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=== The games ===
* [[Awesome Music]]:
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Playing ''House Of The Dead 2'' for the first time and {{spoiler|reaching the Stage 5 boss, provided that you played ''House Of The Dead 1'' in its entirety beforehand}}
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]:* The Magician and Emperor's boss themes.▼
*** {{spoiler|Even better once you realize that his lines aren't as [[Narm|Narm-filled]] as the dialogue for the other characters.}}
** G's endingAnd in ''The [[House of the Dead]]: 4Overkill'': {{spoiler|G paying his respects to the [[Heroic Sacrifice|late]], JamesJasper and swearingBrutus's toboss taketheme down the source of the(they [[Zombieshare Apocalypse]]one).}}
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] ("Can I drive?" "NO!" "Can I have a lollipop?" "...Yes.")
** [[HOTD 2]]'s voice acting in general.
*** And the revised endings created for ''TOTD''.
** G's face when {{spoiler|Warden Darling decides to go back to the womb.}}
*** MISSING REEL! (Sorry for the inconvenience)
** One character talks tough to a zombie and kicks him. Then the zombie sits up and throws up on him.
▲* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The Magician and Emperor's boss themes.
** And in HOTD: Overkill, Jasper and Brutus's Boss theme (they share one).
** Don't forget [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKFpEI7IIY&feature=related Mother]!
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: There's bound to be at least one or two per game. The Hermit and The Lovers are literal examples (though they're bosses, so they don't really count). Also notable is the Puker from ''Overkill'', which can often damage you no matter how quickly you shoot them.
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*** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] on the [[Play Station 3]] exclusive Hardcore Mode where you're required to kill only with headshots. It's not that bad, until you face these guys where not only do you need to get rid of their shield, you still need to take out their helmets. And you've also got a swarm of other zombies getting pot shots on you.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: "Remember, there's no such thing as a second chance". Also a [[Broken Aesop]] since this is said ''after'' Judgment's second chance.
* [[Goddamned Bats]]: Every. Single. Game. In addition, ''HOTDThe House of the Dead 2'' manages to add the even-more-annoying kamikaze zombie owls alongside energetic, knife-handed midgets. ''Overkill'' adds in exploding <s>zombies</s> mutants, that, if you don't nail with a headshot, will damage you immediately. The last boss spawns them endlessly.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Play the game normally till you reach "Carny" and Washington will say something to Varla about him and [[Running Gag|Agent Gwendolyn]] that they are going to check out the place. In the [[Play Station 3]] version, after clearing "Classic Mode" (you can only use the default gun and nothing else), you get {{spoiler|the Gwendolyn gun;}}; Isaac's [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|favorite guns]].▼
** ''Overkill'' adds in exploding <s>zombies</s> mutants, that, if you don't nail with a headshot, will damage you immediately. The last boss spawns them endlessly.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
▲* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Play the game normally till you reach "Carny" and Washington will say something to Varla about him and [[Running Gag|Agent Gwendolyn]] that they are going to check out the place. In the [[Play Station 3]] version, after clearing "Classic Mode" (you can only use the default gun and nothing else), you get {{spoiler|the Gwendolyn gun;}} Isaac's [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|favorite guns]].
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:* Sega and Namco shooter translations seem to feature a running joke of having hostages shout "don't come!" They've been doing it for years, bless them.▼
* [[Large Ham]]: EVERYBODY, with the possible exception of G, in Overkill.
** The infamous "Suffer like G did?" line in [[HOTD''The House of the Dead 2]]''. It would have been imposing if the creature hadn't presented it as a question. And didn't have such a high voice.▼
** But then, keeping in line with the "B-Movie" presentation of Overkill, the joke is that he's a poor 'actor'.
▲* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Sega and Namco shooter translations seem to feature a running joke of having hostages shout "don't come!" They've been doing it for years, bless them.
▲** The infamous "Suffer like G did?" line in [[HOTD 2]]. It would have been imposing if the creature hadn't presented it as a question.
*** And didn't have such a high voice.
* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: "''RELOAD! Shoot outside the screen!''"
** The grunts and groans when a character is injured ("''AGH!''") also count.
* [[Narm]] -: "The original sin that man is resphaansible to... To protect the loyfe coycle! I have maaaig a creacher to rule over ''maaahn kiiine!'' This is tha ''faynl bawdl!'' Shoe yourself! Our new ruler, the Empurr!" followed by the camera pointing at a wall. In fact, anything ''anyone'' says in ''The House of the Dead 2'' (and there's plenty of examples in the other games as well). There's enough to fill [[Narm/House of the Dead|their own page]]. How could anyone do that?
* [[So Bad It's Good]]: (The voice acting and translation, particularly in the first and ''especially'' the second game. [[Memetic Mutation|"Don't come! Don't come!"]] "[[Narm|Suffer like G did]]?")▼
** In fact, anything ''anyone'' says in ''House of the Dead 2'' (and there's plenty of examples in the other games as well). There's enough to fill [[Narm/House of the Dead|their own page]]. How could anyone do that?
** "G's bloodstains!"▼
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: For a game to be a first-person shooter with zombies, this is inevitable.
** Done [[Narm Charm|intentionally for such purposes]] in OVERKILL''Overkill''.▼
** Especially for the zombies and bosses in the fourth game.
** And, of course... "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftc_Pbhb3IE#t=00m17s HM HM HM HM HM. PEE-PLE-OFF-ZE-AY-EM-ASS. AI-EMM GOLDMEN!]"▼
** ''Especially'' [[Tarot Motifs|Justice]]. To elaborate, one of Justice's attacks involve grabbing you, and you have to shake the SMG ''fast'' in order to break free of his grasp or he will lick you [[For Massive Damage]]. The [[Blatant Lies|lovely]] [[Nightmare Face|close-up]] of his face, especially with that '''tongue'''... *shudder*
** [[Squick]]: Fat zombies that can have holes punched in them, incest in ''Overkill'', open beating hearts... there's frequently stuff one shouldn't dwell upon. Some of the water zombies in ''The House of the Dead]] 2'' look like they could be [[Return of the Living Dead|Tarman's]] clone, and Tarman is rather [[Squick]]y to a lot of people. Then there's more of ''Overkill'', where we have macabre, disgusting bosses like the freaks in the Carnival, the Lobber, and Mother itself. It doesn't help that when she spawns mooks from her... erhm... ''womb'', it looks like she's defecating. {{spoiler|Also Warden Darling kissing his old, withered mother on the lips and Varla after her operation, with Mother's brain sticking out of her head.}}.▼
** The arcade version of Zombie Sophie from the first can be really terrifying.
* [[That One Attack]]:
*** And in the second and fourth games, {{spoiler|Zombie Goldman. YMMV on the third game's Zombie Daniel, though.}}
* [[That One Attack]]:* Ask ''anyone'' who has endured through The Fool's final attacks.▼
** One of The Fool's attacks consists of him shaking up the cage and raining his meal, which is ''horribly'' mutilated corpses, down upon you. Most of which will ''damage you'' if you don't shoot them out of the way.
▲* [[So Bad It's Good]] (The voice acting and translation, particularly in the first and ''especially'' the second game. [[Memetic Mutation|"Don't come! Don't come!"]] "[[Narm|Suffer like G did]]?")
▲** G's bloodstains!
▲** Done [[Narm Charm|intentionally for such purposes]] in OVERKILL.
▲** And, of course... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftc_Pbhb3IE#t=00m17s HM HM HM HM HM. PEE-PLE-OFF-ZE-AY-EM-ASS. AI-EMM GOLDMEN!]
* [[Squick]] - Fat zombies that can have holes punched in them, incest in Overkill, open beating hearts... there's frequently stuff one shouldn't dwell upon. Some of the water zombies in [[House of the Dead]] 2 look like they could be [[Return of the Living Dead|Tarman's]] clone, and Tarman is rather Squicky to a lot of people.
▲** Then there's more of ''Overkill'', where we have macabre, disgusting bosses like the freaks in the Carnival, the Lobber, and Mother itself. It doesn't help that when she spawns mooks from her... erhm... ''womb'', it looks like she's defecating. {{spoiler|Also Warden Darling kissing his old, withered mother on the lips and Varla after her operation, with Mother's brain sticking out of her head.}}
▲* [[That One Attack]]: Ask ''anyone'' who has endured through The Fool's final attacks.
** One of The Star's attacks is basically a [[Bullet Hell]] attack, shooting six to '''eighteen''' energy blades at you. Playing 2-player mode? Get ready see up to ''''twenty-four'''' of the bloody [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] things on the screen AT ONCE. Oh, and his Tornado Spin too. Pray your gun's sensors doesn't fuck up.
* [[That One Boss]]:
* [[That One Boss]]:* Magician, Wheel Of Fate, The Fool, The Emperor, The Star, The World, the list goes on and on, really...
** It should be noted that in HOTD''The House of the Dead 3'', each bullet a boss takes will empty more of its yellow [[Break Meter]] every time it succeeds in attacking you; a boss has its maximum "stamina" level at the start of the fight. [[Fake Difficulty|The Fool's stamina is initially -just barely - low enough to where it is possible to halt it the first time if every shot is accurate, done as fast as possible, and you begin with a fully loaded shotgun.]]. As such, The Fool ends more games (or causes more continues) than even the final boss. Fixed in the console versions, though.
* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: Sega's downloading service has a bit of a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120523071145/http://www.sonicretro.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/segaDigital01.jpg typo for HOTD''The House of the Dead 2''], saying it's rated EC (Early Childhood).
 
=== The films ===
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