History VideoGame / IWannaBeTheGuy

** Just past the Teleportation Room, there is a room where the path requires you to go down a pit. There is also a [[SuperMarioBros Sniffit and Bullet Bill Launcher]]. [[GuideDangIt Guess what happens if you try to go down without killing the Sniffit]].

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The bit in the ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' area where you have to jump ''into'' a cluster of three apples to make them fall sideways.

* CheckPointStarvation: Impossible mode has no {{Save Point}}s. [[note]]Except for one that can be activated via a glitch.[[/note]]
* ChestMonster: At one point, a ''save point'' attacks you. Oddly enough, it's the only save point that appears on Impossible, which should clearly tell you it's a fake. However, [[GoodBadBugs killing it gives you a 1-frame window to save.]]

Many, ''many'' {{fan|Sequel}}games of this game have been made due to an easy-to-use engine containing the basics of the original game. A list of some more prominent ones can be found [[VideoGame/IWBTGFangames here]]. In addition, an official sequel called ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuyGaiden'' was released on July 14th, 2012.

** The ''I Wanna Be the Guy Mugen'' fangame has you fight many of the bosses from the original game. One of the bosses starts with the moon, which again gets knocked aside by the ''Mega Man'' dragon. [[spoiler:Then the moon reappears and smashes the dragon!]]

%%* SaveGameLimits

* '''[[GameOver GAME OVER]]: [[SelfDemonstratingArticle PRESS 'R' TO TRY AGAIN]]'''

* {{Retraux}}: [[http://http://katie-w.deviantart.com/art/I-WANNA-BE-THE-GUY-149387516 This]] box art.

'''A:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint They're more like giant cherries.]]

* ColonCancer: The full title is ''[[TitleTheAdaptation I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie:]] The Game''. [[NonIndicativeName There's no movie.]] This is almost certainly a [[ShoutOut reference]] to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterTheMovie: [[RecursiveAdaptation The Game]]''

* InterfaceSpoiler: For the [[spoiler:fake error message]] in the Castle of the Guy to truly work, you need to be [[spoiler:running Windows XP with the default theme and in English.]] It's kind of hard to fall for otherwise.

* LetsPlay:
** This game was the first LP ever done by Music/{{Rawrzaur}}, all the way back on his previous channel of [=ZeroMegamanX=]. He has gone on record during one of his live streams as saying that the original reason he even started [=LPing=] in the first place was to prove that he could actually beat this game.
** Kayin himself has made an episode of a Let's Play for the game. He also did guest commentary during the run of his game at AGDQ 2014.

* CollisionDamage

%%* LuckBasedMission: Dracula.

%%* MinecartMadness

%% ** The Moon.

* BadassBoast: "I have bested fruit, spike and moon!" Admittedly it would sound incredibly silly used in any other context. [[DeathWorld In this context]], though, its badass-level is somewhere between single-handedly crushing the universe into paste and ripping out someone's intestinal tract and using it as a belt.

* ColonCancer: The full title is ''[[TitleTheAdaptation I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie:]] The Game''. There's no movie. This is almost certainly a reference to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterTheMovie: TheGame''

'''A:''' They're more like giant cherries.

* '''[[GameOver GAME OVER]]: PRESS 'R' TO TRY AGAIN'''

* BadassGrandpa: The Kid's grandfather used to be The Guy. His name is [[CaptainObvious Former Grandfather the Guy]].

As of December 30th, 2011, the game has been made open source, mainly to allow the community to try fixing its innumerable bugs.

* MasochistsMeal: People ''eat'' Delicious Fruit. According to Kayin, they have to get them out of trees with sticks, in order to keep from careening around for miles and killing everyone, and then they have to boil them ''three times'' to remove all the poison. The bouncing fruity engine of death seen in the ''{{Breakout}}'' section is what happens when you only boil them twice. Delicious!

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The ''{{Breakout}}'' and [[VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Vic Viper]] sequences.

-->"YOU JUMPED INTO A SWORD. [[YetAnotherStupidDeath YOU RETARD!]]

* OneWingedAngel: The Guy plummets out the window after you shoot him full of holes... [[spoiler:Only to return as a giant head]].

There is a SpiritualSuccessor by the name of ''VideoGame/BattleKidFortressOfPeril'', endorsed by Kayin himself. Also, The Kid is an unlockable character in ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]''[[note]]Naturally, he is the hardest character to unlock[[/note]].

* ClippedWingAngel: [[spoiler:Dracula's]] final form. So much so that it's the only enemy that can't cause you any harm in any way. You can actually walk through it without anything happening.

Many, ''many'' {{fan|Sequel}}games of this game have been made due to an easy to use engine containing the basics of the original game. A list of some more prominent ones can be found [[VideoGame/IWBTGFangames here]]. In addition, an official sequel called ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuyGaiden'' was released on July 14th, 2012.

* HighPressureBlood: In both the TVTropes and the medical sense.

* LudicrousGibs: The {{Metroid}}s are the only hazard in the game that do not reduce the Kid to this.

* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: Eggplants. Of course, they're trying to kill you just like everything else in this game.

* HarderThanHard: The difficulties start at "Medium" and go ''up'' through "Hard", "Very Hard", up to "Impossible". The actual game itself is always the same no matter what level you're on. The only difference is the frequency of save points (and the EasyModeMockery on Medium). There are ''zero real'' save points on Impossible. You're expected to win the entire game with one life. In all literal seriousness, Impossible mode ''is'' possible, but requires quite a bit of memorization and a fair degree of benevolence from the [[LuckBasedMission more random luck-requiring bosses]]. When somebody eventually beat it, after six days of trying, only taking breaks to eat, sleep, and use the bathroom, the creator's official response was [[http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/forums/index.php?topic=152.0 "holy crap your not serious are you"]].