The Computer Is a Lying Bastard: While the instructions claim that you cannot hurt the Grinning Colossus with your weapons, it is in fact possible.It does however get rid of his torch, forcing him to get another one. Collision Damage: Subverted in that while the protagonist does react to running into the Grinning Colossus, he can't really die.Chekhov's Gun: The torch you pick up halfway through the game plays a vital role in defeating the final boss.Breakout Character: The Grinning Colossus also appears as a boss in other web games Death vs Monsters 2, Anti-Idle: The Game, and Pickory.Bottomless Magazines: You have axes galore in your Hammerspace, but they are completely useless now.Boss Corridor: The game has this before the Boss Room.Boss-Arena Idiocy: Why does the Grinning Colossus even have a chandelier that can kill him if it fell on him as well as fire that can be used to burn it?.Blank White Eyes: The player character.Though we never find out his motivations or if he even has any in the first place. Big Bad: The Grinning Colossus, apparently.Benevolent Architecture: Lampshaded, just like nearly every other trope on here.Battle Theme Music: The Grinning Colossus has this.You can't kill the Grinning Colossus with them, and they can't cut the rope. The Grinning Colossus gets a One-Hit Kill from a chandelier. Achilles' Heel: The Grinning Colossus is defeated by a chandelier.Has no relation to the similar-sounding games Cut the Rope and Burn The Rope, other than the fact that ropes are involved. And if you want to listen to/download the end credits song, here's the link, but don't do so until AFTER you finish the game or it'll spoil the experience. It's free, though due to the discontinuation of Adobe Flash, an external plugin is needed to play it. Saying anything more would ruin the experience, so just play it here or here. You Have to Burn the Rope is a parody of Puzzle Bosses, Platform Games, and possibly video games in general, created by "Mazapan." It may also be considered to be the Mirror Universe version of I Wanna Be the Guy.
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