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* LostForever: Consciously averted. Limited Edition equipment cannot be accidentally forged into junk[[note]]the game prevents the player from doing so if a bad combination is selected with a Limited Edition item in the mix[[/note]], and if the player misses on them, they can always find such items being sold in the Item Dump. However, it's still played straight if one uses forges limited edition items into a craftable recipe, making them unable to re-obtain the old items.
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* DeadWeight: The Big Plague is noticeably fatter than the normal zombies. The Giant Zombie on the other hand is also largely built, but that's due to being muscular.
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* CreepyCrossdresser: During the Halloween event, the Big Plague dressed as an old lady, with the loading screen displaying some truly unnecessary ShowSomeLeg on its part... and ''every single one'' of Bob's minions [[FanDisservice retching or looking disgusted]].

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* CreepyCrossdresser: During the Halloween event, the Big Plague dressed as an old lady, with the loading screen displaying some [[FanDisservice truly unnecessary unnecessary]] ShowSomeLeg on its part... and ''every single one'' of Bob's minions [[FanDisservice retching or looking disgusted]].disgusted.
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* CreepyCrossdresser: During the Halloween event, the Big Plague dressed as an old lady, with the loading screen displaying some truly unnecessary ShowSomeLeg on its part... and ''every single one'' of Bob's minions retching or looking disgusted.

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* CreepyCrossdresser: During the Halloween event, the Big Plague dressed as an old lady, with the loading screen displaying some truly unnecessary ShowSomeLeg on its part... and ''every single one'' of Bob's minions [[FanDisservice retching or looking disgusted.disgusted]].
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* DamageIsFire: When a structure is damaged enough, it will catch fire, and the flames on it get more intense as its health depletes.

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->''Like the song says, good guys finish last, and in this case, they also finish homeless and on fire.''
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* FlamingSkulls: The skulls that you normally collect are set on orange fire if they're multiplied by the Red Knight's Pillage and Plunder, or red fire if multiplied by a Devil Deal.

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** One of the Christmas event items is a yellow snowball.

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** One of the Christmas event items is a yellow snowball."[[YellowSnow Lemon flavoured magic snow]]".



** Turned into pumpkins during the Halloween event, and the Christmas event adds presents as a third currency, which drops randomly from houses and are exchangeable for more useful items.

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** Turned into pumpkins during the Halloween event, and the Christmas event adds presents as a third currency, which drops randomly from houses and are exchangeable for more useful items.items.
* YellowSnow: The "Lemon Flavoured Magic Snow" item is a pretty obvious reference to this.
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-->``Like the song says, good guys finish last, and in this case, they also finish homeless and on fire.``
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-->``Like the song says, good guys finish last, and in this case, they also finish homeless and on fire.``
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** One of them runs the Item Dump, and he trades you limited-event items that Bob missed in exchange for diamonds. Either way, he's a SuperStoicShopkeeper.

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** One of them runs the Item Dump, and he trades you limited-event items that Bob missed in exchange for diamonds. Either way, he's He's also a SuperStoicShopkeeper.

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* ButtonMashing: Challenges are smaller levels where the monsters don't attack, all damage is based on Bob's. Cue lots and lots of frenzied clicking, though investing in the appropriate Hell building helps by making his attack a sizeable portion of your total DPS, and you're allowed to use skills and scrolls.

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* ButtonMashing: Challenges are smaller levels [[NoGearLevel where the monsters don't attack, all damage is based on Bob's.Bob's]]. Cue lots and lots of frenzied clicking, though investing in the appropriate Hell building helps by making his attack a sizeable portion of your total DPS, and you're allowed to use skills and scrolls.


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* NoGearLevel: Challenge Levels disallow Minions for their duration, and only allows Bob to participate. Thankfully, one of the buildings in Hell allows him to add a small percent of Bob's minions' total DPS onto his own, but this does mean that lots of ButtonMashing is going to be involved.
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* RighteousRabbit: The inhabitants of Talar Country are rabbit-people, and their guard, king, and wizard actively fight against Bob.
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* TagalongKid: Carl appears to be one, carrying a bag, wearing a kid's cap, having only a single tooth in a kiddish goofy grin, and finally being really irritating even to Bob himself.
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* {{Cyclops}}:
** One of them runs the Item Dump, and he trades you limited-event items that Bob missed in exchange for diamonds. Either way, he's a SuperStoicShopkeeper.
** Another Cyclops who may or may not be the same guy is the one running the [[HolidayMode Christmas Event]] Item Dump, who exchanges presents for unique items.
** Pretty much all the citizens in the Western Swamps are these.


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* FeatheredFiend: The "boss" for the Thanksgiving Challenge is one huge turkey with a huge axe and a NiceHat, and appears to be menacing ''[[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/zombidle/images/a/a5/Zombidle_splashscreen_v1_03_022.png/revision/latest?cb=20161125141816 even to Bob himself]]''.

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''Zombidle'' is [[WebGame online]] [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] IdleGame made by the developers of BerzerkStudio.

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''Zombidle'' is an [[WebGame online]] [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] IdleGame made by the developers of BerzerkStudio.



* AmbiguousGender: The Red Knight's damage-boosting item is lipstick.



* BlingOfWar: The Spectral Knight's damage-boosting item is a brooch, the Swarm of Bats' is a fancy pin, and the Tomb King's is a golden collar.



* ButtonMashing: Challenges are smaller levels where the monsters don't attack, all damage is based on Bob's. Cue lots and lots of frenzied clicking, though investing in the appropriate Hell building helps by making his attack a sizeable portion of your total DPS, and you're allowed to use skills and scrolls.



* CompensatingForSomething: The giant zombie has this as a skill, and has a giant mace as its damage-boosting item.
* CreepyCrossdresser: During the Halloween event, the Big Plague dressed as an old lady, with the loading screen displaying some truly unnecessary ShowSomeLeg on its part... and ''every single one'' of Bob's minions retching or looking disgusted.



* DivinelyAppearingDemons: The Succubus' Halloween costume is an angel.



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Black Lich has an ability called "Son of the Lich". It's pretty obvious what term this is referring to (Son of a Bitch).

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Black Lich has an ability called "Son of the Lich". [[KickTheSonOfABitch It's pretty obvious what term this is referring to (Son of a Bitch).to]].



** Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas introduced new challenges and/or worlds with new loot.

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** Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas introduced new loading screens, challenges and/or worlds with new loot.



* ItemCrafting: The introduction of the Forge (a 3D printer with magic gems rammed into/taped on it) allows the creation of many stat-boosting items, though they take a while to be made.



* MoneyMultiplier: ''Several'' of them, such as items, the Corporate Bank of Capitalism, Red Knight's "Pillage and Plunder", Devil Deal buffs, etc...

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* MinionShipping: One of the Lich's random lines has him ask to be introduced to the Succubus.
* MoneyMultiplier: ''Several'' of them, such as items, the Corporate Bank of Capitalism, Red Knight's "Pillage and Plunder", Devil Deal buffs, etc... One of the scrolls used to give a x10 multiplier, this was later changed to giving 10 diamonds instead.
** Every kingdom has several time portals, which multiply broken orbs by an ever-increasing amount.



* NiceHat: Killing a king for the first time gets you their crown, which can be worn and removes the tenth house (which has a lot more HP than the other nine) per level.



* OvershadowedByAwesome: While averted for the first few runs, it's eventually pointless to invest in/craft items for any but the strongest monsters (and the items can even be sold for orbs).
* PsychopathicManchild: The Squid's damage-boosting item is a teddy bear (that looks like a skeletal statue).



** The Lich's skill doesn't add damage directly, it just doubles the effect of the skill. King's presence ends up doing triple damage while active.
* RuleOfThree: The forge combine three items at a time to create a better version or an entirely new one.



* SlasherSmile: The succubus looks a bit ''too'' happy to offer a DealWithTheDevil.



** The Zombie Horde's first upgrade is "Series/TheWalkingDead".



** The Christmas 2016 event has Bob imitating [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]] on the loading screen, the event is even named "Bob stole Xmas".



* SupportPartyMember: Carl the Monolith. He doesn't deal ''any'' damage at all. He does, however, ''triple'' your entire DPS each time he is purchased/leveled up.

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Carl the Monolith. He doesn't deal ''any'' damage at all. He does, however, ''triple'' your entire DPS each time he is purchased/leveled up.up, though his pricetag is multiplied by 25.
** The cyclops sells event items if you couldn't get them during the event.
** The succubus appears every 5/10 minutes with deals for MoneyMultipliers and other useful spells.



* TheScrappy: InUniverse, Carl the Monolith is apparently just barely tolerated despite his QuadDamage ability. Out-of-universe, he used to be capped at level 10.



* TomeOfEldritchLore: Subverted: The Lich's damage-boosting grimoires are apparently alphabet books.
* UrineTrouble: The Golden Shower of Deathness claims to be lava, but...
** One of the Christmas event items is a yellow snowball.
* VendorTrash: Some items are only worth crafting for their price in white orbs.



* WeirdCurrency: The main currency that Bob the Necromancer obtains is skulls.

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* WeirdCurrency: The main currency that Bob the Necromancer obtains is skulls.skulls.
** Turned into pumpkins during the Halloween event, and the Christmas event adds presents as a third currency, which drops randomly from houses and are exchangeable for more useful items.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Bob and his zombies have green skin (presumably thanks to being undead), while

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Bob and his zombies have green skin (presumably thanks to being undead), while the Succubus has red skin.

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* BonusBoss: Several areas have optional bosses that drop sweet loot when defeated. These bosses, however, tend to be very durable, some being even more powerful than the Wizards themselves!



* SquishyWizard: Inverted- while the enemy kingdom's wizard only participates in bossfights as a bystander, they can actually be fought if the kingdom is brought down- and they're ''the most durable'' enemy within the kingdom, several orders of HP higher than the kings themselves.

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* SquishyWizard: Inverted- while the enemy kingdom's wizard only participates in bossfights as a bystander, they can actually be fought if the kingdom is brought down- and they're ''the most durable'' enemy within the kingdom, kingdom (with the exception of the {{Bonus Boss}}es), several orders of HP higher than the kings themselves.
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* HolidayMode:
** All of Bob's characters got a Halloween costume during Halloween.
** Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas introduced new challenges and/or worlds with new loot.


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* LevelGrinding: Quite present in most areas of the game. Thankfully, the MoneyMultiplier and QuadDamage powerups can relieve this a bit.
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* NephariousPharaoh: The Tomb King is based on an Egyption Pharaoh and he's one of Bob's minions.

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* NephariousPharaoh: The Tomb King is based on an Egyption Egyptian Pharaoh and he's one of Bob's evil minions.
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* DifficultySpike: The King and his guard are ''far'' tougher than any of the citizens' buildings before them. And even if the king goes down easily, the kingdom's Wizard is ''even'' tougher, with over 30 times his health of the king and ''far'' shorter of a time limit!

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* DifficultySpike: The King and his guard are ''far'' tougher than any of the citizens' buildings before them. And even if the king goes down easily, the kingdom's Wizard is ''even'' tougher, with over 30 times his the health of the king and ''far'' shorter of a time limit!

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** The Flying Squid's bears some resemblance to thee UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, and one of its skills is even named "Pastafury".


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** The Flying Squid's bears some resemblance to the UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, and one of its skills is even named "Pastafury".

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* TheBadGuyWins: As the VillainProtagonist, your main job is to make sure this happens by destroying the kingdoms of Goodlandia and assassinating their kings.



* MoneyMultiplier: ''Several'' of them, such as items, the Corporate Bank of Capitalism,

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* MoneyMultiplier: ''Several'' of them, such as items, the Corporate Bank of Capitalism, Red Knight's "Pillage and Plunder", Devil Deal buffs, etc...
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* BossRush: The battle against the Kings has Bob and his monsters face off 25 waves of the King's Guard, each wave having boss-level health and being stronger than the last, before finally facing the King himself.

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* BossRush: The battle against the Kings has Bob and his monsters face off 25 20 waves of the King's Guard, each wave having boss-level health and being stronger than the last, before finally facing the King himself.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Invoked, clicking on a scroll causes the succubus to give the player an offer. It's a pretty one-sided deal, since the player gets an incredible but temporary status buff in exchange for watching a 15 minute advertisement.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Invoked, clicking on a scroll causes the succubus to give the player an offer. It's a pretty one-sided deal, since the player gets an incredible but temporary status buff in exchange for watching a 15 minute 15-second advertisement.
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* DeaderThanDead: If Bob successfully kill the Wizard of a kingdom, they will be permanently replaced by their ghost during bossfights- even after subsequent Time Portal travels.

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* DeaderThanDead: If Bob successfully kill kills the Wizard of a kingdom, they will be permanently replaced by their ghost during bossfights- even after subsequent Time Portal travels.
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* DeaderThanDead: If Bob successfully kill the Wizard of a kingdom, they will be replaced by their ghost during bossfights.

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* DeaderThanDead: If Bob successfully kill the Wizard of a kingdom, they will be permanently replaced by their ghost during bossfights.bossfights- even after subsequent Time Portal travels.

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* SupportPartyMember: Carl the Monolith. He doesn't deal ''any'' damage at all. He does, however, ''triple'' your entire DPS each time he is purchased/leveled up.



* TimeTravel: A mechanic of the game to perform a NewGamePlus. Using a Time Portal repairs broken orbs (which then add to your damage multiplier) but starts you back out at the start of the game. [[spoiler:If all the levels in the kingdom are beaten, Bob will be able to fight the kingdom's wizard if he takes the second Time Portal of the kingdom]].

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* TimeTravel: A mechanic of the game to perform a NewGamePlus. Using a Time Portal repairs broken orbs (which then add to your damage multiplier) but starts you back out at the start of the game.game with no minions. [[spoiler:If all the levels in the kingdom are beaten, Bob will be able to fight the kingdom's wizard if he takes the second Time Portal of the kingdom]].
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* BatOutOfHell: The Swarm of Bats are more demonic eyeballs with bat wings than actual bats.
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''Zombidle'' is [[WebGame online]] [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] IdleGame made by the developers of BerzerkStudio.

The continent of Goodlandia is under attack by [[{{Necromancer}} Bob The Necromancer]] and his horde of [[TheUndead undead]] and [[TheLegionsOfHell demons]], who plan to destroy the towns and castles of the good folk! The guards have united to stop him from destroying the kingdoms one by one before it's too late...

...by the way, [[VillainProtagonist the player controls Bob the Necromancer and his undead army]].

The "enemies" in the game are the houses of good folk, which Bob destroys to obtain skulls as currency to upgrade himself as well as his legions of hell. Along the way, he can collect orbs and items to boost his damage and minions further. Progress is made by destroying enough houses, and at the end of five levels, a "boss" in the form of a blacksmith's union will attempt to stop him in a TimeLimitBoss fight. Once the kingdom is razed, Bob will then be able to dispose of the king and his wizard.

This game can be played [[http://www.zombidle.com/ here]].

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Bob and his zombies have green skin (presumably thanks to being undead), while
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The innocent villagers that escape from destroyed houses are OneHitPointWonder fodder who die in droves. In contrast, the King of the kingdom can take ''far'' more punishment than strongest structure of the kingdom.
* BossRush: The battle against the Kings has Bob and his monsters face off 25 waves of the King's Guard, each wave having boss-level health and being stronger than the last, before finally facing the King himself.
* CapitalismIsBad: Invoked- one of the buildings in Hell is the "Corporate Bank of Capitalism", run by a demon banker. Building and upgrading it gives a permanent MoneyMultiplier.
* CatFolk: The inhabitants of Malgar Realm are cat-people.
* DeaderThanDead: If Bob successfully kill the Wizard of a kingdom, they will be replaced by their ghost during bossfights.
* DealWithTheDevil: Invoked, clicking on a scroll causes the succubus to give the player an offer. It's a pretty one-sided deal, since the player gets an incredible but temporary status buff in exchange for watching a 15 minute advertisement.
* DifficultySpike: The King and his guard are ''far'' tougher than any of the citizens' buildings before them. And even if the king goes down easily, the kingdom's Wizard is ''even'' tougher, with over 30 times his health of the king and ''far'' shorter of a time limit!
* EldritchAbomination: The Flying Squid is more of a multi-eyed tentacled monstrosity than a squid.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Black Lich has an ability called "Son of the Lich". It's pretty obvious what term this is referring to (Son of a Bitch).
* {{Hell}}: Hell exists as a location in the game where Bob can travel to. Over here, he hires demons to build different buildings for him to boost his stats further.
* HornyDevils: The succubus, who offers the player a DealWithTheDevil (gives a boost if they watch an advertisement).
* TheLegionsOfHell: Most of Bob's minions are either undead or minions of hell.
* ManOnFire: Oftentimes, a destroyed building will release flaming citizens who frantically run about. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Clicking]] on them will put them out of their misery and award additional skulls.
* MoneyMultiplier: ''Several'' of them, such as items, the Corporate Bank of Capitalism,
* {{Necromancer}}: Bob the Necromancer. Appropriately enough, he has a horde of undead to do his bidding.
* NephariousPharaoh: The Tomb King is based on an Egyption Pharaoh and he's one of Bob's minions.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: The Black Lich is one of Bob's trusted minions, and a pretty powerful attacker on his own right. He also helps to create items for Bob at the forge.
* QuadDamage: Four of the special skills multiply the damage of certain minions or all of them, but the effect is temporary.
** Blue Specter's special skill "Spectral Repossession" temporarily adds an extra 400% to his damage.
** Flying Squid's ability "Pastafury" temporarily adds an extra 700% to its damage.
** The Tomb King's ability "King's Presence" temporarily adds an extra 100% damage for minions.
** And finally, The Black Lich's "Son of the Lich" ability temporarily doubles the boosts of all of these- meaning that Spectral Repossession adds 800%, Pastafury adds 1400%, and King's Presence triples damage dealt!
* SamusIsAGirl: The Red Knight is actually a female demon under all that armor, since her respective boosting item is ''lipstick''.
* ShoutOut: Several of them.
** An obtainable item is the VideoGame/{{Frantic Frigate|s}}, which acts as a GlobalAirship to perform movement around the world map.
** Blue Specter's unlockable skills are lyrics from ''Music/{{Eiffel 65}}'s'' "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"- "Blue Inside", "Blue Outside", and "Dabadee".
** The Flying Squid's bears some resemblance to thee UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, and one of its skills is even named "Pastafury".
** Pretty much all of the Swarm of Bats' unlockable skills are references to ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' franchise like "POW", "BAM KABOOM", and "NANANANANANA".
** The Tomb King's abilities are "[[VideoGame/{{Spelunker}} Spelunker's Demise]]", "[[Franchise/TombRaider Tomb Rider Raiding]]", "[[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Ark Hiding]]", and "[[Series/GameOfThrones Joffrey was the best]]".
* SquishyWizard: Inverted- while the enemy kingdom's wizard only participates in bossfights as a bystander, they can actually be fought if the kingdom is brought down- and they're ''the most durable'' enemy within the kingdom, several orders of HP higher than the kings themselves.
* TakeThat: The Big Plague's skills are named after increasingly deadly poxes- in order: Chickenpox, Smallpox, [[Music/JustinBieber Bieberpox]], and finally Blackest of Plagues.
* TimeLimitBoss: Every boss in the game is like this, where a time limit counts down. If the boss is not defeated before the time is up, the wizard assisting him will teleport Bob and co back to the previous level for them to try again.
* TimeTravel: A mechanic of the game to perform a NewGamePlus. Using a Time Portal repairs broken orbs (which then add to your damage multiplier) but starts you back out at the start of the game. [[spoiler:If all the levels in the kingdom are beaten, Bob will be able to fight the kingdom's wizard if he takes the second Time Portal of the kingdom]].
* TheUndead: A good number of Bob's monsters, namely the Zombie Horde, Giant Zombie, Blue Specter, The Big Plague, Black Lich, and The Tomb King.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: When a house is destroyed, villagers on fire may escape... and the player can click on them to end them and obtain extra money or even diamonds.
* VillainProtagonist: This game is about Bob the Necromancer and his [[TheLegionsOfHell legions of hell]] destroying the lives and houses of innocent townsfolk. They're the protagonists.
* WeirdCurrency: The main currency that Bob the Necromancer obtains is skulls.

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