Workin' Stiff and Friends: The Fighters

**Workin' Stiff and Friends: The Fighters** is a fighting game based on **Workin' Stiff and Friends**.

## Overview

The game has no plot, and is a fairly simple 2-player fighting game.

## Gameplay

Players can choose from five different playable characters, including the 3 main characters, (Workin' Stiff, Workin' Hard, and Workin' Lazy) Ronald McDonald, and the guest character Terry Bogard.

Gameplay is relatively simple, with each character having their own unique playstyle, combos, and other features.

Players can choose from six stages, those being Fat Albert's Junkyard, Palmtree Panic (Past) (also known as **The Realm of Fiction**), Sonic.VIDEO's Torture Dungeon, Mementos, Everybody Votes Channel, and Weirdtown, Arizona.

## Characters

* **Workin' Stiff**: A mouse who always wants the best for his friends, neighbors, and others. In this game, his fighting style is based on **Ryu**'s from the ***Street Fighter*** **series**.
* **Workin' Hard**: A duck who believes in logical thinking rather than violence. In this game, he has a unique fighting style that summons characters from other properties to help him fight. He is based on **Chun-Li** from the ***Street FIghter* series** in this game.
* **Workin' Lazy**: A dog who enjoys life by not doing that much of anything. In this game, his fighting style is based on **Ken**'s from the ***Street FIghter* series**.
* **Ronald McDonald**: A greedy clown who works for **BugGuy** and the entirety of **Company Industries**. In this game, he uses **Master Bison**'s fighting style and rides around in **Ride Armor**.
* **Terry Bogard**: A cheerful man who learned how to fight on the streets. He is from the ***Fatal Fury* series**, but he loosely uses **Guile**'s fighting style.

## Stages

* **Fat Albert's Junkyard**: The place where **Fat Albert** lives. The sprites are took straight from the ***M.U.G.E.N*** stage, as well as the music.
* **Palmtree Panic (Past)**: A prehistoric place that is revealed to be the home of all fictional characters. The sprites and music are took from ***Sonic CD***.
* **Sonic.VIDEO's Torture Dungeon**: The place where **Wario** was tormented before becoming one of Sonic.VIDEO's slaves. The sprites are from **the** ***Sonic.VIDEO* game**, and the music is from **the** ***Yakkity Yak* cartoon series**.
* **Mementos**: The place where **The Phantom Thieves of Hearts** does vigilante justice on demons who rebel against natural law. The stage is from ***Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*** and is based on ***Persona 5***. The music is also from the original game.
* **Everybody Votes Channel**: A place where everybody can vote, based on the Wii channel of the same name. The music and stage background is took from the Wii channel.
* **Weirdtown, Arizona**: The place where Workin' Stiff and his friends/foes live. The music is the credits theme, which is an instrumental of **I've Seen Footage** by **Death Grips**.

## Trivia

* The game is based on fighting games made by **Capcom**, more specifically, **Street Fighter II**.
	+ In fact, every character's fighting style is based on the characters' fighting styles from this game.

* Workin' Stiff and Workin' Hard use the **Dark Star** from ***Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story***, while Workin' Lazy uses a similar move called "Funky Action" based on a **Japanese** ***Sonic Spinball* commercial**.
	+ Confusingly. **Sonic** appears in Terry Bogard's falling animation.

* Workin' Hard can summon a wide variety of different characters to help him fight. These include **Peter Griffin**, **Yusuke Kitagawa**, **Fat Albert**, **Joker**, **Roo**, **Barney**, and **Newtron**.
* Workin' Lazy uses **Bomb** for one of his moves.
	+ He also hides **Ken** behind his back in his victory animation.

* The two background characters in **Fat Albert's Junkyard** are **Storm Eagle** and **Flame Mammoth** from ***Mega Man X***.
	+ Funnily enough, **Flame Mammoth** appears in the upcoming **Toronto Raptors Special**.

* **Homsar** is seen with **The Phantom Thieves of Hearts** in **the** **Mementos stage**.
	+ This is because of an inside joke where **Yusuke** is commonly seen with **Homsar** as a companion to him.
		- Strangely enough, **Crow**, **Mona**, **Wolf**, **Oracle**, **Violet**, and **Sophia** are absent in this stage. This is because of how they do not appear in **the** **Mementos stage** in **Smash Bros**.
			* **The Phantom Thieves** are also seen dancing to the background music.

* Workin' Hard jokingly says, "When it comes to fighting, I'm no lady!" when he wins, referencing the fact that his fighting style in this game is based on **Chun-Li**'s.
* Terry Bogard says that the fighter that he just fought against is a "copyrighted character" when he wins, referencing the fact that the characters in **Workin' Stiff and Friends** are took from other properties.
* In **the** **Palmtree Panic (Past) stage**, numerous **Redz** cheer you on.
	+ **Redz** was seen playable in one of **JohnTvsScratch**'s other Scratch games.

* This is the second game based on the series since **Workin' Stiff and Friends: Mega Party GAME$!**.
* Ideas for the fifth character where going to be **BonziBUDDY** or **The Fat Cat**, but because of how far off the fifth slot was from the other characters, **Terry Bogard** was ultimately chosen.
* One of the jokes in this game is that when you press start, it shows Workin' Stiff running through a brick wall.
	+ This is because of how the original project used a scrolling background.

* The **Trials** mode *is* programmed, but isn't beatable.
	+ Additionally, an unused **Extras** mode is inside the code of this game. When chosen, it shows **Ken's Stage** from the original **Street Fighter II**.

* The game's name is a parody of ***Sonic the Fighters***.