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Disclaimer

Noxigar wrote almost all of this hogwash because he, and others, were children when they first started this trainwreck of a show idea. As such, the initiative proposed is that they salvage whatever episode concepts we can, and scrap the rest completely whilst making a Movieum of sorts to consolidate the good which came from Redux and Prime.

Wikihood Redux: The Gold Mine Of History Most Of Us Would Probably Prefer To Forget

Wikihood Redux was a pet project that has been tinkered with a lot of times.

Originally, Wikihood was a fanfiction project meant to replicate RoosterTeeth's The Strangerhood, done so by a multitude of different authors on the Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki. It was taken down from the HRFWiki, due to not having enough Homestar Runner content within it to be considered a Homestar Runner fanstuff. With this in mind, the authors have attempted to put it on the Wiki User Wiki twice, only for that Wiki to shut down each time. In the advent of the second shutdown of the Wiki User Wiki, it was moved to the Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki, as Wikihood 2. However, Wikihood 2 would not last long either. The Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki underwent a fanfiction purge, and only kept what was assumed to be "the best of the best." Even this Purge did not take effect for a long time, which left many users from the HRFWiki stranded to parts unknown. With Super Sam's help, the Wiki User Wiki was re-instated, and the original Wikihood author took full advantage of this. Chances were given for a new Wikihood to come forth, and hopefully stay this time. As Wikihood essentially became the breath of life for most of the WUW's third go at being a functional website, many copies of Wikihood exist across the realms.

Redux had roughly thirty-five episodes spanned across three Seasons, before we attempted to soft-reboot the continuity twice. Even each of the soft-reboot attempts never got particularly far. A lot of our creative ambitions were marred by edit conflicts with a guy who had a different idea of what defined "Wikihood" than us, as well as the one of the original Wikihood authors getting violently fed up with his creation getting constantly moved around and rendered incomplete. Most of the current authors, and their associates, have assumedly let bygones be bygones with all parties that clashed with us.

The first Redux season had 15 Episodes, the second had 12, and the third had 8. Each of the soft-reboot attempts did not make it past 7-8 Episodes. In total, we had almost 51 Episodes, one of which was kept in spirit as the theme song of this archival exposition. Some episodes never got finished, before we decided to just remake everything with a bit more of our personal touch. Most of Redux still gets used in Current Wikihood, but in a downplayed form compared to what even Wikihood Prime would have been doing with it.

Proto-Season 1: "Wikihood Prime"

At one point in Wikihood's lifespan, we decided a fresh start with more customized, more original ideas and concepts would give us the inspiration we needed to continue onwards with this series. In a way, we were correct on this front. Much like early Redux, however, there was a lot of creative clashing between multiple authors. To be able to have everyone agree on everything, we ended up revamping a good majority of Prime before we even finished the first Season of it. In stark contrast with Redux's maxim, we rescinded a "No-Preplotting Rule" that had been as much of an obstacle as pre-plotting had been for pre-Redux iterations of Wikihood, if not moreso.

That said, our modifications of Prime eventually culminated in the creation of Current Wikihood. Well, after a break caused prominently by the Wiki User Wiki being down for almost a full year. :9

Archive Theme Song (Originally Wikihood Redux Episode 43 - "Dr. Strangehate, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Temporal Rip")

(Yeah, the episode was just an embed of a Dissidia meme. It was obviously the best Wikihood Redux episode ever.)

Special Episodes

Long ago, an attempt to spawn "Specials" came across.

During Redux, the idea was that we had them to be somewhat amusing things, to look back on fondly. However, for the most part they are now considered entirely redundant with "sibling projects" such as Everything You Know Is Wrong and Ben & Alex Visit The United States of America. On top of that, while we most certainly all still enjoy Homestar Runner, our fandom interests deviated strongly from concepts that would have been considered "Homestar-like," and Special Episodes were made only once in a blue moon.

The only Redux Special Episode we've sincerely completed was one where Noxigar, Sephiroth, and countless others faffed about in Castle Oblivion. We had largely intended for it to be backstory on the existence of multiple Redux characters as Organization XIII members, even if only covertly and for the express purposes of humour. As we had been trying to soft-reboot Redux after three seasons, it is likely assumed this Episode would have been BALEETED along with most other Special concepts, even if it wasn't horrifyingly outdated.

In Prime, only one Special Episode was ever devised: a Festivus Episode. Chaos would try to recreate a Seinfeld holiday, with Noxigar going to have Christmas dinner with the Belluccis. This Episode never came to be, before Prime was cancelled.

Anti-Episodes

Before Wikihood Redux, I would argue that Wikihood's biggest flaw was that it was trying too hard to be like this other webtoon that was out, called Bonus Stage. Bonus Stage was made by a guy who deeply regretted his decision to animate it, and overall aged about as well as milk. One of the gimmicks taken from Bonus Stage was the concept of an "Anti-Episode," which was of course used in Wikihood Redux.

In essence, an Anti-Episode was just an Episode whose overall canonicity was incredibly dubious at best.

The Anti-Episodes were once a Season, for the first three of Redux's lifespan. Two of them were essentially propagated entirely as the result of massive edit conflicts, and the third was probably the closest to what an Anti-Episode should have been. However, none of them would have been able to be functionally remade within the contexts of Prime or soft-reboots.

When we worked on Prime, one of the ways we divorced ourselves from Redux was not bothering with Anti-Episodes at all.

The Shit To Be Deleted Or Summarized

Proto-Season 1

1. Idiot Scrapes — Another typical Wikihood day; The gang takes out the trash while Chaos files papers.
2. Sympathy for the Devil's Son — A new guest causes havoc in the Wikihood manor using subterfuge and sheer insanity.
3. Currents and Recurrence of Currents — An obligatory episode involving introductions of more characters. But anything would really be better than last episode, right?
4. The Root of Lawful Evil — The power goes out at the Wikihood house. Hilarity does most certainly not ensue.
5. Of Tea and Big-Lipped Alligators — The gang thinks about the weight of their past decisions over their current predicament, as they have moved to Midway City.
6. More Wars VI: Return of The 'Hood — The gang tries to return home. Of course, this means that D'Arque's going to give them copious amounts of hell.
7. Debonair D'Arque's Mad Dash! — With the gang in need of money, D'Arque decides to help them out. At least, as well as any undead politician could.
8. City That Never Sleeps — Remolay and Oiracul get much-needed character development while the remainder of the Wikihood Gang go on a "vacation" to New York.
9. Riches to Rags — With D'Arque reduced to rags and Rosenberg poised to strike, the tables are turning for our villains.
10. The Next Episode — After a hostile kidnapping from the likes of Rosenberg, he finally manages to "convince" them to join him to bring glory back to Midway.
11. The Midway Tourism Board Presents: Living Life, The Midway Way — Welcome to the city of Midway! Please, enjoy your stay, because you probably can't leave.
12. Townindale Talks — What Rosenberg sets out to do, we can get done without flash and bang. Take this testimony from our colorful citizens!
13. Better Late than Living — D'Arque's up to no good, but leave it to the Sea Hitmen to make sure word gets out.
14. Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun — The Wikihood and Rosenberg must try and breach D'Arque's defenses before he can succeed in creating an undead utopia.
15. Abracadaver — After assembling a citizen militia to take Townindale back by force, the Wikihood run into a more reoccuring problem, named Droll.
16. Parts Versus Parcel — Rosenberg's presence in the battle has finally been made apparent, but to what ends will he go to end this feud?

Season -3

• Wikihood: The Redux, The Radical, The Apocalypse - The disaster begins...
• Game Night - The Wikihood cast stay home and play games all night long.
• The Path I Believed In - Super Sam frees The Enigma, who causes promblems for everyone. Meanwhile, Silver goes to save the future.
• Not Named Medivh - A crazy person predicts the end of the universe by a dark evil.
• "Tea and Crumpets?" - We take a look on Wikihood life back in the olden times.
• The Successor, the Successee, and the Succeding - Edgeworth gains the mansion due to Edgeworthington's "Death", Chaos' Plan furthers, and everyone finds out, there's a reason Chaos wants Vindicator DEAD, with all the good, old, in-between stuff from the usual series.
• Unwraveling Nexus - The Universe really DOES begin to come apart, thanks to the Enigma's "Death", and Chwoka is proven right. But that Doesn't stop Chaos and his Devilish intent.
• Welcome to Terra - The Invincible and Ark land on Terra, and Tommyspud, Chaos, and Nick all go on a little walk. There, they find an observatory. Also, the greatest war of all time begins, with the appearence of Znex's alternate universe double...
• Oblivion Rises... - The god Zharanakuva starts taking over the reformed universe as his own as the Wikihood characters struggle to keep him away from their home. But how could they possibly defeat an all-powerful and omniscient god?
• The Wisest Being - Zharanakuva is defeated, and the whole universe is free, but there is a deeper and stronger force behind all this. The Wikihood characters so race against time to try and find out who this force is and then stop it. Meanwhile, The Chaos/Joseph Grudge match begins where it left off.
• A Beginning Of A War - A War starts in Sephiroth's Home universe, and it breaks off, to become the biggest Wikihood war yet.
• The Situation Tenses - The War in Sharoth continues, and even gets bigger.
• Welcome to The Digital World - The war resumwes in the Digital World, where there is no escaping.
• Attrition - The only way to win a war is to kill more than can be replaced...

Season -2

• Dinner and a Movie - The light at the end of a tunnel. Also an excuse to parody romance fanfics. Also, Sephiroth makes a Party.
• Here We Go Again... - The cast goes on a manhunt for a Muffin of Doom while being addicted to pizza.
• Glabal's Grudge - After Billions of years, The Glabal return, with intentions of revenge, and even more.
• Search for Mercury's Tear - After everyone being poisoned by the Darkness Gene, Sennin and Chaos set off to find the Mercury's Tear. Userdoveunknown tags along too.
• Doppelganger Fight - The Wikihood Team fight against their doppelgangers, controlled by the First Chaos, who might not be dead.
• Emergency Plot Change - A wedding of incoherent, unorthodox eloping happens when Deathbringer attempts to be the King of Hearts.
• Simulation: Terminated - 3 months after the last episode, everyone finds that things are fine. A little too fine? Nah...
• Tournament - Noxigar and Joseph have broken free of the simulation, and duke it out. Meanwhile, a new force is ready to stop Adel's intetntions.
• The Climax That Never Was - Davros, after assimilating the power of some of the most powerful items, and people, becomes one of the most powerful villains in the universe. He possesses Sephiroth to make matters worse.
• Sephiroth's Stupidly Bogus Training Quest - Sephiroth isn't really dead, but is in fact of a quest to get back his powers in greece.
• The End of an Era - Sephiroth resumes his training, whereas Joseph looks back on everything that's happened to him. Chaos is alive, and everything seems good, but then, the universe begins to collapse. Goody goody.

Season -1

• We made it this far? - The team escapes the ruined Universe to get their aid as Adel moves his new super-army out to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
• Race to the Finish! - A war begins on mars, possibly the biggest one yet. Included is a race between Alphamon and Adel to save Joseph.
• Payback Is Payback - Noxigar confronts the Beast to avenge Xaldin, while Leo is introduced as a Sephiroth replacement. Some cloaked figure comes with some distemper towards Noxi, and he apparently brought a "friend" along.
• The Drugged Truth - The action takes place next in Twilight Town. The truth is then revealed the least coherent ways imaginable.
• Poke-PHAIL and the Sephifake Movie Marathon - Noxigar goes Roxas hunting, and is put into Pokemon Gold version, whereas Leo, Cloak, and Dagger must watch the memories of Sephiroth, who apparently got mangled up badly in the explosion.
• Adventures in Complete and Utter Stupidity - Cloak, Dagger and Leo all try to leave Traverse Town via a darkness portal, while the wargoers fight like crazy before Universitas comes and ends everything imaginable
• The World of Anti-Climacticy - Noxigar faded into darkness, the Ark is broken, Adel is powerless, Chaos has no body, Sephiroth isn't anywhere to be found. As they return to earth, who knows what's in store.

Season 0.1

• Another Whitewashing — Namine gets tired of the downhill path everything is going. She decides to clean things up by remaking Wikihood. Again.
• ...In a Row?! — More happenings occur in the Wikihood house. Residents from the Criminally Insane and Clinically Despressed House of has-been Video Game Villains escape and cause mayhem. And someone named after a trigonometric function is manipulating everything...
• HOW THE GANG GOT THEIR GROOVE BACK — (it was by starvation and communism)
• The Exterminator — After the house gets an outbreak of insects and rodents, the crew are forced to move out for a few days. More of the previous Wikihood's story is re-established.
• Sine, Cosine, and Tangent — Noxigar meets and confronts Space Allen while observing his surroundings.

Season Ψ

• Another Bloody Reboot? — Sometimes we wonder how logic gets demolished. This is our story of how the phoenix dies again, and the egg takes its place.
• Trouble Has a Name — The objective is clear. Getting there is never so.
• AVENGERS, AWAY! — With some kind of plan and some kind of group formed, the real story can now begin.
• Cue the Fanfare — We had a synopsis here, but it's shit. Basically, we were young when crafting these Episodes and didn't recognize the full extent which alt-right sadsack motherfuckers could appropriate previously-harmless linguistics, turning 1980's lingo into something meriting one be punched in the face for using.
• I Once Was a Teenage Paradox — Lots of pointless plot development occurs as Chaos and Tannenbaum enjoy a light brunch.
• "Run, Run, Run! I Hunger!" — Both Joseph and Jacques deal with mazes. Joseph's maze has a rampaging parody of Greek mythology, while Jacques' maze has a time limit of 8 hours. Who will get their maze done the fastest?
• "Find the Computer Room!" — More backtracking to worlds mentioned, next being the House universe. Meanwhile, more plot progression for the protagonists.