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2An Internet-only short film, released in June 2013. Originally planned as a commercial for Orangina, it's also the first collaboration between Golden Moustache and Studio Bagel, the [[DuelingMovies two most popular French humour channels on Youtube]]. But don't worry, there are subtitles available.
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4The story begins with a worldwide Internet bug with some disastrous repercutions IRL. Only the ISA (Internet Security Agency), a bunch of super-trained soldiers, can enter the Internet to save the day. Except... it doesn't happen as planned : Martin, a young incompetent trainee accidentally enters the Internet too. Their mission is to save the Internet, and stay alive.
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6And if that didn't sound epic enough, it's written by Raphaël Descraques, from ''WebVideo/LeVisiteurDuFutur''.
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10!!''Mission 404'' provides examples of the following tropes:
11%%* AffectionateParody: Of the Internet, obviously.
12* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The Websites: you've got a human version of Google, Facebook, Deezer, Instagram...
13* ProductPlacement: [[SelfParody Self-parodied]]. The video was originally planned as an Orangina commercial; In the middle of the battle against Blaster, Youtube herself is stopped because of... a random guy making an add for Orangina. And have to wait 5 seconds to skip it. Everybody looks exasperated.
14* RogerRabbitEffect: All live-action, except for Twitter (a talking CGI bird) ans Nyan Car (who's just the original Nyan Cat).
15* SelfParody: On every level: a movie made specially for the Internet, with French actors who started on the Internet, parodying both Internet users and the Internet as a whole. And the biggest one: this youtube video features a character called...Youtube. They even have a personnification for the red bar and green thumbs up, and one character for the annoying ad before Youtube videos.
16* ShoutOut:
17** Martin / [=Karateswagg22's=] video where he uses his brush as a light saber is a direct reference to the Star Wars Kid.
18** Blaster's throne looks like [[Series/GameOfThrones another Iron throne]]...
19** The "holy @ sign", a parody of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings that Ring]].
20* WorldOfBadass: The Internet seems to be inhabited only by brave badass websites (Google's team), killer birds and cats (Twitter, Nyan Cat), psycopathic EvilOverlord (Blaster), hot girls army in the wood (the "Girls of your City"), super-trained soldiers (the ISA), pirates (illegal downloading sites)...

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