History VideoGame / LollipopChainsaw

[[https://www.ign.com/videos/lollipop-chainsaw-remake-announced-for-2023-ign-news A remake is set to release in 2023 with updated graphics and music.]]

* BabyBoomers: An odd yet hilarious example: Zombies wrapped in dynamite, on their backs kicking and flailing inside wheelbarrows, wailing "Mommy!"

* OverprotectiveDad: Gideon Starling still dotes on his three daughters like they're his little girls, even though they're all capable of handling themselves to varying degrees. He is not happy with Juliet dating Nick, and enraged by the possibility that Nick performed sexual acts with her.

** Finished the game, but didn't save all the classmates? TOO BAD! After the credits, [[spoiler:everyone comes home to find that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Mom is a zombie.]] "Time for dinner! And by dinner, I mean...YOU!" ''(everyone screams, screen cuts to black, CRUNCH]]).

** Finished the game, but didn't save all the classmates? TOO BAD! After the credits, [[spoiler:everyone comes home to find that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Mom is a zombie.]] "Time for dinner! And by dinner, I mean...YOU!" ''[everyone screams, screen cuts to black, CRUNCH.]]]

-->'''Nick:''' ''(while learning that he's now just a head)'' How am I still talking WITHOUT A FUCKING THORAX!?

* BareYourMidriff: Part of Juliet's cheerleading uniform. Mariska also qualifies.

* GirlyBruiser: Juliet being a cheerleader with the after mentioned chainsaw qualifies big time!

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Juliet has a few combos that involve spinning her body around.

* CluckingFunny: Zombie chickens, to be exact. As well as ''giant'' zombie chickens. In addition, large yellow chickens appear in place of the [=Chop2Shop=] locations in Ranking Mode.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The Sexy Rider Suit. It's a hot pink jumpsuit for Juliet, with the front zipper unzipped ''all the way down to the crotch''.

* BastardGirlfriend: Downplayed with Juliet. She genuinely loves Nick and couldn't bear to lose him, which is why she cast a spell on his head after [[OffWithHisHead decapacitating him]] to save him from zombification. However, she can be InnocentlyInsensitive to Nick's plight, and [[WhatTheHellHero according to Nick]], she treats him like a fashion accessory more than a person. Juliet also doesn't defend Nick from her older/younger sisters when they abuse him as well.

* PantyShot: Even the first few screenshots indicate that MagicSkirt has gone on a long vacation somewhere. (They're purple.) They appear to be cheerleader bloomers rather than panties, though - this is solidified by Juliet mentioning that she's wearing [[GoofyPrintUnderwear teddy bear underwear]] underneath. [[UpToEleven There's even an achievement for it]] called "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I Swear! I Did It by Mistake!]]"

** Zed, a [[TheQuincyPunk punk rock archetype]], sports a [[ImprobableHairstyle foot-tall]] [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair bright red]] mohawk.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Zombie cows!

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Juliet's cheerleader outfit has a very short skirt, though it hasn't taken away from her [[ActionGirl badass credentials]].

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Juliet's day begins as any other school day, but escalates into a grand adventure.

Armed with her magical chainsaw to keep any grope-happy zombies at bay and aided by the support of her family and utterly bewildered disembodied boyfriend, Juliet becomes the last line of defense against disgruntled classmate[=/=]emo-goth-wannabe Swan and the Dark Purveyors, a group of Rock'n'Roll Zombie Lords who want to rip the entire world's collective head open and gnaw on the brain matter therein.

''Lollipop Chainsaw'' is a 2012 game from Grasshopper Manufacture, created by Creator/Suda51, Creator/JamesGunn and Tomo Ikeda for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and the UsefulNotes/XBox360. Suda wanted to create something different from the standard zombie fare with this game; as part of what he brands "a piece of pop zombie entertainment", zombies explode into bright, multicolored displays of light and glitter instead of blood and gore (instead a mix of the two for the English release). He also tried to push the limits of how much he could blend pop music sensibilities into a zombie-themed BeatEmUp.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Juliet's chainsaw cuts through entire four-door sedans, chain-link fences, steel security shutters, stacks of trees, concrete pipes, bus doors, and I-beams. She repeatedly uses it to cut flying cars in half before they can hit her. [[JustifiedTrope It's an explicitly magical weapon, of course.]]

** The trophy "Gunn Struck", which is awarded to you once you shock Juliet a total of ten times.

** Nick as he lies zombifying in the prologue. Juliet reciprocates while severing his head.

-->'''Nick:''' How am I still talking WITHOUT A FUCKING THORAX!?

* BastardGirlfriend: Downplayed with Juliet. She genuinely loves Nick and couldn't bear to lose him, which is why she cast a spell on his head after [[OffWithHisHead decapacitating him]] to save him from zombification. However, she can be InnocentlyInsensitive to Nick's plight, and [[WhatTheHellHero according to Nick]], she treats him like a fashion accessory than a person. Juliet also doesn't defend Nick from her older/younger sisters when they abuse him as well.

* BigBad: Swan. His actions of summoning the Dark Purveyors and unleashing a ZombieApocalypse on San Romero brings him into direct conflict with Juilet.

-->'''Dark Purveyor:''' Meus Vitai, Rege, pro nefario coepto [[spoiler:My Life, O King, for your villainous conception]].

* BladeLock: Carried over from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''. If Juliet and a armed zombie attacks at the same time, you have to press the Y/Triangle button rapidly to win. Doing so stuns the zombie letting you kill it.

** Juliet also angrily puts down her chainsaw, glares at the player and covers herself when the player tries to look up her skirt (even if her outfit has no skirt to look up).

* BuffySpeak: The game's Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer on [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs acid instead of crystal meth,]] of course there's this.

* ChainsawGood: Juliet's weapon of choice (and a heart-spangled one at that!); Probably the most conventional element of the game so far.

* ClusterFBomb: Seeing as how this game is from the creators of ''No More Heroes'', this is no surprise.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Played for laughs; one of the zombies considers being [[EarWorm unable to forget]] a Music/KatyPerry song a "terrible" way to die.

* DirtyOldMan: Morikawa, whose hobbies include collecting women's underwear. In his intro scene, he's basically looking up Juliet's skirt.

** An example of this trope being PlayedForLaughs occurs when Juliet is fighting the zombified Mr. Fitzgibbon:

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Juliet's younger sister Rosalind, who is seen causing a multi-car pile-up in the intro. This is what makes Juilet [[OutOfCharacterAlert suspicious]] when, in the Farm level, she meets "Rosalind" (actually [[HorrorHippies Mariska]] in diguise) who mentions fixing the bus, when the real Rosalind doesn't know anything about cars.

* {{Expy}}: Swan strongly resembles a human version of Billy from ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and seems to have stolen Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'s suit.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Juliet was a zombie hunter since she was six months old. Which means her father exposed her to zombies when she was only six months old. She killed it with a sharpened rattle.

* ALoveToDismember: Juliet does this to Nick's head, with the twist being that he's still alive thanks to a magic spell she cast on him.

* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: Played for laughs -- Juliet is worried that being a [[ActionGirl zombie hunter]] would make Nick think she's weird.
* MediumBlending: The game's artstyle tries to achieve a 70's or 80's comic book style, and greatly succeeds. Character models have outlines around them, shading is stylish, menus are designed to look like a comic book, and several times, the game even shifts to a comic book illustration.

* MetaGuy: A good portion of Nick's commentary is pointing out how absurd pretty much everything in the game is.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The rank-and-file? Not so much (other than their dialogue). The Dark Purveyors? Definitely.

** Lewis Legend, a [[GreaserDelinquents rock n' roll archetype]], also has a pompadour, though it's exaggerated ala JP from ''Anime/Redline''.

* ALoveToDismember: Juliet does this to Nick's head, with the twist being that he's still alive thanks to a magic spell she cast on him.

* DelinquentHair: Zed, a punk rock archetype, sports a [[ImprobableHairstyle foot-tall]] [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair bright red]] mohawk.

** Swan starts a ZombieApocalypse because he was constantly bullied in high school [[spoiler:and because he felt rejected by Juliet]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Juliet's younger sister Rosalind, who is seen causing a multi-car pile-up in the intro. It also makes Juilet [[OutOfCharacterAlert suspicious]] when, in the Farm level, she meets "Rosalind" (actually Mariska in diguise) who mentions fixing the bus, when the real Rosalind doesn't know anything about cars.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens regularly to Juliet's victims.

* ManlyTears: Gideon at the beginning of Stage 4 after Juliet drew up a plan on how to save Rosalind.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Dark Purveyors. All of them have personalities that revolve around the music genres they're based on - Zed (Punk Rock) is a loud, foul-mouthed punk, Vikke (Viking Metal) is a boisterous zombie who fancies himself a warrior, Mariska (Psychedelia/Acid Rock) is a HorrorHippie stoned off her ass, Josey (Funk) is a party animal who enjoys dancing and playing video-games, and Lewis Legend (Classic Rock) is a flirtatious smooth-talker who also is a trigger-happy sadist.

%%* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler:Killabilly]]

'''Juliet:''' Stop making fun of Stephen Hawking, you jerk!

* CasualDangerDialog: Most of the game has everyone, especially Juliet and Nick, .

* CoolBike: Gideon Starling's bike.

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Definitely [[ActionGirl dangerous]], definitely short.
* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: There really isn't anything special about turning eighteen for Juliet. A zombie outbreak just happened to appear during this time.
** Swan might have picked this day to “get back” at Juliet.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Gideon]] during the final chapter.

** Swan starts a ZombieApocalypse because he was bullied in high school [[spoiler:and because he felt rejected by Juliet]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Juliet's younger sister Rosalind, who is seen causing a multi-car pile-up in the intro.

* GoryDiscretionShot: There's no real gore in the game, despite it involving chainsaws and zombies. When a zombie is sliced apart or killed, instead of blood, there's usually ''rainbows and hearts''.
** Lampshaded by Nick, who asks how she can make rainbows come out of zombies. Juliet simply says, [[AwesomenessIsAForce "From awesome!"]]

* InsistentTerminology: Heaven and Hell are referred to as The Land Beyond Words and Rotten World respectively.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Getting a Game Over results in the screen turning gray as Juliet faints, and then a comic book panel of her as a zombie, rising from her grave and reaching for Nick's head. There are different variants to this Game Over screen, depending on how you died, but the most unsettling (and depressing) one is definitely the one you get when you die in the Prologue chapter. Six words: "Juliet... I will always love you..."

--->'''Gideon:''' ''[crying]'' My little girl is a tactical genius.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Of all the ways Swan could have [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning killed himself]], he had to choose the way that ultimately allowed Juliet to use Nick to take control of his body and foil his plot.]]

--> ''I need a girlfriend!''
--> ''My favorite president is Warren G. Harding!''

* NoSympathy: No one seems sympathetic to Nick and his plight.

%%* OverprotectiveDad: Gideon Starling.
* PantyShot: Even the first few screenshots indicate that MagicSkirt has gone on a long vacation somewhere. (They're purple.) They appear to be cheerleader bloomers rather than panties, though - this is solidified by Juliet mentioning that she's wearing [[GoofyPrintUnderwear teddy bear underwear]] underneath.
** [[UpToEleven There's even an achievement for it,]] called "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I Swear! I Did It by Mistake!]]"

* SchoolSettingSimulation: The opening level of ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' takes place on the campus of San Romero High School, and has Juliette, the heroine of the story, chainsaw her way through zombified classmates and faculty.

* SequentialBoss: Every single one must be defeated at least twice. Yes, the first too.

** Upon finding a bunch of jock zombies on treadmills, Nick and Juliet trade quips about how [[ZombieGait running zombies]] [[VideoGame/Left4Dead are]] [[YourVampiresSuck stupid]]. (Of course, this is after fighting zombies that run, jump, fly, and can turn profanities into lasers.) This is a joke at James Gunn's own expense, since he wrote the 2004 ''Dawn of the Dead'' remake, which popularized the fast, running zombie.
** The villain's name is Swan, he's associated with the undead, a pale-skinned loner, and he's a whiny EmoTeen. The only way it'd be [[Literature/{{Twilight}} more obvious]] is if Swan were female. Even the Dark Purveyors make fun of him when he summons them.

%%* ActionGirl: Juliet and Cordelia.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Hilariously {{Lampshaded}}.

%%* BadassAdorable: Juliet and Rosalind.
%%* BadassBiker: Gideon Starling and Lewis Legend.

* BastardGirlfriend: Juliet, to a certain extent.

* BigBad: Swan
* BilingualBonus: The Dark Purveyor's death speech explicitly tells you what's going on and the identity of the final boss. However, even if you know Latin, you probably will miss the meaning of the latter until the third or fourth time.

* BondOneLiner[=/=]PreMortemOneLiner: Juliet is full of those after defeating a Dark Purveyor. Admit it, "Looks like you’re out of coins, weird voice guy" is a good one.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Juliet interacts with the bosses' biography bubbles in a manner reminiscent of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}.

* CasualDangerDialog: Most of the game, really.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Juliet wears thigh high socks and a miniskirt.