Talk:The Behemoth (Ohga Shrugs)

Extra Life
You might be wondering where this "Extra Life" thing came from. Well, several places.

First, I was thinking about the relationship between the game-o-verse and the rest of reality in the Ohga Shrugs timeline. Obviously, the lack of a PlayStation brand would not have a huge effect on world politics and whatnot, but what about things like language? And other parts of culture? From there, my mind went to webcomics, and from there, Penny Arcade. And once I reached Penny Arcade, my mind got stuck on Child's Play.

Child's Play is essentially Extra Life IRL. The main difference is, instead of being founded by a game developer, it was founded by two guys who made a comic. In 2003 in real life, these guys already had a big enough fanbase to start a charity from it. But in Ohga Shrugs, video gaming is more niche, and it isn't even very likely that there'd be as many gaming webcomics. Therefore, if Ohga Shrugs were to have its answer to Child's Play, it'd have to come from somewhere else.

Meet Tom Fulp. Tom, in my humble opinion, is a cool dude. He created Newgrounds as a way to share his stuff, and essentially invented Web 2.0 for games in order to help share other peoples' things. He's a lover of games and sharing them with people. Plus, his companies have actually given a lot of money to charity in real life. That "150% of proceeds to charity" event is a milder version of something he and The Behemoth did in real life. Plus, one of his DLC packs for Castle Crashers, the "Pink Knight" one, had its proceeds go largely to charity for cancer.

With a video game related charity being absent in Ohga Shrugs, and with Tom Fulp still being successful and yet in character, I find it believable that he would start up a charity. He'd be busy as hell, considering he also has a website and game developer to run, but with the success of Extra Life, he could probably hire somebody to take on most of the work.

That was the calm, creative, rational part of my decision to add this piece of Ohga Shrugs lore. But ultimately, I wanted something else too, that pushed me to write it.

I wanted there to be a happy story in Ohga Shrugs.

--Salnax (talk) 06:42, April 13, 2013 (UTC)