Happy Tree Friends the Anime/Just For Fun



So you didn't expect this version of the Happy Tree Friends? Believe it or not, the Fandom has transformed the little, cute, colorful critters into really popular anime characters, giving them depth and creating a lot of fan stories involving them.

Many can be seen here: Happy Tree Friends (you still have to make an account to see all the portrayals). The characters are humanized and more developed than the actual, canon characters. (Note that the characterizations truly are Depending on the Writer.)

The most common themes or conceptions portrayed in the anime styled stories or fanart are:

 * Abduction Is Love: Flippy with Flaky.
 * Alternate Universe Fic: The Happy Tree Friends in highschool.
 * Bastard Boyfriend: Flippy is a serial rapist in most pictures.
 * Better as Friends: Flaky and Nutty.
 * Bishounen: Everybody. Cuddles, Toothy, Nutty and Sniffles are the kid version.
 * Black Comedy Rape: Really often used in the fanart.
 * Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Giggles, Petunia and Flaky, although Giggles's strawberry hair is associated with strawberry blonde, while Petunia's blue hair is associated with black hair.
 * Character Development: For all the characters.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Splendid, Nutty, Lumpy.
 * Comedic Sociopathy: When Flippy and Splendid meet.
 * Comic Trio: Really often, Flippy, Flaky and Splendid.
 * Three Amigos: Even though Splendid and Flippy are rarely just amigos.
 * Covert Pervert: Many characters, but especially Flippy (when it involves Flaky) and Splendid (when it involves anyone).
 * Curtains Match the Window: Most of the time.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Flippy, from the war.
 * Distressed Damsel: Giggles for Splendid.
 * Flaky is this too, for both Flippy and Splendid.
 * The Ditz: Lumpy, Splendid, Nutty.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Flippy, Lifty and Shifty.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Just as above.
 * Evil Laugh: Flippy.
 * Foe Yay: Flippy / Splendid, Splendid / Splendont and Good Flippy / Evil Flippy.
 * Four Philosophy Ensemble: Flippy, Splendid, Lumpy and The Mole are usually grouped together, since they are the characters who have the reputation of having the most kills:
 * Flippy: The Cynic.
 * Splendid: The Optimist.
 * Lumpy: The Realist (he still has his moments, but he's closer to this than the others).
 * The Mole: The Apathetic.
 * Gender Bender: Flaky, mostly due to the fact that fans have been confused regarding her gender for a long time.
 * Japanese don't hate Lumpy.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom: The evil side of Flippy.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Cuddles and Toothy, Lifty and Shifty, Giggles and Petunia.
 * Ho Yay: Flippy and Splendid, Nutty and Sniffles, Lifty and Shifty,Lumpy and Russell, Lumpy and The Mole, Handy and The Mole.
 * Humanity Ensues: The characters are humans.
 * Idiot Hero: Splendid.
 * Incest Subtext: Lifty and Shifty.
 * Intergenerational Friendship: Many stories in which the difference in age between Flippy and Flaky is quite big.
 * Jerkass: Lifty, Shifty, Nutty.
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Both Flippy and Flaky.
 * Mad Scientist: Sniffles, sometimes.
 * Memetic Molester: Flippy. He almost always molests or rapes other character in fanart.
 * Memetic Sex God: Flippy.
 * Mind Game Ship: Flippy and Flaky are usually portrayed as this within the fandom, due to the fact that Flippy usually either rapes Flaky or tries to kill her and Flaky is so terrified of him that she tries to kill him as well. So, they basically kill one another, even though they like each other. Flippy and Flaky in the actual show are not far from this either.
 * Moe: Flaky.
 * Murderers Are Rapists: Flippy.
 * Combined with Rape Is Love, when he does it to Flaky.
 * One Head Taller: Lumpy whenever he's in a pairing. Probably because he's a little taller than anybody else in the original series.
 * Flippy and Flaky are often portrayed like this, too.
 * Opposites Attract: Flippy and Flaky.
 * Out of Character / Evil Twin: Flaky is portrayed as having an evil side / being an Yangire in some pictures. Others see it as her evil twin.
 * And others see it as her and Flippy's evil daughter, who took the looks after her mother and her father's insanity. This is most probably due to a really popular artist who created some pictures with the potential spawn of Flippy and Flaky.
 * Perpetual Frowner: Handy. Mostly due to the fact that he's frustrated because he is an amputee.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Nutty and Sniffles. Splendont and Splendid are this only in colors, because, personality-wise, Splendid is the hot blooded, enthusiastic of the two, while Splendont appears stoic or deadpan most of the time.
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: Giggles and Petunia.
 * Romanticized Abuse: Apparently... many people think Flippy's most attractive side is the fact that he murders and abuses (physically and mentally) everyone around him.
 * Perverse Sexual Lust: And how.
 * Sibling Team: Lifty and Shifty.
 * Smoking Is Cool: Flippy is often drawn smoking.
 * The Quiet Stoic: The Mole, most of the time.
 * Those Two Guys: Lumpy and Russell.
 * Those Two Bad Guys: Lifty and Shifty.
 * Tomboy: Flaky, even though she's this only when compared to Giggles and Petunia. The rest of the time, she's shy and quiet.
 * Trickster Twins: Lifty and Shifty.
 * Tsundere: The evil version of Flippy. Petunia is this, too.
 * Two Guys and a Girl: Again, Flippy, Flaky and Splendid. Cuddles, Giggles and Toothy.
 * Wife Husbandry: There are many side-stories in which Flaky is under Flippy's care as a little kid or she befriends him when she's still a child, only to fall in love with him later. One example is here.
 * Precocious Crush: Child Flaky on Flippy.
 * Wimpification: Flaky. Even more than she is in the original cartoon.
 * Evil Flippy gets this treatment too.
 * The Woobie: Flaky.
 * Yandere: Flippy with Flaky.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Almost all the characters.