History VideoGame / AngryBirds2

* TokenEvilTeammate: As a ties-in to ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2'', Leonard makes his appearance in the game as a playable character via "Extra Bird" and notably being the only pig among the roaster.

* MassOhCrap: The pigs collectively give a faint "Uh-oh!" when you play the Golden Duck and Mighty Eagle spells.

** If you clear a stage with one bird, you earn a 25,000 point "Strike!" reward.

* PutOnABus: Hal, Bubbles, and Stella were nowhere to be found at first. Silver's power incorporates the backwards turning aspect of Hal's ability, the Pig Inflater takes Bubbles' ballooning and uses it on the pigs as a weapon, and the Astronaut Pigs cause all nearby objects to temporarily lose weight and float up when popped just like Stella's soap bubble ability.
** TheBusCameBack: Stella was added in the October 2018 update as an extra. Hal and Bubbles were respectively added in the December 2018 and March 2019 updates, also as extras.

* UnwinnableByMistake: In some of the boss stages, it's possible to knock the boss pig off the left side of the screen, which renders him unbeatable since you can't launch your birds backward in this game (trying to do so resets the slingshot).

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: The hatchling that you adopt in the game (since the May 2018 update) must be fed apples daily, or else [[TheRunaway it will run off.]]
* [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Your Eggs Are In Another Airship]]: Once you take out a boss pig with the eggs on their possession, another boss pig would run away with them to the next boss battle level.

* PutOnABus: Hal, Bubbles, and Stella are (so far) nowhere to be found. Silver's power incorporates the backwards turning aspect of Hal's ability, the Pig Inflater takes Bubbles' ballooning and uses it on the pigs as a weapon, and the Astronaut Pigs cause all nearby objects to temporarily lose weight and float up when popped just like Stella's soap bubble ability.
** TheBusCameBack: The October 2018 update introduced a new feature that lets you add another bird to your flock for a limited amount of time (specifically, 4 hours), with Stella being the first of three extra birds. The December 2018 update then added Hal to the extra bird roster.

** TheBusCameBack: The October 2018 update added a new feature that lets you add another bird to your flock for a limited amount of time (specifically, 4 hours), with Stella being the first one of three extra birds. The December 2018 update then added Hal to the extra bird roster.

** TheBusCameBack: Stella was added in the October 2018 update as an extra.

** TheBusCameBack: Stella would become playable in the October 2018 update as an extra.

* [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Your Eggs Is In Another Airship]]: Once you take out a boss pig with the eggs on their possession, another boss pig would run away with them to the next boss battle level.

** TheBusCameBack: Stella would become playable in the October 2018 update, increasing the bird count from 7 to 8.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: The hatchling that you adopt in the game must be fed apples daily, or else [[TheRunaway it will run off.]]

** The special pigs who napping when you let them idle too long won't be able to use their abilities when the birds comes toward them. You could use this in advantage against some of the nastiest pigs such as construction or fireman pigs.
** If you haven't fling your birds when you quit a level, you won't lose a live.

** The Magician pig shoots a spell that will change your bird into a random object. In the early versions of the game, this was very likely to be something completely useless like a teddy bear, but sometimes it would be something potentially useful like a rock or a rocket, or even a Golden Pig in really rare occasions. There was also the chance that your bird would just disappear. Nowadays, though, your bird is usually turned into a boulder, TNT crate, or rocket.

** The placement of certain types of pigs, objects like TNT, etc. within the structures is also somewhat randomized. If you're really lucky, this results in a golden pig showing up when you really need it, or even an AutomaticLevel where a missing piece in a structure causes it to topple and bring down everything around it before you've even done anything. If you're really unlucky (which happens far more often), you'll have a Magician pig in a spot that you can't really avoid aiming at, and you just have to hope he doesn't transform your bird into something useless when he zaps it.

** Sometimes the game gives you a spell card instead of a bird card. You're in luck if it's something like the Mighty Eagle that can clear an entire room, but certain spells like the Blizzard or the Golden Duck can be rather ineffective against certain level configurations, so you're out of luck when a last-minute 1-up gives you one of these instead of a bird that can be aimed at a specific target.

** The Magician pigs can turn your bird into something useful like a TNT crate or rocket which will do extra damage on impact.

* PutOnABus: Hal, Bubbles, and Stella are (so far) nowhere to be found. Silver's power incorporates the backwards turning aspect of Hal's ability, and the Pig Inflater takes Bubbles' ballooning and uses it on the pigs as a weapon. Nothing so far replicates Stella's bubbling ability.

* ShoutOut: Some levels have a pig [[Film/MaryPoppins wearing a black hat with a flower that floats around using an umbrella]]. These pigs are harder to take out since the umbrella lets them float to the ground and survive a fall.

''Angry Birds 2'' is the official sequel to ''VideoGame/AngryBirds''. It was soft-launched in Canada under the name ''[[WorkingTitle Angry Birds: Under Pigstruction]]'' in March 2015 and was released worldwide in July of that year.

''Angry Birds 2'' is the official sequel to ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', released in July 2015.

While the story is the same (the birds are after the pigs for nabbing their eggs) and gameplay is fundamentally the same, there are ''many'' changes that make the game feel totally different from the original. The graphics, sound effects, and animations are much more advanced, there are more features, and it incorporates many of the elements that were introduced in previous AB SpinOff games, including moving to a {{Freemium}} system that has not gone over well with the fanbase. The birds & pigs character design also changed based on ''WesternAnimation/AngryBirdsToons'' series, most notably introducing a new bird, Silver, who does a backwards loop and plummets straight down with great force.

''Angry Birds 2'' is the official sequel to Original ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', released in July 2015.

''Angry Birds 2'' is the official sequel to ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', released in July 2015.

While the story is the same (the birds are after the pigs for nabbing their eggs) and gameplay is fundamentally the same, there are ''many'' changes that make the game feel totally different from the original. The graphics, sound effects, and animations are much more advanced, there are more features, and it incorporates many of the elements that were introduced in previous AB SpinOff games, including moving to a {{Freemium}} system that has not gone over well with the fanbase. The flock has also gone through some changes, most notably introducing a new bird, Silver, who does a backwards loop and plummets straight down with great force.

* BossBonanza: An early 2017 update changed the King Pig challenge from a single 5-stage level with the King Pig at the end to three levels with increasing amounts of stages with a boss pig at the end of each in no particular order.

* MassOhCrap: The pigs give a faint "Uh-oh!" when you play the Golden Duck and Mighty Eagle spells.

** The Magician pig shoots a spell that, if it doesn't outright disintegrate your bird, will change it into a random object. Usually it's something harmless like a teddy bear, but sometimes it's something potentially useful like a rock or a rocket. Sometimes it's even another pig, or in really rare occasions, a Golden Pig.

** The black pearls earned for completing the daily challenge levels and as prizes in the arena can be used to "buy" powerups for your birds, which will earn an upgrade to the slingshot when a set of a certain reward is completed.

** The bird cards in your arsenal are also randomly chosen. You can choose the order in which you want to fire the birds, but you can only select from the top 3 cards available. This often results in situations where you could clear a level with a specific bird, but you weren't lucky enough to have that bird show up as one of your first three cards. This can be especially maddening on boss levels, where the boss and/or a structure you need to topple onto him (or to even get to him) can only be reached by one or two specific birds that you've already used just to get to that point.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Some pigs have a gravity gun that pulls the bird towards the pig. While this does throw the bird off course, more often than not it also ends up with the bird slamming into the structure and causing a lot of damage or outright toppling it.

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: The goal of one particular boss pig fight is to dump him into a tall chasm with a fan at the bottom that keeps blowing him around. If you don't knock him out with falling debris, you can launch birds into the same chasm and use the fan's circulation to tap him into popping via glancing impacts.
* DisasterDominoes: This is even more important for gameplay than in the original game. Every level has stages with multiple towers placed at different heights, as well as blocks and TNT crates suspended in the air, and as you have limited chances to continue, figuring out exactly where to topple towers and drop items so you conserve birds is a must. Also, the more you destroy, the faster you fill the "extra card" meter, so doing as much damage as you can in a stage is very important.

* GlassSmackAndSlide: Depending on how you defeat one of the boss pigs, he may fly up and crash into the "screen" then slide down.

* NiceJobBreakingItVillain: Some pigs have a gravity gun that pulls the bird towards the pig. While this does throw the bird off course, more often than not it also ends up with the bird slamming into the structure and causing a lot of damage or outright toppling it.

* [[ManEatingPlant Bird-Eating Plant]]: Several stages feature plants that will swallow anything that touches them, including birds.

* BossBattle: In each area, every 6-10 levels, you have to defeat one of the three "boss" pigs (Chef Pig, Foreman Pig, and King Pig, in that order). Once all three are beaten, you can move to the next area.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: The crystals you earn as bonuses can be used to "buy" extra birds to continue a level, extra spells, refilled lives, or entries in the arena.
* CameraAbuse: {{Subverted|Trope}}; occasionally pigs will be launched at the screen after being popped but will fly by, usually screaming in fear. Debris from exploding rockets and the occasional wooden timber often does the same thing.

* LevelUp: You can earn colored feathers that increase the damage your birds will do and unlock levels of the arena once all the birds reach a certain number of feathers. They are earned in the bonus chests you get every few levels, and every 30 minutes you can get a free reward that will often be feathers. You can also earn feathers as rewards for winning in the arena and for completing a daily challenge.

** The bird cards in your arsenal are also randomly chosen. You can choose the order in which you want to fire the birds, but you can only select from the top 3 cards available. This often results in situations where you could clear a level with a specific bird, but you weren't lucky enough to have that bird show up as one of your first three cards. This can be especially maddening on boss levels, where the boss and/or a structure you need to topple onto him can only be reached by one or two specific birds that you've already used just to get to that point.

* MassOhCrap: When you play the Mighty Eagle spell, the pigs give a faint "Uh-oh!" just as the background music stops, a few seconds before the Eagle zooms past.

* SmartBomb: The Mighty Eagle is now one of the spells you pick up instead of something you have to purchase, and extras can either be won in treasure chests or bought with crystals, and sometimes are given when you fill your meter in-game. Instead of smashing objects on the screen, his zooming flyby takes out the pigs and can knock down towers.

* LevelUp: You can earn colored feathers that increase the damage your birds will do and unlock levels of the arena once all the birds reach a certain number of feathers. They are earned in the bonus chests you get every few levels, and every 24 hours you can get a free reward that will often be feathers. Before the arena became a one-on-one competition, you could earn feathers as a prize there. Completing a daily challenge will also earn you large feather bonuses.

** Although not common at all and requiring spectactularly lucky shooting, some of the boss stages can be completed with one bird.
* OneUp: Filling the meter at the top of the screen will earn you back one of your spent birds, or sometimes a spell although this is fairly uncommon. This is normally done by destroying the towers, but you can also hit a golden pig to instantly fill the meter.
* [[PopGoesTheHuman Pop Go the Piggies]]: The Pig Inflater spell massively inflates several pigs. It doesn't pop them right away, but it can cause them to squeeze out of towers and platforms to fall and/or collapse buildings, or unbalance a structure enough to collapse it.

* SmartBomb: The Mighty Eagle is now one of the spells you pick up instead of something you have to purchase, although you have to spend crystals to get more uses once your initial supply runs out. Instead of smashing objects on the screen, his zooming flyby takes out the pigs and can knock down towers.

* BossBattle: In each area, every 7-10 levels, you have to defeat one of the three "boss" pigs (Chef Pig, Foreman Pig, and King Pig, in that order). Once all three are beaten, you can move to the next area.

** Played straight however with the Chef, Foreman and King pigs as they will hit the screen in the right circumstances

** The Magician pig shoots a spell that, if it doesn't outright disintegrate your bird, will change it into a random object. Sometimes it's something harmless like a teddy bear, other times it can be something potentially useful like a rock or a rocket. Sometimes it's even another pig, or in really rare occasions, a Golden Pig.
** The Scientist pig has a vial with a potion that will change all the tower materials in the stage to something other than the majority material when they're popped. Good luck if you're stuck with the Blues and the materials have been changed to stone.
* [[ManEatingPlant Bird-Eating Plant]]: Stages at the Cobalt Plateau feature plants that will swallow anything that touches them, including birds.

* CameraAbuse: {{Subverted|Trope}}; occasionally pigs will be launched at the screen after being popped but will fly by, usually screaming in fear. Debris from exploding rockets often does the same thing.