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Present in most action games, where people can say cheesy stuff and get away with it. Usually spoken by the hero, before or after wasting a dude.
The Beauty and the Beast unit is an elite section of female soldiers who suffered from crippling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and were then given special suits to turn them into incredible soldiers. They serve as Liquid Ocelot's most powerful enforcers in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Boulders that one has to escape are often implemented in games as a homage to Indiana Jones.
In video games, breaking the fourth wall occurs when a game becomes aware of its nature as a game, or when a character directly acknowledges the player.
Games that look at the darker side of fairy tales. American McGee's Alice is an excellent example of one.
An evil corporation in Segagaga whose dominance in the video game market threatens to drive Sega out of business. Dogma is a parody of the real-life Sega's former rival in gaming hardware, Sony.
In order to avoid licensing issues, many games simply create fictional car brands.
Sporting events that are set in the future. These sports are often extremely violent and may feature robots, mechs, or cybernetic implants.
The concept of a game referencing another game through mockery, parody or even directly. A game reference to the same franchise does not count.
Graphic Filters are removable filters that change the look of the graphics in a game. They can range from making a game look like an old film, to smoothing the pixellated graphics of an old game.
Nothing helps set a game in a specific point in time more than having a few famous faces from history drop by to say hi.
With the internet in full swing, some games reflect its leak into popular culture by making references to the World Wide Web.
Joke characters are characters in video games that provide humor, and are often parodies of characters from other games, or parodies of famous celebrities.
These games feature devices that bear strong resemblances to real-life game devices, yet are named differently and are used for purposes other than gaming.
A time honored tradition among the Monkeys of Monkey Island. At, first it was a way monkey's would wage war, now it is more of a game.
The Neko Majin are a species of magic, cat-like demon creatures in manga created by Akira Toriyama, parodying his famous "Dragon Ball" manga.
The famous enemy from the Duke Nukem franchise. Half pig, half police officer.
Referencing a TV show, celebrity, song, trend, historical event, etc. is one of the easiest ways to get a laugh. This can be either a throw-away gag, like the name of an achievement, or the main subject of the game.
Many games pull lines of dialogue directly from movies. This is not always done in the context of a parody or tribute, and may only be immediately identifiable to the contemporary audience.
A joke or reference that appears throughout a series of games.
Satire is a form of humor that ridicules aspects of real-world society and culture, usually making a serious but indirect point about the subject that the player is allowed to infer. Games such as Metal Gear, EarthBound, Grand Theft Auto, and Fallout, for example, satirize American culture.
In-game jokes or Easter eggs involving references to characters or events from earlier in a game or the game's series.
When a musical performance happens in a game, often this is used for comedic purposes.
User-made image files that can be tagged on walls in-game.
The Handsome Men are a team of Super Sentai-esque terrorists who appear in the Alter Ego chapter of Killer7.
A race of engineered teddy bears with a short temper. They were created by Professor Von Kriplespec
Major religion of the game Dead Space. Members believe that the scientist Michael Altman discovered an alien artifact on Earth and was later assassinated for it.
Matt fought these wafer-thin soldiers in Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard.
Warfathers represent the Tainted Coil's elite hierarchy units. They are upgradeable ranged infantry and can spawn lesser units.
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