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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The LISA trilogy is a series of indie games developed by Austin "Dingaling" Jorgensen. Each of the games in the series has "LISA" in the title, take place in the same universe, and share themes such as physical and psychological abuse, mental illness, human depravity, and substance abuse. Released on September 10th, 2012, the original LISA (later re-named "LISA: The First" to avoid confusion with the sequels) is an Adventure Game created using RPG Maker 2003 that explores the non-specific but not exactly vague ways that the unfortunate circumstances of a young girl's life have affected her. She not only tries to escape from them, but she also tries to escape from the man at the center of it all as well. You can download it here.Following in the tradition of Yume Nikki, the player guides Lisa through various worlds, connected to a lobby by different doors, and must collect different items and navigate obstacles in order to progress through her journey. The horror elements are mostly atmospheric, preferring haunting, creepy music and bizarre environments that are left quite available for the player to observe to jump scares and brief glimpses of monsters.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })On November 21st, 2013, Austin released a demo for his next game, "LISA: The Painful RPG", as a reward for one of its Kickstarter goals being reached. You can download it here. Then, on December 15th, 2014, Austin finally released the full game. But it wasn't a Yume Nikki-inspired Adventure Game like last time. Instead, it was an Earthbound-style RPG sidescroller taking place in a world without any women. The protagonist is a bald, aging and troubled martial artist named Brad Armstrong. When Brad's adopted daughter Buddy, the (supposedly) last female on Earth, gets kidnapped, Brad sets out on a journey to rescue her while facing the horrors of a world filled to the brim with idiots and perverts, and up to 30 recruitable party members, each with their own unique personality and abilities. One of the more notable features of the game is its "sacrifice" system. Sacrifices are everywhere in the game, such as the choice of either having your arm chopped off or a valuable party member slain. It's called "The Painful RPG" for a reason.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })A DLC epilogue, Lisa: The Joyful was released on August 24th, 2015. Taking place after the events of Lisa: The Painful RPG. It focuses on Buddy trying to conquer Olathe while uncovering the mysteries of her world and her past.Compare and contrast other indie RPGs with a MOTHER flavor, such as Ib, OFF, Undertale and Space Funeral. Though we're not sure if this game is TEARING YOU APART.Consider also Lisa The Pointless and Lisa The Hopeful, two fangames made by different people that take place within the same world, both playing out concurrently with the plot. They act as interesting Foil's to the main trilogy, and both tell different stories with different themes.
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Anyone Can Die: It is completely possible for all of your party members (except for Brad, of course) to be killed, either by game events or by a few extremely dangerous enemies that will kill rather than incapacitate your members.
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: In a world where women are extinct, porn magazines have become such a valuable commodity that people use them as currency.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: There's very little humor, a lot more subdued visuals and the games color palette is subdued compared to the last game.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The strange image of Sticky in Brad's Joy-induced fight with him. This symbolic Sticky has a very phallic shape, asks Brad not to be angry with him for having sex with/most likely raping Buddy, and when he is killed, has some kind of clear outer layer surrounding himself, with a protrusion emerging from the top of it.
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Big, Screwed-Up Family
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Armstrong family is filled with some really messed up people. Marty, the patriarch, is a slovenly, abusive drunkard who molested his daughter, and possibly forced his son to do the same. His children, Brad and Lisa, had absolutely no control over their childhoods as their father ruined most aspects of them, to the point of driving Lisa to suicide. Lisa had also become psychologically manipulative to cope with her horrific abuse, leading to her driving Bernard/Buzzo, her boyfriend, to certain insanity. Brad, on the other hand, tried his best to live his life, but his excessive violence and Joy addiction, amongst other things, would end up ruining him, even in death. Dustin/Rando, Brad's adoptive son, was extremely meek and cowardly, which he made an attempt at addressing by training in martial arts under Brad; This wouldn't protect him from his horrific facial disfigurement at the hand of Bernard/Buzzo, and still affects him throughout The Painful RPG and The Joyful, with the little control he had of his own army, and begrudgingly working with Buddy in betraying his attempts at peacekeeping in Olathe by killing the other warlords. He does grow more of a spine by the end, thankfully. Buddy, Brad's adoptive daughter, was initially the least screwed-up of the Armstrongs. Once she became the bargaining chip of the entirety of Olathe, however, she got increasingly distrustful of everyone; Brad, especially, due to his dubious actions in his Joy-induced attempts to save and protect Buddy, becomes the brunt of her mixture of anger and sadness, realizing that the her own adoptive figure was the cause of her many, many problems in the series. This bleeds into The Joyful, leading her to become a controlling, psychotic nomad who holds no remorse in killing the warlords of Olathe in her quest for power.
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Encounter Repellant: The masks essentially serves as this if you want to avoid unnecessary encounters in the towns.
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The Worf Effect
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The Worf Effect: The entire Rando Army (plus possibly Rando himself) completely flatten Buzzo's Joy Gang with few casualties, cementing them as not only the bigger threat, but also turning it into this trope. When Brad fights them by himself, however, they get destroyed. Justified in that Brad is turning into a Joy mutant at this point, and the stronger a person is before mutation, the stronger the mutant becomes. Brad, being one of the strongest people in the entirety of the wasteland, naturally produces one hell of a mutant.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: Large chunks of backstory aren't elaborated on at all in the main story, and are only discernible through incidental texts, bonus scenes in Pain mode, interviews with Austin Jorgensen and the Kickstarter reward art book. It's possible to play the entire main quest without even finding out who the game's actual villain is.
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Unreliable Narrator: Due to her Joy usage, Buddy hallucinates throughout the game.
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Sound-Only Death
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Sound-Only Death: Russian Roulette games end with a Smash to Black punctuated by a gunshot.
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Multiple Endings
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Multiple Endings: A number of different ones, dependent on whether you took the Joy vaccine or not, along with certain actions, causing two separate large endings and then 3 separate epilogues. The two endings: Free: Buddy comes to terms with Brad, Buzzo, Rando and her legacy, and decides to use the vaccine on herself. The somewhat sentient Brad-Mutant acts as her pet, and she controls the Joy mutant hordes with her biological fathers trumpet. Cut to Buddy years later, grown up and powerful, and now with a child. Queen: Buddy rejects the cure and becomes a Joy mutant, ripping Brad apart and living with Rando's body, now the largest and most powerful joy mutant in Olathe. The three epilogues: Yado Yado discusses his master plan of taking over the world with joy mutants with an unknown person (heavily implied to be Buddy's mother) and ends with him shooting her in the chest. Lisa: Buzzo and Lisa discuss her abusive life, and Lisa asks Buzzo to maim her with a saw so that Marty won't touch her anymore. It's unclear whether or not Buzzo went through with it, and whether or not she died from the maiming, or if the maiming did nothing to stop Marty, and this is what drove her to suicide.* (Obtained by going to the cave before confronting Yado) Father: A young Brad talks to his father, who forces him to drink his first beer after being asked how to be tough. He then says that he will take Brad (who is most likely intoxicated) to "go see his sister", heavily implying that he forced Brad to rape Lisa, or watch him do it. This is what most likely drove Brad out of the house and fuels his guilt.* (Obtained by going to the cave wearing the Joy mask before confronting Yado)
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: As one of the Kickstarter rewards is to be made into a character in the game, there are characters who are based on recognizable figures. For example, you can come across Jim Sterling as well as Matt and Pat. The Bonus Boss, Satan, is Mike Nnemonic, with his in-game identity as a trucker mirroring Mike's previous real-life job as such.
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Easy-Mode Mockery
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Easy-Mode Mockery: In a mirror to Painful's pain mode, an update to Joyful added Larry Stinz who offers to make the game easier, which involves a stupidly overpowered weapon, 99 healing items, and two hilariously easy boss fights against Larry and a Scarecrow, after which the game spits you out to the main title. It was apparently added after a rude Steam user complained that Joyful was too hard.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: Rooster's basic attack is called "Slap". Another name for a Rooster is "Cock". It's a Cock Slap. The Marty spiders. They're a "Daddy Long Legs".
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Inn Security
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Inn Security: Resting at campsites can be risky; you never know what you might wake up to... Averted with the actual inns, though. Even the inn in Area 2, with the creepy music and the weird looking proprietor.
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Adaptational Villainy: A few prominent kickstarter backers fall into this. Matt and Pat will blow up a town if they get their hands on dynamite, and Mike Nnemonic is the Bonus Boss, Satan. Averted in the case of "Slave Lord" Jim, which fits Jim Sterling's online persona.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: In a world with no females, society has completely collapsed. With the human race doomed to extinction, everyone is hopeless.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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The Wallys section- a pretty funny and calming area of the game that parodies fast-food ends with Brad entering the restaurant that the food comes from and seeing that "Wally" is a deranged psychopath whose face has been melted off, making the delicious Wallyburgers out of human meat, which quickly turns to intense nightmare fuel.
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Black Comedy
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On the hilarious side, you cannot do anything else for the orphans aside from burning them alive.
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Ironic Name: Lisa: the Joyful is anything but.* (Double subverted if you count the usage of Joy, which there is an abundance of, but the user actually feels nothing when under the influence)
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Some characters, like RT or Crisp, admit that they've hated Brad the whole time and can't wait to pummel his face in, and they're not exactly wrong. Justified in Crisp's case however, considering that the only reason he's even in your party is because you took his boyfriend hostage.
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Spiritual Successor: To Nier, with the whole Father Figure whose actions and intervention actually do more harm than good.
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World of Symbolism: Everything can be seen as evidence of Lisa's really horrible life, although for some of it, it's up to the player to decide exactly how it all adds up.
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Parental Abandonment: Dr. Yado abandoned his daughter Nancy (now know as Buddy) as part of his plans.
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Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: And will attempt to assault you if you approach the shopkeepers without a mask. Then the shopkeepers eventually turn into Joy Mutants and attack you regardless.
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Fantastic Drug: Joy, a painkiller that doubles your attack and defense and eventually mutates you into a hideous monster.
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Ax-Crazy
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The Joyful: The amount of Joy mutants frighteningly grow as Doctor Yado's plan comes to fruition, and while there are some organized attempt to fight them, a cult that worships the mutants kills anyone that tries. Peaceful characters like Rando and Mr. Beautiful also die, leaving the world in the hands of Ax-Crazy conquerors like Buddy.
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Noob Cave: The ravine where Brad wakes up is plastered with signs written by Terry Hintz, offering tips about the controls and whatnot.
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After the End
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After the End: Set in a Fist of the North Star-esque post-apocalyptic wasteland during the dying days of humanity.
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Gendercide: An unexplained event known only as "the Great White Flash" somehow wiped out every woman on the planet. However, Buzzo later makes reference to a hidden group of women, which isn't elaborated on.
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Lethal Joke Character
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Lethal Joke Character: Terry starts out as bar none the weakest character in the entire game, but after leveling up a bunch, Terry becomes a fairly good healer (if a bit squishy). Level him up to the near-max, and Terry gains some truly devastating attacks, including the strongest attack in the game, full stop. Birdie is a drunkard who initially seems useless due to being, well, a drunkard, that requires being drunk to actually be effective. His basic move isn't even an attack- it's the ability to make himself drunk. If leveled up, Birdie becomes a fairly strong support/tank hybrid with a move that has a guaranteed chance to Oil (and a lower chance to blind) opponents, causing fire damage to be multiplied by 250%. He also has a good full party heal, and decent single-target attacks. Considering that both Brad and Mad Dog, two of the most powerful characters in the game, have fire moves, Birdie suddenly becomes freakishly useful and borderline necessary for Satan, the Bonus Boss. Bo cannot attack at all- his basic attack is a dial combo that can be used to perform songs. Despite this, Bo can be ludicrously useful as a support, with numerous buffs for your party, AOE debuffs for the enemy, and a debuff remover for your whole party. On the side of enemies, a lot of ridiculous looking enemies turn out to be surprisingly dangerous. The crowner has to be Kim Sex Machine, a male stripper with low health. And also has two insta-kill moves, which is typically reserved for mutants and bosses.
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Russian Roulette
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Russian Roulette: Brad is forced to play with his gang members at least once during the course of the game, and you can go back and play again. Most players are hesitant because of the risk, but it's one of the games most plentiful sources of mags, plus it nets you a decent pistol-type weapon and Buckets, a Disk One Nuke.
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Kill 'Em All
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Kill 'em All: By the end of the series, all the main characters except for Buddy are dead. As for the background character, there are the remnants of Buzzo's gang, and the Easter Egg W2D worshippers, with the fate of the other half of Olathe unclear.
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Badass and Child Duo
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Also possibly a deconstruction of Badassand Child Duo. Being raised by a broken, traumatized man who has no problems taking the lives of others (optionally while also in the middle of the apocalypse) probably isn't very healthy for a child's mindset.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_399d8918
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3b4abb27
type
Double Meaning
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3b4abb27
comment
Double Meaning: Bloodiest Wolf, the chieftain defending the last blood tree, cryptically tells Brad that "she does not belong to you." Subsequent dialogue shows that he's referring to the blood tree, but the line can be taken as referring to Buddy as well.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_3b4abb27
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3bbf3fef
type
Recurring Riff
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3bbf3fef
comment
Recurring Riff: A sequence of notes that first appeared in Lisa The First's tracks "The Sireen's Call" and "The Royal's Call", appropriately, all tracks based around this riff in The Painful RPG's OST are referred to as "[something]'s Call".
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3bbf3fef
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LISA (Video Game) / int_3bbf3fef
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7
type
Take That, Audience!
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7
comment
Take That, Audience!: The Rope World, where Lisa will spend an unfairly long time climbing a rope to get to a platform... which just has a big hand sticking up out of the ground, flipping her the bird.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7
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LISA (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3f0310d6
type
Magikarp Power
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3f0310d6
comment
Magikarp Power: For most of the game Terry Hintz is utterly useless, but at his final level becomes incredibly powerful.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3f0310d6
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LISA (Video Game) / int_3f0310d6
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3fef1f9b
type
Optional Party Member
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3fef1f9b
comment
Optional Party Member: Almost everyone. Out of the 30-or-so recruitable party members, only 4 join you over the course of the main story.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_3fef1f9b
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LISA (Video Game) / int_3fef1f9b
 LISA (Video Game) / int_40680cf6
type
Stupidity Is the Only Option
 LISA (Video Game) / int_40680cf6
comment
Stupidity Is the Only Option: Before the third crossroads, you can clearly see the Joy gang hiding. You still have to trigger their ambush to continue on.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_40680cf6
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LISA (Video Game) / int_40680cf6
 LISA (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e
type
Bittersweet Ending
 LISA (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e
comment
Bittersweet Ending: The "Free" ending ends with Rando, Buzzo and all the warlords (including the good ones) dead, and Buddy with serious psychological scars, but also with Yado dead, a Joy mutated Brad somewhat sentient and docile and most importantly Buddy grown up, healthy, safe from mutants, and with a child.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e
 LISA (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9
type
No Fair Cheating
 LISA (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9
comment
No Fair Cheating: Buzzo was designed to be an unbeatable enemy, with ridiculously high stats and an AOE attack to boot, so attacking him at all is a bad idea. If you somehow do defeat him, he points out how bad of an idea this was and ends up destroying the world. Demon X is an optional boss who, like Buzzo, is also an enemy you cannot win against. If you somehow do end up beating him, he calls you out for this before giving you a game over.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9
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LISA (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9
 LISA (Video Game) / int_446c5792
type
Villainous Rescue
 LISA (Video Game) / int_446c5792
comment
Villainous Rescue: Buzzo captures Mutant Brad before he can kill Buddy. Yado commands a Mutant to stop Bolo from touching Buddy.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_446c5792
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type
Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting
 LISA (Video Game) / int_45332ff5
comment
Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Not surprising given one of the game's inspirations, but Brad and many of his party members are deadly martial artists.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_45332ff5
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type
Game Mod
 LISA (Video Game) / int_45bf382b
comment
Game Mod: There's one for Joyful called "Joyful Gameplay changes and additions Mod." It changes the gameplay somewhat and adds some extra scenes and events. You can download it here. There is another mod. "LISA: The Joyful - Arkantos". A pseudo fan dlc or expansion to Joyful, It takes place in a new continent called Arkantos with it's own story and characters. You can download it here.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_45bf382b
 LISA (Video Game) / int_48081842
type
The Stinger
 LISA (Video Game) / int_48081842
comment
The Stinger: After seeing the dying thoughts of Brad (including content such as "Taste her, It's your fault" and "Kill her, Brad Armstrong), we are treated to the sight of Brad, fully mutated. The mutant Brad drags his body over to Buddy where she sleeps, and calls her Lisa, crawling up to Buddy right before the Smash to Black. If you've taken the Joyless ending, you're treated to a conversation between Buzzo and Yado.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_48081842
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type
Use Your Head
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4873d055
comment
Use Your Head: Rage Ironhead is a wrestler who specializes in headbutting his enemies to death. Brad has several moves that involve tackling his enemies headfirst.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_4873d055
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4c709317
type
Useless Useful Spell
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4c709317
comment
Useless Useful Spell: Completely averted, most status effects skills also do damage, and bosses are just as vulnerable as normal enemies with few exceptions.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4c709317
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LISA (Video Game) / int_4c709317
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4cb7f0d8
type
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4cb7f0d8
comment
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: A big twist given right at the beginning of the game is that Rando is still alive. Guess who doesn't make it to the end of the game! The green Salvation Ranger can be found in a secret area if the player collects a certain special item. He remains friendly even if Buddy talks to him without a mask. At some point after you finish The List, he commits suicide offscreen. Bob Friday and the recurring merchant with drawers on his back turn into Joy Mutants after beating the first three bosses. The former is killed offscreen, while the latter will ambush you if you try to talk to him.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4cb7f0d8
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_4e16382e
type
Standard Status Effects
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4e16382e
comment
Standard Status Effects: In addition to the usual ones (poison, paralysis, crying, etc.), there are recurring debuffs such as withdrawal and depression. They can be cured with Joy.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4e16382e
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LISA (Video Game) / int_4e16382e
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type
Downer Ending
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b
comment
Downer Ending: No matter what happens, Brad dies and transforms into a mutant in the end. There are slight variations, but that's it.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
type
Wham Line
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
comment
Wham Line: From the Pain Mode exclusive ending scene:
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LISA (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b
type
The Atoner
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b
comment
The Atoner: Buzzo after realising that forcing Brad to overdose didn't alleviate his guilt over Lisa's death.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b
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LISA (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9
type
Early-Installment Weirdness
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9
comment
Early Installment Weirdness: Lisa: The First is a game very similar to Yume Nikki, in which you just walk around weird places, instead of a side-scrolling RPG like the two posterior titles. It's also the only game that doesn't take place in the post-apocaliptic Olathe.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9
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LISA (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9
 LISA (Video Game) / int_504a1991
type
Body Horror
 LISA (Video Game) / int_504a1991
comment
Body Horror: Strange distorted monsters that used to be men dot the lands as difficult mini-bosses. They are implied to have been mutated by overdoses of Joy. In the ending, Brad turns into a Joy mutant due to Buzzo forcing him to overdose and starts crawling towards Buddy.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_504a1991
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LISA (Video Game) / int_504a1991
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type
But Thou Must!
 LISA (Video Game) / int_504e271f
comment
But Thou Must!: Averted: the game assumes you're taking Joy* (Buddy did consume Joy sometime before meeting Marty so she already starts the game addicted to the stuff), but you never actually have to. Although it is extremely hard to defeat all the warlords without taking joy at least once.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_504e271f
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LISA (Video Game) / int_504e271f
 LISA (Video Game) / int_50b05d30
type
Disproportionate Retribution
 LISA (Video Game) / int_50b05d30
comment
Buzzo was designed to be an unbeatable enemy, with ridiculously high stats and an AOE attack to boot, so attacking him at all is a bad idea. If you somehow do defeat him, he points out how bad of an idea this was and ends up destroying the world.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_50b05d30
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LISA (Video Game) / int_50b05d30
 LISA (Video Game) / int_51300dbf
type
FatBastard
 LISA (Video Game) / int_51300dbf
comment
Fat Bastard: Marty, a surly drunk that controls every aspect of his daughter Lisa's life while also sexually abusing her.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_51300dbf
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LISA (Video Game) / int_51300dbf
 LISA (Video Game) / int_52488c54
type
Drowning My Sorrows
 LISA (Video Game) / int_52488c54
comment
Drowning My Sorrows: Brad copes with his visions by taking doses of Joy and drinking. The game proper begins with him waking up after a relapse.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_52488c54
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LISA (Video Game) / int_52488c54
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type
Rape as Backstory
 LISA (Video Game) / int_524f94d3
comment
Rape as Backstory: And regular story, too.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_524f94d3
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LISA (Video Game) / int_524f94d3
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No Pronunciation Guide
 LISA (Video Game) / int_52b9a5ad
comment
No Pronunciation Guide: Olathe is a real town in Kansas, and its pronounced o-LAYTH-uh, not o-LATH.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_52b9a5ad
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LISA (Video Game) / int_52b9a5ad
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5313c266
type
Bookends
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5313c266
comment
Book-Ends: The story begins with Brad and Buddy together, coming across a lone daisy, and ends with a much different Brad passing by a similar lone daisy.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5313c266
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LISA (Video Game) / int_5313c266
 LISA (Video Game) / int_53f5119f
type
The Dragon
 LISA (Video Game) / int_53f5119f
comment
The Dragon: Interestingly, one of the minor Mooks in Rando's Army, Clint Moss, seems to be this to him. Aside from driving Rando's car, he seems to be Rando's confidant on his weak voice, and despite Brad steam rolling the entire army, Clint Moss lasts longer than the rest and is the only enemy in the final phase to be enraged rather than scared.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_53f5119f
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LISA (Video Game) / int_53f5119f
 LISA (Video Game) / int_54bb502b
type
Nobody Poops
 LISA (Video Game) / int_54bb502b
comment
Nobody Poops: Subverted and played straight; there are toilets all over the place, but there's urine (presumably Marty's) all over the floor. Interacting with them plays a weird retching sound note actually a pitched-up version of a grunt from Shenmue though Word of God has stated that it wasn't meant to represent vomiting.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_54bb502b
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LISA (Video Game) / int_54bb502b
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5534431f
type
Money for Nothing
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5534431f
comment
Money for Nothing: In the second half of the game, the shopkeepers start turning into Joy Mutants and the game keeps pushing you toward using Joy, so the only real use for Mags is if you want to try out easy mode.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5534431f
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
type
Fan Sequel
 LISA (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
comment
Fan Sequel: There was a canceled one, "LISA: The Spiteful". It follows the point-of-view of a new and unknown protagonist before and after several life events. Here's a trailer. And now there's another one, "LISA: The Hintful". A fan continuation starring Terry Hintz (also cancelled). Here's a trailer. Yet another fangame has been announced, "LISA: The Beautiful". It takes place in an alternate timeline where, instead of Buddy and Brad hiding away from everyone, Buddy and Brad are on the run from degenerates, perverts, and criminals trying to get their hands on Buddy. Here's a trailer. The demo for a new fangame called "LISA: The Pointless" is now out, It can be downloaded here. Here's the trailer as well. Now has its own tropes page as well.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
 LISA (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7
type
Nostalgia Level
 LISA (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7
comment
Nostalgia Level: The Resort Island is very reminiscent of Lisa: The First, using the same music and imagery.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7
 LISA (Video Game) / int_571bfe2
type
Super Serum
 LISA (Video Game) / int_571bfe2
comment
Super Serum: A report posted in the Joy laboratory implies the project may have been started to create one of these for the military. An extra scene unlocked by completing the game without taking Joy opens with a report stating that it is a failed version of this.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_571bfe2
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_581f6468
type
Hero of Another Story
 LISA (Video Game) / int_581f6468
comment
Hero of Another Story: Rando, who leads his own Badass Crew; all of them with different armor, weapons and personalities, not unlike Brad's.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_581f6468
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LISA (Video Game) / int_581f6468
 LISA (Video Game) / int_588d766f
type
BlackAndGreyMorality
 LISA (Video Game) / int_588d766f
comment
Black and Grey Morality: A recurring theme. Brad's motives seem the most noble, but he's willing to do a number of horrendous things to achieve them. He even admits to Buddy that everyone's motives were selfish, including his, since he never considered her feelings and denied her freedom in the name of protecting her.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_588d766f
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_598c4d8a
type
A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
 LISA (Video Game) / int_598c4d8a
comment
A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: There are hints throughout the game that Rando was actually Brad's old student; they even have the same stutter, and calls him Master Armstrong. However, this trope is subversion since Rando has the best intentions for Buddy. Played straight with other pupil of Brad. A flashback shows Brad finishing their students training. If he interact with one of them, Brad will comment that he's too quiet recently and asks if something happened at home, which the boy doesn't reply. As reveleaded in Lisa: The Joyful, that boy was Buzzo and the reason of his "quietness" is implied to be related to Lisa, his friend which he had a crush on, being abused by Marty.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_598c4d8a
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LISA (Video Game) / int_598c4d8a
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5b565147
type
Meaningful Background Event
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5b565147
comment
Meaningful Background Event: Polka dotted flags that's the same pattern as Doctor Yado's appears throughout the second trailer.
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LISA (Video Game) / int_5b565147
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9
type
Central Theme
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9
comment
Central Theme: Vicious Cycle of Abusive Relations, and Cycle of Revenge over course of generations until one can break the cycle.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9
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LISA (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f
type
Save Scumming
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f
comment
Save Scumming: How most players approach Russian Roulette. Notably the nearest save point to the warehouse is several screens away specifically to discourage this, and Pain mode limits you to using each save point only once to make this mostly impossible.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f
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LISA (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
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Through the Eyes of Madness
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
comment
Through the Eyes of Madness: Buddy starts to fall apart due to joy use near the end of the game, hallucinating parts of the final battle.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
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LISA (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d88876d
type
Chocolate Baby
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d88876d
comment
Chocolate Baby: One Flashback heavily implies that Rick's son isn't really his.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d88876d
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LISA (Video Game) / int_5d88876d
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c
type
Save-Game Limits
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c
comment
Save-Game Limits: In Pain Mode, save points are now one-time use and disappear in an explosion thereafter. They also disappear even if you cancel out of the save menu, so it's best to really think about whether to save at a certain location before consulting that crow.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c
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LISA (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5db59a03
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Brown Note
 LISA (Video Game) / int_5db59a03
comment
Brown Note: The interspersed hums that can be heard whenever Brad hallucinates about his father, usually accompanied by a red image of what appear to be organs. The note is heard for the last time just before Brad attacks and kills Marty. An astute player might notice that the sound is very similar to the noise Joy Mutants make when they use their scream attack.
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Good All Along
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It's implied by both the Joyless ending and the Pain Mode ending that Rando is not a villain at all, but rather a former student of Brad's who seeks to repair the world. And Buzzo (who is implied to be the one who cut off Dusty’s face in the Pain Mode ending) is just The Dragon to Dr. Yado, who created both Joy and the Great Flash (and who is also the Trumpet Man, who can be seen hanging around several of Dr. Yado's labs).
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Stupid Statement Dance Mix
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Stupid Statement Dance Mix: The main instrumentation in "Work Harder" is a (very) repeated sample of Delin's grunt from Shenmue II, which was previously used in Lisa: The First.
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type
Nintendo Hard
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comment
Nintendo Hard: Oh yes. The fights aren't much easier than in the first game, and you only have two (later one) party members. In the later half, you're almost certainly going to have to turn to Joy to survive the boss fights.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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comment
Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the end credits, strange bits of text appear interspersed between the actual credits, and you may not notice them at first. They contain phrases such as "Special Thanks: Martin Armstrong", "Lisa Lisa Lisa Lisa Love", and "Wake up Buddy Buddy Buddy". The Stinger reveals that these were Brad's dying thoughts before he mutated.
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Gender Rarity Value
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Gender Rarity Value: All over the place, Buddy is revered as a messiah by some and treated as an object by others, even Brad unintentionally denies her the freedom to be herself. The only ones in the game that seems to care about her as a person are Rando and Marty.
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Replacement Goldfish
 LISA (Video Game) / int_643618e5
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Replacement Goldfish: Dusty and Buddy replaced Lisa for Brad. However, where Brad begins to legitimately care about Buddy, however misguided that care may be, he does not acknowledge his adopted son Dusty, and in the Joyful, he plainly tells Buddy that he never had a son at all.
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Creepy Souvenir
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Creepy Souvenir: Should you opt to have Buzzo cut off Buddy's nipple, he gives it to you as a reminder of your choices. Additionally, if you let Buzzo cut off your arm the first time he asks to, he'll have it on the spike of his helmet the next time you meet him.
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Permanently Missable Content
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comment
Permanently Missable Content: The shopkeepers will start a fight with Buddy if she walks in without a mask and can ultimately be killed, locking her off from their shops. Even if you don't kill them, they eventually turn into Joy Mutants toward the end of the game.
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type
Author Avatar
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comment
Author Avatar: Widdly 2 Diddly, the name Austin Jorgensen went under as the game's composer, appears as a man wearing a disco ball on his head and dancing wildly (and unresponsively) to his own personal rave in a small house on the way to the Joy Factory. Upon returning, you find he's hanged himself, and in the Joyful you can find his followers worshiping a sort of shrine dedicated to him. According to Word of God, he's hailed as a musical hero of the Olathian wastelands, and as such, the acronym "W2D" is graffiti'd in several areas throughout the game.
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Mook Horror Show
 LISA (Video Game) / int_6860368a
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Mook Horror Show: In the finale, Brad becomes one.
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff
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Serious Business
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Serious Business: Pro-wrestling. The EWC promoter even lampshades it, noting that losing a Eternal Championship ranked match is a game over when normally wrestling matches are a non-lethal KO, because losing a push in wrestling is as bad as losing your life.
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Secret Character
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comment
Secret Character: Almost every party member is optional, making them all this. Some characters stand out as more secretive as others though. Buckets is unlocked by clearing the Russian-Roulette sidequest. Harvey Alibastor is found by completing the Fishmen Court sidequest in the secret Fishman Village. Similarly, Carp can be coerced into joining your party by handing him the Green Paste, also obtainable in the Fishman Village. Geese Thompson can be obtained by sleeping in the Area 2 Inn (the one that he resides in) three times, talking to him each time you wake up. Ollie Nickles is found by traveling to Garbage Island, locating him, and paying off his "huge" loan of 2 mags. While that sounds relatively simple, Garbage Island is an entirely optional area that most people won't know even exists due to the obtuse way of finding the map to it, hidden in the Fishman Village. Ditto for Fly Minetti who is also situated on Garbage Island, but can be obtained by beating a relatively simple sidequest, specifically the "Shopping Cart Race" sidequest.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: A frequently used trope. The most important suicide is by Lisa herself, after the abuse by Marty in the First gets too much. Her suicide ends up creating or influencing the motivations for Brad and Buzzo, and is something that constantly haunts the two characters across the next two games. Random background characters will kill themselves; sometimes, you meet them and a bit later you'll find them dead, such as the rave dancer in the second game. One fight in the Painful RPG is against a man that will blow his brains out on the first turn.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: In the "Free" ending.
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Silliness Switch
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Silliness Switch: 666 Kill Chop Deluxe seems to accompany the sillier encounters in the game, which is appropriate given its strange content.
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Nominal Importance
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Nominal Importance: Every enemy you fight (as well as every party member you can recruit) has a first and last name, even the Kickstarter backers. Austin mentioned in an interview that he'd given everyone some kind of identity to "keep encounters fresh", making every encounter with someone more special the first time, since you can't tell who's an NPC, enemy, or recruit.
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd
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Underground Monkey
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Underground Monkey: The poisonous snakes in Area 2's swamp are stronger Palette Swaps of the snake enemy from Area 1's playground. Otherwise, this trope is averted, with most of the enemies being unique and one time-only encounters.
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Guide Dang It!
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You will be attacked by the Scholar Boys after leaving Factory Town (which is not something that's alluded to), and they'll go on to destroy Factory Town if you're defeated; this will kill off everyone in the town and prevent you from recruiting Mad Dog.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8
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Zero-Effort Boss
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comment
Random background characters will kill themselves; sometimes, you meet them and a bit later you'll find them dead, such as the rave dancer in the second game. One fight in the Painful RPG is against a man that will blow his brains out on the first turn.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_6edb0066
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Disney Death
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When you inspect Rando's body after his defeat, it says that "he's done" instead of "he's dead", which foreshadows that he only suffered a Disney Death, leading to his appearances in the Joyful.
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_70506bc7
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Going Cold Turkey
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Going Cold Turkey: Brad attempts this early on, dumping his supply of Joy over a cliff so he can focus more on making Buddy happy. However, his nightmarish visions eventually drive him back to the pills, leading to the start of the game. He can attempt to quit Joy in-game, which changes certain dialog. In gameplay, every so often, all characters who have previously taken Joy will be inflicted with a withdrawal status.
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Surreal Horror
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Surreal Horror: In both subtle and not so subtle ways.
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Endless Daytime
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Endless Daytime: One of the secondary effects of The Great White Flash is that Olathe is almost always stuck in midday, with night rarely if ever coming.
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Not Quite the Right Thing
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Not Quite the Right Thing: While sounding like a noble and well mentioned goal at first, Brad's quest to save Buddy not only costs humanity its future, but also throws what's left of it into chaos.
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Violence is the Only Option
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Violence Is the Only Option: There is no way to advance the game without beating Rick to a bloody pulp with a spiked baseball bat whether you want to or not.
 LISA (Video Game) / int_7a7ec1e8
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And Now for Someone Completely Different
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comment
And Now for Someone Completely Different: The game now focuses on Buddy.
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WastedSong
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Wasted Song: The first phase of the final boss battle uses "Brokentooth March," which is a fitting song as you fight a trumpet wielding madman. The first phase is also the shortest and the boss doesn't attack you in this phase.
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The Alcoholic
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comment
The Alcoholic: Practically everyone left in the wake of the Flash. Justified when you consider the fact that alcoholic beverages are one of the few options for hydration that can reliably survive a post-refrigeration society.
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Background Music Override
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Background Music Override: Present during the Bloodmoon Mountain segment.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: Buzzo implies that there's a group of women hidden off from the rest of the world, but it's not further elaborated on. Although, Sweetheart from The Joyful is heavily implied to be a woman and be from this group.
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Denser and Wackier
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Denser and Wackier: While the story still deals with the dark themes of the previous game, it's also incredibly silly in places as you deal with some ridiculous characters and situations.
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Deconstruction
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comment
Deconstruction: Of RPGs in general, and the notion that these games have no "sacrificing". Party members can die and not be brought back to life in certain circumstances, Brad is a far cry from normal protagonists and is someone you do NOT want to be, and the game ends with Brad dying, succeeding in his quest but losing literally everything else. Also possibly a deconstruction of Badassand Child Duo. Being raised by a broken, traumatized man who has no problems taking the lives of others (optionally while also in the middle of the apocalypse) probably isn't very healthy for a child's mindset.
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TookALevelInJerkass
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Took a Level in Jerkass: While Buddy acted cold toward Brad, she was never nearly this hostile in the Painful. This is possibly due to the Joy she's been taking and she seems to mellow out toward the end.
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type
Mr. Exposition
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comment
Mr. Exposition: Parodied by Nern, who begins telling you the history of the Great White Flash and what happened to all the women, but then get's distracted and ends up rambling about how he was jealous of his neighbor's hot wife.
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Action Commands
 LISA (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403
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Action Commands: All of Buddy's sword techniques.
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Asshole Victim
 LISA (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4
comment
Asshole Victim: It's a Crapsack World full of perverts, many of whom openly state their intentions if they find 'The Girl'. However, not everyone that Brad can kill necessarily does something to deserve his wrath, and there's some serious Deconstruction thrown in here and there. Marty Armstrong is beaten severely to a pulp and blown to bits by Brad Armstrong, but after all the shit he put him and Lisa through, he had it coming. When Tardy Hernandez starts ranting to Brad that he didn't help him out for nothing and "I want a piece of [her]", it's pretty obvious what's coming next. Similarly, depending on the makeup of your final party, certain allies may admit the same thing.
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type
Joke Character
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comment
Joke Character: Terry Hintz, your first party member, deals terrible damage, has low health and starts out with a weak heal move that costs most of his SP. He gets better after a while, but it takes a good four or five levels before he's even barely competent.
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Blinding Bangs
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Blinding Bangs / Hidden Eyes: Lisa has these, and they're more likely than not symbolic.
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Loser Son of Loser Dad
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comment
Loser Son of Loser Dad: Brad becomes this, following in his father's abusive and addicted footsteps.
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Take a Third Option
 LISA (Video Game) / int_950bbfa7
comment
Take a Third Option: Subverted; whenever Buzzo gives you a Sadistic Choice, there's usually an option to fight him. Doing so is a very bad idea; at best, he'll just beat the hell out of you and then offer you the choice again, at worst, he'll beat the hell out of you and then do both the options. You may also end up with the fourth option with you fighting him and winning. The result: Buzzo ends the world in retaliation. Early on you're given the option of either giving up all your items (I.E. Some mags, a handful of restorative items, some armor, and a weapon for a later optional party member) or letting Terry get kidnapped. Theres nothing stopping you from leaving all the loot laying around, choosing Terry, and only having to give up a handful of Joy.
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There Are No Therapists
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There Are No Therapists: Neither Lisa nor Brad seem to have ever gotten any kind of help for their trauma, as Lisa commits suicide at a fairly young age, and Brad is still traumatized to the point of hallucination and substance dependency.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Dr Yado finally takes center stage in this game.
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Big Bad Duumvirate
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Big Bad Duumvirate: There are two main antagonists in the game. The first, and most obvious, is Rando, a Rao styled warlord who leads a massive, brutal army and is Brad's main opponent in saving Buddy. The second antagonist is Buzzo, an enigmatic warlord who is heavily involved in the Joy trade and is obsessed with psychologically breaking Brad for unclear reasons. It's implied by both the Joyless ending and the Pain Mode ending that Rando is not a villain at all, but rather a former student of Brad's who seeks to repair the world. And Buzzo (who is implied to be the one who cut off Dusty’s face in the Pain Mode ending) is just The Dragon to Dr. Yado, who created both Joy and the Great Flash (and who is also the Trumpet Man, who can be seen hanging around several of Dr. Yado's labs).
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Luck-Based Mission
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Luck-Based Mission: Russian Roulette. It's entire possible to run out of party members and be unable to advance; Brad isn't allowed to play, and you need to win three rounds in order to move on. There's no tactic for it besides Save Scumming and hoping you get lucky.
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DiskOneNuke
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Disk One Nuke: Getting some party members earlier than intended can cause you to trounce certain areas of the game. Buckets can be gotten as early as the beginning of Area 2, and while obtaining him does require you to complete the Russain-Roulette sidequest, losing a large amount of your party or savescumming like crazy, his mid to lategame damage and abilities can become a huge help. Harvey Alibastor can also be obtained as early as Area 2, and his excellent damage output, high bleed, sleep, paralysis and pissed chance abilities, excellent single-target nuke and even a debuff-remover for a single party member can be very useful the entire rest of the game.
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Greater-Scope Villain
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Greater-Scope Villain: Lisa. Her influence scarred Buzzo mentally, causing him to push the blame onto Brad and ruin his life, which then caused Brad to become abusive to Buddy, which caused Buddy to become the bloodhungry conqueror we see in this game. Although since Lisa was still a young girl abused to the point where she committed suicide, it might be more appropriate to say Marty.
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False Friend
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False Friend: Subverted. While Rage says he was only in it for Buddy, he will waste turns crying or stalling.
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: Buddy goes from a girl barely trying to survive to a ruthless conqueror.
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Interface Spoiler
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Interface Spoiler: On July 7, 2014, the game went on sale to coincide with the release of the digital artbook. The image used to advertise the sale? The scene from the ending where a dying, Joy mutated Brad gives Buddy the wilted flower as Buddy gives him a comfort hug.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: During the flashback to Brad's childhood in the intro, if you wander all the way to the farthest right edge of the neighborhood you'll stumble upon and weird looking man with a suit, sunglasses, and a large looking nose. If you interact with him all he'll say is "Olathe... It's perfect." After beating the game and seeing the ending and cutting to black we hear a conversation between two men about Joy, Dr. Yado and Buzzo. As the conversation goes on, it suddenly dawns on you who that person was and what he was talking about, Dr. Yado was talking about causing the flash and how Olathe was going to be the perfect testing ground for Joy. If you talk to the Salvation Rangers after they retreat into their cave, Blue will tell you that he's been feeling strangely violent lately. He's been taking Joy, and later mutates into a Joy monster that kills all of the other Salvation Rangers. If you played the first game, you probably noticed that Sticky and "Tricky Rick" have a similar appearance. This is not a coincidence. In the intro, Brad stumbles onto Buddy as an infant. He tries to calm her down, and even manages to toss her into the air a few times...but at one point he fails to catch her. It's a subtle hint as to how Brad might not really be the best person to be a parent to Buddy. The Indian tribesmen defending the blood tree all utter cryptic, ominous phrases after Brad defeats them in battle. They're referring to Yado, and they're discretely describing his fathership of Buddy, his ability to control the joy mutants, and his plan for world domination that manifests over the course of Joyful. When you inspect Rando's body after his defeat, it says that "he's done" instead of "he's dead", which foreshadows that he only suffered a Disney Death, leading to his appearances in the Joyful.
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One-Man Army
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Brad also counts. At the start of the game he's not much more than a washed up druggie, and by the end of it, has slaughtered everyone in his path, even the entire Rando Army. His starting class is even "Nobody".
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Sarcasm Mode
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Ollie Nickles is found by traveling to Garbage Island, locating him, and paying off his "huge" loan of 2 mags. While that sounds relatively simple, Garbage Island is an entirely optional area that most people won't know even exists due to the obtuse way of finding the map to it, hidden in the Fishman Village. Ditto for Fly Minetti who is also situated on Garbage Island, but can be obtained by beating a relatively simple sidequest, specifically the "Shopping Cart Race" sidequest.
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Bare-Fisted Monk
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Bare-Fisted Monk: Brad is a martial artist who starts off with a lot of health and fights primarily through punches and kicks and can even learn a Kamehame Hadoken. Depending on his choices, he might end up losing his fists and is forced to simply resort to biting at his enemies.
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The Dog Was the Mastermind
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The Dog Was the Mastermind: Turns out Dr Yado is the random trumpet man who just seemed like an Easter Egg character.
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Protagonist Journey to Villain
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Protagonist Journey to Villain: Buddy goes from just trying to survive to wanting to slaughter all in her way, and becomes increasingly brutal as the game progresses. If you got the joyless ending in the previous game, you'll know why- Joy (which Buddy is taking) causes the user to become more violent and angry, along with fueling their desires to a twisted degree and making them unable to think about anything else, willing to kill any and all in their way.
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Amazing Technicolor Battlefield
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Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: Most battle screens have (still) backgrounds made from a distorted, overlayed version of whatever the background was at the time right before the battle, very likely as a homage to EarthBound's trippy battle backgrounds.
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One-Hit Kill
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One-Hit Kill: A LOT. Expect squishier party members to die a lot if you don't stunlock enemies or deal enough damage in short bursts. One of the most scary features of the game is that some powerful minibosses and bosses come packing with special versions that one hit kill AND permanently slay your party member that was targeted.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: Done beautifully several times over the course of the game. One minute you'll be laughing, the next, paralyzed with fear or disgusted. The EWC, a hilarious pro-wrestling sendup full of wrestling in-jokes, memes and affectionately poking fun at it's source material is a few screens away from the third crossroads, where you either give up Buddy's fucking nipple, or your current party, and either your arm, severely limiting your moveset and your stats or all of your supplies- healing items, bottles, the works. The Wallys section- a pretty funny and calming area of the game that parodies fast-food ends with Brad entering the restaurant that the food comes from and seeing that "Wally" is a deranged psychopath whose face has been melted off, making the delicious Wallyburgers out of human meat, which quickly turns to intense nightmare fuel. Dismal Island, a weird bonus area with some absurd humor like a man whose mustache is so long you can climb up it and a wacked out slave trader ends with an extremely difficult Joy mutant fight, laden with instant kills. In contrast with the foreboding Devil's Bathhouse and the somber Blood Mountain, Holly Wood is a sunny level with goofy Non Player Characters, quirky landmarks, and cheerful music. Then you climb up to the top and see the Joy Mutant forms of the Salvation Rangers. Just a few screens after, you fight Hawk, who has two permakill moves. In Pain Mode, he's a Joy mutant. In five screens you experience four lashes: On the first screen you meet Percy Monsoon, attempting to finish a bowel movement only for you to save him from a spider, then on the second screen you reunite with Rick, only to interrogate and go berserk on him, on the third screen you meet Joshie Brighteyes, a man with two eye patches, who tries to ambush you but only succeeds in swinging his knife wildly at the air, on the fourth screen you meet Buzzo again, who either takes your arm or kills a party member, and then finally on the fifth screen you get to run over a bunch of mooks on a motorbike for giggles.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Buzzo never gets any comeuppance despite being a total psychopath throughout the entire game.
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Handicapped Badass
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Handicapped Badass: Depending on decisions taken, Brad can end up with both of his arms severed. While this does severely impact his fighting ability, he's still capable of performing kicks and tackles.
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Secret Level
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Secret Level: All the Islands; Garbage, Resort and Dismal. Garbage houses some items, two party members and a funny sidequest, Resort Island is definitely definitely totally not at all a horrifying place, and Dismal Island is... uhh.. weird.
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Off-Model
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Off-Model: Brad's amputated arm (should you choose to cut it off) is usually consistent, but certain sequences like Shardy's boat trip will have it on the wrong side.
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: Brad, failing to protect Buddy, succumbs to despair and dies. He then turns into a joy mutant hours later. Rendering all of Brad's sacrifices meaningless.
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Face–Heel Turn
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Face–Heel Turn: For varying degrees of Heel, but near the end when Brad is asked to let Rando keep Buddy for her own good, and he refuses, your party turns on you, forcing you to kill them before facing Rando's army alone. Anti-Villain: Some of them, like Terry and Harvey, join against Brad because they genuinely believe that he's in the wrong. These characters will sometimes gain the crying ailment or waste turns regretting it. False Friend: Subverted. While Rage says he was only in it for Buddy, he will waste turns crying or stalling. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Some characters, like RT or Crisp, admit that they've hated Brad the whole time and can't wait to pummel his face in, and they're not exactly wrong. Justified in Crisp's case however, considering that the only reason he's even in your party is because you took his boyfriend hostage.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: As per the tradition of the Lisa series. In the beginning, we see Brad force Buddy to kill a man to teach her to fight. Also, Yado isn't exactly the best biological father.
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Rape and Revenge
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Rape and Revenge: The essence of the plot, though it's a lot weirder than the phrase suggests.
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: Averted with Bullet Tom, who spends turns in between rounds trying to load his gun.
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My Greatest Second Chance
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My Greatest Second Chance: After first finding Buddy, Brad refers to her as his "second chance".
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Death by Despair
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Death by Despair: Buzzo finally succumbs and turns into a Joy mutant after realizing that killing Brad didn't do anything but hurt more people, and that there is no way to atone for Lisa's death.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: A lot of early enemies. Sure guys, try to get at Buddy, especially while she's with the former conqueror Rando (granted, he's weaker but he's still fairly powerful).
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Revenge by Proxy
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Revenge by Proxy: Buzzo specializes in this, targeting Brad's party members in order to force Brad to choose between himself and their lives.
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Blood from the Mouth
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Blood from the Mouth: Powerful enemies that are put into critical health will start coughing up blood, dealing themselves a bit of damage. Joy mutants also cough up blood occasionally.
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Sadistic Choice
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Sadistic Choice: Many, primarily concerning whether you leave a party member to die in order to save yourself, or risk your life to save them. In line with the game's cynical tone, choosing to save your party members almost always results in Brad getting disfigured and getting an appropriate stat deduction.
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Cool Mask
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Cool Mask: Buddy can collect and wear masks throughout the game, including Rando's, Buzzo's army's and A Terry Hintz mask.
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Non-Player Character
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In contrast with the foreboding Devil's Bathhouse and the somber Blood Mountain, Holly Wood is a sunny level with goofy Non Player Characters, quirky landmarks, and cheerful music. Then you climb up to the top and see the Joy Mutant forms of the Salvation Rangers. Just a few screens after, you fight Hawk, who has two permakill moves. In Pain Mode, he's a Joy mutant.
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Boss Bonanza
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Boss Bonanza: Much like The Painful RPG, the final bosses are this. Consisting of Sweetheart, Dr. Yado/the Rando hallucination, the Brad hallucination, and finally Joy Mutant!Buzzo.
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The Last Dance
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The Last Dance: By the time Brad faces off with Rando, he's very clearly mortally wounded, but he will still stop at nothing to, in his mind, rescue Buddy.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Inverted. At one point, after one of Buzzo's goons hits Buddy, Brad begins to cooperate so he won't do it again.
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted. After the brunt of the abuse is done by men (namely Marty and the many pervert gangsters of Olathe) we find out that Buzzo fell in love with Lisa, who manipulated and abused him emotionally to mutilate her with a buzzsaw. The scene after leaving the Joy Lab also implies that she made him shut out his female friends, possibly due to insecurity. This led to Buzzo tormenting Brad and blaming him for his own mistakes. He atones for this, right before turning into a mutant
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Character Title
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Character Title: Also a One-Word Title, as the game is named after Lisa.
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
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comment
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In particular, Rooster and Crisp only join Brad's gang because their loved ones are being held hostage (Rooster's chicken Goldie and Crisp's boyfriend Toby), but Fly just really hates Brad due to being dethroned as the cart racing champion of Garbage Island. RT also hates Brad for uncertain reasons.
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One-Woman Wail
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comment
One-Woman Wail: "Voices Hum", something of a lyric-less variation of the ending theme, "Voices", used as the title screen theme.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Brad is out of commission during the battle between Rando's and Buzzo's armies at the end of Chapter 2. He only sees the aftermath.
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type
It Runs in the Family
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comment
It Runs in the Family: The Hernandez siblings (Fardy, Shardy, and Tardy) all deal with transportation services. Fardy joins Brad as a party member and gives him the ability to fast travel with his truck and uses said truck for attacks, Shardy gives boat rides to the secret islands, and Tardy also runs a boat service but you have to help him build a new one in order to look for Buddy. Continues in The Joyful: after killing Lardy, Rando says that he transported supplies all around Olate.
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Video Game Caring Potential
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comment
Video Game Caring Potential: The enemies at Mr. Beautiful's pacifist village are completely optional and can be spared save for Mr. Beautiful himself and a Joy mutant.
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Gotta Kill Them All
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Gotta Kill Them All: Buddy's goal is to kill all the remaining warlords of Olathe so that she alone rules the land.
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Killed Off for Real
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One of the most scary features of the game is that some powerful minibosses and bosses come packing with special versions that one hit kill AND permanently slay your party member that was targeted.
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type
Pro Wrestling Is Real
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comment
Pro Wrestling Is Real: Aside from the few times you are asked to throw the match, the wrestling matches you can take part in are as real as any other fight. Parodied further as if you choose to take on the singles or doubles matches, the boss will tell you that losing in wrestling is like losing your life. With one exception, plus the royal rumble being excluded, losing does result in a game over.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
 LISA (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5
comment
Subverted by Marty, who, though initially an abusive parent to Brad and Lisa, is later seen taking care of Buddy and treating her relatively well, keeping her safe and telling her not to take the Joy pills. This doesn't stop Brad from murdering him on the spot, though.
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type
Cerebus Syndrome
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comment
Cerebus Syndrome: Despite still having a few humorous moments, Lisa: The Joyful is much more dramatic and filled with Tear Jerker scenes than Lisa: The Painful, ironically.
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Anti-Villain
 LISA (Video Game) / int_d001c42c
comment
Anti-Villain: Some of them, like Terry and Harvey, join against Brad because they genuinely believe that he's in the wrong. These characters will sometimes gain the crying ailment or waste turns regretting it.
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An Arm and a Leg
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comment
An Arm and a Leg: Depending on the choices he makes, Brad can end up paying this way.
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: Also a Character Title, as the game is named after Lisa.
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type
Developer's Foresight
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comment
Developers' Foresight: If you go to the final area with no one in your party at all, where Brad would normally fight his party he instead fights a hallucination called "Shadow of Friends". If Brad loses both his arms, he can no longer equip armbands. If Harvey gets kidnapped, the ransom note will say "...fish?" in place of "guy." Also, Carp's ransom note will refer to him as a "creepy fish guy". If you actually bother to go back to the construction site after killing everyone there for TNT, a guy will be there to block you from entering, bluntly telling you that you're not welcome.
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Schmuck Bait
 LISA (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed
comment
Schmuck Bait: When you go to the Bees's place, you can talk to a guy looking into a pool of water who tells you that he thinks he sees the fish people in there. He doesn't, but the fish people ARE at a 1 tile-wide hole a little further away from the brothel. In Area 1, there's a creepy old man standing next to a bloody dresser. He offers you a special object for only 15 mags! It's an item called "Trust for Suckers", and all it says is "You're an idiot. The End."
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What the Hell, Hero?
 LISA (Video Game) / int_d39e327f
comment
If you actually bother to go back to the construction site after killing everyone there for TNT, a guy will be there to block you from entering, bluntly telling you that you're not welcome.
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Walking Shirtless Scene
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comment
Walking Shirtless Scene: Damn near nobody wears a proper shirt in Olathe (outside of the occasional football gear, poncho, or tank top), the most you'll find a majority of the population with is a shawl covering only their shoulders.
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Give Him a Normal Life
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comment
Give Her A Normal Life: Brad tries to invoke this with Buddy, hoping to be a better father to her than Marty was to him and his sister and to keep her as safe and happy as possible. Subverted, however - he ends up returning to Joy and following the same path of addiction and neglect toward Buddy, inevitably becoming just like his father.
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The End of the World as We Know It
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You may also end up with the fourth option with you fighting him and winning. The result: Buzzo ends the world in retaliation.
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Weird Currency
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Weird Currency: Porno magazines.
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Memento MacGuffin
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Memento MacGuffin: The Necklace. We're never told why it's important, just that Lisa treasures it.
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 LISA (Video Game) / int_dc2c2968
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Superpowerful Genetics
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Superpowerful Genetics: According to Austin Jorgensen, this is how people in Olathe have the power to do things like shoot fireballs, levitate, and do incredible things in general.
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Drugs Are Bad
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Drugs Are Bad: The Fantastic Drug Joy makes the user happy, stronger, and in combat it even heals. However, it is also highly addictive, inflicting addicts with the withdrawal status effect, crippling them in combat, and causes the user to be ruled by their base desires. It also happens to turn the user into a Humanoid Abomination over time. Joy is the wedge that gets between Brad and every person he cares about, and ultimately leads to his downfall.
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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comment
From Nobody to Nightmare: The man who cuts Buddy's face effectively declares he's doing this: after having such a shitty life, he's "making his mark on history!" Brad also counts. At the start of the game he's not much more than a washed up druggie, and by the end of it, has slaughtered everyone in his path, even the entire Rando Army. His starting class is even "Nobody". Also Terry, if the player chooses to give him to Columbo's gang early on. He returns as "Terry the Terrible", an enemy capable of insta-killing party members.
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Expy
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Expy: Rando is one for Raoh. He's even an Anti-Villain.
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Rake Take
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comment
Rake Take: Weezy Silver's Kung Fu Gauntlet claims to be the toughest Dojo yet, but it's really just a series of these, and they don't even do any damage.
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GameplayAndStoryIntegration
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Gameplay and Story Integration: Unlike the Joyful, using Joy doesn't affect the end game because Buddy is canonically suffering from Joy withdrawal. Additionally, with the scarcity of healing items in the difficult late game, it's pretty much impossible to go through the game joyless.
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Hub Level
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comment
Hub Level: The Lobby
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Biting-the-Hand Humor
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comment
Biting-the-Hand Humor: BURN: KICKSTARTER BACKERS is one of the many, many things featured in the Credits Gag.
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Groin Attack
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comment
Groin Attack: Brad's fight with Sticky after being forcefed Joy seems to be this. Played for laughs with a short sidequest wherein Brad and co. get jumped by a weirdo who kicks Brad in the crotch and then runs away. You can catch back up to him and initiate combat, followed by Brad kicking him in the crotch and instantly winning.
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Big Damn Heroes
 LISA (Video Game) / int_eb81c601
comment
Big Damn Heroes: Subverted. Right before Brad's final faceoff with Rando's army, the party members he'd previously abandoned show up...in an attempt to stop him, turning it into Fighting Your Friend.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Buddy, while this is semi-justified due to her intense danger of being killed or raped, she acts openly hostile to people like Rando and Tooley, who don't want to hurt her.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: A recurring theme. During the opening, Brad gets badly beaten by a Gang of Bullies by taking the heat for his friends, then has to limp home afterwards. Choosing to protect your allies also often leads to Brad getting disfigured in the process.
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Bonus Boss
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comment
Bonus Boss: Harry, a hidden Joy Mutant. He has 99,000 HP, higher than even Satan or Sweetheart but beating him gives Buddy an upgraded weapon and lets you find Salvation Green's home and the Joy Mask, the latter of which is required for the alternate epilogues.
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Anti-Grinding
 LISA (Video Game) / int_f11c3835
comment
Anti-Grinding: Nearly every enemy encounter is hand placed and nonrepeatable. The only enemies that respawn are the Shadows in dark caves and snakes in the Playground and Fishman Swamp, but their experience and mag payout is so minuscule (and, in the case of mags, nonexistent with the snakes) that you're better off fighting the hand placed encounters in most cases.
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Redemption Equals Death
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comment
Redemption Equals Death: After Buzzo saves Buddy from Yado's Joy mutant Sweetheart, he is badly mutilated by it, and finally succumbs to his overdose on joy and becomes a mutant himself.
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Sprint Shoes
 LISA (Video Game) / int_f194de9
comment
Sprint Shoes: The child's bicycle allows Brad to travel at increased speed and jump gaps.
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit
 LISA (Video Game) / int_f3cf30d9
comment
Arbitrary Headcount Limit: No matter how many people you recruit, you can only have a four-man party at any time.
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Dark Reprise
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comment
Dark Reprise: "Goodbye Baby", played when climbing the insanely tall rope ladder and during the first round of the fight with Rando's army, gets a slower, more dramatic revision simply titled "Goodbye" during the very next round of the fight with Rando's army.
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Wake-Up Call Boss
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comment
Wake-Up Call Boss: Charmy is the first mutant boss you face and the first one capable of killing off party members. Even when exploiting his weakness, it's still a long and dangerous battle.
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Ambidextrous Sprite
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comment
Ambidextrous Sprite: Averted in regards to Brad, whose sprite changes depending on the amount of limbs he has left and will shift accordingly depending on the way he's facing. Even in the beginning, after his head injury, Brads scars will shift sides depending on the way he's facing.
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Video Game Cruelty Potential
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Fardy Hernandez, who you can choose to leave behind.
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Distressed Dude
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Distressed Dude: If you rest outside of an inn, you may find one of your gang members kidnapped for ransom. Toby, Crisp Ladaddy's lover, becomes this if you hold him for ransom in exchange for Crisp joining you. Fardy Hernandez, who you can choose to leave behind. Parodied with Rooster Coleman and his prize hen Goldie, who you can hold hostage for a crazy amount of mags or his compliance in joining your party.
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RunningGag
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Running Gag: Ridiculously long climbs that leads to statues of middle fingers.
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Hopeless Boss Fight
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Hopeless Boss Fight: Whenever Buzzo gives you a Sadistic Choice, there is also the option to fight Buzzo instead. However, Buzzo is massively overpowered and takes out even maximum level characters in a single hit. It is still possible to defeat him if you get lucky. If you do that, Buzzo says you shouldn't have done that, and you get a game over anyway. Demon X, the villain? of the Salvation Rangers also accuses you of cheating if you beat him and gives a gameover.
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Final Death
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Final Death: A recurring danger, what with kidnappings, poisonings and bosses with One-Hit KO skills, it's very unlikely you'll get through the game without losing someone.
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment: An early Sadistic Choice gives you the opportunity to give up Terry to keep your things. Given that Terry is initially useless, a player would be fairly tempted to trade him away. Terry will later return as a Bonus Boss at his full potential.
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Theme Naming
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Theme Naming: Plenty of characters have names with relevant meanings, but several of them double as slang for, or references to, various aspects of sex, body parts, or innuendo, illustrating exactly why this world of sex-starved men devoid of women is so dangerous for a little girl (for instance, one enemy carries the last name of Diddles, as in child molestation). The earliest (and arguably most blatant) are Sticky, Rick, and Cheeks. Rick gets special mention due to the presence of "Tricky Rick" in the first game though of the three of them, Sticky is the rapist. Maybe.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: The guy who leads the orphanage in Area 1 is the guy that should have gotten the degree instead of the bulldozer boss. He even refers to this as the "second worst thing to happen in his whole life".
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: Austin Jorgensen is an acclaimed martial artist, and a few of the melee characters are given explicit fighting styles in the artbook. Some are obvious, like Birdie having Zui Quan, but even characters like Terry Hintz have some theory behind them.
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Death Seeker
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Death Seeker: The deranged mascot Wally, reveals to Brad that he wishes for death, when encountered in the pain mode.
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Addled Addict / int_e5d95f1e
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Ambidextrous Sprite / int_e5d95f1e
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American Video Games / int_e5d8e2fe
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And Then John Was a Zombie / int_e5d95f1e
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Apocalypse Anarchy / int_e5d8e2fe
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Attempted Rape / int_e5d8e2fe
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Bad Bedroom, Bad Life / int_e5d8e2fe
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Bathos / int_e5d95f1e
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Berserker Tears / int_e5d95f1e
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Boss Bonanza / int_e5d95f1e
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Bottomless Magazines / int_e5d95f1e
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Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting / int_e5d8e2fe
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Butter Face / int_e5d95f1e
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Can't Catch Up / int_e5d8e2fe
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Cheese Strategy / int_e5d8e2fe
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Coin-Targeting Trickshot / int_e5d95f1e
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Construction Vehicle Rampage / int_e5d95f1e
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Cool Mask / int_e5d95f1e
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Crowdfunder Cameo / int_e5d8e2fe
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Desert Punk / int_e5d8e2fe
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Desperately Craves Affection / int_e5d95f1e
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Dominance Through Furniture / int_e5d95f1e
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Drone of Dread / int_e5d8e2fe
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Dry Crusader / int_e5d95f1e
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Easy-Mode Mockery / int_e5d8e2fe
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Explorer Horror / int_e5d95f1e
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Family Theme Naming / int_e5d95f1e
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Fan Remake / int_e5d8e2fe
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Fantastic Drug / int_e5d95f1e
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Father's Quest / int_e5d95f1e
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Fighting Your Friend / int_e5d8e2fe
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Functional Addict / int_e5d95f1e
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Fuzzball Spider / int_e5d8e2fe
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Gendercide / int_e5d95f1e
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Gun Fu / int_e5d95f1e
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose / int_6e66c31e
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Healer Signs On Early / int_e5d8e2fe
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Hell Hotel / int_e5d95f1e
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High-Tier Scrappy / int_e5d8e2fe
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold / int_6e66c31e
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Implied Rape / int_e5d95f1e
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In the End, You Are on Your Own / int_e5d95f1e
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Indie Game / int_e5d8e2fe
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Inn Security / int_e5d95f1e
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Instakill Mook / int_e5d95f1e
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Joke Character / int_e5d95f1e
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Junkie Parent / int_e5d95f1e
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Last Request / int_e5d95f1e
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Last-Second Ending Choice / int_e5d8e2fe
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Last Survivor Suicide / int_e5d95f1e
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Late Character Syndrome / int_e5d95f1e
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Life-or-Limb Decision / int_e5d8e2fe
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Living MacGuffin / int_e5d95f1e
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Lord British Postulate / int_e5d95f1e
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Man Bites Man / int_e5d95f1e
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Man on Fire / int_e5d8e2fe
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Masked Luchador / int_e5d95f1e
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Mechanically Unusual Class / int_e5d8e2fe
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Mechanically Unusual Fighter / int_e5d8e2fe
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Miss Kitty / int_e5d95f1e
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Molotov Cocktail / int_e5d8e2fe
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My Greatest Second Chance / int_e5d95f1e
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No Dead Body Poops / int_e5d95f1e
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Nominal Importance / int_e5d95f1e
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Non-Linear Sequel / int_e5d95f1e
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Older Hero vs. Younger Villain / int_e5d95f1e
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Optional Party Member / int_e5d8e2fe
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Pain & Gain / int_e5d8e2fe
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Parental Neglect / int_e5d8e2fe
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Permadeath / int_e5d95f1e
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Player and Protagonist Integration / int_e5d8e2fe
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Point of No Return / int_e5d95f1e
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Poverty for Comedy / int_e5d8e2fe
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Pre-existing Encounters / int_e5d8e2fe
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Raised by Dudes / int_e5d95f1e
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Rambling Old Man Monologue / int_e5d95f1e
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Real Song Theme Tune / int_e5d95f1e
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Retronym / int_e5d95f1e
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Russian Roulette / int_e5d95f1e
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Sampling / int_e5d95f1e
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Save-Game Limits / int_e5d8e2fe
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Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up / int_e5d95f1e
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Secondary Character Title / int_e5d95f1e
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Sentai / int_e5d8e2fe
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Serendipitous Survival / int_e5d8e2fe
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Sinister Whistling / int_e5d95f1e
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Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration / int_e5d95f1e
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Special Thanks / int_e5d95f1e
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Speech Impediment / int_e5d95f1e
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Squash Match / int_e5d8e2fe
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Standard Status Effects / int_e5d95f1e
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Stuck Items / int_e5d8e2fe
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Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person / int_e5d95f1e
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Superpowerful Genetics / int_e5d8e2fe
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Surreal Horror / int_e5d8e2fe
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity / int_e5d8e2fe
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That One Achievement / int_e5d95f1e
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The Apunkalypse / int_e5d8e2fe
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The Man They Couldn't Hang / int_6e673f3e
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The Red Mage / int_e5d95f1e
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The Scream / int_e5d8e2fe
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The Victim Must Be Confused / int_e5d8e2fe
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There Are No Therapists / int_e5d8e2fe
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Through the Eyes of Madness / int_e5d8e2fe
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'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain / int_e5d8e2fe
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Title 1 / int_e5d95f1e
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Treacherous Checkpoint / int_e5d8e2fe
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Two-Part Trilogy / int_e5d8e2fe
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Unique Enemy / int_e5d8e2fe
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Unspecified Apocalypse / int_e5d95f1e
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Video Games of 2010–2014 / int_e5d95f1e
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Wasteland Warlord / int_e5d8e2fe
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Wearing a Flag on Your Head / int_e5d8e2fe
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Weird Currency / int_e5d95f1e
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_e5d8e2fe
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Will Not Be a Victim / int_e5d95f1e
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William Telling / int_e5d95f1e
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Womb Level / int_e5d8e2fe
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World of Symbolism / int_e5d8e2fe
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