Alex has a Point is a joke/meme mod for LISA: The Pointless. It offers a considerably easier, considerably quicker run through most of the areas visited in the original LISA: The Pointless.
In pre-Flash Olathe, Alex Churchland was a practitioner of the Armstrong Style of martial arts and a Disciple of Brad. After the Flash, he has, as in the original game, ended up wounded and thrown away with a large mass of garbage. As in the original game, he is discovered by Joel, alongside a bullet. Here, things take a diverging path. Alex knows exactly how he ended up in the situation he is in at the beginning of the game, and he explicitly states a disinterest in getting revenge. Instead, he traverses through Olathe, recruiting several companions and leaving a large wave of death in his wake.
This mod goes against the original LISA: The Pointless in several ways. It is considerably easier, contains multiple party members, has Joel as something of an antagonist, and has a much less serious tone.
It has a prequel mod created some time later, Brad Has a Pain.
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Alex Has a Point provides examples of:
- Adaptation Name Change: Garbage Island has been renamed to Joel Island, due to the fact that Joel founded the Island.
- A God Am I: Alex refers to himself as a god multiple times, usually in reference to his martial ability/killing potential. Played for Comedy.
- Boomerang Bigot: There is a black man outside of the shack in the desert. He tells you that he "hates black people" and to "tell them all I said that." Alex responds with his catchphrase.
- But Thou Must!: Alex encounters a man saying he must be killed by Hugo Leopardi in the desert. Alex says, to paraphrase, that 'no, you could be killed by me" and attempts to kill him. Alex bounces harmlessly off the man, and he insists that, no, it really must be Hugo to kill him. This interaction gives Alex the Depression status effect.
- Comically Missing the Point: Alex can encounter a pair of skeletons, impaled, in a hut in the desert. Examining them leads to a box coming up whose dialogue asks how they got their clothes on.
- Disc-One Final Boss: As in LISA: The Pointless, Arnold Shpitz is, for the most part, built up throughout the downtown Olathe as the final boss for the area. The true final boss of the area, Rando is built up a few times by being mentioned by various characters, but most of the on-screen build up and much of the dialogue build up still suggests an eventual confrontation with Shpitz. At the end of the Downtown Olathe segment, dialogue still takes place indicating that he and Alex's party are about to do combat. Before it can begin, Rando falls from the sky, lands on Sphitz, crushes him, and acts as the true final boss of the area. As this is last real fight of the game, he also functions as the final combat boss fought in the game.
- Disproportionate Retribution: In the beginning of this game, Alex refuses to trust Joel. He can be re-encountered by entering a doorway near the starting location. If you encounter him again in this room, he will shoot Alex with his only bullet. This leads to an immediate game over.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Joy and Joy mutants are still present in this game, unlike in Brad Has a Pain, where they are replaced with Stupid Balls and Stupid Ball Disciples, respectively. Items in this game are relatively in line with those found in the Vanilla LISA: The Pointless. For instance, if you need to resurrect a party member in Brad Has a Pain, you might feed them a Bottle of Live. In Alex Has a Point, as in LISA, you would spray them with perfume.
- Possibly justified. In Brad Has a Pain, the world is on a cycle, with Brad having killed Lisa four times and her resetting the world. Brad Has a Pain takes place in the fifth such cycle/instance of him killing Lisa, assuming that he wins. It is not wholly impossible that Alex has a Point takes place in one of the cycles 1 - 4.
- History Repeats: Unlike in LISA: The Pointless, but like in Lisa: The Painful RPG, in Alex Has a Point, you do not ride a boat; you use the body of a Hernandez as a boat.
- Narrating the Obvious: Checking a flaming barrel will provide the description "It is warm."
- No Fourth Wall: A great many characters will refer to LISA: The Pointless and other non-diegetic video games, including Lisa itself and the fact that mods and fangames exist for it.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Averted. Before leaving the first location, a house, Joel offers Alex revenge against the men who beat him and disposed of him. Alex says no, quite emphatically.
- That being said, Alex eventually says that he is hunting down Brad Armstrong. The reasons are not especially clear. It may be because of Brad's complete defeat of Alex at the tournament years before. It may because Brad beat Alex and threw him out before the events of the game. It could be that Alex wishes to become the master of the Armstrong Style and must defeat Brad to do it.
- Weird World, Weird Food: The first bulk food you are likely to encounter are One Dollar Bills, given to Alex by his father as child support.
