History WMG / YouHaveToBurnTheRope

[[WMG: Indykirby is [[{{WMG/Pokemon}} Ash]]'s father.]]

[[WMG: VideoGame/YouHaveToBurnTheRope is a LotusEaterMachine that [[IWannabeTheguy The Kid]] is trapped in.]]

[[WMG: YVideoGame/ouHaveToBurnTheRope is a LotusEaterMachine that [[IWannabeTheguy The Kid]] is trapped in.]]

[[WMG: Indykirby is {{Kirby}}'s father.]]

Think about it. How many items are really in that area? Who could have told you that YouHaveToBurnTheRope? Now, the instructions appear on the screen without text boxes, which generally indicates a telepathic or omnipresent voice. The Grinning Colossus would have no need of such vocalization, as his grin clearly indicates that he has a mouth of his own. This leaves our speakers as the rope or the chandelier. The chandelier, however, is attatched to the rope, indicating a strong friendship between the two. Even if it were to perform a HeroicSacrifice, it would be far more likely to try and develop a plan that minimize the damage done to the rope (eg, You Have To Untie the Rope).
The only possible explanation is this: The rope, tired of being constantly stretched taut, is committing SuicideByCop. It is so desperate that it does not care that the chandelier will die as well; indeed, the rope will be happy to have its friend join it in the afterlife. The only death that can ensure the rope's complete and utter destruction is burning, so it creates a situation in which YouHaveToBurnTheRope and gives you instructions to that effect. The Grinning Colossus is, in fact, merely an illusion created by the rope to give you a motive to burn the rope.

* [[YouHaveToBurnTheRope Chandeliers]] [[VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy do not fall up!]]

[[WMG: YouHaveToBurnTheRope is a treatise against sexuality, or at least polygamy.]]

[[WMG: YouHaveToBurnTheRope is a jab at overly difficult puzzle bosses.]]

[[WMG: YouHaveToBurnTheRope is a cross between VideoGame/DrMario and OsmosisJones.]]

[[WMG: YouHaveToBurnTheRope is the MirrorUniverse of VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy]]

[[WMG: Alternately, YouHaveToBurnTheRope is the MirrorUniverse of {{Spelunky}}]]

[[WMG: YouHaveToBurnTheRope is a LotusEaterMachine that [[IWannabeTheguy The Kid]] is trapped in.]]

[[WMG: Indy!Kirby ''is'' {{Kirby}}]]

[[WMG: This game is a sequel to ShadowOfTheColossus.]]

Which means that in the world of the former, there is a The Kid who wants to defeat an incredibly easy-to-beat The Guy, and in the world of the latter, there is an "Indykirby" that must go through a nearly impossible quest to destroy a Grinning Colossus with CosmicHorror level power.

*** Actually, there are male Jigglypuff. There's just a 25% chance of finding one, you see.

[[WMG: YouHaveToBurnTheRope is the MirrorUniverse of IWannaBeTheGuy]]

* [[YouHaveToBurnTheRope Chandeliers]] [[IWannaBeTheGuy do not fall up!]]

* And now you are the new Grinning Colossus.

As [[http://snipurl.com/1ndwkm this]] clearly shows, The Grinning Colossus survives and escapes to [[KingdomOfLoathing Loathing.]] In fact, he may originally be from there.

[[WMG: The entire game was a dream of IndianaJones.]]

Both feature an IndianaJones {{Expy}} and monsters, but are complete opposites when it comes to difficulty.

He inhaled IndianaJones sometime before the events of the game.

The Grinning Colossus, as the final boss, is a huge [[UnfortunateImplications black]] phallic symbol. You defeat it by using the pink thing to transfer fire, a metaphor for [=STD=]s, to the thinner (and possibly shorter) pale-colored rope, which drops an entire chandelier of fire and wax onto the Grinning Colossus, destroying it. The eye-beams are a metaphor for the risk of pregnancy, the collision damage symbolizes how consentual sex has the same potential consequences as rape, and the final battle is reminiscent of conception (a sperm traveling into the womb and attacking an egg) and abortion/contraception (a little pink pill-shaped being goes into same womb and attacks the life inside). Most forms of sexuality are symbolized as bad (straight with the main character and the rope, gay with the rope/chandelier and the Grinning Colossus, lesbian with the main character and the symbolic tunnel/room shape, [[{{Portal}} the rope and chandelier look exactly like a really oddly-shaped woman with dozens of limbs that dies while in a bondage situation]], and polygamy, as represented by the relation of all the previously mentioned factors), and the very shape of the final dungeon and the long corridor leading to it seems to say "if you go down this path, bad things will happen."

[[WMG: [[{{Portal}} The rope is a lie]]!]]

Since it's a parody of {{Portal}} and all...

The awesome ending music is only for the BadEnding. There's a secret exit somewhere in the cave, leading to an epic quest more awesome than, say, CaveStory.

[[WMG: YouHaveToBurnTheRope is a cross between DrMario and OsmosisJones.]]

They couldn't get to the rope, the only flammable thing in the room, on their own. [[UnwittingPawn So they told you to burn the rope.]] This "coincidentally" killed the Grinning Colossus, the only thing keeping them trapped in their underground prison, without a means of locomotion such as IndyKirby to take them to the surface world. The Crowning Music was sarcastic: you didn't save anyone, and now there's nothing left for you to do but watch it burn.

He wanted a single adventure without a car chase, tunnel boulder, or PhlebotinumBackfire. He got it.

He wanted a single adventure without a car chase, tunnel boulder, or PlebotinumBackfire. He got it.

As [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Now_You're_a_Hero this]] clearly shows, The Grinning Colossus survives and escapes to [[KingdomOfLoathing Loathing.]] In fact, he may originally be from there.

* Maybe he was telling us the instructions too, which kinda ties into one of the above WMGs.

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They couldn't get to the rope, the only flammable thing in the room, on their own. [[XanatosSucker So they told you to burn the rope.]] This "coincidentally" killed the Grinning Colossus, the only thing keeping them trapped in their underground prison, without a means of locomotion such as IndyKirby to take them to the surface world. The Crowning Music was sarcastic: you didn't save anyone, and now there's nothing left for you to do but watch it burn.