History VideoGame / FullThrottle

* "Music/RideOfTheValkyries": Clearing the minefield, featuring a fantastic contradiction between a full orchestra and a cheap pink, plinky-plonk synthetic ''bunnies''.

* CoolOldGuy: Father Torque; but you can't beat Malcolm Corley. [[TalkingToHimself Both of whom are voiced by the same guy!]]

* InstantlyProvenWrong: Ben's sabotage Ripburger's presentation is perfectly timed to undermine what Ripburger's saying at the time: his "vision for Corley Motors" is the company burning away to nothing (as Ben sets the projector on fire) and his "more aggressive corporate strategy" is him beating Malcolm to death (as Ben switches out the slideshow with damning evidence).

* FiveFingerDiscount: Ben is forced to do this in the souvenir shot.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Ben knows that Maureen needs all of her time focused on the company. While there's definitely a spark between them -- Maureen sighs when she sees Ben is gone -- but for Corley Motors to survive, Maureen needs to be focused on it, not romance.]]

* StylisticSuck: "Increased Chances," the deliberately-terrible country song in a game that loves its rock music, listened to by an unpleasant and [[spoiler: thieving]] redneck, is hilarious in all the best ways, from the either lacking or lazy rhyme schemes to the subject matter (thanking God for the nuclear apocalypse because the mass death makes his crush marginally more likely to requite his affections), to the slow sickly tune, to the utterly unnecessary second verse entirely consisting of yodeling. The remake had it playing in the pause screen bar.

* TabletopRPG: A fan created a ''TabletopGame/{{FUDGE}}''-based [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170323191806/http://www.reocities.com/Area51/Dimension/4258/02FullThrottle/files/Full_Throttle_Rules.PDF ruleset]] to play ''FT'' in tabletop format.

* BadassBiker: Ben displays his badassitude early in the game when interrogating Quohog the bartender.
-->'''Ben:''' ''(referring to Quohog's nose ring)'' You know what might look better on your nose?\\

* BagOfSpilling: Ben throws away the bizarre arsenal he accumulates in the mine road segment before jumping the gorge. Like he says afterward, it was a hell of a jump and he had to get rid of extra weight.
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:When Ben jumps onto his chopper and rides out of the crashing plane, the game does a FadeToWhite, cutting to a funeral, making it seem as if Ben were the deceased and being honored. It isn't until Father Torque starts talking about how the dead gave them freedom that Ben is revealed to be one of the mourners, and the funeral is for Malcolm Corley.]]

* BikerBabe: The Vultures have several of these as members, [[spoiler:one of whom is Maureen]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Invoked with the Corley Motors "Can't Beat A Corley" slogan. The first time the player hears it is from the souvenir shopkeeper, who comments on the now current morbidity of it considering the manner of Corley's murder. Turns into the KarmicDeath moment later as seen below.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Invoked with the "Can't Beat A Corley" slogan. Turns into the KarmicDeath moment later as seen below.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: "Sometimes you gotta steal a ramp from a bunch of cold-hearted killers who live in a secret cave."

* ExactWords: When you first meet Maureen, she says you could call her shop a Corley facility ([[spoiler:because she's Corley's daughter]]). She also prefers to call it a "renegade" operation rather than an illegitimate one ([[spoiler:because she's Corley's ''[[BastardAngst illegitimate]]'' [[BastardAngst daughter]]]])

* OnlyOneName: Ben's last name is never given during the game. The [[AllThereInTheManual manual calls him Ben Whatsisname]], (though that's probably a joke) while Tim Schafer [[WordOfGod says his last name is]] [[CharacterTitle Throttle]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Ripburger falls to his death in the gorge after a license plate he was holding onto breaks off.]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Ben has the pictures of Ripburger gleefully murdering Malcolm Corley play during his stockholder's speech.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Malcolm Corley]] is beaten to death by [[spoiler:Ripburger]]. A Corley employee later tells Ben this is ironic because [[spoiler:the Corley Motors slogan is "Can't beat a Corley."]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Ripburger falls to his death into a gorge after a license plate he was holding onto breaks at the end of the game.]]

-->'''Corley''': I know your plan, Ripburger. You're waiting for me to die so you can take over my company!
-->'''Ripburger''': ''(chuckling)'' Sir, that's horrible... I am ''not'' waiting for you to die!

* MotorcycleJousting: Occurs as a minigame.

Like ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' and ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', it got a [[UpdatedRerelease remastered version]], courtesy of [[Creator/DoubleFine Double Fine Productions]].

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Ben has the pictures of Ripburger gleefully murdering Malcolm Corley during his stockholder's speech.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Most characters' eyes are squinted, narrowed and in shadow for the majority of their appearance on-screen. The remastered version's commentary track says it was a deliberate effort to channel Creator/ClintEastwood's squint (and just so happened to be easier to animate, particularly when dealing with the pixel art of the original release).

** As a subsidiary of Creator/{{Lucasfilm}}, there's a few ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]]:

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[CardCarryingVillain Ripbuger]] acts courteous even when he's killing Malcolm. He also claims that [[BlatantLies he mourned Malcolm's death during his lecture]].