Web Animation / Doctor Lalve

Today, we describe Doctor Lalve here.^note YEEEEEEEEEEE!!! *explosions*

Doctor Lalve is a Garry's Mod video creator based in Germany. He joined YouTube in 2010, but his channel exploded in popularity around the time he uploaded The Engineer Guide, and his videos (post-The Engineer Guide) regularly earn views in the hundreds of thousands. He has become rather influential and popular in the GMod animation community for being one of the best when it comes to Deranged Animation and some of his jokes that have become rather memetic (namely the Tiny Desk Engineer).

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Tropes that appear in this channel include:

• Absurdly Bright Light: Half-Life 3 in Fabulous Life.
• The Ace: Parodied with the Super Pro Class videos, witch Lalve states are simple parodies of pro-player montages.
• The Alcoholic: The Demoman, obviously. It's taken so far up that he is usually acting drunk and unable to form coherent sentences, either speaking gibberish or belching, with only a very few discernible words inbetween.
• All for Nothing: Played for Black Comedy where in Spooktacular 2 Engineer sacrifices a Scout in a ritual to get a sentry, only to be told they don't need it.
• Animation Bump: Played for Laughs in Meet the Medic, but it's Demoman, in which footage from the original Meet the Medic is paired alongside the typical Gmod animation for a comedically jarring effect.
• Awesome, yet Impractical: The Tiny Desk Engineer, and by extension the entire Tiny Desk Team line. The commercials even state outright that these products are "extremely useless and very expensive, but worth the money no matter what you do".
• Ax-Crazy: Engineer, typically.
  • The Heavy also tends to get this, especially notable in Heavy Problems and Heavy Disaster.
  • The Wheezing Soldier is another example of this trope, but his reason is being the embodiment of those forced to wait for what we desire in our video games.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Believe it or not, the Wheezing Soldier is one for impatience. As his name says, he's always wheezing in despair and has probably the Nightmare Face to end all nightmare faces because of his growing desire for what he wants in his games. Notably, having to wait for them, which doesn't do so well for his sanity.
• Anti-Villain: Engineer The First is apparently the Late Greater-Scope Villain behind the events of Spooktacular 3, but he did it since he is understandably pissed at McMadic for killing him, stealing his company and life's work, and possibly tarnishing Tiny Desk Corps reputation as a whole.
• And I Must Scream: Absolutely nobody but Engineer on The Engineer Show is having a good time on set. Spycrows mouth is stitched so the audience can barely hear his pleads for help, Medinette is screaming in terror with every movement he makes, Soldiertons only communications are through screeching, The Hooting Sniper momentarily breaks out of his a-pose state only to be removed, and the kidnapped Heavy has had his face removed, unable to do anything but scream internally. The only cast member who downplays it is Demoman in A Box, still fully sentient but clearly uncomfortable with his current situation.
• Banana Peel: Played with and very much exaggerated. Instead of banana peels, entire bananas occasionally show up, and whenever a character so much as touches them, they are sent violently flying in random directions, and most likely explode at the end.
• Bar Brawl: Ultimately subverted in Heavy Disaster between the four (well, three, since one of them got crushed by rubble he made.) Snipers and most of the bar attendees, where it's a Curb-Stomp Battle in the former's favor that happens offscreen.
  Super Pro Sniper: Skill always beats luck.
• Bedmate Reveal: The end of The Demoman Guide. Demoman is revealed to be sharing a bed with an Apples Sniper. This upsets him.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Super Pro Sniper is usually a coward extraordinaire obsessed with "unicorn power" (Heavy Problems and Spooktacular are some good examples of this). Not so much in Heavy Disaster, where he's one of the main villains and a Not-So-Harmless Villain at that. He first helps the Heavy's scheme with capturing the narrator. Then he manages to sneak upon the Engineer and nearly strangle him to death, managing to toy with him afterwards, before pulling out his Sniper Rifle. If it weren't for a Big Damn Heroes moment, Engie's quest could've ended before it begun. He wasn't done there, as he lead a team of Snipers into the bar and quickly take out all the attendees other than Magic Spy, despite immediately being a man down and pissing himself, as per his gag.
• Big Bad: The Heavy in Heavy Problems and Heavy Disaster.
• Big Bad Wannabe:
  • Dr. McMadic in Fabulous Spook appears to be responsible for the ghosts haunting the mansion the Ghost Hunters goes to. However, when he tries to revive Merasmus in the climax, his body just disappears along with the ghosts that were retaining the Ghost Hunters.
  • The Pennywise Expy Sniper in Spooktacular is set up as the episode's Big Bad, being feared by all the characters, but once the Engineer starts taking on him, it quickly becomes clear the Sniper is out of his league.
• Big Ball of Violence: Pops up occasionally.
• Big Electric Switch: Dr. Mc Madic flips one in the climax of Fabulous Spook. It makes Merasmus' body disappear, alongside all his minions who were holding the heroes at gunpoint. Oops.
• Big "WHAT?!": Occasionally pops up, usually using a voice clip from JonTron.
• Black Comedy Rape: A few times, usually courtesy of a Spy. One example is the instance in Super Pro Sniper where the Sniper gets pinned to a wall, and a Spy grows a knife out of his crotch and proceeds to violate him offscreen.
• *Bleep*-dammit!: FUCK! *Censor*
• Bolivian Army Ending: Several of the TF2 Guides end with the main character surrounded by enemy forces and facing certain death, notably the Engineer Guide (surrounded by Spies with sappers), the Spy Guide (surrounded by Pyros who set him on fire again), and the Scout Guide (surrounded by sentries).
• Bring My Brown Pants: The Super Pro Sniper Dude often deficates a jar of Jarate whenever he's scared.
• Bullet Catch: The Heavy pulls this off against the Spy in Heavy Problems. He fires it back, but that gets caught as well by the Super Fabulous Combine Squad X.
• Butt-Monkey: The Scout cannot catch a break in Doctor Lalve's videos. He's routinely killed again and again, is routinely humiliated or violated by the other classes, and is regarded by everyone with virtually no respect or tolerance. Even the narrator of the Class Guides, normally civil to the other classes, clearly takes the piss out of mocking and insulting Scout. Somewhat justified as the Scout, both in universe and out, is a Bratty Half-Pint Smug Snake Jerkass of the highest caliber even by Team Fortress 2's standards, which makes it more fun to see him get humiliated in a variety of nasty ways.
  • He only barely manages to get away scot-free in Spy Transcendence, though the video does start with Spy kicking his ass.
  • The GMod content of Antoine Delak, who regularly collaborates with Doctor Lalve, is similarly merciless on the poor Scout, most notably in his short role in Heavy is Dead.
  • Scout has the worst showing in Lalve's Super Pro series, as his montage mostly consists of him dying horribly even after he performs difficult plays like nailing an opponent with the Sandman and Wrap Assassin.
  • The RED Soldier in "Champion Fortress" keeps getting hurt even in events he's not participating in.
• Call-Back: In one scene of Spooktacular 3 - Tiny Desk Catastrophe, the Soldier thinks "I got a good feeling about this!" & Engineer thinks "Kill them all!", much like how they did in Fabulous Spook (though in Engie's case it was "Kill all your friends!" in the latter instead).
• Card-Carrying Villain: Heavy in Heavy Disaster. At one point, he even goes so far as to imitate Aku!
  Heavy: EXTRA THICK!
• Cat Fight: Spy prompts one in Fabulous Spook by calling up Miss Pauling to fight The Other Mother. They even make cat noises!
• Character Catchphrase: The dancing Engineers have "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" as one, as it's what they yell while dancing and exploding.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Any character in the videos likely has some shades of this, but the Soldier in the Wait Your Match series stands above them all with shades of Ax-Crazy.
  • Doctor Lalve himself could be seen as this, because only a madman would make videos like this.
• The Comically Serious: The Super Pro Sniper, given his whole expert getup as well as his relatively slick visage while he wears the Lilly version of the Cockfighter.
• The Cameo: Rubberfruit shows up in "The Heavy Guide" to steal Heavy's Medic at the wedding.
• Continuity Cameo: ‘’Fabulous Life 2’’ shows up on Soldier’s PC for a second in ‘’Wait No More’’.
• Continuity Nod: Apparently, all of the videos share a continuity. Heavy Disaster unites them all.
  • Some good examples being that the Spy from She Spy is so magical helps the BLU Engineer's party, there's only one Stormtrooper with Pyro Ren, and the doctor from Fabulous Spook is one of the main villains.
  • And, of course, the Guides are referenced in videos that have no relation to them.
• Country Matters: Overlaps with Freeze-Frame Bonus in The Scout Guide.
  i hate the scunt so much.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Soldier very nearly does this to the squad in Spooktacular 2, had it not been for Spy threatening to kill Soldier's bucket, portrayed as a close friend to him.
• Dance Battler: Hilariously enough, the Engineers, weaponizing the explosions in their square dances.
• Death as Comedy: But, don't worry. Death is a meme now, too.
• Death Notification: Let's sing the meme song with my awesome robotic voice.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In Spooktacular, Dr. McMadic apparently joined the Ghost Hunters after they defeated him in Fabulous Spook. Turns out to be a downplayed example; he was doing social labor for what happened after Fabulous Spook as revealed in Spooktacular 3.
• Demonic Possession: In Spooktacular 2 Soldier gets possessed by a cursed object shaped like a Half Life 3 box.
• Deranged Animation: Even by Gmod standards.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Heavy kills an Engineer with a literal bullet punch after being called ugly.
  • He also calls in backup Heavies in tanks, bomber planes, and even an ICBM on Scout...just because he tapped Heavy on the shoulder with his bat.
  • Dumbledore asked VERY calmly is an entire dose of this; with Dumbledore, absolutely enraged at Harry (potrayed by a Scout) for putting his name in The Goblet of Fire to the point he tries killing him with damn near everything he can use; guns, knives, Youtube Kids content, a tank, and even assistance from Motifa.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Exploited by Francis to knock out a stormtrooper in Star Space Wars
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Doctor Lalve Love Bucket.
  • Other examples include the G-Man's unsettling appearances implying that he is a rapist, and the Engineers strange behavior of making Human Sacrifice's for sentries or anything else makes them look like occultists. Doesn't help that their corporation has a church installed.
• Driven to Suicide: Heavy, after finding out that Half-Life 3 has DLC episodes.
• Drives Like Crazy: Demoman in Meet the Sniper, but it's Demoman. First, he does a complete 180, crashing Sniper's van, then he somehow gets the van into space, and then he drives backwards, indoors.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: In Spooktacular 2, in order to exorcise the thing that is possessing Soldier, Engineer decides to build a sentry to help somehow. After going through the trouble of sacrificing the Scout in order to spawn a giant demon Engi which gives him the sentry AND being told by Spy that they don't need it, only to actually get the chance to use it after Demoman's exorcision attempts failed...he just slams it down on Soldier.
• Dwindling Party: Quite Among Us, which spoofs Among Us, has the mercenaries getting killed one after another until there are only two people left: the Soldier and the Engineer, while it's all made to look like the latter is the impostor, the Engineer actually promptly dies, making the Soldier believe he won, but also gets killed by someone or something unseen.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: In Happy New Yeee! by, who else, the Engineers.
• Epic Fail:
  • In Heavy Problems, the whole cast of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 empties their entire magazines towards the Heavy, only to have a single bullet hitting the ground nearby him, before Rochelle incapacitates all of them with a rocket launcher (except Ellis, who went to free the Narrator), leaving the Spy completely dumbfounded.
  • In Fabulous Spook, Dr. McMadic tries to revive Merasmus, by flipping a Big Electric Switch, but instead it just makes Merasmus's body disappear along with the minions that were holding the Ghost Hunters back.
  • In Spooktacular, Bill in the Show Within a Show Cooking With Bill, after a Smash Cut, managed to set the entire kitchen on fire. Even he's not even sure how things got to this point.
    • In Spooktacular 2, Cooking With Bill returns. The kitchen is still on fire, and Bill is either dead or asleep on the counter.
  • Also in Spooktacular, the Engineer of the Ghost Hunter manages to blow up their luxurious car by just trying to unlock it with its remote key.
• Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: The closed captions in Meet The Pyro, where trying to translate Pyro's hallucinations^note Something English combined with Japanese
• Every Car Is a Pinto: Exaggerated in Spooktacular, where the Ghost Hunters' luxurious car manages to explode by merely unlocking it with its key.
• Evil Counterpart: Super Fabulous Combine Squad X has one in Super Swiggity Combine Squad Z.
• Excuse Plot: Fabulous Life and its follow up feature a zany telling of Half-Life 3's story, with Heavy's gameplay as a framing device.
• Face Death with Dignity: In Happy New Yee 2018, once the Heavy realizes he is surrounded by hundreds of Engineers, all he can do is internally think to himself, "yes" as he stares on.
• Failed a Spot Check: The Ghost Hunters in Spooktacular somehow forgot their weapons back at their headquarters, and it's only after they arrived at their point of rendezvous that the Soldier realizes it.
• Fairy Tale Episode: Little Red Texan Hood.
• Fed to the Beast: In Tiny Desk Corporation, it is explained that every so often a single Engineer is sacrificed to please a creature called the Oglagladagon. We just barely catch a glimpse of it as it swiftly yanks a poor Engineer away to his doom.
• Flat "What": Heavy's reaction when his bullet gets caught.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The words "Such greenscreen" can be briefly seen during one scene of Champion Fortress.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The Scout regularly gets crap from the other members of the Team, The Scout Guide features the one time the Narrator uses outright aggressive language towards its subject in the "Guide" series (and features far more injuries toward the Scout as part of its gags), and the same Guide is also the second-shortest of the bunch (only just barely surpassing the Soldier's).
• Fun with Subtitles: A common occurrence with sound effects.
  • The sound of pleasure ^note A RED Soldier blankly staring at a TV displaying the SMPTE color bars pattern while a 1kHz sine wave tone plays
  • *The sound of Ded Vodka* ^note 6 BLU Heavies exploding while saying "Dead" after being shot by a RED Soldier's shotgun.
  • Something Russian ^note What was actually said: Heavy: WHO TOUCHED MY SANDVICH?!
  • Something Scottish ^note What was actually said: Demoman: *drunken gibberish*
  • Something French ^note What was actually said: Spy: I feel très bon!
  • Baguette ^note What was actually said: Spy: I'm back!
• Fun with Acronyms: We're finally given the paranormal investigators names in their commercial, the Anti Spook Squad.
• Groin Attack: Done to Heavy by Bill in Spooktacular.
• Hat of Power: Magic Spy's hat, which grants him magic powers and enables teleportation.
• Humanity Is Insane: How Half-Life 3 was started and why aliens never visit.
  • BREEN FACE
• Human Sacrifice: Engineers sacrifices Scouts to their dark gods to get sentry guns.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: The Soldier near the end of Fabulous Spook:
  Soldier: Men, these are the facts as I understand them. One: I am not afraid of no ghost. Two: I am scared, you maggots!
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Exaggerated with the entire Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2 cast in ‘’Heavy Problems’’, first with Bill, Zoey, Nick and Coach, who go absolutely insane with their bullets yet only get a single bullet on the ground, and then Rochelle who ends up incapacitating all of them except Ellis with a rocket launcher.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: When a possessed Soldier is thrashing the team near the end of Spooktacular 2, Spy manages to get through to him by reminding him of his favourite bucket, which allows Soldier to shake off the cursed object’s hold over him.
• Instant Soprano: After Heavy mocks Bill in Spooktacular, he ends up being caned in the balls by the old man, and squeaks out a very high pitched “Pootis” before clutching his groin and doubling over.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: The Demoman often speaks in drunken moans and gibberish, but the other characters have no problems whatsoever understanding what he says.
• Incompetence, Inc.: If not a toned down case of Evil, Inc., Tiny Desk Corp. is most likely this. The staff consists of mostly braindead Engineers handling dangerous products, the employee's are used as templates for a lot of the corporations products and they didn't even mind when someone killed their former boss just to steal the position. They also have some...unsettling undertones.
• Kick the Dog: Heavy was about to receive the Heavy Guide in Spookception: The Prequel, only for it to actually be the Scout Guide, with the narrator saying no one liked the Heavy while the Scout laughs devilishly.
• Kill It with Fire: The Anti-Spook Squad defeats the monster in Spooktacular 3 - Tiny Desk Catastrophe by gathering Tiny Desk Corps Pyros, leading the mosnter into a trap and unleashing the Pyros on it.
• Leitmotif: Super Fabulous Combine Squad X has the Team Flare battle theme.
  • The Super Swiggity Combine Squad Z has Guzma's theme.
• Limited Animation: Being a Gmod animation it embodies and embraces this trope, being a result of what Gmod animators have to work with and around, it also forms part of the charm of Gmod animations.
• Made of Explodium: Usually when the sped-up Square Dance music starts and very fast dancing Engineers show up, things start to explode.
  • Actually, just about anything can blow up for no apparent reason other than Rule of Funny and pure randomness.
  • Taken naturally up to eleven in the Demoman Guide.
• Mad Scientist: Doctor McMadic, who first appears in Fabulous Spook.
• Magic Hat: The Spy's hat from The Spy is so magical.
• Metaphorgotten: In The Heavy Guide when it demonstrates Heavy's canonical PHD in Russian Literature:
  Heavy, at a podium in front of hundreds of other Heavies and one Scout disguised as a heavy: If hand is rotten, you cut off SCOUT!!! But if heart is-YOU SHOOT SCOUT!!!
• Mini-Me: The Tiny Desk Engineers, which were created by Tiny Desk Corporation's founder Engineer the First.
• Monster Clown: The Pennywise Expy Sniper who kidnaps Scout and acts as the Big Bad of Spooktacular.
• Mood Whiplash: Soldier's death in Quite Among Us is accompanied by a slowly rotating camera shot and the Mass Effect death sound, only to suddenly switch to the elimination splash effect from Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout.
• Moose and Maple Syrup: As of Spooktacular 2, the Ghost Hunters are apparently residing in Canada.
• No Indoor Voice: Most of the cast, especially the Soldier.
• Nothing Is Scarier: The monster in Spooktacular 3 - Tiny Desk Catastrophe is never on screen in full and for long.
• One-Word Vocabulary: "Apples," for one of the Snipers in Heavy Disaster.
  • Often any BLU Snipers that appear only say "Apples".
• Paranormal Episode: Fabulous Spook, Spooktacular, and Spookception: The Prequel.
• Pet the Dog: Despite their relationship with the Scout, they go through a fair bit of hell to rescue him when he’s abducted by the Big Bad of Spooktacular
• Peace & Love Incorporated: Tiny Desk Corporation. Despite their popularity, the corp is filled with very expendable employees, dangerous products and the fact their business seems to be located in Hell itself accessed via volcano elevator. The company salespitcher^note the man with the TV head seems to defy it a bit, since he isn't afraid to openly and happily express several problems and...other things the company is victim to often. Overlaps with Incompetence, Inc..
• Psycho Rangers: The Super Swiggity Combine Squad Z is this to the Super Fabulous Combine Squad X.
• Random Events Plot: The plots usually tend to start with a basic premise, then go from there.
• Real Dreams are Weirder: His Dream Diary series aims to reconstruct the dreams he has. The first (and only) instalment is... pretty out there.
• Reboot Snark: The ending of The Super Movie Guide tells the viewer not to worry if you don't have any ideas anymore, since "you can make a live-action animation remake of your movie, and everyone will still watch it, no matter what".
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Heavy starts his because a Heavy Guide hasn't been made yet.
• Rule 34: This exists In-Universe for the Sandvich.
• Running Gag: The Engineer square-dancing and screaming while causing explosions, often with a horde of fellow Engineers.
  • In Champion Fortress, Soldier getting injured or killed numerous ways, most often by being shot.
  • The Spy Guide features the eponymous Spy repeatedly being set on fire by enemy Pyros.
  • Recent videos have Spy turning into baguettes anytime he explodes or gets hurt.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Heavy in Heavy Disaster when Doctor Mc. Madic walks in on him making two sandviches kiss.
• Subverted Kids' Show: The Engineer Show, owing up to who it's based off of. For starters, several of the actors, notably Spycrow, Medicnette and Hooting Sniper are all forced to partake in the show, endlessly screaming inside, and one of the episodes showcasing a typical Engineer ritual involving a Scout being horrifically turned into a sentry. Even worse, people who try changing the channel when it's on like the unfortunate Heavy are kidnapped and turned into new cast members.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: In Fabulous Spook, after all their efforts to capture the haunted mansion's ghosts, the Ghost Hunters ends up releasing all the ghosts they captured back into the mansion because its owner refused to pay the $400,000 bill.
• Shout-Out: Outside of the general references to gaming and pop culture as part of one-off jokes, there are some recurring jokes or entire videos that are shout-outs:
  • Inside Fortress.
  • Pyroren often quotes Kylo Ren.
  • Several shout outs go to Half-Life 3.
  • Joe Barbaro from Mafia II sometimes stars in the videos, saying some variation of his notable quote "Holy shit, what a fucking disappointment!", which was notably used in kitty0706's videos.
  • Another Kitty0706 reference in Happy New Yeee! 2021:
  Heavy: Yes (subtitles say "sandwich")
  • Yet another Kitty0706 reference appears in the long awaited The Heavy Guide. In Team Fabulous 2, there is a scene where a Heavy flies by (on his minigun) before coming back to where an enemy soldier and, saying "We fight like men", mows the guy down. One scene about a minute through The Heavy Guide has something very similar happen, only with the heavy saying "Fight Me!" before mowing down a soldier AND a Pyro.
  • From the Anti Spook Squad's commercial onward, Spy dresses like Alucard.
  • In Spooktacular 3 - Tiny Desk Catastrophe, Heavy hears "The Lincolnshire Poacher" in his head at one point, which is a reference to this video.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Anything really, but especially when Engineers are involved.
• Stylistic Suck: Another Team Fortress 2 Video.^note Heavy and Stoopid Spy
• Sudden Downer Ending: The ending to Wizard School suddenly ends with the implications that the Spy killed his students.
• "Super Sentai" Stance: Both the Super Fabulous Combine Squad X and the Super Swiggity Combine Squad Z have these.
• Surreal Humor: Try to find something, anything, that makes coherent, long term sense in his videos. You will fail miserably.
• This Banana is Armed: Quite literally: in Fabulous Life Alyx pulls out a banana & shoots a group of zombies with it, blowing them up, since Gordon's weapons are all out of ammo.
• Tempting Fate: In Heavy Problems, after the Heavy stops Gordon Freeman, he tells him he needs more men. This is followed by an Engineer showing up and summoning dozens of other Engineers, who proceeds to do their dance that destroy the building, defeating the Heavy.
• Verbal Tic:
  • Most vocalizations from Demoman, if it isn't drunken rambling, consists of belching, even in his thoughts.
  • The Spy has his snorting.
  • Engineers have YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
• Villainous Valor: McMadic gets his time to shine in Spooktacular 3, blasting through the Tiny Desk Engineer-controlled exterminators when he knows his corporation is in danger. He also casually disposes the Man in the Machine that is now Engineer The First and gets past his Securiguards.
• Vocal Dissonance: The Super Pro Sniper during the bout with Spy in Heavy Disaster speaks with a very high-pitched voice. The Apples Sniper, meanwhile, has a baritone.
• Who You Gonna Call?: The "Fabulous Spook" series introduces the Anti Spook Squad, a quadrant of RED mercs who take care of monster problems of any variety, be it ghosts, Lovecraftian monstrosities or Scouts.
• Wimp Fight: Two Spies in Champion Fortress are preparing to fist-fight... and end up simply karate-chopping/blocking each other's hands repeatedly. But then it immediately turns into a MK-esque fight where the two spies end up doing X-Ray moves on each other.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: A Touching Story, is basically a completely deranged version of this tale.

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