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The player is set in a fantasy kingdom called Gnawnia. The player is a Hunter [[Excuse Plot|hired by the King of Gnawnia to find and trap the mice that infest his kingdom]]. As s/he progresses through the levels, s/he will unlock new hunting locations, rise in rank, and acquire gold and materials to build new traps and buy or craft more exotic cheese.

** The Snow Barrage. It uses snow as ammo.

{{quote|Mice who make this mistake and underestimate the power of this bazooka's 3-snowball-per-second firing rate will very quickly find themselves buried in a pile of their own yellow snow.}}

** Zurreal the Eternal can only be caught by the trap Zurreal's Folly.

* [[Action Girl]]: The Samurai, Master of the Cheese Claw, Buccaneer, Champion, Slayer, Guardian, [[Iron Lady|Derr Chieftain]], Technic Queen...

* [[Brawn Hilda]]: The Technic Queen.

* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: Super|Brie+ . Not only does it attract more mice, its byproducts Magic Essence and stale Super|Brie+ are used in crafting some of the better weapons. It can be won in-game or bought from other players, but the most reliable way to acquire some is to donate to the developers.

* [[Cartoon Cheese]]: Averted. Except for special or obviously magical types, the in-game cheese looks like the real-world type on which it is based, and there is no "generic" cheese.

* [[Chess Motifs]]: Zugzwang's tower and associated traps.

* [[Chest Monster]]: The Dimensional Chest Trap.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: The Digby scientists fear the Onyx stone and the ACRONYM could bring this about. The Acolyte Mouse also tried it once.

* [[Energy Ball]]: The Technic Queen, Master Of the Dojo, Black Mage, Balack the Banished, Summer Mage, Harvester, and [http://cardboardshark.deviantart.com/art/IceWing-MouseHunt-204367560 Icewing].

{{quote|The Siren mouse sings a song that welcomes hunters to a grim, watery fate. [[Death by Irony|Never have jagged, sharp rocks sounded so good!]]}}

* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: The Penguin Mouse, although it's more of a mouse in a canvas penguin suit (that is less than suitable for penguin activities).

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: The Mystic Queen mouse, Chess Master, and the [[Stock Animal Diet|Sphynx]] [[Earn Your Fun|Wrath]] trap.

* [[The Goomba]]: White mice. They look weak, they ''are'' weak, and they are ''always'' encountered in the starting areas of the game. It even has an [[Underground Monkey]] variant of it, the Mutated White mouse.

* [[Green Thumb]]: The Vinetail Mouse and the Tanglefoot mouse.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: The Reaper mouse. Also, the Reaper's Perch, although the reaper in that trap is actually a robot.

* [[Mascot Mook]]: Arguably, the [[The Goomba|White Mouse]].

* [[Meaningful Name]] : The [[Significant Anagram|Elub, Nerg and Derr]] wear blue, green and red respectively.

** The Nugget mouse may also count as well -- it appears as often as a Shelder, another very rare mouse. It also drops quite costly or rare loot such as the Drillbot parts, which can be assembled into the Digby Drillbot (costs slightly more than 400,000 gold to buy from a Trapsmith) and either used or returned for a refund of 70,000 gold.

* [[Miko]]: Sacred Shrine mice.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Balack the Banished, Hare Razer, Mousevina von Vermin.

* [[Ninja Log]]: According to their description, the Stealth mice like to leave one behind after pilfering a trap.

* [[Noob Cave]]: The Meadow. Mice there are unable to steal points or gold and the [[Com Mons|common]], [[The Goomba|easy-to-catch]] ones are abundant.

* [[Not So Harmless]]: They're just mice -- except that most of the higher ranks have every intention of taking over the kingdom and possibly enslaving or slaughtering the inhabitants.

* [[Our Goblins Are Different]]: Goblin mice.

* [[Our Liches Are Different]]: Lich mice.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Vampire mice.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Lycan mice.

* [[Prophetic Names]]: Zugzwang, a name of a wizard in Mousehunt, is actually a term in chess to mean "a situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect".

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: The Terrible Twos mouse.

* [[Random Number God]]: Plays a HUGE factor when catching mice. You might be able to catch an [[Olympus Mons|Acolyte Mouse]] with a tacky glue trap, or fail to catch a [[The Goomba|White mouse]] with a Chrome Drillbot, one of the best traps in the game.

** Also known as "Devs Hate U" (DHU) factor, when it favours the mice instead of you.

* [[Serious Business]]: Millions in gold and titles up to the rank of Grand Duke/Grand Duchess are available to anyone who can... help the Kingdom of Gnawnia with its mouse problem.

* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: There are [[Mousehunt]] groups dedicated to this, such as the [[Mousehunt]] Century Club, where players catch 100 of each type of mouse.

** The Twisted Fiend mouse is based off Gollum/Smeagol from The ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'', in terms of appearance, the fish in its hand (which Gollum smacked against a rock), and the description mentioning something about his "precious".

** One of the Festive Gifts in 2010 was "an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love." If you use the "Look Again" command, they become diamonds. ("Larry's on a horse."!) Both are references to a famous and [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like|eminently quotable commercial]] for Old Spice.

** The Egg Painter mouse [http://www.facebook.com/Jacob.Johnson.art/posts/206608306040461 is based off Mike Hiscott, a MouseHunt artist who drew all the eggs for Spring Egg Hunt 2011.].

** The Nibbler and Crown Collector mouse are tributes to the now-defunct "The Nibbler" [[Mousehunt]] newsletter and the [[Mousehunt]] [[Self-Imposed Challenge|Century Club]] respectively.

* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: Derr Dunes and the Sandtail Desert.

* [[Soul Jar]]: The Sphynx Crystal.

{{quote|This particular item is believed to contain the spirit of one of the most feared creatures believed only to be legend.}}

{{quote|"Training scouts in the art of hand-to-hand combat is a bit unique in the Marching Flame, though. Rather than spending months on the training grounds, they throw them directly into the first wave of the battle. If they survive, maybe they'll be promoted to something more. If not, there will always be another to step up in its place."}}

* [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: The gameplay mechanic in some areas, especially Tribal Isles.

* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: Consciously averted: the player cannot be trapped or harmed by anything in the game, and even if temporarily locked (by a lack of gold to buy cheese, or by being transported to the Acolyte Realm) it is always possible to get out again.

* [[Up to Eleven]]: Just when you thought that the Dragon Mouse was that powerful, along comes the Gargantuamouse, courtesy of the Marching Flame.

{{quote|"There are two things known for certain about the Gargantuamouse. The first is that it is the '''only known predator of the Dragon Mouse'''. The second is that only a Warmonger has ever managed to harness its power. If the battle is not going well, a Warmonger will not hesitate to unleash these Draconic beasts."}}

* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: The Salt Mines. A place which many people believe to exist, but it doesn't... for some time. [[Shout-Out|It's now in MouseHunt's sister game,]][http://levynlight.wikia.com/wiki/The_Salt_Mines Levynlight.]

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Likewise, there are traps which kill the mice, sometimes in a rather gruesome manner. One of them can even ''[[Ret-Gone|erase a mouse from existence]]''!

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The Hinge of Eternity, one of the components used to make the Ancient Box Trap.

{{quote|Hunters from past and present agree that this small hinge is clearly the most epic way to attach two objects, allowing limited, yet awesome, rotation around a fixed axis.}}

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: [[Just for Pun|It got caught]].

* [[Wizard Beard]]: The Chessmaster Mouse

* [[Wutai]]: Furoma. Comes with a gigantic pagoda home to [[Ninja]] mice, [[Samurai]] mice, [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting|Kung Fu]] mice and others.

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