History VideoGame / CookieClicker

%% (Zero context example)* CelestialBody: Antimatter Grandmas.
%% (Trope-slashing is forbidden)* CelestialParagonsAndArchangels / DemonLordsAndArchdevils: The heavenly upgrades based around boosting your CPS while the game is closed are named after these; the upgrades that boost the optimal CPS have angelic names (Seraphim, Cherubim, Archangels, etc.), while the ones that increase how long you maintain optimal CPS have demonic ones (Lucifer, Satan, Asmodeus, etc.).

* CelestialBody: Antimatter Grandmas.
* CelestialParagonsAndArchangels / DemonLordsAndArchdevils: The heavenly upgrades based around boosting your CPS while the game is closed are named after these; the upgrades that boost the optimal CPS have angelic names (Seraphim, Cherubim, Archangels, etc.), while the ones that increase how long you maintain optimal CPS have demonic ones (Lucifer, Satan, Asmodeus, etc.).

* CelestialParagonsAndArchangels / DemonLordsAndArchdevils: The heavenly upgrades based around boosting your CPS while the game is closed are named after these; the upgrades that boost the optimal CPS have angelic names, while the ones that increase how long you maintain optimal CPS have demonic ones.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: There's actually very little antimatter in the universe, so the Antimatter Condensers probably wouldn't be sustainable for very long.

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* EasterEgg: The Label Maker ascension upgrade lists the names of the different tiers for upgrades that have different tiers, like "buttergold" and "mooncandy." This also includes "synergy I" and "synergy II," for the upgrades unlocked with the respective ascension upgrades. There's one last "tier" that exists - the Label Maker itself has the tier "self-referential."

** As of 2.031, the second (now third) most powerful building is the Javascript Console, which creates cookies from the game's own code.

** As of 2.031, the second most powerful building is the Javascript Console, which creates cookies from the game's own code.

* BlessedWithSuck: Frenzy and similar buffs greatly increase your cookie production for a short period which after upgrades can be several minutes long. A great thing unless you are trying to decide what upgrades to by based on the production they grant, or if you want to plant things, as the cost of planting scales with your production rate. After upgrading your golden cookies enough, periods outside of a frenzy can be rarer than those inside a frenzy and you may find yourself wishing they would just go away for a little bit so you could plan your upgrades in peace.

** A lengthy example with the increasingly fantastical cookie-generation devices: first you can buy extra mouse cursors, then cookie-baking grandmas, followed by cookie farms, factories, mines, and banks. After that, it gets weirder: ancient cookie temples, cookie-wizards, rocketships to the cookie planet, alchemy labs (to turn gold into cookies), portals to the Cookieverse, time machines, and antimatter condensers. Then one of the later cookie constructors, coming just before a device that spontaneously generates cookies by manipulating probability and another that creates more cookies from preexisting cookies, is… a prism. Maybe the developer is a Music/PinkFloyd fan. And then it goes back to weird items with the Fractal Engine, before finally returning to more mundane items with the Javascript Console. The penultimate building, the Idleverse, generates cookies from other idle games (or "universes", while the Cortex Baker goes back to the weird with their ability to think cookies into existence.

* BlessedWithSuck: Frenzy and similar buffs greatly increase your cookie production for a short period which after upgrades can be several minutes long. A great thing unless you are trying to decide what upgrades to by based on the production they grant, or if you want to plant things, as the cost of planting scales with your production rate. After upgrading your golden cookies enough, you may find yourself wishing they would just go away for a little bit so you could plan your upgrades in peace.

* 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 ([[SurpriseCreepy at least until the "Grandmapocalypse" event]]).

* HiveMind: Purchasing the One Mind upgrade is the catalyst for the grandmas to [[SurpriseCreepy take over]].

* SurpriseCreepy: The "grandmapocalypse" 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, and messages like highways of flesh carpeting your planet begin to flash in the news space. Unless you pay an ever increasing number of cookies to get rid of it temporarily, or reduce your cookies/second rate to get rid of it permanently.
--> ''"You could have stopped it."''
** There's hints beforehand, as once you get at least 50 grandmas, even if you haven't started the Grandmapocalypse, their occasional comments start to morph from kindly sentiments to disgust at you and declarations that "we rise".

* SuperOCD: One news ticker item claims [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall this is the reason behind your building decisions]], rather than any sort of business sense. Given what you need to do for some of the achievements, this is most likely true.

** One of the possible news ticker headlines is "minor cookie-related incident turns whole town to ashes; neighboring cities asked to ''chip'' in for reconstruction. "

** Another achievement is earned by clicking on the headlines enough times to cycle through several of them. The flavor text of the achievement discusses this, of course, in the style of yet another headline.

!!The ''Dungeon Beta'' contained examples of:

* AnthropomorphicFood: Much of what you face in the dungeons.
* ApologeticAttacker: Doe, if she's the one who defeats the Ascended Baking Pod.
* FragileSpeedster: Doe, one of the girl scouts.
* GenkiGirl: Lucky, another of the girl scouts.
* TheGoomba: Doughlings.
* JackOfAllStats: Chip, another girl scout.
* MightyGlacier: Crumb, although she's focused more on defense than offense.
* MetalSlime: Sugar Bunnies.
* OnlySaneMan: Crumb is far more down-to-earth than the other girl scouts.
* ShrinkingViolet: Doe.

* WaddlingHead: Doughlings and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient cookies]].

* {{Antimatter}}: Added in version 1.036 is the Antimatter Condenser, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin condenses the antimatter of the universe into cookies]], according to the description.[[note]]Considering there isn't actually that much antimatter in the universe, it's possible Orteil's gotten antimatter confused with dark matter. Then again, the Cookie Clicker universe's physics don't seem to be very much like our own in any case.[[/note]]

** In Cookie Clicker Classic, the first kind you'll be encountering are [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160305231945/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 seizure-inducing 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.

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

--> News : cookie factories on strike - workers demand to stop being paid in cookies!
%% Quoted from http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/main.js?v=1.5070 %%

* NoFairCheating: Averted; there's even a shadow achievement for using a certain tricky method to directly modify the number of cookies on hand. The text does discourage it, though.[[note]]You can get the achievement without actually cheating by giving your bakery a name that ends in "saysopensesame". This grants the achievement even if you don't do anything with the dev tools it unlocks, and you can save and refresh the page to get rid of the dev tools.[[/note]]

%%* FragileSpeedster: Doe, one of the girl scouts.

* AnimalisticAbomination: During the Easter season, the way the Easter bunnies and their eggs are spoken about in the news tickers is positively [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-esque]], treating them as extradimensional, biologically senseless creatures who can infiltrate any and every place without anything impeding them just to leave their eggs.

* BilingualBonus: The lines of text representing Javascript Consoles on the buildings screen actually reads "Cookie Clicker"[[labelnote:note]]クッキークリッカー[[/note]] in japanese katakana.

* BilingualBonus: The lines of text representing Javascript Consoles on the buildings screen actually reads "Cookie Clicker"[[labelnote]]クッキークリッカー[[/note]] in japanese katakana.

-.> ''A different grandma to bake something else.''

* AlliterativeTitle: The game's title.

** A lengthy example with the increasingly fantastical cookie-generation devices: first you can buy extra mouse cursors, then cookie-baking grandmas, followed by cookie farms, factories, mines, and banks. After that, it gets weirder: ancient cookie temples, cookie-wizards, rocketships to the cookie planet, alchemy labs (to turn gold into cookies), portals to the Cookieverse, time machines, and antimatter condensers. Then one of the later cookie constructors, coming just before a device that spontaneously generates cookies by manipulating probability and another that creates more cookies from preexisting cookies, is… a prism. Maybe the developer is a Music/PinkFloyd fan. And then it goes back to weird items with the Fractal Engine, before finally returning to more mundane items with the Javascript Console. The (formerly) final building, the Idleverse, generates cookies from other idle games.

** The Zebra Cookies upgrade was the result of zebras constantly being referenced on the forums. People had zebra profile pictures, zebra-related names, and requested something related to zebras.
* AuthorAppeal: White chocolate macadamia nut cookies. The flavor text for their upgrade even describes them as "Orteil's Favorite".

* GoodLuckCharm: The Chancemaker, added in 2.0042, creates cookies from thin air out of ''sheer luck''.