Video Game / Air Marty

"Ok, so we’re checking out the only game were you have to make choices so you don’t get addicted to drugs, divorced by your wife and get sniped while working out to Richard Simmons in your living room, it’s Air Marty."

—GrayStillPlays

Air Marty is a 2019 Moral-Dilemma Mini-Game Adventure Game by Myles Jorgensen about the titular Marty, whose goal is to get on and successfully ride an airplane with his wife. However, Marty is a Weirdness Magnet, and never has a simple flight.

Air Marty contains examples of:

• Accidental Misnaming: A Running Gag, with Mark—er, Melvin—er, Marty being on both the giving and receiving end.
• Alien Invasion: If Marty fails to shoot himself, the bullet ends up aggravating a UFO, leading to a mini-game where it tries to target the plane. Succeed, and the UFO driver steals the plane to use as a toy for his son (who promptly destroys it). Fail, and the rest of the fleet blows Earth into pieces.
• Apocalypse Wow: For some reason, Marty's flight is a Cosmic Keystone, and many of the endings will involve the total destruction of mankind.
• Art Shift: The art style will change without warning.
• Captain Ersatz: Bulk "The Bulldozer" Bogan is an obvious pastiche of Hulk Hogan.
• Chocolate Baby: Both Marty and his wife are white, but their child is noticably darker. This is never addressed in most of the game, but the Omega Ending reveals that it's actually the child of the "wife" and the man who appeared as the Bulldozer in Marty's daydream, who are actually married in the real world.
• Comical Overreacting: Marty's reaction to him undergoing Potty Failure? Try to shoot himself in the head.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Professor Ezikal, owner of Nantucket Baked Chicken, is ruthless. If Marty doesn't like his product, he'll order a sniper hit on him, and then kill the sniper himself to get his money back. In another path, Marty tries to open a steakhouse, but Ezikal uses a Molotov Cocktail to burn it to the ground because "this is a chicken town".
• Deranged Animation: A lot of the scenes will devolve into graphics and animations resembling strange DeviantArt.
• Diabolus ex Machina: If it seems like a Happy Ending, the game will do this, in the strangest way possible. invoked
• Disproportionate Retribution: Marty gets seriously punished for the slightest acts. For example, the CEO of a fried chicken chain will put a sniper hit out on Marty for not endorsing his chain.
• Double Tap: Brutally deconstructed. Marty is tasked by The Bulldozer with Crippling the Competition for him. He sneaks into his rival's home while he's sleeping, bashes his head with a pipe (he was told to go for the knee) and then...
  Marty: (with a sinister look on his face) Better give him one more whack, just to be sure.
  (Marty then spends the next twenty seconds or so repeatedly bashing the opponent's face until the skull deforms and an eyeball pops out...all while putting on a horrifying Nightmare Face)
  The Bulldozer: My god...
  Marty: (smiling, while covered in blood) Boy howdy, that was the most fun I've had in years! Where to next, pal?
• Driven to Suicide: Marty will sometimes do this — and will often have a Bungled Suicide for failing it. Yes, failing to kill yourself is the worse option, as it aggravates a UFO.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Failing minigames is the only way to unlock the majority of them, as Marty's mistakes take him down different courses of action. Succeeding at everything will only unlock one ending out of the 64 possible.
• False Rape Accusation: One of the worst endings has Marty performing CPR on someone, only to be accused of sexual assault and ending up homeless.
• For Want Of A Nail: A lot of the branches depend on whether, say, Marty is able to hide having smoked a cigarette in the airplane cabin, successfully wash his hands or lie about not having washed his hands.
• The Freelance Shame Squad: Three rotund guys will sometimes make fun of Marty for an embarrassing event.
• Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Many choices have Marty cheating on his wife. Sometimes it'll be deserved and sometimes it won't, depending on the situation. For example, sometimes Marty's wife will cheat on him, and even kill him. Other times she'll be an innocent woman who doesn't deserve it.
• Greek Chorus: The three fat, bald men in red, yellow, and green, who appear as background characters and interact with Marty in varying ways.
• Henpecked Husband: Marty will sometimes be depicted as one.
• Hub Level: The game allows players to pick up from any story branch they like by walking Marty around the Continue Gallery, so they don't have to play the game from the very beginning to see all of the endings.
• Human Pet: This will be Marty's fate if he befriends the forest spirit. He does seem rather content with it, though.
• I Am a Humanitarian: Marty becomes Long Pig if he causes the plane to crash on a deserted island.
• I Love the Dead: One ending has Stalker with a Crush Marty in a relationship with the corpse of the blonde he failed to win in the The Dating Game-style show, after a Murder the Hypotenuse.
• Insane Troll Logic: Some of the leaps of logic the game (deliberately) makes are the width of the Grand Canyon. For example, not washing your hands turns you into an AKIRA-esque Eldritch Abomination.
• It's a Wonderful Failure: Part of the fun is seeing how Marty's (in)actions will end the world.
• Jive Turkey: Marty's partner on the fictional buddy cop show Cookies and Creme.
• Literal Metaphor: "He's dancing up a storm!" Cue minigame where the plane has to dodge a freak lightning storm.
• The Many Deaths of You: The other part is seeing what weird ways Marty will die.
• Mini-Game: Each choice is made depending on success or failure in a Mini-Game.
• Multiple Endings: The game boasts 64 of them, and part of the fun is deliberately failing some MiniGames to see them.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Things presented as epic events include... buckling your seatbelt or lighting a cigarette.
• My Eyes Are Up Here: One Mini-Game involves Marty trying to not stare at a blonde's cleavage.
• Omega Ending: A 65th ending, accessable after every other ending is achieved, heavily implies that the entire game prior was just the Imagine Spot of Marty working as a janitor at an airport. His supposed wife and child are actually the wife and child of the man who appeared as the Bulldozer, and the man who appeared as a truck driver is his boss.
• Punch-Clock Villain: A Kaiju apparently lives a white collar life of rampaging — and Marty can ruin it and its wife and child's life.
• Retraux: The MiniGames often Homage old games, ranging from Arkanoid to Mega Man.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Sweet Pea, the Quintessential British Gentleman in a powder blue tuxedo and High-Class Glass, speaks like this.
• Situational Sexuality: Marty seems to fall for anyone who shows him affection, regardless of sex.
• Stalker with a Crush: One ending has Marty stalking a woman he didn't win a date from on a game show, complete with Stalker Shrine to her.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: There is one ending that is wholly positive and does not end with a Diabolus ex Machina: A rich man falls in love with Marty he leaves his wife and lives a happy life on a tropical island.
• Time Traveler's Dinosaur: One of the 64 possible endings is Marty ending up in the age of the dinosaurs after accidentally ripping a hole in spacetime, greeting a T. Rex upon arrival. Flash Forward back to the present day, revealing that he changed the future and now everyone is a T. Rex.
• Weirdness Magnet: To say anything and everything happens to Marty on a simple flight is an Understatement. Many of the endings feature the human race being exterminated or the Earth blowing up.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: One ending looks like it'll end happily for Marty, as someone tries his steak and likes it so much he helps Marty open a restaurant. Then Professor Ezikal drives by and burns it down with molotov cocktails while shouting "This here's a chicken town!"
  JT: Well kid, the dream is dead. Se ya around the ol' watering hole.