Mutafukaz: Operation Blackhead

Mutafukaz: Operation Blackhead is an animated short film released in 2002, introducing RUN's early, prototypical ideas for what would later become the plot and characters of the Mutafukaz comic. It uses a mix of cell-shaded 3D animation and 2D stills drawn by RUN. The choreography of the fight scene between Angelino and Section Z-7 would eventually be reused in Volume 1 of Mutafukaz, largely unchanged.

The short was initially hosted on RUN's Mutafukaz website. On June 12th, 2013, Ankama uploaded the short film to their YouTube channel.

Changes to Plot and Characters

 * The story takes place in a dystopian future, in the year 2033. The comics shift this setting closer to modern day America.
 * The film's main characters are called Mutafukaz and Burning Head. These names would later be changed to Angelino and Vinz respectively.
 * Burning Head asks Mutafukaz for details about the shady men following him. In the comics, Angelino and Vinz are walking home together when they notice they're being tailed by the MIB, so this exchange never happens.
 * Mutafukaz is hostile to the cockroaches in his apartment, saying that they make him sick. Contrastingly, Angelino thinks of his cockroaches as pets and feeds them.
 * In the short, the two protagonists watch a news broadcast about a recent infestation of radioactive rats, followed by a program explaining how the rats will be used as a new energy source. This element of the setting is cut from the comics entirely.

Changes to Choreography

 * When Section Z-7 tries to break into the apartment, Mutafukaz's shoe gets stuck under the door, blocking it from opening. In the same scene from the comics, this detail is removed.
 * When one of the Z-7 units gets set on fire, he doesn't accidentally prime and drop one of his grenades.
 * Burning Head dives through the closed window, breaking the glass. The comics simply leave the window open.
 * When Mutafukaz leaps out of the apartment, he grabs a ladder which unlocks and extends, lowering him to a dumpster below. In the comics, he runs down the side of the building instead.
 * The burning Z-7 unit falls through the window and into the dumpster. This is cut from the comics.
 * Section Z-7 fires into the sewer as Mutafukaz and Burning Head make their escape. This is cut from the comics.

Visual Differences

 * The entire artstyle of the short is grimier and darker than that of the comics.
 * Mutafukaz's eyes briefly turn into skulls when firing the Z-7's assault rifle. In the comics, when enraged, Angelino's eyes become thin, star-like crosses instead.
 * At the end, Bruce is shown wearing sunglasses.

Trivia

 * The yellow jumpsuit Mutafukaz wears on the film's title card is a reference to the one worn by Bruce Lee in the film "The Game of Death".