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Released for the Nintendo Wii in 2007 (shortly followed by a PC version), My Sims is a [[Spin Off]] of The Sims that takes a drastic departure from the usual series: Everything is [[Lighter and Softer|extremely cute]] and [[Never Say Die|you can't kill Sims anymore]]. The game is bright, cheerful, and rather [[Animesque]]. Instead of managing the life of a wide variety of Sims, you create a single character and take care of the whole town. You decide who gets to move into the town, you build their house for them, and you even build furniture. The Sims that you can move in fall into two categories: normal citizens ("townies") and Sims with businesses ("Com Sims"). The former are there to add a bit of color to the town, while the latter will give you several missions where you must build them specific pieces of furniture using "Essences" that make the item appeal to a certain type of Sim.

Released for the Nintendo Wii in 2007 (shortly followed by a PC version), My Sims is a [[Spin-Off]] of The Sims that takes a drastic departure from the usual series: Everything is [[Lighter and Softer|extremely cute]] and [[Never Say Die|you can't kill Sims anymore]]. The game is bright, cheerful, and rather [[Animesque]]. Instead of managing the life of a wide variety of Sims, you create a single character and take care of the whole town. You decide who gets to move into the town, you build their house for them, and you even build furniture. The Sims that you can move in fall into two categories: normal citizens ("townies") and Sims with businesses ("Com Sims"). The former are there to add a bit of color to the town, while the latter will give you several missions where you must build them specific pieces of furniture using "Essences" that make the item appeal to a certain type of Sim.

The six interests are Cute, Fun, Geeky, Spooky, Studious, and Tasty, and every Sims has a favorite interest, a second-favorite, and one interest they [[Berserk Button|despise]].

This game also spawned a DS version that plays differently, as well as spinoff sequels such as [[My Sims Racing]], [[My Sims Party]], [[My Sims Kingdom]], [[My Sims Agents]] and [[My Sims Sky Heroes]].

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* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: Arguably the whole point of the original and Kingdom, and also a feature in the [[Player Headquarters]] of Agents.

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* [[The Caretaker]]: Violet, the older sister of the overly energetic Poppy, is rather protective of her despite their wide gap in tastes (Violet, a goth, loves Spooky and hates Cute. Poppy's the exact opposite)

* [[Cosmetic Award]]: After getting your town up to a 5-star rating, you view the credits and receive a blueprint for {{spoiler|a Town Monument}}.

* [[Dark Skinned Blond]]: Lyndsay.

* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: Lyndsay.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''Agents'' and ''Sky Heroes.''

* [[Design It Yourself Equipment]]: All houses come with a few pieces of furniture. You are tasked to make everything else. Many houses don't even have basic objects like beds.

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* [[Exclusive Enemy Equipment]]: Averted; the Com Sims wear special hair/clothing, but it's unlocked for you if you give them enough stuff (see Bribing Your Way to Victory, above)

* [[Fan Girl]]: Jenny is obssesed with [[Star Trek|Starsruiser X]], is the president of five fan clubs, and enjoys writing fanfiction about it.

* [[Five Man Band]]: The Uber Sims maybe

* [[Five-Man Band]]: The Uber Sims maybe

** [[The Hero]]: [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Samurai|Samurai Bob]]

** [[The Hero]]: [[Everything's Better With Samurai|Samurai Bob]]

** [[The Lancer]]: [[Instant Awesome Just Add Ninja|Ninja Star]]

** [[The Lancer]]: [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Ninja Star]]

** [[The Big Guy]]: Mel the [[Mummy]]

** [[The Smart Guy]] / [[Kid Appeal Character]]: Daryl Handsly

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** Also, in ''[[My Sims]] Agents'', you get a headquarters in name, as well as function. Here's where a good part of the plot happens, and you go everywhere from here. Also, this is where your recruits hang out when you haven't sent them on missions.

* [[Shout Out]]: In ''Agents'', when meeting Dr. F, He will say [[The Legend of Zelda (Video Game)|"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this,"]] then will give you the magnifying glass upgrade.

** At the end of the same paragraph he says "[[For Science]]!"

** At the end of the same paragraph he says "[[For Science!]]!"

** In the above mentioned game, examining a certain pipe in the Industrial District Sewers gives us this gem: " I hope nothing comes spilling out of this sewer pipe. [[Super Mario Bros|I wonder if there are any turtles living in there?]]

** ''Sky Heroes'' has some rather...interesting lines. Candy referring to her team as a [[Power Trio]] may be coincidence, but then we have the chapter title [[Applied Phlebotinum|Powered Up By Phlebotinum]] and one character remarking on your [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]...has someone on the [[My Sims]] team been hitting the TV Tropes page?

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** In [[My Sims]] Classic, Vic Vector makes obvious references to World of Warcraft, which includes, bind-on-pickup items, Items that are not suited for Vic's "class", and the trope goes up to 11 when an epic mount is mentioned.

** In Kingdom, there is a scroll entitled [[Metal Gear Solid|"Solid Gears Of Metal."]]

* [[Sibling Yin Yang]]: [[The Cutie|Cutesy]] [[Cheerful Child]] Poppy and Gloomy [[Goth]] Girl Violet.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: [[The Cutie|Cutesy]] [[Cheerful Child]] Poppy and Gloomy [[Goth]] Girl Violet.

* [[Speaking Simlish]]: As this is a spinoff of the Sims series, it uses Simlish, the language that is widely used in the Sims series.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Despite her name Princess Butter [[Incredibly Lame Pun|is anything but sweet.]] She expects everything in life to be handed to her and is extremly angry when she comes in third place in the wandler contest.

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* [[Supreme Chef]]: Chef Gino, the very first character you will have the opportunity to move into town, is one of these. According to the [[All There in the Manual|Relationship Book]] in the menu, the Townie Maria is also a Supreme Chef.

* [[Training Dummy]]: Master Aran the karate master has you make a bunch of these for him.

* [[~~Videogame~~ Caring Potential]]: It's easy to get attached to these little guys. Everyone has a favorite.

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: It's easy to get attached to these little guys. Everyone has a favorite.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can't kill them, but you ''can'' take all their stuff and then kick them out of town. To get 100% you ''need'' to do this: Become "best friends" with someone by giving them stuff, receive the reward (either an outfit or a new blueprint) and then boot them and invite someone else, to get ''his'' best friend reward, and so on.

** Of course, once you've done that you can just move your favorites back in.

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