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Naturally, tropes aren't just limited to television and literature. You'll encounter some ideas that started from video games. That's right...trope naming has gone digital (or analog, if you prefer).

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Lists

• The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches
  • Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
  • Law of Cartographical Elegance
  • Load-Bearing Boss
  • Standard Female Grab Area

• The RPG Cliches Game
  • Broken Bridge
  • Dronejam
  • Duel Boss
  • Fake King
  • Fetch Quest
  • Trauma Inn

Games

• Ace Attorney
  • Choosing Death
  • That Was Objectionable

• Altered Beast
  • Rise from Your Grave

• Angband
  • Random Number God (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.angband)

• Animal Crossing
  • And Your Reward Is Clothes

• Asteroids
  • Asteroids Monster
  • Every Ten Thousand Points

• Baldur's Gate
  • Go for the Eye

• Banjo-Kazooie
  • Bubblegloop Swamp
  • Hailfire Peaks

• Battlefield
  • Middle-Eastern Coalition

• Breakout
  • Breaking Out

• Castlevania
  • Chaos Architecture
  • Metroidvania (partial; other half comes from Metroid)

• Chrono Cross
  • Time Crash

• Chrono Trigger
  • Barrier Change Boss
  • Good Morning, Crono
  • New Game+
  • Tech Points

• Civilization
  • Please Select New City Name

• Command & Conquer
  • Command and Conquer Economy

• Command and Conquer: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
  • Weaponized Landmark

• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
  • But Your Wings Are Beautiful

• Dawn of War
  • You Call That a Wound?

• Defender
  • Smart Bomb

• Diablo
  • Fight in The Nude

• Disgaea
  • Captain Space, Defender of Earth!
  • Geo Effects
  • Love Freak

• Dissidia Final Fantasy
  • Power of the Void
  • Trap Master

• Donkey Kong Country
  • Blackout Basement
  • Gang Plank Galleon
  • Jungle Japes
  • Minecart Madness

• Doom
  • BFG
  • Doom Doors
  • Tele Frag

• Dragon Quest I
  • But Thou Must!
  • Metal Slime

• Dragon Quest VIII
  • Prince Charmless

• Eagle Eye Mysteries
  • Eagle-Eye Detection

• EarthBound
  • Eagle Land
    • Eagleland Osmosis
  • New Age Retro Hippie
  • Sound Stone
  • You Cannot Grasp the True Form

• Earthworm Jim
  • Level Ate (second game)
  • Planet Heck (first game)

• EverQuest
  • You Will Not Evade Me

• Final Fantasy I
  • Black Magician Girl (cross-reference to Yu-Gi-Oh!!)
  • Peninsula of Power Leveling
  • The Red Mage
  • Welcome to Corneria (named for a town, though it's actually a line from 8-Bit Theater)

• Final Fantasy IV
  • As Long as There Is Evil (Zeromus' Final Speech)
  • Sheathe Your Sword
  • Spoony Bard

• Final Fantasy V
  • Power of the Void

• Final Fantasy VI
  • Floating Continent
  • Laughing Mad (Reference to Kefka's Theme, "Dancing Mad")
  • Magitek

• Final Fantasy VII
  • Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer
  • The Lifestream
  • Limit Break
  • One-Winged Angel (named for Sephiroth's Final Boss song in VII)
    • Clipped-Wing Angel
  • Wutai

• Final Fantasy IX
  • Fairy Battle
  • You Are Not Alone

• Final Fantasy X
  • This Is My Story

• Final Fantasy X-2
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"

• Fire Emblem Akaneia
  • Marth Debuted in Smash Bros (cross-reference to Super Smash Bros.)

• Freedom Force
  • Right Makes Might (one of Minuteman's catch phrases)

• Gauntlet (1985 video game)
  • Wizard Needs Food Badly
    • Gods Need Prayer Badly

• Genji
  • Attack Its Weak Point
  • For Massive Damage
  • Giant Enemy Crab
  • Real Time Weapon Change (all from the same E3 conference presentation-turned-Internet meme)

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Hot Coffee Minigame (after the infamous Dummied Out section)

• Grand Theft Auto Vice City
  • "Grand Theft Auto" Effect
  • Vice City

• God Hand
  • Pummel Duel

• Half-Life
  • Black Mesa Commute
  • How Do I Shot Web? (from the Natural Selection mod)
  • Lighthouse Point
  • No OSHA Compliance (an achievement in Half-Life 2)
  • Right Man in the Wrong Place
  • Stand Back Hello (former name of Simultaneous Warning and Action)

• Katamari Damacy
  • King of All Cosmos

• Killer Instinct
  • Combo Breaker

• Kingdom Hearts
  • Another Side, Another Story
  • The Heartless
  • Resignations Not Accepted (Days)
  • The War Sequence (second game)

• Kingdom of Loathing
  • An Adventurer Is You!
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
  • Noob Cave
  • Photoprotoneutron Torpedo

• King's Quest V
  • Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder

• Kirby
  • American Kirby Is Hardcore
  • Bubbly Clouds
  • Dream Land

• The Legend of Zelda (1986)
  • Death Mountain
  • Gannon Banned (fandom term)
  • Heart Container
  • The Lost Woods
  • Wall Master

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • Urban Legend of Zelda

• The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker
  • Americans Hate Tingle

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  • 8.8 (stemmed from an infamous GameSpot review on the game)
  • Hijacked by Ganon (fandom term)

• The Longest Journey
  • In the End You Are on Your Own

• Madden NFL
  • I Know Madden Kombat (partial; other half comes from Mortal Kombat)
  • Madden Curse

• Mario Kart
  • Go-Karting with Bowser

• Mass Effect
  • Canned Orders Over Loudspeaker
  • We Were Your Team

• Max Payne
  • Bullet Time

• Mega Man
  • Emergency Energy Tank
  • Magma Man
  • Mega Manning

• Metal Gear Solid
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder (The Last Days of Foxhound webcomics)

• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
  • Fission Mailed

• Metroid
  • Metroidvania (partial; other half comes from Castlevania)
  • Samus Is a Girl
  • Sequence Breaking

• Might and Magic
  • Hour of Power

• Mortal Kombat
  • Finish Him!
  • Flawless Victory
  • I Know Mortal Kombat
    • I Don't Know Mortal Kombat
    • I Know Madden Kombat (partial; see Madden NFL)
  • Mirror Match

• Myst
  • Beautiful Void (Douglas Adams' description of the game)

• Nethack
  • The Dev Team Thinks of Everything (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
  • Yet Another Stupid Death (on the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.nethack)

• Pac-Man
  • Pac-Man Fever

• Pinball
  • Pinball Scoring

• Plants vs. Zombies
  • Summon Backup Dancers

• Pokémon Red and Blue
  • Ditto Fighter
  • Gotta Catch Em All
  • Horn Attack
  • Magikarp Power
  • The Missingno
  • Rare Candy
  • Razor Wind
  • Single Palette Town (a pun on the home city from the first-generation games)

• Pokémon Gold and Silver
  • My Name Is ???

• Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
  • Brick Break
  • Bullet Seed
  • Improbable Species Compatibility (fandom term, coined by GameFAQs)

• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
  • Bug Buzz

• Portal
  • The Cake Is a Lie
  • Companion Cube
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
    • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain

• Pro Wrestling
  • A Winner Is You

• Psychonauts
  • Milkman Conspiracy

• Punch-Out!!
  • Hero Stole My Bike (while named for a meme, said meme came from this game's Training Montage)
  • Vodka Drunkenski

• Quake
  • Quad Damage

• R-Type
  • Reflecting Laser

• Ratchet and Clank
  • Grind Boots
  • Mega Corp

• Rayman
  • Band Land (from the first game)
  • Raymanian Limbs

• Resident Evil 1
  • Master of Unlocking

• Rise of the Triad
  • Ludicrous Gibs

• Rock Band
  • Big Rock Ending
  • Bladder of Steel (achievement from the second game)

• Sam and Max
  • Oblivious Guilt Slinging

• Secret of Evermore
  • Prehistoria

• The Secret of Monkey Island
  • You Fight Like a Cow

• Shadow of the Colossus
  • Colossus Climb

• Shivers
  • Museum of the Strange and Unusual

• The Sims
  • Speaking Simlish

• Sonic Adventure 2
  • Eternal Engine
  • Ultimate Lifeform

• Sonic Heroes
  • Casino Park

• Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
  • Chaos Emeralds
  • Green Hill Zone

• Sonic the Hedgehog CD
  • Bad Future
  • Palmtree Panic

• Space Invaders
  • Personal Space Invader

• StarCraft (1998)
  • Construct Additional Pylons
  • Spawn Broodling
  • You Require More Vespene Gas
  • Zerg Rush

• Star FOX
  • Do a Barrel Roll

• Street Fighter
  • Cherry Tapping
  • Hurricane Kick
  • Kamehame Hadoken (cross-reference to Dragonball Z)
  • Let's Fight Like Gentlemen (Dudley's entrance quote from Street Fighter III)
  • Ryu and Ken
  • Shoryuken
  • Shotoclone

• Super Mario 64
  • Big Boo's Haunt
  • Lethal Lava Land
  • Shifting Sand Land

• Super Mario Bros. (1985)
  • The Goomba
    • Goomba Springboard
    • Goomba Stomp
  • Minus World
  • One Mario Limit
  • The Spiny
  • Warp Zone
  • (Y)Our Princess Is In Another Castle

• Super Mario Bros 3
  • Warp Whistle

• Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
  • Poison Mushroom

• Super Mario Galaxy
  • Toy Time

• Super Mario Galaxy 2
  • Face Ship

• Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
  • Macro Zone
  • Space Zone

• Super Mario RPG
  • He Knows About Timed Hits

• Super Mario Sunshine
  • Item Get

• Super Robot Wars
  • How Unscientific
  • Original Generation
  • Real Robot

• Super Smash Bros.
  • Edible Ammunition
  • Guest Fighter
  • Marth Debuted in Smash Bros (cross-reference to Fire Emblem Akaneia)
  • Multi Mook Melee
    • Multi Mook Brawl (alternate name to above)

• Team Fortress 2
  • Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
  • Shoot the Medic First (From Penny Arcade)

• Tetris
  • The Tetris Effect

• Tony Hawks Pro Skater
  • Skate Heaven Is a Place on Earth (cross-reference to the Belinda Carlisle song "Heaven is a Place on Earth")

• Ultima
  • Lord British Postulate

• Warcraft
  • Civil Warcraft
  • Stop Poking Me

• Wario Land
  • Pinball Zone

• World of Warcraft
  • Leeroy Jenkins
  • Ninja Looting
  • Resurrection Sickness
  • You No Take Candle

• Yggdra Union
  • Unholy Holy Sword

• Yoshi's Island
  • Ground Pound

• Zero Wing
  • All Your Base Are Belong to Us
  • For Great Justice
  • Intentional Engrish for Funny (all but this one are from the same meme/opening scene)
  • Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
  • War Was Beginning
  • You Have No Chance to Survive