History VideoGame / SuperSolvers

* CardcarryingVillain / ForTheEvulz: Morty Maxwell, known as the Master of Mischief. His schemes seem to have no real purpose besides disrupting everyone's lives. As he says in the intro to ''Treasure Galaxy'', "How I'm enjoying being annoying!"

* DarkReprise[=/=]TriumphantReprise: While racing Morty in ''Gizmos & Gadgets!'', the background music will change depending on who's in front; a darker-sounding one for Morty or a triumphant-sounding one for the player.

** Mainly the last level of that game, which features [[spoiler: large, mutated, invincible fish which kill you in one hit]].

** In the Windows update of ''Outnumbered!'', Morty tells Telly to stop the Super Solver "by launching your CDs." Telly immediately ejects a CD right into Morty's face!

* The spin-off Super Seekers series, aimed at a younger audience and set in Treasureland:

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* YouOweMe: In ''Mission T.H.I.N.K., Morty tells the Metal Minions that they should help him out of gratitude for saving them from the recycling center. This works on most of them, but not Rusty.

* TheLancer: The animal guides in the ''Treasure'' tetrology, Zoom the dolphin in ''Operation Neptune'', and Rusty in ''Mission: T.H.I.N.K.''.

* BumblingSidekick: In ''Midnight Rescue'', Mr. Garrison's secretary often causes him quite a bit of trouble with her various slip-ups.

* LaughablyEvil: Morty Maxwell can be this a lot.
* LiteralMinded: In the CD-ROM version of Outnumbered, Morty tells Telly to stop the Super Solver "by launching your CD's." Telly immediately ejects a CD right into Morty's face!
** In Midnight Rescue, Morty tells the robots that they can stop the Super Solver by throwing their tricks. One of them then tosses an apple at his face, prompting him to say "Hey! Who did that?"

* PsychopathicManchild: Morty Maxwell comes across as the third variant of this character type. ''Midnight Rescue!'', which appears to be set in the late 1980s, implies that he was born in the early 1950s. This would put his physical age somewhere in his late thirties. Throughout the series, however, Morty is characterized as selfish and immature and, on top of that, does not seem to have a job. One good example of his childishness is that he sometimes dubs himself the "Master of Mischief", and lives up to that nickname by taking pleasure in his own misdeeds. Many diary entries from Morty´s childhood can be read throughout ''Midnight Rescue!''. In one of them, he states that he wishes to be a kid forever, which explains a lot about his current personality.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The security guard at the TV station in ''Outnumbered!'' appears not to notice that Morty has "taken over" the station, or that a pair of anthropothormic robots are zooming around the place.

* AnimalJingoism: In ''Mission: T.H.I.N.K.'', Morty has Metal Minions. Nearly all of them are catlike, but one of them, Rusty, is doglike. Rusty objects to Morty's plans and decides to assist the Super Solver, while the other robots follow the scientist's orders.

* AnimalJingoism: In ''Mission: T.H.I.N.K.'', the chimps have all been replaced the Metal Minions, humanoid cat-like robots that serve under Morty. There is one Metal Minion, a dog-bot named Rusty, who objects to Morty and helps the player.

* MrExposition: The CD-ROM versions of several games open with Morty explaining his whole plan to his mooks, including what the Super Solver has to do to stop him.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Rusty, a Metal Minion who objects to Morty's plan and helps you throughout the game.

* PsychopathicManchild: Morty Maxwell comes across as the third variant of this character type. ''Midnight Rescue!'', which appears to be set in the late 1980s, implies that he was born in the early 1950s. This would put his age somewhere in his late thirties. Throughout the series, however, Morty is characterized as selfish and immature and, on top of that, does not seem to have a job. One good example of his childishness is that he sometimes dubs himself the "Master of Mischief", and lives up to that nickname by taking pleasure in his own misdeeds. Many diary entries from Morty´s childhood can be read throughout ''Midnight Rescue!''. In one of them, he states that he wishes to be a kid forever, which explains a lot about his current personality.

* PsychopathicManchild: Morty Maxwell comes across as being the third variant of this character type. ''Midnight Rescue!'', which appears to be set in the late 1980s, implies that he was born in the early 1950s. This would put his age at either 38 or 39. Throughout the series, however, Morty is characterized as selfish and immature and, on top of that, does not seem to have a job. One good example of his childishness is that he sometimes dubs himself the "Master of Mischief", and lives up to that nickname by taking pleasure in his own misdeeds. Many diary entries from Morty´s childhood can be read throughout ''Midnight Rescue!''. In one of them, he states that he wishes to be a kid forever, which explains a lot about his behavior now.

* {{Continuity}}: Both series have this with other Learning Company series. At least one early ReaderRabbit game featured the characters climbing Treasure Mountain.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: All of the games let the player input their own name, plus the hero wears a gender-neutral outfit and their sex is never disclosed. In ''Mission: T.H.I.N.K'', ''Treasure Galaxy'' and the Windows updates of the preceding games, Morty avoids using pronouns when referring to the Super Solver.

* EliteMook: Once you get to the fourth race in a category in ''Gizmos & Gadgets!'', the slow, fat, not very bright chimps are replaced with smarter, faster wheeled ones that sleep for a much shorter time. Once you get to the fifth level, the chimps will start stealing parts that are already lying around, before you can even pick them up!

* LiteralMinded: In the CD-ROM version of Outnumbered, Morty tells Telly to stop the Super Solver "by launching your CDs." Telly immediately ejects a CD right into Morty's face!

* EliteMook: Once you get to the fourth race in a category in ''Gizmos & Gadgets!'', the slow, fat, not very bright chimps are replaced with smarter, faster wheeled ones that sleep for a much shorter time.

* JumpScare: In Midnight Rescue, Morty's robots have a tendency to suddenly appear in rooms or from off the side of the screen in halls without warning.