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* GhostWorld: The Ancient Planet was implied to be this, given that it's the one planet in the game doesn't interact with you, having "been dead for a long time". Due to this, some of the Derekulians have made their home here, extremely bored and going crazy should they encounter anything else roaming inside, due to a dead planet being unable to house any Jerks for them to beat up.
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* GhostWorld: GhostPlanet: The Ancient Planet was implied to be this, given that it's the one planet in the game doesn't interact with you, having "been dead for a long time". Due to this, some of the Derekulians have made their home here, extremely bored and going crazy should they encounter anything else roaming inside, due to a dead planet being unable to house any Jerks for them to beat up.
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* {{Planetville}}: The playable Planet [[spoiler: and Burgulon]] are this, only having a small community of friends on them as inhabitants and a few locations on them to visit, and they visit other planets that only have a few notable locations to check out.
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Additionally, on December 1st, 2022, an enhanced [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2177260/Super_Planet_Life/ Steam port]] titled ''Super Planet Life'', which requires paying for but has some additional minor features added on.
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Additionally, on December 1st, 2022, an enhanced [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2177260/Super_Planet_Life/ Steam port]] titled ''Super Planet Life'', Life'' was released, which requires paying for but has some additional minor features added on.
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* PopQuiz: WIFY makes you go through one before you can progress to Chapter 3. Not only are the questions rather odd, but the answers have to be '''bought''' from [[{{Shopkeeper}} Space Ben]], and not all of them are correct answers. Finding the correct answers here is a case of TrialAndErrorGameplay, but if you're lucky (or use a walkthrough) you won't have to spend too many ghosts to buy the answers.
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* PopQuiz: WIFY makes you go through one before you can progress to Chapter 3. Not only are the questions rather odd, but the answers have to be '''bought''' from [[{{Shopkeeper}} Space Ben]], Ben, and not all of them are correct answers. Finding the correct answers here is a case of TrialAndErrorGameplay, but if you're lucky (or use a walkthrough) you won't have to spend too many ghosts to buy the answers.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: You can create an oven called a "Derek Summoning Device", which does do its job, although all it does is just bake muffins like any other oven could, which attracts Derekulians nonetheless.
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* {{Superboss}}: The last Derekulian summoned by the Derek Summoning Device is ''way'' stronger stat-wise than the FinalBoss, Jack, who isn't supposed to be defeated by normal means either. If you manage to set up a proper Jerk Squad capable of defeating even that Derekulian, you'll be rewarded with not only a ton of resources but a Worm Cube as well.
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* {{Superboss}}: The last and strongest Derekulian summoned by the Derek Summoning Device is ''way'' much, '''much''' stronger stat-wise than the FinalBoss, Jack, who [[HopelessBossFight isn't supposed to be defeated by normal means either. either.]] With ''[[DamageSpongeBoss 1,000,000 HP]]'' and [[OneHitKO any attack being able to deplete all of your stardust many times over,]] If you manage to set up a proper Jerk Squad capable of defeating even that Derekulian, you'll be rewarded with not only a ton of resources but a Worm Cube as well.
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* EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding: After dealing with [[FinalBoss Jack]], nearly all of the entire cast joins you to party, even minor characters like the space mailman.
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* HopelessBossFight: Jack, who has much higher HP than any of the normal opponents in the chapter, and is capable of gulping up much more Stardust at once, and is for the most part, nigh-impossible to defeat relative to previous enemies. However, you'll be given methods to create Coco-infused Stardust, which make it so when he "defeats" you and consumes your Stardust, the special Stardust causes Jack to explode. There are Jerk Squad setups that enable you to defeat Jack without said special method, and [[DevelopersForesight the game will reward you with a Worm Cube if you do.]]
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* HopelessBossFight: Jack, who has much higher HP than any of the normal opponents in the chapter, with an astound 99,999 HP, and is capable of gulping up much more Stardust at once, than your maximum stardust capacity can hold in 1 turn, and is for the most part, nigh-impossible almost-impossible to defeat relative to previous enemies. However, you'll be given methods to create Coco-infused Stardust, which make it so when [[FissionMailed he "defeats" you and consumes your Stardust, Stardust]], the special Stardust causes Jack to explode. There are Jerk Squad setups that enable you to defeat Jack without said special method, and [[DevelopersForesight the game will reward you with a Worm Cube ton of resources if you do.do, on top of changing the dialogue to reflect on Jack's defeat as well.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Oh no! Derek [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou is about to punch you!]]]]
''Planet Life'' is a single-player IdleGame developed by Northplay, and published on the browsers back in September 2018, and fully completed and also published to mobile devices on March 2020.
In this game, you are a planet in space, seeking to make friends, collect resources, and find more life to add to your planet. In the process, one of your allies, known as Derek, will be able to be trained to go into dungeons, beat up Jerks, and find more resources hidden with you, and even more potential friends. As you find more friends, you'll find new worlds, more potential friends, and many new and unexpected surprises to be unraveled in your pursuit of satiating your need for friends as a big planet.
The game is available to play on [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/752521 Newgrounds]], [[https://www.coolmathgames.com/0-planet-life CoolMath Games]], or [[https://planetlife.space/static/game/index.html on its own site.]] It is also available on [[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planet-life/id1389159829 iOS]] and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.northplay.planetlife Android]] platforms, but the second and third chapters require payment to access, while the web versions have the full game for free.
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!!''Planet Life'' provides examples of:
* AlreadyTheCase: Empress Cocobar from Chapter 2 can talk about how her coco people came from a special potato-shaped coco asteroid that is sacred to them, and remarks that she hopes that no one does anything to it. But back in Chapter 1, the Planet had inserted a giant straw into a potato-shaped asteroid to mine Coco.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The Jerks, who are the closest thing to actual humans in the game, but they're all zany in one way or another, [[OneGenderRace appear to consist only of males,]] and [[BizarreAlienReproduction they can come out of cans]] of all things.
* AmicableExes: Burger and WIFY are shown to be exes, but this trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]] with WIFY kidnapping Burger, forcing the Planet to enter her villa to free him, only to find that she has [[spoiler: forcefully turned Burger into a planet now named Burgulon.]]
* AnEntrepreneurIsYou: You can gain ghosts [[WeirdCurrency (a currency in this game)]] through a stock-market like feature known as the Intergalactic Ghost Exchange where you can buy ghosts with Stardust, and the conversion price always fluctuates from high to low rates in back. You are encouraged to buy low and sell high to gain ghosts (or Stardust) optimally.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of your friends include a living bottle named Bob [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Bottle]], a living chainsaw named Sven, and well as [[AnthropomorphicFood living food]] like Broccula, a broccoli being, and Count Candy, a sapient piece of candy.
* AsteroidMining: You find a large brown asteroid which is actually a gigantic piece of Coco Pops, which you mine with a straw to gain Coco. Said asteroid may or may not be the asteroid that Empress Cocobar and her coco-people came from. Later on, [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty you can do the same to a giant Coco Penguin]] you find in the second chapter.
--> "Sorry penguin!"
* AwesomeMcCoolname: You can create an oven called a "Derek Summoning Device", which does do its job, although all it does is just bake muffins like any other oven could, which attracts Derekulians nonetheless.
* BettingMiniGame: The Casino Camp in Beanie's Imagination contains 2 mini-games, "One-Eyed Derekulian Roulette" and "Wooden Poker", both of which consist of bets for Gold or Wood, with the former minigame having you drink from one of three cups, with a 1/3 chance of that cup having an eye in it, causing you to lose the bet. The other game is essentially betting on if your given card has a higher tree value than the other players.
* CharacterTics: The game tends to note these for its non-planet characters when you choose to just talk with them, showing off tendencies they tend to have as they communicate with you.
** Derek: [[NoIndoorVoice Yelling loudly,]] heavily breathing, and wiping off the froth from his mouth.
** Sweatson: [[OverlyNervousFlopSweat Constantly sweating.]]
** Juicosaurus: Constantly gargling and spewing juice when talking.
** Coco Ghost: Passing through the wall just to make some point.
** Sven: Impulsively cutting down trees.
** Empress Cocobar: Staring at you skeptically.
** Broccula: Dropping her important business papers.
** Bret: Showing off his butt crack on accident.
* BrainyBaby: Chapter 3 features a baby engineer that hatched from an egg, already able to work on blueprints and work on the planet Burgulon's core.
* CheckpointStarvation: Even in the 99-floor dungeons, there are no checkpoints at which you can resume a run at should you stop it. You will always have to start from Floor 1 each time you leave.
* ColorCodedItemTiers: The equipment for Derek has 4 color-coded tiers, Scruffy (lowest tier with gray text), Decent (2nd lowest tier with blue text), Excellent (2nd highest tier with yellow text), and Crazy (highest tier with pink text).
* CoolestClubEver: The first thing you manage to summon with the Celestial Summoner in Chapter 3 is a [[PunnyName Space Bar]], complete with a resemblance to a keyboard's Space Bar and with a floating V and B key above it. It has managed to continue an ancient party with no signs of stopping ([[LampshadeHanging though Burgulon wonders if some people ever get tired of it]]), though Coco can be invested into the Space Bar to get Gold back over time. Burgulon also eventually gets to establish a Jerk Club that houses tons of partying Jerks.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Should Derek fall in battle within a dungeon, he can be revived with some Stardust, though you'll have to start the dungeon all over again. In Chapter 3, should your core be drained of its Stardust by Derekulians, the enemy will leave and you can easily refill the core to begin another fight.
* DeckBuildingGame: Combat in Chapter 3 is replaced with setting up a team of Jerks each with their own abilities and stats for attacking the enemy Derekulian, baking muffins to prevent the enemy from eating your Stardust, or support abilities like increasing the number of jerks you can send out or increasing the number of available jerk actions. Defeating the enemy Derekulian earns you Space Rings which can be used to get more new Jerks.
* DeliciousDistraction: In Chapter 3, your Jerks can bake muffins, which enemy Derekulians will prioritize eating over your Stardust. If they've eaten more muffins they would've eaten in Stardust, they'll be too full to take any Stardust from you.
* {{Determinator}}: The Jerks you send to act against a Derekulian all go down after one action as a result of the Derekulian bringing them through a CurbStompBattle, but the Jerks of your Jerk Squad will all manage to get up once they've all been beaten up by the enemy, representing your Jerk deck being refreshed after they've all been discarded. Since Stardust is the equivalent to health in this case, you want to actively [[InvokedTrope invoke this trope]] on the Derekulians.
* DetonationMoon: One of your opponents in Chapter 3, Bent, is a sentient and malicious moon with GlowingEyesOfDoom summoned by 3 moon lords in attempt to take your Stardust. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Your Jerks can defeat the moon,]] leaving a large hole on Bent resulting from a big chunk getting beaten off of him.
* DiminishingReturnsForBalance: As you level up Derek's [[OneHitKO Bull Fart]] skill through training, you get an increased amount of uses for the skill, but the skill gains an increasing chance to fail and not do anything, explained as Derek failing to let out a fart. However, after the fail chance reaches 50%, subsequent investments into Bull Fart will increase the amount of available usages in a run without increasing the fail chance, though the upgrade cost does steepen greatly by that point.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: One of the Derekulians you can deal with is known as DEREK OF DOOM, [[CapsLock all caps included.]]
* DungeonBypass: Shortcut Doors enable Derek to go to the next level of a dungeon without fighting Jerks. The same applies to the Shortcut doors within Chapter 3's Ancient Planet, as well as the "Shh!" doors. Derek can also wear equipment that increases the chance of finding Shortcut Doors, increasing the frequency at which you can skip through parts of a Dungeon.
* DungeonMaster: A literal InUniverse example with a Dungeon Master you can create in the Workshop, represented by a floating head of a dungeon master complete with a beard and a [[RobeAndWizardHat wizard hat]] that creates 99-floor versions of the dungeons you've completed.
* EndlessGame: [[SubvertedTrope Not really, the Endless Dungeons all only last for 99 floors.]] There isn't an actual endless dungeon, though the last dungeon, Derekulus X, can be replayed after completion.
* EscapeBattleTechnique: The Door Of Regret skill for Derek, which can be taught to Derek to let him exit a room that he didn't want to brawl in for as many times you trained the skill.
* EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding: After dealing with [[FinalBoss Jack]], nearly all of the entire cast joins you to party, even minor characters like the space mailman.
* EyePop: Derek's eyes do this as depicted by the Door of Regret skill, appropriate for entering a room that he may not want to have entered. The Jerks in the third chapter ''all'' do this constantly, but some like the Jerk Coach and Jerk Manager do this to its usual cartoonish extreme.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Beanie, who always has this while smiling. The one time she actually opens her eyes, they [[BlindedByTheLight get burnt blue by the light of Jack's sunlight]], thus there isn't any reason to open her eyes at that point in the first place. However, in Beanies' own imagination realm, Beanie's avatar continues to uphold this trope.
* FaceOfAThug: PlayedForLaughs with one of your gained friends, John, a large scary looking blue horse that the Planet is consistently frightened by according to the narration, to the point of not trying to look at John when attempting to talk with him.
* {{Fartillery}}: Derek's Bull Fart skill enables him to unleash a huge, deadly fart [[OneHitKO that wipes out the entire room of its Jerks]] should it succeed.
* FightingYourFriend: In the third chapter, the penultimate opponent you face before dealing with [[BigBad Jack]] himself is a BrainwashedAndCrazy Derek, complete with MindControlEyes. Once you defeat Derek with your Jerks, he ends up hanging out with his would-be nemesis race, the Jerks, since they're also on your side. Despite usually being enemies otherwise, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork they end up co-existing with some tension.]]
* FunHatingVillain: Playing music from your Space Radio ends up attracting angry Derekulians who don't like the music, which is used to bring down to your planet's surface to battle your Jerks.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: A friendly Jerk, Bret, mentions the one time a group of Jerks successfully defeated a Derekulian on their own, before the Derekulian was revived with Stardust, as you can do with Derek should he fall in battle. The revived Derekulian came back and beat up the Jerks as usual. Additionally, when sending Jerks to fight enemy Derekulians in combat, sending Jerks to do their action like playing a card is written as the played Jerk doing their one thing before the Derekulian [[CurbStompBattle instantly beats the Jerk up]] after said action, getting that Jerk "discarded" in the process. Once all of your Jerks have been beaten up, they all get back up as a representation of refreshing the deck.
* GenreBlending: The game can be described as an odd mix of a RolePlayingGame and an IdleGame, and eventually, elements of a DeckbuildingGame are put into the mix.
* GeniusLoci: You play as a sentient planet, looking for lifeforms to add to yourself to make yourself more lively. You even have landmasses that make up a face, which is even expressive in the form of said landmasses moving. Don't think too hard on what that looks like on the Planet's surface. [[spoiler: Your robot companion, Burger, becomes the mechanical planet Burgulon, although you don't get robots populating you, but a lot of Jerks and a baby engineer.]]
* GhostWorld: The Ancient Planet was implied to be this, given that it's the one planet in the game doesn't interact with you, having "been dead for a long time". Due to this, some of the Derekulians have made their home here, extremely bored and going crazy should they encounter anything else roaming inside, due to a dead planet being unable to house any Jerks for them to beat up.
* HollywoodHealing: PlayedForLaughs with Derek's Full Heal skill, bringing his health straight to full, all just by "pulling himself together", using HeroicWillpower based on the skill's description. You as the Planet even [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the fact that healing doesn't really work that way.
* HopelessBossFight: Jack, who has much higher HP than any of the normal opponents in the chapter, and is capable of gulping up much more Stardust at once, and is for the most part, nigh-impossible to defeat relative to previous enemies. However, you'll be given methods to create Coco-infused Stardust, which make it so when he "defeats" you and consumes your Stardust, the special Stardust causes Jack to explode. There are Jerk Squad setups that enable you to defeat Jack without said special method, and [[DevelopersForesight the game will reward you with a Worm Cube if you do.]]
* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Dungeons in [[RuleOfThree sets of three]], in order of increasing deepness will always be referred to as "shallow", "deep", and "abyssal" in terms of difficulty and length.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: Jack is a sun that intends to extort Stardust from nearby planets, you included, with a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill ridiculously absurd and impossible amount of Stardust as your initial debt.]]
* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Because you as a Planet were created without life on your planet (doesn't explain the Jerk dungeons in you or how Juicosaurus' kind had already been created and went extinct on your surface by the time you find him), you're seeking friends to join you, and most generally hang out in one Friend House within you, and aside from some buildings, that's all on your planet.
* {{Jerkass}}: The aptly named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Jerks]] are the main enemies within the dungeons you send Derek through. The third chapter [[ZigZaggedTrope initially subverts this before going all over the place]] by showing off actually friendly Jerks that help you fight off the new threats of the chapter, the Derekulians that will attempt to raid your Stardust. That said, while they're all on your side, constantly partying, and some are nice unlike what [[NonIndicativeName their collective's naming would suggest]], the Jerks you put in your squad can respond to [[SoreLoser being kicked out of the squad immaturely]], throwing [[FastballSpecial other Jerks at the enemy Derekulian]] or even ''[[ImAHumanitarian baking other Jerks into muffins]]'' (they somehow get better), or if they're a Mean Jerk, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown deal extra damage if the opponent has lost at least half of their health through rude remarks.]] They may all be literally called Jerks, but they're more crazy than mean overall.
* KarmaHoudini: WIFY doesn't receive any comeuppance for kidnapping Burger and turning him into a planet (not that Burger minds too much), and she finds a broken robot in the ending who she approaches in a deceptively nice manner, implying that she'll only continue to be nothing but trouble.
* {{Monster Adventurer|s}}: Derek, who is an aggressive [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent bull-man]] who you can send to enter the dungeons within you in order to get resources and beat up the Jerks living within you, said Jerks being more human in comparison.
* MessageInABottle: Found in the abyssal Coco Dungeon, actually sent by a living bottle named Bob the Bottle within the Monster Dungeons, who also had a brother named Balthazar the Bottle, with implications that Balthazar [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed]] himself to become said message-holding bottle you find within the Coco Dungeons.
* MsImagination: Beanie, who even manages to create a vast imagination realm that Burgulon can enter by touching her. Some characters in the real world also decide to enter and reside within her imagination as well. She also has created her [[ImaginaryFriend own imaginary beings]] within her imagination (some of which are based on characters from previous chapters), and can even create [[InfinityPlusOneSword Legendary Jerks]] through her imagination.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Derekulians, who come from Derekulus [[XMakesAnythingCool X]]. Another odd example is the people of the Broccoli Empire who seem to avert the trope, being coco people ruled by a living chocolate bar for an empress, but live on a giant piece of broccoli. It turns out that they did have a giant coco planet, but it was attacked by a horde of health inspectors for being "too unhealthy", the coco people given a planet-sized piece of broccoli as recompense.
* NewGamePlus: After beating the game, Remouladin offers you the opportunity to restart the game, but being allowed to keep a piece of equipment for Derek and a Jerk from the old game, on top letting you use Worm Cubes to buy exclusive permanent upgrades to enhance your subsequent runs.
* NonLinearCharacter: Remouladin is a time-controlling worm god that transports you through space, but then Chapter 3 causes you to find a worm named [[SignificantNameOverlap Mouladin]], who is explained to have some connection with time, and when you give him enough lollipops, he [[EvolutionaryLevels evolves multiple times]] to eventually become Remouladin, which means that in Chapter 3, which takes place after Chapter 1 where Remouladin debuts, you've witnessed Remouladin's emergence into existence, meaning that you've encountered future Remouladin before past Mouladin.
* NumericalHard: The Dungeons increase in difficulty by increasing the amount of levels you have to go through, and the overall amount of Jerks per level that Derek has to fight through. The same goes with the Derekulians in Chapter 3, which only get more HP and can eat up more stardust or muffins at a time.
* OddballDoppelganger: After going to the Broccoli Empire and advancing to Chapter 2, the "Talk to Burger" choice makes you talk to a knockoff of Burger with a weird green head named [=Burg3r=] instead, which the Planet doesn't want to do anything with.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: The Garden Boys in Chapter 3 are a trio of gnomes (Lil' Gnomey, Cat Paws Calvin, and Tip Toe Tyler) that are also a CaperCrew currently in hiding after [[NoodleIncident their last Stardust heist went very wrong.]] They can be hired with Stardust to delve into the Ancient Planet to get resources from it.
* PopQuiz: WIFY makes you go through one before you can progress to Chapter 3. Not only are the questions rather odd, but the answers have to be '''bought''' from [[{{Shopkeeper}} Space Ben]], and not all of them are correct answers. Finding the correct answers here is a case of TrialAndErrorGameplay, but if you're lucky (or use a walkthrough) you won't have to spend too many ghosts to buy the answers.
* PromotedToPlayable: After Chapter 2, [[spoiler: Burger, who was turned into a planet by WIFY, becomes the protagonist of the rest of the game as Burgulon.]]
* ProudWarriorRace: The Derekulians, of which the main Derek you bring into dungeons is one of, being angry [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent bull-men]] who primarily know how to punch Jerks' faces in. One of their traditions is [[TheSpartanWay is sending out their young to go out and conquer dungeons on their own]], and the one Derekulian that doesn't get into any fighting is the Ancient Derek deep within the Ancient Planet in the third chapter, and that's since he's [[RetiredBadass too old to get into action.]]
* RainbowSpeak: Used notably and literally for the Legendary Jerks, using multicolored rainbow text for "LEGENDARY", and the aforementioned Jerks also have rainbow clothing (constantly changing color) to [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority denote their rarity and power.]]
* RandomlyGeneratedLoot: All of the equipment you get from Chests have randomized stats and abilities. Some items have one set benefit, but how strong that pre-determined benefit gives is also randomized.
* RealJokeName: The Stupid Looking Planet has a real name of "Planetud", which the unseen developer in-universe considered it a stupid name, and changed things so he's referred as "Stupid Looking Planet", which is one of the reasons that he's quite the [[CrankyNeighbor cranky planet.]]
* RedemptionPromotion: A [[DoubleSubvertedTrope double subversion]] where the Jerks you recruit as Burgulon, unlike with the Planet, are loyal to you, but still overall enemies with the Derekulians, who are capable of doing more things than the enemy Jerks in the previous Jerks, like baking muffins or supporting other Jerks, but they can't have overwhelming numbers like the Jerks in the previous chapters, who could even number into the thousands to fight your Derek while your Jerks can only size up to 50 members at most. On the other hand, play your Jerks right and they can work together to defeat Derekulians (including your Derek, who is a OneManArmy himself forced to fight your Jerks) much stronger than them, and they always manage to get back up when they're all beaten up, unlike the enemy Jerks.
* RobotBuddy: Burger, a small robot that helps you learn the game, collects resources for you, and [[DudeInDistress gets kidnapped by his ex, WIFY, in Chapter 2.]]
* SentientStars: Stanley, a dopey, drooling, but friendly star who gives you Stardust in the third chapter. After [[NiceJobBreakingItHero enough uses of the Celestial Summoner]], however, Stanley is replaced by the much more menacing [[SinisterSentientSun Jack,]] who even has his own SinisterShades.
* SequenceBreaking: There's a hidden method for this for skipping to the other chapters right away. [[spoiler: For skipping to Chapter 2, make Burger switch between collecting wood and gold until a new option with a broccoli icon appears. For skipping to Chapter 3 should you be in Chapter 2, visit Sweatson until he provides you an option to do so.]]
* ShoutOut:
** One of Derek's potential headgear equipment is [[VideoGame/PlantsVersusZombies Crazy Dave's]] pot headwear.
** Another one of Derek's headgear equipment is Yellow Jerk Hair, which resembles [[Manga/DragonBall Super Saiyan hair.]]
** One of the Jerks you may encounter in Chapter 3 is Jerkinson Crusoe, an obvious nod to Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
* SpacePirates: Slopnax, one of your opponents in Chapter 3, is of the second variety noted on the trope's page. Once you defeat him, he enters Beanie's imagination and becomes [[HeelFaceTurn a passive ally.]]
* StableTimeLoop: It turns out that the explosion that created the original Planet that you started the game with was a result of [[spoiler: the last chapter's BigBad, Jack, exploding after his defeat after being sent through a wormhole by Remouladin. The wormhole had sent Jack back in time in order to maintain this loop, which is implied to be why Remouladin [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum didn't use such wormhole powers on Jack earlier.]]]]
* StatGrinding: The Gym in Derek's Dungeon School enables Derek to spend resources to permanently increase his maximum health, and his strength, which lets him take less damage from fighting Jerks overall. In Chapter 3, you can increase the overall amount of damage dealt or Muffins baked by your Jerks.
* StealthBasedMission: In the third chapter, you are able to send gnome thieves known as The Garden Boys into an ancient planet to loot its resources by going through doors, but as they go further into the dungeons of the Ancient Planet, there is an increasing chance of them running into a Derekulian and ending the run. [[GuideDangIt While it isn't directly noted at all]], "Shh!" doors will increase gnomes' sneakiness and lower the chance of being spotted in the process.
* StockNessMonster: The Loch Juice Monster within the Broccoli Empire, which can be fed Coco to eventually make it regurgitate out a bowl with a goldfish inside that you can click on to get Gold, and eventually its insides hold many Jerks within, making the monster itself a dungeon.
* {{Superboss}}: The last Derekulian summoned by the Derek Summoning Device is ''way'' stronger stat-wise than the FinalBoss, Jack, who isn't supposed to be defeated by normal means either. If you manage to set up a proper Jerk Squad capable of defeating even that Derekulian, you'll be rewarded with not only a ton of resources but a Worm Cube as well.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Your goal is to find new friends to join your planet, especially at the beginning of the game, where you have to gather resources or clear out dungeons to unlock said friends, who can join your built "Friend House" and produce resources automatically for you.
* TalkingAnimal: Sweatson, Burger's pet dog, who can not only speak in English, but in Danish too.
* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: Derek sees to prove himself a worthy fighter and return to his home planet, Derekulus X, which you can eventually do after clearing all Endless Dungeons, and it turns out that it's packed with thousands of Jerks to fight through as the game's BrutalBonusLevel.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: A major example that takes place in the last chapter of the game. Where the first two chapters featured gameplay of you sending Derek to go dungeon crawling, looting the place and beating up many Jerks in the process, the third chapter ends up becoming a major reversal of this gameplay, playing as a different planet and setting up a squad of Jerks akin to a DeckBuildingGame, to beat up other members of Derek's species, the Derekulians, who are now an antagonistic force that intend to raid your planet's core of Stardust. There's also another side-game where you send gnomes to delve through an ancient planet to look for resources, while relying on luck to evade the notice of Derekulians within the planet. Eventually, you can switch back to the old gameplay of the previous planet, but the rest of the game's progression insists on you gaining resources through the new planet's methods, and fighting off Stardust-raiding opponents with your Jerks.
* WeirdMoon: One of Chapter 3's opponents is a malevolent moon named Bent, sent by 3 "Moon Lords" to take your Stardust. Your Jerk Squad is able to fight off and defeat Bent, somehow.
* WhaleEgg: At the start of Chapter 3, Beanie gives to Burgulon an egg that eventually hatches into a human baby engineer.
* WombLevel: The Monster Dungeons are essentially dungeons within a Loch Juice Monster, with hundreds and hundreds of jerks inside for Derek to deal with.
* WorldShapes: The Broccoli Empire is essentially a kingdom ruled by the Coco Queen ([[AnthropomorphicFood a living chocolate bar]]) on a ''broccoli-shaped'' planet, assuming the planet itself isn't broccoli.
* WormInAnApple: Remouladin, a worm god residing in a planet-sized apple, who also happens to be a master of [[OurWormholesAreDifferent wormhole transportation]] [[spoiler: and TimeMaster abilities.]] Chapter 3 also has an EvilDoppelganger of Remouladin named Mayonada, who resides in a giant lemon instead of an apple.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A rare non-villainous example. The Workshop, your first building, can eventually be destroyed once you have exhausted all available creations it can be used to make. Doing so gives you a free ghost, implying that the Workshop was in some sense, alive before.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Running away from a fight by exiting the door he came from (in a graceful manner) is something that Derek is unable to do on his own, given that Derek is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy. You have to teach him to flee through training Derek's Door of Regret skill, and the same goes with making him go look for health pools to drink from with the Thirsty skill.
* ZergRush: The Jerks' main way of being more threatening to Derek as he goes further into a dungeon, being more and more numerous each time. In the third chapter, where you use Jerks to fight enemy Derekulians, some types of Jerks rely on having high numbers of Jerks as well, with Jerk Throwers throwing unused Jerks for more damage, and their opposite, the Vengeful Jerks dealing more damage with more used and beat-up Jerks present.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Oh no! Derek [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou is about to punch you!]]]]
''Planet Life'' is a single-player IdleGame developed by Northplay, and published on the browsers back in September 2018, and fully completed and also published to mobile devices on March 2020.
In this game, you are a planet in space, seeking to make friends, collect resources, and find more life to add to your planet. In the process, one of your allies, known as Derek, will be able to be trained to go into dungeons, beat up Jerks, and find more resources hidden with you, and even more potential friends. As you find more friends, you'll find new worlds, more potential friends, and many new and unexpected surprises to be unraveled in your pursuit of satiating your need for friends as a big planet.
The game is available to play on [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/752521 Newgrounds]], [[https://www.coolmathgames.com/0-planet-life CoolMath Games]], or [[https://planetlife.space/static/game/index.html on its own site.]] It is also available on [[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/planet-life/id1389159829 iOS]] and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.northplay.planetlife Android]] platforms, but the second and third chapters require payment to access, while the web versions have the full game for free.
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!!''Planet Life'' provides examples of:
* AlreadyTheCase: Empress Cocobar from Chapter 2 can talk about how her coco people came from a special potato-shaped coco asteroid that is sacred to them, and remarks that she hopes that no one does anything to it. But back in Chapter 1, the Planet had inserted a giant straw into a potato-shaped asteroid to mine Coco.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The Jerks, who are the closest thing to actual humans in the game, but they're all zany in one way or another, [[OneGenderRace appear to consist only of males,]] and [[BizarreAlienReproduction they can come out of cans]] of all things.
* AmicableExes: Burger and WIFY are shown to be exes, but this trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]] with WIFY kidnapping Burger, forcing the Planet to enter her villa to free him, only to find that she has [[spoiler: forcefully turned Burger into a planet now named Burgulon.]]
* AnEntrepreneurIsYou: You can gain ghosts [[WeirdCurrency (a currency in this game)]] through a stock-market like feature known as the Intergalactic Ghost Exchange where you can buy ghosts with Stardust, and the conversion price always fluctuates from high to low rates in back. You are encouraged to buy low and sell high to gain ghosts (or Stardust) optimally.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of your friends include a living bottle named Bob [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Bottle]], a living chainsaw named Sven, and well as [[AnthropomorphicFood living food]] like Broccula, a broccoli being, and Count Candy, a sapient piece of candy.
* AsteroidMining: You find a large brown asteroid which is actually a gigantic piece of Coco Pops, which you mine with a straw to gain Coco. Said asteroid may or may not be the asteroid that Empress Cocobar and her coco-people came from. Later on, [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty you can do the same to a giant Coco Penguin]] you find in the second chapter.
--> "Sorry penguin!"
* AwesomeMcCoolname: You can create an oven called a "Derek Summoning Device", which does do its job, although all it does is just bake muffins like any other oven could, which attracts Derekulians nonetheless.
* BettingMiniGame: The Casino Camp in Beanie's Imagination contains 2 mini-games, "One-Eyed Derekulian Roulette" and "Wooden Poker", both of which consist of bets for Gold or Wood, with the former minigame having you drink from one of three cups, with a 1/3 chance of that cup having an eye in it, causing you to lose the bet. The other game is essentially betting on if your given card has a higher tree value than the other players.
* CharacterTics: The game tends to note these for its non-planet characters when you choose to just talk with them, showing off tendencies they tend to have as they communicate with you.
** Derek: [[NoIndoorVoice Yelling loudly,]] heavily breathing, and wiping off the froth from his mouth.
** Sweatson: [[OverlyNervousFlopSweat Constantly sweating.]]
** Juicosaurus: Constantly gargling and spewing juice when talking.
** Coco Ghost: Passing through the wall just to make some point.
** Sven: Impulsively cutting down trees.
** Empress Cocobar: Staring at you skeptically.
** Broccula: Dropping her important business papers.
** Bret: Showing off his butt crack on accident.
* BrainyBaby: Chapter 3 features a baby engineer that hatched from an egg, already able to work on blueprints and work on the planet Burgulon's core.
* CheckpointStarvation: Even in the 99-floor dungeons, there are no checkpoints at which you can resume a run at should you stop it. You will always have to start from Floor 1 each time you leave.
* ColorCodedItemTiers: The equipment for Derek has 4 color-coded tiers, Scruffy (lowest tier with gray text), Decent (2nd lowest tier with blue text), Excellent (2nd highest tier with yellow text), and Crazy (highest tier with pink text).
* CoolestClubEver: The first thing you manage to summon with the Celestial Summoner in Chapter 3 is a [[PunnyName Space Bar]], complete with a resemblance to a keyboard's Space Bar and with a floating V and B key above it. It has managed to continue an ancient party with no signs of stopping ([[LampshadeHanging though Burgulon wonders if some people ever get tired of it]]), though Coco can be invested into the Space Bar to get Gold back over time. Burgulon also eventually gets to establish a Jerk Club that houses tons of partying Jerks.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Should Derek fall in battle within a dungeon, he can be revived with some Stardust, though you'll have to start the dungeon all over again. In Chapter 3, should your core be drained of its Stardust by Derekulians, the enemy will leave and you can easily refill the core to begin another fight.
* DeckBuildingGame: Combat in Chapter 3 is replaced with setting up a team of Jerks each with their own abilities and stats for attacking the enemy Derekulian, baking muffins to prevent the enemy from eating your Stardust, or support abilities like increasing the number of jerks you can send out or increasing the number of available jerk actions. Defeating the enemy Derekulian earns you Space Rings which can be used to get more new Jerks.
* DeliciousDistraction: In Chapter 3, your Jerks can bake muffins, which enemy Derekulians will prioritize eating over your Stardust. If they've eaten more muffins they would've eaten in Stardust, they'll be too full to take any Stardust from you.
* {{Determinator}}: The Jerks you send to act against a Derekulian all go down after one action as a result of the Derekulian bringing them through a CurbStompBattle, but the Jerks of your Jerk Squad will all manage to get up once they've all been beaten up by the enemy, representing your Jerk deck being refreshed after they've all been discarded. Since Stardust is the equivalent to health in this case, you want to actively [[InvokedTrope invoke this trope]] on the Derekulians.
* DetonationMoon: One of your opponents in Chapter 3, Bent, is a sentient and malicious moon with GlowingEyesOfDoom summoned by 3 moon lords in attempt to take your Stardust. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Your Jerks can defeat the moon,]] leaving a large hole on Bent resulting from a big chunk getting beaten off of him.
* DiminishingReturnsForBalance: As you level up Derek's [[OneHitKO Bull Fart]] skill through training, you get an increased amount of uses for the skill, but the skill gains an increasing chance to fail and not do anything, explained as Derek failing to let out a fart. However, after the fail chance reaches 50%, subsequent investments into Bull Fart will increase the amount of available usages in a run without increasing the fail chance, though the upgrade cost does steepen greatly by that point.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: One of the Derekulians you can deal with is known as DEREK OF DOOM, [[CapsLock all caps included.]]
* DungeonBypass: Shortcut Doors enable Derek to go to the next level of a dungeon without fighting Jerks. The same applies to the Shortcut doors within Chapter 3's Ancient Planet, as well as the "Shh!" doors. Derek can also wear equipment that increases the chance of finding Shortcut Doors, increasing the frequency at which you can skip through parts of a Dungeon.
* DungeonMaster: A literal InUniverse example with a Dungeon Master you can create in the Workshop, represented by a floating head of a dungeon master complete with a beard and a [[RobeAndWizardHat wizard hat]] that creates 99-floor versions of the dungeons you've completed.
* EndlessGame: [[SubvertedTrope Not really, the Endless Dungeons all only last for 99 floors.]] There isn't an actual endless dungeon, though the last dungeon, Derekulus X, can be replayed after completion.
* EscapeBattleTechnique: The Door Of Regret skill for Derek, which can be taught to Derek to let him exit a room that he didn't want to brawl in for as many times you trained the skill.
* EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding: After dealing with [[FinalBoss Jack]], nearly all of the entire cast joins you to party, even minor characters like the space mailman.
* EyePop: Derek's eyes do this as depicted by the Door of Regret skill, appropriate for entering a room that he may not want to have entered. The Jerks in the third chapter ''all'' do this constantly, but some like the Jerk Coach and Jerk Manager do this to its usual cartoonish extreme.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Beanie, who always has this while smiling. The one time she actually opens her eyes, they [[BlindedByTheLight get burnt blue by the light of Jack's sunlight]], thus there isn't any reason to open her eyes at that point in the first place. However, in Beanies' own imagination realm, Beanie's avatar continues to uphold this trope.
* FaceOfAThug: PlayedForLaughs with one of your gained friends, John, a large scary looking blue horse that the Planet is consistently frightened by according to the narration, to the point of not trying to look at John when attempting to talk with him.
* {{Fartillery}}: Derek's Bull Fart skill enables him to unleash a huge, deadly fart [[OneHitKO that wipes out the entire room of its Jerks]] should it succeed.
* FightingYourFriend: In the third chapter, the penultimate opponent you face before dealing with [[BigBad Jack]] himself is a BrainwashedAndCrazy Derek, complete with MindControlEyes. Once you defeat Derek with your Jerks, he ends up hanging out with his would-be nemesis race, the Jerks, since they're also on your side. Despite usually being enemies otherwise, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork they end up co-existing with some tension.]]
* FunHatingVillain: Playing music from your Space Radio ends up attracting angry Derekulians who don't like the music, which is used to bring down to your planet's surface to battle your Jerks.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: A friendly Jerk, Bret, mentions the one time a group of Jerks successfully defeated a Derekulian on their own, before the Derekulian was revived with Stardust, as you can do with Derek should he fall in battle. The revived Derekulian came back and beat up the Jerks as usual. Additionally, when sending Jerks to fight enemy Derekulians in combat, sending Jerks to do their action like playing a card is written as the played Jerk doing their one thing before the Derekulian [[CurbStompBattle instantly beats the Jerk up]] after said action, getting that Jerk "discarded" in the process. Once all of your Jerks have been beaten up, they all get back up as a representation of refreshing the deck.
* GenreBlending: The game can be described as an odd mix of a RolePlayingGame and an IdleGame, and eventually, elements of a DeckbuildingGame are put into the mix.
* GeniusLoci: You play as a sentient planet, looking for lifeforms to add to yourself to make yourself more lively. You even have landmasses that make up a face, which is even expressive in the form of said landmasses moving. Don't think too hard on what that looks like on the Planet's surface. [[spoiler: Your robot companion, Burger, becomes the mechanical planet Burgulon, although you don't get robots populating you, but a lot of Jerks and a baby engineer.]]
* GhostWorld: The Ancient Planet was implied to be this, given that it's the one planet in the game doesn't interact with you, having "been dead for a long time". Due to this, some of the Derekulians have made their home here, extremely bored and going crazy should they encounter anything else roaming inside, due to a dead planet being unable to house any Jerks for them to beat up.
* HollywoodHealing: PlayedForLaughs with Derek's Full Heal skill, bringing his health straight to full, all just by "pulling himself together", using HeroicWillpower based on the skill's description. You as the Planet even [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the fact that healing doesn't really work that way.
* HopelessBossFight: Jack, who has much higher HP than any of the normal opponents in the chapter, and is capable of gulping up much more Stardust at once, and is for the most part, nigh-impossible to defeat relative to previous enemies. However, you'll be given methods to create Coco-infused Stardust, which make it so when he "defeats" you and consumes your Stardust, the special Stardust causes Jack to explode. There are Jerk Squad setups that enable you to defeat Jack without said special method, and [[DevelopersForesight the game will reward you with a Worm Cube if you do.]]
* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Dungeons in [[RuleOfThree sets of three]], in order of increasing deepness will always be referred to as "shallow", "deep", and "abyssal" in terms of difficulty and length.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: Jack is a sun that intends to extort Stardust from nearby planets, you included, with a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill ridiculously absurd and impossible amount of Stardust as your initial debt.]]
* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Because you as a Planet were created without life on your planet (doesn't explain the Jerk dungeons in you or how Juicosaurus' kind had already been created and went extinct on your surface by the time you find him), you're seeking friends to join you, and most generally hang out in one Friend House within you, and aside from some buildings, that's all on your planet.
* {{Jerkass}}: The aptly named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Jerks]] are the main enemies within the dungeons you send Derek through. The third chapter [[ZigZaggedTrope initially subverts this before going all over the place]] by showing off actually friendly Jerks that help you fight off the new threats of the chapter, the Derekulians that will attempt to raid your Stardust. That said, while they're all on your side, constantly partying, and some are nice unlike what [[NonIndicativeName their collective's naming would suggest]], the Jerks you put in your squad can respond to [[SoreLoser being kicked out of the squad immaturely]], throwing [[FastballSpecial other Jerks at the enemy Derekulian]] or even ''[[ImAHumanitarian baking other Jerks into muffins]]'' (they somehow get better), or if they're a Mean Jerk, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown deal extra damage if the opponent has lost at least half of their health through rude remarks.]] They may all be literally called Jerks, but they're more crazy than mean overall.
* KarmaHoudini: WIFY doesn't receive any comeuppance for kidnapping Burger and turning him into a planet (not that Burger minds too much), and she finds a broken robot in the ending who she approaches in a deceptively nice manner, implying that she'll only continue to be nothing but trouble.
* {{Monster Adventurer|s}}: Derek, who is an aggressive [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent bull-man]] who you can send to enter the dungeons within you in order to get resources and beat up the Jerks living within you, said Jerks being more human in comparison.
* MessageInABottle: Found in the abyssal Coco Dungeon, actually sent by a living bottle named Bob the Bottle within the Monster Dungeons, who also had a brother named Balthazar the Bottle, with implications that Balthazar [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed]] himself to become said message-holding bottle you find within the Coco Dungeons.
* MsImagination: Beanie, who even manages to create a vast imagination realm that Burgulon can enter by touching her. Some characters in the real world also decide to enter and reside within her imagination as well. She also has created her [[ImaginaryFriend own imaginary beings]] within her imagination (some of which are based on characters from previous chapters), and can even create [[InfinityPlusOneSword Legendary Jerks]] through her imagination.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Derekulians, who come from Derekulus [[XMakesAnythingCool X]]. Another odd example is the people of the Broccoli Empire who seem to avert the trope, being coco people ruled by a living chocolate bar for an empress, but live on a giant piece of broccoli. It turns out that they did have a giant coco planet, but it was attacked by a horde of health inspectors for being "too unhealthy", the coco people given a planet-sized piece of broccoli as recompense.
* NewGamePlus: After beating the game, Remouladin offers you the opportunity to restart the game, but being allowed to keep a piece of equipment for Derek and a Jerk from the old game, on top letting you use Worm Cubes to buy exclusive permanent upgrades to enhance your subsequent runs.
* NonLinearCharacter: Remouladin is a time-controlling worm god that transports you through space, but then Chapter 3 causes you to find a worm named [[SignificantNameOverlap Mouladin]], who is explained to have some connection with time, and when you give him enough lollipops, he [[EvolutionaryLevels evolves multiple times]] to eventually become Remouladin, which means that in Chapter 3, which takes place after Chapter 1 where Remouladin debuts, you've witnessed Remouladin's emergence into existence, meaning that you've encountered future Remouladin before past Mouladin.
* NumericalHard: The Dungeons increase in difficulty by increasing the amount of levels you have to go through, and the overall amount of Jerks per level that Derek has to fight through. The same goes with the Derekulians in Chapter 3, which only get more HP and can eat up more stardust or muffins at a time.
* OddballDoppelganger: After going to the Broccoli Empire and advancing to Chapter 2, the "Talk to Burger" choice makes you talk to a knockoff of Burger with a weird green head named [=Burg3r=] instead, which the Planet doesn't want to do anything with.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: The Garden Boys in Chapter 3 are a trio of gnomes (Lil' Gnomey, Cat Paws Calvin, and Tip Toe Tyler) that are also a CaperCrew currently in hiding after [[NoodleIncident their last Stardust heist went very wrong.]] They can be hired with Stardust to delve into the Ancient Planet to get resources from it.
* PopQuiz: WIFY makes you go through one before you can progress to Chapter 3. Not only are the questions rather odd, but the answers have to be '''bought''' from [[{{Shopkeeper}} Space Ben]], and not all of them are correct answers. Finding the correct answers here is a case of TrialAndErrorGameplay, but if you're lucky (or use a walkthrough) you won't have to spend too many ghosts to buy the answers.
* PromotedToPlayable: After Chapter 2, [[spoiler: Burger, who was turned into a planet by WIFY, becomes the protagonist of the rest of the game as Burgulon.]]
* ProudWarriorRace: The Derekulians, of which the main Derek you bring into dungeons is one of, being angry [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent bull-men]] who primarily know how to punch Jerks' faces in. One of their traditions is [[TheSpartanWay is sending out their young to go out and conquer dungeons on their own]], and the one Derekulian that doesn't get into any fighting is the Ancient Derek deep within the Ancient Planet in the third chapter, and that's since he's [[RetiredBadass too old to get into action.]]
* RainbowSpeak: Used notably and literally for the Legendary Jerks, using multicolored rainbow text for "LEGENDARY", and the aforementioned Jerks also have rainbow clothing (constantly changing color) to [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority denote their rarity and power.]]
* RandomlyGeneratedLoot: All of the equipment you get from Chests have randomized stats and abilities. Some items have one set benefit, but how strong that pre-determined benefit gives is also randomized.
* RealJokeName: The Stupid Looking Planet has a real name of "Planetud", which the unseen developer in-universe considered it a stupid name, and changed things so he's referred as "Stupid Looking Planet", which is one of the reasons that he's quite the [[CrankyNeighbor cranky planet.]]
* RedemptionPromotion: A [[DoubleSubvertedTrope double subversion]] where the Jerks you recruit as Burgulon, unlike with the Planet, are loyal to you, but still overall enemies with the Derekulians, who are capable of doing more things than the enemy Jerks in the previous Jerks, like baking muffins or supporting other Jerks, but they can't have overwhelming numbers like the Jerks in the previous chapters, who could even number into the thousands to fight your Derek while your Jerks can only size up to 50 members at most. On the other hand, play your Jerks right and they can work together to defeat Derekulians (including your Derek, who is a OneManArmy himself forced to fight your Jerks) much stronger than them, and they always manage to get back up when they're all beaten up, unlike the enemy Jerks.
* RobotBuddy: Burger, a small robot that helps you learn the game, collects resources for you, and [[DudeInDistress gets kidnapped by his ex, WIFY, in Chapter 2.]]
* SentientStars: Stanley, a dopey, drooling, but friendly star who gives you Stardust in the third chapter. After [[NiceJobBreakingItHero enough uses of the Celestial Summoner]], however, Stanley is replaced by the much more menacing [[SinisterSentientSun Jack,]] who even has his own SinisterShades.
* SequenceBreaking: There's a hidden method for this for skipping to the other chapters right away. [[spoiler: For skipping to Chapter 2, make Burger switch between collecting wood and gold until a new option with a broccoli icon appears. For skipping to Chapter 3 should you be in Chapter 2, visit Sweatson until he provides you an option to do so.]]
* ShoutOut:
** One of Derek's potential headgear equipment is [[VideoGame/PlantsVersusZombies Crazy Dave's]] pot headwear.
** Another one of Derek's headgear equipment is Yellow Jerk Hair, which resembles [[Manga/DragonBall Super Saiyan hair.]]
** One of the Jerks you may encounter in Chapter 3 is Jerkinson Crusoe, an obvious nod to Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
* SpacePirates: Slopnax, one of your opponents in Chapter 3, is of the second variety noted on the trope's page. Once you defeat him, he enters Beanie's imagination and becomes [[HeelFaceTurn a passive ally.]]
* StableTimeLoop: It turns out that the explosion that created the original Planet that you started the game with was a result of [[spoiler: the last chapter's BigBad, Jack, exploding after his defeat after being sent through a wormhole by Remouladin. The wormhole had sent Jack back in time in order to maintain this loop, which is implied to be why Remouladin [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum didn't use such wormhole powers on Jack earlier.]]]]
* StatGrinding: The Gym in Derek's Dungeon School enables Derek to spend resources to permanently increase his maximum health, and his strength, which lets him take less damage from fighting Jerks overall. In Chapter 3, you can increase the overall amount of damage dealt or Muffins baked by your Jerks.
* StealthBasedMission: In the third chapter, you are able to send gnome thieves known as The Garden Boys into an ancient planet to loot its resources by going through doors, but as they go further into the dungeons of the Ancient Planet, there is an increasing chance of them running into a Derekulian and ending the run. [[GuideDangIt While it isn't directly noted at all]], "Shh!" doors will increase gnomes' sneakiness and lower the chance of being spotted in the process.
* StockNessMonster: The Loch Juice Monster within the Broccoli Empire, which can be fed Coco to eventually make it regurgitate out a bowl with a goldfish inside that you can click on to get Gold, and eventually its insides hold many Jerks within, making the monster itself a dungeon.
* {{Superboss}}: The last Derekulian summoned by the Derek Summoning Device is ''way'' stronger stat-wise than the FinalBoss, Jack, who isn't supposed to be defeated by normal means either. If you manage to set up a proper Jerk Squad capable of defeating even that Derekulian, you'll be rewarded with not only a ton of resources but a Worm Cube as well.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Your goal is to find new friends to join your planet, especially at the beginning of the game, where you have to gather resources or clear out dungeons to unlock said friends, who can join your built "Friend House" and produce resources automatically for you.
* TalkingAnimal: Sweatson, Burger's pet dog, who can not only speak in English, but in Danish too.
* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: Derek sees to prove himself a worthy fighter and return to his home planet, Derekulus X, which you can eventually do after clearing all Endless Dungeons, and it turns out that it's packed with thousands of Jerks to fight through as the game's BrutalBonusLevel.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: A major example that takes place in the last chapter of the game. Where the first two chapters featured gameplay of you sending Derek to go dungeon crawling, looting the place and beating up many Jerks in the process, the third chapter ends up becoming a major reversal of this gameplay, playing as a different planet and setting up a squad of Jerks akin to a DeckBuildingGame, to beat up other members of Derek's species, the Derekulians, who are now an antagonistic force that intend to raid your planet's core of Stardust. There's also another side-game where you send gnomes to delve through an ancient planet to look for resources, while relying on luck to evade the notice of Derekulians within the planet. Eventually, you can switch back to the old gameplay of the previous planet, but the rest of the game's progression insists on you gaining resources through the new planet's methods, and fighting off Stardust-raiding opponents with your Jerks.
* WeirdMoon: One of Chapter 3's opponents is a malevolent moon named Bent, sent by 3 "Moon Lords" to take your Stardust. Your Jerk Squad is able to fight off and defeat Bent, somehow.
* WhaleEgg: At the start of Chapter 3, Beanie gives to Burgulon an egg that eventually hatches into a human baby engineer.
* WombLevel: The Monster Dungeons are essentially dungeons within a Loch Juice Monster, with hundreds and hundreds of jerks inside for Derek to deal with.
* WorldShapes: The Broccoli Empire is essentially a kingdom ruled by the Coco Queen ([[AnthropomorphicFood a living chocolate bar]]) on a ''broccoli-shaped'' planet, assuming the planet itself isn't broccoli.
* WormInAnApple: Remouladin, a worm god residing in a planet-sized apple, who also happens to be a master of [[OurWormholesAreDifferent wormhole transportation]] [[spoiler: and TimeMaster abilities.]] Chapter 3 also has an EvilDoppelganger of Remouladin named Mayonada, who resides in a giant lemon instead of an apple.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A rare non-villainous example. The Workshop, your first building, can eventually be destroyed once you have exhausted all available creations it can be used to make. Doing so gives you a free ghost, implying that the Workshop was in some sense, alive before.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Running away from a fight by exiting the door he came from (in a graceful manner) is something that Derek is unable to do on his own, given that Derek is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy. You have to teach him to flee through training Derek's Door of Regret skill, and the same goes with making him go look for health pools to drink from with the Thirsty skill.
* ZergRush: The Jerks' main way of being more threatening to Derek as he goes further into a dungeon, being more and more numerous each time. In the third chapter, where you use Jerks to fight enemy Derekulians, some types of Jerks rely on having high numbers of Jerks as well, with Jerk Throwers throwing unused Jerks for more damage, and their opposite, the Vengeful Jerks dealing more damage with more used and beat-up Jerks present.
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