About

Madness Combat is an award winning Adobe Flash series by Newgrounds user Krinkels. The series has gained recognition through it’s many animated parodies, episodes, and non-canon animations.

Origin

Madness Combat was made after Krinkels failed at gaining recognition though his old series, Breadman, a series about a man being killed in various ways, first being killed by eating a slice of bread. The first episode, “Marshmallow Madness” was submitted to Newgrounds by the creator, Krinkels. The episode has over 4000,000 views.

After Krinkels witnessed how famous the first episode became, he decided to make further episodes. The ratings changed from T to M throughout the series. The newer episodes had less views than Marshmallow Madness, yet the series has thousands of views and even more parodies and tributes.

Marshmallow Madness

Story

The story of Madness Combat takes place “Somewhere in Nevada” and is about a man named Hank J. Wimbelton who longs to kill the Sheriff, who is known for stealing pie from Hank. The storyline has changed throughout the series but still has the same main protagonist, Hank J. Wimbelton. Hank also kills several “grunts” throughout the series, he also gets killed by most antagonists, such as Jebus and Tricky, yet he randomly reappears in various forms in newer episodes after dying.

Hank has currently killed two of the main antagonists in the series, known as the Sheriff and the Auditor.

Spread

The animated series spread across various sites, well known for being on Youtube, Newgrounds, and having several fan-sites. Madness Combat is familiar mostly on Youtube because of it’s fan animations, in-animation process videos, Madness: Project Nexus gameplays, and the original series.

Episode 11

There are currently only 13 episodes of Madness Combat including episode 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5. Yet on an unknown date, deviantART user TheDeath1 asked Krinkels (Krinkels-R909) when episode 11 would come out, Krinkels replied “Soon.” to TheDeath1. The episode hasn’t yet been released but it has gained recognition from MadnessWiki, only showing the conclusion of episode 10 in the article, which was when the Auditor exploded after he absorbed Tricky into his body.

Madness Day

Madness Day is one of the many internet theme days, yet the theme is celebrating Madness Combat itself. The theme day is on September 22 every year, and is celebrated with fan art and animations.