Guilty Party: Difference between revisions

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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Nurse Dolly.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: "A coal-burning bullet train. ''That's'' progress."

* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Ling Ling.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|The Commodore's plan to show his relatives that they could take over for him if they wanted to and reveal his wife's true identity as Mr. Valentine.}}

* [[Big Eater]]: Max; he inherited the trait from his father.

* [[Brawn Hilda]]: The opera singer, natch.

* [[The Butler Did It]]: The very first tutorial level. But of course.

* [[Calling Card]]: Mr. Valentine's poetic Valentine's notes.

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Mr. Valentine is so evil, he doesn't ''need'' depth perception. Of course his mask has only one eye!

* [[Fiction 500]]: The Dickenses must be pretty high up there. As Olivia even says, "I'd have the money to buy a hundred {{spoiler|zeppelins}} if we didn't spend so much on [[Trademark Favorite Food|pudding...]]"

** [[The Hero]]: Max

** [[The Lancer]]: Phoebe

* [[Honorary Uncle|Honorary Grandparent]]: Strictly speaking, Dorian and Olivia would be Ling Ling's aunt and uncle. However, she refers to them as "Grandma" and "Grandpa" nonetheless.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Phoebe. ''Yowza.''

* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]]: Actually, it's In Case You Forgot Who Owns The Intellectual Property--sice, actually, Wideload made the game.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "OH, HUGH THE MANATEE!"

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Morgan Harvest, implicitly.

* [[Malevolent Masked Man]]: Mr. Valentine. His mask only has one eye!

* [[Max Trope]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Valentine's name comes from the fact that Olivia and Dorian's anniversary is, indeed, Valentine's Day.}}

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The later levels of the story mode (in particular, stages 6 and 7) are downright ''evil.'' In addition to plenty of red herrings, there are numerous clues that really require you to ''think'' about them to understand what they mean. The final stage also has Mr. Valentine screwing you up almost every turn, {{spoiler|though finding the culprit is much easier because it becomes quite obvious--from a story perspective--who it has to be.}}

* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: Dorian and Olivia can verge into this at times. {{spoiler|And he still loves her, despite her being, admittedly, a criminial mastermind and his archnemesis.}}

** The Commodore: [[Sherlock Holmes]]

** Max: [[The Maltese Falcon|Sam Spade]]

** Kid Riddle: (A far more manic) [[Encyclopedia Brown (Literature)|Encyclopedia Brown]]

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: General Ed Mission explicitly has "using the indoor voice" as one of his dislikes.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: The Commodore does not like to divulge where he got the title.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: The Opera House, appropriately, has very ominous and mysterious-sounding chanting in its music.

* [[Too Soon]]: Max's catchphrase. He always makes the worst jokes.

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: One trailer features Kid Riddle dramatically shouting, "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY GRANDPA?!" He's actually talking ''to'' his grandfather--The Commodore just announced his plans to retire.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can poke suspects while you're interrogating them, taunt your rivals in co-op games, lock them in... You also have taunts on your D-pad.

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: It's so obvious what Butch sounds like! ...Until you actually hear him speak. [[Gentle Giant|His voice is much closer to his personality than]] [[Scary Black Man|his appearance.]]

 

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