History VideoGame / WhackYour

** [[Franchise/XMen Wolverine's claws and Cyclops' goggles]].

** [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spiderman's glove]].
** [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superman's cape]]. The resulting collateral damage may or may not be a ShoutOut to ''Film/ManOfSteel''.

%%* ArtisticLicense: People like LetsPlay/JackSepticEye were prone to complain about how unrealistic the ruler death was.

* ShoutOut: The HighPressureBlood in the scissors option could be a reference to ''Film/{{Sanjuro}}'''s infamous pump malfunction for a similar SlashedThroat, resulting in a lot more blood than intended. If nothing else, it uses the ''exact same sound effect'' at the moment of the attack.

* AlasPoorVillain: For the select few with some VideoGameCaringPotential for the boss.

* ArtisticLicense: People like LetsPlay/JackSepticEye were prone to complain about how unrealistic the ruler death was.
* BadassBystander: Clicking the clock will have one of your fellow employees rip it off the wall and nail your boss right in the head with it from across the room. [[CrossesTheLineTwice After finishing him off, you then give the guy two thumbs up.]]

* BigBad: The boss.
** [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Or you.]]

* BoomHeadshot: Selecting the ruler gives you the quickest and arguably cleanest way to kill your boss: you take the ruler, send it into the boss's forehead with a flick of the wrist, and go right back to whatever you were doing.

* BrokenRecord: When you sit down and listen to music after killing your boss, all you'll hear is a female voice saying "No when, no want, no worry" over and over with the peaceful ambience of a beach scenery in the background with a seagull passing by.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Tons.''

* DestinationDefenestration: One way involves tying your boss to your chair and rolling it out the window.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The whole game, really.

* EyeScream: The broken bottle. It starts with you poking the boss in the eyes with it, then you put him in a headlock and viciously ram it into his eyes repeatedly.
** The ceiling tile also counts, with the protagonist taking out an electrical tube, smashing it over the boss' head, and shoving the broken ends into his eyes.

* [[TheManyDeathsOfYou The Many Deaths of Your Boss]]: 24, to be exact.
* NoNameGiven: Applied to both you and your boss.

* NonIndicativeName: While there is some whacking involved, the game's more about finding ways to outright ''kill'' your boss.
** [[SubvertedTrope Of course, "whack" also happens to be a slang term for killing someone.]]

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The scissors death. Once you slit the boss's throat, he spews out so much blood that it completely covers the wall (except the spot you're standing in front of).

** The game's ending features happy music playing over two scenes (depends on the version): [[spoiler:either the protagonist spinning around happily holding the boss's head, or the protagonist in his meditative state recapping all of the different deaths in his head.]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The keyboard, which has to be one of the most disturbing deaths in the game. Not only do you repeatedly whack your boss with the keyboard, but once a piece of it breaks off (leaving a sharp edge), you ''force it into your boss's mouth'' and repeatedly ''kick down on the boss's skull '''with the keyboard inside'''''.
** The cubicle wall death. You subject the boss to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping him]] while he's begging not to be hit by you, with a few employees running away for their safety while the cubicle gets trashed up. You then finally kill him by bashing his skull against the cubicle wall several times, before smashing him through it ''really hard''.
* ShoutOut: Using the scissors will result in an eruption of HighPressureBlood from your boss' throat. Given how much more bloody it is in comparison to the rest of the game, it could be a reference to ''Film/{{Sanjuro}}'', with the infamous pump malfunction resulting in a lot more blood than intended. If nothing else, it uses the ''exact same sound effect'' at the moment of the attack.
** Beating the boss with the suitcase and the stomping on it afterwards uses the sound effects from a beating scene in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''. The same sound effect also appears in ''Whack Your Ex'' and ''Whack Your Computer''.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The most common interpretation is that the titular boss is ''not'' the most caring or benevolent of employers. Considering that the clock method is instigated by another employee rather than the protagonist (who finishes the job), it is clear that many of the people working under the boss want him as dead as the protagonist does.

''Whack Your...'' is a series of online Flash games that began in 2004 with ''[[http://whackyourboss.com/ Whack Your Boss]]'', and has since grown to include several series of installments from differenct creators that usually share nothing except the core idea: finding ways to "[[{{Understatement}} whack]]" people (read: ''kill'' them in [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential extremely sadistic ways]] that are perhaps only slightly above TorturePorn). The games are billed as offering a CatharsisFactor to players with any pent-up anger towards the games' subjects.

'''''Whack Your...''''' is a series of online Flash games that began in 2004 with ''[[http://whackyourboss.com/ Whack Your Boss]]'', and has since grown to include several series of installments from differenct creators that usually share nothing except the core idea: finding ways to "[[{{Understatement}} whack]]" people (read: ''kill'' them in [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential extremely sadistic ways]] that are perhaps only slightly above TorturePorn). The games are billed as offering a CatharsisFactor to players with any pent-up anger.

* Disproportionate Retribution: Everything that happens to the neighbor is a result of him complaining to Patrick about his dog pooping in the neighbor’s yard.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: The "last call" kill has the bouncer using a piledriver and a backbreaker on the creeps.

* ''Whack Your Ex''

* AlasPoorVillain: The victim may be a house burglar and is visibly bothered by the kid when he first sees him, but on several occasions you can see how harmless he is, almost making his deaths rather unjustly extreme.

* ''Whack Your Zombie Neighbor''[[note]]Halloween edition of ''Whack Your Neighbor''.[[/note]] (September 8, 2019)

'''''Whack Your...''''' is a series of online Flash games that began with ''[[http://whackyourboss.com/ Whack Your Boss]]'', and has since grown to include a series of installments that usually share nothing except the core game mechanics: they're about finding ways to "[[{{Understatement}} whack]]" your targets (read: ''kill'' them in [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential extremely sadistic ways]] that are perhaps only slightly above TorturePorn). The games are billed as offering a CatharsisFactor to players with any pent-up anger.

* ''Whack Your Boss''

* ''Whack Your Computer''

* ''Don't Whack Your Teacher''
* ''Whack the Thief''
* ''Don't Whack Your Boss With Super Powers''
* ''Whack the Trump''

* ''Whack Your Neighbor''
* ''Whack the Burglars''
* ''Whack the Creeps''
* ''Whack the Serial Killer''

* ''Whack the Terrorist''

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The game's ending, after you have found all of the ways to kill the boss.]]
** In an updated version, [[spoiler:the game's ending shows that the events were merely conceived in the blissful, meditative state that the protagonist returns to after each kill. Whether or not he was sleeping during this is left for the player to decide]].

* MadeOfIron: In contrast to the other games, both of the characters here are shown to be indestructible. Even numerous explosions which destroy the floor they're on only leave them covered in ash.

* DistractedByTheSexy: One of the options has Patrick turn his TV to a channel with women twerking, giving a distraction to the burglars before he killsthem.

* NeverMessWithGranny: An option has Patrick call in an elderly woman of unknown relationship to him to beat up the burglars. After that, she asks Patrick if she'd like her to make dinner for him, which Patrick approves.

* BloodierAndGorier: ''Oh yeah.'' In a series that's already based around violence, this one manages to have killing methods so disturbing that many people who have played it on [=YouTube=] have commented on its excessive gore compared to the other games, which showcased that [=WhackIt's=] games would most definitely be different from Doodie's and [=Box10's=].

* BloodierAndGorier: ''Oh yeah.'' In a series that is already based around violence, it manages to have killing methods so disturbing that many people who have played it on [=YouTube=] have commented on its excessive gore compared to the other games, which showcased that the [=Box10=] games would most definitely be different from the Doodie.com games.

* ShoutOut: Selecting the brochettes will have you impale the neighbor's thighs, in which he will scream like Ace Ventura in ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls''.

* DistractedByTheSexy: One of the kills has Patrick turn his TV to a channel with women twerking, distracting the burglars before killing him.
* HarmlessFreezing: When Patrick freezes the second burglar and then decapitates him his head is shown to still be alive in the separate ice chunk.

* {{Sadist}}: Most of the protagonists (with a few exceptions) seem to enjoy making their victims suffer.
** Patrick, the protagonist from the ''Neighbor'' and ''Burglars'' games, enjoys putting his victims in torturous situations. With ''Neighbor'', he can chain his neighbor to a tree where he slowly starves to death. ''Burglars'' has a similar situation where he locks the kitchen burglar in the basement for a month and then proceeds to beat the poor guy up.

** As mentioned below, one of the kills in Doodie's ''Boss'' involve stabbing your boss' eyes with a broken vase to the tune of a happy music.

* SplashOfColor: While the series generally follows a DeliberatelyMonochrome color scheme, exceptions have been made.

** In ''Teacher'', the pesticide in one of the ways is colored green when used.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The boss will give your character one when he walks in. It's your choice as to whether you actually want to listen (at which you get a short text about how to play). He also does this at the start of the filing cabinet selection.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The boss will give you one when he walks in. It's your choice as to whether you actually want to listen (at which you get a short text about how to play). He also does this at the start of the filing cabinet selection.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The boss will give you one when he walks in. It's your choice as to whether you actually want to listen. He also does this at the start of the filing cabinet selection.

* AlasPoorVillain: The victim may be a thief, but on several occasions you can see how harmless he is, almost making his deaths rather unjustly extreme.

* ShoutOut: The whole thing is a massive reference fest, considering you're murdering your boss with various superpowers from pop culture. They are:

* AssholeVictim: Asides from the art style and brutality level, this is what sets [=WhackIt=]'s games apart from the others. Except the neighbor, every single one of the victims (burglars who don't hesitate to kill Patrick, creeps who get way too touchy-feely with Lisa, and if the next game's title is any indication, a freaking serial murderer) totally deserve their bloody fate.

** In Doodie's ''Boss'' this is possible with the scissors, resulting in HighPressureBlood, coating every inch of the wall behind you (except the spot that you're standing in front of).
** In ''Teacher'', selecting the scissors also results in this, though its portrayal is somewhat downplayed.
** In ''Thief'', after smashing the wine bottle over the thief's head, you then stab him in the throat with the broken piece.

* LighterAndSofter: This is the only game in the series to have an inanimate object as the whack target, so don't expect any blood, gore or gruesome murder. In addition, all of the violence here is more cartoony and over-the-top than the other games (in ''Whack Your Boss'' you could cause HighPressureBlood with just a pair of scissors, yet in this game [[spoiler:calling in an air strike that destroys half of the building]] merely results in the player getting covered in some ash).

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the kills has your character rip his boss in half vertically [[spoiler:[[MindOverMatter without touching him.]]]]