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** The fan-submitted stage "The Hardcore Platformer" is ''filled'' with these on the floor and the ceiling (so you can't use Rocket Boots). And you can't cheat via anti-gravity potions- they don't work.

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** The fan-submitted stage "The Hardcore Platformer" is ''filled'' with these on the floor and the ceiling (so you can't use Rocket Boots). And you can't cheat via anti-gravity potions- they don't work. [[spoiler: The last stretch is a fake except for the final spike.]]
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** The fan-submitted stage "The Hardcore Platformer" is ''filled'' with these on the floor and the ceiling (so you can't use Rocket Boots). And you can't cheat via anti-gravity potions- they don't work.
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* DamageSpongeBoss: The giant tea kettle in the desert fortress. It doesn't attack, it simply tests your patience with its ludicrous amount of HP.


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* InfinityMinusOneSword: The scythe, which the blacksmith sells when you reach a certain point in the game. It swings crazily fast and makes a decent amount of damage per swing. It is usually preferred by players over the Giant Spoon of Doom.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Giant Spoon [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]. It's attack speed is slower than a snail with rheumatism, but it does enough damage to kill almost any mook in a single swing.

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* MarathonBoss / ZeroEffortBoss: The teapot. It has no attacks, but ludicrous amounts of health. All you can really do is [[IdleGame leave the game running for hours]] while your fireball-spewing armor picks away at it.

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* MarathonBoss / ZeroEffortBoss: The teapot. It has no attacks, but [[DamageSpongeBoss ludicrous amounts of health.health]]. All you can really do is [[IdleGame leave the game running for hours]] while your fireball-spewing armor picks away at it.


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* SheatheYourSword: You can now switch back to old equipment between quests, even back to fighting barehanded, which minimizes the effect of AttackAttackAttack and allows you to pass the [[spoiler:unkillable ceiling monster that crushes you in retaliation for breaking any of its eggs.]]
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* MarathonBoss: The Giant Teapot from the sequel. It has no attacks and can't move, but it has one million HP and drops the best weapon in the game.
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* MarathonBoss: The Giant Teapot from the sequel. It has no attacks and can't move, but it has one million HP and drops the best weapon in the game.
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* LethalJokeItem: The Giant Spoon is upgradeable into the Giant Spoon of Doom, a crazily overpowered bludgeon capable of [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] most enemies.
* MarathonBoss / ZeroEffortBoss: The teapot. It has no attacks, but ludicrous amounts of health. All you can really do is [[IdleGame leave the game running for hours]] while your fireball-spewing armor picks away at it.
* NotCompletelyUseless: The un-upgraded octopus king crown, though generally pointless, ''is'' actually useful for one thing. [[spoiler:Wearing it allows you to defeat Yourself. Because... it makes you confident, apparently.]]


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* TacticalSuicideBoss: [[spoiler:The developer; see HoistByHisOwnPetard. If he didn't try to nuke you with black holes, he'd be much harder to defeat.]]
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* CallBack: The rats in the cellar are shown as "rat" instead of the ASCII graphics of the other enemies, as a nod to the prequel.
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** InterfaceSpoiler: You know that something's up when [[spoiler: you don't see any spell, potion or action buttons]] when you fight it.
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* EndlessGame: The sea. After the initial waves of fish/jellyfish and seahorses, you'll encounter sharks and sea serpents that will come at you in increasing frequency until you either die or escape.
** The "Super RPG" and "Galactic Wars" games in the arcade. You keep going until you run out of health.
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* AntiMagic: The "Erase Magic" spell, which erases all enemy magic spells on the screen.


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** [[spoiler: Try using any of the more advanced spells against the Developer? He summons a black hole that instakills you. Of course, there's a way to use this to kill himself.]]
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That\'s not really based on Battletoad\'s jet bike level but rather the game \"Copter\".


* GameWithinAGame: The house to the right of the shop has a game console, with a dungeoning game (full of references to the original Candy Box), and some [[NintendoHard obnoxiously difficult]] [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} Battletoads]] type of thing.

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* GameWithinAGame: The house to the right of the shop has a game console, with a dungeoning game (full of references to the original Candy Box), and some [[NintendoHard obnoxiously difficult]] [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} Battletoads]] "Copter" type of thing.

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* BatOutOfHell: The Mayan bat god Camazotz harasses you by dropping tons of minions on you while you fight the Devil.

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* BatOutOfHell: Well, technically a bat ''in'' Hell. The Mayan bat god Camazotz harasses will harass you by dropping tons of minions on you while as you fight the Devil.


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* DifficultySpike: Try to go into the desert immediately after you face down the rats, without buying an Iron Axe. You'll get destroyed by the camels.
** The forest, after beating the troll. The club you obtain hurts a lot, but it's not enough to face down the huge pack of wolves coming towards you.


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* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: The forest is filled with them, and they keep coming at you in a near-endless stream.


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* StoneWall: The enchanted knight armor reduces all damage you take by 80% (!!), but it halves your damage output. Pretty much ''essential'' when facing the Devil or fighting the sharks in Hard mode.
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* WarmUpBoss: The troll, if you have an enchanted glove equipped and a bit more health. The pink glove gives you regeneration while the red one fires out painful fireballs that can kill it quickly.

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* WarmUpBoss: WakeUpCallBoss: The troll, if troll. If you don't have an a silver sword or enchanted glove equipped and a bit more health. The pink glove gives you regeneration while the red one fires out painful fireballs that can kill it quickly.glove, it's going to be quite hard to take down.
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* RareCandy: The Chocolate Bars. [[spoiler: Unlike the first game, there are more than one of these.]]
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* ReversePsychology: Found in the instructions for brewing the Berserk potion.

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* BatOutOfHell: The Mayan bat god Camazotz harasses you by dropping tons of minions on you while you fight the Devil.
* BulletHell: After traveling quite a distance UnderTheSea, you soon face sharks and sea serpents, the latter of which spray multitudes of ''painful'' bullets forwards. This trope comes into play as you progress further and they become more common, eventually having multiple serpents on the screen.
** There's also the fight against the Devil where he spams ''painful'' sprays of fireballs.



* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Try to escape the wolves in the forest by jumping over them? Those forest spirits will fire painful green shots that hit you at jumping level.
* EarlyBirdBoss: Both the monkey magician and the octopus king. You face them in the second dungeon of the game, and if you fight them at your level, you'll get wasted. Thankfully, both of them are optional and are meant to be fought later on.



* InvincibleMinorMinion: The sea serpents in the ocean.



* UnderTheSea: "Jump into the sea." No scuba gear required! Becomes an endless MarathonLevel, with an ever-increasing onslaught of giant sharks and invincible missle-spewing snakes. [[spoiler:If you survive long enough, some of the sharks drop magic fins. The last fin, which appears when the sharks are spawning so quickly there's barely enough room for them all, gives you a deadly black hole spell.]]
* VideoGameRemake: Most of the same basic elements and levels are there, but in a larger format with better graphics. There are also several new levels, puzzles, and items.

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* UnderTheSea: "Jump into the sea." No scuba gear required! Becomes an endless MarathonLevel, with an ever-increasing onslaught of giant sharks and invincible missle-spewing missile-spewing snakes. [[spoiler:If you survive long enough, some of the sharks drop magic fins. The last fin, which appears when the sharks are spawning so quickly there's barely enough room for them all, gives you a deadly black hole spell.]]
* VideoGameRemake: Most of the same basic elements and levels are there, but in a larger format with better graphics. There are also several new levels, puzzles, and items.items.
* WarmUpBoss: The troll, if you have an enchanted glove equipped and a bit more health. The pink glove gives you regeneration while the red one fires out painful fireballs that can kill it quickly.
* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: [[spoiler: The Developer's main form of attack.]]
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* AirborneMook: The desert birds that fly high above you. [[spoiler: You can actually kill them and get their feathers]]
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* RatStomp: The first quest has you clear rats from a villager's cellar.
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* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere: The sorceress who lives in the forest only accepts lollipops as payment. ''Vast quantities'' of lollipops.

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* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere: The sorceress who lives in the forest only accepts lollipops as payment. ''Vast quantities'' of lollipops.lollipops.

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* AttackAttackAttack: Averted this time around: once you get the [[spoiler:Boots of Introspection]], you can actually stand still! Enemies, however, continue to play this straight.
* BarbarianTribe: The "lost tribe warriors."
* ButThouMust: You have to attempt every possible means of opening the candy box, none of which work, before the game lets you give up and put it in your inventory.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Black Demons spell summons a wave of invisible demons that do massive damage to everything on the screen, including you and your summoned allies. With good armor, though, the damage to you is manageable, and it becomes something of a DiscOneNuke.
* ExactWords: The squirrel says you have to get three-in-a-row to beat him at Tic Tac Toe. [[spoiler:He doesn't say you have to put your X-es inside the grid...]]
* ForbiddenFruit: The instructions warn you to '''never''' put any candies in the cauldron while brewing berserk potions. [[spoiler:This is absolutely not the means of producing cloning potions.]]
* GameWithinAGame: The house to the right of the shop has a game console, with a dungeoning game (full of references to the original Candy Box), and some [[NintendoHard obnoxiously difficult]] [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} Battletoads]] type of thing.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The easiest way to kill the Developer is to cast one of the spells that makes him drop a black hole on you while you're standing next to him. If you're in turtle mode and have over 1500 health, you'll survive and his black hole will kill him.]]
* HopelessBossFight: Subverted with [[spoiler:the dragon.]] His impenetrably high HP is displayed as "so much hp / so much hp." But after a bit of futile attacking, he turns out to be friendly, and becomes a QuestGiver.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: The magic sponge lets you "squeeze yourself just like a sponge," making you smaller.
* JetPack: The rocket boots. Inexplicably, they only work if you have a pogo stick (though it's pretty difficult to get the boots without one).
* PixelHunt: The pogo stick, one of the most useful items, is acquired by [[spoiler:clicking an asterisk hidden in the mountains on the world map]].
* SecretLevel: [[spoiler:The "fight yourself" level, reached by drinking an X potion.]]
* SpikesOfDoom: They'll kill you with their spikes!
* TitleDrop: This version has an actual candy box, but you can't open it [[spoiler:until the end]].
* UnderTheSea: "Jump into the sea." No scuba gear required! Becomes an endless MarathonLevel, with an ever-increasing onslaught of giant sharks and invincible missle-spewing snakes. [[spoiler:If you survive long enough, some of the sharks drop magic fins. The last fin, which appears when the sharks are spawning so quickly there's barely enough room for them all, gives you a deadly black hole spell.]]
* VideoGameRemake: Most of the same basic elements and levels are there, but in a larger format with better graphics. There are also several new levels, puzzles, and items.
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** From the sequel: "Some spikes killed you with its spikes."
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A sequel is scheduled to come out on October 24th, 2013, exact time 9:30 AM GMT+1.

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A Upon the huge success of the game, Aniwey announced that he would work on a sequel. Said sequel is scheduled to come came out on October 24th, 2013, exact time 9:30 AM GMT+1.
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* FollowTheLeader: Inspired the creation of many other idle point-and-click games, such as ''VideoGame/ADarkRoom'' and ''VideoGame/CookieClicker''.
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* RareCandy: But of course. [[spoiler: Specifically, the chocolate bar.]]

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* RareCandy: But of course. [[spoiler: Specifically, the chocolate bar. This also makes people ''assume'' that it's TooAwesomeToUse.]]
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**'' Hell itself'' is like this. [[spoiler: The first wave where you face off a massive rush of ''very painful'' demons is very tough. The last two waves are ''much'' easier as they contain ghosts that cannot hurt a summoned imp. Then you get to the Devil...]]
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* WakeUpCallBoss: The Whale. You face it after a level that wears down most of your health, and its 100 HP and 8 damage is nothing to laugh at when you first face it. [[spoiler: Use a Fire Scroll to make things easier.]]
** [[spoiler: The Dragon would be this for those who found the whale moderate- if you want to win, you'll need three types of consumables (at least 4-5 of each), and two of them must be created by the player.]]

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* BreatherLevel: [[spoiler: The Developer's Moat after the Garden filled with deadly Garden Gnomes. There are no enemies and you can't even die here (falling into the moat just ends the level).]]
* DegradedBoss: In a sense. [[spoiler: In Normal Mode, some of the Bugs in the Developer's Computer may have the same attacks and stats as those of the Dragon and Devil.]]

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* BreatherLevel: [[spoiler: The Developer's Moat after the Garden filled with deadly Garden Gnomes. There are no enemies and you can't even die here (falling into the moat just ends the level).]]
* DegradedBoss: In a sense. [[spoiler: In Normal Mode, some of the Bugs in the Developer's Computer may have the same attacks and stats as those of the Dragon and Devil.]]

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* TheBeastmaster: One of the possible classes for the PC, if you choose the summoning sword.

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* TheBeastmaster: One of the possible classes for the PC, if you choose the summoning sword. sword.
* BreatherLevel: [[spoiler: The Developer's Moat after the Garden filled with deadly Garden Gnomes. There are no enemies and you can't even die here (falling into the moat just ends the level).]]

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