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* LevelInBossClothing: Dr. Fetus is chasing you aboard the Lil' Slugger, run away from him until his machine malfunctions. In that sense, Lil' Slugger is essentially an AutoScrollingLevel, if an incredibly climatic one.
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* LevelInBossClothing: Dr. Fetus is chasing you aboard the Lil' Slugger, run away from him until his machine malfunctions. In that sense, Lil' Slugger is essentially the AdvancingWallOfDoom of an AutoScrollingLevel, if an incredibly climatic badass one.
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* RiseToTheChallenge: His "fight" has him and Meat Boy running away from a rising massive pile of salt.
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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Dr. Fetus uses gasoline to start a forest fire just before he chases Meat Boy around on a chainsaw on legs.
* LevelInBossClothing: Dr. Fetus is chasing you aboard the Lil' Slugger, run away from him until his machine malfunctions. In that sense, Lil' Slugger is essentially an AutoScrollingLevel, if an incredibly climatic one.
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* BaitAndSwitchBoss: At first, he's ready to throw down with Meat Boy. But then Dr. Fetus floods the factory with salt, at which point Brownie decides that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere getting out alive is more important]]. The "fight" then plays out more like a regular level, as Brownie never attempts to attack in any way.
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* BaitAndSwitchBoss: At first, he's ready to throw down with Meat Boy. But then Dr. Fetus floods the factory with salt, at which point Brownie decides that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere getting out alive is more important]]. The "fight" then plays out [[LevelInBossClothing more like a regular level, level,]] as Brownie never attempts to attack in any way.
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* EasyLevelTrick: Careful jumping can get you past the wall of chainsaws, eventually guaranteeing your victory.
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* LuckBasedMission: The Larries are the only boss in the game that don't act in a perfectly predictable fashion: One larry has a 100% chance to jump at Meat Boy every attack cycle, a second one has a 50% chance and the third has only a 25% to jump. Since you beat them by having them leap into the chainsaws surrounding the arena, the fight can last forever or [[https://youtu.be/9RNZhOMORIs?si=WPCCL2Wd99TIfodI end in around ten seconds.]]
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Nobody loves Dr. Fetus, and that's why Dr. Fetus hates you. [[spoiler:And that's precisely how Nugget saves her parents from his OneWingedAngel UnstoppableRage in the end of ''Forever'', by showing him likely the first genuine kindness he's ever experienced in life. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Right before her parents dole out a well-deserved assbeating.]]]]
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Nobody loves Dr. Fetus, and that's why Dr. Fetus hates you. [[spoiler:And that's precisely how Nugget saves her parents from his OneWingedAngel UnstoppableRage in the end of ''Forever'', by showing him likely the first genuine kindness he's ever experienced in life. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Right before her parents dole out a well-deserved assbeating.]]]]]]
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* EcocidalAntagonist: He likes to burn down forests whenever he can. That comes back to bite him in ''Forever'' when the animals who live in one try to get even.
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* CasanovaWannabe: He's constantly trying to score ladies, but nobody wants to be around him, presumably because he's a fetus, or because of how repulsive he is, or both; the Steam description of ''Super Meat Boy Forever'' even describes him as "an incel version of [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]".
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* CasanovaWannabe: He's constantly trying to score ladies, but nobody wants to be around him, presumably because he's a fetus, or because of how repulsive he is, or both; him for obvious reasons; the Steam description of ''Super Meat Boy Forever'' even describes him as "an incel version of [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]".
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: He looks like a human fetus, but is [[BrainyBaby intelligent]], has superpowers like {{teleportation}}, {{flight}}, [[SelfDuplication multiplying]], and creating energy balls out of thin air, and presumably [[TheAgeless doesn't age.]] Either he's a highly-intelligent human fetus using scientific technology, a fetus-like alien, or [[AntiChrist a satanic being]], if not some other strange creature.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: He looks like a human fetus, but is [[BrainyBaby intelligent]], has superpowers like {{teleportation}}, {{flight}}, [[SelfDuplication multiplying]], and creating energy balls out of thin air, and presumably [[TheAgeless doesn't age.]] Either he's a highly-intelligent human fetus using scientific technology, a fetus-like alien, or [[AntiChrist a satanic being]], if not some other strange creature.age]].
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* FinalBoss: The last hurdle in both ''Super Meat Boy'' and ''Super Meat Boy Forever''.
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* {{Sadist}}: He seems to have no reason for kidnapping Bandage Girl and luring Meat Boy into dangerous paths other than the fact that he hates him and wants to see him suffer.
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* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Befitting of a {{Sadist}} like himself, he [[LackOfEmpathy laughs after killing]] [[spoiler:a perfect clone of Meat Boy (who he despises)]] in ''Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine''.
* {{Sadist}}: He seems to have no reason for kidnapping Bandage Girl (who he also attacks) and luring Meat Boy into dangerous paths other than the fact that he hates him and wants to see himsuffer.suffer. In ''Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine'', his motive for creating clones of Meat Boy is so he can feel like he's killing Meat Boy multiple times. He even [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter laughs after killing]] [[spoiler:the first perfect a clone of him and tries to kill many others]].
* {{Sadist}}: He seems to have no reason for kidnapping Bandage Girl (who he also attacks) and luring Meat Boy into dangerous paths other than the fact that he hates him and wants to see him
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* VillainProtagonist: He's a sadistic EvilGenius and ''Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine'' centers on him trying to perfectly clone Meat Boy (his hated enemy) plus killing any imperfect clones.
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* DistressedDamsel: For most of the first game.
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* DistressedDamsel: DamselInDistress: For most of the first game.
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* DistressedDamsel: In the sequel, to where Meat Boy and now Bandage Girl have to save her. Justified as she's just a baby.
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* DistressedDamsel: DamselInDistress: In the sequel, to where Meat Boy and now Bandage Girl have to save her. Justified as she's just a baby.
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After an entire game of abuse at the hands of Dr. Fetus, she stomps on him until all that is left is a bloody smear.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:After an entire game of abuse at the hands of Dr. Fetus, she stomps on him until all that is left is a bloody smear]].
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* StupidEvil: Even after [[spoiler:his jar breaks and he's left completely defenseless, he still tries to attack Meat Boy and Bandage Girl. [[TheDogBitesBack As expected, this doesn't turn out well for him.]]]]
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* StupidEvil: Even after [[spoiler:his jar breaks and he's left completely defenseless, he still tries to attack Meat Boy and Bandage Girl. [[TheDogBitesBack [[{{Revenge}} As expected, this doesn't turn out well for him.]]]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's seemingly KilledOffscreen.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's and seemingly KilledOffscreen.[[KilledOffScreen kills him offscreen]]. [[spoiler:The epilogue shows that C.H.A.D. is fine.]]
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* ObliviouslyEvil: His attacks during his boss fight seem to be more C.H.A.D. playing around rather than him actually trying to kill Meat Boy. He just happens to be so massive that he [[AccidentalMurder kills Meat Boy by accident]]. His behavior after the boss fight lends credence to this, as C.H.A.D. is simply trying to get Meat Boy's attention and affection like a small puppy.
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* LogicalWeakness: Meat Boy has no skin. Therefore, salt hurts him a lot.
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* FlippingTheBird: [[spoiler:Squirrel does this to Dr. Fetus right before he presses the button on his throne]].
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* ItsPersonal: After Dr. Fetus rampages through the forest in Big Slugger, wiping most of it out and killing several animals, Squirrel declares vengeance against the mad fetus and goes after him with a small army.
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* ItsPersonal: After Dr. Fetus rampages through the forest Chipper Grove in Big Slugger, wiping most of it out and killing several animals, Squirrel declares vengeance against the mad fetus and goes after him with a small army.army.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: [[spoiler:After the Big Slugger explosion wipes the army out, a mortally wounded Squirrel manages to hold out long enough to open the button next to Dr. Fetus' throne before finally dying, his body falling over and pressing the button]].
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: [[spoiler:After the Big Slugger explosion wipes the army out, a mortally wounded Squirrel manages to hold out long enough to open the button next to Dr. Fetus' throne before finally dying, his body falling over and pressing the button]].
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* CrazyPrepared: In ''Super Meat Boy Forever'', Dr. Fetus puts a remote self-destruct system on Big Slugger in case someone tries to use his machine against him. [[spoiler:When Squirrel, Manic Manipulator, and the other woodland animals use Big Slugger to get revenge on Dr. Fetus, he presses a button to blow up his robot suit, and the explosion easily wipes the army out]].
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* CrazyPrepared: In ''Super Meat Boy Forever'', Dr. Fetus puts a remote self-destruct system on Big Slugger in case someone tries to use his machine against him. [[spoiler:When Squirrel, Manic Manipulator, Manic, and the other woodland animals use Big Slugger to get revenge on Dr. Fetus, he presses a button to blow up his robot suit, and the explosion easily wipes the army out]].
* EyeScream: Downplayed. Squirrel's left eye got scarred from Dr. Fetus' Big Slugger rampage and wears an eyepatch to cover it, but aside from the scar itself going across Squirrel's eyelid, there doesn't seem to be wrong with the eye itself.
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* ShoutOut: He starts out as a squirrel that has lost an arm and an eye. By the end of the fourth chapter, he has acquired a bandana, an eyepatch, a beard, face war paint, a prostethic arm, and a mecha - basically becoming an {{Expy}} of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Venom Snake]].
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* ItsPersonal: After Dr. Fetus rampages through the forest in Big Slugger, wiping most of it out and killing several animals, Squirrel declares vengeance against the mad fetus and goes after him with a small army.
* ShoutOut: He starts out as a squirrel that has lost an arm and an eye. By the end of the fourth chapter, he has acquired a bandana, an eyepatch, a beard, face war paint, aprostethic prosthetic arm, and a mecha - basically becoming an {{Expy}} of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Venom Snake]].
* ShoutOut: He starts out as a squirrel that has lost an arm and an eye. By the end of the fourth chapter, he has acquired a bandana, an eyepatch, a beard, face war paint, a
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* CrazyPrepared: In ''Super Meat Boy Forever'', Dr. Fetus puts a remote self-destruct system on Big Slugger in case someone tries to use his machine against him. [[spoiler:When Squirrel, Manic Manipulator, and the other woodland animals use Big Slugger to get revenge on Dr. Fetus, he presses a button to blow up his robot suit, and the explosion easily wipes the army out]].
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Played for laughs. When Nugget inadvertently learns how to do the middle finger from watching Dr. Fetus in ''Super Meat Boy Forever'', Bandage Girl [[ActuallyPrettyFunny finds it funny and laughs.]] Meat Boy, on the other hand, looks on in shocked disapproval while wagging his finger as if saying, "Oi, don't do that!"
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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Wears one in ''Forever'', as an homage to the Old Man in the End of Time from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's seemingly KllledOffscreen.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's seemingly KllledOffscreen.KilledOffscreen.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's seemingly KlllrdOffscreen.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's seemingly KlllrdOffscreen.KllledOffscreen.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's seemingly KlllrdOffScreen.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Is seemingly this towards Meat Boy. While he's looking for Bandage Girl, C.H.A.D sneaks over to try to get a kiss from him, only for Meat Boy to kick him away. Doesn't stop him from trying again until Meat Boy grabs a pillow he's seemingly KlllrdOffScreen.KlllrdOffscreen.
