Professor Layton and the Unwound Future: Difference between revisions

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: {{spoiler|Future Luke/Clive is considerably more gentlemanly than Luke, but secretly harbors a desire for wide-scale vengeance}}. On a lesser scale, Becky's politeness towards guests depends on whether her grandmother is listening at the moment.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: {{spoiler|Most of what Clive said as Future Luke.}}

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: {{spoiler|Claire, back to the time of her death}}.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Layton says, "There's something going very wrong," when the time machine had just exploded.

** And one to both games simultaneously: if you tap the manhole cover outside one of the subway stations, Luke remarks, "Remember the last time we went into the sewer?"

** One of the pictures during the credits is of {{spoiler|Layton and Paul frantically running away from the mobile fortress controlled by Clive to destroy London}} ...in the exact positioning as the picture in [[Professor Layton and the Curious Village|Curious Village's]] credits of {{spoiler|Layton and Luke running away from the Ferris wheel sent by ''Paul'' to destroy them.}}

* [[Cool Car]]: The Laytonmobile goes [[Up to Eleven]] in this game.

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Puzzlette might count - she's breezy and ditzy and speaks in an incredibly [[Moe]]-[[Moe]] girl-idol voice when she's not '''MURDERING SAPIENT INSECTS WITH A FLYSWATTER.'''

* [[Doing in the Wizard]]: Toyed with, {{spoiler|as the "time machine" used to travel between Present London and Future London turns out to be simply an elevator. But then you get to the very end, and discover that the original time machine built 10 years ago ''did'' work, temporarily launching Claire into the present time.}}

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Subject 3.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Poor, poor Beasly. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Or not]]. One of the credit images shows him flying away from Puzzlette's swatter, [[Amusing Injuries|injured in a comical way.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Elaborate Underground Base]]: While we don't get to see it, underneath Future London is a facility building a [[Humongous Mecha|huge, city-destroying mecha]]. Considering that "Future London" is a fake built under the real London, we have a [[Humongous Mecha]] built in an [[Elaborate Underground Base]] under a [[Beneath the Earth]] city under a major metropolis.}}

* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: At one point in the Towering Pagoda, Layton is forced to put on a strange pair of goggles in order to see [[Only Smart People May Pass|the puzzle that will unlock the next door.]] {{spoiler|Their real purpose is to scan his memories of a specific day so Dr. Allen can program that data into his time machine...except 'Layton' was really Don Paolo in disguise, so Allen couldn't have gotten the information off him in the first place.}}

* [[Got Me Doing It]]: DING!

{{quote|"Take one more step, and I'll rearrange your kneecaps!"}}

* [[Hard on Soft Science]]: The Prime Minister is talked into participating in the time machine demonstration after Dr. Stahngun needles him over abandoning the hard sciences.

** Also, Puzzlette, for well... obvious reasons. Her name in the Japanese version is Nazolene, "nazo" being a Japanese word for "puzzle".

* [[Reality Ensues]]: First time we get to see Layton at the university he works at and pester a student to finish her homework.

* [[Reverse the Polarity]]: {{spoiler|The war machine Clive uses is destroyed by switching some gears around to make one of them run backwards.}}

* [[Save the Villain]]: {{spoiler|Celeste/Claire saving Clive, feeling responsible for what happened to him. Also, in a sense, Layton and company saving Bill Hawks}}

* [[Sequel Hook]]: At the very end of the game, {{spoiler|Luke writes to Layton about a mysterious happening at his new home, which sounds like just the sort of mystery for Layton to solve}}. The game ends, not with "The End", but with "To Be Continued". Perhaps there will be something after the prequel trilogy is completed.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Layton at the end, once he's worked out what's ''really'' going on here. He remains gentlemanly and reserved throughout, but loses the soft-spokenness in his voice and his beady little eyes suddenly become... unsettling.

{{quote|'''Layton''': This is... ''utter madness''.}}

* [[Triang Relations]]: {{spoiler|A variant of type 4, with both Dimitri Allen and Don Paolo filling in the role of A, Claire being B, and Layton as C.}}

** {{spoiler|To be more specific, Claire and Layton were in a loving relationship, while Don Paolo and Dimitri both were one-sidedly in love with Claire.}}

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Or ten years. We still don't know ''when'' that means. See the [[Schizo-Tech]] entry on the main ''[[Professor Layton]]'' page.

* [[Unfitting Music]]: {{spoiler|When Layton weeps for his dead love at the end of the game, a happy-sounding love song/ballad starts playing, which seems cruelly sarcastic considering the situation.}}

* [[Universal Driver's License]]: {{spoiler|Professor Layton is able to fly a plane, more specifically, the Laytonmobile transformed into a plane (or more specifically, an ornithopter) Strangely, he seems to have a much easier time flying his plane than driving it on the ground.}}