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*[[Bittersweet Ending]]: The best ending is this. {{spoiler|Sunny saves Basil's life by confronting him as he's about to impale himself with garden shears, but Basil lashes out at him and injures his eye. After Sunny recalls his good memories and decides to persist, when you choose to continue after Omori beats you soundly, Omori approaches...and hugs him, dropping the knife before fading away. Sunny wakes up in the hospital, heavily bandaged and crying, but has enough strength to go find the real Basil while ignoring his dream friends heading to the hospital roof. The friend group is there, conducting an [[Unbroken Vigil]] on Basil, and Sunny confesses the truth of what happened to Mari. We don't see their response, but the ending is hopeful}}.
*[[Cerebus Callback]]: During a fight in the first day in Headspace, Aubrey accidentally knocks Basil over. She helps him up and apologizes as Hero chides her. We find out in the real world that Aubrey is badly bullying Basil, and pushes him into the lake.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: In Blackspace, {{spoiler|Dream Basil}} undergoes ''six'' of them if you explore all of the rooms. You can even make a drinking game out of it:
** The first room: {{spoiler|Basil is in a black room, growing watermelons. He's grown a lot of them. To escape you have to break open seven watermelons after the room goes dark. The seventh time, Basil dissolves into blood-colored chunks like a watermelon}}.
** The second room: Omori frees {{spoiler|Basil from a spider's web. As they walk, baby spiders crawl over Basil. He tries to calm them down, saying he's not a threat. They don't listen, swarming him. When he screams for help, Omori does nothing. Cue Basil disappearing after being eaten alive.}}
** The third room: Omori is back at the treehouse, but something is wrong. We can see corrupted images, and unusually long stairs to the top. While traversing down, {{spoiler|the elevator from the Last Resort chimes. Basil naively suggests that they use it to get out of here, and you have no choice but to listen. No matter what destination you input, the elevator opens to the treehouse, closes on Basil, and beheads him while going down as he calmly asks for help. He's still conscious but barely able to talk}}
** The fourth room: Omori walks into a meadow, where the grasses and trees resemble bones. {{spoiler|Dream-Basil pops up from a hollow stump, saying he's been hiding and waiting for Omori to rescue him. They attempt to escape on a raft. In the lull, Dream-Basil asks if they can talk about something before the raft enters a tunnel. When it emerges, Basil's body is missing its head, implying that Omori decapitated him.}}
** The fifth room: We seem to be back at the playground, but it is similarly corrupted. Squares glitch out, and the music has broken notes. {{spoiler|Dream-Basil is delighted to see Omori, and Hero who leads them to the rest of the friendship group. Basil wants to go to them, only to notice them approaching him with their weapons. Kel repeatedly hits him with his toy balls, and Aubrey beats Basil to death}}.
** Redspace: {{spoiler|Omori sees red hands holding Dream-Basil in place. Dream-Basil begs for help, but Omori draws his knife and stabs the kid repeatedly. Then he callously steps over Basil's body}}.
*[[Darker and Edgier]]: Blackspace, and Blackspace II in the Hikikomori route are much more horrific than the rest of Headspace, even when factoring in the Truth. Each room shows horrific images or plain creepy ones, where you can only escape by interacting with disembodied hands or finding key figurines. {{spoiler|There are also about five versions of Basil that ask for help, but each one dies. What's worse is the last death happens when Omori repeatedly stabs Basil and walks over his dead body.}}
*[[Dead All Along]]: As Aubrey in the real world reminds Kel and Sunny, while dropping a bombshell on the player, {{spoiler|Mari has been dead for four years. And this was after we may have opened the door for who we thought was Mari!}}
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**Poor Basil has been alone, and bullied by Aubrey to boot, ever since the friendship group broke up four years ago. {{spoiler|The guilt of faking Mari's death as suicide hasn't helped either}}. He has stopped wearing flower crowns and often looks uncomfortable around Sunny, not responding to Kel's cheerful banter. {{spoiler|If you choose to save him, the real Basil, on the Main Route, he has a [[Twitchy Eye]] and attacks Sunny with gardening shears while mistakenly thinking he is saving Sunny from Something]].
*[[Hypocrite]]: Aubrey in the real world picks a fight with Sunny and Kel when they see her bullying, wielding a baseball bat with nails. She's also not afraid to use it. While Kel resorts to whacking her in self-defense with his basketball, Sunny has a steak knife and is not afraid to use it. When Sunny gives her a nick, however, Aubrey retreats and calls him a maniac for using a knife. Meanwhile, she's still holding the bat.
*[[I Lied
*[[Never Speak Ill of the Dead]]: One of the reasons why {{spoiler|Sunny and Basil feel intense guilt for Mari's death, and faking it as a suicide. Everyone speaks of how brilliant, kind and caring Mari was in life towards her little brother and their friends. No one mentions that Mari was a perfectionist that often locked herself in her room to study or practice piano while ignoring Sunny, prankster, who used Hero's bug phobia to mess with him, and showed [[No Sympathy]] about Sunny's frustration as he tried to master violin to her level. Part of the reason why she and Sunny got into a fight was he was unable to communicate this, and she didn't realize her scoffing at his mistakes caused him to smash his violin, a Christmas gift from their friends}}.
* [[Non-Malicious Monster]]: In the Main Route, {{spoiler|Something is eventually revealed to be this. Something is actually a hallucination of Mari's body, after Basil and Sunny strung her up from a tree to make her death look like a suicide. While the hallucination can hurt Sunny in a boss battle, it's actually not real and can't permanently harm or kill him; as a result, Sunny can face it and defuse the fear by learning to Overcome the trauma, seeing Mari's body as he actually remembers it. In the Hikikomori Route, it's treated as a bad thing when Omori takes over Sunny permanently and destroys Something in a boss battle, because it means Sunny chooses to live in denial about what happened}}.
*[[Parents as People]]: There are no role models for parents in this game. It's why the friendship group had Mari and Hero as the parents, essentially, in real life in the past.
**Sunny's mother has spent days away from home, leaving voicemails for him. His father left a while ago. It's also implied they favored {{spoiler|Mari over him, which didn't help at all after she died}}.
**Kel and Hero's parents favored their eldest son, the golden child, while treating Kel as a goofball and an annoyance. In the present, his mother is at least sorry for that while being a better mother to their baby sister, but we don't know how his dad feels.
*[[Reality Ensues]]: The contrast between Headspace and the real world show this, why you can't treat life like a videogame:
**Despite spending most of his time in a blank white room called Whitespace, Omori is a formidable opponent in a boss fight. He basically keeps the group going through tough confrontations. Not so much with Sunny; during any battle in the real world, he gets curbstomped unless you arm him.
**The same thing goes for the knife that both Sunny and Omori carry. In Headspace, no one bats an eye that Omori has a knife and uses it in boss battles. Omori also can only leave the dream world by stabbing himself When Aubrey attacks Sunny and Kel in Faraway Town? You can choose to attack her in self-defense with the knife. This stops the fight, as Aubrey starts bleeding, and calls Sunny a maniac. While holding a bat with nails. Kel confiscates the knife from Sunny, telling him he shouldn't be carrying that around. He's right: {{spoiler|in some bad endings, if Sunny goes to bed with a steak knife, he ends up stabbing himself while dreaming, and bleeds out in bed}}.
**Omori and the others demonstrate [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]] when they get sucked into the hotel business in the Underwater Highway. Sunny attempts to rescue Basil from drowning in the local lake when Aubrey pushes Basil into the water. Only...he can't swim either. He nearly drowns, and Hero has to save them both.
*[[Sudden Downer Ending]]: There are ''four'' possible options for this on the Main Route after the friendship group reunites the final foray into the Dreamworld that reveals the Truth:
**You choose not to confront {{spoiler|Basil}} and go back to bed, when you wake up, it's too late. {{spoiler|Basil has stabbed himself with kitchen shears and bled out before the kids could get help. Hero tells Sunny it's best for him to leave and start a new life. Sunny does this, erasing the room where Basil died from his mind}}.
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**You go back to your home, {{spoiler|pocket the steak knife, and sleep. When Omori stabs himself to exit the dream world, Sunny stabs himself in bed. The game ends by showing him lying in a pool of blood}}.
**After facing Omori, you choose to {{spoiler|succumb, after helping Sunny relive his happiest memories no less. What's worse is that you could be trying to quit the game and figure out how to beat him. Sunny drops his violin and fades away, while Omori takes control of his body. You think you're returning to Headspace, but instead, Omori compels Sunny to jump off the hospital roof where he and Basil are receiving medical treatment}}.
*[[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: In Headspace, Omori and the others can breathe underwater without a problem when they get lured to the hotel located on the Underwater Highway. They can even take a taxi underwater when necessary. Blackspace shows a dark version of this where {{spoiler|copies of the friend group are locked in a room and forced to swim in lava endlessly}}.
*[[Super Drowning Skills]]: In the real world, Sunny has never been a good swimmer, even before he refused to leave his house for four years. His attempts to save Basil from drowning go poorly, and he hallucinates facing Something underwater. Hero has to save both him and Basil, noting it's lucky that Sunny can still walk.
*[[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Omori is ''not'' happy when you realize he's not real. He's a defense mechanism of Sunny's, to hide the truth about Mari's death}}.
*[[Tomato Surprise]]: At the end of Blackspace, {{spoiler|Omori ascends a throne of red hands after killing Basil. He gives us a long look, a cold stare. Slowly, we realize he's not the hero of the story but ''the villain''}}.
*[[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: This applies to everyone in the friendship group before the great tragedy that hit them. Kel is the only one who remained the same, albeit with chips on his shoulder. Aubrey in particular used to be a nice girl that would affectionately spray Kel with watermelon, and she has become a gangster.
*[[Video Game Caring Potential]]: There is one option in Headspace and one in the real world:
**After Basil goes missing, you can start each dream by watering his flowers and plants. Do this every day, and {{spoiler|the game ends with a bonus scene where Basil wakes up, Sunny smiles at him to show all is forgiven, and both of their Somethings fade.}}
**In the real world, you can do sidequests around town, running errands for your neighbors. {{spoiler|In the best ending, you find out if you've helped them, they send you failures and wishes to get better}}.
*[[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]:
** One room in Blackspace has {{spoiler|Mewo, Mari's cat, strapped to a table. You are asked if you want to cut her open, several times}}. If a player has the sense to check their Menu options, they can exit the room by stabbing themselves. Most players, however, feel they have no choice. {{spoiler|Cutting Mewo doesn't allow you to leave. You have to stab yourself anyway, making the cat death all for nothing}}.
** Another Blackspace room has {{spoiler|Basil collapse like watermelon chunks. If you are in a state of shock or have a sense of dark humor, you can walk over the pieces and hear a squishing sound repeatedly}}.
*[[Villain Has a Point]]: What's sad about the real villain in the story is that he is completely right during the final boss fight of the Main Route. {{spoiler|Sunny killed Mari, and though it was an accident, he and Baail lied about it for years. She loved him, and everyone loved Mari. The only way to get the happy ending is to acknowledge that Omori is right, but Sunny will persist regardless}}.
*[[Wimp Fight]]:
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