Trivia / Cookie Run

• Approval of God: Gingerbrave’s Twitter account uploaded several 1-panel strips made with the fanmade site CookieComicCreator and even linked to the site in the tweets, clearly amazed at the creative use of assets and its popularity with the fandom.
• Ascended Fanon:
  • The Cookie Run comics are not considered canon, yet when Dark Choco Cookie's young self, first presented in the comics, became a costume in April 2019, it can be considered this.
  • When it was announced that Werewolf Cookie was getting a Trial and a Super Epic Costume, the Cookie Run twitter gave a shout out to Mole_Maniac, who is a big Werewolf Cookie fan.
  • Ever since Almond Cookie’s reveal it was a common headcanon that he was Walnut Cookie’s father and was (or at least used to be) trying to apprehend Roguefort Cookie. The June 2021 update wound up confirming both.
• Content Leak: The game was heavily subject to this, thanks to its easy accessibility to the game files, to the point where Devsisters even had to step in to tell its fans to "please stop."◊
  • Notable major Cookies leaked during LINE/Kakao Cookie Run's reign include Lemon Cookie, Herb Cookie, Cotton Candy Cookie and Banana Cookie, although for the last two only their shop sprites were leaked.
  • On March 31, 2016, a notable Korean hacker revealed the then-upcoming eighth season of KCR, featuring two new Cookies—Sea Fairy Cookie and Dino-Sour Cookie—episode revamps, and an enormous nerf to all the Cookies, Pets, and Treasures. Word quickly spread around Tumblr about it.
  • Around December 2017, the official Korean Cookie Run: OvenBreak page accidentally leaked the preview for a winter update, giving away the design of the new Cookie, now known as Sparkling Cookie.
  • It was common for dataminers to look through the text files and reveal upcoming content, starting with Whipped Cream Cookie's description and skill, be it information about new Cookies and Pets (albeit in Korean), upcoming events and patch notes, and just new content in general. However, by Pomegranate Cookie's release in September 2018, Devsisters found this out and encrypted the text files, preventing any further text leaks from spreading. Further emphasizing this is the infamous "please stop" image found in the files prior to Roll Cake's release, thus ending any further plans to spread leaks on social media...
  • ...Until May 2021, when the CG of a Super Epic costume for Kingdom-original Almond Cookie and the update’s splash screen image leaked, both implicitly confirming him for OvenBreak and explicitly confirming the name of June’s update, The Butter Painting Affair.
  • Lychee Dragon Cookie's full design was leaked on Tumblr before their part of the The Isle of Awakening Dragons update.
• Defictionalization:
  • Cinnamon Cookie's designated Treasure in LINE Cookie Run? Yep, it's a thing now (albeit limited edition), and it has some pretty cool designs for the cards as well.
  • The Bear Coin Bank treasure from OvenBreak is also getting a physical version, but with a fundraising goal to be able to manufacture and ship the product.
• Development Gag: It's mentioned Banana Cookie's former profession used to be an explorer, a reference to Banana Cookie's leaked costume being a reference to The Man with the Yellow Hat.
  • This early version of the giant licorice minion seen in Licorice Cookie's magic candy skill is a jab to Mic Mac's Waffle Cookie from the first episode of OvenDrawing.
  • A picture of a real life banana has in the files for a long time now. Perhaps this could have been a developer joke, a placeholder, a test item, or just plain something else. This image could fit for the GIngerBright's Travelogue 2020 event, but once again, the banana peel has been in the files for a long time.
  • Strangely, an alternative, but unused ending cutscene art for the Produce Pilferer event◊ is found inside the files, it shows an obscure anime-looking Walnut Cookie with several cookies (With detected face, which ALSO goes unused too.) from the event behind her with labels in Hangul translated to "criminal".
• Dummied Out: Believe it or not, Goblin Cookie actually existed as such before being Promoted to Playable: See it here!
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The original OvenBreak as well as OvenBreak 2 are no longer available for download on both the App Store and Google Play as they were taken down in 2013. For a while, the only way to play the original OvenBreak released in 2009 was to play the Android port of the game by Com2uS, which was majorly behind in updates and used a freemium currency (Gummies) to unlock new stages. It wasn't until late 2021 that every version of OvenBreak and OvenBreak 2 for iOS was cracked and uploaded to archive.org.
• The Merch: Several Cookies, mostly the earlier Cookies, have plushies available for purchase. Unfortunately, after the Cookie Run Mall ended service in 2017, only a few of those plushies are for sale in selected Korean online stores, such as this one.
• No Export for You: The official Cookie Run merchandise is only available for shipping within Korea or released as prizes in limited events in places such as Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan. However, there are several aversions of this:
  • There were a few contests held in the official Facebook page back in 2015 that allowed international players to receive these merchandise as rewards.
  • Apparently, back in 2015 and 2016, if you were a Cookie Run Wiki admin, you would get merchandise as an appreciation of your hard work towards the Cookie Run community.
  • Some merchandise, such as phone cases and comics, can be bought at stores that can ship internationally. One prominent example is Gmarket, which is basically Korean Ebay.
  • The comics can also be seen as this, since they were only released in Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia. In Korea, the comics are continuously published, and in 2017, select comics were translated and released in Thailand, and again in 2021 in Indonesia (which ironically is not a country where Cookie Run is officially supported by Devsisters). Comics in English only exist as except by the fans.
  • As of July 7, 2019, international shipping was available with a new site, though it closed in May 2021 with the promise of reopening, though no such instance occurred until the release of Kingdom two years later.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: On October 28, 2019 to November 10, due to large amounts of community requests for a cookie costume contest, Cookie Run has finally made a cookie costume contest for fans to submit their own cookie costumes. Korean twitter artist jeny_0426 (Or 제니jeny) was the winner of the contest with her Sea Fairy Cookie's Luminous Coral costume being added in the Lost City of Sugarteara Update.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Shown in some concept art, Truffle Cookie once had a costume◊ and an umbrella design◊ that was scrapped during the development of the Spooky Spider Mansion Update.
  • Asides from Banana Cookie being an adventurer, in one concept art◊ shown on the Cookie Run Japanese youtube channel, she was once going to have a banana dolphin as her circus pet instead of Choco the Monkey.
  • According to the Super Cookiebots update video, Aloe Cookie originally was going to be a Badass Biker but later became a scientist during the AI Run event.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Rose, the community manager of CROB YouTube channel, has received negative comments from the fans that leading her to quit as the manager following the 6th Anniversary update.
• Word of Dante: On February 18th, 2021 an account on the Cookie Run Wiki on Miraheze created a page for a nonexistent character supposedly from the first version of OvenBreak released in 2009 named "Cucumber Cookie", with the account having no other contributions aside from uploading 2 images; describing a supposed unreleased Cookie. Due to the elusive nature of the Cookie as well as the rough art being passable for the time period, some have chosen to believe that the Cookie exists and treat it as a real character on social media such as TikTok and Instagram in early 2022, but there are glaring contradictions on the page if one would attempt to look at it with a more critical lens:
  • For starters, if one looks in the files for any version of OvenBreak, the search for Cucumber Cookie will become dry; as there is no sprites or text referencing the Cookie
  • The page mentions that the Cookie would have appeared in the 2009 version of the game, which is not possible. First, The artstyle of the image provided much closer resembles that of the 2011 updated version of the game, as well as no alternative playable character existing in said version of the game; the only alternative playable character, Dozer, was added in the 2011 2.0 update of the game.
  • The naming scheme of "(noun) Cookie" is not one that would be adopted until the January 2014 release of LINE Cookie Run (In the original OvenBreak, Cookie were called "Gingerbreads", in OvenBreak 2 they were called "Breakers", and in Cookie Run for Kakao, they would be called "(noun)-flavored Cookie"), making the character's existence even more dubious.
  • A head icon for Cucumber Cookie is provided, which was not a feature properly added until Cookie Run: OvenBreak (2016).