History VideoGame / HenryStickminSeries

** Dmitri in ''Complex''… though the "hero" part is questionable, considering his treatment of prisoners in general.
** This trope also applies to pretty much all the police officers, security guards, and museum guards that oppose Henry during the games, since all of them are just people doing their job, namely preventing Henry from committing crimes.

* HistoryRepeats: Inspecting the bios of Terrence Suave (the Toppat leader before Reginald) in the ''Collection'' reveals that the Executive/Ghost route of ''Mission'' isn't the first time Reginald toppled a leader for their indignant behavior, which may partially be why he's genuinely ''furious'' at Henry in the intro.

* {{Invisibility}}: In ''Diamond'', Henry takes a pill that turns him invisible, [[DidntThinkThisThrough which makes him lose sight]] and fall off the building. In the Collection version, he simply disappears without anyone knowing where he went... including the game, which gives it a FAIL.

* JustJokingJustification: Discussed in ''Diamond'', where the FAIL screen suggests to do this after Henry's failed attempt to use one of the guns in the museum on the guards.

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** The Executive/Betrayed route of ''Mission'' has two:

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* NostalgiaLevel: One section of ''Mission'' is basically a remastered version of ''Crossing the Pit'', the animation that effectively served as a prototype to the entire series.

* PetTheDog: If he chooses to free Dave, the trapped guard in ''Airship''. It's particularly noteworthy since Henry doesn't benefit in any noticeable way from helping him escape. There's also the more obvious example of helping Ellie escape in ''Complex'', instead of leaving her behind.

** In the Government/Allies route of ''Mission'', Ellie is recruited alongside Henry to help Charles with the Toppats again, as repayment for Charles picking them up after they escaped from the Wall.

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->[[TheStinger FAIL]]\\

** Over the course of the games, Henry goes from a guy who got caught robbing a bank to a thief whose exploits include breaking out of jail, stealing a giant rare diamond, taking down or taking over a massive criminal organization, and escaping one of the most well-guarded prisons in the world.

* BattleCouple: Henry and Ellie certainly come off as this during the route to the "Convict Allies" ending in ''Complex'', as well as the four routes of ''Mission'' that split off from that ending, although they aren't actually a couple beside a few ShipTease moments here and there.

* {{Intangibility}}: ''Prison'' features a device that makes Henry intangible. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it malfunctions — and by "malfunctions", we mean "[[RequiredSecondaryPowers works exactly as advertised]]" — and causes Henry to fall to the center of the earth.]]

* JustOneMoreLevel: One of the Fails in ''Airship'' has Henry looking up a computer for information, only to get caught playing ''[[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} Civilization V]].''

** The Thief route of ''Airship'' starts with a stealthy infiltration of the airship's vault, but then Henry sets off an alarm, the government launches an all-out attack on the airship, and chaos ensues.
** The Allies route of ''Complex'' starts with Henry and Ellie stealthily sneaking out through the storage room... and then Henry accidentally opens all the cells and causes a prisonwide riot.

** The Walkthrough FAIL in ''Mission'' is one towards Youtubers who spend more time plugging sponsors and their social media pages instead of actually playing the game, don't pay attention to the game's details (the in-game player can't even be bothered to remember Charles and Ellie's names), and go on tangents that add nothing helpful to what's supposed to be a walkthrough.

** The Walkthrough FAIL in ''Mission'' is one towards Youtubers that spend all the time plugging sponsors and their social media pages instead of actually playing the game, don't pay attention to the game's details (the player doesn't even know Charles and Ellie's names), and go on tangents that add nothing helpful to what's supposed to be a walkthrough.

** The Walkthrough FAIL in ''Mission'' is one towards Youtubers that spend all the time plugging sponsors and their social media pages instead of actually playing the game.

** Truer to the trope, the ''Collection'' series has an issue with crashing every so often if played in fullscreen mode. The developers were actually aware of this, as the game starts in windowed mode by default and you'll get a warning about potential crashes if you try to switch to fullscreen mode. The way the game is structured, however, the worst case is if it crashes in the middle of a longer cutscene after a selection, forcing you back to the previous choice. (God help you if it crashes after you've picked "Walkthrough" in the ''Executive/Dead'' route of ''Mission''.)

* CartoonCheese: In ''Diamond'', Henry can eat a classic cartoon cheese. For some reasons, it counts as a fail even if nothing bad happens to him.

** How and why did Dave Panpa end up in a cell of the Top Hat Clan's Airship?

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Prison''. Using the jetpack on the roof causes it to sputter out and the FAIL screen comes up, then it starts to work and propels Henry upward… but it's so uncontrollable that Henry crashes back into the prison, bringing up the ''real'' FAIL screen.
** At the climax of Complex’s Dead ending, [[spoiler:the player is given a [[PressXToNotDie quick-time event]]. For every other quick-time event in the game, doing nothing leads to a FAIL. Here, no choice works [=FAILs=][[note]][[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Warp Star]] sends him [[WhereItAllBegan to West Mesa]], Airbags sends him plummeting to his death, and Surrender lands him in maximum security back at The Wall[[/note]]. The correct option is to do nothing and let [[ArcVillain Dimtri]] kick the truck off the cliff, where it is revealed you survived.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Subverted during the Ghost Inmate route in ''Complex''. The game claims "Ellie will remember that" when Henry abandons her after she helps him out. She never appears again during that route. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted in the Executive/Ghost route of ''Mission'', where she returns for revenge.]]

* BilingualBonus: The Japanese spoken by the RHM in the Executive/Betrayed route is laughably broken and unnatural, fittingly for ''Henry Stickmin''[='=]s AffectionateParody nature as a reference to the broken GratuitousEnglish of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''

* BilingualBonus: The Japanese spoken by the RHM in the Executive/Betrayed route is laughably broken and unnatural.

** At the climax of Complex’s Dead ending, [[spoiler:the player is given a [[PressXToNotDie quick-time event]]. For every other quick-time event in the game, doing nothing leads to a FAIL. Here, no choice works [=FAILs=][[note]][[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Warp Star]] sends him [[WhereItAllBegan to West Mesa]], Airbags sends him plummeting to his death, and Surrender [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome lands him in maximum security back at The Wall]][[/note]]. The correct option is to do nothing and let [[ArcVillain Dimtri]] kick the truck off the cliff, where it is revealed you survived.]]

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When Henry and Ellie distract the Toppat Clan with their dancing, which turns the entire cafeteria into one, big dance party, the background music can be heard ''through'' Charles' headset as he bobs his head to it.

** [[spoiler:General Galeforce]] is the BigBad under most routes that have Henry [[spoiler:oppose the Government]].

* SmurfettePrinciple: Ellie is the only significant female character in the whole series, and prior to ''Mission'', she was the only female character with any lines at all.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Comes up in the Thief/Dead route of ''Mission'', where all three options are "Hammer".

*** Choosing the "Disguise" option to get past the Tophat meeting during the Investigator route leads to Henry blending in... a little too well, as the guy the other Tophats mistake him for has a wife who's expecting a baby. Rather than blow his cover, Henry takes a nearby escape pod set to go to the hospital.

* IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing: Charles says this verbatim when he tries to hack the toppat base door open in ''Mission''.

* WelcomeToCorneria: When going after all the fails in [[spoiler:Thief/Allies]], be prepared to hear "Let's try and get up to the-" no short of three times.

** The Sandwich from ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'' in ''Complex'' turns Henry into a hulking brute. He was able to beat up the guards but the power-up expires before he could beat up the third, resulting in him kicking Henry in the groins.