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(a.k.a. [[JustForFun.TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ruining your life.]] [[[SugarWiki.TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife or enhancing it]]])]]

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/467574 :the game:]] is a VERY violent, bloody, hilarious, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and, most of all,]] BloodyHilarious game on Website/{{Newgrounds}} by a young Creator/NickyCase. It's about... well... life. Kind of. There's not really any plot to speak of until the [[ArtEvolution third]] [[ExcusePlot game]], and for most of the time, it runs on VulgarHumor, though the games are a frequent vehicle for political commentary. It later received a sequel called ''Replaying :the game:''. The first and second games are VERY simple: Jump off a ledge. That's it, barring the odd minigame. Each level has you do so with a different theme, such as art, or open source. The only real variables is the character, and the background. Occasionally, you get a cut scene. [[SarcasmMode They are very tasteful and wholesome.]] [[SincerityMode And funny.]]

The third game is [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/569281 right here]], ''Reimagining :the game:''. This one actually has a plot... kind of. You jump off a cliff, and land in another world. Then, Music/LadyGaga, the cast of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Apple, and even freaking Paul Vasquez (AKA [[MemeticMutation the Double Rainbow Guy]]) all do... their thing. Then, the head of BP causes an oil spill, which he uses to land in an incinerator. Then WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}} posesses him, and tries to kill everyone. Chell of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', Paul Vasquez, UsefulNotes/BarackObama and Julian Assange of [=WikiLeaks=], Music/JustinBieber and Edward Cullen of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', the VideoGame/AngryBirds, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext Airport Security and the TSA]] all team up. Then, you use the power of [[BookEnds jumping off a cliff]] to kill him. [[spoiler:His explosive death is so epic that [[KillEmAll everyone dies]].]]

The official site is [[http://thegame.nutcasenightmare.com/ here]].

!TROPING :the game:
!!AKA Add examples here:
* ArtEvolution ''Reimagine'' has a more defined cartoon art style than the two preceding games.
* AuthorTract: Occasionally, notably ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''.
* AutoTune: Parodied with Music/{{Kesha}} before she fuses with [[Series/{{Lost}} the smoke monster]].
* BackgroundBoss: The final boss of ''Reimagine''.
* BloodyHilarious: As mentioned above, the game pretty much runs on this.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Deconstructed. Subverted in Reimagine.
* DoubleJump: Or rather, "Double Rainbow Double Jump", with [[Website/YouTube YosemiteBear]] and Music/KatyPerry.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The end of ''Reimagining''.]]
* EdibleThemeClothing: ''Reimagine'' has Music/LadyGaga wearing a super meat dress in her level as a reference to the time she did that in real life.
* EldritchAbomination: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The final boss.]]
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every episode ends with big red text and small white text.
* EyedScreen: Present in the first game's "Shooting Lawyers in the Face".
* TheFaceless: Everyone (except when they need to talk or emote).
* FauxHTMLTags: The advertisement space in the original's loading screen has the words "<advertisement> </dignity>" written on it if no advert is present.
* FinalExamBoss: The last stage of ''Reimagine''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Boss's eye is visible as a sun in the social media levels of ''Reimagining''.
* GlassesPull: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mpz0kJTyBg Parodied]] in ''Replaying''. Horatio does a ''CSI Miami'' style one-liner for every character who died in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', but he doesn't take off any of the glasses he put on, resulting in him wearing glasses on glasses on glasses. For the final one-liner, he drops a giant ball of glasses from the air.
* GoodNightSweetPrince: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mpz0kJTyBg Said by Horatio himself]] in ''Replaying'', with a GlassesPull in between.
* {{Gorn}}:
** The very intro of the first game puts this on full throttle by depicting a violent fight scene between a group of green characters ([[NeverTrustATrailer which don't actually appear in-game]])... for a few seconds, [[InsideAComputerSystem just to be paused]].
** The "Gun Control" level in ''Replaying'' is full of this; [[spoiler:especially at [[Creator/MichaelMoore the second-to-last enemy]], whose head literally explodes and unleashes a massive blood fountain after killing him with a very long streak of bullet hits.]]
** "Apocalypse 2012" from the same game: every death releases several organs, [[GravityScrew which just float around]].
** While the characters and their deaths are much more cartoonish in ''Reimagine'', this one is still present; death on various platformer levels (usually achieved by touching the [[SpikesOfDoom Unicorn Horns of Doom]]) causes characters to violently bleed. The blood is affected by gravity, and colors unicorn horns red.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every level is called "[Insert Subject Here] :the game:" AKA [insert witty comment here]. The third game drops the "AKA" but keeps the witty comment.
* JumpScare: [[spoiler:The "Supernatural Claims" level in the first game ends with a rather loud and sudden one]].
* MayanDoomsday: The "Apocalypse 2012" level in ''Replaying'', specifically using Planet X as the cause.
* NotHyperbole: One stage in ''Replaying'' has a man tell his wife to "Go get the damned groceries." If you do, you find out he wasn't just [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch swearing for emphasis]]; the groceries are actually damned (and organic!).
* RageQuit: Sarah Palin does this in ''Replaying''.
* ScreamerPrank: [[spoiler:The "Supernatural Claims" level in the first game. It's basically a Flash animation of VideoGame/PacMan contemplating the purpose of his presence in the maze, and what it stands for.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the level "Pacifism". Just about to fall off-screen, the character suddenly stops in mid-air and starts a to point out that [[LudicrousPrecision after 37 deaths]] the game gets pretty stupid and gets fed up with everything, promptly leaving.
* SendInTheClones: After unlocking all of the achievements in ''Reimagine'', you can not only fully customize a character, you are also granted the option to replace every character in the game with that particular one.
* ShoutOut: Plenty, some of which are more subtle than others.
* SpikesOfDoom: [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Represented herein by unicorn horns]], their unusual appearance is lampshaded by the Hippie. Partially justified, as "Rainbows" is the first level these appear in.
** ''Unicorn horns everywhere!''
* StylisticSuck: Some levels in '':replaying:'' bring up how the creator is running out of ideas. One of the levels even has an AKA reading "the level that's not as intelligently designed."
* WebcomicOfTheGame: ''[[http://www.nutcasenightmare.com/comic Faceless & Hopping]]''.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The third game is much more challenging than its predecessors.

(a.k.a. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ruining your life.]])]]

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[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/467574 :the game:]] is a VERY violent, bloody, hilarious, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and, most of all,]] BloodyHilarious game on Website/{{Newgrounds}} about... well... life. Kind of. There's not really any plot to speak of until the [[ArtEvolution third]] [[ExcusePlot game]], and for most of the time, it runs on VulgarHumor, though the games are a frequent vehicle for political commentary. It later received a sequel called ''Replaying :the game:''. The first and second games are VERY simple: Jump off a ledge. That's it, barring the odd minigame. Each level has you do so with a different theme, such as art, or open source. The only real variables is the character, and the background. Occasionally, you get a cut scene. [[SarcasmMode They are very tasteful and wholesome.]] [[SincerityMode And funny.]]

* RickRoll: One of many memetic songs featured in ''Epicroll :the cutscene:''.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The third game is [[{{Understatement}} slightly more challenging than its predecessors]].

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/467574 :the game:]] is a VERY violent, bloody, hilarious, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and, most of all,]] BloodyHilarious game on Website/{{Newgrounds}} about... well... life. Kind of. There's not really any plot to speak of until the [[ArtEvolution third]] [[ExcusePlot game]], and for most of the time, it runs on VulgarHumor. It later received a sequel called ''Replaying :the game:''. The first and second games are VERY simple: Jump off a ledge. That's it, barring the odd minigame. Each level has you do so with a different theme, such as art, or open source. The only real variables is the character, and the background. Occasionally, you get a cut scene. [[SarcasmMode They are very tasteful and wholesome.]] [[SincerityMode And funny.]]

* BackgroundBoss: The final boss of ''Reimagining''.

* FinalExamBoss: The last stage of ''Reimagining''.

* SendInTheClones: After unlocking all of the achievements in ''Reimagining'', you can not only fully customize a character, you are also granted the option to replace every character in the game with that particular one.