History VideoGame / RiddleSchool

-->'''JonBro''': Fans asked me if [[spoiler: Phil and Smiley]] were in a relationship. I always said "No, they could both do so much better". But after [[spoiler: Phil's newfound acceptance of school]], I figured maybe they're perfect for each other.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: The ending to [=RT2=] has Phil confess his love for Smiley.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Viz decided Earth was evil enough to be destroyed because one kid left school early, though he also spent time researching some of the kids at the school.]]

* DroneJam: Chubb serves this purpose in the first three games, sitting right in front of the Principal's Office where you need to go to get the key to escape. [[spoiler: In ''Riddle Transfer 2'', the aliens [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by deliberately setting him down there so Phil can't get to Quiz.]]

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Diz]].

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: You have to invoke this on the alien guarding the Quiz's office in [=RT2=] in order to get in.]]
* {{Faceship}}: [[spoiler: Viz's personal spacecraft is made in the likeness of his head.]]

** TheSmartGuy / SixthRanger: [[spoiler: Diz the alien who can operate all of Vizion's technology.]]

* ManOnFire: After [[spoiler: Zack's constant cold is cured]], he develops a ''very'' high fever.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's not revealed until [=RS5=], but if Phil hadn't [[spoiler: escaped school way back in [=RS1=]]], the entire series' overarching plot would've been nullified.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Phil and Smiley at the end of the series. The ending shows them growing up together.]]
* PaintingTheMedium: [[spoiler: The aliens]] have colored speech bubbles that match their skin color; likewise, their names are highlighted with their color in [=RT2=].

* ThePollyanna: Smiley, to a T. Though the events of Riddle Transfer 2 break it more than usual. [[spoiler: Until the end.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Quiz]] in [=RT2=].
* SchmuckBait: A poem book in [=RS3=] warns "Don't beat this game two times straight, or else you'll meet a certain fate." Opt not to heed the warning? [[spoiler: You have been possessed by Monkey Doll!]]

* SelfDestructMechanism: [[spoiler: Revealed to be the "weapon" in Quiz's ship during the last segment of [=RT2=], which Quiz [[HeroicSacrifice activates]].]]

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Diz doesn't want to destroy planets because he thinks he should judge which civilizations are moral or not, like Viz did; he wants to destroy planets just for the ''[[CatharsisFactor sheer catharsis]]'' of it.]]
* SpaceWhaleAesop: [[spoiler: Stay in school, or you'll be abducted by aliens!]]

* TriangleShades: [[spoiler: Viz]] sports a pair. [[spoiler: So does his spectator pod.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Viz. Technically, he ''was'' trying to eradicate evil. He was just a little misguided about where he could find it.]]
* WhamEpisode: ''Riddle School 4'', [[spoiler: when Phil Eggtree "died". Made originally as an April Fool's joke to convince others there will be no more Riddle School games, but years later made a few more, with [=RS5=] tying in the significance of the other games, including #4]].

** Riddle School 4 has one that can be viewed after the game ends, accounting for each and every character throughout the series and how they eventually met their ends. [[spoiler: But since 4 was AllJustADream, none of it actually happened]].
** Riddle Transfer 2 has a photo album during the credits, [[spoiler: which shows Phil and his friends growing up and living happily ever after.]]
* WhenHeSmiles: [[spoiler: Phil when he returns Smiley's hug at the end of [=RT2=].]]

* EasterEgg: As alluded to by one of the books in the library, beating ''3'' twice in a row [[spoiler:leads to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou possession by Monkey Doll]]]].

''Riddle School'' is a {{Newgrounds}} flash game series created by [[Creator/{{Jonochrome}} JonBro]] following a boy named Phil Eggtree trying to escape numerous grades of school, and later on, a number of environments.

* ShoutOut: Too many to list, to other popular users, games, and animations on {{Newgrounds}}.

* UnwinnableJokeGame: [[spoiler:RS4. Attempting to do anything results in Phil's teacher dropping him into a pool of lava.]] It was originally an April Fool's joke created because JonBro was getting sick of the games' formula.

* BaitAndSwitch: when you have to [[spoiler:kill Smiley in her dream]] in [=RS5=] the camera focuses on [[spoiler:the sharp top of the glob you're about to knock her into. She instead swallows the entire thing and suffocates on it.]]

* BigBad: Viz, head of Vizion.
* TheDragon: Diz, Viz's second in command.
* EvilGenius: Nit Wit, an InsufferableGenius who does grunt work for the others, and ShawDeLot the guy who runs Zone 5.1.
* TheBrute: Oswald, the monster used to guard the sleep chair.
* TheDarkChick: Quiz, Viz's third in command, generally thought of as "useless."

* TheHero: Phil Eggtree.
* TheLancer: Phred Whistler, Phil's best friend.
* TheSmartGuy / SixthRanger: [[spoiler: Diz the alien who can operate all of Vizion's technology.]]
* TheBigGuy: Zack Kelvin, who, while not stronger than the others, uses his powers to help the others.
* TheChick: Smiley Sundae, [[TokenGirl the only girl of the group,]] and the most optimistic.

* TheChick: Smiley Sundae, [[SmurfettePrincipal the only girl of the group,]] and the most optimistic.

''Riddle School'' is a {{Newgrounds}} flash game series created by [=JonBro=] following a boy named Phil Eggtree trying to escape numerous grades of school, and later on, a number of environments.

* Games:
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/314680 Riddle School]]''
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/349194 Riddle School 2]]''
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/430459 Riddle School 3]]''
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532044 Riddle School 4]]''
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532179 Riddle School 5]]''
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/571729 Riddle Transfer]]''
** ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/675171 Riddle Transfer 2]]''

Riddle School is a {{Newgrounds}} flash game series created by [=JonBro=] following a boy named Phil Eggtree trying to escape numerous grades of school, and later on, a number of environments.

The game is inspired by Tom Fulp's VideoGame/{{Pico}}'s School, which is the reason the first game is a point-and-click adventure game which takes place in an elementary school, Though there are considerably less guns here; Riddle School opts to follow a relatively less extreme story by having the main character not shoot up the place and instead just try to get out of school through some strange puzzles.

Riddle Schools 2, 3, and 4 have practically the same mechanics to the first and follow a very similar plot line with our titular main character finding his way out of middle school, high school, and college, respectively. Riddle School 5 changes the stage from school to an alien space ship in an unexpectedly complicated series of events. Riddle Transfer sets up the stage to a {{sequel series}} of games by [=JonBro=]; the series's original plans were scrapped, but it ended with its second installment on May 25, 2016-- the first game's tenth anniversary.

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/314680 Play Riddle School here.]]

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/349194 Play Riddle School 2 here.]]

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/430459 Play Riddle School 3 here.]]

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532044 Play Riddle School 4 here.]]

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532179 Play Riddle School 5 here.]]

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/571729 Play Riddle Transfer here.]]

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/675171 Play Riddle Transfer 2 here.]]

* EasterEgg: As alluded to by one of the books in the library, beating ''3'' twice in a row [[spoiler:leads to [[TheFourthWallWilNotProtectYou possession by Monkey Doll]]]].

* SubvertedRunningGag: The first two games both have Phil making the same terrible pun after leaving the first room; in the third game (where the method to leave the starting room involves rendering the teacher blind), Phil remarks that his idea "wasn't very sharp at all. In fact, it was kind of blurry."

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Viz decided Earth was evil enough to be destroyed because one kid left school early.]]

* AlwaysClose: [[spoiler:Turning Viz's freeze ray away from the Earth before it fires.]]

** Riddle Transfer 2 has a photo album during the credits, [[spoiler: which shows Phil and his friends growing up and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments living happily ever after.]]]]

* BaldWoman: Smiley in the five Riddle School games. [[spoiler:Averted in Riddle Transfer 1 and 2]].

* BigWhat: Phil's reaction in ''Riddle Transfer 2'' when Smiley says he always had better grades than her, despite her being more passionate about learning.
* [[spoiler:BrainyBrunette]]: Smiley enjoys school [[spoiler:and grows a full head of brown hair in [=RT1=]. {{Downplayed}} since, as she says at the beginning of ''Riddle Transfer 2'', she apparently has worse grades than the protagonist, [[BigWhat which understandably shocks him]]]].

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Diz in ''Riddle School 2'', ''Riddle School 4'' and ''Riddle Transfer 2''.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Phil is full of dry wit and wisecracks. Such as the quote above.
--> '''Phil:''' "Now THAT was A SHARP idea! (I can't believe I said that.)"
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Viz decided Earth was evil enough to be destroyed because a kid left school early.]]

* EndGameResultsScreen: Every game past ''3'' shows your completion time after the credits.

* FreezeRay: [[spoiler:This is Viz's ultimate plan: to freeze the planets by harnessing Zack's coldness. Fortunately, it backfires on him thanks to Phil's intervention.]]
** [[spoiler: It comes back in ''Riddle Transfer 2'', controlled by Diz and fueled by the ice from comets.]]
* TheGenericGuy: Phred. When giving the characters last names, [=JonBro=] just gave him Whistler, since he had no real personality before then and was only known for giving Phil the whistle.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Apparently par for the course where Zone 5.1 (Transfer) is concerned. Not only do they make very little effort to conceal the codes to open the prison cells from the prisoners (see EnterSolutionHere above), but every guard in the facility apparently gets the day off at the same time.
** To be fair, having the prisoner know the code to his or her cell door is slightly less of an issue when they can't see or reach the dialpad.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Viz's defeat]], in a nutshell.

* IndyEscape: After giving Chubb a bowl of pudding in [=RS3=], you have to outrun him as he rolls towards you.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In [=RS5=], shortly before the final series of puzzles in the game (and by extension the entire original series), [[spoiler:Viz says "Prepare yourself... for the Grand Finale."]]

* MeaningfulName: Smiley always tries to stay positive about things.

* NostalgiaLevel: The elementary school from the first Riddle School is the setting for [=RT2=].

* PaintingTheMedium: [[spoiler: The aliens]] have colored speech bubbles that match their skin color, and their names are highlighted with their color in [=RT2=].

* PungeonMaster: Phil has his fair share of puns throughout the series. I running gag throughout the games is that he'll say "Now THAT was A SHARP idea!" whenever he does solves a puzzle using something sharp (be it a pencil or a music note), immediately followed by him shaming himself for being so lame.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Quiz]] gets his fair share of both in [=RT2=].

* UnwinnableJokeGame: [[spoiler:RS4. Attempting to do anything results in Phil's teacher dropping him into a pool of lava.]] It was originally an April Fools joke created because JonBro was getting sick of the games' formula.

* WhamEpisode: Riddle School 4, [[spoiler: when Phil Eggtree "died". Made originally as an April Fool's joke to convince others there will be no more Riddle School games, but years later made a few more, with [=RS5=] tying in the significance of the other games, including #4]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Riddle School 4 has one that can be viewed after the game ends, accounting for each and every character throughout the series and how they eventually met their ends. [[spoiler: But since 4 was AllJustADream, none of it actually happened]].

--> '''Phil:''' ''"Now THAT was A SHARP idea! (I can't believe I said that.)"''

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/571729 Play Riddlpe Transfer here.]]

-->-- '''Phil Crabtree'''

[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/571729 Play Riddle Transfer here.]]

* ThePungeonmaster: Phil has his fair share of puns throughout the series. I running gag throughout the games is that he'll say "Now THAT was A SHARP idea!" whenever he does solves a puzzle using something sharp (be it a pencil or a music note), immediately followed by him shaming himself for being so lame.

-->-- ''"Now THAT was A SHARP idea! (I can't believe I said that.)"''