History Videogame / TonicTrouble

* TheFaceless: Agent XYZ, who is never seen without his NewspaperThinDisguise.
* FanDisservice: The Huge Barman/woman at the beginning of the Glacier Cocktail.

* NewspaperThinDisguise: Agent XYZ uses one all the time - we never get to see what he looks like. Even if you try to manipulate the camera to what he looks like, all you see is his newspaper.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The game never reveals what happens to the Pharmicist, XYZ, or Ed's race after the can is taken care of.

* ProductPlacement: You get popcorn that turns you into [=SuperEd=] from vending machines labeled Nestle Crunch (in the PC version) and Newman's Own (in the N64 version). Neither of which happen to be popcorn.

* AllThereInTheManual: Just playing the game, you would never know that the Pharmacist is working for Grögh. Also, the rainbow-colored water on the South Plain? That's supposed to be ''sangria''.

* OperaGloves: Hard to say because [[FloatingLimbs of the lack of arms]], but Suzy seems to wear these. (Her hands are purple but her skin is whiteish.)

* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the PC version, we first see Grögh as he's being booted out of a bar. He's clearly a druken loser. Then the can falls from the sky and lands in front of him. Grögh takes one sip, and suddenly becomes ruler of the Earth. "This time drunks are on ME! and EVERYONE is gonna get a taste!"

* MadScientist: Doc. Also the Pharmacist, who's on Grogh side.

* TheCameo: VideoGame/{{Rayman}} appears during the credits. In return, the big general guy from the intro appears in ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'' where he sells the GiantMecha to the BigBad.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Yeah, it's kinda like that.]]]]

* GagBoobs:
** During the Opening sequence, while Ed storms Grögh's Tower a huge Valkyrie-like woman with '''Huge''' Boobs can be seen singing for him. It's also a OneSceneWonder.
** To a lesser degree Suzy, it doesn't help that she lacks limbs but her breasts are most of her body mass.

* SimpleStaff: Ed's weapon. You can whack your enemies with it, but also use it as a lever.

* AWinnerIsYou: [[spoiler: Grögh dies like every other enemy in the game, Ed celebrates for a bit, and Suzy comes in to give [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a completely out of nowhere speech on environmentalism]]. Cue ending screen of them looking at the restored earth.]]

* TheFaceless: Agent XYZ, who is never seen without his NewspaperthinDisguise.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Grögh is behind the Killer Vegetables. [[spoiler: And the Pharmacist is behind him, but that's not important.]]

* NewspaperthinDisguise: Agent XYZ uses one all the time - we never get to see what he looks like. Even if you try to manipulate the camera to what he looks like, all you see is his newspaper.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Most enemies in the game, the Magic Mushroom, and [[spoiler: Grögh]]. It's a bit unclear whether this is supposed to indicate that they're dead or not. Averted with Robosuitcase.

* StupidEvil: Grögh the Hellish: [[spoiler: When defeated he mentions that his original idea was just to bully and scare everyone around with his newfound powers, and the whole evil empire and alliance with the Killer Vegetables thing was the Pharmacist's idea, which he resents.]]

* UglyGuyHotWife: Ed and Suzy.
* UndergroundLevel: Doc's cave, Vegetable HQ.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Suzy has violet hair.
* {{Wackyland}}: The whole world, thanks to Ed.

* VocalDissonance: In the beta/special edition, Grögh the Hellish sounds like a young prankster despite his big, viking-like look. (as well as his more fitting voice in the pre-rendered intro cutscene.)

* AllThereInTheManual: Just playing the game, you would never know that the Pharmacist is working for Grögh.
** Also, the rainbow-colored water on the South Plain? That's supposed to be ''sangria''.
* AlmightyJanitor: A ''literal'' one!
** Well, he's not so almighty at first. The only reason he's made the hero is that the whole mess is his fault. He gets more almighty later on.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Some Helling Guards wear a steel armour, but their back is wide open for an attack. Also the Final Boss.

** BigBadWannabe: The Magic Mushroom wants to copy the Pharmacist's Groga to make his own and rule the world in lieu of Grögh.
* BrokenAesop: Is the game commending or condoning alcohol?
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf0Vpspy8sI&feature=player_detailpage#t=158s SEE KIDS? ALCHOHOL CAN MAKE THE WORLD A SILLY AND FUN PLACE YAY!]]
*** Actually the "Tonic" is never stated to be alcoholic and the big bad Grögh is portrayed as a drunkard loser at first.
** Vegetables bad, [[ProductPlacement Nestle crunch good]].
*** Averted in the ending of the retail version. The game's Aesop was ''actually'': [[AssPull Save]] [[HandWave the environment!]]

* TheCameo: VideoGame/{{Rayman}} appears during the credits.
** In return, the big general guy in the beginning appears in ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'' where he sells the GiantMecha to the BigBad.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: To the point that you can jump on lava ''on a friggin' Pogo-Stick''!!!
** Also, lava is powerless to water, apparently not heating it up or mixing with it in any way.
** Due to it being a beta, Ed does not catch fire when hitting lava in the Special Edition, instead he just faints.

** Some exceptions include the large cow-like dinosaur. It can step on you, but it can't damage you.
*** In the special edition, it's eating grass in the south plain, and bite you by accident if you stand on its targeted patch of grass.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Doc may be wearing an eye patch because ''one of his eyes relocated to the top of his head''.
** Except in the N64 version, where his character model is symmetrical due to graphical limitations.
* TheFaceless: Agent XYZ.

* GagBoobs: During the Opening sequence, while Ed storms Grögh's Tower a huge Valkyrie-like woman with '''Huge''' Boobs can be seen singing for him. It's also a OneSceneWonder.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** The strange Cow-Like Dinosaur you have to free from [[HumanPopsicle ice cube]] somewhere is a friendly version of this trope.
* GreenAesop: You can at least notice that the bad guys are operating in heavily industrialized settings and polluting the world with their products.

** The rainbow water will however [[MindScrew not kill you]].

** Actually, the opening scene implies that he was actually just a drunkard, and after getting the tonic, he intends to sell alcohol.
*** He still behaves as a Jerkass, and did many nasty things to the others.

** RuleOfFunny?

** Except the game over screen, where he fucks up Ed's limbless body pretty good.
* PassThroughTheRings: The flight training levels.
* PlatformGame

* ProductPlacement: You get popcorn that turns you into [=SuperEd=] from vending machines labeled... Nestle Crunch?
** Well, in a {{WackyLand}} like that, this is the least weird detail, don't you think so?
*** There is an image circulating on the web with a Lion bars popcorn machine, from early development.
** In the N64 version of the game, the vending machines are labeled Newman's Own.
** In the special edition, its yellow with a ripped guy with sunglasses on it. This was most likely before the Crunch endorsement.

** Mind you, this was only in the beta/SE version. The Retail PC version had the same voice actor as in the intro.

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Violet Hair]]: Suzy.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Intoxication thing aside, after completing the Cocktail Glacier Suzy will mention that she has many [[CovertPervert "games" in mind that she and Ed could do with the feathers he's been collecting]].

A PlatformGame released by Creator/UbiSoft in 1999. It has a visual style similar to ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' (Most noticably, all characters have FloatingLimbs) and in fact plays more like a 3D version of the original ''Rayman'' than ''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}'' ever did. [=UbiSoft=] used the game to get a handle on the 3D engine being used for ''Rayman 2'', since they had never done anything of that scope before, but the game is a fun little jaunt regardless.

** In return, the big general guy in the beginning appears in ''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}'' where he sells the GiantMecha to the BigBad.

The story involves an alien named Ed accidentally dropping a can of tonic on Earth, where it is found by a drunkard viking named Grogh. He takes a sip of the tonic and transforms into a tyrant who proceeds to TakeOverTheWorld (or in his words: "This time, drinks are on me! And Everyone's gonna get a taste! Hahahaaa!"). A tiny droplet falls into a river and the whole world goes mad: the rivers turn into sangria, mountains rise up and vegetables turn into dangerous monsters. Now it's up to Ed to defeat Grogh the Hellish and retrieve the tonic.

* AWinnerIsYou: [[spoiler: Grogh dies like every other enemy in the game, Ed celebrates for a bit, and Suzy comes in to give [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a completely out of nowhere speech on environmentalism]]. Cue ending screen of them looking at the restored earth.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: Just playing the game, you would never know that the Pharmacist is working for Grogh.

* BeardOfEvil: Grogh has one.

* BigBad: Grogh
** BigBadWannabe: The Magic Mushroom wants to copy the Pharmacist's Groga to make his own and rule the world in lieu of Grogh.

*** Actually the "Tonic" is never stated to be alcoholic and the big bad Grogh is portrayed as a drunkard loser at first.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the PC version, we first see Grogh as he's being booted out of a bar. He's clearly a druken loser. Then the can falls from the sky and lands in front of him. Grogh takes one sip, and suddenly becomes ruler of the Earth. "This time drunks are on ME! and EVERYONE is gonna get a taste!"
* GagBoobs: During the Opening sequence, while Ed storms Grogh's Tower a huge Valkyrie-like woman with '''Huge''' Boobs can be seen singing for him. It's also a OneSceneWonder.

* {{Jerkass}}: Grogh is more a Bully than a serious overlord.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Grogh is behind the Killer Vegetables. [[spoiler: And the Pharmacist is behind him, but that's not important.]]

* NonActionBigBad: Grogh may look tough, with how he's big and looks like a viking, but he's actually quite a wimp. When you do finally encounter him at the end, he relies on a giant robot entirely to fight you, and gives up after one direct slap.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The reason why the plot even exists. So, Ed attempts to ingest a tonic of unknown properties to get the courage to ask a girl out, but it apparently had a funky flavor. Turned out the Tonic had more funkiness than just the flavor: The residue spit from the tonic also caused the screws to come to life and become crazy. He then attempts to eject the tonic from the ship... which lands on earth, specifically right on the recently evicted-from-the-bar drunkard Grogh, he drinks it, starts to mutate, spills it in the conveniently nearby brook, causing the mutagenetic effects of the tonic to mutate the planet. This starts causing a LOT of oddities such as flying sheep and psychedelic skies with an overall background that looks like something taken from an acid trip, and then Grogh declaring that all drinks are on him. Shortly thereafter, Ed was busted for his reckless action and is sentenced to clean up the mess he caused.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Grogh himself isn't actively doing anything against Ed and leaves all the work to his minions, until the final battle where he pilots a giant robot.

* StupidEvil: Grogh: [[spoiler: When defeated he mentions that his original idea was just to bully and scare everyone around with his newfound powers, and the whole evil empire and alliance with the Killer Vegetables thing was the Pharmacist's idea, which he resents.]]

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: You can stay underwater indefinetly, but you're limited to shallow depths. Once you earn the flask, you can dive as deep as you want, as long as you want.

* VillainShoes: Late in the game you get a chance to disguise yourself as Grogh at one point, which is used to fool a guard into opening a door for you.
* VocalDissonance: In the beta/special edition, Grogh sounds like a young prankster despite his big, viking-like look. (as well as his more fitting voice in the pre-rendered intro cutscene.)

The story involves an alien named Ed accidentally dropping a can of tonic on Earth, where it is found by a viking named Grogh. He takes a sip of the tonic and transforms into a tyrant who proceeds to TakeOverTheWorld (or in his words: "This time, drinks are on me! And Everyone's gonna get a taste! Hahahaaa!"). A tiny droplet falls into a river and the whole world goes mad: the rivers turn into sangria, mountains rise up and vegetables turn into dangerous monsters. Now it's up to Ed to defeat Grogh and retrieve the tonic.

* FloatingLimbs

* AWinnerIsYou

** Vegetables bad, [[ProductPlacement nestle crunch good]].

*** In the special editon, it's eating grass in the south plain, and bite you by accident if you stand on its targeted patch of grass.

* GreenAesop: You can at least notice that the bad guys are operating in heavely industrialized settings and polluting the world with their products.

* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Suzy again. Pratically ''Hourglass shaped'' indeed.

* KarmaHoudini: The Pharmacist.

* LeastCommonSkinTone: Everyone has something to say about Ed's unusual purple color.

* NewspaperthinDisguise: Agent XYZ uses one all the time - we never get to see what he looks like.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The reason why the plot even exists. So, Ed attempts to ingest a tonic of unknown properties to get the courage to ask a girl out, but it apparently had a funky flavor. Turned out the Tonic had more funkiness than just the flavor: The residue spit from the tonic also caused the screws to come to life and become crazy. He then attempts to eject the tonic from the ship... which lands on earth, specifically right on the recently evicted-from-the-bar drunkard Grogh, he drinks it, starts to mutate, spills it in the conveniently nearby brook, causing the mutagenetic effects of the tonic to mutate the planet. This starts causing a LOT of oddities such as flying sheep and psychadelic skies with an overall background that looks like something taken from an acid trip, and then Grogh declaring that all drinks are on him. Shortly thereafter, Ed was busted for his reckless action and is sentenced to clean up the mess he caused.

* {{Wackyland}}: The whole world, thanks to Ed.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Most enemies in the game, the Magic Mushroom, and [[spoiler: Grögh]]. Averted with Robosuitcase.

A PlatformGame released by Creator/UbiSoft in 1999. It has a visual style similar to ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' (Most noticably, all characters have FloatingLimbs) and in fact plays more like a 3D version of the original ''Rayman'' than ''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}'' ever did. [=UbiSoft=] used the game to get a handle on the 3D engine being used for Rayman 2, since they had never done anything of that scope before, but the game is a fun little jaunt regardless.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Grogh himself isn't actively doing anything against Ed and leaves all the work to his minions.