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* LongTitle: The full title of the mod, displayed on the title screen: ''Tennis Dungeons Mod Special HD Ultra Deluxe Gold Ferrari 64, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Jank, Or: More Fluff 2, But You Can Just Call Me Tennis''.
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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Defied. The show's sponsorship agreement with Paulding includes having to actually fulfill the contestants' wishes instead of relying on "the magic of trust and friendship."
* YouGotSpunk: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the Jester. After breaking into the studio when they weren't invited back, they note that "I've got spunk, you've gotta respect that!". [[SubvertedTrope Lady Luck doesn't fall for it.]]

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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Defied. The show's sponsorship agreement with Paulding includes having to actually fulfill the contestants' wishes instead of relying on "the magic of trust and friendship."
* YouGotSpunk: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the Jester. After breaking into the studio when they weren't invited back, they note that "I've got spunk, you've gotta respect that!". [[SubvertedTrope Lady Luck doesn't fall for it.]]
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* AudienceParticipationFailure: Lady Luck's first attempt to shill out Paulding tennis rackets gets no response from the audience. Then she demands them to applaud or ''be escorted from the studio'', and everyone applauds.
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* ActuallyIAmHim: The Witch says she doesn't want to wish for something with a wide-scale effect, as she doesn't find it natural to interfere with "the powers that be." Lady Luck mentions that she ''is'' one of said powers.

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* ActuallyIAmHim: ActuallyIAmHim:
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The Witch says she doesn't want to wish for something with a wide-scale effect, as she doesn't find it natural to interfere with "the powers that be." Lady Luck mentions that she ''is'' one of said powers.powers.
** This exchange:
-->'''Lady Luck''': Oh, how unfortunate! I guess luck wasn't on your side today.\\
'''Contestant''': But is it going to be on my side eventually?\\
'''Lady Luck''': I'll think about it. [[BluntNo No.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Bully became the CEO of an excavation company while he was outside the dungeons, and asks the player if they can pose as "a satisfied customer of my new rock delivery service" (after throwing rocks at you).

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Bully became the CEO of an excavation company while he was outside the dungeons, and asks the player contestant if they can pose as "a satisfied customer of my new rock delivery service" (after throwing rocks at you).them).
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: In the normal ending, [[spoiler:the Dicey Dungeons game show exists because it's a good way for Lady Luck to get money through legitimate-seeming methods. Lady Luck decides to quit the game show once Jester takes over and try playing the stock market.]]

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* CutLexLuthorACheck: In the normal ending, [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:it's revealed the Dicey Dungeons game show exists because it's a good way for Lady Luck to get money through legitimate-seeming methods. Lady Luck decides to quit the game show once Jester takes over and try playing the stock market.]]
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* {{Kayfabe}}: Discussed as the reason Lady Luck can veto a wish on air purely because she's too lazy to grant it.

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* {{Kayfabe}}: Discussed as the reason Lady Luck can veto a wish on air purely because she's too lazy to grant it.it, and why people care to sit through a prize wheel that ''always loses''.
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* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Despite claiming to be more of a "mad engineer", the Inventor claims to "balance test tubes" when she's trying to sound generic and archetypical.
-->'''Inventor''': For my wish, I want a personal assistant who can lend me a hand in the lab! I spend so much time balancing, uh, test tubes, and wrenches. and... blackboards?


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* {{Kayfabe}}: Discussed as the reason Lady Luck can veto a wish on air purely because she's too lazy to grant it.
--> '''Lady Luck''': People don't care if the show is a sham! Do you think they just never noticed the wheel?
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: In the normal ending, [[spoiler:the Dicey Dungeons game show exists because it's a good way for Lady Luck to get money through legitimate-seeming methods. Lady Luck decides to quit the game show once Jester takes over and try playing the stock market.]]


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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Lady Luck's control over chance is emphasized compared to in ''Dicey Dungeons''. She offers Inventor to popularize the term "mad engineer" with an advertising campaign that just so happens to catch on, and [[spoiler:originally took control of the show by having "one-off gamma rays" rearrange every document confirming Jester's ownership of it to say she owns it instead]].
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* ThrowItIn: [invoked] In-universe. After Keymaster informs Lady Luck off-air that he stole the Thief's lockpick in retribution for the Thief stealing his locks and keys, Lady Luck presents this as an ironic twist she pulled on the Thief so he could learn what it's like walking in Keymaster's shoes.

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* ThrowItIn: [invoked] [[invoked]] In-universe. After Keymaster informs Lady Luck off-air that he stole the Thief's lockpick in retribution for the Thief stealing his locks and keys, Lady Luck presents this as an ironic twist she pulled on the Thief so he could learn what it's like walking in Keymaster's shoes.
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* ThrowItIn: After Keymaster informs Lady Luck off-air that he stole the Thief's lockpick in retribution for the Thief stealing his locks and keys, Lady Luck presents this as an ironic twist she pulled on the Thief so he could learn what it's like walking in Keymaster's shoes.

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* ThrowItIn: [invoked] In-universe. After Keymaster informs Lady Luck off-air that he stole the Thief's lockpick in retribution for the Thief stealing his locks and keys, Lady Luck presents this as an ironic twist she pulled on the Thief so he could learn what it's like walking in Keymaster's shoes.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
** The itch.io page mentions there are "No appearances from Jester. None. Nil. Zero."
** After Keymaster says he can help the Thief reacquire his lockpick (if it happens to be missing; just a hunch) in exchange for giving Keymaster his stuff back, he explicitly claims that "None of my prior statements, nor this one, can be used to incriminate me of any reciprocal theft."
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* SkeletonKey: Keymaster mentions to Lady Luck he wants an "ultra master key that opens everything in the universe ever" if he wins. She ignores this.
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* ThrowItIn: After Keymaster informs Lady Luck off-air that he stole the Thief's lockpick in retribution for the Thief stealing his locks and keys, Lady Luck presents this as an ironic twist she pulled on the Thief so he could learn what it's like walking in Keymaster's shoes.


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* TurnOffTheCamera: In the Thief's introduction, Lady Luck says to "cut the damn camera" when Keymaster interrupts her.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Bully became the CEO of an excavation while he was outside the dungeons, and asks the player if they can pose as "a satisfied customer of my new rock delivery service" (after throwing rocks at you).

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Bully became the CEO of an excavation company while he was outside the dungeons, and asks the player if they can pose as "a satisfied customer of my new rock delivery service" (after throwing rocks at you).
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* BatteringRam: This card (from the original game) doesn't appear anywhere in the mod itself, but was apparently preserved by the Jester from one of their episodes where they had it, and used to break into the game show.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Tennis takes place in Season 3 of the Dicey Dungeons game show. Season 2, as recounted by the Warrior, apparently had a "giant laser robot" and pyrotechnics. (The itch.io page implies that Season 2 was [=MegaQuest=], an older Dicey Dungeons mod that billed itself as such.)

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Tennis takes place in Season 3 of the Dicey Dungeons game show. Season 2, as recounted by the Warrior, apparently had a "giant laser robot" and pyrotechnics. (The itch.io page implies that Season 2 was [=MegaQuest=], an older Dicey Dungeons mod that billed itself as such.a second season.)
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Bully became the CEO of an excavation while he was outside the dungeons, and asks the player if they can pose as "a satisfied customer of my new rock delivery service" (after throwing rocks at you).
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Tennis takes place in Season 3 of the Dicey Dungeons game show. Season 2, as recounted by the Warrior, apparently had a "giant laser robot" and pyrotechnics. (The itch.io page implies that Season 2 was MegaQuest, an older Dicey Dungeons mod that billed itself as such.)

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Tennis takes place in Season 3 of the Dicey Dungeons game show. Season 2, as recounted by the Warrior, apparently had a "giant laser robot" and pyrotechnics. (The itch.io page implies that Season 2 was MegaQuest, [=MegaQuest=], an older Dicey Dungeons mod that billed itself as such.)
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* SlicesDicesAndMakesJulienneFries: When Lady Luck first promotes Paulding tennis rackets, she mentions you can "Play tennis! Play ping pong! Make french fries! I don't care! I'm just the one shilling out for them!"
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Tennis takes place in Season 3 of the Dicey Dungeons game show. Season 2, as recounted by the Warrior, apparently had a "giant laser robot" and pyrotechnics.

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Tennis takes place in Season 3 of the Dicey Dungeons game show. Season 2, as recounted by the Warrior, apparently had a "giant laser robot" and pyrotechnics. (The itch.io page implies that Season 2 was MegaQuest, an older Dicey Dungeons mod that billed itself as such.)



* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Subverted. The show's sponsorship agreement with Paulding includes having to actually fulfill the contestants' wishes instead of relying on "the magic of trust and friendship."

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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Subverted.Defied. The show's sponsorship agreement with Paulding includes having to actually fulfill the contestants' wishes instead of relying on "the magic of trust and friendship."
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** [[spoiler:Paul for Backup]] depicts Paul from ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'', and "Better Call Paul" and "Paul Gone" ([[spoiler:the button text for the normal and weakened forms of the item, respectively]]) are a reference to ''Series/BetterCallSaul''. [[spoiler:Some of the cards you find after taking it are ''Petscop'' references as well.]]
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* CharacterBlog: "AUDIBLEAVIAN" (Loud Bird) uploaded a disguised work-in-progress build of Tennis named "MY AWESOME MOD" before its official release, and was sometimes present in the Modding Hub Discord server, acting in an egotistical manner and recalling time they spent with the other enemies.
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* PopularSayingBut: Aurora's post-combat quote references a New England aphorism: "If you don't like the weather around here... then there's not much I can do about that, since all the weather here is fake. We're miles underground."

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* PopularSayingBut: Aurora's post-combat quote references twists a New England aphorism: "If you don't like the weather around here... then there's not much I can do about that, since all the weather here is fake. We're miles underground."
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* NoodleIncident: The "Spanner Incident", mentioned in the Warrior's introduction cutscene, is apparently what got the Jester excluded from Season 3.

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* NoodleIncident: The "Spanner Incident", mentioned in the Warrior's introduction cutscene, is apparently what got factored into the Jester being excluded from Season 3.
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* TimeAbyss: Lady Luck mentions to the Witch that despite this being "Season 3", there have been ''millions'' of seasons of Dicey Dungeons, most of which predate the concept of seasons, and they didn't start keeping track until recently. As revealed in the normal ending, [[spoiler:Jester and Lady Luck apparently predate ''life itself'', and Dicey Dungeons was created by the Jester to distract Lady Luck from a series of coincidences that lead to life developing]].

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