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* [[Action Commands]]: The combat is ripped straight out of ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' and ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]''.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Hilariously lampshaded every possible chance there is. At least one grown-up has seen the evil beasts himself
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Reynold, especially in "Grubbins on Ice". Ooh, look! A quarter!
* [[Back from the Dead]]: The Unicorn's special.
* [[Becoming the Costume]]: Literally!
* [[Beef Gate]]:
* [[Big Bad]]: Big Bones.
* [[Big Eater]]: Again, Big Bones.
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{{quote|''Hero'':"Now you'll taste my Missile Barrage!"
''Dorsilla'':"What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of that sudden tornado. *snaps fingers*"
''NPC in Dragon costume'':"Fire Breath! Fire Breath! Why aren't you burning from my Fire Breath?"
* [[Cliff Hanger]]:
* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Core game mechanic. In an enemy encounter, Wren and Reynold transform into a building sized version of what their primitive, handmade costume is supposed to represent. Here's a list by category of use.
** Attack: [[Humongous Mecha|Robot]], [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Ninja]], [[All Hallow's Eve|Pumpkin]], [[Classical Movie Vampire|Vampire]], [[Ghost Pirate|Pirate]] (DLC only), [[Faceless Eye|Eyeball]] (DLC only).
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* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: Repugia.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Dorsilla. She tries to get rid of your awesome costumes more than once.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]:
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]:
* [[The Dragon]]:
* [[Dual Boss]]: The final fight of "Grubbins on Ice" pits you against
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: [[Stacking|Charlie Blackmore]] appears in a secret cave in Repugia. So does an advertisement for the game he'll be appearing in.
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: You join one in
* [[Evil Twin]]:
* [[Expy]]: The Black Cat Costume is a [[Brutal Legend|Laser Panther]] without the purple streaks.
** The Pirate costume is [[Monkey Island|LeChuck.]] sans beard.
** The Unicorn looks [[Robot Unicorn Attack|pretty badass]], with emphasis on both "pretty" and "badass
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: The monsters mistake the costumes for [[Rule of Funny|walking, talking candy or food]] several times. They are also easily fooled by the hero wearing a Grubbin costume despite everyone else in the group clearly not dressing as Grubbins and your main character clearly being a small child.
** At the start of
* [[For Science!]]: Lucy, constantly.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Some Repugians in the DLC will roar "I had a rough childhood!" before assaulting you.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Wren, Reynold, Everett and Dorsilla.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "I hope I'm the only banana costume. Last year? TOTAL bananafest!"
* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: The French Fries turns you into this. Yes, really. A giant crab with french fry legs, french fry pincers
* [[Grim Reaper]]: Big Bones, an enormously ''fat'' Grim Reaper.
* [[Halloween Episode|Halloween Game]]
* [[Halloweentown]]: Repugia.
* [[Hand Wave]]: Lampshaded. When the kids need to get down from the Ferris wheel, your character comes up with a brilliant plan. [[Gilligan Cut|Immediate cut to]] the kids on the ground.
{{quote|'''Everett''': I can't believe you thought of a way down that was so simple and practical.}}
* [[Healing Hands]]: The Statue of Liberty's power is to do this through sheer [[Patriotic Fervor|Patriotism
* [[A Hell of a Time]]: One monster says Dorsilla is so bad that
* [[Homage]]: Tasha Harris says the game is inspired from many things. The isometric diagonal view of the town is from ''[[EarthBound]]'', the monsters are inspired from ''[[Labyrinth]]'', the art is inspired from [[Hayao Miyazaki]] and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: "Grubbins on Ice" starts you off fighting against three Level 14 Repugiarchs; at this point, it's impossible to be higher than Level 10. You actually can win the fight if you hit '''all''' the prompts and catch some luck with the enemy's choice of targets, but [[Failure Is the Only Option]], and it dumps you into the next scene as if you lost
* [[Hot Witch]]: Dorsilla, in universe, and she boasts it. {{spoiler|After her defeat, she wonders if her failure to conquer the world is because she's too pretty
* [[How Unscientific]]: Lucy does this a lot.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Reynold leans to this in the DLC.
* [[I Got a Rock|I Got Old Marzipan]]
* [[Ironic Echo]]:
{{quote|"That's inadmissible!"}}
* [[Kaiju]]: The battles become these. The various silly goblins transform into massive, uglier monsters, and the children transform into giant, more lifelike versions of what their costumes are supposed to represent.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: The gang of mummy children. But it turns out
* [[Kids Prefer Boxes]]: The first costume.
* [[La Résistance]]: You help out the monsters against their oppressive new government in "Grubbins
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Everett does this the most. Or maybe he just really likes ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
{{quote|''Everett'': A mall? This looks more like a dungeon! Which I am totally prepared for! Hey look! A dungeon map!
''Everett'': He just took a natural 20 to the face and didn't take ANY damage!
* [[Life Drain]]: The Vampire's special.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The difficulty is easier, and the humor is more low key than Double Fine's previous works.
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* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: The Robot's special.
* [[Magic Versus Science]]: Lucy refuses to call the monsters as such, and adamantly believes they are aliens.
* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Dorsilla.
* [[Manipulative Editing]]:
* [[The Medic]]: The Statue of Liberty and Unicorn costumes. The Vampire can heal the party as well
* [[Middle Management Mook]]: Bojonn.
* [[Mook Medic]]: In every species of Repugian monster. Grubbins, Trowbogs and Crestwailers each have their own healing class.
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]: All references to content locked away in the trial version are lampshaded.
{{quote|"Perhaps the full version will be a bit kinder to the fourth wall."}}
* [[Parental Bonus]]: [[Invoked Trope]]. Tasha Harris wanted the game to have the appeal that [[Pixar]] (her former and now current employer) applies to all their work, in which the game would be simple and charming enough for children, but also appealing to adults. There are plenty of jokes for adults, covering such edgy material as globalization, prescription drugs, American history
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: The Statue of Liberty's Combat Ability, and winning animation.
* [[Ravens and Crows]]: A race of bird people called the Crestwailers.
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* [[Save Point]]: Telephone boxes let you call the police and tell them about the monsters. They will [[Police Are Useless|sigh]] and tell you "your report has been logged."
** The DLC changes the dialogue for the boxes so that you're now calling the Trowbog Historical Society. Because how else are they going to know if history is happening?
* [[Sequel Hook]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Robot Unicorn Attack|Unicorn Costume
** The music in the mall camping shop is the camp music from ''[[Psychonauts]]''.
** The Pumpkin Costume's battle form is ripped straight out of ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''.
** The Disembodied Hand Stamp upgrades into the [[The Princess Bride (film)|Disembodied Six-Fingered Hand Stamp]].
** The cowboy warning the public about the dangers of candy? [[Clerks|He works for an apple company
** [[Arrested Development (TV series)|"Like the kid in the $600 Banana is gonna follow the kid in the $20 costume. COME ON!"]]
** A mission in a corn field maze is called [[Children of the Corn|Children of the High Fructose Corn Syrup
** Orzo the human cannonball makes references to the [[Monkey Island|Fettucini Brothers
** The incantation used to open the Gate in the third area is [[Psychonauts|Vodello Zanatto Lobotto
** Finding a girl hiding in a witch costume causes her to shout "[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Oh, what a world! What a world!]]".
** [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|It may be a stretch, but there might be a reason why the DLC for this Halloween game is Christmas-esque
** An incredibly obscure one:
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Wren vs Reynold.
** And {{spoiler|Dorsilla vs Dorian. Dorian obviously losing
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Big Bones' weapon. {{spoiler|It's also where he hides his emergency candy stash
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Poison, Burn
* [[The Starscream]]:
* [[Status Buff]]: Different abilities or Battle Stamps grant Ability Up, Protect, Regeneration, or the ability to evade all attacks for one turn.
* [[Stealth Mentor]]:
* [[Stock Aesops]]: Family is Everything.
* [[Sugar Bowl]]
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Candy is currency for upgrades.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: *lightning* '''TRICK OR TREAT!'''
* [[Villainous Glutton]]: Big Bones.
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{{quote|'''Metxel''': Now look what you made me do! I think one of them was my brother-in-law!}}
* [["What the Hell?" Dad]]: Played for laughs, the twins dad appears surly, glued to his chair and newspaper.
** At the end of the game, he
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The player makes a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|grudging but heroic speech]] to Dorsilla's voicemail.
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Dorsilla.
* [[Woman Scorned]]:
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Lucy, big time. Spouts a lot of science fiction (and science fact) in a magical setting.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Yeti Fest is a cross between Christmas and Groundhog Day.
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