Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley: Difference between revisions

* [[Animated Actors]]

* [[Animesque]]: Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids.

* [[Art Shift]]: More or less the main gimmick, as each comic has Captain Smiley and Star change their outfit to fit in with the comic.

* [[Aside Glance]]: When Mistress Ropes summons [[Splosion Man|the Meat Monster in the final stage]], she gives an exasperated look towards the audience whenever it starts eating itself.

* [[Bishie Sparkle]] and [[Petal Power]]: Not seen on-screen, but Brad complains about sparkles and rose petals appearing around him when he's trapped in Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids.

* [[Book Ends]]: The game starts with Smiley trying to foil a bank robbery by Doctor Winklemeyer and getting into a fight with Brad and his army of Bradbots, leading to Smiley getting into a fight with Star and punching him repeatedly, with a cut to several real life people destroying his comic book in disgust, and ending with the [[Twisted Pixel]] dev team looking at the comic and getting an idea. {{spoiler|It ends with Smiley foiling the bank robbery again, this time killing Winklemeyer before going on a rampage, killing the rest of his rogue's gallery while fighting through an army of Bradbots, leading to Smiley getting into a fight with Star and punching him repeatedly, with a cut to the same real life people now loving Smiley's comic, ending with the [[Twisted Pixel]] dev team looking at the comic and nodding in approval while they stand in the middle of a giant pile of money.}}

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Captain Smiley. At one point [[Squick|it becomes literal.]]

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: The manga stages are full of it, naturally.

* [[Fourth Wall Observer]]

* [[Friends Rent Control]]: [[Justified]], because Twisted Pixel (the game's developers) paid for the base. Somehow.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Brad gives every appearance of being a shallow, egotistical [[Jerk Jock]], but apparently he has constructed his own robotic harem of shallow blondes to service him, a high tech battle helicopter and even produced his own theme music. Insipid he might be, but he's certainly not without talents.

* [[Genki Girl|Genki Girls]]: Pretty much every schoolgirl in Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids.

* [[I Know Madden Kombat]]: The Puttmaster.

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: The Captain, right at the beginning in a wonderfully narmy [[Establishing Character Moment]] with Gerda at the receiving end.

** At the end of the game, he finally learns that it's not all about him. {{spoiler|It's also about explosions. Explosions and trite, poorly timed catch phrases blatantly robbed from films. And bathroom humor. And maybe some exposed female flesh, too. But definitely explosions.}}

* [[Japanese Stock Phrases]]: A 'sugoi' is dropped at one point in Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids.

* [[Jerkass]]: Every character to a certain degree, although Star probably the most. His entire life is apparently spent annoying and undermining Smiley while providing no help at all. He even takes giddy delight when {{spoiler|Smiley accidentally murders an innocent old man at the beginning of Nanoc's comic.}}

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: [[Zig Zagging Trope]]. During the whole game, Smiley appears as a pure and unadultered [[Jerkass]], only caring about his image and money. But he's also shown feeling awful about killing {{spoiler|an innocent old man and crashing his funeral}}. He then really try to understand [[Straw Feminist|Miss Ropes]] and calm her down instead of shooting her. Finally, there is his relationship with her sidekick Gerda. It's obvious he doesn't respect her at all, laughing at her when she's about to get {{spoiler|exploded in a sea of TNT}} but she never tried to earn it, mocking and insulting him repeatedly during his missions. Strangely, he genuinely cares about Star when he seems to feel sick, even if the guy had no problem before to show he literally ''hates'' him.

** {{spoiler|Even the ''dev team'' is implied to be killed when their pet monkey throws a stick of dynamite into the giant pile of money they're standing in.}}

* [[Love Bubbles]]: Smiley's gun fires them in the Manga segments, {{spoiler|until Brad gives Smiley real bullets.}}

* [[Mecha-Mooks]]: Brad builds his own [[Valley Girl]] henchmen/groupies, called the Bradbots. Star approves.

** "You can make them do anything you want! Heh heh!"

* [[More Dakka]]: Smiley's gun fighting method has much more to do with saturation than finesse. {{spoiler|In the final stage his default pistols are upgraded into an even more potent form with a three foot long muzzle flare.}}

* [[My Suit Is Also Super]]: And it comes with a wisecracking face called Star.

* [[Narrow Parody]]: Twisted Pixel's idea of what constitutes Bishojo manga is [[Did Not Do the Research|fairly off the mark]], but [[Rule of Funny|for obvious reasons]]. Smiley even [[Lampshade Hanging|admits it]] when the Heart Bats show up and attack.

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Apparently Origami Kid was missing this whole time because he was off having wacky time travel-related adventures.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Gerda and Nordya

* [[The Power of Love]]: Manga!Smiley's guns shoot hearts and bubbles, until he finally finds some real bullets and can start actually killing things.

* [[Purely Aesthetic Era]]: More like "purely aesthetic comic book genre". The gameplay is varied, but what comic genre you're in doesn't seem to make a difference; Smiley still shoots his guns, destroys homing missiles, has projectiles shot/thrown at him, and so on.

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: The Bradbots. Well, they're about as "human" as anyone else in the game, anyway.

* [[Smug Super]]: Smiley himself.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Nanoc

** There's also an announcement made to all Twisted Pixel staff to stop using pop culture references, as nobody thinks they're funny. Plus they can't afford the lawsuits.

* [[Talking to Himself]]: The same guy, [[Christopher Sabat]], voices Captain Smiley and Star.

* [[Thud and Blunder]]: Nanoc the Obliviator's world.

* [[The Unfought]]: Dr. Winklemeyer

** {{spoiler|Well, being trapped in a Shoujo manga for three issues being a teacher when you were a super-villian in your previous job can break you down really bad.}}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Captain Smiley and Star... possibly.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: Paper Lad, who's basically a sentient wad of paper than can turn into other types of paper.

** Smiley and Brad agree with this trope when they reach the Manga section.

* [[Where It All Began]]: The final level is a repeat of the first, but changed to be more awesome.

* [[X Meets Y]]: It's essentially an amalgam of ''[[Comix Zone]]'', ''[[Gunstar Heroes]]'' and ''[[Sin and Punishment]]'', with Twisted Pixel's own brand of self-indulgent comedy by way of ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]''.