Friday Night Funkin' Minus is a Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod created by LagoAnims and initially released on January 31st, 2021 with only Beta Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Daddy Dearest, and Skid and Pump. Its most recent big update, Version 2.0, adding Minus versions of Mommy Mearest and Monster as well as the other two Boyfriends, came out on May 18th of the same year.
The team initially had plans to have another major update that would turn the mod from a simple sprite swap to a full on overhaul, but due to complications (in particular LagoAnims suffering from burnout and disillusion with the current state of the mod), it was decided that the mod would be rebooted... though this reboot also ended up being cancelled mid-development.
The appeal of this mod is that it changes character designs to look more like their icons, often taking some creative liberties with it, like turning Pump into Skid's puppet, or giving Pico a dinosaur costume.
The plot is not too distinct from the base game. Here, you take on the role of one of three Boyfriends: Beta (the yellow one), Blue (the...well, blue one), and Mean (the light blue-and-red one), all three of whom are friends and in love with a single Perky Goth Girlfriend. Because they have the same love interest, they end up having a friendly competition over their beloved. How? By out-rapping their opponents, of course!
Minus is available to download on Gamebanana
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This game provides examples of:
- Adaptational Modesty: Daddy Dearest does not have his shirt half off like in the original game.
- Adaptational Nationality:
- In the vanilla game, Girlfriend and her parents are American. In Minus, they're British.
- Pico in both his home series and FNF is American. In Minus, he's Australian.
- Adaptational Nonsapience: In Spooky Month, Skid and Pump have around the same level of intelligence, with Pump occasionally depicted as the more sensible one. In Minus, Pump is a seemingly lifeless puppet.
- Adaptational Species Change:
- In both Spooky Month and Friday Night Funkin', Skid and Pump are two human children. In the mod, Skid is a vague skeleton creature and Pump is a puppet.
- In both his home series and Friday Night Funkin', Pico is human. Here he's a lizard.
- In Tankmen and Friday Night Funkin', Tankman is a human soldier. Here, he's a robot.
- Adaptational Wimp: In Friday Night Funkin', Girlfriend is able to sit on the stereo just fine with only her hair blowing in Week 4. Here, she is holding on for dear life with a clearly panicked look on her face. In addition, Girlfriend is chill about having guns pointed at her in Week 7, but Minus Girlfriend is outright nervous.
- Age Lift: Daddy Dearest looks a fair bit younger, being more svelte and brightly-dressed.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Everyone's skin color is the same as their icon, leading to things like Beta Boyfriend being yellow, Pico being green, Girlfriend being crimson pink, and so on.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: Downplayed for Beta Boyfriend; he does not wear a shirt, yet he does not have any visible nipples. However, he's still shown with balls on the game over screen like the other Boyfriends.
- Blush Sticker: Girlfriend now has two circles on her cheeks to indicate blushing.
- Bones Do Not Belong There: If you fail a song as Mean Boyfriend, his skeleton shows a bone in his cap, despite it not actually being a part of his head.
- Cock Fight: The three Boyfriends are not only trying to out-rap the rivals they meet each week, but they're also trying to out-rap each other for the right to date Girlfriend.
- Color-Coded Characters: The Boyfriend trio have theme colors in the character select screen.
- Beta Boyfriend - Yellow
- Blue Boyfriend - Blue
- Mean Boyfriend - Red
- Cool Shades: Mean Boyfriend puts on shades in his right pose.
- Decomposite Character: The various icons Boyfriend's had during the original game's development were turned into separate characters: the blue icon with a red cap found in the "grafix" image became Mean Boyfriend, the original yellow icon became Beta Boyfriend, and the final blue icon became Blue Boyfriend. Blue resembles canon Boyfriend the most, while Beta retains his "history" with Pico.
- Disapproving Look: Every time thunder strikes during Week 2, Mean Boyfriend simply rolls his eyes as if he doesn't care, unlike the other two Boyfriends who flinch from the thunder instead.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The game wasn't originally a full game and instead was images and xml files that had to be dragged into the assets folder of a Friday Night Funkin' installation. It also only had Beta Boyfriend as a playable character. Come Version 2.0, however, and it turned into an executable with a character select screen, as the other two Boyfriends were now added.
- Evil Brit: Girlfriend and her parents are British as confirmed by Word of God, and Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest are particularly this by intentionally putting the three Boyfriends in danger.
- Fear of Thunder: Played straight by Girlfriend (like in the original), Beta Boyfriend, and Blue Boyfriend, as they react with shock when there's a storm in Week 2. Averted by Mean Boyfriend, who just gives an unamused expression.
- Hat Damage: In Mean Boyfriend's game over screen, a bone inside the brim of his cap breaks.
- Humongous Mecha: Tankman is a giant Walking Tank with treads going up the backs of his feet and large cannons mounted onto the fronts of his hands.
- Institutional Apparel: Monster wears a tattered and bloodied straitjacket as a sort of shirt, with his arms and legs completely free.
- Interspecies Romance: Aside from the obvious fact of three humans in love with a demon girl, Beta Boyfriend seems to have similar history with Pico as their canon counterparts do, which may mean that he used to date a member of the Lizard Folk.
- Leg Focus: While already in play with canon Girlfriend, Minus Girlfriend has thicker thighs than in the vanilla game, and even wears fishnets. Word of God explains that this was unintentional as they lacked anatomy skills in drawing, but ultimately left her design as is since a lot of people liked it.
- Lizard Folk: In this mod, Pico is depicted as a humanoid-lizard-thing in a dinosaur costume.
- Perky Goth: Girlfriend is a goth according to the tutorial week's title which is shown with her darker fashion sense, but she's almost always smiling, just like in the original.
- Related in the Adaptation: In the original FNF canon, Monster and Skid are unrelated, with Monster just being, well, a monster who tricked him and Pump into capturing Girlfriend. Here, Monster is Skid's dad.
- Retired Badass: Aside from Daddy Dearest, Mean Boyfriend is actually an ex-rapper who picked up the mic again for a shot to date Girlfriend.
- Stealth Pun: Pump is a marionette with a microphone that Skid moves around - you could call him a "Pumppeteer".
- V-Sign: Played straight for Blue and Mean Boyfriend, who give peace signs to the camera, but subverted for Beta; when prompted to do a v-pose, he instead does the Shaka sign.
