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[[File:Guilty_Party_Boxart_8956.jpg|frame|Our heroes, from left to right: Phoebe, Butch, Kid Riddle, Charlotte, Ling Ling, and Max]]

 

 

 

''Guilty Party'' (technically, ''[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Disney]] Guilty Party'', but who's paying attention) is a game for the [[Nintendo Wii]] produced by Disney Interactive and developed by Wideload Entertainment. Despite the "Disney" in the full title, it is, like ''[[Spectrobes]],'' a

 

The Dickens Detective Agency is a world-famous group of related sleuths, lead by their patriarch, Dorian "The Commodore" Dickens. He is retiring from the business, but he'll still be around the Dickens family manor to dispense sage advice. Suddenly, disaster strikes when his archnemesis, the nefarious [[Be My Valentine|Mr. Valentine,]] kidnaps Dorian's wife. Now it's up to the six active Dickens sleuths to track down their mother/grandma/aunt and put a stop to Mr. Valentine's plans!

 

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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Nurse Dolly.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: "A coal-burning bullet train. ''That's'' progress."

* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Ling Ling.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|The Commodore's plan to show his relatives that they could take over for him if they wanted to and reveal his wife's true identity as Mr. Valentine.}}

* [[Battle Couple]]: Butch and Charlotte first met during a case, and they used their combined kung-fu powers to fight off a hoard of bad guys. [[Love At First Sight|That pretty much sealed the deal there.]]

* [[Be My Valentine]]: That's ''Mr.'' Valentine to you.

* [[Big Eater]]: Max; he inherited the trait from his father.

* [[Brawn Hilda]]: The opera singer, natch.

* [[The Butler Did It]]: The very first tutorial level. But of course.

* [[Calling Card]]: Mr. Valentine's poetic Valentine's notes.

* [[Dance Party Ending]]

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: It's not clear where Rudy/Kid Riddle's dad is, other than he's "absentee." It's quite possible that Phoebe's former husband/boyfriend finally realized how insane the family he was getting into was, and wisely split.

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: ''Every'' suspect, but especially {{spoiler|Olivia. The top criminal mastermind in the world for the past several decades? Well, it's our anniversary, so... maybe we'll cart you off to the authorities another day.}}

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: "Rudyard." However, Kid Riddle lets his grandma get away with calling him "Rudy."

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Mr. Valentine prefixes each of his nefarious deeds with one. {{spoiler|Pretty impressive, Olivia.}}

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Mr. Valentine is so evil, he doesn't ''need'' depth perception. Of course his mask has only one eye!

* [[Fiction 500]]: The Dickenses must be pretty high up there. As Olivia even says, "I'd have the money to buy a hundred {{spoiler|zeppelins}} if we didn't spend so much on [[Trademark Favorite Food|pudding...]]"

** [[The Hero]]: Max

** [[The Lancer]]: Phoebe

** [[The Chick]]: Charlotte

** [[Tagalong Kid]]/<s>[[Team Pet]]</s>: Kid Riddle

* [[Forgotten Anniversary]]: {{spoiler|Olivia is not happy with Dorian's forgetfulness. Not happy '''at all.'''}}

* [[For the Evulz]]: {{spoiler|General Mission}}'s reason for helping Mr. Valentine: "For the fun of being evil!"

* [[Genki Girl]]: Ling-Ling, very much so!

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Butch was once a more typical [[Big Guy]], but he's mellowed out a lot since marrying into the Dickens family.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Not shown on-screen, but quite implicit when Charlotte attempts the--ahem--Monkey Steals The Peach technique on the family [[The Butler Did It|butler]].

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Ling Ling was adopted when she was only a few days old, and loves her parents through and through.

* [[Happily Married]]: Commodore Dickens and Olivia, Butch and Charlotte.

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Olivia, the wife of Commodore Dickens.

* [[Honorary Uncle|Honorary Grandparent]]: Strictly speaking, Dorian and Olivia would be Ling Ling's aunt and uncle. However, she refers to them as "Grandma" and "Grandpa" nonetheless.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Phoebe. ''Yowza.''

* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]]: Actually, it's In Case You Forgot Who Owns The Intellectual Property--sice, actually, Wideload made the game.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "OH, HUGH THE MANATEE!"

* [[It Runs in The Family]]: Judging from the look of things, it runs it about four ''different'' families. What is "it," anyway? Deductive reasoning, business sense, probably insanity.

* [[Joker Immunity]]: A rather unusual case: {{spoiler|Even after beating Story Mode, Mr. Valentine is still the main antagonist. Presumably, Olivia is just doing this now to keep her family on their toes.}}

'''Max:''' Don't. Care. }}

* [[Keet]]: Many characters are grateful when Phoebe just stoppers up Rudy.

* [[Le Film Artistique]]: Naturally, what Director Lester Noogie makes.

* [[Little Old Lady Investigates]]: Charlotte echos this.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Morgan Harvest, implicitly.

* [[Malevolent Masked Man]]: Mr. Valentine. His mask only has one eye!

* [[Max Trope]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Valentine's name comes from the fact that Olivia and Dorian's anniversary is, indeed, Valentine's Day.}}

* [[Motive Rant]]: In mystery fashion, each chapter ends with one.

* {{spoiler|[[Murder the Hypotenuse]]}}: What was ''supposed'' to happen in {{spoiler|Chapter 6.}} It got mucked up.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The later levels of the story mode (in particular, stages 6 and 7) are downright ''evil.'' In addition to plenty of red herrings, there are numerous clues that really require you to ''think'' about them to understand what they mean. The final stage also has Mr. Valentine screwing you up almost every turn, {{spoiler|though finding the culprit is much easier because it becomes quite obvious--from a story perspective--who it has to be.}}

* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: Dorian and Olivia can verge into this at times. {{spoiler|And he still loves her, despite her being, admittedly, a criminial mastermind and his archnemesis.}}

** The Commodore: [[Sherlock Holmes]]

** Max: [[The Maltese Falcon|Sam Spade]]

** Charlotte: [[Miss Marple]]

** Ling Ling: [[Nancy Drew]]

** Butch: [[Shaft]]

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: General Ed Mission explicitly has "using the indoor voice" as one of his dislikes.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: The Commodore does not like to divulge where he got the title.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: The Opera House, appropriately, has very ominous and mysterious-sounding chanting in its music.

* [[Punny Name]]: Pretty much every suspect. "Dr. Morgan Harvest" is one of the more blatant ones.

** Hugh The Manatee is a [[Stealth Pun]] name. It becomes clear after he saves you from an exploding zeppelin.

* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Phoebe

* {{spoiler|[[Samus Is a Girl]]}}: {{spoiler|Mr. Valentine ain't.}}

* [[Scary Black Man]]: Butch, but by appearance only. Also, the Seargeant, more straightforwardly.

* [[Talking Animal|Singing Animal]]: It's the Three Manatee Tenors!

* [[Strangely Effective Disguise]]: In the Ship level in Story Mode, General Ed Mission dresses up as a captain and calls himself "Mort Sherman." {{spoiler|Nobody realizes it's him until Kid Riddle takes off his hat, but the second they see him in his general's cap, it's obvious to them. Somehow.}}

* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Rudy, AKA "Kid Riddle."

* [[Team Dad]]: Commodore Dickens

* [[Team Mom]]: Olivia

* [[Third Person Person]]: Schmoot hopes you'll be back soon, he does!

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: The Commodore ''loves'' his pudding. {{spoiler|All of Mr. Valentine's golden artifacts end up being pudding related, as well. ''Hmmm...''}}

* [[Too Soon]]: Max's catchphrase. He always makes the worst jokes.

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: One trailer features Kid Riddle dramatically shouting, "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY GRANDPA?!" He's actually talking ''to'' his grandfather--The Commodore just announced his plans to retire.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can poke suspects while you're interrogating them, taunt your rivals in co-op games, lock them in... You also have taunts on your D-pad.

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: It's so obvious what Butch sounds like! ...Until you actually hear him speak. [[Gentle Giant|His voice is much closer to his personality than]] [[Scary Black Man|his appearance.]]

 

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