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* [[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.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Chris, Karen, and Meryl.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|Dave}} and {{spoiler|Redwood}}.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Ed shoots {{spoiler|Gates}} right between the eyes, just as he's about to kill Jonathan. A fairly blatant [[Shout
* [[Buddy Cop Show]]
* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]
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* [[Darkened Building Shootout]]
* [[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 (Film)|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.}}
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* [[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
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Meryl.
* [[Flashback Effects]]: When referencing a character's backstory or an earlier event in the game, the cutscenes are [[Deliberately Monochrome]]. The flashbacks to [[My Greatest Failure|Ed's Greatest Failure]] are shown in stark blue.
* [[Frame
* [[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]]).
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* [[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 & Jonathan uncover a massive Narc factory inside BCCH. When the cops raid it the next morning, however, all the evidence has disappeared. Well, [[Frame
* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: The Japanese-bred Tokugawa is the biggest employer on Beyond, so much so that his employees have taken on the [[Salaryman]] mindset.
* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Toscanini.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Jonathan bears a suspicious resemblance to Mel Gibson in ''Lethal Weapon'', complete with shaggy mullet and baseball jacket. The similarities between Ed and Danny Glover are also hard to miss.
* [[Off With His Head]]: {{spoiler|Ishida}}.
* [[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
* [[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.
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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
** 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
** 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]].
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* [[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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