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* : [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Ichiko, who drowned in a ship accident and is now being taken over by an [[Eldritch Abomination]] from beneath the sea. The game lets you know that the sole survivor of the accident was a female student and lures you into believing that student was Ichiko...only to reveal later that it was in fact her best friend.}}
* [[Detect Evil]]: {{spoiler|Takeaki Misawa's instincts are sharp enough to pick out avatars of Mother (Yuri), or people under the power of Otoshigo (Ichiko)}}
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: In the first game, {{spoiler|Kyoya Suda either incinerates the Datatsushi with the Sword Uryen, or in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] ''decapitates'' the [[Eldritch Abomination]] with the Homuranagi and sets off the collapse of everything around him in the [[Dark World]].}}
** In the second game, {{spoiler|1=Yorito Nagai kills Otoshigo by weakening it with bullets, causing it to crash into a fuel tank, then setting it ablaze by hitting it with an electric lightbulb attached to a generator. Mamoru, Ikuko and Kanae (formerly Akiko) arm themselves with the YamiNaki shards to fight Mother. Kanae stabs herself, weakening Mother through their connection, and Ikuko uses her powers to freeze Mother, allowing Mamoru to strike, sending her to the ground, where Ikuko can hit her. Finally Mamoru lands the finishing blow, and the threat of Mother is gone forever.}}
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: The Maedas. {{spoiler|Although in the end they're harmoniously reunited. As Shibito.}}
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* [[Invincible Minor Minion]]: Every enemy in the game is unkillable, more or less. No matter how much damage you do to the Shibito, they revive within minutes (and in some cases seconds) due to the healing effect of the red water which is everywhere. Incidentally, {{spoiler|this is also why there's no visible health meter; your character is also healing from the red water. The danger is that if you absorb too much of it, you turn into a Shibito as well.}}
** In the second game, the corpses of the shibito and yamibito are simply possessed by new shiryo or yamirei within moments, which apparently heals the body. {{spoiler|Explained by the island's belief that if corpses aren't staked with Mekkojou branches, they will be unable to go to Heaven and their bodies will be possessed by evil spirits.}}
* [[Kill
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: The purifying flames of the Shield and Sword Uryen figurines can permanently destroy a Shibito.
* [[Laser
* [[Leitmotif]]: {{spoiler|In "Blood Curse", the same melody follows Bella and Amana around. It serves as a subtle hint towards the connection between the two characters.}}
* [[Likes Older Women]]: Twenty-three year old Yoriko Anno clearly has a [[All Love Is Unrequited|thing]] for thirty-four year old Professor Takeuchi.
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* [[Mook Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|The avatar Kanae's feelings for Shu eventually lead her to turn against Mother.}}
** This apparently happens to a lot of Mother's Avatars. {{spoiler|including Ryuko.}}
* [[Morally
** {{spoiler|He crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] several times, including when his twin brother Kei Makino happens upon him conducting an experiment on the Shibito-fied Onda Sisters that wouldn't be out of place in Herbert West's science book. Extra [[Squick]] when he stomps on the Shibitofied fetus that Mina had been carrying before her murder.}}
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Just prior to the events of the first game, {{spoiler|Mina Onda apparently told Shiro Miyata that she was pregnant with his child. He didn't take it too well.}}
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: Miyako whacks her pursuer over the head with a stick in the original ''Siren.'' It doesn't work in ''Blood Curse.''
* [[New Meat]]: Private Yorito Nagai starts this way in the second game. [[Took a Level In Badass|That changes after a few nasty events break and re-form him.]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In the second game, {{spoiler|when Mamoru Itsuki washes up on the cursed island he wished to investigate, he sees a strange woman, who appears to be extremely sensitive to light, and tells him her mother is imprisoned on the island, and asks for his help, implying that the first person she asked met a bad fate. They're then attacked by a (or I should say ''the'') Shibito. As they explore the island, the woman demonstrates strange powers, and when Mamoru finds what looks like a very large fish scale, she tells him it comes from her mother. To cap it all off, it turns out that opening the mother's prison involves opening seven magical seals keeping her bound beneath the island. Does Mamoru find ''anything'' at all suspicious about all this? Nope! So he opens the gate keeping an [[Eldritch Abomination]] from escaping to ravage the earth. Fortunately he finds a way to temporarily close it, but tons of Yamirei escape.}}
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Present in both games. In the first, the Shibito take a lot more damage than a normal person would, and when they finally get knocked out, curl up and stay down for anywhere from a couple of minutes for the non-evolved Shibito to about fifteen seconds for the evolved ones. {{spoiler|At one point Shiro Miyata does vivisections on the Shibito-fied Onda sisters...[[Squick|while they're still squirming and screaming. In spite of having their organs taken out and analyzed, they're good as new within no time.]] The only thing that can permanently destroy a Shibito is being set aflame by the Uryen.}} In the second, it seems endemic to Yamajima Island that people who die there come back to life as nigh-invulnerable Shibito or Yamibito if they aren't stabbed with a Mekkoju branch upon death.
* [[No Export for You]]: Since the first game did so badly in the U.S., the second was only released in Europe and Japan.
* [[Non
* [[Not Quite the Right Thing]]: In the second game, Yorito Nagai sees Takeaki Misawa, his SDF superior {{spoiler|(who has been acting increasingly unstable)}} holding Ichiko Yagura at gunpoint. {{spoiler|So he shoots him in the back. This comes back to bite him twofold. see [[The Corruption]] and [[Our Zombies Are Different]].}}
* [[Ominous Fog]]: Even the daylight moments in Hanuda are depressingly cloudy and misty.
** In the second game, evolved male Yamibito apparently emit [[Ominous Fog]]. When you're in close proximity to them, everything goes dark around you.
* [[One Bad Mother]]: "Mother" is more or less the ultimate foe in the second game.
* [[One
** There's also a plot reason: {{spoiler|any graze means she's compromised by red water.}}
* [[
* [[One
* [[Oral Tradition]]: {{spoiler|Hisako Yao is based off the Japanese legend of the Yaobikune, the Eight-Hundred Year Old Nun who became immortal after consuming mermaid flesh. Given a Lovecraftian twist of course. She even dresses up in a manner similar to a Catholic Nun to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a Lampshade]] on this.}}
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: The Shibito in the first game. They apparently retain a good degree of the intellect they had before they mutated, but are given to strange, neurotic behaviors, such as repeating mindless tasks or endlessly patrolling. Over time they mutate into more powerful and horrifying forms. And all of them are ''thrilled'' that this has happened to them {{spoiler|because being a Shibito means being one with their god. They want you to be happy, too. Even if it means opening you up and letting the red water in.}}
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* [[Secret Identity]]
* [[Shaky POV Cam]]: Sightjacking uses this as a very important gameplay tool.
* [[Shell
* [[Shout Out]]: Possibly a few.
** Yoriko Anno's manga-esque sketch of Tamon Takeuchi in her class notes (Archive 033) suggests she's possibly a [[Shout Out]] to and an [[Expy]] of manga artist Moyoco Anno.
** ''Siren: Blood Curse'' is made in the style of a Western J-Horror remake, with a composite [[Expy]] cast that includes Americans who decide to pay that quaint little village of Hanuda a visit.
** The air raid siren's usage can be considered a [[Shout Out]] to [[Silent Hill]], or alternatively just a part of creator Keiichirō Toyama's [[Signature Style]]; he's also the man behind the first and original [[Silent Hill]], and reportedly the use of sirens in both games was inspired by recurring nightmares he had about the sound.
* [[Sibling Yin
* [[Sinister Geometry]]: Late in the first game, Hanuda is slowly being converted into a hideous nest for {{spoiler|the Datatsushi and its Shibito servants.}}
** In the second game, the Yamibito apparently grow shrouds from their bodies that they use to cover up a building's windows and other places where light might get in.
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** Siren 2 also follows the same route; although some enemy weapons can be picked up and used, it is best not to be seen if you can help it.
* [[Summoning Ritual]]:{{spoiler|Two attempts to revive Datatsushi in the first game. First one is <s>unintentionally interrupted by Kyoya Suda</s> sabotaged by Miyako Kajiro as Kyoya Suda arrives and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. The second one succeeds.}}
* [[Super
* [[Survival Horror]]: If we have to explain, we're going to force-feed you some mermaid.
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: The Homuranagi ''sort of'' qualifies. {{spoiler|Kyoya automatically obtains it after taking down the Shibito-fied Jun Kajiro in the Netherworld with the Uryen, but using it to go [[Highlander (Franchise)|Highlander]] [[Off With His Head|on Datatsushi]] is necessary to achieve the True (or rather, Full) Ending.}}
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* [[Walk the Earth]]: {{spoiler|If the second game is any indication, Kyoya, unable to return to our world, wanders the Netherworld defeating supernatural menaces with the Uryen and the Homuranagi. One wonders where he gets batteries for his portable stereo player...}}
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: In the first game, Spider Shibito can't open doors, so it's rather easy to lure one into a room you don't plan to use, knock it out, and trap it. In the second, most of the enemies are vulnerable to bright light, which kills Shiryo and Yamirei, and briefly stuns Yamibito.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Subverted in the first game. When Miyata activates the {{spoiler|Uryen, two rotting Shibito slink off the screen rather than get caught in the chasm. They have a touching reunion with their son in the ending, until that [[Batter Up|goes to hell]].}}
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Naoko Mihama in the first game. Once a famed idol at nineteen, her career went steadily downhill as she aged, until, at twenty-eight, she's been reduced to reporting for a crappy "Ghost Hunters"-style supernatural show.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]
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* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: {{spoiler|Once you have red water in your system, you can never leave the Netherworld, even if you don't become a Shibito.}}
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|After the ritual to restore Datatsushi proves successful, no more generations of Kajiros are needed, and so Ayako Kajiro gets roasted.}}
* [[You're Insane!]]: Said verbatim by {{spoiler|Kei Makino upon seeing what Shiro did with the Onda sisters. [[Captain Obvious|No kiddin'?]]}}
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