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* BeyondTheImpossible: Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way, with Rabbit's pitches moving slowly ''and then speeding up'', and Owl's pitches moving in a zigzagging manner. And yet, even they has nothing on Tigger's pitches, which in midflight ''become invisible.''
* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: With baseballs, not bullets.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: With baseballs, not bullets. Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way, with Rabbit's pitches moving slowly ''and then speeding up'', and Owl's pitches moving in a zigzagging manner. And yet, even they has nothing on Tigger's pitches, which in midflight ''become invisible.''
* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: With baseballs, not bullets.
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''Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby'' is a 2010 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Disney website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].

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''Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby'' is a 2010 2007 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Disney website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].
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'''''Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby''''' is a 2010 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Disney website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].

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'''''Winnie ''Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby''''' Derby'' is a 2010 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Disney website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].

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* BeyondTheImpossible: Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way. Tigger's become invisible midflight.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way. way, with Rabbit's pitches moving slowly ''and then speeding up'', and Owl's pitches moving in a zigzagging manner. And yet, even they has nothing on Tigger's become invisible midflight.pitches, which in midflight ''become invisible.''


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* TerribleTrio: Rabbit, Owl, and Christopher Robin.

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* NintendoHard: And how! It starts off really easy, but quickly escalates to a level reached only by few games in existence.

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* NintendoHard: And how! It starts off really easy, but quickly escalates to a level reached only by few games in existence. What, you thought a game about Winnie The Pooh would be easy?



* WakeUpCallBoss: Kanga and Roo start to throw physics-bending pitches, unlike the first three opponents who throw simple fastballs.

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* WakeUpCallBoss: Kanga and Roo start are the first to throw physics-bending pitches, unlike the first three opponents who throw simple fastballs.fastballs.
** Piglet might not have the erratic pitches of the latter opponents but he throws his balls much faster than Eeyore or Lumpy do marking the first DifficultySpike of the game.
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The brutal difficulty, thanks to the Internet, has lead to the common interpretation that all of the pitchers are either sadistic assholes or supernatural beings comprised of pure evil.

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The brutal difficulty, thanks to the Internet, has lead to the common interpretation that all of the pitchers are either sadistic assholes or supernatural beings comprised of pure evil.
evil. This is especially true with the final pitcher, Christopher Robin himself.
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* AlwaysNight: Inverted

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* AlwaysNight: InvertedInverted.



* DifficultySpike: The first three stages are fairly straightforward. It is when you get to Kanga when the [[RealityWarper erratic ball movements]] begin. And it [[FromBadToWorse only gets worse]] from there.

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* DifficultySpike: The first three stages are fairly straightforward. It is It's when you get to Kanga when the [[RealityWarper erratic ball movements]] begin. And it [[FromBadToWorse only gets worse]] from there.
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'''''Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby''''' is a 2010 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].

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'''''Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby''''' is a 2010 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].
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Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby is a 2010 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].

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Winnie The '''''Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby Derby''''' is a 2010 Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].
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* WakeUpCallBoss: Kanga and Roo start to throw physics-bending pitches, unlike the first three opponents who throw simple fastballs.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way. Tigger's plain become invisible midflight.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: Rabbit's and Owl's pitches move in a blatantly physically impossible way. Tigger's plain become invisible midflight.
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Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby is a 2010 japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].

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Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby is a 2010 japanese Japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].
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* ArtStyleDissonance: It's a cartoony Winnie-The-Pooh game. How hard could it possibly be?
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* LetsPlay: Strippin and InTheLittleWood from the {{Yogscast}} did one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVnx5I35YA here.]]
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* LetsPlay: Strippin and InTheLittleWood from the {{Yogscast}} did one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVnx5I35YA here.]]
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* LetsPlay: There have been quite a few Youtubers who have done LP's of this game, including Main/{{Critikal}}, LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, and inthelittlewood. OhCrap, ThisCannotBe, HeroicBSOD and GoMadFromTheRevelation reactions are abundant.
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Find the game [[http://disney.kids.yahoo.co.jp/game/pooh.html here]]. An English translated version can be found [[http://www.flashrelax.com/play-Winnie-The-Pooh-s-Home-Run-Derby.html here]].

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Find the game [[http://disney.kids.yahoo.co.jp/game/pooh.html here]]. An English translated version can be found [[http://www.flashrelax.com/play-Winnie-The-Pooh-s-Home-Run-Derby.html here]]. Disney also released the official English version [[http://games.disney.com/winnie-the-pooh-home-run-derby here]].
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* TheCameo: While on the overhead view, you can see Gopher as an umpire.
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%%* BewareTheSillyOnes* BewareTheSillyOnes: You wouldn't expect stuffed cartoon animals to have superhuman pitching skills.



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%%* RealityIsOutToLunch* RealityIsOutToLunch: The pitches get really weird on the later stages. ''Really'' weird.

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%%* CatsAreMean: Tigger



* DissonantSerenity: Each pitcher smiles as if they're just having fun and not eating your soul, and Pooh also smiles despite the torment.



%%* HairRaisingHare: Rabbit



* KnightOfCerebus: Kanga ushers in the [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] and Christopher Robin, just ''[[HumanoidAbomination Christopher]] [[GodOfEvil Robin]]''



%%* [[PhysicalGod Physical]] GodOfEvil: ''Christopher Robin''



* SoundtrackDissonance: The music is very calm and sweet for such a cruel, soul-crushing game.
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* DissonantSerenity: Each pitcher smiles as if they're just having fun and not eating your soul, and Pooh also smiles despite the torment.



* TheHero: WinnieThePooh

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* KnightOfCerebus: Kanga ushers in the [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] and Christopher Robin, just ''[[HumanoidAbomination Christopher]] [[GodOfEvil Robin]]''



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* CatsAreMean: Tigger



* DissonantSerenity: Each pitcher smiles as if they're just having fun and not eating your soul, and Pooh also smiles despite the torment.



* HairRaisingHare: Rabbit



* KnightOfCerebus: Kanga ushers in the [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] and Christopher Robin, just ''[[HumanoidAbomination Christopher]] [[GodOfEvil Robin]]''



* [[PhysicalGod Physical]] GodOfEvil: ''Christopher Robin''



* SoundtrackDissonance: The music is very calm and sweet for such a cruel, soul-crushing game.
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->''[[AC:[[BadassBoast Silly Old Bear... If the harbinger of spring is the sound of a bat on a ball, then I have become the harbinger of winter; a barren and desolate spot your bat will never hit. As my ball strikes the padded glove with the disgruntled furl of thirty thousand fans trudging out of the arena, watching as you throw down your bat in disgust and mourn what you'll never be, know this: you will never defeat me, Pooh Bear. Not as long as you or I will live]].]]''
-->-- '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6odDglCoW7A Christopher Robin]]'''



[[AC: [[DarthWiki/WinnieThePoohsHomeRunDerby Run. Run while you still can.]]]]



* [[AlwaysNight Always Day]]
* BadassAdorable: What else to describe a bear who ''took down evil incarnate'' ([[GodOfEvil Christopher Robin]]) and his minions? In [[MundaneMadeAwesome BASEBALL]], no less? Face it, this is one '''hardcore''' bear.

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* [[AlwaysNight Always Day]]
* BadassAdorable: What else to describe a bear who ''took down evil incarnate'' ([[GodOfEvil Christopher Robin]]) and his minions? In [[MundaneMadeAwesome BASEBALL]], no less? Face it, this is one '''hardcore''' bear.
AlwaysNight: Inverted



* BlackMagic: One possible reason how they can throw those ridiculous pitches.



* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Beating Christopher Robin is harder than beating a god.



* FiveBadBand
** BigBad - Christopher Robin
** TheDragon - Tigger
** EvilGenius - Owl
** TheBrute - Rabbit
** TheDarkChick - Kanga



* HumanoidAbomination / EldritchAbomination: Christopher Robin might as well be madness embodied.



* MindOverMatter: Another likely explanation how Pooh's "friends" can make the balls defy the laws of physics.



* OminousOwl: Owl



* {{Satan}}: ''CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, YOU ASSHOLE''



* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: You start with Eeyore, the easiest pitcher, and gradually face more difficult ones, until you finally get to meet the [[TheOmnipotent all-mighty]] Christopher Robin.



* StarterVillain: Eeyore
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->''[[AC:[[BadassBoast Silly Old Bear... If the harbinger of spring is the sound of a bat on a ball, then I have become the harbinger of winter; a barren and desolate spot your bat will never hit. As my ball hits the padded glove with the disgruntled furl of thirty thousand fans trudging out of the arena, watching as you throw down your bat in disgust and mourn what you'll never be, know this: you will never defeat me, Pooh Bear. Not as long as you or I will live]].]]''

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->''[[AC:[[BadassBoast Silly Old Bear... If the harbinger of spring is the sound of a bat on a ball, then I have become the harbinger of winter; a barren and desolate spot your bat will never hit. As my ball hits strikes the padded glove with the disgruntled furl of thirty thousand fans trudging out of the arena, watching as you throw down your bat in disgust and mourn what you'll never be, know this: you will never defeat me, Pooh Bear. Not as long as you or I will live]].]]''
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* MarathonLevel: Winning a level requires hitting dozens of balls. And you must sit through the rest of the pitches even if the level becomes Unwinnable.
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* RealityWarper: Everyone from Kanga to Christopher Robin

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* RealityWarper: Everyone from Kanga to Christopher RobinRobin. And this isn't just our RunningGag either, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmSyvHus1SE it has to be seen to be believed]].

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* {{Expy}} - Christopher Robin is an expy of The Emperor from House of the Dead 2



* LetsPlay: There have been quite a few youtubers who have done LP's of this game, including Main/{{Critikal}}, LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, and inthelittlewood. OhCrap, ThisCannotBe, HeroicBSOD and GoMadFromTheRevelation reactions are abundant.
* KnightOfCerebus - Kanga ushers in the [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] and Christopher Robin, just ''[[HumanoidAbomination Christopher]] [[GodOfEvil Robin]]''

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* LetsPlay: There have been quite a few youtubers Youtubers who have done LP's of this game, including Main/{{Critikal}}, LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, and inthelittlewood. OhCrap, ThisCannotBe, HeroicBSOD and GoMadFromTheRevelation reactions are abundant.
* KnightOfCerebus - KnightOfCerebus: Kanga ushers in the [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] and Christopher Robin, just ''[[HumanoidAbomination Christopher]] [[GodOfEvil Robin]]''



* [[PhysicalGod Physical]] GodOfEvil - ''Christopher Robin''

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* [[PhysicalGod Physical]] GodOfEvil - GodOfEvil: ''Christopher Robin''



* RealityWarper - Everyone from Kanga to Christopher Robin
* {{Satan}} - ''CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, YOU ASSHOLE''

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* RealityWarper - RealityWarper: Everyone from Kanga to Christopher Robin
* {{Satan}} - {{Satan}}: ''CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, YOU ASSHOLE''



* StarterVillain - Eeyore

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* StarterVillain - StarterVillain: Eeyore
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A common inside joke, as you may see in the tropes below or the quote above, is that all of the pitchers are either sadistic assholes or supernatural beings comprised of pure evil.

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A The brutal difficulty, thanks to the Internet, has lead to the common inside joke, as you may see in the tropes below or the quote above, is interpretation that all of the pitchers are either sadistic assholes or supernatural beings comprised of pure evil.
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Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby is a 2010 japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].

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Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby is a 2010 japanese Flash baseball video game published at the Walt Disney Pictures website. The player controls [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh]] in order to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] [[TheLegionsOfHell his eight friends]] in a baseball's home run challenge. The game won a cult following in early 2013 and became a viral hit due to its [[SurpriseDifficulty extreme difficulty]].
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A common inside joke, as you may see in the tropes below or the quote above, is that all of the pitchers are either sadistic assholes or supernatural beings comprised of pure evil.

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