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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: End of the game: {{spoiler|Salvador}}.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Hector's penchant for keeping trophies of his sprouted victims comes back to bite him when the water supply used to maintain them becomes the vehicle for his demise}}.
* [[Homage]]:
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** Year 1 is an homage to ''[[Glengarry Glen Ross]]''.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Domino Hurley and {{spoiler|1=Hector LeMans}} will go on forever til you [[Take a Third Option]].
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* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: So, when is a skeleton soul considered "dead"? They are technically all dead, yet they can be "killed" again (the text in the sequences' titles even describes them as "dying"!). This gets a slight [[Lampshade Hanging]]: in the Petrified Forest, Manny and Glottis have to cross a barrier of soul bones, and Glottis says that he feels guilty about rolling on them. Manny replies they won't feel anything because they are dead. Glottis reminds Manny is dead as well, and that is not a reason for him to roll on him. Manny then says that is because they "are friends".
** Manny cannot blow inside a deflated balloon because he doesn't "have the lungs for that", and yet, he is shown several times ''blowing'' smoke when smoking, and the Angelitos blow too on crystals when they are working.
** The human souls are described as not needing to breathe (which is the reason why they can stay underwater indefinitely). And yet
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** ''Calavera'' means skull, and refers to sugar treats made for the Day of the Dead as well as other associated art.
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** An even earlier one in the Petrified Forest, where you have to use a road sign that magically points the way to Rubacava to find a hidden trap door.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Manny's scythe is used for a vast number of different things. He uses its long handle as a quarterstaff for self-defense and to bar doors, its great reach to hook faraway objects and bring them closer, its pointed tip as a knife to cut open a package, the metal of the blade to conduct electricity through a circuit, and the great force with which it can be swung to break ceiling fixtures, among other things; as for its intended use, ''never'', '''ever''''' does it reap.
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Manny won't tell anybody what he did to become a reaper, and claims he doesn't know or remember. He is not unique in this
{{quote|'''Eva''': "What I did back in the fat days is none of your business. You know the rules."}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: All the female souls wear hats (considering they don't have hair). Lola has an especially nice hat: a top hat in the shape of a stack of buildings.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The office Christmas party. Apparently, he got drunk and punched someone he hated. Like every good Christmas Party ever. The [[Time Skip|nature of the game's story]] dumps plenty of these into the game, given an entire year passes in between chapters.
* [[Once Per Episode]]: Manny has a habit of falling into the Sea of Lament at least once per year, [[Lampshade Hanging|which Captain Velasco notices the second time it happens]].
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: Trying to access Domino's computer results in Manny guessing key words as the password. It ''isn't'' "GOLDEN BOY", "MR. D", "DOMMY", "ARROGANT FRAUD", "BOXING", "GREED", "VANITY" or "SLEAZE".
{{quote|'''Manny:''' Whew. I
'''Manny:'''
'''Domino:''' Get away from my computer, Manny.}}
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: It's an [[Adventure Game]], what other kind is there? There are only two bosses in total, anyway.
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'''Hector:''' This is where you writhe around in excruciating pain because that ''idiot'' Bowsley ran off with the quick-acting sproutella. This slow stuff ''will'' sprout you, but it'll take a ''long'' time, I'm sorry to say.}}
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Many characters smoke in the game for the [[Film Noir]] feel. The manual says that the game doesn't promote smoking though, as the characters are ''already dead''.
* [[Stealth Pun]]:
** "The deadbolt is set. But with what?" A {{spoiler|skeleton key}}, perhaps?
** Glottis has but one purpose, a solitary reason, for being summoned: to drive or ride some manner of transportation at high speeds. {{spoiler|He's a speed demon}}.
* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: This is justified for Manny and the other human souls, as they are dead and don't need to breathe, so they can stay underwater forever. Glottis does have lungs though, and he even points this out when he and Manny are stuck underwater. Manny [[Hand Wave|handwaves]] this by saying: "You survived without a heart, you can live without air for a while."
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* [[Wasted Song]]: One part of the game has Glottis singing a song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB7v6Lp8aSY Rusty Anchor]. Sadly enough [[Ear Worm|despite it being catchy]], it's not on the game's soundtrack.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Lupe kind of just vanishes into the ether after {{spoiler|Manny gets the police to raid his casino}}.
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: When Manny approaches the Tunnel to the Ninth Underworld, he wrestles with temptation. He could actually walk through the Tunnel
* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?]]: Manny gives to Membrillo the undertaker a metal detector so he can find out the identity of the corpses better. Membrillo says that he could find initials of the person on a belt buckle. Manny laughs, asking who the heck would keep his initials on his belt buckle... until Membrillo points the detector to Manny's own belt buckle, which obviously has ''his'' initials on it.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: In the first year, {{spoiler|your boss Don's death}}.
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