Smashtasm is a Super Smash Bros. animated web series by Shippiddge
, taking place in a universe where Super Smash Bros. Melee took the series in a new direction towards becoming an online MMORPG.
Super64, a newbie to the game, was invited to a "tournament server" by a player named Killa7. But upon arrival to the location, Super64 was attacked from behind and sent to another stage. There, he befriends the user 1337f0x who tells him he got conned—tournaments aren't even a thing, and griefers just use the concept to lure players in and cheap-shot them, increasing their online rank in the process. Super64 decides he has to find Killa7 and knock him down a few pegs...
The first season ran for 10 episodes, released between 2007 and 2008. The second season, filmed in Brawl, spanned 5 episodes released between 2008 and 2012 before it was seemingly abandoned. 8 years later, and with Shippidge's blessing, the machinima group Smashing XIII produced the sixth episode and released it on their channel on June 6th, 2020.
The entire series can be found here.More information can be found at the character sheet.
This series has examples of:
- Alternate Universe: This series has real life characters playing as Super Smash Bros. characters in an online game.
- Ascended Extra: In season 1, Lamp had a fairly minor role, and was pretty much a Mook, but, in season 2, he takes a more important role.
- Batman Gambit: The only way to get rid of Greg at the end of Season 1.
- Big Damn Heroes: The entire cast in episode 10
- Bilingual Bonus: Greg and l33tfox's full-l33t conversation. Spell out what they're actually saying as opposed to what the subtitles tell you. A few YouTube commenters already have.
- Calling Your Attacks: "I'MMA FIRIN' MAH LAZOR!"
- Characterization Marches On:
- Lamp's character quirks were not as prominent in Season 1 as they are in Season 2.
- Greg had some aspects of 1337f0x (Leet speak being among them) in Season 1 in his first two appearances, but to perhaps distinguish the two more, later appearances go for a more snarky sense of humor.
- Cliffhanger: Because of the Orphaned Series example below, season 2 ended on this.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Lamp, and to some extent, PrincessH, who also mixes in Ax-Crazy for convenience.
- Dumbass Has a Point: In Season 2, Lamp, an unquestionably Cloud Cuckoo Lander-ish character, has an intelligent moment when he tells Super64 that he should have interrogated the Meta Knight player who knew where 1337f0x was instead of KO'ing him.
- Felony Misdemeanor: Online world of Smash Bros. shutting down by a bunch of hackers? We're all gonna die!
- Have a Gay Old Time:
"Faggot - A pile of sticks. If you thought it meant something else, then you are a terrible person. Colon P."
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In Season 1, Lamp loses a stock in a battle with Super64 by having his own Charge Shot reflected by Super64's Cape. His reaction sells the moment.
(Lamp gets hit by his own shot and Star KO'd)
- Imagine Spot: The scenario that takes place in Dark Sheik/PrincessH's head, right before she betrays Super64 has a Heel–Face Turn instead.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: With Guitarmasterx7's Brawlgasm and Dexterboy 124's Wolf's Retarded Mission and Peach's Slutty Adventure. Beans is a crossover between the three.
- Leet Lingo: 1337f0x. At one point, he and Greg have an entire conversation spoken in (mock-)l33t, complete with subtitles.
- Mythology Gag: There are several Stealth Puns and Injokes in this series regarding other Nintendo games.
- Only Sane Man: Super64 as the cast grows stranger and stranger.
- Orphaned Series: Before its finale, Season 2 was on an indefinite hiatus since 2012. With Shippiddge stating he lost motivation, the chances of the series continuing were pretty low.
- Plot Hole: 1337f0x in particular holds the Idiot Ball quite a bit. In the climactic battle of the Melee season, it would have been very clear to any spectators that Super 64 wasn't dead yet because there was no ring-out explosion, yet 1337f0x immediately believes that he and Super 64 have lost. At one point in the second season, 1337f0x is trapped in a glitchy custom stage; he tries to log out, but logs back in at the exact same trapped spot. The very same episode mentions that there are lots of different serves he could have logged into instead. For that matter, there is no reason he should have been captured in the first place if the game doesn't penalize him from logging out (or if it does, he could have turned his modem off).
- Put on a Bus: Several characters didn't return for Season 2, as their voice actors have had problems contacting or their mics don't work, among other things.
- Running Gag: Every time that Super64 has a flashback, it tends to be inaccurate. The characters tend to notice this, even when they're inside Super64's flashbacks.
- Samus Is a Girl: BlakBerri, a Ganondorf player from Season 1 who defeats Link several times before revealing her true voice.
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Schedule Slip: Season two. It wasn't until a year after episode 3 that episode 4 was released, and episode 5 was released two years after that. - Serious Business: Moreso than the
"Stop Having Fun" Guys. When did saving the online world of Super Smash Bros. become life or death? - Shout-Out: At the beginning of episode 4:
- Spin-Off: Grant and Gront, introduced in the second season, got a short-lived one.
- Ditto Lamp and Pimpachu, which only lasted two episodes. Their spin-off was only Smashtasm-related series to receive a definitive conclusion, but even then...
- Split Personality: PrincessH implies this, saying something about the other half of her brain.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Compared to Brawlgasm, very optimistic.
- Sliding Scale of Seriousness Versus Silliness: Compared to Brawlgasm, very serious.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: At one point during the villains' Evil Laugh, Lamp somehow sneaks behind them and joins in before being caught.
- Visual Pun: When Princess H asks "Can love bloom on the battlefield?", Super64 decides to test that theory by going to Battlefield, saying "Nope".
