History VideoGame / Whiplash

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

%%* EpicFlail: How Spanx uses Redmond.

* GameBreakingBug: In a demo of the game, there is a nasty glitch present that makes it literally impossible to complete.

%%* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[RunningGag Poor Redmond]].

* ILoveNuclearPower: You can use radiation to increase Redmond's attack power temporarily.

Whiplash is a 2003 platforming game for the [=PS2=] and [=Xbox=]. [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs You play a genetically altered weasel and rabbit]] who are [[ChainedHeat handcuffed together]] and trying to escape an animal testing facility. You directly control Spanx (the weasel) while Redmond (the rabbit) is dragged along and used as a bludgeon.

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with ''VideoGame/FatalRacing'', which [[MarketBasedTitle uses the same title inside the States]], the [[Series/{{Whiplash}} 1960s Australian western]], or with [[Film/{{Whiplash}} the 2014 Film]] starring Creator/MilesTeller and Creator/JKSimmons.

!!Featured Tropes:
* AfterBossRecovery: When you defeat the giant spider-bot boss at the end of the Power department level, you are rewarded with TONS of Genron hypersnacks, which causes Spanx and Redmond to level up a bunch of times in a row!
* AmusingInjuries: Poor Redmond.

* BlandNameProduct: The Genron Corporation.

* ChainedHeat: The basic premise.

* DieChairDie: With a vengeance.
* {{Dissimile}}: At one Point, Redmond says "Hey, this is just like water skiing. Except it's on concrete, I'm flat on my back and it's REALLY PAINFUL".

* EarlyBirdCameo: Spanx first appeared (sans Redmond) in a foot-racing game for the Xbox launch called ''Mad Dash Racing''.

* EpicFlail: How Spanx uses Redmond.

* EvilOldFolks: Mann is 64 years old.
* FatBastard: The Rent-a-Cop enemies.
* FinalBoss: Franklin D. Mann.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Polanski wears glasses.

* GravityScrew: One room has a bunch of chimps being used to test anti gravity devices. You are supposed to reverse the effects so the chimps are brought down and the scientists in the room are brought up.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[RunningGag Poor Redmond]].
* HarmlessElectrocution: Spanx can electrify Redmond and use him to non fatally shock humans.

* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: One of the quotes the mad scientist enemies will say is "I'm a doctor not an animal catcher!"
* IronButtmonkey: [[RuleOfThree Poor Redmond]].
--> "Could you please stop breaking things with my face?!"
--> "You have a plan that DIDN'T involve using me as a war mace?"
--> "I don't suppose you'd stop if I told you how painful this was?...Didn't think so."
* JerkAss: The humans aside from Carol Ann are all this. They are shown to be at best indifferent to the suffering they cause animals and at worst outright sadistic about it.

* LeanAndMean: The Skinny Rent-a-Cops.
* MadeOfIron: Redmond has been modified to be indestructible. Feel free to beat security guards over the head with him and jam him in gears to stop them. [[IronButtmonkey Or set him on fire, or dunk him in toxic waste...]]

* MegaCorp: Genron
* MsFanservice: Carol Ann. Both Spanx and Redmond find her highly attractive.

* ObliviouslyEvil: Franklin D Mann honestly believes he is bringing meaning and purpose to the animals. The official strategy guide describes him as more demented than evil.

* AfterBossRecovery: When you defeat the giant spider-bot boss at the end of the power department level, you are rewarded with TONS of Genron hypersnacks, which causes Spanx and Redmond to level up a bunch of times in a row!

* DeadpanSnarker: Redmond makes up for his helplessness by lampshading everything he can.

* KillItWithIce: You can dunk Redmond in nitroglycerin and than use him to freeze enemies.

* StunGuns: The Skinny Rent-a-Cops use tasers.

* BadBoss: Mann is prone to firing people at the drop of a hat.

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with ''VideoGame/FatalRacing'', which [[MarketBasedTitle uses the same title inside the States]], or with [[Film/{{Whiplash}} the 2014 Film]] starring Creator/MilesTeller and Creator/JKSimmons.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Rusty the surgeon isn't liked by humans any more than animals. In the cutscene before his boss fight, it's revealed that the men who were supposed to observe his operation on an animal actually left cardboard cutouts of themselves in the viewing windows and snuck away.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The chimps are repeatedly called monkeys despite the fact that they lack tails.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Despite being rated T in the USA, the game was clearly marketed for kids. And yet it snuck in a lot innuendos like:
** When coming across the yellow electrical pods, Enos (in the background) says this:
-->"Note the high voltage melons floating above you. You cannot use them until you are older. [[CoverInnocentEyesAndEars Cover your eyes]]!"
** One of the final scenes where Spanx and Redmond finally meet Franklin D. Mann, the latter says this:
-->"So why don't you just hand over whatever's on that data cube, ok? Because I know it can't be good. Is it porn?"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Despite being rated T in the USA, the game was clearly marketed for kids. And yet it snuck a lot innuendos like:

-->"So why don't you just hand over whatever's on that data cube, ok? Because I know it can't be good. Is it porn?