History VideoGame / Whacked

An {{Xbox}} game about seven cartoon characters competing in a game show for the grand prize: anything they want. The game plays like a {{Platformer}}, and players use various cartoon weapons that spawn randomly to win six different game types in thirteen different arenas.

* RingOut: It's possible to die in some arenas by falling.

** Lance: Pride. Buff lion with purple hair (wig). He makes narcissists look well-adjusted.
** Otto: Sloth

** Lucky: Wrath. Red rabbit with vaguely Irish accent. Was possibly a normal rabbit at some point, but lost all his feet [[AnArmandaLeg to a lucky rabbit foot factory]]. Devotes his time to getting his feet back, and keeps the ones he's recovered in a box. His BerserkButton has been permanently broken ever since.
** Eugene: Envy. Canadian Mallard that lives with his mother. Wants to fly and be a much cooler bird, and often fantasizes about killing everyone that makes fun of him for being a penguin/mallard.
** Toof: Gluttony. Orange thing with socks. Was created by the Asson Fire oil company to clean up their oil spills, [[[WentHorriblyRight but began to eat everything and get bigger]].
** Lucy: Lust
** Charity: Greed
** Lance: Pride

** Lucky: Wrath
** Eugene: Envy
** Toof: Gluttony

* CensorBox: Don't let the box art fool you. Lucy is dressed in nothing but gloves, stockings, and a couple of censor boxes.

** Lucky: anger
** Eugene: envy
** Toof: gluttony
** Lucy: lust
** Charity: greed
** Lance: pride
** Otto: sloth

* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: The "Chicken" game type.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The characters are all associated with a different color. Blood is color-coded so you can tell who was recently in a spot. Characters can't collect stars of their own color. Characters emit a glow of their color from afar, so you can always tell them apart. The screen even flashes a certain color for a split-second when you get hit so you know who just hit you.

** Otto: gluttony

* LivingWeapon: The Good-Bye Doggie chases the targetted opponent with a stick of dynamite in its mouth.

* BattleCry: Each character has their own stash of quotes for picking up a weapon.

* YourHeartsDesire: What the characters are killing each other for on the game show. Otto's chair wins Lucy, Lucy wins Otto's chair, Lucky the rabbit wins a supergun, Eugene wins everything, Lance wins a giant action figure of himself, Charity wins a mountain of presents, and Toof wins a massive hamburger.

* MostAnnoyingSound: A literal in-universe example. One of the intermission commercials in Gameshow Mode is a "breaking news" report, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJSHpqbk_SM confirming that scientists just discovered the most annoying sound].

* MostAnnoyingSound: A literal in-universe example. One of the intermission commercials in Gameshow Mode is a "breaking news" report, confirming that scientists just discovered the most annoying sound. It's a high-pitched squealing sound.

* SpreadShot: Possibly with the Rubber Ducky weapon. Holding down the attack button longer results in you throwing more rubber duckies at once, and they'll be spread out.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The characters are all associated with a different color. Blood is color-coded so you can tell who was recently in a spot. Characters can't collect stars of their own color. Characters emit a glow of their color from afar, so you can always tell them apart.

* HomingBoulders: Besides homing missiles, meat cleavers also have very limited homing capabilities, at least homing in on an opponent's general direction. The Egg Gun's eggs also home in.

* OneHitKill: Making direct contact with a regular missile or the Good-bye Doggie results in one of these. Question Marks can give you "Da Bomb" instead of a power up, which is basically a bomb floating above your head and counting down from 10. Other players can die from the explosion too if you're near enough. Also, the "Death" Big Red Button event spawns a giant skeletal hand which chases players around the stage, and touching it instantly kills you. Toof's Exclamation Point turns the other players into walking hamburgers, allowing him to eat them by attacking them without a weapon. Lucy's Exclamation Point causes her to constantly blow kisses of death, which if they come into contact with anyone, causes them to levitate into the air and die instantly. Finally, some stages have unique features that can cause one-hit kills.

* ScratchDamage: Characters can do a simple punch/kick if they're not carrying a weapon. It only takes about a pixel off the life bar, but still possible to kill someone with.
* SequelHook: After the final battle in Gameshow Mode, [[the show is renewed after it was cancelled]] in the cutscene before the battle. Too bad the game's developer went out of business.

* GottaKillThemAll: "Chicken" games involve killing a certain amount of chickens and collecting their stars.

* ColorCodedForYourConveniece: The characters are all associated with a different color. Blood is color-coded so you can tell who was recently in a spot. Characters can't collect stars of their own color. Characters emit a glow of their color from afar, so you can always tell them apart.

* OneHitKill: Making direct contact with a regular missile results in one of these. Question Marks can give you "Da Bomb" instead of a power up, which is basically a bomb floating above your head and counting down from 10. Other players can die from the explosion too if you're near enough. Also, the "Death" Big Red Button event spawns a giant skeletal hand which chases players around the stage, and touching it instantly kills you. Toof's Exclamation Point turns the other players into walking hamburgers, allowing him to eat them by attacking them without a weapon. Lucy's Exclamation Point causes her to constantly blow kisses of death, which if they come into contact with anyone, causes them to levitate into the air and die instantly.

* PowerUpMotif: A hard rock theme plays whenever a character is under the effect of an Exclamation Point. Each Big Red Button event also has its own theme, though not all of them involve characters powering up.