"My name is Duke Nukem!
And I am Doom Marine!
Call me Walter!
And I'm Commander Keen!
We live here in Strifedale
Morning, night, and afternoons!
How thoughtful of you to download
this cheesy pilot episode of
Strife Toons!"
And I am Doom Marine!
Call me Walter!
And I'm Commander Keen!
We live here in Strifedale
Morning, night, and afternoons!
How thoughtful of you to download
this cheesy pilot episode of
Strife Toons!"
—The theme song as sung on the first episode.
StrifeToons was a 2006 4-episode flash-animated webseries by Andrew Kepple and Peter Bridger that was based on the latter's Strife Strips. It primarily follows the misadventures of Duke Nukem and his friend Doom Marine in a town called Strifedale, which is populated by various shareware video game characters.
The episodes can be watched on Albino Blacksheep here: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/strifetoons/
Tropes include:
- Blatant Lies: In the first part of "Marine and the Dukeburger Outlet", Duke claims that Doom Marine wasn't choking on a bandaid that was in the DukeBurger, but laughing because he's "happy" that he ate said DukeBurger, in spite of visual evidence to the contrary.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Parody: Parodied with the "Marine and the DukeBurger Outlet" duology. Duke initially played off a purple bandaid in Doom Marine's burger as an equivalent of a golden ticket in response to an irate crowd, then tries distracting the Marine by giving him a tour of the restaurant kitchen. When accidentally knocking off a box of burger buns, he continued the half-assed distraction by acting as if there's a magical lake of burger buns mixed by a waterfall, and later on he enlisted two employees - one a lemming and the other an imp - to sing a song as the "Impa-Limpas", a name that Duke halfheartedly thought up.
- Couch Gag: The second part of the theme song was different in each episode.
- Facepalm: In the second part of "Marine and the Dukeburger Outlet", Duke does a facepalm in response to Doom Marine playing in a pile of burger buns on the floor.
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: In between episodes 2 and 3, Duke and Marine was answering a fan letter asking when episode three gets released. Their answer is simple: "When it's done!"
- I Ate WHAT?!: The DukeBurger patrons were not pleased when they saw that Doom Marine's burger has a bandaid in it that they formed an angry mob. And then when the Marine got a job cleaning up the kitchen floor and promptly announced proudly that he will swim naked in the burger buns whenever he wanted, the crowd gave a disturbed pause, and shortly afterward the DukeBurger got closed for health code violations.
- The Stinger: In each of the three episodes:
- Episode 1: A blurb that in spite of the group's insistence, there was a reference to Duke Nukem in the Doom movie, with one side character named Duke.
- Episode 2: Marine BSODs in his Imagine Spot, with Duke laughing in the background.
- Episode 3: The wall collapsing on the Marine after he crashed through it, causing him to BSOD.
- Stylistic Suck: The movie that Doom Marine and Commander Keen put up for Duke Nukem amounted to this, consisting of cheap puppetry and paper props recorded through Keen's dad's camcorder. The recording date and the fade/shutter options remained on screen throughout. The credits was even crudely drawn on a sheet of college-ruled paper and held in front of a shaking camera.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: The ending of "Marine and the DukeBurger Outlet, Part 2" has Duke laughing as he puts a purple bandaid in the tin of cat food intended for Marine behind his back, muttering under his breath he'll kill the Marine. Through this, it was revealed that Duke put the bandaid in Marine's burger with the intent to make the latter choke to death.
