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Despite the grim situation that the Trebhum finds themselves in, there are moments that make you smile a bit.

As with all moments pages, Spoilers Off!


  • Names like Zooshgarg and Tonglegrop can play off as Fluffy the Terrible considering the creatures they're named for.
  • Some of the flora in the background can be amusing at just how weird they are, such as the trees in the Savannah looking like giant avocados and the odd growths in the Tundra looking like giant slices of cheese.
  • Trebhum come with randomly-generated names, often just gibberish names. However, sometimes a Trebhum can have names that are literally just English words like "Who", "When" and even "Gun".
  • While most mutations are useful, some are simply awful, such as one that allows you to summon Glickbols, small, weak creatures who, when eaten, cause a legless mutation that leaves the poor Trebhum only able to roll around.
  • There's also another mutation from the Tripoboosh that gives the Trebhum poor eyesight.
  • Eating a dropped item from the Omnogrom grants the Trebhum the Iracible Trunk, a mouth mutation that makes it babble endlessly and annoyingly.
  • The Storage Body mutation makes the Trebhum hilariously fat, and are especially hilarious to see waddling around as fast as they can (which isn't very much).
    • However, giving a Storage Body Trebhum the leaping legs or quadruped legs makes them look absolutely hilarious running and jumping as gracefully as they do with such a bloated body.
  • Trebhum are unable to roll while carrying an egg, however, if they hold an egg, switch to another Trebhum and then roll, the egg-carrier will also roll— but apparently the physics of this was not properly rendered, because Trebhum rolling with an egg absolutely spaz out, glitching all over the place and spinning into the air like helicopters at times.
  • The Odorous Body mutation makes the Trebhum very smelly, which apparently attracts some creatures and repels others. The Trebhum, however, "do not judge".
  • Doubles as Heartwarming, but Trebhums will sometimes cheer and high-five each other with their trunks.
  • The panicked reactions of Tonglegroplets when you blow the Deimatic Trunk horn at them.
  • There's quite a bit of humor in the flavor text of the various items. The Blue Trebhumite, according to its entry, used to be a "popular cocktail ingredient" during the days of Trebhum civilization. Just imagine the little long-nosed fellows having drunken parties.
  • Omoa the Elder, the discoverer of the Balloon Body mutation, is inflated to blimp-size and is so big that he's perpetually stuck above a geyser.
  • Being blind and Too Dumb to Live, Tripobosh are very easy to lure into traps, and will charge straight off cliffs if they catch onto a Trebhum's scent.
  • The Elder found in the Tundra biome has a combination of red-and-white coloration and the insulating fur mutation, making him resemble a Trebhum version of Santa Claus.
  • Another Elder encountered in the Desert Biome is casually hanging out inside a Trewhaala's stomach.
  • The battle against the Frozen Sklaa can come off as this when you consider how the boss fight basically boils down to giving an ice dragon cardiac arrest from heatstroke.
  • While the creature itself is horrifying, the Hand of Fate is defeated by basically a pinball game where you roll around an entire Trebhum house on the lens to break all its fingers.
    • As a cherry on top, when the Hand of Fate is defeated it doesn't die: it still angrily glares and hisses at you but can do little else as you've smashed all its appendages.
  • There's something oddly hilarious about the first Grashtuub encountered being so greedily preoccupied with eating a dead Trewhaala that it absolutely refuses to budge— even when the Cylinder starts rolling.
  • While genuinely threatening, the Exonorators having baby lips on their motorcycle-like bodies is absurd enough to be amusing.
  • The clumsy proportions of the Cleansers are equally amusing, as they move with the grace, or lack thereof, as one would be expected from half a truck with muscular arms.
  • The narrator can sometimes come off as somewhat condescending, especially when you fail to pick up his hints during boss battles and he seems to be trying to point out the obvious solution if you still don't get it.
  • When the Trebhum pick up the Mixer Body mutation, the Narrator warns them of using the power wisely and to not be cruel— almost as if tempting the player to test their powers by doing violent crimes against the local wildlife, especially Glickbols as they make great bombs.
  • Speaking of Glickbols, the final Trebhum shrine has a puzzle that involves hypnotizing captive Glickbols to roll onto a platform, and later where you have to throw them onto bouncing mushrooms to shoot them into a smelting engine to progress. Whoever elder Trebhum who designed such a puzzle must have really hated Tonglegrops and their young.
  • Meta example: Vinesauce's Vinny's playthrough of this game had him accidentally lure a Tonglegrop toward the first Cleanser encounter. The Cleanser was supposed to be lured to the bridge to lower it, but seemingly the Tonglegrop did it first, leaving Vinny completely confused at what was supposed to be done next.
  • Another meta example: Dark Edge TV's playthrough of the game resulted in plenty of hilarious moments. Notably her reactions to a glitch where a Balloon Body Trebhum that tried to float while holding an egg suddenly started spinning uncontrollably, the Twitch chat fan-nicknaming the Omnogrom as the "Flesh Nut", or her calling the minerals as "Crack dust".

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