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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Postal 2 lets you shoot Islamic (Hindu?) terrorists, [[Moral Guardians]], the game's developers, and shotgun-wielding rednecks, among others. The expansion also includes a PETA-like organization.
** Postal III has all that plus violent anti-porn Hockey Moms and [[Take That, Audience!|annoying video game nerds.]]
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: The first game suggests that the Dude is some sort of [[Well
** Confirmed by Postal III's intro.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The ostriches in Postal 1.
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* [[Crazy Awesome]]: The Dude himself.
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: When the over-the-top gore whips back around and becomes funny again.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: the rather blatant violence against certain groups (animals, random civilians, police/servicemen) smacks a little too hard if brought into the light of reality.
** The game's initial start-up screen is the developers blatantly stating that this type of violence should stay in the game and not be played out for real.
* [[Excuse Plot]]: Everyone is your enemy and you want to kill them all because... well, that bit was excised so it wouldn't get in the way so much. You're probably just deranged.
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** You can prevent the Parents for Decency from storming the RWS HQ after you collect your paycheck just by dropping a grenade in the path of the one guy who rallies them all up to go forth and kill you and the RWS guys. When the in-game cutscene plays, he sets it off and dies, and the rest just stay there. It won't prevent some scripted protesters from showing up to attack if you try to exit out the front door, but it does mean you won't get shot in the face the instant you regain control of yourself and have much fewer people to fight off.
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: The Pigeon Hunting mission. The Postal Dude has been given a rocket launcher and told to take out flocks of pigeons carrying disease. The game then cuts to a live-action video where it's shown the developers have run out of money and cannot possibly afford designing another mission. When we return to the Postal Dude later in the day, he is standing amidst ''enormous'' puddles of blood and feathers, proclaiming what he has just experienced as "[[Lampshade Hanging|the most awesome thing [he's] ever done]]." Also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* [[So Bad
* [[Squick]]: Tons of it.
** In Postal 2, you can pee on things. Peeing on people generally causes them to throw up violently, with some fairly advanced liquid physics for the game's time. In one level, the Dude gets gonorrhea, and his urine becomes green and burns when you pee, which guarantees that people you pee on will throw up in reaction. And, in Apocalypse Weekend, it's possible to decapitate someone as they're vomiting, causing it to continue to spew out of their neck stump.
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