History VideoGame / GabrielKnight

** Also HellBentForLeather. Madeleine and Grace are the only two characters getting a texture swap -- the same texture swap! At the end of Day 2 [[spoiler:Grace -- that beautiful, antique chair -- is snubbed by Gabriel, who's hot for Madeleine ''wearing leather pants'']]; when Grace [[spoiler:resolves to seduce Wilkins for information, she makes sure to don a pair herself]]. They appear to work a little ''too'' well. Having realized that, at the end of the cutscene, [[spoiler:she makes sure to work them on Gabriel ''and'' Mose as well.]]

** Also HellBentForLeather. Madeleine and Grace are the only two characters getting a texture swap -- the same texture swap! At the end of Day 2 [[spoiler:Grace - that beautiful, antique chair - is snubbed by Gabriel, who's hot for Madeleine 'wearing leather pants']]; when Grace [[spoiler:resolves to seduce Wilkins for information, she makes sure to don a pair herself]]. They appear to work a little 'too' well. Having realized that, at the end of the cutscene, [[spoiler:she makes sure to work them on Gabriel 'and' Mose as well.]]

* GratuitousFrench: "Cabrit sans cor."

* TheUnintelligible: The narrator has a very thick accent, making understanding her a troubling task without the aid of the captioning. Most noticeable when she pronounces German words, Americans in general have issue, but they make it a hodgepodge of not knowing how to lay the emphasis upon things.

* HuntingAccident: In a nonlethal variation of this trope, this seemed to be the standard operating procedure for how von Glower got his betas: Select a potential partner, take him on a hunting trip, and bite him (or let another beta bite him) while in wolf form.

** ''Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition'' (2014): A remake of the above. Notable for actually being released ''21'' years after the original.

** ''Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition'' (2014): A remake of the above.

** ''The Beast Within'' has a more convoluted example: Grace believes that Gerde and Gabriel are somehow involved, but in fact [[spoiler:Gerde was Wolfgang's lover, while the nominally heterosexual Gabriel is in fact engaging in some very deliberate FoeYay with Von Glower]].

* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: ''The Beast Within'' draws a lot of parallels between werewolves and homosexuality. This is blended with actual HoYay and FoeYay. This trope is also played with in that King Ludwig's diary entries about his fears of becoming a werewolf are dismissed by mainstream historians as being a metaphor for his struggle with his homosexuality. A helpful historian (implied to be gay) corrects Grace on this; Ludwig was entirely comfortable with being gay, his fears about turning into a werewolf were [[NotHyperbole exactly what they seemed on the surface]].

* UselessItem: [[spoiler:The photo of young Mosely.]]

* JumpScare: At one point late in the game, a bloody chicken corpse will be found at Gabriel's door, accompanied by loud alert music.

[[folder: ‘The Temptation’ short story]]

* UnwinnableByMistake: In the first day, if you go straight to the church after the second part begins and speak with people there, the scene with certain guest exchanging rooms doesn't happen, and after speaking to Mosely, you can't progress further. Doubles as a GameBreakingBug.

* NotSoDifferent: Although it isn't commented on, Ogoun Badagris (one of the patron loa of the Gedde family) is strongly associated with St. George (the patron saint of the Ritter family) in American Voodoo.

* ChekhovsSkill: If you ask Mosely the right questions near the beginning of the game, you learn that he and Gabriel used to play Monkey in the Middle when they were kids. [[spoiler: When they fight Tetelo, this hobby comes in very handy...]]
** Likewise, Grace's Tai Chi training is mentioned early on in conversation, which [[spoiler:saves her life in the game's final minutes]].

* CurseCutShort: When Grace tells Gabriel that he'll be reincarnated into a pitbull if he keeps screwing with karma, he states that he's fine with it as long as it's a male pitbull with a really big... then she cuts him off.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Malia Gedde (and along with her, Tetelo)]]

* UnwinnableByMistake: If you don't pick up masks and cloaks for yourself and Mosely before reviving Grace, tough luck. Dr. John comes into the room and promptly kills you both.

* RecurringDreams: Gabriel has the same {{Bad Dream|s}} over and over.

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Gabriel's paternal grandfather, Heinz Ritter, legally changed his German name to its English translation, Harrison Knight.

* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy: {{Zigzagged}}: When they first meet, [[HandsomeLetch Gabriel]] clearly has some fetishised ideas about Asian women that Grace is all too happy to dispel. They end up becoming close friends and equal partners in their work, and when they do eventually [[spoiler:briefly]] hook up, it's entirely to do with who they are as people rather than stereotypes.

* AsianGalWithAWhiteGuy: {{Zigzagged}}: When they first meet, [[HandsomeLetch Gabriel]] clearly has some fetishised ideas about Asian women that Grace is all too happy to dispel. They end up becoming close friends and equal partners in their work, and when they do eventually [[spoiler:briefly]] hook up, it's entirely to do with who they are as people rather than stereotypes.