History VideoGame / StickItToTheMan

In a world where everything is made of cardboard and paper, you are Ray Doewood, a timid, kind-hearted everyman and hard hat tester whose life gets shaken up after being hit on the head by a mysterious object from the sky. While he's unconscious, Ray dreams that he's in possession of a pink spaghetti arm giving him the ability to [[{{Telepathy}} read minds]]... but the arm's [[ThatWasNotADream still there when he wakes up]]. To complicate things even further, a team of agents working for a mysterious figure known only as "The Man" are hot on Ray's trail and hellbent on retrieving the source of his new powers. If he's going to survive the chase and see his girlfriend Arlene once more, Ray's going to have to use the arm, his wits, and quite a few stickers on a journey through his town, an insane asylum, space, and his own mind.

* CirclingBirdies: At the beginning, the place of work is testing hard hats, where impact maagnitudes are ranked by the number of stars. These hard hats are also rated against the number of stars they protect against, and there's a new prototype from R&D which is made from recycled paper and a banana peel.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished; The Man apparently cares enough about people from his childhood to get them jobs on his spaceship or help them through his experiments, he has a terrarium for his pet turtle (though its unhappy because he put it there in front of a broken tv and called it a day), gave his childhood friend a job on his spaceship, preserved his babysitter's still living head in a jar, and uploaded his mothers brain as the station AI. In the final chapter Ray exploits all this to remind The Man's mother about embarassing anecdotes from his childhood, which leads to a chain of events that destroys the spaceship.

* [[spoiler:AccidentalMurder:]] [[spoiler:In The Man’s base, Ray encounters a zombie who is in love with his trainer, who is trying to teach him how to fire a gun in order to become a {{Super Soldier}}. When provided with a gift to give her, the zombie accidentally engages her in a scuffle that leads to her being shot through the heart. Ray then [[BackFromTheDead resurrects]] her ([[CameBackWrong albeit]] as [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie another zombie]]), and she reciprocates the zombie’s affection. Ray uses their [[ThePowerOfLove true love]] to solve another puzzle later on.]]