History VideoGame / ImprobableIsland

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The punningly-named "Hannibal Lecture" encounter starts off by pointing out all the reasons you're obviously a newb. (Ironically, despite cribbing off the trope-naming speech from ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', it's Administrivia/NotAnExample of the actual HannibalLecture trope, because you're not engaging in anything like PerpSweating at the time.)

** There is a monster called "Hannibal Lecture". When killed, the player yells "Shut up, Hannibal!" Yes, they reference Wiki/TVTropes.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The punningly-named "Hannibal Lecture" encounter starts off by pointing out all the reasons you're obviously a newb. (Ironically, despite the obvious Wiki/TVTropes inspiration, it's Administrivia/NotAnExample of the actual HannibalLecture trope.)

** There is a monster called "Hannibal Lecture". When killed, the player yells "Shut Up Hannibal!" Yes, they reference Wiki/TVTropes. Does that make this entry recursive?

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Donate to the game, and you get Supporter Points, which can be traded in for Req, cigarettes, and other benefits. [[DownplayedTrope Most of the uses for Supporter Points are meant for roleplay]] -- things like being able to customize your title, the color of your name, the name of your weapon and armor, -- the ones that provide an actual gameplay benefit are largely regarded as either a poor use of your points or a good gift to give to a newbie.
* BrickJoke: Some low-level monsters are referenced in higher-level monster's descriptions

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Donate to the game, and you get Donator's Points, which can be traded in for Req, cigarettes, and other benefits.

* AllPowerfulBystander: There's a reason she's called The Watcher, and not because she's raising any Slayers.
** And demonstrating the improbability of the island, even this godlike figure had lost in combat to a player during the game's season zero.
* AntiPoopSocking: Stamina, which runs out as you fight monsters and travel about. Restored by eating, a few events, and starting a New Day if you have some saved up.

* BrainFood: Lampshaded at the diner for zombies, where all the food there involves eating brains somehow.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Generally frowned upon when players do it, but certain monsters do(most notably Fourth Wall Realization).
-->You have encountered Fourth Wall, which lunges at you with broken pieces of itself!
** There's also the Banter Channel.

* CatGirl: [=KittyMorphs=], yes there are male versions too.

** You do unlock stronger things later on, as you continue to NewGamePlus.

* ContinuingIsPainful: Every time you get KO'd you lose 10% of your EXP, all of your current on-hand money, and are sent to the [=FailBoat=], where you have to fight to earn favor with The Watcher before you can get back on the island.
** Or you can just wait until the next day or use a saved one, when you will be automatically returned to the island. Though you still lose money and xp.

* CozyCatastrophe: Most contestants play it like this.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "You fry up your lovely meaty loveliness and sit down to eat."

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Including your tongue, your shadow, the pebble in your shoe, Creator/TomCruise, a zombie worm, and ''your own paranoia.''
** If you're lucky enough, you could lose to '''THIN AIR!'''

* FantasticRacism: With Robots!
* FatBastard: Doktor Improbable.
* FetchQuest: Several.

* GreasySpoon: (british style) Joe's diner. The "Chips" (french fries) are described as [[ItTastesLikeFeet tasting like "paper bags filled with pus".]] The "Family Trough" meal is served in a ''pail'', and you feel less hungry just from looking at it.

** The Corporal is implied to have GoneMadFromTheRevelation.
* HulkOut: The Crazed Tech Support Rep.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: One of the first weapons you can get is a spork, then you can also obtain and fight using a prosthetic leg!
** [[spoiler: Or a dead man's internal organs.]]
* ItCameFromTheFridge: "The Thing from the Back of Your Fridge" and "The Pizza that Time Forgot" enemies.
* JungleJapes: The Jungle, where most monster hunting takes place.

* LimitBreak: Given to you by your very helpful cybernetic brain implant that is not suspiciously generous in any way.
** Midgets also have a limit break racial ability
* LocalHangout: The Common Grounds, which is Improbably linked to the rest of the cities on the Island. It has its own bar gremlin!

* MadeOfExplodium: Jokers, apparently.

* RandomEncounters: While travelling across the island to different outposts.

*** One of the encounters is Creator/GaryGygax himself!

* StealthPun: The Play, which happens to be on the subject of *cough* Words.

* WhatTheHellHero: Poor, poor [[TheAllegedCar Budget Horse.]] [[spoiler: And [[EvolvingWeapon Son of Budget Horse]]. And Grandchildren of Budget Horse.]]
** And fighting the Orc.
** The Prosthetic Leg weapon item description utterly chews you out because it was "stolen from a blind man. With AIDS."
* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: As a random encounter, no less. You fight... Creator/DavidAttenborough himself.
* YouFightLikeACow: With the proper training, you can actually fight monsters by insulting them! And win!

* WikiRule: [[http://enquirer.improbableisland.com/dokuwiki/doku.php Found here]], with a healthy dose of [[UnreliableNarrator ca]][[ShoutOut ke!]]

* AfterTheEnd: [[InstantAIJustAddWater The internet arose to sapience]], scaring the governments of the world into setting off {{EMP}}s over the entire planet to kill it -- taking all the ''rest'' of modern technology down as well. That was in 2075. The game takes place in the late 2080s or early 2090s -- [[WritersCannotDoMath the math is kinda fuzzy on that point.

* AfterTheEnd: Twice, if you'll believe it.

* BadassNormal: Any Human players.
* BigNo: Used [[http://enquirer.improbableisland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=1&showtopic=27608 here]], (five posts down) by the creator himself.

* TakeThat: There's a "Completely Rational Monster", the description of which makes fun of all the monsters that are puns, references to other series, references to the character's past, or something completely silly - then it makes fun of itself for being boring. Less self-deprecating is the "List of Rejected Monsters", which is much the same.

* ActionCommands: Attack when the timer bar his the red mark to double your attack and defense!

* CatGirl: [=KittyMorphs=], yes there are male versions too. Though, in all respect they're closer to PettingZooPeople.

** There is a monster called "Hannibal Lecture". When killed, the player yells "Shut Up Hannibal!" Yes, they reference TVTropes. Does that make this entry recursive?

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Including your tongue, your shadow, the pebble in your shoe, TomCruise, a zombie worm, and ''your own paranoia.''

* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: As a random encounter, no less. You fight... DavidAttenborough himself.

Enjoy it free (with the option of buying things-- er... supporting the game) [[http://www.improbableisland.com/home.php?r=Rohit here.]]

* {{Badass}}: You.
** BadassNormal: Any Human players.

** One of the Lion encounters is a clear parody of [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia Aslan]].

** One weapon (available after your first Drive Kill) is the DaVinciCode. It costs fifty req, reduces charm points by five, and is constantly called tripe.

* MadScientist: Professor Joespeh Hawton aka Doktor Improbable (spelled with a k because he's not a real doctor). The man who created the Improbablity Drive in 2072 (after being alone on the island since 2050-ish), and apparently is as mad as a hatter. Also a genius, he created the Drive to skew probabilities in the users favour. Of course, since he's MAD, things didn't go like that. He's also a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Name to Run Away From Really Fast]].

** There is a monster called HannibalLecture. When killed, the player yells "ShutUpHannibal!" Yes, they reference TVTropes. Does that make this entry recursive?

''Improbable Island'' is a web-based browser game that uses the system from ''LegendOfTheGreenDragon''. It takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture on a small island in the middle of the ocean known as [[TitleDrop Improbable Island.]] The goal of the game is to find and destroy the "Improbability Drive", which releases improbability energy. Improbable Island was the location for a scientific project being headed by a man known as Doktor Improbable, and his assistant David Abraham. Doktor Improbable set sail for the island in the late 2050s, back when it was known as Island Four. He wanted to create a device that outputs more power than it consumes, in blatant disregard for the second law of thermodynamics and the law of conservation of energy. He was sent to the island ostensibly to work on his machine in an environment without electromagnetic interference, but the truth of the matter is that he was sent there because nobody at his university could stomach the man. Long story short, he was partially successful, because in the end he created a machine that generates a type of energy that the human race has NEVER before experienced; thus [[RealityIsOutToLunch causing all sorts of chaos]]. That energy is what created the island, along with the unusual flora and fauna that inhabit it. Fun part is, you get to go around and try to kill said flora and fauna while trying to find and destroy the Improbability Drive.

''Improbable Island'' is a web-based browser game that uses the system from ''LegendOfTheRedDragon''. It takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture on a small island in the middle of the ocean known as [[TitleDrop Improbable Island.]] The goal of the game is to find and destroy the "Improbability Drive", which releases improbability energy. Improbable Island was the location for a scientific project being headed by a man known as Doktor Improbable, and his assistant David Abraham. Doktor Improbable set sail for the island in the late 2050s, back when it was known as Island Four. He wanted to create a device that outputs more power than it consumes, in blatant disregard for the second law of thermodynamics and the law of conservation of energy. He was sent to the island ostensibly to work on his machine in an environment without electromagnetic interference, but the truth of the matter is that he was sent there because nobody at his university could stomach the man. Long story short, he was partially successful, because in the end he created a machine that generates a type of energy that the human race has NEVER before experienced; thus [[RealityIsOutToLunch causing all sorts of chaos]]. That energy is what created the island, along with the unusual flora and fauna that inhabit it. Fun part is, you get to go around and try to kill said flora and fauna while trying to find and destroy the Improbability Drive.