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While ''Scribblenauts'' has a simple premise, there's more to it than is immediately obvious. Using [[Reality Writing Book|a magical notepad]], you can write--and summon--almost ''anything'' to the game world to solve puzzles. Call elephants. Call thunder clouds. Call [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|all the zombies you can handle.]] By moving and manipulating objects, solve the puzzles. Of course, there's more ways than just one to solve a puzzle. Got a Starite stuck in a tree? Chop it down. Climb it with a ladder. Get a Lumberjack to help you. Make termites eat it. [[Kill It with Fire]]. In fact, the game prevents you from solving a puzzle the same way more than once until you've beaten it a certain number of times. Not like that's a problem. You have ''everything.''
Prior to the game's September release, the game received some mild hype from various outlets from its extremely ambitious premise. Mild until E3, that is, when game journalists finally got to play it for themselves--and kicked off one of the most ''massive'' hype trains for any portable game ''ever.'' In an entirely unprecedented occurrence, not one but ''three'' major game reporting outlets declared the hand-held ''Scribblenauts'' to be the game of the show--even more remarkable considering that ''none'' of them had ever made such a claim about ''any'' portable game. In a relatively short amount of time, the game went from being known primarily to portable gamers and those who followed portable games to the entire game blogosphere,
See the [http://scribble.wikia.com/ Scribblenauts Wiki]. Also, has its very own (and well deserved) [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything/Scribblenauts|The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything page]].
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**** Type "cow" ("vache"), you get "cow (human)", "cow (mammal)" => the first one is a cop, it's apparently old slang nobody's heard of.
**** Type "rock" ("pierre"), you get "rock (stone)", "rock (nature)", “rock (environment)" => the first one is some unidentified U-shaped object, the second one is a big rock and the third one is a small rock.
**** Type "wall" ("mur"), you get "wall (
*** The list could go on and on as virtually every word is a problem. Thanks for ruining the game.
*** Inverted with the Spanish translation: The Spanish translation is OK, but the dictionary is from the European Spanish dialect, NOT the Latin American ones. Justified, because due to the fact there's many Spanish-speaking countries, using a Latin American dictionary along the European one would be impossible to implement in the game, but If you don't know the European Spanish versions of some words, you're screwed.
** Type in anything (well, almost) it a different language, and go to a different language, the translation is extremely different. (For example, typing chat with
* [[Blob Monster]]: Summoned by typing in "blob".
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Rope-like objects are indispensable (if somewhat touchy) tools for moving things, dragging things, connecting things...
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** Surprising [[Averted Trope|aversion]]: "immortal" does not protect a creature from a "dead potion", although the carcass will be indestructible.
* [[Double Standard]]: Atheist runs from God, but not Goddess (who will try to protect him) in the first game.
* [[Dummied Out]]: A rather poor attempt at it in the first game.. The original's manual mentioned you could buy 30 extra levels from the
* [[Easter Egg]]: Including a literal egg.
** In one puzzle, your objective is to get a group of bad guys into heaven. This can be easily accomplished by {{spoiler|placing a [[Stairway to Heaven|stairway]] near them}}.
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** Averted. You can create a [[No More Heroes|Beam Katana.]]
* [[LOLcats]]: Ceiling Cat, Spaghetti Cat, Longcat, [[Evil Twin|Tacgnol]] and Monorail Cat are all present in this game.
** In fact there are 19, 20 or 21 different kinds of cat, both in breed and in coat
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Blob will destroy any creature, provided said creature is not on fire.
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: "Post 217." Looks like a billboard based on the "ROBOT ZOMBIES" story, {{spoiler|acts like a nuke}}.
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* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: It can jumpstart cars and revive corpses, just to name two uses.
* {{spoiler|[[Literal Minded]]}}: Puzzle level 10-11. Hint: "Write the answer". Answer? "{{spoiler|Answer}}"
** Though other words will work too. {{spoiler|You can use anything that normally summons a false
* [[Made of Explodium]]: Summon a Gas Tank and see what happens if you so much as look at it the wrong way.
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Maxwell can take the same number of hits as a ''baby''.
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*** An unintentional trope cameo is the aforementioned [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Piratic Zombified Robotic Ninja]].
* [[Noodle Implements]]: '''''...the game!'''''
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: Using the Time Machine in ''Super Scribblenauts'' will occasionally send you back to the first stage of the original game. There's another Maxwell (the normal one, not the
*** You can even {{spoiler|kill your past self.}}
** The sequel's last level {{spoiler|ends with writing the answer again, only now you're on [[Recycled in Space|the moon!]]}}
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** Cops will attack anyone {{spoiler|wearing a [[Digital Piracy|pirate hat.]]}}
* [[Planimal]]: You can add "wooden" to anything in the sequel.
* [[Pothole]]: The programmers had a little fun assigning words as synonyms. For example, inputting "Science" will produce {{spoiler|a Large Hadron
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The Neogaf vehicle is powered by a gamer. If you interact with the Neogaf logo instead of riding it, a gamer will pop out and the logo will no longer fly.
* [[Preorder Bonus]]: Maxwell's [[Nice Hat]], as a matter of awesome fact.
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** Another level shout out, though in the sequel, mainly to the [[Super Mario Bros.]].
** Typing "President" summons an [[Barack Obama|African American one]].
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** In Super Scribblenauts, typing "cable guy" will get you [[Larry the Cable Guy|a bearded man wearing jeans, a baseball cap, a vest, and no shirt]].
** Summon a hedgehog and a ring. The hedgehog will run after the ring... [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sounds familiar?]]
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* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Handle the "Nuclear" adjective with extreme care.
* [[Mini Game]]: Summoning the Arcade Machine and using it lets you play a little mini-game where you must defend a wall from falling bombs. You not only get an achievement for doing so, your file also tracks your high score!
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: {{spoiler|The first level from the original game appears as an [[Easter Egg]] - very occasionally, the time machine, instead of taking you where you asked to go, will take you to said level. Maxwell from the past and the
* [[Logic Bomb]]: Averted, typing in contradicting adjectives such as "Blue Yellow Apple" will result in the game ignoring all contradicting adjectives apart from the last one.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: Among many other possibilities, you can add (and remove) wings to any creature or monster with the "winged" and "wingless" adjectives. ([[Cue the Flying Pigs]]?)
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