Toontown RPG

Factions Toons - A "Toon" (abbreviation of Cartoon Character) is simply an animated character or creature. Coincidentally, the term cartoon refers to both drawings and modern computer animations which would make it more efficient in the term. Most toons tend to have exaggerated, usually anthropomorphic, appearances and characteristics based on real animals, objects, or other real world things.

Toons can be humans, realistic humans, anthropomorphic animals, realistic animals, robots, objects, anthropomorphic objects, vehicles, locomotives, boats, planes, extraterrestrial creatures, mythical beings, and other unidentified, newly-imagined creatures, monsters, or abstract, surreal characters. Their appearances can range from grossly caricatured with odd physical features (e.g., four-fingered hands, floating eyes and/or eyebrows, different-shaped noses, etc.) to extremely realistic.

Almost all toons (depending on their personality) have an innate sense of comedic and/or dramatic timing. Most toons (also depending on their personality) have an intense focus on a single one track-minded goal, such as hunting, catching prey, having selfish needs, being hungry, or capturing the object of one's romantic feelings; generally with comedic and/or dramatic results.

There is also the idea of two species of Toon (with the exception of their wide variety of appearances and characteristics). Western Toons from cartoons that originated in the United States and Europe, and Eastern Toons from anime cartoon series that originated in Japan, The Koreas, and China. Inside these two are three subspecies, Comic (toons that often perform funny and comical acts but rarely performs sad ones), Tragic (toons that often perform sorrowful and serious acts in stories but rarely performs lighthearted ones), and Drama (toons that often perform both comedic and dramatic antics). For example, Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants is a Western comic Toon, Walt Disney’s Mickey and Minnie Mouse are Western dramatic Toons, and Shueisha's Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul is an Eastern tragic Toon.

Because of their inter-dimensional origins, most toons possess amusing abilities that contradict laws of physics in the real world; usually disregarding the physical laws that govern the real universe when traveling inside the real world (and a reciprocal disregard of those laws for them). Toons can also accomplish feats and possess powers (e.g., 4th Wall Awareness, Accelerated Metabolism, Deflation/Inflation, Invulnerability, Reality Warping, Teleportation, etc.) which are impossible for anything or anyone in the real world to imitate.

All toons are also completely immune to harm and are nearly indestructible to any serious injury (e.g., being crushed, shot with bullets, decapitated, turned to stone (at least not for very long), eviscerated (at least not for very long), stabbed (for long periods), suffer from blood or energy loss (unless, they can regenerate their blood or life force after it is taken from them), frozen or burned, stretched, shredded into pieces, electrocuted, exploded into pieces, etc.).

Therefore, Toon flesh has the capability to heal from these injuries at a much faster rate than humans suffering from them. The mechanics of the Tooniverse and their way of life are based entirely on comedy, drama and tragedy; nearly anything can happen only as long as it's humorous, dramatic or serious in some way. The color of Toon blood is also a mystery.

Toons are also capable of moving at super speed, as shown with Mickey Mouse in the short Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip and the Mickey to the Rescue short "Cages and Cannons".

This is especially seen in animated characters (that are not Disney) like Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, or the Tex Avery cartoons. However, toons use these unique abilities to entertain humans in the real world. The only (known) way to permanently kill a Toon is to dip it in "Dip," because the chemicals that make up the Dip are paint thinners (though Eddie Valiant defeated most of Doom's weasels by making them laugh to death with a vaudeville comedy act).

Toons (at least ones like Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Goofy, amongst others) also never age, no matter how long their cartoons last. Many long-running theatrical shorts, television series, and comic strips often feature characters in both the present day and moments of history. And in both examples, they don't appear to age. It is said that whenever certain animated characters appear to age according to time, there exist different versions of that character playing the part of that particular age, though this is not proven very clearly.

They also can wear the same clothes they wore when they were "younger" too. Toons also don't appear to suffer from many of our world's diseases and illnesses unless the script calls for it. They can also change their height and muscular structure to adapt to any particular situation. As Goofy and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit have demonstrated (with them being in relationships and with children of their own), toons can also procreate if they so choose.

Thanks to a special technique called "Rubber-Hose Animation", the muscular system of most Toons is really rubbery and stretchy, enabling them to, for example, reach for things at great distances and perform more complex gymnastics and martial arts techniques that most humans cannot perform. In addition, it is implied that Toons have the ability to shape shift, at least into different versions of themselves (e.g., Tweety is shown in his classic design from the early-1940s in one Toontown scene and reappears in his modern design in the final scene at the Acme Corporation gag factory).

Some toons also have the ability to produce certain things to show their feelings, expressions, and emotions (e.g., hearts floating over heads or eyes or eye pupils forming into hearts when in love, explosions or fire in eye pupils and/or steam shooting out of ears when angry, stars or birds orbiting heads whenever dizzy and/or in a daze, eyes watering or shooting out/sprinkling tears when sad or depressed, sweat tears dripping or bodies shaking whenever nervous or scared, etc.). It is unknown how this is possible but it is speculated that in some instances, they can do so with a mere thought. Comic strips and comic books are produced by photographing toons that speak with word balloons, which appear above their heads whenever they talk.

All toons live in Toontown, an animated metropolis/mega city adjacent to Los Angeles where all kinds of toons live. The whole city of Toontown is cartoonish, except for anything foreign to it such as people and objects from the real world outside of it. Real foreign objects have also been known to become animated once being exposed to the Toon environment. However, the same cannot be said for Toon-based objects. Toontown's look is that of a city in the 1940s. The total population of the city is widely unknown, nor its area.

Not only does the city appear illustrated (drawn and painted) and animated, but the whole environment has an imaginary, fantasy, almost dreamlike atmosphere. Not only do animated characters live there, but even the buildings (some of them at least), vehicles (some of them at least), locomotives (some of them at least), boats (some of them at least), planes (some of them at least), plants (some of them at least), and such are all animated with their own personalities, speech patterns, stylistic movement, and other anthropomorphic traits that are impossible in the real world.

All animated characters ever created (ranging from the 1900s to the present) live, some perhaps even born, in Toontown such as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and many others. According to the Roger Rabbit comic series, they are separated in different areas of the town according to their age of creation: toons born during the black and white period live in a monochromatic zone, while colored toons like Roger live in another one with more tints; older toons belonging to the mute period have the peculiarity to not produce any sound. Therefore, their neighborhood is completely silent.

Several residents of Toontown are cartoon buildings where other residents enter, while other buildings are non-sentient, such as the apartment complex (where Droopy works as an elevator valet), Mickey's House and McDuck Manor.

Cogs - The main antagonists of ToonTown. They are business-minded robots that consistently try to conquer ToonTown and turn it into a dull, gray, corporate wasteland. Each Cog has its own set of attacks and a five-level range; the higher they are in the corporate ladder, the higher their level range is, as well as their difficulty it is to beat them.

To battle the Cogs, Toons use often use Gags to destroy them, since they cannot handle a joke, and this will cause the Cog to malfunction and explode. The Cog hierarchy is divided into four distinct corporate sectors (or five in Corporate Clash, which introduces "Boardbots"). Each department has its own specific color scheme, theme, and headquarters.

Bossbots (Brown Suits; Led by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), these Cogs have no actual skills but specialize in barking orders and pushing others around), Lawbots (Blue Suits; Led by the Chief Justice (CJ), these cold-blooded machines obsess over strict rules, red tape, and legal loopholes), Cashbots (Green Suits; Led by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), they are purely profit-driven and handle the monetization of the Cog Empire), Sellbots (Maroon Suits; Led by the Vice President (VP), these Cogs control marketing, public relations, and commercial deception to trick Toons), and Boardbots (Teal Suits; the strongest and final of the five Cog Departments.)