Line #18 VideoGame/Skinny


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.

Context VideoGame / Skinny