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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Roger may have saved the galaxy in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestV'', but he is punished [[DestructiveSavior for all the damage he caused while saving it]] by being demoted back to a lowly janitor.
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* FantasticVoyagePlot: Roger must enter Stellar's digestive system at one point to destroy the nanotechnology that plagues her body.
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* FantasticVoyagePlot: Roger must enter Stellar's digestive system body at one point to destroy the nanotechnology that plagues her body.her.
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* ScrewTheElectricBill: Checking one of the activated lamps in the laboratory will have the narrator remark that the light has a motion detector that automatically turns on when someone enters the room, indicating that it turns off when the play doesn't see it. The narrator then continues that it was also cheaper to animate that way.
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* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard:]] Sharpei's plan hinges on her belief that she can implant her mind seamlessly into Stellar's body. [[spoiler: And she's so obsessed with preserving her brain she makes the stupid decision of eating a rotten fish because it's "brain food", killing her instantly.]]
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* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard:]] HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sharpei's plan hinges on her belief that she can implant her mind seamlessly into Stellar's body. [[spoiler: And she's so obsessed with preserving her brain she makes the stupid decision of eating a rotten fish because it's "brain food", killing her instantly.]]
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* MundaneSolution: In the Information Superhighway, your number doesn't match the one shown on the Number Changer and Sis Inny doesn't let you into the file room because of that. You're supposed to use a screwdriver found a construction site and change the number so it matches yours, but you can also just wait until it ticks over, though the latter solution takes a while and doesn't give points.
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** The shuttle's autopilot is named "Manuel Auxverride", a reference to the phrase "manual override", which is what you do for malfunctioning systems.
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* IdiotBall: In the finale, the normally diabolical Sharpei [[spoiler: eats a rotten fish Roger offers her and immediately dies.]]
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* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard:]]Petard:]] Sharpei's plan hinges on her belief that she can implant her mind seamlessly into Stellar's body. [[spoiler: And she's so obsessed with preserving her brain she makes the stupid decision of eating a rotten fish because it's "brain food", killing her instantly.]]
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: Aside from process of elimination and RuleOfFunny, there's no real reason why you would think to [[spoiler: give Sharpei a rotten fish in the finale. But believe it or not, that's what kills her.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The seemingly useless rotting fish in Roger's pocket is both this and a BrickJoke. You carry it around for most of the game and have it returned to you multiple times, only for it to be [[spoiler: the one thing that can finish off Sharpei in the finale.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The rotting fish in Roger's pocket.
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* BigBad: Sharpei, an old woman who plans to perform GrandTheftMe on Stellar Santiago.
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* RunningGag: "Hey! You forgot your fish!" [[spoiler: Pays off at the very end of the game, when the fish turns out to be what you need to defeat Sharpei once and for all.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As snarky as he is, the Narrator does drop in hints and warnings throughout the game, and his reactions to some of Roger's more ill-advised decisions can be understandable.
--> '''Narrator''': (''after finding the "churlish" mod'') Better look up the word "churlish" before you do anything "stupid."
--> '''Narrator''': (''after finding the "churlish" mod'') Better look up the word "churlish" before you do anything "stupid."
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* NoFairCheating: Going directly to the [[spoiler:Project Immortality file]] without properly completing the scavenger hunt indicating its existence and relevance results in a message where the narrator chides you for cheating and subtracts two hundred points as punishment. [[spoiler:Though you get them back a few seconds later.]]
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* TheAhnold[=/=]TerminatorImpersonator: Yet another one, but this one is a much more direct parody of Film/TheTerminator and Roger is hired to get it instead.
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* ExactWords[=/=]OverlyLongGag: At the beginning of the game, Commander Kielbasa addresses his crew and says that he wants to thank "each and every one of [them]" for their good performance . . . and then proceeds to do exactly that.
-->'''Kielbasa''': Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you . . .
-->'''Kielbasa''': Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you . . .
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* OverlyLongGag: At the beginning of the game, Commander Kielbasa addresses his crew and says that he wants to thank "each and every one of [them]" for their good performance . . . and then proceeds to do exactly that.
-->'''Kielbasa''': Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you . . .
-->'''Kielbasa''': Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you . . .
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* SeriesContinuityError: The scene in which they commend Roger for returning the ''SCS Eureka''. The same ''SCS Eureka'' he blew up to kill the BigBad in the previous game, it was the ''SCS Goliath'' he managed to save. Considering it happens during a clearly humiliating and one-sided [[KangarooCourt court martial]], this could be [[HandWave waved as]] proof that TheFederation is just another hopelessly corrupt and incompetence-riddled entity in Roger's life.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The scene in which they [=StarCon=] commend Roger for returning the ''SCS Eureka''. The same ''SCS Eureka'' he blew up to kill the BigBad in the previous game, it was the ''SCS Goliath'' he managed to save. Considering it happens during a clearly humiliating and one-sided [[KangarooCourt court martial]], this could be [[HandWave waved as]] proof that TheFederation is just another hopelessly corrupt and incompetence-riddled entity in Roger's life.
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* TerminatorImpersonator: Yet another one, but this one is a much more direct parody of Film/TheTerminator and Roger is hired to get it instead.
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* GaidenGame: An interesting variation. The game's demo had its own separate storyline, involving an invasion by a parody of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration the Borg]], with unique puzzles not featured in the main game.
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** Doubles with a FunnyAneurysmMoment because this was the actual last entry.
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** Notably, nowadays... It is actually working as copy protection, and [=CD-ROMs=] are shockingly easy to copy.
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** Notably, nowadays... [[TechnologyMarchesOn It is actually working as copy protection, and [=CD-ROMs=] are shockingly easy to copy.copy]].
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** Doubles with a FunnyAneurysmMoment because this was the actual last entry.
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''Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier'' (also simply known as ''Space Quest VI'') is the sixth and last game in the ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'' series, released in 1995. Roger Wilco returns to Starcon headquarters after defeating the Pukoid mutants in the last game. However, for his recklessness and breaking Starcon regulations, he is demoted back to a second class janitor and is relocated on the ''SCS [=DeepShip=] 86''. As he settles into his new surroundings, he is pursued by a new villain named Sharpei, who is connected to a secret project that may prolong life indefinitely using nanomachines.
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''Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier'' (also simply known as ''Space Quest VI'') is the sixth and last game in the ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'' series, released in 1995. Roger Wilco returns to Starcon headquarters after defeating the Pukoid mutants in the [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation last game.game]]. However, for his recklessness and breaking Starcon regulations, he is demoted back to a second class janitor and is relocated on the ''SCS [=DeepShip=] 86''. As he settles into his new surroundings, he is pursued by a new villain named Sharpei, who is connected to a secret project that may prolong life indefinitely using nanomachines.
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** Later, when you give Opus the morphine-spiked donut to gain access to the shuttle bay, one of the things he turns into is an Music/EltonJohn-like piano player singing [[AwardBaitSong "Girl In The Tower"]]and then he turns, into [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes the Tasmaian Devil and Michigan J. Frog]].
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** Later, when you give Opus the morphine-spiked donut to gain access to the shuttle bay, one of the things he turns into is an Music/EltonJohn-like piano player singing [[AwardBaitSong "Girl In The Tower"]]and then before that he turns, into [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes the Tasmaian Devil and Michigan J. Frog]].
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** Later, when you give Opus the morphine-spiked donut to gain access to the shuttle bay, one of the things he turns into is an Music/EltonJohn-like piano player singing [[AwardBaitSong "Girl In The Tower"]].
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** Later, when you give Opus the morphine-spiked donut to gain access to the shuttle bay, one of the things he turns into is an Music/EltonJohn-like piano player singing [[AwardBaitSong "Girl In The Tower"]].Tower"]]and then he turns, into [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes the Tasmaian Devil and Michigan J. Frog]].
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** Which becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment when you consider that Sierra was facing financial difficulties at the time, and ''Space Quest VII'' ended up being canceled. We guess at least one of those checks bounced...
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* ContinuityNod: The table in Roger's room contains various items from past ''Space Quest'' games, minus ''Space Quest V''. These include ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers Space Quest IV]]''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers 's in-game hint book]], [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter the remote control to the Star Generator]], [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge the Labion Terror Beast mating whistle]], and [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon Roger's employment rejection letter from Sierra On-Line]].
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* ContinuityNod: The table in Roger's room contains various items from past ''Space Quest'' games, minus ''Space Quest V''. These include ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers Space Quest IV]]''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers 's IV's ]]'' in-game hint book]], book, [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter the remote control to the Star Generator]], [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge the Labion Terror Beast mating whistle]], and [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon Roger's employment rejection letter from Sierra On-Line]].
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* RealityEnsues: Roger may have saved the galaxy in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestV'', but he is punished [[DestructiveSavior for all the damage he caused while saving it]] by being demoted back to a lowly janitor.
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* BodyUploading: When Roger plugs in a Cyberspace jack and wears its attached helmet, his whole body ''teleports'' into cyberspace.
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* HappyEndingOverride: After saving the Star Confederation [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation in the previous game]], Roger is stripped of his rank and thrown back to a simple janitor.
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* NeuralImplanting: Moddies, microchips that can alter someone's behavior when plugged into a neural socket. They were understandably outlawed some time ago.
