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This browser game, launched in 2005 and bought out by Creator/{{Disney}} in 2007, centered on users' personal penguin avatars, and their little lives. The game was somewhere in between a social network and a life simulation. Players could chat with other people, buy and care for a pet, buy clothes, buy and furnish your igloo, and even change the color of your little penguin avatar. All of this was paid for by little minigames you could play. Some games were competitions with other penguins, while some were solo games. However, most of the interesting things you could buy, you could get [[AllegedlyFreeGame only if you paid for your account]].

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This '''Club Penguin''' was a browser game, launched game. Launched in 2005 and bought out by Creator/{{Disney}} in 2007, it centered on users' personal penguin avatars, and their little lives. The game was somewhere in between a social network and a life simulation. Players could chat with other people, buy and care for a pet, buy clothes, buy and furnish your igloo, and even change the color of your little penguin avatar. All of this was paid for by little minigames you could play. Some games were competitions with other penguins, while some were solo games. However, most of the interesting things you could buy, you could get [[AllegedlyFreeGame only if you paid for your account]].
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* GameplayAndStorySegregations: Every official media of ''Club Penguin'' besides the main gameplay itself (such as the PSA missions, 2D shorts, stop-motion specials, and even the artwork on the Club Penguin Times and main page of the website, for example) portrayed countless things that could not be reproduced in the game, or at least not precisely in the same way. Most notably, several pieces of artwork depict penguins playing mini-games, such as Aqua-Grabber and Ice Fishing, while wearing their pieces of clothing, which was not possible in the actual game.

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* GameplayAndStorySegregations: GameplayAndStorySegregation: Every official media of ''Club Penguin'' besides the main gameplay itself (such as the PSA missions, 2D shorts, stop-motion specials, and even the artwork on the Club Penguin Times and main page of the website, for example) portrayed countless things that could not be reproduced in the game, or at least not precisely in the same way. Most notably, several pieces of artwork depict penguins playing mini-games, such as Aqua-Grabber and Ice Fishing, while wearing their pieces of clothing, which was not possible in the actual game.
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* GoKartingWithBowser: In the Normal mode of ''Smoothie Smash'', Herbert is among the mascots who can appear ordering a smoothie for the player.
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* GameplayAndStorySegregations: Every official media of ''Club Penguin'' besides the main gameplay itself (such as the PSA missions, 2D shorts, stop-motion specials, and even the artwork on the Club Penguin Times and main page of the website, for example) portrayed countless things that could not be reproduced in the game, or at least not precisely in the same way. To name just one example, one PSA mission has two penguins competing who's puffle is more skilled, and one of their puffles ends up blowing a bubblegum that gets both of them stuck together.

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* GameplayAndStorySegregations: Every official media of ''Club Penguin'' besides the main gameplay itself (such as the PSA missions, 2D shorts, stop-motion specials, and even the artwork on the Club Penguin Times and main page of the website, for example) portrayed countless things that could not be reproduced in the game, or at least not precisely in the same way. To name just one example, one PSA mission has two Most notably, several pieces of artwork depict penguins competing who's puffle is more skilled, playing mini-games, such as Aqua-Grabber and one of Ice Fishing, while wearing their puffles ends up blowing a bubblegum that gets both pieces of them stuck together.clothing, which was not possible in the actual game.
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* GameplayAndStorySegregations: Every official media of ''Club Penguin'' besides the main gameplay itself (such as the PSA missions, 2D shorts, stop-motion specials, and even the artwork on the Club Penguin Times and main page of the website, for example) portrayed countless things that could not be reproduced in the game, or at least not precisely in the same way. To name just one example, one PSA mission has two penguins competing who's puffle is more skilled, and one of their puffles ends up blowing a bubblegum that gets both of them stuck together.
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* FurryConfusion: According to Chris Hendricks, one of the main reasons why the game never had a Thanksgiving Party was to avoid this trope [[note]]The other reason is that international players either celebrated Thanksgiving in different months, or didn't celebrate it at all, depending where they were from[[/note]]. He noted that eating turkey is a staple of Thanksgiving, but portraying penguins eating another species of avian could potentially raise several questions, in a similar vein to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and his nephews eating poultry despite being birds themselves.
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* FrothyMugsOfWater: Rockhopper's favorite drink, Cream Soda, seems to be meant as a stand-in for beer. He stores the drink in several barrels around his ship, and drinks it in sparkling mugs.
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* YouMeanXmas: ''Club Penguin'' traditionally held a Christmas Party (later renamed to Holiday Party in 2009) every year since its founding in 2005. However, in 2014 they instead held the [[https://clubpenguin.fandom.com/wiki/Merry_Walrus_Party Merry Walrus Party]], themed around the titular Santa Claus-like figure who delivers presents around the world to everyone, regardless whether they have been naughty or nice. The Holiday Party returned the next year and continued until ''Club Penguin'' closed in 2017. Merry Walrus himself did return after December 25, 2015 during the 2015 Holiday Party to give out a free Deluxe Gingerbread House to all players.

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* YouMeanXmas: ''Club Penguin'' traditionally held a Christmas Party (later renamed to Holiday Party in 2009) 2009 [[note]]Although in the Portuguese version, the "Christmas" name of the party was only altered in 2012, while the other languages simply mantained it until the end[[/note]]) every year since its founding in 2005. However, in 2014 they instead held the [[https://clubpenguin.fandom.com/wiki/Merry_Walrus_Party Merry Walrus Party]], themed around the titular Santa Claus-like figure who delivers presents around the world to everyone, regardless whether they have been naughty or nice. The Holiday Party returned the next year and continued until ''Club Penguin'' closed in 2017. Merry Walrus himself did return after December 25, 2015 during the 2015 Holiday Party to give out a free Deluxe Gingerbread House to all players.
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Added example(s): One-Word Vocabulary. In addition, this is ostensibly the first SG&GG:HU trope on the page! (edit performed April 3 2024, 12:00 PM)

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* OneWordVocabulary: Subverted. Webnark, the lost sea monster from the final act of ''Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal: Heroes Unite'', seems to only be capable of saying "Glabook," but as it turns out when Shadow Guy gets his attention, he is perfectly capable of speaking Penguin; Glabook is his ''friend''.
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* AdaptedOut: During the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' event, the HSS fraternity aren't mentioned at all, nor were they a joinable team for the event.

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** In ''Club Penguin Island'', Paige (the Puffle Handler) never got to make any appearance whatsoever, since the game was shut down before the puffles were introduced. Similarly, many other characters from the classic version do not appear here, such as the Penguin Band, Sensei, Ultimate Protobot, Tusk, and Merry Walrus, [[spoiler:although the credits shown in the goodbye party do feature cameos of Sensei and Franky]].
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During the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' event, the HSS fraternity aren't mentioned at all, nor were they a joinable team for the event.


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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In 2014, the team started introducing loads of new puffles. For people who wanted to adopt all or many of them, but didn't have time to take care of each one, the Backyard feature was introduced: it was a private area used as an extension of the player's igloo, but meant exclusively for puffles. All the puffles' stats were frozen while they were at the backyard.
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* SecretRoom: The Iceberg, Dojo and Mine Shack all started out as this; they weren't acessible by any other rooms at the island, and were discreetly hidden at the map; the mouse pointer would change to a hand, but the rooms' names wouldn't show up unlike the rest of the rooms' did. Eventually averted with the latter two, with the Iceberg being the only room which remained fitting this criteria (although it was more of an OpenSecret at most).
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* VillainDecay: Herbert was once portrayed as an actually dangerous and menacing villain. In "Operation: Blackout" from 2012, he goes to the extent to kidnapping the EPF agents, blocking out the sun and almost ruling the island for good, with the player having to do some considerable effort throughout several weeks to be able to defeat him and save the island. Fast forward to "Operation Tri: umph" in 2016, where the mission to defeat him is just completing a relatively simple maze... and then ''pulling out a plug''.
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** For several years, Puffles were portrayed as only being able to emit a squeaking sound, as heard on "Puffle Roundup". However, after the redesign, they started instead being portrayed as speaking through saying noises.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Rockhopper's cream soda. One of the main reasons he comes back to the island is to buy barrels of it for his ship.

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Rockhopper's cream soda. One of the main reasons he comes back to the island is to buy barrels of it for his ship.ship.
** Since August 2013, each puffle had an assigned favorite food to them, all listed on the Puffle Handbook.
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* PropellerHatOfWhimsy:
** Rookie, the most immature, goofy, and cheerful of the secret agents, is always seen with a propeller cap.
** Green puffles are zany and like to goof around. One of their favourite toys is the propeller cap, which they can actually use to fly.

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