Deadly Premonition: Difference between revisions

* [[Fetish Retardant]]: In-universe - Gina's "sexy dance" while washing York's car leaves a bad taste in his mouth.

* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Despite not being children, {{spoiler|Kaysen's red trees}} fit the bill.

** [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Forrest Kaysen}}

** [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|The Raincoat Killer}}

* [[For the Evulz]]: {{spoiler|Kaysen was already immortal and had no real need for any of the murders, and it is very clear that he torments the citizens of Greenvale and plants the red trees in women all over the United States purely for his own amusement}}. He's just that much of an utter bastard.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|George, George, George, George, George, George, and George}}.

* [[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.

** Ignoring the species, it could be {{spoiler|Willie}}.

** York sticks his finger up in the air and taps his tie so often that if a drinking game were to be based around them you'd have to make sure to use half-shots.

** When you talk to some people, they'll shove whatever they were holding into their back pocket, even if it's a large object like a broom or a jug. After talking to you, they'll proceed to remove it from their pocket and continue on with their business.

** York has a small scratch under his eye, and an older scar going through his left eyebrow and up his head (mostly all healed now). {{spoiler|Zach has a much more heroic (and obvious) one down through his eye.}}

** {{spoiler|George's back}} is riddled with them, which obscures the ONE {{spoiler|tree-shaped back-scar}} York is looking for. {{spoiler|George's facial scar}} also slowly becomes more pronounced with each murder, something most people don't realize until way after the game is over.

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Harry isn't stupid by any means, but damn, Michael can do everything! He also frequently displays an enourmous amount of knowledge about Greenvale's past and current events, even when Harry isn't feeding him information. This makes a lot more sense, though, after he reveals that {{spoiler|he's Harry's adopted son}} during his sidequest.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: York near the very end, completely failing to notice the most obvious hints in the game {{spoiler|that point to Kaysen's guilt}} as well as the {{spoiler|"peace sign"}} being a {{spoiler|tree}}. Possibly justified by the fact that {{spoiler|Zach's mental block concerning Kaysen}} probably doesn't allow for clear thinking when he's involved.

* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Thomas}}'s gruesome death scene. In the head, even!

* [[Improbable Weapon User|Improbable Weapon]]: Some of the melee weapons York can wield include a wrench, a weed whacker, and Keith's guitar. And it turns out that Keith's guitar [[Awesome Yet Practical|is one of the best weapons, if not the best, in the game]].

* [[Never One Murder]]

* [[New Game Plus]]: 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.

* [[No Export for You]]: Want to play Deadly Premonition in Australia? [http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/deadly-premonition-banned-in-australia/ Nope, because it's banned!] At least, that's what Rising Star Games thought. The OFLC was contacted on the matter where they said they hadn't even been handed a copy of it. The European/Australian publishers said [http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/deadly-premonition-not-banned-but-still-no-aussie-release/ they didn't think they could get away with the content and decided not to ship it.]

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: If you decide to {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide|have Zach kill himself]] or shoot Forrest Kaysen rather than (attempt) to [[Mercy Kill]] a begging Emily}}, you're treated to {{spoiler|York telling you that you made the wrong choice with a shriveled up Emily with parts of the red tree that Kaysen planted sticking out from her}}.

** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Kaysen]]}}. Full stop.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Anna Graham recently graduated high school making her around 18, but looks closer to 35.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: The music for {{spoiler|Kaysen}}'s final form.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Emily considers herself this. She's the only main character, besides York, who didn't grow up in Greenvale, so she doesn't seem to have any of the other townfolk's eccentricities.

** And what's in the room next door to top the icing on the cake?

* [[Running Gag]]: Emily's cooking and York's bizarre smoking habits, among others.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Considering the {{spoiler|fact that Willie (who is from the Red World) is still around, and the fact there's more than just one town with red trees}}. Swery has also confirmed he's making a sequel.

** {{spoiler|Don't forget that Swery said that there are "other agents of the Red Tree" like Kaysen....}}

** {{spoiler|York is a secondary personality created to protect Zach from psychological harm during a childhood incident}}. This is, in fact, one of the only reasons split personalities are developed in [[Real Life]].

*** While that is true, it goes back into {{spoiler|[[Did Not Do the Research]], as people with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) ''cannot'' communicate directly with their other personalities; but this is the entire premise between Zach and York.}}

* [[Single Tear]]: {{spoiler|Zach}} drops one near the ending.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]:

* [[Wasted Song]]: "Pillow Stain", which was in the original "Rainy Woods" trailer, can be heard nowhere else in the game but Thomas's apartment and in the Sound Test.

* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: During the epilogue, {{spoiler|Harry}} muses that he could have prevented the murders if he had had the will to {{spoiler|stop his psychotic wife from abusing George}}.

* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]:

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