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Raz is quickly caught by the camp's leaders, but he's allowed to stay for a while until his psychic-hating dad will come to take him home again. During his one day of training, he discovers that something horrible is going on: someone is stealing the brains of his fellow campers, leaving them mindless zombies obsessed with ''teeeeeveeeee'' and hacky-sacking. As he tracks the brain-stealing scheme to the source, he hones his powers, and encounters a variety of [[Eccentric Townsfolk|eccentric]] and downright crazy characters. Raz finds himself forced to literally [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|get into their heads]] and fight his way through their memories and mental disorders in order to save the world.
The platforming aspect of Psychonauts is often made of [[
The game is especially notable for its level of detail. Every line of dialogue in ''Psychonauts'' is voiced, and every single character has elaborate voiced reactions to virtually [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|every item, ability or situation that Raz can show them]]
[[Critical Dissonance|Critically praised but initially somewhat poor in sales]], ''Psychonauts'' is considered one of the great
There's a ''Psychonauts'' Wiki, the [http://www.doublefine.com/Psycho-pedia/ Psycho-pedia] at Double Fine.
On November 11, 2010, Schafer [https://web.archive.org/web/20130327174648/http://www.gamestooge.com/2010/11/12/tim-schafer-ready-for-psychonauts-2/ indicated] he was "ready" for a sequel. On February 7, 2012, Markus Persson, the creator of ''[[Minecraft]]'', [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/166838426207924224 offered] to sponsor ''Psychonauts 2''. At first, he claimed he was [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/166843982683451392 serious], but now he's saying he was [http://kotaku.com/5885525/bankrolling-psychonauts-2-was-just-a-semi+joke-says-notch joking]
''Psychonauts'' was once sold as part of the [[Humble Bundle|Humble Indie Bundle V]].
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* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]
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* [[1-Up]]: The Astral Projection layers.
* [[100% Completion]]. And DAMN do you have to work for it.
** The recently-added "Math is Hard" achievement is so named because you can get to Psi Cadet ranking of 10''1''.
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: It's a mental representation of deeply buried (and rather painful) memories of the place where the owner of that particular headspace found and lost the love of his life, includes one high school locker room to boot.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Raz thinks there's a pretty solid chance his dad's endless training was an attempt to distract him from his budding psychic powers, if not actually kill him, and further, that his dad hated him for those exact same psychic powers, even though he had psychic powers himself. {{spoiler|Ultimately subverted: Raz's father actually loves his son deeply, and the training was to teach him control so that his powers would be more effective, and to give him something to rely on aside from said powers. And he doesn't hate psychics in general, just the ones who cursed his family. A lot of the level progression is done through trapeze and tightropes, so it seems that his dad's training actually helped him save the day several times over}}.
* [[Academy of Adventure]]: Well, summer camp, anyway.
* [[Action Bomb]]: Both the personal demons and those danged rats in the tower.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Averted in exactly the sort of setting you'd expect it to be played straight. As noted below, most adults are actually [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]s. Even though the adults do the ass-kicking later in the game, Sasha [[Not Now, Kiddo|ignored Raz]] when he tried to
* [[Affably Evil]]: Doctor Loboto. Even offhandedly commenting to a hostage that he uses his little jokes to put his "patients" at ease. Combine his "jovial family mad doctor" routine with his hideously menacing appearance, and the fact that his idea of humor includes stuff that goes way beyond "tickle torture
* [[All Cheering, All the Time]]: Crystal and Clem, who deliver pretty much all their lines in cheer form.
* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Edgar's ex-girlfriend.
** Oddly enough, inverted with Edgar's girlfriend as well, who dumped the large and manly Edgar to go out with the MALE cheerleader captain.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The supporting characters have expanded backstories and personalities on [http://www.myspace.com/13762391 Myspace] and the [http://www.doublefine.com/Psycho-pedia/ official wiki].
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Benny, particularly on the official character RP [[Myspace]] pages. He's obsessed with three things: bullying, musicals
* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|The disembodied brains are still fully conscious, as shown in the pre-Meat Circus scene}}. Though if {{spoiler|Sasha and Milla}}'s dialogue is any indication, the stuff they're in kind of sedates you so you don't realize that.
* [[An Aesop]]: Lampshaded in Sasha's Shooting Gallery at the end.
{{quote|'''Raz:''' So is this where you teach me another important lesson?
'''Sasha:''' ...No. Here's your badge, now [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]].
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Oleander's shortness led to him not being allowed in the Army. Or the Navy. Or the Air Force. Or cooking school.
** Also in the Gloria's Theater level—you're warned about messing with the [[Mood Whiplash|mood lighting]], and the possible results thereof—utter chaos, etc. ending with "...or worse: {{spoiler|''improv''}}."
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]:
** Also appears at some sizes in Waterloo World, although you can't destroy things.
**
* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]]: Most of the game is actually pretty clean, just subversive and/or creepy. A lot of its weirdness can't really be "rated against
* [[Bacon Addiction]]: You summon Ford Cruller with bacon. He loves bacon so much, he'll pop out of your ear at the smell of it. He warns you that you can't bring out the bacon in his presence, or he'll eat it right there.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Ford. Especially in the
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: The 'Actors' in Gloria Van Gouten's mind. SO much.
* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: Rather the point of the game.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: An actual button you receive early in the game. Show it to Elka Doom repeatedly.
{{quote|'''Raz:''' Hey look at this button I found on Nils’ bunk, it looks like it came off a girl’s dress!
'''Elka:''' *loud gasp* ...
'''Raz:''' Looks like it was pulled off by force!
'''Elka:''' ''I don't care.''
'''Raz:''' It's got little teeth marks on it...
'''Elka:''' RAZ, PUT THAT THING AWAY OR ELSE I'LL SHOVE IT IN YOUR EYE SOCKET AND SEW IT TO YOUR BRAIN!
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Raz says "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" to the cheerleaders urging him on to victory in the Punching Game in Basic Braining in the same rhythm as their cheers.
* [[Bindle Stick]]: Raz is seen with one in a memory reel flashback
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: The asylum starts going all M.C. Escher on you near the top.
* [[Black Bug Room]]
* [[Black Comedy]]: All over, but Waterloo World most obviously.
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* [[Blatant Lies]]: Anything the G-Men say in the Milkman Conspiracy.
* [[Boarding School of Horrors]]: A ballet boarding school in Gloria's backstory.
* [[Brainwashed]]
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: In the Milkman Conspiracy level, the agents you meet throughout attempt to disguise themselves as, among other things, road workers, widows and '''assassins'''.
{{quote|'''Rainbow Squirts''': "To promote niceness. To make the world prettier. To share candy with everyone. To obfuscate the true nature of the Milkman. To protect the Milkman at all costs. To eliminate all who threaten to reveal his secret objective."}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: At the beginning of the Waterloo World level, the carpenter you need to recruit will not come out of his house because he is afraid of a burglar on his roof. Near the end of the level, a peasant you recruit wants to use the musket you give him to "rob that stupid carpenter", whose house he has been trying to break into for days.
** Early on in the game, Raz asks Ford if he has a jet hidden around the sanctuary somewhere. {{spoiler|In the final cutscene, with Ford being rendered incapable of teleporting everyone to the HQ, Oleander says they'd have to take the jet. Cue jet
* [[Bullfight Boss]]: Literally. {{spoiler|Though when it turns out that the bull is actually the owner of the headspace the level takes place in, it becomes a ''[[Inverted Trope|matador]]''-fight boss where you have to protect the bull. But you win by convincing the matador that he's actually a bull, so [[Double Subversion|Double Inverted]]
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Milla, Sasha
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Trying to tell Ford you're not ready only results in him
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dogen just can't catch a break, can he? Though, when you think about it, Sasha has it rough too.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Parodied with [[Kaiju|Kochamara]].
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* [[Captain Obvious]]: The secret agents from The Milkman Conspiracy.
* [[Caustic Critic]]: The Critic from Gloria's Theatre.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Pretty much everything seen inside the Brain Tumbler. {{spoiler|The whole area from the bathtub until you climb the "thorny tower" foreshadows Thorney Towers Asylum. The bathtub itself has "Oblongata" written on the side, the name of the lake next to the camp, past it is a tower covered in thorns, and on the floor around the tower are figments shaped like bottles of milk, flowers, a Napoleon hat
** Also {{spoiler|the rabbits which can be seen in Coach Oleander's obstacle course. No matter how much you prod them, they won't run or hide from the pillbox and keep getting mowed down. Further, you are led to the Guns listed above by another rabbit
*** Use Clairvoyance on those same rabbits. {{spoiler|To them you look like a butcher
*** Not to mention {{spoiler|the meat plant in the obstacle course which Raz and Lili both mention they saw in their dreams (and the brain tumbler does indeed have meat scattered all over), in addition to figments shaped like butcher knives
** Arguably, most of the figments in general.
** Lili's cold becomes plot-relevant later on as {{spoiler|it renders her immune to the sneezing powder and delays her de-braining operation
* [[Circus Brat]]: Raz.
* [[Circus of Fear]]: The Meat Circus. ''[[Nightmare Fuel|Oh God, the Meat Circus]]''.
* [[Cobweb of Disuse]]: Parts of people's minds which haven't been accessed in a long time are blocked by "mental cobwebs" which you need to [[Cash Gate|buy a specific piece of equipment]] to clear.
* [[Collection Sidequest]]: Let's see, you have the...
** PSI cards.
** Challenge markers.
** Scavenger hunt.
** Figments of imagination.
** Emotional baggage.
** Cob webs.
** Ammo increases.
** {{spoiler|And all the campers' brains}}.
* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: When Raz gets Pyrokinesis:
{{quote|'''Ford:''' You have to promise only to use this when it's really important or [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|really really entertaining
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Sasha. He's also the only character who can't be made to giggle with the Crow Feather
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Boyd. [[Write Who You Know|Based on a real person Tim Schafer knew
* [[Corridor Cubbyhole Run]]: Most of Black Velvetopia. Curse you, El Odio!
* [[Creepy Monotone]]: The agents in The Milkman Conspiracy, hilariously.
{{quote|'''Agent:''' I am a grieving widow. Why, God. Why.}}
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Secretly dysfunctional male/female cheerleading duo
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: After your mentors are suddenly kidnapped, you can still return into their minds... and they are there, too, but for ''some reason'' are nearly helpless.
** Way more than that: not only do all the psychic powers in the game get different (and often hilarious) reactions from every NPC, almost every ''item'' gets similar reactions. For instance, at one point, you need to rescue Sheegor's turtle Mr. Pokeylope, and if you were playing the game normally, you'd probably have him in your inventory for less than a minute. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100706014010/http://www.viddler.com/explore/Sethur/videos/81 Yet most of the cast has something to say about him].
*** If you play the game on [[Steam]], you even get an achievement for showing everyone Mr. Pokeylope.
** Try using cheats early in the game to unlock the powers you're not yet meant to have. Use said powers on characters who won't be around once you're actually supposed to have the powers, and you'll often hear dialog that you would never hear if you played through the game without cheats. {{spoiler|The best use for cheats is confusing the G-Men. "Oh my God! Why am I holding a gun?!"}}
** Try to enter the mind of someone you're not supposed to enter, and there'll be an explanation. Except for Sheegor, but she is one of the most sane characters of the game.
* [[Dialogue Tree]]
* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]: Among the things you can destroy: pillows, stereo speakers, fruit carts, buildings, stacks of papers, lava lamps, napkin dispensers, watermelons, televisions...
** Special mention: Sasha Nein ''hates'' Tiffany lamps. "Say something hideous and horrible jumps out at you... Something so disgusting that it simply must die..."
{{quote|'''Sasha''': ''(covering his eyes and momentarily looking away)'' So... tacky! ...Can't look directly ...at it! ...Now, you simply take that hate, focus, and release! ''(lamp shatters)'' And the world is a better place.}}
*** Justified in Sasha's case by the fact that, quite apart from the fact that he's a straight-laced German [[The Comically Serious|Comically Serious]] type, he was forced to get a job ''making'' the tacky-ass things to get by when he was younger.
*** Also, if you watch the reel "Sasha's First Loss", you'll notice that there's a Tiffany lamp in view when {{spoiler|his mother died}}, so he may have come to associate them with that as well.
** There's also the soldier whose father was [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|killed by a bridge
* [[Difficulty Spike]]: The Meat Circus is insanely difficult compared to the other dozen levels of the game, as [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee Croshaw]] stated was one of the few flaws in the game.
** The 2011 Steam version had an update that made it less frustrating in one regard: you no longer lose a mental layer every time you [[Escort Mission|fail to protect Olly]] or fall into a [[Bottomless Pit]], just when you lose all your mental health. This dramatically decreases your chances of getting kicked out (especially if you increased your mental health to the maximum by {{spoiler|saving everyone's brains}} and gotten the [[Regenerating Health]] by going up to Rank 90), so you won't have to repeat parts you've already beaten near as much.
** The game in general picks up in difficulty once you enter the Lungfish's brain. This is completely justified as all the previous minds were camp councilors willingly letting children in to teach them psychic abilities, and they were all generally sane. Starting with the lungfish, however, you are an intruder upon the minds you enter, and they are all much less sane.
* [[Directionally Solid Platforms]]: Trampolines act like this in a few places.
* [[Dirty Mind Reading]]: In one of Sasha's memory reels, it's shows that he learned to never read his father's mind [[Primal Scene|the hard way
* [[Disco Dan]]: Milla.
* [[Dissimile]]: "We've fought monsters like you before, Goggalor! Only much smaller!"
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]
{{quote|'''Raz''': Hey, Bobby. Someone's stealing kids' brains!
'''Bobby''': Well in that case, you've got nothing to worry about! Ah-ha-ha-ha!
'''Raz''': ...
'''Bobby''': BECAUSE YOU GOT NO BRAINS!
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Coach Oleander.
* [[Dummied Out]]: Originally there was going to be a subplot involving
** Alternately,
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Paying enough attention to throw away conversations and memory vaults will make it clear that most of these people are ''really'' messed up.
* [[Eagle Land]]: The Milkman Conspiracy. On the outside, it looks like a typical Flavor 1 1950's suburb... Though it's incredibly twisted around. It's immediately apparent it's under an obvious yet incredibly creepy [[Big Brother Is Watching]] scenario, with government agents dressed in [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat|trench coats and fedoras]] poorly attempting to imitate normal people, trashcans and fire hydrants staring at you, mailboxes walking around, and unusual girl scouts.
* [[Easter Egg]]: The original protagonist, D'Artagan (sic), who was replaced with Raz <s>for being ''really hard'' to render</s> because his [[Nice Hat|hat]] was ''too awesome'' for the engine to render, shows up briefly in the ending. Briefly, as in a one-second appearance.
* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: Most of the children have some form of insanity.
* [[The Electric Slide]]: Raz does it at one point.
* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: For the final, two-headed boss, {{spoiler|Raz's dad lends Raz his psychic powers in order to protect his mind}}.
* [[Engineer Exploited For Evil]]: Sheegor, though she is, of course, technically an [[The Igor|Igor]].
* [[Escort Mission]]: A brief optional one early in the game, plus the final platforming section.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Vodello gets you to make the hoops spin by [[Pass Through the Rings|passing through them]] in order to "lighten up the party".
* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]: ''Telekinetic'' bears.
* [[Falling Into His Arms]]: In one of Milla's memory reels, Sasha catches Milla in this fashion after they escape from an exploding building. They both look [[Ship Tease|quite happily flustered]].
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The whole brain-sneezing thing [[Captain Obvious|just can't be pleasant]].
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: A horrific, mutated lake
* [[Follow the White Rabbit]]: A (mindscape-generated) rabbit acts as something of a guide for Razputin in the first tutorial, leads him to an important clue, and also eventually becomes a central element in an [[Escort Mission]].
* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: Everyone except Raz and his father.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: And since the game takes place in peoples' minds, you get to ''fight'' it.
** And they hit like a Mofo. Especially in the [[Scrappy Level]]. Makes sense, since the [[Scrappy Level]] is partially based on {{spoiler|Raz's [[Freudian Excuse]]. Stands to reason that the [[Freudian Excuse]] Raz would have the hardest time dealing with would be his own; he can't even beat it all by himself in the end}}.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Spoofed. Upon returning to Sasha's mind, Raz is told by Sasha that the "censor overload" incident was all an elaborate training course, knowing that Raz would push the censor deployment rate to its maximum. Raz, of course, asks if the giant mutant censor that handed Sasha his ass on a platter was all part of the course, too. Sasha is not amused.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Lampita Pasionado.
* [[Germanic Depressives]]: Chronically [[Comically Serious]] Sasha.
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* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Raz wears a pair of goggles on his head, and only puts them over his eyes when he enters a person's mind. There's no readily apparent reason for having them at all, though there is a brief mention of them being used as a method of protecting his eyes from rabid conspiracy theorists in the manual.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the Milkman Conspiracy level, when Raz is captured and interrogated by the Men in Black, one of the things they ask him is "''What is the purpose of the goggles?''". Later, the boss of the level screams "'''I'll pluck out your eyes!'''" and Raz's response is [[Subversion|"Ha! You can't! THAT is the purpose of the goggles!"]]. So the boss shuts off the lights.
* [[Gravity Screw]]:
** Sasha's stage features planetary gravity.
** Boyd's stage features a vaguely-enforced "fall towards the ground" gravity system, which will probably kill you more than anything else in the level.
* [[Grind Boots]]: Raz can grind on ''anything''. Even wooden railings and telephone wires.
* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: MEAT GRINDER BUNNIES.
* [[Harsh Word Impact]]: {{spoiler|The Phantom/Critic}} uses this as a weapon.
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Milla Vodello, and how.
* [[Heart Container]]: {{spoiler|The brains found in the later part of the game
* [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"]]:
{{quote|'''Kochamara''': I have the brain of a little girl back in my lab that'll power a whole army of psychic death tanks!
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'''Kochamara''': I ''said'', "in my lab!"
'''Raz''': I think you've got the muscles of a little girl too!
'''Kochamara''': *groan* ...
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Lili.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Oleander's the one who led Raz to the camp in the first place. If he hadn't done so, his plan would have gone off without a hitch
** Then again
*** However, he ''did'' {{spoiler|allow Raz to stay in the camp after he snuck in. If Raz had been escorted out, well, see above
*** Double hoist:
** Also, Dingo Inflagrante's defeat is contingent on the confusion grenades that he earlier gave Raz.
* [[Hook Hand]]: Dr. Loboto.
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: A lot of the characters in Waterloo World. You know your army is going strong when a ''bucket of snails'' are proud to fight and die for your cause.
* [[Idle Animation]]: They vary from level to level, and can involve everything from bowing to rolling out invisible pie crusts to dancing enthusiastically. And they occasionally cause Raz to walk on air.
* [[The Igor]]: [[Punny Name|Sheegor]], a female and obviously [[The Woobie]] during her brief appearance.
* [[I'll Kill You!]]: Napoleon's soldier.
* [[In-Universe Game Clock]]
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Subverted: The fact that Lili had a head cold was the only thing between her and {{spoiler|Doctor Loboto's magical brain-sneezing powder}}.
* [[Interface Screw]]: Confusion grenades.
* [[Invulnerable Civilians]]: You can attempt to set fire to your fellow camp mates and the worst that will happen is that they complain about it. It's likely that their own psychic powers suppress your pyrokinesis.
* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Actually an ironic name. [[All There in the Manual|Raz's last name is Aquato]], but [[Super Drowning Skills|his family doesn't take to water too well]]. Also Benny "The Nose". [[Don't Explain the Joke|Have you seen the size of his ears?]]
* [[It's Up to You]]: Used to the point of deliberate absurdity: of the ''nineteen'' campers whose brains you recover, none of them are willing to directly help you save the world. Most or all are perfectly capable of helping, they just have better things to do. Like get pedicures or make out. However, at least two do something to help, namely sabotage the coach's car. However, it's really only useful in case you fail.
** Chloe tries to help by using the coach's radio in an attempt to contact aliens. However, if you talk to her again, you find out that [[Double Subversion|she thinks that Earth is doomed, and she's just looking for a ride out]].
** Chops and J.T. are guarding the rest of the campers, which, considering the fact that there are [[Everything's Worse with Bears|telekinetic bears]] and [[Incendiary Exponent|fire-starting]] mountain lions, (and that the camp counselors who WOULD be keeping them away are all gone) is definitely necessary.
** A bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Doctor Loboto already rejected their brains for being too nice to fight. The others don't really have it in them to help.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Bobby Zilch.
* [[Joke Item]]: The crow feather, which can be used to tickle almost everybody (except Sasha, who hates germs and refuses to play along). Using clairvoyance on it helps solve a puzzle, but it can be solved with luck. Clairvoyance can also be used on it to find out where items for a couple of the [[Gotta Catch Em All]] quests are, provided that those items are outside and that Raz is standing within mind-range of a crow.
* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: The basic premise of the game.
* [[Justified Tutorial]]: Basic Braining.
* [[Kidanova]]: Nils Lutefisk, though it might be all talk.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: One of your standard psychic powers. Target the squirrels and seagulls. Also, Boyd's reaction to
* [[La Résistance]]: "For Freedom!"
* [[Large Ham]]:
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** The Den Mother really takes the cake though. "And the seas shall run white... with his... RAGE!"
* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: Sasha, at the end of his stage.
* [[Lost Forever]]: All worlds can be revisited to gather stuff you've missed, so almost no item is [[Lost Forever]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Loboto, although he's a dentist.
** Also Sasha, to a lesser extent. "If I could only get him (Raz) in my lab, I'm sure he could withstand more than the others."
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* [[Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Coach Oleander}} is the one behind Loboto's plot.
** Whose identity is revealed unusually early for this trope. A far better kept reveal is the true source of {{spoiler|Oleander's}} insanity: {{spoiler|the Butcher}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: See [[Punny Name]] below.
* [[The Men in Black]]: The hilariously inept, robotic undercover agents in The Milkman Conspiracy.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: "It's like looking at the site of a horrible car accident! A car accident where the victims can't act, and the paramedics forget their lines!"
* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: In the level that [[Trope Namers|named the trope]], the conspiracy is actually ''about'' a milkman, but ''of'' eight-year-old girls.
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read]]:
** Sasha Nein's second mental vault, and possibly other things in the game.
** {{spoiler|Milla's personal nightmare room, where visions of monstrous ashen ghosts whisper her name and ask why she did not save them
** Entering someone's minds in general is a very dangerous process, especially if that person isn't mentally well.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]
* [[Mind Screw]]: ''The World Shall Taste My Eggs!''
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Most of the characters have these. This is most obvious with the aquatic Linda, who even has a red left eye and a green right eye, [[Visual Pun|true to the trope's previous name, Boat Lights]].
* [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]]: Milla sees her students as little children and treats them accordingly. If you use Clairvoyance on her, you can see Raz through her eyes as a very small child. It turns out that
* [[Missing Mom]]: {{spoiler|Sasha's}} mother died shortly after he was born.
* [[Mission Control]]: Ford Cruller, who's also the [[Old Master]] and [[The Obi-Wan]].
* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain]]: "I am a phone repairer. I can listen to any phone conversations I wish, but do not do so out of my sense of professional responsibility."
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Sasha uses his psychic abilities to light his cigarette.
* [[Murder Water]]
* [[My Nayme Is]]: [[wikipedia:Grigori Rasputin|Rasputin]]->Razputin.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Coach Oleander, and Napoleon himself. Inverted in Fred Bonaparte, a descendant of Napoleon's, who is extremely tall and has no ambition whatsoever. He also has bizarrely short arms—he appears to be part T-Rex.
* [[Napoleon Delusion]]: Fred Bonaparte's [[Split Personality]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Sure, you've gotten Boyd to open the gates... but now he's on a hair trigger: {{spoiler|his original, [[Conspiracy Theorist|mildly deranged]] personality has been replaced by another, [[Ax Crazy|somewhat more deranged]] personality, and he's about to blow up the asylum! On the other hand, you really don't care much about the Asylum}}...
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]
* [[No Fair Cheating]]: "[[Lampshade Hanging|Uooooouuuuu cheated!]]". Napoleon also does not permit cheating in Waterloo world. He tells Raz not to touch his pieces, his soldiers tell you that using PK on them is cheating if you talk to them, and he won't accept victory if Raz tries jumping in the stronghold directly. Yet, [[Hypocritical Humor|he jams the gate mechanism when you're about to win]].
* [[Nominal Importance]]: ''Everybody'' has a name. Usually first and last, too. Most of them have defining personality characteristics and flaws.
* [[No Name Given]]: Almost every character has a first and last name... with the exception of the protagonist himself. Among [[Fanon|fans]]
** However, as of recently, it's [[All There in the Manual]] at [http://www.doublefine.com/Psycho-pedia/ Psycho-pedia]. Apparently, Aquato IS their family name, and Raz's dad is named [http://www.doublefine.com/Psycho-pedia/Augustus/ Augustus].
* [[Non Lethal Bottomless Pits]]: The good news about Raz's [[Super Drowning Skills]] is that he doesn't normally lose a life from them.
* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: "My name is Yon Yonson, I live in Wisconsin, I work in the lumberyard there..."
* [[Noodle Incident]]: You're given a rough idea, but you never get told precisely what Clem and Crystal were trying to accomplish.
* [[Notice This]]:
** Interactable objects glow with an aqua blue aura or sparkle silvery.
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** This trope is the only way to find Deep Arrowheads. You can only dig them up when the Dowsing Rod is out and the higher the sound it makes, the easier it is to pull one up.<ref>If your computer is good enough to run it on the highest settings, there's also a distortion effect around the tip of the Dowsing Rod that increases along with the sound. When it's making things nigh-impossible to see, you're right on top of one.</ref>
* [[Not So Different]]: Raz and the main villain both have daddy issues. This turns out to be a [[Oh Crap|very, very bad thing]] when they have a [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]].
* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Oleander. It gets painfully obvious to the point of lampshade hanging, especially on a replay. The "armored like a tank" and "walking around at midnight" thing, etc
** Some thought he was so over the top that he had to be a [[Red Herring]]. Maybe that was the point.
** Also, {{spoiler|Jasper
{{quote|'''Raz:''' ...I totally guessed that!
'''Actress''': Nuh-uh! You said it was {{spoiler|Becky}}!
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: At the end of The Milkman Conspiracy,
* [[Oh, Cisco]]: The [[100% Completion]] bonus video ends with a really weird one of these.
* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?]]: Raz overhears Lili's thoughts.
** Played with, since {{spoiler|the last time, she intended for him to hear them
* [[Orphanage of Love]]: Milla's old job. {{spoiler|Before it burned down}}.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: The story of the asylum. The Steam version gives out an achievement for actually listening to it.
** Vernon's dull, rambling stories, which can literally go on for hours if the player sticks around that long.
** Also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714223148/http://v2.razputin.net/index.html@page=razputin%252Ffeatures%252Ftimwords.html this interview] with Tim Schafer. Specifically, his response to the first question.
* [[Panty Shot]]: It's possible for Raz to see up Milla Vodello's dress. She's not wearing underwear. {{spoiler|Milla's legs end at the upper thigh}}.
** After Milla's level and before revisiting Sasha, Lili can be seen in the Kids' Cabin area, on top of one of the poles surrounded by speakers. It's very easy to see up her skirt there. Or you can just lift her up using Telekinesis.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]:
** [[The Men in Black]]: "[[Creepy Monotone|I am a grieving widow. I wish my loved one was not dead, but alive.]]"
** Raz uses them to get past the
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Subverted. Despite being the [[Missing Mom|main]] [[Disappeared Dad|character]] [[Doomed Hometown|of]] [[Long Lost Sibling|a]] [[Dead Little Sister|video]] [[Conveniently an Orphan|game]], [[All There in the Manual|both of Raz's parents are around, and he even has an assortment of brothers and sisters he lives with]].
* [[Pass Through the Rings]]: When learning levitation.
* [[The Pen Is Mightier]]: {{spoiler|The phantom/critic}} has two mounted on his flying mecha. They fire deadly inkblots in the shape of insults.
* [[Personality Powers]]: [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Bubbly]] [[Disco Dan|Milla Vodello's]] specialty power is levitation. [[Germanic Depressives|Repressed
* [[Pinball Zone]]: Milla's Dance Party.
* [[Platform Hell]]: The final two levels. Ugh.
* [[Playable Menu]]: Naturally, your main menu is a brain with the ''Psychonauts'' logo and several doors on it. [[Makes Sense in Context|If you think that's unfitting, read what it says on the logo again]].
* [[Plot Coupon]]: Very blatant at the ground floor of the asylum. The only way past an unarmed orderly guarding the elevator is to get a trophy, a straitjacket and a painting to use as an disguise, and there is only one of each item that can be used, and you need to clear a full level before you're allowed to take it? You'd think a boy who can turn invisible and set fire to things with his mind could get past some other way. At least the levels you need to play are a lot of fun.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: One of the game's last abilities, usually only unlocked by those going for [[100% Completion]], uses the power of your friends "focusing their good energies on you" [[Regenerating Health|to heal you slowly]].
* [[Primal Scene]]: One of Sasha's memory reels shows that {{spoiler|[[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read|he read his father's mind]] to learn what his [[Missing Mom]] was like
* [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]]
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Even the animals have them! Including the [[The Colbert Report|Godless Killing]] [[Everything's Worse with Bears|Machines]]!
* [[Psycho Serum]]: Psitanium. While it does grant and enhance mental abilities, it can also cause psychological instability in those without psychic aptitude.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The
* [[Punny Name]]: Too many to count, some [[Bilingual Bonus|in foreign languages]].
* [[Green Rocks|Purple Rocks]]: Psitanium.
* [[Pyromaniac]]: Boyd seems to be a rather harmless, if a little bit creepy conspiracy theorist when you first see him, but when you crack the other vault in his mind, it's revealed that {{spoiler|he was sent to an asylum when he burned his old workplace after getting fired}}. Also, at the end of his level, {{spoiler|Raz releases the arsonist part of his personality again, when he is a hair trigger away from burning the [[Bedlam House]] he now guards}}. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Well done Raz...]]
**
* [[Recurring Riff]]: A phrase from the game's theme shows up in many places in its music.
* [[Recursive Reality]]: In the Asylum, you can go inside Fred's mind to find him playing a board game with Napoleon. Then, you can jump on the board to find a whole living world controlled by the rules of the game. Then, you can look in the window of the castle to find... wait for it... Fred playing a board game with Napoleon.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Assassins at the book depository?!
* [[Rise to the Challenge]]: [[Scrappy Level]], again.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: The starting room in Boyd's mind.
* [[Running Gag]]: Every time Raz tries to tell someone directly<ref>
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Black Velvetopia. Oh lord hallelujah, maybe more appropriately "viva" in this case.
** [[Scenery Gorn]]: Meat Circus.
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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: [[In-Universe]]. Raz buys a painting from an artist in Black Velvetopia:
{{quote|'''Dog''': Yeah, maybe you can write it off in your taxes as a loss. A ''catastrophic'' loss, even!}}
* [[Sequel Hook]]: There were actually multiple hooks
* [[Serious Business]]: As you can see from the page quote, Coach Oleander takes summer camp very seriously.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** To ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'': "You are my own creation! I command you to stop!"
{{quote|'''Raz''': Man, does that ''ever'' work?}}
** Examining the tree stumps causes Raz to make a remark about "a series of catacombs", a reference to an Easter egg from an earlier game Tim Schaefer worked on, ''The Secret of [[Monkey Island]]''.
** Gloria's level, to {{spoiler|''[[Phantom of the Opera]]''
** Also, does Dr. Loboto [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|remind you of anyone?]].
** After you get your oarsmen badge, Crystal and Clem are
** Pheobe and Quentin's Band The Firestarters is a reference to the Stephen King novel ''[[Firestarter]]''. It's about a 7-year-old-girl that can start fires with her mind.
** '''Raz''': First question: What do you think the queen is drinking right now? Second Question: What was your favorite science-fiction mini-series in the eighties?
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Dogen'''}}: [[Spot of Tea|T]][[V (TV series)|V]]
** [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|"None shall pass!"]] in the Bonaparte level.
* [[Somebody Else's Problem]]: When you save the kids, most of them have better things to do than help you save the world from a battalion of killer psychic death tanks {{spoiler|powered by the stolen brains of their fellow campmates}}. Like make out. Though at least 3 do try to do something that could be construed as help (one radios for help, but since she's calling aliens that's likely gonna be a bust, while the other two sabotage the coach's car. Which, while useful as a backup plan, does nothing to help you right now).
* [[Spexico]]: Black Velvetopia, oh so very much.
* [[Split Personality]]: Fred Bonaparte battling with his ancestor Napoleon Bonaparte. {{spoiler|And Ford Cruller, whose psyche was shattered in a mental duel against another psychic and can only be himself when he's near a relatively large Psitanium deposit
* [[The Spock]]: Sasha Nein.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: "Shooting things is fun and useful!"
** "Now Razputin, remember only to use your power of Pyrokinesis only when it's very, very important... or really, really entertaining."
*** "And if you're doin' it to impress girls, make sure none of them have on a lot of hairspray. Whoo!"
* [[Spring Jump]]: The levitation ball can be used in this fashion.
* [[Stealth Pun]]:
** The final level in the game is a {{spoiler|circus made of meat}}, I suppose one could refer to it as a {{spoiler|Carne-val}}.
*** Sausage-Fest?
** In order to cure Edgar Teglee, you have to collect the four Queens; otherwise, he can't complete the house of cards because he's not playing with a full deck.
** Ever wonder why the protagonist's name is Rasputin? Well, with the respawn mechanic, he sure is hard to kill.
** Then, there's Mr. ''Pokey''lope. He's pretty ''sharp'' for a turtle.
*** And, as a turtle, he naturally lopes pokey. Or rather, walks slowly.
** Ford Cruller gives Raz a piece of ''bacon'' to use as a ''beacon''.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: The Rainbow Squirts, a transparent parody of the Girl Scouts.
** Also, the transparently suicidal cheerleaders.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: "The Milkman Conspiracy
* [[Steve Blum]]: Voices the G-Men, among others. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And there was much rejoicing]].
* [[
* [[Super-Hero School]]: Technically, it's a summer camp, but close enough.
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: A [[Justified Trope]] thanks to a curse placed on Raz's family, but taken to ridiculous extremes within the game. Raz can "drown" in a cheap wooden prop made to ''look like'' water. To clarify: hitting a large body of water causes the water to form a hand-shaped-appendage and try to grab Raz and pull him under. When you hit the wooden-prop water, [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|an equally cheap wooden prop-arm is pushed up and grabs him]].
* [[Sure, Let's Go with That]]: Ford doesn't bother to correct Raz's guess as to [[Split Personality|why]] he goes around acting as everything from the camp coordinator to the janitor.
* [[Surprise Creepy]]: The game gets progressively darker as time goes on, particularly once night falls and Raz heads for the asylum. Milla's level has a self-contained example: it's probably the brightest, happiest mental space in the game, {{spoiler|until you find the hidden area with the memories of the destroyed orphanage
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: In one of the plays in Gloria's mind, with a conversation between actors playing Gloria and her mother.
{{quote|'''"Gloria"''': And isn't it wonderfull that you aren't even slightly jealous of my fame, which has risen so much faster and higher than yours, while your star has faded?
'''"Mother"''': ([[Beat]]) ...Yes.}}
* [[Take That]]: The, ahem, [[Media Watchdogs|censors]] which serve as your default mooks. They dress up in stereotypical suits, wear overly large glasses and all their attacks consists of different ways of saying "No". Given the fact that you mercilessly beat them up in hordes and the amount of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|crap that gets past in this game]], there is no way this is just a coincidence.
** Brainless kids only want to watch television.
* [[Teen Superspy]]: ''Pre''teen Superspy.
* [[Televisually-Transmitted Disease]]: The four residents of the asylum have pretty [[The Theme Park Version|Theme Park]] examples of paranoid schizophrenia (Boyd), bipolar disorder (Gloria), Dissociative Identity Disorder (Fred), and a combination of obsessive compulsive disorder/chronic depression (Edgar).
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: Maloof claims that the staff haven't thrown any kids in the Geodesic Psychoisolation Chamber since the fifties, but according to the tree cutting in the parking lot, the camp was opened less than a decade ago. Given Milla's seventies-party-girl flair, it doesn't seem like it's possible for both statements to be true.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|Boyd ''is'' The Milkman
** Likewise, {{spoiler|Edgar is El Odio
* [[Toros Y Flamenco]]: Edgar's mind. And it's [[Scenery Porn|smooooooth]]...
* [[Tsundere]]: Lili is very much a Western version of this trope.
* [[Tuckerization]]: A retroactive example: Tim Schafer's daughter Lili, who was born a few years after ''Psychonauts'' was released. Presumably, Tim's fond of the name in general, but Lili-in-the-game now serves as a reference to real-life Lili.
* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Doctor Loboto; you don't get to even enter his mind. He just gets pushed off the the top of Thorney Towers by a tank piloted by the ''talking turtle disguised as a human brain''}}.
* [[Vent Physics]]: In use in the platforming dream world.
* [[Victory Pose]]: Done via a strange hold-your-hand-out-like-a-chicken (Egyptian walk?) and walking around in a circle while saying "Erh, eh-erh! Eh-eh, eh-erh!".
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: "See ya in hell, squirrels!"
* [[Visual Pun]]: While exploring the minds of others, you will encounter an assortment of hatboxes, duffelbags and purses lying around, all bearing very sad faces and crying loudly. These things represent the person's ''emotional baggage''.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Mr. Pokeylope. Also Bonita Soleil and - in a way - the giant lungfish. {{spoiler|She's female; her name is Linda}}.
* [[Walking on Water]]: The Levitation power ''should'' let you do this, but Raz's curse prevents him from doing so.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Coach Oleander, as you can see from the opening quote, takes summer camp ''WAY'' too seriously.
* [[What the Hell, Player?]]: Quite aggressively
** If you punch a girl scout in The Milkman Conspiracy, "Why did you punch that little girl?" will be added to the list of questions you're asked when captured and interrogated.
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Gloria.
* [[Widget Series]]: This is a game with a level based on ''black velvet paintings
* [[Words Can Break My Bones]]: Jasper. And Raz was so sure he had nothing to fear...
{{quote|'''Raz''': "How can I say this and still sound cool... Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never... hurt me?"}}
* [[
* [[You Get What You Pay For]]: During the Brain Tumbler experiment Raz will tell Sasha about seeing "very weird things". Sasha exclaims "Ack! Why did I have to buy the CHEAP Brain Tumbler?". Turns out cheapness has nothing to do with it...
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: Dogen did this to someone once. ''Four'' someones. Allegedly. He definitely did it to three squirrels who were saying the little guy would kill everyone. {{spoiler|By little guy, they mean Oleander
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