History PlayingWith / GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere

** Unless [[AssholeVictim you]] annoy him enough. Then he'll '[[CurbStompBattle fight]]' you simply to [[OffingTheAnnoyance Off The Annoyance]].[[note]] "[[WhatTheHellHero killed by Grimmy for being an annoyance]]? [[BewareTheNiceOnes Considering how much it takes to set him off]], that's a guaranteed ticket to hell."[[/note]]

** Unless [[AssholeVictim you]] annoy him enough. Then he'll '[[CurbStompBattle fight]]' you simply to [[OffingTheAnnoyance Off The Annoyance]].

* '''Double Subverted''': But on the next to final level, you meet the ''[[TheRealRemingtonSteele real]]'' Grim Reaper.

** The Grim Reaper is a leftover stock Boss from [[UsefulNotes/BetaTest early development]] that can still be triggered if you perform a few specific glitches.[[note]]Due to major changes in the game's coding, actually fighting [[GlitchEntity the glitch fest it is now]] is [[GameBreakingBug highly disrecommended]][[/note]]

* '''Enforced''': "This game has pieces of an artifact for the players to collect -- so the Grim Reaper would be a good boss for the game."

** The Grim Reaper wasn't there for you but one of the recently deceaseds.

* '''Conversed''': "What's the Grim Reaper doing here? I thought this game was [[SurpriseCreepy about cute little bunnies]]."

* '''Exaggerated''': The Grim Reaper shows up as a boss in a [[LevelAte dessert level]] in a platform game.

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** The Grim Reaper turns out to be [[ScoobyDooHoax an ordinary bad guy in disquise]].

* '''Justified''': The BigBad of the game has the power to summon anything that the player character fears.

* '''Played For Laughs''': The Grim Reaper showing up causes everyone present to hilariously ''[[MassOhCrap lose their shit]]''. [[TheStoic Stoic characters]] [[NotSoStoic freak out]], everyone is going "WHAT THE FUCK?!" while some characters may or may not [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere decide to exit the situation]] via the nearest [[ThereWasADoor wall]], [[DestinationDefenestration window]], or [[NoEscapeButDown cliff]] and the scene is milked for as much comedy - [[BlackComedy black]] or otherwise - as possible.

* '''Played For Drama''': The fact that the Grim Reaper showed up in an otherwise grounded, realistic, setting is the first indication that there's something seriously wrong with the world the characters live in. The heroes (and even the villains!) are shown to have serious trouble coping with the revelation that most of what they thought they understood was false.

* '''Played For Laughs''': After defeating Lord Evulz the true final boss shows up - [[IntimidatingRevenueService an IRS agent]] upset about how the heroes haven't been paying any taxes on the obscene amount of wealth they have earned and churned through over the course of the game.

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* '''Inverted''': You play as the Grim Reaper after spending time as an adorable cartoon animal.

** When the {{Player Character}} is fighting rats in a basement at the start of a game, suddenly an {{Eldritch Abomination}} comes of nowhere, trying to end the game early.

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* '''Defied''': All of the bosses are logically placed.

* '''Deconstructed''': The Grim Reaper's appearance causes the people of the world to live in constant fear that he -- or another Giant Space Flea -- will pop up out of nowhere and attack them.

* '''Subverted''': The Grim Reaper is revealed to be the OneWingedAngel form of the game's BigBad.