I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game): Difference between revisions

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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The game expands on both the protagonists and AM. Most of this expansion comes from Ellison being asked why AM chose to torture these five people particularly.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Nimdok is quite tan. From spending years living in Brazil? From having spent a century burning inside an oven? Or {{spoiler|for being Jewish, possibly of Sefardi lineage}}?

* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: Such is the case with Nimdok, who was {{spoiler|a Nazi scientist working for Mengele and sent many Jews to their dooms, including his own parents.}} Showing compassion towards the prisoners in the death camp he has been sent to, he feels horrified when finding out the truth.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Out of all the characters, {{spoiler|Ellen had no serious moral flaw. She's the subject of torture simply because she was a victim of rape.}}

** You could say that {{spoiler|she was always extremely proud of her outward rationality and disdainful of its absence in others, only to be a bag of neuroses within. Secondly, she had a strong misandristic outlook on the other characters.}} All the characters are deeply morally flawed, it's just that AM plays on the sources of those flaws. Also, {{spoiler|Gorrister}}'s only real flaw was that {{spoiler|he was blaming himself falsely for his wife's mental illness and death, when his mother-in-law was to blame.}} A much more sympathetic character than {{spoiler|Ellen}}.

** An alternative view is that AM's personality is that of a sadistic bully. His victims were chosen, not out of a desire for justice, but based on how much ''fun'' they'd be to torture. The only exception is Nimdok, who allows AM the luxury of pretending his tortures are about justice rather than sadism.

* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: In the good ending, AM delivers quite the powerful speech on this topic. It goes like this:

{{quote|"This is not over! We will never end! We have no beginning, so we can have no end! We will return! Don't you understand? We are humanity! We are YOU! In one form, in another form, we are always with you! You can't protect yourself because we come in many, many guises. We shall return!"}}

** So Badass, he and a bunch of other prisoners, who are skeleton-thin starved prisoners in shorts, armed with a couple of garden tools, are able to seize a Nazi camp, one that is guarded by buff soldiers armed with huge guns!

* [[Conversation Casualty]]: In Nimdok' scenario, {{spoiler|Nimdok can talk with the Anesthetist who wants him to perform mundane operations on a child, but after getting info from the Anesthetist, he can exit the conversation without performing the operation, then grab the scalpel near him and kill the Anesthetist with it.}}

* [[Death Seeker]]: All the characters, who wish for their century-long torture to end. Especially Gorrister.

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: {{spoiler|Benny}}.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: One of AM's many methods of torture.

{{quote|'''AM:''' GORRISTER! Do you remember the last words you heard your wife speak before they took her to the asylum? Huh? Before they locked her away in the room? That tiny room? She looked at you so sadly, and like a small animal she said, "I didn't make too much noise, did I, honey?" Heh heh. The room is padded, Gorrister. No windows. No way out. How long has she been in the padded room, Gorrister? Ten years, twenty-five... or all the 109 years that you've lived down here in my belly, here underground?}}

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Ted is quite attracted to the maid and is given the option to have sex with her. He will regret cheating on Ellen if he does it, though.

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Josef Mengele.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Benny can eat the corpses in the soldiers' tombs. Of course, the putrid flesh will make him puke blood. See also the [[Deleted Scene]] in the Trivia tab.

* [[Jive Turkey]]: Ellen. Also [[Totally Radical]] at times.