The Game (video game)
ALL THE TROPES :the game: AKA Ruining your life.
:the game: is a very violent, bloody, hilarious, and, most of all, Bloody Hilarious game on Newgrounds about... well... life. Kind of. There's not really any plot to speak of until the third game. Runs on Refuge in Audacity and Vulgarity. The first and second games are VERY simple: Jump off a ledge. That's it, barring the odd minigame. Each level has you do so with a different theme, such as art, or open source. The only real variables is the character, and the background. Occasionally, you get a cut scene. They are very tasteful and wholesome. And Funny.
The third game is right here, Reimagining :the game:. This one has a plot, kind of. You jump off a cliff, and land in another world. Then, Lady Gaga, the cast of Toy Story 3, Apple, and even freaking Paul Vasquez (AKA the Double Rainbow Guy) all do... their thing. Then, the head of BP causes an oil spill, which he uses to land in an incinerator. Then Zalgo posesses him, and tries to kill everyone. Chell of Portal, Paul Vasquez, Barack Obama and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, Justin Bieber and Edward Cullen of Twilight, and the Angry Birds all team up. Then, you use the power of Airport Security and the TSA to kill him. His explosive death is so epic everyone dies.
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- Author Tract: Occasionally, notably Toy Story 3.
- Auto-Tune: Parodied with Ke$ha before she fuses with the smoke monster.
- Non Sequitur Episode: Epicroll :the cutscene:
- Cut and Paste Environments: Deconstructed. Subverted in Reimagine.
- Double Jump: Or rather, "Double Rainbow Double Jump", with YosemiteBear and Katy Perry.
- Eldritch Abomination: The final boss.
- Every Episode Ending: Every episode ends with big red text and small white text.
- Eyedscreen: Present in the first game's "Shooting Lawyers in the Face".
- The Faceless: Everyone (except when they need to talk or emote).
- Final Exam Boss: Reimagining.
- Gorn
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every level is called "[Insert Subject Here] :the game:" AKA [insert witty comment here].
- The third game drops the AKA part of the titles.
- Jump Scare: The end of the Pac-Man level.
- Rage Quit: Sarah Palin does this in Replaying.
- Rickroll: One of many memetic songs featured in Epicroll :the cutscene:
- Screamer Trailer: The Pac-Man level gradually becomes this as Pac-man begins to contemplate the idea of "ghosts".
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Happens at one point in the first instalment.
- Shout-Out: Plenty, some of which are more subtle than others.
- Stylistic Suck: Some levels in :replaying: bring up how the creator is running out of ideas.
- Webcomic of the Game: Faceless & Hopping.
- What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Fart apps.
- Background Boss: The final boss of Reimagining