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You are King Ceville, descendant of a illustrious line of tyrants. What you are [[TheNapoleon lacking in stature]] is more than made up for by your [[TheCaligula wanton cruelty and vileness]] -- you've truly done your ancestors proud. One day, however, all tyrants have to face one occupational hazard: insurrection. The unwashed, ignorant ingrates of Faeryanis have risen against you, and your moronic guards are keeping you under house arrest. Time for Plan B. (is there a Plan B?)

''Ceville'' is a 2009 [[PointAndClick point-and-click]] adventure game by Realmforge Studios, set in a farcical, anachronistic fairytale land -- think ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' meets ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'', except the king is evil and cannot be killed off. As he tries to make his way out of this mess, Ceville makes an unlikely bond with sweet, moralistic street urchin Lilly, and both of them have to stop Ceville's even more evil minister Basilius from ascending to the throne.
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!! ''Ceville'' contains examples of:

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Ceville is proud of this, and is rather baffled that his subjects would object.
--> '''Ceville:''' Of course I tyrannized them; I'm a tyrant.
* {{BFS}}: Ambrosius's "+3 Sword of Demon Slaying". He can't even wield it.
* BilingualBonus: El Chollo's name means something akin to "the bargain."
* BrutalHonesty: Much of the game's humor results from Ceville's gleeful disregard of tact.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: As a general rule, unless an item disappears from your inventory, you must assume it is needed. [[spoiler: That can of green paint]], in particular, is ''very'' useful.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The chef, introduced in the prologue, turns up again in Act 3.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Ceville's torture implements include a jukebox and a [=TV=] set.
%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Both dwarves you meet.
%%* CorruptPolitician: Ceville and Basilius, obviously. [[spoiler:The Council isn't any better.]]
* DemocracyIsBad: Understandably, Ceville has lots of beef against democracy, but the council election in Faeryanis sure does not look good.
-->'''Ceville''': Lilly, I am slowly coming to understand this "democracy" thing -- the ones in charge are just as tyrannical as I was, but they hide it better.
* DiplomaticImpunity: [[spoiler: The Good Fairy has this, and you have to wrest it off her hands.]]
* EnforcedPlug: Lilly and Ceville [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] to deliver a plug on Realmforge Studios, for fear of having their characters replaced.
%%* EvilChancellor: Basilius.
* EvilLaugh: Basilius thinks his evil laugh is much more evil than Ceville's.
%%* EvilVersusEvil.
%%* FantasyCounterpartCulture.
* FatAndSkinny: Those two guards.
* FissionMailed: Ceville's attempted escape from his palace.
* GainaxEnding: TheStinger shows [[spoiler:Queen Gwendolyn's pet hamster grown into a giant, while Ceville and Lilly have become flat, "2.5-D" characters. There is no explanation at all.]]
%%* GenieInABottle.
* GoodIsDumb: Lampshaded incessantly by Ceville:
-->'''Ceville''': Have I mentioned how wonderful it is to be on the dark side? The good people are so stupid, so easy to con, hehe!
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Ambrosius, who spends his duty-time preening and admiring himself, is the poster child of this trope. The other guards are no better: see PaperThinDisguise below.
* GuideDangIt: The puzzles in the game are on the difficult side, but what drives most people to walkthroughs is actually a non-puzzle: [[spoiler: catching the hamster. Most people over-analyse the set-up, when all you have to do is to run to its cage extra fast.]]
* HellholePrison: The cell they keep Ceville in is disgusting: but it is Ceville ''himself'' who made all prisons hellholes in the first place!
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: The third act starts exactly the same as the prologue, except with Queen Gwendolyn instead of King Ceville.]]
%%* HumanCannonball: Occurs twice.
%%* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler: The chef in Act 3]], and it's all your fault!
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Lampshaded by Ceville himself:
--> '''Ceville''': Sometimes I wonder why all the bad guys feel the need to explain their evil plans.
%%* LandslideElection.
%%* LookBehindYou: Particularly egregious in [[spoiler: the soccer-match puzzle]].
* LoonyFan: Gwendolyn is obsessed with her hamster, having installed a hamster flap in her throne room, a clock that chimes when it's time for it to eat, and a ''giant gold statue of it'' behind her throne.
* MilesGloriosus: Ambrosius will never stop talking about his brilliant mind, superhuman strength, incredible beauty, etc. With the possible exception of the [[{{Bishonen}} beauty]], it's all lies.
%%* TheNapoleon: Ceville.
%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The pig-nosed secretary in Dwarves' Inc. Ltd.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Not exactly: the dwarves have turned managerial and have hired goblins for lowly work, and in additional to mining, they've expanded their business interest to logging and real estate. Still, some things never change:
-->'''Lilly''': A beer tap! But they are dwarves, what do I expect!
-->'''Dwarf [=CEO=]''': By Moradam's beer-belly, what do you expect?
-->'''Lilly''': Gold fever and beer, what else.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: They are [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]] who live in a place called Woodstock, always look a bit stoned, and like all self-respecting environmentalists, they chain themselves to trees to protest against logging.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Good Fairy runs a kindergarten-like school of rehabitation for former archvillains. Her method is basically smothering them with baby talk. [[spoiler: It does not work, at least not long-term.]]
* PaperThinDisguise -- A chef's hat on Ceville's head is able to fool his guards; semi-justified as they are cheaply hired idiots.
%%* ThePrimaDonna: H. Lo.
* PromotedToScapegoat: [[spoiler: The Dwarves promote Lilly to [=CEO=] when they think they have bankrupted their company.]]
* ReformedCriminal: SubvertedTrope: [[spoiler: the Good Fairy Mother's reformed Archvillains are only too eager to go back to their old ways, once they are reminded that evil is cool]].
* SequelHook: Watch to the end of the credits.
* ShoutOut: Lots. The Red Demon looks almost the same as the one on the box of ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'', and he aspires to be (what else?) a dungeon keeper. A good third of Lilly's lines are references to other games or movies: one choice bit concerns the sociopathic Ceville and a rabbit costume:
-->'''Lilly''': With your mindset, I think YOU should put on the costume, Ceville.
-->'''Ceville''': Not until your sling shot qualifies as a pistol, [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam]]!
** A few objects exist only to be collections of shout-outs, including the notice board and the collection of costumes in the Theater. Listening to all of the latter ones will cause Ceville to comment that Lilly [[TakeThatAudience wastes far too much time on this since she knows all the references]].
%%* SnakeOilSalesman: El Chollo.
%%* TheStinger:
* TalentShow: Spoofing ''[[Series/AmericasNextTopModel America's Next Top Model]]'' and other similar talent reality shows.
* TakeThat: The gramophone machine, named [[{{Satan}} Diablo Beelzebub]]. It flatly refuses to play until you pay "royalities", and like a certain real-life, modern organization, it keeps demanding money until you are broke.
* TalkLikeAPirate: The Zombie Pirate, Haarrrrr!
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Severely limited by the presence of Lilly: any insightful and scathing comments made by Ceville immediately earns him a retort by Lilly, as if she were his mother.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dwarves Inc. Ltd. try to be this, refusing to engage in several activities because of negative PR.
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: Evil Ceville marries good Queen Gwendolyn, and they apparently adopt Lilly too.]]
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Ceville's high praise of Lilly's forged wanted poster causes her to remark that she's going to Hell for that one.
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