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* HubLevel: The space station essentially serves as the interactive episode select.

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* HubLevel: The [[SpaceStation space station station]] essentially serves as the interactive episode select.
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* TerminatorImpersonator: The drone shares an obvious similarites to the Terminaotrs of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise. Killer Robot? Check. Glowing Mechanical Eyes? Check. Implaceable Man? Check. Make reference to SignatureScene from the franchise? Check.

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* TerminatorImpersonator: The drone shares an obvious similarites similarities to the Terminaotrs Terminators of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise. Killer Robot? Check. Glowing Mechanical Eyes? Check. Implaceable Man? Check. Make reference to SignatureScene from the franchise? Check.
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* TerminatorImpersonator: The drone shares an obvious similarites to the Terminaotrs of the ''Franchise/Terminators'' franchise. Killer Robot? Check. Glowing Mechanical Eyes? Check. Implaceable Man? Check. Make reference to SignatureScene from the franchise? Check.

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* TerminatorImpersonator: The drone shares an obvious similarites to the Terminaotrs of the ''Franchise/Terminators'' ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise. Killer Robot? Check. Glowing Mechanical Eyes? Check. Implaceable Man? Check. Make reference to SignatureScene from the franchise? Check.
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* TerminatorImpersonator: The drone shares an obvious similarites to the Terminaotrs of the Terminators franchise. Killer Robot? Check. Glowing Mechanical Eyes? Check. Implaceable Man? Check. Make reference to SignatureScene from the franchise? Check.

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* TerminatorImpersonator: The drone shares an obvious similarites to the Terminaotrs of the Terminators ''Franchise/Terminators'' franchise. Killer Robot? Check. Glowing Mechanical Eyes? Check. Implaceable Man? Check. Make reference to SignatureScene from the franchise? Check.
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* TerminatorImpersonator: The drone shares an obvious similarites to the Terminaotrs of the Terminators franchise. Killer Robot? Check. Glowing Mechanical Eyes? Check. Implaceable Man? Check. Make reference to SignatureScene from the franchise? Check.
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* UnspecifiedApocalypse: ''Something'' happened that caused civilization on Earth to be ruins, the Moon being defaced, and [[spoiler:Earth's core needing the Guardian to protect it in the first place.]] Whether it was caused by the invading cyborgs from space, humanity itself, or something else entirely.

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* UnspecifiedApocalypse: ''Something'' happened that caused civilization on Earth to be ruins, the Moon being defaced, and [[spoiler:Earth's core needing the Guardian to protect it in the first place.]] Whether it was caused by the invading cyborgs from space, humanity itself, or something else entirely.entirely is unclear.
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* LastBastion: The Last City seems to be the main holdover of humanity.


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* UnspecifiedApocalypse: ''Something'' happened that caused civilization on Earth to be ruins, the Moon being defaced, and [[spoiler:Earth's core needing the Guardian to protect it in the first place.]] Whether it was caused by the invading cyborgs from space, humanity itself, or something else entirely.
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* WorldMap: Right before leaving the MOTHER ship, there is a hologram of the Earth, highlighting locations of where the cyborg is going.
* YouAreNumberSix: "drone_0xff2e01" as he's refered to while being contacted from his mothership en route to Earth's space station is the closest we ever have for our "protagonist's" name.

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* WorldMap: Right before leaving the MOTHER ship, there is a hologram of the Earth, highlighting locations of where the cyborg is going.
* YouAreNumberSix: "drone_0xff2e01" as he's refered to while being contacted from his mothership en route to Earth's space station is the closest we ever have for our "protagonist's" name.name.
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* SuicideAttack: One enemy type has a bomb strapped to him that charges towards you.
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* JungleJapes: The Jungle Outpost levels, and to a lesser extent Volcano Research.

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* JungleJapes: The Jungle Outpost levels, and to a lesser extent Volcano Research.Research Station.



* LethalLavaLand: Volcano Research takes place in a VolcanoLair.

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* LethalLavaLand: Volcano Research Station takes place in a VolcanoLair.



* VolcanoLair: Volcano Research levels takes place in one.

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* VolcanoLair: Volcano Research Station levels takes place in one.
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* SceneryGorn: The Last City especially looks to be quite in dissaray.

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* SceneryGorn: The Last City especially looks to be quite in dissaray.disarray.



* UsedFuture: To reflect the dying state of humanity and the world, its technology and metal looks worn and used. Even the MOTHER ship that the cyborg comes from is in dire straights, with one part of the ship having water leaking.

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* UsedFuture: To reflect the dying state of humanity and the world, its technology and metal looks worn and used. Even the MOTHER ship that the cyborg comes from is in dire straights, with one part of the ship having water leaking. This aesthetic it shares with its ''Doom'' predecessor.
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* UsedFuture: To reflect the dying state of humanity and the world, its technology and metal looks worn and used. Even the MOTHER ship that the cyborg comes from is in dire straights, with one part of the ship having water leaking.
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* ChekhovsVolcano: With a world like Volcano Research, you probably expect that it will explode, which it does on the leve;'s final stage.

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* ChekhovsVolcano: With a world like Volcano Research, you probably expect that it will explode, which it does on the leve;'s level's final stage.
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* ChekhovsVolcano: With a world like Volcano Research, you probably expect that it will explode, which it does on the

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* ChekhovsVolcano: With a world like Volcano Research, you probably expect that it will explode, which it does on thethe leve;'s final stage.
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* DestructiveTeleportation: Each time you enter the gates, you explode into a bloody pulp before returning to normal on the other side.
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* WorldMap: Right before leaving the MOTHER ship, there is a hologram of the Earth, highlighting locations of where the cyborg is going.
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* ChekhovsVolcano: With a world like Volcano Research, you probably expect that it will explode, which it does on the


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** It is also shown that something happened to the moon that resulted in being defaced.
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* LethalLavaLand: Volcano Research takes place in a VolcanoLair.


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* VolcanoLair: Volcano Research levels takes place in one.
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* StunGuns: In a way, the normal sized enemies that survive a single shot would get stunned for a short while.
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* IdiosyncraticMenuLabels: While the game doesn't reinvent the menu labels, it does spice up the prompt that pops up when you want to (re)start (over) the game in a profile that already has a save file in progress (or deleting the save profile), the choices being titled as:
--> '''No, I Want To Continue/No, Don't Delete It''' (cancelation)
--> '''Yes, [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck This Shit]]''' (confirmation)
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* SuicidalOverconfidence: Yeah, Ninjas, I'd dare you to charge [[ScreamingWarrior screaming]] at heavily armed Cyborg that dons a Chainsaw if not something even more powerful.

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* SuicidalOverconfidence: Yeah, Ninjas, I'd dare you to charge [[ScreamingWarrior screaming]] at heavily armed Cyborg that dons at least a Chainsaw chainsaw if not something even more powerful.

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* CriticalExistenceFailure: At 1 HP the drone remains as potent as ever before the next hit would reduce it to gibs.



* InterfaceScrew: The player taking damage briefly adds noise to the screen for a split second.



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* LudicrousGibsLudicrousGibs: Would be weird for a game like this to not feature them.



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* Retraux{{Retraux}}: The game goes for a zoomed-in, pixelated aesthethic with the player character and the mooks of his size not having much more pixels per sprite than ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''.



* SuicidalOverconfidence: Yeah, Ninjas, I'd dare you to charge [[ScreamingWarrior screaming]] at heavily armed Cyborg armed with at least a Chainsaw if not even more.

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* SuicidalOverconfidence: Yeah, Ninjas, I'd dare you to charge [[ScreamingWarrior screaming]] at heavily armed Cyborg armed with at least that dons a Chainsaw if not something even more.more powerful.
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* AMoltenDateWithDeath: The Ironworks Facility and Volcanic Research Station levels feature plenty of lava pits, the last level of the latter episode even involving [[RiseToTheChallenge rising pools]]. There's also the ShoutOut below.
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''Butcher'' is a hardcore (in [[{{Gorn}} two]] [[NintendoHard ways]]) ''VideoGame/{{Abuse}}''-style side-scrolling shooter developed with the involvement of Transhuman Design and Phobia Game Studio (the latter would which later bring us ''VideoGame/{{Carrion}}''), released for the PC in 2016, pitting the player in the tiny pixelated shoes of a cyborg drone programmed to [[VillainProtagonist annihilate the last remnants of humanity]].

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''Butcher'' ''BUTCHER'' is a hardcore (in [[{{Gorn}} two]] [[NintendoHard ways]]) ''VideoGame/{{Abuse}}''-style side-scrolling shooter developed with the involvement of Transhuman Design and Phobia Game Studio (the latter would which later bring us ''VideoGame/{{Carrion}}''), released for the PC in 2016, pitting the player in the tiny pixelated shoes of a cyborg drone programmed to [[VillainProtagonist annihilate the last remnants of humanity]].
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[[caption-width-right:310:[[{{Tagline}} The easiest mode is]] [[NintendoHard 'Hard']]]]

->'''[[TheMothership MOTHER]]:''' welcome [[ASpaceMarineIsYou drone_0xff2e01]]
->'''MOTHER:''' [[VillainProtagonist purge earth --force]]
->'''MOTHER:''' [[EarthShatteringKaboom set_target main_core]]
->'''POD:''' dock [[HubLevel space_station_ff0411]]

->''Inhuman. Relentless. Unstoppable. You have only one purpose... MURDER.''
->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhoQljEmEP0 Official Trailer]]

''Butcher'' is a hardcore (in [[{{Gorn}} two]] [[NintendoHard ways]]) ''VideoGame/{{Abuse}}''-style side-scrolling shooter developed with the involvement of Transhuman Design and Phobia Game Studio (the latter would which later bring us ''VideoGame/{{Carrion}}''), released for the PC in 2016, pitting the player in the tiny pixelated shoes of a cyborg drone programmed to [[VillainProtagonist annihilate the last remnants of humanity]].

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!!The game contains examples of:
* ActionBomb: There are some Ninjas with bombs strapped on them.
* AirborneMook: There are handful of jetpack-wearing enemies armed with some of the weapons The Drone can use (including ''chainsaws''). Later levels would also introduce troopers armed with sawblades, vultures as well as flying rocket-launcher armed police cars.
* ApocalypseHow: The drone's goal is to cause this to Earth.
* ASpaceMarineIsYou: drone_0xff2e01 is sort of this, [[VillainProtagonist an evil one at that]].
* BladderOfSteel: Invoked. You can pause, but the pause menu is [[GuiltBasedGaming prefaced]] with this message:
-->Real Men Don't Pause
* BottomlessMagazines: Finite ammo but no reload button.
* BossOnlyLevel: The final level is this.
* CatsAreMean: The jungle levels feature cougars as a [[GlassCannon fast and formidable but vulnertable]] enemy type.
* ChainsawGood: Your melee weapon of choice. There are also jetpack enemies armed with ''dual chainsaws''.
* CheckpointStarvation: None of the levels have any mid-level checkpoints. With that said, not many of them are lengthier than few minutes if you'd ever be semi-competent enough at the game.
* CrapsackWorld: The city episode being named "The Last City" implies not that much of humanity remained at the time of the game's setting.
* CollectionSidequest: A lot of the levels feature at least one or two Skulls to be collected. Obtaining 20 of them and beating the boss unlocks the [[HarderThanHard Impossible]] difficulty.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: The lava is only as lethal in direct contact.
* EasyModeMockery: The "casual" difficulty is available as DLC named ''W.I.M.P.''
* ExpressiveHealthBar: The skull - implied to be drone_0xff2e01's mask - on the upper left of the screen, in the similar vein of [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy's face]] leers left and right, "screams" as it gets hit and gets increasingly destroyed as the player takes damage.
* FissionMailed: [[spoiler: At the end of the game you'd get locked out of the ecape route after causing a core meltdown. By then [[EarthShatteringKaboom your mission is already complete anyway]].]]
* FlippingTheBird: The achievement for beating the game is just called "F#@$ You <insert difficulty here on anything above hard>". There's also the ending itself, see ShoutOut below.
* FlunkyBoss: The Guardian - the final and only boss of this game - would receive assists from jetpack-wearing enemies. Even though it tends to kill them off with it's own weaponry.
* GenreThrowback: The game's steam store page advertises a brutal carnage in the spirit of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''. With the side-scrolling perspective, the game is also easily one to the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Abuse}}''.
* GlassCannon: You get to be armed to the teeth and your basic shotgun can one-shot your typical enemy at even a medium range, but even on the "easiest" difficulty level you can die pretty quickly.
* {{Gorn}}: Even with the low resolution pixel art the game manages to pull this off. You can literally paint the surfaces blood red with your chainsaw (and other means).
* GoingCritical: [[spoiler: drone_0xff2e01 gets to blow up the Earth this way, even when [[TakingYouWithMe he gets locked out of his escape in the process]].]]
* HarderThanHard: The difficulties after Hard, naturally. Each of them give you less and less health and the last two (hardest and impossible) disable health and armor pickups.
* HyperspaceArsenal: drone_0xff2e01 eventually amassess all of the 6 available weapons at once.
* HubLevel: The space station essentially serves as the interactive episode select.
* InertialImpalement: There are plenty of hooks around in the levels the player can kick people onto.
* JungleJapes: The Jungle Outpost levels, and to a lesser extent Volcano Research.
* KillItWithFire: A flamethrower is present as a weapon, as well as being able to kick the enemies onto the fire of any sort.
* LevelEditor: The game comes with one, complete with Steam Workshop support.
* LudicrousGibs
* MiniMecha: Present as an enemy type.
* {{Ninja}}: Yes, the game has them as an enemy type, charging at drone_0xff2e01 with their swords [[ScreamingWarrior screaming]].
* NintendoHard: The game's tagline says it all.
* OrganicTechnology: The MiniMecha enemies are arguably this, considering they wail out a lot of screams of agony as they die.
* PiranhaProblem: Present in the water pools of the Jungle Outpost levels.
* QuickMelee: The game has a kick button which merely stuns normal-sized enemies unless you'd happen to kick them onto anything lethal.
* RailGun: Present as a late player weapon, [[OneHitPolykill piercing capabilities]] when [[ChargedAttack fully charged]] included. Has an achievement for killing ''ten'' enemies with a single shot.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: drone_0xff2e01 seems to be sporting these (per key artwork like the picture above) and is even represented within the tiny ingame sprite.
* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: The MiniMecha mooks wail out looped screams before eventually winding down.
* Retraux
* SceneryGorn: The Last City especially looks to be quite in dissaray.
* ShoutOut: The ending is one to [[spoiler:''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', with FlippingTheBird out of a lava in place of a thumbs up.]]
** The achievement icon for collecting all of the skulls is the Franchise/{{Predator}} mask.
* SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom: Handful of levels feature this.
* StandardFPSGuns: While not exactly a FirstPersonShooter, the game does have a number of classics: A chainsaw, shotgun, assault rifle, flame thrower, grenade launcher and a railgun.
* StunGuns: In a way, the normal sized enemies that survive a single shot would get stunned for a short while.
* StuffBlowingUp: Especially happens any time you clear an episode.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Yeah, Ninjas, I'd dare you to charge [[ScreamingWarrior screaming]] at heavily armed Cyborg armed with at least a Chainsaw if not even more.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:drone_0xff2e01 gets to overload the reactor but ends up getting locked out of his escape, melting in the lava in the process. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Earth still gets blown up all the same]].]]
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In addition to simply shooting and shredding people, you can also kick them onto hooks, lava pits, piranha pools, Saw Spiders etc.
* VillainProtagonist: Picture [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy]] going rogue and you'd get a decent idea.
* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: Fitting title, check. A chainsaw as your starting melee weapon, check.
* YouAreNumberSix: "drone_0xff2e01" as he's refered to while being contacted from his mothership en route to Earth's space station is the closest we ever have for our "protagonist's" name.

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