History Videogame / Pandemic

** Anything from other works: [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The T-Virus]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Boneitis]], [[Franchise/{{Star Trek}} Pon Farr]], [[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Geostigma]], [[{{Ever17}} Tief Blau]], or what about [[MyLittlePonyandFriends the Smooze]], [[VideoGame/TraumaCenter the seven strains of GUILT]], or [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Uroboros]]? If you get Madagascar, you might get [[MemeticMutation COMPLETE GLOBAL SATURATION]]....

Funny note; there's also a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_%28board_game%29 cooperative board game]] of [[NamesTheSame the same name]] where the players goal is to CURE the world of a disease epidemic. It also has a reputation for being fairly challenging. [[{{Irony}} Interesting]], [[HilariousInHindsight eh]]?

** Anything from other works: [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The T-Virus]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Boneitis]], [[Franchise/{{Star Trek}} Pon Farr]], [[VideoGame/TraumaCenter GUILT]], [[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Geostigma]], [[{{Ever17}} Tief Blau]], or what about [[MyLittlePonyandFriends the Smooze]], or [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Uroboros]]? If you get Madagascar, you might get [[MemeticMutation COMPLETE GLOBAL SATURATION]]....

** Anything from other works: [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The T-Virus]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Boneitis]], [[Franchise/{{Star Trek}} Pon Farr]], [[VideoGame/TraumaCenter GUILT]], [[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Geostigma]], [[{{Ever17}} Tief Blau], or what about [[MyLittlePonyandFriends the Smooze]], or [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Uroboros]]? If you get Madagascar, you might get [[MemeticMutation COMPLETE GLOBAL SATURATION]]....

** Anything from other works: [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The T-Virus]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Boneitis]], [[Franchise/{{Star Trek}} Pon Farr]], [[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Geostigma]]. [[{{Ever17}} Tief Blau]] Or what about [[MyLittlePonyandFriends the Smooze]], or [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Uroboros]]? If you get Madagascar, you might get [[MemeticMutation COMPLETE GLOBAL SATURATION]]....

* AscendedMeme: One of the achievements for the Kongregate version of ''Pandemic 2'' is called "President Madagascar Assassination Badge". You have to kill everyone on the realistic (read: hard) setting in 100 days.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: One of the classes you can pick for your disease to be is "parasite". By definition, parasites are not supposed to kill their hosts, merely to live off of them. In real life, if their hosts die, they die as well (unless it's one of those parasites whose life cycle involves multiple hosts).
** The creator may have mixed up Parasites and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid Parasitoids]] which actually DO kill the host eventually.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts

* [[HelloInsertNameHere Hello, Insert Name Here]]: You get to name your disease. Cue people killing the world with "Death By Chocolate," or infecting the entire world with "pedophilia". Or even causing a disease called "Tea Partyism" that begins in the United States, or "Communism" that starts in Russia.

** Recently, "Tumblr" has caused the destruction of humanity.

* LuckBasedMission: Pretty much the whole thing. If you start in Madagascar, you're halfway there so long as you get off the island before someone coughs.

* AMillionIsAStatistic
* NewsTravelsFast

*** Even with resistance, you should avoid anything above level II (if even that). Like transmission, the rest of the world will freak out when faced with a disease that cannot be harmed and transmits freely (which has a stone-cold logic, since they are ProperlyParanoid to think that it might mutate and turn lethal at any moment). Of course, its possible to do all this and ''still'' lose the game.

* ThePlague
* ProperlyParanoid: Madagascar and China.

* RiskStyleMap

* VillainProtagonist: Naturally.
** This is also an option in ''Pandemic: American Swine'', especially when playing on closed transparency, where one can do any of the following to prevent the spread of swine flu [[ForTheEvulz (or because you want to)]]: intentionally release information to scare the public, covertly murder infected individuals, and [[NukeEm drop nuclear weapons on major US cities to kill the infected in them.]]

** TechnicallyLivingZombie

Remember, in real life, moving to Madagascar will not make you immune to deadly pathogens.
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A web game developed by Globexdesigns that simulates destroying the world with [[ThePlague your very own disease]].

*** Even with resistance, you should avoid anything above level II (if even that). Like transmission, the rest of the world will freak out when faced with a disease that cannot be harmed and transmits freely (which has a stone-cold logic, since they are ProperlyParanoid to think that it might mutate and turn lethal at any moment).

** Several guides will advise you that if you don't start off in Madagascar, you might be better off just restarting the game, over and over until you start there. Even then, starting in Madagascar has its problems- it takes much longer to infect the world from Madagascar than from elsewhere (for one of the same reasons its hard to infect it to begin with- one rarely used port); and nations like Cuba can be just as annoying to get at.

* HonorBeforeReason: As mentioned above, Greenland won't shut down its hospital until everyone dies, but won't shut down schools, public transport, or its ports. It even [[TooDumbToLive refuses to take government measures]] (i.e. martial law, handing out water and masks, exterminating rodents and insects). If you invest points in drug resistance, Greenland is likely the first to completely die off.

* SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic

* China (Takes action against the disease much more quickly than the rest of the world after infected.)

Come try out the [[http://www.freeflashgamearcade.com/games/3369/pandemic-1.html The original]] or [[http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html the sequel]] here!

* NewsTravelsFast: And how!

** Anything from other works: [[Franchise/ResidentEvil The T-Virus]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Boneitis]], [[Franchise/{{Star Trek}} Pon Farr]], [[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Geostigma]]. [[{{Ever17}} Tief Blau]] Or what about [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Uroboros]]? Maybe [[MyLittlePonyandFriends the Smooze]]? If you get Madagascar, you might get [[MemeticMutation COMPLETE GLOBAL SATURATION]]....

[[caption-width-right:280:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Did I just hear the Hallelujah Chorus?]] [[FridgeLogic Wait, how can Madagascar close its AIRPORT?]]]]
A web game developed by Globexdesigns that simulates destroying the world with your very own disease.

* Japan (Will often close its only port.)

* Mexico [[HarsherInHindsight (Oddly hard to infect.)]] [[invoked]]

* '''Madagascar''' [[MemeticMutation (Closes its only port if someone coughs in Brazil]]; getting Madagascar will be your Flash gaming career's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.) [[invoked]]
** And if it's not Madagascar, it'll be friggin' Australia, Argentina, and/or New Zealand. This game just doesn't want you to win.

* ProperlyParanoid: Madagascar.

* {{Unwinnable}}: There's an odd glitch in the first game that lets you get your Infection Rating down to zero. Running the simulation will give you negative points, and your virus will go extinct.

--> [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Cutie Pox]] has laid the world to waste.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: If a country shuts everything down when the disease starts to spread, it can become this near the end, when human population everywhere else is obliterated and is teeming with disease. The country might have saved itself from the disease, but it can't go anywhere, and there's nothing else in the world. This will become a major problem because nations have become dependent on the global economy for their way of life. A country that has survived a disease that destroyed everyone else will now have to suddenly transition into growing their own food, manufacturing their goods, and extracting fuel and raw materials all within their borders with no imports and exports. Good luck with that. Not to mention the nuclear fallout from all the plants melting down, and the air pollution from burning billions of bodies. Even Madagascar [[TheBadGuyWins probably won't survive in the end.]]