History VideoGame / Bubsy

** In ''Bubsy 3D'', titled ''Furbitten Planet'' (''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''), in the level titles "Claws for Alarm" (Cause for alarm), "Clawstrophobic" (Claustrophobic), "Woolie Bully" (''Wooly Bully'' by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs), "Missing Lynx" (Missing links), "Dome Sweet Dome" (Home sweet home), "Das Bobcat" (''Film/DasBoot''), "Domicidal Maniac" (Homicidal maniac), "Crimson Hide" (''Film/CrimsonTide''), "Mortal Bobkat" (''Franchise/MortalKombat''), "Zzzotz Nice" (That's nice), "Daze of Thunder" (''Film/DaysOfThunder''), "Woolieville Horror" (''[[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979 The Amityville Horror]]''), "Bright Light Big Woolies" (''Bright Lights, Big City''), and "[=Escape From WooL.A.=]" (''Film/EscapeFromLA'').

** ''The Woolies Strike Back'' ends with a 5-second shot of Bubsy escaping from the exploding Wooly spaceship with his beloved yarn ball, and then goes to the credits.

* TheBattleDidntCount: In ''Bubsy 3D'', even though you defeat Polly and Esther, the story has them defeat Bubsy and capture him. At least, [[RashomonStyle that's how the Woolies see it.]]

** The Wooly queens, Polly and Esther, in ''Claws Encounters'', ''Bubsy 3D'', and ''The Woolies Strike Back''.

* MultipleHeadCase: There are two different two-headed Woolies, Queens Polly and Esther and the General, though interestingly their respective cases of polycephaly seem to be quite different. Polly and Esther are almost always treated as if they're two different individuals who happen to share the same body, making them more like ConjoinedTwins, while the Woolie General's heads always speak in unison and he always refers to himself in singular pronouns, implying that his two heads share the same brain.

* PunnyName: All of the Woolies in the game are named after types of material. The queens are named Polly and Esther, and their assistant is named Professor Nylon.

* WhoWritesThisCrap: When Bubsy is referring to the punny level titles. In the intro to "Beavery Careful", Bubsy says, "Hey, I didn't write this stuff." One of the sound bytes heard before a level in ''Bubsy II'' is "Who wrote this stuff?!"

** Averted with the PAL region covers, however; not only does it lack these, or ''any'' review blurbs, but the back of the case doesn't even have descriptive text to try and sell people on the game, only having screenshots to show for it.

* FakeDifficulty: Discussed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTAlr5raV2U this]] WebVideo/JonTron. For those who don't feel like watching, in the first two games, your field of vision is very limited, making it hard to tell where you should go and what's just offscreen trying to kill you.

* {{Cameo}}: Supporting characters of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bubsy}}'' cartoon appear in ''Bubsy II''. Bubsy's niece and nephew appear on the title screen, and appear in the ending with Arnold the Armadillo.

** ''Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind'' has a particularly infuriating one: "I win! I win! Well... I guess you helped out a bit too."

* TimedMission: In the first two games, you had 10 minutes to complete each level. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in most levels in ''Bubsy 3D'', with the exceptions of the BonusStages and the underwater levels (see OxygenMeter above).

* TheKlutz: Being more evident in his ''3D title's'' cutscenes and FMVs, even if he is ''occassionally'' graceful in some clips at the very least.

* IdiotHero: Bubsy himself (See BuffoonishTomCat Above), this is due to how much of an BuffoonishTomcat and an InsufferableImbecile he is whom loves making [[HurricaneOfPuns countless]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Cat puns]], this is also shown by how Bubsy is presented characteristically, parodied and more.

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* CuteButCacophonic: The Infamous Bubsy The Bobcat who is an [[HurricaneOfPuns pun]] [[IncrediblyLamePun fueled]] character with an ungodly annoying, grating voice(plus some characters like his nephews).

* AmusingInjuries: Bubsy gets these often.

* CuteButCacophonic: The Infamous Bubsy The Bobcat (plus some characters like his nephews), an pun fueled character with an ungodly annoying, grating voice.

* IdiotHero: Bubsy himself, due to how much of an BuffoonishTomcat and an InsufferableImbecile he is whom loves making [[IncrediblyLamePun countless Cat puns]], this is also how Bubsy is presented characteristically, parodied and more.

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* FallingDamage: The first two games have falling damage, which can be neutralized by gliding.

* HurricaneOfPuns: Bubsy spews these a lot, though he's adamant that [[WhoWritesThisCrap he didn't write them]].

* IdiotHero: Bubsy due to how much of an BuffoonishTomcat and InsufferableImbecile he is with Cat puns, how he is presented characteristically and more.

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Bubsy is responsible for the {{Trope Namer|s}}, with it being his catchphrase. He also extensively says it in the [[WesternAnimation/{{Bubsy}} unaired pilot]], and the saying is even the pilot's title!

* BuffoonishTomCat: The titular protagonist Bubsy himself is a bobcat, being an mixture of [[TheKlutz an comical klutz]] in the 3D game's death animations and cutscenes, an InsufferableImbecile in the cartoon series and was a ButtMonkey in the 2D games showing his buffoonery when being prone to slapstick in the series, when the series continued on, Bubsy was still shown to have a giant lack of common sense with his sass and his behavior overall, just enough for Bubsy to be presented as an IdiotHero.

* BuffoonishTomCat: The titular protagonist Bubsy himself is a bobcat, being an mixture of [[TheKlutz an comical klutz]] in the 3D game's death animations and cutscenes, an InsufferableImbecile in the cartoon series and was a ButtMonkey in the 2D games showing his buffoonery when being prone to slapstick in the series, when the series continued on, Bubsy was still shown to have a giant lack of common sense with his sass and his behavior overall, enough to be presented as an IdiotHero.

* BuffoonishTomCat: Bubsy being an mixture of [[TheKlutz an klutz]] in the 3D game's death animations and cutscenes, an InsufferableImbecile in [[WesternAnimation/Bubsy the cartoon series]] and was a ButtMonkey in the 2D games showing his buffoonery, when the series continued Bubsy was still presented have a lack of common sense throughout.

* CatsHaveNineLives: Bubsy starts the first game with nine lives.

[[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated Except not really]]. A 2015 UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Greenlight campaign resulted in a brief resurgence by way of a {{compilation|rerelease}} of the first two entries, entitled ''Bubsy Two-Fur''. The franchise then came back in earnest via ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RHdrmZsNs0 Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back]]'', a TwoAndAHalfD sidescroller entry in the series developed by [[VideoGame/GianaSistersTwistedDreams Black Forest Games]] that released on October 31st, 2017.[[note]]Ironically, not only once again within months of new ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey Mario]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy Crash Bandicoot]]'' games, but a new ''[[VideoGame/SonicForces Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' title as well. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KIeAY9hHI launch trailer]] acknowledges this.[[/note]] On May 16th, 2019, a running platformer in the vein of ''VideoGame/BitTrip'' entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov3wjgvoaOA Bubsy: Paws on Fire]]'' released, developed by Choice Provisions (creators of the aforementioned ''BIT.TRIP'' games). This entry features many playable characters besides Bubsy himself, including [[GoKartingWithBowser a Woolie in a flying saucer,]] as well as Virgil the Vole and Arnold the Armadillo from the failed TV pilot.