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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]].
▲'''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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* [[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.
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** [[Badass Spaniard]]: ''"Fuck that pendejo!"''
* [[Badass Boast]]: Used twice, to the point that it may be his personal [[Catch Phrase]].
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.]
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* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]
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* [[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).
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* [[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.}}
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* [[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
* [[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."
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* [[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.
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* [[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
*** 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
** 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.
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** "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.
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** 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.
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* [[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:
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* [[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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