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* [[Androcles' Lion]]: If Jennifer frees a crow she encounters while wandering the manor, then one of the endings will involve a whole murder of them coming to her rescue.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: The unlockable outfit in ''3''.
** The second game and ''Ghost Head'' also feature unlockable outfits.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Well, it ''is'' a [[Survival Horror]] series...
** The second game also features a counter for how many people survive the game out of ten. The most you can achieve is seven. {{spoiler|Because Edward is Scissorman, Kay is always murdered, and either Harris or Prof. Barton is the decoy Scissorman.}}
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* [[Cat Scare]]: In ''The First Fear'', there's two boxes in which either a black cat or Bobby can pop out.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Several items in the second game, most notably the {{spoiler|Demon Statue}} and a note in Jennifer's route {{spoiler|which has the Door Spell written on it}}, are eventually used in some way to enable you to {{spoiler|seal away Scissorman}} in the A and B endings.
** Also, in the first game, the crows come to rescue Jennifer if she frees them.
* [[Controllable Helplessness]]
* [[Creepy Child]]
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* [[Drop in Nemesis]]
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Bobby in the first, {{spoiler|Edward}} in the second and Chinatsu/Stephanie in the third.
* [[Ephebophile]]:
** Both Nolan (26) and Harris (35) are in love with Jennifer, who is only 15. In Nolan's case it's more like he's charmed by her while Harris has an [[Stalker with a Crush|unhealthy infatuation]]. The game does take place in Norway though, where the age of consent is 16.
** 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.
* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The titular clock tower, although the one in ''3'' is the only one that's all that ominous.
* [[Fake Boss]]: The second game in Helen's scenario, this is {{spoiler|Professor Barton, who was masquerading as Scissorman.}} If you haven't found the Door Spell by this point in the game, Helen concludes he was the real culprit and the game ends.
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: ''3'' has this at times, with the panic mode being the biggest offender.
** Interestingly, the rest of the series doesn't have any major [[Fake Difficulty]] besides enemies sometimes appearing without warning.
* [[Fan Remake]]: One of ''The First Fear'' titled ''Remothered'' is in progress.
* [[Fetch Quest]]: The fourth game has enough of these with such frequency, designed with such clear malevolence towards the player, as to render the game almost unplayably aggravating.
* [[Final Girl]]: Arguably subverted, in that there's usually at least one character left alive, other than the heroine, at the end. Then again, the canon ending for the first game only has Jennifer left alive, so it's played straight as well.
** Only for the sequel to subvert ''that'' too. {{spoiler|<s>Edward</s> Dan was the other survivor.}}
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* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]
* [[Overcrank]]: Near the end of the second game, when {{spoiler|Helen shoots Scissorman.}}
* [[Panty Shot]]: Mainly in ''3'', you can see up Alyssa's skirt quite a lot.
* [[Parental Incest]]: Averted in ''3'' with the aptly-named Dick Hamilton, who was so obsessed with his daughter that he ignored his wife, murdered his son-in-law, and abducted his daughter. Later, he transfers his obsession to his granddaughter, the heroine Alyssa, who's the very image of her mother. She manages to stop him though.
* [[Perverse Puppet]]: There's one in the first game.
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* [[Sanity Meter]]: ''3'''s panic meter, which goes up every time something (like a ghost or one of the Subordinates) surprises Alyssa. If it fills up all the way, she [[Interface Screw|panics]].
** The first game had a panic meter too, but in the form of Jennifer's portrait. It didn't do much except make her more likely to be killed by traps and cause her to trip more often.
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* [[Serial Killer]]: Most of the villains tend to be these.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The two worst and, more poignantly, two of the near-endgame endings in the first game. One ending in the second game in which {{spoiler|everyone dies horribly and Scissorman gets away scot free}}.
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[Haunting Ground]]'' is a spiritual successor to this series. At one point, it was intended to be an actual sequel, but the ''Clock Tower'' name was dropped during development.
* [[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.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Harris from the second game is infatuated with Jennifer, so much that {{spoiler|[[Love Makes You Evil|he becomes the fake Scissorman in her route because the real one bribed him with the belief that he would have her if he did so]].}}
* [[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.
** {{spoiler|Though said therapist is one of two possible "fake Scissormen."}}
* [[Time Travel]]: In ''3''.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: In ''The First Fear'', Jennifer's best friend is Lotte, the red-haired tomboy.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Sullivan}}
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Jennifer understandably suffers from this after the events of ''The First Fear'', and spends the majority of the sequel remembering nothing other than running for her life from the sound of giant scissor blades scraping against each other.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Happens in ''3'', inadvertently in which sometimes they look a little off...but this is one of those cases in which the Uncanny Valley can often turn out to be more ''funny'' than creepy. Invoked with corpses, however.
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: The first game was later re-released as ''Clock Tower: The First Fear'' on the [[PlayStation]] and PC with minor additions.
* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: While it is possible to save either Anne or Laura in the non-canonical [[Multiple Endings|S ending]], you can't save Lotte, Jennifer's [[Tomboy]] best friend.
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* [[Villainous Harlequin]]: The Scissortwins of ''3''. Maybe a pair of [[Monster Clown|Monster Clowns]] if you happen to think they're scarier than most do.
* [[Villainous Incest]]: Dick Hamilton towards both his daughter Nancy and granddaughter Alyssa (who looks like her mother). The Scissortwins to each other.
* [["Which Restroom?" Dilemma]]: Alyssa/Yu will refuse to enter the male restrooms. Bates/Sho (Alyssa/Yu's alternate male personality who shares her body) similarly will refuse to enter the female restrooms. You can make Bates/Sho examine the urinal to have him just sort of stare blankly at it for a moment.
* [[Who Wears Short Shorts?]]: Edward wears short shorts.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: The first game is basically the plot to the horror movie ''Phenomena'', even down to Jennifer having the same first name and looking very similar to the main character of said movie.
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