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* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: In the first game, some quests gave you new pants which had different abilities.
** The various suits in the second game, which allowed Tomba to do different things.
*** Taken to its literal extreme in the second game; for getting [[One Hundred Percent Completion]], you get
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* [[An Ice Person]]: The Ice Pig in ''2''.
* [[Anime Hair]]: Tomba, to an extreme.
* [[Back Tracking]]: Expect to do a lot of this if you want to get [[100% Completion]]. In both games.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Tomba and Baron.
* [[Bag of Spilling]]
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: The Evil Pig Curse over the Circus Village in ''2'' turns them into pigs.
** Same thing with Baccus Village in the first game, with mice though.
* [[Big Bad]]: The True Evil Pig in both titles.
* [[Big Boo's Haunt]]: Donglin Forest under the Evil Pig Curse in ''2''.
* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Baron.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Some enemies will turn you [[Invisibility|invisible]] in the second game, which sounds cool, until you realize that you can't use any of your clothes or interact with anybody.
* [[Bottomless Pits]]: Lava Caves in the first game is riddled with these.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: The Masakari tribe, courtesy of the Jungle Pig.
* [[Bubblegloop Swamp]]: Donglin Forest in ''2''.
* [[Casting a Shadow]]: The Ghost Pig in ''2''.
* [[Character Title]]
* [[Chokepoint Geography]]
* [[The Chosen One]]: Tomba is said to be this by the Million Year Old Man.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: In the first game, there were Red, Blue
** Averted HARD with the Evil Pigs in the first game, as none of their colors related to their respective attacks or elements, except for the [[Dark Is Evil|True Evil Pig who was the final boss
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Kainen from the second game.
** In the first game, there's the [[Serial Escalation|Hundred-Year old man, Thousand-Year old man, Ten Thousand-Year old man
* [[Cute Witch]]: Mizuno, who's actually referred to as such.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Tabby in the second game.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: The Jungle Pig, the only female Evil Pig in ''1''. Also the Water Pig in ''2'' who [[Vocal Dissonance|despite her voice]]
* [[Death Mountain]]: Phoenix Mountain in the first game.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Part of Tomba's arsenal, including the Fire Hammer and [[Infinity+1 Sword|Torch Hammer]] in ''2''.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: The Evil Pigs; in the first game: [[Musical Assassin|
** In the second game: [[Playing with Fire|
* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Only two elements
* [[Epic Flail]]: Tomba's main weapon.
* [[Eternal Engine]]: Iron Castle in the first game.
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* [[First Town]]: The Fisherman Village.
* [[Forgot I Couldn't Swim]]: Inverted. Somehow in the second game, Tomba forgets that he ''can'' swim!
** In the opening cutscene, he jumped in the ocean
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Gran.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In both games, there's one or more naked Cupid-like angels peeing on a fountain.
** Also "the peach flower" and its "gas" in the first game.
* [[Gold Fever]]: Gold powers the magic of the Evil Pigs. In both games, the final arena where the True Evil Pig is fought is made of/full of gold.
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: The Forest of All Beginnings in the first game.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Some of the sidequests ''will'' require this.
** Some of the sidequests are so obscure that even FINDING them is enough of a hassle.
** Two words from the first game that make everyone flinch
** The Evil Pig Gates may also count.
* [[Gusty Glade]]: Phoenix Mountain under the Evil Pig Curse in the first game.
* [[Heroic Dog]]: Baron again, although defying the Evil Pig all by himself [[Taken for Granite|didn't work out well]].
* [[Heroic Mime]]: For some reason, Tomba seems to be fairly able to understand what people say, but he's unable to talk. In the second game, his [[Non-Human Sidekick]] is there to do the talk for him, and to serve as [[Mr. Exposition]].
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Hidden Village]] fits this trope exactly to the point where [[Guide Dang It|it actually is almost impossible to find
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Something Tomba is terribly guilty of, by stocking countless items, including living creatures and objects bigger than him, ''inside of his stomach
* [[Incendiary Exponent]]: The Jewel of Fire in the first game let's you do this. It also gives you the [[Fiery Redhead|appropriate hair color]].
* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Key]]
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* [[Lean and Mean]]: The Yellow Evil Pig in the first game.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: The inside of Phoenix Mountain in the first game.
** Also the Great Underground Mine under the Evil Pig Curse in ''2''.
* [[Lost Forever]]: Break the Spiked Barrel on the first game, and that's ''it
** You're bound to miss a lot on your first playthrough due to this trope, and during your second playthrough, [[Guide Dang It|(
** Make sure that you have ''every'' sidequest you want to do completed in ''Tomba! 2
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: All the boss battles in ''1'' are this. Essentially, you have to toss the pig inside the giant, rotating bag in order to seal it away.
* [[Making a Splash]]: The Water Pig in ''2''.
* [[Meaningless Lives]]: On the first game. Was thankfully averted on the next one.
* [[Mega Manning]]: In the sequel, defeating one of the evil pigs grant you a cloth with the powers of said pig.
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* [[Minecart Madness]]: One of the [[Scrappy Level|hardest sidequest]] in the second game.
* [[Mood Motif]]: In the second game, the music playing during a conversation or cutscene usually depends on the situation. For example, during a normal situation, peaceful music will play. Also, during a emergency or a serious situation, really frantic music will play.
* [[Mooks]]: The different types of pigs found in both games, of course.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Zippo takes the trophy, although there are a few others serving this purpose as well.
* [[Ninja]]: Yan.
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Zippo in the second game. Baron could also count.
* [[Old Master]]: The first game has ''four'' of these! And they go up in age - from 100 to 1,000 to 10,000 to the ''Million-Year-Old Man''.
** And [[Up to Eleven|Kainen is even older
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: Several of the quests in the second game are only available if you complete a series of quests and have a save file from the first game (at the Grapplejack point or later).
* [[Playing with Fire]]: The Fire Pig in ''2''.
* [[Plot Coupon]]: The Evil Pig Bags to...
* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Judging by the dialogues in ''2'', it seems like the True Evil Pig is this. He even refers to his battle with Tomba as a "play".
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: Besides the Evil Pigs, a few normal enemies also count.
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The five evil elemental pigs in ''2'', including the Fire Pig, the Ice Pig,
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: One of the pigs in the first game wore pink and was male.
** [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real Men Have Pink Hair]]: Tomba is one of the few male characters who can pull this off nicely.
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* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "It's a fire hammer. It's a hammer with the power of fire."
* [[Shout-Out]]: Possibly coincidental, but an early task in the first game requires the rescuing of [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|seven dwarves]].
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: Kujara Ranch under the Evil Pig Curse in ''2''.
* [[Smurfette Principle]]: Only one of the evil pigs in the first game is female, and no, it's not the Pink Pig. It's actually
* [[Speaking Simlish]]: Arguably in the first game. The second game was fully voiced.
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: The second game.
** Tomba also starts with these in the first game, but after doing a couple of missions they become [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]].
* [[Time Stands Still]]:
* [[Too Good to Last]]: Only two games have been made. Justified since the company behind the games went defunct not long after the release of the second game.
* [[Underwater Ruins]]: The Water Temple in ''2''.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Apparently, the voice actor for the Water Pig in ''2'' didn't realize that she was female, even if she refers to herself with feminine pronouns and has a clearly female-shaped body and [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|lipstick
* [[Warp Whistle]]: The Wings and, later, Baron.
* [[Wild Man]]: Tomba, our hero.
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