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[[File:ohmysweetgod.png|frame|Probably the most straight-forward area in ''I Wanna Be The Guy''.<ref>See the tiny thing on the right of the picture, on top of the brown platform? That's your character. Good luck...</ref>]]
▲{{quote|'''Q:''' '''[[Selective Gravity|APPLES DO NOT FALL UP]]'''<br />
'''A:''' [[Comically Missing the Point|They're more like giant cherries]]...|''[http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/faq.php The game's official FAQ]''}}
You are The Kid. You [[Exactly What It Says
And standing between you and The Guy are hordes of [[Goddamned Bats|annoying, hard-to-kill monsters]], [[Trial and Error Gameplay|downright sadistic traps]], [[Platform Hell|nigh-impossible obstacle courses]], and [[Fake Difficulty|everything else]] that represents [[Nintendo Hard|the worst parts of 8- and 16-bit platform gaming]].
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Many, ''many'' [[Fan Sequel|fangames]] of this game have been made due to an easy to use engine containing the basics of the original game. A list of some more prominent ones can be found [[IWBTG Fangames|here]].
There is a [[Spiritual Successor]] by the name of ''[[Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril]]'', endorsed by Kayin himself. Also, The Kid is an unlockable character in ''[[Meat Boy
As of December
Contrast with ''[[You Have to Burn The Rope]]'' and compare ''[[Jumper (
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* [[AI Roulette]]: Dracula takes this and turns it into something from the tenth circle of hell. His randomly picked attacks range from standard difficulty (i.e. hard) to beyond good and evil, and some combinations are pretty much unsurvivable. This makes him the [[Luck-Based Mission|potentially most difficult]] boss fight in the game (yes, he can be tougher than the ''final boss''!).
* [[Attack Reflector]]: How to defeat The Guy's first phase.
* [[Background Boss]]: Mike Tyson.
* [[Back Tracking]]: Can be kept to a minimum if you choose the right paths, but there's a few parts you have to go through twice.
* [[Badass]]: Seems to be a requirement for The Guys. Just look at the Hall Of Former The Guys: [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]], [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Lu]] [[Dynasty Warriors|Bu]], [[Ninja Gaiden|Ryu Hayabusa]], [[Final Fight|Mike Haggar]], [[Metal Gear Solid|Big Boss]], ''[[
** Hell, some would say you deserve the title for not giving up. [[Nintendo Hard]] is a standard here.
▲** It would sound incredibly silly used in any other context. In this context, though, its badass-level is somewhere between single-handedly crushing the universe into paste and ripping out someone's intestinal tract and using it as a belt.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The Kid's grandfather used to be The Guy. His name is [[Captain Obvious|Former Grandfather the Guy]].
* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: Near the end, the Moon that has been plaguing you appears all huge, as if ready to engage in a final showdown, {{spoiler|and then gets smacked aside in about two seconds by the dragon from ''[[
** In fact, the Moon does the same thing much, much earlier: throughout the ''[[Ghosts
* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: The FAQ calls it a [[Game Mod|romhack]] of ''[[
* [[Big No]]: The Guy, once he's well and truly dead. ▼
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The Japanese on the mock-Ikaruga warning before Mecha-birdo says "I hate [[wikipedia:Dorayaki|Dorayaki]]". Incidentally, it's also misspelled with the character for "jealousy" where it should say "fried", perhaps to match the quality of the English text.▼
* [[BFG]]: The Kid claims one as a result of triumphing over The Guy.
▲* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The Japanese on the mock-Ikaruga warning before Mecha-birdo says "I hate [[wikipedia:Dorayaki|Dorayaki]]". Incidentally, it's also misspelled with the character for "jealousy" where it should say "fried", perhaps to match the quality of the English text.
* [[Black Bead Eyes]]: The Kid.
* [[Bloodstained-Glass Windows]]: A saintly image of The Kid, complete with [[Holy Halo|nimbus]].
* [[Brick Joke]]: In one screen you can clearly see the moon. Several later, it falls and tries to flatten you.
* [[Bullet Hell]]: The game flirts with this a few times
** Dracula has an attack where he shoots a spiral pattern of flaming Delicious Fruit; it's no ''[[Touhou]]'' pattern though, as Kayin admits. Later on, the ''[[Gradius|Vic Viper]]'' sequence shows Dracula how it's ''really'' done.
** Also, the [[Metroid|Tourian]] section plays with this in the boss room. Of course, it's really more like Rinka Hell.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: The Kid.
* [[Chain
* [[Check Point Starvation]]: Impossible mode has no [[Save Point
* [[Chest Monster]]: At one point, a ''save point'' attacks you. Oddly enough, it's the only save point that appears on [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Classic Video Game "Screw
▲* [[Classic Video Game Screw Yous]]: Practically a thesaurus<ref>Why thesaurus? Because an encyclopedia is more in depth, and a dictionary is too short on each entry. [[Rule of Funny|And because it's funnier.]]</ref> of them.
* [[Clipped-Wing Angel]]: {{spoiler|Dracula's}} final form. So much so that it's the only enemy that can't cause you any harm in any way. You can actually walk through it without anything happening.
* [[Collision Damage]]
* [[Colon Cancer]]: The full title is ''[[Title: the Adaptation|I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie:]] The Game''. There's no movie. Sadly.
* [[Colony Drop]]:
** The moon falls out of the sky multiple times during the game. Dracula shoots it at you, complete with voice-acted "Here is TRUE POWER!" and a trail of fire.
** Surprisingly, the drops themselves aren't likely to kill you. Instead, the primary cause of death via moon is it chasing you. In fact, the one time it only falls directly down, it actually doesn't kill you.
* [[Cranium Ride]]: On 8-bit Link in one ''Zelda''-themed room. {{spoiler|Link attempts to swipe at you in the process
* [[Creepy Changing Painting]]: Lu Bu's portrait in the gallery of The Guys
* [[Deadly Dodging]]: The Guy's third attack pattern renders him [[Immune to Bullets|Immune To Your Puny Pea-shooter Bullets]]. You gotta bounce his shots back at him. Which is not easy
* [[Death Course]]: The whole game, basically.
*
▲** It's so common that it feels a lot worse, especially since every part of every room is a death trap. Even the things that aren't dangerous at all catch you because you're expecting something awful to happen.
* [[Deconstruction Game]]: In terms of difficulty.▼
* [[Death World]]: A game like this can only take place in one.
▲* [[Deconstruction Game]]: In terms of difficulty.
* [[Depth Perplexion]]: As in tradition to [[Platform Hell]] genre, it's intentional.
* [[Destination Defenestration]]: The Guy is sent careerning through a
* [[Easter Egg]]:
** There are six hidden rooms with secret collectible items. One requires going through two screens full of small and completely invisible platforms in the wrong direction. And mind you, that one is the ''easiest'' one to get. Don't even ask about some of the others...
** {{spoiler|The secret items do, in fact, do something. They unlock [[Boss Rush]] mode.}}▼
** Wait long enough at the title screen. See what happens.
* [[Easy Mode Mockery]]: Few people wanted to play the game on Medium because the extra save points were marked "Wuss" and The Kid gains a cute red bow in his hair... The bow remains on the screen when you explode
* [[Engrish]]: The scroll text near the end of the attract sequence, parodying the scroll text from the original ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
* [[Establishing Series Moment]]:
** The third story down on the first screen. After you've learned how to avoid the huge spiked boards that shoot out of nowhere, the third shoots out from the opposite direction.
** The other obvious route on the first screen (upwards) leads to the iconic "falling apples" moment of the game, mentioned in the page quote.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: There are maybe a few things that do not kill you. They include the floor, some water, some walls, the background, Mario (who appears in his referee outfit to announce "TKO!" when you beat Mike Tyson), and the save points.
** In the Kirby level, the floor does ''actively'' try to kill you. Freaking mobile spike pit!
** Even the background scores a few kills in a way. Once when
** Kayin's [[DVD Commentary|Let's Play Commentary]] has him and his friends wonder if it would be possible to make the ''cursor'' kill you. The unrelated but equally hard game named... well, Fangame does exactly that.
** At the very end of the ending, you wind up under a tree with Delicious Fruit. Take a wild guess what happens if you don't move out the way.
** Surprisingly, there is one case when something that falls directly down towards you but does not kill you.
** In the ''Gaiden'' version, it's even possible to be killed on the overworld map, which is rigged with booby traps.
* [[Excuse Plot]]
* [[Eye Beams]]: The Guy's second phase.
* [[Fallen Hero]]: The Guy wears a {{spoiler|tattered cape}}.▼
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: This is sort of the point of the game. You'll spend a lot of time with the trial and error twins. That being said, the examples of this trope are all spaced out by examples of very, very real difficulty, so that even returning players will have huge troubles.
* [[Fake Platform]]
▲* [[Fallen Hero]]: The Guy wears a {{spoiler|tattered cape}}.
* [[IWBTG Fangames|Fangame]]: Numerous fangames have been made, the most famous being ''[[I Wanna Be the Fangame]]''
* [[Final Boss]]: The Guy.
* [[Fission Mailed]]:
*
** The Kid {{spoiler|falling onto a giant bed of spikes}} at the end. As he has defeated The Guy and claimed his title, he walks out unharmed.
* [[Floating Platforms]]
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]:
** There's a level which certainly ''deserves'' the [[Fan Nickname]] "The Room of Huge Laser Beams That Come Out Of Absolutely Nowhere", based on Quick Man's infamously hard stage from ''[[
** Just past the Teleportation Room, there is a room where the path requires you to go down a pit. There is also a [[Super Mario Bros.|Sniffit and Bullet Bill Launcher]]. [[Guide Dang It|Guess what happens if you try to go down without killing the Sniffit]].
* [[Fundamentally Funny Fruit]]: Eggplants. Of course, they're trying to kill you just like everything else in this game.
* [[Gaiden Game]]: ''I Wanna Save The Kids'', which combines the sadistic death-traps we all know and love with a ''Lemmings''-style [[Escort Mission]]. It's pretty hard. Unfortunately, [[Orphaned Series|Kayin has canceled it and moved on to other things]], like ''I Wanna Be
* '''[[Game Over
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: Only played straight with the Bullets Bill the Snifit fires at you, which are also
▲** [[Goomba Springboard]]
** [[The Spiny]]: Inverted: these are the ''only'' enemies you can [[Goomba Stomp]].▼
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
** Mecha Birdo's third weakpoint {{spoiler|shoot at
** One of the lefthand walls in the starting screen is fake and you can pass through it, but the only in-game clue is that your bullets pass through it instead of disappearing. And considering this is your first experience with the game's many death traps, you're probably not going to notice the
* [[Hard Levels Easy
▲** Note that the actual game itself is always the same no matter what level you're on. The only difference is the frequency of save points (and the [[Easy Mode Mockery]] on Medium). There are ''zero real'' save points on Impossible. You're expected to win the entire game with one life. In all literal seriousness, Impossible mode ''is'' possible, but requires quite a bit of memorization and a fair degree of benevolence from the [[Luck-Based Mission|more random luck-requiring bosses]]. When somebody eventually beat it, the creator's official response was [http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/forums/index.php?topic=152.0 "holy crap you're not serious are you"].
▲* [[Hard Levels Easy Bosses|Nearly Impossible Levels, Brutally Hard Bosses]]: "Brutally Hard" being the easy side of the equation.
* [[Have a Nice Death]]
* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: In both the
* [[Homage]]: Pretty much everything in the game is a recreation of or reference to some old famous game, including ''[[
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Mecha Birdo.
* [[Improvised Platform]]: in the second screen, {{spoiler|you need to shoot one of the spikes on the wall to knock it over and use it as a platform
* [[Invisible Block]]: Not as obnoxious as most [[Platform Hell]] examples, fortunately.
* [[It's Personal]]: Leans towards this after The Guy
* [[Jump Physics]]: Including both the [[Double Jump]] and the [[Wall Jump]].
* [[Kaizo Trap]]: Everywhere, usually in the cruelest way possible.
* [[Kid Hero]]: Literally. His name is The Kid.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: Defied. The game is pretty blatant with its use of copyrighted material, and would likely be the target of numerous copyright infringement lawsuits if it weren't Freeware,
* [[Leap of Faith]]
* [[Lost Forever]]: If you don't grab the hidden item in the ''[[Metroid]]'' level the first time around, you can't get it on that play file, because the Metroid level is inaccessible after {{spoiler|the Tourian System explodes
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Dracula.
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: The [[Metroid
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* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|The Guy is The Kid's father, complete with ''Star Wars'' dialogue}}.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: The Kid. He explodes into [[Ludicrous Gibs]] every time you die, unless it's a Metroid.
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* [[Metroidvania]]: To a small extent.
* [[Minecart Madness]]
* [[Musical Spoiler]]: Subverted! The [[Minecart Madness]] segment has "The Moon" from the ''[[
* [[Ninja Prop]]: Obvious parts of the background attack the Kid.
*
* [[No Damage Run]]: Required for Impossible.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: The Kid.
* [[One Bullet At a Time]]: In most parts, you can only have four bullets on the screen at a time, making it important to get as close to the bosses as possible. ▼
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Contact with most moving things (as well as several things that don't move) that are not platforms is instant death. If it doesn't outright kill you, it will likely bump you towards something that will.
▲* [[One Bullet At a Time]]: In most parts, you can only have four bullets on the screen at a time, making it important to get as close to the bosses as possible.
* [[Orphaned Series]]: It seems that ''I Wanna Save The Kids'' was canceled.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Like everything else in the game, used to create traps, like {{spoiler|the Multimedia Fusion "error" in the Ryu Hayabusa room and the Evil Save Point}}.
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: After a while of dying to cleverly-hidden traps, you will not trust ''anything'' in the background. Of course, [[Invoked Trope|that's kinda the point
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: For someone who's rarely more than a few seconds away from a bloody death, The Kid always seems remarkably happy.
* [[Platform Hell]]: This isn't so much a game as it is a torture device.
* [[Press X to Die]]: This is the safest room in the game. [[Schmuck Bait|Only Q can kill you]].
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: No warnings, obviously, but there are a few apparent cutscenes that can kill you {{spoiler|such as the start of the battle with Dracula when he throws the wineglass
* [[Rain of Blood]]: The Kid's death animation, with a little bouncing head, to add insult to injury.
* [[Recurring Boss]]: The Moon.
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* [[Save Scumming]]: It's almost impossible to complete the game without ever saving. Especially not on your first try.
* [[Selective Gravity]]: A rule of thumb is: if something can inconvenience you by falling upwards/sideways, it will do so.
* [[Sequential Boss]]: The [[Super Mario World (
* [[Shout-Out]]:
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: The Guy is chomping on an 8-bit cigarette.
* [[Soft Glass]]: The glass The Guy dislodges doesn't kill you if it hits you. Fruit yes, pictures yes, the dull bits of spikes yes, but not ''sharp glass
* [[Soft Water]]: At one point, you jump from a very high area, fall about
▲* [[Soft Glass]]: The glass The Guy dislodges doesn't kill you if it hits you. Fruit yes, pictures yes, the dull bits of spikes yes, but not ''sharp glass.''
*
▲** Some of them LAUNCH SIDEWAYS. WHILE STILL POINTING DOWNWARDS.
** At least one of them spits FRUIT at you.
** There is [[Up to Eleven|a set of them that lifts out of the ground and becomes a wall of death which also causes fruit to fire in your direction]].
* [[Stalactite Spite]]: Most commonly done with fruits or spikes (see above), but there are some genuine stalactites in there too. Subverted at one point with ceiling spikes that tremble when you pass underneath them, but never fall.
* [[Stand in Portrait]]: Inverted with the Vic Viper, which ends up being very useful to The Kid.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Whether The Kid traverses through spike-covered corridors or tries to avoid gravity-defying fruit for the billionth time, he always does so with a smile.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The magnified Nintendo sprites (Tyson, Mecha Birdo, Kraidgief
* [[The Tetris Effect]]: Don't get surprised if you start expecting traps and surprise deaths in every other game you play. Or hell, on your way back from school! Or in your lunch box, next to your sandwich!
* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|The Moon}} despite what you may think upon reaching the first boss of The Guy's castle.▼
{{quote|'''The Kid''': {{spoiler|Former Grandfather The Guy! You killed him}}!
▲* [[Title Drop]]
▲{{spoiler|'''The Guy''': Just as you will try to kill me, or be killed yourself!}}<br />
* [[To Be a Master]]
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: If you look hard you ''might'' be able to find a room that doesn't do this. It is worth noting that the room seen in the screenshot at the top of this article is one of only about four or so in the entire game that lack out-of-nowhere surprises and are [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Troll]]: In video game form.
* [[Turns Red]]: Clown Copter and The Guy do this metaphorically. Mecha Birdo does it literally.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: The ''[[Breakout]]'' and [[Gradius|Vic Viper]] sequences.
* [[Unexpected Shmup Level]]
▲* [[The Unfought]]:
* [[Unique Enemy]]: Quite a few of them show up in their own particular places, usually to punish your perfectly logical course of action with a [[
* [[Unskippable Cutscene|Unskippable Cutscenes]]: Thankfully averted. If you don't want to go nuts from having to watch {{spoiler|Mike Tyson rise up}} every time you die, remember, the "S" key is your friend. Perhaps just as well, considering {{spoiler|Dracula can kill you with his goblet during the cutscene before the fight with him}}.▼
* [[Unskippable Cutscene]]s:
▲*
** However, the lengthy intros to the Kraidgief and Bowser fights can't be skipped. For the former, this is actually good, as you can shoot his head for a bit once he roars, which wouldn't happen if you skipped it. For the latter, this is due to it being a three-part boss.
* [[Unsound Effect]]: In the Clown Copter battle, when you beat the first two pilots, the Copter spins off with the cartoon explosion reading "Bomb!" from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]] 2''.
* [[Unwinnable]]: This can occur at many MANY parts of the game where if you fall down and can't back up or something of the similar sort, you can't progress. Luckily, the game has a suicide button... which does you no good on Impossible, which screws you over for trying to restart by wiping all your progress on the run. Also, the game makes no attempt to prevent you from saving in bad places, meaning that it is easy to unintentionally overwrite your save with an Unwinnable situation. Thanks Kayin for [https://web.archive.org/web/20131219065817/http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/forums/index.php?topic=3418.0 I Wanna Be The Fix].
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: The bit in the ''[[Ghosts
* [[Wall Jump]]: Can only be done off of special walls. Two different kinds, actually, resulting in two different kinds of [[Wall Jump]].
* [[Wasted Song]]: There's a ton of great 8-bit music in this game. The problem is that, with death so frequent, you'll inevitably only hear the first few bars on each life.
* [[Weird Moon]]: Which then ''[[Colony Drop|falls on you]]''. '''Repeatedly'''. And if it's not falling on you, {{spoiler|Dracula is flinging it at you in lieu of those bigass black fireballs
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: This has apparently become routine for The Guy. "One more to add to my score!"
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Several of the traps rely on the player being this, most (in)famously the {{spoiler|"YOU JUMPED INTO A SWORD. YOU RETARD!"}} screen.
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: If the distance signs are to be believed, the mine cart travels 10,000 kilometres in 78 seconds. That's 286,786 miles per hour, or 373 times the speed of sound.
* [[Year X]]: 200X, parodying the ''Mega Man'' games
* [[You!]]: The Kid finally unmasking The Guy.
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* [[Your Head Asplode]]: [[Inverted Trope]]. Everything ''but'' your head [[Ludicrous Gibs|asplodes in a glorious cascade of red pixels]] when you die.
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