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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]] - Averted. You would think a trained police officer would be a stronger asskicker than a jacked up homeless person, but they're pretty much on even level. Ethan does have much better stamina, but see [[Made of Iron]] as to why.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: {{spoiler|Serial Killer X}} sports a shaved head in ''Bloodshot''.
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: Part of Ethan's whole [[Grunge]] make over in ''Bloodshot''.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]] - Revealed in the climax of the 2nd game.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: An instant kill against any enemy in the second game, including bosses-complete with an [[Your Head Asplode|exploding head affect]]. Considering how rare ammo is, it's a very efficient way of using firearms.
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Somehow, ''Bloodshot'' manages to be darker than ''Criminal Origins''.
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: The Agent who helps you fight through {{spoiler|the nightmarish version of SCU Headquarters turns out to have been killed months ago}}.
* [[Did I Mention It's Christmas?]]: The level set in the mega-store which is decrepit and abandoned From the décor and the faint ghostly music you can hear playing the store closed down one Christmas. This is arguably one of the most atmospheric levels of the game largely due to the out of place Xmas setting.
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: Well, disturbed pigeons.
* [[Doing in the Wizard]]: ''Condemned 2'' changes the Oro from mysterious supernatural enemies to government infiltrators using sonic technology to perform all their apparent weirdness.
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* [[Let's Play]]: ''Criminal Origins'' has one by [[Helloween 4545]], and another by Hannah and Simon of the [[Yogscast]].
* [[Made of Iron]]: Justified towards the end of the first game, when you come across a classified medical report that shows Ethan having "abnormally high" muscle and bone density. Your enemies, meanwhile, presumably have adrenaline and the hideous strength of the insane going for them.
** Hell, look at PCP users: cops testify consistently that PCP can make a normal man powerful and a strong man into a juggernaut. And the enemies of Condemned are hardly long-term planners when it comes to their physical well-being.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: The bird knows best when roosting in its nest. The bird knows best when roosting in its nest.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Criminal Origins, the subtitle of the first game, is explained in the sequel as meaning that the Oro are indirectly behind most if not all of humanity's atrocities.
* [[Monster Closet]]: Happens once in the subway level of ''Criminal Origins''-the player opens a locker and gets jumped by a pale, emaciated woman wielding a rebar.
* [[Mundanger]]: Possessed dolls? No problem. But [[Everything's Worse with Bears|a single bear...?]]
** Hardly. It's half a ton of muscle, claws, and murder-frenzy. Even if we know that it's called a bear, it's still an entirely, non-metaphorical monster. Does genuine monster status only qualify for fictional things?
* [[Murderous Mannequin]]: Subverted. Though several mannequins appear to follow you around in the department store level, even completely encircling you when you fall into a dark pit, they never actually attack you.
** But there ''are'' a bunch of crazies impersonating mannequins in that level as well. They have a different, more "relaxed" pose from the real mannequins, but without careful examination (or having never played the level before) you'd never be able to tell until they started clubbing you in the back of the head. Or you turned around to find that the mannequin on the pedestal behind you has [[Paranoia Fuel|walked off....]] Of course, a paranoid player may have attacked every single mannequin as a precautionary measure from the start of the department store level.
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** May be related to [[Doing in the Wizard]] above, as the origin of the Oro may have been tweaked between games.
* [[Race Lift]]: Between the first and second games Ethan went from being distinctly Hispanic/Samoan to pasty white.
** Could be [[Justified Trope|justified]] because he's been a sickly wreck since the end of the first game. Becoming a reclusive alcoholic doesn't do good things for your looks.
* [[Regenerating Health]]: ''Bloodshot'' uses a segmented health regeneration system similar to ''[[Resistance]]: Fall of Man''.
* [[Scenery Gorn]]
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* [[Stage Magician]]: The Magic Man, an Oro outcast who holes up in an abandoned theater and has a squad of insane showgirl assistants.
* [[Story-Driven Invulnerability]]
* [[Stringy
* [[Subways Suck]]: They're apparently infested with pipe-wielding psychotic maniacs.
* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: {{spoiler|Malcolm Vanhorn}} in ''Bloodshot''.
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* [[Title Drop]]: In ''Condemned 2'' Rosa refers to the Oro as potentially "the origin of crime itself".
** ''Condemned 2'' also has a news report advertised by Tony called The Condemned City.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: The second game has a few levels which ditch the melee combat mechanic for assault rifle vs assault rifle shootouts against SWAT soldiers. These seem more fitting for ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|FEAR]]'' than ''Condemned''. Unfortunately, booze isn't nearly as useful as [[Bullet Time]].
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* [[Vice City]]: Arguably a [[Deconstruction]] in that it shows just how frightening a decaying, crime-filled city, in which the cops don't really do anything unless they have to, would be.
* [[Vigilante Execution]]: SKX's modus operandi. He's still a [[Complete Monster]], though.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Metro City, in which the games are set, is what appears to be a "Rust Belt" city, due to it's large amount of abandoned factories and cold winter. However, the Rust Belt area is quite large.
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Subverted in ''Condemned 2''. If you lose the final [[Action Commands]] combo punching sequence at the end of the final battle, the [[Big Bad]] just whips out a gun and shoots you in the head. Why he didn't just do this ''earlier'' in the final fistfight, though...
* [[Wrongful Accusation Insurance]]: In the course of proving his innocence in the murder of two police officers, Ethan flees from the police (twice), breaks into multiple closed or condemned buildings, and bludgeons a small army of hobos, drug addicts, and assorted other lunatics to death. Then again, it's entirely possible Malcolm Van Horn or the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] pulled strings to get him off the hook.
** Noted and made-fun-of in one of the Let's Plays:
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