History Videogame / CharlieMurder

* BalefulPolymorph: The graffiti on the wall in the bar's bathroom implies that the running potato you encounter throughout the game WasOnceAMan before mysteriously being turned into a potato.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kelly has a streak of pink in her otherwise black hair, and Lester has a pink mohawk.

* WhamLine: Throughout the game, you get phone messages from "a friend" who makes note of your progress and serves as MrExposition after major events and boss fights. The message before you fight Gore Quaffer simply reads [[spoiler:"By the way I am not your friend"]]. Though one could speculate "your friend" [[spoiler:is Paul taunting you]], the next two messages confirm that it's [[spoiler:[[TrueFinalBoss the Angel]] [[BiggerBad of Chaos]]]].

* Kelly Skitten, AKA Skelekitten, manager, backup vocalist, tambourinist, and Mesmer: Her unique ability is an evade roll, allowing her to pass through any number of attacks, and her spells lean heavily towards [[StandardStatusEffects crowd control]] and [[WhiteMage support magic]] to a lesser extent.

* ApatheticCitizens: The bartender in the background of the third song sequence doesn't seem at all concerned with the demons pouring gasoline all over the place, and even less so when they set the place ablaze.
** The radio station seems to exploit the ongoing rivalry between Charlie Murder and Gore Quaffer to draw listeners in. The people they interview likewise don't seem too concerned about the ongoing ZombieApocalypse, and the one who is is cut-short. (the rest talk about how Charlie Murder are getting egotistical or are ComicallyMissingThePoint)

* FanDumb: InUniverse. You can hear both Charlie Murder and Gore Quaffer fans being interviewed by the radio station in the tattoo pallor in-between songs, with plenty of [[TakeThat Take Thats]] directed toward certain kinds of examples of this trope.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Circe ends up having this after zapping the band to near death in the final battle, due to having developed feelings for Charlie as she observed him. Disobeying Mortimer's orders to kill them results in him impaling her with his scythe in a blind fit of rage, shortly followed by King Tepe's retaliation for killing his girlfriend leading to the same fate. Beelzabal crushes his contract with Gore Quaffer and leaves Mortimer to fend for himself.]]

** "The Bad Ending": [[spoiler:The ZombieApocalypse is stopped. [[BitterSweetEnding But at the cost of not being able to save Paul from his demons, and were presumably forced to kill him.]]]]

** In the mental asylum, the band will wake up [[Franchise/{{Saw}} strapped in a trap.]] The boss of that level, the Lady in Tatters, also bears a strong resemblance to the Billy puppet.

* UnfriendlyFire: The enemies attack haphazardly, and said attacks are just as deadly to their own as they are to you. Your crew can indulge in friendly fire too, but only when there are no enemies onscreen.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Paul Bitterman [[TheResenter has reasons]] for being, well, bitter. He was replaced by Lester and kicked out of the band once they made it big, lost his best friend he's known since birth, and the band continued to (unknowingly) sabotage his solo project. All of this causes him to go off the deep end and try to murder Charlie Murder with his own band and uprising a ZombieApocalypse.

** Countess Circe Bathory and King Tepes were named after Countess Elizabeth Bathory and Prince Vlad III (the inspiration of Dracula who was also known by King Tepes). Beelzebaal is a combination of the Biblical demon Beelzebub and Ba'alberith, the god of Canaan later to be demonized.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNoWhere: Any boss that isn't a part of Gore Quaffer counts, as none of them get any foreshadowing or some kind of explanation for why they're there. This ranges to comedic with the Sasquatch boss and [[NightmareFuel downright disturbing]] with the Bloated Tumor under the sea.

On June 16th, 2014, the game was made an XBOX "Game with Gold,"- meaning anyone with a Gold account could get the game for free from then until the 31st.

The gameplay model, referred to as a "[=BrawlPG=]" by the developers, plays out as an unusual mix between ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', ''VideoGame/FinalFight'', and ''VideoGame/TheSimpsons'' arcade game. Fallen foes drop pocket change which can be used to buy food and clothing. Food and drink provide both healing and permanent stat boosts, while clothing provides a whole host of benefits: torso clothing primarily provides significant defense boosts and elemental resistances, hats strengthen your character's magic power (here referred to as ''Anar[[KiAttacks chi]]''), and gloves strengthen your punches and kicks, as well as adding some extremely splashy [[ElementalPowers elemental damage.]] All of the clothing can also have tangential enchantments that are harder to quantify, such as life-steal, stun chance, or causing stasis on knockback.

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The game starts and ends with Charlie and crew emerging from Hell.]]

* MeaningfulName: Countess Circe Bathory and King Tepes were named after Countess Elizabeth Bathory and Prince Vlad III (the inspiration of Dracula who was also known by King Tepes). Beelzebaal is a combination of the Biblical demon Beelzebub and Ba'alberith, the god of Canaan later to be demonized.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Charlie has short green hair that he's had since he was a child according to the bad ending. Kelly has a streak of pink in her otherwise black hair, and Lester has a pink mohawk.
** Though Charlie's hair is debatable, because in the flashbacks we see he clearly has brown hair.

* ZombieApocalypse: Gore Quaffer starts one in order to take Charlie Murder out. They almost succeed.

Charlie Murder is a Side Scroller BeatEmUp game from Creator/SkaStudios, playing a bit more like the classics that inspired it than their notoriously breakneck Dishwasher series.