History VideoGame / Jazztronauts

* ExcitedShowTitle: A ZigZagged example, the trailer and the logo adds two exclamation points (stylized as ''Jazztronauts!!''), but the gamemode name itself doesn't have them.

** [[spoiler: Black Shards]] take this UpToEleven. Once everyone confirms that they agree to take it and advance the NewGamePlus story, [[spoiler: the Black Shard disintegrates all brushes in the map and turns the Void maroon, necessitating that all players collect what they've needed before locking in.]]

* TheStoner: The Cellist is perpetually high on a mixture of weed, cocaine, and other far more dangerous substances. [[AchievementsInIgnorance He implies in the prologue that this actually benefits him, much to the Pianist's dismay.]] His introductory cutscene takes this UpToEleven as he goes so far as to suggest that his internal fluids have been replaced wholesale with his highly volatile and experimental drugs. [[spoiler: The finale reveals that this is no different from a real drug addiction, right down to how he fell into it, and is, in reality, extremely depressed, self-loathing, and borderline suicidal from it.]]

* VideoGameStealing: Can potentially be turned UpToEleven, thanks to the Prop Snatcher. For the sake of the plot, you only need to steal Shards, but you can also steal ''everything else'' from a map in order to obtain extra money, including walls, ground and ceilings, [=NPCs=], furniture, and even the ''skybox'', which denotes the map's playable area. The stealing process involves the props being taken away by T-posing Kleiners (a reference to [[{{Noob}} mingebags]]), becoming ATwinkleInTheSky, and the rest of the map geometry just pops out of itself. The game also encourages you to do so as [[AntiFrustrationFeatures you can see Shards through the pink void where the walls and props used to be]]. The only things that can not be stolen are displacements[[note]]Which is the bumpy ground that can be found in most outdoors maps and similar.[[/note]] and logic entities, but even then, by the time you're done, maps will become a pink mess.

* MushroomSamba: Subverted with the Cellist's second cutscene. While he expects you to be hopped up on the new drink he made for several hours (perhaps days) and then wonder why you just purchased a grand piano off of Ebay, he conveniently forgets that human players are more resilient than his kind is, meaning that you simply see a bright flash and then end up borderline incapacitated, [[EveryoneHasStandards leading him to drag you off before you get hurt.]]

* WhenSheSmiles: The Pianist's finale, in which [[spoiler: your presence allows her to gain back her piano expertise and the carefree attitude it needs that she had lost for so long]], is the first and only time she smiles out of true compassion.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: There are many signs that the group dynamic between the Band gets pretty unhealthy when out of action. Each member tells you that the others' appreciation for what they do is heavily closeted, and they all bear a slew of problems that don't exactly scream "companions." In fact, the Cellist outright considers the Pianist to be a sociopath or psychopath, and fully understands how alienating the Singer's habits and roles are.
* TheWorfEffect: Your resilience, something that the cats hire both you and other players over, is demonstrated early on when the Cellist's [[GargleBlaster Good Shit]] has no mind-altering effects on you like he thought it would, only shooting out your basic senses one by one and then knocking you out as if several normal drinks were inside the shot glass at once.
* ThereWasADoor: When summoned, the trolley rams through whatever you were aiming at, even if that thing was three feet away from an actual door. Though it's somewhat downplayed, as instead of physically bashing a hole in the wall, it will ''meta''physically bash it's way through the barrier between the Voidway and the map, meaning that it will do the same thing regardless of whether or not there really was a door.

--> Additionally, the following scene contains a [[WhamEpisode more serious depiction]] of the Cellist's many issues. An option has been provided below to skip it and read a summary instead, if you would prefer to avoid playing through it.

* TenderTears: The Singer. They specially don't like it when The Cellist and The Pianist mess with the Mewseum, and how they treat [=NPCs=] in general, while, in comparison, they try to humanize them and give props witty and fun descriptions.

* RealityEnsues: The Cellist's situation. Oh look, a funny stoner who loves comical substance abuse! [[spoiler: Except it ain't funny to him, and his addiction is no different than the number one reason people in RealLife fall into addiction: chasing the high.]]

* SadClown: [[spoiler: The Cellist's true nature, highlighting the [[RealityEnsues bleak reality]] of his drug addiction.]]

* Really700YearsOld: If you choose to gamble with the cats, the Pianist will state that they've been alive for as long as [[Mythology/GreekMythology Zeus]] was, which puts their age at several centuries if not millennia old.

* TenderTears: The Singer. They specially don't like it when The Cellist and The Pianist mess with the Mewseum, and how they treat [=NPCs=] in general.

* ExcitedShowTitle: A ZigZagged example, the trailer and the logo adds two exclamation points (stylized as ''Jazztronauts!!''), but the gamemode itself doesn't have them.

* VideoGameStealing: Can potentially be turned UpToEleven, thanks to the Prop Snatcher. For the sake of the plot, you only need to steal Shards, but you can also steal ''everything else'' from a map in order to obtain extra money, including walls, ground and ceilings, [=NPCs=], furniture, and even the ''skybox'', which denotes the map's playable area. The game also encourages you to do so as [[AntiFrustrationFeatures you can see Shards through the pink void where the walls and props used to be]]. The only things that can not be stolen are displacements[[note]]Which is the bumpy ground that can be found in most outdoors maps and similar.[[/note]] and logic entities, but even then, by the time you're done, maps will become a pink mess.

** If the map you're in takes away all of your weapons, or if it spawns you with no weapons, it is possible to spawn them through the spawn menu.

* ApocalypseHow: Once (potentially twice) in New Game Plus -