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* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]/[[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|Redwood}}.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Jonathan leaves his friends and his daughter on Beyond to go back to his sad, lonely life on Earth. Many people that Jonathan and aforementioned friends cared about are dead. Beyond's future is uncertain with the exposure of Tokugawa}}.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Jonathan's favorite brand of cigarettes, "Moslems", are sold in a Marlboro-style red box. [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Moslems are (were) real]], and they are (were) 'break' cigarettes: required no lighter, but had a sulfuric compound in the tip that activated when you broke the end.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Chris, Karen, and Meryl.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|Dave}} and {{spoiler|Redwood}}.
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* [[Gag Boobs]]: Jonathan finds [[Fan Service|a myriad of excuses]] to touch womens' breasts, complete with [[Jiggle Physics|jiggle animations]] and a sound effect (Meryl's twins [[Fan Disservice|sound like elephants]]).
* [[General Gaming Gamepads]]: The PS1 version is playable with the Playstation Mouse, while the shooting sections of the Saturn version can be played with a [[Light Gun]].
* [[Genre Deconstruction]]: Not so much the [[Buddy Cop Show|buddy cop]] angle
{{quote|"Of course, just as ''Metal Gear Solid'' was screaming "[[Nuclear Weapons Taboo|NUKES ARE BAD]]" at the top of its lungs, the prevailing theme in ''Policenauts'' is "[[Anvilicious|SPACE IS BAD]]", which is pounded into your head on several occasions."}}
* [[A God Am I]]: At least one of the villains has developed a God complex, as evidenced by his [[Hannibal Lecture]] near the end of the game.
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* [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]]: Before she dies, Lorraine hands Jonathan a black poppy leaf.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Karen, {{spoiler|after Jonathan's bone marrow transplant saves her life}}. On the flight back to Home, Jonathan watches a BBC newscast and sees that Karen has cut her hair short.
* [[Incest Is Relative]]:
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** Tokugawa's "Rebirthers" are clones of celebrity women throughout history, existing solely to have sex with him and his clientèle. More disturbingly, they're also registered as [[Squick|legal blood relatives]] of Tokugawa himself.
* [[It Was Here, I Swear]]: Ed and Jonathan uncover a massive Narc factory inside BCCH. When the cops raid it the next morning, however, all the evidence has disappeared. Well, [[Frame-Up|almost]] all of it...
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* [[Secret Keeper]]: While visiting Karen at the hospital, her doctor recognizes Jonathan as a wanted fugitive. Luckily, he's a nice fellow and decides not to turn Jonathan in.
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]: Zero gravity has ''many'' advantages.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: The shooting range's combat mode lifts several distinct sound effects from Konami's light gun game ''Lethal Enforcers''.▼
** Ishida's [[Snatcher|2042 calendar]] [[Feelies|that he got from a video game]]. [[Lampshade Hanging|It's even mentioned by one of the characters]] that, given a haircut and a trench coat, [[Expy|Johnathan would look just like the guy in the middle]].
** The ''Metal Gear'' series, from ''Solid'' onwards, feature various shout-outs to ''Policenauts'' in turn.
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* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: {{spoiler|The Redwood siblings are named after Tony and Ridley Scott}}.▼
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]:
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** The original EMPS prototype is named Yuri Gagarin, named after the first man in space, while the three later models (Goddard, Oberth and Von Braun) are named after real rocket scientists.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Kojima pulled together a lot of conjecture about the effects of zero gravity and cosmic radiation on space-bound humans, along with the rigid environmental conditions needed to keep an O'Neill Cylinder running... then capped it off with [[Author Appeal|his own speculation]] about what zero gravity and virtual reality could do [[Power Perversion Potential|for sex tourism, legal or otherwise]].
* [[Sickbed Slaying]]: {{spoiler|Chris}} tries to kill Ed while he's unconscious in the hospital, but gets caught in the act.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Jonathan, noting how smoking is frowned upon in the future,
* [[Snowy Screen of Death]]: When {{spoiler|Ed gets shot}} on-camera, Jonathan's monitor briefly turns to static.
* [[The Speechless]]: Marc watched his father get gunned down, and was rendered mute by the trauma. He communicates mostly through drawing pictures.
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* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: BCCH.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Subverted. A key [[MacGuffin]] is stored on a CD-ROM, precisely ''because'' it's an "archaic format" which nobody would look twice at.
* [[Transplant]]: Meryl, into MGS.
* [[The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter]]: Anna Brown. ''Good lord'', Anna Brown.
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