History VideoGame / Puppetshow

Additionally, the Puppetmaster is one of the characters who interacts with the player in the CrisisCrossover spinoff series ''Worlds Align''. He joins C. Auguste Dupin of the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' and the Cardinal from ''Haunted Halls'' to work with the player to stop a great evil threatening all of the game worlds.

* TheDollEpisode: More like the Doll ''Game''.

* NiceHat:
** In ''Destiny Undone'', the detective can find instructions to make different types of hats for their Spider-head doll.
** The hint system for the games starting with ''Lightning Strikes'' is a stylish top hat. It even has a blinking meter at its side.

* AdultFear: In every game there's some poor innocent child in danger.
** ''Mystery of Joyville'': Your child was kidnapped and is going to be used by a mad puppeteer and have their very soul transferred into a doll. [[spoiler: And then the doll will have its screws removed, essentially ''killing them''.]]
*** The game also has an example by way of its BigBad, the Puppet Master, [[spoiler:and his daughter Felicia]]. Imagine that you made your entire life devoted to helping and entertaining children, to the point that it's become your whole life. [[spoiler:Now imagine your own daughter in an accident, leaving half her face brutally scarred up and severely injured.]] You devote your life from that point to helping [[spoiler:her]] in secret, and betray the very children who used to laugh during your performances and cheer on your puppet shows. Now imagine [[spoiler:your daughter is slowly becoming more and more twisted and cruel, intentionally sabotaging your own methods of saving her, and intentionally sabotaging it so you kill more of the children who used to love you]]. That's what it feels like to be the main villain of the first game.
** ''Souls of the Innocent'': While you're asleep, the cute doll your child got will steal their soul to revive someone else's youth. If the soul's not back in three days, the child will never wake up.
** ''Lost Town:'' A crazed person whose still bent on getting their youth back will essentially kidnap your child and hope that they will switch bodies.
** ''Return to Joyville:'' Your child will somehow get caught up in a madman's scheme to burn a building to the ground and thus accidentally render themselves burned and crippled.
** ''Destiny Undone:'' [[spoiler: Your child will block a blow of acid meant for you, scarring her for life.]]
** ''Lightning Strikes:'' A maniacal life-size puppet will kidnap an innocent child right in front of your eyes taking them to who knows where. Also, [[spoiler:your little brother is treated like a slave by a man who ''adopted'' him in a scheme to marry you.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The green haired puppeteer in ''Destiny Undone's'' log-in screen.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Cricks, the deranged former puppet master, is revealed to the one behind the tragic theater accident in ''Return to Joyville'' and nearly kills the Puppetmaster and scars Felicia with acid in ''Destiny Undone''. His escape sets him up as the series's real BigBad in future games.]]

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: "Puppet" is the term for most of the strange dolls, mannequins and what-not found throughout the games.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The main character rides one of these in the beginning of ''Lightning Strikes'' along with the zeppelin's owner, Froissert. [[spoiler: With Froissert dead in the bonus chapter, it rightfully belongs to you.]]

* HundredPercentCompletion: ''Lightning Strikes'' will feature achievements that act like this.

* AddressingThePlayer: If the player collected all ten dolls in ''Destiny Undone's'' Collector Edition, the Puppetmaster will thank the player for giving him and Felicia a happy ending and states that while Joyville's story is over, there will be more adventures in store.

*** The game also has an example by way of its BigBad, the Puppet Master, [[spoiler:and his daughter Felicia]]. Imagine that you made your entire life devoted to helping and entertaining children, to the point that it's become your whole life. [[spoiler:Now imagine your own daughter in an accident, leaving half her face brutally scarred up and severely injured.]] You devote your life from that point to helping [[spoiler:her]] in secret, and betray the very children who used to laugh during your performances and cheer on your puppet shows. Now imagine [[spoiler:your daughter is slowly becoming more and more twisted and cruel, intentionally sabotaging your own methods of saving her, and intentionally sabotaging it so you kill more of the children who used to love you]]. That's what it feels like to be the main villain of the first Puppet Show game.
** ''Souls of the Innocent'': While you're asleep, the cute doll your child got will steal their soul to revive someone's youth. If the soul's not back in three days, the child will never wake up.

* AxCrazy: Evil Felicia of the first three games, [[spoiler: Cricks in ''Return to Joyville'' and ''Destiny Undone.'']]

* {{Macguffin}}: The mysterious ''Magic Puppet'' that hails from Ancient Egypt. It's featured in every game started from ''Lightning Strike'' but it is currently unknown if all of them are the same one or not.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Felicia starts appearing like this staring in ''Souls of the Innocent'', and others appear in ''The Cost Immortality'' and the upcoming ''Her Cruel Collection''

* MusicalNod: The music played on the phonograph in ''Lightning Strikes'' can be a track from either ''Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue'', or ''Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Premature Burial'' both made by ERS. Fitting in that the Dark Tales series takes place in France.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The main character rides one of these in the beginning of ''Lightning Strikes'' along with the zeppelin's owner, Froissert. [[spoiler: With Froissert dead in the bonus chapter, it rightfully belongs to you.]]
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* WomanInWhite: The main character encounters a strange human-sized puppet all dressed in white in ''Lightning Strikes''. [[spoiler: That happens to be Marianna, Alessandro's beloved.]]