1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skinny_opening.png]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:The opening dream. Oh, and the player is that creepy-looking robot to the right.]] |
3 | Our hero, Skinny wakes up from a seemingly ideal dream, to be greeted by the enigmatic mechanical being calling herself "Mama". She tasks him to find the batteries powering the [[LotusEaterMachine chairs]] into which her "little-ones" are strapped. However, the batteries were stolen by a little boy called Felix. Skinny begins his quest, but starts questioning Mama's motives. |
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5 | This WebGame was released on June 21st, 2009, and can be played [[https://armorgames.com/play/11848/skinny here]]. Oh, and its developer went on to create ''VideoGame/{{Pinstripe}}''. |
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7 | !! Tropes present in this game: |
8 | * AfterTheEnd: Natch. Mama mentions a "global nuclear power war" as the cause of it all. |
9 | * AntiHero: Felix wants to free people from the System, but he's perfectly content with Skinny reconnecting them if they bother him too much. |
10 | * BigBad: Mama. |
11 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: Giant spiders that steal your batteries. |
12 | * [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: The game ends with Skinny entering Mama's lair to confront her. We never see how it goes.]] |
13 | * BlackAndGrayMorality: The vaguely-positive characters are: a robot who (although with good intention) cables people into a LotusEaterMachine, a little girl who mocks the robot constantly, a little boy who wants to free the mind of people by violently ripping them out of the System, causing them to go mad, and a man having random fits of rage who chooses to go back into the System to keep everyone safe from himself. Mama is ''much'' worse. |
14 | * CrapsackWorld: The world is a desolate mishmash of ruined buildings, only populated by vicious mutant spiders, people cabled up to [[LotusEaterMachine The System,]] a few runaway children and of course, the omnipresent [[EvilMatriarch Mama.]] |
15 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: The foreground, including all the characters and useful objects, are all the deepest shade of black, while the backgrounds are much more brightly colored. |
16 | * DeusEstMachina: Suggested with Mama. [[spoiler:Likely untrue, as Felix mentions her also having a System chair, implying she might also be human.]] |
17 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: One of the "little ones", apparently a televangelist or a preacher, makes a comment on how the Devil lives in the television. Quite ironic considering where he himself actually is. |
18 | * EvilMatriarch: Mama. |
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20 | * [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Skinny.]] |
21 | * ImAHumanitarian: Apparently, this is one of the effects stemming from withdrawal from the System. One of the "little-ones" threatens Skinny with eating him before getting reconnected to the System, and Blake mentions that he attempted to bite Felix's head off in a fit of rage. |
22 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shirley gives Skinny a deriding nickname and reminds him constantly how creepy and scary he looks. Still, she relays a lot of useful information to him [[spoiler:and ultimately motivates him to perform a HeelFaceTurn]]. |
23 | * JerkassWoobie: Almost everyone who has been disconnected from the System. The exceptions are those who have [[GoMadFromTheRevelation gone completely nuts,]] [[HeroicMime Skinny]] and Blake. |
24 | * [[spoiler:LotusEaterMachine]] One of the main points of the plot and apparently it is your job to fix them. |
25 | * MinimalistCast |
26 | * TheNicknamer: Shirley nicknames Skinny "Skinny Knees". |
27 | * NotHimself: Pick any of the "little-ones". |
28 | ** This is also the reason Blake wants to go back into the System. |
29 | * WhamLine: Felix delivers one near the end. |
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