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Please place examples that apply to the series as a whole on the main ''[[Professor Layton (Franchise)|Professor Layton]]'' page.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Belle, for "[[My Name Is Not Durwood|Fluke]]". [[Which Me|The young one, I mean.]]
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: {{spoiler|The slot machine gun that Professor Layton and Future Luke create uses coins as ammo.}}
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** {{spoiler|Dean Delmona's hair is graying, but Layton knows he's bald and wears a toupee}}.
* [[Future Me Scares Me]]: And how! {{spoiler|Played pointedly straight with Future Layton, and later Future Luke.}}
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: It's implied in a flashback that {{spoiler|Layton hit Clive whilst restraining him, to stop him from going back for his parents, after the explosion that killed both Claire and Clive's parents}}.
* [[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!
* [[Hair -Raising Hare]]: Subject 3. Years of being experimented on have left him misanthropic and cranky enough to give even [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Shadow the Hedgehog]] a run for his money.
{{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.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Layton disappears for a short period when the gang are heading for the Towering Pagoda, and Luke and Flora are naturally concerned. Flora remarks that Luke is "just lost without him," which is a nice bit of pot-kettle-black coming from Little Miss Separation Anxiety. Of course Luke calls her on it, but it's all quite good-natured.
* [[Ice Queen]]: Bill Hawks' wife, who behaves as though attending the scientific event at the start of the game is somehow beneath her and the food isn't good enough.
* {{spoiler|[[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Daughter]]/AndYourLittleDogToo: Clive abducts Flora}} to ensure that Layton will chase him, although the specific motive for this act is never actually stated. {{spoiler|He finally admits that he doesn't really know why, and [[I Cannot Self -Terminate|guesses that something inside him made him want to be stopped]].}}
* "[[LaymansLayman's Terms|In Layman's Terms]]: a memory scanner."
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "Paint me <adjective>" from Slate and "drone" from Beasly.
* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: {{spoiler|On ''two'' occasions, from both Layton and Luke. Granted, [[Tear Jerker|they were at some of their lives' saddest moments.]]}}
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* [[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.
* [[Similar Squad]]: There's a Family member named Layman, who is similarly dressed to Layton and [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|gets several of his catchphrases wrong]]. Layton never comments on this. There are also Shmelmey and Shmarton (Barley and Chelton in the UK version), who are similar to Chelmey and Barton.
* [[Snow Means Love]]/{{spoiler|[[Snow Means Death]]}}: The ending: it starts snowing at the end of the game, even though the weather conditions and the foilage on the leaves would imply summertime. {{spoiler|All while the woman Layton loves walks away into the past and towards her death.}}
* [[Soft Glass]]: Averted. {{spoiler|Clive locks Flora in a glass cell, which neither she nor Layton seem able to break. Good thing it had a [[Genre Savvy|puzzle lock]]...}}
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* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Claire and Celeste could practically be ''twins''. {{spoiler|Subverted when it turns out Celeste ''is'' Claire}}.
* [[Take Your Time]]: Contains a particularly [[Egregious]] example near the end of the game. The [[Big Bad]] has activated his {{spoiler|gigantic, mobile fortress and is about to begin tearing London apart}}, and you want to go back and solve any puzzles you may have missed? No problem!
** Even worse, at the very end, you {{spoiler|install a watch with a stated time limit of ten minutes to stall a [[Self -Destruct Mechanism]]}}, yet you can STILL go back to leisurely mess around! Weirdest of all, there's a (telegraphed) [[Point of No Return]] right near that point, just like you'd expect -- but it's the puzzle immediately ''after'' the one where the time limit kicks in, so {{spoiler|your final save is guaranteed to one where London is supposedly about to explode in ten minutes.}}
* [[Teacher -Student Romance]]: A one-sided version: Rosetta, one of Layton's students, makes thinly-veiled references to how she's looking forward to their private sessions. Layton, for his part, seems to know what she's implying (he stutters a bit) but is clearly not interested. Leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] during the credits, which show Rosetta and Layton in their "private" session...with Luke and Flora. Layton and the kids are evidently having a great time; Rosetta, not so much.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: {{spoiler|Clive, after his machine has been disabled.}}
* [[Time Travel]]
* [[Title Drop]]
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* [[Unfinished Untested Used Anyway]]: {{spoiler|Dmitri opposed pushing forward the time travel experiment, as Hawks planned to do for his sponsors}}.
* [[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 DriversDriver'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.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Luke''': [[Are You Sure You Can Drive This Thing|Uh, Professor, when did you learn how to fly a plane?]]}}<br />
{{spoiler|'''Professor Layton''': A plane? This is an ''automobile''!}} }}
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|Dmitri plays into Clive's plans without realizing that he's also one of the targets of Clive's revenge plot.}}.
** {{spoiler|Cogg and Spring apparently helped Clive with his plan by making the "time machine" elevator, as they were servants of his adoptive family. They, however, had no idea what he was really planning.}}
* [[The Un -Reveal]]: Just as Beasley's about to tell us all about how he became a Puzzle Bee, [[Cute and Psycho|Puzzlette cheerfully interrupts him with a flyswatter. Several times.]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]: A prominent NPC has one. Is it Cogg? '''BZZT!''' Beasley? '''[[A Worldwide Punomenon|BZZT!]]''' Max? '''DING DING DING!'''
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Clive, once Layton uses [[Reverse Polarity]] on his [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]}}.
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* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|"You've taken awfully good care of that hat I gave you."}}
* [[Which Me]]?: Luke. Layton solves this by referring to them as "Big Luke" and "Little Luke".
* [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|Enjoy your final hug and kiss, Hershel, because that's all you're going to get before your love is inevitably sucked back to her own time to die.}}
* [[Zany Scheme]]: {{spoiler|Clive's. ''And how''. Clive was somehow able to get the workers, funding,and support for his harebrained revenge scheme, despite only being about 20 years old.}}
 
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