Bread Eggs Breaded Eggs / Video Games

• Alan Wake II: An ad read by Pat Maine at the Bright Falls radio station gleefully announces that a local brand of beef jerky now comes in three new flavors: hickory smoked, teriyaki, and hickory teriyaki.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons:
  • Giving a peppy villager trash will have them respond angrily "Is this trash? Or garbage? WAIT! I know what it is! It's trashgarbage!"
  • Lazy villagers sometimes muse that they dislike people who go on trendy dislikes, like pineapple on pizza, clowns or the word "moist". They then say that pizza should be anything you love, like "onions, peppers, pineapple, moist clowns, and hot, melty cheese".
• In Antimatter Dimensions, the names of the selectable themes display this pattern. They are, in order, Normal, Metro, Dark, Dark Metro, Inverted, and Inverted Metro.
• In Asura's Wrath, Blood Knight Augus's idea of a perfect life consists of the following:
  Augus: You fight, then you eat good food. You fight, then you drink fine wine. You fight, then you sleep with beautiful women. Hell, fight with beautiful women! That's what it truly means to live.
• From the intro of Battleblock Theater:
  "Now one fine morning Hatty and pals set out for a new and exciting adventure! What fantastic wonders would they discover this time? Perhaps they would come across a scary ghost ship! Perhaps they would find an island made entirely of candy! Perhaps they would meet a band of swashbuckling pirates! And join forces to find an island made entirely of candy!"
• In The Bard's Tale, when Dugan is communicating MacRath's words to the Bard, he glosses over the number undead warriors with which he'd have to contend by saying that there'd be "a few, a score" of them. When pressed for clarification by the Bard (as a 'score' would mean 20; much more than what a 'few' would imply), Dugan responds with "a few score".
• If there's two things Bayonetta hates in this world, it's cockroaches and crying babies.
  Bayonetta: Well, a crying baby cockroach would be truly terrible...
• The fire-elemental dragon spells in Breath of Fire IV are Hwa, Jeh, and Hwajeh.
• In Bug Fables, Vi has this complaint when spying on The Watcher, the boss of Chapter 4.
  Vi: Why can't we ever just grab the artifact? There's always gotta be a creepy, giant, or creepy giant monster!
• Chrono Trigger enemies encountered in a particular zone: Roli (a kind of wheel or ball), Poli (a kind of gnome), Rolipoli (a Poli balancing on a Roli).
• We have ClockUp's Team Anise's Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games.
• In Conception 2: Children Of The Seven Stars, Fuuko stays behind to clean the academy's pool when she thinks she sees a ghost. She then tells the main character she's deathly afraid of ghosts, and bugs, and ghost bugs.
• The "British Tea Biscuit" series of flavored cookie upgrades in Cookie Clicker exhibit this. In order, there are: British Tea Biscuits, Chocolate British Tea Biscuits, Round British Tea Biscuits, Round Chocolate British Tea Biscuits, Round British Tea Biscuits with Heart Motif, and finally, Round Chocolate British Tea Biscuits with Heart Motif.
• In Crush Crush, when you reach Awkward Besties level with Lotus, she greets you with:
  "If it isn't my favorite trouble maker. I mean customer! Yes... My favorite troublemaking customer. How do you brew?"
• Makoto Sako from Devil Survivor 2 deactivating the seal on Shiva:
  Makoto: All right... what's going to come out? A monster? A snake? ...A monster snake?
• A partial listing of the music in Donkey Kong '94 puts the trope inside itself:
  Battle
  Big Battle
  In the Air
  Battle in the Air
  Big Battle in the Air
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • Throughout the series, Sanguine is the Daedric Prince of Debauchery and Hedonism. His most common symbol is a rose and his most famous artifact is Sanguine's Rose, which can take on many forms, including that of an actual rose, a wooden staff carved like a rose, or a staff-sized rose.
  • In Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion, Big Head uses this trope to hilarious effect several times in about a thirty-second speech.
• In Fable II, if your renown isn't high enough when you meet Reaver, he'll suggest you go "rescue some travelers, or slay some beasts, or slay some travelers... the details are unimportant."
• In Fairy Fencer F, a little girl wonders if Fang is slacking off on his duties. Fang, of course, denies it:
  Fang: "I'm patrolling the town to keep the peace. It's not like I'm loitering or anything."
  Girl: "I got it! You're patroloitering!"
• In Fallen London, your character can make booby-trapped fake cats to discourage cat-chasers.
  "See? This one explodes, this one actually bites, and this one bites and then explodes."
• In Fallout 4, some higher level mods basically take two lower-level mods for the same slot and apply both effects at once. Take the Chinese Officer's Sword: With Blacksmith level 2, you can add a serrated blade. Add a level of Science, and you can replace the serration with a battery that makes it electrified. Add another level of Blacksmith, and you make it both serrated and electrified.
• From the intro to Fantasy Life:
  "A hero may forge legendary weapons, wield an epic blade, or brew magical potions. The choices are many... Perhaps this hero will sew. Or saw. Perhaps the hero will sew and saw while on a seesaw."
• Final Fantasy:
  • From Final Fantasy V:
    Gilgamesh: Enough expository banter! Now, we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! For Gilgamesh... IT IS MORPHING TIME!
  • The final Sequential Boss in Final Fantasy VIII. The first is Ultimecia, then the GF she created on a whim, Griever. The third battle has Ultimecia Junctioning herself to Griever. However, Ultimecia has a third, final Eldritch Abomination form after the hybrid is defeated.
  • In Final Fantasy XIV, an employee at the Manderville Golden Saucer proclaims that the saucer's lounge offers Water, Wine, Watered Wine and a golden saucer special, Wined Water.
    • There's also, in Heavensward:
      Jannequinard: You left the hamlet to aid wounded scouts? You could have been killed! Or eaten! Or killed then eaten! Or eaten then killed!
• Fire Emblem:
  • In Fire Emblem: Awakening, the C-level support between Lissa and the Avatar has her sneak up on them while they're sleeping, causing them to cry out about Risen, wolves, and "Risen riding wolves".
    • The C-Level support between Olivia and Henry has the former refer to the latter as "that creepy kid who likes blood and magic and...blood magic!"
  • Fire Emblem Fates:
    • In Laslow and Saizo's Support conversations, the two participate in a charm-off as part of a Call-Back to Fire Emblem: Awakening. Upon losing the charm-off, Laslow (aka Inigo from Awakening) recalls how he's lost girls to a scary guy and a masked man, and then comments that he had no chance against "a scary guy in a mask".
    • If Sakura is brought into Boo Camp (the Level Grinding DLC), she wonders if the Faceless are ghosts, monsters, or ghost monsters.
    • In Ignatius's supports with his mother, he'll ask her to come help him with something. She'll assume that he's trying to deal with a spider or a worm, to which he responds that it's a spider riding a worm.
  • Fire Emblem Heroes: Faye mentions that her interests include sewing, flowers, and sewing flowers.
  • Fire Emblem Warriors: In Chrom and Elise's support, Chrom mentions the kinds of pranks by Lissa he's on the lookout for: digging pitfalls in hiding places, releasing frogs, and pitfalls full of frogs.
• Grand Theft Auto:
  • In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, we hear this on V-Rock:
  Lazlow: If you wanna get a great new hairstyle, Sissy Spritz is probably the way to go. Either that or a perm...or both. Sissy Spritz your perm!
  • In Grand Theft Auto IV, in a radio ad for a psychic:
  Find out if you will die. Or make love. Or die making love to a horse.
  • In Grand Theft Auto Online, there are three variants of Sultan added in updates such as the Sultan RS in 2016 January update, the Sultan Classic added in The Diamond Casino Heist and the Sultan RS Classic in Los Santos Tuners.
• God of War (PS4): At one point, Brok snarks that if he'd wanted the Æsir's business, he would have set up shop outside a brothel or a fighting arena. Or maybe a fighting brothel.
• Guild Wars 2:
  • Dierdre, the only NPC in a hidden area of the map, says to players who reach her: "What brings you to my glade? It's unusual to see travelers out here, unless they're lost. Or cartographers. Or lost cartographers."
  • One version of the second chapter of the Sylvari personal story includes a sarcastic Asura engineer.
    Larra: These golems are barely functional. We'll be lucky if they don't tip over, explode, or tip over and explode.
• The Data East Massive Multiplayer Crossover game Heavy Burger gets its name from Heavy Barrel and BurgerTime, and the cover art features the chefs from BurgerTime carrying massive guns like the ones seen in Heavy Barrel.
• Homescapes:
  • In one Homespace entry, Scotty says he has a story to write for homework but can't think of a good main character. Lisa replies that he could write about a pirate, a dragon or a pirate riding a dragon.
  • Austin and William find some barrels of expired oil in the old lighthouse.
    Austin: What do we do with them? Burn them? Bury them? Or burn them, then bury them, and then seal them in concrete?
• Inherit the Earth has a dim-witted talking bear at a country fair. When you ask him what he's selling at his stand, he replies,
  "Sweets. Fruit on a stick. Honey on a stick! Honeyed fruits on a stick. If it's sweet, and will fit on a stick, I'll sell it!"
• In Insaniquarium, Stanley the Sea Serpent is scared of nothing except badgers, aprons, and badgers wearing aprons.
• From Jade Empire:
  Kang the Mad: Next time I hide something, I'm packing explosives around it. Explosives shaped like silver bananas! Stops thieves, monkeys, and monkey thieves in one fell swoop.
• In Jazzpunk, after completing your side quest to uncover and "retire" three "realplicants", Da Chief will get angry at the results (you were actually supposed to kill them, but finding them causes a retirement party to spontaneously appear around them) and tell you to Turn in Your Badge... and your gun... and your other gun... and your other badge... and your badge gun... and your gun badge. And yes, you get to see all of them dropped onto his desk, and it's just as funny as it sounds.
• In Kid Icarus: Uprising there are enemies shaped like eyes (Monoeye), like mouths with large tongues (Mick) and like large noses that spit bombs (Specknose). There's also an enemy that is a combination of all three forming a face, aptly named Monomiknose.
  • As noted on that page's Game-Breaker section, two completely overpowered factors in multiplayer mode are clubs and freezing mods. Palutena forbid you encounter the player who is dragging behind them a club with a freezing mod.
• During their nightly maintenance, rather than letting you log in, Kingdom of Loathing encourages visitors to listen to Radio KoL - with a warning that it's "not intended for children or the easily offended. Or easily offended children."
  • The description of the Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich: "Perfect for the busy Adventurer on the go, this portable powerhouse is packed with everything you need to start your day: Grease, cheese, vitamins (probably,) and greasy cheese."
  • When you defeat the penultimate boss of (the Gladiator path of) the Sea Monkees Quest, Ringogeorge, the Colosseum announcer says, "may your name be celebrated in story, song, and story songs! You know, the kind of song that has a complete narrative?"
  • If you ask Grandpa Sea Monkee about eels, he'll go off on a Rambling Old Man Monologue about the time him and some of his friends went to a clambake, or possibly a shindig, or maybe even a shinbake.
  • Three of the combat skills Seal Clubbers can learn are Lunge Smack, Thrust-Smack, and Lunging Thrust-Smack.
  • The glass of "milk" you can purchase from a Clan Speakeasy is "a glass of perfectly innocent milk that absolutely does not have any vodka or rum or whiskey or a blend of vodka, rum and whiskey in it."
• In Last Resort Island, Dr. Coconut comes up with a crazy idea and yells "I GOT IT!" The possible responses are "Diarrhoea?", "Boils?" and "Boils with diarrhoea?"
• In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, if you get Sara's dance event, Rean suggests that she isn't mature. Sara replies that she is mature. And reliable. And reliably mature.
• 3D The Legend of Zelda games use a targeting system mapped to a certain button. Some systems have Z-targeting, some systems have L-targeting. The Wii U and Nintendo Switch have ZL-targeting.
• In LEGO City Undercover, fixing the gas pumps will prompt the gas station attendant to offer Chase some ice cream, hot dogs, or ice cream hot dogs as a reward.
• Love & Pies: When Amelia asks Eve if she suspects that Yuka started the café arson, she breaks the ice like this:
  Amelia: So, um, how are things? Yuka? How are things with Yuka?
• In MadWorld, when it's time for a special event, the announcers say:
  Howard: It's my favorite time of day again!
  Kreese: Ooh, time to huff some paint?
  Howard: No.
  Kreese: Time to take a dump?
  Howard: No.
  Kreese: Well then I give up, what time is it?
  Howard: Time for another Bloodbath Challenge!
  Kreese: Whatever — if you need me, I'll be taking a dump while huffing some paint...
  Howard: So predictable.
• Mary Le Chef: Cooking Passion:
  James: How about that dinner?
  Mary: I thought it was coffee?
  James: How about coffee, then dinner?
• The final level of Max Payne 3 brings us this monologue courtesy of the titular character, after reactivating the tram system at the aiport.
  Max: It worked. The trams were running again. Maybe they'd take me to my gate. Maybe they'd bring more guys wanting to whack me. Maybe both.
• In Matchington Mansion, Tiffany wonders whether she should read a mystery or a romance before deciding on a romantic mystery.
• Minecraft has, among other enemies, skeletons, spiders, and skeletons RIDING spiders.
  • Also: zombies, chickens, and zombies riding chickens.
  • Also: zombies, villagers, and zombie villagers.
  • Mojang has been indicating it wants to add normal pigmen as a passive mob at some point, so we may someday have pigs, pigmen, zombies, and zombie pigmen.
    • Since they have a child form, they could theoretically be found riding chickens too.
    • Due to the way the code for zombie pigman is built on top of the code for normal zombies, zombie pigmen villagers riding chickens would not be completely impossible, just borderline impossible.
• In Mortimer Beckett And The Book Of Gold, after Kate passes the jungle trials in South America the tribe's chief says that if she likes she could stay and become a wife, warrior or warrior-wife.
• In Mother 3, a group of presents in Chapter 4 contain "nice stuff", "rice stuff" and "nice rice stuff", respectively.
• Myst received an Updated Re-release in May 2000 called Myst: Masterpiece Edition. Later that year, it was remade as realMyst. Then, in 2014, it was remade again as realMyst: Masterpiece Edition.
• Neko Atsume features cats with a wide variety of fur coats, including calicoes, tabbies, and a calico tabby.
• Persona:
  • In Persona 3 FES, during one of the recordings that can be viewed on the 4th floor of the dorm, Mitsuru reads from a fashion magazine:
  Mitsuru: "This one-piece is beloved by all, including friends, boyfriends, and boyfriends' friends..."
  • In the sixth dungeon of Persona 5, the heroes find that the entrance to the boss's room is separated from them by a massive gap, in which is a large pair of scales with a bridge on top of it. When they observe it, we get this line:
  Fox: Hm, a scale... Or is it a bridge...?
  Panther: Maybe it's a scale-shaped bridge?
• Pit People has as weapons that you can find bows, lasers and laser bows, amongst many others.
• In Plants vs. Zombies, the almanac entry for the cherry bombs:
  "I wanna explode," says Cherry #1.
  "No, let's detonate instead!" says his brother, Cherry #2.
  After intense consultation they agree to explodonate.
• Pokémon:
  • Generations II & III Pokémon family. Azurill, Marill, Azumarill. Unusually, Azurill was introduced after the other two.
  • Pokémon Black and White family. Klink, Klang, Klinklang.
  • Certain landmarks: Tojoh Falls (located in the route connecting Kanto and Johto) and Rusturf Tunnel (Rustboro City and Verdanturf Town).
  • There's also the moves Toxic (which poisons the foe), Spikes (which hurts the foe on switch-in), and Toxic Spikes (which poisons foes on switch-in).
  • Poképuff designs from Generation VI: after the basic types, there are Frosted (swirled icing) and Fancy (toppings). The next type, Deluxe, has both swirled icing and toppings.
  • Pokémon Sword and Shield's Dynamax and Gigantamax mechanics combine two features from two past generations: It's a Super Mode (Mega Evolution) that give access to special, more powerful attacks (Z-Moves).
• Strong Bad has lines in Poker Night at the Inventory that alternately play this straight and invert it:
  Strong Bad: That's not as good as the time I had a straight flush and a full house in the same hand! A FLUSH HOUSE! ^note Provided by The Cheat, likely.
  Strong Bad: Maybe you're, like, color and number blind. Er, or, just blind. Or just... number?
• Portal: A few in GLaDOS's Cake Recipe, usually involving fish or rhubarb. The obvious (fish-shaped rhubarb) is missing though.
• Puyo Puyo Tetris, as suggested by the name, is a crossover between Puyo Puyo and Tetris where you get to play either Falling Blocks game... but then it also has a really janky mashup of both called "Puyo Tet-Mix" (or just "Fusion" in the English localization), which comes complete with its own alternate ruleset.
• In Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs, The Blacksmith Gunther dressed his puppy in a tutu because he's a fan of style, dogs, and stylish dogs.
• A supermarket in River City Ransom: Underground advertises that it sells "grapes", "apples", and a hybrid fruit called "grapples".
• Saints Row:
  • In Saints Row: The Third, the description for the vehicle theft mission involving the Stork helicopter has Rigg say that it's good for carrying smuggled goods, smuggled people or smuggled people with smuggled goods in them.
  • In Saints Row IV, during the romance option with Johnny Gat, the boss relates how he/she has been trying to fill the hole left after Johnny's apparent death with booze, sex, violence or a combination of all three.
• In The Secret of Monkey Island, when Guybrush Threepwood asks some pirates what they have in their barrel, they respond:
  Pirate 1: Jam / Pirate 2: Rum
  [beat]
  Pirate 1: Rum / Pirate 2: Jam
  Pirate 1: Er... rum and jam. It's an old pirate favorite, everybody knows that.
• Shantae: Half-Genie Hero: When meeting Abner, a zombie, he asks if Shantae has "Coffee? Brains? Coffee with brains in it?"
• One of the Mega Challenge tournaments in Shrek SuperSlam functions this way: round 1 pits the player against two Donkeys, round 2 against two Dronkeys, and round 3 against a Donkey and a Dronkey.
• The two separately released halves of the third Sonic the Hedgehog game are called Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. The complete game is called Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
• In Soul Calibur III, Nightmare's "Break Them by Talking" lecture to Sigfried is this, alongside his usual amounts of ham and narm.
  "You will never run away from your sin! You have no right to live! It is a sin for you to be alive!"
• In SpongeBob's Boating Bash, two of the main modes are Recklessness, where players score points by crashing into the other drivers, and Velocity, where they race around a track. There's also a mode called Reckless Velocity, where they score points by damaging their opponents while simultaneously racing around a track.
• In Stay Tooned!, this is one of the questions in the Schlepardy mini-game:
  Qiviut can be found
  A. in the kitchen
  B. on a yak
  C. in a yak's kitchen
• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Homestar Ruiner:
  • In one scene, Homestar is in Strong Bad's house trying to make some sweets as a token of apology to Marzipan.
    Strong Bad: Sounds like a plan. How's it going?
    Homestar: Not so good. Marzipan's vegan, and most of the food in here contains meat, milk, milky meat, or... meaty milk.
    Strong Bad: Hey, don't be dissin' my meaty milk!
  • Also from Homestar Ruiner, Strong Bad can mock Coach Z by saying that with someone like Coach Z training him, the only way Pom Pom could have done so well in the Race to the End of the Race is by being on steroids, a robot, or a robot on steroids. Coach Z insists "There ain't 'roided up androids in my locker room!"
• Super Smash Bros.:
  • Lucario's Final Smash progressed as this — in Brawl it unleashed a massive Kamehame Hadouken, 3DS/Wii U had it Mega Evolve for a brief time, and in Ultimate it combines the two by going Mega Lucario and then using Aura Storm.
  • The Multi-Mook Melee opponents went through this pattern in the first three games: First the "Fighting Polygons", followed by the "Fighting Wireframes", and then the "Fighting Alloys", which were wireframe skeletons wearing polygonal armor.
• In Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Emil and Marta are going off about what they can do to Alice. Marta's suggestion is to tie her up in a sack and throw her into Lenore Harbor, and Emil says she's too soft and to tie her up to the peak of the Fooji Mountains. When Zelos comes around, his idea is to do both.
• In Talismania an elderly couple thank King Midas for replacing their destroyed cottage with one made from precious metals.
  Couple: Thank you! Our new cottage is WONDERFUL! It's SHINY! It's WONDERFULLY SHINY!
• The Medic in Team Fortress 2 when the player equips the Medimedes, which turns his head into a dove's:
  "It's a bird! It's a head! It's a bird head!" (laughs)
  • In the video for the End of the Line update, Soldier sees that if the BLU team's runaway train collides into the massive stockpile of Exploding Barrels in the RED team's base, the explosion will destroy a kitten kennel, an orphanage and a kitten orphanage.
• Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life displays messages for various achievements. The one for finding yourself in a giant stomach:
  Congratulationment!® number 9 - "Jason would be proud. (It's Jason, right? Jason sounds right. Well, you're an adventurer, not a professor of history. Or literature. Or historical literature. (It's not Jason))"
• In Tokyo 42, killing all enemies in a mission gets you the "Ronin" badge. Clearing a mission without being spotted gets you the "Ninja" badge. Doing both in the same mission gets you the coveted "Roninja" badge.
• In Tony Hawk's Underground 2, when arriving in New Orleans, Tony Hawk describes the types of people in New Orleans as "Drunks, idiots and drunk idiots".
• Undertale: In the Golden Ending, Undyne will ask Alphys if they can watch an anime together about fighting, or princesses, or fighting princesses.
• Versus Umbra: When Adrian asks why Michael landed him so far off the objective on Nevaga, he responds that he's sure it's related to monkeys, nipples, and monkey-nipples.
• The latter half of the Wonder Boy series was known as Monster World in Japan. To avoid Title Confusion with the newest title in the series, the developers combined the two titles and named the game Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom.
• In Xenoblade Chronicles X when Lin is looking for something to cook and says she'd like something that tastes like chicken, Tatsu says "Tatsu no taste like chicken! Tatsu taste like poop! And poison! Tatsu taste like poison poop!"

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