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** [[SurpriseCreepy Not played for laughs anymore]] if you choose to trigger the "grandmapocalypse" endgame event.


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* SurpriseCreepy: The "grandmapocalypse" endgame event totally throws out the lighthearted PlayedForLaughs feel of the game that dominated up until now. The background turns to a slowly distorting [[BodyHorror and melting]] portrait of the grandmas, messages like highways of flesh carpeting your planet begin to flash in the news space, and once you purchase the "One mind" triggering upgrade, it ''cannot be reversed.''
--> ''"You could have stopped it."''

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* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: The prices are pretty low at the start of the game. There are minor increases whenever you buy more of each building, but nothing too major. But then it gets to where the increases are jumps of hundreds of millions of cookies at a time...



--> ''"A local news station runs a 10-minute segment about your cookies. Success! [[subscript: (You get a cookie)]]"''

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--> ''"A local news station runs a 10-minute segment about your cookies. Success! [[subscript: (You get win a cookie)]]"''



* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Cookie Overlord from the Future more like.



* CuteKitten: The Kitten Helpers, Workers, and Engineers. They're even said to walk around with tiny hardhats outside the factories.



* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Kitten Workers and Engineers upgrades, which increase cookie output exponentially as the player nears OneHundredPercentCompletion. These are also, unsurprisingly, the most difficult upgrades to purchase; the former requires close to one trillion cookies, and the latter requires ''several'' trillion cookies.

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* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Formerly, the Kitten Workers and Engineers upgrades, which increase increased cookie output exponentially as the player nears OneHundredPercentCompletion. These are also, unsurprisingly, the most difficult upgrades to purchase; the former requires close to one trillion cookies, neared OneHundredPercentCompletion, and the latter requires ''several'' trillion cookies.both required an insane number of cookies to purchase. Their effects have since been nerfed, however; they still help immensely, but they're not as much of a GameBreaker now.



* RidiculousFutureInflation: The item prices always increase at a steady rate, but with how often you're going to be buying said items, the gross increase between successive copies becomes rather outrageous (never mind the actual value of buying something as menial as a Cursor or Grandma).



* WorthlessYellowRocks: One of the status updates mentions a defective alchemy lab that was "found to turn cookies into useless gold."

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* WorthlessYellowRocks: One of the status updates mentions a defective alchemy lab that was "found to turn cookies into useless gold.""
* {{Zeerust}}: The [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/timegrandma time machine grandmas]] in the classic version only were a clear nod to this. [[DummiedOut 1.031 and beyond features pilgrim grandmas instead.]]
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* BlatantLies: What are the Underworld Ovens and other eldritch devices you unlock powered by? "Science, of course!"
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* RidiculousFutureInflation: The item prices always increase at a steady rate, but with how often you're going to be buying said items, the gross increase between successive copies becomes rather outrageous (never mind the actual value of buying something as menial as a Cursor or Grandma).
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* AlchemyIsMagic: In this game, they turn ''gold'' into cookies.
* AnthropomorphicFood: Soon, your cookies will come to life and think:

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* AlchemyIsMagic: In this game, they you can turn ''gold'' into cookies.
* AnthropomorphicFood: Soon, your cookies will come to life and think:think.
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* BodyHorror: As of V1.031, portal grandmas are twisted flesh with glowing eyes and gaping mouths.
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* AnthropomorphicFood: Soon your cookies will come to life and think:

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* AnthropomorphicFood: Soon Soon, your cookies will come to life and think:
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* WhatTheHellPlayer: Buildings can be sold when not needed. Problem is, grandmas also count as buildings. Selling one of ''them'' unlocks the [[SickAndWrong Just Wrong]] achievement.

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* WhatTheHellPlayer: Buildings can be sold when not needed. Problem is, grandmas also count as buildings. Selling one of ''them'' unlocks the [[SickAndWrong Just Wrong]] achievement.achievement.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: One of the status updates mentions a defective alchemy lab that was "found to turn cookies into useless gold."
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* TheWikiRule: There's already [[http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Clicker_Wiki a wiki]] for this game even though it's still in its infancy.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The next to last message in the game, after awakening elder gods from the whole cosmos, causing alternate dimensions to poof into existance just to get a taste, and causing everything in the universe to turn into cookie dough to the molecular level?

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The next to last message in the game, after awakening elder gods from the whole cosmos, causing alternate dimensions to poof into existance existence just to get a taste, and causing everything in the universe to turn into cookie dough to the molecular level?

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The factories are all run by these. And, well... the player also applies.
* CrapsackWorld: As you advance, your home planet will be plagued with chocolate weather, collapsing mines, chocolate floods, a national gold crisis, city-swallowing portals, highly abusive labor plants, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and an uprising of grandmothers]]. This is all PlayedForLaughs in the message section.



* FlavorText: Most of the upgrades feature this.



* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Kitten Workers and Engineers upgrades, which increase cookie output exponentially as the player nears OneHundredPercentCompletion. These are also, unsurprisingly, the most difficult upgrades to purchase; the former requires close to one trillion cookies, and the latter requires ''several'' trillion cookies.



* NeverMessWithGranny: Specially if she's an [[TheOldGods Elder God]] or an EldritchAbomination from the Cookieverse.

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* NeverMessWithGranny: Specially if she's an [[TheOldGods Elder God]] or an EldritchAbomination from the Cookieverse. Or if there are fifty of them, and they're overworked and pissed off.
* PlanetHeck: The "Cookieverse" is pretty thinly-disguised. Many of the cookie amounts involving the portals include the NumberOfTheBeast, and one of the upgrades is even called [[DealWithTheDevil Soul Bond]].



* TheWikiRule: There's already [[http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Clicker_Wiki a wiki]] for this game even though it's still in its infancy.

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* TheWikiRule: There's already [[http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Clicker_Wiki a wiki]] for this game even though it's still in its infancy.infancy.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: Buildings can be sold when not needed. Problem is, grandmas also count as buildings. Selling one of ''them'' unlocks the [[SickAndWrong Just Wrong]] achievement.
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** The "Flux Capacitors" Time Machine upgrade is a pretty obvious reference to Bake To The Future....I mean Film/BackToTheFuture.

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** The "Flux Capacitors" Time Machine upgrade is a pretty obvious reference to Bake To The Future....I mean Film/BackToTheFuture. Film/BackToTheFuture.
** One of the achievements is titled "VideoGame/QuantumConundrum".
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--> A local news station runs a 10-minute segment about your cookies. Success! (You get a cookie)

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--> A ''"A local news station runs a 10-minute segment about your cookies. Success! [[subscript: (You get a cookie)cookie)]]"''
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The next to last message in the game, after awakening elder gods from the whole cosmos, causing alternate dimensions to poof into existance just to get a taste, and causing everything in the universe to turn into cookie dough to the molecular level?
--> A local news station runs a 10-minute segment about your cookies. Success! (You get a cookie)


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* FridgeHorror: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] repeatedly in-universe with the "news" messages.


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* SerialEscalation: Your cookies spread throughout the town, the country, the planet, the dimensions, and into every last molecule in the universe.
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** The "Flux Capacitors" Time Machine upgrade is a pretty obvious reference to Bake To The Future....I mean Film/BackToTheFuture.
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** The "Ultimadrill" upgrade's accompanying quote is a reference to Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann:
--> "Pierce the heavens, etc."
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* ShoutOut: There are plenty of pop culture references in the game. Most of which come from the status update box.
** One cookie milestone in particular is referencing the Milkshake song by Kelis:
--> ''"Your cookies brings all the boys to the yard."''
** The [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/img/grandmaIcon.png Grandma icon]] and another status update quote is referencing an [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lna1yzB9Jg1qlktl7o1_400.jpg image macro meme]] based on the movie Film/TheMasterOfDisguise:
--> ''"Moist cookies."''
--->-Grandma
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* AnthropomorphicFood: Soon your cookies will come to life and think:
-->''"Your cookies have achieved sentience."''
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* GlobalCurrency: Cookies, besides being used in practically everything, are also used as a form of currency though not everyone agrees, especially the factory workers which were replaced by robots later on.
%%I'll be researching for the "paid in cookies" and "replaced by robots" quotes. In the meantime this stays here as a placeholder. If you know the quotes then replace this with the quotes. In proper format of course.%%
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* CoolOldLady: Considering the majority of your workforce are comprised of elderly women. Doing everything including the mass production of cookies, interplanetary and extradimensional trade, mining, farming, alchemy and even time travel theft, they've proven their coolness 10 times over.
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* CloudCuckooLand: Everything in the game's universe revolves around cookies. Even more so if you play long enough.

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* GoldenSuperMode: The [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/goldengrandma Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of the classic Grandmas.



* GrayGoo: One of the later status updates

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* GoldenSuperMode: The [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/goldengrandma Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of the classic Grandmas.

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* GoldenSuperMode: The GrowsOnTrees: Besides mining cookies from the ground, you can also "grow" cookies from a cookie plant via [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/goldengrandma Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of org/cookieclicker/img/farmIcon.png cookie farms]][[note]]which was introduced in v1.0[[/note]]. Not exactly a tree per se initially though you will eventually have actual cookie bearing trees once the classic Grandmas.Cookie Trees upgrade has been unlocked.


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* LevelAte: Play the game long enough and you will eventually turn ''everything'' in the game's universe into cookies and any conceivable concept will always be about cookies in one way or another. From culture and lifestyle down to the molecular level.
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-->''"The universe is now composed of cookie dough"''

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-->''"The universe is now composed of has turned into cookie dough"''dough, to the molecular level."''
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* GrayGoo: One of the later status updates
-->'''"The universe is now composed of cookie dough"'''
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[[http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ Version 1.0]] is now out and is on a new website together with improved graphics and more features.
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* CoolGate: The [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130810044458/cookieclicker/images/9/9b/Portal_ingame.png portal]]; one of the high-tier upgrades you can purchase. It will open a path to the Cookieverse and unlock the [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044737/cookieclicker/images/9/9a/DemonGrandma.png Portal Grandma]]. Side effects include [[TheOldGods the Elder Gods]] nagging and tormenting you periodically for a cookie pledge.

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* CoolGate: The [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130810044458/cookieclicker/images/9/9b/Portal_ingame.png [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/portal portal]]; one of the high-tier upgrades you can purchase. It will open a path to the Cookieverse and unlock the [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044737/cookieclicker/images/9/9a/DemonGrandma.png [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/portalgrandma Portal Grandma]]. Side effects include [[TheOldGods the Elder Gods]] nagging and tormenting you periodically for a cookie pledge.



* EldritchAbomination: The first kind you'll be encountering are [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044737/cookieclicker/images/9/9a/DemonGrandma.png these things]] once you've purchased your first Portal. They will join your workforce of Grandmas in random amounts. The second one you'll encounter once you've made a lot of cookies are the [[TheOldGods Elder Gods]] that will appear in the background as shivering and flashing faces. They will continue to torment you with their seirure enducing effect until you pay tribute to them in cookies. In return they'll boost your Grandmas production speed. They'll be back eventually demanding an even larger amount of cookies next time.
* GrannyClassic: The first kind of [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130809204157/cookieclicker/images/8/8f/Grandma.png grandma]] you'll encounter in the game. It's even in the description:

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* EldritchAbomination: The first kind you'll be encountering are [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044737/cookieclicker/images/9/9a/DemonGrandma.png [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/portalgrandma these things]] once you've purchased your first Portal. They will join your workforce of Grandmas in random amounts. The second one you'll encounter once you've made a lot of cookies are the [[TheOldGods Elder Gods]] that will appear in the background as shivering and flashing faces. They will continue to torment you with their seirure enducing effect until you pay tribute to them in cookies. In return they'll boost your Grandmas production speed. They'll be back eventually demanding an even larger amount of cookies next time.
* GrannyClassic: The first kind of [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130809204157/cookieclicker/images/8/8f/Grandma.png [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/grandma grandma]] you'll encounter in the game. It's even in the description:



* GoldenSuperMode: The [[ Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of the classic Grandmas.

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* GoldenSuperMode: The [[ [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/goldengrandma Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of the classic Grandmas.



* RubberForeheadAliens: The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044736/cookieclicker/images/c/cb/AlienGrandma.png Shipment Grandmas]] are basically like the original Grandmas but with larger foreheads, extra legs and are purple.

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* RubberForeheadAliens: The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044736/cookieclicker/images/c/cb/AlienGrandma.png [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/shipmentgrandma Shipment Grandmas]] are basically like the original Grandmas but with larger foreheads, extra legs and are purple.

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* CoolGate: The [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130810044458/cookieclicker/images/9/9b/Portal_ingame.png portal]]; one of the high-tier upgrades you can purchase. It will open a path to the Cookieverse and unlock the [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044737/cookieclicker/images/9/9a/DemonGrandma.png Portal Grandma]]. Side effects include [[TheOldGods the Elder Gods]] nagging and tormenting you periodically for a cookie pledge.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Cookie Overlord from the Future more like.



* GoldenSuperMode: The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044736/cookieclicker/images/2/2d/GoldGrandma.png Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of the classic Grandmas.

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* GoldenSuperMode: The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044736/cookieclicker/images/2/2d/GoldGrandma.png [[ Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of the classic Grandmas.


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* TimeMachine: The final upgrade you'll be able to purchase (as of version 0.125) which initially cost 123,456,789 cookies. No really.
* TimeTravel: Complete with [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/timemachine.png time machines]] and [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/timegrandma time travelling grandmas]].
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->''"You feel like making cookies. But nobody wants to eat your cookies."''
-->--''The first message you'll see until you reach the first cookie milestone.''

'''[[http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/ Cookie Clicker]]''' is an IdleGame created by one Orteil as part of his [[http://orteil.dashnet.org/ many ]] experimental games. The goal of the game is simple; You start out with the clickable cookie itself. One click from it produces one cookie. Once you've accumulated enough cookies you'll be able to purchase upgrades so you'll be able to produce even more cookies faster. Soon you won't even need to click the cookie manually as your upgrades will be doing the job for you. Then things gradually get weirder and weirder from there as things such as an army of cookie baking grandmas, mining cookie ingredients from cookie mines, sending out an armada spacecraft to the cookie planet, opening portals to the Cookieverse and summoning {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to bake even ''more'' cookies for you, travel through time and space to steal cookies from the past and even the [[TheOldGods Elder Gods]] coming to you demanding a tribute of cookies from you lest you incur their wrath.

!!''Cookie Clicker'' contains examples of:
* AlchemyIsMagic: In this game, they turn ''gold'' into cookies.
* ArtisticLicenseGeology: Mining cookie dough and chocolate chips out of the ground? Sure why not?
* EldritchAbomination: The first kind you'll be encountering are [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044737/cookieclicker/images/9/9a/DemonGrandma.png these things]] once you've purchased your first Portal. They will join your workforce of Grandmas in random amounts. The second one you'll encounter once you've made a lot of cookies are the [[TheOldGods Elder Gods]] that will appear in the background as shivering and flashing faces. They will continue to torment you with their seirure enducing effect until you pay tribute to them in cookies. In return they'll boost your Grandmas production speed. They'll be back eventually demanding an even larger amount of cookies next time.
* GrannyClassic: The first kind of [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130809204157/cookieclicker/images/8/8f/Grandma.png grandma]] you'll encounter in the game. It's even in the description:
-->''"A nice grandma to bake more cookies."''
* GoldenSuperMode: The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044736/cookieclicker/images/2/2d/GoldGrandma.png Alchemy Grandmas]] are basically golden super versions of the classic Grandmas.
* IdleGame
* NeverMessWithGranny: Specially if she's an [[TheOldGods Elder God]] or an EldritchAbomination from the Cookieverse.
* TheOldGods: The Elder Gods who become more erratic and deformed as you ignore their demands.
* RubberForeheadAliens: The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130818044736/cookieclicker/images/c/cb/AlienGrandma.png Shipment Grandmas]] are basically like the original Grandmas but with larger foreheads, extra legs and are purple.
* TheWikiRule: There's already [[http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Clicker_Wiki a wiki]] for this game even though it's still in its infancy.

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