History Characters / PsychonautsTheMentalWorld

* GagBoobs: Lampita has the biggest set in the ''entire game.'' They're so big that any movement on her part at all makes them bounce like crazy. Perhaps [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that she's a romanticized memory of Edgar's girlfriend from when he was a high school boy, given the irreverent tone of the game.

* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: After Raz clears [[ArtCourse Black Velvetopia]], Edgar can be found painting a portrait of the dogs playing a game of poker. If you enter his mind at this time, Raz will find Edgar playing poker with the dogs where the card-tower once was.

-->'''Edgar''': It should be impossible, and yet somehow they go on... playing the game. In the end, Razputin, aren't we all just dogs playing poker?

* TacticalSuicideBoss: They vomit up the ingredients needed to defeat them.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Compton's Cook Off is a level themed around anxiety and depression, with the timed sessions in particular representing the repeated pressure anxiety makes a person feel, as if every action is under threat of harsh judgement from one's peers. [[spoiler:By the end of the level, Compton manages to come to terms with his anxiety and removes the puppet from his hand, figuratively realizing that the pressure was only in his own head and never truly existed.]]

* AllegoricalCharacter: The trio of flowers represent Bob's internalized view of three people who hurt him in the past in some form. [[spoiler:Tia, his mother, who neglected him and eventually drank herself to death when he was very young, leaving him alone; Helmut, his husband and one of the members of the Psychic Six, who seemingly died in the fight against Maligula, leaving Bob utterly devastated and unable to connect with the rest of his friends; and Truman, his nephew, who fired him because his own alcoholism was causing him to become a danger to everyone around him.]] Only by coming to understand the true nature of The Moth and the OutOfCharacterAlert below is Bob able to realize that the people in his life never intended to hurt him, and that as traumatizing as those events were, he can't let himself drown in alcohol to avoid the pain, since it has also prevented him from trying to care and love others again.

* ArchnemesisDad: She's actually Raz's Great-Aunt.
* AttackAttackAttack:She's basically a manifestation of the 'Fight' part of the 'fight or flight' complex given strength and sentience through Nona's fragile mental state from volunteering for Otto's experiments, further compounded from the deaths she was forced to cause quelling a Civil war in her home country. She can barely have a conversation for a few minutes before attempting to attack the other parties with lethal intent, and she's not interested in any grand plans beyond simply destroying everything around herself with her hydrokinesis powers. During her boss fight, she encases herself in a tornado of water and zooms all over the battlefield, damaging Raz if he comes in contact with her, and constantly summons snakes of water to launch themselves at him, but has zero means of blocking Raz's own attacks, and doesn't really alter her strategy unless forced to by the other interns' interference. To make up for this, she can take [[MadeofIron quite a beating]] from multiple parties without really slowing down. In other words, favouring brute force and simple power over fancy tricks or techniques.

* CainAndAbel: She was the Cain to her sister Marona's Abel. It ended in tragedy, when she killed her own sister. This only happened after her FaceHeelTurn, however. When she was still sane, Lucy and Marona loved each other, Maligula never intended to kill her, and was horrified when she found out.

* AllegoricalCharacter: The trio of flowers is a manifestation of the people who have hurt Bob in the past in some form. [[spoiler:Tia, his mother, died when he was very young, leaving him alone. Helmut, his husband and one of the members of the Psychic Six, seemingly died in the fight against Maligula, leaving Bob utterly devastated. And Truman, his nephew, fired him because his alcoholism was causing him to become a danger to everyone around him.]] Only by coming to understand the true nature of The Moth and the OutOfCharacterAlert below drives him to realize that the people in his life never intended to hurt him, and that as traumatizing as those events in his life were, he can't let himself drown in alcohol to avoid the pain, since it also prevented him from trying to care and love others again.

* MeaningfulName: They're Bob's warped perceptions of '''Tru'''man, '''Hel'''mut, and '''Tia''' that form a '''mem'''ory '''mons'''ter '''tria'''d of flowers. As seen with BinomiumRidiculus above, it also sounds like a genus+species of fictional plant.

* AllegoricalCharacter: All four of them are mental manifestations of Edgar's former wrestling team, having become antagonistic obstacles after Edgar lost them the championship.

* MiniBoss: Treated as such in the PSI-King's Sensorium, their debut level.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Debuting in the PSI-King's Sensorium, a mental world all about regaining one's senses, the Panic Attacks are appropriately designed and fought in a way that invokes a complete sensory overload. Panic Attacks are fast, highly-damaging, initially fought in a bright daze of blinding colors that can make the player feel disoriented and dizzy, just as a real panic attack tends to do. Furthermore, the way to fight them is to slow things down and calm oneself, something the Time Bubble represents.

[[folder:"Heptadome Harry"/Mote of Light/PSI-King]]

The last spark of consciousness left in "Heptadome Harry", an abandoned brain that Otto found at the Psychic Six's headquarters twenty years ago and put into his Brainframe. When Raz decides to put this brain into the de-brained body of Nick Johnsmith, it ends up overstimulated, and creates a psychedelic mental world in which he is known as the PSI-King.

PSI-King's bandmates, who split apart when the audience left (when he lost his original body) and need to be reunited to deal with the sensory overload in his new body -- that is to say, they need to get back together and finally play the concert event which their rabid fans have been waiting for over twenty years, the Feast of the Senses. The group consists of Vision Quest on violin, Dr. Touch on keyboard, Audie O on drums, Sniffles on guitar and Tasty on bass.

* AllegoricalCharacter: They are the manifestation of Psi-King's missing senses after being deprived for twenty years, as well as representing the members of the Psychic Six. Each of them have spread out to their own parts of the Sensorium, [[spoiler:which represents Helmut's feeling of being abandoned by his team after his seeming death, as well as the loss of his personality and dormant memories. Gathering them all together again and fighting against his nightmare of Maligula is what brings Helmut out of his rut]].

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: As {{Allegorical Character}}s they are the direct embodiments of the five senses, with PSI-King himself as [[PsychicPowers the Sixth (Sense)]].

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: PSI-King and his bandmates split up for twenty years when the audience left (read: when he was trapped as a BrainInAJar, in complete sensory deprivation), but now the King is back for the concert that's been on hold all this time -- that is to say, processing reality for the rest of his brain and body. Your job is to help them reunite by finding their instruments.
* TokenHeroicOrc: Unlike many other Mental Figures, the Senses are purely positive forces in Psi-King's mind, with the goal being to help them rather than oppose them. The only antagonistic force in the level comes from Psi-King's frequent panic attacks due to sensory overload, and a single bad memory that the Senses turn into a ZeroEffortBoss (along with the occasional Censor but that's to be expected).

* AllegoricalCharacter: While not an intentional part of Sasha's Shooting Gallery or his plan, it can be seen as a representation of what happens if you try to excessively censor or repress your darkest feelings or thoughts without giving yourself any specific outlet or focus to direct those feelings at: An ever-worsening buildup that leads to [[RageBreakingPoint your turmoil exploding at the worst possible time]] in the worst possibly way, becoming difficult to control and difficult to stop.

* AllegoricalCharacter: While not an intentional part of Sasha's Shooting Gallery or his plan, it can be seen as a representation of what happens if you try to censor or repress your anger without giving yourself any specific outlet or focus to direct your anger at: An ever-worsening buildup that leads to your anger exploding at the worst possible time in the worst possibly way, difficult to control and difficult to stop.

* AllegoricalCharacter: While not an intentional part of Sasha's Shooting Gallery or his plan, it can be seen as a representation of what happens if you try to censor or repress your anger without giving yourself any specific outlet or focus to direct your anger at: An worsening buildup that leads to your anger exploding at the worst possible time in the worst possibly way, difficult to control and difficult to stop.

* LuddWasRight: {{Invoked}}. After defeating Kochamara, should Raz return to the city, one of the Zealots will inform him that the city will be demolished soon, since lungfish don't tend to live in cities anyway and the place was a consequence of Kochamara's presence.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nick Jameson

[[caption-width-right:350:''The Rainbow Squirts'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''The Den Mother'']]

!!!'''Voiced by''': Zoe Galvez

[[folder:Panic Attack]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Comes out of nowhere.]]

A skeletal monstrosity with a technicolored outline, covered in skulls. They seem to represent the response to the stress of overstimulization, and are miniboss-caliber threats.

[[folder:Bad Ideas]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Can blow up in your face.]]

Vile, blue-ish quadruped imps with a cluster of light bulbs spawning from their back. Seem to represent evil impulses and thoughts formed in a mind.

* GlassCannon: Their bombs cause massive damage, but the creatures themselves have low HP. Mental Connection can get them quickly into Raz's melee range, and Telekinesis can throw their own bombs back at them for a lot of damage.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The bulb mines they spit out can easily be plucked and used against them with Telekinesis, or [[CatchAndReturn caught mid-flight and immediately tossed back]].
* IdeaBulb: Based on and ''weaponizes'' the trope. The red light bulbs from their back are taken into their mouths, which they spit at Raz from a distance.
* IgnoredEpiphany: One is first encountered when Raz [[SpeakOfTheDevil expresses]] that tampering with Hollis' mind might be a bad idea. After defeating it, Raz proudly states that there won't be any bad ideas but his own.
* KillerRabbit: Their long ears/horns, as well as their overall body structure brings a rabbit to mind. They're also vicious little monsters that'll attack you from afar.
* LandMineGoesClick: Their lightbulb attacks act like landmines which stick on the floor and immediately blow up if Raz enters their radius.
* LiteralMetaphor: They're bad ideas that literally blow up in your face.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: These creatures have glowing red eyes, which match the explosive light bulbs they throw at you.
* SlasherSmile: They constantly wear a malicious grin unless hit.
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[[folder:Judges]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Brian Sommer
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[[caption-width-right:350:Cruel ''and'' Unusual.]]

->''"Court is in session!"''

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ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Judges look the part, although they're a lot nastier than actual judges and they wield a massive gavel. They represent either one's fears of being judged by others or personal judgements causing insecurity in the mind they inhabit.
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* {{Expy}}: His design is inspired by ''[[Series/{{Ultraman}} Ultraman]]'', and several of his mannerisms are a pastiche of other tokusatsu-style shows.

[[folder:"Harry Heptadome"/Mote of Light/PSI-King]]

The last spark of consciousness left in "Harry Heptadome", an abandoned brain that Otto found at the Psychic Six's headquarters twenty years ago and put into his Brainframe. When Raz decides to put this brain into the de-brained body of Nick Johnsmith, it ends up overstimulated, and creates a psychedelic mental world in which he is known as the PSI-King.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields two gigantic meat cleavers.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Dingo hadn't [[HoistByHisOwnPetard given Raz the Confusion merit badge]], he never would have gotten the last Queen card that would have revealed the truth to Edgar, and Raz would never have been able to use it on Dingo to make him vulnerable to the spears.

* HateSink: The Moth is a despicable character whose apparent redeeming quality is its protectiveness towards Bob -- but it is [[PoisonousFriend far from a good guardian]]. Not only does its "protection" impede Bob's ability to form real connections and causes him to be trapped in his alcoholism, it actively hinders and hampers Raz's efforts to help Bob while speaking in a childish, irritating and ''extremely'' condescending tone at all times.

* PoisonousFriend: To Bob, as it obstructs any attempt to actually deal with the tragedies in his life, stealing the seeds Raz is gathering of his past and generally being unpleasant.

* NeverBeHurtAgain: As a manifestation of Bob's alcoholism, it goes to self-destructive measures that end up causing more harm than good.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Earl Boen

* TragicMonster: Lucrezia just wanted to help her homeland. But she ended up killing her own countrymen, including her sister, by accident which completely broke her and turned her into a monster (which was "aided" by the experiments she and the Psychic 6 were performing on themselves before she went back home).

* TragicMonster: She had no choice in becoming a PersonOfMassDestruction, she was made that way by Gzar Theodore. When Nona is close enough to reactivate her conscience, she shows horror and remorse that she is not normally capable of doing, that capacity having long been removed from her.

* BalefulPolymorph: Merges with Raz's vision of Augustus to create the monstrosity known as the Two-Headed Dad Monster. [[SubvertedTrope Unlike most cases of this]], however, they actually seem to ''enjoy'' it since it makes them both stronger.

* BalefulPolymorph: As a result of her growing power in Hollis' mind, she was able to trap the other interns in playing cards and make them unable to use their own smelling salts to leave. Part of the boss fight involves freeing up the captured interns in pairs.

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Its ultimate fate is to be turned into cardboard and be discarded.]]

Funny-looking blue gremlins dressed in high school marching band get-up. They represent the reinforcement of negative emotions or thoughts in a person. They function as a support unit in larger groups of enemies; each one on the field can make one enemy outright invulnerable to attack, along with buffing their speed and power.

* NiceHat: They seem to wear some kind of surreal looking bowler hat that bounces around on their head.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's kept vague if the real Butcher is really a monster or if Oleander's perception of him has been warped from years of resentment. One thing is for sure, though: The things he did in the past gave Oleander serious psychological trauma that he never recovered from.

* MoodSwinger: Their costumes and personalities change (from [[TastesLikeDiabetes extreme upbeatness]] to [[{{Jerkass}} irritable jerkassery]]) along with the stage lighting.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: She's basically this to Lucrecia/Nona.