Fur Fighters - Television Tropes & Idioms

Fur Fighters, a Cult Classic of a videogame developed for the Dreamcast in 2000 and then later ported to the PS2 in 2001. We say cult classic because nobody bought the game despite it receiving very good reviews and being very funny. Think Conkers Bad Fur Day and you'll understand the general vibe of the game but with less "adult" humour.

The game saw the player take control over 6 characters, five of who have retired from a special military squad and one who is the child of a member, as they attempt to save the kidnapped babies from the Big Bad General Viggo. As if kidnapping the 100's of babies wasn't bad enough Viggo also kidnapped their spouses and have transformed them into mutant monstrosities and is using them to conquer the world in true super-villain fashion.

The game is a third-person-shooter but it is also a massive platformer, each character having their own abilities which enables the player to explore the massive worlds and save their lost babies in.

Contains Examples of the following tropes:

Abuse Is Okay When It's Female On Male: Bungalow and Esmeralda's relationship to a T.
Affectionate Parody: The last level is basically one big homage to James Bond.
Animal Stereotypes: The main characters themselves (really noticable in the PS2 port) and General Viggo.
Attack Its Weak Point
Authority Equals Asskicking: Viggo doesn't serve as the game's final encounter for nothing.
Badass: Every single character in this game.
Bait-and-Switch Boss: In the Space Station Meer you bump into a large Alien, only for it to be removed by a lawyer fox from 21st Century Films who insists it is breaking copyright. He then serves as the true boss.
Barefoot Cartoon Animals
Big Damn Heroes: The arrival of every single Fur Fighter, partner and baby at the end to save Roofus.
Bloodless Carnage: Instead, fluff serves as the "blood" of the game. Which begs the question of whether or not the animals are real.
Body Armor as Hit Points
Butt Monkey: Viggo's Peacock Sergeants. Also Bungalow.
Canis Major
Cats are Mean - General Viggo, the main antagonist. Averted with Juliette and Claude.
Check Point
Disappeared Dad: Tweek's father.
Dont Fearthe Reaper: The Grim Beaver is actually quite personable.
Dumb Muscle: Bungalow the Kangaroo.
Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The hidden underground dinosaur civilisation.
Kangaroos Represent Australia: Bungalow
Everything's Better with Penguins: Rico
Everything's Worse with Bears - They are the Mooks of the game, after all. Robinson Bear is the single exception.
Every Bullet is a Tracer
Evil Brit: General Viggo.
Evilly Affable: General Viggo balances the line between this and Affably Evil.
Follow the Money: The golden Tokens, which a) provide much-needed health, b) unlock later levels and c) are often placed to indicate which way you should head next (a much-needed feature, given the size of the levels).
Funny Foreigner: All of the animals hail from different parts of the world, but naturally they come with their own sense of humor.
Game-Breaking Bug: When trying to enter The Bad Place for the second time in the dreamcast version, the game would allow you to walk anywhere just fine in Hell but as soon as you try to enter the nightmare door, the game would take control of your character and slowly move him/her to the right until they fell off and died.
Heroic Dog: Our main hero of the game, Rufus.
Insert Grenade Here
Island Base: Viggo's headquarters, which is just off the coast of Furfighter's village!
Mega Corp
Mooks
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivered to Roofus at the end.
Our Dragons Are Different: In fact, they have a human-like society.
Old Soldier: Roofus. By extension, the other Fur Fighters are also this. More noticeably, General Bristol.
Respawning Enemies
Right-Hand Cat - Actually, it's the cat who has a rather creepy Right Hand Human named Fifi.
Spirit Advisor: General Bristol.
Two Keyed Lock
Solve the Soup Cans - Oh-so very many of them...
Speaking Simlish: The characters did this in the original Dreamcast version. This is averted in the PS2 port.
Spinning Paper: done in the opening of Beaver Power.
Updated Rerelease: The PS2 port gives the characters actual voices, gives the graphics a cel-shaded style, and changes up the music (maybe) and some of the lines.
Villain Opening Scene
We Cannot Go On Without You: Partly justified, as noted in a later scene that the teleporter can only handle one person out without causing damage. Doesn't really justify why they don't go in groups, other than for quick escapes...
Wicked Cultured