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* [[Artificial Limbs]]: {{spoiler|Snake. His left arm is conveniently able to be manipulated so that he can slip his bracelet off, though he keeps that one secret. It's also a major plot point, proving that the corpse believed to be Snake, against all odds, is not actually Snake, because it has a broken bone in the left arm.}}
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Although you have to admit you feel pity for them.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]] / [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: {{spoiler|Lotus and Seven}}.
** [http://www.aksysgames.com/999/answers#61 Confirmed] by [[Word of God]].
* [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Clover}}, in the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Ax ending.]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Bolivian Army Ending]]}}: What happens to the "True Ending" if you don't go through the Safe Ending first.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Clover, when it isn't {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie]].}}
* [[Brother -Sister Team]]: Snake and Clover.
** {{spoiler|Also, Santa and June.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|The last person you'd expect, June/Akane. Words of God says she has even bigger future plans, probably due to her ability to see and communicate with the future and its infinite timelines}}.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Arguably Junpei, as some of his thoughts and responses can be REALLY out there ([[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|"Apologize to funyarinpa!"]]). June also qualifies at some points. On second thought, scratch that, the entire main cast is probably this if they have the time to make puns in a dire situation under a strict time limit.
** {{spoiler|Though most of June's crazy superstitious talks are fairly justified, considering she's kinda a walking supernatural phenomenon.}}
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Except Snake and June. Santa is the primary offender, though.
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Ace, mainly around Santa and Junpei.
{{quote| '''Santa''': Look, Ace! It's some kind of snowman secret meeting!<br />
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* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Invoked in the Knife ending's narration.
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|June dies in Junpei's arms in the Submarine ending, thanking Junpei as she reflects on their childhood memories together.}} The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc1xTLMXbQI song] accompanying the scene [[Tear Jerker|doesn't help]].
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In the freezer, you can examine a piece of meat for June to say "It's really hard", which Junpei asks her too say again. [http://youtu.be/WuX1_L9XEmA And again.] Doesn't help that his face was red. [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations|Also,]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=x5FeMp-MI0k this scene.]
* [[Door to Before]]: Most of the numbered doors either return those who go through them to an earlier area or provide keys that unlock hallways in an earlier area. Most of the time the protagonists don't want or need to go to an earlier area but it comes in handy a few times. Seven also applies doorjambs to a few areas specifically so he can backtrack.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Most of the bad endings, but {{spoiler|Safe and Submarine}} are two notable ones.
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*** Actually, he mentions it several times in the interview in different forms. The other forms are vaguer than the short answer, but still make out that {{spoiler|Junpei never meets up with Akane again and spends the rest of his life chasing after her.}}
** For a comparison:
*** The " {{spoiler|Submarine}}" ending ends with {{spoiler|[[EverybodysEverybody's Dead, Dave|everybody dead.]]}} Of course, {{spoiler|Ace was acting. However, he would not have gotten the Q door, even with Lotus's and the 9th Man's bracelet.}}
*** The " {{spoiler|Knife}}" has {{spoiler|Ace getting Clover, Lotus, then Junpei with a short sharp metal implement. The fates of the others depend on whether Santa (who may have had the gun) found out in time, and even then...}}
*** The " {{spoiler|Safe}}" {{spoiler|runs as if it were the proper ending, before having the others killed. Only Seven and Lotus would have made it, assuming they didn't go back.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[The Ending Changes Everything|The True Ending Changes Everything]]}}
* [[The Enneagram]]: [[Word of God]] says the nine characters were based on the nine character archetypes of the Enneagram of Personality. Specifically Ace is an Achiever (3), Snake an Investigator (5), Santa an Enthusiast (7), Clover a Loyalist (6), Junpei a Challenger (8), June a Peacemaker (9), Seven a Helper (2), Lotus an Individualist (4) and the Ninth Man a Reformer (1). Note that these are their Enneagram numbers and have no relationship to their bracelet numbers.
* {{spoiler|[[EverybodysEverybody's Dead, Dave]]}}: {{spoiler|Ending 6.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Everybody Lives]]}}: {{spoiler|The best ending... except the 9th Man and two more of the Corrupt Corporate Executives...[[Asshole Victim|but you're unable to save them though.]]}}
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] / [[Being Watched]]: Early in the game, all the characters except for Junpei take a codename in case Zero just randomly kidnapped them but is keeping surveillance on them. Never mind that in most cases, they were probably carrying ID when kidnapped... {{spoiler|Of course, if they'd all announced their names, Ace would have been clued in to Santa and June's true identity, Lotus's backplot, as well as Seven's story if his amnesia was an act. Which would have made Ace even more eager to backstab them, considering how quickly he moves against the 9th man and Snake. Not surprising Aoi and Akane went along with the idea...}}
* [[Evil Laugh]]: {{spoiler|Ace, or rather, Gentarou Hongou}}, quite a few times actually.
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: It's right there in the title!
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** In the Safe Ending, {{spoiler|Ace tells Snake that he killed Clover - and exactly ''how'' he did it - and Snake snaps and his eyes open as he swears to kill Ace. It's actually pretty terrifying.}}
** When they're putting together what happened to Snake, his eyes are open in the still where he's going for the DEAD {{spoiler|Though as it turns out, that wasn't Snake at all.}}
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Seems to be the main reason that {{spoiler|[[EverybodysEverybody's Dead, Dave|the bad ends]] happen}}.
** An example is in the Knife Ending, when {{spoiler|after discovering that Lotus' death had only happened recently, Junpei fails to realize the obvious and terrible reality that the killer is still there, since the floor they were on only had one entrance and exit (which was the same place) and that he just came out of the entrance with no one around.}}
** Another example is the Axe Ending, where {{spoiler|Junpei noticing Clover's sanity slippage may have stopped her from [[Kill 'Em All]][[Ax Crazy|ing]] them.}}
** {{spoiler|To be fair, both of them are actually very much justified, as Akane was controlling Junpei, and since the Knife and Axe Endings led her to finding little/no new information, she just kills off junpei so she can try again and get another combination of doors that might get her the answer.}}
* [[Fauxshadow]] {{spoiler|Clearly this is all an experiment by Cradle Pharmaceuticals to make crystals, or something. Well. That's not totally off-track, but wrong Nonary Game. This one's motive is a lot weirder.}}
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*** {{spoiler|Well, it ''was'' a '''[1]''' in '''[3]''' chance...}}
** When choosing door {{spoiler|'''[3]''', after Santa realises Junpei's plan to go into the same room as June, and that he can't talk Junpei out of it, seems more intent than others on entering. June's bracelet is, of course, not '''[6]'''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Five -Bad Band|Four-Bad Band]]}}:{{spoiler|The Cradle Pharmaceuticals executives.}}
** [[Big Bad]] - {{spoiler|Gentarou Hongou}}
** [[The Dragon]] - {{spoiler|Nagisa Nijisaki}}
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: Junpei can hold onto this firmly depending on the player's actions.
* [[I Gave My Word]]
* [[Informed Deformity]]: Other characters keep commenting on how old Lotus is. [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|She doesn't ''look'' old..]]
** Although one could argue that the three characters who comment on that most often - Santa, Junpei, and Seven - are mainly doing it to dick with her. Junpei seems pretty...overwhelmed by her presence when he first meets her and at one point Akane laments how she knows guys would prefer someone who looks like Lotus over herself.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Besides the Saturn elevator example above, there's also the frozen chicken in the kitchen freezer beyond door 4. If Junpei examines it, June will say his "chunk of meat" is "really hard." Junpei will ask her to repeat the "really hard" part multiple times.
* [[Interface Screw]]: You have to {{spoiler|flip the DS upside-down}} for the final puzzle. This actually makes sense in-story, because {{spoiler|all this time you've been playing as Akane 9 years ago, sending answers to Junpei in the present, with the top and bottom screens representing the two time periods respectively; this is the first and only time the situation is reversed}}.
* [[In the Back]]: {{spoiler|Knife and Submarine endings.}}
* [[ItsIt's Up to You]]: In spite of everyone working to escape the place, you're the only one who actually does any real work in the groups you're in.
** It does avert it from time to time - such as in the [[Hollywood Hacking]] aversion above, where Junpei just watches while {{spoiler|Lotus}} does the work. Further averted, because {{spoiler|in many cases, multiple failures to find the correct solution to a puzzle or the right piece of evidence will cause characters to give you more and more of the answer, until they practically solve it for you. In some cases, the character giving the hints will be Junpei ''himself''.}}
*** {{spoiler|Actually it's Akane nine years in the past sending Junpei the answers. You're still doing the work.}}
*** Justified: {{spoiler|Ace knows all the answers as the CEO of the company that set up the first Nonary Project, but doesn't want to blow his cover. Same thing with June and Santa and possibly Seven, but from the opposite side. Snake can only hint towards answers thanks to Zero's warning, and Clover is only in the same party with Junpei after "Snake" dies, and is therefore understandably depressed for the most part. The only one who is totally out of the loop is Lotus, who is also the only one to really help with anything.}}
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The fourth ending contains many plot-relevant revelations that are required to unlock the true ending.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill 'Em All]]}}: {{spoiler|Ending 6.}}
* [[Leitmotif]]: {{spoiler|Even Ace has his own theme.}}
** {{spoiler|There's also a track on the OST called "Imaginary" that seems to pop up whenever you're talking to June...}}
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** And before that, {{spoiler|Seven offered to stay by himself in the Chapel, so that two teams of 3 could go through the nine doors, he was summarily refused by everyone.}}
** Not to mention {{spoiler|Snake offering to stay behind for the ninth door. He had a trump card.}}
* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: The Saturn elevator conversation mentioned in [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]].
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Invoked for everyone except for Junpei. Doubles as [[Meaningful Rename]] as the names are themed after the bracelet numbers.
** Actually {{spoiler|Clover}} is exempt too since {{spoiler|it's revealed in a flashback that her name is actually Clover}}
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* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|Ice-9 and Alice}} can seem like this...right up until the final scene.
** Except {{spoiler|they, for all purposes, '''are''' a red herring. They don't serve an iota of relevance to the main plot, and [[Word of God]] says it needn't necessarily be ALL-ICE we se at the end.}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Clover and Snake, with the colors to match. However, {{spoiler|when Snake disappears, Clover's distress makes her become both onis, being alternately passionate and aloof.}}
* [[Running Gag]]: Lotus tends to get quite abusive when mentioning that she is a [[Christmas Cake]] or, well, abusive. Expect some [[Comic Relief]] scene for most of the time.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: {{spoiler|Clover}} in the 3rd ending.
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* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|Akane and Santa make a getaway in the True Ending. Subverted, in that the ending actually trails off before their escape, with Junpei and the other Nonary Game contestants following them in a separate car. [[Word of God]], however, states that they have to escape and this is partly because they are responsible for the deaths of two people and partly because something bigger is going down that they need to take care of. }}
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: In-game, Seven puts things into the doors so they won't lock. These tend to be plot points.
** Checking out {{spoiler|Door 3}} before the characters are supposed to leads to an [[ItsIt's a Wonderful Failure|inescapable bad end]].
* {{spoiler|[[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]}}: {{spoiler|The reason behind the game is to save Akane in the past.}}
* [[Shipper On Deck]]: EVERYONE with Junpei and June, primarily Lotus, who repeatedly teases you about June. Twice as funny due to the boat pun you can make this trope into.
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** The safe ending can seem this, if you don't know that {{spoiler|you need to get that ending first to reach the true ending.}}
* [[Shout Out]]: ''[[Cats Cradle]]'' with Ice-9 and the name of Cradle Pharmaceutical.
** There's also instances where Junpei says "[[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]" and "[[The Dark Knight Saga|Why so serious?]]" during conversations with Lotus/Santa in the kitchen.
** Also from the kitchen: [[Gurren Lagann|Who the hell do you think I am!?]]
** While exploring the first class rooms, if Junpei examines the lit candle while in the room with Lotus, she'll comment "I'm sure it'll be a light in dark places, [[Lord of the Rings|when all other lights have gone out]]."
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** {{spoiler|[[It Makes Sense in Context|it's just as shocking in it's context]]<ref>Junpei starting to reveal to everyone that Ace can't identify faces and what levels of bastardry Ace had committed since the start of the Nonary Game</ref>.}}
** "The answer to that is easy. {{spoiler|He knew because ''I'' knew.<ref>Spoken by the ''narration''.</ref>}}"
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]: The game's equivalent of the final boss is {{spoiler|a Sudoku puzzle.}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: People get ''pissed'' if you {{spoiler|go through door 3.}}
* [[When It All Began]]: {{spoiler|The experiment, nine years ago.}}
** Although, {{spoiler|according to the [[Word of God]], the Nonary Game was created by Lord Gordain. Meaning [[When It All Began|it all began]] with the sinking of the RMS Titanic.}}
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: {{spoiler|Santa}} at first in the Coffin (2) and True Endings (1), then subverted because it was all part of a big plan to {{spoiler|[[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]}}.
* [[Would You Like to Hear How They Died]]: {{spoiler|Ace does this, detailing how he killed Clover to her big brother Snake and all the excitement he felt about it. Needless to say, that activated Snake's [[Berserk Button]].}}
* [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain]]: Meta-example. {{spoiler|The colloquial name of the "Safe" ending implies that you will, in fact, be alive. No such luck...}}
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: In this case it's your bowels. No less lethal though.
* [[You Wake Up in A Room]]: The game starts with your character waking up in the cabin of a large passenger ship. Of the nine characters involved, however, only one has amnesia and it isn't you. In fact, Junpei only needs a few minutes to get his bearings before the player sees exactly [[How We Got Here|how he was abducted from his apartment.]]
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