When the police and ambulance arrive,
Frank still seems disoriented. Frank
tries to stop the paramedics from taking
his mother's body away, but he suddenly
gets transported to a strange dimension.
A doodle named Doc Vincent Whiskers stares at
the portal in confusion and tells Frank that
his spike is supposed to bring him to the real
world instead of bringing Frank into theirs.
Whiskers reveals that Frank traveled to
a place called Cool World. Frank thinks
he's just imagining them, so Whiskers assures
Frank that he and his associates are real, and
he's been looking for a way to travel to the real
world for a long time. After introducing himself,
Whiskers hints that Frank could watch over Cool
World while he explores the other dimension.
Decades later, cartoonist Jack Deebs sketches an
alluring character named Holli Would in prison.
He tells the doodle that he's finally leaving
prison the next day, and he wouldn't have made
it without her. Suddenly, Holli emerges from
the paper and entices Jack to come to her.
Before long, Jack finds himself
falling into the world of doodles.
When he lands, he sees Holli dancing
provocatively in front of him.
Jack reaches out to touch Holli, but he
suddenly gets pulled back into the real world.
Frank, now a detective in Cool World, visits
Holli at home to investigate a rumor that a noid,
a slang that doodles use to refer to humans,
was at the club the previous night to see her.
Holli contends that the incident was unexceptional
and notes that it was just a mind slip.
Holli then shows Frank her small
collection of memorabilia of Las Vegas.
She tells him about a doodle named Vegas
Vinnie, who supposedly crossed over to
the real world and became the owner of
the Union Plaza Hotel. Frank, however,
asserts that Vegas Vinnie's exploits are just
stories that doodle parents tell their children.
Holli argues that the stories could be true
because Frank successfully crossed over to
Cool World. She asks Frank for help to get to
the other dimension, but Frank tells her that
there will be no one crossing over as long as
he's around. Holli desires to become a noid
because she wants to feel like they do when they
make love. When she tells Frank that she will ask
Jack for help in crossing over, Frank warns Holli
of the consequences of going ahead with her plan.
Jack soon leaves prison and
returns to his home in Las Vegas.
When he stops by a comic book shop that night,
the clerk recognizes him as the creator of the
Cool World comic book and tells him
that his work inspired many people.
As he signs autographs for his fans,
a man taunts him by asking if he would
write a comic book about the time he murdered
a man after finding him in bed with his wife.
Later at home, Jack suddenly gets transported into
Cool World after hearing Holli call out to him.
Meanwhile, a bunny wins a dice game
against Slash, one of Holli's goons.
However, Slash cheats and threatens to kill the
bunny if he doesn't pay. The bunny escapes when
Slash is distracted by Jack's arrival. Slash and
his cohorts harass Jack and tell him that he's in
Cool World because he lost his mind. Soon, Holli
arrives and welcomes him to the world of doodles.
As Jack stares at Holli in amazement, he surmises
that he can erase her since he created her,
but Holli is confident that Jack wouldn't
do it because he wants to be with her.
The bunny soon reports Slash to the police for
cheating on dice, so the cops go after him.
Back on the streets, Holli assures Jack that he's
not dreaming by burning his hand with a cigarette.
Not long, Holli hears the police sirens, so
she flees with Jack and her goons in her car.
The cops chase after them, so Slash
distracts them by urinating on them.
Holli loses the police after
they collide with a train.
Elsewhere, Frank takes his
girlfriend, Lonette, out on a date.
However, his partner Nails informs him that Jack
is in Cool World with Holly. Frank realizes that
Jack did not cross over from a dream, so he
decides to postpone their date and find Holli.
When Holli and Jack arrive at the club, Frank
is already waiting for them. Frank immediately
confronts Jack and takes his fountain pen. Jack
is perplexed to see Frank because he is not one
of his creations. He explains that he draws Cool
World from his visions, but Frank contends it
can exist without him. Frank notes that the
fountain pen can be dangerous in Cool World.
He demonstrates it by using it to absorb a
beverage and shoot it into Nails' mouth. Frank
then tells Jack that it's against the law for
noids to make love with doodles. Holli has been
seducing every noid she meets, but no one is crazy
enough to get involved with her. Frank returns
Jack's fountain pen and tells him to leave. Not
long, Jack finds himself back in the real world.
When Frank goes home, he asks Lonette if she heard
something about Holli, but Lonette tells him that
she doesn't pay attention to anything Holli
does. Lonette kisses Frank to help him relax,
but Frank stops her because he can't make
love to her. Lonette asks Frank if he ever
thought about going back to the real world
to do it, but Frank doesn't have anyone like
Lonette there. Lonette tells Frank to pretend
to make love to her, but Nails interrupts them.
That night, Jack returns to Cool World after
hearing Holli's voice. He ends up on a stage
where he comes across Holli's goons. Frank
and Nails go to Holli's apartment, but the
doodle door wouldn't let them in, so they climb up
through the window. Upon reaching the apartment,
Frank warns Holli to stay away from Jack. Holli
tells Frank that she's annoyed when she sees
him because he can return to the real world,
but he wouldn't do it because he's afraid.
Soon, Slash and the goons take Jack to Holli's
apartment. The door notes that Jack has an
appointment, so it allows him to go in, but
not Holli's goons. When Jack reaches Holli's
apartment, she immediately seduces him. Jack
expresses his reluctance to sleep with her
because of Frank's warning, but Holli convinces
him to break the rules. Outside the apartment,
Slash and the goons start stacking up
objects so that they can watch Holli
and Jack through the window. After
making love, Holli turns into a noid.
Meanwhile, Frank goes to the club where Lonette
works to make up for postponing their date.
Later on, an informant named Sparks calls
Nails to tell him that Holli and Jack made
love and they're about to cross over to the real
world. Nails immediately calls Frank but decides
not to tell him what happened upon learning
that he's enjoying his time with Lonette.
Back in the apartment, Holli looks at herself
in the mirror in astonishment. As she prepares
to leave for the real world, Jack suggests
staying in Cool World instead. However,
Holli wants to experience everything in the real
world with him. As Holli embraces him, she steals
Jack's fountain pen and hides it in her sleeve.
While Holli says goodbye to her goons, Nails
arrives to stop her from leaving, but Holli takes
out the fountain pen and uses it to absorb Nails.
Holli then returns to her apartment to tell
Jack that she's ready to leave Cool World.
Soon, Jack finds himself in his house
with Holli. His neighbor, Jennifer Malley,
and her mother, Isabelle, hear the disturbance
caused by Jack's arrival, so they investigate.
When they enter his house, Jack introduces them
to Holli, who behaves strangely because it's her
first time in the real world. They soon leave
after seeing that nothing is wrong with Jack.
In Cool World, Frank learns about
his partner's disappearance,
so he meets with Sparks and investigates the
last place Nails was seen. Frank holds Jack
responsible, but Sparks discloses that Holli was
the one who trapped nails in the fountain pen.
He then tells Frank that Holli turned
into a noid after sleeping with Jack.
When Jack takes Holli to a bar, she can't help
but gawk at the men in the room. Not long, Holli
steps on the stage and asks a man to make love to
her. Jack yells out that Holli is with him to keep
other men away from her, but a bouncer throws him
out of the bar. In his frustration, Jack grabs the
bouncer's face and pushes him away. Jack notices
a strange light coming out of his hand when he
calms down. The light soon disappears, but he
turns into a doodle momentarily while attempting
to get inside his car. Inside the bar, Holli
performs a seductive song to captivate the men.
In Cool World, Frank prepares to
cross over to confront Holli and Jack.
Lonette fears Frank will leave her, so Frank tells
her that he's not enthusiastic about crossing
over. He doesn't want to return to the real
world because of loneliness and fear of death,
but he has to get Holli back because she could
destroy both the real world and the Cool World.
Holli starts switching between her doodle form
and her human body while performing on stage,
so she immediately leaves the bar to find
Jack. She asks Jack what's happening,
but Jack is just as confused as she is.
Soon, Frank kisses Lonette goodbye to find Holli.
As he crosses over, Frank remembers
the day that his mother died.
On the road, Jack drives erratically as
he abruptly switches from doodle to human.
Holli suddenly remembers an artifact
called the Spike of Power and tells
Jack that it could heal her. She notes that
Vegas Vinnie put the spike on top of a casino.
Holli wants to find it, but Jack doubts that the
spike exists. Holli is determined to find it,
so she kicks Jack in the face and grabs the
wheel before throwing him out of the car.
Soon, Frank reaches the real world and finds
himself in Jack's house. When Jack arrives,
Frank criticizes him for ignoring his advice and
giving in to his urges. Frank is alarmed to see
Jack switching from a human to a doodle. Jack
points out that it's happening to Holli too.
Jennifer suddenly barges in to check on Jack
because she saw flickering lights in the house
a few moments ago. Jack discloses that Holli is
searching for the Union Plaza to find Vinnie.
Since Holli took Jack's car, Frank asks Jennifer
to drive them to the hotel using her mom's car.
When Holli arrives at the hotel, she tells
the valet that she's there to meet Vinnie.
But the valet claims that there's
no one there by that name,
so Holli goes inside the
casino to ask the gamblers.
Frank tells Jennifer and Jack that
Vegas Vinnie is based on the doctor
he met when he crossed over to Cool
World. Not long after he crossed over,
he and the doctor mapped out the tunnels
between the real world and Cool World.
They soon realized that the tunnels could
disrupt the balance and destroy both universes.
Holli soon gets thrown out of the
casino because she has no money.
Not long, a small man in a trenchcoat
and a hat approaches her and sees her
switching from a doodle back to a human.
When he tells Holli that she won't find
what she's looking for at the hotel, she gets
suspicious that he knows something about her.
Holli grabs the man and shakes him repeatedly
to compel him to disclose everything he knows.
When he falls out of the trenchcoat,
Holli discovers that the man is a doodle.
The man tells Holli that he's known
as Doctor Whiskers back in Cool World.
He once touched the spike of power, but he
couldn't hold on to it. Whiskers advises Holli
against touching the spike, but she's convinced
that it can make her real, so she takes out the
fountain pen and tries to attack him. As Whiskers
struggle to get away from her, Frank, Jack,
and Jennifer arrive. Holli soon pricks Whiskers
with the pen, causing him to break into pieces.
Holli runs to the hotel's rear
entrance to get to the rooftop.
Jack tries to chase her, but Frank convinces
him to stay behind to help Whiskers.
Frank chases after Holli on his own and
catches up as they get close to the rooftop.
Frank grabs Holli's jacket, but he staggers over
the railing of the stairs when Holli takes it off.
He manages to hang on to the railing
even though Holli pushes him down.
As Holli starts to switch between
her human and doodle form,
she enters a hotel room through the wall.
When Frank enters the room, she tries to
go through another wall, but she bounces off
because she's not transforming into a doodle.
On the street, Jennifer and Jack put Whiskers
back together. At that exact moment, Holli tries
to reach the spike through the balcony. She
soon realizes that she can't reach the top,
so she asks Frank for help. When Frank reaches
her, Holli pushes him off the balcony as she
turns into a doodle. Jennifer and Whiskers
scream upon seeing Frank fall to his death.
The fountain pen falls out of Holli's sleeve
and lands on the sidewalk not far from Frank.
Holli continues climbing until she reaches the
rooftop. Whiskers tell Jack that it's time to
correct his mistake, so when Jack starts turning
to a doodle, he uses his elongated hands to
reach the rooftop. Jack gets to the roof, but he
isn't able to stop Holli from grabbing the spike.
Ghastly doodles emerge after Holli
pulls the spike out of its place.
When Jack reaches Holli, he suddenly
transforms into a doodle of a superhero.
Holli, who has also turned back into her original
doodle form, doesn't want anything to do with him,
so she kicks him in the groin. As Holli
flees with other monstrous doodles,
Jack sees the spike falling from the top of
the building, so he catches it with his feet.
Soon, the doodles begin terrorizing gamblers and
pedestrians. People start turning into cartoons
the moment the doodles possess them. Jack attempts
to plug the portal with the spike, but the doodles
do everything to stop him. Soon, Nails emerges
from the fountain pen and finds Frank's dead body.
Above them, Jack struggles to fight against
the doodles as he attempts to plug the hole.
Holli arrives and seduces him. She tries
to convince Jack to give her the spike
so they can stay in the real world, but Jack
realizes that she's tricking him. Jack runs on
top of floating doodles and plunges to the
hotel to put the spike back in its place.
Not long, every doodle that came out of the
portal gets pulled back into Cool World.
Everything returns to normal in the real world,
but Jennifer gets concerned when she realizes
Jack has disappeared. Whiskers comforts her
by noting that Jack might still be alive
because the spike could have protected him.
Soon, Whiskers and Nails return to Cool
World to take Frank's body back to Lonette.
Upon seeing Frank's body, Lonette weeps
in anguish. Nails tells Lonette that Holli
pushed him off a building. When Nails reveals
that Holli was a doodle when she killed Frank,
Lonette reminds him that noids turn
into doodles in Cool World after they
get killed by other doodles. Not long, Frank
turns into a doodle and comes back to life.
Later that evening, Lonette flirts with
Frank as she prepares to make love to him.
Nails suddenly interrupts them and
tells Frank they must go on duty,
but he flees when Lonette starts
throwing kitchenware at him.
Elsewhere in Cool World, Jack starts making plans
to spend the rest of his life with Holli. However,
Holli is not excited about the idea because
she is still miffed that she never became real.
