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* [[Vagueness Is Coming]]: Spoofed. In the opening level, Zane relays an incredibly cryptic prophecy to Alan, then asks, "Do you understand?" Alan replies with a very confused, "No."

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Nightingale constantly calls Wake [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|famous authors' famous names]]: "Hemingway!", "Stephen King!", "[[Overly Long Name|H.P. Lovecraft]]!"

* [[Villain Decay]]: A minor example. The Taken who has a specific grievance against Wake in the beginning of the game, during the nightmare, and who speaks lucidly, is more intimidating than the ones who randomly shout gibberish based off of their lives.

** It's never quite clear if this is actually a Taken or just a part of Alan's nightmare. It could be intentional decay on Alan's part, remembering the nightmare and making that into what the Taken are, or it could be that this is what the Taken really are but he toned them down in his book. Suffice it to say [[Mind Screw|the game isn't going to explain it]].

*** It's just a part of Alan's nightmare. "The Writer" ends with a [[Boss Rush]] of {{spoiler|Dr. Hartman, the Anderson Brothers (both at once), and then Barry three times in a row; all of whom are lucid Taken, and the DLC takes place in Alan's nightmares.}}

** Might also be a case of [[Not Brainwashed]]. The guy was pretty butthurt about Alan killing him off in his book.

* [[Villainous Rescue]]:

** After the cable car crashes Alan, loses his gun and flashlight and is surrounded by numerous Taken. Suddenly, a flare is dropped into their midst, and the Taken are destroyed in a hail of pinpoint gunfire. Who is Alan's savior? The kidnapper. {{spoiler|Even though technically he's just a con-man.}}

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* [[Wreaking Havok]]: The game's physics engine becomes increasingly obvious in the last part of the last level, where the darkness starts throwing really big things at you like a school bus or a boxcar.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Wake saving the day {{spoiler|has been written into the manuscript from the beginning}}. Player fumbles aside, {{spoiler|he's basically predestined to succeed}}.

* [[X Meets Y]]: [[Metroid Prime|Metroid Prime II]] meets [[Misery]] meets Bag Of Bones meets [[Infected]].

* [[You Are Too Late]]: In this case, after Alan finds an injured Rusty in the dark, he attempts to find the generator to put the power back on, only to find an ax has been put through it.