Line #76 VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinLullaby


1	%% Image selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1638398846085364400
2	%% Please do not replace or remove without starting a new thread.
3	%%
4	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fnf_lullaby_start.png]]
5	[[caption-width-right:350:Follow me into the forest...]]
6	%%
7	->''Come, little Girlfriend, come with me!\
8	Boyfriend is waiting steadily...''
9	-->-- '''The first two lines of ''Safety Lullaby'''''
10
11	''Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby'', also known as ''Hypno's Lullaby'', is a ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' GameMod created by [[https://twitter.com/Banbuds?s=09 Banbuds]] and released on Halloween of 2021. It takes its basis from a number of particularly well-known Franchise/{{Pokemon}} {{Creepypasta}}s, most notably ''VideoGame/HypnosLullaby''.
12
13	Boyfriend has gone missing in the dead of night, and Girlfriend is worried sick about him. While out on a search for him, she ends up encountering a strange figure on a bloody pathway trying to lure her into its woods. [[SarcasmMode There's probably nothing ominous or threatening about that...]]
14
15	V1 can be downloaded on [=GameBanana=] [[https://gamebanana.com/mods/332345 here.]] Due to false accusations surrounding Banbuds at the time, the mod was canned in October 2022, right before V2's planned release date. However, a nearly finished build of V2 can be downloaded [[https://www.mediafire.com/file/iijjmx1cuwzzjpj/HYPNOS+LULLABY+FINAL+V2+BUILD.zip/ here]].
16
17	On October 14th 2023, Banbuds would return to the internet and the mod would be confirmed to be uncancelled and back in development.
18
19	Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/HypnosLullaby'', which this mod is based on.
20
21	!Song list:
22	!!Story Mode
23	!!![[VideoGame/HypnosLullaby Hypno's Lullaby]]:
24	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p1L6RbKQrM Safety Lullaby]] (Girlfriend vs. Hypno)[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4IyFQC7-8Q Legacy version]][[/note]]
25	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWgHj9u-g_g Left Unchecked]] (Girlfriend vs. Hypno)[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdEt28CseUs Legacy version]][[/note]]
26	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEBaC0oLYbs Lost Cause]] (Girlfriend vs. Boyfriend and Hypno)
27
28	!!![[Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver Lost Silver]]:
29	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww7sGuSybKg Frostbite]] (Gold vs. Red)
30	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIr2oyL1vg Insomnia]] (Silver vs. Boyfriend)
31	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18_H4ZbLCFE Monochrome]] (Boyfriend vs. Gold)[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRMAZHpq8c Legacy version]][[/note]]
32
33	!!!Missingno:
34	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ3l5vhDn-Q Missingno]] (Boyfriend vs. Missingno.)[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Eqe24vK5k Legacy version]][[/note]]
35	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZKYnjLvllY Brimstone]] (Boyfriend and Missingno vs. Buried Alive, Gengar, Muk and White Hand)
36
37	!!Free Play
38	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mtNxlpgqSY Amusia]] (DISABLED vs. Ponyta)
39	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXDhIw5rJyg Dissension]] ([[Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed Steven vs. Mike]])
40	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm4XGORjVzE Purin]] (Jigglypuff vs. Pico)
41	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN98dv98CZg Death Toll]] (Hell Bell and Beelze vs. Dawn and Boyfriend)
42	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZxaTLpdwD0 Isotope]] (Glitchy Red vs. Boyfriend)
43	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gSJc5VgYPg Bygone Purpose]] (Hypno and Alexis)
44	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T-eMLfpfNc Pasta Night]] (Hypno, [[VideoGame/SonicPCPort Lord X]] and [[VideoGame/MarioEightyFive MX]])[[note]]The player can choose to play as any one of the three, while the other two characters will be the opponents[[/note]]
45	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK2jaijvTYY Shinto]] (Shinto vs. Grey)
46	#[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18--CryqPp8 Shitno]] (Shinto vs. Grey)
47	----
48	!!Provides examples of:
49
50	* AcceptableBreaksFromCanon:
51	** Quite a few of Hypno's Pokédex entries mention that it can put its victims to sleep in 3 seconds. Even in Hell difficulty, Hypno's pendulum doesn't work ''that'' quickly, as to be a bit more lenient on the player.
52	** Neither of Gold's or Missingno's [[HarderThanHard Hell mode]] additions really make sense (Hypno's HypnoPendulum appears in Monochrome without a source, and Missingno was removed when Unown was introduced), but they still make their levels harder than ever.
53	** DISABLED is completely unable to use Sing, but while [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration she does miss all of her notes to reference this]], she still has vocals for the song. Of course, it wouldn't be nearly as good of a song if one half was just silent.
54	* AdaptationalAbomination:
55	** Hypno in the original ''Pokémon'' games wasn't too scary to look at - a little creepy at worst - and its powers were limited to basic PsychicPowers and hypnosis. Here, it's become a lot larger and its head is almost tearing itself from its neck in half of its animations, and the form it takes in "Left Unchecked" is rife with BodyHorror, featuring its levitating head ripped off of its body and {{Phlegmings}} made from ''its own flesh''. Interestingly, [[https://twitter.com/Banbuds/status/1462298929366769664 a pair of teaser images]] posted to Banbud's twitter indicates that Hypno was once closer to its canon counterpart and changed into what it is now.
56	** In ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver'', Gold's sprite limits him to having his arms and legs neatly removed and TearsOfBlood coming from his eyes, but otherwise he looked more or less the same as he did in life. The mod takes this a step further by instead having his limbs being violently torn from his body (justifiable, as this is quite a common depiction of Gold’s condition among fan works related to the original story), [[EyeScream his eyes missing from their sockets entirely]], and adding a giant visible heart and the ability to [[GhostlyGape stretch his face beyond normal possibility.]] It gets worse in the cancelled build, with the second half of the song tearing his head off his body and [[DemonicPossession leaving it under the possession of numerous Unowns]].
57	** In ''Pokémon Lost Silver'', the sprite of Gold's Celebi was simply cut in half with no gore. Its depiction in the mod shows all of its organs.
58	** A downplayed example, but in the Hidden Route of the ''Lost Silver'' fangame, Silver looks more or less the same as normal, albeit with [[EyelessFace his eyes missing]]. In "Insomnia", his face is perpetually [[FaceFramedInShadow framed in shadow]] with his eyes [[HiddenEyes hidden, if they are present at all]], and most of his poses when singing seem to imply that he's in quite a heavy state of pain.
59	** Hell Bell was just a normal shiny Bronzong in its origin pasta, albeit with abnormal stats. In "Death Toll", its body is a faded dark purple, its face has red glowing eyes and large human teeth, and its arms are much longer and end in sets of claws.
60	** The image Purin is based on simply had black eyes dripping blood, a far cry from the hideous BodyHorror it pulls off in this mod.
61	** DISABLED in the original creepypasta was simply a Wigglytuff who, thanks to circumstances implied to be abuse from her prior owner, couldn't use any moves. In this mod, she ''can'' sing, but doing so makes her break on a metaphysical level and glitch apart by the end of the song, a far cry from simply not being able to muster out a move.
62	* AdaptationalBadass:
63	** Canon Hypno? A Pokémon with subpar stats (which was only somewhat powerful back in time of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' before the Special split and due to the general overpoweredness of the Psychic type, and was outclassed even back then). This Hypno? An EldritchAbomination that {{Mind Rape}}s people to death and successfully kidnaps a powerful demon like Girlfriend.
64	** In ''Red and Blue'', while Missingno had extremely high physical attack, it was a GlassCannon that didn't have the speed nor moveset to utilize it. Here it uses its GlitchEntity powers to their fullest, [[InterfaceScrew moving the notes all around the screen, especially on Hell mode]].
65	* AdaptationalVillainy:
66	** This occurs with Hypno due to being based on ''VideoGame/HypnosLullaby''. In the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} regular series]], Hypno are a species of Pokémon that range from neutral to downright helpful, with them nearly never using its sleep inducing powers to harm people (only feasting on their dreams) and [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten only one known incident of a child kidnapping.]] Here, Hypno is a single entity that actively hunts and successfully kidnaps Boyfriend and Girlfriend ForTheEvulz.
67	** In canon and even in ''Lost Silver'', the Unown are simply mysterious creatures that look like letters of the alphabet, and are almost never depicted as malicious. Here, they puppeteer Gold's limbless corpse and even tear him apart despite his plea to stop.
68	* AdaptedOut: Gold uses most of the Pokémon he owns in ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver'', but noticeably never utilizes Hurry the Cyndaquil or Please! the Typhlosion from the hidden route. This could've been due to both of their deaths early on in the fic and game, but he also uses the similarly-deceased Away the Celebi. That said, he does uses a Typhlosion in "Frostbite" and since Gold and Blake, the protagonist of ''Fanfic/EasterEggSnowOnMtSilver'', [[CompositeCharacter are the same person in the mod]] that Typhlosion is Please!. Though that still leaves what happened to Hurry out in the open, but given how in ''Lost Silver'' Hurry hatches from its egg after Please! dies, and in the mod Please! and Blake died around the same time (Please! to the cold, Blake to Freakachu), it's likely that Hurry [[TragicStillbirth never hatched in the mod]].
69	* AnimalGenderBender: The Hypno present in this mod is male and [[EvilSoundsDeep has a very deep voice to match]], but its neck fur is long and straight, a trait present only in female Hypno (males' neck fur is shorter and scruffier in comparison).
70	* AmbiguouslyEvil: Missingno. has a lack of context to its encounter with Boyfriend, so we don’t really know what it wants. That said, the entire fight is Boyfriend's fault; he instigated the encounter. [[spoiler:He even manages to catch the glitch, bringing it to fight Buried Alive's Gengar.]]
71	* AmbiguousEnding: "Lost Cause" ends with Hypno's head lunging at Girlfriend, only for the game to take the player to a screen telling them they've unlocked the Shop, Pokedex and Freeplay menus. It's never revealed if Girlfriend and Boyfriend managed to escape Hypno, or if Hypno successfully hypnotised Girlfriend for good. The ambiguity was ultimately dropped in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el5B1zUKE38 this QNA]], in which Banbuds revealed that [[TheBadGuyWins Hypno killed both BF and GF]].
72	* AnimalisticAbomination:
73	** Hypno is already pretty odd-looking with several animal and human qualities, but this mod takes it a step further with his form in "Left Unchecked", where his head detaches from his body and gains a large GhostlyGape. "Lost Cause" kicks it into overdrive, turning Hypno into a massive pile of guts.
74	** Feralisleep is a Feraligatr with skin over its eyes, biting into Boyfriend's head and crushing his skull if woken up. Speaking of, it tears the skin over its eyes apart when it awakens.
75	* AscendedMeme: [[Memes/{{Deltarune}} "I'M IN A FUCKING WHEELCHAIR"]] became very popular to say in reference to Gold once the mod came out, [[BlackComedy owing to his lack of arms or legs.]] In a later update, this was added as one of his Unown messages and even took the title of longest possible message from "WANNA WORK ON MY FNF MOD?".
76	* BadGuyBar: The casino "Pasta Night" takes place in is populated by several creepypasta characters [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Salad Fingers]], and even ''Myth/{{Polybius}}'' makes an appearance as a slot machine.
77	* {{Bathos}}: The things you have to type in "Monochrome" vary wildly in seriousness: You have your legitimately creepy things ([[ArcWords IM DEAD]] (sic), HOPELESS, LEAVE HURRY), VulgarHumor (BOOB LOL, NICE COCK), other jokes ([[Memes/AmongUs SUS AF]], LMAO GOTTEM) to humorously BreakingTheFourthWall (RUN STREAMER, CAN YOU WORK ON MY FNF MOD?).
78	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Girlfriend mentions Boyfriend's "magnum dick" while looking for him before being approached by Hypno.
79	* BlandNameProduct: "Death Toll" has Boyfriend playing Pokemon on a "Bimbembo DS". The story mode weeks are also represented by "Bimbembo" [=GameBoy=] cartridges.
80	* BodyHorror:
81	** After "Safety Lullaby", Hypno undergoes a horrific, [[NothingIsScarier offscreen]] transformation. The end result is Hypno's violently twitching head levitating above his discarded body, leaving its intestines hanging below it. By the time "Lost Cause" happens, it's deteriorated into just a pile of guts with an arm and a head.
82	** In "Monochrome", Gold's arms and legs have been torn off, his eyeless sockets bleed some sort of black substance, and almost all of his poses have him stretching a GhostlyGape to an absurd degree. This is most present in his up pose, which also reveals his ''[[{{Squick}} giant heart]]'' inside of his jaw.
83	** He's in only a slightly better state in "Frostbite", where he's missing one arm, one eye, and coughs up blood in his right pose. Red and his Pokemon, on the other hand, are even worse off, with several body parts torn off, all of them missing both eyes, and a few even having their stomachs ripped open.
84	** Silver in "Insomnia" is mostly okay, but appears to have skin covering his mouth. His Feraligatr has it [[EyeScream over its eyes]] instead, and violently rips them open when it awakens.
85	** Purin has some kind of body horror in every pose in its eponymous song, from removing its eyes and caking its face with blood to opening its face to reveal several human skulls.
86	* TheCameo:
87	** The White Hand, another famous Pokémon {{Creepypasta}}, is faintly behind Girlfriend in the main week.
88	** In addition to the cluster of other Creepypasta characters present in the background of "Pasta Night", [[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinMariosMadness GB]] can also be seen occasionally walking by the tables.
89	* CameraPerspectiveSwitch: Nearly every song in the mod does away with the usual perspective of FNF.
90	** "Monochrome", "Insomnia", and "Shinto" take place in the first person.
91	** "Lost Cause", "Isotope", "Frostbite", "Brimstone", "Amusia", "Death Toll", and "Shitno" all utilize a diagonal perspective, mimicking that of Pokemon battles in the original series.
92	** "Dissension" changes perspectives several times throughout the song, but most of it uses a first-person POV with both characters having only their heads visible.
93	* CentralTheme: The Lost Silver week revolves around the futility of one's actions and how, in the end, nothing will change. "Frostbite" takes place on a freezing mountain, and even if Blake could survive Freakachu, he's already on the verge of dying to the cold. While it isn't displayed in the final build, "Insomnia" always ends with Feralisleep killing Boyfriend regardless of if he beats Silver or not. "Monochrome" either ends with Gold returning to the darkness or you beating Gold, neither of which achieves anything. Every song has the same outcome regardless of if you win, befitting the overall theme of the original Lost Silver creepypasta, stating that your accomplishments will be forgotten and swept up in the sands of time.
94	* ContinuityPorn: The background of "Pasta Night" contains countless background cameos from various creepypasta characters, including [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderman]], [[WebVideo/BenDrowned Ben]], Literature/JeffTheKiller, [[Fanfic/SquidwardsSuicide Red Mist Squidward]], Fanfic/DeadBart, Eyeless Jack, [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Herobrine]] playing a ''Myth/{{Polybius}}'' arcade cabinet, said cabinet being turned into a slot machine with images of [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Uboa]], [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Giygas]], [[VideoGame/SonicCD Majin Sonic]], [[Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta Red]], and [[VideoGame/{{Berzerk}} Evil Otto]], Gold floating by with balloons tied to him, Fanfic/SuicideMouse, WebAnimation/SaladFingers, [[VideoGame/{{The}} Coronation Day Peach]], Mr. Widemouth, and pictures of [[Fanfic/MarioByMario Victim #1]], [[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Tomino%27s_Hell Tomino]], and Literature/SmileDog.
95	* CreepyChild: With how terrifying UndeadChild Gold looks and acts in "Monochrome", it can be hard to remember that he's 11 years old.
96	* DarkIsNotEvil:
97	** Gold is [[ThatOneBoss one of the most gruesome opponents]] seen in an FNF mod, with a graphically dismembered body, copious BodyHorror, [[CreepyChild with some unnerving things to say]] and a terrifying JumpScare to boot... yet he's also canonically the victim of [[AmbiguousSituation whatever happened]] in ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver'', having done nothing to deserve his fate. There are also a number of signs that he's still the same KidHero even in death, such as him enlisting the help of his Pokémon, cracking immature jokes with the Unown messages, and simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaving the battle]] if Boyfriend loses or wins instead of attacking him.
98	** As frightening as DISABLED looks both in and out of universe, she isn't a malicious entity, but has just gone off the deep end struggling to use any of her moves.
99	* DeathByAdaptation: Hypno has already kidnapped Boyfriend before the main story of the mod, and it's been confirmed by WordOfGod that "Left Unchecked" [[DownerEnding ends with Girlfriend receiving the same fate.]] [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in the case of Boyfriend, as he's still present for "Monochrome" and "Missingno", but these appear to be unrelated to Hypno's plot (though Gold himself is also dead, so Boyfriend's survival may not factor into the encounter).
100	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Befitting their song's name, both Gold and Celebi are black and white in "Monochrome". The only parts of them that [[SplashOfColor avert this]] are their organs (Gold's heart and blood and Celebi's exposed brain) and Celebi's [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing green eye]].
101	* DemBones: Missingno. uses the Kabutops and Aerodactyl skeletons for its left and up poses respectively.
102	* DownerEnding: According to WordOfGod in [[https://twitter.com/Banbuds/status/1455109523639783428 this Twitter post]], Girlfriend is kidnapped by Hypno after "Left Unchecked". V2 subverts this, [[spoiler:with Girlfriend breaking free of her hypnosis and finding Boyfriend successfully, only making Hypno even MORE infuriated with her persistence and going more OneWingedAngel than before... which then became double subverted when Banbuds revealed in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el5B1zUKE38 QNA]] that [[ShootTheShaggyDog Hypno kills both BF and GF after "Lost Cause"]]]].
103	* DramaticIrony: Halfway through "Monochrome," [[spoiler: Gold will say "No more." This was originally the ending point of the song, but the Perish mix has it go on for a bit longer.]]
104	* EasterEgg: If you don't do anything for a few seconds when the mysterious stranger offers you a free video game before "Monochrome", they'll say various things as they awkwardly wait for you to decide.
105	* EasyModeMockery:
106	** Pussy mode, which removes the songs' [[ThatOneAttack infamous gimmicks]] and InterfaceScrew. Cartridge Guy's dialogue also becomes far more insulting.
107	** If you turn on [[GameplayAutomation Botplay]], an additional message is underneath the BOTPLAY message, a large majority of which is insulting.
108	* EldritchAbomination: Judging by [[BodyHorror what happens]] in "Left Unchecked", this is clearly '''not''' the regular Hypno seen in the ''Pokémon'' games. Although you could argue that the horrific form could be an illusion created by Hypno's MindRape.
109	* EmptyShell: Gold is referred to by WordOfGod as an emotionless husk, likely between being possessed by the Unown and the existential dread he was faced with before he died, which is why he's not particularly hurt by losing in "Monochrome".
110	* EvilIsPetty: The creators of the in-universe bootleg Shinto is from decided to put the soul of a dead child into their game... because they were too lazy to program their protagonist.
111	* EvilSoundsRaspy: Hypno has a very noticeably raspy voice in "Safety Lullaby".
112	* EyeScream:
113	** Gold's eyes have both been gouged out, leaving empty sockets in their place. His only pose that doesn't involve his GhostlyGape, his left pose, takes this further by having both sockets stretch wide.
114	** The "?" and "!" Unown are the only ones with their eyes closed, weeping tears of blood.
115	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Hypno spams the ever-living crap out of Psyshock, which furthers the progression of his hypnosis, at the end of "Left Unchecked", successfully hypnotizing Girlfriend no matter what.
116	* FlunkyBoss:
117	** Gold is the main opponent in "Monochrome", but he also enlists the help of his deceased Celebi to [[MaximumHPReduction lower your max HP]] and numerous Unown to provide messages.
118	** Missingno. summons carries over Gold's Unown for its own song on Hell Mode.
119	** Buried Alive sends out a Gengar, a Muk, and a White Hand to sing alongside him in "Brimstone".
120	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
121	** In "Safety Lullaby", Hypno's right and up poses have him stretch his neck far enough to show the blood-red seams that connect to his head. Almost as if it's about to rip right off... which it does in "Left Unchecked".
122	** The Gamebanana image teaser, showcasing Girlfriend and Hypno, also features the Unown by the sides. The Unown in question spell out "[[ArcWords I AM DEAD]]," which brings to mind a certain quote of [[Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver someone we meet after the Hypno encounter]].
123	* GameOfChicken: "Frostbite"'s main gimmick more or less plays out like one: You have to press the space bar to have Typhlosion heat up Blake using Ember to prevent the frostbite bar from reaching the top, but you can only use it 10 times before it finally collapses, so you need to time it properly.
124	* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
125	** In "Monochrome", Celebi's MaximumHPReduction attack is the result of its using Perish Song. It also only uses the move three times, as Perish Song causes the Pokémon that uses it to faint after three turns.
126	** In "Missingno", the titular opponent [[InterfaceScrew causes the strum lines to glitch out all over the screen]] -- fitting for the infamous GameBreakingBug.
127	** In "Amusia", DISABLED does not hit any of her notes, referencing the fact that she is unable to Sing.
128	** The LifeDrain mechanics in "Frostbite" and "Dissension" are representative of Gold slowly succumbing to hypothermia and Steven choking the life out of Mike, respectively.
129	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: The Boyfriend section of "Lost Cause" consists of Girlfriend smacking, shaking, and singing at Boyfriend in an attempt to snap him out of Hypno's hypnosis.
130	* GhostlyGape: Three of Gold's directional poses have his mouth stretching to an impossible degree.
131	* GiantSpaceFleaOutOfNowhere: There is no foreshadowing that [[Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver Gold]] shows up in the main week, and the only context he gets is a mysterious figure apparently handing the player a "free video game". Missingno also comes out of nowhere in its secret song, not even being from a {{Creepypasta}} like the other two opponents. The figure gets a bigger selection of wares in the 2.0 build, all available after beating "Lost Cause," almost all of them being unrelated to the main plot, except for [[spoiler:"Bygone Purpose."]]
132	* GuideDangIt: In order to successfully complete "Monochrome" in normal or hard difficulty, you'll need to be familiar with the Unown alphabet, which includes all 26 originals, plus the exclamation and question mark Unown introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''. While this isn't ''too'' much of a task, some Unown are more stylised in appearance than others, so you'd better make sure you're familiar with the designs before taking the song on.
133	* HarderThanHard: Hell difficulty, which enhances the unique gimmicks of each song and adds previous gimmicks to others, with "Monochrome" getting Hypno's pendulum and "Missingno" getting Gold's Unown text.
134	* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose:
135	** At the end of "Left Unchecked", Hypno spams Psyshock to inevitably capture Girlfriend.
136	** It doesn't matter how well you do in "Dissension," Steven will always [[spoiler:snap Mike's neck.]]
137	** Win or lose in "Death Toll", Beelze will [[spoiler:claim Boyfriend's soul.]]
138	* HumanoidAbomination: Hypno has a vaguely human build at first, before becoming a gory mess when it can’t possess Girlfriend.
139	* HypnoPendulum: Just like in the original games, Hypno is seen with one, and it represents the main unique mechanic of his songs. Interestingly, he is no longer holding it in "Left Unchecked", though it still appears at the top of the screen. [[HarderThanHard Hell mode]] also adds one to Monochrome, though it's unknown ''how'' it's there.
140	* InterfaceScrew:
141	** Hypno tries to hypnotize Girlfriend by swinging his pendulum to the beat of the song, making the screen go redder and redder unless the spacebar is pressed along the same beat. If the hypnosis gets too far along, it's GameOver. He will also regularly use Psyshock to speed the process up.
142	** In "Monochrome", Gold will cover the screen with various phrases spelled out in Unown, preventing the player from hitting any notes until the phrase is typed out in full. During the latter half of the song, he'll also [[JumpScare jumpscare the player]] repeatedly by flashing an image onscreen. In [[HarderThanHard Hell difficulty]], the frequency of these messages is raised, and Hypno's pendulum will also be present.
143	** The second half of "Missingno" will have the strum lines occasionally glitch all over the screen, moving to completely random places to disorient the player, even happening as the player is singing near the end. This is taken even further in [[HarderThanHard Hell difficulty]], where the arrows can rotate and appear in even wilder places and the window itself can move. Hell difficulty also adds in Gold's Unown messages, but with a different set of possible messages.
144	** In "Bygone Purpose", every arrow is set to a different scroll speed. Thankfully, unlike [[VideoGame/VsDaveAndBambi another song with this mechanic]], it's a rather slow song otherwise.
145	** If you aren't playing as MX in "Pasta Night", he'll occasionally hit a POW block when it's not his turn, causing the player's notes to fall to the opposite end of the screen. If you aren't playing as Hypno, you have to deal with the pendulum. You can invoke a ChallengeRun by choosing to play as Lord X, which features ''both'' screws.
146	* KnightOfCerebus: Within the mod itself, [[GameBreakingBug Missingno.]] is an {{inverted}} example, compared to [[AnimalisticAbomination Hypno]] and [[UndeadChild Gold]] at least, it doesn't really bring anything remotely scary to the table in its song, doesn't really utilize {{jumpscare}}s [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and its secret song is regularly catchy rather than unsettlingly catchy]]. A bit of a {{justified}} case since it's the odd one out in the mod considering it didn't really come from a ''Pokémon'' {{creepypasta}}, rather from a glitch in ''Videogame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. It keeps this position in the 2.0 build, as the only songs nearly as light hearted are "Shinto" and (ironically) "Pasta Night".
147	* LockedIntoStrangeness: Before she fades away completely and Boyfriend takes her place, Dawn's hair turns a noticeable shade of blue in "Death Toll".
148	* MarathonLevel: "Brimstone" clocks in at 6 minutes and 27 seconds.
149	* MaximumHPReduction: A mutilated Celebi will appear three times during "Monochrome" and use Perish Song to reduce your max HP for the remainder of the song. By the last one, the health bar will be cut in half.
150	* MundaneUtility: In "Pasta Night", MX and Hypno use their powers to cheat each other in a Uno game. Lord X doesn't do it since he sees cheating as below him.
151	* MythologyGag: As to be expected with a Friday Night Funkin’ Creepypasta mod, Lullaby is loaded with references to its characters’ source materials.
152	** "Safety Lullaby" as a whole is a slightly edited version of [=TrainerDerek's=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT_ZpHgiIKo Hypno's Lullaby]], a song set to the tune of Lavender Town based on Hypno's infamous ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed]]'' Pokédex entry.
153	** During the course of Hypno's songs, one has a rare chance of seeing the White Hand mentioned in Lavender Town behind Girlfriend, specifically based on its rotting, person-sized design from the creepypasta ''Buried Alive''.
154	** Hypno's voice in "Left Unchecked" was created using parts of Hypno's cry in [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} the regular games]].
155	** Occasionally during "Monochrome", a mutilated Celebi will pop out of the shadows and use Perish Song to reduce your max health. This is in reference to the original ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver'' fic when Gold is forced into a battle where his only Pokémon is a Celebi with half of its sprite and no moves other than Perish Song. Additionally, this occurs exactly three times throughout the song, referencing how Perish Song lasts 3 turns before fainting any affected Pokémon.
156	** A good number of Gold's possible Unown messages hold some meaning, whether it be from [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} the original Pokémon]] or ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver'':
157	*** "IM DEAD", "HE DIED", "DYING", and "LEAVE HURRY" are all messages given by Unown in Gold's party at various parts of the fanfic. The latter also references Hurry, the Cyndaquil in Gold's first part before its death.
158	*** "GOLD" and "SILVER" are the names of [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver the games Gold originates from]], as well as himself and his rival in the manga adaptations.
159	*** "PERISH SONG" and "NIGHTMARE" are Pokémon moves that get used at some point in the pasta; the former by Celebi during the battle against Red and the latter by Gold's living self in the pasta's final moments.
160	*** "GOODBYE" was the last word said by Gold's living self before the pasta's end.
161	*** "CELEBI DIED" references the battle against Red, with Gold's Celebi being claimed as dead after it succumbs to Perish Song.
162	*** "FERALIGATR" is the evolved form of one of the starter Pokémon in the original ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', and likely a reference to the 'Hidden' route of [[{{Defictionalization}} the game version of Lost Silver]], in which Silver is encountered with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSmV3rytCA an eyeless, finless Feraligatr]] on his team, which, true to form, he has alongside him in "Insomnia".
163	*** "WHO ARE YOU KID?", which appears in the latter half of the song in V2, is also a reference to the ''Lost Silver'' game's Hidden Route, with each of the gym leaders sporting Unown of these letters, and coming together to say this phrase if interacted with from bottom-to-top at the end of that section.
164	** Missingno is fought right on the coast of an isolated island with Missingno floating above the water, referencing where Missingno is found in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' (surfing along the eastern coast of Cinnabar Island).
165	** The way you unlock "Missingno" is by repeatedly pressing up and down until you're prompted to play it, referencing how you must surf up and down repeatedly to find Missingno.
166	** All of Missingno's poses references its possible forms; its left and up poses feature the skeletal Kabutops and Aerodactyl respectively, its right pose features the ghost seen in Lavender Tower, and its down pose has it take on the color scheme it had in ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow''.
167	** Missingno gains a number of Unown codes in Hell mode, many of which contain references to Missingno's origin:
168	*** "BIRD" references Missingno's Bird/Normal typing, the former of which was a scrapped type that was later replaced by Flying.
169	*** "GOLDUCK" and "CUBONE" are two of the commonly-seen Pokémon that can be encountered when using the Missingno glitch.
170	*** "AERODACTYL", "KABUTOPS", and "GHOST" reference Missingno's three other possible forms.
171	*** "PAY DAY" and "BIND" are two of the moves Missingno knows at base in ''Pokémon Yellow'', the other being Water Gun.
172	** Playing "Missingno" with Botplay on, which typically gives the player messages [[EasyModeMockery meant to demean them]], results in the sentence "mew was under the truck", an UrbanLegendOfZelda of Mew being found under a truck in an out of the way harbor around the S.S Anne.
173	** "Frostbite" ends with an auditory recreation of the climactic scene of the story, with Red using Destiny Bond on Blake and the game emitting an ear-piercing screech. It also adds in a reference to the fan-film created by Mibevan, with the screeching being accompanied by a final image of Red's Pikachu grinning at the camera.
174	** Buried Alive is fought in the Pokémon Tower, which is where it was supposed to be fought in Pokémon Red and Green.
175	** Buried Alive’s three Pokémon (Gengar, Muk and White Hand) all originate from its original creepypasta. White Hand also shapeshifts into a version of Girlfriend [[FacialHorror with a hole in her face]], referencing how White Hand is capable of using Transform in the most popular fan game based around the pasta.
176	** Buried Alive’s game over is a direct reference to his original creepypasta (which states that losing to Buried Alive would cause a game over screen that the Game Boy is stuck on afterwards), with Buried Alive stating “Finally, Fresh Meat” and eating Boyfriend.
177	** Glitchy Red's monologue near the end of Isotope is a near direct copy from the spiel he made in his original creepypasta, the only difference being that "Blue Haired Kid" was originally "Brown-eyed kid", referring to how Red's design got replaced in VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen.
178	** DISABLED faces off against a wild Ponyta in "Amusia", just like in her original creepypasta.
179	** The cutscene at the end of "Amusia" is a direct recreation of the climactic scene of the original story, with the wild Ponyta fleeing and DISABLED begging for the player to “give [her] [their] sing”.
180	** Ponyta’s idle in Amusia is a recreation of its sprite in VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite.
181	** Dissension is a complete recreation of the final scene of the original Strangled Red, with Steven breaking into his brother’s room and strangling him. The Game Over scene also shows Miki, Steven’s Charizard, dead in the background.
182	** Purin would have [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou turned to face the player]] during the reversed section of the song, making it resemble the original image.
183	** "Death Toll" ends up directly recreating a scene from the original creepypasta, with Beelze giving the player (Boyfriend) a contract, which once signed, causes the player character (Dawn) to become more similar to, and eventually the same as, Boyfriend.
184	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: In the case of V1, Gold doesn't mean any harm, Hypno definitely does, and we don't really know what Missingno. wants.
185	* NoNonsenseNemesis: Not only has Hypno already kidnapped Boyfriend by the time he encounters Girlfriend, but he ends "Left Unchecked" by spamming Psyshock to [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption unavoidably hypnotize Girlfriend]], resulting in a DownerEnding.
186	* NothingIsScarier: We never learn what exactly happens to Boyfriend in the main storyline, other than that Hypno has kidnapped him. That is, until [[spoiler: "Lost Cause" reveals that Hypno put him in a cave, and he's completely hypnotised, with Girlfriend unable to wake him up no matter how much she slaps him]]. He also appears in the ''Lost Silver'' and ''Missingno.'' weeks, as well as a few Free Play songs, but these appear to be unrelated.
187	* OneWingedAngel:
188	** After "Safety Lullaby", Hypno focuses all of its hypnotic energy into its head, causing it to detach from its body--connected only by strings of flesh--and it to become much more powerful and monstrous. [[spoiler:"Lost Cause" has him deteriorate into a pile of flesh, with his head disturbingly still intact.]]
189	** After getting caught and accusing the Player of cheating, Shinto goes from a normal sprite to an UncannyValley 3D Model, [[NonStandardCharacterDesign clashing with the two songs’ 16 to 32 bit art style]].
190	* PunnyName: "Pasta Night", a song featuring various [[{{Creepypasta}} Creepy]]'''[[{{Creepypasta}} pasta]]''' characters in a BadGuyBar.
191	* {{Retraux}}:
192	** "Missingno" takes place in the pixel-art style of the base game's Week 6 with bit-crushed vocals for both singers to fit the theme.
193	** Though less noticeable than in "Missingno", "Monochrome" also has bit-crushed vocals for Gold and Boyfriend, despite not having the pixel-art styling.
194	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Failing or successfully completing "Monochrome" has Gold deciding to simply fade back into the shadows.
195	* ShaggyDogStory:
196	** Girlfriend's mission has failed before she even encounters Hypno, as Boyfriend has already been taken away.
197	** Whether or not "Frostbite" is beaten, Blake dies at the hands of Freakachu, though it's whether we get to see this death unfold that is different depending on this.
198	** Whether or not the player beats "Dissension", Mike still gets strangled to death in the end.
199	** Grey doesn't survive the encounter in "Shitno" whether you win or lose.
200	* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: The songs "Shinto" and "Shitno" take place in a Pokémon bootleg game, with the titular Shinto being a bootleg Hypno. Apparently, the developers of the game couldn't care enough to ''program the main character in'', so they just [[ComedicSociopathy stuck the soul of a dead child into the game and called it a day]].
201	* ShoutOut: "Safety Lullaby" is an adaptation of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT_ZpHgiIKo "Hypno's Lullaby" song]], originally sung by [=TrainerDerek=], with minor edits to have Hypno address Girlfriend.
202	* SkippableBoss: Gold's song "Monochrome" can be skipped by [[MundaneSolution simply saying no to the figure offering you a free video game]].
203	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: An odd case involving punctuation. The song name "Missingno" is spelled without any punctuation in the mod, but many people style the glitch's name with a period at the end (Missingno.), as it is meant to stand for "Missing Number".
204	* StringyHairedGhostGirl: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender Inverted]]. Gold is a Stringy-Haired Ghost Boy, being an UndeadChild with messy black hair and a NightmareFace.
205	* StylisticSuck: Shinto and Grey's sprites have a slightly lower quality to their linework and anatomy to reflect the fact that they're from a rushed bootleg, though the animations themselves don't suffer the same fate.
206	* SuddenlySpeaking: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the case of Hypno. "Safety Lullaby" has him singing in perfect English, while "Left Unchecked" gives him regular vocals made from [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} the original Pokemon's cry.]]
207	* SuicideDare: [[spoiler:The [[EasyModeMockery Botplay message]] for "Bygone Purpose" suggests to "jump off like Alexis".]]
208	* TakingYouWithMe: Shinto does this to Grey at the end of Shitno, laughing as the game breaks and the console shuts down, killing them both.
209	* UnintentionallyUnwinnable:
210	** The cancelled build of V2 has a feature where pressing 1 allows you to skip the song you're playing if you just want to make progress without needing to replay songs. Unfortunately for those that want to beat "Monochrome", one of the possible Unown messages is 'BOO!', which requires pressing Shift + 1 to type the exclamation point. Therefore, getting this message means [[MortonsFork you either die by not typing out the message or skip the song without being able to finish it.]]
211	** In-universe example, thanks to the negligence of the bootleg's devs, Shinto's difficulty modifier is so high she's impossible to catch. One can only catch her with hacks, but that's a pretty poor choice considering how mad she gets when caught.
212	* UncertainDoom: We don't exactly know WHAT happens to Grey once the Shitno song is finished, since the cutscene after it appears to be unfinished, with only the audio playing out. One thing is for sure, it was unpleasant. We eventually learn that both him AND Shinto were meant to die due to the latter screwing up the game so badly, it causes the console to shut down because of sprite overload.
213	* VillainsOutShopping: "Pasta Night" involves Hypno, [[VideoGame/SonicPCPort Lord X]] and [[VideoGame/MarioEightyFive MX]] playing a game of ''Uno'' together, with the player able to play as any of the three in the cancelled build.
214	* VocalDissonance: For an 11-year old, [[UndeadChild Gold]]'s singing voice in "Monochrome" is pretty deep.
215	* WhamLine: Gold's raspy "I'M DEAD" before "Monochrome", revealing the mod's connection to ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver''.
216	** Right where the song originally would've ended in V2, Gold croaks out another one: "NO MORE." Right before the Unowns [[spoiler:force him to continue the song without the rest of his body.]]
217	* WhamShot:
218	** For those playing on [[HarderThanHard Hell mode]], seeing [[ThatOneAttack Hypno's pendulum]] at the beginning of "Monochrome" is likely to cause an instant OhCrap reaction.
219	%%** Missingno. moving the arrows around during the second half of the song can also be this, especially when it starts doing it during your turn.
220	* TheWorfEffect: Hypno is able to successfully hypnotize and kidnap ''Girlfriend'', who comes from a family of powerful demons and is shown to contest with other powerful beings in mods such as ''VideoGame/VsSonicEXE'' and ''VideoGame/VsShaggy''.

Context VideoGame / FridayNightFunkinLullaby