The ongoing Abridged Series of the acclaimed mystery/thriller anime Monster (1994), created by FoulFangedFiend
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This work contains examples of:
- Affably Evil: Johan is this, in contrast to his Faux Affably Evil canon persona.
- All Women Love Shoes: Eva really likes shoes, and will gladly tell you so.
- Anachronism Stew: Played for laughs with Heinrich who brings up things like Facebook, Wikipedia, and Windows 95, with Tenma pointing out that none of that exists yet.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Well, naturally.
- Crazy-Prepared: Lunge thinks he's this, but he's really just crazy.
- Department of Redundancy Department: A Running Gag:
- Accusing Tenma of responsibility for Heinemann's death:
Lunge: "I think you murdered him to death."- Just before he's murdered:
Adolf Junkers: "[Johan]'s crazy! His head is full of the madness, of being insane!""How's that curse I cursed you with, cursed-y?" - Evil Feels Good: Johan likes killing. It makes him feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
- Gypsy Curse: The source of all Tenma's misfortunes, apparently.
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Johan's game of 20 Questions with Junkers:"If you can guess the name of the famous person I'm thinking of, I promise, I'll kill you quickly. If not, I'll still kill you quickly, because I'm a nice guy".
- Literal-Minded: Tenma.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: At the start of the series, Lunge has just helped bring down the infamous neo-Nazi transgender Satan-worshippers.
- Noodle Implements: Lunge interrogating an uncooperative witness:Lunge: "Detective? Bring me a grapefruit, a rubber duck... and a tuning fork!"Detective: "What key, sir?"Lunge: "F"Detective: "But sir, that's even worse than waterboarding!"
- Noodle Incident:Eva: "I'm sure you've... heard the rumours."Tenma: "Yeah. Is that thing about the field of horses true?"Eva: "Some parts of it are."
- Precision F-Strike: Tenma drops one in episode 1."Am I the only competent surgeon in this whole fucking hospital?"
- Psychopathic Manchild: Johan uses games such as Foosball and charades to carry out his murders.
- Shout-Out: The use of the ER theme in episode 1.
- "I'm Johnson. And this is detective Johnson. No relations."
- "I think our boy has found a new game to play..." *puts on sunglasses* "...and it's not monopoly." YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- The whole cake thing in episode 3 is a reference to this game.
- The second episode's title.
- How's that curse I cursed you with, cursed-y?
