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* [[And I Must Scream]]: D has been stuck haunting Blood Edward Island for ''57 years'' by the time Ashley meets him. [[Fridge Horror|He apparently has had nothing better to do over the years than to count the days after he died]], which makes sense when you realize that he remembers ''nothing'' about his past and practically no one visits the island anymore (and even then most people can't see him anyway). {{spoiler|And if you fail to get the good ending, he will be stuck haunting the island ''forever''}}.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Gray/Fitzgerald}} in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' is this, [[Adaptational Heroism|a far cry from his original counterpart]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Sayoko Robbins has a lot more relevance in the sequel and ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', even though she's dead at that point.
* [[Back Tracking]]: CONSTANTLY.
** Just remember that in the first game, once you enter the Edward mansion {{spoiler|or the laboratory}}, you can't go back.
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** Ashley's bag also contains the shirt she wore and her teddy bear from the first game.
* [[Continuity Reboot]]: The ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' remake functions as this, adding dramatic changes to the narrative in order to give it a sense of closure.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Ashley becomes one to Matthew in the sequel.
* [[Cute Ghost Girl|Cute Ghost Boy]]: D.
* [[Daddy Didn't Show]]: Twice, Ashley starts the game going to meet him and twice he's not there. In the first game, instead of leaving it at that, she decides to go looking for him. It's a bit more understandable when you discover {{spoiler|he was drugged and unconscious for some time while Bill gave Ashley the runaround}}. When it happens again in the second game, it's more the workaholic/absent-minded reason. That time, she's ready to turn and leave, but can't.
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* [[Easter Egg]]: Plenty. If you get [[100% Completion]] and restart on that same save, there are a lot of differences. Also, a book on one bookshelf is entitled "[[The Legend of Zelda]] Chronology".
* [[Engineer Exploited For Evil]]: Both Sayoko and Richard have shades of this.
* [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]: {{spoiler|With Bill's [[Disney Villain Death]] and Daniel (who was already dead by that point) peacefully passing on, the Edward bloodline is officially extinct by the end of the game.}}
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' retools {{spoiler|Ryan}} into an [[Anti-Villain|anti-villainous]] counterpart to {{spoiler|D/Daniel Edward}}. Complete with {{spoiler|Ashley getting them to pass away peacefully at the end.}}
* [[Fake Memories]]: The titular device can implant these. {{spoiler|It's a set of these that cause Richard to think he might have killed his wife}}.
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** In ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', there's {{spoiler|Judd Fitzgerald}} whom, [[Anti-Villain|while not exactly a villain]], did set up the events of the series by {{spoiler|starting the memory research and his [[Accidental Murder]] of his son Ryan leading to the creation of his [[Living Memory]] clone and all that follows in said timeline.}}
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Every. Single. Puzzle. Except the one where you put together the sign out in front, which no one bothered to do, since you could read it anyway. But wait, you have to do every puzzle to get [[100% Completion]]? [[Guide Dang It]]!
* [[Hate Sink]]: [[Dark Action Girl|Sofia Callaghan]] from the Wii sequel is [[Flat Character|nothing more]] than a [[It's All About Me|selfish]], [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]] woman willing to commit atrocious deeds for [[Only in It For the Money|money]].
* [[Hot Mom]]/[[Hot Dad]]
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Naturally. Usually justified in that the stuff she carries is of reasonable size, but it does make for an odd moment in the second game when she pulls Ryan's suitcase out of nowhere to return it to him.
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* [[Ill Girl|Ill Boy]]: D had a heart condition when he was alive, which was the reason he and his father went to the Edward mansion. {{spoiler|His heart condition set in while running from his uncle, losing his balance and falling off a cliff, leading to his death.}}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: D referring to himself and Ashley as "kindred spirits". Ashley lampshades how lame that was.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: '''[[Averted Trope|Hell no]]'''. The series has at least one case of a child dying, with D in the first game and {{spoiler|Matthew's little sister Kelly}} in the second. ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'' adds {{spoiler|the original Ryan Fitzgerald}} into the mix.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: Ashley has a number of these. Matt starts lampshading them in the later half of the game.
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: There are five buttons on the DTS. You can use four from the start, but the fifth doesn't work until [[The Reveal]].
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* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Ashley is like any good adventure game hero in that aspect in the first game, but she gets away with it since the original owners of the location all died. D lampshades this by calling her strange for taking charcoal. It's a little more toned down in the second game.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: One of the original intentions of the Trace/Another machine, as a means to remove traumatic memories.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: [[Double Subverted]]. The sequel dances around the first game's revelation of Sayoko's killer's identity for most of the game, only for it to be rather bluntly brought up again near the end.
* [[Late to the Party]]: Ashley's fifty-seven years late to the events on Blood Edward Island.
* [[Lock and Key Puzzle]]: There are a few standard locked doors to deal with.
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* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Ashley's pendant in the second game.
* [[The Messiah]]: Ashley in the second game. Her actions end up solving a number of the personal problems of the other characters, as well as {{spoiler|uncovering a pollution scandal that drove Matt's dad's business into the ground}}.
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: {{spoiler|
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: You can eat the candies the Captain gives you at ''any'' time, even right after {{spoiler|Ashley finds out her mom is dead}}, resulting in Ashley gleefully exclaiming, "I love candy!".
* [[Motionless Chin]]: Pretty jarring in the sprites when they talk.
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* [[Nice Guy]]: While she does have flaws, Ashley is generally kind and helpful to a fault, particularly in the second game.
** D is pretty much the same way.
** Sayoko Robbins was similar to Ashley not just in appearance, but in personality as well. {{spoiler|Especially evident in ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]'', as she was the only one who bothered to understand [[Living Memory|Ryan]] when no one else did.}}
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: A downplayed, but incredibly tragic version. {{spoiler|After witnessing his father's death at his uncle's hands, Daniel saw Henry as an [[Evil Uncle]] who wanted to kill him as well and ran away from him. In reality, Henry only murdered Thomas in self-defense and wanted to explain himself to Daniel and calm him down. [[Tear Jerker|It didn't end well for both of them]].}}
* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Ryan Grey}} in the Wii version.
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* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: Ms. Graham, who's a pretty grouchy person at first. She gets better as Ashley gets to know her.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Ashley attempts this at the start of the second game, but she blew most of her money before the start of the game and ends up unable to pay for the bus fare.
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: {{spoiler|Both Henry and Thomas
* [[Ship Tease]]: You can ''taste'' the tension. Especially {{spoiler|the conversation after Ashley's mom is revealed dead}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: In ''Another Code R'', Ashley can examine a stepladder in the boathouse. She then thinks to herself, [[Ace Attorney|"It's a ladder. No, wait, that's called a stepladder. What's the difference anyway?"]]
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* [[Time Skip]]: Two years pass between the first and second games.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Richard is a bit of a [[Everything's Better with Chocolate|chocoholic.]] One of his office drawers is loaded with chocolate bars.
* [[Tragic Villain]]: {{spoiler|Ryan, though the reasons vary between the Wii game and ''[[Video Game Remake|Recollection]]''.}}
* [[Transferable Memory]]: Yup, the machine can do that too.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Ashley after witnessing the events of her third birthday. Also {{spoiler|Matthew forgetting his sister's death.}}
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]
* [[Tsundere]]: Ashley has a bit of Type B in her. She's normally a very nice person, but she's prone to hissy-fits when she gets mad.
** She inherited it from her mother, who was a genuinely kind person yet fiery when she has to put her foot down.
* [[Undeath Always Ends]]: At least once per game.
** D is finally laid to rest in the good ending.
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: Chapter 4 of the first game. You find out what happened to Ashley's mom, meet the last person on the island and find out what happened to Jessica all in short order.
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Ashley has her mom's eyes, which Jessica says were quite beautiful.
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: Part of
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Ryan Grey in ''Another Code R''.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: The protagonist Ashley, of course.
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