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Toontown: Corporate Clash is a private server and complete overhaul of Disney's Toontown Online, an MMORPG centred around seltzer and slapstick.

Much like the original game, you create your own fun-loving colourful animal to frolick and play throughout the town, with activities such as the Trolley, mini-golf, racing, and fishing. However, the town is subject to a seemingly never-ending invasion of robotic businessmen with the goal of taking over Toontown and sapping it of all its fun and resources. Thankfully, Cogs can't take a joke, and so you must weaponize your silliness to defeat them.

Beginning life as Project Altis, Corporate Clash is now arguably the second most popular Toontown private server currently live. The game expands a lot on the original's framework, introducing a levelling system to gain Laff Points (that's health, in case you're wondering), as well as a plethora of brand new fights never seen before in any other Toontown private server.

The game can be played for free at their website. Unlike the original game, no subscriptions are needed to progress, so the game is entirely free to play.

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This game provides examples of:

• Adaptation Expansion:
  • The Cogs have extra units in this version of the game, as well as Manager Bosses who patrol streets and special buildings. Chief among them are a new fifth group called the Boardbots, who answer directly to the Chairman himself.
  • The Toons have an extra Gag track, Zap, that only works when paired with Squirt. Each gag track also has eight levels instead of seven.
  • The taskline is expanded with the addition of Ye Olde Toontowne and Acorn Acres, the former of which is a brand new neighborhood and the latter of which was previously just a playground hosting the golfing minigame.
  • The old neighborhoods each have an additional street with their own respective shops: Toontown Central adds Wacky Way, Barnacle Boatyard^note formerly Donald's Dock adds Anchor Avenue, Daffodil Gardens^note formerly Daisy Gardens adds Sunflower Street, Mezzo Melodyland^note formerly Minnie's Melodyland adds Soprano Street, The Brrrgh adds Arctic Avenue, and Drowsy Dreamland^note formerly Donald's Dreamland adds Twilight Terrace.
  • Eleven new Toon species have been added as of 2022, bringing the total to 20.
• Adaptation Name Change: Most of the neighborhoods are renamed to remove the Disney character references.
  • Donald's Dock becomes Barnacle Boatyard. In turn, Barnacle Boulevard from the original game is renamed to Buccaneer Boulevard.
  • Daisy Gardens to Daffodil Gardens. All its streets are also renamed — Elm Street to Petunia Place, Maple Street to Daisy Drive, and Oak Street to Tulip Terrace.
  • Minnie's Melodyland to Mezzo Melodyland.
  • Donald's Dreamland to Drowsy Dreamland.
• Adapted Out: To avoid legal trouble with Disney, the Mickey Mouse characters are no longer seen roaming around the playgrounds. Heck, the playgrounds themselves are renamed to avoid even mentioning those characters!
  • The original owner of The Toupee Chalet in The Brrrgh was a mouse named Donald Frump. He was later changed to a turkey named Don D. Toupee.
• Alternate Reality Game: 1.3.0 featured one with a COGS employee panel website. The login details you could collect for it revealed names for 29 high-up Cogs in the game, and allowed access to 17 of their profiles individually^note the Hires & Heroes managers, and the department secretary's account, the latter featuring an employee list and unique interviewer notes. The High Roller's login was added in the April 2023, and is also accessible (with directly accessing it being the only way to read his profile).
• Alphabetical Theme Naming: Outside of Toontown Central and Ye Olde Toontown, each HQ has an officer whose name begins with R: River, Rose, Rhapsody, Rocky, Ridge, and Rest.
• And Your Reward Is Clothes: Some Sidetasks as well as several of the Manager fights have clothing and accessories as rewards. In the case of the Managers, however, said rewards are Rare Random Drops.
• Anti Poop-Socking: Defeating a boss for the first time in a day earns you a Sweetener reward, with harder bosses awarding more. However, there is a hard cap on how many of these you can get in a week.
• Apologetic Attacker: The Toons go after Rainmaker because of her causing weather instability in Barnacle Boatyard, which she wasn't even aware was a problem. She actually wants to make friends with you, and only fights back because you provoked first. Her last words before the fight starts are "Sigh, I really don't want to do this."
• Apologises a Lot: Ma Putrid, owner of the House of Bad Pies, apologizes profusely as a character trait and due to how bad her shop's inventory is. Even when she's grateful, she can hardly go a sentence without apologizing.
• Art Evolution: Halloween boss Count Erclaim used to have a pretty standard Bloodsucker head, but traded in the look in the Halloween 2020 event for a unique, half-skeletal face.
• Bad Boss:
  • The CLO, who drops her team of Cogs into a trapdoor for one of them suggesting taking the Toons' gags.^note Note that Cogs normally do this anyway when defeating Toons.
  • The Chainsaw Consultant becomes this via the override, with an encoded memo documenting his "personality issues" causing numerous projects to collapse and directly calling him the reason for the Deforester Force's decline.
• Boring, but Practical: Prestige Trap, which unlike the other gag tracks' wacky prestige effects, simply just makes Trap gags deal more damage. Though basic, this oftentimes allows Trap to take out executive cogs several levels above it.
• Chain Lightning: Zap attacks can jump between Cogs.
• The Colored Cross: This game's redesign of the Ambulance Chasers gives them dark purple crosses on their hats instead of red ones. Interestingly, an Ambulance Chaser with a red cross on his hat appears on a poster in the CLO's office.
• Continuity Nod: In Toontown Central, one of the main tasks has you deliver clown car parts to Loony Louis, and after fishing up tires for him, he tells you that his packages are filled with more car parts, leading to your Toon turning their back on him before he can finish his sentence. Later on, in a Kudos task for Daffodil Gardens, you fish up and deliver packages to Lisa, who also exclaims that her packages are filled with more clown parts and mentions how she's related to Loony Louis. Your Toon once again leaves mid-sentence.
• Developer's Foresight:
  • Gagsoline Oil Refineries is an important building within in the Toontown Central taskline, as Toons are initially locked outside of it. Attempting to get inside early by teleporting to a friend who can enter displays a unique bit of dialogue, prompting the player to investigate it sometime.
  • Trying to friend Rainmaker while caught in her Monsoon phase gives unique responses addressing that you can't clearly hear her.
• Difficulty by Acceleration: Pacesetter is already a pretty tough boss, being the last Superboss, having a lot of health, and dealing tons of damage. What makes his fight one of the hardest in the game is that the game's clock will speed up every turn, capping at 4x speed. This affects attack animations, timers, the music, everything. His One-Winged Angel mode cranks it up even further, making you play the game at 6x speed.
• Diminishing Returns for Balance: The Sound gag is a Herd-Hitting Attack that deals a good amount of damage. Since using Sound doesn't require much strategy and players would often use solely Sound to breeze through everything in Toontown Online, it comes with a buff and debuff here. Using Sound once will increase your damage output by 8% the next turn, but if you choose to use it again, your Sound is debuffed to half its regular damage for a few turns.
• Discount Card: Completing certain Kudos tasks will grant you a discount on buying gags in that playground: 15% at rank 3, 30% at rank 6, and 50% at rank 9.
• End of an Age:
  • The "Break the Law" event culminated in the dismantling of the old Lawbot HQ, the Chief Justice resigning, and the CLO being hired, rendering the old boss fight and headquarters layout gone for good.
  • The Director's Cuts event ended with the Boardbots being completely rebuilt from the ground up, with entirely new Cogs and designs. The only ones to stay are the managers, Magnate, and Head Honcho, with the latter two being given redesigns.
• Electric Joybuzzer: The level 1 Zap gag is a Joybuzzer; the Toon holds out their hand, and the Cog leans in to shake it only to get zapped.
• Elite Mook: Cogs sometimes have the chance to spawn as an executive, having more health and higher damage. In suited Cogs, this is signified by a black suit, and in Skelecogs, this is signified by a colored tint.
• Equipment Upgrade: Toons are capable of spending an extra training point to prestige their gags.
  • Prestige Toon-Up provides more self-heal, as well as giving the targeted Toon(s) an extra round of cheer.
  • Prestige Trap increases the damage of an already powerful gag, giving a 20% increase in damage to normal Cogs, and increasing the initial 30% damage to executives to 56%.
  • Prestige Lure increases knockback damage for single lures up by 15% and group lures up by 25%
  • Prestige Throw heals a Toon for 20% of the base damage they deal.
  • Prestige Squirt increases the splash damage dealt to 50%.
  • Prestige Zap increases the jump damage from 90% to 110%.
  • Prestige Sound increases the Encore boost from 8% to 16%.
  • Prestige Drop increases the damage dealt to Cogs with debuffs by 10%, plus an additional 5% for every extra debuff.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Robert is unwilling to hire embezzling snake Saul G. Cog for the scandal it could generate and fires him in the usual Toontown manner.
  Chairman: MOTHERBOARD OF MERCY! We can't have a scandal like that attached to the company!
• Experience Booster: Depending on the day of the week, the game will boost your experience in certain fields, like activities on Tuesday and gag farming on Friday. Alternatively, you can purchase experience boosters with Premium Currency.
• Fishing Minigame: As with the original game, you can cast your rod in fishing ponds and see what fish you can catch. There are 70 unique species in total, and you need to buy new rods to catch them all.
• Floating Limbs: Since actual kiwis don't have wings, kiwi toons have floating gloves to make up for the lack of arms.
• Floral Theme Naming: In the original Toontown Online, the streets of Daisy Gardens are named after trees; in Corporate Clash, its renamed counterpart's streets are all named after flowers, with the names in question being alliterative to fit in with the rest of Toontown's street naming schemes.
• Forever War: Lampshaded by the Multislacker, who feels the whole 'Toons vs Cogs' fight is a pointless waste of time since it never ends.
  I find the whole 'Toons vs. Cogs' thing to be kind of pointless. You show up here, you wreck my dad, and he just gets repaired and keeps going. At the end of the day, we're all just wasting time.
• Fun with Acronyms: "Cogs" is an acronym for their corporation's name, the Coal, Oil and Gas Syndicate.
• Funny Background Event: While it's easy to skip over them, the Toontown School House's library shelves have a lot of funny book names, like Differential Bean-quations, The History of Loopy Lane (It Used to Be Loopier), and How to Catch ZZZs by Anita Rest. There are also plenty of references to other books, like If You Give An Oldman Some Cheese, The Maze Game Runner, and Where The Toony Things Are
• Furry Confusion: Bats are a selectable toon species, yet non-anthropomorphic bats appear in the Jungle Vines Trolley game.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: The Public Relations Representative was locked in the dungeons so long he went mad from the isolation and frequently glitches out, stumbles over his sentences, and lambasts both the Toons attacking him and the Cogs that sent him here.
• Granny Classic: Parodied with Mouthpiece. Since her head is modeled after an old wall telephone (the ones that look like they have a face), she's portrayed as an old-timey grandmother who knits, bakes cookies, and asks why you haven't called her. Notably, she's one of the less hostile managers.
• Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: In the cutscene preceding the CLO boss fight, the CLO gets fed up with a group of Lawbots she is supposed to be training on corporate law and open the floor underneath them to reveal a chute, the Lawbots calmly stand up, and then proceed to actually fall.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: Unlike Online, the Toons and Cogs aren't always in the right or wrong, as Ottoman loves plants, talks at length about his family situation, and praises how the Chairman is a loving father to his son, while the Toons can be arrogant and self-centered and caused the death of a high-level Cog, inspiring his family to take revenge. The Rainmaker boss fight has her lament how she just wanted to play Tic-Tac-Toe with Barnacle Bessie and got a piano dropped on her.
• Healing Boss: Street manager Bellringer can ring his bell to heal himself and his allies. The catch is that enemies can be healed past their maximum HP, and if you destroy an overhealed Cog in one turn, it will explode and badly damage everyone in the battle.
• High-Voltage Death: The Zap gag track, introduced in Corporate Clash, involves attacking Cogs with electricity.
• Homage: The Salty Spit-Toon sidequest is essentially an adaptation of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "No Weenies Allowed", where the player must prove their toughness to a bouncer named Reg, complete with some dialogue taken directly from the original episode.
• Idea Bulb: The Lightbulb Zap gag works by having a lightbulb appear over a toon's head, followed by the toon grabbing the bulb and throwing it at a Cog.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: Unimpressed by Rain's jokes, Derrick Man describes that his definition of fun includes things like getting a free pen when you sign up for a bank account, or finding an extra staple in your stapler.
• Interface Screw: During Rainmaker's Fog, you can't see the levels and stats of the Cogs you're fighting.
• Jekyll & Hyde: The Chainsaw Consultant's normal personality is mild and even friendly, but his personality override turns him into a bloodthirsty Toon-saddening monster who hurts his own employees.
• Kazoos Mean Silliness: In Corporate Clash, the kazoo is the new level 1 Sound gag.
• Know When to Fold Them: The Chief Justice, aka John Robolts, decides to retire rather than be fired by the Chairman, giving him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech as well.
  Chief Justice: You know, Bob, when you told me about your brilliant oil drilling plans for Toontown, I didn't know what purpose I would serve. I was just a law student at the time, and I certainly wasn't versed in corporate law. You knew what you were in for when you hired me. Looking back, it was quite the jestful choice on your end. I joined the company thinking I could work in a cushy executive job out in the middle of the Drastically Dry Desertland. But once that wizard turned on the super-duper air conditioner, my attitude changed quite drastically — pardon my pun. I tried to voice my concerns to Robot Resources, but honestly, that department happened to be even more inept than me, even though I quite literally ran a governmental law office inside of a corporation. The fact that you haven't attempted to fire me before this time makes it quite clear that you are lacking as a leader, that you would rather have someone else fill in your shoes. Your tiny, minuscule shoes. It brings me great pleasure to tell you, Bob, that you have been an awful boss and an even worse leader. I hand in my resignation with a clear conscience. And furthermore, just like how this company went from rags to riches, here is my final act of justice, returning this rag on my face to eventually lead you astray from riches. I'm finally retiring. Goodbye Bob, may this company forevermore be a burden to your existence. And thanks for nothing, except my pension!
• Lethal Joke Item: The Squirting Flower is the level 1 gag for the Squirt track, and loses its relevance very early in the game. However, it comes around to being useful later on: you can use it to trigger Soak and allow for powerful Zap combos when higher level Squirt would kill and break the chain.
• Level Grinding: Even more relevant to this server due to Experience Points being how you unlock new gag tracks and increased health, as opposed to the original and Toontown Rewritten where this is accomplished by completing certain tasks.
• Level Limiter: Because the toontask system got a complete overhaul from the base game with laff boost actually granted from a regular level up system, players were able to choose to have their toon be stuck at a certain amount of laff, even being able to have a toon with only one laff point. However, the ability to make such a toon was removed. There is intent to bring the feature back though.
• Life Drain: For the Toons, prestiging the Throw gag track allows you to heal a percentage of the damage you deal to the Cogs. Count Erclaim is also capable of healing himself for the amount of damage he deals (plus an extra 100 if he's critically low), being a vampire.
• Low Count Gag: Played for Drama when Rainmaker says that she has more attacks (three) than she has friends.
• Meet the New Boss: The Chief Justice was replaced with Chief Legal Officer in the 1.1 update, with the C.J. having left due to having done poorly and practicing criminal law instead of corporate law, but choosing to retire instead of being fired while giving his ex-boss a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. His boss fight was taken over by The Stand-in/Atticus, while the CLO gets a brand new boss fight.
• Money Multiplier: Playing the game on Wednesday increases the amount of Jellybeans you earn by 25%. This is also one of the boosters you can buy from the GUMBALL Machine.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Cogs refer to themselves as Suits, which was their original name early in Toontown's development.
  • There is a secret passage between the Trolley and the gag shop in the Acorn Acres playground. What's behind it? The graves of the Toontanic and Railroad gags, of course! Alongside a shovel, likely representing the scrapping of the Gardening activity in the original game.
  • In the final phase of the High Roller fight, the Toontanic is used against you in the move "Free Cruise". It even does the same amount of damage an organic Toontanic would do!
  • Perhaps there's a reason the Plutocrat is the Kudos Manager of the Brrrgh, considering who showed up in the same playground in Toontown Online.
  • During the Drowsy Dreamland teleport access task, Drowsy Dave mentions he used to teach Toons how to teleport there, as he was originally the one to give the task in Toontown Online.
  • A Drowsy Dreamland HQ officer, Dozy, mentions having a dream where Bossbots turned into clowns when defeated, which is in reference to an early concept for what would happen when Suits were defeated in battle.
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • All Cogs have been given names to go with their titles.
    • To name the classic four, we have Chief Justice John Robolts, Chief Executive Officer Craig Edgar Oilcan, Senior Vice President Allanwrench Bravecog, and Chief Financial Officer Chris P. Dolair.
    • The brothers at the top of the Boardbot hierarchy are Chairman Robert Cyger and Chief Operations Officer Thomas Saggs.
  • On the Toons' side, the Toon HQ Officers are unnamed in the original game, but receive Theme Naming in relation to their neighborhoods' themes. The main exception to this rule is Toontown Central, whose Toon HQ is instead restaffed with prominent NPCs from the original game.
• Obvious Rule Patch: In Toontown Online and Rewritten, the Sound gag track is seen as Complacent Gaming Syndrome, to the point where players will get kicked out of groups for being soundless. In Corporate Clash, using Sound gags two turns in a row will give the Winded status effect, which reduces the strength of Sound gags by 50%.
• Overly Long Gag: Major Player's rhythm minigame starts with waves of 3, 5, and 7 notes. The second time he uses it, it comes in waves of 4, 6, and... 24. Memorizing the 24-note sequence and inputting it within the five second time limit is practically impossible.
• Play Every Day: The game has a few daily features or incentives to come back every day.
  • Different days of the week increase the amount of experience or rewards you earn in certain departments. For example, you earn extra Jellybeans on Wednesdays and more gag experience on Fridays.
  • Every day, you are given a new Daily Task you can complete for Premium Currency.
  • Each boss has a Sweetener that gives you bonus rewards when you beat them. Sweeteners reset every day, to unincentivize you from grinding the same boss over and over again. There's also a weekly limit to how many Sweetener rewards you can earn.
• Precision F-Strike: In a first for the game and overall lore, the Chainsaw Consultant's post-battle dialogue has him swear as he realizes what his personality override has made him do.
  Chainsaw Consultant: Ugh... That damned override...
• Premium Currency: Gumballs are much more rare than Jellybeans. The main way to get them is by doing your Daily Tasks, but you also can also earn them by fighting bosses or doing Kudos tasks after you've already hit Rank 10. You can spend Gumballs on exclusive cosmetics and limited-time Experience Boosters.
• Punny Name:
  • The head of Cathal Ray Toby Bravecog, the Multislacker, is a Cathode Ray Tube television.
  • And then there's the Pacesetter, Graham Ness Payser, whose frenetic mannerisms would certainly make you think he should take the FitnessGram Pacer test.
  • Holly Grayelle, the Gatekeeper, is a fairly generic knight, yes, but given the Alternate Reality Game has her password as "hollylooya", it's a safe bet she'd love to quest for the Holy Grail.
  • Mary Anna, the Deep Diver. Mariana Trench.
  • The Bellringer's name is Benjamin Biggs. Big Ben is the bell in London's famous clock tower.
  • You can upgrade your fishing rods and buckets from a crow named Edgar Allan Pole. His shop is also called The Tell-Tale Carp.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Cyger brothers fit this to a tee; Chairman Robert's explosively temperamental red to Chief Operations Officer Ottoman's nearly unshakeable blue.
• Re-Release Soundtrack: All of the music from the original Toontown Online has been replaced with completely new music.
• Roaming Enemy: The Regional Managers are a set of Boss Cogs that can occasionally be found roaming the streets of each neighborhood. Other than being significantly more powerful, they can be fought like any other Cog.
• Remember the New Guy?: Lampshaded by the C.E.O. in one of the comics in regards to Multislacker, the son of the Senior V.P. who had never been mentioned up until that point.
  C.E.O.: Wait, since when have you had a son?
  Jason: Did you not know, sir?
  C.E.O.: No? Wait, Jason, did you?
• Sad Battle Music: When fighting Rainmaker, the battle music isn't as upbeat as the rest of the bosses. It's an unsettling and lonely piano/techno piece that incorporates the sound of water droplets.
• Shout-Out:
  • The HQ Officers in Ye Olde Toontowne's 'Elder Headquarters'^note Toon HQ (with the exception of Thuh N. Turn) are named after other fictional magicians. Being 'Dangalf', Al Bumbledorf, and Glada the Good.
  • One of Corporate Raider's new face-off lines references LazyTown's "You Are A Pirate".
  • Chainsaw Consultant's debuff is named after a chainsaw operation term. However, since it is spelled as "Kick Back" and not "Kickback", it may be referencing Chainsaw Man's opening theme.
  • Coach Z's dialogue is all directly inspired by the Coach Z Youtube channel, introducing himself in a similar way and being very prone to anger.
  • A lot of the newer streets contain many shout-outs in their building names and owners.
    • On Wacky Way, there is Green Eggs and Spam and Wacky Way-ving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man.
    • On Anchor Avenue, there is Burger King Crabs and the Salty Spit-Toon. The rod/bucket salesman, Edgar Allan Pole also used to be stationed on this street before being moved to the playground.
    • Ye Olde Toontowne houses the Dungeon Luncheon, featuring Steamed Bams, and another shop named Arrow to the Knee on Noble Nook. Meanwhile, Wizard Way houses Mac Breath at MacBreath Mints and Dr. Brewce at One Potion, Two Potions, Red Potions, Blue Potions.
    • Sunflower Street out of Daffodil Gardens gives us Mow Jellybeans, Mow Problems as well as O'Hare Air.
    • Mezzo Melodyland's Soprano Street provides Sax On, Sax Off, You! On! Kazoo! when it comes to buildings. For shopkeepers, there is Barry B. at Bee Flat Exterminators and Mice Al Jackson at Mousical Instruments.
  • The description for Overclocked! in Pacesetter's fight is word-for-word lifted from Undertale's Unreadably Fast Text during Sans' fight.
  • On the topic of Sans, there used to be Cog version of him that Toons could fight during April Toons named Sads. However, since April Toons 2023, Sads has been removed not only from the game, but from the canon as well.
  • One of the Kudos tasks for Toontown Central, involving Banker Bob, is called "Panic! At the Discount".
  • The task for visiting Ash is titled "Ketchum?".
  • A task in Barnacle Boatyard where you help out an optometrist is called "I Can See Clearly Now...".
  • A task in Drowsy Dreamland is called "Bring Us A Dream", referencing the song "Mr. Sandman".
• Sidequest: Each playground contains around six side quests you can do at any time, starting from when you reach it in the main storyline. One sidequest will always give you fast travel to that playground, while the rest offer cosmetic bonuses.
• "Simon Says" Mini-Game: One Trolley game involves an NPC doing a sequence of dance moves, which you have to repeat. More moves are added on to the sequence as the minigame goes on. Major Player can also weaponize this same mechanic as one of his attacks.
• Skill Point Reset: You are given Training Points that you can invest into getting and prestiging Gag tracks, earning more points as you progress through the game. At any time, you can drop a gag track and earn back the points you spent on it, then re-invest them into something else. There is no detriment to it, as the experience you earned on that track will remain if you invest the points back into it.
• Speech Impediment: The Duck Shuffler can't pronounce s's correctly, instead pronouncing them as th. His fusion with the Major Player, the High Roller, has a similar impediment, except he pronounces "s" sounds as "ff".
• Spell My Name with a "The": In dialogue and task text, the Managers are always referred to with a "The". For example, "the Rainmaker" or "the Prethinker".
• Sprite/Polygon Mix: Notably downplayed in comparison with the original game as many objects that were previously flat textures have been 3D modelled, including treasures and lampposts.
• Static Electricity: The Rug and Balloon gags, former gags from the Zap track, worked by the Toons rubbing the object and then electrocuting the Cog by touching it.
• Status Effects: Many kinds of buffs and debuffs exist for Toons and Cogs alike. For example, using Toon-Up will grant a 10% accuracy buff to every Toon healed that turn, and using Sound will increase your damage output by 8% the turn after.
• Superboss: Each playground has its own Kudos Manager. These can only be fought by reaching Kudos Rank 10 for the playground by doing extra tasks after you've beaten the main ones there.
• The Battle Didn't Count: With some exceptions, most of the unique Manager Cogs prefer to escape from the battle once their HP hits 0 rather than letting themselves be destroyed.
• Throw the Book at Them: The Cease and Desist move can be used against a Cog to immobilize them and prevent them from attacking for a limited number of rounds. To Sue a Cog with this, a Toon throws a book at the targeted Cog in question.
  • The Cogs are also capable of this, with Throw Book being used by Barristers, Big Wigs, Litigator, and Witch Hunter.
• Tragic Villain:
  • The Chainsaw Consultant wishes he never went to work for the Chairman due to a personality override program that turns him into a monster.
  • The Rainmaker just wants to be left alone and had a piano dropped on her when she tried to befriend Barnacle Bessie, and her Cog attacks aren't always under control.
• Unflinching Walk: John Robolts smirks as the Chairman's temper explodes behind him.
• Unseen No More: The leader of the Cogs, the Chairman, is revealed at the current ending of the game, "The Final Battle, For Now". His appearance is a rather short man with a chair for a head, and a very fiery temper.
• Visual Pun: The Chairman is a small man with a plush chair for a head.
• Voice Grunting: Each Manager is given their own sound effects when they speak, themed to fit their personality and design. For example, Major Player's voice sounds like piano keys, and Bellringer makes bell noises when he talks.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Prethinker is pretty easy for a Superboss, but he is the first one you're expected to fight. The next, Rainmaker, is a massive step up in difficulty. She has a lot of phases with their own effects that make the fight harder and can attack many times in one turn.
• Walking Spoiler: The Chainsaw Consultant is quite difficult to talk about without spoiling a major part of his character.
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Very common during this server's (ongoing as of October 2019) development phase, especially in Ye Olde Toontowne due to the antiquated grammar they are trying to "get right".
• Waxing Lyrical:
  • Much of Rhapsody's dialogue involves lines from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
    Rhapsody: I've been really meaning to get to this lately but it's not easy come, easy go...
  • Moe Zart quotes Smash Mouth's "All Star" in one of his tasks.
    Moe Zart: But then those Cogs just kept coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't— You get the picture.
• Whack-a-Monster: Deep Diver will hide underwater between turns, making her unable to be attacked. If there's a Cog present, she'll promote it and you'll have to take it down before she comes back up. After being vulnerable for a turn, she dives back down, and the process repeats.
• Wham Line:
  • In "Weekly Meeting", the CEO hears only a single word, and this after he and the other bosses lose most of their shares of the company.
    FIRED.
  • In the "Day of Reckoning Comic", the long awaited fate of CJ is revealed with this line:
    The Chairman: John Robolts, you are...
    Chief Justice: Resigning.
  • In-game, in a conversation before the Chainsaw Consultant's fight:
    Chainsaw Consultant: And if I can't file a report, then what's the point of- PERSONALITY OVERRIDE ACTIVATED.
• Wham Shot: One of the Kudos manager fights contains this. After defeating Major Player, you'd think the fight would be done, only for the elevator to re-open with none over than Dave Brubot himself!
• X-Ray Sparks: The higher-level Zap gags (level 6 and up) cause Cogs' skeletons to briefly become visible.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: The level 8 Zap gag is a yellow lightning bolt. In general, Zap gags and their electricity effects are always associated with the color yellow.
• Zero-Effort Boss: The "Boredbot"^note A spoof of the Boardbots only accessible during the annual April Toons event Chief Operations Officer, Ottoman. His "boss fight" is a cutscene where you watch him work for about 22 minutes, rambling about the Chairman.

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