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* [[Alien Blood]]: The "Frozeners" carry white blood, which accounts for their green-skinned appearance.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The translation project's website features a massive compendium of glossary terms gleaned from the PlayStation release's omake disc. Strangely enough, there's a mode [[Dummied Out]] here but available by default in the Saturn copy that allows players to call up the [[Encyclopedia Exposita]] on the fly.
* [[Author Filibuster]]: {{spoiler|Gates'}} monologue at the very end is (possibly) Hideo Kojima's indictment of outer space research as an excuse for neglecting Earth's problems.
* [[Badass Beard]]: Gates Becker sports one.
* [[Badass Long Hair]]: Tony Redwood.
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Ed.
* [[Best Her to Bed Her]]: If you're able to beat Meryl's high score on the shooting range, she'll let you grope her breasts. Kind of subverted in that the person she eventually reveals real interest in is her friend Dave, who could never outshoot her.
* [[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}}
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* [[Casual Interplanetary Travel]]: Jonathan gets to Beyond Coast on a commercial shuttle with even less hassle than one would get on an international flight circa 2011.
* [[Chase Scene]]: A ''very'' lengthy chase with a motorcycle gunman. Twice.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Various.
* [[Coincidental Broadcast]]: Karen's BBC news reports.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Tokugawa.
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Guess.
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* [[Deal with the Devil]]: {{spoiler|Chris}} admits to aiding Tokagawa because of crippling financial debt.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Take everything you know about [[Snatcher|Gillian Seed]] hitting on women. Now ramp it [[Up to Eleven]] with a mouse pointer that allows you to LOOK at women in specific spots. In fact, groping a woman is [[But Thou Must!|integral to advancing the plot]] at one point.
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Ed can't bring himself to draw a gun anymore because of -- in true ''[[Die Hard]]'' fashion -- a [[My Greatest Failure|traumatic moment]] in his past.
* [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest]]: This seems to be the case with Karen, whose resemblance to her mother Lorraine does not go unnoticed by Jonathan, while Karen herself tries to make a move on Jonathan, much to Jonathan's confusion. {{spoiler|This is subverted at the end, when Karen is revealed to Jonathan's daughter, having been conceived before Jonathan's accident.}}
* [[Due to the Dead]]: Nearly everyone who dies in the game is shipped off to BCCH, where their bodies are put into [[Suspended Animation]] while their organs are sold on the black market.
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* [[Elevator Action Sequence]]: Jonathan's shootout with an EMPS while climbing Tokugawa's H.Q.
* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: {{spoiler|Gates Becker's recorded "confession" at the end of the game.}}
* [[Everyone Is Related]]: Ho boy. {{spoiler|Chris is the mother of Redwood, whose brother Ripley was Marc's father -- making Redwood his uncle. And of course, Jonathan is Karen's father}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Brit]] / [[Mole in Charge]]: Gates}}
* [[Evil Gloating]]: {{spoiler|Redwood. Dear fucking god, ''Redwood''}}.
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* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: Tokugawa H.Q. (leading into a [[Climbing Climax]]).
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Redwood}} and {{spoiler|Gates}}.
* [[Family Relationship Switcheroo]]: {{spoiler|Chris admits she is Redwood's mother, probably his only sympathetic moment in the game}}.
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: The opium/pharma-hybrid Narc, whose 33% per-capita usage on Beyond Coast is rivaled only in America, where "[[Moral Guardians|the War on Drugs is still being fought]]." (BTW, that's a [[Shout-Out]] to the tacked-on Ivan Rodriguez/Liquid Sky miniplot in ''Snatcher''.)
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Meryl.
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* [[Frame-Up]]: Hojo's body is uncovered right in the middle of a police raid. And wouldn't you know it, Jonathan Ingram's shell casings are conveniently littered around the corpse, how strange!
* [[The Future]]
* [[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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* [[He Was Right There All Along]]: {{spoiler|Ishida/Redwood}} in the astronaut spacesuit.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Ed & Jonathan.
* [[His Name Is--]]: {{spoiler|Chris}} gets shot before she can spill the beans on Tokugawa's operation.
* [[Hot Scoop]]: Karen Hojo.
* [[Human Shield]]: {{spoiler|Redwood}} takes Chris hostage onboard a moving train.
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* [[Let Me At Him]]: Jonathan ''really'' wants to get his hands on Tokugawa.
* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Jonathan before setting off to Tokugawa's tower for a final showdown.
* [[Luke, I Might Be Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Jonathan's bone marrow is compatible with Karen, making it ''highly probable'' that they're related. Karen seems prepared to draw that conclusion, even addressing Jonathan as "dad" in her letter at the end}}.
* [[The Mafia]] / [[The Triads and the Tongs]]: In SPAAAAACE!
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Dave and Meryl.
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* [[Old Save Bonus]]: If you happen to have a ''[[Tokimeki Memorial|Tokimeki Memorial : Forever with you]]'' save completed with at least one girl in the same Memory Card as your ''Policenauts'' save, an additional dialogue [[Shout-Out|spoofing]] ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]''[[World Tree|'s Legend of the Tree]] [[Shout-Out|and commenting on the girl you completed]] will appear at one point of the game.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: {{spoiler|Gates'}} EMPS riddles Jonathan with bullets, but avoids hitting any vital organs ([[You Will Be Assimilated|No sense in wasting those]], eh?)
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Ed gunned down Marc's biological (and [[Ax Crazy]]) father while on the job. Guilt-ridden, he took in the orphaned boy as his own.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]
* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]
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* [[Powered Armor]]: BCP's "EMPS" suits, designed to quickly patrol the entirety of the colony.
* [[Production Foreshadowing]]: If you have the ''Pilot Disk'' for the 3DO, or the ''Private Collection'' disc for the PS (doesn't matter which), you can see early concept of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' (back when it was titled ''Metal Gear 3'') if you look up FOXHOUND in the glossary.
* [[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]].
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* [[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 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.
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* [[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, indulges in a "smokeless" brand of cigarettes. 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.}}
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