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[[File:FKintheCoffee_858.jpg|frame|Clear as a crisp spring morning!]]

 

 

 

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17YzW3676KA Greenvale]. An [[Uncanny Village|unassuming small American town]] with all the necessities--a gunsmith, a gas station, a diner, two pubs--and little out of place. Certainly not the kind of place you'd expect to find the mutilated body of a young girl, stripped and bound to a tree as if crucified, left to be found by two young boys. The inexplicable appearance of monstrous humanoids which bleed purple and have a compulsion for bending over backwards and jamming their arms down one's throat is a little odd, too.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Sort of. A bar is named after him, the "SWERY '65". {{spoiler|He also appears in a trading card}}.

* [[Creepy Twins]]: Isaach and Isaiah.

* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: Both York and the Raincoat Killer, who seem to have more fun playing with each other than actually wanting to take each other out.

* [[Dark World]]: The nightmare world sections. Whether or not they take place in "reality" or are some sort of illusion or hallucination is left murky for quite a while.

* [[Drop-Dead Gorgeous]]: Anna. Lampshaded by people remarking on how beautiful she looked, and possibly subverted by Isaach and Isaiah [[Creepy Twins|practically worshiping her in death]].

** {{spoiler|Emily}} isn't too bad on the eyes. Definitely worth going primal over.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: {{spoiler|Forrest Kaysen}}.

* [[Emergency Weapon]]: The pistol York starts out with that cannot ever be dropped.

* [[Evidence Scavenger Hunt]]: As part of the profiling game mechanic.

* [[Expy]]: York bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Twin Peaks|Agent Dale Cooper]], quirky mannerisms and all.

* [[Genre Busting]]: One of the reasons this game isn't [[Trope Overdosed]] despite its popularity is the fact that it's so difficult to completely classify in a few words.

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Giant Evil Doberman From Nowhere]]: Appears to rise from the ground whenever York is exploring the town late at night.

* [[Girly Run]]: Thomas.

* [[Glasgow Grin]]: The enemies in the nightmare world sport them.

* [[In-Universe Game Clock]]: Time progresses at nearly a real-time rate (25 seconds to every minute). It fast-forwards if you smoke cigarettes or sleep, though doing so will cause your hunger meter to decrease greatly.

* [[Infinite Flashlight]]: Without the flashlight, even!

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: The men of the Morgan family seem to identify mainly by their middle name, since not only is York rarely called Francis, his father Brian Xander Morgan is mostly known as Xander (and even calls his son by his middle name).

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: York isn't shy about letting rural cops George and Emily know he's a much better detective than them. He lightens up on it a little later on though.

** Subverted with the turkey, cereal, and strawberry jam "Sinner's Sandwich": York initially thinks it's supposed to be awful so as to be a form of penance for the eater's past sins, but after he tries one, he finds it to be so delicious that he immediately changes his order to it.

*** [[Truth in Television]] too, if you use a cereal like Cheerios, that sandwich is actually really good.

* [[Let's Play]]: Two done in [[Giant Bomb]]'s Endurance Runs running concurrent to each other, an abandoned one from [[The Spoony Experiment]], and one by [[Something Awful]] member [[Supergreatfriend]].

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]:

* [[Man in White]]: Michael Tillotson. {{spoiler|Also Mr. Stewart in York's dreams}}.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: General Lysander, who runs the junkyard, keeps going on and on about the importance of speed and having a fast car. Harry Stewart, the only other person the same age as him in town, keeps saying that haste makes waste. "Some people think speed is the only thing that matters. They rely on speed, and are satisfied with what speed brings, but they miss sight of the important details."

* [[Mercy Kill]]:

** {{spoiler|Zach's mother}} begged {{spoiler|his father}} to kill her before the sapling planted in her sprouted.

* [[Necro Cam]]: Starts off terribly blurry. Finding more clues allows York to get a "clearer picture" of what really happened.

* [[Nerves of Steel]]: York most '''definitely''' has these. Milder situations include waking up from what seems, by all accounts, to be a standard [[Catapult Nightmare]] with nothing more than a small sigh and staring down crowds of monsters with a wry grin. Truly [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazing]] examples include chatting idly with Zach when he is [[Dude in Distress|captured]] by {{spoiler|Thomas}} after he knocks him out, and shrugging off the penultimate boss's [[Freudian Excuse]] with [[Deadpan Snarker|a few well-placed wisecracks]]. {{spoiler|Which, being Zach's alter ego created to protect him from harm, [[Fridge Brilliance|makes perfect sense]]}}.

* [[New Game+]]: You can replay any completed chapter with all your current inventory items intact. Considering certain sidequest givers die at certain points in the game, this kind of backtracking is vital.

* [[Nightmare Face]]: The Shadows of course have their vile grins ([[Nightmare Retardant|which are the only things vaguely frightening about them]]), but the real show stealer is York with the [[The Un-Smile|hilariously terrifying wide grin he pulls at bizarre moments]].

* [[Optional Traffic Laws]]: While you can get penalized for mowing down too many lampposts or driving too close to any townsfolk on foot, it barely dents your wallet. That said, the only non-monetary penalty for hitting other drivers is that your vehicle gets damaged.

* [[Orifice Invasion]]: Some of the enemies like to shove their hands down York's mouth. Given the chance, these enemies will shove their ''entire bodies'' down York's mouth, which will definitely kill him.

* [[Phony Veteran]]: York makes out Lysander to be one of these, noting that the old man wears a sergeant's uniform despite calling himself The General. {{spoiler|Inverted, as it turns out that Lysander actually was promoted to general but out of guilt during the Vietnam War continues to think of himself as a sergeant}}.

* [[Photo Psychic]]: Played straight with York's profiling.

* [[Quirky Town]]: Part of what causes the [[Mood Whiplash]] is how goofy some of the folks are in town.

* [[Railroading]]: While you have a generally lax schedule (see [[Take Your Time]] below) for much of the game, there are points where you ''immediately'' have to go to a target, usually by car, which won't allow you to get out of them, and even give you unlimited gas and make your car completely invulnerable, almost as if they wanted to make sure you don't try anything funny. After {{spoiler|discovering Thomas is likely a criminal}}, the game becomes much more linear, with red vines stopping you from fully exploring.

* [[Red Herring]]:

** During the very beginning of the game, York casually mentions being scratched by a hysterical woman. This is to cause you to assume that the townsfolk are simply spreading rumors over the little mark on your cheek, when in fact they're talking about {{spoiler|the much more dramatic scar sported by Zach}}.

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