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== This ARG provides examples of the following tropes: ==
* [[And I Must Scream]]: [[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream|Literally]], in Jadusable's nightmare where he gets transformed into another Elegy Statue.
** ''I tried to scream but the mask was pressed so tightly against my face that it was my new face... and my new face had no mouth.''
* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]}}: king kong.wmv seems to be one for {{spoiler|Goron Link after he gets [[Drunk on Milk]] and passes out in front of the Milk Bar}}.
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* [[The Artifact]]: ''Majora's Mask'' elements went on the back burner after the retooled second arc began. [[What Could Have Been|The original draft of the game, before Jadusable ran into financial problems]], would've kept said elements to the end, however.
* [[Being Watched]]: Jadusable starts feeling like this not long after he gets the game.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Even though the story is really terrifying, the videos are all shot within the engine of Majora's Mask, an E rated game.
** Surprisingly, at 4:42 in Jadusable.wmv, Link suffers an instant death as a blood splatter appears on the screen. Truth is, Ocarina and Majora both had blood for when you got hit, but was so unrealistic looking (though it was indeed red) that the games got an E-rating anyway.
* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|Jadusable's dream.}} Also, although a less bloody version than usual for this, Link's "glitched" back.
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* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: {{spoiler|Possible aversion. At first you think the chat messages with BEN are this, but then it turns out BEN may not be, well, BEN, after all.}}
* [[Defictionalization]]: A rare collaborative and (mostly) non-deliberate example. After reading thetruth.rtf, hordes of people started inputting BEN-related questions and answers into [[Cleverbot]], effectively training it to play the role of BEN when prompted.
* [[Development Hell]]: And HOW. For starters, the real trailer to the game was supposed to come out on May 10th. Overall, due to development issues and financial setbacks, this trope applies.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|[[Played for Laughs]] during [[April Fools|king kong.wmv]] when [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|Jadusable's impromptu music video]] is interrupted by the appearance of another BEN save file... whereupon he [[Crowning Moment of Funny|promptly deletes it, makes a new file named SWAGGGGG and carries on dancing.]]}}
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: a pack of them is present in the orchard from the Ryukaki arc.
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** There seem to be a few for either adaptation of [[The Shining]]. The whole "Link Statue following you" thing seems to be based on the hedge animals that follow that story's protaganist, Danny. Then there's the line "Come play with us..."
** [[Doctor Who|Weeping Angels]] are also referenced.
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror]]:}} Try asking the real Cleverbot who drowned BEN, and chances are you may {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror|be directed to the mirror.]] [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|Especially likely to happen if Cleverbot claims to be BEN when asked...]]}}
* [[Uncancelled]]: Jadusable announced that due to low funds, he would not be making any more chapters of Ben Drowned. Two days later he announced that he had gotten such an overwhelming amount of donations that he would in fact be able to continue after all.
** And the ARG started back up, working the original announcement about the cancellation into the ARG itself by [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]. It has been implied that [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]].
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