Tomb Raider: Difference between revisions

* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: In ''Legend'', if you complete a combo of somersaults and flips (which serve little purpose in the gameplay), Zip or Alister will complement you over your headset.

** [[Fridge Logic|...even when they've supposedly lost contact with Lara in the Ghana level.]]

* [[Vertigo Effect]]: Seen in the first game's level 1 FMV, right before the wolves attack Lara's guide.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Not only are you perfectly able to kill the Tibetan warrior monks in the second game (who are perfectly tolerable towards Lara, unless she decides to shoot them), the friendly monkeys (first level only, after that they get nasty) and the now-helpful (after Lara agrees to help them) members of "the Damned" (London levels) in the third game, you are also able to kill security guards and prison guards in assorted games. Okay, so they are attacking you at the time, but, hey, they're just doing their jobs...

* [[White Male Lead]]: Inverted. Maybe one of the reasons the series gained so much popularity is because it portrayed an attractive white female as protagonist, which garnered a substantial female [[Periphery Demographic]] to the franchise.

** Nearly played straight; originally, the series' protagonist was going to be a white male, but the development team dropped that for fear of being sued due to too many similarities with Indiana Jones.

* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: You're gonna '''NEED''' it when you play TRs 2-5. But [[Narm Charm|the craziness]] is [[Rule of Fun|what makes the series so fun.]]

* [[Womb Level]]: The last levels of the first game in Atlantis has walls of pulsating flesh and tissue [[Bloody Bowels of Hell|mixed with]] [[Lethal Lava Land|tons of lava]].

* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: As mentioned above, [[Misplaced Wildlife]] and [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] abound in most of the games.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: In ''Underworld'', just before the final battle {{spoiler|Natla}} reveals she killed Lara's father.

 

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