Ty the Tasmanian Tiger: Difference between revisions

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The first game chronicled the story of TY, the eponymous Tazzy Tiger trying to stop the villainous [[Big Bad|Boss Cass]] from reclaiming five talismans and unsealing the Dreamtime, which would let the cassowary wipe out all those [[Freudian Excuse|mammals who usurped the dinosaurs' place]]. In a ''[[Contrived Coincidence|complete]]'' [[Contrived Coincidence|coincidence]], recovering all the talismans allowed TY to reunite with his family and put Boss Cass behind bars.

The third, and so far final, game has TY going to rescue the mysterious Bunyips from the [[The Heartless|Quinkan]], and in the process of returning home, get stuck in limbo for six months. When he does finally return, Southern Rivers is devastated, the Quinkan have the few survivors bottled up in a small, run-down town, and Boss Cass has allied with them and is the puppet ruler of the land. Though Cass isn't too happy about being on a leash, he's unable to actively oppose his masters, and helps TY -- as long as it's convenient and furthers his own plots -- in getting rid of their [[Evil Overlord|evil overlords]].

 

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: It does fit under the town proper, but the tunnels themselves are incredibly wide for what they do, even if you see smaller pipes emptying into the sewer. Oh, and it's full of ''crocodiles''.

* [[Action Girl]]/[[Faux Action Girl]]: Shazza, flip-flopping between the two. Dear ''lord'', Shazza. See "Distressed Damsel".

* [[Back Tracking]]: If you're a 100% completionist kind of person, anyways.

* [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]]: Ty.

* [[Boomerang Comeback]]: The opening cinematic in TY 1, it actually knocked Boss Cass out of his [[Humongous Mecha]]. Pity about his remote, really...

* [[Cardboard Obstacle]]: Technically concrete, but it fences you off from getting the uber-rangs until about halfway through the second and third game.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Sly and Fluffy.

* [[Ditto Fighter]]: Sly in TY 1, CY in TY 2, {{spoiler|the Quinking}} in TY 3.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Ty receives his second boomerang in the one of the first levels in TY 1. From there on he has at least two, sometimes more.

* [[Easter Egg]]: Shazza's old, rickety Jeep has cameos in TY 2 and TY 3. In TY 3, {{spoiler|Shazza's trusty Fourbie can be seen next to an decrepit building, completely stripped}}.

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: '''What'''? How ''dare'' you imply that '''Boss Cass''' is the ''least'' bit hammy, you '''''moronic nincompoop'''''!

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Boss Cass likes this, yes he does.

* [[Exploding Barrels]]: Technically boxes, but they still go boom. And how.

* [[Fake Platform]]: Often indistinguishable from the real ones, other times they'll smoke and spark when you're not standing on them.

* [[Floating Platforms]]: [[Handwaved]] with them consisting mostly of a large fan encased in a rectangular safety grille. Power supply and fuel isn't addressed. Oh, and some are (mostly) invisible.

* [[Follow the Money]]: Again with the opals!

** The thin ice doesn't shatter if you use the very slightest pressure on the stick, causing Ty to tiptoe. Still difficult, and rife with gnashing of teeth.

* [[Furry Confusion]]: TY 1, in the [[Hub Level]]: "Aww, look at the cute little wallabies hopping around!" A single level later (the very first one!), you're whacking their sapient kangaroo cousins out cold. Let's not get into the lizards crawling about the place...

* [[Gameplay Ally Immortality]]: Sure, your brother and your love interest are in [[Mini-Mecha]], but yours is far superior -- so why ''isn't'' that [[BFG]] killing them?

* [[Genre Savvy]]: TY and Sly might have become this in the third game.

'''Sly''': Yyyyyyyyyep. }}

* [[Go for the Eye]]: Buster, the (non)nanobot works this way... by targeting the controller revealed when he "roars".

* [[Grind Boots]]: TY can do this with his bare paws. '''Ouch'''.

* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: When Julius is working with ''plutonium''?!

* [[Haunted Castle]]: Parodied. Aside from one [[Mook]] disguised as a ghost and getting them riled, they're perfectly content to wander around harmlessly.

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Boss Cass's ninja geckoes will stand around until they see you... then backflip around, climb trees and bungee down, and throw shuriken at you.

* [[Hijacked by Ganon]]: Guess who let the Quinkan into Southern Rivers. Go on. Guess.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: You get to fight several throughout the series. Unlike the others, in the first game you fought one on foot.

* [[Hub Level]]: Rainbow Cliffs, Bush Rescue, New Burramudgee, and Cassopolis.

* [[Large Ham]]: Boss Cass, yet again. When informed that [[Hollywood Science|the latest evil device copies]] the [[You Fail Biology Forever|warm-bloodedness of mammals and puts it in his frill minions]], [[You Fail Logic Forever|leaving the mammal "cold-blooded" and shivering]], his response is "That's not a side-effect, that's a feature! It'll make a great bullet-point on the side of the box!"

* [[Last Lousy Point]]: Getting all the picture frame collectables will ''drive you insane''.

* [[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid]]: ''Oh so thoroughly abused''.

* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Mount Boom]].

* [[Money for Nothing]]: Opals litter the streets and every area you come across. Oh, and they respawn.

* [[More Dakka]]: You can acquire boomerang sets that let you fling at least four at once. Some will home in on enemies before returning. ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Repeatedly]]''.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The hidden ending clip to TY 1 shows CY being ominously activated, leading to the logical conclusion it'd play a large part in the next game. It didn't.

* [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: The imaginatively named [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Zombie Frills]] of TY 3.

* [[Personal Space Invader]]: On foot, leeches and ticks, which cling to your face until you shake them off. On your [[Mini-Mecha|Bunyip]], the [[Mooks]] will latch onto your mech's head. Also, the Drop Bears in TY 3, who'll, well... drop onto you. Then start playing drums with your skull.

* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Pretty much everyone except TY, though your [[Unfortunate Names|Bush Rescue]] teammembers will lend an occasional hand in the second and third games. Exceptionally glaring when the ''head of police'' comments there's a spy in town... who'll never be caught if you '''personally''' don't get rid of him. Also, there's '''yet another''' in the town ''alone''. Don't even get started at the number spread throughout the [[World Map]] and [[Game Level|levels]].

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Exactly what brings Fluffy over to TY's side, {{spoiler|and the cause of her death, sacrificing herself to save him from Boss Cass, her employer}}.

* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]: The Doomerang, quite literally. You switch to controlling it directly while TY simply stands there. [[Awesome but Impractical|This can have complications if enemies are in close quarters.]]

* [[Seldom-Seen Species]]: Oh yes. In the case of the title character and family, they're currently thought to be ''extinct''.

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Any of the [[Mad Scientist|mads]]. No, [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|not THOSE Mads...]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: The CY robot wandering around Burramudgee will sometimes say "[[Battlestar Galactica|By your command.]]"

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: A literal case for Lenny the lyrebird. However, he's [[Meaningful Name|not as helpful as you'd want]]... until you start doing the opposite of what he says. He later gets a job telling stories to kids in daycare.

* [[Temporary Platform]]: Both types of ice boomerangs do this, by either freezing water or chilling lava-based platforms. Other floating platforms will shrink and grow in and out of existence, either on a timer or shortly after you step on them.

* [[Timed Mission]]: TY 2 does this, usually with explosives. Once, with a spark plug of all things. No, I don't know why it had to be delivered in five minutes, though having '''plutonium''' on a ticking clock made sense.

* [[Unbreakable Weapons]]: This applies to every one of your boomerangs. Including the ones that ''explode violently''.

* [[Underwater Boss Battle]]: TY 3 has one that you can only lose if you're very, very poor at playing, or are very, very overconfident. Hint: streams of bubbles refill your air meter. Your air meter equals your health.

* [[Totally Radical|You Ripper:]] Nearly 90% of TY's dialogue consists of Australian slang.

** Australian slang that even some ''Australians'' haven't heard, at that!

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Every. Single. Game. At least the evil plan varies in each one...

* [[You Have to Burn the Web]]: Often to continue onward, or to get to a collectible for Hundred Percent Completion. Oddly, they're frictionless.

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