History VideoGame / CastleCrashers

''Castle Crashers'' is a BeatEmUp available on the UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade, Playstation Network, PC, and Mac. Created by Creator/TomFulp of Creator/TheBehemoth, creator of {{Platform/Newgrounds}} and ''VideoGame/AlienHominid'', it maintains the comedic style and artistic look you might find on his web site.

First released on UsefulNotes/XBox in 2008. In 2015, the game was remastered for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne and PC. Then in 2019, the remaster was brought over to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

''Castle Crashers'' is a BeatEmUp available on the UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade, Playstation Network, PC, and Mac. Created by Tom Fulp of Creator/TheBehemoth, creator of {{Website/Newgrounds}} and ''VideoGame/AlienHominid'', it maintains the comedic style and artistic look you might find on his web site.

* ChromosomeCasting: All playable characters and villains are male; this includes the [[RealMenWearPink Pink Knight]]. While there are princesses, [[SaveThePrincess their only purpose is to be saved]], there's no other interaction with them, and [[spoiler:one of them turns out to be [[{{Website/Newgrounds}} Tricky the Clown]]]].

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler:The dragon at the end of Lava World.]] [[spoiler:The Painter in the Wizard's Castle]] also fits, as does [[spoiler:the big angry corn husk]], and [[spoiler:[[{{Website/Newgrounds}} Tricky the Clown]]]].

** Obligatory Website/{{Newgrounds}} cameos, especially during the fight against the Painter.

* BleachedUnderpants: The ending where [[spoiler:the Orange Princess is revealed to be a clown]] is based on an ''extremely'' NSFW Flash animation featuring a clown waving its [[GagPenis penis]] around. The [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SrS-0ZrwFQM music]] that plays during the ending is also a remix of the song used in the animation.

** [[spoiler:If you look carefully during the Painter boss, some of the pictures are of the orange princess with a sword through her, suggesting that either she was killed and replaced by Tricky or, as [[TheWikiRule Castlepedia]] suggests, that, even though the Evil Wizard didn't kill her ''yet'', he did have that intention.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The King is a badass and stands in the front lines for a couple of levels. Shame he doesn't stick around for the latter half of the game.
* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:The Conehead leader's death causes Cyclops to attack you… well, after he runs away with the Green Princess and you chase him down. Justified; the conehead leader is his ''son''.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: Most of the villains...[[MeaningfulName as implied by their names.]]

* TheDragon: The Necromancer, [[spoiler:The Painter, and Recyclops]] to the Wizard.

** Several other characters fit this, such as the Royal Guards, the Black Knights, the Wizard's Cultists, the Coneheads, the colored knights…

* NoNameGiven: Barely any of the characters have actual names and are named for... well, what they are. The Evil Wizard is... an [[EvilSorceror evil wizard]], Necromancer is a necromancer, the (Insert color here) Knights are knights with armor of a certain color... The list goes on.
* NoHeroDiscount: A shopkeeper in the castle still charges you for his goods, even though you saved his life not two minutes before.
** Technically, there is a hero discount. The health potions he sells cost 1 gp less than health potions anywhere else. But it's still not much.

** [[spoiler:If you look carefully during the painter boss, some of the pictures are of the orange princess with a sword through her, suggesting that either she was killed and replaced by Tricky or, as [[TheWikiRule Castlepedia]] suggests, that, even though the Evil Wizard didn't kill her ''yet'', he did have that intention.]]

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Lampshaded again, it's actually called "Snow World"...again.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Wizard's Castle. Well, a giant castle just [[spoiler:flew off into the sky, the last princess is there, the villain we've been chasing the whole game is holed up there...]] couldn't get much more obvious.

* VisualPun: The Sand Castle. It's a castle in the desert… ''made of sand''. See also the Catfish boss, who's half cat, half fish. ''Seriously.'' And the Weapon Frog, who's been tied to the Blacksmith's anvil... by the tongue. So he's, you know, [[spoiler:tongue-tied]]!

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!!''Castle Crashers'' provides examples of:

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* ADayInTheLimelight: The Grey Knight is one of the King's RedShirts.

* AnIcePerson: The Ice King, the Blue Knight, and the Icekimoes.

* BookEnds: The game starts and ends with the characters partying in the Home Castle.

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* HyperactiveMetabolism: Food acts as recovery, especially the drumsticks.

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* TimedMission: After [[spoiler:getting far enough into the Alien Ship, one of the aliens activates a self-destruct. You'll need to get to the escape pods (and grab an Animal Orb) before everything blows up, or you'll take a lot of damage]].

* ToiletHumor: There is a lot of humor around a lack of bowel control, especially in the Thieves' Forest level.

* TrickBoss: [[spoiler:The final boss. After smashing a few crystals and taking down a form that shifts between magic and melee vulnerability, the Wizard suddenly floats up off the ground and goes in circles, dropping magic bombs. After killing the pathetically weak form, the usual end-of-boss-fight giant treasure chest squishes him, except when you open it… well, see the OneWingedAngel entry.]]

* AndIMustScream: The Weapons Frog (look at its eyes), but it's untied for the ending sequence.

* NewGamePlus: Insane Mode unlocks after beating the main "[[ExcusePlot story]]" levels, and allows you to play these same levels over again, only the enemies are [[DifficultySpike harder to defeat this time around]].

* ClassicalCyclops: The Cyclops is one of the Evil Wizard's servants. He is the greyish-brown hulking humanoid wearing purplish armor, and he uses [[KnifeNut knives]] as a weapon. He has [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes a close relationship]] with the Conehead Groom, helping him with the ArrangedMarriage with the Green Princess, and when the heroes kill the Groom, Cyclops ends up [[AntagonistInMourning mourning his death]]. Later, in Cyclops' Fortress, he tries to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge the Conehead Groom]] by killing the heroes, only to fall into lava after defeat. He later gets brought BackFromTheDead by the Necromancer in undead form. In this form, he fights the heroes in the Evil Wizard's castle, together with the undead version of the Conehead Groom, before he and the Groom are killed for good by heroes, after which their [[WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath winged souls fly off]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There's somewhere around 30 playable characters with more on the way, and a bunch more you can't play as.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Blue, Green, and Red Princesses, respectively. The Orange Princess, meanwhile, follows [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair a different trope]] [[spoiler:(that, and MonsterClown)]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: While the other princesses have natural hair colors, the Orange Princess has purple hair ([[spoiler:that turns out to be a wig when she reveals herself to be Tricky the Clown]]).

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** EmpoweredBadassNormal: They did, however, also launch upwards to get on to the castle during the ascending castle climax.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The painter boss's entire existence as a character.

* DarkIsNotEvil: While the Necromancer normally averts this trope, he is also available as a playable character via DownloadableContent, and attacks enemies and bosses instead of acting like one, therefore putting the trope into play.

* XRaySparks: Happens to victims of the Red Knight's lightning attack. Strangely, electrocuted enemies are shown to have square skulls, despite [[DemBones enemy Skeletons]] having round skulls.

* WidgetSeries: Some of the [=NPCs=]' actions are pretty weird. For instance, every background animal in the Thieves' Forest has bowel issues, though you would probably shit uncontrollably too if you knew what those ominously loud stomps belonged to.