| “ | You only really nfeed...one... BEST... FRIEND! | ” |
| —Warren's last words before getting skewered by Duck | ||
Warren the Worm, known professionally as Warren the Eagle, is the primary teacher of the TV episode "Friendship".
Contents[]
- 1Story
- 2Appearance
- 3Personality
- 4Appearances
- 5Villainous Acts
- 6Gallery
- 7Trivia
Story[]
Warren first appears by breaking the fourth wall with an "OK Stop"-branded intervention after Red Guy and Duck lay into Yellow Guy with a "series of vicious personal attacks". Warren begins replaying the scene as how it should have gone according to him, replacing Red Guy and Yellow Guy's voices with his own imitation. Warren then introduces himself as a former representative of the OK Stop Organisation, handing Red Guy a business card that is covered in his own slime. According to his business card, he was employed as a "Friendship Expert". Despite stressing to the main characters that he is "no longer officially associated with" the OK Stop Organisation, he continues to use their "learning material and branding" at every given opportunity. He vainly uses this to teach the three main characters and the Computer about friendship. While Warren is obviously a worm, he refers to himself as an eagle. He becomes annoyed when Colin points out that eagles don't have wings, and states that some eagles' wings "just take longer sprout", also remarking that the wings that take longer to sprout are "bigger and more powerful than normal".
According to Warren's Story Song, a transparently loose retelling of his life accompanied by slides portraying himself as a human child, he used to have a group of best friends, apparently also young human children, with whom he used to hang out and chat on the phone. They used to eat meals together and sometimes stayed up all night "just for a laugh". However, sometimes they were not good friends, and while dealing with "some issues at work", Warren approached them for help with a "business idea" - which involved blatantly copying his former employer. The best friends showed a clear lack of interest in Warren's scheme, which lead to them falling out, with Warren accusing them of "not having business brains like [his]" and "not being good mates". The friends failed to reconcile things with Warren, with him replying "it's way too late for that guys!".
After Duck and Red Guy fail to heed Warren's friendship advice and Yellow Guy retreats inside his mind to hang out with his Brain Friends. Warren, feeling vindicated, packs up his equipment and begins to leave. Red Guy reluctantly asks for Warren's assistance to "fix" Yellow Guy, suggesting that, as a small worm, he could easily enter Yellow Guy's brain, but Warren responds that it's not part of "the service". However, he is persuaded to stay by the offer of a "restaurant-style meal" with the guys if he succeeds. To Yellow Guy's dismay, Warren successfully infiltrates his mind. He initially tries to drag Yellow Guy back to reality, hoping to claim his reward. However, Warren quickly forgets about his mission when the Brain Friends are friendly to him and even acknowledge him as an eagle. Warren then rapidly becomes unpopular by stopping the music to play his own business podcast, making Yumpherdinker weep, and then using an OK Stop! intervention to give them a condescending and hypocritical lecture about friendship. Warren attempts to bond with Shy Imaginary Older Brother over his podcast as the other Brain Friends abandon them. After Shy Imaginary Older Brother commits suicide, Warren turns his attention back to his "new best friend" Yellow Guy, who has retreated further within his mind due to Warren's actions. Warren catches up, causing the dream world to collapse, then takes on a grotesque and nightmarish fleshy form as he pursues Yellow Guy relentlessly through his own mind until he is skewered through the eye and killed by Duck's "gouging tool" before being thrown in the bin.
Appearance[]
Warren is a worm with 17 light pink segments, covered with small red and yellow lumps, and a light pink tail at the end below his darker pink "torso", or "saddle". He wears an Ok, Stop! badge on his torso. He has light pink arms with white gloves. He wears a blue OK, Stop! branded baseball cap, along with a wireless headset with a microphone, a large antenna on top, and grey headphones. He wears a backpack that is stuffed full of pilfered OK Stop learning materials and branding along with a large syringe and what appears to be a pack of cigarettes. While difficult to discern, he has a clump of purple hair below his cap. He has big eyes with bright yellow sclerae and lime green irises, a button red nose strongly resembling Shrignold's in shape, and thin, pink lips. His top row of teeth only has one singular tooth, while his bottom row has all teeth except for one gap which meshes with the single upper tooth. The puppet appears to be made with realistic human teeth.
His physical appearance is repulsive and is unanimously ridiculed by the main characters. He is described as appearing "lumpy and red raw" by Red Guy, like "a bit of a bigger animal that fell off, or was removed, and came to life," by Duck, "an old person's finger" by Yellow Guy, and "like a tumour" by Colin the Computer. Duck adds that he also stinks. Yellow Guy exclaims "Rat Eyes! He's got rat eyes!" which turned out to the the guys' password, but he was most likely prompted by Warren's bulging, yellow eyes. While being insulted he defended his appearance as being a "personal choice".
When Yellow Guy is hanging out with his brain friends, Warren's animated form has most of the same basic details; however, it has 19 bottom segments and he is constantly wearing his blue backpack.
His monstrous form is fleshier and missing most features, like the red and yellow lumps, his gloves and his Ok, Stop! badge. His nose looks more realistic in this form as well. His body is visibly distorted, his eyes are a lot smaller, his teeth are in rows and are very stubby, his arms appeal more twig-like, his hands more realistic, but bony, and his lips and mouth are a lot bigger. His face appears to be bumpier and wrinkled, and his body appears to be covered in some sort of slime.
Personality[]
Ironically, despite being a self-described "fully qualified friendship expert," Warren struggles to make and keep friends. In fact, he was so bad at interpersonal relationships that the Brain Friends, whose sole purpose in life were to be perfect, ideal friends, still managed to be repulsed by Warren, largely as a result of his negative personality traits and behaviour: he demonstrates no sincere interest in the emotions and thoughts of others. Due to his insecurities and self-absorption, Warren copes with criticism by being over-confident to the point of being oblivious to how his behaviour is impacting everyone around him. For this reason, all three main characters took an immediate strong dislike to Warren.
Unlike most other teachers, Warren is immediately seen as worthy of ridicule by the main characters. Duck and Yellow Guy seemed to have a bit of patience for Warren at first, with Yellow Guy nodding along to the beat of Warren's Story Song, but Red Guy in particular had no patience for Warren , stating tersely "I hate this guy", and he was clearly frustrated by Warren's imposition, asking during the song "sorry, can I just stop you there... how long is this gonna last?", and then abruptly unplugging Warren's slide projector in the middle of the song, stating "we just do not have time for... whatever this is". Before Warren's arrival, Duck and Red Guy were busy picking on Yellow Guy's stupidity, but their dislike of Warren united them again in an instant as the ganged up with the Computer to roast him with insults. This would reveal Warren as shallow and thin-skinned, especially about his appearance, as he seemed to be holding back tears of rage after the trio and Colin the Computer threw insults at him, but he then fell back to over-confidence, claiming that he was "actually laughing" and that it "doesn't bother me at all!".
Warren initially appears to be a sad, pathetic and laughable yet largely benign personality: he longs for friendship and, apparently oblivious to the fact that they obviously dislike him, seems elated at the idea of the trio and him going out for a “restaurant-style” meal together. He compensates for his insecurities about his appearance by identifying as an animal much bigger, stronger and more attractive than he really is, which seems simply ridiculous, but his over-confidence also appears arrogant and frequently narcissistic. He seems to love the sound of his own voice, regularly interrupting others mid-sentence and talking over them with his OK, Stop! branded interventions, telling the three guys "don't talk over it!" when his song is playing, and compelling the Brain Friends to listen to his inane podcast despite their obvious discomfort. He seems to be sympathize with Yellow Guy being picked on by his friends, perhaps seeing something of himself, but then goes on to show a lack of empathy when he is short-tempered with Shy Imaginary Older Brother for reading out the WiFi code too quietly.
Later on, the darker side of Warren is fully revealed. He is shown have a selfish and parasitic interest in characters he considers to be his "friends". He is always feeding off of others - literally, as meals are constantly referenced by Warren - and when Shy Imaginary Older Brother tentatively compliments Warren's podcast, Warren becomes clingy and overbearing, soon driving the timid Brain Friend to commit suicide. Warren seems disturbingly unfazed, and though he's witnessed the Brain Friend's shocking and violent death, he immediately gets on the phone to order a "restaurant-style" meal for himself and his new "best friend," Yellow Guy. Ultimately, he is a narcissist desperate for attention - and food - and he does this in the most perfect way by manifesting as a brain parasite taking over and devouring someone's mind - the one place they can't escape.
Appearances[]
- "Jobs" (referenced on a x-ray image during Briefcase's song)
- "Death" (mentioned on the newspaper cover and also in the Make A New Friend Kit! as a cameo)
- "Friendship"
Villainous Acts[]
- Constantly budded into the puppet's affairs for no reason.
- Utilized OK Stop! learning materials and branding despite no longer being officially affiliated with the organisation.
- Caused Yumpherdinker to weep.
- Drove the Brain Friends into abandoning Yellow Guy.
- Harassed Yellow Guy and stalked him.
- Drove Shy Imaginary Older Brother to commit suicide.
- Assumed total control of Yellow Guy’s brain.
Gallery[]
Warren's business card of the OK Stop organisation in behind the scenes art.
Behind the scenes.