History WesternAnimation / EgoTrip

''Ego Trip'' is a TVMovie of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', which originally aired on Cartoon Network in 1999 as an hour-long special that would serve as the GrandFinale of the show's first run.

'''Twelve:''' (''quietly'') Oh my gosh, [[SomethingWeForgot we left the core out in my cubicle]]!\\

* SomethingWeForgot: Played rather seriously. When Dexter and Number 12 leave to go further into the future, they forget to put the Neurotomic Protocore back in its hiding place, allowing Executive Mandark to claim it. Upon hearing that he got it, Number 12 realizes their mistake.

** Seeing the attack vehicle incoming, Overlord Mandark says that no one on Earth could possess the intelligence to build such a device, only to realize that his ArchEnemy is still alive.

** Two of Dexter's future selves keep saying "Hello" to each other for a good while when they first meet, much to Dexter's annoyance.
** At the ending, when the Dexters are going back to their own times, they repeatedly say "Goodbye, Dexter!".

* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: InUniverse. Unlike Dexter, who sounded different throughout the different stages of his life (with Action Dexter even sounding like TheAhnold), Mandark retains the same voice he had as a kid, even when he's overlord. This unfortunately gives away the surprise that he's Number Twelve's boss.

* ThinSkinnedBully: Deconstructed. While the SmugSnake CEO Mandark is [[OhCrap expectedly terrified]] when he finally kicks Tweleve too far and earns himself a nasty beatdown, when the latter makes a break to reverse the effects of the protocore, the beaten down but furious Mandark refuses to let Twelve take his power, regained backbone or not, and joins the frantic wrestle for the control panel with the other Mandarks.

* WimpFight: Dexter and Mandark's typical slap fights in the main series come to a head in the film's climax. Number 12 outright [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] Executive Mandark (after initially enduring some hits from the latter), and Action Dexter and Overlord Mandark engage in a dramatic action hero fight, while the present Dexter and Mandark just flail awkwardly at each other. Plus, Old Man Dexter and Braindark merely hurl insults at each other until Braindark beats Old Man Dexter by simply falling over on him.

** "Number 12" (aka Young Adult Dexter) is a sniveling, cowardly yes-man to CEO Mandark.

** Old Man Dexter is quite senile.
* ExactWords: The robots that attack Dexter at the start state they were there to "Destroy the one who saved the future". [[spoiler: But they never said ''whom''. Dexter assumed he was that one, but it turns out it was Dee Dee. The Dexters, in their haste to build their robots, didn't word the command properly when they ordered the bots and sent them back in time.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: 12, until he TookALevelInBadass when Executive Mandark breaks his glasses.
* FatBastard: Overlord Mandark is morbidly obese, to the point that he needs to be carried around by a hook and later a robot.
* {{Flashback}}: When Action Dexter explains how Mandark stole assorted ideas to rise up the ranks in the corporation and ultimately used the Neurotomic Protocore to take over the world.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The fact that the robots from the future didn't fight back while Dexter was destroying them is a hint that he wasn't the one they were really after]].

* FutureBadass: Action Dexter is tall, manly and very muscular, much to the joy of present Dexter and Number 12... well, save for losing his hair (Old Man Dexter reveals that he wears a wig).

* {{MacGuffin}}: The neurotomic protocore.

* PunBasedTitle: An "ego trip" is another way of saying that someone is full of themselves. Dexter goes on a ''trip'' to the future because he's so "''ego''tistical" that he genuinely believes that he alone was the one who "saved the future." Meanwhile, the BadFuture Mandark creates is a result of his own selfish desires and, eventually, greed for all of the world's knowledge.

* SexySecretary: Mandark has several of these.

* SurroundedByIdiots: In the BadFuture, an exasperated Dexter sees villagers that are too dumb to even make fire. It turns out that Mandark's use of the Neurotomic Protocore numbs everyone else's intelligence.

* NonProtagonistResolver: [[The film is eighty-seven minutes of Dexter struggling to reach and push the button that will save the day, twenty seconds of Dee Dee (who had disappeared accidentally in Dexter's time travel machine at the very beginning of the film) [[ChekhovsGunman reappearing in the middle of the]] FinalBattle and [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo doing what she does best]] while Dexter and Mandark are kicking each other's butts, and Dexter being so angry that he accidentally causes the StableTimeLoop that led to this whole mess by creating a KillerRobot horde and sending it to get rid of Dee Dee, figuring out what he did, and giving Dee Dee the cold shoulder as a final gag.]]

* BaldHeadOfToughness: Action Dexter lost his hair and gained some serious muscle during his nonstop digging to escape from Mandark's tower, and he's a stone-cold {{Badass}} acting as a one-man [[LaResistance résistance]] against his nemesis' tyrannical anti-science reign. The younger Dexters are overjoyed at how cool they grow up to be and share a brief moment of shocked disappointment about losing their hair in the future, but he does have a [[ManlyFacialHair radical orange beard]].

** Old Man Dexter is a callback to a season 1 episode titled, of course, "Old Man Dexter." In the episode, Dexter attempts to age himself so he can watch late night TV, but accidently ages himself to the point of a senile old coot. The film version even has him repeat certain lines from the episode during his introduction ("Who put these stairs here?!" And "Oh, my hip!").

* BadFuture: Played with. [[BigBadDuumvirate Executive Mandark and Overlord Mandark]] are responsible for taking over the world and turning it into a wasteland full of dumb people, but we are told from the beginning of the movie that the future was saved, and even see the (happy) ending before the DarkestHour with the empire of Dextopia.

* BadFuture: Played with. Executive Mandark and Overlord Mandark are responsible for taking over the world and turning it into a wasteland full of dumb people, but we are told from the beginning of the movie that the future was saved, and even see the (happy) ending before the DarkestHour with the empire of Dextopia.

* BigBad: Executive Mandark and Overlord Mandark, the ones most directly responsible for the BadFuture. The former is the one who eventually turns the world into a dystopia, and the latter rules it with an iron fist.

* BadFuture: The future sucks because Mandark has taken over the world and made everyone dumb.

--->'''Action Dexter:''' Then, darkness fell. Somehow my most prized invention, the Neurotomic Protocore, fell into Mandark’s clutches!\\

* WimpFight: Dexter and Mandark's typical slap fights in the main series come to a head in the film's climax. Number 12 outright [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] Executive Mandark, and Action Dexter and Overlord Mandark engage in a dramatic action hero fight, while the present Dexter and Mandark just flail awkwardly at each other. Plus, Old Man Dexter and Braindark merely hurl insults at each other until Braindark beats Old Man Dexter by simply falling over on him.

** Executive Mandark stepping on 12's glasses mirrors a similar shot in the episode "Dexter Dodgeball," when a school bully does the same.

* BadBoss: Mandark, totally. He ''publicly'' uses an electric whip on Number 12 for ''almost'' being late for work.

* WimpFight: Dexter and Mandark's typical slap fights in the main series come to a head in the film's climax. Number 12 outright [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] Executive Mandark, and Action Dexter and Overlord Mandark engage in a dramatic action hero fight, while the present Dexter and Mandark just flail awkwardly at each other. Plus, Old Man Dexter and Braindark hurl insults at each other until Braindark beats Old Man Dexter by simply falling over on him.

* WimpFight: Dexter and Mandark's typical slap-to-slap fights in the main series come to a head in the film's climax. Number 12 outright [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] Executive Mandark, and Action Dexter and Overlord Mandark engage in a dramatic action hero fight, while the present Dexter and Mandark just flail awkwardly at each other. Plus, Old Man Dexter and Braindark hurl insults at each other until Braindark beats Old Man Dexter by simply falling over on him.

'''Hero Dexter:''' Yes, quite a reunion, but...\\

* WimpFight: During the climactic fight between the Dexters and Mandarks, present Dexter and Mandark dramatically leap towards each other, only to lightly slap each other and awkwardly flail about.

The film is easily the darkest installment of the show, with numerous scenes of violent action and Mandark being upgraded from a petty rival to a full-blown villain. Dexter's parents are almost entirely OutOfFocus and Dee Dee only gets one line (albeit a ''very'' important one).

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In the future, Mandark takes control of the company he and Dexter [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble worked for/will work for]] and uses its resources to advance his plan for world domination.
* DemotedToExtra: Dexter's parents only make a brief cameo, and even though Dee Dee plays a role in the climax, she barely has a minute of actual screen time. During his time travels Dexter never considers where his family is or what they might be doing.

Easily the darkest installment of the show, with numerous scenes of violent action and Mandark being upgraded from a petty rival to a full-blown villain. Dexter's parents are almost entirely OutOfFocus and Dee Dee only gets one line (albeit a ''very'' important one).

* WimpFight: During the big brawl, Dexter and Mandark dramatically leap towards each other, only to lightly slap each other and awkwardly flail about.