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** A more benevolent version occurs in ''The Baconing''. {{spoiler|Deathspank is officially declared the God of Orphans.}}
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: And how! One of the quests has you buying a cellphone for a particularly insufferable Orphan and when talking about movies with some [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Villains]] DeathSpank decides to just BitTorrent the film on his own time. Thongs of Virtue however moves onto a somewhat more modern setting.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Thongs Of Virtue. There were supposed to be 9 of them, but only 6 were made due to [[Executive Meddling|executive meddling]]. Thus, they became corrupt. They are:
** Justice, worn by [[Death Spank]].
** Courage, worn by Lord Von Prong.
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** And there's Tankko the Warrior in the DLC.
** ''The Baconing'' introduces Bob from Marketing as well as Roesha, One Bad Mutha.
* [[Death Is a Slap Onon The Wrist]]: When you die you're sent back to the nearest outhouse and without a handful of your money... that you can get back by returning where you died to pick it up. Since the enemies don't respawn if you don't change maps...
** The only downside to dying is that you come back with a small amount of health, and whatever you were fighting will have full health again.
** The ending of ''Thongs of Virtue'' reveals that this is one of the powers of the Thong of Justice. {{spoiler|1=For DeathSpank to truly die, he has to legally relinquish it's power.}}
* [[Demonic Spider]]: Just about any enemy with a level even remotely close to yours can really tear chunks out of your lifebar. Enemies that have orange or red level numbers (which indicate their threat to you) can kill you in one or two hits. And they often come in large packs.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The Cleaver of Cleaving, the Bladed *something* Of Blades, etc.
* [[Destructive Saviour]]: The intro of The Baconing shows DeathSpank defeating evil monsters, all the while getting the [[Distressed Damsel|Distressed Damsels]] killed, either [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body|intentionally]] or otherwise.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Sandy}}
* [[Fallen Hero]]: The possessors of the Thongs have all ended up corrupt, save for DeathSpank. This is implied to be due to his stupidity.
* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: Deathspank, Sparkles, Steve.
* [[For Great Justice]]: Dispenser of Justice.
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: The Rudolph glitch. Sometimes Santa's top reindeer won't show up due to a bug, and you're required to kill him to get a special helmet in order to progress. If you kill all of the lesser reindeer in the area when Rudolph is missing and save, Rudolph will ''never'' show up again, and the game becomes unwinnable. However, if you allow yourself to die while at least one lesser reindeer is alive, Rudolph will come back when you do. If you're playing the PC or [[PSPlay Station 3]] version, Hothead can fix your save file if it happens. If you're on 360, you're boned. What makes this glitch especially bad is that this takes place 95% of the way through the game.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: The main quest of the first game soon becomes saving orphans, whom you collect with an "Orphan Bag" you stuff them into.
* [[Gotta Kill Them All]]: Thongs of Virtue is about DeathSpank taking down those corrupted by the Thongs of Power.
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** {{spoiler|And after a day of acting as an orphan's father, complete with a heartwarming montage, he ignores her feelings and stuffs her in a bag (though the fact that the girl was also a brat who previously made him buy a series of fancy crap for her probably didn't endear her to him).}}
* [[Hive Mind]]: Possibly shown by the [[Puppeteer Parasite|Mind Barnacles]] by [[Death Spank]] when {{spoiler|he infects the protectors of the wells to get the quest required item they carry.}} Although they could just have a lot of information stored in them and speak on behalf of the mother barnacle instead.
* [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Parodied with a prostitute who ''literally'' has a golden heart.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: DeathSpank, whose favorite number is... plaid.
* [[Knight Templar]]: {{spoiler|Sandy}}
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]
* [[Large Ham]]: DeathSpank is very bombastic.
* [[Lost Forever]]: The Primp VIP achievement/trophy in Thongs. If you open the chest in her brothel before viewing all 20 of her costumes, it's gone because Madame Primp will become hostile. The game saves as soon as you open it, so quitting out via dashboard wont save you. Also combines with [[Guide Dang It|guide dang it]] because you don't know Primp will attack you, and the fact that it's in plain sight, begging you to open it while Primp is changing costumes doesn't help.
** The Konichiwa achievement/trophy is also potentially missable. You have to talk to the Japanese judge in Wortten's office to get the "Learn Japanese" book to appear in the library. If you begin the cookoff without doing so, Wortten may kill him during the battle (she kills judges at random), preventing you from spawning the book.
* [[Love Freak]]: If you couldn't tell, DeathSpank is absolutely obsessed with Justice.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Looks like [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Sergei Smirnov]] found his true calling as a Dispenser of Justice!
* [[Level Grinding]]: Even players who complete every single quest are unlikely to reach the level cap of 20. If you want the achievement, you're gonna have to spend an extra half hour killing Unicorns, the only enemy that gives significant XP at that point.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Artifact, which is actually {{spoiler|a strip of bacon}}. DeathSpank does get it early on, but he gets it mugged from him. {{spoiler|Sandy states that it's really not that important at the end, despite being the one who sent him on the quest. In her moonbase, you'll even see stacks of Artifacts.}}
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** Possibly a play on how players tend to name their characters something along the lines of [[Penny Arcade|SkullAssassin]] in games.
* [[Narrator All Along]]: {{spoiler|Sandy, though you should be able to guess it out when she's referred to as "the mysterious, but quite attractive woman".}}
* [[One Game for Thethe Price of Two]]: A sequel is coming out! ...less than two months after the first game was released. You don't say.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The Mind Barnacles take over the mind of their host.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: At the end of the second game, {{spoiler|after Sandy goes mad due to the Thong of Peace, Deathspank must choose between sacrificing himself to save her, or be forced to kill her. There is no third option. According to ''The Baconing'', the latter is canon.}}
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* [[Sequel Hook]]: Upon defeating Von Prong, it's revealed that the source of both his and DeathSpank's power are their thongs. Sandy then sends DeathSpank after others with thongs.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|1=The Sacrifice Ending, where after killing DeathSpank Sandy is unable to bring herself to properly destroy the thongs and instead hides them away as she grows old and in regret.}}
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: [[Little Orphan Annie (Comic Strip)|Annie the Orphan]], who makes DeathSpank buy all sorts of crap for her. However, her final demand is for {{spoiler|1=a daddy, which DeathSpank decides to be for a while. Before stuffing her into a bag.}}
* [[This Is Sparta]]: From ''The Baconing'':
{{quote| '''Zeus''': For I name you...{{spoiler|God. Of. ORPHAAAAANS!}}}}
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