History VideoGame / ClickerHeroes

* ResetButton: Amenhotep's Ascension ability creates a new, identical universe, while destorying the current one.

* TheBeastmaster: ... TheBeastmaster hero. He can summon birds to spy on enemies, turn into a bear, and gets a bear pet once gilded. The Forest Seer can call up bugs to swarm enemies.

* EldritchAbomination: The Ancients. Most of them are Abrahamic, as indicated by the many eyes.

* NewGamePlus: After Ascension, 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.

The game can be played [[http://www.clickerheroes.com/ here]] or [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/363970/ can be downloaded for free via]] UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* ObviouslyEvil: Abaddon. GodOfEvil? Check. SkullForAHead? Check. SinisterScythe? Check. OffscreenTeleports to you when looking at an equally ObviouslyEvil Ancient? Check. Evil-related upgrades? Check!

* CashGate: The price difference between heroes is usually a factor of 10. Going from Frostleaf to Dread Knight? ''10,000,000,000,000.''

* ObviouslyEvil: Abaddon. GodOfEvil? Check. SkullForAHead? Check. SinisterScythe? Check. Evil-related upgrades? Check!

** A mercenary may cry [[Franchise/StarCraft "My life for Aiur!"]] when embarking on a quest.

* 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.) However, each hero will stop getting damage multipliers once they reach level 4000 or so (changed in a new update), meaning the fastest way to gain DPS once you've done that to every single hero is via Dark Ritual.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The reason why Amenhotep starts Ascension is because of Abaddon's supposedly growing strength. Despite being a death god, Abaddon's weaker than many other heroes - including a [[BadAssNormal mortal]].

* 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.) However, each hero will stop getting damage multipliers once they reach level 4000 or so, meaning the fastest way to gain DPS once you've done that to every single hero is via Dark Ritual.

** A mercenary may cry [[Franchise/StarCraft "My life for aiur!"]] when embarking on a quest.

* ShoutOut: Plenty of them in fact:

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: As can largely be expected from this type of game: each level-up is more expensive than the one before it. This also applies to hero souls, particularly 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.

* KillScreen: If you ever get that far, it's not possible to clear level 4725 as the boss there literally has ''infinite'' health, or '[=InfinK=]' HP. Even if you somehow obtain [=InfinK=] damage as well to defeat it, the game will glitch and won't count as the boss being defeated. You can somewhat fix this by getting several relics that reduces boss health so that the level 4725 boss has proper health instead of [=InfinK=] HP, but ''then'' you'll just be stopped by the next boss at level 4730 anyway.

** The 0.23 update added mercenaries with randomized names. Some of them are references to Clicker Heroes staff and players, and several of which are shout-outs to other works. Among such names are [[Franchise/HarryPotter Voldemort, Hermione]], [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}} Dogmeat]], and LeeroyJenkins. (The full list can be seen [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ClickerHeroes/comments/3tonfx// here]].)

** However, even with this boost, there are still couple of heroes whom despite having the same 4x multipliers for each 25 levels, cannot catch up the DPS of the other heroes at all and this is mostly due to the fact that most of their upgrades are based on supporting other heroes such as Betty Clicker, King Midas, and Amenhotep.