Stop Poking Me: Difference between revisions

[[File:Command and Conquer poke 2051.jpg|thumb|250px|link=http://skunk-works.deviantart.com/art/Command-and-Conquer-Blues-49287105|[[Command & Conquer|To not lose against the terrorists, don't poke your units]].]]

 

 

[[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger|Pointing at people is rude.]] [[No Sense of Personal Space|So is poking them.]] [[Berserk Button|So is poking them repeatedly for no reason when you already have their attention.]] ''[[Self-Demonstrating Article|Will you please quit doing that already?!]]'' [[What the Hell, Player?|Sheesh, what's wrong with you, anyway?]]

 

See [[Adventure Narrator Syndrome]] for a [[Point and Click Game]] variant where the characters may get annoyed if you ask them to use two items together that don't work. For more general examples not related to multiple clicks/conversations, see [[What the Hell, Player?]].

 

* [[Blizzard Entertainment]], after [[Trope Maker|inventing this]], raised it to an art form. ''[[StarCraft]]'' and all ''[[Warcraft]]'' games (including ''[[World of Warcraft]]'') have characters getting angry, doing comedy routines, or just providing additional insight into their characters. The [[Trope Namer]] is the original ''Warcraft'' orc's "Stop poking me!"

** Referenced in ''[[StarCraft]] Brood War'', with Artanis's "Stop poking me! What do I look like, an orc?", and with the Protoss Observer transmitting "Stop poking me!" over the radio.

:* The ''[[StarCraft]]'' critters do it better: Click them enough and they explode in a ''nuclear explosion''. That one doesn't do any damage to other units, but can potentially scare the heck out of another person in casual multiplayer.

:** ''Warcraft III'' takes the poking further by having various [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]] jokes being said among the human units, and veiled pokes at the [[Church of Happyology]] among the Scourge's more intelligible units. Also, several rare/unique units have some ''massively long'' "annoyed" quotes.

** There's also a "Poke The Bunny" which is somewhat less extreme; it just sinks it's razor-sharp teeth into the finger and doesn't let go.

* [[Command & Conquer]] has a few examples, such as in Tiberian Wars if one man in the GDI sniper team is shot, the acknowledgement will be much more strained and panicky.

** Of course, perhaps the most epic is clicking on a Scottish unit you're hostile to. "AH'LL REEP OFF YER HEDD AND SPIT DOON YER NECK." Or, slightly less awesome: "I gotta ''claymore'' here for ye Jimmy..."

** ''Empire: Total War'' has a [[Deadpan Snarker]] admiral voice for the British. Clicking on a land square after selecting a fleet results in a delightfully snarky "Ships sail on ''water'', milord..."

* A hilarious variation occurs in ''[[Fallout]]''. Speaking to people multiple times will result in them saying different things, and trying it on a cow yields this:

{{quote|'''Cow:''' Moo.