History VideoGame / BanjoKazooie

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Mumbo's Mountain, Clanker's Cavern, and Mad Monster Mansion in ''Kazooie''; Cloud Cuckooland, Glitter Gulch, Witchy World, and the Golden Goliath in ''Tooie''; and Trophy Thomas in ''Nuts and Bolts''.
** This is Rareware for crying out loud, they're quite fond of this trope.

* FunWithAcronyms: One of ''Banjo-Kazooie'''s "Disinformation Central" rumors is about about Gruntilda going back in time with her giant [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar T.I.T]] (Time Interfering Truck). [[http://www.rare.co.uk/company/news_disinf08.html Here's the link]].
** What about the Big O' Blaster from ''Tooie''?

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Tooie'' compared to the first game, though it's arguably even more self-aware and silly despite that.

*** Heck, he does a little bit in Tooie, too.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Grunty's Code Vengeance is a sign that she hates when the player tries to cheat using codes not already learned from Cheeto, and threatens to erase the Game Pak if the player doesn't stop. '''[[ProveIAmNotBluffing Which she actually does.]]'''

** Speaking of Grunty, you could also say [[EveryoneHasStandards Even The Disgusting Have Standards]]. Grunty enjoys cuddling a loogie-filled handkerchief in bed, wearing streaky brown undies, and blowing bubbles out of her butt at parties, but when the heroic duo venture into a [[AnimateInanimateObject talking toilet]] to collect a Jiggy from Mad Monster Mansion's septic tank, that's where she draws the line!

** And in an "Even Jerkasses Have Standards" moment, at one point in ''Tooie,'' Kazooie has to hatch a baby pterodactyl egg. One of them is so fat, it can't fly. Her father asks if Kazooie can't just shoot it with a grenade egg, causing Kazooie to immediately chastise him for his heartlessness. (He's joking, mostly, and says later he'll try to come up with an exercise program for her.)

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Grunty's Code Vengeance is a sign that she hates when the player tries to cheat using codes not already learned from Cheeto.

*** [[ProveImNotBluffing Which she actually does]] - not the entire Game Pak mind you, but the save file you were using will be gone upon restarting the game, even if you use the "Save & Quit" option. Hey, you were warned.

* NoFairCheating: There are three kinds of "Cheats" in the original: "Cheats" which are just item capacity upgrades, which you get from Cheato anyway, "Infinite Item" cheats which give you unlimited Feathers/Eggs/air/whatever, and special "Bypass" cheats that let you get through parts of Grunty's Lair. But be warned--using more than two of the "bypass"-style cheats will result in Grunty deleting the offending save file.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Grunty's Code Vengeance is a sign that she hates when the player tries to cheat.

* NoFairCheating: There are three kinds of "Cheats" in the original: "Cheats" which are just item capacity upgrades, which you get from Cheato anyway, "Infinite Item" cheats which give you unlimited Feathers/Eggs/air/whatever, and special "Bypass" cheats that let you get through parts of Grunty's Lair. But be warned--using more than two of the "bypass"-style cheats will result in Grunty deleting your game.

* SillinessSwitch: An EasterEgg MiniGame in the original would give you several cheat codes that changed Banjo's appearance, ranging from giving him a giant head to making his body long and skinny. The final one turned him into a washing machine.

** Believe it or not, but there was actually a point to completing that EasterEgg MiniGame. You could perform a cheat that went like this: Skip being transformed in Mumbo's Mountain, complete all of Bottle's puzzles, and enter the Washing Machine code on the Sandcastle floor, and then go back to Mumbo's Mountain, and the transformation would be free, not requiring a single Mumbo Token at all.
*** In the second game, the washing machine was a regular transformation (specifically for Grunty Industries.) Oh, and to add more silliness, the washing machine fired underwear and operated ''service elevators''.

** Granted however, this may or may not come back to haunt you when you have to fight Gruntilda, who is a mix of FinalBoss and ThatOneBoss in both games, without any real experience in handling boss fights.

* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: The very first Jiggy Banjo and Kazooie collect in the first game, right at the entrance of Gruntilda's Lair, [[LiveItem tells them]] that the objective of it and the other Jiggies in the game is to open new levels. Good thing that Jiggy was instantly available, and that the first world only requires one.

* MidBattleTeaBreak: During the heated final battle of Banjo-Tooie, Grunty will sometimes give a surprise quiz question, hurting you if you lose, but surrendering a honeycomb if you get the question right.

** The Lord of Games in ''Nuts and Bolts'' claims to have had great pleasure in making the [[ThatOneSidequest Canary Mary sidequest]].

** ''Nuts & Bolts'' has some references to ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'' being a commercial failure and admits that the bird and bear don't have as many games as "[[SuperMarioBros that Italian gentleman]]".

** The Lord of Games in ''Nuts and Bolts'' claims to have had great pleasure in making the Canary Mary sidequest.

* {{Metroidvania}}: ''Tooie'' is a [[IncrediblyLamePun rare]] 3D example.

** Witchyworld is more "Always Twilight".
*** Witchyworld is also a strange case in that the main outdoor area has a dark, starry sky, but the Crazy Castle Stockade inside the Wild West Zone has a bright blue sky and brightly-lit desert scenery. Of course, the whole area could really be indoors and artificially lit, but the effect can still be confusing.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: King Jingaling.

** Gruntilda's nicer sister Brentilda also vanished after the first game, aside from a portrait of her appering in Pawno's Emporium. Her sisters don't even mention her.

* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Though the entire setting of Banjo-Kazooie qualifies for this trope (see below), special mention goes to the stage ''named'' Cloudcuckooland in ''Banjo-Tooie''.

* AbnormalAmmo - One of Kazooie's signature abilities is firing eggs like bullets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNpc8jwjAI Out of her mouth. And her butt]].
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer - Clanker's Cavern certainly seems to be a sewer of ''some'' description. It's full of pipes, anywho. Then there's the ''Clinker's'' Cavern sidequest in the second game where you shoot at... faecal blockages in the... air conditioning?

* AdventureDuo - Banjo and Kazooie, of course.

* AliensAreBastards - In ''Tooie'', you find a UFO in the bottom of a lagoon, power their ship back up for them, bring one of them ''back from the dead'' after a nasty fall, warm up one of their children stuck on a icy, high cliff, find another two alien kids encased in ice, one of which you had to bring back to life as well, and to top it all off, only for two Jiggies. After all that, the alien dad states he has to exterminate you for taking so long.

* AlternateHistory - The plot of ''Grunty's Revenge,'' which was originally supposed to take place in an alternate future from the one in ''Banjo-Tooie,'' though it was since changed to be set between the first two games. This would normally make it an AlternateContinuity, until the TimeyWimeyBall rolls into town...
* AlwaysNight - Mad Monster Mansion and Freezeezy Peak in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and Witchyworld in ''Banjo-Tooie''. Bubblegloop Swamp has a pitch-black "sky", but it's not clear whether it's supposed to be night.

* AmbiguouslyGay - Jolly Roger. The menu in his... bar does ''not'' help matters.
* AmbiguouslyHuman - Gruntilda and Humba Wumba.

* ArtEvolution - The art subtly evolved through the first few games. In particular, between ''Kazooie'' and ''Tooie,'' Mumbo's look softened and became slightly friendlier when he ascended to the role of playable character. In ''Grunty's Revenge,'' all of the characters became slightly more cartoonish, with Klungo being the most apparent. But then, in ''Nuts and Bolts'', the series underwent...

* AscendedExtra - Klungo. In ''Kazooie'', he only appeared in a cutscene at the beginning of the game and during the Game Over sequence, and Banjo and Kazooie never even meet him. In ''Tooie'', he becomes a recurring boss and even gets some character development!

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther - In ''Tooie,'' separating the pair and then attempting to go to a radically different area leaves the left-behind character to lament how lonely it is by themselves. Despite their [[VitriolicBestBuds griping at one another]], Banjo and Kazooie are loyal to each other 'til the end.

* BagOfSpilling - Quite famously ''averted'' in ''Banjo-Tooie,'' where every move you had at the end of the last game carries over, aside from the mostly-useless Claw Swipe (replaced with another pecking attack by Kazooie). ''Nuts & Bolts'' used this, but [[JustifiedTrope justified it]] by showing that Banjo and Kazooie had gotten fat and out of shape over the years, thus forgetting how to perform their old moves. Because this is a ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game, this is frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] every time one of the characters points out that an obstacle would have been much easier to clear using one of their old moves.

* BayonetYa - Kazooie can learn the Beak Bayonet for use in first-person areas (and the FPS deathmatch multiplayer mode). Or is it Banjo who's learning it, since he's the one who hauls her around to attack...?

* BerserkButton - The "Tick the Mole Off" part of the game ''very'' early on. All you have to do is claim to know all the moves and then bother Bottles until he actually threatens to erase your game pak.
* BigBoosHaunt - Mad Monster Mansion.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}} - Mumbo Jumbo's house.

* BloodIsSquickerInWater - The boss battle with Lord Woo Fak Fak in Jolly Roger's Lagoon, when you blow up his boils. Yes, in an [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids E-rated game.]]

* BossRemix - Every boss fight, apart from {{Cloudcuckooland}} [[spoiler:(which remixes the Mumbo's Skull theme instead)]] remixes its level's theme. Particularly [[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability noteworthy]] examples are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jH2n09OMbg Gruntilda's (Grunty's Lair, of course)]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJxRJF5N9c Mr. Patch (Witchyworld)]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHi9lDVpWVs Weldar (Grunty Industries)]].
* BossSubtitles - Parodied.

* BubblegloopSwamp - TropeNamer in the very first game, and Bad Magic Bayou in ''Grunty's Revenge.''
* BulletSeed - Kazooie's eggs already count as AbnormalAmmo, but the secret "Golden" eggs, found hidden in some areas, allow her to fire them ''very'' rapidly... and she'll have an unlimited supply, but only for a short period of time.
* BuriedAlive - The fate of Gruntilda at the end of the first game. She stays buried alive for 2 years until she the boulder is finally moved (no thanks to Klungo). Turns out, '''she's still alive! Despite the fact that ''her flesh has rotted away!'''''
* ButtMonkey - Quite a few. Kazooie seems to have it in for the universe. The universe retaliates by showing her no mercy. Gobi the camel is horribly abused by the main characters. Though, Bottles wins this one out. Killed, revived, and kicked out by his wife? Really?

* BrainInAJar - Grunty in ''Nuts & Bolts'', who's actually a skull in a jar (which seems prone to falling out.)

* CainAndAbel - In the original game, the witchy Grunty was at odds with the fairy godmother-esque Brentilda. Come Tooie, it seems that Brenty is probably the only good egg in that whole ''family,'' with Grunty and her other two sisters being every bit as repugnant.
* CanonDiscontinuity - ''Grunty's Revenge'', while originally meant to be an alternate follow-up directly from the first game, has since become an interquel, set between ''Kazooie'' and ''Tooie''. Despite this, it and ''Banjo Pilot'' are not acknowledged in ''Nuts & Bolts'', which Microsoft identifies as the third game in the series.

* CatsAreMean - Piddles the Cat in ''Nuts & Bolts''. Justified in that Grunty's first action was to kick Piddles sky high.

* ChekhovsGunman - In ''Banjo-Kazooie''. The Jinjos seem to be not much more than DistressBall-carrying {{NPC}}s for you to collect. [[spoiler:But at the end of the game, they turn out to be crucial in turning the tide against Gruntilda, and the final blow is delivered by the mighty Jinjonator.]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome - Banjo's sister Tooty, the DistressedDamsel whose kidnapping drove the plot of the first game, is nowhere to be seen in ''Tooie'', except as a missing person on a giant milk carton in Cloud Cuckooland, and in a picture in Banjo's house (it is one of the few things in the house that wasn't completely destroyed). Hacking the game cartridge and early beta screens shows that at some point she was ''intended'' to be in the game, but no explanation for her disappearance has been offered aside from Rare's explanation that she was hauled off by the "Rubbish Video Game Characters Police". She's vaguely referenced in ''Nuts & Bolts'', such as for a store named "Tooty Fruity" and a joke about scrapped levels including "Tooty Land".

* CircusOfFear - Witchyworld in ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* {{Cloudcuckooland} - The penultimate stage in ''Tooie'' is called this; however it's more of a [[BizarroEpisode Bizarro Level]] than a proper example, partly because of the trope below. Moreover, the entire world could count as Cloudcuckooland.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander} - It's hard to find a character in these games who ''doesn't'' fit this trope. One of the stages is even ''called'' Cloudcuckooland.
* CollectionSidequest - All of the games play out as a giant version of this, and throw all kinds of things at you that you don't even have to collect to complete the game.

* ConvectionSchmonvection - Grunty's Furnace Fun in ''Kazooie'', as well as a few other regions of Gruntilda's Lair.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive - Gruntilda is quite the entrepreneur. She owns a fairground [[AmusementParkOfDoom (replete with deadly rides)]], a [[EternalEngine polluting factory]], and a [[ShipLevel dockyard]]. Presumably, her employees are not union.
* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption - The Ice Cube couple in ''Tooie''. [[spoiler:You accidentally push one into a pool of boiling water in order to make it safe, and you kill the other one in cold blood for her Jinjo]].

* CuttingOffTheBranches - In the first game, "Winkybunion" was just one of three potential {{Embarrassing Middle Name}}s Gruntilda could have. In later games, it ascended to being her actual ''last'' name instead.
* DarkerAndEdgier - ''Tooie'' compared to the first game, though it's arguably even more self-aware and silly despite that.

* DeadlyGas - Glitter Gulch Mine.
** Hag 1 from ''Banjo-Tooie'' has this as a form of attack.

* DeadpanSnarker - Kazooie, though any number of characters will engage in this. A RunningGag is how she will respond to various enemies' [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]] with a dismissive "that's nice".

* DemBones - Grunty in ''Tooie''.
* DerivativeDifferentiation - The first game was a good ''SuperMario64'' clone, but after people tired of that particular formula, the later games diverged increasingly more, with ''Nuts & Bolts'' abandoning most of the PlatformGame hallmarks altogether.
* {{Determinator}} - What does Gruntilda do after the events of ''Tooie'' when her defeat leaves her waaay out in the Isle O' Hags on the top of her tower as nothing but a skull? She spends '''eight years''' hopping ''all the way back to Spiral Mountain'' to challenge the heroes once again.

* DifficultySpike - After a mostly easy game, with little if any danger of getting lost or getting killed... Gruntilda in the final battle of the first game is ''[[ThatOneBoss vicious]]''. [[BestBossEver But epic]]!

* DiscOneFinalBoss - Grunty's quiz game in the original game.
* DisproportionateRetribution - Think about it for a second. Grunty kidnapped Banjo's sister; did she really think he wouldn't come after her? She forces him to undertake a huge, dangerous quest and fight for his very survival, sending minion after minion to attack him relentlessly, all the while threatening him with bodily harm and outright demanding that he come up and face her, ''all because he's being a good big brother''. Then, in the final fight that she herself pretty much begged for, it's not even Banjo and Kazooie who deliver the finishing blow, it's the Jinjonator who takes her down. And she doesn't even die! And for THAT, she murders Bottles, burns down Banjo's house, wipes out an entire Jinjo population (literally, to the point of extinction, although that may have been the fault of her sisters, as they were the ones who drove the vehicle to Spiral Mountain to revive her), and terrorizes the whole Isle o' Hags? I mean, yeah, she's an evil witch, but still... holy crap.

* DistressBall - Kazooie, in the very beginning of ''Grunty's Revenge.''
* DolledUpInstallment - The GBA spin-off ''Banjo-Pilot'' was a remodeling of the canceled ''[[DiddyKongRacing Diddy Kong Pilot]]'' following Nintendo's selling of Rare.

* DownTheDrain - Clanker's Cavern, which also has shades of AbsurdlySpaciousSewer.
* DrillSergeantNasty - Jamjars, in marked contrast to his brother Bottles.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim - [[spoiler:Gruntilda's sisters are rather unceremoniously smashed by weights as punishment for losing to Banjo in the Tower of Tragedy Quiz.]]
* DumbIsGood - Banjo. Boy howdy, Banjo. He seems to have smartened up a bit in ''Nuts & Bolts''. He did a bit in ''Tooie'' as well, though that could be due to having to make a lot of the dialogue shared by either character if they're Split Up.
* DummiedOut - Stop 'N' Swop and [[http://www.rarewitchproject.com/?id=1194 Bottles' Revenge]] in ''Banjo-Tooie''. Stop 'N' Swop eventually came back.

* EdibleBludgeon - Some of the enemies in Cloud Cuckooland use sausages and candy canes as weapons.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName - Gruntilda Winkybunion is randomly given one in the first game for use in the PopQuiz at the end. Also, in Tooie, it is revealed that she has an embarrassing ''last'' name, which Banjo and Kazooie poke fun at her about.

* EternalEngine - Grunty Industries, Freezing Furnace, Nutty Acres, and Logbox 720.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - Grunty's Code Vengeance is a sign that she hates when the player tries to cheat.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou - Just the tip of the iceberg: cauliflower, amusement park workers, life buoys, beehives in the second game (without bees), paper-craft goblins that swat at you with candy canes, flowers, and sausages, or bloodthirsty ''shovels''.
* EvilLaugh - Gruntilda has a pretty impressive one, especially when you hit the "Save and Quit" option in ''Banjo-Kazooie''.

* EvilTwin - Mingy Jongo to Mumbo Jumbo and the Minjos to the Jinjos. (Rare really has a thing for [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar fitting "minge" into evil twins' names]].)
* ExcusePlot - Really, it's all just an excuse to make Banjo and Kazooie run around [[PlotCoupon collecting Jiggies]].

* FaceHeelTurn - Mumbo Jumbo pulls one of these for [[HotWitch Gruntilda]] in the [[TheBadGuyWins Game Over cutscene]] in the first game; good thing it's [[GameOver not canon]].

* FairestOfThemAll - Gruntilda's plot in the first game is to suck the beauty out of Banjo's sister Tooty with a special machine.

* FantasticVoyage - Banjo and Kazooie end up walking around larger creatures' insides surprisingly often.

* FateWorseThanDeath - Happens to Gruntilda, who gets trapped under a boulder for two years... and yet she survives (albeit as a skeleton).
* FeatherFingers - In the ending of the first game, where Kazooie holds a mug, and again in ''Nuts & Bolts'', where she holds a wrench.
* FeedItABomb - The boss Weldar in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' Shoot Grenade Eggs at him when he starts SuckingInLines.
* FinalExamBoss - Gruntilda in every game.

* FireIceLightning - In ''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge,'' you have Fire, Ice, and Battery eggs. In ''Banjo-Tooie'', you only have Fire and Ice--the other two "special" egg types are bombs.

* FloatingPlatforms - Not that common in the series, but examples include the vicinity of the treehouse in Click Clock Wood from ''Banjo-Kazooie'' (seriously, there's planks of wood just floating there) and ''any'' of Cloud Cuckooland from ''Banjo-Tooie''. Even the mountain in the middle of the level appears to be floating.

* FlunkyBoss - Several in the second game. Terry periodically summons "Mucoids" -- small, slimey enemies -- and Weldar populates his battlefield with nut-and-bolt enemies from elsewhere in the level.

* FollowTheLeader - The first game was basically a riff on the ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' formula -- albeit a pretty frickin' good one. ''Nuts & Bolts'' took a sly dig at this.

* FrothyMugsOfWater - Played with. The tavern in Jolly Roger's Lagoon sells ginger beer, which is a soft drink similar to ginger ale, but generally with a stronger taste. However, that doesn't prevent one of the customers from being a "seasick" pirate, complete with water cure.
* FunWithAcronyms - One of ''Banjo-Kazooie'''s "Disinformation Central" rumors is about about Gruntilda going back in time with her giant [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar T.I.T]] (Time Interfering Truck). [[http://www.rare.co.uk/company/news_disinf08.html Here's the link]].

* GangplankGalleon - Treasure Trove Cove and Jolly Roger's Lagoon.
* GenreSavvy - ''Everyone''.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - [[Radar/BanjoKazooie Numerous instances]]. Basically the whole series is a foil of subtlety to [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Conker's]] [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]].

* GreenHillZone - Spiral Mountain, Mumbo's Mountain, Mayahem Temple, and Cliff Farm.
* GrievousHarmWithABody - The secret move Breegull Bash in ''Tooie'', in which Banjo uses Kazooie as a club.
* GrimyWater - You can use a special PowerUp to cross it.

* GroundPound - Like basically all of his other moves, it involves Banjo's backpack.
* GuestFighter - The name of the Xbox 360 version of a MultiPlatform racing game [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin explains itself]]: ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]] [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg with]] Banjo-Kazooie''.

* HailfirePeaks - The TropeNamer. The level in question is part LethalLavaLand and part SlippySlideyIceWorld.

* HeartContainer - The Empty Honeycombs.
* HeelFaceTurn - [[spoiler:Klungo in ''Tooie''.]]

* HelloNurse - Believe it or not, [[spoiler:[[http://banjokazooie.wikia.com/wiki/File:GruntyPretty.jpg Gruntilda]]]] in the "game over" cutscene from ''Banjo-Kazooie''. Almost makes you not care about rescuing Tooty. Almost.

* HornetHole - Parts of Click Clock Wood in the first game and Cloudcuckooland in ''Tooie''.
* HPToOne - Getting crushed in ''Banjo-Tooie,'' with a brief period of MercyInvincibility before it's possible to get crushed a second time and killed. This serves as part of two puzzles, where Banjo must go solo and use the Snooze Pack move to recover between these hits.
* HubLevel - Gruntilda's Lair in ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Isle O' Hags in ''Banjo-Tooie'', Spiral Mountain in ''Grunty's Revenge'', and Showdown Town in ''Nuts & Bolts''.
* HulkSpeak - Mumbo and Humba.

* IdleAnimation - Kazooie pecking Banjo on the head, which itself had two variations: Idle once, and Kazooie pecks Banjo and giggles before returning to the backpack. Continue to idle long enough, and Kazooie will peck Banjo again, but then Banjo catches her by the neck and throttles her a bit. Revenge is sweet, no?

* TheIgor - Klungo.
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Witch]] - Grunty survives falling off her tower, getting decomposed after two years, getting blown up in HAG 1, her now-disembodied head being the kickball for Banjo and friends, getting back to Spiral Mountain with just that head (which takes eight years), being attacked repeatedly in vehicles, and [[spoiler:finally getting her vehicle blown up in her battle against Banjo and Kazooie. In the end, Grunty, who couldn't be killed off, ended up spending the rest of her days working in a video game factory.]]
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals - All the Jinjos look alike. [[PaletteSwap With different colors.]]
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons - [[spoiler:The secret dragon transformation for Kazooie]] in ''Banjo-Tooie''. Also, the main bosses of HailfirePeaks are a fire dragon and an ice dragon.
* IntercontinuityCrossover - Sabreman's cameo in ''Banjo-Tooie''. And the fact that ''DiddyKongRacing'' implies that the Donkey Kong Country universe is the same as the Banjo universe, which would, in a roundabout way, imply that the ''Banjo'' and ''Mario'' universes are one and the same. Also, because of "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games", it may be connected to Sonic's world (depending on how canon that game is considered).

* InterfaceScrew - ''Nuts & Bolts'''s "Bear in a Ball" level has flipped controls.
* InvincibilityPowerUp - The Golden Feathers; interestingly, you can use them just about ''anywhere''.
* {{Irony}} - Rusty Bucket Bay of the first game, a level which takes place primarily on a large ship, has [[EverythingTryingToKillYou life preservers]] that can attack you and knock you off the ship.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure - The infamous Game Over sequence from the first game.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Again, Kazooie. And to a certain extent, Mumbo Jumbo. And Jamjars.
* JungleJapes - Mumbo's Mountain and Mayahem Temple.
* KarmaHoudini - Klungo, although justified due to how Gruntilda treats him in the second game.

* KillSteal - In ''Nuts & Bolts'', [[spoiler:L.O.G. actually does pause the game to 'steal the kill' from the heroes by sending Gruntilda to work in his video game company.]]
* KingOfAllCosmos - The Lord Of Games.
* LampshadeHanging - Tons of it, even on the tropes within the game itself. ("Character ability pads", for example, have their trademark [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]] phrases written on them.)
* LargeAndInCharge - King Jingaling.

* LethalLavaLand - Grunty's Furnace Fun and half of Hailfire Peaks. In the GBA titles, we have Freezing Furnace (which is basically HailfirePeaks in EternalEngine flavor), and Steamy Vents in ''Banjo-Pilot'', which is exclusive to that game.
* LetsSplitUpGang - One of the main gimmicks of ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* LevelAte - Cloud Cuckoo Land has some aspects of this, with the giant cheese wedge, jelly castle, and all.
* LifeEnergy - The Big Ol' Blaster in ''Banjo-Tooie'' sucks up life energy.

* LiveItem - The Jinjos and Glowbos, and practically everything in the first game.

* LostForever - The Mumbo Token in the water-logged pyramid in Gobi's Valley (once you drain the water, it's gone) and the Amaze-O-Gaze Goggles (once you beat the Tower of Tragedy Quiz, you are locked out of Bottles' House and can't get in). Subject to debate are the grille that connects the Mad Monster Mansion and Rusty Bucket Bay puzzles (though it's not commonly seen and mistaken for a dead end; can also be broken with a cheat code), and the track "Sad Jinjo Houses" in the jukebox.
** Part GameBreakingBug - On the XBLA, completing the Bottles Bonus Puzzles before completing Mad Monster Mansion and Click Clock Wood can make some of the notes in those levels impossible to collect.

* TheLostWoods - Click Clock Wood.
* MagicalNativeAmerican - Humba Wumba.
* {{Magicant}} - Cloudcuckooland.
* {{Mayincatec}} - Mayahem Temple.
* MediumAwareness - Everyone knows very darn well they're in a video game with a silly ExcusePlot.

* MythologyGag - ''Nuts & Bolts'' includes numerous shout-outs to other Rare games. One level is nothing but game boxes that reference fictional sequels to classic games such as ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''.

* NeverSayDie - Played straight in ''Kazooie'', but averted in ''Tooie'', where Bottles is killed in the intro, and other characters make direct references to death; [[spoiler:King Jingaling becomes a zombie after his life energy is drained, Roysten says he'll die if he doesn't get to water, Lord Woo Fak Fak sort of dies after being defeated (and even goes belly-up, though he can still speak to you), and Mingella and Blobbelda are crushed by weights in Tower of Tragedy.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer - The original teaser for the third game showed what would appear to be new key and weedwhacker moves for Kazooie, implying that the game was more like its predecessors. Apparently, this ''was'' the original plan for the game before it got scrapped.

* NoFairCheating - There are three kinds of "Cheats" in the original: "Cheats" which are just item capacity upgrades, which you get from Cheato anyway, "Infinite Item" cheats which give you unlimited Feathers/Eggs/air/whatever, and special "Bypass" cheats that let you get through parts of Grunty's Lair. But be warned--using more than two of the "bypass"-style cheats will result in Grunty deleting your game.

* NoFourthWall - Part of the humor of the franchise.

* PopQuiz - Grunty's Furnace Fun in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and the Tower of Tragedy in ''Banjo-Tooie'' and ''Grunty's Revenge''. Both quizzes take place near the end of the games.

* PortTown - The "above water" section of Jolly Roger's Lagoon resembles one of these.

* PrecisionFStrike - Grunty gets one after Cheato gives up the last code to Banjo. And then there's her comment about making Spiral Mountain hell.

* {{Prehistoria}} - Terrydactyland.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack - The theme of Grunty's Lair is actually a particularly eerie remix of "Teddy Bears' Picnic" (appropriate, since Banjo is a bear). That doesn't make it any less fitting, though.

* {{Pun}} - In the first world of ''Banjo-Tooie'', you save a cow woman's crop by destroying all the flies ruining it. After you finish, she exclaims:

* PunchClockVillain - Weldar from [[EternalEngine Grunty Industries]]. When the duo first meet him, he quotes company policy codes on bears in the factory.
* [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil A Pupil Of Mine Until She Turned To Evil]] - Gruntilda to Mumbo, though this isn't mentioned much; it's really only in the manual of the first game and a few easily-missable comments Mumbo makes when you first meet him.
* PurelyAestheticEra - In a world with Game Boys, Nintendo 64s, widescreen television and amusement parks, not to mention the {{BFG}} pointed at the Isle O' Hags in the second game, in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' there are pirates (in the traditional yo-ho sense) hunting treasure. ''Banjo-Tooie'' has what looks like a Gold Rush-era gem mine. Then there's Terrydactyland. Without even going into [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying upset palaeontologists]], the dinosaur land has a train station with ''bone tracks'' (which connects to a factory and the aforementioned mine and theme park) and a sidequest there involves getting fast food for cavemen. Another involves retrieving a {{Mayincatec}} [[BuffySpeak priceless relic thing]] from another caveman tribe. RuleOfFunny is in full effect here. %%Do not add No Really or I Am Not Making This Up for goodness sake.

* RacingMiniGame - Boggy the polar bear, Canary Mary... Not to mention much of ''Nuts & Bolts''.
* RainDance - Done by Mumbo in Banjo-Tooie's Cloudcuckooland.
* RecurringRiff - Tons of it. The main title song and the Grunty's Lair song are the two themes that get remixed the most throughout the series.

* RedOniBlueOni - Kazooie is the aggressive Type A, Banjo is her level-headed foil. When they get the Split Up ability and have to learn solo moves, Banjo starts out with ''no attack'' (despite being a friggen ''bear''), gains only a slow nigh-useless one, and most of his skills are defensive or passive in nature -- Kazooie starts with her entire egg arsenal intact, moves really fast, and gets a melee attack that goes off quickly and hits everything around her. [[spoiler:And learns to [[SamusIsAGirl hatch eggs]].]]

* RhymesOnADime - Gruntilda, in the first game, speaks entirely in verse. In the second game, she quits after [[LampshadeHanging her sisters point out how annoying this is...]] But in ''Nuts & Bolts'', she goes back again.

* RibcageRidge - Terrydactyland
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter - The Jinjos.
* RightHandCat - Piddles the Cat. Subverted in that she and Grunty hate each other immediately (or at least one millisecond later after Grunty [[KickTheDog literally kicks her]]), and it's implied that she's a PunchClockVillain in the epilogue.

* RubberBandAI - Canary Mary. See also: ThatOneSidequest and GuideDangIt.

* SandIsWater - Gobi's Valley is full of "quicksand pits," and even a few "sand waterfalls."

* SelfDeprecatingHumor - As seen by Gruntilda in the final battle after you've rescued Tooty, in possible reference to her being unable to restore her beauty.

* SequelHook - At the end of every game. ''Kazooie'' has Mumbo pop out of a tree and show pictures of the infamous Stop 'n' Swop items, saying that you would find out what they were for in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' At the end of ''Tooie'', Gruntilda threatens "Just wait until ''Banjo-Threeie!''" (''Threeie'', of course, was never made, though it ''was'' the working title of the project that became ''Nuts and Bolts''.) ''Grunty's Revenge'' has Banjo about to call Bottles and Mumbo over for a game of cards, setting up for ''Tooie''. As for ''Nuts & Bolts''? [[spoiler:Kazooie asks L.O.G. to give them their old moves back, saying they might need them for the next game. L.O.G. does so, though warning them that the next game may not happen. Gruntilda, of course, threatens "Just wait until the game I make!" while working in L.O.G.'s video game factory.]] The XBLA release of ''Tooie'' includes an as-yet unexplained Stop 'N' Swop II feature, promising to be used in a future title.

* ShiftingSandLand - Gobi's Valley, complete with the SandIsWater sandfalls.
* ShoutOut - Mostly to other Rare games. Most notably, the archaeologist from ''Sabre Wulf'', who was [[HumanPopsicle frozen by the ice dragon]] for 16 years.

* SillinessSwitch - An EasterEgg MiniGame in the original would give you several cheat codes that changed Banjo's appearance, ranging from giving him a giant head to making his body long and skinny. The final one turned him into a washing machine.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld - Freezeezy Peak, the Winter Click Clock Wood, and half of Hailfire Peaks.
* SnarkKnight - Kazooie.
* SoundOff - Jamjars describes new moves using cadences.
* SpeakingSimlish - So iconic of the series, it's ''so'' famous, in fact, [[GrandfatherClause they decided to keep it]] in ''Nuts & Bolts''. A Rare Scribes column even joked about how horrible the reaction to actual talking would be if the reaction to driving cars was any indication.
* SpiritualSuccessor - ''Banjo-Pilot'' is a spiritual sequel to ''DiddyKongRacing'' -- well, it ''is'' a DolledUpInstallment.

* {{Sssssnaketalk}} - Gruntilda's right-hand man Klungo. Also, the Snippet Mutants in ''Banjo-Kazooie'', as well as the minor character Ssslumber in ''Banjo-Tooie''.

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker - Talk like Yoda, Cheato does. And Mingella and Blobbelda so do. It comes across as imitating Grunty's own awkward syntax (used to allow for her rhymes), but without the rhymes.
* StylisticSuck - "Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh World" in ''Nuts & Bolts'', which is... actually, compared to most of Newgrounds, not that bad, but still hilariously awful. You play as Klungo, who is ''literally carrying the world'', as he automatically runs from left to right, only allowing you to jump at one fixed, unchanging height. To his credit, there are some very tricky timing puzzles centered around making the best use of that jump.

* SuperDrowningSkills - In ''Grunty's Revenge,'' most of Banjo's transformations -- all but the octopus -- can't swim. You'll die instantly if you touch the water as one of them.
** SuperNotDrowningSkills - Many of the transformations in the Nintendo 64 games. Some are justified (Walrus, Crocodile, Stone Statue, inanimate objects); others, like the Termite, not so much. Although notably, the bee in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and ''Banjo-Tooie'' will just fly back up again when it approaches water.

* TakeThat - Chatting up the Lord of Games in ''Nuts & Bolts'' reveals that he has interesting opinions on the state of the video game industry (and {{video game tropes}} in general) at the present:

* TechnologyMarchesOn - In Tooie, [[FatBastard Boggy]] is very proud of having a rather small widescreen TV.
* TempleOfDoom - Mayahem Temple.

* TreasureRoom - ''Banjo-Tooie'' has the Treasure Chamber in [[{{Mayincatec}} Mayahem]] [[TempleOfDoom Temple]], which is filled with piles of gold. You can't take any of it, though.
* {{Tsundere}} - Kazooie, who, rather than fitting into either category listed on the trope page, is both caustic and sentimental at the same time, all the time.
* {{Uncancelled}} - "Stop 'N' Swop" was added between ''Nuts & Bolts'' and the XBLA release of the original game. Unsurprisingly, this was massively nerfed to unlocking minor cosmetic parts in ''N&B''. It was also implemented into the XBLA release of ''Tooie'', in which the feature is used as it was previously intended: having both games on your hard drive unlocks the ability to collect those items in ''Kazooie'', which you can then use in ''Tooie'' for rewards. Numerous jokes are made about how long this took (such as Banjo mentioning he's been carrying the eggs for the last ten years).
* UndergroundLevel - Clanker's Cavern and Glitter Gulch Mine.
* UnderwaterRuins - The Atlantis section of Jolly Roger's Lagoon.
* UndyingLoyalty - At the start of ''Tooie'', you see that Klungo has been trying to push that boulder off Grunty for '''two years'''!
* UnexpectedGameplayChange - The Breegull Blaster move in ''Tooie'', which turns the game into a first-person shooter with [[ImprobableWeaponUser Kazooie as the gun.]] Interestingly, as it was by the same people, the levels for these stages were copied from the multiplayer mode of ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye]]'', just with a different paint job.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda - Stop 'N' Swop. Oh god, ''Stop 'N' Swop.'' While the rumour had a basis in a real plan of the developers, the lack of implementation lead to wildly varying rumours as to what you could do to access the stubs left behind, amplified by all the teases left around through the years after.

** This somewhat ContestedSequel changed the game's mechanics from regular platformer to vehicle-based platformer. Set many years after their last adventure, Banjo and Kazooie have gotten fat and lazy from no adventures. Then, a strange, TV-headed spirit calling itself the Lord of Games shows up. He intends to have Banjo and Kazooie resolve their old issues with Gruntilda's skeletal head by... throwing them into a new video game. Well, whatever works, right?

* CloudCuckooland - The penultimate stage in ''Tooie'' is called this; however it's more of a [[BizarroEpisode Bizarro Level]] than a proper example, partly because of the trope below. Moreover, the entire world could count as CloudCuckooLand.
* CloudCuckoolander - It's hard to find a character in these games who ''doesn't'' fit this trope. One of the stages is even ''called'' {{Cloudcuckooland}}.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - [[Radar/{{Banjo-Kazooie}} Numerous instances]]. Basically the whole series is a foil of subtlety to [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Conker's]] [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]].

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A seminal {{Platformer}} series, created by {{Rare}} for the {{Nintendo 64}} and fondly remembered by many children of the 90's, the ''Banjo-Kazooie'' series (sometimes simply referred to as the ''Banjo'' series) tells the tale of a lazy bear, his avian best friend, the nasty witch who likes messing with their lives, and lots and lots of [[PlotCoupon shiny golden puzzle pieces]]. Traversing many strange and improbable worlds, the dauntless duo of Banjo the honey bear and Kazooie the breegull go about SavingTheWorld, with the help of [[{{Mentors}} moleish mentors]], [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter cute bird-anteater... things]], and a very liberal helping of British humour.

'''Games in the series:'''

* '''Banjo-Kazooie''' ''(1998, {{Nintendo 64}})''
** Banjo the bear, his little sister Tooty, and Banjo's loudmouthed best friend Kazooie live peacefully in the tranquil Spiral Mountain. However, the ugly, witch-shaped form of the witch Gruntilda's lair lurks overhead. Grunty sees that Tooty is the fairest in the land, and Grunty envies that beauty! She kidnaps Tooty and absconds to her lair. Now Banjo and Kazooie must brave the depths of her labyrinthine lair to save Banjo's sister.
* '''Banjo-Tooie''' ''(2000, {{Nintendo 64}})''
** Two years after Grunty's defeat (and subsequent imprisonment beneath a rock), her sisters Mingella and Blobbelda come with a fancy new tank to save her. Grunty's been beneath the rock for so long, she's only an [[DemBones animate skeleton.]] But her witchy sisters have a new machine that can suck the life energy out of anything, and they plan to use it to restore Gruntilda! Banjo and Kazooie once again set out to stop her, and prevent her from turning the whole world into a zombie wasteland!
* '''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge''' ''(2003, GameBoyAdvance)''
** A midquel that takes place between ''Kazooie'' and ''Tooie.'' Grunty's faithful sidekick Klungo builds her a Mecha-Grunty suit, and her spirit inhabits it from beneath the rock. With her evil magic, she kidnaps Kazooie, and flings Banjo into the past, attempting to stop him and Kazooie from ever meeting! Now Banjo (and Kazooie, once he's rescued her) must stop Gruntilda from destroying the past!
* '''Banjo Pilot''' ''(2004, GameBoyAdvance)''
** A racing game spinoff, this game features the Banjo-Kazooie cast racing around in airplanes. Gruntilda does appear, [[GoKartingWithBowser but poses no real threat]].
* '''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts''' ''(2008, {{Xbox 360}})''
** This somewhat ContestedSequel changed the game's mechanics from regular platformer to vehicle-based platformer. Set many years after their last adventure, Banjo and Kazooie have gotten fat and lazy from no adventures. Then, a strange, TV-headed spirit calling itself the Lord of Games shows up. He intends to have Banjo and Kazooie resolve their old issues with Gruntilda's skeletal head by... throwing them into a new video game. Well, whatever works, right?

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!!This series is the TropeNamer for:
* BubblegloopSwamp
* HailfirePeaks
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!!The games provide examples of:
* AbnormalAmmo - One of Kazooie's signature abilities is firing eggs like bullets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNpc8jwjAI Out of her mouth. And her butt]].
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer - Clanker's Cavern certainly seems to be a sewer of ''some'' description. It's full of pipes, anywho. Then there's the ''Clinker's'' Cavern sidequest in the second game where you shoot at... faecal blockages in the... air conditioning?
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Mumbo's Mountain, Clanker's Cavern, and Mad Monster Mansion in ''Kazooie'', Cloud Cuckooland and the Golden Goliath in ''Tooie'', and Trophy Thomas in ''Nuts and Bolts''.
** This is Rareware for crying out loud, they're quite fond of this trope.
* AbusiveParents: Mrs. Boggy seems to approve of Banjo beating her children, and is even seen giving Moggy a smack herself. Boggy himself is just [[BumblingDad extremely neglectful]], abandoning his children at Christmas in order to go sledding instead of buying them presents.
* AdventureDuo - Banjo and Kazooie, of course.
* AliensAreBastards - In ''Tooie'', you find a UFO in the bottom of a lagoon, power their ship back up for them, bring one of them ''back from the dead'' after a nasty fall, warm up one of their children stuck on a icy, high cliff, find another two alien kids encased in ice, one of which you had to bring back to life as well, and to top it all off, only for two Jiggies. After all that, the alien dad states he has to exterminate you for taking so long.
** He doesn't do it because he didn't have his ray gun at the time, but the fact that he had intentions of wiping out the main characters after they did all that shows how badly that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aliens are bastards]].
* AlreadyDoneForYou: Unlocking Stop 'N' Swop in the XBLA version of ''Banjo-Kazooie''. Stop 'N' Swop involved ridiculously long cheat codes to unlock it in the original release.
* AlternateHistory - The plot of ''Grunty's Revenge,'' which was originally supposed to take place in an alternate future from the one in ''Banjo-Tooie,'' though it was since changed to be set between the first two games. This would normally make it an AlternateContinuity, until the TimeyWimeyBall rolls into town...
* AlwaysNight - Mad Monster Mansion and Freezeezy Peak in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and Witchyworld in ''Banjo-Tooie''.
** Witchyworld is more "Always Twilight".
* AmbiguouslyGay - Jolly Roger. The menu in his... bar does ''not'' help matters.
* AmbiguouslyHuman - Gruntilda and Humba Wumba.
* AnimateInanimateObject: So much so in the first game! If it didn't outright move and talk, it would have googly eyes slapped on it. Examples include: a totem pole, boulders, a leaky pail, acorns, musical notes, honeycombs, eggs, feathers, exploding mines, life preservers, oranges, trees, cauliflower, stone sphinxes, ice cubes, snowmen, cacti, cauldrons, cowl ventilators, onions, exploding boxes, flying broomsticks, treasure chests, beehive boxes, carrots, a toilet, golden jigsaw pieces, and a book of spells that flies by flapping its pages, just to name a few!
** The first game takes it to logical extremes in the Freezeezy Peak level. The first time you fall into the water, ''it talks to you,'' warning you of how cold it is.
** This game seems to have turned the AnimateInanimateObject thing into Rareware's shtick, as it got carried over into ConkersBadFurDay and, to a lesser extent, JetForceGemini.
* ArtEvolution - The art subtly evolved through the first few games. In particular, between ''Kazooie'' and ''Tooie,'' Mumbo's look softened and became slightly friendlier when he ascended to the role of playable character. In ''Grunty's Revenge,'' all of the characters became slightly more cartoonish, with Klungo being the most apparent. But then, in ''Nuts and Bolts,'' the series underwent...
** ArtShift: ''Nuts and Bolts'' has a far blockier style than the previous games.
* AscendedExtra - Klungo. In ''Kazooie'', he only appeared in a cutscene at the beginning of the game and during the Game Over sequence, and Banjo and Kazooie never even meet him. In ''Tooie'', he becomes a recurring boss and even gets some character development!
** Mr. Fit. He begins simply as a throwaway character worth a single Jiggy in ''Tooie'', and then evolves into part of the main cast in ''Nuts & Bolts''.
** Jolly Roger was the "primary" character of his level in ''Tooie,'' but it was still only one level, and he didn't have any impact on the game's overall plot. However, he was an unlockable character in ''Banjo-Pilot'' (with all the other characters being the series' staples) and was also upgraded to main cast in ''Nuts & Bolts,'' with his new disguise as the "Jolly Dodger."
* AsteroidsMonster: Boss Boom Box, from the first game.
* AwesomeBackpack: In ''Tooie'', Banjo's backpack could carry things more than twice its size (when Kazooie's not in there) and also heal the bear.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther - In ''Tooie,'' separating the pair and then attempting to go to a radically different area leaves the left-behind character to lament how lonely it is by themselves. Despite their [[VitriolicBestBuds griping at one another]], Banjo and Kazooie are loyal to each other 'til the end.
** And in ''Grunty's Revenge,'' when Kazooie picks up the DistressBall, Banjo is seriously upset over her going missing. When the two of them reunite in the second world, their happiness at being together again is tangible. Awww.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Bottles and King Jingaling.]]
* BadassBoast: Grunty, ''especially'' in the first game, [[RhymesOnADime they even rhyme]]!
* BagOfSpilling - Quite famously ''averted'' in ''Banjo-Tooie,'' where every move you had at the end of the last game carries over, aside from the mostly-useless Claw Swipe (replaced with another pecking attack by Kazooie). ''Nuts & Bolts'' used this, but [[JustifiedTrope justified it]] by showing that Banjo and Kazooie had gotten fat and out of shape over the years, thus forgetting how to perform their old moves. Because this is a ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game, this is frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] every time one of the characters points out that an obstacle would have been much easier to clear using one of their old moves.
** They even beg the resident DeusEstMachina to grant them their old moves back, PuppyDogEyes and all, but he adamantly refuses because this is a game about vehicles. [[spoiler:Then he finally relents at the end of the game, for a nice fat SequelHook for the fans that wanted a non-vehicle game.]]
** Played straight in terms of the health and supply amounts in ''Banjo-Tooie'', as they're reset to their starting carrying capacity from the first game, with one exception - due to the increased focus of flying (to the point where an entire boss fight revolves around it), the supply of feathers remains at 100 (which can be further doubled to 200).
* BayonetYa - Kazooie can learn the Beak Bayonet for use in first-person areas (and the FPS deathmatch multiplayer mode). Or is it Banjo who's learning it, since he's the one who hauls her around to attack...?
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: All Tooty wanted to do in the first game was ''go on an adventure'' . . .
* BerserkButton - The "Tick the Mole Off" part of the game ''very'' early on. All you have to do is claim to know all the moves and then bother Bottles until he actually threatens to erase your game pak.
* BigBoosHaunt - Mad Monster Mansion.
* BigThinShortTrio: In ''Banjo-Tooie'', Gruntilda is the Big, Mingella is the Thin, and Blobbelda is the Short.
* BigEater - One of Gruntilda's possible party tricks is eating a bucketful of beans.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}} - Mumbo Jumbo's house.
* BlackComedy: Quite a bit in ''Tooie''. Bottles dies in the intro, yet his lingering spirit hovering over his charred body continues saying hilarious things. Jingaling is zombified, and continues to say hilarious things while lurching around the room trying to kill you. The Gray Jinjo family's epitaph: "Passed away tragically when their house was crushed by a giant [[TankGoodness tank]]." And you play hacky-sack with Grunty's severed head in the ending.
* BlackoutBasement: The Generator Cavern and the Power Hut Basement in Glitter Gulch Mine, and the Haunted Cavern in Witchyworld.
* BloodIsSquickerInWater - The boss battle with Lord Woo Fak Fak in Jolly Roger's Lagoon, when you blow up his boils. Yes, in an [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids E-rated game.]]
* BossBanter: Gruntilda, pretty much every time you fight her. In the final boss fight of the first one, she has multiple possible phrases for every time she'll say something.
** Actually, most of the bosses tend to do this when you're fighting them.
* BossRemix - Every boss fight, apart from {{Cloudcuckooland}} [[spoiler:(which remixes the Mumbo's Skull theme instead)]] remixes its level's theme. Particularly [[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability noteworthy]] examples are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jH2n09OMbg Gruntilda's (Grunty's Lair, of course)]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJxRJF5N9c Mr. Patch (Witchyworld)]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHi9lDVpWVs Weldar (Grunty Industries)]].
* BossSubtitles - Parodied.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Humba Wumba in ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* BreatherLevel: [[ThatOneBoss Mingy Jongo]] and [[ThatOneSidequest Canary Mary]] notwithstanding, Cloud Cuckoo Land is nowhere near as difficult or confusing as [[HailFirePeaks the previous]] [[EternalEngine two levels]].
* BubblegloopSwamp - TropeNamer in the very first game, and Bad Magic Bayou in ''Grunty's Revenge.''
* BulletSeed - Kazooie's eggs already count as AbnormalAmmo, but the secret "Golden" eggs, found hidden in some areas, allow her to fire them ''very'' rapidly... and she'll have an unlimited supply, but only for a short period of time.
* BuriedAlive - The fate of Gruntilda at the end of the first game. She stays buried alive for 2 years until she the boulder is finally moved (no thanks to Klungo). Turns out, '''she's still alive! Despite the fact that ''her flesh has rotted away!'''''
* ButtMonkey - Quite a few. Kazooie seems to have it in for the universe. The universe retaliates by showing her no mercy. Gobi the camel is horribly abused by the main characters. Though, Bottles wins this one out. Killed, revived, and kicked out by his wife? Really?
** Poor Klungo suffers this fate in Tooie, being repeatedly beaten by the main duo only to be sent back to Grunty and, it's assumed, punished for failing.
* BrainInAJar - Grunty in ''Nuts & Bolts'', who's actually a skull in a jar (which seems prone to falling out.)
* ByTheBookCop: At first, the Kickball Stadium Guard in ''Tooie'' fits this; he won't let the heroes in without a ticket, refuses to let them play as only a Stony can join, and is downright offended when they offer to bribe him . . . later subverted, though, when the guard lets the duo in when they are in Stony form, knowing full well who they are and that they are cheating.
* CainAndAbel - In the original game, the witchy Grunty was at odds with the fairy godmother-esque Brentilda. Come Tooie, it seems that Brenty is probably the only good egg in that whole ''family,'' with Grunty and her other two sisters being every bit as repugnant.
* CanonDiscontinuity - ''Grunty's Revenge'', while originally meant to be an alternate follow-up directly from the first game, has since become an interquel, set between ''Kazooie'' and ''Tooie''. Despite this, it and ''Banjo Pilot'' are not acknowledged in ''Nuts & Bolts'', which Microsoft identifies as the third game in the series.
** As a side note, in the "L.O.G.'s Lost Challenges" ''DLC'', Kazooie describes the amount of games in the series as being "at least three".
* CarFu: In ''Nuts & Bolts'', this was an option. It was of varying effectiveness depending on what you put on your vehicle.
** In Witchyworld in ''Banjo-Tooie'', you can have Wumba turn you into an ''armored van'', which also gives you invincibility while transformed.
* CatsAreMean - Piddles the Cat in ''Nuts & Bolts''. Justified in that Grunty's first action was to kick Piddles sky high.
** The Moggies in ''Tooie'''s Mayahem Temple stage are cats. And all they do is try to hit you with their clubs.
*** Just by the by, "moggy" is a British slang term for "cat", generally implying a mongrel.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: The Glowbos, which are basically just heads with legs.
* ChekhovsGunman - In ''Banjo-Kazooie''. The Jinjos seem to be not much more than DistressBall-carrying {{NPC}}s for you to collect. [[spoiler:But at the end of the game, they turn out to be crucial in turning the tide against Gruntilda, and the final blow is delivered by the mighty Jinjonator.]]
** Also, in ''Banjo-Tooie'', the leader of the Jinjos gives you your first Jiggy (for free, no less) and opens the way to the first world. (Then he gets zombified.)
* [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Level]]: [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Freezeezy Peak]], complete with holiday advent calendar [[CoolGate entrance]].
** It even comes with a few SavingChristmas challenges, such as rescuing Christmas lights from being eaten, and collecting Christmas presents for sad children.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome - Banjo's sister Tooty, the DistressedDamsel whose kidnapping drove the plot of the first game, is nowhere to be seen in ''Tooie'', except as a missing person on a giant milk carton in Cloud Cuckooland, and in a picture in Banjo's house (it is one of the few things in the house that wasn't completely destroyed). Hacking the game cartridge and early beta screens shows that at some point she was ''intended'' to be in the game, but no explanation for her disappearance has been offered aside from Rare's explanation that she was hauled off by the "Rubbish Video Game Characters Police". She's vaguely referenced in ''Nuts & Bolts'', such as for a store named "Tooty Fruity" and a joke about scrapped levels including "Tooty Land".
* CircusOfFear - Witchyworld in ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* CloudCuckooland - The penultimate stage in ''Tooie'' is called this; however it's more of a [[BLAMEpisode BLAM Level]] than a proper example, partly because of the trope below. Moreover, the entire world could count as CloudCuckooLand.
* CloudCuckoolander - It's hard to find a character in these games who ''doesn't'' fit this trope. One of the stages is even ''called'' {{Cloudcuckooland}}.
* CollectionSidequest - All of the games play out as a giant version of this, and throw all kinds of things at you that you don't even have to collect to complete the game.
** Parodied and Lampshaded in ''Nuts & Bolts''; L.O.G. even goes as far as to call them "useless objects".
* ConvectionSchmonvection - Grunty's Furnace Fun in ''Kazooie'', as well as a few other regions of Gruntilda's Lair.
** Also, Hailfire Peaks (Lava Side) in ''Tooie''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive - Gruntilda is quite the entrepreneur. She owns a fairground [[AmusementParkOfDoom (replete with deadly rides)]], a [[EternalEngine polluting factory]], and a [[ShipLevel dockyard]]. Presumably, her employees are not union.
* CuckoolanderCommentator: Gruntilda during the game show at the end.
* CuttingOffTheBranches - In the first game, "Winkybunion" was just one of three potential {{Embarrassing Middle Name}}s Gruntilda could have. In later games, it ascended to being her actual ''last'' name instead.
* DarkerAndEdgier - ''Tooie'' compared to the first game, though it's arguably even more self-aware and silly despite that.
* TheDeadHaveEyes: Gruntilda in ''Tooie'' . . . they do sometimes [[EyeScream fall out]] though.
* DeadlyGas - Glitter Gulch Mine.
** Hag 1 from ''Banjo-Tooie'' has this as a form of attack.
** Several mini-games from the Grunty Industries world in ''Banjo-Tooie'' will leak a suffocating gas if you botch them.
* DeadlyRotaryFan: Clanker's belly contains rapidly-moving fans with serrated blades, while the Rusty Bucket is fitted with deadly propellors.
** They return in ''Tooie'' as part of the pipelines leading from Jolly Roger's Lagoon to Grunty Industries and Glitter Gulch Mine. The only way past them is to freeze them with Ice Eggs.
* DeadpanSnarker - Kazooie, though any number of characters will engage in this. A RunningGag is how she will respond to various enemies' [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]] with a dismissive "that's nice".
** Banjo starts to do it in ''Nuts & Bolts'' as well. He's lived with Kazooie for years, so it's no wonder he picked it up.
*** Heck, he does a little bit in Tooie, too.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Starting with ''Banjo-Tooie'', you have infinite lives, plus the note score was removed (which was later added to the Live Arcade port of the original game), meaning you don't have to collect them in one go.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Old King Coal, Terry, and Klungo in ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Inverted. After [[spoiler:Kazooie fires the Big-O-Blaster's blowback input on Bottles to revive him]], Bottles rushes home after realizing that he's late for dinner, and that Mrs. Bottles will kill him for it. He arrives home, and he is stuck at the table with a very burned meal of what is apparently fish and chips while his wife, beating the roller on her hand, is telling him that it won't matter how burned it is, as he is still going to eat it, dismissing Bottles' excuse that Gruntilda killed him and he was just brought to life until ''after'' King Jingaling and Klungo arrive to back him up and celebrate.
* DemBones - Grunty in ''Tooie''.
* DerivativeDifferentiation - The first game was a good ''SuperMario64'' clone, but after people tired of that particular formula, the later games diverged increasingly more, with ''Nuts & Bolts'' abandoning most of the PlatformGame hallmarks altogether.
* {{Determinator}} - What does Gruntilda do after the events of Tooie when her defeat leaves her waaay out in the Isle O' Hags on the top of her tower as nothing but a skull? She spends '''eight years''' hopping ''all the way back to Spiral Mountain'' to challenge the heroes once again.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:The Mighty Jinjonator]]
* DevelopmentGag: Several.
** In the Rusty Bucket Bay level, there is a picture of the original pink-furred brunette version of Berri from the aborted Twelve Tales: Conker 64 (who did appear as a damsel in distress in Conker's Pocket Tales). This Easter Egg only appears in the original N64 version; it's a picture of Conker in the XBLA version.
** Captain Blackeye was the villain of the original "Project Dream", a game about a boy trying to rescue his girlfriend from pirates. The game was eventually completely overhauled into the game that became ''Banjo-Kazooie'' (also called "Dream" early in development). This has not stopped Blackeye from showing up in the series anyway. Portraits of Blackeye appeared in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' in several parts of the game (most notably Mad Monster Mansion), though he was otherwise absent. He appeared in person in ''Banjo-Tooie'' as a sea-sick captain in the bar at Jolly Roger's Lagoon, raving about how he had a dream in which he had his own game, but a bear that looks like Banjo stole his glory. Blackeye's final cameo to date appears in ''Nuts & Bolts'', as a wanted poster on the front of the Boot-In-A-Box part. A building in Showdown town is named "Blackeye's Boat Hire".
** The character that morphed into Tooty during Dream's development was originally a woman named Piccolo that was Banjo's girlfriend. Tooty is shown playing a piccolo in the opening to ''Banjo-Kazooie''.
* DifficultySpike - After a mostly easy game, with little if any danger of getting lost or getting killed... Gruntilda in the final battle of the first game is ''[[ThatOneBoss vicious]]''. [[BestBossEver But epic]]!
** The eighth world in ''Banjo-Kazooie,'' Rusty Bucket Bay, has the engine room puzzle. Arguably, the level itself compared to the others -- thanks to water that makes you drown on the ''surface.''
** Mr. Vile in BubblegloopSwamp is probabaly the first time the game provides a spike in the challenge; prior to this, most Jiggies are pretty straightforward or out in the open, and then you run into this guy who forces you through not one, not two, but [[RuleOfThree three]] challenges with increasing difficulty for a ''single'' Jiggy.
* DiscOneFinalBoss - Grunty's quiz game in the original game.
* DisproportionateRetribution - Think about it for a second. Grunty kidnapped Banjo's sister; did she really think he wouldn't come after her? She forces him to undertake a huge, dangerous quest and fight for his very survival, sending minion after minion to attack him relentlessly, all the while threatening him with bodily harm and outright demanding that he come up and face her, ''all because he's being a good big brother''. Then, in the final fight that she herself pretty much begged for, it's not even Banjo and Kazooie who deliver the finishing blow, it's the Jinjonator who takes her down. And she doesn't even die! And for THAT, she murders Bottles, burns down Banjo's house, wipes out an entire Jinjo population (literally, to the point of extinction, although that may have been the fault of her sisters, as they were the ones who drove the vehicle to Spiral Mountain to revive her), and terrorizes the whole Isle o' Hags? I mean, yeah, she's an evil witch, but still... holy crap.
** It's also hinted in the instruction manual that it wasn't even Tooty that she was interested in surpassing in terms of the beauty department, but her sister Brentilda, and all Tooty's looks were to her was an excuse to finally use the machine that would allow her to grant this goal.
* DistressBall - Kazooie, in the very beginning of ''Grunty's Revenge.''
* DolledUpInstallment - The GBA spin-off ''Banjo-Pilot'' was a remodeling of the canceled ''[[DiddyKongRacing Diddy Kong Pilot]]'' following Nintendo's selling of Rare.
* DoubleJump: One of the duo's most basic moves, utilizing Kazooie's wings to flap for more height.
* DownTheDrain - Clanker's Cavern, which also has shades of AbsurdlySpaciousSewer.
* DrillSergeantNasty - Jamjars, in marked contrast to his brother Bottles.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim - [[spoiler:Gruntilda's sisters are rather unceremoniously smashed by weights in her Tower of Tragedy Quiz.]]
* DumbIsGood - Banjo. Boy howdy, Banjo. He seems to have smartened up a bit in ''Nuts & Bolts''. He did a bit in ''Tooie'' as well, though that could be due to having to make a lot of the dialogue shared by either character if they're Split Up.
* DummiedOut - Stop 'N' Swop and [[http://www.rarewitchproject.com/?id=1194 Bottles' Revenge]] in ''Banjo-Tooie''. Stop 'N' Swop eventually came back.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName - Gruntilda Winkybunion is randomly given one in the first game for use in the PopQuiz at the end. Also, in Tooie, it is revealed that she has an embarrassing ''last'' name, which Banjo and Kazooie poke fun at her about.
* EnterSolutionHere: Even if you already know all of Cheato's codes in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and ''Banjo-Tooie'', you still can't use them until you've earned them. Rusty Bucket Bay also has a puzzle where you need to use a code written on the side of the ship, though you don't have to seek it out like with Cheato.
** By using the Internet (or just plain luck), you can find out that you can still use the cheats if you enter "CHEATO" in then the cheat backwards, rendering the poor book useless. Of course, you won't know the cheats unless you collected them all or have Internet access, meaning he can still be useful.
* EternalEngine - Grunty Industries, Freezing Furnace, Nutty Acres, and Logbox 720.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - Grunty's Code Vengeance is a sign that she hates when the player tries to cheat.
-->'''Grunty''': Stop this cheating, Grunty says, or your Game Pak I'll erase! ''[player disregards warning]'' You didn't listen, I'm amazed, so now your Game Pak is erased!
** The Gruntbots from ''Nuts & Bolts'' may be mindless mooks trying to destroy you, but even they wouldn't be so impolite as to interrupt you while you're [[TalkingIsAFreeAction speaking to someone]].
** Speaking of Grunty, you could also say [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even The Disgusting Have Standards]]. Grunty enjoys cuddling a loogie-filled handkerchief in bed, wearing streaky brown undies, and blowing bubbles out of her butt at parties, but when the heroic duo venture into a [[AnimateInanimateObject talking toilet]] to collect a Jiggy from Mad Monster Mansion's septic tank, that's where she draws the line!
-->'''Grunty''': I can't believe you went in there, wash your hands now, filthy bear!
** And in an "Even Jerkasses Have Standards" moment, at one point in ''Tooie,'' Kazooie has to hatch a baby pterodactyl egg. One of them is so fat, it can't fly. Her father asks if Kazooie can't just shoot it with a grenade egg, causing Kazooie to immediately chastise him for his heartlessness. (He's joking, mostly, and says later he'll try to come up with an exercise program for her.)
* EverythingFades: Averted with dropped items in the first game. Don't need that honeycomb piece yet? You can come back to it any time as long as you haven't left the level. Played straight with {{Mook}}s though.
* EverythingsBetterWithBob: The life-sucking B.O.B., or [[FunWithAcronyms Big O' Blaster.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Played with in ''Banjo-Kazooie'', when Mumbo was going to turn the duo into an awesome Tyrannosaurus Rex transformation, but then decided it was [[TooAwesomeToUse too good for the game]] and would save it for the next one. Played straight then in ''Tooie'' with the appearance of the aforementioned T-Rex transformation, as well as [[{{Prehistoria}} Terrydactyland]].
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: King Jingaling in ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Inverted. Banjo is very likable.
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Subverted. Snacker the shark is rather antagonistic, but the massive cyborg Clanker is a GentleGiant.
* EverythingTalks
* EverythingTryingToKillYou - Just the tip of the iceberg: cauliflower, amusement park workers, life buoys, being chased down a by fanged, pissed off beehive (without bees), paper-craft goblins that swat at you with candy canes, flowers, and sausages, or bloodthirsty ''shovels''.
* EvilLaugh - Gruntilda has one of the most impressive ones in video game history, especially when you hit the "Save and Quit" option in ''Banjo-Kazooie''.
** She also laughs evilly constantly during the final boss battle.
** And, the first game works an evil laugh into the beginning of the "Grunty's Lair" theme and all its variants, which restarts every time the music loops back to the beginning.
** Every other minor enemy has one as well; Sir Slushes, Grublins, and Tee-Hees from the first game and Dragundas and Hotheads from the second in particular.
* EvilTwin - Mingy Jongo to Mumbo Jumbo and the Minjos to the Jinjos. (Rare really has a thing for [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar fitting "minge" into evil twins' names]].)
* EyePoke: Repeated eye-poking is the method needed to defeat a giant hermit crab in Treasure Trove Cove.
* FaceHeelTurn - Mumbo Jumbo pulls one of these for [[HotWitch Gruntilda]] in the [[TheBadGuyWins Game Over cutscene]] in the first game; good thing it's [[GameOver not canon]].
** Bottles was supposed to have one of these as well in the Bottles' Revenge game in Tooie, but as we all know, that feature of the game was scrapped.
* FairestOfThemAll - Gruntilda's plot in the first game is to suck the beauty out of Banjo's sister Tooty with a special machine.
* FairyGodmother: Brentilda's a mix of this and [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Glinda the Good Witch]].
* FantasticVoyage - Banjo and Kazooie end up walking around larger creatures' insides surprisingly often.
* FatAndSkinny: Blobbelda and Mingella. Also Banjo and Kazooie to a lesser extent.
* FateWorseThanDeath - Happens to Gruntilda, who gets trapped under a boulder for two years... and yet she survives (albeit as a skeleton).
* FeatherFingers - In the ending of the first game, where Kazooie holds a mug, and again in ''Nuts & Bolts'', where she holds a wrench.
* FeedItABomb - The boss Weldar in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' Shoot Grenade Eggs at him when he starts SuckingInLines.
* FinalExamBoss - Gruntilda in every game.
** All the main games have a ''literal'' final exam right before the final battle, at that...
* FireIceLightning - In ''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge,'' you have Fire, Ice, and Battery eggs. In ''Banjo-Tooie'', you only have Fire and Ice--the other two "special" egg types are bombs.
* FishingMinigame: ''Grunty's Revenge'' has several, albeit with a very... Banjo-esque twist sometimes. There's your usual fishing, and then there's fishing for ''sheep...''
* FloatingPlatforms - Not that common in the series, but examples include the vicinity of the treehouse in Click Clock Wood from ''Banjo-Kazooie'' (seriously, there's planks of wood just floating there) and ''any'' of Cloud Cuckooland from ''Banjo-Tooie''. Even the mountain in the middle of the level appears to be floating.
** In the Icicle Grotto in ''Tooie''. You can shoot some of them off of the ceiling and they stop ''in midair''.
* FlunkyBoss - Several in the second game. Terry periodically summons "Mucoids" -- small, slimey enemies -- and Weldar populates his battlefield with nut-and-bolt enemies from elsewhere in the level.
* FranchiseKiller: Unfortunately, ''Nuts & Bolts'' didn't sell particularly well, and there hasn't been a sequel since despite the obvious SequelHook, but the real reason there may be no more ''Banjo'' games is probably [[ExecutiveMeddling Microsoft's careless restructuring of the company into solely developing Kinect games]].
* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: The very first Jiggy Banjo and Kazooie collect in the first game, right at the entrance of Gruntilda's Lair, [[LiveItem tells them]] that the objective of it and the other Jiggies in the game is to open new levels. Good thing that Jiggy was instantly available, and that the first world only requires one.
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: There's a dolphin that's [[AndroclesLion trapped under an anchor]] ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill in grimy toxic water]].'' Swimming up into the ship and slamming the button to drag the anchor off of him causes him to thank you by leaving behind a [[MacGuffin Jiggy]].
* FrothyMugsOfWater - Played with. The tavern in Jolly Roger's Lagoon sells ginger beer, which is a soft drink similar to ginger ale, but generally with a stronger taste. However, that doesn't prevent one of the customers from being a "seasick" pirate, complete with water cure.
* FunWithAcronyms - One of ''Banjo-Kazooie'''s "Disinformation Central" rumors is about about Gruntilda going back in time with her giant [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar T.I.T]] (Time Interfering Truck). [[http://www.rare.co.uk/company/news_disinf08.html Here's the link]].
* {{Gainaxing}}: Out of all the female characters, [[{{Gonk}} Blobbelda]] has this. As well as [[MsFanservice Humba Wumba]] and Mrs. Boggy, the polar bear.
* [[ShowWithinAShow Game Within A Game]]: Remember when Klungo went off to "make ssstupid games" after being defeated for the last time in Banjo-Tooie? In Nuts & Bolts, Klungo has indeed made his own game, Hero Klungo Sssaves Teh World, which is a playable mini-game. It is basically a poor man's SuperMarioBros.
* GangplankGalleon - Treasure Trove Cove and Jolly Roger's Lagoon.
* GenreSavvy - ''Everyone''.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - [[Radar/{{Banjo-Kazooie}} Numerous instances]]. Basically the whole series is a foil of subtlety to [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Conker's]] [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]].
** If you don't want to read a whole other page, just see the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPnK2Bl0Pk two]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enbYgl_YcCw part]] video series!
* GiantEnemyCrab: The original game's Treasure Trove Cove has one - although he only became an enemy because of Kazooie's big mouth...
* GiantFootOfStomping: The Stomponadon in Terrydactyland.
* GigglingVillain: Gruntilda. She's one of the few that pulls both this and EvilLaugh off perfectly.
* GoldenSuperMode: Although Banjo and Kazooie don't turn gold themselves, using their [[InvincibilityPowerUp Invincibility Feathers]] covers them in golden glimmers.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: Brentilda and Gruntilda. Their designs are [[ShoutOut based]] on [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West]].
* GoshHornet: The beehives in the later levels.
* GottaCatchEmAll: Jiggies and notes are the main collectibles in the games, but Jinjos, empty honeycombs, Cheato pages, Mumbo tokens, and other items appear everywhere. HundredPercentCompletion can be a pain in this series.
* GreenAesop: Subtle, but appears in all three main games. In ''Kazooie'', the oily water in Rusty Bucket Bay is so polluted, it makes you drown while swimming on the surface! (You drown twice as fast when you swim underwater.) In ''Tooie'', Grunty Industries has completely ravaged the environment and the nearby quagmire with its toxic runoff and smog. Finally, in ''Nuts & Bolts'' Gruntilda plans to take the duo's beloved Spiral Mountain and turn it into a polluted industrial resort, and the point of beating her (and the game) is to stop that from happening.
* GreenHillZone - Spiral Mountain, Mumbo's Mountain, Mayahem Temple, and Cliff Farm.
* GrievousHarmWithABody - The secret move Breegull Bash in ''Tooie'', in which Banjo uses Kazooie as a club.
* GrimyWater - You can use a special PowerUp to cross it.
** Also, Rusty Bucket Bay. The water is so ass-nasty that on the surface, you're forced to hold your breath, and underwater, your air runs out twice as fast.
* GroundPound - Like basically all of his other moves, it involves Banjo's backpack.
* GuestFighter - The name of the Xbox 360 version of a MultiPlatform racing game [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin explains itself]]: ''[[SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]] [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg with]] Banjo-Kazooie''.
** Banjo also made his first appearence and debut in the video game world as one of these along with Conker in DiddyKongRacing for the N64.
* GuideDangIt: Canary Mary. See ThatOneSidequest for details.
* HailfirePeaks - The TropeNamer. The level in question is part LethalLavaLand and part SlippySlideyIceWorld.
** Besides the TropeNamer, the series also features Clanker's Cavern (AbsurdlySpaciousSewer + DownTheDrain + WombLevel), Rusty Bucket Bay (ShipLevel + EternalEngine + DownTheDrain), Click Clock Wood (LostWoods + SlippySlideyIceWorld), Mayahem Temple (GreenHillZone + TempleOfDoom), Witchyworld (AmusementParkOfDoom + MinigameZone + LethalLavaLand), Jolly Roger's Lagoon (GangplankGalleon + UnderTheSea), and Cauldron Keep (EternalEngine + TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon).
* [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween Level]]: Mad Monster Mansion in ''Banjo-Kazooie'', especially since Mumbo's transformation there is a Pumpkin, which is one of the most iconic symbols for Halloween.
* HeartContainer - The Empty Honeycombs.
* HeelFaceTurn - [[spoiler:Klungo in ''Tooie''.]]
* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits
* HelloNurse - Believe it or not, [[spoiler:[[http://banjokazooie.wikia.com/wiki/File:GruntyPretty.jpg Gruntilda]]]] in the "game over" cutscene from ''Banjo-Kazooie''. Almost makes you not care about rescuing Tooty. [[NightmareFuel Almost.]]
** Also in [[http://banjokazooie.wikia.com/wiki/File:HeroKlungoSssavesssTehUniverssse.jpg the artwork]] for the "Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh Universsse" minigame in ''Nuts & Bolts''.
*** Unsurprising, as that would appear to be [[Webcomic/SequentialArt Phillip M Jackson's]] work. It's entirely possible the man's head would explode if he tried to draw an ugly woman.
** Humba Wumba, let's just say huba huba.
* HornetHole - Parts of Click Clock Wood in the first game and Cloudcuckooland in ''Tooie''.
* HPToOne - Getting crushed in ''Banjo-Tooie,'' with a brief period of MercyInvincibility before it's possible to get crushed a second time and killed. This serves as part of two puzzles, where Banjo must go solo and use the Snooze Pack move to recover between these hits.
* HubLevel - Gruntilda's Lair in ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Isle O' Hags in ''Banjo-Tooie'', Spiral Mountain in ''Grunty's Revenge'', and Showdown Town in ''Nuts & Bolts''.
* HulkSpeak - Mumbo and Humba.
** Also Klungo, combined with {{Sssssnaketalk}}.
* IdleAnimation - Kazooie pecking Banjo on the head, which itself had two variations: Idle once, and Kazooie pecks Banjo and giggles before returning to the backpack. Continue to idle long enough, and Kazooie will peck Banjo again, but then Banjo catches her by the neck and throttles her a bit. Revenge is sweet, no?
** Or Banjo playing a [[ProductPlacement Gameboy]].
*** In Tooie when split up, Banjo pulls up his shorts, while Kazooie seems to peck at the ground eating; also, when playing as Mumbo, his idle animation is playing with his shaman stick by tossing it into the air and catching it when it falls back down.
* TheIgor - Klungo.
* [[{{ImplacableMan}} Implacable Witch]] - Grunty survives falling off her tower, getting decomposed after two years, getting blown up in HAG 1, her now-disembodied head being the kickball for Banjo and friends, getting back to Spiral Mountain with just that head (which takes eight years), being attacked repeatedly in vehicles, and [[spoiler:finally getting her vehicle blown up in her battle against Banjo and Kazooie. In the end, Grunty, who couldn't be killed off, ended up spending the rest of her days working in a video game factory.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun - In the first world of ''Banjo-Tooie'', you save a cow woman's crop by destroying all the flies ruining it. After you finish, she exclaims:
---> "A-maizing! I corn hardly believe it! You wheatly sorted out those pesky flies!"
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals - All the Jinjos look alike. [[PaletteSwap With different colors.]]
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons - [[spoiler:The secret dragon transformation for Kazooie]] in ''Banjo-Tooie''. Also, the main bosses of HailfirePeaks are a fire dragon and an ice dragon.
* IntercontinuityCrossover - Sabreman's cameo in ''Banjo-Tooie''. And the fact that ''DiddyKongRacing'' implies that the Donkey Kong Country universe is the same as the Banjo universe, which would, in a roundabout way, imply that the ''Banjo'' and ''Mario'' universes are one and the same. Also, because of "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games", it may be connected to Sonic's world (depending on how canon that game is considered).
** This has been confirmed by [[SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]] [[GuestFighter with Banjo-Kazooie.]]
* InterfaceScrew - ''Nuts & Bolts'''s "Bear in a Ball" level has flipped controls.
* InvincibilityPowerUp - The Golden Feathers; interestingly, you can use them just about ''anywhere''.
* {{Irony}} - Rusty Bucket Bay of the first game, a level which takes place primarily on a large ship, has [[EverythingTryingToKillYou life preservers]] that can attack you and knock you off the ship.
* ITasteDelicious: Apparent in the first game, [[LiveItem Honeycombs, Oranges, and even Caterpillars]] will divulge to the player how delicious they are.
-->'''Honeycomb:''' Mmmm . . . I'm sticky tasty honey energy!
* ItsAWonderfulFailure - The infamous Game Over sequence from the first game.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Again, Kazooie. And to a certain extent, Mumbo Jumbo. And Jamjars.
* JungleJapes - Mumbo's Mountain and Mayahem Temple.
* KarmaHoudini - Klungo, although justified due to how Gruntilda treats him in the second game.
** In the first game, Banjo and Kazooie decide to let Gruntilda be after rescuing Tooty... [[SubvertedTrope but suffice to say Tooty didn't allow them to do that]].
* KillSteal: In ''Nuts & Bolts'', [[spoiler:L.O.G. actually does pause the game to 'steal the kill' from the heroes by sending Gruntilda to work in his video game company.]]
* KingOfAllCosmos - The Lord Of Games.
* LampshadeHanging - Tons of it, even on the tropes within the game itself. ("Character ability pads", for example, have their trademark [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]] phrases written on them.)
* LargeAndInCharge - King Jingaling.
* LedgeBats
* LethalLavaLand - Grunty's Furnace Fun and half of Hailfire Peaks. In the GBA titles, we have Freezing Furnace (which is basically HailfirePeaks in EternalEngine flavor), and Steamy Vents in ''Banjo-Pilot'', which is exclusive to that game.
* LetsPlay - All of the console games have been or are presently being done by Rooreelooo of SomethingAwful. The portable game was LP'ed by someone else.
** You'd be lying if you didn't think {{NintendoCapriSun}} did a good job with the first two games.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/user/darkmindedsith Darkmindedsith]] did a great job as well.
** Cypheron48 did pretty well with the second game.
* LetsSplitUpGang - One of the main gimmicks of ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* LevelAte - Cloud Cuckoo Land has some aspects of this, with the giant cheese wedge, jelly castle, and all.
* LifeEnergy - The Big Ol' Blaster in ''Banjo-Tooie'' sucks up life energy.
** Or restore it. Alternatively, one of Mumbo's spells, "Life Force", can generate life energy.
* LiveItem - The Jinjos and Glowbos, and practically everything in the first game.
-->'''Random Collectable Orange:''' [[ITasteDelicious Yum . . . oranges are nice!]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: And ''how''. The cast of main characters is pretty average, but add in the ''huge'' supporting cast, and...wow.
* LostForever - The Mumbo Token in the water-logged pyramid in Gobi's Valley (once you drain the water, it's gone) and the Amaze-O-Gaze Goggles (once you beat the Tower of Tragedy Quiz, you are locked out of Bottles' House and can't get in). Subject to debate are the grille that connects the Mad Monster Mansion and Rusty Bucket Bay puzzles (though it's not commonly seen and mistaken for a dead end), and the track "Sad Jinjo Houses" in the jukebox, and the "Zombie Throne Room" track.
** Part GameBreakingBug - On the XBLA, completing the Bottles Bonus Puzzles before completing Mad Monster Mansion and Click Clock Wood can make some of the notes in those levels impossible to collect.
*** This has been fixed in an update form Xbox Live.
* TheLostWoods - Click Clock Wood.
* MagicalNativeAmerican - Humba Wumba.
* {{Magicant}} - Cloudcuckooland.
* {{Mayincatec}} - Mayahem Temple.
* MediumAwareness - Everyone knows very darn well they're in a video game with a silly ExcusePlot.
* MessyPig: Inverted with the pigs in ''Tooie'', who want you to clean up the mess in their swimming hole. Played straight in ''Nuts & Bolts'' with Pikelet, and to a lesser extent the the many generic pig characters in [[HubLevel Showdown Town]].
* {{Metroidvania}}: ''Tooie'' is a [[AWorldwidePunomenon rare]] 3D example.
* MiniGameCredits - The ending credits of ''Grunty's Revenge'' send you down a slide to collect tokens. The tokens let you replay minigames at the arcade machine in Spiller's Harbor.
* MorphicResonance: All the transformations still have Banjo's shorts and backpack.
* MsFanservice: Humba Wumba in ''Nuts & Bolts'' is basically a Native American [[TheDukesOfHazzard Daisy Duke]]. Honey B. in ''Tooie'' fits this well.
* MusicalThemeNaming: Banjo, Kazooie, and Bottles are all named after musical instruments. Tooty ''was'' originally named Piccolo ([[DragonBall probably a good thing they changed that]]), but this instrument seems out of place with the others anyway, as it doesn't belong in the DeepSouth.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood - King Jingaling.
* MythologyGag - ''Nuts & Bolts'' includes numerous shout-outs to other Rare games. One level is nothing but game boxes that reference fictional sequels to classic games such as ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''.
** There's been many a ShoutOut to other Rare games since the beginning: as well as Sabreman's appearance in ''Tooie'', there are plenty of subtler ones, such as posters of characters from ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' and ''JetForceGemini'', Mr. Pants being worked in anywhere he'll fit, and a toy DonkeyKong.
* NamesTheSame: One particular song in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 3'' was "Nuts and Bolts".
* NeverSayDie - Played straight in ''Kazooie'', but averted in ''Tooie'', where Bottles is killed in the intro, and other characters make direct references to death; [[spoiler:King Jingaling becomes a zombie after his life energy is drained, Roysten says he'll die if he doesn't get to water, Lord Woo Fak Fak sort of dies after being defeated (and even goes belly-up, though he can still speak to you), and Mingella and Blobbelda are crushed by weights in Tower of Tragedy.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer - The original teaser for the third game showed what would appear to be new key and weedwhacker moves for Kazooie, implying that the game was more like its predecessors. Apparently, this ''was'' the original plan for the game before it got scrapped.
** The trailer for the XBLA release of ''Tooie'' showed the long-absent Bottles' Revenge, though it didn't appear in this release after all.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Grunty seems to be more guilty of this trope with each subsequent game. In ''Banjo-Tooie'' she's a Zombie Witch, in ''Grunty's Revenge'' she's a Ghost Robot Witch, and to top it off, in ''Nuts & Bolts'' not only is she by default by this point a Robot Zombie Witch, but during the final fight, she attacks the heroes on a Pirate Galleon, making her, briefly, a Pirate Zombie Robot Witch.
* NoFairCheating - There are three kinds of "Cheats" in the original: "Cheats" which are just item capacity upgrades, which you get from Cheato anyway, "Infinite Item" cheats which give you unlimited Feathers/Eggs/air/whatever, and special "Bypass" cheats that let you get through parts of Grunty's Lair. But be warned--using more than two of the "bypass"-style cheats will result in Grunty deleting your game.
** And then there's the "Special Items" cheats, which relate to the above-mentioned Stop 'N Swop.
* NoFourthWall - Part of the humor of the franchise.
* NonMammalMammaries: Honey B. [[spoiler:[[CaptainObvious She's a bee]]!]]
* NostalgiaLevel - ''Nuts & Bolts'''s Banjo Land is a mishmash of levels from previous games.
* OddCouple - The titular duo. Banjo is very lazy and easygoing, Kazooie... not so much.
* OffscreenTeleportation - Brentilda appears in no less than 10 different locations throughout Gruntilda's Lair, and you never see her move from any of them. Perhaps justified, since she's some sort of fairy god mother.
* OhCrap - Gruntilda gets [[JawDrop one of these]] when she faces [[spoiler:[[DeusExMachina The Mighty Jinjonator]]]].
* OldSaveBonus - The purpose of the [[UrbanLegendOfZelda long-lost Stop 'N' Swop feature]], properly implemented in the XBLA rereleases.
* {{Only Sane Man}} - Banjo himself.
* OppositesAttract: Although Banjo and Kazooie are complete opposites in terms of personality, they seem to get along pretty well.
* OurFounder: The giant statue of Gruntilda in the depths of her lair.
* OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles: One area in Clanker's Cavern has a huge pit you need to swim into, but it's very, very deep. A friendly fish named Gloop appears down there who spits out oxygenated bubbles
* PalmtreePanic: Nutty Acres is a rare mix of this and EternalEngine.
* PantyShot: Blobbelda.
* PaperThinDisguise: Grunty is an evil witch who wants to destroy the heroes. ''Madame'' Grunty is a fortuneteller who gives the heroes free items, [[spoiler:and sometimes beatings]]. ''[[SarcasmMode Completely different person!]]''
* PerpetualMolt: Using the Red Feathers to fly has takes this form.
* PetTheDog: Kazooie and frozen alien baby in Hailfire Peaks. Though she quickly backtracks and tells him to quit whining.
* PickupHierarchy
* PlatonicLifePartners - Banjo and Kazooie. It helps that one is a bear and one is a bird.
* PlayableEpilogue: In both the original and Tooie, you could play even after slaying Grunty. In the first game, you could even [[VideogameCrueltyPotential dance on her still-moving grave.]]
* PollutedWasteland: Grunty Industries in ''Banjo-Tooie'' and Clanker's Cavern and Rusty Bucket Bay in ''Banjo-Kazooie''.
* PopQuiz - Grunty's Furnace Fun in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and the Tower of Tragedy in ''Banjo-Tooie'' and ''Grunty's Revenge''. Both quizzes take place near the end of the games.
** And a completely meaningless one at the end of ''Nuts & Bolts'' that features such stumpers as "What is the name of Banjoland?"
* PortTown - The "above water" section of Jolly Roger's Lagoon resembles one of these.
* PowerUpMotif: Using the Wonderwing power changes the background music for the duration.
* PrecisionFStrike - Grunty gets one after Cheato gives up the last code to Banjo. And then there's her comment about making Spiral Mountain hell.
** The Saucer of Peril in ''Tooie'' says "Bleep" a lot as part of its character quirk, but when you beat its challenge, it tells you you've won two ''bleeping'' prizes.
* {{Prehistoria}} - Terrydactyland.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack - The theme of Grunty's Lair is actually a particularly eerie remix of "Teddy Bears' Picnic" (appropriate, since Banjo is a bear). That doesn't make it any less fitting, though.
** In ''Tooie,'' the music in Bottles' house is based on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJd-SHzqUC4 "Funiculi, Funicula"]].
* PunchClockVillain - Weldar from [[EternalEngine Grunty Industries]]. When the duo first meet him, he quotes company policy codes on bears in the factory.
* [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil A Pupil Of Mine Until She Turned To Evil]] - Gruntilda to Mumbo, though this isn't mentioned much; it's really only in the manual of the first game and a few easily-missable comments Mumbo makes when you first meet him.
* PurelyAestheticEra - In a world with Game Boys, Nintendo 64s, widescreen television and amusement parks, not to mention the {{BFG}} pointed at the Isle O' Hags in the second game, in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' there are pirates (in the traditional yo-ho sense) hunting treasure. ''Banjo-Tooie'' has what looks like a Gold Rush-era gem mine. Then there's Terrydactyland. Without even going into [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying upset palaeontologists]], the dinosaur land has a train station with ''bone tracks'' (which connects to a factory and the aforementioned mine and theme park) and a sidequest there involves getting fast food for cavemen. Another involves retrieving a {{Mayincatec}} [[BuffySpeak priceless relic thing]] from another caveman tribe. RuleOfFunny is in full effect here. %%Do not add No Really or I Am Not Making This Up for goodness sake.
* PutOnABus: Tooty and Brentilda from ''Kazooie'', Honey B. from ''Tooie'' [[spoiler:she did appear in the Midquel though]]. [[WhatHappenedtotheMouse Tooty's disappearance]] is even lampshaded in both ''Tooie'' and ''Nuts & Bolts''.
* RacingMiniGame - Boggy the polar bear, Canary Mary... Not to mention much of ''Nuts & Bolts''.
* RainDance - Done by Mumbo in Banjo-Tooie's Cloudcuckooland.
* RecurringRiff - Tons of it. The main title song and the Grunty's Lair song are the two themes that get remixed the most throughout the series.
** In fact, practically ''every'' level theme in the games had remixes that played when you traveled to different areas, including the respective games' Hub World.
** The soundtrack for ''Nuts & Bolts'' is made up of virtually nothing ''but'' orchestrated remixes of previous ''Banjo-Kazooie'' songs, and bits of tracks from [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay other]] [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} Rare]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry games.]] Not that anyone's complaining...
* RecurringTraveller
* RedOniBlueOni - Kazooie is the aggressive Type A, Banjo is her level-headed foil. When they get the Split Up ability and have to learn solo moves, Banjo starts out with ''no attack'' (despite being a friggen ''bear''), gains only a slow nigh-useless one, and most of his skills are defensive or passive in nature -- Kazooie starts with her entire egg arsenal intact, moves really fast, and gets a melee attack that goes off quickly and hits everything around her. [[spoiler:And learns to [[SamusIsAGirl hatch eggs]].]]
* RetCon: In the original game's manual, it was said that Gruntilda was Mumbo-Jumbo's pupil, and that she turned his head into a horrible metal mask when she turned evil. (Mumbo alludes to their past in the GameOver screen.) However, come the later games, it seems that Mumbo's head has just always been that way and Gruntilda got her learnings elsewhere.
* RhymesOnADime - Gruntilda, in the first game, speaks entirely in verse. In the second game, she quits after [[LampshadeHanging her sisters point out how annoying this is...]] But in ''Nuts & Bolts'', she goes back again.
** Most likely because [[spoiler:her sisters are dead and aren't around to tell her to stop rhyming.]]
* RibcageRidge - Terrydactyland
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter - The Jinjos.
* RightHandCat - Piddles the Cat. Subverted in that she and Grunty hate each other immediately (or at least one millisecond later after Grunty [[KickTheDog literally kicks her]]), and it's implied that she's a PunchClockVillain in the epilogue.
* TheRival: Mumbo Jumbo and Humba Wumba both claim to be "Best Shaman in Game" in ''Tooie'', much to the chagrin of the other. However, it seems that they've settled their rivalry in the 8 years leading to ''Nuts & Bolts''.
* RobotMe: [[EvilTwin Mingy Jongo]] to Mumbo Jumbo.
* RubberBandAI - Canary Mary. See also: ThatOneSidequest and GuideDangIt.
** ''Banjo-Pilot'' also has this.
* SandIsWater - Gobi's Valley is full of "quicksand pits," and even a few "sand waterfalls."
* {{Scars Are Forever}} - Klungo's face is still visibly messed-up from the beatings Gruntilda gave him in ''Banjo-Tooie'' when you meet him again in ''Nuts & Bolts''.
* [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] - Klungo at the end of ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* SecretKeeper: Brentilda knows all of Gruntilda's disgusting personal secrets. She's more than happy to share them with you.
* SelfDeprecation - ''Nuts & Bolts'' has some references to ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'' being a commercial failure and admits that the bird and bear don't have as many games as "[[SuperMarioBros that Italian gentleman]]".
** "Easy to make boat, add floaters and propellers. Heavier vehicles need more floaters, or boat sink like this game at retail." [[http://kotaku.com/5140653/fable-ii-banjo-kazooie-sales-are-chalk--cheese Yeah. About that...]]
** The Lord of Games in ''Nuts and Bolts'' claims to have had great pleasure in making the Canary Mary sidequest.
-->"Remember Canary Mary? [[SarcasmMode Did you have fun racing her?]] How I laughed when I was setting up those levels. I'm still laughing!"
* SelfDeprecatingHumor - As seen by Gruntilda in the final battle after you've rescued Tooty, in possible reference to her being unable to restore her beauty.
-->"What was that, you got me now, you've really angered this old cow!"
* SequelDifficultySpike: ''Banjo-Tooie'' is a ''lot'' more challenging than its predecessor.
* SequelHook - At the end of every game. ''Kazooie'' has Mumbo pop out of a tree and show pictures of the infamous Stop 'n' Swop items, saying that you would find out what they were for in ''Banjo-Tooie.'' At the end of ''Tooie'', Gruntilda threatens "Just wait until ''Banjo-Threeie!''" (''Threeie'', of course, was never made, though it ''was'' the working title of the project that became ''Nuts and Bolts''.) ''Grunty's Revenge'' has Banjo about to call Bottles and Mumbo over for a game of cards, setting up for ''Tooie''. As for ''Nuts & Bolts''? [[spoiler:Kazooie asks L.O.G. to give them their old moves back, saying they might need them for the next game. L.O.G. does so, though warning them that the next game may not happen. Gruntilda, of course, threatens "Just wait until the game I make!" while working in L.O.G.'s video game factory.]] The XBLA release of ''Tooie'' includes an as-yet unexplained Stop 'N' Swop II feature, promising to be used in a future title.
* ShiftingSandLand - Gobi's Valley, complete with the SandIsWater sandfalls.
* ShoutOut - Mostly to other Rare games. Most notably, the archaeologist from ''Sabre Wulf'', who was [[HumanPopsicle frozen by the ice dragon]] for 16 years.
** {{Mario}} is referenced in his near-forgotten capacity as a plumber in both versions of ''Tooie'', though the 360 version [[CaptainErsatz alters the direct name reference to simply "that well-known Italian one"]].
** In the first game, Grunty and her sister Brentilda are very reminiscent of [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda]]. Likewise, her other sisters Mingella and Blobbelda were similar to the witches in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and Grunty's overall characterization in the first game was similar to the Evil Queen in "Literature/SnowWhite".
* {{Shovelware}}: In ''Nuts & Bolts'', the loser of the competition will be forced to make these for L.O.G.
* SillinessSwitch - An EasterEgg MiniGame in the original would give you several cheat codes that changed Banjo's appearance, ranging from giving him a giant head to making his body long and skinny. The final one turned him into a washing machine.
** You could also occasionally be accidentally turned into a washing machine via standard use of Mumbo.
** Believe it or not, but there was actually a point to completing that EasterEgg MiniGame. You could perform a cheat that went like this: Skip being transformed in Mumbo's Mountain, complete all of Bottle's puzzles, and enter the Washing Machine code on the Sandcastle floor, and then go back to Mumbo's Mountain, and the transformation would be free, not requiring a single Mumbo Token at all.
*** In the second game, the washing machine was a regular transformation (specifically for Grunty Industries.) Oh, and to add more silliness, the washing machine fired underwear and operated ''service elevators''.
* SingingSimlish: The music to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjoWbFB4BTE Mayahem Temple]]: "ONG ANG OOK YA OOK. ONG ANG OOK YA OOK. EEK YO EEK YO ONG EEK OOK."
** This was actually supposed to sound like "Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough."
* SlippySlideyIceWorld - Freezeezy Peak, the Winter Click Clock Wood, and half of Hailfire Peaks.
* SnarkKnight - Kazooie.
* SoundOff - Jamjars describes new moves using cadences.
* SpeakingSimlish - So iconic of the series, it's ''so'' famous, in fact, [[GrandfatherClause they decided to keep it]] in ''Nuts & Bolts''. A Rare Scribes column even joked about how horrible the reaction to actual talking would be if the reaction to driving cars was any indication.
* SpiritualSuccessor - ''Banjo-Pilot'' is a spiritual sequal to ''DiddyKongRacing'' -- well, it ''is'' a DolledUpInstallment.
* {{Sssssnaketalk}} - Gruntilda's right-hand man Klungo. Also, the Snippet Mutants in ''Banjo-Kazooie,'' as well as the minor character Ssslumber in ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* StealthPun: In ''Tooie'', Banjo learns the Snooze Pack move, which lets him take a catnap in his backpack to restore health. Thus making his pack a literal Nap Sack, or Sleeping Bag.
** This exchange between Kazooie and Scrotty houses an easily-missed pun:
-->'''Scrotty:''' Look at my eldest, Scrat. He's very sickly and needs a doctor urgently.\\
'''Kazooie:''' [[WitchDoctor Which doctor?]]\\
'''Scrotty:''' I don't care. Any doctor will do.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker - Talk like Yoda, Cheato does. And Mingella and Blobbelda so do. It comes across as imitating Grunty's own awkward syntax (used to allow for her rhymes), but without the rhymes.
* StylisticSuck - "Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh World" in ''Nuts & Bolts'', which is... actually, compared to most of Newgrounds, not that bad, but still hilariously awful. You play as Klungo, who is ''literally carrying the world'', as he automatically runs from left to right, only allowing you to jump at one fixed, unchanging height. To his credit, there are some very tricky timing puzzles centered around making the best use of that jump.
** It should also be noted that, while the game itself is awful, the box art is [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/220/klungosaevstehworldshv9.png/ ''totally brutal'']].
* SuperDrowningSkills - In ''Grunty's Revenge,'' most of Banjo's transformations -- all but the octopus -- can't swim. You'll die instantly if you touch the water as one of them.
** SuperNotDrowningSkills - Many of the transformations in the Nintendo 64 games. Some are justified (Walrus, Crocodile, Stone Statue, inanimate objects); others, like the Termite, not so much. Although notably, the bee in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' and ''Banjo-Tooie'' will just fly back up again when it approaches water.
* SwampsAreEvil: The hazardous BubblegloopSwamp from the first game, although some of the inhabitants are friendly.
* TakeThat - Chatting up the Lord of Games in ''Nuts & Bolts'' reveals that he has interesting opinions on the state of the video game industry (and {{video game tropes}} in general) at the present:
-->"For [[GameplayRoulette my next trick]], I may take that [[VivaPinata Pinata]] franchise down the {{survival horror}} route. What do you think? [[DarkerAndEdgier They go bad, trap you in a cabin]], and [[ZombieApocalypse you have to fend them off]] [[WithThisHerring with a shovel handle]]."
-->"Yes, there is a [[DistaffCounterpart Lady of Games]]. Not that it's any of your business. She invented the first games to feature [[BreadEggsMilkSquick pony-riding, lovely kittens, and ninjas being blown up with rocket launchers.]]"
-->"I invented the [[FirstPersonShooter first-person shooter]], you know. Wish I hadn't bothered now. Have you seen [[FollowTheLeader how many of the things there are]]? I expect there's even a {{space marine}} in this game somewhere."
** Humba Wumba takes a bit of a pop not only at the GamerChick character in the second level, but almost actively calls out the Frag Dolls, with her own all-girl clan, the "[[LawyerFriendlyCameo Hag Trolls]]". Banjo comments that he can "smell cynicism".
* TechnologyMarchesOn - In Tooie, [[FatBastard Boggy]] is very proud of having a rather small widescreen TV.
* TempleOfDoom - Mayahem Temple.
* TemptingFate: The aftermath of the "Tower of Tradegy Quiz" in ''Banjo-Tooie'':
-->'''Banjo:''' Right! C'mon, Kazooie, let's go and see where that door that's just opened leads to.\\
'''Kazooie:''' Do you reckon that's the end of the game?\\
'''Banjo:''' I doubt it. We've not had the credits yet.\\
'''Kazooie:''' That's true. Okay, let's go!\\
''(Banjo enters the doorway... roll credits!)''
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics - Kazooie suddenly became a lot curvier in ''Nuts and Bolts,'' and grew much more prominent eyelashes.
* ThatPoorCat: In the first game's file select screen, selecting the first file will occasionally cause Banjo and Kazooie to get flung out the window. Cue cat noises.
* ThemeNaming - The moles are all named for various slang words for the thick glasses they sport (see AnimalStereotypes), such as Bottles, Jamjars, Speccy (arguably a reference to the ZX Spectrum computer too), and Goggles. Several other characters are musically themed; see MusicalThemeNaming above.
* ThrivingGhostTown - Jolly Roger's Lagoon. Jolly's pub is a very popular place, but the town itself is depicted as very small, and has few inhabitants.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Gruntilda [[spoiler: sort of]] and Brentilda.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Lampshaded in the first game; Mumbo Jumbo has this unstoppable Tyrannosaurus Rex transformation... but decides it's too awesome for the game and saves it for the next one instead.
* TooMuchInformation: Grunty loves to mix these in with her [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]]. Could also be said of all of Gruntilda's revolting secrets [[SecretKeeper Brentilda]] likes to share.
* TreasureRoom - Banjo-Tooie has the Treasure Chamber in [[{{Mayincatec}} Mayahem]] [[TempleOfDoom Temple]], which is filled with piles of gold. You can't take any of it, though.
* {{Tsundere}} - Kazooie, who, rather than fitting into either category listed on the trope page, is both caustic and sentimental at the same time, all the time.
* {{Uncancelled}} - "Stop 'N' Swop" was added between ''Nuts & Bolts'' and the XBLA release of the original game. Unsurprisingly, this was massively nerfed to unlocking minor cosmetic parts in N&B. It was also implemented into the XBLA release of ''Tooie'', in which the feature is used as it was previously intended: having both games on your hard drive unlocks the ability to collect those items in ''Kazooie'', which you can then use in ''Tooie'' for rewards. Numerous jokes are made about how long this took (such as Banjo mentioning he's been carrying the eggs for the last ten years).
* UndergroundLevel - Clanker's Cavern and Glitter Gulch Mine.
* UnderwaterRuins - The Atlantis section of Jolly Roger's Lagoon.
* UndyingLoyalty - At the start of ''Tooie'', you see that Klungo has been trying to push that boulder off Grunty for '''two years'''!
* UnexpectedGameplayChange - The Breegull Blaster move in ''Tooie'', which turns the game into a first-person shooter with [[ImprobableWeaponUser Kazooie as the gun.]] Interestingly, as it was by the same people, the levels for these stages were copied from the multiplayer mode of ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye]]'', just with a different paint job.
* UpdatedRerelease: Banjo Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie were rereleased on the XboxLiveArcade.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda - Stop 'N' Swop. Oh god, ''Stop 'N' Swop.'' While the rumour had a basis in a real plan of the developers, the lack of implementation lead to wildly varying rumours as to what you could do to access the stubs left behind, amplified by all the teases left around through the years after.
** It didn't help that the credits shamelessly teased you with the eggs and key. Or that they left in [[GuideDangIt unnecessarily long codes]] for the sandcastle to actually be able to ''get'' them (and about three others they didn't show).
* VariableMix - Every overworld and level. ''Ever''. But for starters, every level with an appreciable amount of water has an underwater version in the form of a muted harp.
%%Or something similar. I'm not a musician.
* VictoryPose - Every time you collect a Jiggy (and open a note door) in ''Banjo-Kazooie''. Removed in ''Tooie'', possibly due to the open-endedness and all the transformations that would need such an animation.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential - The ending of ''Banjo-Tooie''. The heroes have just defeated the witch, how do they decide to celebrate? [[spoiler:They take the [[BigBad Big Bad's]] helpless severed head and start kicking it around like a soccer ball, all while talking about [[ComedicSociopathy how much fun this is]] over the sounds of the witch screaming in pain.]]
* VideoGameFlight - Kazooie can fly, but only with Red Feathers, and you can only launch from Flight Pads. And in some levels, getting up to them is a hassle in and of itself.
** To be fair, you don't NEED the red feathers to actually fly. You need the launch pads for sure, but you can stay in the air for a small amount of time without the feathers.
* VitriolicBestBuds - You'd be forgiven for wondering why Banjo and Kazooie hang out in the first place, given that there are times when it seems like Banjo's only around to prevent Kazooie from chewing everyone out. Then again, given the way they react when separated in ''Tooie'' ("Don't leave me here, Banjo! It's lonely without you..."), maybe [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther there's something there after all.]]
** Then there's the fact that Banjo constantly uses Kazooie as eventually from a gun to a bat...
* VoiceOfTheLegion - [[spoiler:The Jinjonator]] at the end of ''Banjo-Kazooie'', which booms [[spoiler:'''''"Jiiin-joooo!"''''' when it's released from its stone prison.]]
* [[WidgetSeries Wabbit Series]]
* WackyRacing - ''Banjo Pilot,'' which is a racing game based on flying tiny, adorable planes.
* WallMaster - Several. Especially in the first game.
* WarpWhistle - The colour-coded cauldrons in ''Banjo-Kazooie'''s HubLevel, Grunty's Lair, the silo network in the Isle of Hags in ''Tooie'', and the teleport pads in Showdown Town in ''Nuts & Bolts''.
** Also, the teleport pads inside worlds in ''Tooie''.
* WeirdnessCensor: For starters, the Skivvies in Grunty Industries don't seem to bat an eyelash at a sentient washing machine with shorts and a backpack. But then, nearly ''everything'' seems to be sentient in Banjo's world, but that still doesn't make the shorts any less weird.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tooty. The whole point of the first game was to rescue her from Gruntilda's clutches. Then, from ''Tooie'' on, everyone seems to pretty much have forgotten she existed (though her disappearance is lampshaded in ''Tooie'').
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer - Parodied ludicrously when Banjo is turned into a washing machine in ''Tooie'', which goes on to be possibly the most useful transformation in the game.
* WhiteSheep: Brentilda, when you look at how the rest of her siblings turned out.
* WickedWitch - Gruntilda.
* WitchDoctor - Mumbo Jumbo and Humba Wumba both fit this trope.
* WombLevel - The inside of Clanker in Clanker's Cavern in ''Banjo-Kazooie'', and the belly of a giant fish in Jolly Roger's Lagoon and a dinosaur in Terrydactyland from ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Humba speak like this.
* ZombieApocalypse: Averted, but if B.O.B.'s effect on King Jingaling in ''Tooie'' was any indication, this was what was in store for the Isle O' Hags if Grunty had won.
* ZombieGait - King Jingaling in ''Banjo-Tooie'' after being hit by the B.O.B.
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* NotSoHarmless - Gruntilda's constant rhyming and generally quirky mannerisms can give the impression that she's a HarmlessVillain. Even when fighting her, she's still pulling out snappy rhymes. She also happens to be on the ThatOneBoss page... ''twice'', for being a particularly long-lived FinalExamBoss. Oh yeah, and she kicks off her return in ''Banjo-Tooie'' by ''killing Bottles'' and zombifying the king of the Jinjos.