History VideoGame / RabbidsGoHome

* MooksButNoBosses: [[SuvertedTrope safe for the Proto-Verminator]], most of the majority of the game you fight agaisnt the Verminator and the dogs that abound the levels, but there isn't any great threat to hinder your progress. At the last level "King of the Pile", rather than challenging a boss before arriving at the top, you get into a fight at the base of the pile agaisnt various Verminators and dogs on a 3-phase arena.

* BadBoss: The [[MeanBoss Corporate boss is this to Sandra for little to reason]], even after when is safe is stolen, [[KarmaHoudini he never gets fired or arrested for his cruel treatment to her.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: There's a usage of "Pissed off" by some verminators. And "friggin" in one cutscene.

* PrecisionFStrike: There's a usage of "Pissed off" by some verminators.

The game plays out like a...hmm. Well, that's actually a good question. Most publications viewed the game as some combination of a {{Platformer}}, a RacingGame, and an AdventureGame, so we'll go with that too. Oh, and if it can be considered a genre, ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy.'' You control two Rabbids in a shopping cart. You have to collect stuff. And break things. And collect dogs. And literally scare the pants off humans. And collect their pants. And infiltrate hospitals to collect ''patients''. And collect stuff. ...Did we mention this game was [[WidgetSeries weird]]?

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[spoiler:The Rabbids, in the ending.]]

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: All the Santa Joes of the world. Or maybe it's just one guy showing up in a ton of different areas, and he just has a lot of different Santa suits. Hard to say.

* MakeMeWannaShout: The Rabbids can yell at humans and scare them out of their clothes (which can then be collected). This is also how Rabbids defend themselves against attacks.

* MissingSecret: There is only one Rabbid figurine that isn't unlocked via code. How it's unlocked remains a mystery. Getting HundredPercentCompletion doesn't even unlock it. [[spoiler: Speaking of, getting HundredPercentCompletion only makes the tier stars on the stage select spin.]]

* ShoutOut: The level that takes place in an atomic testing facility has a picture of [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] on the wall and a prominently placed crowbar (Freeman's weapon of choice) to pick up.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The humans are, both literally and figuratively, squares. When the humans are still "in control" of an area, so to speak, you hear soothing music that is being piped in over their speakers (almost exclusively of the late-60s folk/early-70 country-folk persuasion), while the Rabbids are causing mayhem. (When the Rabbids really take over, frantic Balkan brass music takes over, and becomes more fitting.)

* StarCrossedLovers: Betty the nurse and Barney, her terminally ill patient. [[spoiler: They eventually get married in Vegas, just before the Rabbids steal him from her....again.]]

* EarthDrift: Inverted. The game completely cuts the Rabbids' ties to the Glade of Dreams, Rayman's home setting, and has the Rabbids stuck on a world similar to ours, something that would carry over to later ''Raving Rabbids'' media.

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This is a [[WidgetSeries strange game.]]

A ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs very]]'' strange game.

* AWinnerIsYou: So, you go through the trouble of collecting every single thing to collect in the game, including all the stuff in the different overworlds [[GuideDangIt that you can miss if you don’t know how the overworld works]], and all the brutal levels especially those with very few Sousaphone Rabbids, bring the total height of the pile to 31,750ft, and what happens? [[spoiler: The new star that appeared on the screen starts spinning. That’s it.]]

* MoonRabbit: Can a trope be ''accidentally'' invoked? Because it may have just been here. On the other hand, if it ''is'' accidental, it'll make for quite the LuckyTranslation in the Japanese version.

The game plays out like a...hmm. Well, that's actually a good question. Most publications viewed the the game as some combination of a {{Platformer}}, a RacingGame, and an AdventureGame, so we'll go with that too. Oh, and if it can be considered a genre, ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy.'' You control two Rabbids in a shopping cart. You have to collect stuff. And break things. And collect dogs. And literally scare the pants off humans. And collect their pants. And infiltrate hospitals to collect ''patients''. And collect stuff. ...Did we mention this game was [[WidgetSeries weird]]?

The DS version is vastly different as it plays out like a puzzle game where you have to place parts like slopes, spring-loaded boxing gloves, bulls and teleporting washing machines to guide an uncontrollable shopping cart with a Rabbid inside around a course to collect everything and land in a toilet. You then have to build the tower by shooting either toilet rolls or football helmets into containers to fill them. The game also changes the reason why the Rabbids want to go to the moon: They found out that they can tickle themselves with electricity thanks to a broken street lamp. Several hours later, they break every street lamp in the area and can't tickle themselves anymore. One Rabbid looks up at the moon and thinks that it's a giant lamp which provides endless electricity, so they come up with their giant pile plan.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Moreso than usual for an interactive video game. In this game you supposedly actually have a Rabbid ''inside the Wii remote'' with which you can interact. At certain places in the game you can also "fire" this Rabbid from the remote in order to destroy hazards, open secret areas, and generally annoy people.
* ButtMonkey: Everybody is subject to abuse here. The Rabbids are too stupid to care, but the humans... not so much. Some honorable mentions include:

** Characters who appear more than once, such as Barney and the Corporate boss, who get stolen, or have their money stolen respectively.

* GasMaskMooks: The Verminators wear gas masks and hazmat suits. This isn't because Rabbids are toxic, but because the Verminators (like most humans in the game by the looks of it) are germaphobic and obsessive compulsive. Even some of the ''civilians'' wear gas masks after a while.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The verminators. They're still the cowardly, neurotic humans they always were. Best shown in their vignette short, where one is tricked into freaking out, and entraps himself in his dressing room with his own inflatable barracades.

** There is also only a limited number of NPC models, so it's not uncommon to see several of the same type in one area.

* KarmaHoudini: For all the perverted and destructive things the Rabbids have done they never ever get their comeappunce [[spoiler: and even get what they were aiming for at the end]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: After the last group of verminators is defeated, [[spoiler: they bombard the giant Stuff Pile with tons of explosives. However this launches the Rabbids to the moon (their intended goal), while the stuff that the humans want back rain from the sky and are either destroyed, or nearly injure them.]]

* NotSoStoic: Some humans (such as female office workers in swivel chairs) will actually take some delight in the Rabbids antics, laughing and asking to be spun again.

* PaintingTheMedium: When you design a Rabbid, they get "sucked into your Wii Remote," which includes a depiction of the inside of a Wii Remote. Which reacts to the real life buttons presses[[note]]Except for the Home button, understandably.[[/note]] and waggling. Shake it around and watch the Rabbid in it react!

* ProductPlacement: All over the place you can find ''Advertising/RespectThePouch'' billboards. Capri-Sun is even a object you can take, and you can even dress up your Rabbids in two Capri-Sun-themed outfits! To top it all off, there's a cutscene that plays out exactly like a Respect the Pouch commercial!
** There's also password-unlocked Best Buy and Geek Squad Rabbids, as well as Rabbids from [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesSmashUp other]] [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2008 Ubi]][[Franchise/AssassinsCreed soft]] [[VideoGame/SplinterCell games]].

** In the same vein, the dojo located in the beginning of "High Stakes Steak" contains a picture of [[Creator/ChuckNorris Chuck Norris]] on the wall.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Putting aside the ridiculous concept of the game as a whole, with deranged rabbit-creatures stealing as much as they can to build a pile large enough to get to the moon, [[spoiler:this ultimately isn't enough to get to the moon on its own. Discounting the fact that the moon here [[GiganticMoon appears large enough to seem close]], it's still hundreds of thousands of kilo-meters away that the Rabbids efforts were but all in vain. [[SubvertedTrope They did however]] get their pile blown up with enough force to send them rocketing to the moon.]]

** It turns out there's tons of them and they're ''all'' named Joe.
* TakeThat: The whole game is one to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses "Glorious 30"]], a French economic boom from 1945-1975 marked by an explosion in mass consumption. All the humans are very indulgent and encouraged to buy and value things to ridiculous extremes, which is challenged with the Rabbids opposite extremes to have unbridled fun as they take things to meet their goal.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Replace "Kinky" with "Dumb," and there's the Rabbids for you. You can smack them silly, blow up their facial features, feed them exploding candy, and ''repeatedly electrocute them,'' and they just laugh and grin like maniacs.

** Actual gameplay itself is like this. You go around causing tons of damage, you steal people's dogs from them, one of the rare items is a baby in a stroller which you can steal, and there are a couple Easter Eggs in the game where you can SCARE PEOPLE SO THEY FALL DOWN AN OPEN ELEVATOR SHAFT (or off the side of a building).
* VillainProtagonist: The Rabbids. Granted, they're more ChaoticStupid than evil, but nevertheless, they're the one holding the ConflictBall, breaking havoc in town and stealing the human's items. No wonder they get mad at you!

* Karma Houdini: For all the perverted things The rabbids have done they never ever got their comeappunce.

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* ButtMonkey: Everybody is subject to abuse here. The Rabbids are too stupid to care, but the humans....not so much. Some honorable mentions include:

* WidgetSeries: Of the "Weird Thing from France" variety.

* CosmeticAward: When you beat the game, the Pile of Stuff screen has a grey star at the top and a total that shows how many items are in the entire game. [[spoiler: Getting HundredPercentCompletion turns that star gold and makes the lower tier stars spin. That's ''it''.]]

* FridgeHorror: No matter how hard you look, no matter where you look, there is absolutely no evidence of a fire department or actual police (closest thing to law enforcement are the Verminators). ''Nothing'' about that sentiment feels right.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: But only in America. In Europe, the radar [[http://wii.nintendolife.com/news/2009/11/rabbids_recall_retracted earned the game a PEGI 12 rating]]... ''[[SubvertedTrope after it was released with a lower one]].'' Whether this is ValuesDissonance at work or the ESRB having a brain fart is a mystery. Nevertheless, the game's E10+ ESRB rating has so many content descriptors that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_Board it's used on The Other Wiki as an example of an ESRB rating with content warnings]].
** One human pleads, "Hey, cut it out! [[IHaveAFamily My wife is almost pregnant!]]" ...*RecordNeedleScratch* Wait, ''[[GRatedSex almost?]]''
** One of the announcements you can hear will say "No penetration in this zone allowed." Read. ''Penetration''. What. The Hell.
** You can find a doll that promises to be your BFF in exchange for money. When you look closely at the doll though, it's an inflatable woman in her underwear.
** Verminettes (essentially female verminators that act like any other NPC, which only appear in the second office time trial and the Vegas wedding) have suits that are inflated in such a way that it pronounces their breasts and butt into an hourglass figure.
** One NPC even says "I'm getting pissed off!" ''How'' did this game get past the ESRB?
*** That happens ''at least'' twice. "Stop pissing off my dog!" seems to happen quite a bit.
** One of the main Rabbids wears lacy thong red underwear. Seriously. And he's the one pushing the cart, so you'll get to see him moving in that thong during gameplay. You can change his design later, [[FanDisservice but still]]...{{Squick}}. Another rabbid also wears a pair of panties as a default design.
** Some of the female [=NPCs=] will giggle if you hit them more than once. Uh...
** During VirtualPaperDoll mode, you can prod the rabbids with an electric cable, which tickles them. But they will get extra giggly if you tickle them in the ''crotch'', complete with them covering that area as you do so. Erm...
** One of the verminators can be heard saying "My Turn to be Nailed Again".