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** Subscribers were rewarded with dye kits, which changed the character's clothing color scheme to various presets. Some of the rarer ones also had highly sought after stat-boosts.
* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: Due to randomized level architecture, many areas you visit don't look at all like their real-life counterparts, with exception of fixed areas like Piccadilly Circus.
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted with]] [[Black Magic|Cabalists.]] Some can be pretty ornery, but are ultimately on the side of good.
* [[Battle Aura]]: Templar characters can learn various auras that provide different effects, though you can only employ one of them at a time.
* [[Bee Bee Gun]]: The Wasp Hive-type guns shoot a swarm of glowing green insects that devour and demolish everything as long as they last. Perfect DoT-dealer for the first part of the game at least. Unfortunately, available only to Cabalists. Templars can use "Hive Swords", [[Cool Sword|blades for which the grip is a hive and the blade is formed of the insects themselves]], who presumably bite as they go. Both inflict [[Universal Poison|toxic damage.]]
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* [[Character Level]]: Obviously. Monsters have these, too - a level 20 Zombie is a bit harder to kill than its level 1 counterpart.
** For the same Level 1 character that is. Monster levels are made so the difficulty scales with leveling up without [[Underground Monkey|adding a lot of monsters differing only by name, stats and maybe skin colour.]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Many NPCs, but first prize goes to Lucious Aldin, an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Gibbering Genius]]. [[Mind Rape|His mind was burnt to a crisp by the darkness]] but his soul was left largely intact, though subsequent years of imprisonment and [[Cold
* [[Cluster F
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Templar lord Arphaun, a kindly soul who dispenses [[Koan|Koans]], extols the virtues of patience and [[True Companions]], [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and warns of the dangers of mayonnaise left unrefrigerated.]]
{{quote| Arphaun: ''"You must always be wary of poorly-stored condiments."''}}
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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Murmur, who was originally the first character you met and remained relevant through the entire story, basically disappeared completely in the retranslation. He went from literally being the most developed character in the entire game to uncredited appearance in a couple cutscenes.
* [[Devil in Disguise]]: The story's narrator / hero's sidekick Murmur turns out to be {{spoiler|the Duke of Hell with the same name}}. To be fair, the name's a lot more subtle that Lou Cypher, and isn't likely to mean anything to players without a background in demonology mythology/MegaTen fan.
* [[Dual
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Almost everyone who isn't suicidally incompetent is a raving psychopath. You'd think that in a demon-possessed future the latter would be a requirement for survival, but there are surprisingly many of the former still living. And sending you on [[Fetch Quest|Fetch Quests]].
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Not limited to the Evoker class, as all weapons deal elemental damage, beginning with plain old physical but including [[Kill It With Fire|Fire,]] [[Universal Poison|Toxic]], [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Spectral]], and [[Shock and Awe|Electrical.]]
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* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: Technician 314 gets attached to the Oracle. It doesn't stop him from talking, and when he's not speaking in tongues, he complains with every breath about the ancient demon with a deathgrip on the front of his head.
* [[Fan Service]]: The female Templar from the trailers, dubbed Avalon, appeared topless in a [[Playboy]] spread.
* [[Fetch Quest]]: Unfortunately frequent, often combined with [[Twenty Bear Asses]]. One Cabalist NPC [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades this]], she's preparing a ritual or spell of some sort [[
* [[Fighter Mage Thief]] - Templars are characterized by raw combat prowess, Cabalists cast direct damage and debuff magic, and Hunters' skills include evasion and critical strikes.
* [[First
* [[Gameplay Ally Immortality]] - Any NPC accompanying you, even [[Non
* [[Gargle Blaster]]: [[The Alcoholic|Perpetual drunkard]] Mac Kenzie has you help him brew one so potent it actually starts attracting demons, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|which you promptly have to go deal with.]]
* [[Gatling Good]]: Of a sort, there is a particular gun with three barrels, each drawing on its own magazine.
* [[Giant Mook]]: Variously-sized Giant forms of the usual Mooks appear, not much more difficult than the standard. Champions and other Rare versions get the larger size with a notable power upgrade. A few bosses (Bedlam) are [[King Mook]].
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* [[The Hunter]]: Though many characters have this sort of focus, some of the ''actual'' [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Hunters]] regard their duty as sport, competing for demon kills and such.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Cabalists get the greatest and most exotic variety of weapons, including guns that shoot insects and tentacles. The Hunters get a 'ballistic cannon' which shoots [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|electr]][[Shock and Awe|ified]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|exploding]] [[Deadly Disc|sawblades.]]
* [[The Knights Templar]]: According to the [[Backstory]] [[He's Just Hiding|they've been been hiding all this time,]] [[Who You Gonna Call?|acting as a demon-busting service]] while maintaining a [[Masquerade]] that understandably [[Incredibly Lame Pun|went to hell]] when the invasions began. They went public pretty fast after that. They've upgraded their tech a bit, employing [[Powered Armor]] and such alongside their [[Holy Hand Grenade|holy magics.]]
* [[Level Five Onix]]: The first boss, of all things.
* [[Lightning Gun]]: Several examples, at least one of which is some form of Tesla coil.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: Even after the long loading times per map, disk access is almost constant, stalling the game until yet another texture/model/feature can be loaded.
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Templars are the only classes than can equip shields, and Templar Guardians alone [[Shield
* [[Magitek]]: Hunter classes can call in an artillery strike using a certain skill (even while underground or in Hell), which is a cause for [[Fridge Logic]] until you realize how it works - the shell is fired and then a Cabalist teleports it to the target location.
** Cabalist "Focus Items" are expressly this, being demon magic-imbued gauntlets that amplify and project the powers of their users, essentially, spell-firing guns. Evokers can [[Dual
* [[The Minion Master]]: The entire Summoner class, though how much it is this or [[The Beast Master]] [[Character Customization|depends on your skillpoint distribution.]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: {{spoiler|The ending leads up to a VERY dramatic [[Humans Are Special]] moment where finally, something stands up to the forces of darkness and casts them away. [[A Winner Is You|After defeating the final boss? You are thanked by]] the primary NPC in the game, who turned out to be a demon, [[Dragon Their Feet|for offing his superior,]] in a darkly amusing scene. [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|He then effortlessly brushes you away.]]}}
* [[Mons]] - The basic premise of the Cabalist Summoner. The Hunter Engineer's [[Attack Drone|Drone]] also counts.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Your eternal companion, [[Non
* [[The Musketeer]]: It can pay to have a ranged weapon on hand if you are a melee character, and vice-versa.
* [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: Zombies are everywhere. They are weak, but very numerous and can be buffed by Zombie Lords. Other, stronger types of undead are sometimes encountered.
* [[No One Could Have Survived That]]: After making an obvious [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save a young Jessica Summerisle in the intro, {{spoiler|Lyra Darius turns up alive, well and not having aged a day since, in Liverpool Street Station. She doesn't understand it either, due to [[Laser
* [[Obvious Beta]]: One of the biggest complaints about the game and a prime cause for its ultimate failure. The fact that the patches quite rapidly solved most of these problems tended to be glossed over by critics.
** They probably couldn't gloss over the crash-prone resource hog that remained after patch.
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* [[Sniper Rifle]]: A favored weapon of Marksmen.
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Stun (no movement, attack or skills), Ignite (lose 5% of your [[Hit Points]] per second), Poison (prevents healing while in effect), Phase (halved defense and attack), Shock (no skills for the duration), which may happen if hit with the appropriate damage type. Some of the Engineer's support Bots increase allies' speed and slow down approaching enemies.
* [[
* [[Sword and Gun]] - An option for Templars alone, as they are the only classes that can wield melee weapons one-handed.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Blademasters can learn to do this. Its their other gimmick.
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