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▲[[File:Seex_snow_moose_5260.jpg|link=Penny Arcade|right|Translation for the [[Funetik Aksent]]-impaired: "I want you to kill six snow moose."]]
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This quest can be combined with [[Twenty Bear Asses]], either as part of the same quest or occurring in the same game. These are sometimes also called "Pokémon Missions: [[Gotta Catch Them All]]!"
Supertrope to [[Rat Stomp]], one of the most common starting quests of this type in [[Eastern RPG
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== Action Adventure ==
* [[The Hunter]]'s sidequests in ''[[Brutal Legend]]''.
* ''[[
* The [[Stealth Pun|Pixie hunting]] in ''[[
== Eastern RPG ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* Similarly in ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]'', you have to kill a certain number of almost every enemy to get a particular achievement/prize/what have you.
* One of the troubles you can take on at the Trouble Center in ''[[Paper Mario:
** However by the time you get this quest you can have the First-Attack Badge (if you attack a monster in the overworld that would no longer give experience, it dies without entering a battle) and even the Bump-Attack Badge (kills enemies if you even TOUCH a monster that would no longer give experience, it dies). This also one of the earliest areas so its possible to complete this mission by just walking down the path.
* If you want to progress through the plot of ''[[Agarest Senki 2]]'', you'll need to do this trope.
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== Massively Multiplayer Online Game ==
* ''The'' most common quest bar none in ''[[
* Extremely common in ''[[Grand Fantasia]]'' as a sidequest.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'': the Bounty Hunter Hunter exists to give out quests of this type. You can choose one of three quests every day, [[Freedom From Choice|all of which are "go kill X of this monster."]] Somewhat of a parody, since giving out these quests is literally his job despite it being pointless, but it's still tedious. See [[Twenty Bear Asses]] for more...''much'' more.
* ''[[
* ''[[Maple Story]]''. Either you're committing genocide on the order of hundreds of creatures a quest, or you're collecting random drops at the same rate.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': Guaranteed to take up large amounts of your game experience.
** Occasionally parodied. [http://www.wowhead.com/quest=27729 This] quest is basically your player character giving him or herself a quest to kill some more eels for absolutely no reason at all.
* ''[[
* ''[[Ace Online]]'' has monster hunting sidequests in their own folder (with some overlap with [[Twenty Bear Asses]]).
* This one's also common in ''[[
* Killing X amount of monsters with a specific technique in order to unlock certain skills or get achievements is as close as ''[[Vindictus]]'' gets to the
* ''[[
** There's the Slayer bonus, which gives you XP for killing X amount of enemies in a wilderness instance.
** Certain dungeon quests, such as Butcher's Path, will also have you killing X amount of monsters as one of your objectives on the quest, either as a main objective, or as an optional objective for extra XP.
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* ''[[Perfect World]]'' is no exception from this. Features these that are repeatable within a certain level range. May even overlap with other (side/)quests ie. killing a criteria mob will tick one kill to all currently active quests requiring a kill count of that mob.
* Although later content tends to move away from this, these still crop up in ''[[City of Heroes]]''. They're usually in older story arcs, and dressed as your character beating a lead out of them on the whereabouts of a certain villain or plot. Generally speaking, the improvement is that newer content now longer sends the character to defeat ten enemies far too strong for him in a distant zone far too dangerous for him. The classic example from the older game was being sent to defeat [[Evil Sorceror|Circle of Thorns]] enemies in the twisted and deadly Perez Park.
* In ''[[
== Platform Game ==
* Some of the missions in ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' were of this variety: kill all aliens, soldiers, etc.
** Also, the Extra Missions for Team Dark in ''[[
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' likes to do this from time to time.
* ''[[Gothic]]'' often finds some rather creative [[Justified Trope|justifications]] for this type of missions.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has kill challenges, which tally your kills of certain categories and awards you special perks if you kill enough - kill enough bugs and you get the Bug Stomper perk, and so on. It also has the "Lord Death", "Lord Death of Murder Mountain" and "Apocalypse Ain't Got Nothing On Me" challenges, which requires you to kill, well, anything you can find. And requiring 200, 700 and 1000 kills respectively. In other words, you need to kill 1900 opponents to fill your death quota.
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