History VideoGame / Octodad

''Octodad: Dadliest Catch'' (the sequel) was released in January 2014, where Octodad must deal with the increasing suspicions of his wife and his own watery past during a trip to the local aquarium. In June 2014, it was announced that the sequel would continue in the form of a set of free DLC levels titled ''Octodad: Shorts'', the live-action trailer for which can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4eEMa3bTUQ here]].

As of 2015, ''Octodad: Dadliest Catch'' has now been released on the UsefulNotes/WiiU's eShop.

* [[{{Somethingitis}} Something-itis]]: In the hospital-themed bonus level, there is a disease called "Unicornitis", where the afflicted person gains a unicorn horn and the ability to fly. {{Justified}} because the level is actually a story being told by Octodad's children.

* ManOfAThousandVoices: Tom Taylorson voices all the male characters except Tommy. Fryda Wolff voices all the female characters except Scarlet. As for Tommy and Scarlet, they are voiced by Ann Sonneville.

** At one point during the chapter titled "Silent but Dadly", Octodad is tasked with finding various pieces for a disguise so he can sneak past some scientists. However, moving some nearby screen doors carefully allows you to sneak past them without the disguise, and the scientists will comment on the door moving instead. Or you can sneak past under a crate in a ShoutOut to ''MetalGear'', and the scientists will instead comment on the crate.

* IThoughtItMeant: A lot of people didn't entirely realize why Octodad needed a banana for the disguise, until he assembles the decoy. [[spoiler:It's to mimic his moustache.]]
* SayMyName / TitleDrop: '''OCTODAAAAD!!'''

* {{Somethingitis}}: In the hospital-themed bonus level, there is a disease called "Unicornitis", where the afflicted person gains a unicorn horn and the ability to fly. {{Justified}} because the level is actually a story being told by Octodad's children.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Stacy is basically just a smaller version of Scarlet, but with a different hairstyle.

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* HashtagForLaughs: During the bonus level set in a hospital, you are at one point instructed to call for a doctor. However, every single button on the keypad is replaced with a hashtag. Therefore, you end up randomly mashing buttons and annoying a few people before finally managing to call the doctor.

* PinocchioSyndrome: Octodad is an octopus who wants to live as a human.

** At one point during the chapter titled "Silent but Dadly", Octodad is tasked with finding various pieces for a disguise so he can sneak past some scientists. However, moving some nearby screen doors carefully allows you to sneak past them without the disguise, and the scientists will comment on the door moving instead.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight[=/=]AccidentallyAccurate: It turns out Fujimoto was a complete psychotic long before he met Octodad, who believed that fish were infiltrating human society by disguising themselves as people and that enemy soldiers he cut open during "the war" were made of fish. It's just by sheer coincidence that he happened to meet and become arch-enemies with an actual marine animal trying to disguise himself as a human.

As of 2015, ''Octodad: Dadliest Catch'' has now been released on the WiiU's eShop.

* AllLovingHero: Octodad's a loving father & husband, took up Tommy's challenge in the first game instead of grounding him (though it was admittedly also in order to keep his son in the dark about his cephalopod nature), and [[spoiler: even forgave Fujimoto while expressing a love for humanity in general]] in Dadliest Catch.

** In the first game, he goes as far as [[spoiler: ''setting Octodad's dining room on fire'']] in an attempt to take Octodad down.
** He nearly ''kills'' [[spoiler: Octodad's family in the sequel]], and nearly burns down [[spoiler: an aquarium cafeteria in the process]].

** There's a villainous CallBack to this in ''Dadliest Catch'', where [[spoiler: Fujimoto makes a similar fake version of Scarlet to lure Octodad into a trap.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: Stacy can be pretty out there, in fact she's "crazy" enough to have [[spoiler: known her dad was an octopus the entire time.]]
** Chef Fujimoto [[spoiler: (along with Stacy, sans the AxCrazy)]] might be the only person who knows about Octodad's secret, but he's insanely ax crazy and believes that sea creatures are waging war on humankind (especially those sneaky cods) and that Octodad is part of a spy or invasion force.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: While Octodad is an octopus, his wife is a human. Their kids seem to be wholly human. [[spoiler: In the end of the second game, after his family learns Octodad's secret, Tommy lampshades this by questioning how he and his sister came to be from this marriage.]]

* LastNoteNightmare[=/=]SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: Screwing up too much and raising your Suspicion meter will cause the music to go increasingly off key.

** The sequel gives us a "*Blub of getting his Game Face on*"

** For most of both games, Octodad has a suspicion meter. However, getting hit by [[spoiler: Fujimoto or his cleavers]] instantly fills the bar.

* OnlySaneMan: Ironically, the AxCrazy chef is the only one who seems to know know about Octodad's true identity. [[spoiler: Plus, it's revealed in the sequel that Stacy is the only family member to know about her father's secret.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Octodad's human disguise amounts to arranging his tentacles into a vaguely humanoid shape and putting on human clothing. Only one other man notices, and he's written off as crazy. Not to say he isn't. [[spoiler:And Stacy, as it turns out, though she never said anything [[LampshadeHanging on the basis of it being so obvious she thought it wasn't worth mentioning]].]]

** [[spoiler:Stacy managed to be an unintentional secret keeper even before this. She had always known her father was an octopus, but never said anything as she assumed [[LampshadeHanging that it was obvious and thus common knowledge.]]]]

* TheSouthPaw: In the first game, we see Octodad writing in his journal with his left tentacle. However, in the second game he's holding up the [[ItemGet items he obtains]] with his ''right'' tentacle. He may be ambidextrous, or more likely neitherdextrous. (But then again, he is an octopus, so clearly this is irrelevant.)

* TheUnintelligible: Though quite eloquent in his journal entries, Octodad's dialogue is simple blubbering. [[IntelligibleUnintelligible His points get across quite well, though]].

** In ''Dadliest Catch'', on the lowest difficulty level the suspicion meter isn't being filled at all, aside of instant kill scenarios. This means that you can have situations like Octodad completely crashing a grocery store and throwing everything onto the ground, or [[spoiler:a naked octopus walking around sailors on a ship]] with absolutely nobody batting an eyelid.

** Tommy sounds at least ten years older than he actually is in the first game. Luckily, he's got a new, much more age appropriate voice in Dadliest Catch.

* WeirdnessCensor: Despite it being exceptionally obvious Octodad is an octopus in a suit, almost no one seems to notice, besides Fujimoto and the marine biologists at the aquarium [[spoiler: (and Stacy, as shown in the final stage of Dadliest Catch)]].

* ArtShift: Unlike gameplay, which is in full 3D, cutscenes are animated comic panels. This is dropped for traditional 3D cutscenes in Dadliest Catch.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: In cut-scenes, [[MundaneMadeAwesome Octodad can write in his diary-log, operate a remote controller, and slow dance with Scarlet]], things that would be extremely difficult to do in-game.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Stacy needs to snuggle a plush toy in order to go to sleep. Her favorite is an octopus.

* IThoughtItMeant: A lot of people didn't entirely realize why Octodad needed a banana for the disguise, until he assembles the decoy. [[spoiler: It's to mimic his moustache.]]

* ActionDad: [[spoiler: At the end of the game Octodad becomes this when Fujimoto puts his family in danger.]]
* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Fujimoto in Gervason's and [[spoiler: The Aquarium]]. One touch means instant death.

* BadassAdorable: Stacy and Tommy become pretty damn brave at the end in [[spoiler:saving their father by throwing their toys at the evil psychopathic chef.]]

** At one point during the chapter titled "Silent but Dadly", Octodad is tasked with finding various pieces for a disguise so he can sneak past some scientists. However, moving some nearly screen doors carefully allows you to sneak past them without the disguise, and the scientists will comment on the door moving instead.

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: At the end of the game when Octodad "takes care" of Fujimoto, he hugs him and make blubbering professing his love for humanity. This is after Fujimoto has been pursuing Octodad throughout the game, at one point even putting Octodad's family in danger.]]

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: At one point during the game, you are asked to make a sheepshank knot. Even with human hands this task would be impossible to complete, considering that the "rope" consists of about 10 stiff sticks attached to each other.
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler: At the end of the game, Octodad confronts Fujimoto while not wearing his suit when his family is in danger.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of Octodad's unlockable ties is a [[{{Hentai}} tie with a picture of a hen on it]]. The description reads, "I've seen enough hen ties to know where this is going."

* ManOfAThousandVoices: Tom Taylorson voices all the male characters except Tommy. Fryda Wolff voices all the female characters except Scarlet. As for Tommy and Scarlet, they are voiced by Ann Sonneville

** The war Fujimoto constantly rambles about. It could just be his insanity, but [[spoiler: Scarlet interviews him about it during a flashback]].

* NotNowKiddo: Scarlet dismisses Stacy trying to get her attention about Octodad - appearing to be a normal octopus - being in the shark tank. [[spoiler: The fact that she's so concerned about the presence of this octopus when they're looking for him is [[{{Foreshadowing}} the first hint that she knows the truth about him]].]]
* OminousLatinChanting: During the final level, [[spoiler: when Octodad has to walk in the ceiling rafters to get to Stacy]], very ominous music plays with Blubbers instead of Latin chanting.

** "[[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Mintcraft]]" cookies are on sale at the grocery store, complete with a box that looks like a Creeper head and even hisses at you while flashing red when you touch it. Posters in other parts of the store also reference ''VideoGame/{{QWOP}}'', ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'' and ''WebVideo/VideoGameChampionshipWrestling'' (the last of which Octodad is a character in), and there's also a [[VideoGame/BitTrip Commander Video]] vending machine. The rocket ship from ''VideoGame/RetroGrade'' appears as a toy. The produce section boasts LetsPlay/{{Seananners}} brand bananas. When the chef chases Octodad in the back room, octodad must maneuver around [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit Total brand Biscuits]], [[http://www.vlambeer.com Vlambeerio's]], cans of "[[LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts Freelance Astro-nuts]]", and "[[LetsPlay/PewDiePie Pewdie Pies]]."

** In the deli section, there are [[VideoGame/MeatBoy three cubes of meat (one of which has bandages on it) placed next to a giant buzzsaw halfway embedded in the counter]]. [[spoiler: Shredding all three on the buzzsaw gets you a necktie.]]

** Sneaking in a very subtle nod to Franchise/MyLittlePony, In the toy section of the store, a small plush Pegasus toy has the exact same color scheme of the popular ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' background character, Derpy.

** Octodad's actual name is never referred to in the story - even his wife just calls him "Honey". In the Octodad short "Dad Romance", Octodad tells the waiter his name in order to convince him that he had reservations at the restaurant. However, in a brief subversion of IntelligibleUnintelligible, the waiter only manages to hear his name as "blurberulb"[[note]]onomatopoeia for Octodad's blubbering[[/note]].

* BadassAdorable: Stacy and Tommy who become pretty damn brave at the end in [[spoiler:saving their father by throwing their toys at the evil psychopathic chef.]]

** If a required "prop" gets knocked away, or otherwise lost, the game will automatically move or respawn the item back to where it belongs just so that it either doesn't become difficult, if not impossible, to complete or so that the scenes can still make sense (ie, a "drip" reappearing by one of the patients if it gets lost).

* NoNameGiven: In this game, Octodad is only referred to by terms of endearment (Dad, honey, etc.) by his family and "OCTOPUS!!!" by Fujimoto. Lampshaded at the end when the credits are rolling and Tommy asks "Is that really his name?". In one of the short comics at the official Tumblr, when Octodad goes to Carreer day at Tommy's school, he's the only one not listed as "Mr. (Last Name)", instead appearing as "Tommy's Dad".

** At the beginning, there is a stained glass window of [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] in the church.

* DevelopersForesight: At one point during the chapter in ''Dadliest Catch'' entitled "Silent but Dadly", Octodad is tasked with finding various pieces for a disguise so he can sneak past the scientists in the way. However, using some screen doors carefully allows you to sneak past them without the disguise, and the scientists will comment on the door moving instead.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything:

* HashtagForLaughs: During the bonus level set in a hospital, you are at one point instructed to call for a doctor. However, every single button on the keypad is replaced with a hashtag. Therefore, you end up randomly mashing buttons and annoying a few people before finally managing to call the doctor.

* HereditaryHairstyle: Stacy has the exact same hairstyle that her mother does, though she's a brunette rather than a redhead.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of Octodad's unlockible ties is a [[{{Hentai}} tie with a picture of a hen on it]]. The description reads, "I've seen enough hen ties to know where this is going."
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Fujimoto After being forgiven by Octodad and realizing his love of humanity and his family, he promises to leave him alone and walks away.]]

** Fujimoto believing Octodad to be the advance guard of some oceanic invasion force references [[SquidGirl supposedly human Squid Girl]]'s objective.