History WMG / IWannaBeTheGuy

* Strangely, this troper has actually seen an image on [[ImageBoard deviantART]] called "I Wanna Be the Girl". It features girls from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' being attacked by Dracula and the moon while BoundAndGagged, and one of the girls tied to a Delicious Fruit tree. So... yeah?

* OR it leads people to become really really angry, leading their minds to become full of chaos and destruction that they reach Reverse Nirvana, like Axel from AnsemRetort.

[[WMG: The Kid will be in the next [[DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia.]]]]

The Kid knows her way. She knows what she must do. So she heads off to accomplish her goal with all those senseless fears out of the way. No arbitrary barriers block her path. The end is in sight. Her goal is right there. The world still throws things at her, gives her legendary figures, saying that only these can be Guys...only these can be men...but by now The Kid doesn't care. She will not duel with these people. They are just hurdles, just minor roadblocks on the path to the end. And at the very end, the only way to become The Guy she always dreamed of...is through her father. A truly, truly climactic battle for our Kid, her family being the last obstacle to her road. Her father refuses to let her do what she intends, he will stop at nothing until she ceases her futile dream. Oh sure, The Kid can keep going...but in her process, ostracize her family, make them enemies to her. But you know what? If the people she's supposed to love and trust won't agree with her hopes, then they're dead to her as well. She knows she's never been a girl, she knows her blood boils with manly spirit...and with her father blown aside...she finally reaches her dream.

[[WMG:The Kid is SirIsaacNewton]]

[[WMG: The Kid is in love with [[ScottPilgrim Ramona Flowers]]]]

* No no no, [[PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Camp Half-Blood]] created it to find demigods. Anyone who beats it on Impossible obviously has superhuman reflexes and is extremely obsessive.

Let's take an uneccessarily analytical look at this game.

[[WMG: In-universe, all the fangames are the product of [[BanjoKazooie Lord of Games' bidding]]]]

Then came IWannaBeTheFangame and the threat of [[spoiler:Sticky Keys]] loomed near. The Kid, now the new The Guy, finds himself responsible to keep his new domain safe. And then came another fangame, [[FollowTheLeader and another, and another and another]], each one forcing the kid through hell once again, [[VideoGame/MeatBoy even in games he didn't belong]]. The Lord of Games, clearly saw The Kid's ventures were popular and wasn't planning on giving him a break any time soon and kept inventing new , inventive ways to deliver a challenge to the gamers at the cost of The Kid's welfare.

* Strangely, this troper has actually seen an image on [[ImageBoard deviantART]] called "I Wanna Be the Girl". It features girls from ''BlazBlue'' being attacked by Dracula and the moon while BoundAndGagged, and one of the girls tied to a Delicious Fruit tree. So... yeah?

[[WMG:''I Wanna Be The Guy'''s creator is [[BlazBlue Hazama]].]]
The first and most obvious piece of evidence is the heavy usage of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' music. (''Guilty Gear'' being ''BlazBlue'''s [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Predecessor]]) The second piece of evidence is that you can [[KaizoTrap die during the credits]], sort of like how [[spoiler:even if you defeat Hazama, you basically get a DownerEnding.]] The third piece of evidence is The Kid's use of a gun, and that the game itself is very much like MindRape. [[spoiler:How do you think he ''really'' {{Mind Rape}}d Noel? ''By making her play this game!'']] After all that was done, he released the game to the public for [[{{Troll}} shits and giggles]].

[[WMG: The Guy is [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent]]]]

Because he keeps dying and reviving. The Guy has his son's TARDIS, and The Kid is going to get it. And HaruhiSuzumiya is someone else. Because why not?

[[WMG:IWBTG is the game version of ''CaptainN''.]]

* [[TheGame Damn you!]]

[[WMG: the guy who made IWANNABETHEGUY is the BigBad of all lets plays]]
go on youtube. search for "lets play I wanna be the guy". look at how many pages of results there are. now try to find a good one. you can't? of course you can't! he made this game specifically so that thousands of people will make crappy lets plays of it, flooding youtube with their awfulness & overlapping the good ones. now if you wanted people to see your decent LetsPlay's, you'd have to pay $10 for a SA account. oh, yeah, & he brainwashed protonjon into making all those mario ROM hacks, I guess.

** ''[[{{Retsupurae}} Please Stop Let's Playing I Wanna Be]] - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vms1rY9gmZw Thank you God! It stopped you! Look at that - the game doesn't even want you doing this!]]''

Those who complete it will be drafted into the greatest army assembled to fight all sorts of CosmicHorror.

*** What he's specifically talking about are well-known [=LPers=] who, after completing the game, basically quit being well-known [=LPers=]. Two examples I can think of are [=Cloud8745=] and [=UltraJMan=], both of whom are on Main/YouTube. [=Cloud8745=] closed his Main/YouTube account entirely, and [=UltraJMan=], though still active on Main/YouTube, lost a lot of his [=LPer=] clout. Long story short, both of them quit being classy not too long after playing this game.
**** [=UltraJMan=] also became ''very'' embittered with the LP community as a whole, essentially becoming a bane to both the Main/YouTube ''and'' Main/SomethingAwful LP communities. So, clearly, the game was created with a curse preventing anyone from trying to speedrun and/or LP it, lest their will be broken and they either vanish from the face of the internet or fall into Main/SmallNameBigEgo madness.

All Guys are {{Badass}}, and let's face it, you've never seen him so {{Badass}} before or since this game (Well, also VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy and SuperSmashBros, but that's a whole other story).

The first and most obvious piece of evidence is the heavy usage of ''GuiltyGear'' music. (''Guilty Gear'' being ''BlazBlue'''s [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Predecessor]]) The second piece of evidence is that you can [[KaizoTrap die during the credits]], sort of like how [[spoiler:even if you defeat Hazama, you basically get a DownerEnding.]] The third piece of evidence is The Kid's use of a gun, and that the game itself is very much like MindRape. [[spoiler:How do you think he ''really'' {{Mind Rape}}d Noel? ''By making her play this game!'']] After all that was done, he released the game to the public for [[{{Troll}} shits and giggles]].

[[AC:Main/IWannaBeTheGuy]]

The idea is that the events of IWBTG take place entirely inside The Kid's imagination. In reality, he lives with his highly abusive father and copes with the pain by playing classic Nintendo games. Thus, these games form the backdrop of his imagined adventure in which he, equipped only with his very small gun (because he's just a kid and FreudWasRight), seeks to defeat his father and upgrade to a much larger gun, thus becoming The Guy (that is, a man) and leaving his tragic childhood behind.

* <Kayin> IWBTG DEFINITELY has freudian themes though. I dunno about the rest though

Upon defeating his "father", The Guy warped space and time to protect himself from anyone who might challenge his position. This also brought ''his past self'' into the battle; who made the same assumption that this was his father, and that his father killed "his" father. The Kid kills The Guy, who then becomes the Guy and is killed in retaliation by the Kid.

* No no no, [[PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Camp Half-Blood]] created it to find demigods. Anyone who beats it on Impossible obviously has superhuman reflexes and is extremely obsessive.

Practically all of the [[Main/LetsPlay Let's Players]] who tried to play this game either gave up partway through or stopped being a part of the Let's Play community shortly after completion. Obviously, there's something in the game's coding that saps away at the initiative and motivation of whoever plays it.

*** What he's specifically talking about are well-known [=LPers=] who, after completing the game, basically quit being well-known [=LPers=]. Two examples I can think of are [=Cloud8745=] and [=UltraJMan=], both of whom are on {{Main/YouTube}}. [=Cloud8745=] closed his {{Main/YouTube}} account entirely, and [=UltraJMan=], though still active on {{Main/YouTube}}, lost a lot of his [=LPer=] clout. Long story short, both of them quit being classy not too long after playing this game.

Where else could such stupid stuff happen but in the Homestar Runner univirse?
Anyway, The Kid remains as "The Guy" untill sometime around the year 20X6, when Stinkoman beats him and becomes the new "The Guy".

* That must be his plan - the line quoted above runs in full "You're The Guy, Stinkoman. IWannaBeTheGuy too!" When 1-up makes his move, Stinkoman will have to kill him, or die.

All Guys are {{Badass}}, and let's face it, you've never seen him so {{Badass}} before or since this game (Well, also VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy and SuperSmashBros, but that's a whole other story).

* Strangely, this troper has actually seen an image on [[ImageBoard deviantART]] called "I Wanna Be the Girl". It features girls from ''{{BlazBlue}}'' being attacked by Dracula and the moon while BoundAndGagged, and one of the girls tied to a Delicious Fruit tree. So... yeah?

The first and most obvious piece of evidence is the heavy usage of ''GuiltyGear'' music. (''Guilty Gear'' being ''{{BlazBlue}}'''s [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Predecessor]]) The second piece of evidence is that you can [[KaizoTrap die during the credits]], sort of like how [[spoiler:even if you defeat Hazama, you basically get a DownerEnding.]] The third piece of evidence is The Kid's use of a gun, and that the game itself is very much like MindRape. [[spoiler:How do you think he ''really'' {{Mind Rape}}d Noel? ''By making her play this game!'']] After all that was done, he released the game to the public for [[{{Troll}} shits and giggles]].

The story didn't end after The Kid defeated The Guy.

It makes sense that L.O.G. created I Wanna Be The Guy when bored and as a kind of deranged joke to piss people off. He wanted it done quickly so he threw content from his other creations into the mix along with few original content. He didn't expect it to be popular , but after he found out people liked it, he went off to create more sequels to the game, not caring wether the kid wanted to keep going or not.

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