History VideoGame / BeyondTwoSouls

** By the time of "Black Sun," the DPA has also developed containment field belts. When worn, the belts generate an energy field around the wearer, protecting them from entity attacks. The belts aren't immune to malfunctioning, though; unfortunately for Jodie, her belt shorts out after she and Ryan are attacked. [[spoiler:In the future, Jodie and/or Zoey are shown wearing containment field belts, indicating the technology has improved and become more common.]]

** The main character having at least one ShowerScene.

** Flashbacks to childhood which reveal important plot points/character motivations.

* DeathSeeker: Jodie becomes one later in the game. Hounded by entities and forced on the run in the middle of a harsh winter, she can optionally try to commit suicide, only to be stopped by Aiden. When she later falls into a coma, she's ''not'' happy with him for dragging her back to the world of the living again.
* DeflectorShields: One of Aiden's powers is forming a barrier around Jodie or others to either deflect bullets or cushion the impact of falls. Unfortunately, they're completely useless in close-quarters combat situations.

** Aiden can enter the minds of people and control their bodies. Other entities can do this as well.

* DingDongDitchDistraction: Aiden does this in "The Dinner" (via making the doorbell ring so that Jodie assumes Ryan is early) to aggravate her. If Jodie steps outside the apartment even after seeing the hall is empty, he slams the door and locks it behind her, which forces Jodie to use her own psychic abilities to unlock it again.

** During "Homeless", Jodie at one point beats up a bunch of thugs that are beating up Stan. They respond later by ''burning down the building'' that the group of hobos are staying in, and then hit Jodie twice in the back of the head with a steel bat, putting her into a coma.
** The kids at the birthday party turn on Jodie and lock her in the closet simply because she brought an Edgar Allan Poe book as a gift. A very rare book that, if nothing else, was probably worth a lot of money.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Two Souls" refers to both Jodie/Aiden, and to the ending of the game, where [[spoiler:either Tuesday's daughter Zoey faces the apocalypse with the help of Jodie's spirit or Jodie herself if she survives, or Jodie with Aiden facing the apocalypse.]]
* DownloadableContent: "Advanced Experiments", a bonus chapter set during Jodie's CIA training which provides an additional obstacle course for her to traverse with Aiden within thirty minutes while under Nick Vang's supervision. Later releases of the game include it by default.

** After being put into a coma, Jodie has a dream about herself standing on a cliffside, looking ahead. This dream is shown again in the epilogue, revealing it to be a vision of [[spoiler:an impending EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt caused by another reckless use of condenser technology]].
** If [[spoiler:Jodie dies, Zoey will have the above vision, with the implication being that Jodie, as her GuardianEntity, is sharing it with her to better prepare her for what’s to come.]]

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Jodie and Ryan infiltrate the Asian underwater base dressed up in their uniforms. Subverted in that they get caught pretty quickly. Doubly subverted in that they get caught because of Jodie collapsing when Aiden visibly hits an entity containment field, not because the disguise itself was bad.
* DrivenToSuicide: Jodie can attempt this. Subverted as Aiden will use his powers to stop her.[[spoiler:This can also happen to Nathan if you successfully talk him down, as he kills himself to be reunited with his family.]]

* AuraVision: Aiden can see glowing auras around people. They are [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]], indicating how Aiden can affect them. Additionally, the bonuses that can be found throughout the game appear as glowing blue wisps.

** In "Like Other Girls", Jodie must always possess Cole to escape from her confinement, though she can fail to sneak out of the facility afterwards.
** In "Hunted", it doesn't matter if Jodie initially outruns the cops pursuing her or is captured by them. Either way she'll end up at a roadblock and has to steal a motorcycle. The only difference is that in the latter case she starts out in the back of a police cruiser and has to break free.

** "Black Sun" has Jodie unable to refuse to be a conduit for Nathan's family again.

* ChainedHeat: Aiden and Jodie.
* ChekhovsSkill: Played with. In chapters that chronologically take place earlier in the story, Jodie can practice her guitar in her room, which later becomes useful when she plays the guitar to get charity money while living on the streets. However, since "Homeless" is played earlier due to the game's AnachronicOrder, her skill initially seems to come out of nowhere until we learn more of her past.
* ClusterFBomb: Both Jodie and Ryan tend to carpet-bomb the scenery in [=Fs=] whenever things get really messy. Especially noticeable during the "The Mission" chapter when Jodie has to escape from vengeful African militias and said soldiers hose the building she just sought shelter in with automatic weapons, as well as during the "Black Sun" finale.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Jodie and Ryan suffer it at the hands of the Chinese base commander. Both have to be healed by Aiden once freed.

* ContainmentField: The Chinese underwater base has an energy field around the interdimensional portal to keep any nasty things that might jump out contained. This also has the unfortunate effect (for the heroes) of keeping Aiden ''out'', and causing Jodie to lose her mind control over the base commander.

* ConvenientComa: After being attacked by a thug, Jodie slips into one for three months. Can also be caused by being hit by a falling girder if she fails to escape the building in time.
* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: Downplayed. The only way Jodie can get rid of her bindings if she gets captured during "The Mission" is by using a piece of glass from a broken bottle laying next to her, to cut the ropes. However, she first needs Aiden to break the bottle in order to do so. Something the guard watching over her conveniently doesn´t hear...

** Main character taking a shower at least once (Jodie).

* CreepyBasement: Well, garage, but it fits. It's unclear on the player's first venture in there to get oil whether the creepiness is due to the evil spirits, Aiden, or just Jodie's young imagination playing with her. There is, however, an actual creepy basement in the "Homeless" chapter.
** The one in her childhood home is actually haunted as well. Take too long to grab the oil and see what happens when Jodie approaches the door...
* CreepyTwins: [[spoiler:We only find out that they're twins]] in the game's final chapters, [[spoiler:but Jodie and Aiden are very, very creepy- both individually and together.]]

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: During the chapter "Dinner", where Aiden isn't under player control for most of it, he shows ''considerably'' more finesse in manipulating objects than when the player controls him. This includes neatly stacking chairs on top of a table and pouring wine into a glass.
* DashedPlotLine: The story consists of scenes from three main periods of Jodie's life: her troubled childhood, rebellious teen years, and the work for the CIA as an adult. The latter part takes up most of the game, but there are smaller {{Time Skip}}s between scenes in it, such as several months Jodie spends in a coma, and, judging by her respective hair lengths, at least a year between her escape from the CIA and the reunion with Cole. Also, the game features a DistantFinale... sort of, it's just a vision, but Jodie says it ''will'' happen in a number of years, [[spoiler:apparently sufficient for Zoey to grow up in two endings]].
* DeathSeeker: This is what you can play Jodie as (though Aiden will always be there to stop her). Otherwise, it's kind of ambiguous.

''Beyond: Two Souls'' is the third installment in Creator/QuanticDream's "interactive movie" game series, following their ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' (''Indigo Prophecy'' in some countries) and ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. Its story, covering the span of fifteen years (and wholly unrelated to the two aforementioned games), centers on a young woman named Jodie Holmes (Creator/ElliotPage[[note]]Page is still credited under his previous name, since the game and its remastered editions were released while he was still presenting as female[[/note]]) who tries to uncover the mystery of a strange {{poltergeist}}-like presence serving as her protector. Creator/Willem Dafoe stars as Nathan Dawkins, a researcher who serves as Jodie's surrogate father. The central topic of the game is what happens to one after death. Like its immediate predecessor, ''Beyond: Two Souls'' was a UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 exclusive, though it received an UpdatedRerelease for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in November 2015.

''Beyond: Two Souls'' is the third installment in Creator/QuanticDream's "interactive movie" game series, following their ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' (''Indigo Prophecy'' in some countries) and ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. Its story, covering the span of fifteen years (and wholly unrelated to the two aforementioned games), centers on a young woman named Jodie Holmes (modeled after and played by Creator/ElliotPage) who tries to uncover the mystery of a strange {{poltergeist}}-like presence serving as her protector as well as Nathan Dawkins (Creator/WillemDafoe), a researcher who serves as her surrogate father. The central topic of the game is what happens to one after death. Like its immediate predecessor, ''Beyond: Two Souls'' was a UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 exclusive, though it received an UpdatedRerelease for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in November 2015.

In March 2019, it was announced that the game would be coming to PC later that year, exclusively via the UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore for the first 12 months; Quantic Dream is self-publishing this port.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Jodie is eight years old by the winter break of 1998-99. The present day takes place in 2014, with the epilogue taking place in 2015. [[spoiler:The TimeSkip of Jodie (and possibly Zoey) takes place about a little more than a decade into the future.]]
* AbusiveParents: One scene shows Jodie's father verbally abusing her; he even flat out calls her a monster, and while talking to her mother, goes so far as to call her an "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]" and a demon; at one point, he almost starts physically beating her until Aiden scares him off. As it turns out, he's [[spoiler:only her foster father.]]
* AfricanTerrorists: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] During her time with the CIA, Jodie goes on a mission into Somalia to assassinate a local warlord to stop the latest insurgency. [[spoiler:Only after she completes the mission does she discover that she actually killed the democratically-elected President of the country, and her superiors lied to her.]]
* AgeGapRomance: There's an optional romantic encounter between the protagonist Jodie Holmes and her CIA handler Ryan Clayton, who are respectively 24 and 38 by the end of the game. Notably, they first meet when she's a teenager and he's already a high-ranking agent who's gone through a previous marriage.
* AnachronicOrder: Justified [[spoiler:by Jodie's experiences with the world beyond scrambling her memories of her life to the point where she has to put them on paper to make any sense of it. This is what happens in the epilogue if Jodie is still alive. Otherwise, the narrator is revealed to be Jodie's soul sharing her memories with Zoey in form of visions.]] The [=PS4=] and PC versions give the player the option of playing in chronological order, with some chapters excepted.

** [[spoiler:Nathan builds a machine in order to see his dead family. Only problem is that it more or less puts their souls into a state of constant pain and being unable to tell him how much suffering he caused them by doing this. He refuses to listen to Jodie and even his wife herself when she talks to him through Jodie, and he nearly causes the apocalypse trying to get them back. In the end he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes what he's done]] and he does not take it well.]]
** [[spoiler:Happens to Jodie's real mother, Norah Gray, as well when the CIA decides to silence her after Jodie's birth. They couldn't risk letting her go to the afterlife, so they forced her into an eternal coma.]]
** Also happens to Jodie herself in the worst of the MultipleEndings. [[spoiler:The Infraworld has overwhelmed the world of the living, all life has been extinguished, and Jodie (and presumably all other humans) are left as disembodied souls drifting alone and aimlessly in a cold, lightless, endless quasi-hell for all eternity.]] The tone in which she narrates her horrible fate ''will'' make you regret triggering this ending because ''it's all your fault''.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The player is able to switch between controlling Jodie and the entity/Aiden.

* ApocalypseHow:
** Three of the six Alive endings heavily imply at least a ApocalypseHow/Class2 after [[spoiler:someone (presumably the CIA) continued to experiment with condenser technology, opened a giant portal to the Infraworld and got what looks like the whole of Earth overrun by hostile entities, with Jodie and/or Zoey preparing to battle the ghostly invaders]]. The other Alive endings don't outright show this scene, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption there's nothing to suggest the same events won't come to pass regardless]] eventually.
** Failing the final QTE sequence results in an outright ApocalypseHow/ClassX when [[spoiler:the Infraworld overwhelms the physical world, merging the realms of life and death into one unrecognizable hellscape where the tortured souls of humanity (including Jodie's) wander alone for eternity]]. Depending on how encompassing the Infraworld is, this might even escalate all the way to ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 or more. And all this because [[ArmiesAreEvil the military wanted a new toy]].

* ArtisticLicense: The section in Somalia has everyone speaking Persian, which is not spoken anywhere in Africa. Meanwhile the game's paper-thin proxy of China, where people still speak Mandarin, is called the [[FictionalCountry Republic of Kaziristan]], seemingly identifying it as one of the Central Asian Republics.

** If she manages to make it to the bar as a teenager, the patrons and bartender will attempt to gang rape her (only to be thwarted by Aiden).
** Additionally, when she's homeless, she can contemplate giving a man oral sex in exchange for money... but then she backs down, at which point the would-be John attempts to take what he wants by force. Unfortunately for him, Jodie [[MuggingTheMonster has already undergone her CIA training at this point.]]
* AuraVision: Aiden can see glowing auras around people. They are [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]], indicating how Aiden can affect them. Additionally, a glowing green wisp shows up on objects that contain a particular "memory" of an event.

* BackToBackBadasses: Jodie and Ryan in the Black Sun chapter.

** The Beyond, Alive - Zoey, and Alive - Alone endings finish with [[spoiler:a FlashForward to when a massive portal has been opened to the other side and dark entities are pouring out, and only Jodie and/or Zoey can stop it.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Jodie suffers quite a few injuries throughout the game and spends more than one level covered in cuts and bruises. By the end, she sports several thin scars on her face. Justified, as Aiden has healing abilities and is ''very'' protective of Jodie.
* BerserkButton: If anyone willingly harms or tries to harm Jodie, Aiden can and will violently lash out at the offending party regardless of whether or not Jodie wants him to.

* BlackTieInfiltration: In one of the early levels, CIA agents Jodie and Ryan visit a Middle-Eastern sheik's mansion during a formal dinner in order to spy on him when Jodie excuses herself to use the restroom, then use Aiden to break into his offices without being detected.

* BlessedWithSuck: What [[PersonOfMassDestruction Jodie]] views her connection to Aiden as.
* BodySurf: One of Aiden's abilities. [[spoiler:It is also implied that he can switch his connection and powers to any other person, at least after his connection to Jodie is severed, as it is implied that Aiden is Zoey's guardian entity in the Zoey-Life ending.]]

* BoundAndGagged: If you mess up in some segments of "The Mission" level, Jodie will end up knocked out and captured by the militia. She will awaken in a room, with her hands tied behind her back and being watched over by a guard. Aiden´s help is the only way she can cut the ropes.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Jodie in the "Like Other Girls" chapter wants to go out on a Saturday night but Nathan grounds her in her room. She proceeds to throw a tantrum, play loud guitar music to annoy Cole, and use Aiden to break stuff.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Deactivating the Black Sun requires Jodie to go into the Infraworld for a few minutes, which messes up her memories to the point where she begins to lose them. She manages to recuperate by piecing the story of her life back together, fragment by fragment, and writing it all down (which incidentally forms the FramingDevice for the game).]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Jodie is cut off from Aiden in the epilogue, although he comes back in several of the endings.]]
* BurnTheWitch: This line is dropped by the kids at the party. Jodie is also accused of being a witch by another boy whom Aiden attacks.

** ''Everyone''. Well, everyone [[StupidEvil evil]]. When it comes to the spirits, no one can ever leave well enough alone. Even after previous attempts to [[spoiler:connect the afterlife to reality]] annihilated hundreds of people.
** Also an example with literal bullies: The kids who pick on Jodie at the party apparently decided that assaulting a girl who had personally demonstrated her connection to a powerful spirit and then locking her in a closet was a brilliant idea.

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Unlike other Quantic Dream games, only one example sticks out; in "The Embassy", Jodie tells Aiden that the Sheikh's office is on the first floor. American players may end up spending quite a while searching the lobby where the party is going on if they don't realize that Europeans don't start by counting the ground floor; the Sheikh's office is on what they would call the ''second'' floor.

** Failing the final QTE sequence near the Black Sun leads to [[UpToEleven a far worse one]]: [[spoiler:Jodie dies, the Infraworld [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt overwhelms and annihilates the physical world including everyone in it]], and Jodie is left as a tortured soul in a hellish purgatory, alone and haunted by her failure to save the world for all eternity.]]

* CIAEvilFBIGood: The CIA is portrayed as willing to commit any kind of evil deeds for their own interests.

* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: Jodie, with her ability to see spirits.

** ''Everyone''. Well, everyone [[EvilIsDumb evil]]. When it comes to the spirits, no one can ever leave well enough alone. Even after previous attempts to [[spoiler:connect the afterlife to reality]] annihilated hundreds of people.

* BaldWomen:
** Jodie sports a buzzcut upon her introduction (rather reminiscent of ''WebVideo/{{Kara}}'').
** She also wakes up with a shaved scalp after receiving a traumatic head injury at the end of "Homeless", which carries over into the game's prologue, "Broken". In the next chronological chapter, "Navajo", it's only grown out to about crop length.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Jodie pronounces Aiden's name "eye-den" rather than the usual "ay-den".

In March 2019, it was announced that the game would be coming to PC later that year, exclusively via the [[Creator/EpicGames Epic Games Store]] for the first 12 months; Quantic Dream is self-publishing this port.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Under the CIA's orders, Jodie unwittingly assassinates a democratically elected president of a war-torn African country, believing him to be a warlord, which sparks outrage among the locals and the international community.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Jodie is eight years old by the winter break of 1998-99. The present day takes place in 2014, with the epilogue taking place in 2015. [[spoiler:The TimeSkip of Jodie (and Zoey) takes place about a little more than a decade into the future.]]

** "The Mission", in which Jodie [[spoiler:assassinates who she is led to believe is an African warlord, but finds out that he was actually the democratically elected President, who many believed was the last hope of ending the years of conflict that had ravaged his country. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Jodie is absolutely devastated and furious about this revelation]] and that, combined with Ryan lying to her (especially if she began a romance with him) cause her to go on the run as a CIA fugitive.]]

* TooDumbToLive: In the "Homeless" chapter, a guy in a back alley offers to pay Jodie for a blowjob. Unless he's trying to get HIV on purpose, this is... unwise.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: Jodie, although involuntarily - every time she attempts to take her own life, Aiden will angrily intervene. In the "Homeless" chapter, Jodie can attempt to jump off a ledge, or slit her wrists. Both times Aiden will stop her. It's clear that Aiden is trying to keep her alive at all costs, which is something that Jodie later [[ChekhovsGun exploits to save her friends.]]]] Also happens in "The Mission", where Jodie can attempt to shoot herself in the head before Aiden stops her.

** General [=McGrath=], for his part, earns a solid punch to the face from Ryan for attempting to [[spoiler:put Jodie in a permanent coma as well trying to "conquer" the Infraworld despite the apocalyptic levels of danger involved, but he survives the events of "The Black Sun" thanks to the efforts of Jodie and her friends, and it's heavily implied in the epilogues that he, along with the CIA, is still hard at work on trying to fully access the other side, having learned nothing from the experience.]]

* MirrorScare: In "My Imaginary Friend", Jodie has the option to make funny faces in the bathroom mirror. If she does, a dark entity [[JumpScare suddenly appears behind he

* AbusiveParents: One scene shows Jodie's father verbally abusing her; he even flat out calls her a monster, and [[spoiler: while talking to her mother, goes so far as to call her an "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]" and a demon; at one point, he almost starts physically beating her until Aiden scares him off.]] As it turns out, he's [[spoiler:only her foster father.]]

* AnachronicOrder: Justified [[spoiler:by Jodie's experiences with the world beyond scrambling her memories of her life to the point where she has to put them on paper to make any sense of it. This is what happens in the epilogue if Jodie is still alive. Otherwise, the narrator is revealed to be Jodie's soul sharing her memories with Zoey in form of visions. The [=PS4=] version gives the player the option of playing in chronological order, with some chapters excepted]].

* BackToBackBadasses: [[spoiler: Jodie and Ryan in the Black Sun episode]].

** Failing the final QTE sequence near the Black Sun leads to [[UpToEleven a far worse one]]: [[spoiler:Jodie dies, the Infraworld [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt overwhelms and annihilates the physical world including everyone in it]], and Jodi is left as a tortured soul in a hellish purgatory, alone and haunted by her failure to save the world for all eternity.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Jodie suffers quite a few injuries throughout the game and spends more than one level covered in cuts and bruises. By the end, she spouts several thin scars on her face. Justified, as Aiden has healing abilities and is ''very'' protective of Jodie.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Jodie can attempt this [[spoiler:via self-inflicted BoomHeadshot when she's cornered by pissed-off African militias]]. She explicitly invokes this to an equally pissed-off Aiden when he stops her.

* BlackTieInfiltration: In one of the early levels, CIA agents Jodie and Ryan visit a Middle-Eastern sheik's mansion during a formal dinner in order to spy on him when Jodie excuses herself to use the restroom, then use Aiden (a specteral entity connected to her) to break into his offices without being detected.
* BlankWhiteEyes: A sign of Aiden's possession, although it might just be Aiden's target's eyes rolling up in the back of their head.

* BodySurf: One of Aiden's abilities. [[spoiler:It is also implied that he can switch his connection and powers to any other person, as it is implied that Aiden is Zoey's guardian entity in the Zoey-Life ending.]]

* BurnTheWitch: This line is dropped [[spoiler:by the kids at the party.]] Jodie is also accused of being a witch by another boy whom Aiden attacks.

** ''Everyone''. Well, everyone [[EvilIsDumb evil]]. When it comes to the spirits, no one can ever leave well enough alone. Even after previous attempts to [[spoiler:connect the afterlife and to reality]] annihilated hundreds of people.

** "The Party" will have Jodie [[spoiler:locked under the stairs in the end]], no matter your choices.
** In "Like Other Girls", Jodie must always [[spoiler:possess Cole and escape from her confinement. Not that she'll always succeed.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Both Jodie and Ryan tend to carpet-bomb the scenery in [=Fs=] whenever things get really messy. Especially noticeable during the "The Mission" chapter when Jodie [[spoiler:has to escape from vengeful African militias and said soldiers hose the building she just sought shelter in with automatic weapons]], as well as during the "Black Sun" finale.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Jodie and Ryan suffer it at the hands of [[spoiler:the Chinese base commander. Both have to be healed by Aiden once freed]].

* ContainmentField: The Chinese underwater base has an energy field around the interdimensional portal to keep any nasty things that might jump out contained. This also has the unfortunate effect (for the heroes) of [[spoiler:keeping Aiden ''out'' and causing Jodie to lose her mind control over the base commander.]]
* ContentWarnings: For, "Allusions to Sexual Violence" when two drunks try and rape Jodie.

* ConvenientComa: After being attacked by a thug, Jodie slips into one for three months. Can also be caused by being smashed by a falling girder.

* DashedPlotLine: The story consists of scenes from three main periods of Jodie's life: her troubled childhood, rebellious teen years, and the work for the CIA as an adult. The latter part takes up most of the game, but there are smaller {{Time Skip}}s between scenes in it, such as [[spoiler:several months Jodie spends in a coma, and, judging by her respective hair lengths, at least a year between her escape from the CIA and the reunion with Cole]]. Also, the game features a DistantFinale... sort of, it's just a vision, but Jodie says it ''will'' happen in a number of years, [[spoiler:apparently sufficient for Zoey to grow up in two endings]].

* DeflectorShields: One of Aiden's powers is forming a barrier around Jodie to either deflect bullets or cushion the impact of falls. Unfortunately, they're completely useless in close-quarters combat situations.

** During "Homeless", Jodie at one point beats up a bunch of thugs that are beating up Stan. They respond later by [[spoiler: ''burning down the building'' that the group of hobos are staying in, and then hit Jodie twice in the back of the head with a steel bat, putting her into a coma.]]
** [[spoiler: The kids at the birthday party turn on Jodie and lock her in the closet simply because she brought an Edgar Allan Poe book as a gift. A very rare book that, if nothing else, was probably worth a lot of money.]]
* DoubleMeaningTitle: [[spoiler:"Two Souls" refers to both Jodie/Aiden, and to the ending of the game, where either Tuesday's daughter Zoey faces the apocalypse with the help of Jodie's spirit or Jodie herself if she survives, or Jodie with Aiden facing the apocalypse.]]

** In the epilogue, Jodie ([[spoiler:or, if Jodie dies, Zoey]]) is plagued by the visions of [[spoiler:an impending EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt caused by another reckless use of condenser technology]].
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Jodie and Ryan infiltrate the Asian underwater base dressed up in their uniforms. [[spoiler:Subverted in that they get caught pretty quickly. Doubly subverted in that they get caught because of Jodie collapsing when Aiden visibly hits an entity containment field, not because the disguise itself was bad.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Jodie can attempt this. [[spoiler:Subverted as Aiden will use his powers to stop her. This is ultimately Nathan's fate, as he kills himself to be reunited with his family.]]

* EasterEgg: [[spoiler: You can find a newspaper that mentions [[VideoGame/HeavyRain the Origami Killer]] in one of the levels.]]

* ExactWords: To keep Jodie's life a secret, the CIA declared her as "stillborn" and did not survive. [[spoiler:The "stillborn" is half-correct; they were also talking about ''Aiden''.]]

* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler: Ryan]], if you refuse to talk when tortured.
* EyeScream: If you refuse to talk when captured [[spoiler:by the Kazirstani military, the TortureTechnician cuts out Ryan's left eye and threatens to do the same to Jodie before being called off. Ryan later tells Jodie that it was the right choice, and that he would have done the same]].

* ForegoneVictory: With the idea of more-organic failure states, there is no way to get an actual game over. If Jodie fails or gets captured, all that happens is an alternate escape scenario takes place which puts you back on the plotted line. You '''will''' beat the game. It is, however, possible to fail the last QuickTimeEvent and receive a bad ending. You still ''technically'' beat the game, but the ending isn't really much better than simply dying at any point, simply consisting of Jodie monologuing over a shadow background about how she failed and the world ended.

* HellishCopter: During Jodie's [[spoiler: escape from police and SWAT teams]], a helicopter can occasionally be heard and seen circling above. Depending on how the player tackles the following scenes, it gets less than a minute of screen time prior to its unscheduled explosive disassembly on the ground (and right in the middle of its comrades to boot).

* ICannotSelfTerminate: Jodie, although involuntarily - every time she attempts to take her own life, Aiden will angrily intervene. In the "Homeless" chapter [[spoiler: Jodie can attempt to jump off a ledge, or slit her wrists. Both times Aiden will stop her. It's clear that Aiden is trying to keep her alive at all costs, which is something that Jodie later [[ChekhovsGun exploits to save her friends.]]]] Also happens in "The Mission", where [[spoiler: Jodie can attempt to shoot herself in the head before Aiden stops her.]]

** A couple of other examples (and one that is a MythologyGag to ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'') is the sheriff from the opening, who is the spitting image of Paco from ''Heavy Rain'', and by extension, his voice actor David Gassman; and General [=McGrath=], who, like the sheriff, has his appearance based off both his voice actor and a ''Heavy Rain'' character, his being the Mad Doctor.

** [[spoiler:The attempted rapists of Jodie in the bar level, who are implied to do this regularly, and they only get their comeuppance at the cost of traumatizing Jodie due to the attempted rape. The thugs who beat up Stan for fun, subsequently set fire to the building where Tuesday has just given birth, and put Jodie in a coma seem to get away with their evil deeds at first, but they are captured by the police soon afterwards due to incriminating evidence: the gasoline odor on their clothes, and their self-filmed footage of them beating her.]]
** [[spoiler: General [=McGrath=], for his part, earns a solid punch to the face from Ryan for attempting to put Jodie in a permanent coma as well trying to "conquer" the Infraworld despite the apocalyptic levels of danger involved, but he survives the events of "The Black Sun" thanks to the efforts of Jodie and her friends, and it's heavily implied in the epilogues that he, along with the CIA, is still hard at work on trying to fully access the other side, having learned nothing from the experience.]]

** [[spoiler: After the kids at the birthday party lock her in the closet, Jodie can choose to use Aiden to get back at them.]]
** [[spoiler: Soon after burning down the building where Tuesday has given birth and beating Jodie into a coma, the thugs are arrested because of the smell of gas on their clothes.]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Various psychic abilities are real--so are ghosts--[[spoiler:and the asylum level implies precognitives may also exist.]] Apparently Jodie wasn't the first psychic to be born--just the first to be recognized as legitimate and not insane. [[spoiler:And to be discovered outside the government conspiracy.]]

* MirrorScare: In "My Imaginary Friend", Jodie has the option to make funny faces in the bathroom mirror. [[spoiler: If she does, a dark entity [[JumpScare suddenly appears behind her.]]]]

* MythologyGag: In "Hunted", during the train escape several of the passengers are voiced by the same extra who voiced pedestrians in the level where Madison has to escape to the train. Doubles as an AscendedMeme to a Narm-ish line from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain, as he repeats it during the chase sequence.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Spectral beings such as Aiden are simply referred to as "entities" in-game. They are invisible and intangible, can possess people, and exert limited telekinesis. [[spoiler: Oh, and in the psychic/spirit world the nasty ones appear as {{Living Shadow}}s with CombatTentacles, GlowingEyesOfDoom, {{Throat Light}}s, and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. We never really get to find out what benevolent entities such as Aiden look like when viewed by the naked eye because all of Aiden's cutscenes and gameplay take place through his eyes, There are drawings of Aiden by Jodie and other benevolent entities by the Navajos that show them to be a floating torso with glowing eyes, and it is implied they have no defining features and are made out of shadow-like energy.]]

** Jodie's father, despite being a bit of a {{Jerkass}} and verbally abusive. When she's screaming in terror at night, he unhesitatingly busts her door down to help, and does indeed appear genuinely regretful over leaving Jodie in Dawkins' care.

* PosthumousCollaboration: Since composer Normand Corbeil died of pancreatic cancer in January 2013, Scottish composer [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Lorne Balfe]] has taken over. (The game is dedicated to Corbeil.)

* PowerIncontinence: Justified, as Aiden has a mind of his own. During an experiment into her powers, Jodie finds herself unable to control Aiden after the initial experiment, and total chaos results in the room; through it all, you can hear Dawkins shouting to Jodie to stop and Jodie screaming "I can't! He's not listening to me!!"

** She also launches one when Aiden takes offence at her [[spoiler:dating Ryan]].

** And another one mere minutes later when Aiden repeatedly sabotages her attempt to [[spoiler:prepare for dinner with Ryan]].

* PsychicPowers: Jodie (via Aiden) can move objects, albeit only via one-time pointed bursts of force, as well as possess people. However, there is one instance where she gets locked out of a door by Aiden and consequently opens it without his support, so it seems Jodie possesses at least some basic psychic powers herself. It's even accompanied by the aforementioned PsychicNosebleed almost immediately.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: In the 'Alive' endings, Jodie is shown as living moderately well, despite her/Aiden's ability to ''cure drug addiction'' in the space of a few minutes. The fact that it'd be both ethical and extremely profitable to sell her abilities at, say, rehab clinics is never brought up. It's justified, though, in that the alive endings have her believe Aiden to be gone for good for a long while. In addition, Jodie just wants to be left alone, especially after all the shit and abuse she has gone through by that point. If she sold herself out as a miracle healer, she'd not only draw a crapton of unwanted attention, but would probably also reignite all the fear and prejudice she already had to put up with her entire life.

* SoftGlass: During [[spoiler: "The Condenser"]], when Jodie smashes through a glass window to escape from a small army of possessed scientists. Justified by that it is incredibly cold in the room, and glass becomes more brittle in the cold.[[note]]Glass contracts when cooled down, forming tiny cracks and lowering its structural integrity--so with enough desperation, you can break through a sheet that big with a body slam.[[/note]]

* SuperBreedingProgram: It is revealed that the CIA has been experimenting with selective breeding by pairing up people with limited psychic abilities to see if their powers will be increased in the next generation. Jodie Holmes is a result of this project.

* TheShrink: Dawkins appears to be a combination of this as well as a researcher of Jodie's abilities.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: [[spoiler: The [[LivingShadow dark entities]] tormented and attacked Jodie as a child, leaving her covered in cuts and bruises. They continue to torment her into adulthood, and target Zoey in the Beyond ending as well.]]

* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: Played with; Jodie helps a pregnant woman give birth in the "Homeless" chapter, and part of the mission involves snipping the umbilical cord. However, the baby is completely clean. Averted in a later scene, where pre-birth Jodie is sufficiently... off in her proportions.

** "The Mission", in which Jodie [[spoiler: assassinates who she is led to believe is an African warlord, but is actually the democratically elected President, who many believed was the last hope of ending the years of conflict that had ravaged his country. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Jodie is absolutely devastated and furious about this revelation]] and that, combined with Ryan lying to her (especially if she began a romance with him) cause her to go on the run as a CIA fugitive.]]

** "Like Other Girls" can be ended prematurely if Jodie fails to get past the guards with the possessed Cole, or she decides to leave the bar before things go south. Nathan then gives Jodie an angry lecture about the danger she could have brought both herself and Cole in with her actions. Since it's possible for Jodie to experience an attempted rape in this level, it turns out he was right.
* ZombieApocalypse: [[spoiler:In one level, Jodie investigates an abandoned lab where an experiment into opening a portal to the spirit world led to several malevolent entities breaking loose and killing everyone there. At one point, Aiden has to fight off a seemingly-endless legion of possessed corpses while Jodie tries to open a door.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:The player can have Jodie go on one with Aiden after the kids at the birthday party lock her in the cabinet and she gets out. Not undeserved, considering the way they treated her.]]

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: It is possible to talk [[spoiler:Dawkins]] into suicide in the final level. Failing to do so is [[GuideDangIt a mandatory achievement requirement]], namely for one of the endings by [[spoiler:getting Ryan killed]].
* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler: In one level, Jodie attends a birthday party, but after enjoying herself for a bit, the kids berate her for the old Edgar Allan Poe book she gives as a birthday present, then gang up on her, with one calling her a slut and going so far as to say that she only invited Jodie because her mother ''made'' her do it, and lock her into a cupboard under the stairs. She gets out with Aiden's help, and can get her revenge moments later.]]