV Hell. And by irreverent, we mean it's ''[also sic]'' one of the most offensive, disgusting, pornographic, vile, worthless pieces of garbage ever conceived." Similar in concept to ''AMV Hell 2'', the ''0'' entry consisted of a series of clips with overt sexual[=/=]violent[=/=]scatological content unsuitable for public consumption. (AMV Hells 1, 3, 4, and 5 were produced with convention theater showings in mind, and their content is censored to reflect this.) ''AMV Hell 0'' thus has a high {{Squick}} factor and features an adult content warning before any of the nastiness begins.

The team later announced ''two'' separate projects: ''AMV Hell 6:'' ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' ''Hell'' and ''AMV Hell 6: The End Of The Universe''. The former was planned to have only clips either taken from or referencing parts of the ''Final Fantasy'' franchise, but this entry never came to fruition. The latter was initially planned to touch on the 2012 End of the World theory, had its rough-cut premiere at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012, and was slated for release on [[MeaningfulReleaseDate the 21st of December 2012]], but SSGWNBTD was unable to further tweak it. On the 20th of December, Zarxrax [[http://www.amvhell.com/showthread.php?26308-AMV-Hell-6-rough-cut-and-now-taking-more-entries announced]] that SSGWNBTD was "fired" from the project, released the rough cut via [=BitTorrent=], and re-opened submissions for one more month. The team finally released ''AMV Hell 6.66: [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion This is (Not) The End]]'' in April 2013, though in this state, only a third of the entry's original rough cut content remained.

** In a case of either a RunningGag or everyone going to the same well, ''5'' had several clips set to "[[SugarWiki/RobotUnicornAttack Alw]][[Music/{{Erasure}} ays]]".

*** A running gag carried over from its rough cut involves setting Terry Crews's Old Spice ads to ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred''. [[note]]One bit spoofs the "[[SugarWiki/RobotUnicornAttack Alw]][[Music/{{Erasure}} ays]]" running gag from ''5''.[[/note]]

** TayZonday's head shows up in the ''Manga/BarefootGen'' Hiroshima nuclear blast clip from ''Divided by 0''.

*** ''5'' also features about three clips set to "[[{{Beyonce}} Halo]]".

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The series averts this hard -- ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' and ''Manga/BarefootGen'', amongst other anime considered "untouchable", are mocked just to prove that they could do it.