Costume Quest: Difference between revisions

* [[Back from the Dead]]: The Unicorn's special.

* [[Becoming the Costume]]: Literally!

* [[Big Bad]]: Big Bones.

* [[Big Eater]]: Again, Big Bones.

* [[Broken Bridge]]: Several, usually in the form of locked gates and [[Dronejam|stubborn guards]].

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Several, and several parodies.

* [[For Science!]]: Lucy, constantly.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Some Repugians in the DLC will roar "I had a rough childhood!" before assaulting you.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Wren, Reynold, Everett and Dorsilla.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "I hope I'm the only banana costume. Last year? TOTAL bananafest!"

* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: The French Fries turns you into this. Yes, really. A giant crab with french fry legs, french fry pincers, and a french fry container shell. And it's [[Lethal Joke Character|actually pretty effective]].

* [[Grim Reaper]]: Big Bones, an enormously ''fat'' Grim Reaper.

* [[Halloween Episode|Halloween Game]]

* [[Halloweentown]]: Repugia

* [[Hand Wave]]: Lampshaded. When the kids need to get down from the Ferris wheel, your character comes up with a brilliant plan. [[Gilligan Cut|Immediate cut to]] the kids on the ground.

{{quote|'''Everett''': I can't believe you thought of a way down that was so simple and practical.}}

* [[Healing Hands]]: The Statue of Liberty's power is to do this through sheer [[Patriotic Fervor|Patriotism.]]

* [[Homage]]: Tasha Harris says the game is inspired from many things. The isometric diagonal view of the town is from [[EarthBound]], the monsters are inspired from [[Labyrinth]], the art is inspired from [[Hayao Miyazaki]] and [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker,]] and the whole game is a love letter to Halloween and costumes (in particular, handmade ones.)

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: "Grubbins on Ice" starts you off fighting against three Level 14 Repugiarchs; at this point, it's impossible to be higher than Level 10. You actually can win the fight if you hit '''all''' the prompts and catch some luck with the enemy's choice of targets, but [[Failure Is the Only Option]] and it dumps you into the next scene as if you lost. (You still receive a hefty experience bonus if you win, though.)

* [[Manipulative Editing]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla uses this to drive the siblings apart.}}

* [[The Medic]]: The Statue of Liberty and Unicorn costumes. The Vampire can heal the party as well, despite being an attack-based class.

* [[Middle Management Mook]]: Bojonn.

* [[Mordor]]: A spooky world from which the monsters come from appears in gateways around town.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: All references to content locked away in the trial version are lampshaded.

{{quote|"Perhaps the full version will be a bit kinder to the fourth wall."}}

* [[Parental Bonus]]: [[Invoked Trope]]. Tasha Harris wanted the game to have the appeal that [[Pixar]] (her former and now current employer) applies to all their work, in which the game would be simple and charming enough for children, but also appealing to adults. There are plenty of jokes for adults, covering such edgy material as globalization, prescription drugs, American history, and more.

* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: The Statue of Liberty's Combat Ability, and winning animation.

* [[Ravens and Crows]]: A race of bird people called the Crestwailers.

* [[Save Point]]: Telephone boxes let you call the police and tell them about the monsters. They will [[Police Are Useless|sigh]] and tell you "your report has been logged."

** The DLC changes the dialogue for the boxes so that you're now calling the Trowbog Historical Society. Because how else are they going to know if history is happening?

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The Unicorn Costume

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Oh no! The villains are monsters trying to steal all the Halloween Candy!

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Metxel crashes his Candy-dozer into two mooks in the middle of a fight.

{{quote|'''Metxel''': Now look what you made me do! I think one of them was my brother-in-law!}}

* [["What the Hell?" Dad]]: Played for laughs, the twins dad appears surly, glued to his chair and newspaper.

** At the end of the game he {{spoiler|finally gets off his chair and puts away his newspaper, to take a piece of candy from his kids, saying it's a "Dad Tax."}}

* [[Woman Scorned]]: {{spoiler|When Big Bones discovers Dorsilla's plot to usurp him, he breaks the deal with her and tell her to get lost. Not happy at all, she obeys, but not before boosting the heroes' power so they'll kick his ass.}}

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Lucy, big time. Spouts a lot of science fiction (and science fact) in a magical setting.