History VideoGame / AmateurSurgeon

''Amateur Surgeon'' is a series of medical-based action puzzle video games developed by Creator/{{MediaTonic}} and published by Creator/{{AdultSwim}} for Flash and mobile ports (or to put it simply, ''Videogame/TraumaCenter'' with idiots). The series is mainly centered around former pizza deliverer Alan Probe and his life after entering his dream job world of surgery, with latter installments introducing his disciples and successors. The games provide plenty of examples of BlackComedy and gross-out humor with an unique difficulty curve, easily seen with Alan's arsenal of improvised medical tools. The most iconic of these is a pizza cutter, which he and other playable characters in the games use as a scalpel.

* AscendedFanboy: A Let's Play Website/YouTube channel that made videos for the whole series, Waffle Bros (then known as Spicywaffle), was given a cameo in the fourth game. In a side story surgery on Iron Wang, you have to extract a waffle with chili peppers on it, which is a reference to Waffle Bros' channel logo.

* ChristmasEpisode: ''Christmas Edition''.

-->[[spoiler:'''Hubris:''' ''(to Ignacious)'' I was my father's child, with a touch of bleed... And you were almost pure Ignacious - but with a touch of the obscene!]]

* TwoDonorClone: As the former tells on their first meeting in the fourth game, [[spoiler:Hubris and Bleed II were created from a combination of Bleed and Dwayne's DNA]], a fact that Ophelia had been trying to hide from [[spoiler:Ignacious]] via making him think that [[spoiler:he was just a pure clone of Bleed]]. For this reason, [[spoiler:both share Bleed's surgical talent and Dwayne's bug infestations]]. [[spoiler:Hubris also treats Ignacious as if he was his brother, much like how he refers to Dwayne as his father.]]

* TwoDonorClone: As the former tells on their first meeting in the fourth game, [[spoiler:Hubris and Bleed II were created from a combination of Bleed and Dwayne's DNA]], a fact that Ophelia had been trying to hide from [[spoiler:Ignacious]] via making him think that [[spoiler:he was just a pure clone of Bleed]]. For this reason, [[spoiler:both share Bleed's surgical talent and Dwayne's bug infections]]. [[spoiler:Hubris also treats Ignacious as if he was his brother, much like how he refers to Dwayne as his father.]]

* LikeASonToMe: Inverted with [[spoiler:Hubris, Dwayne's clone. While he's aware of how they're actually related and has clarified it once, Hubris commonly refers to Dwayne as his "father" for having his DNA, although how close they really were is never elaborated upon.]]

* LikeAFatherToMe: Inverted with [[spoiler:Hubris, Dwayne's clone. While he's aware of how they're actually related and has clarified it once, Hubris commonly refers to Dwayne as his "father" for having his DNA, although how close they really were is never elaborated upon.]]

* FirstNameBasis: In the fourth game, to distinguish him from the original Bleed (who had a LastNameBasis in contrast), Bleed II is referred to as "Ignacious" by himself, other characters and the game itself.

* TwoDonorClone: As the former tells on their first meeting in the fourth game, [[spoiler:Hubris and Bleed II are clones created from a combination of the original Dr. Ignacious Bleed and Dwayne Pipe's DNA]], a fact that Ophelia had been trying to hide from [[spoiler:Ignacious]] via making him think that [[spoiler:he was just a pure clone of Bleed]]. For this reason, [[spoiler:both share Bleed's surgical talent and Dwayne's bug infections]]. [[spoiler:Hubris also treats Ignacious as if he was his brother, much like how he refers to Dwayne as his father.]]

* EasilyElected: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the cutscene after [[spoiler:Dwayne]]'s final surgery in the second game. Bradley questions how [[spoiler: a convicted murderer]] was able to win the US presidential election [[spoiler: while disguised, despite having already been arrested once and become one of the most wanted criminals after he escaped prison]]. In response, Alan tells Bradley to not think much about such a "PlotHole".

** Required in Karl Puccino's surgery in the first game (specifically, once you get inside him). Karl is a coffee addict, and as a result, his heart rate gets faster as time passes, rather than slower. You have to remove the coffee beans and drain (and suction out) the poison to stabilize his heart rate, then heal all the cuts you had to make. Dr. Bleed warns that the slightest injury (that means ''any'' unnecessary damage) will kill Karl. He will also die if you let his heart rate get to 200. Add that to the fact that each patient is a TimedMission anyway, and you've got yourself a NintendoHard level.

* EasilyElected: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the cutscene after [[spoiler:Dwayne]]'s final surgery in the second game. Bradley questions how [[spoiler: a convicted murderer]] was able to win the US presidential election [[spoiler: while disguised, despite having already been arrested once and become one of the most wanted criminals after he escaped prison]]. In response, Alan tells him to not think much about such a "PlotHole".

* EasilyElected: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the cutscene after [[spoiler:Dwayne]]'s final surgery in the second game. Bradley questions how [[spoiler: a convicted murderer]] was able to win the US presidential election [[spoiler: while disguised, despite having already been arrested once and become one of the most wanted criminals after he escaped prison]].

-->'''Alan''': ''[refering to the procedure done on Tommy Gracefuls, who crashed through a window]'' Multiple extractions were required to fix the [[{{Pun}} pain in the glass.]]

-->'''Alan''': ''[refering to the procedure done on a patient who crashed through a window]'' Multiple extractions were required to fix the [[{{Pun}} pain in the glass.]]

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Let's see... you use a pizza cutter to cut into organs, a stapler to stitch a wound together, a chainsaw to cut out bones and organs, and a syringe to suck out poison. You can also perform transplants on vital organs such as hearts, brains, and stomachs and fasten bones together using nothing but the chainsaw, a lighter, and some healing gel. Some surgeries even involve using a car battery, and it won't harm the patient at all as long as you aim it correctly. Basically, any injury that would otherwise require more serious medical attention in real life can be fixed in this game with simple household objects with no ill-effects. Granted, [[RuleOfFun if the games were realistic, then they wouldn't be fun]].

* AssistCharacter: The third game onward features Tag Team Partners, who can grant various abilities, such as healing the patient for a set amount of health, stopping time and even bringing the patient back to life with voodoo magic.
* AscendedFanboy: A Let's Play Website/YouTube channel that made videos for the whole series, Waffle Bros (then known as Spicywaffle), was given a cameo in the fourth game. In a side story surgery on Iron Wang, you have to extract a waffle with chili peppers on it, which is a reference to Waffle Bros' channel logo.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the second game, Alan tells Bradley that they made a video game about him at the height of his fame. Bradley claims that he played it, but laments that he never got the hang of the corkscrew and hopes that if a sequel is ever made they replace it with "something less awful." Then they both [[AsideGlance wordlessly look at the player]]. This is from the intro cutscene to the level that introduces the syringe, which replaces the corkscrew from the first game.

* EasilyElected: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the cutscene after [[spoiler:Dwayne]]'s final surgery in the second game. Bradley questions how [[spoiler: a convicted mass murderer]] was able to win the US presidential election [[spoiler: while disguised, despite having already been arrested once and become one of the most wanted criminals after he escaped prison]].
-->'''Bradley:''' I had no idea the president [[spoiler:was the bad guy]]! I mean, how does [[spoiler:a criminal imprisoned for MURDER rampage manage to get out of jail, disguise his identity]], and then run for, and become, president of the United States?

* VigilanteMan: Across the late second act and most of the third act in the first game, Alan patches up returning patients from earlier in the game, who this time are the victims of a rampaging vigilante [[spoiler: whose parents turn out to be among the people who died in the Old Hospital fiasco.]]

* WomenAreWiser: Ophelia is the only female protagonist of the series, and perhaps the only character in the series with anything resembling common sense.

* ''Amateur Surgeon 3: Tag Team Trauma'' (August 8, 2013): The first game to be released exclusively for mobile devices (the previous two main games were released simultaneously for Flash and mobile). Set around the same time as ''Christmas Edition'', the game deals with Alan's first known student, Ophelia Payne, who's tasked to treat people in surreal places around the world.

* MeatGrinderSurgery: The ''Amateur Surgeon'' series is based all around this since the main character is a Back-Alley Doctor with a talent for improvising. Why use a scalpel when you have a pizza cutter? Lighters can cauterize pretty well, can't they? Surely a Chainsaw would make for a perfect bone saw, right?
** [[SerialEscalation Who needs a syringe when you've got a corkscrew?]] Poison can be cured with a few nicks to the area and a vacuum cleaner just fine, see? Who cares if the patient's heart stops, we can just shock them back with this car battery I found!

** Alan becomes pretty much a good guy version of this from ''Christmas Edition'' onwards.

* CerebusRetcon: The opening scene of the game, featuring a drunk Dr. Bleed getting run over by Alan Probe since the latter was reading a magazine while driving a pizza van? [[spoiler: [[BungledSuicide That was a suicide attempt.]] Believing himself to be wholly responsible for the [[MyGreatestFaliure Old Hospital Fiasco]] and high off his ass on cough syrup, Bleed threw himself in front of the pizza van.]] It's a good thing the magazine was tangentially related to surgery, at least.