“ | Fancy Pants Man! The King! He needs you! Angry Bathtub Pirates have commendeered the royal tub! He needs you right away! Come on, jump out of bed! | ” |
— Mayor, Fancy Pants Adventures World 3
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Fancy Pants Man, referred to as Fancy Pants in Newgrounds Rumble and Indie Game Battle, is a character from the Fancy Pants Adventures series. He is a kind-hearted stick figure who loves adventure and frequently defends his hometown of Squiggleville.
Background[]
Fancy Pants Man lives in Squiggleville. He enjoys exploring, though that occasionally leads him into trouble. His adventuring lead to Fancy landing on Angry Penguin when he was sleeping, causing him to attack Fancy.
In Fancy Pants Adventures 2, he is playing a game of Fancy Golf. The Mayor of Squiggleville gave him an ice cream cone as a reward, but it was stolen by Angry Rabbit. Fancy Pants Man goes after him to retrieve it.
In the third game, he is awoken by the Mayor who alerts him that the King's royal tub has been stolen by Angry Pirates. He travels through Squiggleville to the baththub, removing the plug and sucking the pirates down the drain. This angers the captain, the rainbow-bearded Captain Manly Beard. He begins to rant but is distracted by Kabootle the Cat and starts petting it. Kabootle is owned by Fancy Pants' sister, Cutie Pants, and she gets angry with Manly Beard for petting Kabootle. She knocks him out, and the Bathtub Pirates take her away, making her their new leader. Fancy Pants chases to pirates from Squiggleville to the Pirate's Lagoon. At the Pirate's Lagoon, he raids their ship and fights off Manly Beard's former crew. He finds Cutie Pants enjoying life as the crew's new captain and refuses to go with find, dropping him into a dungeon with Manly Beard. Drunk and depressed, Manly Beard requests Fancy Pants to find The Mystical Beard Dye of Norris so he can dye his beard and get his crew to respect him. Fancy Pants retrieves it from an ancient temple and returns to the ship. Cutie Pants is being attacked by ninjas and declares that she doesn't want to be the captain anymore. Manly Beard, with his beard now colored brown, interrupts Fancy Pants fighting of the ninjas and challenges him to a fight, though he is defeated. Cutie Pants apologizes to her brother and Fancy Pants gives her a piggy-back ride home.
In Super Fancy Pants Adventure, he is alerted by Cutie Pants that their world has changed after a rainstorm. She lost Kabootle during the storm. They later find him in the caverns below, along with a giant pen that Fancy uses as a weapon. They exist the ruins, and a woman tells them that their house was the only one not washed away by the storm. On top of that, there is a nearby volcano that is currently active. He discovers Squiggleville in ruins, fending off ink monsters along the way. With the pen, he removes the ink blocks and monsters near the town for the residents. He journeys through a cave, the supposed source of the ink, fighting off a giant monster of ink and plugging the ink's source. The mayor requests Fancy Pants to search for the pirates to lend him a ship to top the volcano. He finds Captain Manly Beard and his crew fighting off ink monsters. The crew became a group of sky pirates, inspired by the storm sweeping their ships into tree, and they sail to the volcano in return for Fancy Pants rescuing them. At the volcano, he finds it overflowing with ink and infested with ink monsters, and comes across two platforms made of paper. As he looks over the paper's cliff, someone pushes him into the ink below. The ink acts a portal, throwing Fancy onto a giant real world desk. The creature reveals itself to be a clone of Fancy made of ink. The two engage in battle, and Fancy Pants is victorious. The creatures transforms into a pile of ink and tosses Fancy off the desk. Fancy finds a piece of paper with a portal and goes into it, leaving the game into a cliffhanger.
Character Profiles[]
Newgrounds Rumble-Cordially invited to Free Ice Cream Day in the realm of Newgrounds, Fancy Pants Man couldn't help but grab the nearest portal over. But he'll quickly soon discover that Newgrounds is not a land of niceties or free ice cream.
Character Interactions[]
Fancy Pants/Character Interactions
Newgrounds Rumble[]
Fancy Pants is a playable character in Newgrounds Rumble. He was added in Newgrounds Rumble's second release. he has high health and a long attack reach, but has slow attacks and is hard for the player to control. He uses the pencil from Fancy Pants Adventures World 2 for a weapon. He throws a Spider, a common enemy in the Fancy Pants Adventures games, for his Gun pickup. In his story, he was innocently enticed into Newgrounds over the promise of free ice cream. When he arrives in Newgrounds, he is attacked by Samurai Asshole. Overcoming the enraged samurai in battle, Fancy assumes that this was a planned attack, and continues to fight until he finds the truth. This leads him to battle against P-Bot. After defeating him, he hacks into P-Bot's memory files and finds that "Free Ice Cream Day" was a trap planned by Newgrounds leaders to destroy anything innocuous, and ends up fighting Hank. He finally encounters the leaders of Newgrounds: Pico and Nene. He is outnumbered at first, but is joined in battle by Piconjo, who understands Fancy's trouble as he spent his childhood as a stick figure. In his ending, Fancy returns home, angered by the cruelty of Newgrounds. As he enters the portal, he vows to never return, fearing the violent nature that Newgrounds awakened within him.
Action/Event | Description | Reference | Origin |
Backstory | Fancy Pants is lured into Newgrounds with the promise of free ice cream. | Fants Pants Adventures World 2 (2008) | The backstory references Fancy Pants' love of ice cream. Fancy Pants was rewarded with ice cream for a game of Fancy Golf in Fancy Pants World 2. When Angry Rabbit stole it, Fancy Pants went after him to retrieve it. |
Fighting Style | Fancy Pants fights with a Pencil. | Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 (2008) | Fancy uses a pencil as a golf club on a snail shell in a game of Fancy Golf. |
Gun Powerup | Fancy tosses a spider at his opponents. If it hits the ground, it bounces off the arena with a shocked expression on its face. | Fancy Pants Adventures (2006) | Spiders are common enemies in the Fancy Pants series. The expression it makes while used is a reference to how Spiders appear when they are damaged. Hopping off the stage is a reference to how Fancy Pants Man kicks his enemies off the level to defeat them in the Fancy Pants Adventures games. |
Mirror's Edge 2D[]
Fancy Pants Man makes a cameo appearance in Mirror's Edge 2D. During the opening production logo, a Fancy Pants Adventures style door appear on the top of the Mirror's Edge 2D logo. The door opens, revealing Fancy Pants Man, and disappears. Fancy Pants Man grinds on the Mirror's Edge logo before jumping off it. He then holds onto the giant text that says "2D" on a constuction beam and lets go, falling off screen. While he has orange pants while grinding, his pants turn red when holding onto the giant "2D" logo.
Action/Event | Description | Reference | Origin |
Door animation | A door appears on top of the Mirror's Edge logo. As it opens, Fancy Pants Man exits it and it disappears. | Fancy Pants Adventures (2006) | Doors are a gameplay mechanic within the Fancy Pants Adventures series, which can transport Fancy Pants Man to different sections of the current level he is in. |
Grinding animation | Fancy Pants Man grinds on the Mirror's Edge logo. | Fancy Pants Adventures World 2 (2008) | Fancy Pants Adventures World 2 introduced a new mechanic which allowed Fancy Pants Man to slide on ink. If Fancy Pants touches a downhill inky slope, he will automatically slide on the ink, increasing his speed. |
Indie Game Battle[]
Fancy Pants was going to appear as a playable character in Indie Game Battle, but the game was canceled before he was added to the game.
Action/Event | Description | Reference | Origin |
Character render | Fancy Pants Man leans on his pencil giving a thumbs up. | The Fancy Pants Adventures (2010) | Fancy Pants Man's Indie Game Battle render is based on his official artwork in The Fancy Pants Adventures. |
Fraymakers[]
Fancy Pants Man appears as an assist character in Fraymakers. When summoned, Fancy Pants Man jumps forward, striking foes with his pencil. The attack deals a great amount of damage, though it can be difficult to land due to Fancy Pants Man's position while jumping.
Action/Event | Description | Reference | Origin |
Assist attack | Fancy Pants Man leaps forward, attacking with his pencil. | Fancy Pants Adventures World 3 (2012) | While the pencil was used by Fancy Pants Man in World 2 and Newgrounds Rumble, Fancy Pants Man prominently used it in World 3. The pencil was used as a new gameplay mechanic, in which Fancy Pants Man could wield it like a sword to attack enemies. |