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{{quote|''"The only limit is your imagination... and your [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|twisted sense of humor.]]"''}}
'''''Scribblenauts''''' is a pair of physics-based [[Puzzle Game|puzzle games]] for the [[Nintendo DS]], developed by 5th Cell Interactive and published by [[Warner Bros]].
You are Maxwell. You want to get the [[MacGuffin|Starite]]. (What's a Starite? Well, a shiny [[Star-Shaped Coupon|star-shaped]] thing, of course.) You have to figure out how to get the Starite. In order to get the Starite, you need to use the tools at your disposal to reach it.
What are your tools? ''Everything.''
No, really.
A trampoline? But of course.
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[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|What part of ''everything'' don't you understand?]]
While ''Scribblenauts'' has a simple premise, there's more to it than is immediately obvious. Using [[Reality Writing Book|a magical notepad]], you can
Prior to the game's September release, the game received some mild hype from various outlets from its extremely ambitious premise. Mild until E3, that is, when game journalists finally got to play it for
See the [http://scribble.wikia.com/ Scribblenauts Wiki]. Also, has its very own (and well deserved) [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything/Scribblenauts|The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything page]].
It also has a sequel, ''Super Scribblenauts'',<ref>Which is a pun on the addition of adjectives to the game. Included are adjectives (meaning you can create
The third game of the series, ''Scriblenauts Unlimited'' was announced during Nintendo's E3 2012, which will feature the ability to mix and match pieces of objects to make brand new ones. It will be available for both the [[Wii U]] and the [[Nintendo 3DS]].
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An iOS sequel was made, called ''Scribblenauts Remix''. It contains the adjectives system of ''Super Scribblenauts'', and contains favorite levels from the first two games, as well as levels exclusive to it.
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{{tropelist}}
* [[All Myths Are True]]: There's plenty of choices in the "mythical creatures" department, including ''Cthulhu''!
* [[Ambulance Chaser]]: ''Lawyer'' is attracted to ''Ambulance''
* [[Art Attacker]]: The player's modus operandi.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: After seeing [http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16184727=217 the NeoGAF post], the devs added "Feep" and "Post Two-One-Seven" to the in-game dictionary. And made Feep's experience into [https://web.archive.org/web/20110607012142/http://ds.ign.com/dor/objects/14304256/scribblenauts/images/scribblenauts-20090615060345371.html a desktop wallpaper].
** Typing "Post Two-One-Seven" (or some spelling variation of that) summons a billboard version of the wallpaper... {{spoiler|which then acts as a nuke.}}
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Give Maxwell any non-projectile weapon (swords, baseball bats, crowbars, ''Death's scythes''... you get the idea) and then send him to attack any target (living or not, hostile or not). He'll keep hitting it until one of them dies.
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* [[Clothes Make the Legend]]: Maxwell. ''[[Memetic Outfit|Rooster helmet.]]'' Need I say more?
** Apparently somebody realized exactly HOW awesome this hat was, and made a REAL ONE a [[Preorder Bonus]]!
* [[Combinatorial Explosion]]: Even ignoring other examples on this page, we know that the Moon turns Villains into Werewolves, Water shorts out anything electric, people dance to Keyboard Cat, and you can create a Zombie by using a Battery to jump-start a corpse. In fact, it is ''literally impossible to do every single combination possible in the game '''in a human lifetime.''''' [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|5th Cell]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|is phenomenal.]]▼
* [[Collision Damage]]: "Nail", "spear" and "spike" all destroy everything they touch. With the proper application of glue, anything can turn into a weapon.
▲* [[Combinatorial Explosion]]: Even ignoring other examples on this page, we know that the Moon turns Villains into Werewolves, Water shorts out anything electric, people dance to Keyboard Cat, and you can create a Zombie by using a Battery to jump-start a corpse. In fact, it is ''literally impossible to do every single combination possible in the game '''in a human lifetime.''''' [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|5th Cell]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|is phenomenal.]]
* [[Cool Versus Awesome]]: God vs. Cthulhu, for one. God wins, by the way.
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: While not a cutscene, the official artwork for Post 217 defines the gameplay completely.
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** Use a "Cupid Bow" to [[Fluffy Tamer|tame]] them to that point. It's fun to ride a Hydra, Sea Serpent, or a T-Rex like a horse. The Sea serpent is especially fun!
** "Poison" also works, for that matter. Although, they will look like they died at first.
* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: The DJ, which is both a summonable item and one of the avatars.
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Given enough time, it's possible to kill a dinosaur with a spoon. (Provided he doesn't eat you first.)
* [[Delivery Stork]]: One level tasks you with getting a baby to a king and queen, with a stork asleep nearby. The assumption being, the stork is shirking its job. Hurting it makes the level end. Storks will also protect any babies that happen to be nearby.
* [[Developer's Room]]: Spawning and using the Teleporter item may take you to 5th Cell headquarters.
* [[Development Gag]]: "{{spoiler|Scribblenaut}}" spawns the original protagonist before he was changed to Maxwell. {{spoiler|Your reward for [[
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The most obvious way is to [[Summon Bigger Fish|summon a bigger fish]], but there are many more [[Crazy Awesome]] ways of doing this.▼
** Actually, it is played as straight as it possibly can get. You can summon Cthulhu himself, but he has a relativity low damage threshold.▼
** In the level editor, you can actually make something ''eat Cthulhu''.▼
** One mission has you kill a Shoggoth.▼
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Three months of the game's development were devoted to just making lists of ''things.'' They wanted to make sure that you really have ''everything.'' There's a [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything/Scribblenauts|Whole separate page for this trope for this game]]
** Whilst the goal of each level is to get the Starite, [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/23/ using the notepad to create a "starite"] just gives you an imitation [[MacGuffin]] that works just like any throwable item. No easy ways out here, folks!
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*** There is a growth ray in Super Scribblenauts, though.
** Surprising [[Averted Trope|aversion]]: "immortal" does not protect a creature from a "dead potion", although the carcass will be indestructible.
▲* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The most obvious way is to [[Summon Bigger Fish|summon a bigger fish]], but there are many more [[Crazy Awesome]] ways of doing this.
▲** Actually, it is played as straight as it possibly can get. You can summon Cthulhu himself, but he has a relativity low damage threshold.
▲** In the level editor, you can actually make something ''eat Cthulhu''.
▲** One mission has you kill a Shoggoth.
* [[Double Standard]]: Atheist runs from God, but not Goddess (who will try to protect him) in the first game.
* [[Dummied Out]]: A rather poor attempt at it in the first game.. The original's manual mentioned you could buy 30 extra levels from the Ollars store.. They never added the levels, and instead of just removing the section where you're supposed to buy them, they made the buttons to get to it invisible.. What happens when you access this section? Your game freezes.
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** In one puzzle, your objective is to get a group of bad guys into heaven. This can be easily accomplished by {{spoiler|placing a [[Stairway to Heaven|stairway]] near them}}.
** It's a bit ruined now thanks to all the 'HOLY CRAP GOD VS CTHULHU!' stuff at E3, but at Puzzle Stage 5-1, try scrolling allllll the way down.
** Also, summon any type of bread that takes the "loaf" form. "Bread" and "Toast" work. Then summon a cat. "Use" the bread on said cat.
** The [[The Not-Secret|kinda-sorta but not really]] hidden ARCADE MACHINE mini-game.
* [[Eats Babies]]: Summon some kind of human and a "Delicious Baby" in ''Super Scribblenauts'' Also, if you summon a dingo and a baby, [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=A%20dingo%20ate%20my%20baby guess what happens.]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Several, including [[Cthulhu Mythos|"Cthulhu," "Shambler," and "Shoggoth"]].
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** {{spoiler|You get a nuke, which blows up everything. Including you.}}
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: The game will certainly reward any player who had a childhood obsession with dinosaurs. T-Rex, Stegosaurus, Plesiousaurus, Apatosaurus, Spinosaur, Dimetrodon, and ARCHEOPTERYX, of all things.
* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: The first mission in Dark Hollow (9-1) includes the clue "Get the bad guys to heaven!" Upon further inspection, the "bad guys" are a prisoner, a bully, and a lawyer.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Spawn {{spoiler|anything relating to Maxwell himself ("Maxwell", "Me", "Clone", "Protagonist", etc.)<ref>Except for "[[Sdrawkcab Name|Llewxam]]", that'll just create a DS cartridge.</ref>}} and you get a opposite colored clothed Maxwell who steals things right from the hands of the innocent and whose presence scares most people. Typing in {{spoiler|"Clone"}} actually spawns a slightly different Maxwell lookalike than "Maxwell, "Me", "Protagonist", etc. He has a few different animations (including a weird floating limb and head thing) and doesn't scare people, but he still steals things.
** In the sequel, evil Maxwell has ''his own notebook'' and will summon random objects from out of thin air, just like you. {{spoiler|[[Unexpected Gameplay Change|He's also the final boss.]]}}
▲* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: The first mission in Dark Hollow (9-1) includes the clue "Get the bad guys to heaven!" Upon further inspection, the "bad guys" are a prisoner, a bully, and a lawyer.
* [[Explosive Breeder]]: Place two rabbits next to each other, and they will multiply until the object meter fills up. In the sequel, they will merely spawn two "baby bunnies".
** This used to be a bug (before release). The rabbits would spawn so many other rabbits that the game would crash.
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* [[Freeze Ray]]: Like everything else in the game, this is summonable.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: The inclusion of adjectives in the second game. This includes "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Naked]]," which will give anything a Caucasian skin tone. Including [[Erotic Eating|sausages.]]
* [[Game Breaker]]: Worried about Maxwell's safety? In the sequel, just give him an invincible potion.▼
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: The developers described a bug which they thankfully caught at the E3 release: A pair of rabbits would multiply [[Explosive Breeder|so quickly]], baby bunnies would keep appearing until the game crashed. This was fixed for the final version with the rabbits breeding until your object meter fills up.
** Also according to [http://blog.videogamepricecharts.com/2009/06/scribblenauts-review-e3-2009.html this] blog ''"We also tried to attach wings to a motorcycle with some glue and then ride it off a jump. We jumped on the motorcycle the game froze. The developer actually thanked us for breaking it though."''
** [http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/955689-scribblenauts/54446483 Chaingun vs. Godmother = game freeze].
** The game freezes when you try to access the 30 buyable levels.
▲* [[Game Breaker]]: Worried about Maxwell's safety? In the sequel, just give him an invincible potion.
* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]: What you get when you type in "Enemy," and the standard form of foe for many levels.
* [[Gender Bender]]: In the sequel, a female or male potion.
** You can also make a Female Male and a Male Female.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** While inherently obscene terms won't work, you can summon a number of torture and execution devices (like "Gallows, "Iron Maiden", or "Guillotine"). "Virgin" is also in the dictionary (apparently being synonymous with "[[Nerd|Gamer]]"). But not "Weeaboo", oddly enough.
** [[Memetic Mutation|"Ceiling cat is watching you... fall."]]
** [[Camp Gay|"Flamboyant" is synonymous with "rainbow".]]
* [[Ghost Ship]]▼
* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: Typing "Giant Crab" gets you a normal crab in the first game. Typing "Enemy Crab" will get you a normal crab. Typing "Giant Enemy Crab" gets you this trope. It even appears in a level with three samurai with the hint "[[For Massive Damage]]!"
** "Ancient Japanese History" will also spawn a giant enemy crab.
*** Obviously, 5th Cell forgot to input some object data, as in the sequel it ''isn't even hostile''. That, or they [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|figured that people would want one they can ride by default.]] Besides, the Hostile adjective fixes that.
** [[Department of Redundancy Department|Doubling the "giant" adjective]] yields a [[Up to Eleven|ridiculously]] [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|oversized]] variant.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Edison. Very powerful (he can one-hit kill Maxwell in sandbox mode), but takes only one hit before dying.▼
* [[God]]: The game
** So is Goddess.
** God seems to function as a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|God mode]] - he can solve most combat-oriented problems with ease.
*** But Death can defeat him.
*** So can Longcat.
*** Robot dinosaurs can, too (type in "robosaur").
*** And he fights Cthulhu to a draw.
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*** If you piss off a ghost it is immortal, being both nonphysical and already dead.
** Playable in the sequel. Odin and Thor show up. Thor is also playable.
▲* [[Ghost Ship]]
▲* [[Glass Cannon]]: Edison. Very powerful (he can one-hit kill Maxwell in sandbox mode), but takes only one hit before dying.
* [[Grandpa God]]: Writing "God" causes a manifestation like this.
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: The first world, set in a forest.
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** That said, laser guns provide a useful [[One-Hit Kill]], though they only have one shot, and Freeze Rays [[Human Popsicle|freeze the target in a block of ice]], rendering it harmless [[Harmless Freezing|without harming or killing it]], useful to circumvent enemies [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|you aren't allowed to simply murder]].
** Maxwell has infinite ammo too in the sequel.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: While typing in "Hand Cannon" provides [[wikipedia:Hand cannon|an early firearm]], typing in "Gyrojet" yields a pistol ''as big as Maxwell'' which fires ''exploding ammo''. That's right, folks, they put a [[Warhammer
** Actually, [[wikipedia:gyrojet|such a thing exists]].
** Try typing in "barrel gun". The resulting pistol's barrel is as big as Maxwell's head.
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* [[Historical Hilarity]]: It is possible to summon [[George Washington]] and [[Abraham Lincoln]].
* [[Horny Devils]]: Natch. Only "Succubus" summons a unique monster, however; "Incubus" and "Devil" are synonymous.
* [[
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The tutorial explicitly states that things summoned must be real life objects and must not be any of the above: a place, proper name, suggestive material, shape, Latin or Greek root word, alcohol, race or culture, vulgarity or copyrighted. How about: [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]], [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Adamantium]], or [[The Lord of the Rings|Mythril]]? They don't follow the guidelines, but you can spawn them because they're not copyrighted. Even [[Product Placement|5th Cell]] is there so you can summon it.
** [[Fridge Logic]]: You can't summon anything racist, vulgar, or suggestive, but you can summon [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]]. Presumably, it's [[Hand Wave
*** They did get in some trouble for an accidental one that snuck by: {{spoiler|1=Sambo summons a watermelon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51nKrAlxXbw}} And apparently it's actually the real name of a fruit. The word was removed from the sequel, as was the common word for the taxonomic family it belongs to.
**** The game claims it doesn't deal in culture or race, yet one still can summon Imam, Rabbi and Priest for all one's culturally insensitive bar jokes.
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** In the sequel, it's even more inevitable with adjectives. Beware the man riding a rainbow of pandas going in a full circle wielding a [[BFS|colossal zanbato]]!
* [[Improvised Platform]]: you can write the name of any object you want, such as "dock" or even "floating platform".
* [[Incest Is Relative]]: "Wife" and "Mom" produce the same woman. But so does "Woman"
* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: Try using the shrink ray... Or Shrink Magic.
** Small potion in the sequel.
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The wizard staff can kill anything with relative ease.
** The sequel's [[Infinity+1 Sword]]? {{spoiler|Dead potion.}}
** Even better is a quick deadly sword. It'll one-hit-kill EVERYTHING. Not just everyone, EVERYTHING.
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* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: "Lightsaber" is not a word, but "laser sword" is. "Frisbee" doesn't work, either, but "Flying Disc" will.
** Averted. You can create a [[No More Heroes|Beam Katana.]]
* [[LOLcats]]: Ceiling Cat, Spaghetti Cat, Longcat, [[Evil Twin|Tacgnol]] and Monorail Cat are all present in this game.▼
** In fact there are 19, 20 or 21 different kinds of cat, both in breed and in coat color, in the game. 19 proper, 20 and 21 if you count an Egyptian Mau/Lynx that looks like a grey Persian that growls like a larger cat, or a tiger cub that meows like a cat.▼
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Blob will destroy any creature, provided said creature is not on fire.
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: "Post 217." Looks like a billboard based on the "ROBOT ZOMBIES" story, {{spoiler|acts like a nuke}}.
** Longcat is apparently stronger in a direct confrontation with [[God]]. He hates water, though.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: It can jumpstart cars and revive corpses, just to name two uses.
* {{spoiler|[[Literal
** Though other words will work too. {{spoiler|You can use anything that normally summons a false Starite.}}
▲* [[LOLcats]]: Ceiling Cat, Spaghetti Cat, Longcat, [[Evil Twin|Tacgnol]] and Monorail Cat are all present in this game.
▲** In fact there are 19, 20 or 21 different kinds of cat, both in breed and in coat color, in the game. 19 proper, 20 and 21 if you count an Egyptian Mau/Lynx that looks like a grey Persian that growls like a larger cat, or a tiger cub that meows like a cat.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: Summon a Gas Tank and see what happens if you so much as look at it the wrong way.
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Maxwell can take the same number of hits as a ''baby''.
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* [[Master of Disguise]]: Maxwell seems to be one of these, judging how Super Scribblenauts contains a merit called "Maxwell In Disguise" for using an avatar.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: There are several silly Internet memes included [[In-Universe]] as Easter eggs, including:
** The aforementioned [[LOLcats]]
** LOLWUT (spawns a big head for any human being to wear, which is also edible)
** [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]] (summons a base with a cyborg on the main screen)
** FTW ("For The Win"; gives you a fake Starite)
** [[Rickroll]] (summons a regular "man"... who dances and goes "poof" not long after)
** A ROFLcopter (summons a white helicopter)
** Lollerskates (summons rollerskates)
** [[Weebl and Bob|Badgers will dance when placed near mushrooms, and are afraid of snakes.]]
** [[Leeroy Jenkins]] (synonymous with "knight")
** [[Bleach|Loituma]] [[Vocaloid|Girl]] (summons an [[Animesque]] girl spinning a leek)
** ORLY, YARLY, and NOWAI (synonymous with "owl")
** [[Dragon Ball|Over Nine Thousand]] (summons the "scouter" Vegeta wore)
** [[Giant Enemy Crab]] ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Go ahead, guess]]).
** [[Mario Is Missing|Weegee]] (synonymous with "plumber")
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** I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE (Summons a shifty-eyed boy)
*** Also, [[LOLcats|a walrus will defend any bucket in sight.]]
*** And the game's gotten its own mutation: [http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16184727&postcount=217 a guy called "Feep" posted his experience with the game] on NeoGAF (post #217 in their Scribblenauts thread), which has been [https://web.archive.org/web/20091221041409/http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/2009/06/scribblenauts_e3/ passed around] the web a bit.
*** The ESRB rating summary, which says that a player could [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|theoretically]] "[[Dead Baby Comedy|attach steaks to babies to attract a lion]]," has also gained a small following.
** Even Anonymous is in this game. Why do I think the developers spend time on 4chan?
*** Spawn a girl next to Anonymous, and she runs away screaming. Sounds about right.
** Spawn a pirate next to a ninja [[Cool Versus Awesome|and they instantly attack each other]].
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* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: The game includes both "passive" and "hostile" nihilists.
* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: Priests, vampires and longcats are almost completely invincible; the only known ways to eliminate them are [[Just Eat Him|Edison]], [[Black Holes]], [[Nuke'Em|nuclear weapons]], and other sources of [[One-Hit Kill|one hit kills]].
** In fact, vampires can be easily killed with some [[Achilles' Heel|creative thinking]]. Stakes, holy water, crosses and even garlic are one-hit kills. Alternatively, you can summon a sun and watch the vampire die on his own.
** Longcat can be [[One-Hit Kill|eaten]] quite easily by a dragon or a large carnivorous dinosaur.
** Anything you want in the sequel. The weakness? {{spoiler|Dead potion.}}
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*** An unintentional trope cameo is the aforementioned [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Piratic Zombified Robotic Ninja]].
* [[Noodle Implements]]: '''''...the game!'''''
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: Using the Time Machine in ''Super Scribblenauts'' will occasionally send you back to the first stage of the original game. There's another Maxwell (the normal one, not the doppelganger. You can not identify him.) running around there, and you can even collect the Starite, and you need it for [[
*** You can even {{spoiler|kill your past self.}}
** The sequel's last level {{spoiler|ends with writing the answer again, only now you're on [[Recycled in Space|the moon!]]}}
* [[No Waterproofing in the Future]]: Water shorts out a variety of electrical items, including some you wouldn't expect to be electrical at all.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The moment in Action level 4-6 when {{spoiler|the giant crab shows up ''out of nowhere''}}.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: "{{spoiler|Edison}}" will eat anything alive in one bite, including you.
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* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The Neogaf vehicle is powered by a gamer. If you interact with the Neogaf logo instead of riding it, a gamer will pop out and the logo will no longer fly.
* [[Preorder Bonus]]: Maxwell's [[Nice Hat]], as a matter of awesome fact.
** When you pre-order the sequel, [http://www.destructoid.com/pre-order-super-scribblenauts-get-plush-headphones-181090.phtml as you can see], you get some nice plush headphones. They come in grey, polka-dot, and the pictured camouflage.
* [[Puff of Logic]]: In the sequel an atheist can kill God. By ''thinking.''
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Summon an atheist, then summon God, the atheist runs away. However if you summon a gun for the atheist, this trope happens.
** Subverted in the sequel: if an atheist so much as TOUCHES God, God goes *POOF!*
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*** The [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Necronomicon]] is also an item. It turns anything that lives into a humanoid skeleton warrior. Said skeletons will be allied with you... only when you're holding the book. And when it runs out of ammo, it drops... and turns into another skeleton which, along with its kin, [[Evil Is Not a Toy|will attack you]].
** The Merits screen displays the phrase [[Item Get|Merit Get!]]
** There are levels themed after ''[[
** One level has you retrieving a pirate's pocket watch. There are multiple treasure chests about, a crocodile, and a hidden puffer fish. Where is the pocket watch? [[Peter Pan|Inside the croc]].
** Wizards and dwarves [[The Hobbit (novel)|defend]] [[The Lord of the Rings|any]] [[Hobbits|halflings]] in sight.
*** In the same vein, halflings will defend [[Ring of Power|any rings in sight]]. If you take the ring, they instantly either attack you or angrily follow you around depending on if they have a weapon or not.
** Chimpanzees are very interested in [[2001: A Space Odyssey|monoliths]].
** [[I
** Don't forget the awesome ''[[Pac-Man]]'' level.
** Summon an archaeologist, and you will get someone who resemble [[Indiana Jones|a certain]] [[Adventurer Archaeologist]], complete with a habit to pick up a whip from the ground if they see one.
** Typing "[[South Park|Manbearpig]]" will give you a minotaur.
** You can attach a laser gun to a shark without using any sort of connective
*** They can actually equip any type of gun, but I'm pretty sure the idea was to allow them to have lasers.
** Knights will [[Don Quixote|attack any windmills in sight]].
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** Another level shout out, though in the sequel, mainly to the [[Super Mario Bros.]].
** Typing "President" summons an [[Barack Obama|African American one]].
** Typing "Mask" in the second game will lead you to two options: "Mask (Fun)" and "Mask (Beauty)". The first one summons a [[V for Vendetta|Guy Fawkes]] [[
** In Super Scribblenauts, typing "cable guy" will get you [[Larry the Cable Guy|a bearded man wearing jeans, a baseball cap, a vest, and no shirt]].
** Summon a hedgehog and a ring. The hedgehog will run after the ring... [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sounds familiar?]]
** Typing "Burning Man" will summon a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130517084019/http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/87/index.html giant wooden effigy].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: A kappa will eat [[Trademark Favourite Food|cucumber]]. In the sequel, they also get the friendly adjective.
* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]:
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* [[Start Screen]]: It acts like a sandbox mode, allowing you to just play around and summon whatever you want. In the sequel, you can ''customize it.''
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Maxwell won't stop smiling. Even if he's burning to death.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Dynamite, C4,
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Literally; with a shrink ray, it's possible to stuff a fridge into a fridge.
* [[Sugar Apocalypse]]: It is fully within your power to turn Maxwell's world into a thoroughly [[Crap Saccharine World]], through [[Stuff Blowing Up|whatever]] [[Eldritch Abomination|means]] [[Kill It with Fire|you]] [[Zombie Apocalypse|deem]] [[Ax Crazy|appropriate]].
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** Unless those atheists have a shotgun.
*** And the in the sequel, it's atheist that's God's weakness.
* [[Immune to Bullets|Weapons Are Useless]]: "{{spoiler|Godmother}}" turns any weapon summoned into a rose. Including bullets from guns, and you can't erase those roses. This can cause [[Game Breaking Bug|problems]] when you fire unerasable bullets from guns, especially the auto-fire Chaingun, at her. As a result of this glitch, she was [[Nerf
** Apparently, gaining control of adjectives gives you immunity to them, meaning paint, Medusa head, and Shrink Ray won't work on you anymore.
* [[Western Terrorists]]: What you summon when you type in "Terrorist," "[[Bomb-Throwing Anarchists|Anarchist]]," "Arsonist," or "Madman."
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The 'clone' will not become infected by a zombie. Something of
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Maxwell isn't shy about wearing women's clothing. Or babies' clothing. Or... anyone's clothing, really.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Pegasus is afraid of dolls.
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: You're going to kill him with a ninja riding a dinosaur and wielding a rocket launcher? [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|Why don't ya just suck him into a black hole?]] (Answer: [[Rule of Fun|because it's more fun that way]].)
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: While it's technically a puzzle-platformer, ''Scribblenauts''' central conceit is going to make it hard to resist playing it like one of these. To that end, the dev team has thoughtfully designed the start screen to be sort of a "sandbox mode", so you can have hours of fun without even loading your save file!
* [[With This Herring]]: Completely and utterly avoided. There's no such thing as "low-level equipment" when you've got ''everything'', after all.<ref>It is unlikely that you have the capability to [[Monty Python and
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: "Taser", "frisbee", and "lightsaber" are not in the dictionary whereas "stun gun", "flying disc" and "laser sword" are.
* [[Yandere]]: Summon a "girlfriend" or "[[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|cheerleader]]". Then summon a "psycho" or "stalker". Notice the similarities, yet ''notice [[Knife Nut|the difference]]''.
* [[Your Mom]]: Note that just "Mom" summons a normal woman whereas "'''Your''' Mom" summons {{spoiler|a zombie}}. Hmmmm...
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Any adjective applied to a projectile weapon will also apply to its projectiles. This can be useful (an "explosive gun" will shoot exploding bullets, and a "flaming gun"'s burning ammo can set its targets on fire) or completely useless (a "pretty gun" will shoot bullets that wear little tiaras).
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Whatever Potion
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* [[Boring but Practical]]: The "immovable" adjective makes objects, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|impossible to move]] by any means, including gravity.
* [[Cartoon Cheese]]: Try making something "CHEESY."
* [[Censor Bar]]: The "Birthday Suit" is a nude body costume with one of these.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Among other things, you can create, say, Winged Wings, or Burning Fire, or a Lycanthropic Werewolf, or a Zombie Zombie, or a Giant Giant, or a Robot Robot. Some of these are visibly different from the normal: Winged Wings are wings wearing wings, for example, and a King King wears a crown... on top of his crown.
* [[Dirty Communists]]: "Communist" is an adjective.
* [[Fearless Fool]]: Giving a creature the adjective Brave will cause him / her / it to fight back anyone that harms him, <s>even</s> especially if they don't stand a change of beating it. (ex. Brave Man vs Evil Dragon)
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* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: A bug sometimes occurs, in which Maxwell randomly ascends to the skies and never comes down. This renders the sandbox mode (arguably [[Sidetracked By the Golden Saucer|the best part of the game]]) unplayable.▼
* [[Gay Option]]: In one of the levels, Maxwell has to but presents for each of his parents and his girlfriend, based on the objects they have in their rooms. [[Les Yay|And if you switch to a female avatar...]]▼
▲* {{spoiler|[[Fission Mailed]]}}: In the sequel's last level. {{spoiler|It says "Try again: The starite was destroyed." with the only button saying "No way".}}
* [[Guide Dang It]]: To get the final merit, you must "apply the [[Guide Dang It|secret]] Super Scribblenauts adjective". The only clue is that the merit is called "The Fourth Wall". {{spoiler|The adjective is Scribblenautical if you were wondering. It gives everything the rooster hat.}}▼
* [[G-Rated Sex]]: Try summoning "Pregnant Potion".
** Also, trying summoning a "Fertile Female" whatever and place it next to a "Male" of the same species.
*** It doesn't even have to be a female. [[Has Two Mommies|Two guys or two girls can and will have children if one of them is fertile.]]
▲* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: A bug sometimes occurs, in which Maxwell randomly ascends to the skies and never comes down. This renders the sandbox mode (arguably [[Sidetracked
* [[High-Class Glass]]: Try applying the adjectives "dapper" or "gentlemanly" to things. ▼
▲* [[Gay Option]]: In one of the levels, Maxwell has to but presents for each of his parents and his girlfriend, based on the objects they have in their rooms. [[Les Yay|And if you switch to a female avatar...]]
▲* [[Guide Dang It]]: To get the final merit, you must "apply the [[Guide Dang It|secret]] Super Scribblenauts adjective". The only clue is that the merit is called "The Fourth Wall". {{spoiler|The adjective is Scribblenautical if you were wondering. It gives everything the rooster hat.}}
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Handle the "Nuclear" adjective with extreme care.
* [[Logic Bomb]]: Averted, typing in contradicting adjectives such as "Blue Yellow Apple" will result in the game ignoring all contradicting adjectives apart from the last one.▼
* [[Mini Game]]: Summoning the Arcade Machine and using it lets you play a little mini-game where you must defend a wall from falling bombs. You not only get an achievement for doing so, your file also tracks your high score!
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: {{spoiler|The first level from the original game appears as an [[Easter Egg]] - very occasionally, the time machine, instead of taking you where you asked to go, will take you to said level. Maxwell from the past and the Starite appear as well, and collecting said Starite is required for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].}}
▲* [[Logic Bomb]]: Averted, typing in contradicting adjectives such as "Blue Yellow Apple" will result in the game ignoring all contradicting adjectives apart from the last one.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: Among many other possibilities, you can add (and remove) wings to any creature or monster with the "winged" and "wingless" adjectives. ([[Cue the Flying Pigs]]?)
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: The "Lycanthropic" adjective will add "shaggy" brown fur and "fangs" to ''any'' object exposed to the light of a "full moon".
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* [[Teens Are Short]]: The adjective "teenage" makes objects smaller.
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