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Paris. July 24, 1914. The Orient Express sits in the Gare de l'Est, bound for Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade
As the train speeds through a French field, a motorcycle pulls alongside it in its travel. Two people have squeezed onto its frame. The passenger stands up on the motorcycle. Grasping at the rails, he makes a leap across to the door of the train, as the motorbike's driver pulls off her cap to reveal her long, flowing red hair. You are Robert Cath, wanted all across Europe. You have just boarded the Last Express.
'''''The Last Express'''''
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* [[All There in the Manual]]
* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]
** Averted for everyone else. All characters other than the aforementioned eunuch speak their native languages perfectly.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]
▲* [[All There in the Manual]] - The story works just fine if you don't check, but the official web site ([http://lastexpress.markmoran.net/ mirror]) and the official strategy guide have a bit of background on the characters. Playing the game without these just dips you in headfirst.
* [[Batman Gambit]]
▲* [[Badass Bookworm]] - Robert Cath; medical doctor, speaks at least four languages, currently pursuing an interest in classical Byzantine literature... and throws a hell of a punch.
▲* [[Batman Gambit]] - {{spoiler|Schmidt's arms deal was arranged only so it could be thwarted by Anna and give the Austrians and Germans an excuse to go to war with Serbia. It fails if either Anna dies, Schmidt cancels the deal, or Cath pushes the train on to Constantinople.}}
*
▲* [[Big No]] - {{spoiler|When you blow the whistle at the end.}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]
▲** Also, although Cath can speak Russian, he apparently cannot read Cyrillic script and needs one of the Russian-speakers to translate the fairytale for him.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]:
▲* [[Bilingual Dialogue]] - Done to the extreme.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]
▲* [[Break the Cutie]] - Tatiana. Let's start with the fact that her grandfather is a Czarist and her lover is an anarchist bomber and say [[It Got Worse|it only gets worse]] from there.
* [[Dead Man's Chest]]
▲* [[But Now I Must Go]] - just after Anna and Cath save each other and there is a bit of romance, Anna unfortunately has to leave the train. The game is scripted so that it will always arrive just after the fight sequence.
▲* [[Cassandra Truth]] - Nobody believes François when he says he saw a body being thrown out the window. Even though that's exactly what you did.
▲* [[Dead Man's Chest]] - One of the ways to stop anyone from finding the body is to stash it in your bed.
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]] - Robert Cath, the protagonist, impersonates his friend, Tyler Whitney (in the page picture).▼
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Robert Cath has his moments.
{{quote|'''Milos:''' Have you heard of "Unity or Death"?
'''Cath:''' Sure, that's Harvard's motto. Or is it the post office...?
▲* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Empty Room Psych]]
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: Anna first appears wearing one, and Sophie and Rebecca sport one as well.
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]
* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]
* [[Lady of War]]
* [[Late to the Party]]
* [[
* [[MacGuffin]]: Tyler's money, and later the Firebird.
* [[Multiple Endings]]
* [[Mysterious Past]]
** Cath says the whole freedom-fighting and arms-dealing things were more Tyler's areas, but he was allegedly hanging out with the Irish independence movement just before the game begins. It's also not clear where Cath picked up the knowledge of herbal medicine (with ''Datura stramonium'') or {{spoiler|what appears to be a hypnotic ability he uses a few times, including on the Firebird itself}}.
** Kronos is also particularly mysterious. His descent and what title he has to be addressed as "his excellency" is unclear, along with how he knows what's ''really'' going on in general, including knowing Cath's name and that he masquerading as Whitney from the outset, or why (aside from an passion for knowledge) he wants anything to do with the Firebird.
* [[Noodle Incident]]
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]
* [[Orient Express]]
* [[Police Are Useless]]
▲* [[Orient Express]] - [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|A fictionalized account of its final run]].
▲* [[Police Are Useless]] - The Orient Express has to leave the station on time. Even when a body was found near the tracks. Even when every passenger on the train has been located except one.
** Somewhat justified in that the train conductors consider them just small-town cops with nothing better to do than harass them with something that can't possibly be their problem. That said, if they ''do'' find Cath, they realize he fits the description of a fugitive and arrest him right away.
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: All the "fights" in the game are basically this. Quite annoying, in the context of the game's checkpoint-based save system, because [[Nintendo Hard|screwing up once mights redoing everything since the last train station]].
* [[Real Time]]: Sped up by a factor of five.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: If you want the game to continue beyond Vienna, the correct way to obtain the briefcase is to {{spoiler|drop into Kronos's cabin from above during the concert, steal the briefcase, then walk out ''holding the briefcase in plain view of everyone''. The audience is probably too focused on Kronos and Miss Wolff to realize what's going on; Kronos and Kahina know exactly what's going on, but are powerless to do anything about it at that time since their concert is part of [[The Masquerade]] and they must keep it going
* [[Scare Chord]]: Used when Robert Cath discovers the body of his friend, Tyler Whitney.
* [[Start to Corpse]]: After encountering the corpse of your late friend in the first minute of boarding the train, you're already wanted by the cops due to you being the first to find the body and a previous [[Noodle Incident|noodle incident]].
* [[Stock Scream]]
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]
* [[Those Two Girls]]
* [[Thriller on the Express]]: A group of international terrorists and anarchists take over the train.
* [[Traintop Battle]]: Two of them, in fact. One is unarmed vs. crowbar, and the other is sword vs. crowbar.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]
* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]
* [[Western Terrorists]]
* [[World War I]]
* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]: Lampshaded in a dialogue between Cath and Schmidt.
{{quote|Cath: "Where do the Fatherland's interests lie in arming a band of Serbian terrorists?"
Schmidt: "You surprise me. I had thought you'd at least keep up the pretense of sympathy with the group who is paying you."
Cath: "I didn't say I wasn't sympathetic. I said they were terrorists."
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