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* WidgetSeries: Not many people think of typography as the subject of a video game.
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* EternalEngine: Portions of the Times New Roman level.
* UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}}: This game celebrates the rich history of typography, and it shows.
* HubLevel: Which also doubles as the title screen and the credits.
* UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}}: This game celebrates the rich history of typography, and it shows.
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* VideoGameSettings: Based on when the typeface and/or writing style was first developed.
** {{Prehistoria}}: For cave paintings.
** TheMiddleAges: For Gothic.
** UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance: For Garamond.
** TheCavalierYears: For Didot.
** TheWildWest: For Clarendon.
** TheRoaringTwenties: For Times New Roman and, to a lesser extent, Futura.
** UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties: For Futura.
** TheSixties: For Helvetica.
** TheSeventies[=/=]TheEighties[=/=]TheNineties[=/=]ThePresentDay: For digital-origin fonts such as Pixel and bitmap fonts, Meta, [[spoiler:Comic Sans MS]], etc.
** {{Prehistoria}}: For cave paintings.
** TheMiddleAges: For Gothic.
** UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance: For Garamond.
** TheCavalierYears: For Didot.
** TheWildWest: For Clarendon.
** TheRoaringTwenties: For Times New Roman and, to a lesser extent, Futura.
** UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties: For Futura.
** TheSixties: For Helvetica.
** TheSeventies[=/=]TheEighties[=/=]TheNineties[=/=]ThePresentDay: For digital-origin fonts such as Pixel and bitmap fonts, Meta, [[spoiler:Comic Sans MS]], etc.
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* [[WidgetSeries Weird European Thing]]: WidgetSeries: Not many people think of typography as the subject of a video game.
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-->'''[[WordOfGod Theo Le Du Fuentes]]:''' We’re We're not trying to teach people to be experts in type in ''Type:Rider'', but I think it’s it's important to know that it’s it's a complex art with a long history.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[spoiler:In the Comic Sans level, giant letters spelling out "WTF" appear near the end. When you jump on them, a voice loudly exclaims the word that each letter stands for. The game is rated E10+.]]
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[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs It's as]] [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268 iOS]] as well as on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.
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** TheRenaissance: For Garamond.
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* CrosshairAware: In the Clarendon level, a floating crosshair chases you and tries to shoot your dots.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[spoiler:In the Comic Sans level, giant letters spelling out "WTF" appear near the end. When you jump on them, a voice loudly exclaims the word that each letter stands for. The game is rated E10+.]]
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** TheSovietTwenties: For Futura.
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[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs It's as]] [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268 iOS]] as well as on {{Steam}}.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: Completing the secret [[spoiler:Comic Sans]] level requires you to move right constantly or die, with a physics system that slows you down or traps you (both of which kill you) if you make a minor misstep, culminating with a jump onto an angled platform that starts moving ''before you land on it'', and unlike every other level in the game there ''[[CheckpointStarvation are no checkpoints]].''
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** BrutalBonusLevel: Completing this level requires you to move right constantly or die, with a physics system that slows you down or traps you (both of which kill you) if you make a minor misstep, culminating with a jump onto an angled platform that starts moving ''before you land on it'', and unlike every other level in the game there ''are no checkpoints.''
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French graphic designer Cosmografik (aka Theo Le Du Fuentes) and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis traversing a land of letterforms in a way reminiscent of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica and so on.
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** BrutalBonusLevel: Completing this level requires you to move right constantly or die, with a physics system that slows you down or traps you (both of which kill you) if you make a minor misstep, culminating with a jump onto an angled platform that starts moving ''before you land on it'', and unlike every other level in the game there ''are no checkpoints.''
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[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs It's as as]] [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268 iOS]] as well as on {{Steam}}.
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* AdvancingWallOfDoom: [[spoiler:In the Comic Sans level, where you're being pursued by a pixelated photograph of a cat with lasers shooting out of its eyes. Ironically, touching the lasers doesn't do anything; you have to touch the cat itself to die.]]
* {{Cyberspace}}: The Pixel level.
* GimmickLevel: [[spoiler:The Comic Sans level, which eschews the puzzles of the normal game for a short, bizarre platforming sequence where you're pursued by a giant cat for most of the level.]]
* GimmickLevel: [[spoiler:The Comic Sans level, which eschews the puzzles of the normal game for a short, bizarre platforming sequence where you're pursued by a giant cat for most of the level.]]
* EternalEngine: Portions of the Times New Roman level.
* HubLevel: Which also doubles as the title screen and the credits.
* JokeLevel: [[spoiler:Comic Sans MS. It's exactly as ridiculous as you'd expect a level based on Comic Sans to be.]]
* PuzzlePlatformer: With more emphasis on the "puzzle" than the "platformer". [[spoiler:Except the secret level, which is pure platforming.]]
* SecretLevel: [[spoiler:Comic Sans MS, accessed by entering an underwater cavern after viewing the end credits.]]
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: While neither slippery nor slidey, the Helvetica level is full of snow and ice, alluding to the font's Swiss origins.
* StylisticSuck: Appropriately, [[spoiler:the secret Comic Sans level. Even the letters of the alphabet are out of order.]]
* SecretLevel: [[spoiler:Comic Sans MS, accessed by entering an underwater cavern after viewing the end credits.]]
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: While neither slippery nor slidey, the Helvetica level is full of snow and ice, alluding to the font's Swiss origins.
* StylisticSuck: Appropriately, [[spoiler:the secret Comic Sans level. Even the letters of the alphabet are out of order.]]
** TheCavalierYears: For Didot.
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** TheSovietTwenties: For Futura.
** TheSovietTwenties: For Futura.
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** TheNineties[=/=]ThePresentDay: TheEighties[=/=]TheNineties[=/=]ThePresentDay: For digital-origin fonts such as Pixel and bitmap fonts, Meta, etc.etc.
* {{Wackyland}}: [[spoiler:Comic Sans. Epitomized in the section where you jump from a cat wearing a large pair of eyeglasses onto a giant "WTF", which actually says [[PrecisionFStrike "What the fuck?"]] when you jump across each letter.]]
* {{Wackyland}}: [[spoiler:Comic Sans. Epitomized in the section where you jump from a cat wearing a large pair of eyeglasses onto a giant "WTF", which actually says [[PrecisionFStrike "What the fuck?"]] when you jump across each letter.]]
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* [[spoiler: MoodWhiplash: Most of the game is highly atmospheric, intricately designed and overall quite lovely to look at. The secret level is [[StylisticSuck none of]] [[CloudCuckooLand these things.]]]]
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* [[spoiler: MoodWhiplash: Most [[spoiler:Most of the game is highly atmospheric, intricately designed and overall quite lovely to look at. The secret level is [[StylisticSuck none of]] [[CloudCuckooLand these things.]]]]
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French graphic designer Cosmografik (aka Theo Le Du Fuentes) and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis traversing a land of letterforms in a way reminiscient of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica and so on.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268 iOS]].
[[NeedsWikiMagic Wiki Magic would be appreciated here.]]
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268 iOS]].
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French graphic designer Cosmografik (aka Theo Le Du Fuentes) and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis traversing a land of letterforms in a way reminiscient reminiscent of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica and so on.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268iOS]].
[[NeedsWikiMagic Wiki Magic would be appreciated here.]]iOS]] as well as on {{Steam}}.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268
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* BreakingOut: The Pixel level includes a "puzzle" which is just a game of ''Breakout''.
* CollectionSidequest: Each level has the letters of the alphabet in the level's font scattered across the level, which can usually be gathered just by going through the level normally. There's also a hidden ampersand in each level which is trickier to get.
* CollectionSidequest: Each level has the letters of the alphabet in the level's font scattered across the level, which can usually be gathered just by going through the level normally. There's also a hidden ampersand in each level which is trickier to get.
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* [[spoiler: MoodWhiplash: Most of the game is highly atmospheric, intricately designed and overall quite lovely to look at. The secret level is [[StylisticSuck none of]] [[CloudCuckooLand these things.]]]]
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* [[spoiler: MoodWhiplash: Most of the game is highly atmospheric, intricately designed and overall quite lovely to look at. The secret level is [[StylisticSuck none of]] [[CloudCuckooLand these things.]]]]history.
* [[spoiler: MoodWhiplash: Most of the game is highly atmospheric, intricately designed and overall quite lovely to look at. The secret level is [[StylisticSuck none of]] [[CloudCuckooLand these things.]]]]
* InterfaceScrew: During a section of the Futura level, you fall into a trippy "pool" where your controls are briefly reversed (the left arrow makes you go right, and the right arrow makes you go left).
* MinecartMadness: One section of the Clarendon level has you riding a cart across some rails while avoiding a [[CrosshairAware sniper crosshair]].
* [[spoiler: MoodWhiplash: Most of the game is highly atmospheric, intricately designed and overall quite lovely to look at. The secret level is [[StylisticSuck none of]] [[CloudCuckooLand these things.]]]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Twice in the Pixel level--first you end up having to play a ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' [[BreakingOut clone]] in order to get a key, and then you have to complete somewhat of a "pop quiz" for the last key, where you have to match the fonts from the previous levels.
* MinecartMadness: One section of the Clarendon level has you riding a cart across some rails while avoiding a [[CrosshairAware sniper crosshair]].
* [[spoiler: MoodWhiplash: Most of the game is highly atmospheric, intricately designed and overall quite lovely to look at. The secret level is [[StylisticSuck none of]] [[CloudCuckooLand these things.]]]]
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Twice in the Pixel level--first you end up having to play a ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' [[BreakingOut clone]] in order to get a key, and then you have to complete somewhat of a "pop quiz" for the last key, where you have to match the fonts from the previous levels.
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*** MinecartMadness: One section has you riding a cart across some rails while avoiding a [[CrosshairAware sniper crosshair]].
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French graphic designer Cosmografik (aka Theo Le Du Fuentes) and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis traversing a land of letterforms in a way reminiscient of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French graphic designer Cosmografik (aka Theo Le Du Fuentes) and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis traversing a land of letterforms in a way reminiscient of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, Helvetica and (yes) Comic Sans.
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French graphic designer Cosmografik (aka Theo Le Du Fuentes) and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis traversing a land of letterforms in a way reminiscient of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
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* EdutainmentGame: ''[[PlayedWith Very]]'' [[PlayedWith loosely]]. The content covered by this game goes beyond what a normal EdutainmentGame would cover. In addition, WordOfGod notes that it's the history of type that's important, not how many individual typefaces can be identified.
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* EdutainmentGame: ''[[PlayedWith Very]]'' [[PlayedWith loosely]]. The content covered by this game goes beyond what a normal EdutainmentGame would cover. In addition, WordOfGod notes that it's the history of type that's important, not how many individual typefaces or type features can be identified.
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* GottaCatchThemAll: Pages that explain the history of the typefaces are strewn all across the game. Collecting all of them and beating the game lets you read them at your leisure.
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** TheWildWest: For Clarendon
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** {{Prehistoria}}: For cave paintings
paintings.
** TheRenaissance: For Garamond.
** TheWildWest: ForClarendon
Clarendon.
** TheRoaringTwenties: For Times New Roman andFuturaFutura.
** TheNineties[=/=]ThePresentDay: For digital-origin fonts such as Pixel and bitmap fonts, Meta, etc.
** TheRenaissance: For Garamond.
** TheWildWest: For
** TheRoaringTwenties: For Times New Roman and
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French game developer Cosmografik and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French game developer graphic designer Cosmografik (aka Theo Le Du Fuentes) and published by [=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
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-->'''[[WordOfGod Theo Le Du Fuentes]]:''' We’re not trying to teach people to be experts in type in Type:Rider, but I think it’s important to know that it’s a complex art with a long history.
-->'''[[WordOfGod Theo Le Du Fuentes]]:''' We’re not trying to teach people to be experts in type in Type:Rider, but I think it’s important to know that it’s a complex art with a long history.
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French game developer Cosmografik and published by BulkyPix.[=BulkyPix=]. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
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** TheWildWest: For Clarendon
** TheRoaringTwenties: For Times New Roman and Futura
** {{Prehistoria}}: For cave paintings
** TheWildWest: For Clarendon
** TheRoaringTwenties: For Times New Roman and Futura
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and Cosmografik and published by BulkyPix. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]].
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and French game developer Cosmografik and published by BulkyPix. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268 iOS]].
[[NeedsWikiMagic Wiki Magic would be appreciated here.]]
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!!Tropes present in ''Type:Rider'':
* UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}}: This game celebrates the rich history of typography, and it shows.
* [[WidgetSeries Weird European Thing]]: Not many people think of typography as the subject of a video game.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]]. The game is available for [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bulkypix.typerider Android]] and [[https://itunes.apple.com/app/id667443268 iOS]].
[[NeedsWikiMagic Wiki Magic would be appreciated here.]]
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!!Tropes present in ''Type:Rider'':
* UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}}: This game celebrates the rich history of typography, and it shows.
* [[WidgetSeries Weird European Thing]]: Not many people think of typography as the subject of a video game.
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''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and Cosmografik and published by BulkyPix. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]].
''Type:Rider'' is a platform/"adventure puzzle" game developed by the European TV channel ARTE and Cosmografik and published by BulkyPix. You play as a sideways colon/diaresis as you explore the [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} history of typography]] from prehistoric times to the digital age while learning about some of the better known typefaces such as Bodoni, Garamond, Helvetica, and (yes) Comic Sans.
It's as [[WidgetSeries absurd as it sounds]], [[TropesAreNotBad but it works]].
