History VideoGame / CookieClicker

** In a more minor sense, there is the Grandmapocalypse. Gradually, the seemingly innocent olf ladies unite into a hive mind and merge into formless globs that threaten entire continents in anger at their working conditions. Before long, the world is overrun by mutant eldritch grandmothers.
** The true nature of the game, however, is far worse. Cookie Clicker is a Cosmic Horror story where you play as the cosmic horror. At first, this game seems like a simple, optimistic rags to riches plot. However, it soon becomes apparent that you are willing to resort to any unethical means to strengthen your business. Before long, your cookies become a pillar of world economics. Before long, all religions on earth are repurposed to give you cookies. The mollecular structure of the cosmos begins converting to cookies as the world bends to your will. All the while, worse and worse disasters plague the world. Eventually, the very fabric of reality is bent to your will. The closest thing to meaningfully opposing you is the Grandmapocalypse, and even that can be turned to your will. You open portals to incomprehensible dark dimensions. There is a passive mention of your forces casually chopping up a great old one for use as an ingredient. You take complete control of time, matter, antimatter, and light for the sole purpose of generating cookies. Before long, you hold control of probability itself, generating cookies from cookies in infinitely recursive loops. But that still isn't enough. After siezing control of the code of reality, you invade and conquer infinite dimensions, enslaving their residents and laws of physics. You create reality warping, jupiter-sized brains and enslave them for the sole purpose of making cookies. By this point the number of deaths caused by you are probably uncountable, and absolutely nothing can meaningfully stand in your way. You can just, at any point in this, reset reality to gain more power. In this way, you can eventually bind God and Lucifer themselves, fusing them into a horrific chimera for the sole purpose of making cookies. It says something that by the end game, the only building more powerful than an enslaved multiverse or a jupiter-sized reality warping brain is a simple clone of yourself.

* {{Jerkass}}: The Antigrandmas are described as being mean in their FlavorText. Which make sense.

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: When entering the console, there is text written into the code saying "[=== About to cheat in some cookies or just checking for bugs? ===]", as if to say Ortiel was aware that players would attempt to cheat and receive the "Cheated cookies taste awful" achievement.

* AffablyEvil: With the exception of the Antigrandmas, all of the grandmas are described as "nice" even when the Grandmapocalypse is in full swing.

* DeliberatelyDifferentDescription: : The [[https://cookieclicker.fandom.com/wiki/Tin_of_British_tea_biscuits British tea biscuits]] each add an element to their stereotypically British descriptions as they get more expensive...except [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the last one]], leading to the following sequence:

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The further you get into the cookie upgrades, the more the game exhausts every possible type of cookie, eventually getting to things that are only technically cookies, things that are tenuously cookies, pastries whose only relation to cookies are the fact that they're both sweet, and finally the "Box Of Not Cookies", containing upgrades like pizza, toast and cheeseburgers.

** It was changed recently, but not too long ago, guess where the game saved your data? [[spoiler:A cookie.]] At least the developers acknowledged the pun when they announced the change.

* LuckBasedMission: Speed Baking runs, especially the 25 (II) and most definitely the 15 minute (III) runs. If your first Golden Cookie is not a Frenzy and/or you don't get a Click Frenzy within your first two Golden Cookies, then Speed Baking III is likely out of the question.

* UndesirablePrize: Every time one of the Santa upgrades is purchased in [[HolidayMode Christmas Mode]], one of fourteen upgrades is randomly unlocked. Two, the Lump of Coal and the Itchy Sweater, merely increase the multiplier on cookie production by +1%. Sure, they're better upgrades, on a percentage-increase-per-cookie-spent level, than any percentage upgrade available outside of the Santa upgrades. However, given how effective the other Santa upgrades are, they don't feel like much of a prize and players invariably hope that they are the last two unlocked.
** Easter Mode adds another in "egg." Other upgrades from Easter give things like a +1% multiplier to every other type of production (including other multipliers, potentially huge), increases to clicking power, or reduced building prices. However, "egg" gives +9 to production. Not +9%, not +9 with any multiplier outside of the usual multipliers. It literally just gives you nine cookies every second. It costs 100 trillion to purchase, has no upgrades to improve it, and you don't even need to purchase it (there's an achievement related to it, but unlocking the ''ability'' to purchase it is all that's required).

** Once you increase your CpS count, you basically have an endless supply of cookies. Due to using amoral means to make them, the player is also a VillainProtagonist, in turn making them apply as this.

** As mentioned under CursedWithAwesome, Cursed Finger stops all cookie production in exchange for making clicks worth 10 (or 22 with the Get Lucky upgrade) seconds of CPS. It's also useful for planting crops at little-to-no cost, or for buying upgrades whose cost scales with CPS.

* PoisonMushroom: More often than not, Wrath Cookies, the red EvilCounterpart to the Golden Cookies. The most common outcomes are "Ruin" (which reduces the cookies in your bank by 5%), Clot (which halves your production for 66 seconds), and building-related debuffs (which "rusts" your production by 10% for every building of a random type). However, the two most powerful buffs in the game are exclusive to Wrath Cookies; Elder Frenzy (which increases your production to ''666 times'' its normal rate for a very short time) and Cursed Finger (which halts your production completely for 10/20 seconds, but makes every click worth 10/22 seconds of production).

* EvilCounterpart: Brown Mold and White Mildew are two plants in the garden that have very similar mechanics and a chance to mutate into each other. Their stats are nigh-identical except that Brown Mold decreases CPS while White Mildew increases it, and their FlavorText reflects this: Brown Mold "smells bitter, but thankfully wilts quickly", while White Milder "smells ''sweet'', but ''sadly'' wilts quickly". The main difference between the two is what plants they can crossbreed with.