Final Exam Boss: The full-stage variation.Final Boss, New Dimension: Not a final boss, per se, but after you disable the Dimension Stabilizer, the dimension, uh, destabilizes, transforming the area from drab gray Screenwrap Hell to a disco-colorful, screenwrap-free batch of fun.Exposition Cut: When Viridian rescues crew members, he describes the situation to them, to varying levels of understanding.Escort Mission: Rather frustrating if you can't get the ceiling-floor mechanic right.Epileptic Flashing Lights: The hidden elephant.It's a Survival Mode version of the Gravitron seen earlier in the game - instead of counting down from 60 seconds, it counts up from 0, and you keep going until you die. Endless Game: The Super Gravitron minigame, available in the Secret Lab after collecting all the Shiny Trinkets.In Flip Mode, the music plays backwards in The Tower (since the auto scrolling is also flipped), and the credits are right-side-up but scroll down from the top.Name of said level changes in these modes. One of the trinkets, which the player has to die to get in normal mode, is made obtainable without having to die in no death mode and time attack mode.
Each crew member's dialogue is different depending on which order you rescue them. Deliberately Monochrome: The polar dimension. Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: Except in some unlockable modes. Cult Soundtrack: The music of VVVVVV is popular and constitutes a great deal of people's perspective on the game. It's topped off with the trophy for beating No Death Mode, a giant statue of the combined characters that flashes in different colors. Cosmetic Award: The trophies, awarded for beating ungodly hard and masochistic challenges. Each name begins with a V, leading to the use of obscure colors like Vitellary. Colorful Theme Naming: The entire crew. Color Coded for Your Convenience: The various areas in the VVVVVV dimension on the map are colored based on which one of the characters is there and needs to be rescued the exception being the viridian area, which is the secret lab. Chiptune: The soundtrack, as part of the retraux feel. Cheerful Child: Pretty much the whole crew contain shades of this - Violet asks if Viridian is okay, and when he says he's worried, she cheers him up by giving him a lollipop. And then, of course, there's No Death Mode. Check Point Starvation: The trinket "Prize for the Reckless" requires you to traverse some rooms while actively avoiding Check Points. Check Point: A circle with a C in it, which you activate by touching. Call Back: In the Final Level, you come to a room titled "Please Enjoy These Repeats" (which later becomes "In The Margins" after disabling the Dimensional Stability Generator), which contains the "Yes Men" from the level. Not to mention that at the end of the game it seems that Viridian has managed to save his crew and allow them to return to their home, but he is sent hopelessly tumbling through space. Additionally, collecting all the trinkets teleports you to the Secret Lab, which, according to the crew, contains research that will save the dimension. Luckily, it is also a case of Take Your Time, in that it won't happen while you're around. Although you do save all of your crew, you wind up screwing up the dimension you're stuck in, which will eventually cause it to collapse. Automatic Level: The player level Vertical Vehicle does not require any movement from the player there is only one button press in this level, and that's to collect a trinket. Auto-Scrolling Level: The Tower, The Panic Room and The Final Challenge. 
Are We There Yet?: Vermilion asks this at one point if taken to the the first intermission level.
For sake of simplicity, this article refers to him as male.
Ambiguous Gender: Captain Viridian's gender is never revealed throughout the game. A better example might be the game's soundtrack "PPPPPP", which has its own pattern: each song name starts with, of course, P. Every crewmember's name starts with "V", as do a few level names ("Veni", "Vidi" and "Vici" come to mind). Note that this applies to both the top and bottom, so there's an Advancing Wall of Doom. Advancing Wall of Doom: In all three auto scrolling levels (The Tower, Panic Room and The Final Challenge), if the bottom or top of the screen gets close to you, a wall of spikes appear - and if you actually touch them, well, the same thing happens as if you touch ANY spike in the game. Abbey Road Crossing: The cover of this game's soundtrack parodies this.
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