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  • Anti-Climax Boss: Poseidon is talked up as an Alpha-class Bio-weapon and the last obstacle for the protagonist's freedom in Thing-Thing 1. In practice, his only attack has a very noticeable wind-up and is easy to dodge, made worse by an easy-to-use A.I. Breaker note  that removes most of the battle's difficulty.
  • Complete Monster: The CEO—real name unknown—is the director of Systems Corp., a corporation that creates Super Soldiers and other bioweapons, subjecting its projects to inhumane experiments and tormenting them until they become mindless killers. Running Systems Corp. with an iron fist, and treating his employees abysmally, the CEO's callousness is further illustrated by a poster threatening to punish slacking with electrocution, not to mention his cavalier attitude towards sending his employees to their demises. When the behavioral modification treatment backfires on protagonist Project 154—turning him into a vengeance-thirsty, sociopathic mass murderer—the CEO sends many waves of his employees after 154. Upon 154's arrival at his office, the CEO casually comments via monitor that despite all of 154's efforts, he is just an expendable clone. Subsequently removing the latter's Healing Factor and sending more subordinates to kill 154, the CEO intends to rework 154's genetics and profit off the results.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Particularly egregious in Thing Thing 4, where the violence just tips into...well, hilarity. For example, using gauss and laser weaponry against hapless Mooks splatters the walls with huge blood streaks.
  • Evil Is Cool: Project 154 may be a sociopathic mass murderer, but he is easily one of the most badass characters in flash gaming.
  • Game-Breaker: Grenade Dart Launcher in Thing Thing Arena 3. The darts explode with 3 seconds delay which, with mooks' tendency to walk in groups of four and not noticing the dart even if it pierces right through their eye allows the player to kill thousands of enemies while using relatively few darts. Also, it collects not only its own bonuses, but also bonuses for multi-kills. And even if the player shoots an enemy on the ground and the dart explodes when he jumps, it still counts as a midair kill.
  • Good Bad Bugs In some of the games (namely Thing Thing 3 and Thing Thing Arena 2), standing on a platform and aiming straight down reveals certain weapons are long enough that the projectile's spawn point is on the other side of the platform, letting you shoot the hapless mooks on the other side.

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