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[[File:ShadowsOfTheDamned 6758.jpg|frame|[[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|Garcia]] [[Awesome McCoolname|Fucking]] [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|Hotspur Is About To Shoot You]] ([[Does This Remind You of Anything?|With his]] [[Living Weapon|Johnson]])]]

'''''Shadows Of The Damned''''' is a game released in June 2011 from the minds of [[Shinji Mikami]] and [[Suda 51]] (with a soundtrack composed by [[Silent Hill|Akira Yamaoka]]), and is a comedic horror game with a camera [[Always Over the Shoulder|similar to]] [[Resident Evil 4]]. Expect an ample amount of [[Refuge in Audacity]], [[Bloody Hilarious|gore humour]] and [[World of Ham|haminess]].

The game details the tale of Garcia Hotspur, [[Demon Slaying|Demon Hunter]] as he attempts to save his girlfriend Paula from the Lord of Demons: [[Tom the Dark Lord|Fleming]]. It's a good thing he's got Johnson, a floating skull that's both his sidekick and his [[Swiss Army Weapon]].

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* [[0% Approval Rating]]: Fleming.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Bones, skulls, teeth.
* [[Allergic to Evil]]: Hell's Darkness is an aura that slowly kills over time.
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]:  {{spoiler|The game ends with Fleming alive and vengeful and an army of demons about to attack. [[One-Man Army|Garcia doesn't seem worried, though.]]}}
* [[Art Shift]]: The sidescrolling shooter levels change the art style to a paper cutout one.
* [[Aside Glance]]: Garcia does a couple of these.
* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: How George met his end as a mortal.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Combined with [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: '''''Garcia Fucking Hotspur'''''. Yes, it seems Fucking is literally his middle name.
* [[Badass]]: [[Player Character|Garcia ''Fucking'' Hotspur]]
** [[Badass Biker]]
** [[Badass Spaniard]]: ''"Fuck that pendejo!"''
* [[Badass Boast]]: Used twice, to the point that it may be his personal [[Catch Phrase]].
{{quote|"Before you die, demon scum, [[Blood Knight|I will carve my name into your flesh!]] [[Awesome McCoolname|That name is Garcia Fucking Hotspur!]] [[Demon Slaying|Hunter of demons]] and slayer of pendejos like you!"}}
* [[Big Eater]]: George, The Man Who Didn't Have His Fill. A harmonica player who, the more he ate, the thinner and hungrier he got.  {{spoiler|At one point he tried to eat his own harmonica, and ultimately died when he tried to ''eat himself''.}}
** It's implied, from both a comment Johnson made, and an event during the boss fight, that he had an undiagnosed tapeworm that was ravaging his intestinal tract and slowly killing him.
* [[Bizarro World]]: The Underworld has many things that are the opposite of the living world. Booze heals you rather than poisoning your liver. Light is a deadly combustible, sealed away in barrels. Instead of gun control, they practice tooth control (since teeth can be used as weapons).
* [[Book Dumb]]: During the storybook scenes, Garcia has trouble reading whenever he's the narrator, sometimes stumbling with words and reading slow (think first-grader-learning-to-read slow). Compared to him, Johnson's a much more eloquent narrator. Then again, this might be explained by Garcia being Mexican, which means he's not reading in his native tongue.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]
* [[Booze-Based Buff]]: Hard alcohol such as bottles of Hot Sake serve as healing items. Turns out alcohol has the ''opposite'' effect in the Underworld than it does in the real world.
* [[Charged Attack]]: The Hot Boner, a charged up [[Sticky Bomb]].
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The story that Garcia tells about the phone call he got during dinner with Paula. He doesn't answer it because Paula told him not to. However, at the end of the game, they get a phone call during dinner and Garcia answers it. It's Fleming, and it basically starts everything over again.}}
** Before the first boss fight, Johnson tells you a few things about VIP demons, including their biggest privilege: they get to keep their genitals. The groin area is an exploitable for the boss when he takes his giant form.
* [[Clothing Damage]]: During the [[Unexpected Shmup Level]], when Garcia takes damage, he loses pieces of clothing, and eventually his skin.
** Also, once you defeat {{spoiler|Justine}}, she is fully and visibly naked.<ref>Of course, given that the whole fight with her was in papercraft, you only see a couple of black dots where her nipples would be.</ref>
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: "Fuck you!" is literally the only thing Elliot, AKA "Stinky Crow", says.
* [[Colonel Badass]]: The [[Scary Black Man]] with the grenade launcher-looking machine gun is addressed as a colonel in a framed article Garcia finds.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Do I have to say it?
* [[Color Wash]]: There's a couple of predominant colors in the game that make the Underworld look just plain ''wrong.'' Johnson's default flame color is a strange pale orange, and a sickly pale green lighting permeates many areas.
* [[Cowardly Boss]]: You spend a great deal of the game chasing after Justine, before finally battling her in a [[Shoot'Em Up]] segment.
* [[Credits Gag]]s
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Paula
* [[Darkness Equals Death]]: You can't spend more than a few seconds in a dark zone without losing your health. Some sections of the game require you to sprint through long areas of darkness, and your "grace period" is only briefly restored by collecting pickups as you run.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Garcia and Johnson. They often [[Lampshade Hanging|hang lampshades]] on how ridiculous some actions they have to take in order to proceed are.
** "EVERYONE knows that goats are a natural source of light."
* [[Demon Slaying]]: Garcia's calling.
* [[Dull Surprise]]: During the siege at the abandoned shack, Garcia sarcastically quips "My god, how do we stop them?" in his most deadpan, disinterested tone of voice, obviously more annoyed than frightened. Also a shout out to "MY GOD! HOW DO YOU STOP IT?!" from Evil Dead 2.
* [[Exposition Fairy]]: Johnson, who also transforms into Garcia's various weapons, with his [[Shapeshifter Default Form]] of a talking skull-torch functioning as the melee weapon.
* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: Fleming's got three pairs of eyes; his skull is elongated and it looks like somebody just stacked three faces on top of each other.
* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: Shortly into the game, Garcia meets an incredibly tough-looking giant man with a grenade launcher that fires like a machine gun (certainly a ''deliberate'' inaccuracy). The guy recommends that Garcia stays out of his way and later he exposits a bunch of his sorry backstory. However, he's sadly totally ineffectual against Stinky Crow.
* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: Paula is revived and killed endlessly.
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: If the story books you find scattered throughout the game are to be believed, [[Big Eater|George]] [[The Drifter|(a harmonica playing drifter)]], [[Ravens and Crows|Elliot]] [[Beware the Quiet Ones|(a shut-in kid with a flying fascination)]], and the [[The Grim Reaper|Sisters Grim]] [[Born Unlucky|(three VERY unlucky women)]] are all this, becoming demons after their deaths. Averted with [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Justine]] because she was a [[Brawn Hilda|famous opera singer]] while alive.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Johnson is fond of letting everyone else do all the swearing.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCTMpBXBNc Definitely not always.]
{{quote|'''Johnson:''' Demon keeps a'dreaming o' the Demon Town,
motherfucking bitch fuck, shit went down!  }}
* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: The three Sisters Grim: Maras, Kauline, and Giltine. Apparently, because of their [[Born Unlucky|rather ridiculously contrived accidental deaths]], Fleming gave them the power of death over demons. Garcia faces all three throughout the game. [[Vocal Dissonance|No explanation on why they sound like men, though.]]
* [[Groin Attack]]: During the first real boss fight, if you run out of weak points on the front to slow the boss down, you can aim for the groin area to hurt him.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Christopher the demon, who functions as your shopkeeper (even though he looks all-demon). To hammer home the fact that he's a good demon, he's usually surrounded by pretty flowers and wears a bunch of lamps on his back to drive away light-sensitive demons.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: The default weapon.
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Garcia, quite literally hell bent.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: When you're in a "dark zone," everything is dark ''blue'' rather than pitch-black.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: If you can't tolerate some lame dick jokes, you'd better steer clear of this game. Suda 51 may as well change his name to "The [[Pungeon Master]]."
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: Flemming kills Paula and ''then'' kidnaps her. (She keeps getting better).
{{quote|'''Fleming:''' She has a lot of dying to do. And coming back to life, and dying some more...}}
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: {{spoiler|Fleming tells Garcia at the end of the game that he has human patties on his hamburgers, implying that this is also the "special recipe" that Paula used for their dinner. Fortunately, Garcia doesn't appear to have taken a bite of his yet.}}
* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: How Garcia met Paula:  {{spoiler|He plucked her out of a dumpster.}}
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Paula, according to Garcia. He reminisces about the time where they were at a shooting range in a carnival, where after Garcia managed to hit a bulls-eye, Paula manages to ''shoot off the pin holding the target'' all the while making out with Garcia.
* [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]]
* [[It Runs on Nonsensoleum]]: Why do demons love strawberries? 'Cause they're made of people's tongues, that's why!
* [[Kill It with Fire]]/[[Light'Em Up]]: The Light Shot.
* [[Kiss of Death]]: In scenes where Paula chases you, she'll [[One-Hit Kill]] you with one of these if she catches you.
* [[Large Ham]]: Garcia is not a man of subtlety or volume control, neither is [[Fluffy the Terrible|Fleming]]. Which leads to...
** [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]]: Whenever they share a scene.
* [[The Lancer]]: Johnson.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: On encountering the [[Sdrawkcab Name|"Moor Pu Dekcuf"]] in the Castle of Hassle, Johnson quips "It's probably a joke from the designers."
* [[The Legions of Hell]]
* [[Living Weapon]]: Johnson's an undead reformed demon if you want to get technical.
* [[Lost Forever]]: There are hidden red gems throughout the levels, which you need for upgrades. Unfortunately, there is almost no backtracking in this game, and it's not always immediately apparent which way is the side path with the goodies and which is the main path that will shut closed behind you. Worse yet, there's no [[New Game+]], so those precious upgrade gems are lost to you for good! ARG! At least you can spend money on more red gems...
* [[Make My Monster Grow]]: George
* [[Marathon Boss]]: The third Sister Grim if you don't know the trick.  {{spoiler|A fully charged skull blast to the core will end her Darkness stages instantly.}}
* [[Mickey Mousing]]: Activating a Sushi Lamp causes this alongside a Japanese song.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: On the one hand, the game is a hilarious romp through a version of Hell that's so ridiculous as to be practically an amusement park. On the other,  {{spoiler|the girl you're trying to save spends the entire game getting repeatedly murdered.}}
* [[Mysterious Woman]]: Paula.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Invoked by Garcia ''[[Precision F-Strike|Fucking]]'' Hotspur if you're a demon.
* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]: Watch the credits all the way to the end.  {{spoiler|"No demons were harmed in the making of this game. George's horse got sick and somebody shot a goat head but that's about it." Looking at that page quote, this is a relatively subtle "Simpsons" shout-out.}}
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Garcia bears a strong resemblance to Benicio Del Toro.
* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: Most of the boss demons wear an unusual outfit that looks half like a military outfit of some sort, half like some weird mechanical monstrosity.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Okay, so you beat Fleming and rescued Paula.  {{spoiler|Unfortunately, Paula's kind of gone crazy from being repeatedly killed and resurrected, and turns into some kind of multi-winged monster that pulls Garcia deeper into the demon world for one last boss battle.}}
* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Garcia can do this to enemies sneaking up behind him with a button prompt.
* [[One-Man Army]]: Garcia is very, very skilled at taking down demons. Also, the game's third difficulty setting says it all: '''Legion Hunter.'''
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: And they apparently like strawberries.  {{spoiler|Which makes more sense -- [[Surreal Horror|sort of]] -- when you find out in an optional scene that they're actually made of ground-up tongues and were placed in the world of the living as a sick prank by Fleming. The scene [[Crosses the Line Twice]] back to [[Dead Baby Comedy]] shortly thereafter, when it implies that cherries are made of hymens.}}
** "Demon" is somewhat treated like it's more a profession than a race—Johnson is identified as an "ex-Demon" who left the demon world after tiring of just how disgustingly wicked and vile the whole thing was.
* [[Pokémon-Speak]]: Elliott. "FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! FUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOUUUUU!"
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: The "juice-jockey" demons that have several weak points on their back force you to do these when they grab you. If you fail most of the button inputs, you die.
* [[Punny Name]]: Garcia's little companion and [[Empathic Weapon]], Johnson. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Get it? "Enlarge your Johnson" is both a manner of power-up and a penis joke]].
** Some of the weapons also have this, and amping the penis joke is the aptly named "Big Boner".
** [[Double Entendre|One-Eyed Willy]].
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Goes without saying.
* [[Rescue the Princess]]: Lampshaded with the [[Shout-Out|World Map]].
* [[Roboteching]]: The [[More Dakka|Teether]]'s last upgrade.
* [[Shout-Out]]: This ''is'' a [[Suda 51]]-game, after all.
** The Stage Map between levels is an 2-d old school imitation of ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins|Ghosts N Goblins]]''.
*** Act 4-2 and Act 4-4 are called "Great Demon World Village" and "Great Demon World Forest", respectively. The Japanese name for ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins|Ghosts N Goblins]]'' is "Makaimura", or "Demon World Village", and one of its many sequels was called "Daimakaimura", or - you guessed it - "Great Demon World Village". Also, these levels include sidescrolling shooter segments. They are a bit similar to the [[Gradius]] series, but when Garcia takes damage, he loses pieces of his clothing, like Arthur in ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins|Ghosts N Goblins]]''.
** The game itself is a [[Homage]] to the [[Evil Dead]]-series and the [[Grindhouse]]-Genre. A more specific homage appears when Garcia is forced to take refuge in a shack complete with a monster in the basement trying to get out. It even features the monster POV camera!
** Garcia's jacket has the words "Love Will Tear Us Apart" on the back, which is a Joy Division song. Of course, you could consider the main character wearing a biker jacket with a reference to an old, beloved band to be a ''[[Resident Evil]]'' shout out on its own.
** The Library is a practical dead-ringer for the library in ''[[Resident Evil]]'', sliding bookcase puzzle and all. Furthermore, the sections of the library are named after the [[Divine Comedy|nine Circles of Hell]].
** Act 2-4 is called "[[Raiders of the Lost Ark|Riders of the Lost Heart]]".
** Scaring One-Eyed Willy causes him to take a flaming dump, which also gives you a checkpoint. Where else have we heard of [[No More Heroes|dropping a nice Save]]?
** Occasionally, Christopher will say "Who you gonna call? Chris-topher!" and hum a few notes of the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' theme.
** The [[Bigger Is Better|Big Boner]]—a 2 meter long [[Hand Cannon]] with firepower rivaling a rocket launcher—is a clear [[Shout-Out]] to [[The Joker|Joker]]'s pistol from [[Batman (film)|Batman]]
** A [[Roboteching]] [[More Dakka|machine gun]]? [[The Fifth Element|Sounds familiar]]...
** Near the end of Act 4, Garcia informs Johnson that he's a [[Once Upon a Time In Mexico|Mexi''can'', not a Mexi''can't''.]]
** "One bloody hand had formed a peace sign. The other was giving him the finger. It's like an [[Alanis Morissette]] song."
* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]: Johnson.
* [[South of the Border]]: Though the game takes place in an Underworld, the protagonist was dragged out of here, [[Unfortunate Implications]] be damned. Garcia F. Hotspur says "I'm a Mexican, not a Mexican't," without irony and speaks with a ridiculous accent. His Spanish consists of "Magnifico!" and obscenities. He wears leather hot pants and reads slowly, tripping over his words. He regains health by downing an entire bottle of tequila in one swig and throwing it away while yelling a Spanish obscenity.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The first boss is a man with tapeworms who starts of riding a horse. Before the second half of the fight he eats his steed to power up.  {{spoiler|He was so hungry, he could (and did) eat a horse}}
* [[Surreal Horror]]: Did you really think a [[Suda 51]] horror game wouldn't at least have elements this? Even a lot of things that qualify as more standard things like [[Body Horror]] have the added terror of ''making absolutely no sense''. Somewhere between finding out goats are a light source, corpses that infinitely disgorge demons as long as they're in Darkness, and seeing a demon burst messily out of a woman at most half its size, you end up giving up on making any sense of this nightmare and roll with it.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Johnson.
** [[Cool Bike]]: Technically not a weapon, but still something he can turn into.
** [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: He's shooting skulls, ''[[Rule of Cool|of course it's better!]]''
** [[Hand Cannon]]: Called "Boner". [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|'Cause it shoots Bones]]. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|It's also able to get MUCH longer...]]
** [[More Dakka]]: The [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]] Teether - which shoots [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|teeth]].
** The Big Boner, penis jokes aside, is more or less a [[Sniper Rifle]].
** Let's just say he IS the right tool for every job.
* [[Tactical Suicide Boss]]: The Sisters Grim would be unbeatable if they didn't keep summoning Darkness.
* [[Take That, Audience!]]: "He must have played too many [[Video Game|Videogames]]. Cue [[Aside Glance]].
* [[Tom the Dark Lord]]: The devil's name is Fleming. The high-level demons you encounter are George, Elliott and Justine.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: Comes in two variations.
** [[Unexpected Shmup Level]]: Not so "unexpected" if you know Suda's [[No More Heroes|last two]] [[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle|games]].
** [[Sniping Mission]]: With the aptly named "Big Boner".
* [[The Worf Effect]]: {{spoiler|The Colonel is later found torn up by Stinky Crow.}}
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Christopher. The look? A seven foot demon with horns, claws and a huge mouthful of fangs. The voice? [[Cam Clarke]] doing a goofy southern accent.
* [[Woman in White]]
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: The only demon Garcia spares is the one that looks like a hot chick.
* [[Yandere]]: Paula is ''not'' a mentally stable girlfriend, that's for sure...
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: A sign outside the Castle of Hassle in Act 5-2:
{{quote|'''Sign:''' Welcome to the Castle of Hassle, where [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|thy game will soon be beateth]] and thy princess restoredeth to safety.}}
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: The Sisters Grim execute each of the major demons after you defeat them.  {{spoiler|The only reason Justine escapes this is because you've killed all three Sisters by then.}}

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