Basic Trope: Game content that's unlocked after beating the game.
- Straight: After beating the game, the player unlocks a few bonus levels.
- Exaggerated: After beating the game, the player unlocks more difficult version of every level, and an extra bonus world, with its own harder versions. It is to the point where post-game content takes up the majority of content in the game.
- Downplayed:
- After beating the game, the player unlocks an extra outfit.
- After beating the game, the gameplay resumes but with harder enemies in earlier levels.
- Justified:
- The final boss is guarding the portal to the bonus world.
- The developers want to greet those that finish the near impossible max difficulty final boss.
- The final boss represented you overcoming your insanity… these are the Once More, with Clarity levels to really hammer in the point.
- Inverted: After beating the game, many levels become permanently locked.
- Subverted: After beating the game, there is a message that says "Bonus world unlocked!". However, upon reaching the bonus world marker on the world map, it disappears with a message "NOT!"
- Double Subverted: After beating the game, there is a message that says "Bonus world unlocked!" but then a message "NOT!" appears. After a few seconds, the message "Just kidding! Here's your bonus world." appears.
- Parodied: The game's story consists of a single easy level, and the rest of the game is unlocked after beating it.
- Zig-Zagged: A blank space in the game's world map teases a secret bonus world, but upon beating the final boss, nothing happens. That is, until the player gets 100% completion, where they get the key to the bonus world... that doesn't work. A message saying "Coming soon!" appears... and the game is promptly discontinued.
- Averted:
- Beating the game does not unlock bonus content.
- An Endless Game has, by definition, no ending to put content after.
- Lampshaded: "Isn't the final boss supposed to be, you know, the final challenge of the game?"
- Invoked: A guard stops Bob from entering the post-game bonus world before the final boss is beaten, on the basis that he may find it too hard and give up.
- Exploited: An ally promises a secret post-game world to motivate Bob to continue his journey.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob breaks into the bonus world before being supposed to. A guard tries to stop him, but realizes there's no reason why Bob can't enter and leaves.
- Reconstructed: After failing hundreds of times, Bob realizes the purpose of the world being limited to the post-game and willingly puts off doing it until then.
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