History Characters / GoingUnder

* EvilIsDeathlyCold: [[spoiler:The harder version of Winkydink Inc has certain rooms bathed in pale blue light with snowflakes fall from the ceiling, implying that those rooms are freezing cold. Then again, certain depictions of Hell have it or at least a part of it described as cold and frozen.]]

* PowerfulPick: The weapon of the Miners and Detonators though some use [[DropTheHammer chisel hammers and sledgehammers instead.]]

* BonusBoss: Has her own mode accessed through the mirror in Jackie's bedroom. Said mode being a gauntlet of the first three dungeons in random order, facing off against shadow versions of the bosses, and finally a showdown with the Imposter herself in her own realm. But wait! There's more! With each successful run, higher difficulties for the extra mode are unlocked.

* AnythingThatMoves: In the Winkydink Inc dungeons, she's able to go on dates with ladies, gentlemen and...slimes.

* TechBro: He's a parody of Silicon Valley businessmen who let their success go to their head and thing that technology can be used to solve any problem, even for applications it really should be used for.

* BerserkButton: Unions. An early task is to cut down a Joblin union and he never properly clarifies why, as well as other dialog hinting at his dislike of them. [[Spoiler: Even after character development where he agrees to the idea of one he still seems to deliberately cut off somebody calling it a union, painting it as a dislike born of cooperate Propaganda rather than any personal hatred.]]

* CluelessBoss: His cheesy dialogue and tendency to blow money on meaningless crap instantly pegs him as a stereotypical Silicon Valley Techbro...except he genuinely thinks he's being helpful, and his major problem is [[spoiler:refusing to believe how manipulative Marv can be. He becomes TheUnfought when he realizes Cubicle won't actually let him save his company, and he's supportive of his employees' desires to unionize in the ending.]]

* SelfImposedChallenge: A fair amount of his missions involve going out of your way to make things harder for yourself, such as beating enemies with just your hands, not dodge-rolling or reaching the final floor without any skills.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: With the hiring of Jackie, Fizzle Beverages is staffed by three men and three women.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: He can grab Canbassadors and will shake them about before tossing them at Jackie turning them into living bombs.

* TeamPet: To Fizzle, to the point where she somehow has her own business card. [[spoiler:She's even considered enough of an employee to be affected by the ForcedTransformation when Fizzle goes under, which ''didn't'' happen to Jackie.]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: Is weirdly unaware of the how strange her workplace is, and doesn't notice the literal dungeons under the office.

* DumbassHasAPoint: despite being scatterbrained and ditzy he's often shown making points people agree with, such suggesting trying to spit on Marv's car as a date or pointing out most people have thought about inflicting violence on their co-workers. He'll then go on to prove it's more a question of if not when he will act smart.

* TechBro: He's a parody of Silicon Valley businessmen who let their success go to their head.

* EvilKnockoff A dark double of Jackie as a full-fledged businesswoman.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Her second phase has her turn into a [[GiantEnemyCrab huge crab monster]] with faster and more ferocious attacks. Either this is yet another in-game reference to the developer, Aggro Crab, or a nod to [[ShadowArchetype what Jackie could've possibly turned into had the curse affected her.]]]]

* ApatheticClerk: Out of all the Fizzle employees, Swomp is the least concerned about the current state of affairs at Fizzle, up to and including [[spoiler:becoming a fishman]].

* CluelessBoss: His cheesy dialogue and tendency to blow money on meaningless crap instantly pegs hum as a stereotypical Silicon Valley Techbro...except he genuinely thinks he's being helpful, and his major problem is [[spoiler:refusing to believe how manipulative Marv can be. He becomes TheUnfought when he realizes Cubicle won't actually let him save his company, and he's supportive of his employees' desires to unionize in the ending.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Denies the fact that he's running both the Styxcoin currency side of the gift shop and the side that accepts normal currency with his only disguise being that he puts his hood up and wears Groucho Marx glasses when operating the Styxcoin currency counter. [[spoiler:Turns out to be true in the last dungeon, where it's revealed that the Groucho Marx glasses one was his brother, who stopped talking to each other when one of them sold the latter's guitar.]]
* ShoutOut: His name is one letter off from [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Sans]].

* MustHaveCaffeine: While it's exemplified more by their boss, they've got a subtle fixation with coffee. Canbassadors weaponize coffee into bombs, giant glass coffeemaker pots are placed over open flames, and their Barista Jelly is suggested to have a lot of job security and overall respect since he's basically in charge of the company's coffee.

* GlobalCurrencyException: {{Downplayed}}; the dungeon's gimmick is that enemies don't drop regular money unless you equip Penny Pincher or Tappi. Instead, they drop an alternate currency STX, which is used to purchase three of the six items in the cafes, or traded for normal money at [[RidiculousExchangeRates wildly unstable rates]] to purchase the other three items.

* RidiculousFutureInflation: Styxcoin went under because the actual cryptocurrency crashed a long time ago. The exchange rate in shops is appropriately atrocious, with one Styxcoin being worth only 0.0025 dollars (or only a quarter of a cent.) It only sees any use because of the workers desperately trying to squeeze it out of the mining rigs (both literally and figuratively), and because Hu$tlebone$ sits on top of the only reserve that can actually do more than make a single purchase or two.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Of the demonic enemies, the male Wimps and Dinkubuses specialize in close combat while the female Winkubuses keep their distance from Jackie and toss damaging heart emojis at her. Downplayed with the Masked Winkubuses who are female and still toss fire and snowflake emojis at Jackie, but also carry around weapons for close combat. Similarly, the Masked Dinkubuses still retain their claw attacks, but can also use dark magic to create powerful magical AOE explosions though centered around themselves.

* PowerfulPick: The WeaponOfChoice of the Miners and Detonators though some use [[DropTheHammer chisel hammers and sledgehammers instead.]]

* CuteSlimeMook: Subverted. The Emoozi slimes are actually nastier people than the HornyDevils; they're the ones who were contributing to its sexually harassing work environment ([[VisualPun they're the slimy members]]).

* HornyDevils: Mostly made up of demons, and work for a dating site; seems to check out.

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Following Fizzle going under, everyone but Jackie and Marv turns into fish monsters. The ending reveals that this is permanent.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's snarky, but she's under a lot of stress, and is pretty nice to people who aren't piling it on her. [[spoiler:Despite her remaining human due to having never been paid by Fizzle, she's more than happy to help save the company and her co-workers from the BalefulPolymorph.]]

* TeamPet: To Fizzle, to the point where she somehow has her own business card. [[spoiler:She's even considered enough of an employee to be affected by the BalefulPolymorph when Fizzle goes under, which ''didn't'' happen to Jackie.]]

* SimpleStaff: Swings around a long elaborate one with a skull on one end and his company logo at the other. [[spoiler:Uses a far less luxurious but more powerful oar when he's fighting as a Ferryman.]]

* AnythingThatMoves: In the Winkydink Inc dungeons, she's able to go on dates with ladies, gentlemen and...slimes in the Winkydink dungeon.

* CondescendingCompassion: [[spoiler:He wants to help Fizzle, only he's willing to gamble on everyone expect his own to allow their company to prosper. His BossSubtitles reflect this.]]

* CluelessBoss: His cheesy dialogue instantly pegs hum as a stereotypical Silicon Valley Techbro...except he genuinely thinks he's being helpful, and his major problem is [[spoiler:refusing to believe how manipulative Marv can be. He becomes TheUnfought when he realizes Cubicle won't actually let him save his company, and he's supportive of his employees' desires to unionize in the ending.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Offhandedly mentions that Winkydink's good for entertainment, seeing people struggle with an emoji-only messenger service to figure out a way to ask for "tail pics".

* IgnoranceIsBliss: Is the only person in Fizzle who seems to be completely unaware of the dungeons beneath Fizzle. Even when she witnesses firsthand the FinalBoss [[spoiler:tearing Cubicle apart and summoning monsters]], she never directly acknowledges afterwards that anything supernatural is happening.

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