Giant Space Flea From Nowhere/Playing With

Basic Trope: A strange thing shows up as a boss during a video game which has no bearing on the plot.

• Straight: A Giant Space Whale shows up as a boss in a water level in a platform game.
• Exaggerated: A Giant Space Whale shows up as a boss in a dessert level in a platform game.
• Justified: The Giant Space Whale was shot down by a spaceship and landed in the location and in he/she/it is majorly angry with anyone with weapons.
• Inverted: You play as the Giant Space Flea From Nowhere in a game.
• Subverted: The Giant Space Flea From Nowhere is a One-Winged Angel for one of the game's Big Bad.
• Double Subverted: But on the next to final level, you meet the real Giant Space Flea From Nowhere.
• Parodied:
  • The Giant Space Flea From Nowhere lampshades his entrance by loudly yelling "I am the Giant Space Flea From Nowhere."
  • The player character is knocked insensate by a bowl of petunias.
  • The Giant Space Whale shows up as the final boss in a setting where you'd definitely not expect it at all! (Like an hospital drama series, or an archetypal soap-opera)
  • The Giant Space Flea From Nowhere is, in fact, a Giant Space Flea
• Deconstructed:
  • The Space Whale lands in dessert, flops around for a few minutes before the Mooks shows up. The hero battle the Mooks while the Space Whale dies. After burying the Space Whale, the hero goes to the next level.
  • The people of the world are in constant fear of the Giant Space Whale popping out of nowhere and killing everyone they know and love.
• Reconstructed: In the next level, the Space Whale's ghost attacks the player as the boss of that level.
• Zig Zagged: A Giant Space Whale shows up at the end of the game without warning, only for it to be a Hopeless Boss Fight Disc One Final Boss. The second disc integrates the Giant Space Whale into the plot and sets him up as the Big Bad, only for an Eldritch Abomination to show up just before the big fight, eat the Giant Space Whale, and become the actual Final Boss.
• Averted: All the bosses fit the plot.
• Enforced: "This game has pieces of a space comets for the players to get -- so a few Giant Space Flea From Nowhere would be good for the game."
• Lampshaded: "Where the hell did that thing come from?"
• Invoked: The Big Bad tries to summon space aliens for bosses to defeat the heroes.
• Defied: All the bosses are logically placed.
• Discussed: "Hey, do you remember that giant whale from the desert?" "Really, where DID that thing come from?"
• Conversed: "I really liked the level design until I got to the desert. Why'd the developers make the boss a giant whale?"

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