TANKMEN

Captain John Tankman is the soldier leader of the Tankmen. He wears a Bio-Carbon helmet, Swank Goggles, Poly-fiber hyper-vest, Leader's insignia, Enemy detecting hyper hard-on Thermo-fusion gloves and cool boots. Captain as the leader of the Tankmen is vulgar, can be nice (is not usually), has average intelligent and courageous with his allies he is also ready to roast and make his enemies cry in the battlefield in war. Captain will always help his best friend Steve when ever he gets himself in trouble. Captain speaks of an American accent and his age is 25-35 years old. He makes frequent cock jokes, sexual jokes, and curses frequently, not exactly having a filter.

Steve is the deuteragonist of the TANKMEN series and Captain's right hand man and best friend. Steve appears very similar to Captain John Tankman with a monochromatic colour scheme. He has white skin and his uniform which consists of a helmet, boots, Armor, gloves and pants are all coloured black. Instead of wearing a visor like Captain, he sports a pair of white goggles. His underpants are white. Steve has the same personality as the captain, just not as many cock and sexual jokes, just curses very frequently.

Ted looks similar to the other Tankmen soldiers but has square night vision goggles. Ted is revealed to be strong willed, manipulative, cunning, calculating, loyal, and vengeful. Ted believes in revenge when bad things happen to others as he shoots Skittles at the end of TANKMEN 2.5 to get back at him for shooting Bill, he even planned the whole thing after an accidental call. Ted is the perveted one of the tankmen, making sexual jokes towards Tankgirl, and just being perveted in general.

Tankgirl is a soldier for the Tankmen faction. She resembles all Tankmen, but in contrast to most other tankmen, she has a more pronounced chest, has fuller lips and she has a heartbroken symbol, on her shoulder pads. She’s much more no nonsense and level headed then her comrades and gets annoyed easily, by people sexually objectifying her, or constant swearing, most shown by her interactions with Ted, who constantly gets on her nerves, which she responds by silently mocking him, or yelling at him to shut up and when she’s at her wits end she threatens to kill him, but ultimately doesn’t. She prefers to go straight for the kill, as quick and efficient as possible, which Ted sees as her lacking imagination. When Ted showcases a more 'creative' kill in front of her, in response to her 'uncreative' one, she is visibly shocked, by the grotesque display. Her straight for the kill attitude can cause her to make mistake. She wears the similar armor to the other tankmen.

Bill wears bandages on both arms and his face over his mouth, he has Black hair, white eyes, and white skin. He wears a white button up shirt with a black tie, and black pants. He was recruited By Captain John Tankmen... But was then shot by Skittles.

Bad Captain is the moral opposite of Captain John, working for the Henchmen. His helmet is one of the most distinctive elements of the design. It has a rounded, futuristic shape with large side panels and a single arrow-like antenna protruding from the top. Across the front is a narrow white visor that resembles a pair of sharp eyes, giving him a stern and intimidating expression even without visible pupils. Below the visor sits a rectangular mouthpiece or vent-like section, reinforcing the militaristic, armored appearance. A pointed black mouth cover extends beneath the mouth area, adding personality and making him look more mature and commanding. The most eye-catching detail on his body is the large white "X" that stretches across his chest. This stark white marking contrasts sharply with the otherwise dark figure and serves as a visual focal point. Additional white accents appear around the neck and lower face area, He is seen being quite lenient, mainly when accepting the truce to watch the full Titanic movie. Bad Captain also is more normal than his friend (and right hand man), Tim. It also also reveals he’s very caring and actually cares about his subordinates as it supposed to end with him bringing an injured/ill Skittles a bouquet of flowers in the infirmary.

Tim looks similar to Bad Captain, except he has oblong-shaped goggles and no insignia. Tim is erratic, energetic, and sensitive. He also heavily implied to be homosexual.

Skittles is a solider in the Henchmen faction. Without his uniform he wears white shoes, a white hat with a electricity symbol on it, baggy pants with a belt, a black shirt, and finger-less gloves. When he joins the Henchmen he wears a helmet that has a spike on it and has shades on, black boots, black pants and a clothing that has white stripes on the middle making a X. Skittles is a sniper unit for the Henchmen as his rank is Private and appears in Tankmen 1, Tankmen .5, Tankmen 1.5 and Tankmen 2. As his sniper skills he's only seen killing one person in Tankmen 1 and .5 as he shoots Bill. Skittles was recruited in the army in Tankmen .5 as he meets a tank with Two Henchmen in it, Bad Captain and Tim. He mostly joined the army to support his smoking addiction. Skittles is mostly seen as a Coward for being a sniper by Bad Captain and Tim, so he stays up in the watchtower. he also has a dad and mom who are still alive. His dad sometimes calls him and this can be seen in Tankmen .5.

The Thugmen are brutal mercenaries, violent, thuggish, merciless and obsessed with revenge, every time if a guest (like Steve) wins at their game, they take revenge on the guest and kill him. The Thugmens where black armor with black boots and black gloves, they are a white breastplate with white epaulettes adorned with white spikes. The head of the Thugmen has a helmet similar to an American football helmet and is armed with a knife, the second Thugmen has a hockey mask with hair (reminiscent of Jason Voorhess) and is armed with a hockey stick on ice and the last Thugmen has a biker helmet and he does not have a weapon.

The world of Tankmen is one of those settings that feels deceptively simple at first glance—a battlefield full of cartoon soldiers, tanks, explosions, and absurd jokes. But when you really look at the environments shown throughout the animations, especially images like the one you uploaded, a surprisingly bleak picture emerges. This isn't merely a war zone. It appears to be an entire civilization that has been consumed by warfare for so long that war has become the natural state of existence.

The landscape itself is almost always devastated. Cities are shattered beyond recognition, reduced to skeletal ruins leaning at impossible angles. Buildings appear abandoned, bombed-out, and partially swallowed by the earth. Roads are cracked and broken. Massive artillery pieces sit among the wreckage like permanent landmarks rather than temporary military equipment. The image you provided perfectly captures this atmosphere: a wasteland of collapsed structures and military hardware stretching beneath an orange, smoke-filled sky. Nothing looks alive. Nothing looks repaired. The war seems old enough that nobody remembers what peace looked like.

The sky is often one of the most unsettling elements. Instead of bright blue horizons, Tankmen frequently depicts yellow, orange, or dusty skies that suggest pollution, smoke, fire, or even a permanently damaged atmosphere. Distant mountains loom over ruined cities, creating the feeling that the destruction extends far beyond the immediate battlefield. The environment feels suffocating, as though the world itself is exhausted after generations of conflict.

One interesting implication is that the soldiers themselves seem strangely adapted to this reality. Characters like Captain, Steve, and the countless unnamed Tankmen rarely react to the horrors surrounding them. Explosions, death, and destruction are treated as routine inconveniences. This suggests that the inhabitants may have grown up knowing nothing except war. Imagine generations born into trenches and ruined cities, where artillery fire is as ordinary as weather and military service is simply what everyone does.

The architecture hints that there was once a functioning civilization. The broken buildings visible in many scenes look like offices, apartment blocks, factories, and urban infrastructure rather than military installations. This implies that the world wasn't originally built for war. Something happened—perhaps a massive global conflict, political collapse, or endless resource wars—that transformed ordinary cities into permanent battlefields. The ruins become ghostly reminders of a forgotten society buried beneath military occupation.

The military technology itself is fascinating because it occupies a strange middle ground. Tanks, rifles, aircraft, and artillery are commonplace, but technological advancement seems frozen. Despite what appears to be decades or centuries of conflict, society has not progressed into futuristic warfare. This could suggest that the war consumes so many resources that technological development has stagnated. Every factory produces weapons instead of innovation. Every engineer builds another tank instead of rebuilding civilization.

What makes the setting memorable is the contrast between the darkness of the world and the casual attitude of its inhabitants. The Tankmen joke, argue, flirt, complain, and make stupid decisions while standing in what looks like the aftermath of civilization's collapse. A soldier might casually discuss relationships while shells explode nearby. Another might complain about boredom while surrounded by corpses and wreckage. The comedy works because the characters treat apocalypse-level destruction as completely normal.

The world also feels strangely empty. While there are armies everywhere, there are very few signs of ordinary civilians. You rarely see functioning communities, farms, schools, markets, or families. The setting almost gives the impression that the soldiers are all that's left. Whether civilians still exist somewhere off-screen or have long since disappeared is never fully explored, which adds to the mystery. The battlefield may not simply be a location—it may be the entirety of known civilization.

Looking at the image specifically, it evokes the feeling of a dying empire. The collapsed building with the skull insignia suggests military control, death, or a culture that openly embraces mortality. The tank cannon dominates the foreground, almost replacing traditional landmarks. Instead of churches, monuments, or civic buildings defining the landscape, weapons have become the defining features of civilization. The mountains in the background stand untouched, silently watching humanity destroy itself.

In the end, the Tankmen world feels like a darkly comedic post-war purgatory. Civilization hasn't completely ended, but it can't truly recover either. The inhabitants continue fighting because fighting is all they know. Cities crumble, tanks rust, and generations of soldiers come and go beneath smoke-stained skies. Yet somehow, amid all the devastation, people still find time to tell jokes, argue with friends, and complain about their jobs. That absurd contradiction—the coexistence of total societal collapse and everyday normality—is what gives Tankmen its unique atmosphere. It's a world where the apocalypse happened so long ago that everyone forgot it was supposed to be shocking.