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* [[Hundred Percent Completion]]: Required if you want the Completion achievement.

* [[Hundred-Percent Completion]]: Required if you want the Completion achievement.

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: A fairly prominent method of slipping through the complex, both to avoid combat and just to get around. Some of the vents are reinforced with plating that renders them resistant to everything short of a missile launcher.

* [[AKA 47]]: With the exception of the two made up weapons, this is almost painfully true. For the most part this consists of adding some zeros to the end of the name and switching out the real company for the fictional WhiteSands, in example: H&K MP5 becomes the WSMP50, the model is almost exactly the same as well.

* [[AKA-47]]: With the exception of the two made up weapons, this is almost painfully true. For the most part this consists of adding some zeros to the end of the name and switching out the real company for the fictional WhiteSands, in example: H&K MP5 becomes the WSMP50, the model is almost exactly the same as well.

* [[A Taste of Power]]: The first segment gives you the second-best weapon and a mostly-complete suit of armor to play with before switching to Jason.

* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Justified. The few skills you start the game with are lost due to the player characters' death. The rest of the game is played using a different character.

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* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: Finding all the Gold Bars grants you golden versions of all the weapons in the game.

* [[Blown Across the Room]]: Meleeing soldiers in Power Armor is quite satisfying.

* [[Boom Headshot]]: You get an achievement for a certain number of these, and it deals more damage to the sturdier enemies.

* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: You get an achievement for a certain number of these, and it deals more damage to the sturdier enemies.

* [[Collapsing Lair]]: {{spoiler|Lucius blows up the control room after Jason reaches it and they have a [[Just Between You and Me|nice pleasant conversation.]]}}

{{quote| '''Jason''': Oh, ''crap, crap, crapcrapcrap!'' * runs like hell* }}

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* [[Multiple Endings]]: {{spoiler|If you go back to the jeep and press B, Jason will drive away, commenting that there's "plenty of fish in the sea."}}

** {{spoiler|Status Update: Single!}}

* [[New Game ~~Plus~~]]: Automatic, and with permanent upgrades (both levels and collection bonuses) that make subsequent jaunts through the Complex much easier.

* [[New Game+]]: Automatic, and with permanent upgrades (both levels and collection bonuses) that make subsequent jaunts through the Complex much easier.

* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: You don't take damage from falls. Granted, this is pretty much the only way a Metroidvania can work, but it can feel a little silly sometimes when you can fall down a few stories without worrying.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Verbatim, and in excess, when {{spoiler|Lucius blows up the room that Jason is in}}.

* [[Olympic Swimmer]]: Presumably, Jason's pre-game fitness regimen included a ''lot'' of swimming.

* [[The Only One]]: Halfway through the game, Jason stumbles into the Restoration's factory, and Claire basically says "Hey, since you're doing such a good job anyway, why don't you put looking for a way out on hold and single handedly destroy the enemies' supply line." Jason [[Lampshade Hanging|points out how silly that is]], [[But Thou Must|but does it anyway]]. Claire is actually surprised when he tells her what he's done.

* [[The Only One]]: Halfway through the game, Jason stumbles into the Restoration's factory, and Claire basically says "Hey, since you're doing such a good job anyway, why don't you put looking for a way out on hold and single handedly destroy the enemies' supply line." Jason [[Lampshade Hanging|points out how silly that is]], [[But Thou Must!|but does it anyway]]. Claire is actually surprised when he tells her what he's done.

* {{spoiler|[[Outrun the Fireball]]}}: Courtesy of [[Big Bad|Lucius]].

* [[Oxygen Meter]]: The player is subject to one of these... until Jason picks up the SCHCA Mask.

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* [[Scenery Porn]]: Go to the surface, and pick pretty much any location.

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: The Foam allows this, with proper use. In fact, the game seems designed around encouraging sequence breaks, [[Metroidvania|which is appropriate]].

* [[Shout Out]]: To ''[[Metroid]]'' of course, although the grappling hook pistol is called the [[The Legend of Zelda|hookshot...]] The developers also mention ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' as an inspiration.

* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Metroid]]'' of course, although the grappling hook pistol is called the [[The Legend of Zelda|hookshot...]] The developers also mention ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' as an inspiration.

** The third spider tank boss fight is an homage to the fight at the end of ''[[Ghost in The Shell]]''. The design of the tanks themselves are pretty blatantly modeled after the GitS tank, as well.

** I see where your name comes from, [[The Bourne Series|Jason]] [[James Bond|Fleming]]!

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[''black SUV explodes in the background'']<br />

'''Voice:''' Oh, ''that'' Vice President? }}

* [[Ten Second Flashlight]]: Well, more like Two Minute Flashlight, but this is one of Jason's most valuable tools, as it will highlight destructible walls in the proper [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|colors]].

* [[Ten-Second Flashlight]]: Well, more like Two Minute Flashlight, but this is one of Jason's most valuable tools, as it will highlight destructible walls in the proper [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|colors]].

* [[The Other Rainforest]]: The setting of the game.

* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Lucius spends the entire climax standing in his observation tower while the player fights the final boss. He gets shot in the head in a cutscene.}}

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* [[Villain Ball]]: Lucius and the Restoration really should have read the [[Evil Overlord List]] to avoid things like [[Air Vent Passageway]] escape and [[Just Between You and Me]], but their biggest mistake has to be {{spoiler|hovering their [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]] over the nuclear missles to take out one guy instead of flying off to San Francisco.}}

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Lucius has a pretty impressive one.

* [[Was It All a Lie]]: {{spoiler|Jason asks this almost verbatim of Claire, when she tells him that she was using him as cover to get into the [[Title Drop|Shadow Complex]]}}.

* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: {{spoiler|Jason asks this almost verbatim of Claire, when she tells him that she was using him as cover to get into the [[Title Drop|Shadow Complex]]}}.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Claire:''' Not everything. You really do have nice eyes}}.}}

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Jason.