The Bux Iceberg

The Bux Iceberg is an iceberg image created by Point36 and released on 21st February, 2023. It involves a sizable collection of Bux series trivia and lore ranging from the obvious and most established to the obscure and unknown facts were forgotten over time. This article aims to provide a short, understandable explanation for every entry on the list, where possible.
== Common Knowledge ==
Sonic Robo Blast 2: SRB2 is the Sonic fangame that Point36 introduced the friend group to back in 2022. The game immediately became an invaluable resource for shitty inside jokes and eventually led to the creation of Bux.
Friday Night Funkin' Mod: The media Bux is most prominent in is easily FNF mods. The Bux Mod began development only around 5 weeks after the characters were created. JenjenParibou uploaded Dumbass Pulley as an unlisted YouTube video on 7th August, 2022.
Characters are recolours of the SRB2 cast: The characters for Season 1 (Yan, Ruby, Curls, Recol, Chekawa and Metal Yan) are all satirical recoloured versions of Sonic Robo Blast 2 v2.2's playable characters (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Fang and Metal respectively).
Dumbass Pulley: A term coined from GenericMalachi's understandable resentment towards the pulleys in Arid Canyon Zone Act 1 from SRB2, and 100 gecs song Stupid Horse.
Universal hatred for Yan: Yan is a character hated by basically everyone for being annoying. That just makes him more popular outside of canon, though. Those Wilhelm-von-Clausewitz-Halcyon-HISUIMARU-type people...
== Notable events and facts ==
Ruby owns a shotgun: Ruby does indeed own a shotgun. This makes her one of 2 and a half Season 1 characters that are known for using firearms (Chekawa has a revolver, Yan is said to own a gun in his original bio but this was never brought up again).
Season 2 characters: When Bux isn't enough, what do you do? Add more Bux, silly! Several characters were created after the original six from the Bux Crew, including fan-favourites such as E-111 "μ", Yin, and G the Hedgeman.
Importance of T-Man in the FNF mod: T-Man appears multiple times throughout the Bux mod and has his own week dedicated to remixes of songs from elsewhere in the mod. The mod also reveals that the "T-Van" is actually the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo this is so fucking stupid
Pewdiepie + Metal Sonic concerts: Metal Sonic and Pewdiepie make and distribute music together. Metal was supposedly offered a partnership for his "beeps and boops".
Shadow is dead (Chekawa's backstory): Chekawa killed Shadow the Hedgehog, his mentor, after being instructed to by him.
Sulfuric Acid Incident: Refers to an incident in which Curls dissolved Yan's entire house in sulfuric acid, before giving him a new one. It is unknown if the plan was all Curls' or if Metal Yan influenced his decision.
Monochrome Amy: If the SRB2 map Frozen Hillside Zone was loaded with at least one Rosy-coloured Amy player in the lobby, the Amy NPC at the end of the zone would have an entirely monochrome colouration, including details such as clothes whereas skincolours typically only change one section of a character's body. In multiplayer co-op servers, the first 2 players to reach the end of the zone are allowed to fight each for Monochrome Amy's love.
Curls stole his backstory from Megamind: Curls' home planet was destroyed with Curls as the only the survivor of his race who escaped, eventually finding a place to call home once again. This idea is stolen directly form the 2010 Dreamworks Comedy Superhero film Megamind.
Everybody lives in Yan's house: After destroying Yan's house with his evil sticky slime, Curls decided in a spontaneous act of kindness to give Yan an awesome, brand-new house. The house was so awesome, in fact, that everybody else in the Bux Crew decided to stay in it. Oh well.
== Deep-buried trivia ==
Cux in Wisconsin: Cux in Wisconsin is a spin-off of Bux that involves the Season 3 characters Stun the Weedeater, Bloodedge the Minion and Wilson the Unstarving as friends in a mini-series. It got 1 total comics.
Eggman created Metal Yan's blueprints: Dr. Eggman accidentally dropped the blueprints for his latest Metal Sonic model off of the Black Rock while he was up in space during SRB2. Yan luckily (or unluckily) stumbled upon them and decided to create Metal Yan.
AI Dungeon alternate universe: An AI Dungeon Bux roleplay was attempted. Curls killed several innocent people, including Recol I think??? It was weird. But funny. And as JenjenParibou said, "[AI Dungeon isn't canon] except when it involves a man dying".
buxcolours.lua: A small addon created for SRB2 that adds a few skincolours based on Bux's characters from Seasons 1 and 2.
Character backstories written by different co-writers (retconned): Originally, Bux's creators were supposed to write backstories for characters that weren't theirs. Nobody really remembers these, but I like to think it follows the same canonicity rules as PC-98 Touhou: As long as it doesn't create a discrepancy with the most recent media, it could be canon.
Metal Yan can be rebuilt like a Lego/Dry Bones: Supposedly this means Metal Yan's limbs automatically stick back together if they get separated from his torso for too long.
Yin knew Yan in the past: Yin and Yan were childhood friends, but eventually forgot about each other. Yin contracted amnesia, and Yan was too busy getting metaphorically (or so I'm told) shat on to bother remembering.
Alternate Bux media: Bux is, by all means, a multi-media franchise. The series has had official games, game modifications, countless comics, storyboards, soundtracks and more.
== Forgotten lore ==
Stun and Spongebob are related: No elaboration given. Stun's creator is a huge fan of Spongebob Squarepants so I assume it has something to do with this. This iceberg predates the creation of Bobward Lovelypants by about half a year, though maybe that has some sort of relation to this entry.
Curls' original race: Curls' fur colour used to be a bit inconsistent and confusing. Curls was drawn as white in Bux Comic #1 but this was "then turned blue because it was a bit rasist and i don't like cars i hate cars i really don't like cars" [sic].
Soul Eggman isn't the fake Eggman: Soul Eggman is apparently the real, authentic Dr. Eggman, and the silly mf seen in Sonic Robo Blast 2 and Classic-era Sonic is the faker.
Curls is Knuckles' meth dealer: This was revealed in a comic, specifically and definitely (but not perhaps) the one titled Knuckles' Backstory.
Cancelled Bux comics: According to JenjenParibou, there have been several ideas for Bux comics that were scrapped and never saw the light of day, including one with Yan and Metal Yan fighting the iconic 90's 2D Platformer mascots, Plok and Ristar.
Recol's pipe bombs are crayons: This is relatively common knowledge now, but Point36 first shared this information that Recol's pipe bombs are crayons stuffed with gunpowder for the iceberg image.
Curls' court case for murder: Links to entry in the Deep-buried trivia section about AI Dungeon. Curls was accused of killing dozens in the AI Dungeon spin-off. However, Curls would totally never do something like this, so the case was never settled in court.
== Untold theories ==
Yan's ambiguous connection to Needlemouse: An entry given by GenericMalachi, with no further elaboration given. But maybe, this will make more sense in the future, as more links between the two characters are made other than being purple hedgehogs.
Yan doesn't exist: Another entry with no elaboration. The meaning of this is highly up to interpretation and confusing, since Yan is a self-insert.
Recol's dream theory: Refers to the likely retconned comic detailing Recol's Backstory in which Recol created the world of Bux in her head after falling asleep and dreaming for a long time. Potentially retconned because every other character from Season 1 would fit better as a singular protagonist than her.
Morbius: The planet of Mobius, the setting of the Sonic series and Bux series, has been jokingly referred to as Morbius or Planet Morbius multiple times.
GD Game sand 14: This refers to a strange YouTube channel mentioned by JenjenParibou on his unlisted video Iceberg Analysis. It supposedly uploaded Gen Z humour videos mostly unrelated to each other except from them all sharing the title of "GD Game sand 14". The user's profile picture was a Minecraft sand block with 3 visible sides, with each having unique details:
* The face of the default Geometry Dash cube
* The number "14" engraved into the sand
* Barack Obama
Sonic indirectly caused the death of all previous mobians: A joke theory created by Point36 and twice as jokingly approved by JenjenParibou for the iceberg. This is a theory relating to the cause of Sonic's death, which is still ambiguous to this day. Supposedly, Sonic accidentally deadnamed either Yin or Ruby and one of the two went on a rampage and killed a majority of characters from the Sonic canon. Notable characters who remain in Bux are Metal Sonic, Dr. Eggman, E-104 "ε" and Knuckles.
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