History VideoGame / NightmareNed

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Three fun-house mirrors depicting Ned going through generic puberty angst, such as acne, excessive height, and body hair. Even Ned thinks it's lame, albeit, slightly unsettling to him at first.

* [[CityOfWeirdos Attic, Basement, and Beyond of Weirdos]]

* TheGrimReaper

* OffWithHisHead: A scissor demon jumps out of the background and cuts Ned's head off only to reappear seconds later.
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Essentially a beating heart, needle-clawed hands, and cadaver-esque head attached to a long spine.

* MistakenIdentity: '''''[[LargeHam "IT'S GOT ME!! HELP!! HELP!!]]''''' '''''[[TheReveal IT'S GOT--"]]''''' [[spoiler:Oh, wait, no. It's just the phone...]]

* MultipleEndings: More specifically, a GoodEnding and a BadEnding.

* PsychoStrings: As the view of the hallway begins to stretch out in the intro.

* SwarmOfRats: In the Attic, Basement, and Beyond to Bathroom Nightmare cutscene.

!!!Tropes featured in the intro/outros:
* PhoneyCall/ EvilPhone

!!!Tropes featured in the Graveyard Nightmare:

!!!Tropes featured in the Medical Nightmare:

!!!Tropes featured in the Alcatraz Elementary School:

* VomitDiscretionShot: In the cutscene to the Bathroom Nightmare.

!!!Tropes featured in the Bathroom Nightmare:

!!!Tropes featured in the Attic, Basement, and Beyond Nightmare:

* SwarmOfRats

* CatsAreMean: Two black cats in Attic, Basement, and Beyond injure Ned with shards from broken mirrors.

* LosingYourHead
* MadDoctor/ DepravedDentist:
** The Medical Shadow is shown to be the most insane and sadistic of the bunch.

*** [[spoiler:Also, at the end, ''if'' Ned is able to beat the Shadows and conquer his fears, the Shadows are shown to be still hiding in his closet. They contemplate of what to do now that Ned has won, and the Medical Shadow suggests that [[VillainousValour "We could perform hideous, painful medical procedures on ''each other!''"]]]]
*** [[spoiler:Subverted when it is shown that she was actually friendly and it just the child in Ned that made him fear doctors so badly]]

** The nurse in Alcatraz Elementary School, though she poses no real danger to him.

* CatsAreMean: Two black cats injure Ned with shards from broken mirrors.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game has lost much of the cartoonic and silly nature from the show.
* DownerEnding: The bad ending in which Ned is still terrified of his nightmares.

** PlayedStraight Plaque Monsters from in The Mouth.

->''"Adventure that turns fear into fun."''
--> -- {{Tagline}} to the game

** The patching and the sickly green color of Quilt usually appears whenever something bad happens.

* {{Mooks}}: The countless Attic, Basement, and Beyond mice are this to a fire-spitting furnace who repeatedly fries them.

** The Electro-Beavers in the Bathroom Nightmare are this to the rat overlords.

* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The Mouse/ Rat civilizations.
** Seen in a cutscene was an enormous, realistic-looking rat[[note]]([[{{WMG}} Which some gamers believed]] to be the [[KingOfBeasts progenitor of them all]])[[/note]].

* VillainSong: The game had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq0pmg0gjg8 The Mouse Song]]". Definitely constitutes an EarWorm.
** The Rats explain in their song that their motive for tormenting you is, essentially, ForTheEvulz.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game has lost much of the cartoonic and silly nature presented in the show.

* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: When Ned is first cast into the Nightmare World by the Shadows.

* BatOutOfHell

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The zombie girlscout and zombie Dad.

** [[MindScrew Later, a cat in a zipper-bodysuit disguised as a dog wearing a mask disguised as a cat.]]

* {{Mooks}}: The countless Attic, Basement, and Beyond mice who repeatedly getting fried by a fire-spitting furnace.
** Plaque Monsters from in The Mouth.
** The Electro-Beavers in the Bathroom Nightmare.
* MultipleEndings

* PhoneyCall/ EvilPhone

* SpearCarrier: The enormous pair of clawed monster hands--a likely EldritchAbomination--that casts Ned into the Shadows' Nightmare World does not appear again [[spoiler:unless the player ends with the good ending to which it bring him to the final battle]]. It is also seen on the game cover, but portrayed as more slender and presented in a much less cartoonic manor.

* CreepyBasement

* BloodlessCarnage: In the game Ned can get stabbed, decapitated, crushed, and other such fates with nary a drop of blood.

* {{Bully}}: There is a minor baddie that [[StuffedIntoATrashcan tosses Ned into a trashcan]] if he gets near.

* DumbMuscle: The Clayman]]

-> ''"Adventure that turns fear into fun."''

* EverythingsWorseWithBees: During the Chalkboard stage big bee drawings will try and give Ned ''terrible'' stings.

!!Tropes featured in the intro/ end/ throughout/ and by the game itself:

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* EldritchAbomination: The Shadows.

** [[spoiler:[[{{}WMG} Some have speculated that the little girl Sally may actually be Mrs. Needlemeyer herself as a child]].]]

* DemBones: A skeleton man is seen lounging in a reclining chair while reading a book, and ''does not'' want to be disturbed.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110310022813/nightmarened/images/3/37/00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.png THIS thing.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombie girlscout and zombie Dad.

* PrimalFear: A little girl who's [[IronicFear afraid of the dark had her nightlight stolen by a bat.]]

* AfraidOfNeedles: Apparently, a big part of the nightmare.

* HospitalGurneyScene: First part of the doctor level.

* UmbrellaDrink: During the Uvula Song, rotted tooth men can be seen drinking from what looks like martini glasses with umbrellas.

* ParentalSubstitute

* UngratefulBastard: Ned had let a frightened kid out of a cell he'd apparently been trapped in only to have him disappear and leave Ned to have an ''embarrassing'' school photo of himself taken instead.
* VomitDiscretionShot
* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number 777444]]: The students at Alcatraz Elementary all have convict numbers, Ned's being 777444.

* MouseWorld: Aka, the Bathroom Nightmare. It is populated by intelligent, sadistic, talking mice.

* VillainSong: The game had "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq0pmg0gjg8 The Mouse Song]]".
** Definitely constitutes an EarWorm.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Three funhouse mirrors depicting Ned going through generic puberty angst, such as acne, excessive height, and body hair. Even Ned thinks it's lame, albeit, slightly unsettling to him at first.

* {{Fireballs}}: There is a living furnace that spews out balls of flame.
* LikeABrokenRecord: There is a phonograph that plays the same simple tune over and over.

* MindScrew: There is a door that when Ned enters, he is then spat out of a phonograph.

* [[spoiler: PocketDimension: This has shown to be a possibility, for it somehow had a direct (hidden) connection to the real world, as told by Sally.]]

* SchmuckBait: A box that reads "DANGER DONT TOUCH."
** [[spoiler:Subverted when it [[RedHerring turns out to be a harmless--although oversized and morbid--insect, or simply nothing]].]]
* TheWallsHaveEyes: [[NightmareFuel CREEPY, YELLOW, GLARING, BLINKING, MONSTER EYES, yes!]]

!Tropes featured in the intro/ end/ throughout/ and by the game itself:

* AbnormalLimbRotationRange
* AllJustADream: At the very end.

* ArcSymbol: The five Shadows are represented by five distinct symbols play a very important role in the game.
** Also, the patching and color of the sickly green Quilt usually appears whenever something bad will/ has happened to Ned.

* CatsAreMean: Two black cats repeatedly toss hand mirrors up into the air to purposely injure Ned with shards from the mirrors as they shatter on impact.
** Also, a word-animal in the Chalkboard area of Alcatraz Elementary.
* ClosedCircle

* DarkerAndEdgier: In a way, the game has lost much of the cartoonic and silly nature presented in the show.

* EldritchLocation: Much of the Nightmare, but primarily in The Mouth and in the Attic, Basement, and Beyond.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Many, many points in the intro.

* {{Irony}}: The animals and objects in the game are usually altogether more clever, intelligent, and sentient than the people are.

** The Medical Shadow ([[spoiler:really Dr. Klutzchnik]]) is shown to be the most insane and sadistic of the bunch: "I'm going to rip off one of your fingers, put it in a jar, and keep it as a ''souvenir''!"

** The crazed dentists, aka Doctor Shots, who will try and stab/ impale Ned clean through with many giant needles if he gets caught when the Mouth closes on him.
** Psychotic doctors that will swipe at Ned on his ride on the rolling medical gurney.
** A nurse in Alcatraz Elementary School is one of the few enemies that poses no real danger to him. Though she ''will'' try and grab Ned and toss him backwards.
* MediumBlending: At many points, the artwork of both the background and some of the character mixes with technicolor, RealLife artistry, and more.

* {{Mooks}}: At one point, countless mice are repeatedly sneaking out one at a time to a portal leading out to the Bathroom Nightmare, where many are burned by a fire-spitting furnace.
** Also, the Plaque Monsters from in the Mouth.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In the Chalkboard part of the school level, there is a vampire bat made from the actual letters of the word "bat", and some sort of plaque vampire bats in The Mouth.

* RedHerring: There is a latrine that is even ''labed'' "The Worst Toilet in Ned's Nightmare" which Ned chooses to outright avoid by leaping down into a chasm.

** Also an enormous, realistic-looking mouse/ rat seen in a cutscene likely to be the [[KingOfBeasts progenitor of them all]].

* ScareChord/ PsychoStrings: As the view of the hallway begins to stretch out in the intro.

* SnarkyInanimateObject: Also sort of a RunningJoke, the lamp with eyes, whom at one point is seen tap-dancing on an end table.
* SpearCarrier: The enormous pair of clawed, monster hands--and a likely EldritchAbomination--that casts Ned into the Shadows' Nightmare World and does not appear again, [[spoiler:unless the players ends with the good ending to which it bring him to the final battle]]. It is also seen on the game cover--but portrayed as more slender and presented in a much less cartoonic manor.

* ThrowTheBookAtThem: An angry librarian squishes Ned between a book, as does the skeleton man if Ned disturbs him.

* TheUnsolvedMystery: [[spoiler:The true nature of the Attic, Basement, and Beyond Nightmare, its connection to the real world, Sally the little girl's connection to Ned was never learned.]]
** [[spoiler:Although, some have speculated that the little girl Sally may actually be Mrs. Needlemeyer herself as a child.]]

* VomitDiscretionShot

* AndThatsTerrible: A demon head pops out of a jack-in-the-box after being sprung by a small, cute, little boy, whom the demon subsequently gobbles up whole.
* AnthropomorphicFood: Pumpkins count as food, ''right?''

* InsaneTrollLogic: The principal punishes Ned for deliberately clogging the bathroom toilets: Despite him being the quiet, nerdy type, and after the two menacing bullies stormed out of the room when he just arrived, he was the only one at the scene of the crime... So, he ''MUST'VE'' done it!

* KidsAreCruel: The kids in the school are either pushing/ smacking Ned around, running him over in the form of a mob, or playing cruel jokes on him; usually all the while completely ignoring his existence.
* NotWearingPantsDream: At one point.

* UngratefulBastard: Ned had let a frightened kid out of a cell he'd apparently been trapped in only to have him disappear and leave Ned to have a ''[[{{Understatement}} little more than embarrassing]]'' school photo of himself taken instead.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: [[spoiler:As the game continues and [[BodyHorror the Shadows begin to reveal]], [[AccidentalNightmareFuel their expressions become increasing chilled and terrified themselves]].]]

* MistakenIdentity: '''''[[LargeHam "HELP!! HELP!! IT'S GOT ME!!]]''''' '''''[[TheReveal IT'S GOT--"]]''''' [[spoiler:Oh, wait, no. It's just the phone...]]

* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Another one of Ned's opponents in The Locker is a giant, papier-mâché chicken who [[Cliche begins to crow "when the sun comes up."]]