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* [[Always Save the Girl]]:
* [[Back Tracking]]: An annoying amount. Because you won't know where to go without a walkthrough, you're bound to do a lot more than is necessary too.
* [[Big Bad]]: Cornea King.
* [[Boss in Mooks Clothing]]: The Frankenstein's Monster. Some other one-time regular monsters like Bootoven and Note-orious culd qualify. Due to their uniqueness, though, it'd be hard to classify them as regular enemies.
* [[Cut and Paste Environments]]:
* [[Die, Chair, Die!|Die TV Set Die]]: In the classrooms are tvs you can smash in to get apples that restore health points.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Averted. The game actually goes out of its way to make the Grease Monkeys in the school garage a very difficult to avoid hazard.
* [[Gravity Barrier]]: Crates, walls, ... very early on too.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Quite a bit to the point where it seems like the whole game is a physical manifestation of this trope.
** The aforementioned elevator shaft for one example.
* [[Haunted House]]: Cool School.
* [[I Coulda Been a Contender]]: This could apply to the game itself as the interview (see [[What Could Have Been]] belowin the Trivia section) seems to signify that this was a labor of love, but it got swept to the way-side due to executive meddling, hardware restrictions, bad programming choices, etc.
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: The... sandwich.
* [[Magnet Hands]]: Even when Spike flips himself upside down to walk on the ceiling those guns/baseball bat/wet towel/... sandwich don't leave his hands.
* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Punny Name]]: Dr. Femur is a school scientist who studies bones. Spike O'Hara has... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|spiky hair]]. Samantha Pom-Pom is a cheerleader. Cornea King is a giant eyeball creature. The trope even applies to many enemy names as well.
* [[Metroidvania]]: One of the [[Ur Example|earliest examples]], long before this genre had an actual name.
* [[Misaimed Realism]]: Jump physics are made to be a little too realistic, but hit detection is not. Put the two and two together and...
* [[Missing Floor]]: There's no real connection between the left and right halves of the school. The only way to get to said other half is by getting on the roof via the aforementioned elevator event.
* [[Palette Swap]]: Not ''quite'' in the way one may think, but many enemies are very similar to each with a change in attire and in behavior. ie:(i.e. Optik, Blinky, Dumb-Bell, Grouchy Gore-Met, &and Quarter-Pound). Basically, any of the enemies belonging to the giant eyeball class of monsters.
* [[Side View]]:
* [[A Winner Is You]]: You battle through a school full of monsters to rescue the girl and then... as you're watching the aftermath of the adventure: SHE STEPS AWAY FROM YOU. Uh-huh. That's right. You do all the work and you [[Did Not Get the Girl|don't even get the girl]] in the end.
 
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