Who is meat boy

He not only loves Bandage Girl, but, because he has no skin, he needs her to stay alive. Thus, when she is captured by Dr. Fetus , he must rescue her.

Although he has no special abilities, he has one of the fastest movement speeds in the game, along with RunMan and the Ninja. This makes him effective in speedruns and generally completing levels quickly.

He is also one of the only characters in the game who is able to complete every level. Naturally, the switch to autorunner meant a drop in difficulty as the game appealed to casu- wait, what?

It's still kicking ass? And in this genre? Yep, you're not getting a break from the pain. Meat Boy also appears in the BIT. Meat Boy and Dr. D shows up as a boss with a matching item drop.

Meat Boy has also made cameo appearances in plenty of other games. Also compare Spikes. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes.

You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Auto-Scrolling Level : The original has some of them. Big Bad : Dr.

Bottomless Pit : There are several per chapter, but the three other boundaries will also do. Brainy Baby : Dr. Fetus gets this too, especially given the intro. Fetus, and that's why Dr. Fetus hates you! Especially the tragic squirrel, who is the lone survivor of the forest fire, is attacked by a rogue flying buzzsaw, is vaporized by a nuclear explosion, and STILL manages to come back at the ending cutscene, totally beaten up.

Most bosses are also killed off in a rather dark-humored way. They all have a happy ending in the final cutscene though. Cast of Snowflakes : All the bonus characters are taken from Indie Games, usually using the original art style, making each one look completely unique and out of place. For example, all versions of Super Meat Boy have a boy in a cape , a girl in gimp gear , a color-changing stick , an 8-bit rainbow trailing guy , and a thing that looks suspiciously like Meat Boy, along with many exclusives to different versions of the game.

Cephalothorax : Meat Boy and Bandage Girl. Character Select Forcing : Some bandages can only be obtained with certain characters. Collision Damage : Although justified in some of the cases. Creator Thumbprint : It's not Edmund's first or last game which features a character in a developmental stage of a life cycle. Death by Irony : Both games end with Bandage Girl, who had been kidnapped and punched repeatedly by Dr.

Fetus throughout the game, stomping Dr. Fetus to death. Death Is a Slap on the Wrist : Usually. Determinator : Meat Boy, who gets abused quite badly but still keeps trying to rescue Bandage Girl. Anyone who manages to unlock The Kid. Digital Piracy Is Evil : Sort of parodied. Doctor Fetus regularly brags with pirating copies of Super Meat Boy in his in-character Twitter account.

Difficult, but Awesome : Flywrench. It takes a while to get used to its controls due to being very heavy and unruly. However, it can do a triple jump and scale up walls without having to jump off them which will become very handy in some of the levels. Naija is another of those characters who seems to be difficult to control at first, but becomes useful when practiced with.

Distressed Damsel : Bandage Girl. Eternal Engine : The Factory. Everything Trying to Kill You : Okay, here we go Excrement Statement : Dr. Fetus does this at the end of the original flash game. Fetus Terrible : Dr. Fire and Brimstone Hell : Chapter 4. It's also where Meat Boy's spent lives end up. Flipping the Bird : Dr. Fetus is quite fond of flipping people off.

So much so, that his biometric hand scanner in Forever is programmed to read his middle finger pressed against the screen. Fetus and proceeds to flip off some butterflies. Meat Boy is not amused, though Bandage Girl laughs at the sight of it. Green Hill Zone : The Forest. Heart Symbol : Present in a few cutscenes.

High-Class Glass : Dr. Fetus has a monocle on his jar. An entire universe Unable to die permanently He's the slowest character in the game, with no special abilities, and he can't jump to save his life.

He can just barely beat the first two levels. And out of the levels where Tofu Boy's playable, only around a fifth of them are beatable with him. Forever makes him even sadder.

In addition to being slower, his maximum jump height now decreases with every jump made until he needs to stop and catch his breath , so it might take you a few minutes of strategically placing your jumps to realize when a level really is impossible with Tofu Boy.

Level Editor : Meat Boy featured one. Super Meat Boy gets one for the PC version. A prototype devmode was accidentally left in the game which resulted the creation of user-generated content much earlier on. Lumber Mill Mayhem : The first level takes place in a forest area filled with saw blades that meat boy must dodge.

Malevolent Architecture : The mass amount of obstacles that you'll encounter makes each level a challenge to navigate through. Though while it's been confirmed that Dr. Fetus is the one who sets up the buzzsaws, that still doesn't explain the pits full of blood, lasers, and rocket launchers.

The syringes in the Hospital stage are probably even stranger, as for some reason there are piles upon piles of them, and some are even stuck to the ceiling needle-down. The level pack contains N and some characters called " Alien Hominid " and "Pico". Super Meat Boy takes it to extremes with many major indie games having a representative, including Jill , Steve?

To the surprise of everyone, there's also a Headcrab. Each of those characters has their own special abilities, be it a Double Jump , limited levitation or tunneling. Most PC-only characters have an Xbox equivalent, and vice versa. Meaningful Name : All the main characters. Megaton Punch : Dr. Fetus sometimes likes to do this to Bandage Girl. The boss of Hell, Little Horn, likes to do this. Morally Ambiguous Doctorate : Dr. Nice Hat : Dr. Fetus' top hat. Nintendo Hard : And get used to Meat Boy's speed.

Although those who think the game isn't hard enough, in Super Meat Boy , there is a more difficult counterpart to each level. Cotton Alley. The Kid's levels. Dark World Rapture. Have fun, kids. The Expert Remix chapter which contains versions of main game levels that are even harder than the Dark World means even more controller tossing.

The Kid's Christmas features four difficult levels though one can be broken easily by turnstile hopping. The fifth however asks you to traverse the original Kid's level backwards. Nitro Boost : Conveyor belts in the factory. People Jars : Dr. Fetus is in one. Platform Hell : Surprisingly averted. You'd think a game this difficult would rely mostly on unfair level design, wouldn't you?

Nope, the levels are almost entirely devoid of Fake Difficulty and, combined with the smooth controls, it means that you only have yourself to blame for each death. They are shown with fingers in more detailed art of them. And not just during gameplay, during cutscenes too! Retraux Rule of Cool : The only reason why the game doesn't look as awesome as the cover.

Rustproof Blood : And you'll be seeing a lot of it. Serial Escalation : Take a shot every time you think it can't get harder and are subsequently proven wrong. Continue until you're too wasted to play. Shout-Out : The game has a large amount of them, which is expected from an indie game. The Flash game opens with Dr. Fetus stealing Bandaid Girl ala Ghosts 'n Goblins. Fetus captures Meat Boy instead. Chapter 5 of Super Meat Boy is called Rapture, which is the same name of Chapter 5 of Gish which takes place in church.

When you successfully complete a level with a bandage collected, the message "Bandage get! One of the glitch worlds resembles an airship from Super Mario Bros. The sound when picking up a key when not in a Warp Zone is the same as from Atari's Gauntlet. The levels Blood Mountain and Bladecatcher are references to the band Mastodon.

Combined with Stealth Pun : Level , likely the first pitch-black level the player will encounter, is titled " The Sabbath ". Fetus taking the place of Emperor Devligus Devotindos. Slapstick Knows No Gender : Dr. Fetus's abuse of Bandage Girl is always played for laughs, except to Meat Boy.

But just think, if the genders were reversed, it would be treated Both are platform games that take place in a colorful world and star a red protagonist trying to save his pink girlfriend from his arch-nemesis, although Meat Boy is much Darker and Edgier and more Nintendo Hard than the kid-friendly Mario games.

Temporary Platform : Both the "crumbles on touch" and "timed" varieties appear. Tertiary Sexual Characteristics : Bandage Girl has a flower. Toothy Issue : Meat Boy has a very distinctive missing tooth. Troll : In-series example, as in Dr. Fetus' Twitter account. Unexplained Recovery : At the end of each game, Dr. Fetus dies or breaks his suit Villain Teleportation : Which is used to snatch Bandage Girl most of the time. Wall Jump : One of your main techniques to victory.

Your Princess Is in Another Castle! Super Meat Boy. After the End : Chapter 5 takes place in the Rapture, after a nuke is set off and kills all life. Abandoned Hospital : Chapter 2, aptly named the Hospital. Adorable Abomination : C. Advancing Boss of Doom : Lil' Slugger. Advancing Wall of Doom : At least a few times per world. They take the place of the autoscrolling levels in the original game. The "wall" may consist of saws, blood, salt, lava, maggots, or, in one of The Cotton Alley's stages, Pepto It's a palette swap of the lava.

Alien Sky : Cotton Alley has a bright pink sky, and some Dark World levels can have the sky an unconventional color. Anthropomorphic Food : Tofu Boy, who is made of, well, tofu. Averted with Meat Boy, who, despite what his name suggests , is actually a skinless person. Anti-Frustration Feature : Part of the core of the game: The respawn after death literally take less than a second and is automatic.

The levels themselves are short, ranging from 15 seconds to 90 seconds, so in the quite likely event you die, you don't have to go through too much again. For each main chapter, you only need to clear 17 of the 20 Light World levels to unlock the chapter's boss. This is averted in the The End's Light World, where all 5 levels must be beaten to access the Final Boss , but for its Dark World counterpart, you need to beat 85 of the total Dark World levels, meaning you can skip that chapter's levels and go straight to the boss.

Various little side-quests when you get too frustrated with the main game, like beating past levels in record time, collecting bandages to unlock new playable characters, or playing through retro-styled "warp zones". Alas, Poor Villain : In-Universe example. When Dr. Fetus is finally defeated, Meat Boy briefly feels sorry for him, but he quickly changes his mind.

Animate Inanimate Object : The ground in the chapter select screens has a face that changes based on the chapter. Art Shift : When going to the retro levels. About This Game Super Meat Boy is a tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who's trying to save his girlfriend who happens to be made of bandages from an evil fetus in a jar wearing a tux.

Our meaty hero will leap from walls, over seas of buzz saws, through crumbling caves and pools of old needles. Sacrificing his own well being to save his damsel in distress.

Ramping up in difficulty from hard to soul crushing SMB will drag Meat boy though haunted hospitals, salt factories and even hell itself. Steam Exclusive 33 legitimate Achievements Warp zones that will warp you into other games Over 16 unlockable able and playable characters from popular indie titles such as, Minecraft, Bit.

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