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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Mona is usually reluctant to bite people, but when she sees how poor Mina Stoker has been run ragged, she actually goes on to great lengths to scare her lout of a husband into changing his StrawMisogynist ways. Earlier, after finding out that the rats sold you the wrong information, you can indirectly get back at them by revealing to the cat when they plan to raid the kitchen.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Mona is usually reluctant to bite people, but when she sees how poor Mina Stoker has been run ragged, she actually goes on to great lengths to scare her lout of a husband into changing his StrawMisogynist ways. Earlier, after finding out that the rats sold you the wrong information, you can indirectly get back at them by revealing to the cat when they plan to raid the kitchen.
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* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Mona would make [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] jealous.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Rufus when he calls her a hussy and Mona takes offense.
--> '''Mona:''' I am ''not'' a hussy!
--> '''Rufus:''' Your... proportions say otherwise.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Rufus when he calls her a hussy and Mona takes offense.
--> '''Mona:''' I am ''not'' a hussy!
--> '''Rufus:''' Your... proportions say otherwise.
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* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Mona would make [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] jealous.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Rufus when he calls her a hussy and Mona takes offense.
--> '''Mona:''' I am ''not'' a hussy!
--> '''Rufus:''' Your... proportions say otherwise.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Rufus when he calls her a hussy and Mona takes offense.
--> '''Mona:''' I am ''not'' a hussy!
--> '''Rufus:''' Your... proportions say otherwise.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Invoked and averted, after Mona comments that the hinges need more lubricant to work, she asks if Froderick has something to say, to which he answers that he thought of something that probably wouldn't make it past the censors, causing her to giggle.
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* {{Think of the Censors}}: After Mona comments that the hinges need more lubricant to work, she asks if Froderick has something to say, to which he answers that he thought of something that probably wouldn't make it past the censors, causing her to giggle.
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* TheUnreveal: A good chunk of the first part of the game involves finding the combination to Shrowdy's coffin. Once it's open, Mona and Froderick find pictures that Shrowdy had made of Mona attached to the lid. The player can't see them, so it's left to the imagination, and the repulsed expressions and comments of Mona and Froderick. Apparently they're good enough to warrent a WolfWhistle from Froderick.
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* TheUnreveal: A good chunk of the first part of the game involves finding the combination to Shrowdy's coffin. Once it's open, Mona and Froderick find pictures that Shrowdy had made of Mona attached to the lid. The player can't see them, so it's left to the imagination, and the repulsed expressions and comments of Mona and Froderick. Apparently they're good enough to warrent warrant a WolfWhistle whistle from Froderick.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Most of the fun comes from Mona trying to find an excuse to claim she's not a vampire, as well as giving less-grisly but definetively fake info on the surrounding spooky castle (for example she refers to bloodstains on a wall as ketchup marks).
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Most of the fun comes from Mona trying to find an excuse to claim she's not a vampire, as well as giving less-grisly but definetively definitively fake info on the surrounding spooky castle (for example she refers to bloodstains on a wall as ketchup marks).
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* MacGuffinGuardian: The game has a few across the acts, such as Rufus the Gargoyle (keeps the key Mona needs to leave the castle in his mouth), Shrowdy's Specter guarding the only way out of the castle, the Lake Monster (who patrols the lake and must be neutralized to sail away) and the Banshee (who guards her own mortail spoils waiting for her beloved to come).
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* MacGuffinGuardian: The game has a few across the acts, such as Rufus the Gargoyle (keeps the key Mona needs to leave the castle in his mouth), Shrowdy's Specter guarding the only way out of the castle, the Lake Monster (who patrols the lake and must be neutralized to sail away) and the Banshee (who guards her own mortail mortal spoils waiting for her beloved to come).
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* TheMafia: The Rats in the dungeons behave like stereotypical italo-american mobs, but are pretty friendly. [[spoiler: Too bad the information they sell to Mona is incomplete.]]
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* OurBansheesAreLouder: The irish ghost woman in the (second) dungeon can wail loud enough to push Mona away from her remains. At first she's identified as a banshee, then as a ghost. Notably, she's an undead, not a fairy, and her wailings aren't omens of death.
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* OurBansheesAreLouder: The irish Irish ghost woman in the (second) dungeon can wail loud enough to push Mona away from her remains. At first she's identified as a banshee, then as a ghost. Notably, she's an undead, not a fairy, and her wailings aren't omens of death.
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* HeroAntagonist: The monks who stake Shrowdy technically are antagonists, as they plan to kill Mona too believing her to be a dangerous vampire like her husband, but after all they do kill monsters. [[spoiler: They're later revealed to be part of the same Cabal who tricked the Baroness.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: Mona and Froderick enjoys one at the expenses of Rufus after he's been reduced to a head. All he can do is groan in frustration.
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* HeroAntagonist: The monks who stake Shrowdy technically are antagonists, as they plan to kill Mona too believing her to be a dangerous vampire like her husband, Shrowdy, but after all they do kill monsters. [[spoiler: They're later revealed to be part of the same Cabal who tricked the Baroness.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: Mona and Froderickenjoys enjoy one at the expenses expense of Rufus after he's been reduced to a head. All he can do is groan in frustration.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Mona and Froderick
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1895 (or maybe 1897), Draxylvania. Mona de Lafitte, a young, up-and-coming Parisian opera singer, is in dire straits -- specifically, the disgustingly-clingy arms of one Shrowdy von Kiefer. The vampire Baron of Castle Warg, he has kidnapped Mona and placed her under a curse which is curiously identical to vampirism, but not, Mona adamantly maintains, actually vampirism. But one night, while Shrowdy is out collecting Mona's "wine" ("a salty-tasting merlot with an iron aftertaste," remarks her pet bat Froderick), a pair of vampire hunters happen across the greasy little turd and give Mona the light of hope. Now she has to use her wits (hopelessly inadequate), Froderick's help (if he can stop cracking wise), and her environment (now we're getting somewhere) to escape Draxylvania and return to Paris.
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1895 (or maybe 1897), Draxylvania. Mona de Lafitte, a young, up-and-coming Parisian opera singer, is in dire straits -- specifically, the disgustingly-clingy arms of one [[BigBad Shrowdy von Kiefer.Kiefer]]. The vampire Baron of Castle Warg, he has kidnapped Mona and placed her under a curse which is curiously identical to vampirism, but not, Mona adamantly maintains, actually vampirism. But one night, while Shrowdy is out collecting Mona's "wine" ("a salty-tasting merlot with an iron aftertaste," remarks her pet bat Froderick), a pair of vampire hunters happen across the greasy little turd and give Mona the light of hope. Now she has to use her wits (hopelessly inadequate), Froderick's help (if he can stop cracking wise), and her environment (now we're getting somewhere) to escape Draxylvania and return to Paris.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Over the course of the story, Mona gradually comes to accept her vampire nature, rather than be in denial.
* CuttingTheKnot: In order to find out which one of the three bridge gargoyles has the key inside his mouth, Mona has to pick up a mace and smash them all until the real one, Rufus, dodges. [[spoiler: When Shrowdy removes the black cloth from the graveyard to leave Mona stuck there with the wagon of dirt, she simply pushes the wagon down the hill and out of the cemetery (with Froderick steering it) while she turns into a bat and flies above the crosses, to her safety.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: As Mona and Froderick go back to Madame Strigoi to say goodbye after gathering all the required items for the journey to Paris, she's killed and possessed by Shrowdy, who then urges Mona to seek the help of doctor Rigor Mortis, who can help her turn back to human. Mona buys this and we last see Mona and Froderick ditch their ship out of Draxylvania as Shrowdy gloats about the terrible things the doctor has in stock for her. Possibly subverted, as that was chapter 2 of the story.]]
* DropInNemesis: Shrowdy's spectral form in part 3. [[spoiler: As he appears twice in the graveyard to trap Mona.]]
* DropInNemesis: Shrowdy's spectral form in part 3. [[spoiler: As he appears twice in the graveyard to trap Mona.]]
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* FortuneTeller: Madame Strigoi.Strigoi, who's willing to help Mona. [[spoiler: The ending though implies she was in cahoots with the Cabal.]]
* OurBansheesAreLouder: The irish ghost woman in the (second) dungeon can wail loud enough to push Mona away from her remains. At first she's identified as a banshee, then as a ghost. Notably, she's an undead, not a fairy, and her wailings aren't omens of death.
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** Inky the blob-like Lake Monster with a voracious appetite could be a nod to Creator/StephenKing and his horror story ''The Raft''.
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** Inky the blob-like Lake Monster with a voracious appetite could be a nod to Creator/StephenKing and his horror story ''The Raft''. The author himself is mentioned as an insane writer under the surname of "Rex" who was interned after writing [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever an extremely improbable horror story]].
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** The two vampire hunters look important, as after all it was them who kill Shrowdy and start the whole plot. They become nothing more than background events for the rest of the game.
** When you ask for information to the constable, you can learn of many locations around Lake Warg in Draxylvania. [[spoiler: You only get to visit Vlad's Landing and the Graveyard.]]
* TheRenfield: Invoked, Madame Strigoi says that Mona also needs a deranged, sycophantic servant to guard her coffin during the day. [[spoiler: You don't get to have one though.]]
** The two vampire hunters look important, as after all it was them who kill Shrowdy and start the whole plot. They become nothing more than background events for the rest of the game.
** When you ask for information to the constable, you can learn of many locations around Lake Warg in Draxylvania. [[spoiler: You only get to visit Vlad's Landing and the Graveyard.]]
* TheRenfield: Invoked, Madame Strigoi says that Mona also needs a deranged, sycophantic servant to guard her coffin during the day. [[spoiler: You don't get to have one though.]]
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Shrowdy gets this when he becomes a shade.
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* DarkIsEvil: Invoked, the forces of evil got stuck with the color black because the forces of good got to choose first, and so black clothing are used in dark arts to counter holy magic.
* ForeignCussWord: Mona isn't above uttering [[PrecisionFStrike Merde]] now and then.
* {{Gonk}}: Several characters, mostly male ones, have grotesque and cartoonish looks. Iris, the [[InsistentTerminology Woman of Loose Morals]] fall into downrigth FanDisservice.
* GratuitousItalian: Buttercup, the horse Mona has to procure, was originally called "Il Cavallo Senza Valore" (lit, The Worthless Horse). Unfortunately, doubles as MeaningfulName.
* GratuitousItalian: Buttercup, the horse Mona has to procure, was originally called "Il Cavallo Senza Valore" (lit, The Worthless Horse). Unfortunately, doubles as MeaningfulName.
* HeroAntagonist: The monks who stake Shrowdy technically are antagonists, as they plan to kill Mona too believing her to be a dangerous vampire like her husband, but after all they do kill monsters. [[spoiler: They're later revealed to be part of the same Cabal who tricked the Baroness.]]
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* StayInTheKitchen: Bruno Stocker has this attitude towards his wife, forcing her to cook for him, serve him beer and do all the housework. Mona also reacts with indignation if the player makes her interact with the dirty laundry, asking him if he's a chauvinist.
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* DoorToBefore: There are secret passageways connecting the kitchen to the dungeon and the secret laboratory to the Theater. Unfortunately, Mona finds out about them only after finding the key to the main keep, angrily wishing she had found them earlier.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Invoked and averted, after Mona comments that the hinges need more lubricant to work, she asks if Froderick has something to say, to which he answers that he thought of something that probably wouldn't make it past the censors, causing her to giggle.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Mona and Froderick enjoys one at the expenses of Rufus after he's been reduced to a head. All he can do is groan in frustration.
* HypnoticEyes: Baron Shrowdy used them to mesmerize Mona before biting her, as well as using them to keep Inky at bay.
* HypnoticEyes: Baron Shrowdy used them to mesmerize Mona before biting her, as well as using them to keep Inky at bay.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Most of the fun comes from Mona trying to find an excuse to claim she's not a vampire, as well as giving less-grisly but definetively fake info on the surrounding spooky castle (for example she refers to bloodstains on a wall as ketchup marks).
* MacGuffinGuardian: The game has a few across the acts, such as Rufus the Gargoyle (keeps the key Mona needs to leave the castle in his mouth), Shrowdy's Specter guarding the only way out of the castle, the Lake Monster (who patrols the lake and must be neutralized to sail away) and the Banshee (who guards her own mortail spoils waiting for her beloved to come).
* TheMafia: The Rats in the dungeons behave like stereotypical italo-american mobs, but are pretty friendly. [[spoiler: Too bad the information they sell to Mona is incomplete.]]
* NeverLearnedToRead: Mona, to the point of referring to books as "Weird rectangles", and Froderick has to do the reading for her. It's apparently limited to books though, as she can read other inscriptions fine.
* NiceGuy: Some of the castle inhabitants, such as Barbara the Iron Maiden and Edgar the Raven are rather polite and civil, and will be more than willing to help Mona if asked.
* NiceGuy: Some of the castle inhabitants, such as Barbara the Iron Maiden and Edgar the Raven are rather polite and civil, and will be more than willing to help Mona if asked.
* OhCrap: In the opening, Shrowdy has a big one when the harmless hooded traveler he was about to assault reveals a massive crucifix hung by his neck and a sharp point at the end of his walking stick.
** Inky the blob-like Lake Monster with a voracious appetite could be a nod to Creator/StephenKing and his horror story ''The Raft''.
** A Raven named [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar?]]
** A Raven named [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar?]]
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* TilMurderDoUsPart: [[spoiler:The Baroness is implied to have murdered several of her husbands.]]
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* TilMurderDoUsPart: [[spoiler:The Baroness is implied to have murdered several of her husbands. Lampshaded by Mona and Froderick who can tell her intentions just by her portrait.]]
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* AssholeVictim:
** The Baron is tricked and staked by a wandering monk as he leaves Warg Castle looking for fresh prey, and from what we saw of him he had it coming. Too bad his death didn't stick.
** [[spoiler: The Baroness used to gather knowledge on the dark arts imprisoning and torturing information out of priests, scholars, wizards, witches and wisemen before killing them. She was eventually tricked by a golem and apparently fell in a trap set up by a Stranger and his Cabal.]]
** Rufus the Gargoyle gets crushed by a statue and is humiliated, insulted, abused and turned into a golem against his will, but he's such a contemptious and arrogant jerk it's hard to feel sorry for him.
** Bruno Stocker is drained and scared shitless by Mona, but he's a drunkard and an abusive husband.
* BigEater: The Lake Monster greedily devours people and objects who gets in the lake. Froderick mentions that he once ate a boat full of Venetian tourists.
** The Baron is tricked and staked by a wandering monk as he leaves Warg Castle looking for fresh prey, and from what we saw of him he had it coming. Too bad his death didn't stick.
** [[spoiler: The Baroness used to gather knowledge on the dark arts imprisoning and torturing information out of priests, scholars, wizards, witches and wisemen before killing them. She was eventually tricked by a golem and apparently fell in a trap set up by a Stranger and his Cabal.]]
** Rufus the Gargoyle gets crushed by a statue and is humiliated, insulted, abused and turned into a golem against his will, but he's such a contemptious and arrogant jerk it's hard to feel sorry for him.
** Bruno Stocker is drained and scared shitless by Mona, but he's a drunkard and an abusive husband.
* BigEater: The Lake Monster greedily devours people and objects who gets in the lake. Froderick mentions that he once ate a boat full of Venetian tourists.
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* BlobMonster: The Lake Monster Inky is a living, vaguely-humanoid mass of black junk who swims across the lake and eats anything and everything trying to cross the lake without proper protection.
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* CrazyPrepared: The Vampire Hunters make sure to pack their boat with every possible vampire-repelling tool before sailing to Warg Castle.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Rufus the Gargoyle, being an UpperClassTwit, tends to snark a lot towards Mona.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Rufus was once the Baroness' trusted companion and loyal servant but one day he lost his cool after young Shrowdy tried to use him as a dress-up doll and yelled at him, scaring the young vampire. [[MamaBear The Baroness]] punished Rufus by confining him to the bridge and forcing him to act as the keykeeper for her son.
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* EvilSorceress: Mona comes to the conclusion that the Baroness was one, rather than a Vampire.
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* FailedASpotCheck: As the Vampire Hunters prepare to set sail to Castle Warg to face Mona, said vampire girl just rows by them on a coffin, asking for directions, which he hastily gives without even looking. For bonus point, this was [[TemptingFate right after the monk said]] that the undead just don't rows towards you asking politely for directions.
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* {{Golem}}: A clay one was used to [[spoiler: trick the Baroness into running in a trap]] and later beheaded by Shrowdy. In the second act, you have to revive the golem to force Shade!Shrowdy to let go of the improvised cross he's holding in front of the boat.
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** According to what Rufus tells you, Shrowdy wasn't born the usual way, but apparently created by the late Lilith von Kiefer in her secret laboratory, which might have something to do with his vampirism and his PsychopathicManchild attitude.
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* {{Prequel}}: The developers planned to release an episodic prequel called ''A Vampyre Story: Year 1'' in 2011. The game would consist of four episodes and cover the first year spent by Mona in Draxylvania, with each episode corresponding to a different season of the year. WordOfGod says that Mona spent many years locked up before Shrowdy finally got what was coming for him, leaving Autumn Moon open to take pot luck on exactly how long Mona's been cooped up in Castle Warg, until they get sick of making episodic prequels. Alas, as of now, the prequel is stuck in the DevelopmentHell.
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* {{Gasshole}}: Mona lets out a huge belch after draining Bruno. Must be all the beer he drank.
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* {{Gasshole}}: The heroine Mona de Lafitte lets out a huge belch after draining Bruno.when, late in the game, she drinks blood from the fat slovenly drunkard Bruno Stoker. She's mortified by the noise she makes, and hastily attributes it to the sheer quantity of booze in Bruno's blood. Must be all the beer he drank.
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** One obvious shout-out exists in the name "Shrowdy von [[Film/TheLostBoys Kiefer]]".
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* MustBeInvited: Played straight; so straight, in fact, that Mona needs ''verbal'' invitation to enter a home whose front room doubles as a shop, even if the sign says "please come in".
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