Sandbox / Kirby 007

Stuff that was meant to be somewhere

I was going to put this on the Funny Moments page for Web Original, but I thought it would take up too much space.

• From the OFF wiki: on Sugar's article, a contributor asked for someone to explain the game for them. They received this response from another contributor:
  "You see, off is a turn based ROY^note RPG made by Hillary Clinton. You play as the pitcher, whose sole job is to purify the rivers of earth realm in order to get rid of commander Shephard's spectres. However there are some complications run Into through the pitcher's purifina quest. Each zone has a guardian goose that will for some reason attempt you from removing the galactic councils spectres. The first zones guardian Google, is DeeDee, who is really short with big buck teeth. The first zone is composed of mines and farms. The mines are there for the testificate villagers to dig up methane, the least important of the four elements, and the farms are to produce metal by sawing cows in half and taking large chunks of metal from the cow's bodies, but for some reason, there's meat within the cow's. Sounds crazy, right? They throw the odd meat found within these cow's into rivers of meat one of the most important of the 4 elements... because without meat, man wouldn't have anything to breathe. In the second zone, you will find the place littered with libraries and malls. This zone' s guardian gobble is a parrot named Josephat who was eaten by the main character's animal guide, taco' s sister. Valentine. The bird became a kidney stone which later was able to control Valentine's body. The pitcher battles the treacherous forces of reading to get to Valentine, and they make battle! Only for Valentines/josephat to discover that the pitchers balls are too mighty for him to handle! Valentine/houseboat decides this is an opportune Time to go to the mall, where the pitcher faces valenphat in a HOT TOPIC store after valerat takes the last DOMO t-shirt, Valentine later reveals that she is not Valentine, but turns out to be houseboat, the guardian gobble of zone 2! He transforms into a large Bob marleybird, and is killed by the pitcher. Taco is devastated to learn that Valentine was a cute cat-shaped hat this whole time, and becomes an alcoholic. He is replaced by Zach from Zach and Cody, and becomes unimportant for the whole second 3/6 of the game. The pitcher purified the zone's water and the spectators, and moves unto zone 3! Zone 3 is composed of cocaine factories, the most important of the 3.14 elements. Because without cocaine, man would be too bored and whack off all the time. The pitcher later discovers that the sugar is actually made of the fingernail clipping of dead people in the necrophilia ward of the factory. Zone 3's guardian ghizzard is a corporate fat-cat named Ewok. Erik then succumbs to heart failure mid-battle and dies. This is where the pitcher decides zone 3 is boring, so let's go to the final zone, the dorm! This realm consists of stuff that does things. The pitcher has to face different versions of the guardian gibblies- DeeDee, houseboat, and Ewok here again. And then moves to kill the queen... Darth Vader! When confronted by the pitcher, Darth Vader offers him some coffee. The pitcher splashes it in Cadets face, and Darth Vader dies instantly! The pitcher decides that now is an opportune time to beat his Father/son (actually not kidding on this part) to death with a Crickett bat. Taco comes in and calls the pitcher a big fat phony, this is where the player is given an option to side with the pitcher who want to purify the entire Atlantic ocean, or Taco, wants to stop the pitcher from purifying the ocean, so planet of the apes 3 will come out. but regardless of which person you side with, the world is then destroyed by the evil forces of the end credits... AND THAT, MY GOOD SIR IS THE PLOT TO, OFF!"

This was going to be moved to Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking from the Narm section of the YMMV subpage for Roblox, but I felt like it was talking more about meta stuff than the game itself (or the platform in general), so I stored it here.

• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The Community Guidelines' examples of prohibited "hate speech" content:
  Clothing with red arm bands;
  Confederate flags; and
  Ugandan Knuckles memes.

Moved from the Nightmare Fuel subpage of Yume Nikki. I thought it was interesting.

Try to picture what the whole scenario would actually be like in real life. You walk into a normal looking house with a normal looking girl inside. You flick the lights off (once...twice...a few times) and suddenly there's this black and white, deformed looking thing in place of the girl. The door can't be opened, the lights can't be turned back on. The only option is to go up and touch this thing...

An entry for Fandom Life Cycle that would likely be there if the site in question had a page:

• The Random-ness Wiki has been at stage 2 throughout its lifespan: a small, but dedicated community contributing to over 30,000 pages worth of content, along with a bunch of people outside of the community who discovered the wiki by chance. Unfortunately, it has since slipped into stage 6c, after its closure in mid-2021.

Salvaged from the Funny page for YouTube Poop. If this is lost media, it would be interesting to find it again.

• It seems to be no longer available, but back in 2009 or early 2010, there was a YTP of BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn called something like "Mata Nui fails to fix a guitar". In the original film, when Ackar tries to interrupt the Gladiator Games, the fighters Tarix and Vastus are the only ones willing to hear him out. In this version...
  [Tarix and Vastus fight, repeatedly clashing their weapons while screaming]
  Ackar: Fighting between Glatorian must stop!
  [Tarix and Vastus continue fighting]
  Ackar: Stop!
  [Tarix and Vastus continue fighting]
  Ackar: Stop fighting as I speak!
  [Tarix and Vastus continue fighting]
  Ackar: ENOUGH!
  [Ackar takes out his sword and shows off his newfound elemental powers, and the entire arena falls silent in awe]
  Kiina: Yeah, we thought that might catch your attention-
  [Tarix and Vastus immediately resume fighting]

Removed from the Funny page for Silent Hill 2. To be fair, it is already listed under the franchise's Narm page, though.

• While normally the Lying Figures are quite creepy, shortly after you meet Maria and start walking down the road with her following you, Lying Figures will attack you by essentially catapulting themselves over the railing to land on the road. The sight of it is absurd.

Deleted from the Nightmare Fuel page of Aphex Twin for being Nightmare Retardant. I thought it was funny, though.

• However, one YouTube comment manages to suck all the creepiness out of (Windowsill) with this:

"Woah, finally a song that captures the mood of trying to brush dust into a dustpan but there's always that fucking line of dust that you can't get in, it gets smaller and smaller but never goes away. I will play this song next time I need to dust with a dustpan."

• Lament on removed/renamed/dead tropes, derived from a poem featured in Silent Hill 2:
  Dead tropes, dead tropes, swinging from a tree
  How many dead tropes do you see?
  Links turned red or directed away
  Reeking of misuse and better days

Marble Hornets Nightmare Fuel Dump

For the "Other" section of the Nightmare Fuel page for Marble Hornets. The content removed was too big, so I put it in this separate folder instead.

• Nightmare Fuel is the point of The Slender Man Mythos.
  • We're all frightened by the Slender Man, but the scariest aspect of it is probably how he was specifically created to become a Memetic Mutation Urban Legend, and that people have actually started hearing rumors and having literal nightmares about him. Almost as if it worked too well.
  • Marble Hornets in particular has the honour of being worthy of this list despite nothing really actually happening. For crying out loud, this series made a guy opening a door and walking through into one of the scariest moments ever.
• The page for the Marble Hornets DVD currently just reads "See You Soon" with music that is pure fear in its most distilled form.
  • While the "See you soon" is gone now, the fear is still there. Also, Clicking "Buy Now" used to send you to a Jump Scare.
    • It got worse with the Second Season DVD. The first disc's main menu more specifically: The design follows around a bare light bulb fading in to show the menu options and later fades out in a loop. However, whether it be intentional or just a Good Bad Bug, when it fades in the second time, the menu options don't show up.
• Masky's mask. It's ominous, almost wrong.
  • The weirdest thing is how it seems to be either smiling slightly, or completely blank. Either way, it does not say much good about who wears it.
• The series takes place in Alabama. The two roads in the Introduction are Country Road 52 and then Highway 31. The locations in Entry #5 and Entry #21 are in Oak Mountain State Park. For those who live in Alabama, it means that everything is happening around where they live.
  • It's also been confirmed by Word of God. They all live in Alabama, and based on how they talk about it, they absolutely hate it.
• Dear God. From the first entry where you first see Slendy, to Entry 11 where you will scream "He's in the house!" all the way to the utter fear of Entry 19 where someone is watching you sleep. Does nothing to you and then with a cut of the camera you are gone for 3 hours and have no idea what happened. Lastly, on the Meta side: the idea that Jay is now a target simply because he was curious about what freaked out his friend and wanted to figure out what was going on.
  • To really drive this all home, let's go more in-depth with the Mythos. The focus is on a Humanoid Abomination (who provides the trope page image) who is really tall, very thin, and has no face. His "arms" are actually tentacles, and he may actually be a humanoid tree. He can teleport himself and others anywhere, he gives people a mysterious cough, and he drives people insane. And sometimes, he doesn't really bother trying to attack his victims right away. Instead, he simply stands there. Outside your window. Or in your living room. Or right by your bed. Just biding his time. Doing nothing. Absolutely nothing.
    • The only two times he could ever been thought to actually do anything physical in MH is when he enters a character's bedroom and the character is later seen with blood on his face, and when there is a mysterious fire. That's it. And yet it makes him so many times creepier than if he actively attacked people. Mostly, he just stands there. Watching you. Screwing with your mind. Watching as you slowly drive yourself crazy out of sheer paranoia...
  • A particularly common idea in the Mythos is that the more you read about Slendy, the more likely it is that he'll start following you, too, to the point where Maduin of A Really Bad Joke once did an experiment where he introduced three people to the stories by different methods and tracked how long it took for Him to find them. Aside from the one who was introduced via Nightmare Retardant Memetic Mutation, it was three weeks or less.
• One word: Psychosomatic. When watching these videos, it's not at all uncommon for people to start having headaches, coughing for no apparent reason, becoming more and more paranoid, and having trouble sleeping. There are perfectly good reasons for all of it. Staring raptly at a computer screen for hours at a time watching the videos would be enough to give anyone a headache; rapt fascination is likely to lead to a person neglecting to drink enough while watching, the resulting dry throat makes you cough; who wouldn't be paranoid after watching these? And did you know that paranoia is a major cause of insomnia and poor sleep? But the paranoia is enough to make most people disregard other possible causes for the headaches, coughing, and bad sleep so they assume Slendy is really out to get them now. It's honestly rather brilliant.
• For anyone that suffers petit mal seizures, aka absent seizures, some of the behavior of characters can be kind of scary when it's caused by the Operator. These seizures usually manifest as moments of 'staring spells' but sometimes suffers will walk around and hold conversations with no memory of what just happened, among other things.
• Have fun watching this series if you have Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, or even the Common Cold - as with most other Slender Man stories, his presence can be detected if a person gets a sudden coughing jag. Guess what that means for you?
• At one point, the Marble Hornets site was just an empty black screen with one small caption: "Pending investigation, this site is not available." However, the site is back to normal now. Use Way Back Machine, I guess."
• Someone made an instrumental song named after and based around the Operator that manages to perfectly capture the atmospheric horror and ambiguity of the character.
  • They also made a song dedicated to Totheark that is similarly freaky atmospherically and aesthetically.
• This series becomes a lot scarier when your name is Jay or Tim.

FNAF World "Funny" Dump

So large it had to be split into a separate section altogether.

The "other" section - no reason given for its removal.

Other

• While Mangle's suicide seems dark and scary, it could be just a form of Black Comedy. Like Mangle could have killed itself because all the gender debates drove it insane.
  • Others suggest that Mangle bit into the paddleball and is refusing to let go, like a dog with its favorite toy. (Which, considering foxes are in the canine family, isn't too much a stretch.) Or is legitimately stuck to the ball somehow and is feeling very frustrated.
  • It's also less horrifying when you realize that robots don't need to breathe, so it wouldn't be able to kill itself that way.
  • The teaser itself is a Visual Incredibly Lame Pun as Mangle hangs out a regular basis.
  • It is holding onto the ball with its mouth, and its eyes are turned down to look at the second endo-head, who is looking back at it with a "The hell is wrong with you?" expression. So no suicide, just silliness.
  • Some people actually laughed at the reaction and outrage to the teaser. Even though it was jarring since this happened to one of the more popular characters, they pointed out those same people who flipped over the image would've been cheering had it happened to Balloon Boy instead.
    • This becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when the next teaser image displays some version of Balloon Boy torn to shreds.
    • Turns out that it is actually Ballboy due to the propeller cap being too small and his head being too big.
• Someone edited the FNAF World trailer and completely omitted the Curse Cut Short.
  • The best part is it's played in a way that makes it look like the cupcake is saying it.
• Although Scott pulled the game for negative reception, it did have a large number of positive reviews. How many? 87%.
• In one Steam topic about the game (topic contains major, MAJOR spoilers), Scott had this to say.
  Not ego, I just figured a lot of people might want to kill me at this point.
  • This also counts as Heartwarming Moments due to all the support people gave him after this statement.
• Have you wondered what the initials in JJ's name stand for? A copyright leak that was discovered before the game was released reveals that it stands for JayJay. What makes it so funny is that it should've been obvious at the start since her initials have the same pronunciation as her full name.
• On a Reddit forum about Chica's Magic Rainbow, Scott warned the fans that they would regret their obsession about the thing. And he was absolutely right.

The "fan-made" section - removed because fan content isn't part of a work's page.

Fan Made

• This joke trailer is a good laugh from start to finish. Highlights include the Five Nights at Fuckboy's reference at the start, the box art images and the captions for the first four games, the "immersive, complex storyline" where Foxy tells Freddy that the Purple Guy is his son, with M. Night Shyamalan saying "What a twist!", and the game being set for tomorrow, announcing a sequel (with a box art that's just a reverse of the first game's boxart) set to be released in two weeks on Uplay. Also doubles as Hilarious in Hindsight, for predicting the overly long "Starring" gag from the actual trailer, jumpscares being a part of combat, and Souldozer making a cameo in Update 2.
  On FNAF 2: It sure is a sequel - 7/10 IGN
  On FNAF 3: Alright, so this is the last game now right? - 8/10 Gamespot
  On FNAF 4: But we're not even at freddy's [sic] anymore, shouldn't it be like, "five nights at some kids house" or something? - 11/10 Deviantart
• This comic that parodies a classic SpongeBob SquarePants joke with Fredbear complaining (contains MAJOR spoilers to the original game and Update 2).
  • ...and she's taken notice of it being on this page.

Alan 900900900:I wish I could say it was I but... It wasn't.

• David Near, a Youtuber known for making fanmade voices for multiple CreepyPasta characters and who even made his own utterly frightening interpretations of the franchise's characters before voice-acting appeared in the series, made a few voices for some characters in this game. Each one is positively hilarious, but the best one has to be David's take on Browboy, who angrily complains about people calling him that name and saying there's nothing wrong about his eyebrows. In fact, the whole reason the guy is evil is because folks always make fun of him and don't call him by his true name: Ernie. His Porkpatch voice is equally hilarious, where the guy is portrayed as an over-enthusiastic Villainous Glutton who wants to eat everything in sight. His dialogue is a little frightening, but then again, he sounds like a robotic version of Yoda.

Planning Pages

• Planning to make a page for the Kirby Superstar Adventures series by WiiTheNinja, an obscure YouTuber who last made a video 13 years ago. From the series, he is best known for "Kirby Bloopers", surpassing over 100K views, and it's the only video of his I have seen. If I can, I can watch the other videos and see if I can make a trope page out of it under Kirby Superstar Adventures.

The Sliding Scale Of Strangeness

Note: This list is currently unfinished, and likely won't get work done on it often.

This is a scale for how weird or bizarre a work may get. The higher up the scale, the more strange elements are thrown in, and the less comprehensible it'll get.

This will be divided into seven categories:

• Level 0: The work is completely normal, and there are absolutely no weird elements at all. At the chance that there is something strange, it would likely be normal or realistic enough for audiences to not be surprised by it. Placing Funny Animals in everyday situations may reach this level at lowest.
• Level 1: Some fantastical and wacky elements are thrown in, but there are still pretty normal situations in the work.
• Level 2: Amps up the weirdness a bit. You may find some stuff that seem out of place, unrealistic or bizarre, but the work is generally coherent and comprehensible enough.
• Level 3: Gets even weirder. At this point, there will be some stuff that can't be comprehended or explained at all. Some bizarre moments can get explained, though, and the work will still be clear for the most part.
• Level 4: Audiences might start to be more withdrawn by this level due to the amount of weirdness. Things that may make people feel weirded out/uncomfortable, or just feel strange in general, can be found here. The work is still comprehensible, but less so than the previous levels. However, not everything is weird, and there is still a lot the audience can grasp in their minds.
• Level 5: Full-blown weirdness. Plots vary; on one hand, there's a fairly understandable plot, but on the other, there's a plot that's just too bizarre to be explained or justified. Expect everything here to be as weird as possible without completely blowing one's mind. Disney Acid Sequences tend to be here, though it may not affect the placement of a work in its entirety.
• Level 6: By now, the work is just too bizarre to be understood by anyone, even for people with fondness of the strange. The work generally goes above and beyond Quirky Work with one weird element after another, and often veers into Mind Screw territory. Besides at least a few elements, trying to actually comprehend the work is out of the question.

Notes:

• While the standard Western Animation, Video Games, Anime & Manga, Film, Live-Action TV, Music, Web Original and more are accepted here, standalone things such as Music Videos may qualify.
• When editing, it's best to leave a note explaining how the work fits the level it's in. That way, people will understand why it's there.

This list is formatted in folders marked by levels, which are below.

Level 0

• 12 Angry Men ^note Fairly realistic jury duties. Nothing inherently weird happens.
• Caillou ^note The show is entirely about the mundane slice-of-life adventures of its eponymous four-year-old protagonist, and nothing especially unrealistic happens.
• Sesame Street ^note Various monsters with different personalities go about everyday activities. Nothing especially weird in the main series, though some segments can reach higher. (e.g. in "Count to Ten With Nobody", you can understand that it's supposed to teach you counting, but it's presented so bizarrely that it comes off as potentially unnerving, and lands at a level 4.)

Level 1

• Clumsy Ninja ^note Would be at 0 if it weren't for magical potions and talking animals, at the least. Or the Ragdoll Physics.
• Disney Magical World ^note One half is a general life sim game in Castleton. The other is about fighting ghosts in the dungeons. Nothing too weird for any higher levels.
• Dumbo ^note For the most part, with the protagonist flying and such. However, the Pink Elephants on Parade scene is a 5, close to 6.
• The Gray Garden ^note Probably the least weird out of all of Deep-Sea Prisoner's games; the characters include angels, demons, gods, and the monsters you meet along the way. The former three are all humanized, and, besides using their powers, have pretty normal days. The plot is also understandable: Ivlis and his demons from the Flame World invade the titular garden, and it's up to the four main heroes to stop them.
• Harry Potter ^note A young boy goes to a Wizarding School, and faces numerous magical threats during his time there. The situations are pretty normal; the presence of magic puts this here, and most of the magical situations are fairly standard for their genre (casting spells, wizard battles, magical creatures etc.). There are some elements that may reach higher levels, such as the Dementors and time travel elements in the third book.
• Henry Stickmin Series ^note The game features a bunch of stick people and features tons of fails that analyze the consequences of actions. Some are fairly realistic, some are unexpectedly realistic, but quite a few veer into fantastical elements. Nevertheless, the series is fairly understandable.
• Minecraft ^note You play in a fairly realistic cubic world. The number of fantastical monsters and other items puts this here.
• Pokémon ^note Various fantastical creatures fight against one another. Plots are usually simple, involving the main character working up their way to the Pokémon League to become the region's champion, along with a subplot usually involving the regional evil team. Some of the weirder elements, such as certain Pokémon designs and the more supernatural occurrences bring it to a borderline 2.
• Requiem for a Dream ^note A story about the consequences of drug addiction, that, while mainly grounded in reality, is placed above 0 due to certain unnerving and strange sequences, such as Sara Goldfarb's hallucinations, including her fridge coming to life.
• Sonic the Hedgehog ^note Anthropomorphic characters with superpowers, and some of them are abnormally-colored. Everything still looks "natural" or fairly normal to the audience, though.
• Super Mario Bros. ^note The franchise as a whole. Most of the bestiary in the games seem out of place (if not bearing no resemblance to real life animals, plants or objects at all) to make them implausible in real life, and Mario himself absorbs mushrooms, flowers, and more to gain new powers. The series is still very understandable, and the grand majority of people will understand it very clearly.

Level 2

• The Amazing Digital Circus ^note A lot of the weird elements are mitigated since the series is shown to take place in an old computer game. The cast members are quirky but not too weird, though a few are weirder by design alone, such as Zooble. The plot is easily understandable: Pomni finds herself in the titular Circus run by the wacky AI Caine, who forces its inhabitants to go on adventures, and she hopes to find a way out while interacting with the other residents of the circus. Some of the weirder elements include: people who have gone off the deep end turning into large, shadowy blobs with eyes all over, a sequence where Pomni finds multiple unconnected things in doors, and a scene towards the end, where Pomni goes insane trying to find an exit in an office building which seems to never end. Nothing extremely bizzare, though, and once again, justified due to it taking place in a video game.
• Dreaming Mary ^note At first, the game gets up to a light 1 due to there not being that much weird stuff, and the weird things that do happen is justified by it being a dream. It gets up here later on due to the darker elements that come into play, which is still explained by the game being in dreams, such as a shadowy monster with a horrifying Nightmare Face that represents the protagonist's abusive father figure, and the ending questions whether the real life is a dream or not. Despite creepier stuff like this, it doesn't get too weird, and the plot and gameplay is straightforward.
• Five Nights at Freddy's ^note Could potentially be a 1 thanks to the concept of ghosts haunting animatronics; however, the lore and elements of the series get more complex as it goes on, including the concept of Remnant, which explains how an antagonist won't stay dead despite being burned multiple times after death, put it at this level. The plots of the games are generally simple, where you work as a security guard in a pizzeria and have to defend against the haunted animatronics (though some shake up the formula). That is for the surface plots; the lore, on the other hand, is a bit more tricky to grasp.
• Friday Night Funkin' ^note You play as a blue-haired rapper who speaks in beeps and boops. You rap against others to win your girlfriend over; simple enough, so far. Then we have a man-eating lemon monster who sings creepy songs about eating and mutilating the protagonists, and the two also get trapped in a Dating Sim game which a ghost was sealed in. And, somehow, a bunch of other Newgrounds characters are connected to this. It's still fairly simple, though.
• My Singing Monsters ^note The game is about a variety of monsters who play their part of a song on different islands. It's at level 2 since the designs of some of the monster can get pretty weird, but they only sing, play an instrument, or contribute to the song in another way.
• Plants vs. Zombies ^note Living plants with fantastical abilities fight a horde of zombies, with some types of zombies having fantastical abilities of their own. Your neighbor means well, but is very crazy, wearing a pot for a hat and selling you bacon. There isn't anything too weird, though.
• Scribblenauts ^note Maxwell can create pretty much anything with his notebook. The concept is simple enough, but all of the possibilities that you can write may lead to some rather strange stuff on occasion, such as a rainbow winged necromantic supersonic kindhearted elephant.
• Spongebob Squarepants ^note It's a show about an anthropomorphic sponge that most people, including children, understand very well, but the wide amount of fantastic elements and weird moments push it up here. Most of it is played for comedy (e.g. random bursts of live-action), though some are more played for horror (e.g. the "Alone" scene in "SB-129"). Special mention goes to the episode, "Squidward in Clarinetland", which becomes a 6 after Squidward enters the locker. This would be even higher if not for the grand majority of the plots being easy to understand.
• Steven Universe ^note The majority of the cast are aliens known as "Gems" who are actually Hard Light projections, and the titular character is half-human, half-gem. Nevertheless, it's still fairly comprehensible, except for a few moments, like the events of "Cat Fingers", and astral projection being explored in at least one episode.
• Undertale ^note Various fantastical creatures (skeletons, living fish, anthropomorphic goats etc.) live in an underground society. They mostly act like normal people with their own personalities, some quirkier than others. The monsters you encounter range from simple frogs to planes that act like Tsunderes. Most of it is in good fun, and a lot of the weirder elements are humorous, but some, such as the mystery behind W.D. Gaster, aren't. The plot is understandable: a human child of Ambiguous Gender falls into the Underground and has to find their way out, encountering a lot of monsters along the way. Some of the meta elements border on 3, since depending on what route you take (spare all of the monsters, kill all of the monsters, or somewhere in between), the game will play out differently, and may sometimes deconstruct the elements of traditional video games.
  • Deltarune ^note Is at this level by extension, as it's based on UT. It features many of the same characters and some new ones, but the plot and setting are different. You are another ambiguously-gendered human who lives in a friendly town, and you discover various "Dark Worlds" with a purple lizard bully and a friendly goat mage. As with the Undertale, there are a lot of eccentric characters, such as a clown/jester who believes that he is free and the rest of the world is behind bars, despite being in a jail cell, a robotic queen who capitalizes all of her words and doesn't use punctuation, and a crazed salesman who often uses hyperlinks in his speech while trying to sell you items, and has a mysterious past, as well.
• VVVVVV ^note Technicolor humanoid beings crash land in a mysterious dimension. You are in control of one who can flip up and down. The amount of Gravity Screw and the space-inspired atmosphere makes it reach at least this level; nonetheless, the plot is understandable, being that you must rescue your crewmates after the crash, and maybe collect some trinkets on the way, too. Game mechanics are somewhat easy to follow (though it can get quite difficult at times, though some of it is optional), and nothing too out-of-place is in the game... except for the Sad Elephant, which is probably only there due to being from the creator's dream journals.
• YU+ME: dream ^note The first part is a 0, being a fairly realistic high-school drama about lesbians. The second part gets weirder: since the setting is in Dream World, anything can happen. We have a blue-haired girl with bead eyes and a unique train of thought, a girl who can change her head, characters having the ability to change shape at will, a girl with a swirl for an eye ruling the land in her castle guarded by bears, and constant Art Shifts. There is an understandable overarching plot for this part, focusing on Fiona searching for Lia after they are separated, but the dream elements make this part at least a 3. It's been balanced out at 2.

Level 3

• Adventure Time ^note A boy and his shape-shifting dog go on adventures in the post-apocalyptic land of Ooo. On one hand, the characters can be quirky (a lemon-headed being who often screams and is known for his erratic behavior, a sentient video game console with a wild imagination, and more), but are fairly understandable. On the other hand, the show is known for being weird, with the characters frequently being placed in bizarre and outlandish events. Most plots are understandable, though, and a lot of the weirdness is played for humor. However, there are a few moments and episodes that go beyond the show's standard level of weirdness, such as "King Worm", where Finn and Jake are brainwashed by the titular character and experience surreal visions, and "A Glitch is a Glitch", which is animated in 3D and features reality breaking apart thanks to the Ice King letting a virus loose on the world.
• ASDF Movie ^note Various cartoon characters are placed in outlandish situations with varying degrees of weirdness. It's all Played for Laughs.
• Doki Doki Literature Club! ^note A lot of gruesome and mysterious oddities happen during the game's second act, though it's justified since it's Monika, who is tinkering with the game's script and making the game seem like that. The plot is fairly understandable, at least.
• Gravity Falls ^note Most of it deals with creatures that probably would be at level 2, or even reach level 3 at some points. However, the situations get weirder as the series continues, and a floating triangular demon named Bill Cipher brings his own share of weirdness, especially in the series finale, "Weirdmaggedon", which is around level 4.
• Ib ^note The plot is straightforward: a girl gets lost in an art museum and has to escape. Things get strange from the very beginning, when she stumbles upon a parallel dimension that resembles the real world at first, only to delve into an odd dimension where various forms of art exist, with some being sentient and/or hostile. The final area is a world where everything is made of drawings.
• Kirby ^note You play as the eponymous pink puffball, who can fly and inhale foes to gain their powers, which grant you all sorts of crazy abilities. This would normally sit under a 2, but what brings this up a level is the inclusion of rather bizarre things, especially the final bosses, which are usually a dark contrast with the cheery exterior of the games.
• minus. ^note The title character is a reality-warping girl who uses her powers to cause mischief or help people. Besides her, her influence, and the presence of ghosts, the world is pretty normal. The comic is at this level due to the constant bizarre and outlandish things minus's imagination produces.
• No Through Road ^note A horror web series that gets up here for the mysterious, but fairly comprehensible looping roads, radio song, and appearances of the masked man. The first three installments fall under this; meanwhile, the fourth installment is a 5 due to the sudden (and confusing) inclusion of time travel elements.
• OMORI ^note You play as a boy named Sunny, and his dream alter-ego Omori. Omori's travels can get pretty weird, from the surreal landscapes of Headspace (including stuff like fighting a download window, turning into toast when you die etc.) to the psychological horrors of Black Space (much of which has a deeper connection to the story). Both are around 4, much like their inspirations. Meanwhile, since Sunny is in the Real Life, nothing especially odd happens in his home of Faraway Town (except for some hallucinations, and continuous appearances of Something). The two are balanced to reach 3.
• PaRappa the Rapper ^note  The series averages here due to the wackiness of the world itself. We have a rapping dog who tries to win the affection of a flower, an onion who is a karate instructor, a driving instructor moose named after a dictator, a Jamaican frog who has been working in a flea market "since [his] mother was a baby", and a lot of more - all of whom are paper-thin. Nonetheless, the plots are easy to follow: the first game involves PaRappa trying to get with his love interest Sunny Funny, and while the second game's more outlandish plot about PaRappa and his friends having to stop a worldwide noodle invasion lands it at 4, it's played for laughs and is still easily followable regardless.
• Wadanohara ^note The game starts out at 1, focusing on the adventures of a young witch and her familiars. Most of the sea animal characters are all anthropomorphic, the characters use magical spells, and the biggest threat they have to stop is an invasion from another kingdom... that is, until the traitor reveals himself. Everything goes to hell after that, with the sea turning black and red, skeletal fish-like creatures taking the place of regular enemies, wandering through passages with tons of eyes, and the title character briefly going into a dream sequence where everyone is dead. This part is a 4; after this sequence; everything goes back to 1 again. Overall, it's balanced at this level.

Level 4

• Azumanga Daioh ^note At first glance, a fairly typical and humorous Slice of Life show. There are lots of exaggerated expressions that would probably land this at a 2. Then, there's Chiyo-Chichi, a floating anthropomorphic cat who appears out of nowhere and is able to talk, a bunch of weird and messed up moments with Osaka, and things that may seem unfamiliar to viewers in the West. With all of the weirdness that follows, the series probably goes no higher than this.
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared ^note Each episode starts with an inanimate object "teacher" singing to the three puppets about a subject, like creativity or the Internet. Then, the insanity happens. It ranges from surreal 3D images of the characters dancing around, to more gruesome stuff such as flesh cakes. And that's not even getting into Episode 6, when we find out the truth about the Teachers and the whole series...
• EarthBound ^note You're a normal boy in a seemingly normal world. Then, you get attacked by dogs, alien invaders, mushrooms, dinosaurs, huge robots, cultists, ghosts, piles of sludge, and even trees. You also find talking sesame seeds, a guy who likes to photograph you just about anywhere, a city where reality gets flipped on its head, a valley of humanoid creatures who have "boing" as a Verbal Tic, and many more. That being said, the plot is fairly simple, being about you working your way through many lands to save the world from an evil force, Giygas. Except when you get to him, the game gets bizarre again, and not in a lighthearted way...
• ENA ^note The main character is styled after designs of some of the more surreal artists in history (like Pablo Picasso), and has two different personalities signified by the changing of her face. Her best friend is a floating, talking moon, and together, they travel very surreal landscapes that look like they came out of LSD: Dream Emulator. Plots are usually straightforward, though sometimes they are presented in a more abstract manner.
• Puyo Puyo ^note A bunch of very quirky characters, among them a half-demon boy obsessed with insects, a dancing fish man, a warlock whose power source is sweet foods, and a rich girl with a crush on Satan himself, settle all their disputes by playing a puzzle game where they arrange and eliminate cute blobs called Puyos. A number of characters regularly use magic spells during Puyo matches, but it's otherwise a mundane setting. The games mostly have clear plots, usually involving the characters having to go find and stop some threat.
• Silent Hill ^note Plots are usually straightforward, usually with a character ending up in the eponymous town and having to face monsters, sometimes inner demons. However, the psychological horror elements put this up here, and there are a lot of unexpected scares that come out of nowhere (like the digital, distorted yelling in the Historical Society/prison from the second game, or the red light in the Borley Haunted Mansion from the third game); it's all part of the series' nature. The locations do look fairly normal, though, except in the Otherworld.
• Um Jammer Lammy ^note A spinoff of PaRappa the Rapper that is somehow much weirder. The entire plot occurs in at least 15 minutes and involves Lammy having to get to a show on time. Along the way, she gets into a series of mishaps that bizarrely last only a minute or 2 despite it taking longer in-game: she helps a firefighting dalmatian put out a fire, then eats too much pizza and is Mistaken for Pregnant by a caterpillar nurse who takes her in to put bunny babies to sleep, and then she gets sucked into a plane which she needs to fly because the pilot, now absent-minded due to various concussions, can't do it anymore. Lammy does these by imagining things, ranging from hoses to babies, as guitars upon hearing the word "casino" due to a motto she heard from Chop Chop Master Onion in a dream. After she leaves her guitar on the plane and crafts a new one with the help of a lumberjack beaver, she slips on a banana peel, dying and going to hell (or being slingshotted to an island in the American version), where she has to perform for a strange alien Idol Singer. She eventually leaves and makes it to the concert on time, but not before encountering a darker doppelganger of her. The final stage isn't as crazy as the rest of the game, as it focuses on Lammy performing with her band MilkCan at the concert. Borders on level 5 due to its rapid and bizarre style of presentation, but otherwise it's comprehensible enough to remain at level 4.
• Yume Nikki ^note Very weird stuff. A lot of is justified because the game is All Just a Dream, and there are some normal stuff in the dreams, too. This still doesn't explain stuff like Uboa or the entirety of the Stairwell area.

Level 5

• The Demented Cartoon Movie ^note Played for humor; pretty much anything can happen on a whim, much of it barely makes any sense, and there isn't an overarching plot save for some shared characters and Running Gags, along with the two guys watching the movie. Such examples include a Cartoon Bomb that causes a nuclear explosion after saying "zeeky boogy doog", a googly-eyed watermelon that flies in at random with a fanfare, a weight that crushes anything for no apparent reason, and much more. It's not at level 6 due to the whole meta aspect and most of the segments themselves being pretty understandable despite the wacky randomness that occurs.
• Mogeko Castle ^note The game starts out normal, with our main protagonist Yonaka getting lost and happening upon the titular castle. However, once we get in, things get weird: its main inhabitants are Mogekos, yellow cat-like beings with an creepy obsession with young girls, except for a few who help you along the way. The interior of the castle itself contains bizarre passageways that logically wouldn't exist in a real-life version of the castle, with weird sights such as passages floating in mid-air with Mogekos bouncing around everywhere, and a cloud-like area with lots of chickens. The plot is straightforward, with it focusing on Yonaka trying to escape the castle, but the two main endings get weird and dark, especially the "True" ending.
• OFF ^note Many characters break the fourth wall; the residents of the Zones are Inexplicably Identical Individuals who breathe smoke, extract meat from cows, walk on metal floating in liquid plastic, and are terribly addicted to sugar; you can meet a giant floating whale in a balcony; "purifying" essentially means "massacring everything in sight"; and, apparently, your son is also your creator. It would be higher if the plot elements weren't treated as natural, along with the presence of fairly normal things, such as the player character resembling a baseball player.
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt ^note The plot is fairly simple: two less-than-heavenly angels have been booted about of Heaven, and must collect "Heaven Coins" to get back in. But when the first episode is about fighting a colossal ghost made of human waste, you know you're in for something weird. That's not getting into facts like the GIR expy actually being a ghost in disguise, all of the sexual references thrown in, and especially the Gainax Ending.
• Popee the Performer ^note The series focuses on the titular Popee, a human-rabbit thing who lives in a circus with his assistant Kedamono (a blue wolf with infinitely changing masks), and, later on, his father Papi. What occurs in the shorts is understandable to a certain degree, but it is presented in a style of complete insanity, often due to Popee's psychotic behavior and the dynamics and abilities between the three (two in Season 1). More often than not, one or more of the characters dies at the end of the episode, there is destruction and violence galore, and there a bunch of bizarre occurrences. Some examples: what seems to be a mirage turning out to be a portal to an actual place which floods the desert when Popee somehow whips out a giant sword and throws it at the portal, Popee becoming a fly thanks to his spirit being sucked in a vacuum with the insect, a giant wolf summoning a barrage of WW2-era jets on the cast, Popee swallowing Kedamono (who somehow fits into his stomach) and then a sword, causing both of them to get impaled, and much more.
• Rejected ^note The film focuses on failed commercials. The "commercials" themselves are very surreal, to the point of some not resembling commercials at all. The film gets more bizarre as it progresses, and it literally falls apart at the end.

Level 6

• Alfred's Playhouse ^note The story about a mentally disabled dog with a dictator alter ego. There is a plot but it's presented with such insanity that it can be hard to grasp what's going on, save for a few moments of lucidity. The final episode dials back the weirdness a bit by having Alfred's dictator side explain things about the Playhouse, why it exists, why Alfred is in it, and how he came to be, but is just as dark as the other two.
• The music video for "Gantz Graf" by Autechre. ^note A VERY Surreal Music Video, combined with all of the Sensory Abuse in the song, puts this here.
• LSD: Dream Emulator ^note All you know is that you're dreaming, and you explore your dreams. However, what's actually in the dreams is truly bizarre, even for any kind of dream.
• Revenge of the Sunfish ^note The only things in these game that remotely make any sense are the beginning and ending, which tie into a story of an alien invasion of sunfish from outer space being put to a halt. Everything in between is complete randomness with no connection to each other, sometimes with segments lasting barely a few seconds before moving onto the next.
• Youtube Poop ^note A case in which this is played for humor, as YTP's main source of humor is twisting and messing up a source as much as possible. There are some videos with apparent plots, like The Nightmare Before Christmas Who: Skellington's Revenge, that get lower, though.

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