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* NoSympathy: He's angry at Sally for [[spoiler:having sex with his dad]], but it's implied that [[spoiler:[[DirtyOldMan his father was grooming her]] and she didn't understand what was happening]]. Arthur doesn't consider that idea, either unwilling to [[BrokenPedestal view the situation that way]] or because his memories are still addled from Joy.
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* NoSympathy: He's angry at Sally for [[spoiler:having sex with his dad]], but it's implied that [[spoiler:[[DirtyOldMan his father was grooming her]] forced her and she didn't understand what have a choice and was happening]]. blackmailed. Arthur doesn't consider that idea, either unwilling to [[BrokenPedestal view the situation that way]] or because his memories are still addled addlled from Joy.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler:She became close to Arthur's father and [[DirtyOldMan he managed to convince her that she was obligated to have sex with him]]. Since Sally's parents died before they could teach her about this sort of subject and Arthur's mother was too sick to do anything about it, Sally had no knowledge on how to approach it and accepted his advances. Even in her adulthood, she still believes she would have been the bad guy for rejecting him.]]
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler:She became close Averted. She does dirty things to Arthur's father and [[DirtyOldMan he managed to convince her that she was obligated to have sex with him]].for survival. Since Sally's parents died before they could teach her about this sort of subject and Arthur's mother was too sick to do anything about it, Sally had no knowledge on how to approach it and accepted his advances. Even in her adulthood, she still believes she would have been the bad guy for rejecting him.]]
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Played with. The game executes this in a very morally ambiguous way. In some instances it's a case of implied IDidWhatIHadToDo, in other cases either she’s enabling an adulterer, or the heart broken suitor is an AssholeVictim.
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Played with. The game executes this in a very morally ambiguous way. In some instances it's a case of implied IDidWhatIHadToDo, in other cases either she’s enabling an adulterer, or the heart broken suitor is an AssholeVictim.victim.
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* BiTheWay: At one point in Sally's story, she overhears James and Roger having an argument because James saw Roger dancing with a woman. Roger admits the woman "turned him on", but insists that all he did was dance with her.
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* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: His name references Edmund [=McMillen=], the creator of such indie games as ''VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy'' and ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIssac''.
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* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: His name references Edmund [=McMillen=], the creator of such indie games as ''VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy'' and ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIssac''.
''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac''.
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* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: His name references Edmund [=McMillen=], the creator of such indie games as ''VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy'' and ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIssac''.
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* VagueDoom: His fate in the "We All Fall Down" DLC. [[spoiler: While Victoria is successful at blowing up Haworth Lab, it's unclear if he managed to get away or died in the explosion.]]
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* VagueDoom: UncertainDoom: His fate in the "We All Fall Down" DLC. [[spoiler: While Victoria is successful at blowing up Haworth Lab, it's unclear if he managed to get away or died in the explosion.]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: Arthur only stopped taking Joy right at the beginning of the game (unlike Sally and Ollie, who've been Downers for a while), so his memories and perceptions are still pretty scrambled.
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* IronicName: Shares a last name and rank with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Byng,_1st_Viscount_Byng_of_Vimy General Julian Byng]][[note]]Later Field Marshal, but he only achieved that rank long after leaving the military, only three years before he died[[/note]], a famous British commander during the First World War, who commanded the Canadian Corps and the British Third Army during some of their greatest battles against the Germans, including the First Battle of Cambrai, which was the first surprise attack using tanks, and would later become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (a.k.a. the ''actual'' Bobbies), where he would do an excellent job reforming and modernizing the service. This General Byng collaborated with the Germans in the Second World War even when he knew their tanks were fake, and it resulted in the society of Wellington Wells, whose Bobbies are basically the opposite of Julian Byng's.
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* RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler: If General Byng is to be believed, Ollie knew that the German tanks were fake, or at least should have figured it out on his own, yet kept quiet. He also turned Margaret in which got her shot, and his guilt was so much that he took an Oblivion pill to scramble his memories, which caused him to hallucinate Margaret.]]
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* MadBomber: In "We All Fal Down", he reveals that he was planning to blow up Haworth Labs and cut off Joy production forever when the Bobbies caught him. [[spoiler: Victoria has to do it in his stead.]]
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: They're only response to any problem is to pop a Joy and forget about it.
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* VagueDoom: His fate in the "We All Fall Down" DLC. [[spoiler: While Victoria is successful at blowing up Haworth Lab, it's unclear if he managed to get away or died in the explosion.]]
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* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: [[spoiler: Sally leaves him trapped in his emergency bunker, as she possesses the only key card that opens the front door. Since the bunker is said to be concealed, that means it is unlikely he will ever be found. While he has enough supplies to last a long time, they will run out eventually.]]
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The Director of the Department of Archives at City Hall and Arthur's boss.
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Duty is very important to Victoria. Above all else, she chooses duty even when it has adverse effects, such as supporting the Authority during the German Occupation, or making sure everyone takes their GovernmentEnforcedDrug when Joy was developed. [[spoiler: "We All Fall Down" has her realize that Wellington Wells is in Joy Spiral of destruction, so her duty becomes getting the Wellies off their Joy so they can save themselves.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:He was actually complicit in covering up the fact the Germans didn't have real tanks.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Victoria's reaction when she remembers [[spoiler:that lacing Wellington Wells' water supply with Joy was HER idea.]]
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** However, [[spoiler:when she does destroy the town's Joy supply, the survivors point out that her actions caused the destruction of Wellington Wells and the slaughter of the majority of its population. Not only that, but some survivors blame her for denying them their Joy while others remember all the horrible deeds she committed. Either way, none of the surviving Wellies want anything to do with her. While Victoria was expecting this reaction, it still hurts her feelings greatly.]]
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* SmugSnake: Verloc isn't nearly as brilliant as others or himself think to be. It turns out most of his breakthroughs were stolen from other more talented scientists like Sally, and all of his attempts to create a permanent version of Joy have yielded no results.
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* AmbiguousSituation: When Arthur meets him at the Britannia Bridge, it's not clear if he's real or just a figment of Arthur's imagination as Arthur faces the truth about his past for once and for all. Arthur even wonders this and asks him this, to which he answers that it doesn’t matter, but what really matters is what Arthur wants to do.
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** When Arthur meets him at the Britannia Bridge, it's not clear if he's real or just a figment of Arthur's imagination as Arthur faces the truth about his past for once and for all. Arthur even wonders this and asks him this, to which he answers that it doesn’t matter, but what really matters is what Arthur wants todo.do.
** It's also not certain if Peters recognizes Arthur.
** When Arthur meets him at the Britannia Bridge, it's not clear if he's real or just a figment of Arthur's imagination as Arthur faces the truth about his past for once and for all. Arthur even wonders this and asks him this, to which he answers that it doesn’t matter, but what really matters is what Arthur wants to
** It's also not certain if Peters recognizes Arthur.
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* TheReveal: One of them undergoes this in a promotional video for the game. They're all playing their latest hit song when one's Joy wears off and he realizes that their studio is a dilapidated wreck. However, the other band members compel him to take another Joy pill and continue playing.
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* MeaningfulName: Their "La La La" video shows that while the Make Believes (And everyone else on Joy) ''think'' their playing a hit song in a brightly studio, the reality is that it's all a drug-induced hoax. In short, they're people that "make believe" they are a band.
* TheReveal: One of them undergoes this in a promotional video for the game. They're all playing their latest hit song when one's Joy wears off and he realizes that their studio is a dilapidatedwreck.wreck, and their instruments are actually junk. However, the other band members compel him to take another Joy pill and continue playing.
* TheReveal: One of them undergoes this in a promotional video for the game. They're all playing their latest hit song when one's Joy wears off and he realizes that their studio is a dilapidated
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** The GameOver screen for Victoria's story reports that he has been promoted to her position while she's [[DeadlyEuphemism promoted to elsewhere]].
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* AwfulTruth: She believes that it's better to take your Joy and forget about everything because the truth is too awful to face. [[spoiler: Being off her Joy for a time leads her to confront the truth.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: As a young woman, she helped the German Occupation by calming the children and playing with them before they would be taken away by the train. She holds immense guilt over this.]]
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* TheDragon: She's one of the most powerful people in Wellington Wells. According to AllThereInTheManual, she's only second to the Chief Constable.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Does this to Ollie.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After being held captive by Ollie and deprived of Joy, she seems to be convinced that taking away Joy from the city and revealing the truth is the right thing to do, and says that she'll join Ollie in his goal and help get the Executive Committee on his side. Turns out she was just lying so that Ollie could free her, using this to blindside him and run off.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Does this to Ollie.]]
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* GroinAttack:[[spoiler: Does [[spoiler:Does this to Ollie.]]
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: In the "We All Fall Down" DLC. [[spoiler:She's made a HeelFaceTurn and knows that she'll be hated for [[AwfulTruth depriving everyone of Joy]], especially since [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she had a large role in making Wellington Wells as it is in the first place]], but comes to accept her status as a pariah by the end.]]
* IWillFindYou: [[spoiler:After destroying the sources of Joy and becoming a pariah to the city, the hallucination of her mother tells her that if anything, she can return to India to find her, as she's "probably" still alive, an idea that Victoria seems to be taking into consideration.]]
* LesCollaborateurs: Like her father, she wasreally very accommodating to the Germans.
* MissingMom: Her mother was arrested in India while she was a child, andthat's presumably that was the last time she ever saw her. Whether she's still alive or not is never revealed, [[spoiler:which she considers finding out personally at the end of her DLC.]]
* IWillFindYou: [[spoiler:After destroying the sources of Joy and becoming a pariah to the city, the hallucination of her mother tells her that if anything, she can return to India to find her, as she's "probably" still alive, an idea that Victoria seems to be taking into consideration.]]
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* DirtyCoward: He certainly has a penchant for taking the easy way out to save his skin. In India, rather than coming to an agreement with his wife over how to raise Victoria, he instead had her arrested as a spy. After World War II, he collobarated with the Germans even though he knew their threats were merely bluffs. As Wellington Wells collapses, rather than actually do anything to solve the problem, he builds a safe house for himself to hide in.
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* IHaveManyNames: Her name on her portrait is "Maharajkumari Indira Devi", while she ends her letters to General Byng as "Lilli".
* MeaningfulName: Her first name is a combination of "Maharaja" (great ruler) and "Kumari" (Princess/Goddess), her middle name "Indira" is a reference to the first female Prime Minister of India, Indira Ghandi, and her last name "Devi" is Hindu for Goddess.
* MeaningfulName: Her first name is a combination of "Maharaja" (great ruler) and "Kumari" (Princess/Goddess), her middle name "Indira" is a reference to the first female Prime Minister of India, Indira Ghandi, and her last name "Devi" is Hindu for Goddess.
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* HelpfulHallucination: The Lilli that appears in the DLC acts as TheConscience, similar to Maraget for Ollie.Ollie.
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Victoria Byng's mother, and wife of General Robert Byng. An Indian princess, she supported independence from the British which got her arrested, by her husband no less. During the events of "We All Fall Down", Victoria begins to hallucinate her mother's presence at times.
* AmbiguousSituation: As Hallucination!Lilli herself admits, it's unknown if the real Lilli is still alive, or died in prison.
* DatingCatwoman: While she spoke out for Indian independence, she was married to General Byng.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has quite the sharp tongue. "One ''clearly'' sees the superiority of Western civilization."
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