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* BonusBoss: Happy Stick Witch.



* BonusBoss: Killbor



* HeroesPreferSwords: Actually it's Tina Tsarina, Kinyova Sr., Killbor, and Captain Capitan that prefer using swords, though the former two are [=NPCs=], the third one's a BonusBoss, and the last one's [[spoiler: involved in a sort of ThePlan]].

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* HeroesPreferSwords: Actually it's Tina Tsarina, Kinyova Sr., Killbor, and Captain Capitan that prefer using swords, though the former two are [=NPCs=], the third one's a BonusBoss, an OptionalBoss, and the last one's [[spoiler: involved in a sort of ThePlan]].
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* AnAxeToGrind: Kid Loony's signature weapon type in this game. Woody Woodsman as well.

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* WeaponOfChoice: Loony's signature weapon is a slingshot.
** Bonkula is armed with a [[DropTheHammer giant hammer]].

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* WeaponOfChoice: Loony's signature weapon is a slingshot.
** Bonkula is armed with a [[DropTheHammer giant hammer]].
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* AnimeHair: Kid Loony, since it's all spiky and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purplish pink]].

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* AnimeHair: Kid Loony, since it's all spiky and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purplish pink]].pink.

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* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, freeze, and stun.


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* StatusEffects: Poison, freeze, and stun.

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* DishingOutDirt: The Stone Spike spell.



* RockSteady: The Stone Spike spell.
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''Loonyland'' is an ActionAdventure series by [[HamumuSoftware Hamumu Software]] featuring Dr. Lunatic from back when he was a typical KidHero who (based on the first two games) had to thwart some sort of calamity of some kind, particularily in a specific region [[SaveTheWorld rather than Loonyland itself]]. Currently has two full fledged installments, with a now cancelled turn-based strategy game spinoff. The plot structure so far takes after that of the Ys series, with the end of the first adventure being the starting point of the next one, though Mike Hommel has said that he wanted the other main installments to take place in other areas and have other characters other than Kid Loony before [[GrandFinale the inevitable wrap-up]].

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''Loonyland'' is an ActionAdventure series by [[HamumuSoftware Hamumu Software]] Creator/HamumuSoftware featuring Dr. Lunatic from back when he was a typical KidHero who (based on the first two games) had to thwart some sort of calamity of some kind, particularily particularly in a specific region [[SaveTheWorld rather than Loonyland itself]]. Currently has two full fledged installments, with a now cancelled turn-based strategy game spinoff. The plot structure so far takes after that of the Ys series, with the end of the first adventure being the starting point of the next one, though Mike Hommel has said that he wanted the other main installments to take place in other areas and have other characters other than Kid Loony before [[GrandFinale the inevitable wrap-up]].
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* ForMassiveDamage: Both the [[SplashDamage Burninate]] and [[AreaOfEffect Ice Cube]] spells.

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* GoddamnedBats: The Dingbats, as with many examples, come in very large groups.



** "We're not in Kansas anymore" is stated on the Tornado Skill.



* SummonMagic: Toasties, Cryozoid, and Bonehead.
* ThatOneSideQuest: The Mimic Whisperer quest, since it requires you to feed dropped loot to the mimics. Of course getting attacked by and attacking the mimics themselves resets the progress you've made. It gets even harder if you're facing multiple mimics all at once.

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* SummonMagic: Toasties, Cryozoid, and Bonehead.
* ThatOneSideQuest: The Mimic Whisperer quest, since it requires you to feed dropped loot to the mimics. Of course getting attacked by and attacking the mimics themselves resets the progress you've made. It gets even harder if you're facing multiple mimics all at once.
Bonehead..
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* NintendoHard
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** BigBad: Count Bonkula, who's a mixture of SuperSpeed and DropTheHammer.
** EvilGenius: Drippy, the Vampire Elder of [[MakingASplash Water]].
** GlassCannon: Toasty, the Vampire Elder of [[PlayingWithFire Fire]].
** FragileSpeedster: Gusty, the Vampire Elder of [[BlowYouAway Air]].
** TheBrute: Stoney, the Vampire Elder of [[DishingOutDirt Earth]].
** SixthRangerTraitor: Summony the Elder, who possesses SummonMagic as his signature ability.
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* [[AWizardDidIt Titans Did It]]: Similar in fashion to the titans in ClassicalMythology (Greek, in this case), there are five Titan races that rule over the world, each controlling a different force and sometimes lend their type of magic to devoted followers. Two of which make a visible appearance, which is traditionally considered an abnormal phenomena.

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* [[AWizardDidIt Titans Did It]]: Similar in fashion to the titans in ClassicalMythology Myth/ClassicalMythology (Greek, in this case), there are five Titan races that rule over the world, each controlling a different force and sometimes lend their type of magic to devoted followers. Two of which make a visible appearance, which is traditionally considered an abnormal phenomena.

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** The Guru, since he grants you a Talent whenever you find him. In fact, one of the quests in the game is finding him 30 times since there's 30 Talents in the game.



* TheYoda: The Guru, since he grants you a Talent whenever you find him. In fact, one of the quests in the game is finding him 30 times since there's 30 Talents in the game.

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* DistressedDamsel: In Halloween Hill, there is a female NPC that needs to escape A Gloomy Cavern and rewards you with a lantern, which is more effecient than the torch you got earlier in the game.

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* DistressedDamsel: DamselInDistress: In Halloween Hill, there is a female NPC that needs to escape A Gloomy Cavern and rewards you with a lantern, which is more effecient efficient than the torch you got earlier in the game.



* TheGoomba: Ribbits and Squeakers.



* ManBehindTheMan: Happens quite often.

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* ManBehindTheMan: TheManBehindTheMan: Happens quite often.



* TheGoomba: Ribbits and Squeakers.



* GoddamnBats: The Dingbats, as with many examples, come in very large groups.

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* GoddamnBats: GoddamnedBats: The Dingbats, as with many examples, come in very large groups.



* ShoutOut: A pink skeleton named [[AgentScully Agent Skully]]? Hmm... ''Series/TheXFiles''?

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* ShoutOut: A pink skeleton named [[AgentScully Agent Skully]]? {{Agent S|cully}}kully? Hmm... ''Series/TheXFiles''?



* EvilIsCold: Baron von Frostburn

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* EvilIsCold: Baron von FrostburnFrostburn.



* TheYoda: The Guru, since he grants you a Talent whenever you find him. In fact, one of the quests in the game is finding him 30 times since there's 30 Talents in the game.


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* ShoutOut: A pink skeleton named [[XFiles Agent]] [[AgentScully Skully]]? Hmm...

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''Loonyland'' is an ActionAdventure series by [[HamumuSoftware Hamumu Software]] featuring Dr. Lunatic from back when he was a typical KidHero who (based on the first two games) had to thwart some sort of calamity of some kind, particularily in a specific region [[SaveTheWorld rather than Loonyland itself]]. Currently has two full fledged installments, with a now cancelled turn-based strategy game spinoff. The plot structure so far takes after that of the Ys series, with the end of the first adventure being the starting point of the next one, though Mike Hommel has said that he wanted the other main installments to take place in other areas and have other characters other than Kid Loony before [[GrandFinale the inevitable wrap-up]].
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!!Reoccuring tropes of the Loonyland series:

* AnimeHair: Kid Loony, since it's all spiky and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purplish pink]].
* BackTracking: Survey points to yes on this one.
* ClockPunk: Along with a few specs of SteamPunk.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Four of the five Titan races, as mentioned below.
* DistressedDamsel: In Halloween Hill, there is a female NPC that needs to escape A Gloomy Cavern and rewards you with a lantern, which is more effecient than the torch you got earlier in the game.
** Also, in Winter Woods, Black Market Bob's wife is abducted by a troll that wrapped her in chains that can only be unlocked with the Snowman Key that he's got.
* FetchQuest: See SideQuest below. Also applies to plot-oriented quests as well.
* FireIceLightning: Both the Happy Stick Witch and Happy Stick Bird, though the latter power is replaced with Earth.
** The playable version of the former plays it straight, though.
* KidHero: Kid Loony (full name is Loony Lunatic). Well, so far.
* LowFantasy
* ManBehindTheMan: Happens quite often.
* MeaningfulName: Most of the regions in Loonyland are named after seasons and holidays. Call it a case of AuthorAppeal.
* NerdGlasses: Kid Loony sports the typical version of these.
* NintendoHard
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: In the first game, Ghostbusting Potion is require to harm the ghosts with your attacks. Whereas in the second one, they have exceptionally high damage output with their attacks, making them somewhat resemble EliteMooks.
* ReligionIsMagic: See Titans Did It.
* SideQuest: Mainly due to the quest-oriented nature of the first two games, you'll probably mistake them for plot-oriented quests.
* StoryArc: Chronicling how Dr. Lunatic went from a heroic KidHero to a demented MadScientist.
* TheGoomba: Ribbits and Squeakers.
* [[AWizardDidIt Titans Did It]]: Similar in fashion to the titans in ClassicalMythology (Greek, in this case), there are five Titan races that rule over the world, each controlling a different force and sometimes lend their type of magic to devoted followers. Two of which make a visible appearance, which is traditionally considered an abnormal phenomena.
** [[EvilIsCold Ice Titans]]: The cruelest of the five, though their followers aren't as likely to be the same way. They mainly just want to send the whole world into an eternal ice age, to the disapproval of the other four.
** [[WeatherControlMachine Sky Titans]]: Responsible for all types of weather that occurs, excluding the cold for which the Ice Titans claim full dominance over.
** [[MakingASplash Sea Titans]]: Control the various bodies of water, not limited to the namesake one.
** [[DishingOutDirt Stone Titans]]: Reign supreme over mountains and deserts. The magic they grant to their followers is more physical than that granted by the other four (as stated by Mike Hommel himself).
** [[GreenThumb Green Titans]]: Masters of plant life and rulers of forests.

!!Halloween Hill has examples of the following:

* BonusBoss: Happy Stick Witch.
* BreakMeter: The combo system arguably counts as this since killing more enemies in succession means more loot gets dropped.
* DiscOneNuke: All your special weapons count as this on lower difficulty settings.
* EldritchAbomination: The Swampdogs.
* ElementalPowers: See OurVampiresAreDifferent.
* GoddamnBats: The Dingbats, as with many examples, come in very large groups.
* HeartContainer: Super Hearts (health), purple gems (gems), lightning bolts (base damage), arrows (range), and pants (attack speed).
** Of course, what the latter three affect depends on the playable character you're playing as.
* LevelGrinding: When playing as a Swampdog. The power ups mainly just restore your health.
* {{Mana}}: The playable Happy Stick Witch has this for her spells. Gems somewhat count as this for the special weapons, though they double as currency on certain occasions.
* OneWingedAngel: Larry does this during a boss fight to transform to a giant werewolf who's immune to all attacks. Luckily, it's merely a temporary transformation rather than a near death PowerMakeover.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Most of the higher rank ones are all but immune to your attacks, apart from Gusty (who's vulnerable to only special weapons) and Summony.
** BigBad: Count Bonkula, who's a mixture of SuperSpeed and DropTheHammer.
** EvilGenius: Drippy, the Vampire Elder of [[MakingASplash Water]].
** GlassCannon: Toasty, the Vampire Elder of [[PlayingWithFire Fire]].
** FragileSpeedster: Gusty, the Vampire Elder of [[BlowYouAway Air]].
** TheBrute: Stoney, the Vampire Elder of [[DishingOutDirt Earth]].
** SixthRangerTraitor: Summony the Elder, who possesses SummonMagic as his signature ability.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
* RPGElements: Both the playable Swampdog and Happy Stick Witch. The former has the traditional kind, while the latter goes with an EvolvingAttack system for her spells.
* ShoutOut: A pink skeleton named [[XFiles Agent]] [[AgentScully Skully]]? Hmm...
* WeaponOfChoice: Loony's signature weapon is a slingshot.
** Bonkula is armed with a [[DropTheHammer giant hammer]].

!!Winter Woods provides examples of the following:

* ActionRPG: Though it retains some ActionAdventure elements from the previous installment.
* AnAxeToGrind: Kid Loony's signature weapon type in this game. Woody Woodsman as well.
* AntiGrinding: The amount of experience points earned decreases as you level up. Defeating any of the prestige mooks (i.e. the monsters that drop skill scrolls) at a lower level will grant some serious experience points.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: The [[LifeDrain Drain]] spell, alongside with hitting multiple times, bypasses enemy defenses. Your standard axe attacks can ignore a certain amount of an enemy's Defense stat provided you trained both the Chopping and Criticism talents, the latter of which is only important if skill points are spent in the Critical skill.
* {{BFS}}: Killbor's Nebro-Gubular Sword. Easily one of the more justified examples of this trope since Killbor himself is large enough to make the sword as easy to wield as any standard sized sword.
* BonusBoss: Killbor
* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Some of the Onion Ring quests boil down to this.
* DualWielding: It's Captain Capitan's specialty to do this with his swords.
* ElementalPowers: The 20 Magic Skills are each divided up into five groups of four spells, encompassing the powers of [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]], [[BlowYouAway wind]], [[GreenThumb nature]], and [[SoulPower death]].
* EvilIsCold: Baron von Frostburn
* EvolvingAttack: The Talents count as this, since you need to repeatedly do various tasks according to what the talent in question does.
* FixedDamageAttack: The Fat Crow Amulet periodically deals 99 damage over time to all airborne adversaries. Sort of a UselessUsefulSpell since it only really helps during the final boss fight.
* ForMassiveDamage: Both the [[SplashDamage Burninate]] and [[AreaOfEffect Ice Cube]] spells.
* GadgeteerGenius: The Onion Ring Junksmith (who, in battle, makes explosive mines made out of junk), Snuggly Bunny Clockmaker, and J.P Toymonger III.
* GardenOfEvil: The Gruesome Gardens in the underworld.
* GoodMorningCrono: Loony wakes up in Woody Woodsman's residence after getting lost in a blizzard while trying to follow the Happy Stick Witch from Halloween Hill.
* GreenThumb: Three of the Nature-type spells, alongside a Talent of the same name that heals you whenever you cast any of them.
* HealThyself: Restoration, which purges status effects, grants brief invincibility, and neutralizes projectiles (though a certain magical or amulet will cause the spell reflect them)
* HealingFactor: The Survival skill. Granted to any summoned Boneheads with a certain amulet.
* HealingHands: Healiana and her twin sister Curaga.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Actually it's Tina Tsarina, Kinyova Sr., Killbor, and Captain Capitan that prefer using swords, though the former two are [=NPCs=], the third one's a BonusBoss, and the last one's [[spoiler: involved in a sort of ThePlan]].
** Loony, on the other hand, makes do with wielding axes.
** The Bonehead spell summons the titular animated skeletons that wield swords.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Director's Axe artifact, whose base attack power and speed ratings are 20.
* KnightInShiningArmor: The Order of the Snuggly Bunny's Order Knights, though instead of conventional medieval armor, they wear bunny costumes. They also forego swords in favor of poleaxes, which have a very effective knock back effect.
* LifeDrain: The Vampirism skill, Scavenging talent, Drain spell, and any magical/golden axe with the Vampiric enchantment.
* LivingToys: The vast majority of Winter Woods' bestiary consists of these, mainly due to [[spoiler: The Onion Ring making all the toys at Non-Evil Toys Inc. go rogue and wreak havoc]].
* NewGamePlus: Madcap Mode, which, in addition to the typical stuff, boosts the strength of your enemies and allows the Madcap Crystals you collect be allocated to your abilities to enhance their level of potency much higher than in a standard game.
** It also grants access to five extra arena battles and a chance to fight some Artifact Jacks, but only with the Collector's Edition.
* OldMaster: Kinyova Sr., the master of 1,001 sword techniques.
* OneHitPolykill: The Piercing skill allows your thrown axe attacks to do this.
* OptionalPartyMember: The Clockbots you can make with various gemstones and junk count as this, though only one may join you at a time.
* PointBuildSystem: The Skills you acquire from the scrolls you find. Extremely beneficial since leveling up only increases your Life, Stamina, and Magic ratings and for the most part, you'll be equipping more potent equipment in order to raise your other stats.
** The Madcap Crystals have one of their own, having eleven different areas in which to allocate your points into.
* RockSteady: The Stone Spike spell.
* ShoutOut: The Allusionary keeps track of every ShoutOut in the game!
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Winter Woods is exactly this.
* SmugSnake: Black Market Bob
* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, freeze, and stun.
* StandardRPGItems: The Potions take this role being the only consumable items in the game.
* StatusBuff: All of which are granted through your spells and potions.
* SummonMagic: Toasties, Cryozoid, and Bonehead.
* ThatOneSideQuest: The Mimic Whisperer quest, since it requires you to feed dropped loot to the mimics. Of course getting attacked by and attacking the mimics themselves resets the progress you've made. It gets even harder if you're facing multiple mimics all at once.
* TheYoda: The Guru, since he grants you a Talent whenever you find him. In fact, one of the quests in the game is finding him 30 times since there's 30 Talents in the game.
* ThievesGuild: The Onion Ring.
* WorthyOpponent: Both Captain Capitan and Killbor.
* YouMeanXmas: Winter Woods celebrates Festivus.

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