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* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]/[[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|Redwood}}.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Jonathan leaves his friends and his daughter on Beyond to go back to his sad, lonely life on Earth. Many people that Jonathan and aforementioned friends cared about are dead. Beyond's future is uncertain with the exposure of Tokugawa}}.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Jonathan's favorite brand of cigarettes, "Moslems", are sold in a Marlboro-style red box. [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Moslems are (were) real]], and they are (were) 'break' cigarettes: required no lighter, but had a sulfuric compound in the tip that activated when you broke the end.
** [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Moslems are (were) real]], and they are (were) 'break' cigarettes; required no lighter, but had a sulfuric compound in the tip that activated when you broke the end.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Chris, Karen, and Meryl.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|Dave}} and {{spoiler|Redwood}}.
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* [[Gag Boobs]]: Jonathan finds [[Fan Service|a myriad of excuses]] to touch womens' breasts, complete with [[Jiggle Physics|jiggle animations]] and a sound effect (Meryl's twins [[Fan Disservice|sound like elephants]]).
* [[General Gaming Gamepads]]: The PS1 version is playable with the Playstation Mouse, while the shooting sections of the Saturn version can be played with a [[Light Gun]].
* [[Genre Deconstruction]]: Not so much the [[Buddy Cop Show|buddy cop]] angle -- (in which Kojima [[Cliché Storm|embraces every cliché in the book]] --), but space exploration in general. Beyond Coast's residents are overcrowded, over-medicated, have to keep a close eye on their calcium intake, and basically have to adapt every aspect of their lives (if you can call it living) to a weightless environment. [[Hardcore Gaming 101|HG101]] [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/policenauts/policenauts.htm puts it best]:
{{quote|"Of course, just as ''Metal Gear Solid'' was screaming "[[Nuclear Weapons Taboo|NUKES ARE BAD]]" at the top of its lungs, the prevailing theme in ''Policenauts'' is "[[Anvilicious|SPACE IS BAD]]", which is pounded into your head on several occasions."}}
* [[A God Am I]]: At least one of the villains has developed a God complex, as evidenced by his [[Hannibal Lecture]] near the end of the game.
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* [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]]: Before she dies, Lorraine hands Jonathan a black poppy leaf.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Karen, {{spoiler|after Jonathan's bone marrow transplant saves her life}}. On the flight back to Home, Jonathan watches a BBC newscast and sees that Karen has cut her hair short.
* [[Incest Is Relative]]:
* [[Incest Is Relative]]:* {{spoiler|Karen starts to put the moves on Jonathan; later, it's implied that Karen is actually Jonathan's daughter}}.
** Tokugawa's "Rebirthers" are clones of celebrity women throughout history, existing solely to have sex with him and his clientèle. More disturbingly, they're also registered as [[Squick|legal blood relatives]] of Tokugawa himself.
* [[It Was Here, I Swear]]: Ed and Jonathan uncover a massive Narc factory inside BCCH. When the cops raid it the next morning, however, all the evidence has disappeared. Well, [[Frame-Up|almost]] all of it...
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* [[Production Throwback]]: The game is filled with several ''[[Snatcher]]'' and ''[[Metal Gear]]'' references. From cameos by Randam and Napoleon, to the presence of a 2042 ''Snatcher'' calendar in Dr. Ishida's office.
* [[The Professor]]: Victor.
* [[Prophetic Name]]: Plato Crater is a location on the moon where Tokugawa keeps his [[Organ Theft|organ farm]]. As Toscanini points out, if you change one letter, you end up with "Pluto" --... the [[Classical Mythology|gateway to the underworld]].
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Sure enough, as ''Snatcher'' was ''[[Blade Runner]]'' <small>WITH ROBOTS INSTEAD OF CLONES!</small>, this is ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' <small>IN AN O'NEILL CYLINDER!</small>.
* [[Retirony]]: {{spoiler|Dave gets shot before ever getting a chance to visit Home}}.
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* [[Secret Keeper]]: While visiting Karen at the hospital, her doctor recognizes Jonathan as a wanted fugitive. Luckily, he's a nice fellow and decides not to turn Jonathan in.
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]: Zero gravity has ''many'' advantages.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]: The shooting range's combat mode lifts several distinct sound effects from Konami's light gun game ''Lethal Enforcers''.▼
** Ishida's [[Snatcher|2042 calendar]] [[Feelies|that he got from a video game]]. [[Lampshade Hanging|It's even mentioned by one of the characters]] that, given a haircut and a trench coat, [[Expy|Johnathan would look just like the guy in the middle]].
** The ''Metal Gear'' series, from ''Solid'' onwards, feature various shout-outs to ''Policenauts'' in turn.
▲* [[Shout-Out]]:* The shooting range's combat mode lifts several distinct sound effects from Konami's light gun game ''Lethal Enforcers''.
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: {{spoiler|The Redwood siblings are named after Tony and Ridley Scott}}.▼
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]:
▲* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]:* {{spoiler|The Redwood siblings are named after Tony and Ridley Scott}}.
** The original EMPS prototype is named Yuri Gagarin, named after the first man in space, while the three later models (Goddard, Oberth and Von Braun) are named after real rocket scientists.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Kojima pulled together a lot of conjecture about the effects of zero gravity and cosmic radiation on space-bound humans, along with the rigid environmental conditions needed to keep an O'Neill Cylinder running... then capped it off with [[Author Appeal|his own speculation]] about what zero gravity and virtual reality could do [[Power Perversion Potential|for sex tourism, legal or otherwise]].
* [[Sickbed Slaying]]: {{spoiler|Chris}} tries to kill Ed while he's unconscious in the hospital, but gets caught in the act.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Jonathan, noting how smoking is frowned upon in the future, indulgestends into use a "smokeless" brand of cigarettes but prefers the old kind, specifically stating he liked the second-hand smoke. That said, he always keeps one in his mouth that he doesn't smoke, and he only lights it once. Even that isn't enough for Ed, who constantly reminds Jonathan that ''all'' smoking is outlawed on Beyond.
** Jonathan doesn't indulge in smokeless cigarettes, specifically stating he like second-hand smoke. What Jonathan does is keep a cigarette in his mouth that he doesn't smoke, and he only lights it once.
* [[Snowy Screen of Death]]: When {{spoiler|Ed gets shot}} on-camera, Jonathan's monitor briefly turns to static.
* [[The Speechless]]: Marc watched his father get gunned down, and was rendered mute by the trauma. He communicates mostly through drawing pictures.
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* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: BCCH.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Subverted. A key [[MacGuffin]] is stored on a CD-ROM, precisely ''because'' it's an "archaic format" which nobody would look twice at.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]:
** {{spoiler|One of the big giveaways that Kenzo Hojo won't be showing up alive is the fact that he's the only main character without a credited voice actor}}.
** The cover illustrations for the {{spoiler|1=PS1 and Saturn versions don't make any attempt to hide the fact that Redwood isn't exactly a friendly character}}.
* [[Transplant]]: Meryl, into MGS.
* [[The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter]]: Anna Brown. ''Good lord'', Anna Brown.
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Space?]]: Jonathan's spacewalking accident 25 years ago left him riddled with cosmophobia.
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: Nuthin's gonna break {{spoiler|Redwood}}'s stride. No matter ''how'' many bullets Jonathan seems to put in him.
* [[Wire Dilemma]] : The bomb planted inside an Elles designer bag --... which is stashed inside a [[Needle in a Stack of Needles|counterfeit Elles bag store]]. Jonathan suggests they use Anna's bag as a litmus test, but the plan goes sour when Ed confides that the bag (a birthday gift from him) is [[Oh Crap|yet another fake]].
* [[Would You Like to Hear How They Died?]]: {{spoiler|Redwood}}.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Jonathan literally has blue hair, along with Tokugawa (whose hair is green) and Ed's children. Redwood's hair is purple, although in that case, it's a side-effect of his biology.
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