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Following the events of the first game, Cole [=MacGrath=] travels to the UsefulNotes/NewOrleans FictionalCounterpart of New Marais in search of a scientist who holds the key to defeating the [[TheAntichrist Beast]], a super-powered monster leaving a trail of death and destruction down the East Coast. The game gives Cole new abilites, including an electrically charged melee weapon, and a choice between additional [[AnIcePerson Ice]] or [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] powers, and brings back and refines the KarmaMeter of the first game.
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Following the events of the first game, Cole [=MacGrath=] travels to the UsefulNotes/NewOrleans FictionalCounterpart of New Marais in search of a scientist who holds the key to defeating the [[TheAntichrist Beast]], a super-powered monster leaving a trail of death and destruction down the East Coast. The game refines KarmaMeter from ''inFAMOUS'' and gives Cole new abilites, including an electrically charged melee weapon, weapon and a choice between additional [[AnIcePerson Ice]] or [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] powers, and brings back and refines the KarmaMeter of the first game.
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* TheAntiChrist: [[spoiler:The Beast]], obviously.
** He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
** He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
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* TheAntiChrist: [[spoiler:The Beast]], obviously.
** He even hasThe Beast, a giant demonic looking MagmaMan apparently out to destroy the motifs in world. [[spoiler:In his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's form, John is also wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his uses flame powers.]]
** He even has
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Behemoth and the Beast.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The Beast, aka John.]]
* BadPowersBadPeople: The series' ultimate example is [[spoiler:Joseph Bertrand]].
* BagOfSpilling: Downplayed as Cole keeps the "alpha" versions of about half of his old powers. Unfortunately, he still has to absorb [[AppliedPhlebotinum Blast Cores]] to get the other half back, as he blew a lot of his power fighting the Beast.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The Beast, aka John.]]
* BadPowersBadPeople: The series' ultimate example is [[spoiler:Joseph Bertrand]].
* BagOfSpilling: Downplayed as Cole keeps the "alpha" versions of about half of his old powers. Unfortunately, he still has to absorb [[AppliedPhlebotinum Blast Cores]] to get the other half back, as he blew a lot of his power fighting the Beast.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Behemoth Behemoth, a GiantEnemyCrab looking thing, and the Beast.
Beast a giant MagamaMan.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The Beast, akaJohn.John White who you watched get ripped appart by the Ray Sphere in the first game.]]
* BadPowersBadPeople:The series' ultimate example is [[spoiler:Joseph Bertrand]].
Bertrand, and utterly corrupt man who's Conduit powers turn him into a giant acidic bug monster]].
* BagOfSpilling:Downplayed as Cole keeps the "alpha" versions of about half of his old powers. Unfortunately, he powers from the first game, but still has to absorb [[AppliedPhlebotinum Blast Cores]] to get the other half back, as he blew a lot back after blowing most of his power reserves fighting the Beast.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The Beast, aka
* BadPowersBadPeople:
* BagOfSpilling:
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* BettyAndVeronica: There are two possible partners for Cole; a sensible and down to earth [[AnIcePerson ice-using]] lady or a wild [[PlayingWithFire fire-using]] chick. [[spoiler:It's reversed when the Betty does a FaceHeelTurn and the Veronica does a HeelFaceTurn. Nix's HeelFaceTurn is debatable, since she's ''only'' doing it out of revenge]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Bertrand]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Bertrand]]
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* BettyAndVeronica: There are two possible female partners for Cole; a the sensible and down to earth [[AnIcePerson ice-using]] lady Kuo or a wild [[PlayingWithFire fire-using]] chick. Nix. [[spoiler:It's reversed when the Betty Kuo does a FaceHeelTurn out of fear and the Veronica Nix does a HeelFaceTurn. Nix's HeelFaceTurn is debatable, since she's ''only'' doing it out of revenge]].
looking for revenge.]]
* BigBad:[[spoiler: Bertrand]]Bertrand is the one leading the Militia faction [[spoiler:and the one who created the Corrupted as well.]]
* BigBad:
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* ATasteOfPower: The beginning of ''inFAMOUS 2'' has a fully powered Cole with [[BottomlessMagazines infinite energy]] and Megawatt Hammer rockets ''as a default attack'' facing off against The Beast. However, Cole soon [[BagOfSpilling loses all these powers]] and spends a good part of the game getting them back.
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* ATasteOfPower: The beginningof ''inFAMOUS 2'' has a fully powered Cole with [[BottomlessMagazines infinite energy]] and Megawatt Hammer rockets ''as a default attack'' facing off against The Beast. However, Cole soon [[BagOfSpilling loses all these powers]] and spends a good part of the game getting them back.
[[folder: Main game]]
* ATasteOfPower: The beginning
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* AlternateContinuity: ''InFAMOUS: Festival of Blood'' is most likely another as the entire story was a plot by Zeke in order to score with some chick until he was interrupted by Cole.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: The series' ultimate example, though, is [[spoiler:Joseph Bertrand]].
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* BadPowersBadPeople: The series' ultimate example, though, example is [[spoiler:Joseph Bertrand]].
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* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]...
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
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* HalloweenEpisode: The ''Festival of Blood'' DLC.
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* HolidayMode: The standalone Halloween DLC "Festival of Blood", which, among other things, makes Cole a vampire.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: For ''Festival of Blood'', Cole finds himself without his Amp, so he puts a foot through a coffin lid and picks up the large cross that was on it. Conveniently, there's a pointy bit of wood near the "head", so he can immediately commence putting foot to vampire bottom.
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** Festival of Blood features Pyre Night, which was ostensibly Mardi Gras with pumpkins. Still technically averted as Festival takes place on a single night.
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* KickTheDog: Most of Mary's teachings in Festival of Blood are this, with the notable exception of one that invokes KickTheSonOfABitch instead.
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* NakedOnRevival: Vampire Bloody Mary is au natural after being revived by Cole's blood.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: [[spoiler: subverted with Moya.]]
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: [[spoiler: subverted with Moya.]]
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* NoOntologicalInertia: In ''Festival Of Blood'', Bloody Mary's vampires follow the "head vampire" rule, knowledge of this is what lets Cole (who was canonically good for the DLC) feed on people without letting the guilt crush him; sure he might turn them for the night, but as long as he kills Mary before night's end, they'll all be cured.
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* ShaggyDogStory: A lot of peoples actions in the first game made pointless.
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* ShaggyDogStory: A lot of peoples actions in the first game are made pointless.pointless in this game.
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** In Festival of Blood, there's a point where Cole says "[[SpiderMan My Vampire senses are tingling]]". Also, one of the trophies is called [[FrightNight Flight Night]]
*** The trophy [[LittleBigPlanet Play. Create. Scare.]] anyone? Double for the fact you need to play user created levels for it.
** In ''Festival of Blood'', there's a movie theater with movies called [[LANoire L.A. Gore]], [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Red Dead Vampires]], [[Franchise/DeadSpace Dead Face]], [[MassEffect Mass Infect 3]], and [[{{Uncharted}} Unstaked: Vampires Deception]]
** Also just when Cole tells Zeke he is a vampire, Zeke jokingly asks "[[{{Twilight}} Do teenage girls suddenly find you ''irresistible''?]]"
** At the start of Festival of Blood, Zeke defends his reading a vampire comic book by remarking [[TheLostBoys that it's a guide to survival]].
*** The trophy [[LittleBigPlanet Play. Create. Scare.]] anyone? Double for the fact you need to play user created levels for it.
** In ''Festival of Blood'', there's a movie theater with movies called [[LANoire L.A. Gore]], [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Red Dead Vampires]], [[Franchise/DeadSpace Dead Face]], [[MassEffect Mass Infect 3]], and [[{{Uncharted}} Unstaked: Vampires Deception]]
** Also just when Cole tells Zeke he is a vampire, Zeke jokingly asks "[[{{Twilight}} Do teenage girls suddenly find you ''irresistible''?]]"
** At the start of Festival of Blood, Zeke defends his reading a vampire comic book by remarking [[TheLostBoys that it's a guide to survival]].
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* TheStinger: For ''Festival of Blood'' [[spoiler: The girl Zeke was talking is reveals herself to be a Real vampire to Zeke before leaving the bar with Cole....]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: ''Festival of Blood'''s framing device is Zeke telling a story about Cole to a hot woman in a bar. Obviously, it's not clear whether he's telling the truth or not. He claims Cole is a good guy, but that could be either from Cole being GoodKarma, or Zeke trying to "sell" the story to the woman because Cole was actually evil.
** Of course in the end we learn [[spoiler: That the Bar girl was a real Vampire]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Ionic Charges mechanic. You can spend an ionic charge you've stored up to release [[LimitBreak a powerful area attack that has a high potential of one-shotting most enemies]]: the trick is that you can only get ionic charges by defeating bad guys... or cops... or [[InnocentBystander random people passing in the street]]. Since innocent victims are a lot more plentiful than bad guys during later parts of the game, Evil Cole tends to be a lot more free with his wanton destruction than Good Cole.
** Of course in the end we learn [[spoiler: That the Bar girl was a real Vampire]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Ionic Charges mechanic. You can spend an ionic charge you've stored up to release [[LimitBreak a powerful area attack that has a high potential of one-shotting most enemies]]: the trick is that you can only get ionic charges by defeating bad guys... or cops... or [[InnocentBystander random people passing in the street]]. Since innocent victims are a lot more plentiful than bad guys during later parts of the game, Evil Cole tends to be a lot more free with his wanton destruction than Good Cole.
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** Of course in the end we learn [[spoiler: That the Bar girl was a real Vampire]].
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[[folder: Festival of Blood]]
* AlternateContinuity: ''Festival of Blood'' is most likely another as the entire story was a plot by Zeke in order to score with some chick until he was interrupted by Cole.
* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]...
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
* HalloweenEpisode
* HolidayMode
* ImprovisedWeapon: Cole finds himself without his Amp, so he puts a foot through a coffin lid and picks up the large cross that was on it. Conveniently, there's a pointy bit of wood near the "head", so he can immediately commence putting foot to vampire bottom.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Festival of Blood features Pyre Night, which was ostensibly Mardi Gras with pumpkins. Still technically averted as Festival takes place on a single night.
* KickTheDog: Most of Mary's teachings in are this, with the notable exception of one that invokes KickTheSonOfABitch instead.
* NakedOnRevival: Vampire Bloody Mary is au natural after being revived by Cole's blood.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Bloody Mary's vampires follow the "head vampire" rule, knowledge of this is what lets Cole (who was canonically good for the DLC) feed on people without letting the guilt crush him; sure he might turn them for the night, but as long as he kills Mary before night's end, they'll all be cured.
* ShoutOut:
** There's a point where Cole says "[[SpiderMan My Vampire senses are tingling]]". Also, one of the trophies is called [[FrightNight Flight Night]]
*** The trophy [[LittleBigPlanet Play. Create. Scare.]] anyone? Double for the fact you need to play user created levels for it.
** There's a movie theater with movies called [[LANoire L.A. Gore]], [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Red Dead Vampires]], [[Franchise/DeadSpace Dead Face]], [[MassEffect Mass Infect 3]], and [[{{Uncharted}} Unstaked: Vampires Deception]]
** Also just when Cole tells Zeke he is a vampire, Zeke jokingly asks "[[{{Twilight}} Do teenage girls suddenly find you ''irresistible''?]]"
** At the start Zeke defends his reading a vampire comic book by remarking [[TheLostBoys that it's a guide to survival]].
* TheStinger: [[spoiler: The girl Zeke was talking is reveals herself to be a Real vampire to Zeke before leaving the bar with Cole.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: ''Festival of Blood'''s framing device is Zeke telling a story about Cole to a hot woman in a bar. Obviously, it's not clear whether he's telling the truth or not. He claims Cole is a good guy, but that could be either from Cole being GoodKarma, or Zeke trying to "sell" the story to the woman because Cole was actually evil.
** Of course in the end we learn [[spoiler: That the Bar girl was a real Vampire]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Festival of Blood]]
* AlternateContinuity: ''Festival of Blood'' is most likely another as the entire story was a plot by Zeke in order to score with some chick until he was interrupted by Cole.
* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]...
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
* HalloweenEpisode
* HolidayMode
* ImprovisedWeapon: Cole finds himself without his Amp, so he puts a foot through a coffin lid and picks up the large cross that was on it. Conveniently, there's a pointy bit of wood near the "head", so he can immediately commence putting foot to vampire bottom.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Festival of Blood features Pyre Night, which was ostensibly Mardi Gras with pumpkins. Still technically averted as Festival takes place on a single night.
* KickTheDog: Most of Mary's teachings in are this, with the notable exception of one that invokes KickTheSonOfABitch instead.
* NakedOnRevival: Vampire Bloody Mary is au natural after being revived by Cole's blood.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Bloody Mary's vampires follow the "head vampire" rule, knowledge of this is what lets Cole (who was canonically good for the DLC) feed on people without letting the guilt crush him; sure he might turn them for the night, but as long as he kills Mary before night's end, they'll all be cured.
* ShoutOut:
** There's a point where Cole says "[[SpiderMan My Vampire senses are tingling]]". Also, one of the trophies is called [[FrightNight Flight Night]]
*** The trophy [[LittleBigPlanet Play. Create. Scare.]] anyone? Double for the fact you need to play user created levels for it.
** There's a movie theater with movies called [[LANoire L.A. Gore]], [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Red Dead Vampires]], [[Franchise/DeadSpace Dead Face]], [[MassEffect Mass Infect 3]], and [[{{Uncharted}} Unstaked: Vampires Deception]]
** Also just when Cole tells Zeke he is a vampire, Zeke jokingly asks "[[{{Twilight}} Do teenage girls suddenly find you ''irresistible''?]]"
** At the start Zeke defends his reading a vampire comic book by remarking [[TheLostBoys that it's a guide to survival]].
* TheStinger: [[spoiler: The girl Zeke was talking is reveals herself to be a Real vampire to Zeke before leaving the bar with Cole.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: ''Festival of Blood'''s framing device is Zeke telling a story about Cole to a hot woman in a bar. Obviously, it's not clear whether he's telling the truth or not. He claims Cole is a good guy, but that could be either from Cole being GoodKarma, or Zeke trying to "sell" the story to the woman because Cole was actually evil.
** Of course in the end we learn [[spoiler: That the Bar girl was a real Vampire]].
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'''''inFAMOUS 2''''' is a {{PlayStation 3}} ActionAdventure WideOpenSandbox {{Superhero}} video game and the 2011 sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}''.
''[[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} inFAMOUS]]''.
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'''''inFAMOUS 2''''' is a {{PlayStation 3}} ActionAdventure WideOpenSandbox {{Superhero}} video game and the 2011 sequel to ''[[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} inFAMOUS]]''.
''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}''.
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'''''inFAMOUS 2''''' is a {{PlayStation 3}} ActionAdventure WideOpenSandbox {{Superhero}} video game and the 2011 sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}''.
''[[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} inFAMOUS]]''.
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Was followed by a {{DLC}} ExpansionPack called ''inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood''. In it, Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]].
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Was followed by a October, 2011 {{DLC}} ExpansionPack called ''inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood''. In it, Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]].
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Was followed by a {{DLC}} ExpansionPack called ''inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood'', featuring Blood''. In it, Cole battling battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]].
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A {{DLC}} episode for ''inFAMOUS 2'' came out in October called ''Festival of Blood''. In it Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]].
''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', set seven years after ''inFAMOUS 2'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', set seven years after ''inFAMOUS 2'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
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* ATasteOfPower: The beginning has a fully powered Cole with [[BottomlessMagazines infinite energy]] and Megawatt Hammer rockets ''as a default attack'' facing off against The Beast. However, Cole soon [[BagOfSpilling loses all these powers]] and spends a good part of the game getting them back.
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* ATasteOfPower: The beginning of ''inFAMOUS 2'' has a fully powered Cole with [[BottomlessMagazines infinite energy]] and Megawatt Hammer rockets ''as a default attack'' facing off against The Beast. However, Cole soon [[BagOfSpilling loses all these powers]] and spends a good part of the game getting them back.
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* Artshift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new. It makes sense, the first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
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* Artshift: ArtShift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new. It makes sense, the first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
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BigBad: [[Spoiler: Bertrand]]
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* BigBad: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Bertrand]]
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The very end of the good ending for implies that Cole might be NotQuiteDead. That lightning strike looked very [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Darkness-a-Light/InFamous2hint.png oddly shaped. Now if you consider the fact that Kessler, Cole from an alternate future, learned how to time-travel...]]
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The very end of the good ending for implies that Cole might be NotQuiteDead. That lightning strike looked very [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Darkness-a-Light/InFamous2hint.png oddly shaped. Now if you consider the fact that Kessler, Cole from an alternate future, learned how to time-travel...]]]]]]
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''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', set seven years after ''VideoGame/{{Infamous2}}'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', set seven years after ''VideoGame/{{Infamous2}}'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
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A {{DLC}} episode for ''VideoGame/{{Infamous2}}'' ''inFAMOUS 2'' came out in October called ''Festival of Blood''. In it Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]].
''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', set seven years after''VideoGame/{{Infamous2}}'', ''inFAMOUS 2'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
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''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', set seven years after ''VideoGame/Infamous2'', ''VideoGame/{{Infamous2}}'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
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A {{DLC}} episode for ''VideoGame/Infamous2'' ''VideoGame/{{Infamous2}}'' came out in October called ''Festival of Blood.Blood''. In it Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]].
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A {{DLC}} episode for ''VideoGame/Infamous2'' came out in October called ''Festival of Blood. In it Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]] .
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A {{DLC}} episode for ''VideoGame/Infamous2'' came out in October called ''Festival of Blood. In it Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Pyre Night]] .Night]].
''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSons'', set seven years after ''VideoGame/Infamous2'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSons'', set seven years after ''VideoGame/Infamous2'', will be out for the PlayStation4 sometime in the future.
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Following the events of the first game, Cole [=MacGrath=] travels to the UsefulNotes/NewOrleans FictionalCounterpart of New Marais in search of a scientist who holds the key to defeating the [[TheAntichrist Beast]], a super-powered monster leaving a trail of death and destruction down the East Coast. The game gives Cole new abilites, including an electrically charged melee weapon, and a choice between additional [[AnIcePerson Ice]] or [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] powers.
{{DLC}} episode where Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Halloween]] night.
{{DLC}} episode where Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Halloween]] night.
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The 2011 sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'', ''Infamous 2'' is another WideOpenSandbox {{Superhero}} game for the PlayStation3.
Following the events of the first game, Cole [=MacGrath=] travels to the UsefulNotes/NewOrleans FictionalCounterpart of New Marais in search of a scientist who holds the key to defeating the [[TheAntichrist Beast]], a super-powered monster leaving a trail of death and destruction down the East Coast. The game gives Cole new abilites, including an electrically charged melee weapon, and a choice between additional [[AnIcePerson Ice]] or [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]powers.
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A {{DLC}} episodewhere for ''VideoGame/Infamous2'' came out in October called ''Festival of Blood. In it Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Halloween]] night.Pyre Night]] .
Following the events of the first game, Cole [=MacGrath=] travels to the UsefulNotes/NewOrleans FictionalCounterpart of New Marais in search of a scientist who holds the key to defeating the [[TheAntichrist Beast]], a super-powered monster leaving a trail of death and destruction down the East Coast. The game gives Cole new abilites, including an electrically charged melee weapon, and a choice between additional [[AnIcePerson Ice]] or [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]
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Following the events of the first game, Cole [=MacGrath=] travels to the UsefulNotes/NewOrleans FictionalCounterpart of New Marais in search of a scientist who holds the key to defeating the [[TheAntichrist Beast]], a super-powered monster leaving a trail of death and destruction down the East Coast. The game gives Cole new abilites, including an electrically charged melee weapon, and a choice between additional [[AnIcePerson Ice]] or [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] powers.
{{DLC}} episode where Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Halloween]] night.
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{{DLC}} episode where Cole battles [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in New Marais when a [[MonsterLord vampire lord]] named Bloody Mary rises from her grave on [[AllHallowsEve Halloween]] night.
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* Artshift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
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* Artshift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
** FridgeBrilliance: Theall-new. It makes sense, the first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
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** Kuo wears a standard business suit upon her introduction, and later switches to something a little more... distinctive. She also gets her hair done, and her skin coloring switches to look like some nice makeup. Still not exactly stripper-wear, but sexier than her old outfit. [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-karma-infamous-2/710914 Compare and contrast]].
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** Kuo wears a standard business suit upon her introduction, and later switches to something a little more... distinctive. She also gets her hair done, and her skin coloring switches to look like some nice makeup. Still not exactly stripper-wear, but sexier than her old outfit. [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-karma-infamous-2/710914 Compare and contrast]].contrast]].
* KickTheDog: In the second game, one of the evil side tasks that pops up when you are walking around New Marais is to beat up street performers simply because Zeke finds them annoying.
* SunglassesAtNight: Zeke and a few cops.
** Zeke's might be justified in two; [[spoiler: he's hiding the rest of his face so Cole won't peice together he has the plague]].
* TakeThat: In New Marais, there are stores called "Red Ring Electronics," an obvious TakeThat against the Xbox 360. Comes complete with a neon sign that does the full red ring animation.
* TemporalParadox: Thanks to Kessler's very presence in the first game, the timeline is altered so much that the Beast arrives much sooner than Cole expects, and Cole ends up outmatched and forced on the run.
* UnreliableNarrator: ''Festival of Blood'''s framing device is Zeke telling a story about Cole to a hot woman in a bar. Obviously, it's not clear whether he's telling the truth or not. He claims Cole is a good guy, but that could be either from Cole being GoodKarma, or Zeke trying to "sell" the story to the woman because Cole was actually evil.
** Of course in the end we learn [[spoiler: That the Bar girl was a real Vampire]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Ionic Charges mechanic. You can spend an ionic charge you've stored up to release [[LimitBreak a powerful area attack that has a high potential of one-shotting most enemies]]: the trick is that you can only get ionic charges by defeating bad guys... or cops... or [[InnocentBystander random people passing in the street]]. Since innocent victims are a lot more plentiful than bad guys during later parts of the game, Evil Cole tends to be a lot more free with his wanton destruction than Good Cole.
** Each civilian you kill nets you a "Bystander" bonus above a certain Evil karma level. For that matter, even "Good" karma random encounters can be turned around to negative karma: you can Thunder Drop on groups of wounded, trigger the bombs left around the city (or just kill everyone near the bomb and then defuse it), kill the mugging victims AND the muggers, dump grenades on abductees... it's less than surprising that this time around, instead of just one or two guys hucking rocks, [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment civilians will actually gather in large groups and try to beat you to death with their bare hands.]]
* WalkingWasteland: The Beast. [[spoiler:He's actually a living ray-sphere, the wastelands he leaves behind are the results of awakening conduits, leaving destruction similar to the original raysphere detonation.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:The Beast, whose wake of genocide is a little more complex than it appears.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The penultimate choices fall into two categories. [[spoiler:The good act is to commit genocide on all conduits so the rest of humanity can live; the evil ending is vice-versa, killing off humanity so conduits can reign.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Cole himself also does this late in the second game, if he's a Hero. [[spoiler:Kuo will let the Beast live because she's scared of dying, and Cole calls her out on it.]]
** There's a minor one with Dr Wolfe by the resident Conduits near the end. He explains that the RFI could be used to subtract the Beast's abilities, rendering it weak enough for Cole to lay the smackdown. [[spoiler:What he DOESN'T explain is that the RFI actually kills all conduits across the world when fully charged. Needless to say, Cole, Nix and Kuo aren't happy they were lied to. Wolfe's last Dead Drop - his last message to Kuo - is simply titled, "[[http://infamous.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Drops/Messages/inFamous_2#Forgive_Me Forgive Me]]." Hint: she doesn't.]]
** One side mission has Cole keep watch over a captured militia mook, while the cop who gave you the quest hurries off to fetch reinforcements. As soon as the cop leaves, the militia mook spews one insult after another, and you have the choice between ignoring him or frying his defenseless ass. Doing the latter causes the cop to chew you out for it, first with words and then with weapons.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** Nix. [[PyroManiac She just loves to watch stuff burn.]]
** Mid and late game good karma missions have you team up with a benevolent member of Vermaak 88. Said member gets stronger with every mission, starting out as a normal mook, then becoming a heavy unit and ultimately a titan. His sanity slips away with every power up, and in the end, [[spoiler:you are forced to MercyKill him before he harms innocents.]]
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler:Bertrand's plan to make humanity fear Conduits.]]
* ZeroEffortBoss: At the end, [[spoiler:if you side with the Beast, then Zeke becomes your "final opponent" at the very end when he tries to stop you and the Beast from exterminating humanity. He stands about as much of a chance against Cole as you would expect. Also counts as a PostFinalBoss, since the "real" final boss of the evil path is Nix]].
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* KickTheDog: In the second game, one of the evil side tasks that pops up when you are walking around New Marais is to beat up street performers simply because Zeke finds them annoying.
* SunglassesAtNight: Zeke and a few cops.
** Zeke's might be justified in two; [[spoiler: he's hiding the rest of his face so Cole won't peice together he has the plague]].
* TakeThat: In New Marais, there are stores called "Red Ring Electronics," an obvious TakeThat against the Xbox 360. Comes complete with a neon sign that does the full red ring animation.
* TemporalParadox: Thanks to Kessler's very presence in the first game, the timeline is altered so much that the Beast arrives much sooner than Cole expects, and Cole ends up outmatched and forced on the run.
* UnreliableNarrator: ''Festival of Blood'''s framing device is Zeke telling a story about Cole to a hot woman in a bar. Obviously, it's not clear whether he's telling the truth or not. He claims Cole is a good guy, but that could be either from Cole being GoodKarma, or Zeke trying to "sell" the story to the woman because Cole was actually evil.
** Of course in the end we learn [[spoiler: That the Bar girl was a real Vampire]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Ionic Charges mechanic. You can spend an ionic charge you've stored up to release [[LimitBreak a powerful area attack that has a high potential of one-shotting most enemies]]: the trick is that you can only get ionic charges by defeating bad guys... or cops... or [[InnocentBystander random people passing in the street]]. Since innocent victims are a lot more plentiful than bad guys during later parts of the game, Evil Cole tends to be a lot more free with his wanton destruction than Good Cole.
** Each civilian you kill nets you a "Bystander" bonus above a certain Evil karma level. For that matter, even "Good" karma random encounters can be turned around to negative karma: you can Thunder Drop on groups of wounded, trigger the bombs left around the city (or just kill everyone near the bomb and then defuse it), kill the mugging victims AND the muggers, dump grenades on abductees... it's less than surprising that this time around, instead of just one or two guys hucking rocks, [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment civilians will actually gather in large groups and try to beat you to death with their bare hands.]]
* WalkingWasteland: The Beast. [[spoiler:He's actually a living ray-sphere, the wastelands he leaves behind are the results of awakening conduits, leaving destruction similar to the original raysphere detonation.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:The Beast, whose wake of genocide is a little more complex than it appears.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The penultimate choices fall into two categories. [[spoiler:The good act is to commit genocide on all conduits so the rest of humanity can live; the evil ending is vice-versa, killing off humanity so conduits can reign.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Cole himself also does this late in the second game, if he's a Hero. [[spoiler:Kuo will let the Beast live because she's scared of dying, and Cole calls her out on it.]]
** There's a minor one with Dr Wolfe by the resident Conduits near the end. He explains that the RFI could be used to subtract the Beast's abilities, rendering it weak enough for Cole to lay the smackdown. [[spoiler:What he DOESN'T explain is that the RFI actually kills all conduits across the world when fully charged. Needless to say, Cole, Nix and Kuo aren't happy they were lied to. Wolfe's last Dead Drop - his last message to Kuo - is simply titled, "[[http://infamous.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Drops/Messages/inFamous_2#Forgive_Me Forgive Me]]." Hint: she doesn't.]]
** One side mission has Cole keep watch over a captured militia mook, while the cop who gave you the quest hurries off to fetch reinforcements. As soon as the cop leaves, the militia mook spews one insult after another, and you have the choice between ignoring him or frying his defenseless ass. Doing the latter causes the cop to chew you out for it, first with words and then with weapons.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** Nix. [[PyroManiac She just loves to watch stuff burn.]]
** Mid and late game good karma missions have you team up with a benevolent member of Vermaak 88. Said member gets stronger with every mission, starting out as a normal mook, then becoming a heavy unit and ultimately a titan. His sanity slips away with every power up, and in the end, [[spoiler:you are forced to MercyKill him before he harms innocents.]]
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler:Bertrand's plan to make humanity fear Conduits.]]
* ZeroEffortBoss: At the end, [[spoiler:if you side with the Beast, then Zeke becomes your "final opponent" at the very end when he tries to stop you and the Beast from exterminating humanity. He stands about as much of a chance against Cole as you would expect. Also counts as a PostFinalBoss, since the "real" final boss of the evil path is Nix]].
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* OneSuperOnePowerset: Averted. While in the first game Cole is stuck with using his lightning powers and nothing else, ''Infamous 2'' allows Cole as part of the storyline to use a machine to copy either fire or ice powers from two other superpowered people, depending on his alignment.
* PersonalityPowers:
** Embodied by Kuo and Nix; Kuo's cool-headed to match her ice powers, while Nix is wilder and hot with rage. However, Kuo is also brittle when under a lot of stress, and Nix has a few surprising moments of warmth.
** [[spoiler:Bertrand]] also counts, the corrupting hive lord maggot.
* ThePlague: It's learned that the plague from the first game [[spoiler:is in fact ray field radiation slowly killing every person who isn't an active Conduit.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Nix who will share her powers with Cole if he takes chaotic decisions. She also has oil-based powers: she can create blobs of oil to ensnare her enemies, who can be lit up afterwards, and her main ranged attack is tossing little flaming balls of oil.
* PowerNullifier: What the [[MacGuffin Ray Field Inhibitor]] does. [[spoiler:Perfect for fighting the Beast, though it turns out that it [[WeaponOfMassDestruction kills all Conduits]] in process.]]
* ProductPlacement: While you're running around New Marais, why not enjoy a 5-dollar Footlong at your local Subway™? (Eat Fresh!™)
* PropheticFallacy: Kessler didn't actually know why [[spoiler:the Beast will go on its apparently world-ending rampage, and thus, neither does anyone who gets the warning, including Cole]]. Whether Cole acts on that missing puzzle piece once it's discovered or decides that it changes nothing is the crux of the ultimate karmic choice.
* RareGuns: The Militia use Remington ACR Assault Rifles.
* RedOniBlueOni: Nix is red, Kuo is blue.
* SadisticChoice: The final and end-deciding moral choice is one of these. [[spoiler:Kill all the world's Conduits to save the rest of the human race, or kill the rest to save all the Conduits.]]
* SequelHook: [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Darkness-a-Light/InFamous2hint.png See here]].
* ShaggyDogStory: A lot of peoples actions in the first game made pointless.
** All the good you did for Empire City? It is blasted off the map in the first five minutes.
** The Beast spends the beginning and middle of the game carving a path through America towards Cole, [[spoiler: activating conduits and killing ordinary humans to cure the plague. In the Hero ending the RFI is used which cures the plague and kills all conduits, everywhere.]]
** Kessler went back in time to stop the Beast from rampaging the planet. In the evil ending [[spoiler: Cole becomes the Beast and decimates humanity for conduits.]]
* ShoutOut:
** A preorder power includes a 'lightning hook' which [[MortalKombat pulls enemies towards you.]] '''Get over here!'''
** If you look closely, Zeke is reading the [[VideoGame/SlyCooper Thievius Raccoonus in a pre-mission cutscene]].
*** And then there's the theater with a marquee covered in ParallelPornTitles - [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Serpent: The Man, The Movie]], [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Call of Booty]], {{Uncharted}} Love, [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Assassin's Need (LoveToo)]], [[HaloReach Hey, Low Reach]], [[NeedForSpeed No Need For Speed]], [[EpicMickey Epic Hickey]], [[LittleBigPlanet Little Big Unit]], [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank Latch It And Skank]], and of course, [[SlyCooper Sly!]]
** [[Film/BrokenArrow1996 ""STOP. SHOOTING. THE THERMONUCLEAR MISSILE, YOU DUMB HICKS!"]]
** Possible shout-out in mission 32 to TwoGamersOnACouch, since the entirety of the mission is Cole and Zeke watching a Western, drinking beers, and then Cole absorbing the penultimate Blast Core.
** In Flood Town, one can see on a roof written, "I'm starving". The reply written under it is "You can has cheeseburger."
** In Festival of Blood, there's a point where Cole says "[[SpiderMan My Vampire senses are tingling]]". Also, one of the trophies is called [[FrightNight Flight Night]]
*** The trophy [[LittleBigPlanet Play. Create. Scare.]] anyone? Double for the fact you need to play user created levels for it.
** In ''Festival of Blood'', there's a movie theater with movies called [[LANoire L.A. Gore]], [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Red Dead Vampires]], [[Franchise/DeadSpace Dead Face]], [[MassEffect Mass Infect 3]], and [[{{Uncharted}} Unstaked: Vampires Deception]]
** Also just when Cole tells Zeke he is a vampire, Zeke jokingly asks "[[{{Twilight}} Do teenage girls suddenly find you ''irresistible''?]]"
** At the start of Festival of Blood, Zeke defends his reading a vampire comic book by remarking [[TheLostBoys that it's a guide to survival]].
* ShutUpHannibal: When [[spoiler:Bertrand is revealed as the leader of the Corrupted after trying to give himself powers, and bent on starting a genocide on himself and all conduits, Cole quickly puts him into his place.]]
--->'''Cole:''' Oh, I finally get it. [[spoiler:Oh, you thought the Ray Sphere was gonna turn you into some sort of shiny superhuman, but instead it turned you into a fifty foot ''maggot''.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: The one thing Kessler doesn't account for is [[spoiler:the possibility that the Beast isn't motivated by [[ForTheEvulz Evulz.]]]]
* TheStinger: For ''Festival of Blood'' [[spoiler: The girl Zeke was talking is reveals herself to be a Real vampire to Zeke before leaving the bar with Cole....]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}:
** Nix wears lots and lots of leather and accessories, to signify her unstable mental state. Ironically, the outfit would actually be rather impractical for a stripper.
** Kuo wears a standard business suit upon her introduction, and later switches to something a little more... distinctive. She also gets her hair done, and her skin coloring switches to look like some nice makeup. Still not exactly stripper-wear, but sexier than her old outfit. [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-karma-infamous-2/710914 Compare and contrast]].
* PersonalityPowers:
** Embodied by Kuo and Nix; Kuo's cool-headed to match her ice powers, while Nix is wilder and hot with rage. However, Kuo is also brittle when under a lot of stress, and Nix has a few surprising moments of warmth.
** [[spoiler:Bertrand]] also counts, the corrupting hive lord maggot.
* ThePlague: It's learned that the plague from the first game [[spoiler:is in fact ray field radiation slowly killing every person who isn't an active Conduit.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Nix who will share her powers with Cole if he takes chaotic decisions. She also has oil-based powers: she can create blobs of oil to ensnare her enemies, who can be lit up afterwards, and her main ranged attack is tossing little flaming balls of oil.
* PowerNullifier: What the [[MacGuffin Ray Field Inhibitor]] does. [[spoiler:Perfect for fighting the Beast, though it turns out that it [[WeaponOfMassDestruction kills all Conduits]] in process.]]
* ProductPlacement: While you're running around New Marais, why not enjoy a 5-dollar Footlong at your local Subway™? (Eat Fresh!™)
* PropheticFallacy: Kessler didn't actually know why [[spoiler:the Beast will go on its apparently world-ending rampage, and thus, neither does anyone who gets the warning, including Cole]]. Whether Cole acts on that missing puzzle piece once it's discovered or decides that it changes nothing is the crux of the ultimate karmic choice.
* RareGuns: The Militia use Remington ACR Assault Rifles.
* RedOniBlueOni: Nix is red, Kuo is blue.
* SadisticChoice: The final and end-deciding moral choice is one of these. [[spoiler:Kill all the world's Conduits to save the rest of the human race, or kill the rest to save all the Conduits.]]
* SequelHook: [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Darkness-a-Light/InFamous2hint.png See here]].
* ShaggyDogStory: A lot of peoples actions in the first game made pointless.
** All the good you did for Empire City? It is blasted off the map in the first five minutes.
** The Beast spends the beginning and middle of the game carving a path through America towards Cole, [[spoiler: activating conduits and killing ordinary humans to cure the plague. In the Hero ending the RFI is used which cures the plague and kills all conduits, everywhere.]]
** Kessler went back in time to stop the Beast from rampaging the planet. In the evil ending [[spoiler: Cole becomes the Beast and decimates humanity for conduits.]]
* ShoutOut:
** A preorder power includes a 'lightning hook' which [[MortalKombat pulls enemies towards you.]] '''Get over here!'''
** If you look closely, Zeke is reading the [[VideoGame/SlyCooper Thievius Raccoonus in a pre-mission cutscene]].
*** And then there's the theater with a marquee covered in ParallelPornTitles - [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Serpent: The Man, The Movie]], [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Call of Booty]], {{Uncharted}} Love, [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Assassin's Need (LoveToo)]], [[HaloReach Hey, Low Reach]], [[NeedForSpeed No Need For Speed]], [[EpicMickey Epic Hickey]], [[LittleBigPlanet Little Big Unit]], [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank Latch It And Skank]], and of course, [[SlyCooper Sly!]]
** [[Film/BrokenArrow1996 ""STOP. SHOOTING. THE THERMONUCLEAR MISSILE, YOU DUMB HICKS!"]]
** Possible shout-out in mission 32 to TwoGamersOnACouch, since the entirety of the mission is Cole and Zeke watching a Western, drinking beers, and then Cole absorbing the penultimate Blast Core.
** In Flood Town, one can see on a roof written, "I'm starving". The reply written under it is "You can has cheeseburger."
** In Festival of Blood, there's a point where Cole says "[[SpiderMan My Vampire senses are tingling]]". Also, one of the trophies is called [[FrightNight Flight Night]]
*** The trophy [[LittleBigPlanet Play. Create. Scare.]] anyone? Double for the fact you need to play user created levels for it.
** In ''Festival of Blood'', there's a movie theater with movies called [[LANoire L.A. Gore]], [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Red Dead Vampires]], [[Franchise/DeadSpace Dead Face]], [[MassEffect Mass Infect 3]], and [[{{Uncharted}} Unstaked: Vampires Deception]]
** Also just when Cole tells Zeke he is a vampire, Zeke jokingly asks "[[{{Twilight}} Do teenage girls suddenly find you ''irresistible''?]]"
** At the start of Festival of Blood, Zeke defends his reading a vampire comic book by remarking [[TheLostBoys that it's a guide to survival]].
* ShutUpHannibal: When [[spoiler:Bertrand is revealed as the leader of the Corrupted after trying to give himself powers, and bent on starting a genocide on himself and all conduits, Cole quickly puts him into his place.]]
--->'''Cole:''' Oh, I finally get it. [[spoiler:Oh, you thought the Ray Sphere was gonna turn you into some sort of shiny superhuman, but instead it turned you into a fifty foot ''maggot''.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: The one thing Kessler doesn't account for is [[spoiler:the possibility that the Beast isn't motivated by [[ForTheEvulz Evulz.]]]]
* TheStinger: For ''Festival of Blood'' [[spoiler: The girl Zeke was talking is reveals herself to be a Real vampire to Zeke before leaving the bar with Cole....]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}:
** Nix wears lots and lots of leather and accessories, to signify her unstable mental state. Ironically, the outfit would actually be rather impractical for a stripper.
** Kuo wears a standard business suit upon her introduction, and later switches to something a little more... distinctive. She also gets her hair done, and her skin coloring switches to look like some nice makeup. Still not exactly stripper-wear, but sexier than her old outfit. [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-karma-infamous-2/710914 Compare and contrast]].
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* TheAntiChrist: [[spoiler:The Beast]], obviously. He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
* ArtShift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
* ArtShift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
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* TheAntiChrist: [[spoiler:The Beast]], obviously. obviously.
** He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
*ArtShift: Artshift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.all-new.
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
** He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
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** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
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* BigBad: Bertrand
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** [[spoiler:Hell, the Evil ending is pretty bittersweet: Cole joins the Beast in a desperate quest to save what little of humanity that can be saved without resorting to the RFI - i.e., the Conduits. In the process, he's forced to kill both Nix and Zeke - both of which cause him considerable anguish, if the frustrated screaming was any evidence. And then the Beast loses heart and admits that he's tired of killing people, even if it is for a good cause, so he transfers all his power to Cole so he can continue the plan; so, Cole is left to gather up the activated Conduits in New Marais and carry on through the United States, killing millions of ordinary human beings in the process- either through the Ray Field Blasts or through simple warfare... and it's only going to continue from there! Long story short, Cole has saved the Conduits, but in the process, he's become the Beast.]]
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* BossInMookClothing:
** The second game has Ravagers, who burrow, fire homing sludge, will bum rush you, and [[MookMaker turn out]] [[GoddamnedBats lots of annoying dart-spewing larvae]] if you don't stay on top of them. Oh, and your normal attack just bounces off their head shields.
** The second game has Ravagers, who burrow, fire homing sludge, will bum rush you, and [[MookMaker turn out]] [[GoddamnedBats lots of annoying dart-spewing larvae]] if you don't stay on top of them. Oh, and your normal attack just bounces off their head shields.
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* BossInMookClothing:
**BossInMookClothing: The second game has Ravagers, who burrow, fire homing sludge, will bum rush you, and [[MookMaker turn out]] [[GoddamnedBats lots of annoying dart-spewing larvae]] if you don't stay on top of them. Oh, and your normal attack just bounces off their head shields.
**
*** Actually, the secret is to attack their arms: they're essentially Dust Men conduits with a quick-time event added in, but you don't need to reveal the weak point to kill them; it'll just take longer. Sticky Grenades are incredibly useful in this regard.
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* TheChessmaster:
** Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
** Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
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* TheChessmaster:
**TheChessmaster: Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
**
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* TheCorruption:
** "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
** "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
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* TheCorruption:
**TheCorruption: "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
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* DudeWheresMyRespect:
** Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
** Though thankfully for Cole [[spoiler:''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
** Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)
** Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
** Though thankfully for Cole [[spoiler:''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
** Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)
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* DudeWheresMyRespect:
**DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
**Though [[spoiler:Though thankfully for Cole [[spoiler:''finally'' ''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
** Also *** [[spoiler:Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.))]]
**
**
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* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]. Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
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* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]. button]]...
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
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* FlashStep / TeleportSpam: Nix can do this. Kuo's "flight" is half this; she turns into a wisp of mist that flies through the air at high speed. Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
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* FlashStep / TeleportSpam: Nix can do this. Kuo's "flight" is half this; she turns into a wisp of mist that flies through the air at high speed. speed.
** Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
** Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
** Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
**{{Foreshadowing}}: Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
**
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* HeelFaceTurn:
** Zeke [[spoiler:refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
** Nix, [[spoiler:who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
** Zeke [[spoiler:refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
** Nix, [[spoiler:who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn:
** Zeke [[spoiler:refusesHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zeke refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
**Nix, [[spoiler:who [[spoiler:Nix, who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
** Zeke [[spoiler:refuses
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* ImplacableMan: The Beast is so strong that he survives getting half his ''head'' blown off by the initial fight. Cole and his friends flee to New Marais, and the rest of the game keeps track of the Beast's swath of destruction as he follows you down the coastline. Every time you pause the game or hit a new story chapter, it tells you how many miles are left before he gets to you. Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a nuke'']].
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* ImplacableMan: The Beast is so strong that he survives getting half his ''head'' blown off by the initial fight. Cole and his friends flee to New Marais, and the rest of the game keeps track of the Beast's swath of destruction as he follows you down the coastline. Every time you pause the game or hit a new story chapter, it tells you how many miles are left before he gets to you. you.
** Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving anuke'']].nuke'']].
* ImprovisedWeapon: For ''Festival of Blood'', Cole finds himself without his Amp, so he puts a foot through a coffin lid and picks up the large cross that was on it. Conveniently, there's a pointy bit of wood near the "head", so he can immediately commence putting foot to vampire bottom.
* InASingleBound: The ice troopers primarily use this to get around; rather than having super-strong legs, they instantly create a small pillar of ice under their feet, launching themselves into the air. Cole can optionally get this power as well; it makes his jump distance nearly triple what it ordinarily does.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The deadly plague sweeping through the city is a major plot point. [[spoiler:As the game goes on, you'll probably notice Zeke coughing a lot and sounding progressively more hoarse....]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Pretty much the entire reason Nix decides to hang out with Cole is because he's supposedly the demon who destroyed Empire City, to the point where she calls Cole the Demon as a ''term of endearment.''
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Averted, finally, and lampshaded, you actually get a trophy for climbing over a chain-link fence[[note]] The trophy itself is hilarious: the name is Bound No More, and the description for how to get it is "Climb a fence, rejoice."[[/note]].
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Flashbacks establish this was true for New Orleans stand-in New Marais before it was hit by its version of Katrina.
** Festival of Blood features Pyre Night, which was ostensibly Mardi Gras with pumpkins. Still technically averted as Festival takes place on a single night.
* KarmaHoudini: Played straight with a number of characters, but eventually averted with the DC ''inFamous'' {{interquel}} comic, which explains the events between the first and second games--
** Alden, who despite all the crap he did [[spoiler:survives jumping off a bridge into the ocean (being a Conduit). Doesn't last for long though, as in the interquel Moya captures him and has the military scientists dissect him for research.]]
** Moya, [[spoiler:who despite setting up a fake quarantine and helping to build the Ray Sphere, had nothing happen to her by the end of the game. Averted in the interquel, where she ends up trapped under debris in a sinking ship after Cole wrecks the place to stop David. Though in her last moments, she [[GracefulLoser does tell Cole to forget about her and save himself,]] so she really did care about stopping the Beast [[WellIntentionedExtremist more than anything else.]]]]
** And pretty much zigzagged by Sasha [[spoiler:who gets extracted by the First Sons before Cole can finish her off and ends up escaping after the end of the game. On the other hand, Sasha was kidnapped and tortured by Kessler before getting away, so she didn't exactly get off easy. Repeated in the interquel, where she this time gets kidnapped and tortured by Moya, before escaping yet again.]]
* KarmaMeter: The KarmaMeter from the first games has been revised so that all the Karma choices, bar one, be an active choice between two missions. Not necessarily different versions of one mission, but usually different missions entirely, in different locations, taken from different people, with different enemies.
* KickTheDog: Most of Mary's teachings in Festival of Blood are this, with the notable exception of one that invokes KickTheSonOfABitch instead.
* KnightTemplar: Bertrand, who wants to get rid of all the Conduit "abominations" [[spoiler:despite being a Conduit himself.]]
** Actually [[spoiler: it is because of him being a conduit that he hates them, his own powers are so horrifying that, as his last conversation with Cole hints, he wants everyone to share in his hatred, and his plan is to make conduits of the most violent and horrifying kind, his own corrupted and the increasingly unstable ice gang, so prevalent that no one on earth would object to killing them all. It is outright stated that he sees himself as a monster as well, making all of his work as way of justifying his feelings, he needs to believe that all conduits are monsters are evil, or else it is just him.]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: In a rare aversion, especially considering how much of a huge twist it was, the second game doesn't spoil the fact that Kessler and Cole are the same person. Only Cole and Zeke know, and they never discuss it or tell anyone else. Doctor Wolfe noticing that Cole "looks just the same" as Kessler is the only hint, and Cole quickly dismisses it. He does wonder if they happen to be related.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Corrupted.
* MagicPants: Averted when [[spoiler:the Behemoth reveals itself to be Bertrand, he is naked]].
* MeaningfulEcho: In the evil ending, right before [[spoiler:Cole kills Zeke.]]
-->'''Cole:''' Half as long.\\
'''Zeke:''' Twice as bright.
* MeaningfulName: Kuo's name makes sense as following the Good missions maintains the "status '''quo'''", which is also {{Lampshade}}d by the achievement "Quid Pro Kuo" when you take Zeke's suggestion of freeing the police to save her. Also Nix is named for Nyx (the personification of night) from Greek Legend.
* MegaManning: Cole gains a "transfer device" that allows him to use some of Kuo or Nix's powers.
* MoreDakka: Bolt Stream, the good-aligned powerup for the regular lightning bolt.
* NakedOnRevival: Vampire Bloody Mary is au natural after being revived by Cole's blood.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: [[spoiler: subverted with Moya.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** [[spoiler:the Evil Ending, where the Beast give Cole his powers. After that, Cole sets out on a global conquest, awakening any conduits and killing any human in his wake. He becomes what Kessler was trying to stop.]]
** When Cole unknowingly sets free the ice gang upon saving Kuo from her underground prison at a plantation.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
** Vermaak 88 can accurately be described as [[spoiler:"Gunslinging South African ice ninjas".]]
** Zeke calls the swamp monsters "inbred shirtless crocodile freaks."
* NoBodyLeftBehind: The usual enemies vanish when they go off-screen, but it's oh so definitely averted with [[spoiler: Bertrands]] remains:
--> '''Laroche:''' Well, it took thirty men, [[{{Squick}} seven chainsaws and twelve pickups]], but we finally got that monster's corpse of the streets.
* NoCanonForTheWicked: WordOfGod confirmed that the Hero ending is canon for in this game as well.
* OhCrap: when the Beast shows up. His first reaction to the destruction and smoke everywhere, is speechless shock, and then, "No... No, no... ''No!''"
** During the second-to-last mission, the mooks you're fighting can experience this: [[spoiler:Iceman: "He's getting power from THE STORM!!"]]
* NoOntologicalInertia: In ''Festival Of Blood'', Bloody Mary's vampires follow the "head vampire" rule, knowledge of this is what lets Cole (who was canonically good for the DLC) feed on people without letting the guilt crush him; sure he might turn them for the night, but as long as he kills Mary before night's end, they'll all be cured.
* OldSaveBonus: If you played the original, iF2 will grant you bonuses based on what trophies you've unlocked in the save file you import.
** Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a
* ImprovisedWeapon: For ''Festival of Blood'', Cole finds himself without his Amp, so he puts a foot through a coffin lid and picks up the large cross that was on it. Conveniently, there's a pointy bit of wood near the "head", so he can immediately commence putting foot to vampire bottom.
* InASingleBound: The ice troopers primarily use this to get around; rather than having super-strong legs, they instantly create a small pillar of ice under their feet, launching themselves into the air. Cole can optionally get this power as well; it makes his jump distance nearly triple what it ordinarily does.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The deadly plague sweeping through the city is a major plot point. [[spoiler:As the game goes on, you'll probably notice Zeke coughing a lot and sounding progressively more hoarse....]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Pretty much the entire reason Nix decides to hang out with Cole is because he's supposedly the demon who destroyed Empire City, to the point where she calls Cole the Demon as a ''term of endearment.''
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Averted, finally, and lampshaded, you actually get a trophy for climbing over a chain-link fence[[note]] The trophy itself is hilarious: the name is Bound No More, and the description for how to get it is "Climb a fence, rejoice."[[/note]].
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Flashbacks establish this was true for New Orleans stand-in New Marais before it was hit by its version of Katrina.
** Festival of Blood features Pyre Night, which was ostensibly Mardi Gras with pumpkins. Still technically averted as Festival takes place on a single night.
* KarmaHoudini: Played straight with a number of characters, but eventually averted with the DC ''inFamous'' {{interquel}} comic, which explains the events between the first and second games--
** Alden, who despite all the crap he did [[spoiler:survives jumping off a bridge into the ocean (being a Conduit). Doesn't last for long though, as in the interquel Moya captures him and has the military scientists dissect him for research.]]
** Moya, [[spoiler:who despite setting up a fake quarantine and helping to build the Ray Sphere, had nothing happen to her by the end of the game. Averted in the interquel, where she ends up trapped under debris in a sinking ship after Cole wrecks the place to stop David. Though in her last moments, she [[GracefulLoser does tell Cole to forget about her and save himself,]] so she really did care about stopping the Beast [[WellIntentionedExtremist more than anything else.]]]]
** And pretty much zigzagged by Sasha [[spoiler:who gets extracted by the First Sons before Cole can finish her off and ends up escaping after the end of the game. On the other hand, Sasha was kidnapped and tortured by Kessler before getting away, so she didn't exactly get off easy. Repeated in the interquel, where she this time gets kidnapped and tortured by Moya, before escaping yet again.]]
* KarmaMeter: The KarmaMeter from the first games has been revised so that all the Karma choices, bar one, be an active choice between two missions. Not necessarily different versions of one mission, but usually different missions entirely, in different locations, taken from different people, with different enemies.
* KickTheDog: Most of Mary's teachings in Festival of Blood are this, with the notable exception of one that invokes KickTheSonOfABitch instead.
* KnightTemplar: Bertrand, who wants to get rid of all the Conduit "abominations" [[spoiler:despite being a Conduit himself.]]
** Actually [[spoiler: it is because of him being a conduit that he hates them, his own powers are so horrifying that, as his last conversation with Cole hints, he wants everyone to share in his hatred, and his plan is to make conduits of the most violent and horrifying kind, his own corrupted and the increasingly unstable ice gang, so prevalent that no one on earth would object to killing them all. It is outright stated that he sees himself as a monster as well, making all of his work as way of justifying his feelings, he needs to believe that all conduits are monsters are evil, or else it is just him.]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: In a rare aversion, especially considering how much of a huge twist it was, the second game doesn't spoil the fact that Kessler and Cole are the same person. Only Cole and Zeke know, and they never discuss it or tell anyone else. Doctor Wolfe noticing that Cole "looks just the same" as Kessler is the only hint, and Cole quickly dismisses it. He does wonder if they happen to be related.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Corrupted.
* MagicPants: Averted when [[spoiler:the Behemoth reveals itself to be Bertrand, he is naked]].
* MeaningfulEcho: In the evil ending, right before [[spoiler:Cole kills Zeke.]]
-->'''Cole:''' Half as long.\\
'''Zeke:''' Twice as bright.
* MeaningfulName: Kuo's name makes sense as following the Good missions maintains the "status '''quo'''", which is also {{Lampshade}}d by the achievement "Quid Pro Kuo" when you take Zeke's suggestion of freeing the police to save her. Also Nix is named for Nyx (the personification of night) from Greek Legend.
* MegaManning: Cole gains a "transfer device" that allows him to use some of Kuo or Nix's powers.
* MoreDakka: Bolt Stream, the good-aligned powerup for the regular lightning bolt.
* NakedOnRevival: Vampire Bloody Mary is au natural after being revived by Cole's blood.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: [[spoiler: subverted with Moya.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** [[spoiler:the Evil Ending, where the Beast give Cole his powers. After that, Cole sets out on a global conquest, awakening any conduits and killing any human in his wake. He becomes what Kessler was trying to stop.]]
** When Cole unknowingly sets free the ice gang upon saving Kuo from her underground prison at a plantation.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
** Vermaak 88 can accurately be described as [[spoiler:"Gunslinging South African ice ninjas".]]
** Zeke calls the swamp monsters "inbred shirtless crocodile freaks."
* NoBodyLeftBehind: The usual enemies vanish when they go off-screen, but it's oh so definitely averted with [[spoiler: Bertrands]] remains:
--> '''Laroche:''' Well, it took thirty men, [[{{Squick}} seven chainsaws and twelve pickups]], but we finally got that monster's corpse of the streets.
* NoCanonForTheWicked: WordOfGod confirmed that the Hero ending is canon for in this game as well.
* OhCrap: when the Beast shows up. His first reaction to the destruction and smoke everywhere, is speechless shock, and then, "No... No, no... ''No!''"
** During the second-to-last mission, the mooks you're fighting can experience this: [[spoiler:Iceman: "He's getting power from THE STORM!!"]]
* NoOntologicalInertia: In ''Festival Of Blood'', Bloody Mary's vampires follow the "head vampire" rule, knowledge of this is what lets Cole (who was canonically good for the DLC) feed on people without letting the guilt crush him; sure he might turn them for the night, but as long as he kills Mary before night's end, they'll all be cured.
* OldSaveBonus: If you played the original, iF2 will grant you bonuses based on what trophies you've unlocked in the save file you import.
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* TheAntiChrist: [[spoiler:The Beast]], obviously.
** He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
* Artshift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
** He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
* Artshift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
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* TheAntiChrist: [[spoiler:The Beast]], obviously.
**obviously. He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
*Artshift: ArtShift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.all-new.
**
*
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
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** [[spoiler:Hell, the Evil ending is pretty bittersweet: Cole joins the Beast in a desperate quest to save what little of humanity that can be saved without resorting to the RFI - i.e., the Conduits. In the process, he's forced to kill both Nix and Zeke - both of which cause him considerable anguish, if the frustrated screaming was any evidence. And then the Beast loses heart and admits that he's tired of killing people, even if it is for a good cause, so he transfers all his power to Cole so he can continue the plan; so, Cole is left to gather up the activated Conduits in New Marais and carry on through the United States, killing millions of ordinary human beings in the process- either through the Ray Field Blasts or through simple warfare... and it's only going to continue from there! Long story short, Cole has saved the Conduits, but in the process, he's become the Beast.]]
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* BossInMookClothing: The second game has Ravagers, who burrow, fire homing sludge, will bum rush you, and [[MookMaker turn out]] [[GoddamnedBats lots of annoying dart-spewing larvae]] if you don't stay on top of them. Oh, and your normal attack just bounces off their head shields.
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* BossInMookClothing: BossInMookClothing:
** The second game has Ravagers, who burrow, fire homing sludge, will bum rush you, and [[MookMaker turn out]] [[GoddamnedBats lots of annoying dart-spewing larvae]] if you don't stay on top of them. Oh, and your normal attack just bounces off their head shields.
** The second game has Ravagers, who burrow, fire homing sludge, will bum rush you, and [[MookMaker turn out]] [[GoddamnedBats lots of annoying dart-spewing larvae]] if you don't stay on top of them. Oh, and your normal attack just bounces off their head shields.
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*** Actually, the secret is to attack their arms: they're essentially Dust Men conduits with a quick-time event added in, but you don't need to reveal the weak point to kill them; it'll just take longer. Sticky Grenades are incredibly useful in this regard.
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* TheChessmaster: Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
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* TheChessmaster: TheChessmaster:
** Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
** Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
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* TheCorruption: "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
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* TheCorruption: TheCorruption:
** "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
** "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
** [[spoiler:Though thankfully for Cole ''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
*** [[spoiler:Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)]]
** [[spoiler:Though thankfully for Cole ''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
*** [[spoiler:Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)]]
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: DudeWheresMyRespect:
** Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
**[[spoiler:Though Though thankfully for Cole ''finally'' [[spoiler:''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
*** [[spoiler:Also ** Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)]])
** Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
**
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* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]...
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
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* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]...
**button]]. Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
**
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* FlashStep / TeleportSpam: Nix can do this. Kuo's "flight" is half this; she turns into a wisp of mist that flies through the air at high speed.
** Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
** Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
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* FlashStep / TeleportSpam: Nix can do this. Kuo's "flight" is half this; she turns into a wisp of mist that flies through the air at high speed.
**speed. Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
**
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
** Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zeke refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
** [[spoiler:Nix, who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
** [[spoiler:Nix, who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zeke refuses HeelFaceTurn:
** Zeke [[spoiler:refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
**[[spoiler:Nix, who Nix, [[spoiler:who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
** Zeke [[spoiler:refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
**
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* ImplacableMan: The Beast is so strong that he survives getting half his ''head'' blown off by the initial fight. Cole and his friends flee to New Marais, and the rest of the game keeps track of the Beast's swath of destruction as he follows you down the coastline. Every time you pause the game or hit a new story chapter, it tells you how many miles are left before he gets to you.
** Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a nuke'']].
** Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a nuke'']].
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* ImplacableMan: The Beast is so strong that he survives getting half his ''head'' blown off by the initial fight. Cole and his friends flee to New Marais, and the rest of the game keeps track of the Beast's swath of destruction as he follows you down the coastline. Every time you pause the game or hit a new story chapter, it tells you how many miles are left before he gets to you.
**you. Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a nuke'']].
**
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* FriendshipMoment: Cole and Zeke get one when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiJDAAHHdo they drink beer and watch a movie together.]] When someone (likely Kuo) tries to call them they wordlessly agree that they'd rather ignore it and just relax. They even pull a platonic SleepCute on the couch.
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* FriendshipMoment: Cole and Zeke get one when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiJDAAHHdo they drink beer and watch a movie together.]] When someone (likely Kuo) tries to call them they wordlessly agree that they'd rather ignore it and just relax. They even pull a platonic SleepCute on the couch.couch.
* GenocideDilemma: A two for one: [[spoiler: Murder all Conduits by using the RFI to save all the normal human beings from the plague, or let the Beast murder countless normal people and speed up their extinction to save the Conduits.]]
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Subverted. At first, no explanation at all is given for the sudden appearance of the [[EldritchAbomination Corrupted]] in New Marais, and up until they are introduced Cole has spent all his time fighting gun-toting gangs and other super-powered mutants. Later, however, it is revealed [[spoiler:that Bertrand himself is a Conduit whose powers involve transforming into said Giant Space Flea as well as ''turning other humans into Corrupted'' under the guise of cleansing them from their demons.]]
* AGodAmI: Inverted in the evil ending, [[spoiler:where despite his now godlike powers Cole admits he hasn't become a god at all, but the devil.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: If Cole is evil in the first game, Kessler's plan to [[spoiler:teach his younger self not to be weighed down by emotion]] succeeds far better than he likely thought possible. It succeeds so well, in fact, that an evil Cole in the sequel [[spoiler:decides to save the human race by taking over as the Beast.]] It does "stop" the first one...
* GreyAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler:By the end of the second game, the morality system is less about Good and Evil and more about two separate races struggling to survive the Plague, and the only solution for either race requires the destruction of the other...]]
* GuideDangIt: Looking for all the Dead Drops? You can only find 28 out of 29 in the main sandbox. The 29th is located in the Swamp Blockade and doesn't activate until you've been on the main island for a while. Somewhat mitigated in that there's a clue in the trophies about where to find it.
* HalloweenEpisode: The ''Festival of Blood'' DLC.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Sucker Punch has Cole, during cutscenes, reach behind his back to store and retrieve objects, noticeably blast cores. Presumably they didn't want to waste time animating him putting it in his backpack.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted. Freezing an enemy/civilian instantly kills them.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zeke refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
** [[spoiler:Nix, who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:The Good ending has Cole sacrificing his life to save humanity. Though he ''kills every other [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduit]] on the planet in the process.'']]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The sequel gives their friendship more screen-time, including one entire cutscene dedicated solely to them hanging out, watching cheesy movies, and completely ignoring the problems they have to deal with for just a little while. [[spoiler:It makes both endings hurt that much more.]]
* HolidayMode: The standalone Halloween DLC "Festival of Blood", which, among other things, makes Cole a vampire.
* HumanPopsicle: Enemies finished with ice powers, realistically this also averts HarmlessFreezing; frozen enemies are dead instantly, even breaking them out won't save them.
* AnIcePerson:
** Kuo, who will share her powers with Cole if he makes orderly decisions.
** Also the PMC/[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Ice Gang"]] Vermaak 88, who act like watered down version of Kuo.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Kuo partly because her conversion to a Conduit was prolonged and ''extremely'' painful. She really does not like being a freak, and simply having powers now causes her to declare that she's "not an agent anymore," which upsets her.
* ImplacableMan: The Beast is so strong that he survives getting half his ''head'' blown off by the initial fight. Cole and his friends flee to New Marais, and the rest of the game keeps track of the Beast's swath of destruction as he follows you down the coastline. Every time you pause the game or hit a new story chapter, it tells you how many miles are left before he gets to you.
** Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a nuke'']].
* GenocideDilemma: A two for one: [[spoiler: Murder all Conduits by using the RFI to save all the normal human beings from the plague, or let the Beast murder countless normal people and speed up their extinction to save the Conduits.]]
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Subverted. At first, no explanation at all is given for the sudden appearance of the [[EldritchAbomination Corrupted]] in New Marais, and up until they are introduced Cole has spent all his time fighting gun-toting gangs and other super-powered mutants. Later, however, it is revealed [[spoiler:that Bertrand himself is a Conduit whose powers involve transforming into said Giant Space Flea as well as ''turning other humans into Corrupted'' under the guise of cleansing them from their demons.]]
* AGodAmI: Inverted in the evil ending, [[spoiler:where despite his now godlike powers Cole admits he hasn't become a god at all, but the devil.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: If Cole is evil in the first game, Kessler's plan to [[spoiler:teach his younger self not to be weighed down by emotion]] succeeds far better than he likely thought possible. It succeeds so well, in fact, that an evil Cole in the sequel [[spoiler:decides to save the human race by taking over as the Beast.]] It does "stop" the first one...
* GreyAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler:By the end of the second game, the morality system is less about Good and Evil and more about two separate races struggling to survive the Plague, and the only solution for either race requires the destruction of the other...]]
* GuideDangIt: Looking for all the Dead Drops? You can only find 28 out of 29 in the main sandbox. The 29th is located in the Swamp Blockade and doesn't activate until you've been on the main island for a while. Somewhat mitigated in that there's a clue in the trophies about where to find it.
* HalloweenEpisode: The ''Festival of Blood'' DLC.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Sucker Punch has Cole, during cutscenes, reach behind his back to store and retrieve objects, noticeably blast cores. Presumably they didn't want to waste time animating him putting it in his backpack.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted. Freezing an enemy/civilian instantly kills them.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zeke refuses to go with Cole if he chooses to go along with John's plan.]]
** [[spoiler:Nix, who in the end is actually willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but ''only'' because she wants revenge on the Beast.]]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:The Good ending has Cole sacrificing his life to save humanity. Though he ''kills every other [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduit]] on the planet in the process.'']]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The sequel gives their friendship more screen-time, including one entire cutscene dedicated solely to them hanging out, watching cheesy movies, and completely ignoring the problems they have to deal with for just a little while. [[spoiler:It makes both endings hurt that much more.]]
* HolidayMode: The standalone Halloween DLC "Festival of Blood", which, among other things, makes Cole a vampire.
* HumanPopsicle: Enemies finished with ice powers, realistically this also averts HarmlessFreezing; frozen enemies are dead instantly, even breaking them out won't save them.
* AnIcePerson:
** Kuo, who will share her powers with Cole if he makes orderly decisions.
** Also the PMC/[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Ice Gang"]] Vermaak 88, who act like watered down version of Kuo.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Kuo partly because her conversion to a Conduit was prolonged and ''extremely'' painful. She really does not like being a freak, and simply having powers now causes her to declare that she's "not an agent anymore," which upsets her.
* ImplacableMan: The Beast is so strong that he survives getting half his ''head'' blown off by the initial fight. Cole and his friends flee to New Marais, and the rest of the game keeps track of the Beast's swath of destruction as he follows you down the coastline. Every time you pause the game or hit a new story chapter, it tells you how many miles are left before he gets to you.
** Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a nuke'']].
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-karma-infamous-2/710914 iF2's Karma Trailer]]. Nix represents the proverbial evil devil on one's shoulder, while Kuo represents the inspiring good angel. It's not clear whether Sucker Punch actually knows that the Latin for "left", Nix's "shoulder", is "sinister". In the ending of the game, [[spoiler:Kuo is making the selfish, evil decision, and is on Cole's left shoulder, while Nix is making the angry, revenge-driven, yet good decision, and is on his right shoulder.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
** [[spoiler:Though thankfully for Cole ''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
*** [[spoiler:Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:The good ending of ''inFamous 2''. Sure, Cole kills himself (Or does he?) and every other Conduit in the world, but he saves humanity from the Beast and the plague at the same time.]]
* EasilyForgiven: Subverted. Though Zeke and Cole are back to being friends as of ''inFamous 2'', Zeke's betrayal of Cole is still brought up several times, and it's clear that Zeke has been working overtime to earn his forgiveness. As Cole says in the intro, he'd do anything to be friends like they used to be. It helps that he's also not a moocher this time.
* ElectricSlide: In ''inFamous 2'', there's some vertical power conduits on the sides of buildings Cole can grab to give himself a short launch upwards with. [[http://infamous.wikia.com/wiki/Lightning_Hook A pre-order power]] in [=iF 2=] allows him to hook onto enemies and pull them towards him.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: ''Infamous 2'' has a lightning storm roll in on the second to last mission, providing Cole with infinite recharges at any time by ''draining the storm itself''. At the end of this mission, Cole gets back the ability to call lightning bolts from the sky. This power now automatically targets the biggest enemy in the immediate vicinity and is usually enough to kill them in one hit.
* EliteMooks: ''Infamous 2'' does not have Conduits among the Militia, but they do have guys with high-powered sniper rifles and [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Heavy-like]] guys with machine guns. The Corruption doesn't have "elite mooks" so much as loads of minibosses that take a lot of cluster bombs or rockets to die. Vermaak 88 has "heavy" troopers with ray beams who like to create ice columns for themselves to stand upon, and a miniboss form of their own.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Beast ''is'' going to kill most of the population, [[spoiler: but they're all going to die from ray field radiation anyway, so he's using the normal humans to activate all the world's Conduits (who can metabolize the radiation) and save what's left.]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The very end of the good ending for implies that Cole might be NotQuiteDead. That lightning strike looked very [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Darkness-a-Light/InFamous2hint.png oddly shaped. Now if you consider the fact that Kessler, Cole from an alternate future, learned how to time-travel...]]
* EnemyCivilWar: The three major factions of enemies [[spoiler:have a common point of origin]], but they're dead set on killing one another (and you!).
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: All the various warring factions in the city end up (somewhat unintentionally) joining forces to defeat the Behemoth, which is actually Bertrand's true form]]. Also happens in both endings, where [[spoiler:the rebels and militia will fight side-by-side in a last-ditch attempt to either take down Cole and the Beast in the evil ending, or help Cole slow down the Beast in the good ending.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: In the good and canon ending, every single named character minus Zeke dies.]]
* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]...
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Ice Tower.
* {{Expy}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt4CzFW1Cg&feature=player_detailpage#t=519s There is one Vermaak 88 soldier]] with dialogue, dark suit, breathing sounds, and mannerisms that is reminiscent of [[StarWars Darth Vader]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kuo, who decides to let ThePlague and the Beast kill millions because she doesn't want to die. If you make the Good choice, Cole even calls out her rationalizations as selfish; she's acting out of fear. Hell, it's so blatant that in the Good ending, even ''she'' finally acknowledges it and urges Cole to activate the RFI once he's defeated her and the Beast.]]
* FantasticRacism: Bertrand ''really'' hates conduits, [[spoiler:probably because his powers revolve around [[BlessedWithSuck turning people]] -- [[BlessedWithSuck including]] ''[[BlessedWithSuck himself]]'' -- [[BlessedWithSuck into monsters]].]]
* FinalBossPreview: The game opens with Cole battling the Beast, then retreating to New Marias to lick his wounds and prepare for the rematch. Unusually for the trope, Cole is able to do a lot of damage to the Beast. It's just that the Beast can regenerate fairly easy.
* FireIceLightning: Nix, Kuo and Cole, respectively. Also, [[spoiler:John, Kuo and Cole.]]
* FiveFiveFive: Many numbers use this trope (most notably on the Militia's constant big-screen TV ads). The cellphone number Zeke gives for Cole is [=555-0127=]. (Probably not Cole's ''actual'' number, otherwise he might well have spent the final 1/3 of the game inundated with calls from admirers. Or maybe he has his phone on silent.)
* FlashStep / TeleportSpam: Nix can do this. Kuo's "flight" is half this; she turns into a wisp of mist that flies through the air at high speed.
** Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
* {{Flight}}: This seems to be one of the more common Conduit powers. The newscast reports sightings of an old lady capable of flight, Kuo's ice powers (for some reason) also give her the ability to fly, [[spoiler:the female Conduit activated by the Beast late in the game discovers the power of flight, and Cole gains the ability to fly as part of his EleventhHourSuperPower power up in the good and evil final missions.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
** Furthermore, [[spoiler:when John disintegrated during the Ray Sphere's destruction, his eyes and mouth glow blue. In the ending cutscene, when Cole realizes he needs to fight the Beast, its silhouette is shown with a set of glowing blue eyes and mouth.]]
** John, please say more dramatic things about [[spoiler:the Beast in Wolfe's audio logs, implying more blatantly each time that you have a connection to it.]]
** About 2/3 of the way through, Zeke starts coughing every now and then [[spoiler:because he contracted the plague]].
* ForTheEvulz: Evil Cole, the Beast, [[spoiler:both subvert this at the end.]]
* FriendshipMoment: Cole and Zeke get one when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiJDAAHHdo they drink beer and watch a movie together.]] When someone (likely Kuo) tries to call them they wordlessly agree that they'd rather ignore it and just relax. They even pull a platonic SleepCute on the couch.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
** [[spoiler:Though thankfully for Cole ''finally'' gets subverted in iF2's Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]
*** [[spoiler:Also subverted in one of the missions in iF2, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:The good ending of ''inFamous 2''. Sure, Cole kills himself (Or does he?) and every other Conduit in the world, but he saves humanity from the Beast and the plague at the same time.]]
* EasilyForgiven: Subverted. Though Zeke and Cole are back to being friends as of ''inFamous 2'', Zeke's betrayal of Cole is still brought up several times, and it's clear that Zeke has been working overtime to earn his forgiveness. As Cole says in the intro, he'd do anything to be friends like they used to be. It helps that he's also not a moocher this time.
* ElectricSlide: In ''inFamous 2'', there's some vertical power conduits on the sides of buildings Cole can grab to give himself a short launch upwards with. [[http://infamous.wikia.com/wiki/Lightning_Hook A pre-order power]] in [=iF 2=] allows him to hook onto enemies and pull them towards him.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: ''Infamous 2'' has a lightning storm roll in on the second to last mission, providing Cole with infinite recharges at any time by ''draining the storm itself''. At the end of this mission, Cole gets back the ability to call lightning bolts from the sky. This power now automatically targets the biggest enemy in the immediate vicinity and is usually enough to kill them in one hit.
* EliteMooks: ''Infamous 2'' does not have Conduits among the Militia, but they do have guys with high-powered sniper rifles and [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Heavy-like]] guys with machine guns. The Corruption doesn't have "elite mooks" so much as loads of minibosses that take a lot of cluster bombs or rockets to die. Vermaak 88 has "heavy" troopers with ray beams who like to create ice columns for themselves to stand upon, and a miniboss form of their own.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Beast ''is'' going to kill most of the population, [[spoiler: but they're all going to die from ray field radiation anyway, so he's using the normal humans to activate all the world's Conduits (who can metabolize the radiation) and save what's left.]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The very end of the good ending for implies that Cole might be NotQuiteDead. That lightning strike looked very [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Darkness-a-Light/InFamous2hint.png oddly shaped. Now if you consider the fact that Kessler, Cole from an alternate future, learned how to time-travel...]]
* EnemyCivilWar: The three major factions of enemies [[spoiler:have a common point of origin]], but they're dead set on killing one another (and you!).
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: All the various warring factions in the city end up (somewhat unintentionally) joining forces to defeat the Behemoth, which is actually Bertrand's true form]]. Also happens in both endings, where [[spoiler:the rebels and militia will fight side-by-side in a last-ditch attempt to either take down Cole and the Beast in the evil ending, or help Cole slow down the Beast in the good ending.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: In the good and canon ending, every single named character minus Zeke dies.]]
* EvilPaysBetter: ''Festival Of Blood'' gives Cole the ability to fly as a cloud of bats, for starters. It's extremely useful for map traversal, but powered by the blood of innocents. Cole only ''has'' to use it once or twice, but most players will be snacking on anyone nearby, all the time. Staking other vampires will also provide blood, but it's harder, more drawn out and risky, not to mention a little monotonous. WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere, there's no in-game punishment for biting an innocent, and it takes just [[EvilIsEasy the press of a button]]...
** Even better, there's a Trophy for feeding on 100 people.
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Ice Tower.
* {{Expy}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt4CzFW1Cg&feature=player_detailpage#t=519s There is one Vermaak 88 soldier]] with dialogue, dark suit, breathing sounds, and mannerisms that is reminiscent of [[StarWars Darth Vader]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kuo, who decides to let ThePlague and the Beast kill millions because she doesn't want to die. If you make the Good choice, Cole even calls out her rationalizations as selfish; she's acting out of fear. Hell, it's so blatant that in the Good ending, even ''she'' finally acknowledges it and urges Cole to activate the RFI once he's defeated her and the Beast.]]
* FantasticRacism: Bertrand ''really'' hates conduits, [[spoiler:probably because his powers revolve around [[BlessedWithSuck turning people]] -- [[BlessedWithSuck including]] ''[[BlessedWithSuck himself]]'' -- [[BlessedWithSuck into monsters]].]]
* FinalBossPreview: The game opens with Cole battling the Beast, then retreating to New Marias to lick his wounds and prepare for the rematch. Unusually for the trope, Cole is able to do a lot of damage to the Beast. It's just that the Beast can regenerate fairly easy.
* FireIceLightning: Nix, Kuo and Cole, respectively. Also, [[spoiler:John, Kuo and Cole.]]
* FiveFiveFive: Many numbers use this trope (most notably on the Militia's constant big-screen TV ads). The cellphone number Zeke gives for Cole is [=555-0127=]. (Probably not Cole's ''actual'' number, otherwise he might well have spent the final 1/3 of the game inundated with calls from admirers. Or maybe he has his phone on silent.)
* FlashStep / TeleportSpam: Nix can do this. Kuo's "flight" is half this; she turns into a wisp of mist that flies through the air at high speed.
** Most vampires in Festival of Blood, Cole included, can turn into either a swarm of bats or a wisp.
* {{Flight}}: This seems to be one of the more common Conduit powers. The newscast reports sightings of an old lady capable of flight, Kuo's ice powers (for some reason) also give her the ability to fly, [[spoiler:the female Conduit activated by the Beast late in the game discovers the power of flight, and Cole gains the ability to fly as part of his EleventhHourSuperPower power up in the good and evil final missions.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Late in the first game, John White explains [[spoiler:that he was right behind Cole when the Ray Sphere went off, the Ray Sphere being a device that creates a massive blast of energy that kills all normal people and unlocks the powers of all Conduits in range. Guess who turns out to be the [[TheAntiChrist Conduit Anti Christ]] in the second game.]]
** Furthermore, [[spoiler:when John disintegrated during the Ray Sphere's destruction, his eyes and mouth glow blue. In the ending cutscene, when Cole realizes he needs to fight the Beast, its silhouette is shown with a set of glowing blue eyes and mouth.]]
** John, please say more dramatic things about [[spoiler:the Beast in Wolfe's audio logs, implying more blatantly each time that you have a connection to it.]]
** About 2/3 of the way through, Zeke starts coughing every now and then [[spoiler:because he contracted the plague]].
* ForTheEvulz: Evil Cole, the Beast, [[spoiler:both subvert this at the end.]]
* FriendshipMoment: Cole and Zeke get one when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiJDAAHHdo they drink beer and watch a movie together.]] When someone (likely Kuo) tries to call them they wordlessly agree that they'd rather ignore it and just relax. They even pull a platonic SleepCute on the couch.
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--> [[spoiler:'''Zeke:''' Sometimes, I hear folks talking about Conduits and humans like they're totally different. That's bullshit. Because there ain't nobody with more humanity than Cole [=MacGrath=]. I love you, brother, and I'm sure gonna miss you.]]]]
* TheChessmaster: Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
** The second game soon makes it apparent that ''no'' amount of his training would have helped Cole against the Beast, meaning that most of the first game was a waste of effort on his part.
* ColorCodedElements: Kuo has icy blue powers while Nix has red fire powers, and which of these two he's more in tune with affects the color of his lightning.
* CombinationAttack: Cole can do this with Kuo or Nix.
* CompensatingForSomething: Moya discusses this trope in regards to Alden's tower, which is the single highest point on the map. The man did have daddy issues, after all.
* TheCorruption: "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
** The plague, which was present in the first game, has become even more of a threat; [[spoiler:it's become a humanity-extinguishing supervirus that will kill all humans who aren't awakened conduits if the RFI isn't used to cure it.]]
* CozyCatastrophe: [[spoiler:The evil ending, where the world falls apart as superhumans slowly inherit the earth.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The world is worse in the ''2'', as the chaos has expanded outside of Empire City, and the Beast only brings more destruction in its wake as it pursues Cole. This causes massive unemployment, the US military to withdraw from around the world, yet another world-wide economic collapse, and thus other countries refusing to give aid. Oh, and that [[ThePlague plague]] in the first game wasn't stopped by the quarantine at all, and is slowly spreading worldwide.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: The bad ending: Cole sides with John/The Beast to save all the conduits from the plague. At the cost of all ordinary humans' lives.]]
* DegradedBoss: Ravagers and Crushers are both bosses the first time you face them. Later on, they turn up as EliteMooks, and not alone.
* TheChessmaster: Kessler came off this way in the first game, but it's subverted in the sequel where a lot of things indicate his grand scheme is much more [[XanatosSpeedChess ad]] [[IndyPloy hoc]] than it first appears,[[spoiler: despite his knowledge of the future]], with nearly disasterous results. For example,[[spoiler: he's got no idea John is the one who becomes the Beast]], which at best leads to [[spoiler: the death of almost the entire East Coast in ''inFamous 2'']], and fails to give Cole the power needed to fight him by the end of the first game, which almost gets him killed at the start of the second. Hell, Kessler admits himself at one point he wasn't even sure that Cole ''would live through the initial Ray Sphere blast'' in the first place!
** The second game soon makes it apparent that ''no'' amount of his training would have helped Cole against the Beast, meaning that most of the first game was a waste of effort on his part.
* ColorCodedElements: Kuo has icy blue powers while Nix has red fire powers, and which of these two he's more in tune with affects the color of his lightning.
* CombinationAttack: Cole can do this with Kuo or Nix.
* CompensatingForSomething: Moya discusses this trope in regards to Alden's tower, which is the single highest point on the map. The man did have daddy issues, after all.
* TheCorruption: "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. Most or all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].
** The plague, which was present in the first game, has become even more of a threat; [[spoiler:it's become a humanity-extinguishing supervirus that will kill all humans who aren't awakened conduits if the RFI isn't used to cure it.]]
* CozyCatastrophe: [[spoiler:The evil ending, where the world falls apart as superhumans slowly inherit the earth.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The world is worse in the ''2'', as the chaos has expanded outside of Empire City, and the Beast only brings more destruction in its wake as it pursues Cole. This causes massive unemployment, the US military to withdraw from around the world, yet another world-wide economic collapse, and thus other countries refusing to give aid. Oh, and that [[ThePlague plague]] in the first game wasn't stopped by the quarantine at all, and is slowly spreading worldwide.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: The bad ending: Cole sides with John/The Beast to save all the conduits from the plague. At the cost of all ordinary humans' lives.]]
* DegradedBoss: Ravagers and Crushers are both bosses the first time you face them. Later on, they turn up as EliteMooks, and not alone.
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* ActionBomb: There are monsters that run up to you and explode in a blast of acid.
* AllThereInTheManual: The interquel comic explains why Moya, a major character in the first game, is entirely missing from the second.
* AlternateContinuity: ''InFAMOUS: Festival of Blood'' is most likely another as the entire story was a plot by Zeke in order to score with some chick until he was interrupted by Cole.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: ''2'' uses [[http://vimeo.com/25247517 "Ichioku Bun No Ichi No Shousetsu"]] by Uverworld as the theme song in Japan.
* AmbiguousSituation: Both the "good" and the "evil" paths have reasonable justifications for going down them.
* AndIMustScream:
** David from the interquel comic, who thanks to Kessler was transformed into a giant gray monster that sucks out the life force of anyone he touches, and of course [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has no mouth anymore.]]
** Between the first and second games, [[spoiler:John/The Beast suffered such a fate, as he was ripped apart ''molecule by molecule'' by the Ray Sphere exploding. Even after [[BackFromTheDead putting himself back together]], he tells Cole that he can ''still feel it.'']]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:John White, who after spending the first game trying to stop anyone from using the Ray Sphere more or less becomes a living one in the sequel. Though given the TimeyWimeyBall aspects of the story, John being the Beast also qualifies as a bit of a TomatoInTheMirror. On the other hand, Infamous Cole's ending plays it completely straight.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Cole''': The plague just sped up the inevitable: an evolutionary jump, Humanity giving way to Conduits. I had been given powers to save the world from this change. But now I stand at its center. '''I have become the Beast.''']]
* TheAntiChrist: [[spoiler:The Beast]], obviously.
** He even has the motifs in his human form. [[spoiler:As John, he's wearing a full red suit, has glowing red eyes, and has flames when he channels his powers.]]
* Artshift: ''2'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-infamous-2/701934 lost]] the ink spatter effect from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new.
** FridgeBrilliance: The first game is in a grimy city, the second is in a flooded one.
* AscendedMeme: Zeke's Honey Badger shirt in the second game.
* TheAtoner: As suggested in the ending of the first game and later explained in the interquel comics, [[spoiler:Zeke is trying to make up for his betrayal of Cole, if only so his friend will speak to him again.]] By the second game, [[spoiler:Cole and Zeke have made up, and are buddies once again.]]
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Behemoth and the Beast.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The Beast, aka John.]]
* BadPowersBadPeople: The series' ultimate example, though, is [[spoiler:Joseph Bertrand]].
* BagOfSpilling: Downplayed as Cole keeps the "alpha" versions of about half of his old powers. Unfortunately, he still has to absorb [[AppliedPhlebotinum Blast Cores]] to get the other half back, as he blew a lot of his power fighting the Beast.
* BeingGoodSucks / BetterLivingThroughEvil: Good karma nets you precise, efficient powers and makes it easier to [[VideogameCaringPotential spare/help civilians]]. Evil karma nets you flashy, destructive powers and it not only lets you ''kill random bystanders for experience'', but '''gives you short bursts of [[BottomlessMagazines unlimited ammunition]] whenever you [[CannibalismSuperpower eat someone's energy]]!''' [[spoiler: The good ending has you kill yourself, ''along with [[GenocideDilemma every other]] [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduit]]'', to save humanity. Albeit with Cole possibly surviving. The evil ending has [[AGodAmI you as the new Beast]], the God of all Conduits, and loved by all of them for saving them from the plague.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: There are two possible partners for Cole; a sensible and down to earth [[AnIcePerson ice-using]] lady or a wild [[PlayingWithFire fire-using]] chick. [[spoiler:It's reversed when the Betty does a FaceHeelTurn and the Veronica does a HeelFaceTurn. Nix's HeelFaceTurn is debatable, since she's ''only'' doing it out of revenge]].
BigBad: [[Spoiler: Bertrand]]
* BiggerBad: The Beast.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Hero end. Straight up. The Beast is dead, the plague is gone, and the world is saved. "The Demon of Empire City" is now hailed as the savior of New Marais. But Nix, Kuo, Cole, and every other Conduit on Earth were sacrificed to activate the Ray Field Inhibitor.]]
** [[spoiler:Hell, the Evil ending is pretty bittersweet: Cole joins the Beast in a desperate quest to save what little of humanity that can be saved without resorting to the RFI - i.e., the Conduits. In the process, he's forced to kill both Nix and Zeke - both of which cause him considerable anguish, if the frustrated screaming was any evidence. And then the Beast loses heart and admits that he's tired of killing people, even if it is for a good cause, so he transfers all his power to Cole so he can continue the plan; so, Cole is left to gather up the activated Conduits in New Marais and carry on through the United States, killing millions of ordinary human beings in the process- either through the Ray Field Blasts or through simple warfare... and it's only going to continue from there! Long story short, Cole has saved the Conduits, but in the process, he's become the Beast.]]
* BodyHorror: The transformation process into a swamp monster is not fast, pretty, or painless...
* BookEnds: The first thing the player does in ''inFamous'' is press Start, [[spoiler: which activates the Ray Sphere and makes Cole into a Conduit. The last thing the canon Hero ending of ''inFamous 2'' has you do is let go of all the shoulder buttons, activating the RFI and killing every Conduit alive, including Cole.]]
* BossInMookClothing: The second game has Ravagers, who burrow, fire homing sludge, will bum rush you, and [[MookMaker turn out]] [[GoddamnedBats lots of annoying dart-spewing larvae]] if you don't stay on top of them. Oh, and your normal attack just bounces off their head shields.
** Once you get Sticky Grenades, Ravagers go from dangerous to mildly annoying (and even that only because they nullify grenades stuck to them when they burrow, so killing them in one barrage is not certain). Particularly as their attack patterns has huge gaps during which Cole can recharge.
** Vermaak 88's Titans are invulnerable to the bolt attack, need dozens of rockets to the face before you can remove the face shield via [[PressXToNotDie Quick Time Event]] and then another dozen of rockets to the face to finally kill it. They of course don't just stand there and take a beating. They attack you with ice beams, throw several ice boulders at you, can generate ice spikes on the ground which also serve as protective wall, and heal themselves when you leave them alone for a few seconds.
*** Actually, the secret is to attack their arms: they're essentially Dust Men conduits with a quick-time event added in, but you don't need to reveal the weak point to kill them; it'll just take longer. Sticky Grenades are incredibly useful in this regard.
* BrokenAesop: ''Infamous 2'' has a fair amount of FantasticRacism in it, with one of the {{Big Bad}}s being a Strom Thurmond FictionalCounterpart who's constantly bleating that [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]] have to be [[FinalSolution exterminated for the good of humanity]]. Just before the final battle with him, Good Cole states that, "[[AmericanGunPolitics powers don't kill people. Oh no, it's the person behind the powers that kill people.]]" So far so good. Except, [[spoiler:the [[GenocideDilemma ultimate problem]] is that the same energy that empowers Conduits is lethal to non-Conduits. Cole has to either let the Beast KillAllHumans to activate every Conduit, or use the RFI to kill all Conduits and save humans. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Killing all the Conduits is considered the "Good" choice.]] And after that, [[UngratefulBastard humanity begins spreading rumors that Conduits were "different" from humans.]]]] The point may be that trying to apply normal human morality and ethics to superhumans is going to come up short.\\
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Despite that, Zeke himself gets a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome crowner]] that doubles as a [[TearJerker real tear jerker]] in the Good ending for both mentioning, and then throwing such things out the window.
--> [[spoiler:'''Zeke:''' Sometimes, I hear folks talking about Conduits and humans like they're totally different. That's bullshit. Because there ain't nobody with more humanity than Cole [=MacGrath=]. I love you, brother, and I'm sure gonna miss you.]]
