Gory Toons is an animated web-series created by the YouTuber, HTFFanatic1999. The series officially made its debut on YouTube in 2021 and is currently in its fifth season.

This show is a Fan Work of Happy Tree Friends but as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover with other, unrelated works (such as South Park or Kirby to name a few). It keeps the signature Sadist Show formula, where at least one character almost always dies in each episode.

That being said, Gory Toons has other quirks as well, as some of the storylines can be as zany as the newcomers involved. These include road rage turned into aggravated assault, zombie rampages induced by stupidity, wacky racing with a deadly twist, and what have you. In fact, the episodes are possibly stranger than the Crossover premise itself.

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Gory Toons provides examples of:

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: This applies to anything and everything that has a sharp edge. Chances are, someone will be killed by it.
• Accidental Murder: Most deaths are usually caused in this manner.
• Adults Are Useless: Gory Toons makes full use of this trope. For starters, Pop, who was already known for his Parental Obliviousness, is by far the most prominent adult character in Gory Toons and arguably acts even more clueless than before. Lumpy, the Stotches, The Mole, Homer, and Peter are also heavily featured examples of this trope. Rule of thumb, all adults in Gory Toons are morons, with the sole exception being Clara, who's the Original Character who basically never dies anyway.
• Ambidextrous Sprite: SpongeBob's holes, Lumpy's inverted antler, and Nutty's lazy eye tend to change from side to side, often in contiguous shots. This is evidently a left over of Happy Tree Friends, which had the same issue.
• Animesque: While Gory Toons is mainly slapstick-inspired and focus more on the Zany Cartoon aspect, there's also a few anime tropes put in, which shouldn't come off as much of a surprise since the Kirby series, Wario, and the whole Super Mario Bros. franchise all were developed by Japanese companies. For example, expect the Cross-Popping Veins and Sweat Drop to crop up a bit. Many gestures commonly associated and used in Japanese works, such as the Eyelid Pull Taunt, is also a fairly common occurrence.
• Anyone Can Die: Many characters have died at least once, with Clara being a notable exception.
• Art Evolution: Season 1 was definitely the show at its choppiest, but the animation did slowly improved over time, which is slightly more evident in Season 2. By Season 3, many characters' designs were refined (e.g. Wario's design is fixed up, SpongeBob's design is more reflective of his Season 9-present look, Kirby's colors are more saturated, etc.).
• Art-Style Dissonance: For a web series drawn with a simplistic art style, it has gruesome moments. Plenty of them.
• Banana Peel: In Kirby's April Fools Smoochie, Kirby inhales a banana whole and spits out the banana peel. He then trips on it, causing him to bounce all over the screen until he's covered in bruises.
• Black-Hole Belly: In "The power of supernova", Kirby inhales the Miracle Fruit, transforming him into Hypernova Kirby, and proceeds to inhale everybody else.
• The Big Race: In "Dieseling Derby", and a hilariously gruesome one at that.
• Bizarrchitecture: In “And It Just Fixs”, where Pop’s house was inexplicably falling apart and started to horrifically mutilate Kirby at the most inconvenient times.
• Body Horror: Without a doubt. Complete with dismemberment, bloodshed, impalement, evisceration, Eye Scream, etc.
• Bloody Hilarious: Of course, who doesn't like seeing their childhood getting subjected to needless violence?
• The Cameo: Escargoon makes one in "Dieseling Derby"
• Co-Dragons: As of Season 3, Eric Cartman has either Kenny, Butters, and/or Clyde.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Quite a few episodes run on this. “Road Rage” is perhaps the worst offender. Linda strangles Wario to death and drops Kirby into a meat grinder with no remorse. At the end, Pop tries to defend himself by hiring Squidward to kill her. And then there’s the ending, where Cub sets up a trap to kill his own father for a petty reason.
• Cosmic Plaything: Any character in any situation is likely to be this. Often, they survive incredible things only to die from a throwaway detail anyway.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Naturally, many characters have been subjected to this at least once. It goes without saying, the merciful deaths are certainly the rarest deaths in the show.
• Crossover: This whole show is a crossover between Happy Tree Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, Kirby, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and Cuphead.
• A Day in the Limelight: Each episodes give at least one character their time in the spotlight.
  • Lumpy in "Zombodie Told Me" and "Moose With Loose Screws".
  • Nutty in "Sweet Dreams".
  • Flippy in "Good Fright!", "Bear With Me", and "Veteran's Vengeance".
  • Splendid in "Splendid What Mondon't".
  • Squidward in "Restless Meg Syndrome"
  • Mr. Krabs in "Krabby Klash"
  • Plankton in "Absorbent Voyage"
  • Kenny McCormick in "Moose With Loose Screws", "Dieseling Derby", "Good Fright!", and "Skate Park".
  • Stan Marsh in "Feline Good".
  • Kyle Broflovski in "Sand And Deliver".
  • Clyde Donovan in "Recess".
  • Wario in "Canine Chaos" and "Down The Snatch".
  • Larry Koopa in "Good Fright!".
  • Chef Pee Pee in "Blind Mistake".
  • Sonic the Hedgehog in "You're Too Slow!".
  • Homer Simpson in "Turkey Tussle"
• Deadly Rotary Fan:
  • In "And It Just Fixs!", Kirby gets his head ripped apart by a fan.
  • In "Opsy Tpsy", SpongeBob throws a fan at Wario, which tears him apart and spins him around until he is thrown into a water tank.
• Death Is Cheap: By the end of the episode, at least one character will be dead or otherwise horrifically injured, only to return the next episode completely unscathed.
• Death of a Child: Cub, Kenny, Cartman, Stewie, Jeffy, the list goes on.
• Demoted to Extra: Chef Pee Pee from SuperMarioLogan of all things was a pretty major character in Season 1. Then by Season 2, he received A Day in the Limelight and then becomes way less important.
• Denser and Wackier: For Happy Tree Friends. It's a lot zanier, with the storylines of many episodes being more over-the-top and cartoonish. Toon Physics are also cranked up to eleven. Though, it can be justified, given this is a Crossover with more nonsensical works like SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Disaster Dominoes: You all know by now — a character gets injured, they or others panic, this panic leads to an even worse injury or death, leading to a wider panic which tends to kill off those left standing.
• Disproportionate Retribution: This happens a LOT. For instance, in "Road Rage", Linda gets pissed at Wario enough to strangle him to death, just for Blowing a Raspberry at her.
• Dwindling Party: Many of the longer episodes have plots like this, especially where all the featured characters start off in some sort of group together. By the end, typically only one (or none at all) is still alive.
• Ear Ache: Stephen's ear drums are ruptured by a loud TV in his Smoochie.
• Early Instalment Weirdness: Season 1 had its fair share of this. Chef Pee Pee was actually the most reoccurring character behind SpongeBob, Cuddles, and Kirby. Inversely, the South Park residents were mostly Out of Focus, with Cartman being entirely absent and Kenny only appearing once in a brief cameo.
• Eat the Bomb: Wario does this in "Down The Snatch", where he swallows Poppy Bros. Jr.'s bomb.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: EVERYTHING! No matter what, and we mean no matter what, a character, object, or hazard will cause the death of at least a few characters.
• Eye Scream: And how.
  • In “And It Just Fixs!”, because of poor timing, Cuddles and SpongeBob’s firework causes Kirby to stab his eye with a hammer.
  • SpongeBob is on the receiving end of this twice in "All For Ski". Firstly, Lumpy's severed antlers jabs both of SpongeBob's eyes. The second one involves the latter getting impaled in the eye by a tree branch.
  • Mr. Krabs gets stabbed in the eyestalk by a knife in “Blind Mistake”
  • Toothy gets yet another eye injury in "Restless Meg Syndrome". When SpongeBob attempts to fix Toothy's back, he pressed too hard on Toothy's chest, making both of his eyes swell up. One of them eventually pops out of its socket, with only the optic nerve keeping it intact. SpongeBob hastily tries to repair Toothy's gouged eyeballs, but two minutes later, he ends up gouging them out completely.
  • In “Zombodie Told Me”, Nutty gets both of his eyes gouged by Zombie!Cuddles with his own glasses.
  • In the Gory Toons break, "Uncandy Resemblance", Toothy accidentally stabs himself in the eye with a lollipop stick. Ring a bell?
  • In “Crappy Flush”, SpongeBob’s eyes are penetrated by a toothbrush, a bottle of alcohol, a shaver, and a plunger, the latter which impales his entire brain.
  • In “We Round Love”, Petunia is pelted with several eating utensils, including a fork to her eye.
  • In "Love Ride", SpongeBob gets stung in the eye by a bee, which gives him an allergic reaction that causes his head to explode.
  • In "Veteran's Vengeance", Toothy gets his eyes bashed out by Flippy with a hammer. Fliqpy then grabs the optic nerve of Toothy's eye and ties it around two girders, using it as a makeshift slingshot with a saw.
• Facial Horror: In "Blind Mistake", Chef Pee Pee's face gets horrifically melted off by grease.
• Fingore: Chef Pee Pee suffers this, where his fingernails are scrapped off in "Zombodie Told Me".
• Formula-Breaking Episode: Most of the "irregular" episodes return in Gory Toons, including:
  • The HTF Breaks: A series of one-minute episodes.
  • Love Bites: A series of short Valentine's day skits.
  • Kringles: Short Christmas episodes.
  • Smoochies: Animations with three options, all three of which result in the character dying.
• Half the Man He Used to Be:
  • In "Zombodie Told Me", Cuddles pulls off the blade on Cutter Kirby's helmet and uses it to slice him in two.
  • In "Jelly Tales", Petunia gets split in half.
  • In "Late Parody Toons", Pop has the upper half of his body sliced off.
  • In "Good Fright!", the lower half of Kenny's body gets ripped in two when he tries to free himself from a bear trap.
• Halloween Special: "Zombodie Told Me" in 2021 and "Good Fright!" in 2023.
• The Hero Dies: The main character(s) usually die by the end of the episode. Kenny McCormick has yet to survive a starring role at all.
• High-Voltage Death:
  • In "You're Too Slow!", Kirby gets electrocuted by a lamp until he violently explodes.
  • In "Moose With Loose Screws", Kenny is electrocuted to death by the toasters Lumpy uses as a makeshift defibrillator.
• Idiot Hero:
  • Splendid, who has little care for his job and kills more people than he saves.
  • SpongeBob. He's the closest Gory Toons has to a protagonist, and coupled that with his established stupidity, he's often the cause of it all.
• Improbable Infant Survival: Oddly, it was almost played straight with Cub (except for "You're Too Slow") and most other children characters at first. Gruesomely averted with Kenny McCormick, as expected.
• Iris Out: How almost every episode ends. In "The Power of Supernova", it mimics Kirby's own inhale on the pink puffball and compresses him into a bloody cylinder.
• Karma Houdini: Flippy often gets away with murdering as his evil self. His good self... not so much. Splendid also gets away with his dangerous antics due to being an Invincible Hero.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Wario leans into this role in most of his major appearances, such as "Road Rage", "Canine Chaos", or "Down the Snatch", where he is a huge Jerkass who finds pleasure in riling up the other characters, and as a comeuppance, he always dies a brutal fate in the most overkill ways.
• Kill the Cutie: SpongeBob and Kirby classify equally as the Happy Tree Friends, especially Kirby in both areas.
• Killer Rabbit: Many non-anthropomorphic animals in the show classify as this, like Whistle in “And It Just Fixs” and "Canine Chaos". Also, Kirby whenever he is the villain and for a literal example, Cuddles in the episode "Zombodie Told Me".
• Lethally Stupid: Lumpy, duh. But also SpongeBob, who predictably Took a Level in Dumbass and has the largest kill count in the whole show.
• Limited Animation: Gory Toons is an amateur series and it shows. Looped or recycled animation is fairly common, and other similar practices were rather evident. What's more, most character models are made of edited South Park sprites, assets that are extracted, photoshopped, or traced from the Happy Tree Friends episodes, or drawn using MS Paint. Season 1 is probably when the limited animation was at its most apparent.
• Made of Iron: Cro-Marmot, Flippy, Splendid, and SpongeBob obviously, since they are all able to survive situations and wounds that would kill a normal Toon, but Clara, who's notable for being the only original character in the show, deserves a special mention. She manages to survive all her appearances, even when her bathtub falls through the ceiling in "And It Just Fixs!" and she slips on a pool of water in the Gory Toons Break, "You Can Bake It". In fact, in two episodes that revolve around the main character wrecking havoc, like "Blind Mistake" with Chef Pee Pee and Flippy in "Veteran's Vengeance", Clara managed to be one of the only survivors in both.
• Mandatory Twist Ending: In almost every episode at least one character dies horribly.
• Man on Fire:
  • In "You're Too Slow", Cuddles and Toothy play with a match, which explodes into a flame when Sonic runs past them, setting all three characters on fire.
  • In "Splendid What Mondon't", Kirby's house is on fire for unknown reasons, and Splendid tries to defuse the flames by using Petunia's skunk spray as a fire extinguisher. Naturally, this only intensify the flames and causes Petunia to be set ablaze as well. Splendid hastily throws Petunia into the air, where she explodes and causes the whole city to be in flames. Splendid finally gets rid of the flames by blowing up Chilly, the snowman enemy from Kirby.
  • In "And It Just Fixs!", after suffering a multitude of injuries, Kirby's skinned corpse lands next to the fireplace, which erupts a flame that sets Kirby on fire. It's not what kills him, as he somehow gets rid of the flames when he jumps out the window, but he is now cooked for a hungry Whistle to eat.
• Medium Blending: A variant. Both the Happy Tree Friends and South Park residents use assets directly from their shows. Meanwhile, the other characters are drawn with the MS Paint software. It's even more apparent in Season 1 and 2, where the character designs were cruder and less polished.
• Mood Whiplash: Duh. Whether it be the episode beginning with a wholesome enough start only to regress into more violence, or they end with a lingering shot of a graphic scene, then a quick cut to happy, bouncy theme music in the credits.
• Mutilation Conga: Quite a handful of episodes will have at least one character (usually among the starring ones) gradually accumulate more injuries as they become the unluckiest being alive. Expect that character to suffer a slow and agonizing death. Major episodes that do this are "All For Ski", "Crappy Flush", "Moose With Loose Screws", "Skate Park", "Home Sweet Pineapple – Gory Edition", and "And It Just Fixs!".
• Mythology Gag: "Dieseling Derby" has several. The whole episode is titled "Dieseling Derby" and SpongeBob drives his hot rod from SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab, Dedede throws Gordos at the other racers like he did in the Super Smash Bros. series, and Escargoon from Kirby: Right Back at Ya! makes a cameo.
• Negative Continuity: The only way to keep the series going, or else everyone would be dead after about 5 episodes.
• Noodle Incident: In “Splendid What Mondon’t”, Kirby's house was already on fire through unknown circumstances by the time Splendid arrived there.
• Oh, Crap!: For when death is imminent and the characters are well aware of it. Larry Koopa gets several big ones in "Good Fright!".
• Out of Focus: For the longest time, Stan Marsh was little else but a Living Prop with no episodes centered on him. This has finally changed as of Season 4, where he was the starring character of his own short, "Feline Good", and suffered his first ever death.
• Pictorial Speech-Bubble: This usually shows up every now and then.
• Pun-Based Title: Almost all of the episodes.
• Rabble Rouser: When not the entire town, Sheila Broflovski and Pop tend to spearhead most of the town's riots.
• Rasputinian Death: If a character isn't killed instantly by something, chances are they'll go through quite a few more injuries before finally dying. The most well-known examples of this include Kirby in "And It Just Fixs!", Kenny in "Skate Park", and SpongeBob in "All For Ski".
• Rotating Protagonist: In each episode, at least one random character is given A Day in the Limelight — e.g. Pop and Cuddles being Too Dumb to Live, Kirby and SpongeBob being subjected to the Butt-Monkey and Mutilation Conga tropes, or any other character being The Protagonist of an episode. Of course, with a cast as large as this, the ratio is far from equal (for example, SpongeBob has a lot more starring roles than Splendid), but most characters have gotten their fair share of the spotlight at least once.
• Rule of Funny: The explanation of Gory Toons’ chaotic nature.
• Running Gag:
  • Poor Toothy is still racking up the eye injuries.
  • Oh my god, they killed Kenny! You bastards!
  • A running joke exclusive to Gory Toons involves Gordos being randomly tossed around. This happens in "Splendid What Mondon't", "Down The Snatch", "Dieseling Derby", and "Recess".
• Sadist Show: How else can you describe it? This show thrives on killing characters of your childhood.
• Second Episode Introduction: SpongeBob was the only character to appear in the first episode. Everyone else, including Cuddles, Kirby, and Pop, were introduced in the second episode.
• Serial Escalation: At one point, Splendid went from screwing up as usual to spreading a fire onto two separate victims to engulfing the entire city in flames.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Almost every episode, although some of the most noteworthy examples include “All For Ski”, where SpongeBob is subjected to torment through no fault of his own and “Road Rage”, where Pop spends the episode trying to escape a homicidal maniac, only to be killed by his own son.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad:
  • SpongeBob gets the most spotlight of all characters in the show. This is especially prevalent in Season 1 and 2.
  • After becoming Ascended Extras, Kenny, Pop and King Dedede also tend to get more screen time and roles than most.
• Status Quo Is God: Despite the number of times that the characters have been killed and the horrific ways in which this occurs, they'll always be alive and well by the next episode.
• Subverted Kids' Show: It features characters like SpongeBob SquarePants, yet is filled to the brim with violence and gore.
• Sudden Anatomy: Most characters usually have oven mitt hands, but they occasionally get Four-Fingered Hands.
• Sugar Apocalypse: Happens routinely.
• Temporarily a Villain: This tends to occur rather frequently:
  • Pop is the very first instance in "You're Too Slow", but he has far more sympathetic motives compared to later examples.
  • Kirby becomes one in "The Power of Supernova", where after inhaling the Miracle Fruit, he inhales the remaining characters unprovoked.
  • Cuddles in "Zombodie Told Me", though via drinking nuclear waste that turns him into a zombie.
  • While Butters' mom wasn't a charitable person before, she lapses into Ax-Crazy territory in "Road Rage".
  • Mr. Krabs similarly becomes a murderous lunatic after being provoked in "Krabby Klash".
  • Nutty harasses Toothy over a lollipop in "Sweet Dreams".
• They Killed Kenny Again: Almost everyone.
• Unexplained Recovery: The characters die in every episode and inexplicably come back to life in the next.
• Vague Age: Due to the show running on Negative Continuity (as well as taking stylistic liberties from HTF), most characters are whatever age is necessary for the cartoon to work (ex. Kirby or SpongeBob are school children in some episodes, while being grown adults with jobs in others). Of course, there's still a handful of characters who are consistently adults and children.
• Wacky Racing: "Dieseling Derby" is an especially gruesome take on this trope.
• Wingding Eyes: Mr. Krabs, true to his character, often gets the dollar sign variation.