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[[File:256px-Armed_and_Dangerous_box_cover.jpg|frame|This is your team, feel free to panic now]]
A hilarious game by Planet Moon Studios, the same people who made ''[[Giants: Citizen Kabuto]]'', who in turn were the same people who made MDK while working at Shiny Interactive. Featuring a cast of misfits battling though a living parody of Britishness to pull off the ultimate heist and maybe while they're at it, save the world. Your group consists of the smelly, blind seer Rexus, a tea drinking robot named Q, as well as Jonesy, a moleman with a little ''too'' much interest in explosives. Your role is the protagonist
▲A hilarious game by Planet Moon Studios, the same people who made ''[[Giants: Citizen Kabuto]]'', who in turn were the same people who made MDK while working at Shiny Interactive. Featuring a cast of misfits battling though a living parody of Britishness to pull off the ultimate heist and maybe while they're at it, save the world. Your group consists of the smelly, blind seer Rexus, a tea drinking robot named Q, as well as Jonesy, a moleman with a little ''too'' much interest in explosives. Your role is the protagonist, Roman, who may or may not have really bad teeth.
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: LAND SHARK GUN. I don't know how else I could explain this, here.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: You're wielding a machine gun and fighting people with bows and arrows. There are zeppelins and fixed artillery, but no land-vehicles. Sentient or Semi-sentient robots for farming and fighting use conventional weapons. Your jetpack enables you to fly over pre-industrial style blast-furnaces. Armies try to overcome you in a siege by putting ladders up against your wall while you fire mortars at them.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: King Forge.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Many of the more spectacular/hilarious weapons have ''extremely'' limited ammo, forcing you to frequently rely on the generic [[Boring but Practical|SMG]] and [[Emergency Weapon|Rifle
* [[Baa Bomb]]. At one point, Jonsey has to disarm an explosive sheep.
* [[Big No]]: Parodied by Rexus once again
* [[Blind Seer]]: Rexus
* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: {{spoiler|Lily in a sense. After the great heist of the Book Of Rule, she reappears to be kidnapped again and again while trying to fulfil the prophecy
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Quite a bit, actually. The leper colony, for starters...
* [[The Ditz]]: Stig.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Quite literally. A curse on the royal line of Forge makes every generation alternate between [[Evil Genius]] and good-hearted [[The Ditz|Ditz]]. The current king Forge is evil, his son Stig is a good-natured idiot: King Forge wants the book of rule partially to undo this sad state of affairs.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: {{smallcaps|STIG
* [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity]]: The Lady of the Pond. Jonesy ends up beaning her with a skipping rock.
* [[Freudian Trio]]: Q as the Superego, Roman as the Ego, Jonesy as the Id. Rexus also sort of fits the Ego mold.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: The cutscenes and the levels often have only a tangential relationship to each other. In a more direct sense of the trope, you'll notice that Roman never has the jetpack in cutscenes that you can pick up in the game.
* [[Gravity Screw]]:
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** Quite literally, in fact. The Topsy-Turvy Bomb, as it's called, is an anti-gravity device mounted on a big corkscrew with handles. Anti-gravity cars were in development with these, but when activated, they would just lift off into space. [[The Empire]] decided this would make a good weapon, and thus, by latching onto the ground and activating, the bomb quite literally reverses gravity for anything touching the ground in a large field of effect for long enough to kill them from Falling Damage. [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|Thankfully, your squadmates don't have to worry about this, for some... reason
* [[Healing Checkpoint]]: The pubs serve double duty as save points and health/ammo restore points.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: A shark gun, miniature black holes and magnets combined with boxing gloves, and don't forget the Corkscrew Bomb as explained in the [[Gravity Screw]] entry.
* [[Instrument of Murder]]: There's a mortar launcher in the game that looks like a Tuba.
* [[Jedi Mind Trick]]:
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: {{spoiler|Implied after Jonesy, Q, Roman and Rexus drink their own urine after crashlanding in the desert
* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: {{spoiler|The first prisoner had his tongue removed, but still wouldn't talk
* [[My Local]]: Pubs serve as places to restock on ammo and weapons, heal up and overhear gossip. You can also trade out some weapons here and pick up dynamite.
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: {{spoiler|Roman, Snow White style, not that he knows it. Lily becomes queen at the end
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Q.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: {{spoiler|Roman}}.
* [[Running Gag]]: Q's love of tea.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The game is littered with them
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To MDK, another comedic shooter from the same creators, with virtually the exact same sort of interface, gameplay and style of humor. It even includes a shout-out to the original, with the World's Smallest Black Hole taking its name from MDK's World's Smallest Nuclear Explosion.
* [[Spot of Tea]]:
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** If you're running low on health and wait in a quiet spot for a while, Q will sometimes dispense a cup of "healthy tea" which restores a significant amount of your health bar.
* [[Sudden Musical Ending]]: "I'll be home with the Book of Rule
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: Destroying the homes of hapless villagers will often trigger a comment from your comrades and a reduction from your final score. Assuming you ''care'' about your score, that is.
* [[We Cannot Go on Without You]]: If either Jonsey or Q have their life bars depleted, then they are simply unavailable for the rest of the level. If [[Player Character|Roman]] goes down, however, then it's game over. On one of the extra missions, you need to keep both of them alive (but can order them to wait where they are
* [[Your Mom]]: The random extra was actually being serious. In fact, he was sleeping with Jonesy's Mom.
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