History VideoGame / SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole

* GenreShift: The boys change their fantasy LARP session to a superhero game after The Coon arrives from "the future". The combat itself has also been expanded from a simplistic ''Videogame/PaperMario''-esque system to a grid-based StrategyRPG with multiple characters on the field.

** Spontaneous Bootay in the "Bring the Crunch" DLC will run in a cutscene because she's terrified of the Final Girl class. Despite this if you carry over the class into a new save, in neither the Main Story nor the Bring the Crunch fight against her Spontaneous Bootay will be just as immune to all the Final Girl's abilities as she is to every other ability.

* WhamLine: Selecting female as your gender is treated as this in-universe, since [[VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth the previous game]] didn't have a gender option and automatically made the New Kid a boy, meaning [[spoiler:almost]] the entire cast went through the game [[SamusIsAGirl never noticing that she was actually a girl the entire time.]] Mr. Mackey is dumbfounded for a moment before calling your parents to confirm this.

** All chaos themed enemies are immune to the [[ManOnFire fire]] StatusEffect. When [[HeelFaceTurn Professor Chaos joins your party]], he is no longer immune to fire.

** Cousin Kyle, after the New Kid beats [[spoiler:the Broflovski family in a boss fight]]. Averted if you have the "From Dusk to Casa Bonita" DLC, as he's always available there.

* PunchClockHero: Both superhero teams are primarily motivated by the goal of becoming a CashCowFranchise in the vein of the MCU. The only five heroes who do more than that are Mysterion (who patrols the streets for criminal behavior), Call Girl (who pieces together the greater conspiracy and sets everyone on track, and isn't a part of either team), Captain Diabetes (who stops a drunk and violent Randy from drunk driving by taking away his car keys, something usually above the capability or expectations of a ten-year-old), Henrietta, and Mintberry Crunch (neither are part of either team and don’t care at all about a superhero CashCowFranchise in the first place; they both help the New Kid after they help them in their respective [=DLCs=], although Mintberry Crunch also does it out of a genuine desire to help people).

* OutOfFocus: Despite aiming to bring back as many elements from the show as possible, ''Fractued but Whole'' is missing some key characters:
** Mr. Garrison only appears in a cameo despite being one of the most important adult characters in the show. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because this game takes place around the time Garrison was elected President of the United States, forcing him to leave South Park and govern the country.
** All the major Canadian characters sans Ike are absent in this game [[spoiler: since a huge wall prevents the New Kid from entering Canada, earning the mockery of a Canadian watching the American side of the border while sitting on the wall.]] This includes Ugly Bob, the Canadian royalty, Scott the Dick, the Queef Sisters, Charlotte, and even Terrance & Philip.
** Despite having become one of the most important characters in the serialized storyline the show was experimenting with at the time, Heidi Turner is barely in the game at all. Although there were plans for her to appear, she is not part of a sidequest nor is she available for a selfie despite almost every prominent 4th grade girl making an appearance. The closest thing she has to a role is random NPC 4th graders that wander around South Park sometimes having her character model.
** Kevin [=McCormick=] makes an appearance unlike the last game, but the New Kid cannot befriend him on Coonstagram despite every other family member, including minor characters like the Biggle parents, being willing to take a selfie with you.

** Regardless of what gender you make the New Kid, the Backstory version of them uses the male hurt sound.
*** This has since been removed in a later update, suggesting that the Backstory New Kid using a hurt sound at all was just an oversight.

** If Mosquito gets cured of the Charmed status, he'll always refer to the person who charmed him as female, even if the charmer was the clearly male Doctor Timmothy or [[spoiler:Morgan Freeman]].

* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: Early in the DLC mission "Bring the Crunch", the New Kid, Fastpass, Professor Chaos, Mintberry Crunch and Professor Timothy encounter the dead body of one of the camp councilors of Lake Tardicaca, who [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill has 10 knives in their body and a meat cleaver in their skull]]. When Professor Chaos [[ImplausibleDeniability wonders if the councilor is just sleeping]], Professor Timmothy ([[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]]) responds, "No, he's super dead, I poked him with a stick."

** Andre, Johnny, and Matty, three random kids that were playing Stick of Truth, during one of the first quests
** Cousin Kyle, after the New Kid beats [[spoiler:the Broflovski family in a boss fight]]

* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: Early in the DLC mission "Bring the Crunch", the New Kid, Fastpass, Professor Chaos, Mintberry Crunch and Professor Timmothy encounter the dead body of one of the camp councilors of Lake Tardicaca, who [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill has 10 knives in their body and a meat cleaver in their skull]]. When Professor Chaos [[ImplausibleDeniability wonders if the councilor is just sleeping]], Professor Timmothy ([[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]]) responds, "No, he's super dead, I poked him with a stick."

** The difficulty slider changes the color of your character's skin, with lighter skin being easy and darker skin being hard. Rather than altering combat, it alters the amount of money the player starts with as well as interactions with characters. For example, [[spoiler: the crooked cops will try to attack you playing as a black character, but require direct provocation when playing as white]]

* NonstandardGameOver:

* BossSubtitles: Zig-Zagged. Most of the major boss encounters as well as some playable characters characters like Fastpass, Toolshed, and Call Girl, get introduced with dramatic splash screens, but they lack any actual subtitles, instead just showing their name.

* ArcVillain: Each chapter in the game has its own villain who the heroes must face. Chapter 1 has the Mobsters who are later [[HijackedByGanon hijacked by Red Wine Drunk Randy]]; Chapter 2 has Professor Chaos and his Army of Chaos Minions; Chapter 3 has [[DirtyCop Sergeant Yates]] who has been feeding black people to [[EldritchAbomination Shub-Niggurath]]; Chapter 4 has [[spoiler: Mitch Conner/The Coon (Cartman)]], who reveals himself to be the overarching BigBad responsible for getting people high on cat urine to raise crime in the streets so he can get them to elect him mayor of the town by having Mayor [=McDaniels=] take the blame for the crime wave.

** Craig or Tweek can use [[ThePowerOfLove Eros Eruption]] even if the other one isn't currently in the party.

** If Captain Diabetes dies during the fight with Red Wine Drunk Randy, you immediately lose because that's what Randy was out to do in the first place.

* NoSell: In the battle against [[spoiler:Stephen Stotch, the New Kid is immune to his grounding powers and has the power to unground their teammates. After he's defeated, he tells Butters that the latter is GroundedForever, only for it to turn out that Butters now has the same immunity.]]

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Many melee attacks in the game inflict knockback; for example, Captain Diabetes's Coma Combo and Super Craig's Mega Fist Punch.

** "I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!" [[note]]Alternate Universe Human Kite, aka Kyle Schwartz, will occasionally enter the playing field. A potential ally, perhaps? Nope, he's either gonna shield himself or whiff an attack, and then leave.[[/note]]

* BeautifulTears: Craig (as Mosquito) breaks down in tears in Dr. Mephesto's lab. Wendy (as Call Girl) posts a selfie of herself grinning and pointing at a still-crying Mosquito as Stan (as Toolshed) comforts him and tops it with the caption "Boys are kinda cute when they cry, huh? #sorrynotsorry".

* MookMaker

* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The game ends like the origin story did, with the New Kid's dad fucking their mom, despite having changed the past so neither of them gets hooked on alcohol or drugs. As Professor Chaos puts it in the sequel hook: no matter what you did, your past still started with your dad fucking your mom.]]

* BossSubtitles: Most of the major boss encounters as well as some playable characters characters like Fastpass, Toolshed, and Call Girl, get introduced with dramatic splash screens.

** [[spoiler:Mitch Conner]] also outright cheats by declaring his attacks to do additional ailments, give himself DeflectorShields, or outright nullifying attacks. Even worse, he declares the additional statuses ''after'' the attacks hit, and gives no justification whatsoever.

Some time after [[ItMakesSenseInContext resolving the Nazi Zombie crisis by farting on a princess' balls]], the New Kid finds themselves beginning a new {{LARP}} journey with the boys of South Park, this time under their Coon and Friends superhero personae. Under the Coon (Eric Cartman)'s leadership, the gang fight to clean up the mean streets of their quiet little mountain town, in the name of instilling justice and more importantly, making millions off of their superhero franchise. But thanks to a dispute over the Coon's proposed franchise plan, a subset of the kids have split off into their own hero faction called the Freedom Pals, led by Doctor Timothy (Timmy Burch) and Mysterion (Kenny [=McCormick=]); paving the way for civil war between the kids as a far greater threat looms over their home...