Funny Wars:The Movie
Funny Wars: The Movie was a failed attempt to adapt Funny Wars into a film. It was cancelled in early 2021 after the team working on it decided the script was not well-made, laziness, and technical difficulties. The film was intended to be made in Garry's Mod.
Plot Synopsis
Dr. Poopy Fart launches a poop bomb at Silly City, a city in Funnyville. Funnyville's leaders, including Undertale, The General, and The Cop all meet. The Cop insists he should go fight Poopy Fart because he has history with him. Everyone else at the meeting urges him not to, since he's too important, but The Cop insists and heads out. Undertale and The General join him.
We then cut to Freddy Fazbender's Tacos, where Springtrap tells Freddy he's leaving. Freddy tells him to not come back. Springtrap then goes shopping and buys 'successful business in a can' and opens his own restaurant.
We cut back to Funnyville, where the Poop Army has begun invading the mall. The Cop then takes out a bunch of Poopburbian Soldiers easily, until a super strong samurai soldier, Dunderhead, appears, and starts shredding through Funnyville's army. The Cop and Dunderhead fight, with Dunderhead gaining the advantage, until The Cop eats a donut, gaining super-power, and easily defeating Dunderhead.
We cut back to Springtrap, now running a massive restaurant chain. He then realizes he has the keys to the original Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and gives them to Freddy. Freddy, not remembering where it's located, as Springtrap drive him out to the desert where it lies.
We cut back to The Cop and the Funnyville army, now preparing to launch an assault onto Poopburbia. Once there, however, a truck driven by Poopotron 8 drives up to them, and out steps General Kill Pain. Kill Pain effortlessly kills 5 soldiers in less than a minute and then prepares to fight The Cop.
Back at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Freddy and Springtrap enter to find Foxy already inside. Foxy then states he's been living here for years, fighting off the horde of Poopwalkers. Dismissing Foxy as crazy, Freddy and Springtrap ignore him and explore deeper into the Pizzeria. In the backroom, they find Bonnie, now faceless. Freddy presumed Bonnie, his former best friend, dead, and is shocked to see him still alive. However, the happy moment is short-lived, as the Poopwalkers attack. Shocked and horrified, Freddy tells the gang to enter the secret Fazbear Armory, where they obtain fire-arms. They then have an epic showdown, culminating in Foxy shooting himself out of a cannon to kill the motherwalker. After their victory, however, jeff, the man who was thought to have killed Bonnie, steps out. He reveals it was all a trap and will kill the Fazbender gang now.
Back in Poopburbia, The Cop begins fighting Kill Pain in an epic duel. Poopotron 8 then steps out to assist him. The fight goes on, until The Cop is able to destroy Poopotron's power source, incapacitating him. Our hero then begins prop-surfing on a wooden plank towards Castle Poopenstein, but Kill Pain fires his sickle onto the board. Mid-air, the two fight, and The Cop successfully shoves the poop general off the plank, plummeting him to the floor. The Cop then lands outside Castle Poopenstein, and prepares to fight the mad doctor.
Back at Fazbear's, the Fazbender gang and Jeff battle, culminating in Bonnie distracting him so Freddy can blow his head off with the Freddy Faz-gun. After killing his arch-nemesis, Freddy simply says 'Guess he should've ordered the Happy Meal.'
Entering the climax, The Cop storms through Castle Poopenstein, easily blazing past it's guards, and reaches Dr. Poopy Fart's lair. The two have a fist fight -- no weapons, just a old fashioned brawl. Fart almost has our hero dead to rights, until The Cop triggers an explosive, and jumps out the window. Fart is presumably killed by the blast, while The Cop is saved from falling to his death by Undertale.
Funnyville then celebrates The Cop's victory.
A post-credit scene was then planned, where Dr. Fart (wearing a brown coat, hood, and red glasses) was seen holding a lamp in a cave. The camera would then pan up to show him looking at a cave painting of Awesome, and Fart would remove the hood, revealing himself to have surivved.
History
During the original Funny Wars run there was a common joke about the "Funny Wars franchise", spawning "a hit comic series and successful movie franchise", backed by "multi-million dollar corporation Poop Co." On January 3rd, 2020, one of the team members made a Google Doc that consisted of the Shrek script but with Shrek swapped with Freddy Fazbender, Donkey with Springbonnie, Farquaad with Dr. Poopy Fart, and Fiona with a new character "Princess Jeffiona".
The same month, another team member made joke posters out of stock photos for The Funny Wars Movie. These notably showed Dr. Poopy Fart in a brown coat and red glasses rather than his usual palette, a gag about adaptations unnecessarily redesigning characters. While these posters were not intended for nothing more than a joke, the team member who made them did consider making a short joke film based on them made by sliding PNGs of the characters around. This never came to fruition.
Sometime after the Comedy Wave happened, the idea of actually making a movie floated around, and on May 19th, 2020, a new Discord server was created for talking about making a film. The initial plan was to make it in Source Filmmaker, but it was decided that Blender would be used instead. Another thing that was decided early on was that the models would have low resolution textures and the film would be done in a retro, "PlayStation 1" art style. The main pitch for the film would be that it would be "the greatest shitpost of all time", purely because of the fact that it would clock in at an hours length and be almost competently made.
It was originally thought that it would be easier to make a script if the team knew which models were made and what characters to use, and thus six characters were modelled before a script was started: Dr. Poopy Fart, The Cop, Poopotron, the Poopwalker, the Poopburbian and Funnyvillian Soldiers, and The General. Awesome Pepper and Grug were planned to be modelled, but it was decided it would be funnier if they were flat PNGs sliding around the scene.
The models made were met with criticism, particularly because of their inaccuracies, but also because they didn't really adhere to a "PS1 art-style" and generally just looked awful. It was at some point during this that the main one doing work, Gavin Parker, had begun to realize that the early lore was poorly documented and poorly planned. Due to being a shitpost roleplay server combined with the fact that at the time of it's beginnings, most of it's users were younger teenagers, the creators wanted to retcon most of the lore for the film. A proper wiki was created to attempt to document the original Funny Wars; this would prove to be a task so arduous that it wouldn't be finished before the film was cancelled, and the wiki would end up being dormant until the first issue of the comic was made in early 2022.
After the models were made, the team had decided their thinking was backwards, and that they should have a script before the models. A very rough draft would then be created in a VC.
The original rough draft is very notably different from the final film. It starts out the same, but instead of The Cop going to sleep for the night, he says "he'll kick [Poopy Fart's] stupid poop ass" and "he'll go out and fight him 1v1." and walks out with Undertale, and The General says he'll send einforcements. The Cop goes to the mall to pack up, and he's met with a bunch of Poop Soldiers and Dunderhead just like the final script. When Dunderhead is defeated, The Cop goes to the armory and gets a pistol, and Sans gets a sledgehammer covered in blood. They would then go to Poopburbia with reinforcements and weapons aand there would be a "huge d day scene where violance and killing and then [the cop] throw grenad into the bad guys and they like BOOM KABLAM and they are DIE!!!! And KILLED!!!". The grammer of the rough draft continues to devolve as Poopy Fart sends in Poopotron to kill the Funny Soldiers, only to be defeated himself by Undertale. Poopy Fart tries to send in a surprise attack and there's a scene in a subway station where they all fight. The draft ends with "poopy fart fight cop with his bare hands but when he almost beat cop fart funny solder make the place EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!"
The next several months were not very eventful as the crew struggled to get into a VC often to write. When writing sessions did happen, the majority of them were riddled with distractions and lack of ideas. For the scene where The Cop discusses the recent attacks, there was two hours where nobody could decide how to continue the scene, and eventually somebody just put in "[The Cop] slams the table angerly and leaves without saying anything." An original running joke amidst the crew was that the second film would be the necessary "Five Nights At Freddy's B-Plot", but it was realized early on that the FNAF subplot would need to be shoved into the first film if it were to be accurate to the original. One day, the team member who went by Bane hurriedly joined the Discord VC and frantically exclaimed "I had an idea for the film while I was in the shower: General Kill Pain." He proceeded to describe a mysterious, wild west movie villain who would kill his foes in a quick, gruesome fashion. He would be Dr. Poopy Fart's "right hand man" who would have an epic face off with The Cop. The character was unanimously praised and was agreed to be given a scene in the film. By the time the film was cancelled, General Kill Pain was considered an important Funny Wars character and was retroactively added to the lore.
At one point it was decided that the models would eventually be ported to Garry's Mod and the film would be made there. It was decided that a consistent art style wasn't really needed, and the current models would purposefully clash with GMod assets. Eventually, there was so little ideas and motivation to work on the script that it was decided that most of the script would be left out and the movie would be improved. Another thing that came up was technical difficulties. Gavin had quickly realized that porting models to Garry's Mod was a clusterfuck of a process involving 15 year old programs and insane requirements for rigging. He changed his mind back and forth on whether he would port the models or get somebody else, eventually leading to a joke about him porting the models or not. When he decided not to port them, he could only find two people who would; the first one wouldn't even try to rig the models and only import t-posing models into Garry's Mod, and the second tried to teach Gavin to port them himself and realized it had been way too long since he actually did it. While all this was happening, another person who had contributed to the original Funny Wars read the original script and said, in a Discord VC, that it was an awful script and needed to be rewritten. The original defense was "yeah nobody's gonna see this we're just making this for myself", but what came immediately after was the realization that this would be sent to people who had never seen Funny Wars, and one person wanted to put it on their resume because they planned on going into filmmaking later. The next day it was decided that the entire script would be thrown out and everything would be storyboarded.
Aside from Gavin, the two other crew members -- the creators of the original Funny Wars server, did not have much faith in the film ever. Both frequently joked about it being cancelled. One of them also admitted she could not contribute too much to the film and that her only real role could be making sure the lore is in check. The film's goal devolved from getting it actually made -- to if we finish this we can make fun of the people who said it'd be cancelled - to 'hey even if it gets cancelled, at least we have g-mod models.'
On January 10th, 2021, the movie got brought up in a VC, and somebody said "oh yeah this is totally gonna be cancelled in like two weekss". Production ended then and there.
Trivia
- This movie, while never completed, is an important point in Funny Wars history because it introduced General Kill Pain, the robotic Poopburbian Soldiers, and made Dunderhead relevant as well as giving him his signature katana. It also lead to the creation of this wiki, as an attempt to better understand the characters that would be written.
- The movie began development in August 2020 and was cancelled in January 2021.
- The movie's files are all publicly available on github.
- While referred to as The Cop on this page to avoid confusion, this film was being worked on before The Cop was his own character -- he was a different character in this movie.
- The Funny Wars Movie is still frequently joked about among the crew, with some of them wanting to make an entirely different, more self-aware take on the film.
