History VideoGame / TastyPlanet

* TimeTravel: ''Back for Seconds'' has the GreyGoo eating a time machine, then going back to the Late Cretaceous, then to Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, feudal Japan, and the distant future.

* EnergyBeing: Energy entities appear in the Orbit levels of the original game. They're capable of eating things smaller than them, including the Grey Goo, and appear in two types: several-meter-sized green ones and much larger, tens-of-kilometers-sized purple ones.

* EnergyBeing: Energy entities appear in the Orbit levels of the original game. They're capable of eating things smaller than them, including the goo, and appear in two types: several-meter-sized green ones and much larger, tens-of-kilometers-sized purple ones.

* EnergyWeapon: In the Future series of levels in ''Back for Seconds'', we have these not just on Tanks, but Ants, Rats, and Cats.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: In the ocean and cosmos, almost everything bigger than you will kill you. Same goes for the microscopic world and the cosmos in the sequel.

* EnergyBeing: Energy entities appear in the Orbit levels of the original game. They are capable of eating things smaller than them, such as the goo, and appear in two types: several-meter-sized green ones and much larger, tens-of-kilometers-sized purple ones.

* EnergyBeing: Energy entities appear in the Orbit levels of the original game. They are capable of eating things smaller than them, like the goo, and appear in two sizes. Meter-sized green ones and much larger, tens of kilometers-sized purple ones.

* GreenAesop: Several times in ''Forever'': the octopus is angry because his home was polluted, the bee is an experiment to prevent Colony Collapse Disorder that went wrong, the basking shark is furious after fishermen killed all others of his kind, and the penguin is GaiasRevenge to fight back against a heavily polluted {{Cyberpunk}} future.

* GreyGoo: Several of the protagonists are explicitely made of replicating nanomachines, such as the goo in ''Tasty Planet'' and ''Seconds'', Nanoshark in ''Tasty Blue'' and the cat in ''Forever''.

* {{Nanomachines}}

* {{Cyberpunk}}: This is the theme of the Penguin levels in ''Forever''
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Happens [[spoiler: at the end of ''Tasty Blue'' when the now gigantic Nano-Shark eats the Earth's core.]]

** ''Back for Seconds'' introduced an indicator that points towards offscreen deadly enemies. This means that provided you are paying attention, you can't accidentally ram one because it wasn't visible yet. This indicator became a stay in subsequent title when playing on [[HarderThanHard Deadly]] difficulty.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: ''Back for Seconds'', as well as the mobile version of the first game, made it so that getting actually eaten is extremely unlikely, and in the latter, any entities that ''could'' eat you were changed to simply make you shrink, whereas in the PC version of the first game, some entities that are larger than you can actually eat you and cause you to fail the level.

* PlanetEater: The Earth gets eaten at least OnceAnEpisode.

** In ''Forever'', the scientists screw up once again with the experimental Parisian Cat, whom the older one had sent out with the intention of cleaning the restaurant they were working at in a similar manner to the Grey Goo. At least the Parisian Cat seems fine with only eating the entirety of Paris.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The two restaurant employees seen in the opening to the Parisian Cat's section of ''Forever'' are cousins of the previous games' scientists, and look almost exactly the same.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The two restaurant employees seen in the opening to the Parisian Cat's section of ''Forever'' are cousins of the two scientists, and look almost exactly the same.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: The two restaurant employees in the Paris levels of ''Forever'' are cousins of the two scientists, and look almost exactly the same.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: In the ocean and cosmos, almost everything bigger than you will kill you.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: In Cosmos 4, black holes actually suck in stars, yet for some reason don't suck in the grey goo. Same applies for the sequel.

* AdaptationalJobChange: ''Forever'' features the scientists working at a restaurant in Paris, with the older one sending out the robotic Parisian Cat (the first character you play as) in the first world's opening cutscene.

* EarthShatteringKaboom

* EnergyBeing: They appear in a few Orbit levels as "Energy Entities".
* ExtremeOmnivore: Technically, Ultimate Omnivore.

** In ''Tasty Blue'', the scientists create the Nano-Shark to compete against and eventually eat the ever-growing Goldfish and Dolphin in order to save the world, with the same results as the Grey Goo. Given the ending cutscene, it appears that they were anticipating the consequences now, since they have a "Failsafe Mode" to presumably eliminate the Nano-Shark, but they were too late in doing so. Even then, it proves useless anyway, as it turns out that the Nano-Shark had bitten one of the wires in the Failsafe Mode's system.

* GreyGoo
* HarderThanHard: The "Deadly" difficulty from ''Tasty Blue'' and ''Forever'' is the highest selectable difficulty level, standing just above "Hard".

* PlanetEater

* TurtleIsland: The final level of ''Back for Seconds'' has the Grey Goo [[spoiler:devouring all the World Turtles holding up the universe before imploding into a new one.]]

* NonMaliciousMonster: The grey goo.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: In the original version of the first game, white blood cells have red eyes to indicate they can hurt the goo when touched, and only appear in the level that teaches you about that fact, fittingly enough. The remastered version removes the eyes and leaves the cell with a mere fluffball-like shape.

* CoversAlwaysLie: In [[https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/bPhcsmbeDua2YNqiN9pK8_Mgq3fxtQzbk_e46LQ0lLh9fc3bdudRr_FeuYOGjNMyzcOJ=w800-h500 the full version of the first game's official thumbnail]], there is a blue car present in the bottom right among the objects being absorbed into the Grey Goo's mass, even though no blue cars appear in the actual game. There's also a building at the far right that doesn't resemble any of the ones seen in the game.

* WombLevel: In the second Laboratory level of the first game, the grey goo bites one of the scientists and enters his bloodstream.

* TimeyWimeyBall: {{Lampshaded}} in the comic that follows the final Egypt level in the sequel.

* MadeOfExplodium: In the sky levels, planes will explode on contact with other planes, hot air balloons, the grey goo, kites, or even birds.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: White blood cells have red eyes to indicate they can hurt the goo when touched (and appear in the level that teaches you about that fact, fittingly enough).