History Recap / GravityFallsS1E10FightFighters

-->'''Dipper:''' Well we don't have any traditional power-ups -- turkey legs, pizza boxes, or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers gold rings]].

* AngryCollarGrab: Robbie does this to Dipper after the latter ends up destroying his phone.
* AssholeVictim: Robbie nearly became this of Rumble's wrath.

* BondOneLiner: Dipper gives one to Rumble after Rumble wins the fight, but is about to be sent back to his game.

** ''Fight Fighters.''

* DidYouDie: Soos tells Dipper a story about how his cousin Reggie got beat up by a teen once and thinks he might have died. Then Soos adds that he and Reggie were just talking about it.
* DiegeticVisualEffects: When Dipper takes Rumble's attention away from killing Robbie, the view shifts to a letterboxed close-up on Dipper's face. Then the camera zooms out to reveal the effect is from Dipper holding up a pair of black-colored planks, which he throws away.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight for breaking his phone when it was a total accident.

-->'''Stan:''' Look kid, you got yourself a choice here. You can either go face him like a man, or you can hide indoors like a wimp. What'll it be?\\

''(Dipper punches the "START" button to begin the fight)''\\

* OverlyLongGag: ''SUPER POWER NINJA TURBO NEO ULTRA HYPER MEGA MULTI ALPHA META EXTRA UBER PREFIX '''COMBO'''''

* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Dipper gives Rumble a seemingly effective uppercut. He then looks at the lifebar, sees his opponent only lost 0.5% of his health, and runs away in a panic.

* SheatheYourSword: More or less how Dipper beats Rumble. When avoiding him and attacking back don't prove to work, Dipper calmly lets Rumble pummel him and take his remaining "game life". Rumble wins the fight but in doing so ends his "game" and is sent back to the arcade to his horror. Game Over indeed.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: While Dipper explains why he hates Robbie, Rumble repeatedly asks whether Robbie killed Dipper's father, and Dipper eventually shrugs and says, "Sure, why not?". This comes back to bite him hard.

* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: PlayedForLaughs. Rumble requests Dipper take him to the Soviet Union to challenge the world's strongest Fight Fighters, not knowing that it collapsed 20 years ago. Dipper responds that it'll be difficult "for a number of reasons".
* WouldntHurtAChild: As angry as he is at Dipper for nearly getting him killed by a living video game character, Robbie can't bring himself to lay a hand on the unresisting Dipper.

** Rumble assumes that Robbie killed Dipper's father. Dipper [[SureLetsGoWithThat just goes with it]], which proves to be a mistake when Rumble insists on killing Robbie to avenge Dipper's father. Dipper has to come clean about the lie and redirect Rumble's attention to himself to get him to back off.

* MediumBlending: Rumble is designed like a 16-bit game sprite. All pixel animation in this episode was done by Creator/PaulRobertson, a sprite artist who's done work for video games such as the ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'' game.

* CaptainErsatz: Rumble is Ken (and a little bit of Ryu and Sagat) from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', down to his fighting stance, moves, and motivations. Dr. Karate appears to be a mashup of M. Bison and Guile.

* CaptainErsatz: Rumble is Ken (and a little bit of Ryu and Sagat) from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', down to his fighting stance, moves, and motivations.

* CaptainErsatz: Rumble is Ken (and a little bit of Ryu and Sagat) from ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'', down to his fighting stance, moves, and motivations.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Rumble.

* Foreshadowing: When Dipper is explaining why he doesn't like Robbie, he mentions that Robbie posts 'an annoying amount of status updates. [[spoiler: Later, in 'The Love God', Robbie ends up dating the chronically-online Tambry]]

At the Gravity Falls Video Game Arcade, tensions mount between Dipper and Robbie. Robbie is unusually threatened by a twelve year old boy trying to "steal" his girlfriend, and Dipper is still convinced that a chick as cool as Wendy deserves someone much cooler than Robbie. As Wendy is going camping with her family this weekend, Robbie declares a fight between the two of them to settle things once and for all.

* DidYouDie: Soos tells Dipper a story about how his cousin Reggie got beat up by a teen once and thinks he might have died. Then Soos adds that he and Reggie were just talking about it.

* SpitTake: Mabel surprises Grunkle Stan with a proposition to go out for a walk to nowhere in particular while he is drinking a Pitt Cola and watching TV.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Soos tries to damage Rumble's health bar to help Dipper. It doesn't work.

** Rumble thinks Robbie killed Dipper's father. Dipper just goes with it.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Rumble runs head-on into this, being based on a video game from the late 80s/early 90s.
-->'''Rumble:''' Now I must defeat the world's greatest Fight Fighters! Take me to the Soviet Union!\\
'''Dipper:''' That's gonna be tough, for a number of reasons.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Twice.
** When Dipper takes Rumble's attention away from killing Robbie, the view shifts to a letterboxed close-up on Dipper's face. Then the camera zooms out to reveal the effect is from Dipper holding up a pair of black-colored planks, which he throws away.
** After Dipper starts fighting Rumble, Soos tries to help by interfering with Rumble's health bar, though his hand just phases through.