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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Beauty is introduced as someone who can sense Sissel's presence, and in her second scene she actually {{spoiler|speaks to him, implying that she'll be an active antagonist}}. But that's the last time she, or her ability, are ever mentioned.
* [[The Alcatraz]]: The "Special Prison" for suspected {{spoiler|ghost-possessed}} criminals.
* [[Alternate Timeline]]:
** In a small way, what happens whenever Sissel goes back in time and averts someone's fate.
** In the storyline at large: The first one is what happens when the important characters die because {{spoiler|Missile}} lacks the needed ghost tricks and {{spoiler|Sissel}} refuses to assist him, too preoccupied with his own quest for identity. The second one occurs when the first timeline's {{spoiler|Missile-Prime}} goes back 10 years via {{spoiler|Yomiel}}'s body and takes [[The Slow Path]] to the present, then, under the guise of Ray, {{spoiler|making Sissel think he's Yomiel to trick him into saving Lynne and everyone else}}. The third one happens when Sissel, {{spoiler|second-timeline Missile, Yomiel}}, and Detective Jowd save {{spoiler|Yomiel from dying via Temsik shard}} in Temsik Park 10 years ago, preventing his [[Start of Darkness]] and the chain of events that lead to people dying.
* [[Always Close]]: Completing some puzzles long before your time runs out still has you averting fate in this way despite the cause of death not arriving for another minute or so. The earliest this happens is {{spoiler|when you save Missile}}. Many other puzzles can only be solved in the final seconds "until death". It gets pretty ridiculous, considering that the way to prevent quite a few deaths is to wait until the absolute final ''milliseconds'' before a person's death, usually to {{spoiler|swap a bullet that's hanging in midair ''centimetres from the victim's face''}}. Fortunately, the player doesn't have to time these, as the game does it for you.
* [[Always Murder]]: Subverted. Although the first few deaths are murders, there's a fair share of accidents as well, including one case where the deceased {{spoiler|died of a panic-induced heart attack}}.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: The "foreigners" are identifiable by their blue skin, including {{spoiler|the blue medical examiner}}, though you don't get confirmation until later in the game.
* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]:
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** It gets especially obvious with Jowd. The blue and red paint-stains on his shirt switch places!
** Characters holding items (like the night-visions guards or the minister's wife) always have their items facing the viewer. Oddly, however, there are animations that show them changing hands whenever they turn around.
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* [[Arms and Armor Theme Naming]]: In Japanese, Kamila's name is Kanon, while her dog is named Missile. Ironic, since they're two of the sweetest and weakest people in the game {{spoiler|until Missile dies and [[Takes a Level In Badass]], at which point he's just one of the sweetest}}.
* [[Aside Glance]]: Those talking directly (usually Lynne) to Sissel may look toward the player in order to speak to him. {{spoiler|This is used to full effect in the case of those who know about the Powers of the Dead that you haven't reached out to}}.
* [[The Atoner]]:
** {{spoiler|Yomiel}} becomes one of these after he gives up his quest for revenge.
** Cabanela is one because his recklessness gave {{spoiler|Yomiel}} a gun, which he used to escape custody.
** Jowd because he forced {{spoiler|Yomiel into a corner, so he took Lynne hostage}}.
** Kamila has a few shades of this since she built a device that ultimately {{spoiler|killed her mother}}.
* [[Back for the Dead]]: Although it seems like {{spoiler|Missile}} will simply be a minor character, he comes back... just to die. Of course, this serves an important purpose, as {{spoiler|he now has the Ghost Swap power to aid Sissel with}}.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Missile. {{spoiler|[[Everythings Cuter With Kittens|And Sissel]]}}.
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* [[Bad Future]]: What happens if Sissel doesn't save anyone. {{spoiler|Ray}} hails from this timeline.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The ending reveals that {{spoiler|Ray tricked Sissel into thinking he was the blond-haired man in red, as well as telling him that he would cease to exist after dawn. This misdirection causes Sissel to save Lynne and the others as leads to his identity, and eventually bond with them}}.
* [[Be as Unhelpful as Possible]]:
** Jowd, when Sissel tries to erase his death. Granted, the guy ''[[Death Seeker|wanted]]'' to die, but he doesn't have to be such a [[Deadpan Snarker|smartass]] about it.
** {{spoiler|The justice minister}} also has shades of this. Sissel even [[Lampshade|lampshades]] the latter.
{{quote|'''Minister''': Maybe if you {{spoiler|give him the water first}} he'll feel a little better.
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* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel, before his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}. Also, Beauty and her sidekick, Dandy. Averted with Sissel, though {{spoiler|as a cat, his hair is actually black}}.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Every death in the game, except the heart attack.
* [[Book Ends]]:
** Sissel trying to hurl his body around the junkyard, with no results. {{spoiler|Yomiel}} tries it in the climax, and succeeds.
** The very first AND very last thing {{spoiler|Missile}} is seen to do with his ghost powers is {{spoiler|swap the park's heavy mascot with something else in mid-fall}}.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Averted when {{spoiler|Sissel refuses to go back to 4 minutes before young Lynne's death while averting Yomiel's death, all to keep her from being traumatized}}.
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** Flashbacks and the previews before 4 minutes before death puzzles look like film strips relating to the fact that it's been "recorded" into the past.
* [[Check Point]]: Whenever you alter the situation to give you more time, you get a new place to fall back to if you screw up (which you inevitably will).
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** The music box is the most obvious example. However, several "minor" things you see and run into near the beginning take on much more significant meaning as more is revealed. Particularly the [[Rube Goldberg Device|Robinson-Goldberg device]], Sissel's bag, and "the rock of the gods."
** Two innocuous-seeming examples: Cabanela's pocket watch, and Sith's grape-peeling machine.
** The van in the park has shades of this, given that it's possible to see it very early and not recognize its significance. For that matter, the mural/graffiti on Jowd's cell wall probably counts too.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]:
** In the order you first see them: Ray, the {{spoiler|black cat}} (which gets vignetted in Chapter 1, but is not commented on), and Pigeon Man.
** {{spoiler|Yomiel}} reveals that armed government agents constantly patrol Temsik Park. Sissel flashes back to the "Guardian of the Park".
{{quote|'''Sissel''': You mean--?
'''{{spoiler|Yomiel}}''': No. He's just a plain old odd person.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|"Ray"}}.
* [[City with No Name]]: The city the story takes place in isn't named, and the two countries that play into it are simply referred to as "this country" and "that country". See [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]] below.
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: In some aspects, the country the blue people are from. In any case, they have rather odd applications of technology, like robot arms for feeding one [[Grapes of Luxury]], flipping tables that have phones and fruit on different sides, and {{spoiler|robotic manservants}}. Even lampshaded by {{spoiler|Yomiel}}, Jowd, and even Sith himself very early in the game.
{{quote|'''Servant''': I am a {{spoiler|remote-controlled robot}}, detective.
'''Jowd''': What?!
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Bailey, especially when doing the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBzcXCl-uE Panic Dance]", which he performs during emergencies but refuses to stop doing after the crisis has passed. Also, the "Guardian of the Park". Oddly, Bailey's outlandish fears almost always [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|turn out right]].
* [[Color-Coded Timestop]]: The above mentioned powers of the dead stop time when active, with the world being tinted in their respective colours. Plus if you fail to save someone, time stops and a grayscale variation comes up.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]:
** When Sissel uses the powers of the dead, the world of the dead is red. When {{spoiler|Missile}} uses them, it's green, and when {{spoiler|Yomiel}} uses them, it's blue.
** In-game example: Cabanela asks if the detective he's talking to over the phone is "the green one or the blue one", based on the suits they were wearing.
** {{spoiler|All the foreigners are blue}}.
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* [[Cool Shades]]: Sissel, of course. {{spoiler|And also Yomiel, whose appearance Sissel accidentally stole}}.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: You'd know after the ending that {{spoiler|that's not Sissel on the boxart}}. Though if you pay attention to [[Exact Words|what's actually written]], {{spoiler|it never claims that the figure on the front of the box is Sissel}}. Nevertheless, the fact that the {{spoiler|bag containing Sissel's body}} is not behind the body is misleading. In the game itself, it's there (even if hard to see) and this is an important part.
* [[Cruelty Is the Only Option]]:
** Sissel is forced to do some pretty unfair things to a rat in Chapter 13. In fact, barring one case, you are pretty mean to rats in general. Then again, {{spoiler|Sissel ''is'' a cat}}...
** You're also forced to kill the two hitmen to stop them from killing Lynne early on. Of course, it's in defense of an innocent, and hitmen are [[Acceptable Targets]].
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: In the apartment, Sissel helps Kamila find a music box she must bring to Lynne by possessing a musical Christmas ornament nearby. She leaves the apartment with it, and Sissel needs to follow her but remains stuck in the apartment. He could have possessed the box... but because of his [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], he didn't know what it was. You could easily see this coming by noticing the lack of a core to move to on the item.
* [[Da Chief]]: Cabanela's boss, The Chief.
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* [[Darkest Hour]]: All the principal characters trapped on the sinking submarine.
* [[Deadfoot Leadfoot]]: The cause of Lynne's fourth death.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Sissel, Jowd
* [[Dead to Begin With]]: The game starts with Sissel, the player character, stating that he died recently. He doesn't go to the afterlife though: he can and will stick around the world of the living to investigate the circumstances of his death. Ray, the first character Sissel meets, is dead too, and is currently possessing a desk lamp. He will be the one who teaches Sissel the powers of the dead that will help him uncover the truth about himself.
* [[Death by Irony]]: Lynne asks a waitress to hurry it up with her chicken dinner, and is crushed by a giant chicken wing.
{{quote|'''Sissel:''' Well, it seems you've escaped your fate of being [[Alliteration|hammered by a horrible hen]]!}}
* [[Death From Above]]:
** Wrecking balls, crates, chickens, statues, vaults, [[Up to Eleven|meteors]], footballs...
** [[Zig-Zagging Trope|ZigZagged]] with {{spoiler|Yomiel}} is struck by a fragment of the {{spoiler|Temsik meteor, "killing" him, but then putting his body in a state between life and death}}. The subversion is in that to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]], {{spoiler|Yomiel}} has to be saved from {{spoiler|the meteor shard}}, and when it's deflected towards Detective Jowd, it shoots through his leg. Then it's [[Double Subverted]] when Sissel is shown to have been hit by {{spoiler|the fragment, making him a ''literal'' Schrodinger's cat}}.
* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]: If you run out of time while averting someone's fate, you can just restart from the beginning of that segment or a checkpoint. Amusingly, in-game the characters close to Sissel [[Lampshade Hanging|start to feel this way because they know he can just save them]]. This also applies in the few cases where you're trying to stop someone from dying in the first place (eg. you're still in the present) since if they do die, Sissel just jumps back four minutes anyways. In fact, there's no such thing as a "permanent" game over you'll need to reload from.
* [[Death's Hourglass]]: A spinning hourglass forestalls death -- by 5 minutes, anyhow.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
** While the assassins may deserve what they get, it may seem excessive that the hard-nosed (if [[Affably Evil]]) kidnappers are {{spoiler|blown up and Yomiel gets 10 years for escaping police custody}} after being falsely accused.
** {{spoiler|Yomiel}} tries to get {{spoiler|Lynne}} convicted of murder simply because she was in his path at the park 10 years ago, which ''[[Never My Fault|gave him the idea]]'' him to take her hostage. Cabanela even calls him out on it.
** Being mean to little girls is punished most severely in this universe!
* [[Diving Save]]:
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** Cabanela does this in an attempt to save {{spoiler|Pigeon Man}} from getting blown up by TNT.
** Lynne's last 'death' comes as the result of pushing Kamila out of the path of falling rubble.
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* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]:
** The Police Chief, of all people. Apparently he has itchy toes.
** Also the park's guardian. Which is more believable since he's a hippie and all...
* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: {{spoiler|Well, more like the dog was the [[Trickster Mentor]], but close enough}}.
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* [[Escort Mission]]: Chapters 9 (rescuing Jowd from jail) and 16 (helping Lynne and Kamila escape the submarine).
* [[Eureka Moment]]: On the sinking ''Yonoa'', Kamila wishes her father was there to save them. Lynne is inspired to strap Sissel into a torpedo and send him to find Jowd.
* [[Everybody Lives]]: What Sissel is trying to make happen—besides himself, natch. {{spoiler|In the end, thanks to the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]], everyone ''does''. Even Sissel, in a sense}}. Except {{spoiler|Dandy}} and {{spoiler|Beauty}}. They get blown up in the credits. Though it isn't confirmed if they really did die from the explosion.
* [[Everyone Is Related]]: Jowd believes that he, Lynne, and Sissel all met {{spoiler|10 years ago when the meteor landed in the park}}. He's more right than he knows: The man {{spoiler|he ''thinks'' is Sissel was actually Yomiel}}, but Sissel was indeed present -- {{spoiler|as a stray kitten}}.
* [[Extremely Short Timespan]]: Maybe about twelve or so hours, give or take, but a ridiculous number of shocking twists occur during them.
* [[Failsafe Failure]]:
** The cell doors inside the Special Prison automatically open during a power outage.
** The torpedo that sinks the ''Yonoa''. A rat [[Offscreen Teleportation|somehow]] got ''inside'' {{spoiler|the torpedo}}, and was happily perched right in the middle of the failsafe system, stopping it from activating.
* [[Falling Chandelier of Doom]]: In the game, Sissel can turn a switch that drops a chandelier inside the [[Grande Dame|Elegant Lady]]'s room. He has to do this when the Elegant Lady herself is underneath it so she'll be trapped and {{spoiler|her daughter can call the justice minister}}, though unless you get the timing just right she [[Dodge the Bullet|dodges]] it like a pro.
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*** Speaking of conversations with Ray, if you go back to the junkyard and talk to him immediately after seeing the security footage of {{spoiler|Yomiel manipulating Lynne into shooting him}}, Ray will tell you that "The truth is sometimes hidden in the shadow of what's being looked at."
* [[Forgot I Couldn't Swim]]: Lynne and Kamila.
* [[Four Is Death]]:
** Sissel can rewind time to four minutes before a death he's trying to prevent. {{spoiler|As can Missile, but ''not'' Yomiel. The latter admits that he would prevent Sissel from dying if he could—and by "Sissel", he means both the cat and his fiancée}}.
** All the GameCenter achievements in the iOS version are worth 4, 44, or 444 points, and all the "do X a certain number of times" achievements follow the same pattern.
* [[Funny Spoon]]: Detective Jowd's cryptic clue: "Head for the spoon."
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* [[Ghost Amnesia]]: Upon death, people become "unconscious" [[Ghost Lights]] and will assume their true appearance once their memory is jogged. However, a ghost can take on someone else's form if they mistakenly believe they're that person. {{spoiler|Ray's [[Batman Gambit]] hinges on this}}.
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel}}.
* [[Good All Along]]:
** {{spoiler|Inspector Cabanela is initially presented as a ladder-climbing jerk}}, but he only rose in the ranks so that he could monitor the Manipulator case. He also spends much of the game trying to keep Lynne safe and Jowd from being executed.
** {{spoiler|Yomiel plays with this}}. When he was still human, he was thought to be a spy, but was innocent the entire time. Later, he reveals that he could've snuffed Sissel out a number of times, but wanted him to keep going. And then, [[Heel Face Turn|he finally makes up for everything]].
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Or in Lynne's case, be brought back from the dead.
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* [[Hachiko]]: {{spoiler|Missile gets his Crowning Moment of [[Undying Loyalty]] by going back in time 10 years and taking [[The Slow Path]] back to that fateful night when the murders all began, in order to become Sissel's mentor under the guise of Ray and hopefully make him help save Lynne, Kamila, and the others in the process, which he didn't do in the original [[Bad Future]]. It works}}.
* [[Hair Color Spoiler]]: {{spoiler|The color of the police doctor's skin}}. He's blue, like the other evil foreigners, but you don't find out he was {{spoiler|an imposter intent on stealing Yomiel's corpse}} until far later in the game.
* [[Hand Wave]]: When Sissel asks Ray how ghosts can go back in time and that it doesn't even make any sense, Ray just replies: "We're talking about the powers of the dead, here. It doesn't have to make sense." Though, given how conversations between ghosts and the ghost world itself are out of time, it's not that much of a stretch to think they could go back to a previous moment.
* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: Kamila.
* [[Healing Factor]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel and later Sissel wind up with this, due to being frozen between life and death and constantly restored to the moment before they died}}.
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* [[He Knows Too Much]]: Sith and {{spoiler|Yomiel}} have conspired to kill ''everyone'' who knows about the {{spoiler|Temsik meteor}}.
* [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]]: Lynne has one after you rescue her the first time when she is just sitting in the rain, getting a little cold. [[Plucky Girl|Of course it only takes a small jab to snap her out of it.]]
* [[I Let You Win]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel}} admits that he knew about Sissel's interference but chose not to stop him. For some reason, this doesn't make saving {{spoiler|the superintendent or Cabanela}} from him any easier. That was specifically referring to {{spoiler|saving Lynne}}. He later elaborates on the general situation {{spoiler|by explaining that he doesn't have time control powers, meaning that he couldn't keep up with your [[Save Scumming]]}}.
* [[Immortality]]: {{spoiler|The Manipulator, Yomiel}}, has Complete Immortality, due to being a ghost inhabiting his original body, which is kept from aging, dying, or being wounded by {{spoiler|a meteor fragment}} lodged within it. In the ending, the past is changed so that {{spoiler|Sissel}} ends up in this state instead.
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: {{spoiler|In the end, despite everything Sissel and Missile have accomplished, Lynne, Jowd, and Kamila would have all died if not for the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]}}.
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* [[Justified Tutorial]]: Sissel learns about his "powers of the dead" from another spirit. {{spoiler|One who was secretly manipulating him into saving Lynne and Kamila, in order to avert the events of his own timeline}}.
* [[Kick the Morality Pet]]: The real circumstances of {{spoiler|Sissel}}'s death, albeit unintentional; {{spoiler|Yomiel had trouble manipulating Lynne into shooting him, and the first shot missed and killed Sissel in the bag. Yomiel admits that he would have saved Sissel if he had the power to rewind time and avert deaths}}.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
** When Sissel possesses his first object, he actually expresses his disbelief that he's essentially that object now.
{{quote|'''Sissel''': "So...what? Now I'm a crossing gate...?"}}
** A lot of characters start thinking that [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]] since Sissel can just go back in time and prevent their deaths.
{{quote|'''Lynne:''' Ha ha! I died again!
'''Sissel:''' ...}}
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Sissel lost some memories about basic concepts via [[Ghost Amnesia]], such as science, what a kidnapping is, and reading. {{spoiler|In the end, it turns out that he didn't remember his life because he was living as someone else the entire time. When he finally did realize who he was, he remembered everything, revealing that he didn't remember so many basic concepts because he was a cat}}.
* [[Living Forever Is Awesome]]: This is {{spoiler|Sissel's take on his fate at the end of the game; he gets to watch life happen all around him. It seems he adapts better to this life than Yomiel did. Though unlike Yomiel, Sissel does have plenty of people around to watch and interact with and seems to be content to do so}}.
* [[Locked Room Mystery]]: Subverted. Immediately after one appears (and declared as such by an excited character) you go back in time and see exactly how it happened. [[Rube Goldberg Device|Turns out to be a domino effect that the victim triggered.]]
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* [[Mexican Standoff]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel}} vs. Jowd, 10 years in the past.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Quite literally {{spoiler|Sissel for Yomiel}}, although it doesn't do much good until the end of the game when {{spoiler|Yomiel}} does his [[Heel Face Turn]], {{spoiler|Sissel}} most likely being a major reason for this.
* [[Morphic Resonance]]:
** {{spoiler|Yomiel}} constructs a mishmash body out of scrap metal. The 'head', however, is still pointy and wearing sunglasses.
** {{spoiler|After turning back into a cat, Sissel's feline eyes somewhat resemble Yomiel's glasses}}.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel}}'s death is this for both Jowd, who was about to shoot him, and Cabanela, who gave him the desire and means to flee questioning. Also Sissel {{spoiler|not helping Missile}} in the original timeline.
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* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: The guardian of the park.
* [[New World Tease]]: You gain access to many areas before there's much to do there. Notably, the second location the plot makes you visit is the villain's headquarters.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: {{spoiler|By removing the Temsik fragment from Yomiel's body and making it a regular
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Sissel may view Missile as this {{spoiler|until Sissel finds out that he is a [[Not So Different|cat]]. So actually, Sissel was this to Lynne}}.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: {{spoiler|Commander Sith is short, unimposing and has goofy eyebrows, but he manages to betray Yomiel in the end and almost sends the cast to their deaths at the bottom of the sea}}.
* [[Oh My Gods]]: Cabanela's "Ye gods!" Others can be heard saying "Gods in heaven!" or variants of it.
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* [[People Puppets]]: {{spoiler|The Manipulator's}} ({{spoiler|Yomiel}}) modus operandi, achieved by [[Sharing a Body]] with their victim (though said victim never feels their presence).
* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: Sith's masked henchman and his console.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]:
** Whenever the waitress of the Chicken Kitchen leaves, a character says "Odd girl", given her wacky personality. Another character always replies with "I agree", followed by "Me too" by yet another person (or the first one).
** If the blue doctor is around, a character will say "You never know who might be listening." Sissel replies "Like me", as well as the doctor himself.
** Regarding the blue people's country, the characters usually utter that their use of technology is just plain "off". Lampshaded by Sith's servant near the end of the game with "We get that a lot."
* [[Playing the Player]]: See Sissel up above? The guy in the red suit with the blonde hair? See how he's all over the game's advertising, he's the player character's image in-game, the first thing the player sees in-game, and even the picture of the [[Player Character]] in the manual? {{spoiler|That's not him. ''That's the Big Bad''. But you do play as someone resembling him for almost all of the game}}.
* [[Plot Armor]]: With the twist that you're the one ''providing'' it.
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* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Sissel comments on this after being partnered with the ghosts of {{spoiler|Cabanela, Pigeon Man}}, ''and'' {{spoiler|Missile}}.
{{quote|"What a dangerous bunch..."}}
* [[Rainbow Speak]]: Important words are highlighted in red, while Sissel's thoughts are in blue. Bizarrely, certain letters in seemingly random places are consistently colored red as well. For example, the "Tri{{color|red|c}}k" button has a red letter C in the DS version (though not in the iOS version), and the "Trick {{color|red|T}}ime!" prompt is always colored as such (in both versions). Even the cover art for the Original Sound Tr{{color|red|a}}ck follows suit. Is CAPCOM sending hidden messages? {{spoiler|Seems the cover one was false, but the DS button's Tri(C)k, the Sound Tr(A)ck, and the Trick (T)ime link up to the supposed message}}.
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: When someone hands a gun to the Justice Minister to examine, he immediately proceeds to stare straight down the barrel. For most of the rest of the scene.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig Zagged]] to hell and back with {{spoiler|Yomiel}}. {{spoiler|When he, Sissel, Missile and Jowd travel back in time to the Temsik incident (Yomiel holding Lynne hostage and at a standoff with Detective Jowd) to alter his fate. Yomiel decides he prefers [[Taking the Bullet]] to [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|"living" like he did before]]. Missile, however, refuses to let Jowd become a murderer, and swaps the bullet with Lynne's sweet potato. All right, a subversion. But then the sweet potato knocks Yomiel into a sharp part of the fountain, which stabs him in the back. Okay, double-subversion. But ''he survives''! No, wait a second, the Mino statue is about to fall on Lynne! Yomiel possesses his own body to [[Heroic Sacrifice|grab Lynne and toss her into Jowd's arms]]. The statue falls on him instead, crushing his lower back. [[Made of Iron|He survives, and completely recovers]]}}.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]:
** {{spoiler|Cabanela}} and {{spoiler|Jowd}}, respectively.
** Also, Lynne or Missile and Sissel.
* [[Retirony]]: Subverted. Memry, the waitress at the Chicken Kitchen, mentions that it's her last day working there. She is ''almost'' killed by a speeding truck crashing into the restaurant, but is saved at the last minute by Lynne pushing her out of the way.
* [[Retro Universe]]:
** Although most technology seems to be modern (wireless headphones and plasma TVs) and a young woman is allowed on the detective force (suggesting modern social mores), everyone uses rotary telephones that still use the old station-extension phone number style. ''[[Schizo-Tech|Wireless]]'' rotary phones, in some cases. Which makes for some major [[Schizo-Tech]] with the blue people, who have robotic arms, pimped-out information consoles, and {{spoiler|remote-controlled robot manservants}}.
** Inspector Cabanela is a regular [[Disco Dan]].
** The Chicken Kitchen is an glitzy (?) 50's nostalgia place, complete with jukebox and [[Service Sector Stereotypes|roller-skating waitresses]].
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** This brings up something mentioned at the ending: It's clearly stated that, because their ghosts went back to 10 years ago, only Sissel, Yomiel, Jowd, and Missile will remember all the details of what happened in the game in the new present. This is proven when Jowd knows what to name {{spoiler|the kitten he adopts, and Yomiel expresses his thanks to his cat for changing his fate}}. However, it appears that everybody else who was brought back through a Ghost Trick previously doesn't remember what has happened, as shown when Lynne is shown to no longer possess the core she received after being saved for the second time.
** This is also what inspires the final puzzle: {{spoiler|the gang could have rewound time if Lynne had been crushed by the statue to try and find some other way of stopping things, but that would leave a little girl with the memory of being crushed to death for the rest of her life, and Sissel absolutely refuses to let that happen}}.
* [[Robotic Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The Masked Muscleman}}.
* [[Rube Goldberg Device]]: The game may as well be called ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Rube Ghostberg Contraption: The Game]]'', though a literal example is seen as well. {{spoiler|And central to the plot itself, as you later find out}}.
* [[Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts]]: {{spoiler|How Yomiel offed Detective Jowd's wife
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Every character has needlessly stylish movements and mannerisms.
* [[Running Gag]]: {{spoiler|Lynne dying. Even in the altered "final" timeline, she comes very close to it}}.
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* [[Schroedingers Cat]]: We find that {{spoiler|Sissel ends up as a ''literal'' one}} in the epilogue. Kamila says that after all these years, he hasn't aged a day, and a Ghost World perspective shows that he still has ghost powers, due to {{spoiler|getting struck by the Temsik fragment as a kitten}}.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: Sissel can go back four minutes in time to stop someone from being murdered. This is called "Avert Fate" in-game. Naturally, it's the whole point of the game.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]:
** Temsik Park {{spoiler|(and, by extension, the Temsik meteor)}} - "Temsik" is "[[wikipedia:Kismet|kismet]]" backwards, an Urdu word meaning "fate".
** "Yonoa" is a backwards version of the Japanese syllables of "ano-yo," a term referring to the world of the dead.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: It's a foundation for a sequel, anyway. {{spoiler|The ending reveals that in the new timeline, Sissel is a ghost inhabiting his own now-immortal body, as Yomiel was in the original timeline... so he still has his ghost powers in case he needs them in a sequel}}. Good luck making a sequel that doesn't result in a massive [[Late Arrival Spoiler]] for this game...
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: The purpose of most chapters, when you attempt to avert fates. {{spoiler|The Final Chapter is an attempt to do this 10 years in the past, creating an [[Alternate Timeline]]}}.
* [[Shooting Superman]]: Poor Cabanela learns this the hard way after capping {{spoiler|Yomiel}} in the head. Though, as it turns out, {{spoiler|Cabanela knew damn well that it wouldn't kill him; the bullet had a ''tracker'' placed in it}}!
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Both literal and figurative. First, {{spoiler|Missile the Pomeranian gets shot as a result of trying to protect his mistress(es)}}. Next is {{spoiler|the fact that Sissel uses a crane to crush not one, but ''two'' would-be assassins. While these "deaths" are somewhat humorous, it seems Sissel never goes out of his way to save the blue-skinned foreigners}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
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{{spoiler|'''Missile:''' Of course! Because that's what doggies do}}!}}
* [[Sneeze Cut]]: In the demo, but you'd have to play through the full game to understand why.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: It is a little jarring to see, in the ending montage, peppy music play as {{spoiler|the foreign couple gets blown to Kingdom Come, even if they were villains. They only had themselves to blame for that though}}.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series. No pun intended.
* [[Split-Screen Phone Call]]: Used when overhearing phone conversations. It's implied in-game that the protagonist, who has the ability to travel through phone lines, actually can see both ends of the conversation at once.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel was accused of espionage, of which he was innocent, but a young Inspector Cabanela pressured him into escaping with the handgun he accidentally left behind. Jowd chased him down into Temsik Park, where he took Lynne hostage and was suddenly struck in the back by a fragment of the Temsik meteor. Then he remembers his identity and tries to meet his wife Sissel, who had unfortunately committed suicide just before Yomiel could get to her, and he lacked the power to rewind time and save her life. This made him [[Go Mad From the Isolation]] and make him want to take revenge on everyone involved in the Temsik Park incident, save for a certain black cat}}...
* [[Stealth-Based Mission]]:
** In Chapter 15, you have to avoid gaining {{spoiler|Yomiel's}} attention with your ghost tricks. {{spoiler|Subverted, since despite what happens if you fail, he actually knew you were there all along, but didn't really want to stop you}}.
** Chapter 9 has you trying to escape from a pitch-black prison with guards who wear night vision goggles. Even though ghosts can see through darkness in the "ghost world", it's harder than it sounds since {{spoiler|you have to help a condemned criminal escape without making him enter the guards' field of vision}}.
* [[Take Your Time]]: The game always shows the precise time, but outside of four-minutes-in-the-past timed puzzles, it will never advance unless you trigger an event that forces it to. The exception is Chapter 16, where although the time itself doesn't advance, if you wait too long to give Lynne a path up to the door, {{spoiler|the water ''will'' raise up and drown her, though presumably Sissel revives her, since it lets you try again from an unheralded checkpoint if you got to one}}.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Ghosts of animals can "talk" with people, as Missile demonstrates. {{spoiler|As does Sissel}}.
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Used whenever Sissel chats up the dead. Justified in that it appears to be some form of telepathy and the ghost world is explicitly stated as being outside of time. Or whenever you decide to talk to the spirit you're trying to save, no matter how pressed for time you are in-game.
* [[Tap on the Head]]: The driver of the [[Van in Black|surveillance van]] is knocked out by a high-pitched whine from his headphones. Unbeknown to him, Beauty has torched his microphone with a cigarette lighter.
* [[Tempting Fate]]:
** Early on, Sissel tells himself that it can't be that hard to save Lynne, since how many times can she die in a single night? He later finds out... {{spoiler|Five times, to be exact}}.
** In Chapter 16:
{{quote|'''Sissel:''' So now all we have to do is...
'''Lynne:''' ...get to that door, and we're safe!
{{spoiler|''(submarine turns sideways)''}}}}
* [[Timed Mission]]:
** Each time you go back into the past, you only have four (in-game) minutes to save the victim's life.
** If Sissel ever wants to know the full truth, he has to do it before dawn, when he'll truly [[Ret-Gone|cease to exist]]. {{spoiler|[[Batman Gambit|Though that deadline turns out to be a lie told by Ray to make sure Sissel gets to the submarine in time]]}}.
** Chapter 16's puzzles are unique in the fact Sissel doesn't travel back in time to save people. However, time flows "normally" when he's not in the ghost world and taking too long to solve the puzzles ''will'' end up fatally for those Sissel has to save.
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: The Ghost Trick to return four minutes into the past ({{spoiler|for those who have the Tricks or anyone who follows said ghosts}}) to prevent a death. If the spirit is awake to see this occur, they will follow along the path to try to prevent said death. When the death is prevented, the event is erased and replaced with a new present, but the memory remains for those who were along with said Trick. At the end of the game, the Ghost Trick to 10 years ago results in a [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|mild reboot]]: {{spoiler|Sissel the kitten}} is killed by the Temsik fragment, thus taking {{spoiler|Yomiel's place as the ghost possessing his own corpse, and is adopted by Jowd; Yomiel is alive and has recovered in the 10 years he's been imprisoned, thanking Sissel for what he did, and Missile-Prime}} has been [[Ret-Gone|erased in the reboot]]. However, all the events in the game still technically happened in that it's how the current present exists. And of everyone who'd died and remembered, it's implied that only Sissel, Jowd, {{spoiler|Yomiel}}, and Missile remember the whole story, since they were amongst the final Ghost Trick.
* [[Title Drop]]: Done heavily in the first chapter.
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* [[Tracking Device]]: {{spoiler|The [[Trick Bullet|bullet]] Cabanela fired at Yomiel was a tracking device, which was honed in on by a special pocket watch which Cabanela gave to Jowd, who then gave it to Lynne}}.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Everyone's extremely into giant roast chicken. Extremely into it. {{spoiler|Except for Cabanela, who eats a giant plate of spaghetti in the ending}}. Then there's the curry-loving prisoner.
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]:
** Figuring out which phone calls to go through during the death aversions comes really close to this at times, as many times it's really hard to tell whether you'll be able to do something useful in the new location or you'll just get stuck (requiring starting the segment over).
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** It could be said that this is really one of the game's main mechanics, as you'll rarely know what to do right from the start. The only way to know what most of the objects will do once manipulated is to try, and a lot of them can only be used once, so trial and error is really your only option. Fortunately, the game is designed with this in mind.
* [[Tricked-Out Time]]: At one point, you have to save someone from an explosion while making it look like they were caught in it. And then right after, you have someone shot by a gun without the shooter knowing the difference.
* [[Trickster Mentor]]: {{spoiler|Ray}} puts {{spoiler|Sissel}} through quite an ordeal. Despite knowing the truth all along, he does not tell {{spoiler|Sissel who he is, he tricks him into thinking he's going to cease to exist in the morning, thus causing a great deal of stress, fools Sissel into thinking he's Yomiel, and then vanishes halfway through the game, making Sissel think that he has ceased to exist}}. However, this causes {{spoiler|Sissel to avert Yomiel's fate}} and learn the value of helping other people besides himself.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: '''Missile''', quite literally. This is very apparent when {{spoiler|after his second death, where he gained ghost tricks, he decides to stay dead specifically to better help Lynne and Kamila with his new powers}}. If that's not enough, the ending reveals that {{spoiler|Ray is actually Missile from a [[Bad Future]] that couldn't save anyone, so he goes back in time and waits ten long years to become the Trickster Mentor for the black cat Sissel}}.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Characters frequently fail to notice things moving in the background, or consider them coincidences. {{spoiler|Which leads to a bit of a shock when Beauty's "sixth sense" means she can figure out what's going on, and when the player tries a Trick in front of the guy manipulating Sissel's body and then the Manipulator immediately figures out what's going on, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|addresses the player]], and causes a game over}}.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: As expected of a Shu Takumi game, many characters have their own verbal tics, while others seemingly transmit from character to character.
** Cabaneeela tends to draw out his vooowels, baby.
** A handful of characters tend to say "Odd girl" when Memry the waitress is done talking with them. Sissel and Lynne in particular like to reply with "I agree" and "Me too" to one another after the odd girl remark.
** Missile the Pomeranian loves to bark at everything, which translated it becomes '''"WELCOME!"'''.
** The blue-skinned doctor tends to murmur "...like me" when someone close says "You don't know who may be listening."
** Sith has a very wide range of vocabulary, his favourite being "Confound it!".
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** Sissel says "eh?" at the end of sentences quite frequently.
** In one of the final scenes, Sith's servant talks to Jowd and always finishes his sentences by addressing Jowd as "detective", detective.
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Lynne and Kamila are in the game to invoke this.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: There are at least two separate instances where you can alter a victim's fate so they die in an even less dignified manner than the original.
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: The main character is much weaker than a living person and can only move by jumping between objects no more than two or three feet away, but he uses what he ''can'' do to great effect.
* [[Weird Moon]]
* [[Wham! Episode]]:
** Chapter 17 and The Final Chapter.
** Really, ''everything'' that happens after Chapter 14 can fit this trope.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
** {{spoiler|The epilogue shows what happens to everyone in the new timeline, even the most minor of characters... except Jeego and Tengo. Some people theorize they died anyway. The fake medical examiner is also unaccounted for}}.
** Not so much a person as a plot device, but what's the deal with {{spoiler|Beauty's sixth sense}}? It tries to be significant, but after {{spoiler|finding out they've kidnapped Kamila}}, Sissel never sees the pair again and we never get an explanation for it.
** The culprit in the {{spoiler|hacking/leaking information}} case that {{spoiler|Yomiel was falsely accused of}} was never explicitly revealed.
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* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel}} certainly doesn't, having to deal with crushing loneliness after the death of his fiancée. {{spoiler|Sissel}} [[Living Forever Is Awesome|subverts it]] and doesn't appear to mind that he's immortal in the ending timeline.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel. He was innocent of the original spying accusation, had his heart pierced by a meteor, lost his fiancée, was unable to die, and spent ten years with a cat as his only friend. The "Destroyer of Worlds" part comes from being made a deal that would finally end his loneliness, catch was he had to eliminate everyone who knew about the meteor}}. But wait, [[It Gets Worse]]! {{spoiler|In trying to accomplish this, he accidentally shot his cat, and the other party wanted ''everyone'' who knew about the meteor eliminated. As in, they were going to eliminate this undying man [[Fate Worse Than Death|the only way they could]]}}.
* [[World of Ham]]
* [[Wrongful Accusation Insurance]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] by {{spoiler|Yomiel}}, who was genuinely innocent but got chased and killed when he fled interrogation. Cabanela references the subversion of this trope as his reason for preventing Jowd's escape when he points out that escaping from prison [[All Crimes Are Equal|is still a crime]]. And even in the "fixed" timeline in the ending, {{spoiler|Yomiel}} is sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to escape from custody and taking a hostage.
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: {{spoiler|Missile-prime}} planned the plot, but nothing would have worked out if current-timeline {{spoiler|Missile}} hadn't died on the meteorite's exact crash site.
* [[You Gotta Have Colorful Hair]]
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