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* [[Digital Distribution]]: On the Big Fish Games website, and a few other places too.

* [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]: Just about every item you need to progress through the games is broken up into fragments which you must reassemble by solving the hidden object scenes in which they've been scattered.

* [[Flower Motifs]]: Naturally, the castle where Princess Briar Rose is sleeping in the first game has a recurring rose motif.

** Roses also appear in the second game, along with many other kinds of flowers, but most of all there's a strong ivy motif {{spoiler|in memory of Princess Ivy}}.

* [[Private Detective]]: The player character, a detective who specializes in fairy tale mysteries. Surprisingly, there's actually a call for that in this universe.

* [[Strategy Guide]]: These can also be purchased and downloaded for each game; they come included in the collector's editions.

* [[The Voice]]: The woman whose recorded voice provides all the information about the current case at the start of each game. It's unclear who she is, although presumably she's some form of [[Mission Control]]. For no stated reason, it's a different voice in the third game than in the first two.

 

* [[Bookcase Passage]]: A section of wall-mounted bookshelves in the castle library opens to reveal the entrance to a shrine to Briar Rose's godmothers.

* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: A piece in one of the puzzles features Cinderella's glass slipper; but to judge by the events of the second game, Cinderella's story took place at least a few generations after Sleeping Beauty's. Of course, this can be [[Hand Wave|hand waved]] because [[A Wizard Did It|the fairy godmothers crafted all the first game's puzzles]].

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: Playing hard mode grants access to a secret room. The words on the wall of the chamber identify it as the "Secret Room."

** The Evil Godmother, who is never identified by any other name.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: When Briar Rose didn't wake from her magic coma, her good godmothers united their power to seal the briar plant - and the Evil Godmother's power - in the castle for one thousand years. The detective is called in to deal with the situation because the thousand years are over, and the seal has broken.

* [[Sleeping Beauty]]: Literally.

* [[Theme Naming]]: The only two of Briar Rose's good godmothers who are identified by any sort of name are the Godmother of the Rose and the Godmother of the Ivy. In the second game, you learn that Briar ''Rose'' had a sister named ''Ivy''.

* [[Warp Whistle]]: A "mysterious arcane symbol" allows the detective to teleport at will between the alchemist's tower and the castle courtyard.

* [[The X of Y]]

* [[All Women Love Shoes]]: Cinderella's rooms include a massive walk-in closet filled with nothing but shoes.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: The [[Swan Lake]] Princess's house has an unsurprising swan motif going on.

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: The Frog Prince, and the others enchanted to be frogs.

* [[Beneath the Earth]]: Where most of the game takes place.

* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Averted; the sisterhood between Briar Rose and Ivy is acknowledged, but only in ways that make it sound like the sisters were extremely close.

* [[Green Thumb]]: The Frog Prince appears to have magical control over vines, and grows them at will to block off escape routes and other places he doesn't want the detective to go.

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Everyone turned into a frog, including the prince.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Arguably, {{spoiler|the Frog Prince. He spends centuries haunting the Black Forest and turning people into frogs, until he's finally [[Killed Off for Real]] at the end of the game. Since all he wanted was to die, this isn't really punishment, especially since it reunited him with Princess Ivy.}}

* [[Only the Worthy May Pass]]: Literally, there is a door in the palace with a plaque stating exactly this. (It can only be entered on hard mode, when the requisite [[MacGuffin]] has been acquired.)

* [[Reflecting Laser]]/[[Mirrors Reflect Everything]]: Used in the palace armory in ''Exiled Prince'' to unlock a hidden panel.

* [[Shout Out]]: Felix the Fish, the mascot of Big Fish Games, appears as a statue in the Little Mermaid's grotto.

=== Tropes present in ''Rise of the Snow Queen'' include: ===

* [[All There in the Manual|All There in the Parables]]: Throughout the game, you'll collect parable gems which, when you have all of each kind, will explain how things got to be the way they are. These tell the parables of "The Rise of the Snow Queen," "The Mountain Beast," "The Golden Child," "The Tale of the Two Mirrors," and "The Snow Queen's Tale." The bonus game adds the parable of "The Witch and the Goddess."

* [[Backstory]]: The bonus game, featuring [[Hansel and Gretel (Literature)|Hansel and Gretel]], explains how the legend of the Golden Child came to be.

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: The Snow Queen's henchman uses a magic spell to summon one to keep the detective out of the Frozen Palace.

** According to the very brief preview given of the fourth game, [[Red Riding Hood (Literature)|Red Riding Hood]] hangs out with an entire pack of these.

* [[The Chosen One]]: {{spoiler|Gerda}} is discovered to be the fabled Golden Child, whom the Snow Queen has been seeking.

* [[Doting Parent]]: [[Snow White (Literature)|Snow White]]'s father, and {{spoiler|Snow White herself}}.

* [[Due to The Dead]]: Outside of the chapel, there is a large monument to the memory of a boy carrying a bow and arrow. Another, even more cryptic memorial is located inside the chapel. This boy is eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|the son of Snow White and The Frog Prince - who isn't actually dead, just in an enchanted sleep}}.

* [[Tap On the Head]]: When the detective is caught observing the Snow Queen's attack on Gerda, her beastly henchman delivers one of these, and the detective wakes up in prison.

* [[Warp Whistle]]: Two shimmery portals enable the detective to teleport at will between the Frozen Palace and two other locations.

* [[Winter Royal Lady]]: The Snow Queen, of course.

* [[The X of Y]]

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