Wrath of Con

"Wrath of Con" is an episode of the Happy Tree Friends internet series, the seventh season three episode, and sixty-first overall. It is the first episode to use the current intro and outro credits, and also the first to be produced in widescreen and high-definition.

HTF Episode Description
Nerds unite! A trek to the comic book convention to meet their hero leaves them breathless.

Plot
A mask-wearing, backpack-hauling Sniffles departs a bus and stares awstruck at a large convention center where the latest comic book convention is being held. Cuddles and Toothy enter before him, flashing their convention passes to The Mole, who stands watch as the security guard. Sniffles can't find his ticket, however, so The Mole turns him away. This turns out to be a blessing in disguise, as a massacre is about to unfold in the convention center.

Inside the building, Splendid sits a booth signing autographs. While signing a picture for Mime, the top of the pen breaks off. When Splendid flicks the top of the pen away, it pierces Mime, Disco Bear, and Russell through their heads. When Splendid completes his task he looks up to find no one in front of him. He shrugs and looks at his watch. Realizing he's late to his speech, he hurries away to the auditorium.

Splendid passes by Giggles and Petunia, who plays with a toy light saber and spear, on his way to the auditorium. The light on Giggles' light saber goes out, saddening the girls. Splendid thinks for a second and uses his eye lasers to recharge the light saber. Though happy at first, Giggles ends up cutting Petunia in half with the charged weapon. To make matters worse, the hot plastic melts over Giggles' head, setting her on fire. She runs away, screaming.

In the auditorium, Splendid taps the microphone only for it to break. He then tries speaking loudly, the sound waves of his super voice breaking glass and puncturing eardrums. Giggles, still on fire and now missing the top of her head, runs into the auditorium and falls down dead. She ends up setting Shifty on fire, who in turn sets everyone else (but Splendid) in the room on fire.

Splendid sucks the air out of the room to suffocate the fire. Unfortunately, this condenses the size of the convention center and leaves everyone inside without air. Noticing this, Splendid proceeds to exhale the air back into the room whereupon the convention center expands. The bodies of the convention patrons are flung to the windows by Splendid's breath, crushing their bodies in the process. The magnitude of Splendid's breath eventually causes the convention center to collapse, killing all inside except Splendid himself.

Sniffles, having finally found his pass, walks up to Splendid, who is currently holding up a portion of the building, and asks for an autograph. Splendid, only happy to oblige, ends up dropping the portion of the building on Sniffles. Realizing the death and destruction he's caused, Splendid quickly leaves the scene.

Moral
"No good deed goes unpunished."

Blurb
The Blurb version of this episode contains these annotations:

It's time to broaden our horizons

Look at all this wasted space

That's better!

BlurB!

Warning: Watching this episode significantly reduces its resale value

"Wrath" was the first HTF episode ever to be developed entirely in HD

and inventively initiated integrating illiterated illustrations into the titles!

PLUS 30% smoother fades to black!

We recommend public transportation to help the environment

Or if you failed your driver's test

The San Diego Convention Center covers over 600, 000 sq ft.

The Las Vegas Convention Center covers over 3 million sq ft.

Sniffles as a Splendid fan?

Or Splendid as a Sniffles fan?

Window cleaning is concidered the most dangerous job in the UK

No wonder the police don't carry guns

Platinum blood donor cards

Hey, aren't you missing something?

Read this: No pants, No service

(On The Mole's arm) Arm was lengthened to fit HD width

(On The Mole's arm) Arm was lengthened to fit HD aspect ratio

Rare "Banjo Frenzy" reference sure to increase resale value of episode

HTF glow in the dark bobble heads first appeared at Comic-Con 2007

'''"S" logo is from Splendid's KA-POW! Spin-off show'''

The first comic book was made in 1842

The first Sharpie autograph on a comic book was made in 1964

The hobby of collecting autographs is known as philography

The hobby of dying for them is known as stupidology

That doesn't look like Splendid's signature

Not sure what it says

That's not even an "S"

leki? Is that what it says?

'''I wouldn't buy it. Probably a fake'''

Hope they had their tetanus shots

Footage from the lost HTF Star Wars episode

May the 4th is Star Wars day!

Hey, that doesn't seem fair

Light Saber VS Stick

This injustice must be remedied!

Light Saber blades are pure plasma

That's better

Now that Light Saber might have a chance against that stick!

Take that Mr Stick

Caution: the weapon you are about to enjoy is extremely hot

and could cause slight skin irritation

Even though we call it a podium

Watchmen reference #2

It's actually called a lecturn

'''Is this thing on? (I couldn't resist)'''

Darn super strength

You should see him trying to cook eggs

Rare full profile scene makes this episode evwn more collectable!

Not to mention the stunning special effects

AC/DC concerts have reached 130 decibels

The pain threshold for noise is 125 decibels

Looks like someone just tried the convention center spicy tacos

It's illegal to yell FIRE in a movie theater

but it's OK to yell if you are ON FIRE in a movie theater

Splendid will later claim that he didn't inhale

1, 2, 3

don't tell the union

It's not nice to make fun of chipmunks

Lumpy must have had the tacos too

For sweet breath, chew fresh parsley

yeah I do special effects

Hey, is this the Tokyo subway or the tram to the gift shop?

All aboard!

Epic multi-death explosions have been known to add 12% to the resale value of an HTF episode

The super strength does come in handy sometimes.

So does checking your pockets

Comic-Con started in 1970

with work that looked way better than this

The first three day convention was at the U.S. Grant Hotel

with walls that looked way better than this

of the 300 attendees, none were mortally wounded

but this black looks way better than theirs did

It's the special edition lacquer varnish finish

making this episode a true collector's item

worth a fortune if found in mint, unwatched condition

While we are trying to sell out HTF bobble heads on ebay, the comedy robot will leave you with some words of wisdom

(Binary code is shown for the remainder of the episode)

Deaths

 * 1) Mime, Disco Bear and Russell have their heads pierced by the tip of a pen Splendid flicks at them.
 * 2) Giggles cuts Petunia in half with a charged up light saber.
 * 3) Giggles' head is set on fire,and melting her.
 * 4) Lifty, Shifty, Cuddles, Toothy, Nutty, Handy, Cub, and Lumpy are crushed when Splendid performs his super breathing.
 * Pop, Flaky, The Mole, and (debatably) Cro-Marmot are crushed by the collapsing building.
 * 1) Sniffles is crushed when Splendid drops part of the building on him.
 * 2) Truffles may have died when the building collapsed (debatable, blurb version only).

Goofs

 * 1) Flaky, Pop and a Generic Tree Friend appear in the crowd when it's shown from behind, but they disappear when viewed from the front. Similarly, Nutty didn't appear in the crowd until it was shown from the front.
 * 2) Toothy's ears explode from Splendid's voice, but return to normal when the fire spreads.
 * 3) When Splendid yells too loudly, Lifty and Shifty's eardrums should rupture like everyone else in the room, as both are shown clutching their head instead of holding their ears (unless they were sitting far enough away to avoid major injury).
 * 4) Lifty & Shifty swap places when the crowd is shown from the back, being shown in the front.
 * 5) Some of the people's positions change from when the crowd is shown from the back to being shown in the front that Cub moves up a row and further to the his left, Toothy moves to the side and Handy moves to the middle etc.)
 * 6) Even though The Mole is blind, he can stil somehow sense when someone with or without a ticket is going in.
 * 7) In the BlurB version, when The Mole points at Sniffles to go back to the bus, the blurb on his arm says "Arm lengthened to fit HD width" but when it goes to a wide shot of Sniffles and Mole, the blurb on The Mole's arm says "Arm lengthened to fit HD aspect ratio"
 * 8) Splendid's ID tag disappears when he flicks his broken pen-tip at Russell, Mime, and Disco Bear
 * 9) Lumpy appears in the scene, but he is not shown in the crowd and in the front.
 * 10) They put Sniffles as a starring character, But he only appeared a few times.

Trivia

 * This episode marks Splendid's record for the highest amount of kills in this episode, counting indirect responsibility(20+ kills: the other 18 main characters if you don't count Flippy, Lammy, Mr Pickles, Truffles from the BlurB version, and 1+ numerous Generic Tree Friends).
 * This is the first Happy Tree Friends episode to be produced in 16:9(aspect ratio) for High Definition.
 * The title of this episode is a reference to the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.
 * This the first Season 3 episode that Splendid and Disco Bear appear.
 * This episode has a new intro, featuring different character intros, and new ending credit sequence.
 * The comic convention is either a parody of the Comic Con centre, or Comiket, a similar event in Japan.
 * The Acorn Shield Symbol for the SSSSSuper Squad can be seen numerous times on Sniffles' backpack, in comic books, and on Splendid's desk, making this the first Internet episode to reference the Splendid Ka-Pow! series.
 * Sniffles carries around a blood-stained smiley face badge, a reference to the graphic novel and movie Watchmen.
 * The mask Cub wears resembles what Lumpy looked liked in the first ever Happy Tree Friends episode Banjo Frenzy.
 * Another reference to Watchmen is when a character appears several times dressed as Rorschach, one of the main characters.
 * Cro-Marmot has a group of statues resembling The Cursed Idol on his booth.
 * Flippy, Lammy, and Mr. Pickles are the only main characters that don't appear in this episode (the latter two being most obvious since this was before A Bit of a Pickle). A character in a scarecrow-like costume was seen in the episode, but it was confirmed to be a generic tree friend.
 * In spite of Splendid's high kill count, this is the first time he kills Mime, Disco Bear, and Pop. As of this episode, Flippy, Lammy and Mr. Pickles are the only main characters that Splendid has not killed yet.
 * Giggles dresses up like Princess Leia from Star Wars while Petunia wears a hood similar to that of an Ewok.
 * Petunia's death is similar to Lifty and Shifty's deaths from And the Kitchen Sink.
 * Nutty is dressed as Batman.
 * This is the only episode where Splendid clearly speaks instead of making different sounds (e.g., hum, gasp, scream, etc.). His voice is also slightly higher than it usually is.
 * In another reference to Watchmen, Lumpy, has Dr. Manhattan's symbol on his forehead. Additionally, Lumpy doesn't have any pupils, another physical characteristic of Dr. Manhattan.
 * This is the second episode to only have 1 main character not appear, in this case, Flippy. The first time was Asbestos I Can Do when Cro-Marmot didn't appear.
 * According to the "Revenge Of Con" page, Petunia was originally going to have the role as Giggles, and Giggles was going to be in Petunia's place, but they swapped places in the final cut for unknown reasons.
 * This was the last episode where Ellen Connell provided the voice for Giggles, Petunia, and Cub.
 * This the first internet episode to star Splendid since Better Off Bread.
 * This is the first internet episode to star Sniffles since Suck It Up.
 * This is one of the few episodes where Lumpy's antlers don't change directions (as he only appeared in one shot). He was only seen getting crushed in the convention center.
 * Mime's, Disco Bear's and Russell's death is similar to Nutty's, Sniffles' and Mime's death in Aw Shucks!
 * The building at which the convention is hosted is a direct parody of the Hall of Justice from the 1970's Super Friends cartoons.
 * In the BlurB version, Truffles is seen in front of Flaky when Splendid is about to do his speech.
 * According to the Revenge of Con blog, the convention center building was supposed to be based on the Legion of Doom headquarters.
 * According to the episode's beat-sheet, the episode originally ends with the explosion wiping Sniffles out (when he enters), causing a huge crater, and leaving only Splendid and his podium, which later crumbles.