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* [[Big Freaking Gun]]: {{spoiler|The army's cannons used in the ending scenes are ''fucking giant''. And they're mounted on railroad tracks!}}
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: [[Zig Zagged]] -- the English language translation is very spotty. At times, it's a train wreck, at other times it's decent, and every now and then the incomprehensibility will actually add to the atmosphere. However, it can make it hard to know what to do. (The worst errors are in Day 3 and Day 6 in the Bachelor's scenario, as well as a letter on Day 12.)
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: It's usually a [[One-Hit Kill]]. Try to get the hang of it, since anything that conserves ammo (see below) is a very useful technique.
* [[Boss Battle]]: Exactly one, and it isn't even necessary to progress the plot -- {{spoiler|Oyun}} in the Haruspicius' scenario, if you discover that {{spoiler|he killed Artemiy's father}}.
** Arguably, there's also {{spoiler|the hunchback and [[Flunky Boss|his squad of arsonists]]}} in the Bachelor's scenario, though he isn't much tougher than a regular enemy. And again, it's [[Bonus Boss|optional]].
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* [[Femme Fatale]]: Maria Kain.
* [[Find the Cure]]: Either that or you could at least try to hinder the spreading of the disease (and despair) among the surviving people.
* {{spoiler|[[
* [[Fire
* [[Firing One-Handed]]: Every weapon except the rifle. Yes, even the [[Sawed
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: The marauder enemies. They're extremely agile and skilled in melee combat (traits bolstered by the fact that you fight them in small, cramped rooms), but can be killed with a single rifle shot anywhere on their body.
** A weapon example is the revolver. It's relatively weak and pretty inaccurate, but its large magazine size allows you to fire multiple bullets in quick succession -- useful for dealing with large mobs before you get the shotgun.
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* [[Infant Immortality]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified.]]
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Most of the main character [[NPC|NPCs]] have faces identical with their small photo portraits seen in the conversation menu. [[Easter Egg|Some of the actors used for the photos are members of the dev team]] (e.g. Artemiy's portrait shows one of the game's writers).
* [[Insurmountable Waist
* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: Subverted. You can only use lockpicks to get into locked buildings. They still inexplicably break when you use them, though.
* [[Interface Screw]]: {{spoiler|The map switch.}}
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* [[Karma Meter]]: The Reputation meter is an interesting and realistic variation on this. It's actually, for all intents and purposes, another health meter, and one of the most important ones at that. If you squander your Reputation, an already [[Nintendo Hard]] game will become [[Up to Eleven|even more difficult]], as important [[NPC|NPCs]] will refuse to help you or provide shelter, most likely resulting in your unavoidable death.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]}}: {{spoiler|In the [[Downer Ending]], the army destroys everything.}}
* [[Knife Nut]]: You can use a scalpel or a bigger ordinary knife as melee weapons to defend yourself (or others). Firearms are the more powerful and safer to use weapons though, since melee fights in the game are [[Spam Attack|fast]] and [[No
** Another example of this trope are the looters, who seem to be expert knife throwers. Like, ''ridiculously adept'' at it... Thankfully, you can [[Dodge the Bullet|dodge the blades]] if you think and move fast enough.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: The [[Player Character]] (and, by extension, the player) will definitely become this by the end if you try to play morally.
** A [[Non
* [[Let's Play]]: There is one for the [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3033830 Bachelor] and one for the [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3359432&pagenumber=1 Haruspex] on the [[Something Awful]] discussion board.
** The [http://lparchive.org/Pathologic/ Devotress] has an archived on with a smoother translation.
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: The main menu theme. The rest of the game features examples of ''[[It Makes Sense in Context|Ominous Steppe Nomad Chanting]]'', interspersed with haunting, predominantly [[One-Woman Wail|female vocals]]. They greatly add to the already gloomy atmosphere of the game.
* [[One Bullet Clips]]: Sidestepped. The revolver is reloaded offscreen (the character pulls it down to their side first), avoiding the need for custom animations depending on how many bullets it currently has. The rifle ''is'' reloaded on-screen, but it has a ''literal'' one-bullet clip, so the trope doesn't apply. Played straight with the shotgun, however, which is also guilty of the "reload more visible shots than you actually have" subtrope.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: [[Back Stab|Back Stabs]] and [[Boom! Headshot!|headshots]] will result in these.
* [[One Stat to Rule Them All]]: Keep your Reputation high ''at all costs''. It's the hardest type of health to restore, and has far-reaching consequences if it gets low.<ref>Among other things: Shopkeepers will refuse to sell their wares to you, townspeople will attack you on sight, and most people will refuse to lend you shelter, meaning you'll eventually drop dead from exhaustion.</ref>
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted; there are two characters who go by the name of "Alexander". They're both referred to by their surnames, though, so the problems with the trope are sidestepped.
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* [[Real Is Brown]]: The whole town. Possibly justified, as it's in the middle of a steppe and is thus covered in sand and mud all the time.
* {{spoiler|[[Reality Is Out to Lunch]]}}
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: The reloading animation for the [[Sawed
** There's also the fact that the characters insist on [[Firing One-Handed]] with everything except the rifle, despite the fact that trying that with a [[Sawed
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: Averted. The revolver is the least accurate and second-weakest gun in the game. Its only real advantage is a (relatively) large magazine size, but [[More Dakka]] is a horrible strategy in this game, so that's not terribly useful. (And just in case you still want to try that, its ammunition is the most expensive as well.)
* [[Romanticism Versus Enlightenment]]: The Bachelor's scenario makes a case for the Enlightenment, while the Haruspex is on the side of Romanticism.
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*** [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: The revolver actually subverts many of the standard tropes surrounding it; it's more powerful than the derringer, but still one of the weakest guns overall.
** [[Sniper Rifle]]: The rifle is hard to classify, actually -- while it is the most accurate weapon, it doesn't have a scope, so it's not a [[Sniper Rifle]]. It's not a Marksman Gun either, since it can only hold one bullet at a time.
** [[Sawed
* [[Strange Girl]]: Laska, the keeper of the cemetery who communicates with the city's dead, singing to them and bringing offerings to their tombs.
** Ospina, a girl from the steppes who calls herself an evil spirit and keeps creepy dolls lying around her house.
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* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: An important theme in the game, but especially in the {{spoiler|Bachelor}}'s ending.
** The game's original Russian title - ''Pestilence: The Utopia'' - hints at this, along with a short throwaway dialogue with one of the town's [[Upperclass Twit]] [[NPC|NPCs]].
** Also, russian word for pestilence is "Mor", making the title a [[Shout
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: {{spoiler|In-universe, during a bonus scene in the Polyhedron, but minus the "video" aspect of "game." No, seriously.}}
* [[Video Game Physics]]: It's mainly used just to calculate falling damage - and it's pretty unforgiving about it too. The player characters' legs must be made of plaster to break from such short falls...
* [[Waif Prophet]] / [[Mysterious Waif]] / [[Strange Girl]]: Klara, the Devotress.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Many of the characters who look like they're going to be the [[Big Bad]] turn out to have their own beliefs, morals, and reasons for their actions, turning them into this.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Day 6 in the Bachelor's scenario. Up until that point, things have actually been going surprisingly well -- you've managed to set up a hospital and isolation ward, and your fellow scientist Rubin has even managed to isolate a vaccine (albeit at [[Shoot the Dog|a cost]]). But then [[It Got Worse|everything starts going to pieces]].
** Firstly, {{spoiler|Rubin has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment because of yesterday's events, and turns himself into the authorities. He is subsequently executed. You're on your own now in your battle against [[The Plague]].}}
** Secondly, {{spoiler|a plague carrier somehow managed to infiltrate the hospital you set up, causing death and despair. The town is now degrading into madness and hysteria trying to hunt town the perpetrator.}}
** Thirdly, {{spoiler|Saburov has gone mad with power -- power [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|you gave him yourself]]. He's now arresting people with wild abandon and little basis. If you don't pay their bail by midnight, the [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner|Inquisitor]] will almost certainly kill them.}}
** Fourthly, {{spoiler|a mob of arsonists is trying to ''burn down the Apiary'' because they believe it's the source of the plague. Even Vlad Senior, the overseer of the place, doesn't seem very concerned about this -- and he later reveals that the infection has indeed found its way into the Apiary...}}
** To top it all off, the [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner|Inquistor]] is poised to arrive the next day, and if you can't stop the disease by then, they are likely to take the reins themselves and destroy the plague [[
** Probably not coincidentally, this is the point where the red angels of death start appearing in the infected districts.
* [[What the Hell Townspeople]]: Invoked by Artemiy [[Snark Knight|in a few sarcastic jabs]].
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