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* DeathIsCheap: Once an individual achieves [[spoiler:"Super Deluxe"]], they can easily recover from conventional mortal harm unless overcome (by someone also in a [[spoiler:"Super Deluxe"]] state) by a technique independent of those found in [[spoiler:"Interacting with Others"]].
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* GrewASpine: After spending the entire game doing the bidding of anyone at least passably nice to ask (including several of the villains' underlings), Daryl pointedly refuses to [[spoiler:help Eli conquer the world]] with some ''very'' defiant silence.
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* BittersweetEnding: Daryl and the Janitor [[spoiler:save the world from Eli's schemes]], but the fates of everyone [[spoiler:in the school and the Axis is ambiguous at best, Princess perishes after her boss battle, and Daryl gets fired by Paul and Alan.]]
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* ChangedMyMindKid: After finding out that [[spoiler:there is no explosive chip implanted in his head]], the Janitor decides to [[spoiler:flee the school with Kent Hangerman's body]] before what appears to be the final boss fight. However, when Daryl finds himself at an impasse during his climactic duel with [[spoiler:Eli]], the Janitor bursts into the room and tells him to [[spoiler:use the SignatureMove (The Cleaner)]] he taught him to get the edge over their shared nemesis.
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* AffectionateParody: The paranormal investigation and roleplaying clubs are initially portrayed as losers, but they're gradually revealed to be teams of TrueCompanions who manage to aid Daryl after he helps them out of trouble.
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* IntrepidMerchant: You will find Hoodie Kids ready to sell you whatever they find everywhere in the game.
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* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Mecha Daryl armour set greatly increases Daryl's stats, but gimps his ability to attain experience points. It's of little consequence if you slap it on him after he reaches his maximum level of 45 with all of his favoured skills fully developed.
* IntrepidMerchant: You will find Hoodie Kids ready to sell you whatever they find everywhere in the game.
* KaizoTrap: Time Knight's more powerful Beta Boss form summons and fires spears endlessly at Daryl. Even if his life bar is depleted; so he can still knock the player out when they think the fight is over.
* IntrepidMerchant: You will find Hoodie Kids ready to sell you whatever they find everywhere in the game.
* KaizoTrap: Time Knight's more powerful Beta Boss form summons and fires spears endlessly at Daryl. Even if his life bar is depleted; so he can still knock the player out when they think the fight is over.
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* HiddenDepths: Daryl's opening ImagineSpot implies a lot about Daryl's "Part 2" mindset. These include wishing he could beat up the Trenchcoat Kid vendors, considering Alan to be a friend while secretly disliking Paul, and believing that Princess is an innocent young maiden instead of [[spoiler:a tortured young girl who is steadily slipping into lunacy.]]
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* MirrorBoss: [[spoiler:The final boss fight is KleptomaniacHero: Daryl is occasionally rewarded or chances upon the locker combinations of his fellow students (among others) and Eli both in Super Deluxe form in a massive slugfest where they both have has no qualms about looting them for the exact same moveset]].sake of a quest or if he's short on cash. Among the other things he steals over the course of the game include pets, allergy medication, phones, book spray, and the secret lab of Doctor Frankenstein.
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* LoserProtagonist: Daryl was designed to be as pathetic as possible in both his appearance to his name in order to better emphasize his underdog nature.
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* MirrorBoss: [[spoiler:The final boss fight is Daryl and Eli both in Super Deluxe form in a massive slugfest where they both have the exact same moveset]].
* MirrorBoss: [[spoiler:The final boss fight is Daryl and Eli both in Super Deluxe form in a massive slugfest where they both have the exact same moveset]].
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* RainbowPimpGear: Daryl can adorn himself in a wide range of outfits, running the gamut from "Mecha Daryl" to "Humanoid Xylophone". However, they will not be visible on his character model, because he wears them ''under'' his normal clothes.
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* PerkyGoth: Abby, a pink-haired young woman whose locker is full of shadow-based equipment, who is one of the friendliest characters of the game and cares deeply for her fellow students.
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* BigGood: The Janitor, who is the one pushing Daryl to uncover the truth behind the school. Even his boss fight is one
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The Transparanormal Investigation Team Squad and Ebenezer Scrooge]] save Daryl from [[spoiler:Karin and Mister Robatto]] by [[spoiler:blowing the Vice-Principal's head off with a "science gun."]]
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Daryl thinks this is the case as he'll list certain villains that he's beaten in the "Friends" section of his journal like the Theatre Manager who tried to kill him and threatened to chop off Beethoven's hands. It doesn't always take.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Daryl thinks this is the case as he'll list certain villains that he's beaten in the "Friends" section of his journal like the Theatre Manager (Johnny Sore) who tried to kill him and threatened to chop off Beethoven's hands. It doesn't always take.
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* ATasteOfPower: The game opens with a high-levelled Daryl who is in possession of several powerful (if difficult to combo) skills. Then a flashback to a fateful graduation ceremony from forty years prior is played before the player takes control of Daryl a week before the introductory stage takes place.
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* ATasteOfPower: The game opens with a high-levelled Daryl who is in possession of several powerful (if difficult to combo) combo and poorly developed) skills. Then a flashback to a fateful graduation ceremony from forty years prior is played before the player takes control of Daryl a week before the introductory stage takes place.
* AllThereInTheManual: Much of [[spoiler:Eli's scheme and Princess' origins]] can be found in a journal hidden in [[spoiler:the Lost Hallway]]. Gaining access to it requires several rare gems.
* AllThereInTheManual: Much of [[spoiler:Eli's scheme and Princess' origins]] can be found in a journal hidden in [[spoiler:the Lost Hallway]]. Gaining access to it requires several rare gems.
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* SummonMagic: After you help them with their unfinished business, you can summon elf ghosts, Omar and Shiv, to assist you by equipping their friendship bracelets. Unfortunately, they don't have the same fire rate and damage output as they did when they aided you during their final side mission.
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* WarForFunAndProfit: With his [[spoiler:fellow Honor Students]] out of the way, Time Knight uses all their resource to weave new (and very derivative) lands solely to be conquered by him.
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* BribingYourWayToVictory: Certain quest items that Daryl would normally have to farm (ex. coal, mortar shells, etc.) can be purchased from certain shops for relatively nominal fees.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Daryl thinks this is the case as he'll list certain villains that he's beaten in the "Friends" section of his journal like the Theatre Manager who tried to kill him and threatened to chop off Beethoven's hands. It doesn't always take.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Daryl thinks this is the case as he'll list certain villains that he's beaten in the "Friends" section of his journal like the Theatre Manager who tried to kill him and threatened to chop off Beethoven's hands. It doesn't always take.
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* SchmuckBait: One mission involves selling one of Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings to an art collector so you can use the funds to get Beethoven off of the painter's back about funding his latest opera. The art collector is willing to pay 250 ducats for the painting, but there's a vendor skulking around the gallery who wants to buy the work off of you for $10 and a modest store discount. Ducats, for the uninformed, are made of solid gold and each of them are priced at around $148 each at today's prices. In an attempt to make you regret shirking his deal, the vendor will reveal that he has incredibly powerful gear (one of which, supposedly, can make Daryl ''talk'') in stock. Every one of the shown items is worth $10,000. However, even if you somehow managed to scrounge up that much money, you'll find out that you can't buy any of this gear at all.
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* AntiHero: Daryl really wants to make friends, but to attain as many popularity points as possible, he finds himself all too willing to do some rather questionable acts such as breaking all of an art teacher's work to unlock a quest or burying the gardener's pet rat...that he accidentally killed in a previous scene.
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* BigGood: The Janitor, who is the one pushing Daryl to uncover the truth behind the school.
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* LemonyNarrator: Daryl's journal is written by in second person and gives a somewhat colorful and inaccurate recounting of Daryl's exploits. Whether this is Daryl mythologizing his own life or a third party LeaningOnTheFourthWall is unknown.
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* LemonyNarrator: Daryl's journal is written by in second person and gives a somewhat colorful and inaccurate recounting of Daryl's exploits. Whether this is Daryl mythologizing his own life or a third party LeaningOnTheFourthWall is unknown.
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* LemonyNarrator: Daryl's journal is apparently being written by someone else, who in second person and gives a somewhat colorful and inaccurate recounting of Daryl's exploits.exploits. Whether this is Daryl mythologizing his own life or a third party LeaningOnTheFourthWall is unknown.
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* RareCandy: Textbooks, which is used to buy moves as well as being able to be traded for XP.
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* UpgradeArtifact: "Interacting with Others" , a book written by Kent and Eli that revolutionized the world is given to Daryl at the beginning and serves as his first combo. [[spoiler:It turns out that Kent has been hanging onto it as a last resort to dealing with Eli]].
* VillainWorld: Water Falls High School exists TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in a world where self-help books created a utopia and then caused that utopia to collapse. Today, the BigBad has nearly complete control of the school, and only Daryl can do anything about it.
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* VillainWorld: Water Falls High School exists TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in a world where self-help books created a utopia and then caused that utopia to collapse.Today, Today the BigBad has nearly complete control of the school, and only Daryl can do anything about it.
* VillainWorld: Water Falls High School exists TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in a world where self-help books created a utopia and then caused that utopia to collapse.
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* AutobotsRockOut: The final boss is set to an instrumental version of the main theme.
* TheFaceless: The main villain is never shown from above the neck, to hide the fact that [[spoiler:he has a SkullForAHead]].
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* HighSchoolHustler: Aside from Paul and Alan, the Trenchcoat kids are an entire group of these. They serve as the game's shopkeepers and their rivalry with Paul and Alan form the basis of several sidequests.
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* NoSocialSkills: Daryl, to such an extent that he shows no reaction to almost anything around him.
* PrecursorHeroes: Kent Hangerman and Eli Bavarius, two genius graduates from Water Falls High during the 70s who would go on to achieve great things.
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* NoSocialSkills: Daryl, to such an extent that he shows no reaction to almost anything around him. \n The only time he truly emotes is at the very end when [[spoiler:he sheds a single tear as Princess dies in his arms and when Eli taunts him over the fact that he killed his "best friend]].
* PrecursorHeroes: Kent Hangerman and Eli Bavarius, two genius graduates from Water Falls High during the 70s who would go on to achieve great things. The actions of the two form much of the backstory of the setting.
* PrecursorHeroes: Kent Hangerman and Eli Bavarius, two genius graduates from Water Falls High during the 70s who would go on to achieve great things. The actions of the two form much of the backstory of the setting.
* RareCandy: Textbooks, which is used to buy moves as well as being able to be traded for XP.
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* BigGood: The Janitor, who is the one pushing Daryl to uncover the truth behind the school.
* HulkingOut: Daryl momentarily does this whenever he levels up. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, he fully transforms into "Super Deluxe" form to fight Eli Bavarius]].
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* ImpossiblyCoolClothes / RummageSaleReject: Daryl can adorn himself in a wide range of outfits, running the gamut from "Mecha Daryl" to "Humanoid Xylophone". However, they will not be visible on his character model, because he wears them ''under'' his normal clothes.
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* ImpossiblyCoolClothes / RummageSaleReject: MirrorBoss: [[spoiler:The final boss fight is Daryl and Eli both in Super Deluxe form in a massive slugfest where they both have the exact same moveset]].
* RainbowPimpGear: Daryl can adorn himself in a wide range of outfits, running the gamut from "Mecha Daryl" to "Humanoid Xylophone". However, they will not be visible on his character model, because he wears them ''under'' his normal clothes.
* RainbowPimpGear: Daryl can adorn himself in a wide range of outfits, running the gamut from "Mecha Daryl" to "Humanoid Xylophone". However, they will not be visible on his character model, because he wears them ''under'' his normal clothes.
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* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:JP the valedictorian ends up getting vaporized by Princess just as he's preparing to deal with Daryl himself]].
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* UpgradeArtifact: "Interacting with Others" , a book written by Kent and Eli that revolutionized the world is given to Daryl at the beginning and ends up granting him superpowers. [[spoiler:It turns out that Kent has been hanging onto it as a last resort to dealing with Eli]].
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* DiscoDan: Daryl is never seen without his orange headband, bellbottom pants, high-heeled shoes and mullet.
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* AlphaBitch: Princess, who treats Daryl as little more than a gofer she puts up with for most of the game.
* AuthorAvatar: Paul and Alan are based on the developers Gary Porter and Dan Plate as high schoolers and take their names from their middle names.
* AuthorAvatar: Paul and Alan are based on the developers Gary Porter and Dan Plate as high schoolers and take their names from their middle names.
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* EvolvingAttack: All of Daryl's moves can be improved by spending experience. They each start at Rank 1, and as they grow in rank they do more damage, have shorter cooldowns, are more likely to inflict status effects, and look cooler.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: Paul and Alan's Textbook emporium is based entirely on selling textbooks that have been stolen from the school classrooms. Paul and Alan are (as a pair) also a BadBoss who demand their employees commit crimes, including arson and murder.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Just another ordinary day at Water Falls High School [[labelnote:*]]...Shark-surfing on a standing wave in the middle of a desert while fighting humanoid body-builder cacti and fire-breathing buzzards. [[/labelnote]]]]
''Super Daryl Deluxe'' is a [[GenreMashup sidescrolling brawler/metroidvania/RPG]] starring OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Daryl Whitelaw. Daryl is a new student at the once-prestigious Water Falls High School - a school where there are no teachers and almost every period is "Study Hall". On his first day, a misguided attempt to make friends leads him to become an employee of [[HonestJohnsDealership Paul and Alan's Textbook Emporium]]. Co-proprietors Paul and Alan give him a self-help book - "Interacting With Others" - in lieu of actual pay. As it turns out, studying this book doesn't help Daryl socialize better, but instead teaches him absurd SupernaturalMartialArts.
After that, things escalate quite a bit. To give you a sense of how weird it gets, imagine you are a noodly mute hippie running through a WWI battlefield, shooting rubber ducks at goblins. This is so you can join Caesar, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, and Cleopatra in an epic team up against a real-time-strategy game enthusiast leading an army of said goblins. This is actually a diversion from what you were *supposed* to be doing, which was getting back a classmate's cell phone from the vice-principal, who is a killer kung-fu robot. And no matter where you are or what you're doing, the background music is chanting your name.
MindScrew. MindScrew as far as the eye can see...
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!!Super Daryl Deluxe provides examples of:
* BlankSlate: Daryl, if his mute under-reactions to almost everything is anything to go by.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Princess, in a rapid and disturbing manner. Initially, she thinks Daryl is an idiot and a creep who broke into her room, messed up her bed, and stole hair from her hairbrush. Later, she begins to appreciate that he makes a good lackey. [[spoiler: Then she gets into her MadScientist phase and starts talking about running away with Daryl to live on the sun.]] By the end of it her room has become a StalkerShrine with scores of pictures of Daryl's face.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: See the Quotes page. This song plays during the credits and in the trailer for the game.
* FunWithAcronyms: Due to a filing mixup, the Paranormal Investigation Squad and the Transcendental Investigation Team wound up becoming merged into the '''T'''ransparanormal '''I'''nvestigation '''T'''eam '''S'''quad.
* HeroicMime: Daryl is not only silent - he has no discernible body language. People asking him direct questions only to be met with a wordless stare is a RunningGag.
* IKnowKungFaux: Daryl's moves include summoning weapons from HammerSpace, spontaneous costume changes, surfing, summoning whack-a-moles, shooting rubber ducks from a bow, and other oddities. And almost of their names are social interaction puns. [[spoiler: Super Honors Student Princess displays similar abilities.]]
* ImagineSpot: The tutorial takes place in one of these.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes / RummageSaleReject: Daryl can adorn himself in a wide range of outfits, running the gamut from "Mecha Daryl" to "Humanoid Xylophone". These things will never be visible on his character model, because he wears them ''under'' his normal clothes.
* LemonyNarrator: Daryl's journal is apparently being written by someone else, who gives a somewhat colorful and inaccurate recounting of Daryl's exploits.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Daryl is never seen without his orange headband, bellbottom pants, high-heeled shoes, and mullet.
* NoSocialSkills: Daryl, to such an extent that he shows no reaction to almost anything around him.
* RubberHoseLimbs: Daryl's arms, legs, and spine are all extremely bendy, to the point where his normal walking and running animations don't look like anything a human could do.
* RunningGag:
** Someone asks Darryl a question, and he says nothing.
** Daryl kills one of the school groundskeeper's pets.
** Vampire Count Roger is menaced by bats.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: Most people who meet Daryl and don't immediately dismiss him as an imbecilic weirdo project all kinds of personas onto him - servant, hero, hidden genius, TTRPG player, and more.
* VillainWorld: Water Falls High School exists TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in a world where self-help books created a utopia and then caused that utopia to collapse. Today, the BigBad has nearly complete control of the school, and only Daryl can do anything about it.
* WorldOfHam: All of the voice-acting is over-the-top, especially from the BigBad.
[[caption-width-right:350: Just another ordinary day at Water Falls High School [[labelnote:*]]...Shark-surfing on a standing wave in the middle of a desert while fighting humanoid body-builder cacti and fire-breathing buzzards. [[/labelnote]]]]
''Super Daryl Deluxe'' is a [[GenreMashup sidescrolling brawler/metroidvania/RPG]] starring OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Daryl Whitelaw. Daryl is a new student at the once-prestigious Water Falls High School - a school where there are no teachers and almost every period is "Study Hall". On his first day, a misguided attempt to make friends leads him to become an employee of [[HonestJohnsDealership Paul and Alan's Textbook Emporium]]. Co-proprietors Paul and Alan give him a self-help book - "Interacting With Others" - in lieu of actual pay. As it turns out, studying this book doesn't help Daryl socialize better, but instead teaches him absurd SupernaturalMartialArts.
After that, things escalate quite a bit. To give you a sense of how weird it gets, imagine you are a noodly mute hippie running through a WWI battlefield, shooting rubber ducks at goblins. This is so you can join Caesar, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, and Cleopatra in an epic team up against a real-time-strategy game enthusiast leading an army of said goblins. This is actually a diversion from what you were *supposed* to be doing, which was getting back a classmate's cell phone from the vice-principal, who is a killer kung-fu robot. And no matter where you are or what you're doing, the background music is chanting your name.
MindScrew. MindScrew as far as the eye can see...
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!!Super Daryl Deluxe provides examples of:
* BlankSlate: Daryl, if his mute under-reactions to almost everything is anything to go by.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Princess, in a rapid and disturbing manner. Initially, she thinks Daryl is an idiot and a creep who broke into her room, messed up her bed, and stole hair from her hairbrush. Later, she begins to appreciate that he makes a good lackey. [[spoiler: Then she gets into her MadScientist phase and starts talking about running away with Daryl to live on the sun.]] By the end of it her room has become a StalkerShrine with scores of pictures of Daryl's face.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: See the Quotes page. This song plays during the credits and in the trailer for the game.
* FunWithAcronyms: Due to a filing mixup, the Paranormal Investigation Squad and the Transcendental Investigation Team wound up becoming merged into the '''T'''ransparanormal '''I'''nvestigation '''T'''eam '''S'''quad.
* HeroicMime: Daryl is not only silent - he has no discernible body language. People asking him direct questions only to be met with a wordless stare is a RunningGag.
* IKnowKungFaux: Daryl's moves include summoning weapons from HammerSpace, spontaneous costume changes, surfing, summoning whack-a-moles, shooting rubber ducks from a bow, and other oddities. And almost of their names are social interaction puns. [[spoiler: Super Honors Student Princess displays similar abilities.]]
* ImagineSpot: The tutorial takes place in one of these.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes / RummageSaleReject: Daryl can adorn himself in a wide range of outfits, running the gamut from "Mecha Daryl" to "Humanoid Xylophone". These things will never be visible on his character model, because he wears them ''under'' his normal clothes.
* LemonyNarrator: Daryl's journal is apparently being written by someone else, who gives a somewhat colorful and inaccurate recounting of Daryl's exploits.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Daryl is never seen without his orange headband, bellbottom pants, high-heeled shoes, and mullet.
* NoSocialSkills: Daryl, to such an extent that he shows no reaction to almost anything around him.
* RubberHoseLimbs: Daryl's arms, legs, and spine are all extremely bendy, to the point where his normal walking and running animations don't look like anything a human could do.
* RunningGag:
** Someone asks Darryl a question, and he says nothing.
** Daryl kills one of the school groundskeeper's pets.
** Vampire Count Roger is menaced by bats.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: Most people who meet Daryl and don't immediately dismiss him as an imbecilic weirdo project all kinds of personas onto him - servant, hero, hidden genius, TTRPG player, and more.
* VillainWorld: Water Falls High School exists TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in a world where self-help books created a utopia and then caused that utopia to collapse. Today, the BigBad has nearly complete control of the school, and only Daryl can do anything about it.
* WorldOfHam: All of the voice-acting is over-the-top, especially from the BigBad.
