Human Centipede the Musical

Human Centipede: The Musical is a satirical adaptation of The Human Centipede. It can be viewed here.

Tropes used in Human Centipede the Musical include:

• Ax Crazy: Voller.
• Break the Cutie: Steve.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Lindsay's actress revolts during the "feeding" scene.
• Brick Joke: Butt cocktails.
• Calling Your Attacks: Steve cries out “Stab!” twice: once when he stabs Heiter, and again when he kills himself.
• Captain Obvious Aesop: Parodied in the final song.

Everyone: Don’t sew your mouth to my butt, and I won’t sew my butt to you. If we all keep out butts to ourselves, we can change the world.

• Contractual Genre Blindness: Lindsay and Jenny display Genre Savviness on numerous occasions, yet they never apply it.
• Death by Adaptation: Lindsay
• Determinator: Steve.

Steve: Never give up! Never surrender!

• Driven to Suicide: Steve.
• Establishing Character Moment: Most of the main characters, especially Steve, have them.
• Evil Is Hammy: Heiter.
• Faux Affably Evil: Heiter, who explains how the human centipede will be created in song.
• For the Evulz: The reason why Heiter kills the truck driver.
• Germanic Efficiency

Lindsay: I haven’t seen a street sign in a while. Jenny: That’s so weird. I thought Germans were supposed to be, like, really efficient.

• In Harm's Way: Kranz and Voller.
• Keet: Steve.
• Kill'Em All
• Large Ham: Voller.

Voller: I smell danger! I want more!

• Lyrical Dissonance: Dr. Heiter’s Villain Song, along with the penultimate number, an upbeat song about how everyone dies.
• Mood Whiplash: Heiter interrupts Steve’s cheerful music number by drugging him and dragging him offstage.
• Musicalis Interruptus: Heiter does this to Steve and Lindsay on separate occasions.
• Narm: Lampshaded.

Narrator: This would be sad if they didn’t look so amusing.

• No Dead Body Poops: Averted.

Narrator: Just so you know, everybody... you poop when you die!

• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Heiter, Kranz, and Voller.
• Plot Hole: One lyric states, “Steve smiled until his last teeth were gone”, but Steve is at the front of the centipede.
• The Pollyanna: Steve retains his cheerful demeanor even when he wakes up tied to a bed and finds out that he’ll be part of a human centipede.
• Rock Bottom

Jenny: What are we gonna do? We blew a tire, and we don’t know where we are! This literally could not be any worse! Narrator: Or could it!?

• Taking You with Me: Before bleeding to death, Kranz shoots Heiter in the head.
• That's What She Said

Jenny: We’re dangerously unprotected. Lindsay: That’s what she said.

• This Is Reality

Jenny: We don’t know where we are, and we don’t have phones, and we’re just two girls, and the horror movie really writes itself here! Lindsay: Okay, relax. This is real life, not a horror movie.

• Title: the Adaptation
• Toilet Humor: A cornerstone of the plot.

Narrator: Poop jokes! This is art!

• Translation Convention: All of the dialogue is in English.
• Valley Girl: Lindsay and Jenny.
• Villain Song: The means through which Dr. Heiter explains the procedure.