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* Accordion Thieves, bards who can cast an astounding variety of buffs on themselves and others by playing songs (like "the Moxious Madrigal" and "the Power Ballad of the [[Aerosmith (Music)|Arrowsmith]]") on their ill-gotten instruments.
 
The game mechanics revolve around three stats: Muscle (the primary stat of Seal Clubbers and Turtle Tamers, boosts HP, melee skill and weapon damage), Mysticality (the primary stat of Pastamancers and Saucerors, boosts [[Mana|MP]] and spell power), and Moxie (the primary stat of Disco Bandits and Accordion Thieves, boosts evasion, damage reduction and ranged skill). Players get a number of "turns" each day, called "Adventures", and can get more turns through food and booze. Players level up their character by earning experience points (in the form of "sub-stat" points) as they adventure, either from slaying monsters, from certain non-combat adventures, or again from eating and drinking. One can also gather a variety of helpful monsters known as "familiars", which do everything from fighting to healing you to helping you get more experience, meat, or items from monsters, to absolutely nothing, to [[Self -Imposed Challenge|increasing the challenge of the game by hindering you constantly]].
 
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]
* [[Noob Cave]]
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=== This game provides examples of: ===
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Pastamancers can cast spells that hit enemies with things like [[Creepy Child|creepy little girls]], [[Kill It With Ice|Ex-girlfriends]], or [[Brown Note|foul language.]]
** The Gift-A-Pult allows you to fire any Gift item (something that cannot be bought or sold in the mall). Designer Handbags, Valentine's Day Gifts and ''other'' Gift-A-Pults are the strongest ammo.
** Some of the "ordinary" (loosest possible sense of the word) weapons have this as well. To cite one example, you can build a crossbow which fires ghuolash, which is [[Edible Ammunition|food]] (that is, if you're willing to eat [[I Ate What?|zombie flesh]].)
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Hobopolis.
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: The three stats are '''M'''uscle, '''M'''ysticality, and '''M'''oxie. Your skill points are called "MP" regardless of what your main stat is, but the meaning changes--Muscularity Points, Mana Points, or Mojo Points.
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Ed the Undying ''[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|is]]''. And you leave him with wounds that immobilize him...
* [[And Your Reward Is Edible]]: Food and booze are common quest rewards, or bonus things you end up getting while doing quests. [[The Generic Guy|Bart Ender, owner of the Typical Tavern]], gives you some of his tavern's trademark booze [[Fridge Logic|(which the tavern doesn't normally provide)]] for getting rats out of his cellar.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Even more common than food/booze rewards. Completing the entire game in [[Self -Imposed Challenge|hardcore mode]] as certain classes earns you a steel hat or [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|steel pants]]. [[Up to Eleven|Even harder completions]] get you hats/pants made out of plexiglass or [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|brimstone]].
* [[Animesque]]: the battle with Yakisoba the Executioner, complete with a swirl of [[Cherry Blossoms]] and [[The Thing That Goes Donk]] when he shows up, as well as [[Motion Lines]] and intense music ([[Stylistic Suck|which the character can hear and see, but the player can't]]) when he attacks you.
** [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Chori_Zo Chori Zo.]
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* [[Arm Cannon]]: The Armgun, gained from someone who is definitely ''not'' [[Final Fantasy VII|Barett]]. [[Squick|His severed forearm is still attached.]]
* [[Ars Goetia]]: Azazel is one of your quest givers. {{spoiler|He has crossdressing tendencies and is slightly creepy.}}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The innermost circle of Hey Deze: "Given the high rates of murder, armed robbery, and jaywalking, it's the hottest piece of real estate in Hey Deze (which is saying a lot for a place composed primarily of brimstone and magma)."
** The message given when first entering Azazel's Temple:
{{quote| It's your basic evil hellish demon dwelling: the decorative motifs include blood, pulsating skin, flames, and the occasional throw rug to add some visual interest.}}
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* [[Ass Kicks You]]: You can wear an asshat (made of two bum cheeks). There's a headbutt attack. Go figure.
** Since Crimbo 2010, two new possible monsters have graced the kingdom, along with a photocopier to help provide them. [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Your_butt Your butt] and [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Somebody_else%27s_butt somebody else's butt].
** On [[April Fools' Day]] 2011, the butts of several of the developers showed up as enemies, and dropped special items [[Squick|(no, not that. Not that either.)]]
* [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever]]: ''You'', the adventurer, can pick a fight with ''[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Whole_Kingdom the entire Kingdom]''! Unfortunately, it's too tough to be defeated (everything deals exactly 1 damage to it) and too weak to defeat you (it can only hit you if you have less than 8 Moxie, which is unlikely, or it criticals, which deals only 1 damage). People are, [[Lord British Postulate|of course]], ''trying'' to figure out how to kill it, but nobody has done it yet.
** There's even a few strategies that should work. Of course, they require ''huge'' amounts of one-time items.
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* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: If you choose to play a 'Bees Hate You' run, {{spoiler|the Naughty Sorceress' sausage form is killed by the Guy Made of Bees, a [[Bonus Boss]] in normal runs.}}
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: CLEESH turns your enemy into a frog, newt, or other small amphibian.
* [[Bare -Fisted Monk]]: Some Disco Bandits build on their existing [[Dance Battler]] style with the optional skill "Kung Fu Hustler", which offers a set of progressive bonuses for fighting without anything equipped in the hands. When combined with their other skills and "combat items" (weaponlike and used from inventory), this makes regular weapons unnecessary.
** "Way of the Surprising Fist" is a challenge path, where one cannot wield any weapons; gains martial skills from certain areas, and money drops are extremely cut back due to a vow of poverty.
* [[Battle in The Rain]]: Played for laughs and lampshaded during 'The Last Stand,' a mission which only triggers [[Guide Dang It|under very specific circumstances]].
* [[Back Alley Doctor]]: "Under the Knife" in the obviously-named Sleazy Back Alley is how you can [[Gender Bender|change genders]] in-run.
* [[Beastly Bloodsports]]: There is an adventure in the [[South of the Border]] area where you can bet on a cockfight -- or refuse in disgust: "This flagrant display of cruelty to living creatures disgusts you. [[Hypocritical Humor|You decide to head back to the Icy Peak and eviscerate some more Yetis.]]"
* [[Bee Bee Gun]]: The Guy Made Of Bees, from a spooooky tale, is summoned Bloody Mary style in [[Big BoosBoo's Haunt|Spookyraven Manor's]] Bathroom. He has approximately the same strength as the monsters in The Naughty Sorceress' Tower, and is killed the same way with a specific item. It is [[Lord British Postulate|possible, albeit extremely difficult]], to kill him in normal combat.
** Simply, the last guy who beat him without the specific item was a Lvl. 117 Pastamancer. It takes maybe 2 years to get to level 100+, unless leveling up is the only thing you care about.
*** Power creep moves on, and now it's possible to kill most of the Gimmick Kill bosses with one donation item and a little bit of [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?t=183785 know how].
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* [[BFS]]: The Ridiculously Huge Sword that's dropped by someone who is definitely not Cloud. It's a ''three'' handed weapon.
* [[Big Bad]]: The Naughty Sorceress.
* [[Big BoosBoo's Haunt]]: three, the Defiled Crypt, Misspelled Cematary, and [[Haunted House|Spookyraven Manor]]
** The Haunted Sorority House 2011 Halloween event.
* [[Big Eater]]: Everyone becomes this during the Feast of Boris, gaining doubled eating capacity for the day. Players on the Avatar of Boris path are Big Eaters every day and have numerous eating-related skills, but they also [[Can't Hold His Liquor|get drunk very quickly]].
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* [[Bio Augmentation]]: the Unstable DNA item, which, when drunk, gives the status buff "Yuletide Mutations", which buffs all stats + 50%, the damage of the "Mutant Coture" armor and the potency of "Consume Burrowgrub" for 10 adventures. Unstable DNA is also integral in making the "Pair of Ragged Claws" familiar and the "Burrowgrub Hive" furnishing.
** There is also the [[Gremlins (Film)|Gremlin Mutagen]] and the Glowing Syringe ([[Shout Out|obtained from a big monster in a diving suit with a creepy little girl familiar, natch]]) that "[[Bio Shock|Biologically Shocks]]" your DNA.
* [[Bland -Name Product]]: Many examples. BRICKO bricks, Willer beer, and a Red Minotaur energy drink are among them.
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Baron Von Ratsworth, the "Ultra-Rare" monsters that drop the aptly-named [[Captain Obvious|Ultra-Rare items]], Hodgman the Hoboverlord and his Hobopolis Lieutenants, the Mother Slime, the Guy Made of Bees, the list goes on.
* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: Fernswarthy's Basement (infinite in depth; but with special rewards at every 100 levels up to level 500), the various (clan-member-only) raid dungeons, and The Sea (which is only accessible after acquiring the scuba gear in the final dungeon).
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* [[Brain Bleach]]: the "seedy Photocopy" advertising slime porn shows gives you a headache.
** South of the Border's semi-rare gives an item that makes you so offended sleaze is weakened against you. {{spoiler|Donkey flipbook. Yeah. (If you don't know what a donkey show or a Tijuana bible is... don't ask.)}}
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: a recurring joke format. "He notices how dirty you are and decides to give you the full treatment - deep exfoliation, sea-salt scrub, sucking chest wound -- wait, what was that last one?"
* [[Breakable Weapons]]: The Antique set are the first max-power gear you see, but they slow you down and break after a while. The Tome Of Sugar Shummoning can also create temporary equipment that only lasts for 30 rounds, after which it breaks and you can eat the pieces.
** And the X-37 multipurpose gun (think ''[[The Fifth Element]]''), as sooner or later you'll notice and push the blinking red button.
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** On January 30, 2010, players could receive for the first time an adventure titled '''From Little Acorns...''', in which you plant an acorn from the evil Underworld Tree in the Arrrboretum. Fast forward to May 6, 2010, when you can get the adventure '''... Grow Unspeakable Horrors''', which gives the {{spoiler|Underworld Bonsai Familiar}}
* [[Bridge]]: Played by the guards behind the light door.
* [[Buffy -Speak]]: A common source of humour. E.g. "Bones scatter across the deck like uh, something that scatters. Mice? I'll go with mice."
* [[But Thou Must]]: When entering Felonia's cave, you have three choices:
{{quote| Enter the chamber<br />
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* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Parodied in a hit message in a boss fight-
{{quote| "Wu Tang shouts 'Seven Demon!' and kicks you in the knee. 'Hey!' you say, 'you didn't finish the name of the attack!' 'It's the Seven Demon Kick You In the Knee While You're Waiting For Me To Finish the Name of the Attack," he says, and kicks you again. '}}
* [[CentipedesCentipede's Dilemma]]: Played Straight in a miss message when fighting a "Swarm of Killer Bees".
{{quote| "They start to swarm you, but you give them a quick lesson in Aerodynamics, and they all fall to the ground."}}
* [[Chainmail Bikini]]: Lampshaded by the chainmail monokini.
{{quote| This is the bottom half of a chain-mail bikini. It'll completely protect you from injury, and by 'you' we mean 'your crotch and 40% of your backside.' Because, really, what else matters? }}
* [[Cheese -Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: There's a "French Slippers" item; equipping it causes your runaways to be always successful.
* [[Chef of Iron]]: Saucerors and Pastamancers with their food-flinging spells and cooking skill, although they have elements of [[Squishy Wizard]] too.
* [[Chekhov's Volcano]]: During the Nemesis Quest, your nemesis has a secret tropical island volcano lair. The volcano plays an important role.
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* [[Chronic Pet Killer]]: Stephen Spookyraven.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: The version of the Clingy Pirate that appears for male characters. (Females get a male version who's less jealous, more weepy and vaguely patronizing.)
* [[Clipped -Wing Angel]]: The Naughty Sorceress
* [[Clock Punk]]: All the Clockwork items. You can get a clockwork maid, clockwork armor (and weapons), and [[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|Clockwork Grapefruit]] familiar. Clockwork goodies are also needed for the MicroMagiMech and [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] familiars.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: 'Twas the day of Christmas and one player on the forums made the mistake of complaining about the holiday content. The devs didn't like it much. [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showpost.php?p=3054767&postcount=76 Behold, the Skully Rant.], now [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Best_Game_Ever lampshaded in-game].
** Unlike many other games, the dev team interacts with their [[Unpleasable Fanbase]] with some frequency. The Crimbomination from Crimbo '08 was a last minute toss-in to address complaints about an anticlimactic ending. To sum up: if they feel the complainers have a point, they generally address it. If they feel they don't, we get... what we get in the link above.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Disco Bandits use enemy weakening attacks in combat, which include suckerpunches, [[Eye Scream|eye pokes]], face-stabs, breaking your opponent's knees, and pretending to run away then attacking when your opponent lets down his guard.
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** [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showpost.php?p=4167363&postcount=6 "Stupid complicated game."]
* [[Dissimile]]: Mr. Skullhead loves this trope. For example.
{{quote| [[Hello, Insert Name Here|(your Disembodied Hand)]] sprays him with some club soda. And by "sprays," I mean, "hits," and by "some," I mean "a," and by "soda," I mean "for X damage." }}
* [[Deep -Immersion Gaming]]: Playing any [[Mini Game|Game Grid Video Game]] has the character black out and in the game for the duration. Yes, add the same level of snark to [[Mario|Jackass Plumber]], [[Metroid|Meteoid]], [[Sinistar|DemonStar]], [[Gauntlet|Dungeon Fist!]], [[Star Control|Space Trip]], and [[Street Fighter|Fighters]] [[Tekken|of]] [[King of Fighters|Fighting.]]
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: one of the possible attack messages for the haiku katana:
{{quote| Flocks of cranes in flight<br />
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* [[Dracolich]]
* [[The Dragon]]: Each of the villains in the nemesis quest has one of these, who will give you a map to their lair, a unique familiar, and [[Vendor Trash|an item with a nice resale value]] when beaten.
* [[Dual -Wielding]]: The Seal Clubber ability "Double Fisted Skull Smashing" allows the use of two one-handed weapons at once, and the Disco Bandit ability "Ambidextrous Funkslinging" allows the use of two items at once.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Invoked by the "Offensive Joke" ability.
* [[Element Number Five|Element Number Six]] - Cute. Cute is, however, [[The Fifth Element|The Sixth Element]]
* [[Elemental Rock -Paper -Scissors]]: Though with some rather unusual elements. '''{{color|red|Hot}}''', '''{{color|blue|Cold}}''', '''{{color|gray|Spooky}}''', '''{{color|green|Stench}}''' and '''{{color|blueviolet|Sleaze}}''' are the elements of KoL. Each element [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Image:Elements2.gif takes double damage from two, and deals double damage to the other two]. If you attack a monster with its own element, or attack a ghost with non-elemental weapons, you deal negligible damage. Oh, and it's currently the trope page picture.
** Also, there are three elements which are only used in certain situations and don't fit into the cycle: Slime, Shadow, and Bad Spelling.
** There is also the legendary [[The Fifth Element|Sixth Element]], Cuteness.
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** And now the insidious Jocko Homo.
* [[Everything Is Better With Penguins]]: The Penguin Mafia. In fact, its leader took over Crimbo (the in-game Christmas equivalent) in 2008.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]]: Spunky ones wielding titanium assault [[Super Mario Bros|umbrellas]], and princesses that [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|in no way resemble]] [[Lawyer -Friendly Cameo|Princesses Toadstool and Leia]].
* [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bees|Everything Is Worse With B(ee)s]]: Summer 2011 special challenge: Bees Hate You. Bees attack you every couple of turns, and they want to kill you. Even the ''b''s in any equipment you're wearing. Your character also has a phobia of using items or familiar with a "B" in it.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Everything Trying To Beat You Up]]: There are loads of strange and unusual monsters in this game.
* [[Evil Chef]]: A few of the monsters are examples of this.
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** Most notably with the Going Postal quest.
* [[Fighter Mage Thief]]: Two classes for each, but pointedly Lampshaded by their shared guild-hall and stat dependence.
* [[Fire -Breathing Diner]]: The ''Chronic Indigestion'' ability, gained by eating an encorcelled burrito so spicy your insides catch fire.
* [[Fish Slap]]: The [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Halibut halibut] is a weapon (2-handed fish).
* [[Free Sample Plot Coupon]]: You get {{spoiler|Worm riding manual page 3-15}} in one go, instead of having to spend ridiculous amounts of time to get twelve distinct noncombat adventures.
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* [[Just Add Water|Just Add Meatpaste]]: Most of the [[Item Crafting]] variants.
* [[Kawaisa]]: the Stuffed Cocoabo.
* [[Kneecapping]]: This is the general modus operandi of the [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Penguins|Penguin Mafia]].
* {{spoiler|[[Konami Code]]}}: One of the passwords you'll need to reach the Naughty Sorceress.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: On a variety of MMORPG tropes and cliches with great frequency. In other words, nearly ''everything.''
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* [[Level Scaling]]: Some monsters have stats that scale to match yours to allow everyone to participate in [[Holiday Mode|holiday event dungeons]].
* [[Living Shadow]]: One of the bosses that you must face in the Big Bad's lair is your shadow.
* [[Load -Bearing Boss]]: The three possible outcomes of the Level 12 Quest each end with either one or both of the bases being blown up after defeating the boss(es). The game does justify the explosion, though.
* [[Load -Bearing Hero]]: Parodied in one of the possible outcomes of exploring Noob Cave: a falling boulder blocks the exit, and, as there is nobody else there to help you, you must hold up the boulder blocking the exit while you crawl to safety between your own legs.
* "[[Long Story Short]], you have a [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Return_of_the_Dishwasher magical evening]. [[Short Story Long]]? [[Take That|Anything]] by [[Charles Dickens (Creator)|Dickens]]."
* [[Lord British Postulate]]: The Naughty Sorceress' third form will - usually! - destroy the player if they don't have the right item. One player decided this wasn't the case. See the "[[Bee Bee Gun]]" entry above, too.
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* [[Metaphorgotten]]: "[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Hellseal_pup This young seal] is nearly ready to leave the brood-nest to be a big shark in its own pond instead of a... piranha... in a small... All right, [[Lampshade Hanging|that metaphor went off the rails pretty fast]]." Probably not the only example out there.
* [[Mid Battle Tea Break]]: The War Frat 500th Infantrygentleman's fumble message has him drink a martini rather than attack you, because it just so happens to be Cocktail Hour.
* [[Mighty Lumberjack]]: In Little Canadia, the player can encounter lumberjacks, lumberjills, and lumberjuans. The lumberjack supervisor carries ''[[One -Handed Zweihander|two]]'' double-sides axes.
* [[The Missingno]]: Parodies this with the Bugged Bugbear monster, and later its friendlier variant, the Baby Bugged Bugbear familiar. Neither is ''actually'' glitched, but their images have chunks of them replaced with ones and zeroes, they drop inexplicable and bizarre items, and they spit out realistic-looking [[My SQL]] error messages with almost everything they do.
* [[Money Spider]]: Toyed with (and mostly justified) by using meat as currency. On the opposite end, diamonds and the such are regarded as worthless due to their lack of practical use and the large number of them.
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"It attacks with a mass of tentacles, [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|but you've read enough Manga to know to dodge.]]" }}
* [[Nerf Arm]]: About half of the weapons available are silly yet effective. Especially the ranged weapons. For instance, the most powerful ranged weapons are a vinyl record, a bag of snowballs, and a bag of candy. Heck, even the only two semi-serious max power ranged weapons are pretty silly, one being a rusty speargun found on the bottom of the sea and the other being a bazooka from a fish. In addition, musical instruments both strange and unusual are common ranged weapons. For example, there's the ''little plastic guitar'', which is described as having "[[Guitar Hero|five buttons instead of strings and a little switch you click back and forth instead of strumming]]. It's perfect for those who want to spend hours practicing a musical instrument, without that pesky "able to play music" part at the end." In addition, a fair amount of ''regular'' weapons are silly too. For example, among the most powerful weapons are: A fish stick, a spade from an octopus, and a duct tape sword.
* [[New Game Plus]]: "Ascension" allows one to beat the game and start over as a new class; with access to previous skills and items depending on which [[Self -Imposed Challenge]] you take. There are special rewards for completing higher difficulties.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. Yes, there actually ''is'' a robotic zombie that is also a pirate and a ninja. It lives on ricerumbrainsoil. It was created because the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] clan was awesome.
** And it makes toast! From its groin!
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** The reaction of a minor spaghetti cultist when you summon a Level 3 [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Spaghetti_Elemental_(pasta_guardian) Spaghetti Elemental]:
{{quote| At the sight of the spaghetti elemental, the cultist begins to quake with fear, his eyes widening to the size of hard-boiled eggs. He collapses to his knees, sobbing in fear. "My lord! Forgive me!" he wails. "I didn't know what I was doing! I thought it was a toilet! I swear!"}}
* [[Non -Appearing Title]]: Referenced by the kingdom's best screaming-crying band, ''Radioactive Child'', and their hit single, '''If You Want to Tell People the Truth, Make Them Laugh, Otherwise They'll Kill You (Royale With Cheese)''. "To show they're clever and hip, screaming-crying bands use famous quotes and pop culture references for their song titles, and make sure that the title never has anything to do with the song."
* [[Non Human Undead]]: The [[Dracolich|Bonerdagon]].
* [[Notable References to TV Tropes]]: The [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Tome_of_Tropes Tome of Tropes] Crimbo '10 monster.
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* [[Omnicidal Neutral]]: The best reward for the Mysterious Island Quest is the Order of the Silver Wossname, obtained by destroying both the Hippy Army and the Frat Boy army at once.
** You can resolve the turf war between the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Roller Skates and Ice Skates]], ([[Don't Explain the Joke|two factions of fish obsessed with sporting activities]]), by helping the Skate Board drive both gangs off.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: But of course. There's one [[Affectionate Parody]] version - the Naughty Sorceress - and one straight version - the Nemesis. {{spoiler|The way they achieve it is different too: the Sorceress says the old "behold my true form" line while the Nemesis calls on the Demon Lord of Revenge}}.
** There's also an inversion - {{spoiler|you fight Ed the Undying seven times in a row, but he gets weaker with each adventure.}}
* [[Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List]]: Fernswarthy the Wizard's letter.
* [[One Hundred and Eight108]]: The [[Final Fantasy|PenultimateFantasy]] [[Treasure Chest|chest]] has a base value of 108 meat.
* [[Only the Worthy May Pass]]: Chat channels are only accessible after passing a test given by the Ghost of the English Language. One of the prerequisites needed is an understanding of the proper usage of there/their/they're.
* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]]: The Weretaco "is an ordinary man, who, when the moon is full, turns into a half-man, half-taco monstrosity. Incidentally, for you detail-oriented people out there -- the weretaco's lycanthropic cycle is not tied to Ronald or Grimace, but to some completely unrelated moon in some completely unrelated alternate dimension. That's why you never see him turn into a human. Seriously."
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** Every enemy in the Castle in the Clouds, making it easily the most popular place to farm for Meat.
* [[Pineal Weirdness]]: Zombie pineal glands, required to make a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]].
* [[Pistol Whipping]]: The Burly Sidekick will attack by punching you with his gunhand, though he is never out of ammo (like Barret from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', whom he's based on, does in his [[One -Hit Kill|Hammerblow]] [[Limit Break]]).
* [[Pod Cast]]: [http://radio.kingdomofloathing.com The twice-weekly developer radio show] is technically not one of these, but Jick doesn't always remember that.
* [[Potty Emergency]]: The effect "Your #1 Problem".
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** [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Tome_of_Tropes And now they have a reference to us!]
* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: Using cure items {{spoiler|is the only way to beat your shadow at the end of the game}}.
* [[Rock Me, Asmodeus]]: Playing heavy metal in the chamber of The Dark Lord is necessary for getting a Pagoda.
** Referenced in a fight message with the Naughty Sorceress, where she tries to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|rock you on the dais.]]
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Done deliberately with the Misspelled Cemetary and the Defiled Cyrpt, culminating in a battle with the skeletal, draconic Bonerdagon.
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* [[Schizo Tech]]: Everywhere, but particularly the ranged weapons, which include everything from boomerangs to laser cannons to pistols.
** To [[Musical Assassin|guitars]] to sacks of snowballs to ''[[Rule of Funny|beer bongs]]''...
* [[SchrodingersSchrodinger's Gun]]: You can find a treasure chest in [[Alice in Wonderland|The Red Queen's Garden]], but before opening it, you have to solve a chess puzzle. Solving the puzzle more completely causes the chest to have had a better prize placed in it.
* [[Scripted Battle]]: The last form of the Naughty Sorceress.
* [[Self -Deprecation]]: "...then it starts to get all up its own ass with self-referential fourth-wall-breaking, so you know you have to end it."
* [[Self -Imposed Challenge]]: Hardcore, Bad Moon, and the dietary "paths". All optional, and make things harder, but offer special rewards (and extra content in Bad Moon's case) if you follow them through to the end.
** One of the hardest is "Kittycore", a Bad Moon run only using the black cat familiar, a familiar which actively hinders you instead of helping you. Except for special adventures which require you to use another familiar, you are not allowed to use ANY familiar other than the black cat, which does such things as preventing you from picking up items after a battle, making your attacks miss, and damaging you for a small amount in battle. Fighting any fight without the black cat even ONCE before stepping through the gash at the end of the game and ascending will void the "Kittycore" run. Completing this run will {{spoiler|permanently unlock Bad Moon}}.
** Now there are new challenge paths that come out every season. At the time of writing, the available challenges are Bees Hate You (bees attack you every now and then, and anything with the letter b in it is bound to hinder you if not become useless), [[Bare -Fisted Monk|Way of the Surprising Fist]] (you get special skills, but you can't use any weapons, and meat sources are severely gimped), Trendy (you can't use anything that has come from limited time content after it's been a year since it became rare), and Avatar of Boris (you can't use any weapon except Boris's axe [[I Call It Vera|Trusty]], any skills besides the ones you can learn at Boris's gate, and the familiar slot is replaced with Boris's bard, Clancy).
* [[Selkies and Wereseals]]: Blood of the Wereseal is a potion that causes your muscles to wax and wane with the moons.
* [[Sequential Boss]]: The Naughty Sorceress, and the aptly named Ed the Undying, who is fought a grand total of ''seven'' times in a row, and is never actually killed.
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* [[Take a Third Option]]: At least three: If you want to {{spoiler|get a reward from the Giant in The Strange Leaflet Quest}}, and if you want the best reward for {{spoiler|ending the war between the Hippies and the Frat Boys}}, and if you resolve the turf war between the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Roller Skates and Ice Skates]], ([[Don't Explain the Joke|two factions of fish obsessed with sporting activities]]), by helping the Skate Board drive both gangs off.
* [[Take That]]: While the game usually veers towards [[Affectionate Parody]], anything that Mr. Skullhead doesn't like will inevitably get one of these.
* [[Take Your Time]]: Don't worry, the Naughty Sorceress never actually does anything. Neither does your Nemesis. In fact, {{spoiler|if you defeat all but his/her/its final [[One -Winged Angel|demonic form]], and then lose to or run away from the demon, you can then proceed to go wherever you want and do whatever you want and come back at leisure - your Nemesis will still be sitting there in demonic form doing nothing until you return}}.
** After you start a war between the Frat Boys and the Hippies, the two armies march out to the battlefield and...just stand there doing nothing indefinitely, until you decide to join the fight. If you fight for only one side, that side will eventually win with zero casualties, because the other side never takes the offensive!
* [[Temple of Doom]]: [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Hidden_Temple The Hidden Temple]
* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: The Avatar of Boris path, where you play as an [[An Axe to Grind|axe-wielding]] macho man, with the ability to laugh off injuries (literally), make monsters run away by shouting at them, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|demand sandwiches]]. By the end of the game, he's so manly that a certain normally-devastating magical attack just rebounds off his chest muscles.
{{quote| ''You laugh as the beam of energy harmlessly bounces off your powerful chest muscles and shoots back down the hallway.''}}
* [[The Magic Poker Equation]]: This is how you win a card game in one of the special [[Self -Imposed Challenge|Bad Moon]] adventures. [[Lampshade Hanging|The other card players then declare they won't stand for such a hackneyed and unrealistic scenario, and beat you up.]]
* [[The Thing That Goes Donk]]: When the Spaghetti Cult send an Oriental assassin after you (Last thug encountered during the second half of the Nemesis quest when playing as a Pastamancer), Yakisoba the Executioner.
{{quote| [[Cherry Blossoms]] swirl gently in the air as a cool breeze rustles the treetops and crickets sing in the shade. Somewhere nearby, there is a melodic ''Klonk'' as one of those bamboo things fills with water and tips over.}}
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* [[Trauma Inn]]: Your dwelling at your campground, as well as the Comfy Sofa in your clan rumpus room.
* [[Turtle Power]]: The Turtle Tamer class.
* [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]: As mentioned above, one of the monsters for the 2010 Crimbo is the Tome of Tropes, a reference to [[TV Tropes|this site]]. Part of the description for the monster reads "every entry contains several references to other cleverly-named tropes...and at some point you look up and see you're eight years older than when you started."
* [[The Undead]]: Every enemy in the Misspelled Cematary and Defiled Crypt, as well as many of the enemies in [[Haunted House|Spookyraven Manor]].
* [[The Un -Reveal]]: The Game Grid had one minigame, [[Super Mario|Jackass Plumber]], which was always "OUT OF ORDER." After a year and a half of this, Crimbo 2011 came around, and players were able to give each other Jackass Plumber consoles as presents. Had the dev team finally gotten around to making the minigame? Well...not exactly. When the gifts became openable, it turned out that the consoles {{spoiler|required nonexistent "Q" batteries. Using the console just makes your character wander around looking for batteries until he/she [[Rage Quit|gets really mad and gives up]]. At least it temporarily boosts your attack power.}}
* [[Universal Poison]]: Used to be the case; now there are multiple kinds of being poisoned. And they stack. Instead of [[Standard Status Effects|sapping your HitPoints]] it's a debuff to all stats, and the various poisons range from Hardly Poisoned At All (ignorable) to Majorly Poisoned (which likely drops your stats to 1).
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: In order to avoid spoiling things for new players, a particular plot-critical item is customarily referred to as "the Smurf" in the chat.
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** As opposed to meat-pasting live spiky turtles into pieces of armor and then wearing them as a Turtle Tamer.
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: Upon your initial visit to the Arid, Extra-Dry Desert, you'll likely suffer a couple of harmful effects before finding the way to the Oasis, and you'll quickly learn that adventuring there when not Ultrahydrated is a ''bad'' idea. Except doing so is the only way to find one of the hobo codes and the twitching trigger finger (not to mention an anticheese in Bad Moon you might really need, though that adventure is superlikely).
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]: The delivery service quest Olaf the janitor gives you. What's this "item of great power" he needed you to obtain for him? {{spoiler|Steel wool.}}
{{quote| "Thank you, my friend, you have done me a great service this day. In the annals of history, your deeds shall not be forgotten."}}
* [[Whatevermancy]]: The Pastamancer.
* [[What the Hell, Player?]]: Eating certain foods, mainly raw ingredients such as carob chunks, raw Chorizo, and bottles of ketchup, will cause the game to call you an idiot. Also lemons and limes; notably, if you eat a lime, the game comment that, while you are insane to do so, you are ''slightly less insane'' than you would be if you were eating a lemon.
** In the Turtle Tamer Nemesis quest, one is attacked by "brainwashed" guard turtles. One of their drops is their shell. "So you killed a turtle, ripped the shell from its back, and now you're going to wear it on your head. As a hat. Some Turtle Tamer you are. Damn."
** Three of the five hit messages for attacking with a chefstaff, which really isn't a very effective weapon for hitting things with, tell you outright that it would be a better idea to use it for casting spells than as a bludgeon.
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{{quote| To an Adventurer with only a poison-coated weapon, every problem looks like an unpoisoned monster. }}
* [[When Trees Attack]]: The "Arborween" event had adventurers face against a wide array of evil mobile trees.
* [[Whole -Plot Reference]]: The entire White Citadel quest chain is a gigantic reference to [[Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle]], including the fratboys, cheetah, and pretty much everything about it.
* [[William Telling]]: One of the possible minigames (all of which have the exact same function of distributing 99.9% of the bet money to one of the two players completely at random) in the Money Making Game has the player that accepts the bet trying to do this to the player that placed it. If he hits the apple, he wins. If he misses the apple, the other player wins. And if he misses the apple, he always hits the other player
* [[The World Tree]]: Or rather, its [[Evil Twin]], the Underworld Tree; a boss of the "Arborween" Special Event.
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