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== This game contains examples of ==
* [[Abandoned Warehouse]]: Well, not so much abandoned, but there's even a level whose subtitle is "Another Warehouse". Well, it ''is'' the {{spoiler|warehouse where all the props used in the games are stored that gets ransacked by the AI to prepare for the final level}}.▼
* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: Enemies are sometimes immune to other attacks or incredibly vulnerable to others simply because that's how their games worked.
* [[An Adventurer Is You]]: Bill the Wizard is a high-level mage from a North American RPG...who is unfortunately mostly powerless outside his own game.
** Well, at the time his staff was stolen, but he regains it the end of the level. Shortly before going home. He fried a group of enemies before leaving, though.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Well, duh.
▲* [[Abandoned Warehouse]]: Well, not so much abandoned, but there's even a level whose subtitle is "Another Warehouse". Well, it ''is'' the {{spoiler|warehouse where all the props used in the games are stored that gets ransacked by the AI to prepare for the final level}}.
* [[The Ahnold]]: Sting Sniperscope.
* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: Matt was [[Metal Gear Solid|supposed to be killed off at the end of level one in a "surprise plot twist", and replaced by Sting Sniperscope]]. He had none of that.
** Every time the bad guys hack the game, you could be going through a dance club house {{spoiler|owned by one of Matt's friends}} and suddenly the screen warping and audio to signify that the game is being hacked and you're fighting an entirely different set of enemies. Complete with that type of enemy having their own music, which sounds strange when you're in a mansion when you suddenly hear Western music.
* [[Animated Actors]]: Matt has a contract in-perpetuity with the game company, so the only way for Wally to be rid of him is to kill him off in the plot of a game.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: The bad guys and Matt all give up little bits of code when shot.▼
** Well, it's from Matt's perspective where, while humans see blood coming out, the game shows what that blood really is in the game world.▼
* [[Bond Girl]]: Kitty Abundanza. Her name even means "a lot of... cats", like a certain other famous Bond girl.
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Both the standard and the [[Post Modern]] "Insert clever death-related line here."
* [[Boring but Practical]]: The Hazard Pistol is your most basic weapon. That said, the enormous ammo count & plentiful chances at refills means that you can level armies with this thing (especially if you're good at headshots).
▲* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: The bad guys and Matt all give up little bits of code when shot.
▲** Well, it's from Matt's perspective where, while humans see blood coming out, the game shows what that blood really is in the game world.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: "I am like your worst nightmare, except in the daytime and you're not asleep."
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Matt is basically one for [[Duke Nukem]].
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{{quote| '''Matt''': ''(after unpausing the game) That's'' '''quite''' ''an achievement.''}}
** "Don't hit me. Don't hit me!" can be heard while doing the cover switch feature sometimes during a gunfight.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Wellesley is the CEO of the company and wants revenge because he always sucked at the Matt Hazard games.▼
* [[Cosmetic Award]]: The game viciously parodies the 360 Achievement system by giving you access to three achievements before you even encounter an enemy (10G for starting a game, 5G for pausing the game, and a whopping ''60G'' for watching the credits from the title screen). Each achievement also comes with [[Medium Awareness|pithy]] [[Lampshade Hanging|commentary]] from Matt Hazard.
** The game doesn't have a interrogation minigame, but they put the achievement for it before said minigame was never implemented. Guess what you get after beating one level.
** Same thing happens for the "multiplayer" achievement.
* [[Crate Expectations]]: A wide variety, as cover items are often hacked in with their villains. Everything from futuristic rounded metal crates, to Russian military crates, to a western outhouse. You even visit a warehouse which turns out to be where they ''make'' the crates.▼
* [[Credits Gag]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the penultimate level, which is the "final" level of the new game, QA says "There's one thing I would like you to do for me... roll the end credits!" Cue laughter, freeze frame, credits... which are then halted by Wellesley who then sucks you into a game representation of the Marathon-Megasoft offices}}.
** Not to mention {{spoiler|said credits being obvious fake ones on top of that. [[Neil Patrick Harris]]' character is credited to "[[Doogie Howser, M.D.|Doogie]]", and a chunk of the staff listing is simply "Code Monkeys"... followed by a listing of [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|real monkeys]]}}.
▲* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Wellesley is the CEO of the company and wants revenge because he always sucked at the Matt Hazard games.
▲* [[Crate Expectations]]: A wide variety, as cover items are often hacked in with their villains. Everything from futuristic rounded metal crates, to Russian military crates, to a western outhouse. You even visit a warehouse which turns out to be where they ''make'' the crates.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: After beating the final boss, {{spoiler|Matt remarks "I'm about to get the ''Beat the Snot out of Wellesley with My Bare Hands'' Trophy". A few seconds later, there's a ping and in the top-right of the screen, ''that very trophy appears'' complete with the description of it being "Like I said...". Even better is that this line alters depending on which console (And therefore which reward system) you're using}}.
* [[Dirty Communists]]: General Neutronov.
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* [[Hollywood Healing]]: If Matt goes long enough without being hit, he's back to full health. He obviously learns to love cover.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: {{spoiler|QA}}. The developers said this was entirely intentional.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Both averted and justified. You can only hold two guns, but when you switch the gun explicitly de-rezzes with the other one forming in Matt's hand.▼
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: {{spoiler|In the last level, because of the constant failure of the AI, Wellesly sics ''the entire company'' on you, having them load up game avatars which have the same abilities you do (such as regenerating health and ability to switch weapons). Some of them are gamers, but a lot of them shout things like "Which button is it to do the cover thing!?"}}
▲* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Both averted and justified. You can only hold two guns, but when you switch the gun explicitly de-rezzes with the other one forming in Matt's hand.
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Parodied. According to the official backstory, the character of Matt Hazard first appeared in ''The Adventures of Matt in Hazard Land'' (pictured at the top) and later the character's official name became "Matt Hazard".
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: "Wussy", "Damn This Is Hard", and "Fuck That Shit" in ''Blood Bath and Beyond''.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In abundance.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: Plenty. Also overlaps with [[Captain Ersatz]].
* [[Loading Screen]]: The "additional information" type is parodied. Although they occasionally give actual gameplay advice, most of the time they include lines like "If you are having trouble interrogating enemies, it's because there's no interrogation feature." and "Tip: A small amount of money given, usually in response to high quality service."▼
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The game has two separate loading screens before getting to the ''title screen''. At some points the game exclaims that if the loading is so long the level must be good.▼
** Plus, [[Mass Effect]]'s eloadvators are parodied. At one point you're stuck waiting for an elevator to reach it's destination... If you fiddle with the controls during this time Matt tells you off by saying "If your time was so valuable, you wouldn't be playing a '''game'''."▼
* [[Medium Awareness]]: He complains about long-winded text, complicated mission objectives, being unable to jump, tutorials, and text boxes with ellipses. But he does like the cover-to-cover system.
* [[Motive Rant]]: When asked why he can't just archive Matt, Wally screams it's because he could beat every game as a kid except the Matt Hazard games.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: After the credits for ''Blood, Bath & Beyond'', {{spoiler|Matt stands at the moon mounted laser and remarks "Well, it's not like we're going to get to make a sequel..." and proceeds to ''fire the laser at the Earth, thus destroying the Marathon Megasoft archives and fulfilling [[Big Bad|Neutronov]]'s objective anyway''}}.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: ''Blood Bath and Beyond'' is a homage to ''Contra'' and ''[[Metal Slug]]''.
▲* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The game has two separate loading screens before getting to the ''title screen''. At some points the game exclaims that if the loading is so long the level must be good.
▲** Plus, [[Mass Effect]]'s eloadvators are parodied. At one point you're stuck waiting for an elevator to reach it's destination... If you fiddle with the controls during this time Matt tells you off by saying "If your time was so valuable, you wouldn't be playing a '''game'''."
▲* [[Loading Screen]]: The "additional information" type is parodied. Although they occasionally give actual gameplay advice, most of the time they include lines like "If you are having trouble interrogating enemies, it's because there's no interrogation feature." and "Tip: A small amount of money given, usually in response to high quality service."
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Matt's melee attacks can kill certain baddies in one shot, and send them flying through the air.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Fuck That Shit difficulty in ''Blood Bath and Beyond'' turns Matt into one.
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* [[Parody Names]] / [[Captain Ersatz]] / [[Bland-Name Product]]: [[Halo|"Master Chef" from "Crown of Light"]], [[James Bond|"You Only Live 1317 Times"]], [[Super Mario Bros.|"Captain Carpenter"]], [[Final Fantasy|"Penultimate Illusion"]], [[Gears of War|"Maul of Mourning"]], [[SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs|"Soak'em"]], [[God of War (series)|"Conflict of the Deities"]]...
* [[Power-Up]]: '''"MAXIMUM HAZARD!"'''
* [[Punny Name]]: "Altos Tratus" sounds like a type of [[Final Fantasy VII|cloud]]. And "Altostratus" ''is'' a type of [[wikipedia:Altostratus cloud|cloud]]. And "Alto" is a good approximation of the range of a castrati. ...So they're implying that "[[Final Fantasy VII|Altos Stratus]]" is a castrati?▼
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: {{spoiler|Time to get the "Beat The Snot Out Of Wellesley" Achievement!}}
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: Some boss fights are presented as Quick Time Events, including one in the first level that [[Curb Stomp Battle|ends]] after ''one'' button, and another is simply ''repeatedly bashing {{spoiler|Dexter}}'s head into the side of a car''.
▲* [[Punny Name]]: "Altos Tratus" sounds like a type of [[Final Fantasy VII|cloud]]. And "Altostratus" ''is'' a type of [[wikipedia:Altostratus cloud|cloud]]. And "Alto" is a good approximation of the range of a castrati. ...So they're implying that "[[Final Fantasy VII|Altos Stratus]]" is a castrati?
* [[Rage Against the Author]]: The entire plot is basically this, as well as Rage Against The Authored.
* [[Retroactive Legacy]]: An entire backstory of games that ''never actually existed''.▼
* [[Reality Warper]]: As the program into which QA and the villains are hacking is the ''game you're currently playing'', reality is warped quite often. At one point, sandbags and other military regalia are "hacked" into the middle of a casino as cover for a group of Russian soldiers; at another, an entire room is replaced with the main street out of a western.
▲* [[Retroactive Legacy]]: An entire backstory of games that ''never actually existed''.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: In ''Blood Bath and Beyond'', Matt complains that he doesn't have a voice anymore, QA explains it's because the last game didn't sell very well. There's also a joke about said game being "now available in bargain bins everywhere!"
* [[Shout-Out]]: The name of the [[Government Agency of Fiction]], SVGA, stands for "Super Video Graphics Array" (a common graphics technology of the late 1980s and early 1990s). The downloadable side-scrolling sequel has extended (most of level) homages to {{spoiler|''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', ''[[Mirror's Edge]]'', ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'', ''[[Bioshock]]'', and ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''}}.
* [[A Space Marine Is You]]: Several of his enemies are Space Marines. Matt Hazard himself is a pastiche of the character type, right down to being bald.▼
* [[Standard FPS Guns]]: Played with; you encounter the usual SMGs and assault rifles, and Matt's signature weapon is his highly marketable "Hazard Pistol". You also get plasma weapons and, oh yes, water guns. Each enemy group carries different [[Standard FPS Guns]], so you're forced to keep switching guns; as if you find yourself surrounded by Cowboys they aren't going to drop AK-47 ammo.▼
* [[Sniping Mission]]: There's a level where you have to protect a de-powered CRPG hero, using the front half of arcade sniper game cabinets.
▲* [[A Space Marine Is You]]: Several of his enemies are Space Marines. Matt Hazard himself is a pastiche of the character type, right down to being bald.
* [[Spot the Imposter]]: as mentioned above in [[Evil Twin]], subverted immediately: The evil QA tries to trick Matt in a standard "I'm the real one!" situation, but Matt ''already guessed'' she was an impostor anyway.
▲* [[Standard FPS Guns]]: Played with; you encounter the usual SMGs and assault rifles, and Matt's signature weapon is his highly marketable "Hazard Pistol". You also get plasma weapons and, oh yes, water guns. Each enemy group carries different [[Standard FPS Guns]], so you're forced to keep switching guns; as if you find yourself surrounded by Cowboys they aren't going to drop AK-47 ammo.
* [[The Stinger]]: The end credits for ''Eat Lead'' are followed by a short scene of {{spoiler|Wellesley reduced to working for his father, surrounded by advertising for the latest Matt Hazard game}}. ''Blood, Bath & Beyond'' has {{spoiler|Matt lamenting that they probably wouldn't get to make a sequel anyway, and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|proceeding to shoot the Earth with Neutronov's planet destroying laser]]}}.▼
* [[Take That]]: Anyone familiar with ''[[Duke Nukem]]'' and his development history (particularly its [[Duke Nukem Forever|recent issues]]) will find the backstory extremely familiar.
** When Matt finds an advertisement for "Duke Winter", done in the style of the cover art of ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]'' and saying "Coming soonish". QA even gets a dig in when Matt asks about said ad.
* [[Take Cover]]: Pretty standard cover mechanic, although it has a neat cover-to-cover mechanic which Matt explicitly comments on.
▲* [[The Stinger]]: The end credits for ''Eat Lead'' are followed by a short scene of {{spoiler|Wellesley reduced to working for his father, surrounded by advertising for the latest Matt Hazard game}}. ''Blood, Bath & Beyond'' has {{spoiler|Matt lamenting that they probably wouldn't get to make a sequel anyway, and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|proceeding to shoot the Earth with Neutronov's planet destroying laser]]}}.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The Secret Soldiers of the Wafferthin, sprite-based enemies from an [[Wolfenstein 3D|old FPS]] who are immune to melee attacks (they didn't exist in 1993) and take cover by turning edge on and becoming a vertical line.
* [[Title Drop]]: {{spoiler|Wally is shown holding an in-universe copy of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard during [[The Stinger]].}}
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