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Primarily based on the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Rhine Canyon is a desert-based district known for its beautiful wilderness, small towns, archaeological wonders, its own rocket launch pad, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and UFO sightings]], with the last one playing an important part of its storyline as we get to know the district and the weird, alien-obsessed people inhabiting it.
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Primarily based on the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Rhine Canyon is a desert-based district known for its beautiful wilderness, small towns, archaeological wonders, its own rocket launch pad, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and UFO sightings]], sightings, with the last one playing an important part of its storyline as we get to know the district and the weird, alien-obsessed people inhabiting it.
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# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase39RoadToNowhere Road to Nowhere]]: A troublemaker teenager is found impaled on a cactus besides the highway.
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# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase39RoadToNowhere Road to Nowhere]]: A troublemaker teenager is found impaled on a cactus besides by the highway.
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*AlienEpisode: The entire district qualifies as this since its Additional Investigation revolves around the question of whether or not aliens are real. [[RealAfterAll They are.]]
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* BreatherEpisode: Coming after the extremely high-stakes plots of [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayJazzTownDistrict Jazz Town]] and [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayIvywoodHillsDistrict Ivywood Hills]] and the TraumaCongaLine WhamEpisode that was [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayWhitePeaksDistrict White Peaks]], Rhine Canyon is, in comparison, a much more relaxed and less tense district than its predecessors, focusing on a goofier storyline involving a LittleGreenMen alien and without much conflict going on other than an angry army general who wants to stop said alien from returning home but doesn't put much of a fight about it, basically making of Rhine Canyon the Criminal Case version of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
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* BreatherEpisode: Coming after the extremely high-stakes plots of [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayJazzTownDistrict Jazz Town]] and [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayIvywoodHillsDistrict Ivywood Hills]] and the TraumaCongaLine WhamEpisode that was [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayWhitePeaksDistrict White Peaks]], Rhine Canyon is, in comparison, a much more relaxed and less tense district than its predecessors, focusing on a goofier storyline involving a LittleGreenMen alien and without much conflict going on other than an angry army general who wants to stop said alien from returning home but doesn't put much of a fight about it, basically making of Rhine Canyon the Criminal Case version of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
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* RecurringCharacter: The main recurring characters for Rhine Canyon are [[TookALevelInKindness Colonel Spangler]], [[AliensAmongUs Randolph]], [[DrillSergeantNasty General Freeman]], and [[TheMenInBlack Agent Z.]] There are also a handful of characters that appear multiple times throughout the district but don't hold a lot of importance on the storyline other than a few alien-related comments, these being [[CollectorOfTheStrange Otto Schmetterling]], [[GloryHound Pearl Montana]], [[HollywoodNatives Zuma Tlaotani]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie Ezra Hope]], and [[ConspiracyTheorist Astrid Saucer.]]
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* RecurringCharacter: The main recurring characters for Rhine Canyon are [[TookALevelInKindness Colonel Spangler]], [[AliensAmongUs Randolph]], [[DrillSergeantNasty General Freeman]], and [[TheMenInBlack Agent Z.]] There are also a handful of characters that appear multiple times throughout the district but don't hold a lot of importance on the storyline other than a few alien-related comments, these being [[CollectorOfTheStrange Otto Schmetterling]], [[GloryHound Pearl Montana]], [[HollywoodNatives Zuma Tlaotani]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie Ezra Hope]], and [[ConspiracyTheorist Astrid Saucer.]]]]
*ShoutOut: The entire district is a huge shout out to the ''Film/MenInBlack'', with plot points like aliens existing on Earth and hiding in "human skins", the [[TheMenInBlack Galactic Intelligence Agency]] monitoring the aliens' activity, and wiping out the memory of civilians who learn about this fact.
*ShoutOut: The entire district is a huge shout out to the ''Film/MenInBlack'', with plot points like aliens existing on Earth and hiding in "human skins", the [[TheMenInBlack Galactic Intelligence Agency]] monitoring the aliens' activity, and wiping out the memory of civilians who learn about this fact.
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* BreatherEpisode: Coming after the extremely high-stakes plots of [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayJazzTownDistrict Jazz Town]] and [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayIvywoodHillsDistrict Ivywood Hills]] and the TraumaCongaLine WhamEpisode that was [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayWhitePeaksDistrict White Peaks]], Rhine Canyon is, in comparison, a much more relaxed and less tense district than its predecessors, focusing on a goofier storyline involving LittleGreenMen aliens and without much conflict going on other than an angry army general who wants to stop said alien from returning home but doesn't put much of a fight about it, basically making of it the Criminal Case version of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
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* BreatherEpisode: Coming after the extremely high-stakes plots of [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayJazzTownDistrict Jazz Town]] and [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayIvywoodHillsDistrict Ivywood Hills]] and the TraumaCongaLine WhamEpisode that was [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayWhitePeaksDistrict White Peaks]], Rhine Canyon is, in comparison, a much more relaxed and less tense district than its predecessors, focusing on a goofier storyline involving a LittleGreenMen aliens alien and without much conflict going on other than an angry army general who wants to stop said alien from returning home but doesn't put much of a fight about it, basically making of it Rhine Canyon the Criminal Case version of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Compared to his previous appearances, Colonel Spangler has a much stronger presence on this district, practically becoming the most important character as he's the one who reveals to you that aliens exist and that he's been trying to help one of them return home. This is also the district where he ends up biting the dust, but not before performing an HeroicSacrifice.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Compared to his previous appearances, Colonel Spangler has a much stronger presence on this district, practically becoming the most important character as he's the one who reveals to you that aliens exist and that he's been trying to help one of them return home. This is also the district where he ends up biting the dust, but not before performing an HeroicSacrifice.a HeroicSacrifice and posthumously accomplishing his goals.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Get ready for the Wild Wild West.]]
'''Rhine Canyon''' is the seventh district investigated in ''VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay''.
Primarily based on the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Rhine Canyon is a desert-based district known for its beautiful wilderness, small towns, archaeological wonders, its own rocket launch pad, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and UFO sightings]], with the last one playing an important part of its storyline as we get to know the district and the weird, alien-obsessed people inhabiting it.
Rhine Canyon focuses on the increasing amount of evidence regarding alien activity on the district, from UFO sightings to strange technology appearing out of nowhere, with everything pointing at the fact that there might be real extraterrestrial beings walking among us...
[[folder:Cases Set in Rhine Canyon]]
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase39RoadToNowhere Road to Nowhere]]: A troublemaker teenager is found impaled on a cactus besides the highway.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase40TempleOfDoom Temple of Doom]]: An archaeologist is sacrificed by having his heart removed on an archaeological dig.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase41TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]: A scientist is tied up to a pipe and left to be eaten by vultures on an oil well.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase42CrystalDeath Crystal Death]]: A truck driver is decapitated near the site of a derailed train.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase43DeadSpace Dead Space]]: An astronaut is found with a massive hole on his chest near a launch pad.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase44TheTiesThatBind The Ties That Bind]]: An army colonel is burned to death with a Molotov cocktail on a festival site.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase45NoPlaceLikeHome No Place Like Home]]: A supposed alien is autopsied to death on an abandoned fairground.
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!!Tropes:
* ArcVillain: General Freeman, an army general who indulges into FantasticRacism towards aliens and wants them to be exterminated to hide their existence from the public.
*AliensAmongUs: The main focus of Rhine Canyon is learning about the existence of aliens inhabiting Earth while pretending to be "normal" people, with the endgame goal of the district being helping a real alien [[TheresNoPlaceLikeHome return home after being stranded on Earth for decades.]]
*BreatherEpisode: Coming after the extremely high-stakes plots of [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayJazzTownDistrict Jazz Town]] and [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayIvywoodHillsDistrict Ivywood Hills]] and the TraumaCongaLine WhamEpisode that was [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayWhitePeaksDistrict White Peaks]], Rhine Canyon is, in comparison, a much more relaxed and less tense district than its predecessors, focusing on a goofier storyline involving LittleGreenMen aliens and without much conflict going on other than an angry army general who wants to stop said alien from returning home but doesn't put much of a fight about it, basically making of it the Criminal Case version of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
*CrossingTheDesert: The entire district takes place on a desert or desert-themed areas.
*ADayInTheLimelight: For Chief Marquez, as we get to learn about her childhood and how it was ruined when the government painted her as a liar after she supposedly encountered an alien. By the end of the district, she manages to find inner peace after meeting said alien decades later, helping her understand that everything she experienced was real.
*ADeathInTheLimelight: Compared to his previous appearances, Colonel Spangler has a much stronger presence on this district, practically becoming the most important character as he's the one who reveals to you that aliens exist and that he's been trying to help one of them return home. This is also the district where he ends up biting the dust, but not before performing an HeroicSacrifice.
*RecurringCharacter: The main recurring characters for Rhine Canyon are [[TookALevelInKindness Colonel Spangler]], [[AliensAmongUs Randolph]], [[DrillSergeantNasty General Freeman]], and [[TheMenInBlack Agent Z.]] There are also a handful of characters that appear multiple times throughout the district but don't hold a lot of importance on the storyline other than a few alien-related comments, these being [[CollectorOfTheStrange Otto Schmetterling]], [[GloryHound Pearl Montana]], [[HollywoodNatives Zuma Tlaotani]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie Ezra Hope]], and [[ConspiracyTheorist Astrid Saucer.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Get ready for the Wild Wild West.]]
'''Rhine Canyon''' is the seventh district investigated in ''VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay''.
Primarily based on the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Rhine Canyon is a desert-based district known for its beautiful wilderness, small towns, archaeological wonders, its own rocket launch pad, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and UFO sightings]], with the last one playing an important part of its storyline as we get to know the district and the weird, alien-obsessed people inhabiting it.
Rhine Canyon focuses on the increasing amount of evidence regarding alien activity on the district, from UFO sightings to strange technology appearing out of nowhere, with everything pointing at the fact that there might be real extraterrestrial beings walking among us...
[[folder:Cases Set in Rhine Canyon]]
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase39RoadToNowhere Road to Nowhere]]: A troublemaker teenager is found impaled on a cactus besides the highway.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase40TempleOfDoom Temple of Doom]]: An archaeologist is sacrificed by having his heart removed on an archaeological dig.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase41TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]: A scientist is tied up to a pipe and left to be eaten by vultures on an oil well.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase42CrystalDeath Crystal Death]]: A truck driver is decapitated near the site of a derailed train.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase43DeadSpace Dead Space]]: An astronaut is found with a massive hole on his chest near a launch pad.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase44TheTiesThatBind The Ties That Bind]]: An army colonel is burned to death with a Molotov cocktail on a festival site.
# [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase45NoPlaceLikeHome No Place Like Home]]: A supposed alien is autopsied to death on an abandoned fairground.
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!!Tropes:
* ArcVillain: General Freeman, an army general who indulges into FantasticRacism towards aliens and wants them to be exterminated to hide their existence from the public.
*AliensAmongUs: The main focus of Rhine Canyon is learning about the existence of aliens inhabiting Earth while pretending to be "normal" people, with the endgame goal of the district being helping a real alien [[TheresNoPlaceLikeHome return home after being stranded on Earth for decades.]]
*BreatherEpisode: Coming after the extremely high-stakes plots of [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayJazzTownDistrict Jazz Town]] and [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayIvywoodHillsDistrict Ivywood Hills]] and the TraumaCongaLine WhamEpisode that was [[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayWhitePeaksDistrict White Peaks]], Rhine Canyon is, in comparison, a much more relaxed and less tense district than its predecessors, focusing on a goofier storyline involving LittleGreenMen aliens and without much conflict going on other than an angry army general who wants to stop said alien from returning home but doesn't put much of a fight about it, basically making of it the Criminal Case version of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
*CrossingTheDesert: The entire district takes place on a desert or desert-themed areas.
*ADayInTheLimelight: For Chief Marquez, as we get to learn about her childhood and how it was ruined when the government painted her as a liar after she supposedly encountered an alien. By the end of the district, she manages to find inner peace after meeting said alien decades later, helping her understand that everything she experienced was real.
*ADeathInTheLimelight: Compared to his previous appearances, Colonel Spangler has a much stronger presence on this district, practically becoming the most important character as he's the one who reveals to you that aliens exist and that he's been trying to help one of them return home. This is also the district where he ends up biting the dust, but not before performing an HeroicSacrifice.
*RecurringCharacter: The main recurring characters for Rhine Canyon are [[TookALevelInKindness Colonel Spangler]], [[AliensAmongUs Randolph]], [[DrillSergeantNasty General Freeman]], and [[TheMenInBlack Agent Z.]] There are also a handful of characters that appear multiple times throughout the district but don't hold a lot of importance on the storyline other than a few alien-related comments, these being [[CollectorOfTheStrange Otto Schmetterling]], [[GloryHound Pearl Montana]], [[HollywoodNatives Zuma Tlaotani]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie Ezra Hope]], and [[ConspiracyTheorist Astrid Saucer.]]
