History VideoGame / ClickerHeroes

* PunnyName: Several. We have stuff like Mouseketeer, Loggernaut, and '''Impossumble'''.
** Some of the heroes too. The Ice Wizard is named Referi Jerator, while the Fire Mage is named Broyle Lindeoven.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: As can largely be expected from this type of game: each levelup is more expensive than the one before it. This also applies to hero souls, particularily summoning new ancients: if you make bad choices early on, you might be screwed in the long run due to not having all the necessary ancients available by the time summoning another one costs a 3-digit figure of souls. Thankfully you can reset your ancients but you still lose 25% of the souls you've spent on them.

* NewGamePlus: After Ascenscion, the player gets hero souls for every 2000 cumulative upgraded hero levels, as well as those obtained from Primal Bosses. Any unspent hero souls will give them +10% DPS each and they also allow them to summon and upgrade Ancients, which have permanent effects.
* NoFairCheating: An interesting variation against Autoclickers. Autoclickers are perfectly usable. It's just that there are ancients that allow much bigger increases in DPS if the player ''doesn't click'' [[note]]Siyalatas: 25% extra damage per level as long as the player doesn't click for one minute[[/note]] as compared to those who click a lot [[note]]Fragsworth: 20% click damage increase per level, and Juggernaut: +0.01% damage increase per level every time the player clicks[[/note]].
** A straighter example of this would be using the shortcut keys: holding down Shift, Z or Ctrl will allow you to level up your heroes 10, 25 or 100 times with a single click respectively, but trying to do so when clicking on the enemy in an attempt to multiply your number of clicks equally many times will just cause various mocking messages to pop up instead of damage numbers.

* CreationMyth: Apparently the world was made by Amenhotep. One of his upgrades even allows him to ''create an entire new universe''- this is how the player ascends.

* InsultBackfire: A meta one. The Ancient of Impatience named Vaagur was named after a reddit user who was extremely impatient about one of the game's updates. In-game, Vaagur is one of ''the best'' ancients to have.

* MetaPowerup: Quite a number of Ancients do this- like passively increasing gold gained, decreasing cooldown time, etc.

* NoFairCheating: An interesting variation against Autoclickers. Autoclickers are perfectly usable. It's just that there are ancients that allow much bigger increases in DPS if the player ''doesn't click'' [[note]]Siyalatas- 25% extra damage per level as long as the player doesn't click for one minute[[/note]] as compared to those who click a lot [[note]]Fragsworth- 20% click damage increase per level, and Juggernaut- +0.01% damage increase per level everytime you click[[/note]].

* QuadDamage: Can be done several ways- Energize (doubles effect of the next skill) on Powersurge, using Powersurge in conjunction with Super Clicks, or just have Siyalatas at level 12 then don't click for a minute. Using Energize on Powersurge and using Super Clicks and Lucky Strike? Oh boy.

Clicker Heroes is an idle game made by Playsaurus. Like Cookie Clicker, it is an idle game, except the player clicks on monsters to damage them so they can kill them and move to the next area. The player can buy heroes to cause increased damage over time, each of which can be upgraded, and some of which can give skills to help the player.

* AllDesertsHaveCacti: You tend to face Caperticus enemies in the drylands and the desert areas.

* CooldownManipulation: The Ancient Vaagur allows you to drastically shorten the {{cooldown}}s of your skills. He's also relatively cheap to upgrade, making him one of the best Ancients in the game.

* DegradedBoss: The Mud Golem, Dearth Bat, and Big Feets bosses become standard enemies in later stages.

* NewGamePlus: After Ascenscion, the player gets hero souls for every 2000 cumulative upgraded hero levels, as well as those obtained from Primal Bosses. These will allow them to have a damage increase as well as allowing them to buy ancients.

* CantCatchUp: Defied. It may ''seem'' that Treebeast, Ivan and earlier heroes may be outclassed... until you find out that starting level 200, for every 25 levels, their damage is multiplied by four, and for every 1000 levels, their damage is multiplied by 10. They can even outdamage Frostleaf if you get them to 1000. (In fact, the hero with the greatest damage-to-cost potential before the addition of the new heroes was The Masked Samurai.)

* BadassNormal: Several of the earlier heroes, as well as Grant the General. Even though he's sandwiched between goddesses and the embodiment of the seasons, even the Gods fear his power. Sure enough, he's the second most powerful of all the heroes.

* CrutchCharacter: Frostleaf has the highest base DPS, and the DPS will certainly skyrocket with just a few levels at first. However, he's so expensive to level up that there's a point where levelling up older heroes is a more efficient way to boost DPS than levelling up Frostleaf.

* DrunkenMaster: Ivan the Drunken Brawler. His upgrades involve him getting various kinds of beer, and he even gives you the Powersurge skill which temporarily doubles your damage for 30 seconds.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The nine heroes introduced in the 1.7 update. They have the highest DPS in the game, but they sure aren't cheap: the least expensive one, Dread Knight, costs '''10,000 undecillion''' (or 10 duodecillion) gold just to hire. By comparison, Frostleaf costs a mere 2,199 septillion (2.1 octillion) gold to hire. Also, every 25 levels starting with level 200 their power is increased by 5x instead of 4x like the other heroes.

* TimeLimitBoss: Each boss has a time limit which you must defeat it in if you want to pass. Fail to defeat it within the limit and it resets.

* CantCatchUp: Defied. It may ''seem'' that Treebeast, Ivan and earlier heroes may be outclassed... until you find out that starting level 200, for every 25 levels, their damage is multiplied by four, and for every 1000 levels, their damage is multiplied by 10. They can even outdamage Frostleaf if you get them to 1000.

* KillerRabbit: Omeet, the level 100 boss. [[spoiler: It's a giant hamster with [[VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends Teemo's]] fur colouration]].

* BlobMonster: Bloops. [[UndergroundMonkey They come in many different varieties]]

* EldritchAbomination: The Ancients. While there are a number of malevolent ones, there are quite a few that are benevolent too.

* QuadDamage: Can be done several ways- Energize (doubles effect of the next skill) on Powersurge, using Powersurge in conjunction with Super Clicks, or just have Siyalatas at level 12 then don't click for a minute. Using Energize on Powersurge and using Super Clicks and Lucky Strike? [[ForMassiveDamage Oh boy]].
* SdrawkcabName: Omeet the hamster, which is Teemo spelled backwards. Appropriately enough, his fur colouration resembles Teemo's, and he's also considered a Scrappy in-universe like Teemo is by the [=LoL=] fandom.

* BadassNormal: Several of the earlier heroes, as well as Grant the General.

* CantCatchUp: Defied. It may ''seem'' that Treebeast, Ivan and earlier heroes may be outclassed... until you find out that starting level 200, for every 25 levels, their damage is multiplied by four, and for every 2000 levels, their damage is multiplied by 10. They can even outdamage Frostleaf if you get them to 1000.

* ObviouslyEvil: Abbadon. Dark God? Check. SkullForAHead? Check. SinisterScythe? Check. Evil-related upgrades? Check!

* AnIcePerson: Natalia, [[PunnyName Referi Jerator]], and Frostleaf.

* CantCatchUp: Defied. It may ''seem'' that Treebeast, Ivan and earlier heroes may be outclassed... until you find out that starting level 200, for every 25 levels, their damage is multiplied by four, and for every 2000 levels, their damage is multiplied by 10.

* XMeetsY: [[http://armorgames.com/cloudstone-game/15364 Cloudstone]] meets Cookie Clicker.

* UndergroundMonkey: Several mooks are like this, but most notable are Bloops. Among them are: Bloop, Flower Bloop, Mushroom Bloop, Sand Bloop, Stoney Bloop, Zombie Bloop, Ghostly Bloop, etc.

** Several of the Ancients are named after fictional characters. Examples include [[Film/TheLastMimzy Mimzee]] and [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]].

* UndergroundMonkey: Several mooks are like this, but most notable are Bloops. Among them are: Bloop, Flower Bloop, Mushroom Bloop, Sand Bloop,

* TimeLimitBoss: Each boss has a time limit which you must defeat it in if you want to pass. Fail to defeat it within the limit and it resets.

* CriticalHitClass: Alexa the Assassin has the most upgrades that affect critical hits, either by allowing them, or

* NonLethalKO: [[CatGirl Catra]] is the only enemy that doesn't die horribly when "killed", she turns back into a regular cat instead.

* ShoutOut: Plenty of them in fact.