Clock Tower (series): Difference between revisions

The series has four games: ''Clock Tower'' for the [[Super Famicom]] in Japan, which featured an orphaned girl named Jennifer who is adopted along with her friends, but is pursued by Bobby Barrows, the manor's resident maniac with a huge pair of scissors. The second game (Known as ''Clock Tower 2'' in Japan and just ''Clock Tower'' else where, as the first game [[No Export for You|was never released outside of Japan]]) was a direct sequel a year later, when Scissorman reappears. The player can either continue to play as Jennifer or play as her (new) foster mother, and can also control a few other characters for certain parts of the game. The third game (''Clock Tower Ghost Head'' in Japan, ''Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within'' elsewhere) has nothing to do with the first two, and instead focused on a girl named <s>[[Macekre|Alyssa]]</s> Yu Midoshima with a ''boy'' split personality named <s>Bates</s> Sho. Who could use guns. [[Resident Evil|Against the zombies pursuing you.]] The fourth (and seemingly final) game, ''Clock Tower 3'', was for the PS2, and featured a different Alyssa who, upon returning home, found that her mother is missing. At least that one had Scissorman again.

 

 

Not to be confused with the trope, [[Clock Tower]].

* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: More specifically, the Rooders in ''3'' have dangerous 15th birthdays.

* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]: One of the endings in the first game.

** Though if you're already {{spoiler|in the caves}}, you have no choice but to take whatever ending you got.

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: The second and third games have only a few endings between them that ''don't'' use this trope.

* [[Distress Call]]: You get one from your mother at the beginning of ''3'', and you can try (and fail) to send one in both 1 and 2.

* [[Downer Ending]]: The bad endings.

* [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]]: Your reward for exorcising all the ghosts in ''3''? Absolutely nothing, not even an acknowledgment that you did so.

* [[Drop in Nemesis]]

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Bobby in the first, {{spoiler|Edward}} in the second and Chinatsu/Stephanie in the third.

* [[Ephebophile]]:

** Also, in ''3'', it's '''strongly''' implied that the [[Big Bad]] is motivated a rather unwholesome, obsessive interest in the teenaged main character. {{spoiler|For extra creepy, he turns out to be the lead character's grandfather.}}

* [[Evil Gloating]]: Every villain in ''3''. Sometimes for ten seconds, sometimes for five minutes.

* [[Keet]]: Dennis from ''3''. In his first scene, he ''climbs through Alyssa's window'' and rolls around on her bed, for starters.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: Don't expect your favorite characters to survive to the end. If they do, they'll probably die during it.

* [[Kill the Cutie]]

* [[The Killer Becomes the Killed]]: In every good ending.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|The main villain of ''3'', the Dark Gentleman, turns out to be main character Alyssa's grandfather.}}

* [[Mama Bear]]: {{spoiler|Mary Barrows loves her [[Eldritch Abomination|boys]] dearly and is not pleased when she finds out that her son Dan was killed by Jennifer}}.

* [[The Movie]]: A movie is being made, though it's been through [[Development Hell]] and back.

** The most recent news is that it's based on ''The Struggle Within''.

** To clarify further, a lot of the endings are just different ways of the lead characters getting killed. It's especially egregious in the third game; most of those 13 endings just show Alyssa/Yu getting murdered in different ways by the [[Creepy Child]].

* [[New Game+]]: ''3'''s "Clear Mode", which made the game harder and allowed the player to [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|wear alternative clothes]].

* [[No Export for You]]: The first game.

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Most bad endings in the series fall under this trope.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Oh boy, ''and HOW''.

* [[Novelization]]: There are two novels of the second game, one from Jennifer's side and the other from Helen's.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]

* [[Shmuck Bait]]: C'mon, {{spoiler|get in the car}}! Look, the keys are right there!

** Also in the first game, investigating certain things (like {{spoiler|a closed shower curtain}}, {{spoiler|a suit of armor}} or {{spoiler|a scream outside}}) triggers bad events (mainly, {{spoiler|the deaths of your friends}}).

* [[Split Personality]]: In ''Ghost Head''/''The Struggle Within'', there's Yu/Alyssa and her male alter ego Sho/Bates.

* [[Spooky Silent Library]]: The Library in the second game, especially with the threat of Scissorman, who happens to be inside the building too.

* [[Stairway to Heaven]]: May and her father ascend one in ''3'' after being put to rest.

* [[Survival Horror]]

* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Averted in the second game; not only does Jennifer go into therapy after the events of the first game, her adoptive mother is an assistant to a therapist.