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  • Acceptable Targets: The British, even though Skarr is a Brit.
    • Canada and New Jersey as well. In fact, the Canadian mounties have British mannerisms.
  • Adaptation Displacement: Many people forget that this show and Billy & Mandy originated as Grim & Evil.
  • Audience-Alienating Premise: A human brain and stomach attached to a bear wanted to rule the world.
  • AwesomeMusic: The theme song.
    • All of the songs from the musical episode.
  • BestKnownForTheFanservice: Ghastly had a surprising amount.
  • CrossesTheLineTwice: Or four times.

-->Skarr: Stick the knife in his back, and twist! TWIST! TWIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!!

  • CrossoverShip: Ghastly gets one with Hoss Delgado.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Evil Con Carne/Ensemble Darkhorse Has its own page.
  • Evil Is Sexy: A mild mix with Major Doctor Ghastly.
  • Fandom Rivalry: With WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: The Company Halt segment from Billy & Mandy.
  • FunnyAneurysmMoment: Over 15 years since the show debuted, the brain of the former Patriots player/murderer Aaron Hernandez is kept.
  • Just Here For Frank Welker: Creator/FrankWelker did TONS of voice work in Evil Con Carne including a spoof of both Godzilla and Mothra.
  • HilariousInHindsight: Has its own page.
  • MostWonderfulSound: Hector Con Carne's laugh.
  • NauseaFuel: All the brain injuries to Hector Con Carne.
  • OlderThanYouThink: Many people believed Skarr came from Billy & Mandy when it turns out he came from this cartoon first.
  • SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The show has been forgotten with the releases of Despicable Me, Megamind and Suicide Squad, with similar themes.
  • SoOkayItsAverage: WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg Like WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity many WesternAnimation/TimeSquad fellow WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones lesser known WesternAnimation/CartoonCartoons, this show is considered to be a pretty decent watch that never quite lived up to its contemporaries. In Evil Con Carne's case, its more popular sister show WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy makes things harder to live up to.
  • Spotlight Stealing Squad: General Skarr.
  • Tear Jerker: A meta example, but there's the fact that this was the very last of the famous Cartoon Cartoons....ever (well, there was Grim and Evil before it got split up into different shows but still).
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: Hector cared about his body and some of his allies, including Boskov and Ghastly.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Cod Commando destroyed Hector's body and is not sympathetic towards Hector and his army at all.
  • The Woobie: Hector lost his body and begs his army to get it back for him. Boskov in the original pilot where the premise is that Hector becomes finally fed up with Boskov being his substitute body and fires him from Evil Con Carne.