Ian "Worthikids" Worthington is an American animator, voice actor, and musician best known for his series BIGTOP BURGER along with many other animated shorts that he has posted on YouTube. You can find his channel here
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Worthikids' animations contain the following tropes:
- 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: This is one of Ian's Creator Thumbprints, as he does most, if not all, of his animation in Blendernote . While he plays it straight most of the time, he has been known to use it for comedic effect, such as the low-poly model of Palpatine falling down the shaft of the Death Star II in "Palpatine's Journey".
- Abduction Is Love: In "Witches on Tinder", when Joanna introduces Miriam to the titular dating app, the latter wonders why she would need it if she could just kidnap someone.
- All There in the Script: According to the credits of "Jason & Friends", the name of the convenience store clerk is Doris.
- Artistic License – Medicine: It takes Palpatine 36 years to heal his broken bones with the Force in "Palpatine's Journey". In reality, it only takes about at least six weeks for one broken bone to heal on its own, and the Force is likely supposed to hasten that time.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Once Doris in "Jason & Friends" is sure that Jason and his crew aren't going to kill her, she starts eying up Jason's muscular physique while casually undoing her top shirt button.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: Ian's fan-animation of BROCKHAMPTON's "BOOGIE" has a police car explode into flames after Kevin jumps from the back of an ambulance and headbutts it in midair.
- Gargle Blaster: The ale in "Wizard Beer" has an 80% alcohol volume (it also inexplicably makes the person who drinks it more powerful and muscular).
- Horrible Judge of Character: The King in "Free Apple", despite the advice of his owl Krebulon, always trusts the Obviously Evil shopkeeper no matter how many times he poisons him.
- I Was Quite a Looker: If you pause to take a look at Joanna's photos in "Witches on Tinder", she was quite attractive when she was younger before she became a green-skinned old witch (as was Miriam in that one selfie they have together with the Devil).
- Literal Metaphor: In "Xylophone", Mike tells Todd that the crowd at their show is dead. Todd assumes he means that the crowd is bored, only for the two of them peer through the backstage curtains to see that their audience is comprised entirely of skeletons.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: The shopkeep in "Free Apple" clarifies that he's just a regular old man and "certainly not a demon or a ghost in a clever disguise". The king's owl wonders why he'd need to specify that, but the king himself dismisses the owl's concerns.
- Team Dad: Jason in "Jason & Friends" acts as this for the horror villains stopping by the convenience store, being the one who pays for all the snacks they pick out while also forbidding Freddy from buying booze.
- Villains Out Shopping: "Jason & Friends" has Jason Voorhees along with a few other notable horror antagonists (including Freddy Krueger, Sadako Yamamura, and Bobby Barrows) casually shopping at a convenience store.
- Won't Get Fooled Again: Subverted in "Free Apple". After getting tricked by the demonic shopkeep into taking a poison apple once, the king figures that the demon will offer him the apple again and tells him that he has wised up and won't take the apple, only for the shopkeep to offer a banana which the king takes.
- Xylophones for Walking Bones: "Xylophone" is about two musicians who discover that the entire audience for their concert is made up of skeletons. They wonder why it's all skeletons... until they remember that their last album made liberal use of the xylophone, implying that skeletons just really like xylophones purely because of this trope. They try to escape, but get Pushed in Front of the Audience and play this song, which opens with xylophone music. The crowd loves it.Mike: We really should've splurged on the full-sized marimba and not gotten that dinky xylophone!Todd: We should've. We totally should've. Now look what's happened to us. This is karma.Mike: If we just run, are they gonna chase us?Todd: They're skeletons, Mike! They're unpredictable!!
