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* [[Cute Is Evil]] - it's not a fluffy kitty, it's the set's nastiest, most powerful monster. Called 'The Evil'.
** Also, the My Little Cthulhu doll, which makes it impossible to avoid [[Secret Circle of Secrets|Joining The Cult]]
** And the Perfectly Normal Bunny, which can become [[Monty Python and
* [[Dead Man's Hand]]: A curse card that forces you to discard your whole hand.
* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]] A player who dies keeps his Class, Race, and Level, instead only losing all of his other cards. He revives at the start of his next turn and even gets a new starting hand of eight cards.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The Divine Intervention card.
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** [[Everything's Worse with Bears]] - the Over Bear and Evil Ted
** [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]] - ''Munchkin Booty'' has sharks. Whenever any combat includes a shark, anyone else can add another shark without a wandering monster card. ''Star Munchkin'' also has the [[Punny Name|Star]][[Incredibly Lame Pun|fish]].
** [[Everything's Deader with Zombies]] - ''Munchkin Zombies'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family]]: Cultists from ''Munchkin Cthulhu'' gain larger bonuses the more cultists are on play.
* [[Exact Words]]: Let's put it this way: This game had to have errata added to clarify that, yes, the bad stuff 'you are roasted and eaten' means 'you are dead'. The game's played by [[Munchkin|Munchkins]], what else do you think they're going to do about rules they don't like?
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* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: This game tends to bring out the worst in people; if you're not threatening, counter-threatening, and backstabbing your "friends" at every opportunity, you're playing the game wrong.
** The Good The Bad And The Munchkin has a character class that gets bonuses if other players face the "bad stuff" of a monster after a defeat, and the Schadenfreudian Slip item works in a similar fashion, encouraging backstabbing even further. This is also a feature of the "Dark" race modifier.
* [[I Know Kung Faux]]: Parodied in ''Munchkin Fu,'' with techniques like Drunken Monkey Kung Fu, Fee Fi Fo Fu, and Stomach Fu.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Most of the cards. Most notably "The Punster" from ''Super Munchkin'', who's stated as being "just a card. Ha ha. '''Kill him right now'''."
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Most notable in ''Star Munchkin'', where you can stack up anything with its name ending with '-aser'. This can lead to a plus-''24'' [[Cool Gun|Laser-Dazer-Raser-Maser-Schmaser-Bobaser-Bananafanafofaser-Laser]]<ref>Wot, no Memymomaser?</ref> if you're lucky. This is strong enough to beat everything.
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* [[Luck Manipulation Mechanic]]: The ''Munchkin'' card game has several cards and extra collectibles that allow manipulating the dice. Also, cheating at the game actually does qualify for this trope, as [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught]] is an actual part of official rules.
* [[Magic Knight]], and any other cross-class you'd care to name, if you have a Super Munchkin card
* [[Micro Monarchy]]: Parodied on the "Ruler of A Small European Country" card, which shows the character standing in a "country" about one foot square.
* [[Metagame]]: most of the gameplay is metagaming. You could even say that the metagame ''is'' the game.
* [[Mooks Ate My Equipment]]
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{{quote|'''Question''': Can we use "Go Up A Level" cards on other players to make them fight a monster that would otherwise ignore them?
'''Answer''': We want to say no, but that's just such a Munchkin thing to do that we have to allow it. }}
* [[Obvious Rule Patch]]: The Loaded Dice card originally let players ignore one die roll of their choice and just call the number they wanted the roll to be. This being ''Munchkin'', players quickly noticed that they could call ''any'' number, and started using Loaded Dice to make die rolls come up as ten million, or negative thirty thousand, or any number of truly ludicrous results. Combined with other cards that keyed off of dice rolls, the game was soon being broken in new and inventive ways, and a ruling was handed down that Loaded Dice card allows you to change the face of the physical die that was rolled.
* [[One Curse Limit]]: Very averted. The rules state that curses (or traps) may be played at any time. A player can get a pile of curses at once, but then, driving your opponents to tears is a viable strategy if it makes you win...
* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]]: Includes werepenguin, a werehamster and a weremuskrat. They are all oversized and sharp-toothed - even the penguin has fangs.
* [[Pinata Enemy]]: The Pinata is a measly level 3 and gives a treasure to every party member when killed.
* [[Prehensile Tail]]: ''Star Munchkin's'' [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Tailgun]], only usable by Felines, depicts one such Feline curling up a fairly normal-looking gun in one.
** In addition, the ''Super Munchkin'' deck offers a pair of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Prehensile Pigtails,]] which give the player two extra hands.
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* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''Star Munchkin'', naturally, even spoofing it in its subtitle: "Kill the monsters. Steal the treasure. Stab your buddy... IN SPACE!". Other expansions are recycled in various other settings.
* [[Roaming Enemy]]: You draw monsters from a deck, and in some circumstances you can sic them on other players.
* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]: A racial option in Space Munchkin which acts as a catch all for the entire trope. You get to pick your one inhuman physical feature, the [[Planet of Hats|hat your planet wears]] and the one concept from human culture your race doesn't have a concept for (loyalty, dignity, hygiene, etc).
* [[Running Gag]]: There's a variant on "Everyone starts as a level 1 human with [[Incredibly Lame Pun|no class]]" in the game set-up portion of every version's rules. Later editions started lampshading the hell out of this.
** "You have no class and no [[Foo Fu|style]]."
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** The "Vampire Hunter" in ''Munchkin Bites'' is a [[Buffy|blond girl]] in a [[Iconic Item|strangely familiar jacket]].
** A "Bowie Knife" has the word "[[David Bowie|Ziggy]]" written on it.
** "You must fight a Rabbit! However, it's ''that'' rabbit, from ''[[Monty Python and
** Munchkin is illustrated by John Kovalic. So, it's a perfectly normal thing that the PCs sighted include [[Dork Tower|Matt, Carson, Ken and Igor.]] ''[[Dork Tower]]'' throws in a reverse [[Shout-Out]] [http://www.dorktower.com/2006/11/03/comics-archive-853/ here.]
** [[Pokémon|Pukachu, I]]--''([[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]])--ew...''
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** One of the Space Ships in the expansion booster for Star Munchkin is "[[Firefly|Housefly]]" which grants specific bonuses if you're using it with the cowboy set.
** [[Eric and the Dread Gazebo]]: Commemorated with a [[:File:Munchkin gazebo.png|special card]].
* [[Superhero]]: Super Munchkin. That's right, munchkins trying to [[Playing Against Type|play superheroes.]] Weep.
* [[That One Rule]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in the rulebook. "Decide who goes first by rolling the dice and arguing about the results and the meaning of this sentence and whether the fact that a word seems to be missing any effect."
* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: The Annihilation card permanently removes one card from the game. Try to find the perfect card to use it on.
* [[Torpedo Tits]]
* [[
* [[Visual Pun]]: Many. A card called "Steal a Level" depicts the theft of the tool, for example.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: It's easy to forget that in the [[Excuse Plot|premise]] of the game you play a group of adventurers that are ostensibly working together.
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** Also the improperly revealing ripped dress in Munchkin Bites expansion set Pants Macabre - it rips more, gaining an additional +1 with each sex change the character wearing it goes through.
* [[Faceless Mooks]]: The Faceless Army.
* [[Jumping the Shark]]: the name of the supplement about pirates.
* [[Martial Arts Headband]]: The [[Badass]] Bandanna
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: In ''Super Munchkin'', the Cleavage Stun and the spray-on costume. (The former is only usable by females, while the latter grants a higher bonus to females than males.)
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