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** [[spoiler: The Developer attacks you for (1/4 your max HP + 5) damage each hit, ensuring that he kills you in four attacks unless you're invincible.]]
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* TooAwesomeToUse: You only get a limited amount of Berserk Potions (from the frog, and from the Wishing Well if you so choose) and you are '''not''' able to create any more.
** Subverted with the [[spoiler: Chocolate Bar. You only get one before the post-game, and its one and only use is to coat your sword in chocolate]].
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** [[spoiler: The Developer is hinted to be a ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' fan, with a number of references to ponies in the game (Wood Pony, a Pony Bug, the fake tab bug spawning "Pony" and "mlp is great" tabs).]]

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** "A wood pony! It's in the woods!"



** You don't have to pay all those lollipops to [[spoiler: overcome yourself. You just need to use a Fire Scroll when your foe's health is below 35, which defeats him without having you taking any extra damage.]]

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** You don't have to pay all those lollipops to [[spoiler: overcome yourself. You just need to use a Fire Scroll when your foe's health is below 35, which defeats him without having you taking take any extra damage.]]
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** The Ghost's description: "A Ghost. It halves the life of '''human beings'''." Imps and summoned stuff ''don't count as human beings'', so they're unaffected.
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** Averted in the Hard Mode. Your maximum health ''doesn't increase at all'', and your sword can only get up to 5 levels maximum.
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** You don't have to pay all those lollipops to [[spoiler: overcome yourself. You just need to use a Fire Scroll when your foe's health is below 35, which defeats him without having you taking any extra damage.]]
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* EasyLevelTrick: [[spoiler: The Cow Level in Hard Mode, where your HP is capped at 100. Use an Earthquake Scroll to render the regular cows to 0 HP (but still alive), which allows you to kill them without taking any damage. A potion during the Cow King fight helps too.]]
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* WorldTree: Mentioned in the recipe for the Seed. A giant, unnamed tree that exists somewhere in the universe which provides infinite candies. There's also a rare chance that you summon a 10000 HP Yggdrasil when planting a Seed.

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* AntiFrustrationFeature: In Hard Mode where your health is capped at 100, [[spoiler: the Developer's Computer quest removes the four most difficult/painful Bugs (Fireball, Dragon, Demon, and Devil)]]



* NonIndicativeDifficulty: In Hard Mode, [[spoiler: the Developer's Computer quest is actually easier as it removes the four most difficult/painful Bugs (Fireball, Dragon, Demon, and Devil)]]
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* DegradedBoss: In a sense. [[spoiler: In Normal Mode, some of the Bugs in the Developer's Computer may have the same attacks and stats as those of the Dragon and Devil.]]


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* NonIndicativeDifficulty: In Hard Mode, [[spoiler: the Developer's Computer quest is actually easier as it removes the four most difficult/painful Bugs (Fireball, Dragon, Demon, and Devil)]]
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* AttackAttackAttack: Your questing avatar utterly refuses to stop running forwards and beating on things. The only way to manually stop moving is to plant a tree in his path, forcing him to stop and hack away at it for a while.

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* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: Nothing is really capped, other than by the limitations of integer storage. Late in the game, it's quite easy to acquire 10^80 or so HP and sword power, which is numerous zeros beyond the point at which most of the game's enemies become laughably harmless.



** The ability to "overcome yourself." [[spoiler:Its sole purpose is to allow you to beat the "Yourself" level, where you fight...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yourself]].]]



* LostForever: The three upgraded sword types (life-gain, fire, and summoning) are all mutually exclusive; you can only choose one per playthrough.

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* LostForever: The three upgraded sword types (life-gain, fire, and summoning) are all mutually exclusive; you can only choose one per playthrough. [[spoiler:Until you reach the hacking stage, that is, where you can randomize your sword or acquire the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Sword of Liflamesummoning.]]]]
* LuckBasedMission: You can only beat the final boss by ''pressing a specific, random key on your keyboard'' while fighting him. All you can do is use an invincibility potion and mash keys like crazy hoping you hit the right one. Getting past his minions also requires a lot of luck.



* OpeningTheSandbox: Once the Candy Merchant arrives and you buy your first sword, things start opening up to you.

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* OpeningTheSandbox: Once the Candy Merchant arrives and you buy your first sword, things start opening up to you. And they keep on opening wider and wider. [[spoiler:By the end, NoFourthWall is taken to its ultimate extreme; you can modify or randomize every variable in the game.]]


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* SchizophrenicDifficulty: The Hell level is the hardest by far; there are several much easier ones after it. The [[spoiler:Developper]] final level mainly just [[LuckBasedMission requires numerous retries.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Enemy encounters go by rather quickly, but those with swift eyes will discover that some of the enemies have amusing descriptions. [[spoiler: "This is a unicorn! It has no kidneys."]]

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* FreezeFrameBonus: Enemy encounters go by rather quickly, but those with swift eyes will discover that some of the enemies have amusing descriptions. [[spoiler: [[CharlieTheUnicorn "This is a unicorn! It has no kidneys."]]"]]]]
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* ShapedLikeItself: The Candy Merchant can sell you lollipop-flavoured lollipops.
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* ShoutOut: [[spoiler: The Cow Level, accessible only by using the Get Me Out Of Here potion, is one to {{Diablo}}.]]

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* ShoutOut: [[spoiler: The Cow Level, accessible only by using the Get Me Out Of Here potion, is one to {{Diablo}}.''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''.]]

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* FixedDamageAttack: The ghosts that the necromancer summons will hit you for half your current health.


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* PercentDamageAttack: The ghosts that the necromancer summons will hit you for half your current health.

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* AsciiArt: It's the most that the game gets, graphics-wise, yet it does not hamper the premise.



* Animorphism: The Turtle Potion.

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* Animorphism: {{Animorphism}}: The Turtle Potion.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "The Swampy Swamp is the swampiest swamp you've ever seen."
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** [[spoiler: Or you can just use a Fire Scroll when your opponent's health gets low (<35). It'll kill him, and you won't need to see the sorceress at all.]]

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** Another one occurs after beating the Dragon. You end up in hell and fight demons as regular Mooks... who do as much damage as the dragon.

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** The Castle Keep is another one. Lots of painful Mooks, and the [[spoiler: Dragon at the end which requires you to have invulnerability potions and a very good strategy if you want to beat it.]]
** Another one occurs after beating the Dragon.Castle Keep. You end up in hell and fight demons as regular Mooks... who do as much damage as the dragon.[[spoiler: Dragon]], spiked walls that take a long time to break and deal lots of damage, and [[spoiler: the Devil himself who does twice as much damage as the dragon!]]


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* FlamingSword: One of the three enchantments you can get. It has a 33% chance of doing much more damage than normal.

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* DifficultySpike: The peaceful forest and Goblin Mountain are both fairly easy and pretty doable, even if you've been hoarding/spending all your candy. The underwater cavern, however, is ''much'' more challenging, and the Castle Entrance will stop you in your tracks if you're not prepared.

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* DifficultySpike: The peaceful forest and Goblin Mountain are both fairly easy and pretty doable, even if you've been hoarding/spending all your candy. The underwater cavern, however, is ''much'' more challenging, and the Castle Entrance will stop you in your tracks if you're not prepared. prepared.
** Another one occurs after beating the Dragon. You end up in hell and fight demons as regular Mooks... who do as much damage as the dragon.

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* InvincibilityPowerUp: The Invincibility Potion. [[spoiler: You'll ''need'' it for the dragon, Devil, Chuck Norris, Gnomes and the Developper]]



* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: The sword enchantments. You can only get one, and you can only do this once.



* TastesLikePurple: The lollipops the Candy Merchant sells. Some of them are ordinary flavors like cherry and grape, but some of them are abstract flavors like "causality" and "love."

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* TastesLikePurple: The lollipops the Candy Merchant sells. Some of them are ordinary flavors like cherry and grape, but some of them are abstract flavors like "causality" and "love." "
* TurtlePower: You can brew a potion that turns you into a turtle. This makes you have [[MightyGlacier much more defence, but makes you slower]]. [[spoiler: Being slow will benefit you in getting across the Developer's moat.]]

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* AmbiguousSyntax: The key to The Frog's last riddle

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* AmbiguousSyntax: The key to The Frog's last riddleriddle.



* GlassCannon: Eels in the Underwater Cave. 3 hit points (and will probably die in a hit), but it does 11 damage to you.



* MetalSlime: The Wood Poney [sic] in the peaceful forest. It's even rarer than treasure chests, but doesn't give as much.



* PowerupFood: Eating your candy increases your HP.

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* PowerupFood: Eating your candy increases your HP. HP.
* PsychoElectricEel: The eels in the underwater cave. Very low health, but hurts a lot with their electrical attacks.


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** [[spoiler: "[[WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn This is a unicorn! It has no kidneys]]."]]
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* ExactWords: The frog's final question. [[spoiler: Now, just type '''the answer to that question''' and I'll give you a very special present : what is the only thing to go beyond the limits of our universe?]]


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* FixedDamageAttack: The ghosts that the necromancer summons will hit you for half your current health.
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*AmbiguousSyntax: The key to The Frog's last riddle
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* KillItWithFire: The fire scroll, which can become a fire sword if you choose.


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* MemeticBadass: InUniverse, [[spoiler: ChuckNorris. Yes, really.]]
* [[spoiler: MirrorMatch]]: [[spoiler: One of the questing locations is "yourself." Even if you glitch the fight to have HP remaining at the end, you can't win without asking the Sorceress for help.]]
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* EscapeRope: The Escape Potion will let you leave a quest with no cooldown period, but you don't get to keep your items. The Get Me Out Of Here potion transports you to a different location out of your current quest, which is [[RandomEffectSpell usually]] much safer.


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* RandomEffectSpell: The Get Me Out Of Here potion transports you to a random location.


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* ShoutOut: [[spoiler: The Cow Level, accessible only by using the Get Me Out Of Here potion, is one to {{Diablo}}.]]
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* Animorphism: The Turtle Potion.


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* OpeningTheSandbox: Once the Candy Merchant arrives and you buy your first sword, things start opening up to you.
* [[spoiler: OurDragonsAreDifferent]]
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--> ''You have 5 candies.''

[[http://candies.aniwey.net/ Candy box!]] is a free online game. The premise is simple: You have a handful of candies, and you gain one additional piece of candy every second. You have two options: You can either eat all the candies you're currently holding, or throw ten of them on the ground (provided you have 10 to spare). [[BlatantLies That's it. That's really all there is to it. Honest.]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial There certainly isn't a Candy Merchant who will eventually come along to sell you more kinds of candy, and even if there was, there isn't anything you could do with it.]]

'''Warning:''' By necessity, this page will be absolutely chock-full of '''spoilers.''' Half the fun of the game comes from discovering what will happen next. It's recommended that you play at least some of the game for yourself before reading this trope page, lest all of its surprises be spoiled for you.

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[[WMG: This game contains examples of:]]

* AntiPoopSocking: You need candy to get through the game, and the only way to get candy is simply to wait. You'll have to leave the window open in another tab and just ignore it for a while to build the resources needed to progress.
* TheBeastmaster: One of the possible classes for the PC, if you choose the summoning sword.
* DifficultySpike: The peaceful forest and Goblin Mountain are both fairly easy and pretty doable, even if you've been hoarding/spending all your candy. The underwater cavern, however, is ''much'' more challenging, and the Castle Entrance will stop you in your tracks if you're not prepared.
* FlunkyBoss: The necromancer in the castle's stairwell.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Enemy encounters go by rather quickly, but those with swift eyes will discover that some of the enemies have amusing descriptions. [[spoiler: "This is a unicorn! It has no kidneys."]]
* FrogsAndToads: There is a friendly frog in the swamp who will give you goodies in exchange for befriending him.
* GlobalCurrency: Candy, natch.
* ItemCrafting: The cauldron, which can be found later in the game, allows for potion crafting.
* LevelAte: Considering that the world's currencies are all candy, lollipops literally grow on trees, and the most powerful swords are made of chocolate, we can make some assumptions--even if the graphics are all ASCII.
* LostForever: The three upgraded sword types (life-gain, fire, and summoning) are all mutually exclusive; you can only choose one per playthrough.
* MookBouncer: The dragon's fire at the castle entrance sends you to the beginning of the stage if it touches you, so you need to reach the door before that time.
* PowerupFood: Eating your candy increases your HP.
* RandomlyDrops: There are a number of useful random drops obtainable from enemies, such as [[spoiler: the unicorn horn.]]
* RareCandy: But of course. [[spoiler: Specifically, the chocolate bar.]]
* StockPuzzle: The frog in the swamp spews out a few stock riddles.
* TastesLikePurple: The lollipops the Candy Merchant sells. Some of them are ordinary flavors like cherry and grape, but some of them are abstract flavors like "causality" and "love."
* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere: The sorceress who lives in the forest only accepts lollipops as payment. ''Vast quantities'' of lollipops.

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