History Film / BoyKillsWorld

-->'''Boy:''' Player Two is fucking crazy!

* TrainingFromHell: The Shaman's training for Boy involves being BuriedAlive, rolling a giant stone head up a hill, and knife fighting while tied to the Shaman, among other things. [[spoiler:It's less to do with making Boy strong and more to do with him still hating Boy for killing his family.]]

--->'''Boy:''' Player one wins!\\

'''Boy:''' Player two is fucking crazy!
** When Benny is telling Basho something that Boy thinks sounds like "Dodon buns", Boy thinks they sound fun. Then Basho starts sobbing and he quickly corrects himself that clearly they aren't fun.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that even if Boy had complied with The Shaman's demand to kill his sister, his sadistic mentor would have turned on him at some point to utterly wipe the Van Der Koy bloodline out entirely (with the implications that he snuck into the bunker and personally assassinated the superfluous Gram Gram in the chaos by the end). He merely demanded Boy personally kill his sister to enforce a SadisticChoice on him by the end, either forcing him to deal with the guilt of wiping out all his own family or allow The Shaman [[GiveMeAReason the excuse to kill him there and then]]]].

--> '''Melanie''': [[VillainousBreakdown I'm a goddamn broadcasting miracle worker! Do you know how hard it is to get a cereal company to sponsor mass murder?! THAT WAS ME!]]

* BreadAndCircuses: The tradition of a yearly Culling of 'dissidents' was started by Hilda when the Van Der Koys first took power. In the years since, Melanie has added to the formula by making it a RiggedSpectacleFight with [[MascotMook Mascot Mooks]] and ProductPlacement.

* ClosestThingWeGot: As Gideon complains to Boy at one point, the Van Der Koys have long since won the war and crushed all opposition, so the political enemies and dissidents who are the actual intended targets of the Culling simply don't exists any more, and they're having to make due with whatever they can scrape off the streets on Culling day, and even that is getting hard.

* ObviouslyEvil: The Van Der Koys have legions of FacelessMooks, enforce an EvilWearsBlack dress code alongside the SigilSpam of the Van Der Koy flower (although Melanie and Glen prefer RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver, possibly hinting towards her [[TheStarscream Starscream-like attitude]] towards Hilda), make liberal use of PublicExecution and a yearly RiggedSpectacleFight to eliminate "dissidents" (i.e. innocent people because there are no real dissidents left), and when they appear in public they make very little effort to hide their psychopathic, StupidEvil or EvilIsPetty tendencies from the populace. Despite this they remain VillainsWithGoodPublicity and enjoy tremendous support among the people; Melanie's PR wizardry generally gets the credit for this, but the obviousness of their evil is so pronounced that WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief is definitely required.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Hilda decides to kill Boy, her son, after deciding there's nothing left except the weapon the Shaman turned him into]].

** Hilda has this when Boy shows her his childhood drawing because she suddenly realizes [[spoiler: she was about to execute her own son in cold blood and quickly calls off her men.]]

* ParodyProductPlacement: Frosty Puffs is a kid-friendly breakfast cereal with colourful mascot characters, and is a long-lasting enough brand that Boy was eating it as a child. Melanie Van Der Koy has, [[OffscreenVillainy somehow]], arranged for them to sponsor the latest iteration of the Culling, a televised slaughter of innocent people, and they've even allowed Melanie's executioners to wear costumes of their characters during the event. Either Frosty Puffs are an EvilInc, or Melanie is just that persuasive.

** Melanie openly disparages Hilda in front of her own underlings while claiming to be the real power behind the regime, although unlike the others she doesn't seem that bothered about having Hilda overthrown, just [[DragonWithAnAgenda kept out of her way]]. She even does it in front of June 27, Hilda's main enforcer [[spoiler: and daughter, although it later turns out that June [[{{Matricide}} really doesn't like Hilda either]]]].

** Melanie is the director of the Culling Games and is obsessed with the show and the high ratings it brings, despite her role keeping her off-camera. [[spoiler:She dies literally on/by camera, with Boy even going out of his way to ensure she gets a KarmicDeath from it]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: Once beaten and restrained, Melanie mocks Boy by telling him his antics have only improved her ratings, and dares him to kill her on camera and make her a martyr, even spitting blood onto him and calling him a coward when he appears to walk away. Her resolve gives way to panic moments before her death, but Boy [[KilledMidSentence doesn't give her time]] to make clear whether she's actually scared of dying in general, or just dying [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice the way she's about to]].

* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Glen, Gideon, Hilda, June 27 and [[spoiler: the Shaman]] all either have some kind of FreudianExcuse related to trauama and [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loss]], or they're very well aware that BeingEvilSucks but don't have a way out until Boy comes along [[spoiler: although both Glen and Gideon get a HeelFaceDoorSlam]]. Melanie Van Der Koy, on the other hand, is TheSociopath and doesn't seem to care about anyone in her family or have any problem at all with the fact that ''The Culling'' has already wiped out all the actual criminals and rebels and is now just a yearly massacre of innocents, [[SkewedPriorities as long as it still brings in her precious TV ratings]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: Once beaten and restrained, Melanie mocks Boy by telling him his antics have only improved her ratings, and dares him to kill her on camera and make her a martyr, even spitting blood onto him and calling him a coward when he appears to walk away. Her resolve gives way to panic when she realises ''how'' he's going to kill her, but [[KilledMidSentence she doesn't get to be frightened for long]].

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Gideon, already dying from [[spoiler:being shot in the back by Melanie]], casually tells Boy to "do what you gotta do" and doesn't flinch when he's beheaded.

* VagueAge: Between the flashback of the Van Der Koys executing Boy's family when he was a child and the present day, Hilda, Melanie and Gideon don't visibly age a single day, with only their hairstyles and outfits changing, meaning they were all either much YoungerThanTheyLook in the flashback or much OlderThanTheyLook in the present.

** [[spoiler:And to round it all up, their Grandmother immediately orders all remaining mooks to kill her grandchildren in retaliation.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Van Der Koys, consisting of a paranoid dictator, a psychopathic PR representative, her bumbling and cruel husband, a morally exhausted scriptwriter and enforcer, their grandma who nobody cares about, and [[spoiler:a LaserGuidedTykeBomb unwittingly seeking vengeance upon them all]]. Furthermore, said dictator [[spoiler:is also paranoid and delusional... like mother, like son.]]

** [[spoiler:Hilda forced Boy, her own son, to execute the Shaman's family when Boy was just a child. Even after Boy rediscovers his old identity after he returns years later, Hilda still doesn't hesitate to order his death, reasoning that he's just the Shaman's weapon now.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Melanie is furious with Boy for killing her husband... because he's the host for The Culling which is airing in a couple hours.

* BeingEvilSucks: Gideon is so sick and tired of the Culling that he's willing to help Boy just so that, one way or another, there might finally be an end to it. [[spoiler:He doesn't even seem to mind when it becomes clear that Boy is about to kill him despite the help he provided, instead just telling him, "Do whatever you have to do."]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Van Der Koys, consisting of a paranoid dictator, a psychopathic PR representative, her bumbling and cruel husband, a morally exhausted scriptwriter and enforcer, their grandma who nobody cares about, and [[spoiler:a LaserGuidedTykeBomb unwittingly seeking vengeance upon them all]].

* SiblingTeam: [[spoiler:Boy and the alive all along Mina team up in the climax to battle their way out of Hilda's bunker and then face the Shaman.]]

** Boy increasingly gets this during his fight with Dave when the man keeps breaking bones, losing limbs but still ''keeps coming after him.''