History WesternAnimation / MikeTysonMysteries

--->'''Pigeon:''' Oh, for Christ's sakes! What is this?! IT'S HIS STOMACH! Holy shit, they cut off his hands! What the fuck! [[BrickJoke Found his feet!]]

* ComplexityAddiction: In the Season 4 opener, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the entirety of the Season 3 finale was a ploy by Mike to send Deezy off somewhere since he didn't feel comfortable just telling Deezy to his face he didn't want to be his client anymore. It involved killing one person, multiple people getting reconstructive surgery, multiple people faking their deaths, and to cap it off, it turns out that Mike's pulling the same ploy on his pool cleaner.]]

* LoveMakesYouDumb: Pigeon's ex-wife, after rekindling their love together, uses the power of god to return Pigeon back to his human form... [[spoiler:Or that was what Pigeon thought she was going to do. Instead, she turns ''herself'' into a pigeon to be together with him. The icing on the cake is getting swallowed by the Ogopogo creature of the lake.]]

'''Pigeon:''' With a fucking hot Asian\\

'''Pigeon:''' ''(On the Mystery Mobile)'' P.S.! [[ExcrementStatement (craps on the windshield of the Mystery Mobile)]]

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: It turns out that [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Mike]] was right about Cormac [=McCarthy=] being a "horse-man" a.k.a. a centaur [[spoiler:that has wings]].

* Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Mike and co have witnessed several supernatural beings, including (but not limited to): ghosts, demons, ancient gods, werewolves, chupacabras, lake monsters, aliens, killer robots, leprechauns, gnomes, the city of Atlantis...

* HeroicComedicSociopath: While he means well, and is almost always good-natured, Mike is ''tremendously dangerous to be around''. He has so many quirks and abnormalities that may set him off on a punching tangent at any moment, and his view of reality is so skewed that it's hard to know what might trigger him from one moment to the next. In Season 1 alone, he personally kills more than a dozen people (some accidently, some on purpose but for [[InsaneTrollLogic invalid reasons]]), and brutally attacks several others, including chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who he mistakes for the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan:

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** "House Haunters" has the gang helping a couple buy a new house. Mike and the Marquess are the only ones actually interested in doing it.
** "For the Troops" is about the gang going to UsefulNotes/{{Afghanistan}} to entertain the troops.
** "Old Man of the Mountain" focuses on the team trying to help a brother and sister decide if their elderly father should be put into a nursing home.

* OutOfOrder: Discussed in the Season 3 premiere "Help a Brother Out", where Mike and the team flat out talk about how the episode actually takes place immediately after the Season 2 episode "Save Me!" despite the fact "The Farmer's Daughter" was the Season 2 finale:

* OutOfOrder: Discussed, in the Season 3 premiere "Help a Brother Out", where Mike and the team flat out talk about how the episode actually takes place immediately after the Season 2 episode "Save Me!" despite the fact "The Farmer's Daughter" was the Season 2 finale:

* OutOfOrder: Discussed, in the Season 3 premiere "Help a Brother Out", where Mike and the team flat out talk about how the episode actually takes place immediately after the season 2 episode "Save Me!" despite the fact "The Farmer's Daughter" was the season 2 finale.
-->'''Mike:''' Didn't you watch the last episode of season 2?
-->'''Yung:''' That wasn't the last episode we went to that farm.

-->'''Mike:''' I don't know when they air them I don't even when I live them!

* OutOfOrder: Discussed, in the Season 3 opener "Help a Brother Out", where Mike and the team flat out talk about the fact the episode "The Farmer's Daughter" was the season finale, despite the episode "Save Me!" apparently taking place after in-universe, which this episode was an ImmediateSequel to.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody seem surprised that Mike has a ghost and a talking pigeon on his team. Even the women who had sex with Pigeon aren't even turned off by him despite the [[BestialityIsDepraved implication]].

* ComplexityAddiction: As we learn in the Season 4 opener, [[spoiler:the entirety of the Season 3 finale was a ploy by Mike to send Deezy off somewhere since he didn't feel comfortable just telling Deezy to his face he didn't want to be his client anymore. It involved killing one person, multiple people getting reconstructive surgery, multiple people faking their deaths, and to cap it off, it turns out that Mike's pulling the same ploy on his pool cleaner.]]

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Most of the episode "Bucket List" turns out to be Pidgeon's drug induced hallucinations.]]

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The introductory sequence features a series of exciting action-heavy scenes that don't appear in the show proper, or represent its comedic tone, instead presenting the show as a serious production about solving supernatural mysteries - as a joke, of course. This is then defied in "My Favorite Mystery", which is essentially a ClipShow where the character reminisce about the mysteries that those scenes were a part of, expanding them, and explaining how Mike and the other characters ended up in those situations.

* ComplexityAddiction: As we learn in the season 4 opener [[spoiler: the entirety of the season 3 finale was a ploy by Mike to send Deezy off somewhere since he didn't feel comfortable just telling Deezy to his face he didn't want to be his client anymore, and it involved killing one person, multiple people getting reconstructive surgery, multiple people faking their deaths and to cap it off it turns out Mike pulling the same plot on his pool cleaner for the same reason being unable to simply fire him.]]

''Mike Tyson Mysteries'' is an animated show on Creator/AdultSwim, and the first show for that network to be produced exclusively for AS by Creator/WarnerBros Animation (the ''{{WesternAnimation/ThunderCats|2011}}'' reboot was produced for Creator/CartoonNetwork first, then moved onto Creator/{{Toonami}}). In the same vein that ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' is a throw back to '60s SuperScience shows like ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest,'' this pays homage to both Creator/HannaBarbera mystery cartoons and '80s action hero shows like ''WesternAnimation/MisterT'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChuckNorrisKarateKommandos.''

The premise of the show is Mike Tyson (AsHimself) leaves his home in UsefulNotes/LasVegas and goes off to solve mysteries around the world, along with his friends, consisting of a ghost known as Marquess of Queensberry, Mike's adopted daughter [[OnlySaneMan Yung Hee,]] and [[TalkingAnimal Pigeon]] (voiced by Creator/NormMacDonald), a man whose ex-wife transformed him into, yes, a pigeon. Each week, the team are given a mystery to go off and solve, and HilarityEnsues, with Mike himself usually causing most of the problems.

* ActionHoggingOpening: The show is far more low key and slower paced than the action packed intro would have you believe. In true '70s cartoon style, ''none'' of the events shown in the intro ever take place within the episodes.
** The episode "My Favorite Mystery" finally gives context for each scene in the opening sequence.

** Mike Tyson as Mike Tyson, a fact that Season 2 promotional materials have gleefully lampshaded.

* AffectionateParody: Of Hanna-Barbera mystery cartoons and Creator/RubySpears action cartoons like ''Mister T'' and ''Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos.''
* AmbiguouslyGay: Marquess. [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade Which Oscar Wilde]] [[ArmoredClosetGay would probably find darkly amusing.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mike is the only member of the team who believes in magic, despite the fact that the Marquess is a ghost, and Pigeon was transformed by his ex-wife.

* ArtShift: The Wizard's flashback about [[spoiler: his poker playing past]] is shown in the style of ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock.'' It is later revealed to be [[{{PaintingTheFourthWall}} an elaborate comic book placed on the back of his initial note because he presumed Mike was illiterate.]]

* {{Barbie Doll Anatomy}}: Adverted with the men. Invoked with women
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The introductory sequence features a series of exciting action-heavy scenes that don't appear in the show proper, or represent its comedic tone, instead presenting the show as a serious production about solving supernatural mysteries - as a joke, of course. This trope is then defied in the episode "My Favorite Mystery", which is essentially a ClipShow where the character reminisce about the mysteries that those scenes were a part of, expanding them, and explaining how Mike and the other characters ended up in those situations.
* BrainInAJar: The IBM computer Deep Blue secretly has the brain of [[spoiler: Bobby Fischer.]]

* BuryYourGays: In "All About that Bass," two male fishing rivals [[spoiler: admit they love each other before one makes a heroic sacrifice and dies alone.]]
* {{Chupacabra}}: Mike has a hard time pronouncing it correctly and he fights one [[spoiler: John Updike]] in "The End."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mike personifies this trope -- he's portrayed as being highly disengaged from reality. It helps that real-life Tyson's bloopers in the recording booth are sometimes [[ThrowItIn worked into the episode]] as if they were non sequiturs, and the rest of the cast just react in character.

* ClusterFBomb: In "Mite Tyson," Pigeon does this when Mike doesn't let him live in his home because he thinks he's responsible for his mite bites.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "Night Moves", a man named Andrew asks Mike to meet him a pie place. Andrew explains to Mike that he can't get a second date with women, because he thinks he's a werewolf and is killing all the women he dates. Mike, of course, doesn't hear a word he says because he's busy stuffing his face with pie, [[WhatTheHellHero and Andrew even calls him out for it.]]

** In "Mite Tyson," when Pigeon wakes up in a cage at a [[AnimalTesting cosmetic product testing facility for animals,]] he gets the attention of two of the workers after they unlock a cage containing a bear, which the bear opens its cage knocking out the two workers and freeing all of the other animals.
** In "She's a Bayniac," when Marquess discovers that Mrs. Bayne is actually [[spoiler: an alien,]] she goes to attack him. When other people witness what she really is, she attacks the other people and Marquess uses this opportunity to escape.
* CoolCar: The gang drives in a blue van called the "Mystery Mobile" that has Mike Tyson's tattoo design on the side.

* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: In "A River Runs Through It Into a Heart of Darkness," Mike does this to Yung when [[spoiler: the Earth extends its penis into the moon.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: "Save Me!" opens with everyone appalled with Mike for burning down an old couples' house just because he jumped to the conclusion that the sound they were hearing was a demon. When the couple contacts them again, everyone assumes it's to take legal action against Mike, and are all shocked when it is to warn them that the demon escaped the fire and is out to take revenge on Mike.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The show is already a crackpot adult-oriented parody of Hanna-Barbera mystery cartoons, but Season 3 seems to be somewhat deconstructive. In particular, Mike is acting less like a TooDumbToFool CloudCuckoolander and more like what a normal civilian would be in a show like this: ''scared shitless.''

* DeathIsCheap: [[ZigZaggedTrope Sometimes.]] Some characters come back as ghosts to wander the Earth and others don't. The rules for why this happens aren't really explained.
* TheDreaded: Mike gains a reputation for getting into "fender benders" with his vehicle, and has so far killed 10 people, specifically ''astronauts,'' including Buzz Aldrin. After Mike hits and kills his 11th up on the surface of the moon, his insurance representative realizes that Mike has actually only killed 2 astronauts, and the other 8 were ''astronomers.'' By this time, astronomers everywhere are already living in fear.

* EpicFail: In "A River Runs Through It Into a Heart of Darkness," Mike and the gang need to go to meet a Chinese businessman in UsefulNotes/{{Nicaragua}}, to help him build the world's largest canal. So Mike has everyone fly to UsefulNotes/{{China}} instead.
-->'''Mike''': Okay, let's find Wang Jing and help him build the largest canal in the world!\\
'''Yung''': Then we need to be in Nicaragua.\\
'''Marquess''': Yeah. 'Cause the note was in Chinese, but the canal is in Nicaragua.

** In "Mystery for Hire" Mike gets a VanityLicensePlate that read "BI GUY" to promote his vegetarianism.
-->'''Mike''': '''B'''eef '''I'''s '''G'''ross, '''U'''nethical, and '''Y'''ucky!\\
'''Marquess''': So... that's what you see when you read that? Okay.

-->'''Mike''': '''B'''eef '''I'''s '''S'''ucculent, '''E'''nticing, '''X'''-rated (in terms of deliciousness), '''U''''nbelievably '''A'''ppetizing and '''L'''uscious. ''(beat)'' Or for short, BISEXUAL. Oh damn, we can't put these on the Mystery Mobile!
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Mike is the only person who genuinely likes Pigeon, forcing Yung and the Marquess (and everyone else) to put up with him.

* HeroicComedicSociopath / ChaoticStupid / IdiotHero: While he means well, and is almost always good-natured, Mike Tyson is ''tremendously dangerous to be around.'' He has so many quirks and abnormalities that may set him off on a punching tangent at any moment, and his view of reality is so skewed that it's hard to know what might trigger him from one moment to the next. In the first season alone, he personally kills more than a dozen people (some accidently, some on purpose but for [[InsaneTrollLogic invalid reasons]]), and brutally attacks several others, including chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who he mistakes for the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
-->'''Pigeon''': Hey, were you scared?\\
'''Marquess''': When the tree came to life?\\
'''Pigeon''': Oh, no, earlier. When Mike almost beat the shit out of you. I mean, that was crazy. You know, he can kill you? He could kill all of us! I think sometimes we forget that that's Mike Tyson.
* ILoveTheDead: According to Marcus, a human doing the nasty with a ghost will cause an unspecified apocalyptic scenario. When he assumes Pigeon has done this, he freaks out.
** In a later episode, Marquess gets a living boyfriend, but nothing negative - let alone apocalyptic - happens.
* InMediasRes: The second season opener parodies this: Mike's kitchen is full of blood, Pigeon is laying apparently dead in the oven, Yung Hee and Marquess are tied up, and Mike is crying. "How did we get here?" wonders Marquess. [[spoiler: The blood's tomato, Pigeon's being melodramatic, Marquess is showing Yung Hee a magic trick, Mike is watching ''Film/OnGoldenPond'']]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In "Ty-Stunned," everyone, minus Yung, unintentionally acts insensitive to Miss Ensler when they keep bringing up her husband's mutilated body. Mike is a big offender when he's having a business meeting with his agent during the mystery.
-->'''Mike''': Hey, Miss Ensler, I know you're still grieving, but I want your honest opinion, okay. Do you think I should have a line of neckties?\\
'''Marquess''': Michael!\\
'''Ensler''': Richard loved ties. [[OffWithHisHead They cut off his head!]]\\

'''Mike''': Okay, let's do it! Mike Tyson is in the tie business.
* InstantMessengerPigeon: Tyson keeps a flock of homing pigeons, who carry mysteries to him from clients.
* {{Jerkass}}: Pigeon. He's rude, snarky, an alcoholic, and a ''massive'' pervert. His gambling habits lead to Yung being kidnapped and almost killed. No-one except Mike likes him, and even that seems to be because Mike is oblivious to his acerbic behavior.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[ItMakesSenseInContext While Mike, Pigeon, and Marquess were travelling through a Cuban jungle]], the trio are accidentally caught in a massive mudslide, Pigeon purposefully lets Marquess fall to his doom while Mike doesn't react much to it, and accidentally frees several terrorists later on. By the end, Marquess actually ''survived'' and made his way to Miami during Spring Break and decides to party with Yung, while Mike and Pigeon end up on the war-torn side of Libya with no means of getting out. [[NoEnding Then the episode abruptly ends]].
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Pigeon's ex-wife, after rekindling their love together, uses the power of god to return Pigeon back to his human form... [[spoiler: Or that was what Pigeon thought she was going to do. Instead, she turns ''herself'' into a pigeon to be together with him. The icing on the cake is getting swallowed by the Ogopogo creature of the lake.]]
* ManVersusMachine: IBM chairman Thomas J. Watson hosts a highly publicized chess match between one of their supercomputers and Garry Kasparov, to prove that machines are superior and raise the stock of the company. It fails when it is discovered that [[spoiler: Bobby Fischer's brain was imprisoned inside the supercomputer.]] Just to compound this, [[spoiler: Watson himself is revealed to be a killer android.]]

* NegativeContinuity: Considering one episode ends with [[spoiler: a bomb blowing up a dam and flooding Mike's neighborhood,]] and another ends with [[spoiler: an Incan doomsday prophecy,]] it's safe to say this is the case.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: It turns out that [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Mike]] was right about Cormac [=Mc=]Carthy being a "horse-man" a.k.a. a centaur [[spoiler: that has wings.]]

* OutOfOrder: Discussed, in the season 3 opener "Help A Brother Out", where Mike and the team flat out talk about the fact the episode "The Farmer's Daughter" was the season finale, despite the episode "Save Me!" apparently taking place after in-universe, which this episode was an ImmediateSequel to.

* RealityEnsues: The show deconstructs the whole "going to places to solve mysteries for free" thing when Mike points out that him solving mysteries isn't profitable to him. In "Is Magic Real?", when the Wizard needs one million dollars to participate in a poker game, Mike, despite being a famous retired boxer, doesn't have that type of money.

* {{Retraux}}: The show recreates the art style of old Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons with flash tablets.

** Sometimes the people the gang talk to during mysteries mistake Yung for a boy.

* TheScottishTrope: The gang is once called by a stage director to find out who in his theater troupe cursed the show by saying "Macbeth". As it turns out, it was him.

* SlippingAMickey: In "Mite Tyson," Pigeon one time slipped a roofie into Yung's soda without her knowledge but she didn't drink it. And after Pigeon was kicked out of Mike's home, he waited at a bus stop and took a roofie to pass the time.

* SomethingWeForgot: In "Mite Tyson," Yung receives a new mystery from one of the carrier pigeons but she didn't get the time to read it because they had to deal with Mike's bug bite problem. By the end of the episode, Yung remembers the mystery and it turns out that it was [[spoiler: extremely time sensitive and the mystery was about an armed nuclear device hidden inside the Hoover Dam. After Yung finishes reading the message, the dam blows up flooding the city. Cut to credits.]]

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Apparently, Mike and Cormac [=Mc=]Carthy know of a song called "Ain't Got No Time for Bird Sex," which Marquess doubts is actually a real song.

* TakeOurWordForIt: The general reaction to seeing an ''incredibly'' mutilated body in "Ty-Stunned."

--->'''Pigeon''': Holy fuck! They cut off his head! Oh, my fucking God. What is that? Is that his dick? They cut off his dick and stuck it in his mouth! What the fuck! Where are his feet?

--->'''Deezy''': Oh, my Lord! Why would people do this? Who did this? Hell, no! Hell, no!
* TooDumbToLive: Dr. Ensler in "Ty-Stunned" who was killed in the beginning of the episode by one of his clients, Charles Scurb a.k.a. "Chainsaw Charlie." Dr. Ensler wrote this in Charlie's file:

** Even Pigeon lampshaded how Dr. Ensler's decision was a very bad move.
-->'''Pigeon''': Dr. Ensler, shouldn't have trusted your gut. Especially now that it's sitting in your desk drawer.

-->'''Mike''': '''B'''eef '''I'''s '''G'''ross, '''U'''nethical, and '''Y'''ucky!

-->'''Mike''': '''B'''eef '''I'''s '''S'''ucculent, '''E'''nticing, '''X'''-rated (in terms of deliciousness), '''U''''nbelievably '''A'''ppetizing and '''L'''uscious. ''(beat)'' Or for short, BISEXUAL. Oh damn, we can't put these on the Mystery Mobile!
** The same episode has the mystery's client use 2BRNOT2B (he's directing Shakespeare plays)

* WidgetSeries: A former pro boxer, a Korean-American teenager, a ghost, and a [[TalkingAnimal pigeon]]. TheyFightCrime. Why? Oh, right, because the first of these is the ''TropeNamer'' for TheTysonZone.

* WorseWithContext: In "Jason B. Sucks," Mike and the gang goes to Jason B.'s house demanding that he take down his negative review on Mike's mystery business.
-->'''Jason''': Why? You ruined my life!\\
'''Mike''': Oh, my goodness! Exaggerate much?\\
'''Jason''': My wife died because of you.\\

'''Mike''': Well, in that case, maybe it's not exaggerating.

** The same episode has the mystery's client use 2BRNOT2B (he's directing Shalespeare plays)

** "House Haunters" has the gang helping a couple buy a new house. Mike and Marquees are the only ones actually interested in doing it.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Mike is the only person who genuinely likes Pigeon, forcing Yung and Marquees (and everyone else) to put up with him.

''Mike Tyson Mysteries'' is an animated show on Creator/AdultSwim, and the first show for that network to be produced exclusively for AS by Creator/WarnerBros Animation (the ''{{ThunderCats|2011}}'' reboot was produced for Creator/CartoonNetwork first, then moved onto Creator/{{Toonami}}). In the same vein that ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' is a throw back to '60s SuperScience shows like ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest,'' this pays homage to both Creator/HannaBarbera mystery cartoons and '80s action hero shows like ''WesternAnimation/MisterT'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChuckNorrisKarateKommandos.''

-->'''Pidgeon''': Hey, were you scared?\\

'''Pidgeon''': Oh, no, earlier. When Mike almost beat the shit out of you. I mean, that was crazy. You know, he can kill you? He could kill all of us! I think sometimes we forget that that's Mike Tyson.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[ItMakesSenseInContext While Mike, Pigeon, and Marquess were travelling through a Cuban jungle]], the trio are accidentally caught in a massive mudslide, Pigeon purposefully lets Marquess fall to his doom while Mike doesn't react much to it, and accidentally frees several terrorists later on. By the end, Marquess actually ''survived'' and made his way to Miami during Spring Break and decides to party with Yung, while Mike and Pigeon end up on the war-torn side of Libya with no means of getting out.

'''Marquess''': When the tree came to life?

* HeroicComedicSociopath / ChaoticStupid / IdiotHero: While he means well, and is almost always good-natured, Mike Tyson is ''tremendously dangerous to be around.'' He has so many quirks and abnormalities that may set him off on a punching tangent at any moment, and his view of reality is so skewed that it's hard to know what might trigger him from one moment to the next. In the first series alone, he personally kills more than a dozen people (some accidently, some on purpose but for [[InsaneTrollLogic invalid reasons]]), and brutally attacks several others, including chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who he mistakes for the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.