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* [[Beware the Silly Ones]] - Vile. [[Genre Blindness|genre-blind]] buffoon he may be, but he's a very tough [[Final Boss]].

* [[Brick Joke]]: Subverted - Zack's refusal to play the Jackomo card game is itself a [[Running Gag]], but {{spoiler|when Zack & Lin-Ku reach Vile & promise to defeat him, Vile asks if they have several powerful weapons & pieces of armour. Zack then asks how they could get that stuff, and Vile responds with "By winning the Jackomo card game tournament!"}}

* [[Butt Monkey]] - Johnson gets turned into a turtle. A ''turtle''.

* [[Captain Ersatz]] - Essentially every character. Carries over into Adventures. See [[Shout-Out]].

*** In one of the later web-toons, his bedroom has a certificate mounted on the wall, congratulating him for making it to level 99.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]] - The Visual Visor

* [[Creator Cameo]] - Ed Glaser plays "[[Metroid|Justin Bailey]]", Vile's employee, as well as the voice of {{spoiler|the lair's self-destruct mechanism.}} Writer Kevin Folliard, in addition to voicing Lin-Ku, also has a brief appearance as "[[Pitfall|Jungle Jerry]]".

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]] - Did you know the ancient prophecy was made by an ancient prophet?

* [[Everything's Deader with Zombies]] - The abandoned research facility was hit with a "zombie virus".

* [[Exposition Fairy]] - Zippy, bringing you a big healthy dose of [[Stop Helping Me!]].

* [[Face Palm]] - Sam does quite a few of these.

* [[Fangs Are Evil]] - Vile.

* {{spoiler|[[Forgotten Fallen Friend]] - After Zack kills Zippy...no one ever mentions him, or the incident. Again. Ever. In any way. Even Sam, who actually liked Zippy, and ends up dating Zack, never brings it up. You'd think you'd care if your significant other killed your pet...}}

** {{spoiler|Actually, Vile had changed the channel on his viewscreen at that time, so Sam never saw Zack kill Zippy. Still doesn't explain why she hasn't questioned what happened to him.}}

** {{spoiler|He later shows up in hell.}}

* [[Guide Dang It]] - The final battle would have been MUCH easier on the heroes if only they'd done the Jackamo card game sidequest.

* [[Hammerspace]] - How [[Press Start]] explains <s>[[Kirby]]'s</s> Zippy's ability to eat things and then shoot them out of his mouth as an energy blast.

* [[Intimate Healing]] - The 'Life Lady', taken right out of [[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]].

* [[Izchaks Wrath]] - Lin-Ku axes the shopkeeper to see if he had NPC Invulnerability, and he later shows up as the third guardian.

* [[La Résistance]] - As straight as it could possibly be played.

* [[Laughably Evil]] - Again, Count Vile.

* [[MacGuffin]] - The Ancient Relics.

* [[Only Sane Man]] - Johnson. Carries over to the [[Animated Adaptation]].

* [[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]] - Zack.

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] - How the creator describes the Resistance.

* [[Rule of Fun]] - Apparently, how the movie was made on such a low budget.

* [[Shout-Out]] - Arguably half the fun of the movie. Too many games are referenced to name.

* [[Take That]] - The [[Bland-Name Product|CrazyFeline]] game controller is called "a third party piece of crap". The Visual Visor to the Virtual Boy.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]] - "Game over, you son of a bitch."

* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]] - Subverted and played straight. Lin-ku pulls this when fighting Captain Psychodri- I mean G. Foreman. However, Zack and Sam have no problem letting the murderous ninja do the fighting for him. Played straight when Zack tries to intervene in the fight, but Sam stops him.

* [[Took a Shortcut]] - The Shopkeeper continually shows up wherever the heroes go. Including a secret passage Sam discovers by blowing up a wall. It gets lampshaded.

* [[Warp Zone]] - Zack and Lin-ku would've had to go through some terrible places to get to Vile's Lair. Instead, they opt out for one of these.

** Referenced in the [[Animated Adaptation]].

Johnson: Sir, that was your [[Brick Joke|Berry Blast Sports Drink]]. }}

* [[When Trees Attack]] - Voiced by Egoraptor even!

 

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=== The [[Animated Adaptation]] provides examples of ===

* [[And I Must Scream]] - The Dark Mages have no mouths. And they certainly won't have mouths once they're [[Nightmare Fuel|frozen into a pillar]].

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - Vile doesn't mind that you've shot fireballs at him or knocked a statue on top of him. He only cares that you've altered <s>his crayon drawings</s> his blueprints.

** Additionally, Handy, Candy, Dandy, and Ruth.

* [[Femme Fatale]] - Morgan le Slay, succubus and Vlad's sidekick/assistant.

Morgan: To wear or to look at? }}

* [[Fetch Quest]] - The entirety of "Side Quest".

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Princess Xanna lampshades it when she complains about how she couldn't have gotten a stealthy ninja.

{{quote|Lin-Ku: [[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|Well, excuuuuuuse me, princess!]]}}

* [[Mineral MacGuffin]]: The Omnicrystal.

* [[No Export for You]]/[[Sequel Displacement]]: Parodied - The film's tagline states that ''Press Start 2'' is "''Press Start 4'' in Japan".

* [[Punny Name]]: ''Press Start 2 Continue''

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Sam's original actress, Lauren Chambers has been replaced by Jennifer Zahn. They get around this by having Sam keep the helmet on.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Or purple, in the case of Morgan Le Slay.

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