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* OrWasItADream: After the boss fight with Trogdor, Strong Bad wakes up and it seems like none of his game adventures happened. Except then he looks past everyone else and sees Trogdor, who starts running around trying to burninate them.

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* OrWasItADream: After the boss fight with Trogdor, game ends, Strong Bad wakes up and it seems like none of his game adventures happened. Except then he looks past everyone else and sees Trogdor, who starts running around trying to burninate them.
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* OrWasItADream: After the boss fight with Trogdor, Strong Bad wakes up and it seems like none of his game adventures happened. Except then he looks past everyone else and sees Trogdor, who starts running around trying to burninate them.
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* AndYouWereThere: Strong Bad says this at the end.

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* AndYouWereThere: Strong Bad says this at the end.end, after he wakes up and sees everybody standing over him.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: After saving Strong Sad from the scorpion monster, Rather Dashing is dragged off by Sad, who's all pumped to get the chance to hang out with a real video game adventurer. Strong Bad expresses pity, saying Rather Dashing would be better off having to fight Trogdor.
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* SuperMode: Strong Bad transforms into a musclebound warrior version of him for his ''real'' battle with Trogdor.
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* TapOnTheHead: Strong Bad doesn't just give the trophy for the Race to the End of the Race to Homestar. He distracts him and knocks him out with it first.
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* SaveThePrincess: Parodied. [[VideoGame/PeasantsQuest Rather Dashing]] tells Strong Bad that he's gotten out of the dragon slaying business and switched to rescuing princesses. However, work is very slow because there simply aren't many princesses around who need saving. He eventually has to settle for rescuing Strong Sad from the King of Town.

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* SaveThePrincess: Parodied. [[VideoGame/PeasantsQuest Rather Dashing]] tells Strong Bad that he's gotten out of the dragon slaying business and switched to rescuing princesses. However, work is very slow because there simply aren't many his game wasn't made with any princesses around who need saving.to rescue. He eventually has to settle for rescuing Strong Sad from the King of Town.
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* NoodleIncident: "The Cheat! Did you unleash vengeful spirits into the house again?"

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'''First Videlectrix Guy:''' ''(yelling over the phone)'' [[NoIndoorVoice YOU'RE NOT PAID TO THINK! HOW'M I SUPPOSED TO RUN A FAKE VOICE MAIL AND PUT UP WITH YOUR LIP AT THE SAME TIME?!?]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Strong Bad does (literally) near the end. And just in time, too, because Trogdor just transformed into [[OneWingedAngel Ultimate Trogdor]].]]\\

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'''First Videlectrix Guy:''' ''(yelling over the phone)'' [[NoIndoorVoice YOU'RE NOT PAID TO THINK! HOW'M I SUPPOSED TO RUN A FAKE VOICE MAIL AND PUT UP WITH YOUR LIP AT THE SAME TIME?!?]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Strong Bad does (literally) near the end. And just in time, too, because Trogdor just transformed into [[OneWingedAngel Ultimate Trogdor]].]]\\
TIME?!?]]\\


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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Strong Bad does (literally) near the end. And just in time, too, because Trogdor just transformed into [[OneWingedAngel Ultimate Trogdor]].]]\\
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* ActingForTwo: In-universe, Marzipan plays Cutsey Buttons and Sultry Buttons, Homestar plays Dangeresque Too and [[spoiler:Uzi Bazooka]], and Strong Sad plays a bunch of minor characters and the CGI monster.
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* SequelHook: Each episode ends with a preview for the next one:
** Episode 1 — After Strong Bad falls asleep on the couch, the camera pans to the computer room where the Municipality logo is visible on the Lappy 486.
** Episode 2 — As Strong Bad leaves the castle, he mentions that he wonders if his new Limozeen game was delivered.
** Episode 3 — When Strong Sad says that the game sounds dangerous, Strong Bad says "No, sounds..." and hums the Dangeresque theme song, while the camera zooms in on the Dangeresque 3 poster.
** Episode 4 — A direct continuation of the final shot.
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* FetchQuest: Parodied in "8-Bit is Enough" where Strong Sad keeps assigning them to Strong Bad before he'll let him up to Trogdor's lair. The trick isn't to play along, but to substitute something for the generic cube that'll give Strong Sad something else to worry about.
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* FetchQuest: Parodied in "8-Bit is Enough" where Strong Sad keeps assigning them to Strong Bad before he'll let him up to Trogdor's lair. The trick isn't to play along, but to substitute something for the generic cube that'll give Strong Sad something else to worry about.
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* BlandNameProduct: For legal reasons, Strong Bad's lighter doesn't have a BMW logo, the Swiss Cake Rolls were renamed to "Creamy Ding Snack Cakes", the floppy disk container next to the Lappy doesn't have any real-world games in it, and the bit where Strong Bad mumbles the name of a random video game was changed to a Videlectrix game, ''Rhino Feeder'' (he originally mumbled ''Super VideoGame/PunchOut'').
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* ContinuityNod: Tons, but a plot-relevent one would be to the e-mails "Armies" and "More Armies," where the armed forces as portrayed play major factors. The Municipality (the King of Town's faction) are the bad guys, the Home Starmy is instrumental in his takedown (while the Battle of Strong Badia plays an important role in the Draft), and Strong Badia's lack of an army proves a major hindrance to Strong Bad's plans.

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* ContinuityNod: Tons, but a plot-relevent plot-relevant one would be to the e-mails "Armies" and "More Armies," where the armed forces as portrayed play major factors. The Municipality (the King of Town's faction) are the bad guys, the Home Starmy is instrumental in his takedown (while the Battle of Strong Badia plays an important role in the Draft), and Strong Badia's lack of an army proves a major hindrance to Strong Bad's plans.



* StalkerWithACrush: Coach Z toward Marzipan. He has one in the web series as well, but here, it's cranked UpToEleven.

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* StalkerWithACrush: Coach Z toward Marzipan. He has one in the web series as well, but here, it's cranked UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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-->'''Strong Bad:''' As long as that doesn't mean you follow me around everywhere and waste my time trying to talk to me.\\
'''Strong Bad:''' [[BrutalHonesty Actually, that's]] ''[[BrutalHonesty exactly]]'' [[BrutalHonesty what it means.]]


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* YourMom: After taking over the King of Town's castle, Strong Bad wants to be let out and asks Homestar to replace him, but Homestar refuses, insisting that there would be nothing to do except sit around the castle. He then follows it up thusly:
-->"You'd have to be some kind of idiot to want to be King of To-- ''(stops as he realizes what he's saying)'' Oh, I forgot. Your mom was the King of Town, wasn't she?"

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* ForInconveniencePressOne: When Strong Bad tries to call Videlectrix to get his Trogdor arcade cabinet fixed, he is told that he is at voice mail (a fake one, it turns out) and is advised to say "1" for the Videlectrix catalog, "2" to join the Good Graphicketeers Club, and "3" to reach the help line. In order to advance the game, [[TakeAThirdOption Strong Bad says "4"]], which throws the people at Videlectrix for a loop, as they don't remember having a fourth option, until they realize that Strong Bad is onto their act and give up.
-->'''Videlectrix Guy:''' All right, all right, you got me. You say you got a problem with your Trogdor cabinet? You're gonna need to put in a new logic board.



* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Strong Bad does (literally) near the end. And just in time, too, because Trogdor just transformed into [[OneWingedAngel Ultimate Trogdor]].]]

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* TakeAThirdOption / IDontPayYouToThink: Or rather, a ''fourth'' option, as that's what it takes to advance the game: in the opening, Strong Bad calls Videlectrix to get their help to fix his Trogdor arcade cabinet, [[ForInconveniencePressOne only to be hindered by an automated voice mail system]]. Instead of choosing options "1" through, "3", he chooses "4", triggering this exchange:
-->'''First Videlectrix Guy:''' You chose option "4". That's... er... ''(softly)'' which one was option 4?\\
'''Second Videlectrix Guy:''' You know, I didn't think we had a "4".\\
'''First Videlectrix Guy:''' ''(yelling over the phone)'' [[NoIndoorVoice YOU'RE NOT PAID TO THINK! HOW'M I SUPPOSED TO RUN A FAKE VOICE MAIL AND PUT UP WITH YOUR LIP AT THE SAME TIME?!?]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Strong Bad does (literally) near the end. And just in time, too, because Trogdor just transformed into [[OneWingedAngel Ultimate Trogdor]].]]]]\\
'''Strong Bad:''' Four! Two plus two! Quatro! Double double deuce!\\
'''First Videlectrix Guy:''' All right, all right, you got me.

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* CallBack: the Concession Stand is closed due to damages sustained during the filming of the previous episode.

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* CallBack: the CallBack:
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Concession Stand is closed due to damages sustained during the filming of the previous episode.episode.
** Trogdor's dying words after you finally defeat him are a call-back to the song Strong Bad sings at the start of the first episode (see page quote).
-->'''Trogdor:''' No! Your style! I couldn't handle it!
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* AbsenteeActor: Of the five episodes, only "Strong Badia the Free" has all twelve main characters appearing on screen. Homsar is missing from "Dangeresque 3" and "8-Bit Is Enough" (the latter of which also lacks Pom Pom), and makes a voice-only appearance in "Homestar Ruiner". The Poopsmith makes a photo-only appearance in "Baddest of the Bands." Not literally true, however, as nine of the twelve main characters are voiced by [[ManofaThousandVoices Matt Chapman]] and Pom Pom's voice is a recording of milk bubbles (done by Matt's brother, Mike).
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* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Uzi Bazooka's final words have him asking Dangeresque if in another life they could be partners. Dangeresque shuts him down by stating that his only partner is Dangerseque Too, who is also played by Homestar.]]

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* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Uzi Bazooka's final words have him asking Dangeresque if in another life they could be partners. Dangeresque shuts him down by stating that his only partner is Dangerseque Dangeresque Too, who is also played by Homestar.]]
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* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Uzi Bazooka's final words have him asking Dangeresque if in another life they could be partners. Dangeresque shuts him down by stating that his only partner is Dangerseque Too, who is also played by Homestar.]]
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* GreenAesop: {{Defied}}. At one point in the movie, Cutesy Buttons gives an eight-minute Green Aesop to Dangeresque, in which she says that she has given away the formula to the scientific community at large to use to care for the environment. Her speech was filmed, but it was largely skipped over at the premiere. Marzipan was not amused.

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* GreenAesop: {{Defied}}. At one point in the movie, Cutesy Buttons gives an eight-minute Green Aesop to Dangeresque, in which she says that she has given away the formula to the scientific community at large to use to care for the environment. [[DefiedTrope Her speech was filmed, but it was it's largely skipped over at the premiere. premiere.]] Marzipan was is not amused.
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* GreenAesop: {{Defied}} in-universe. At one point in the movie, Cutesy Buttons gives an eight-minute Green Aesop to Dangeresque, in which she has given away the formula to the scientific community at large to care for the environment. It was filmed, but it was largely skipped over at the premiere. Marzipan was not amused.

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* GreenAesop: {{Defied}} in-universe. {{Defied}}. At one point in the movie, Cutesy Buttons gives an eight-minute Green Aesop to Dangeresque, in which she says that she has given away the formula to the scientific community at large to use to care for the environment. It Her speech was filmed, but it was largely skipped over at the premiere. Marzipan was not amused.
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* TearUpTheContract: In order to break Strong Sad's spirit so Strong Bad can take over Bleak House, you need to burn the constitution, bill of rights, and flag of Strong Sad's nation.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Every character's subtitles are colored according to who is speaking (Strong Bad's text is a pale red, Homestar's text is white, Marzipan's text is purple, etc.).

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: ColorCodedSpeech: Every character's subtitles are colored according to who is speaking (Strong Bad's text is a pale red, Homestar's text is white, Marzipan's text is purple, etc.).
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* BaitAndSwitch: One of the puzzles looks like you have to get Homestar, who is trying to improvise lyrics for Pom Pom's song "Food-Related Love", to rhyme with one food item when the actual solution is another. [[spoiler:You have to use the bottle of wine (which is "Bouncy Boy Merlot"), and not the escargot ("Plate of snails? That... doesn't rhyme!")]]

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* BaitAndSwitch: One of the puzzles looks like you have to get Homestar, who is trying to improvise lyrics for Pom Pom's song "Food-Related Love", to rhyme with one food item when the actual solution is another. [[spoiler:You have to use the bottle of wine (which is "Bouncy Boy Merlot"), and not the escargot ("Plate of snails? That... doesn't rhyme!")]]rhyme!") Zigzagged, as if you’re paying attention, Homestar is describing the food you need to be near.]]

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* TheSomethingSong: The protest song Marzipan composes in this episode was originally officially titled "Protest Song", though the Strong Bad Twitter account would later rename it to "Justice Combo Meal".


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* TheSomethingSong: The protest song Marzipan composes in this episode was originally officially titled "Protest Song", though the Strong Bad Twitter account would later rename it to "Justice Combo Meal".
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* PretentiousPronunciation: This is parodied as the news reporter comments on Strong Bad conquering Country, describing Strong Bad a "Red Menace", which is pronounced it "men-ah-chay", before the reporter [[VerbalBackspace quickly corrects himself]].

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* PretentiousPronunciation: This is parodied as when the news news-reel reporter comments on Strong Bad conquering Country, describing Strong Bad as a "Red Menace", which is pronounced it he pronounces "men-ah-chay", before the reporter [[VerbalBackspace quickly corrects himself]].
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: This is parodied as the news reporter comments on Strong Bad conquering Country, describing Strong Bad a "Red Menace", which is pronounced it "men-ah-chay", before the reporter [[VerbalBackspace quickly corrects himself]].
-->"Sorry, thought that was an Italian word."


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* PretentiousPronunciation: This is parodied as the news reporter comments on Strong Bad conquering Country, describing Strong Bad a "Red Menace", which is pronounced it "men-ah-chay", before the reporter [[VerbalBackspace quickly corrects himself]].
-->"Sorry, thought that was an Italian word."
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The King of Town exclaims, "Did someone say? Bleached? Buttered?! BATS?!?!"

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