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King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillaisnousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape 18 years later and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
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King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillaisnousHarlequin [[VillainousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape 18 years later and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
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King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillainousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape 18 years later and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
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King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillainousHarlequin [[VillaisnousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape 18 years later and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: In the third game, Malcolm has a bad angel called Gunther who frequently appears to comment on his actions. The introduction shows that Malcolm's good angel, Stewart, ended up stucked under a stone, which may be why Malcolm became so nasty. Near the end of the game, Stewart shows up again and Malcolm can choose whether to keep just Gunther, just Stewart or to [[TakeAThirdOption choose]] [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil both]] since Malcolm himself doesn't care about morality, just wanting to [[ClearMyName Clear His Name]] so that he can finally go home and take a nap.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: In the third game, Malcolm has a bad angel called Gunther who frequently appears to comment on his actions. The introduction shows that Malcolm's good angel, Stewart, ended up stucked stuck under a stone, which may be why Malcolm became so nasty. Near the end of the game, Stewart shows up again and Malcolm can choose whether to keep just Gunther, just Stewart or to [[TakeAThirdOption choose]] [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil both]] since Malcolm himself doesn't care about morality, just wanting to [[ClearMyName Clear His Name]] so that he can finally go home and take a nap.
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** Played straight in ''Hand of Fate''. Not only is Zanthia just fine walking around Volcania, she can even stand directly on the lava (though only for a second).
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* XRaySparks: Happens to Zanthia in ''Hand of Fate'' if she touches the electricity generated by the mill.
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* SmoochOfVictory: [[spoiler:Zanthia and Marko have one when they defeat the Hand.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Queen Katherine appears as a ghost on her tombstone if Brandon drops a flower on it. Malcolm can do the same, but needs to drop two flowers. A BedsheetGhost (a bodyguard?) appears to Malcolm if he approaches the tombstone without those requirements. Pirate Jean-Claude Barbecue's boat also shows many ghosts in it if Malcolm messes around with the furniture inside.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Queen Katherine appears as a ghost on her tombstone if Brandon drops a flower on it. Malcolm can do the same, but needs to drop two flowers. A BedsheetGhost (a bodyguard?) appears to Malcolm if he approaches the tombstone without those requirements. requirements.
** Zanthia encounters a ghost in ''Hand of Fate'' -- one that she can store in a bottle and then use to animate a scarecrow.
** Pirate Jean-Claude Barbecue's boat also shows many ghosts in it if Malcolm messes around with the furniture inside.
** Zanthia encounters a ghost in ''Hand of Fate'' -- one that she can store in a bottle and then use to animate a scarecrow.
** Pirate Jean-Claude Barbecue's boat also shows many ghosts in it if Malcolm messes around with the furniture inside.
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-->'''Zanthia''': This is the worst knapsack I've ever had!
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* CreditsGag: In ''Hand of Fate'', the Narrator is credited as "His Royal Highness BRANDON, King of Kyrandia, Defender of the Kyragem, Vanquisher of Malcolm, [[LongList Patron of the Arts]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Wearer of the Sandal, and Majority Stock Owner and CEO of Timbermist Casual Footwear, Inc.]]"
** Additionally, The Hand is listed in every section of the voice credits with a different actor each time, despite having [[TheVoiceless no lines]].
** Additionally, The Hand is listed in every section of the voice credits with a different actor each time, despite having [[TheVoiceless no lines]].
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* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: Thanks to her magical wardrobe gem, Zanthia can change clothes instantaneously in ''Hand of Fate'' (and she frequently does).
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* ClothingDamage: Zanthia suffers it a couple of times in ''Hand of Fate''. It's never enough to really make her indecent, but it motivates her to use her magical wardrobe gem anyway.
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* PantyShot: Zanthia has a brief one in ''Hand of Fate'' when she jumps into the hot air vent.
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* CallBack: One of the ways Brandon can die in the first game is being swallowed whole by a slug. In the second game, if the slug tries to eat Zanthia, she grabs it by the tongue and scolds it.
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* CallBack: One of the ways Brandon can die in the first game is being swallowed whole by a slug. giant frog. In the second game, if the slug frog tries to eat Zanthia, she grabs it by the tongue and scolds it.
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King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillainousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
The second game is about Zanthia, a young female wizard who has been asked by the alchemists to go to the center of the Earth to retrieve a magical anchor since Kyrandia has been disappearing piece by piece. A giant [[WhiteGloves glove]], The Hand, seems to be behind all this.
The third game sets Malcolm, the BigBad of the first game, as the playing character. He has finally been freed from his [[TakenForGranite statue prison]] and seeks to clear his name from the crime of killing King William, if only so that he can finally get some sleep.
The second game is about Zanthia, a young female wizard who has been asked by the alchemists to go to the center of the Earth to retrieve a magical anchor since Kyrandia has been disappearing piece by piece. A giant [[WhiteGloves glove]], The Hand, seems to be behind all this.
The third game sets Malcolm, the BigBad of the first game, as the playing character. He has finally been freed from his [[TakenForGranite statue prison]] and seeks to clear his name from the crime of killing King William, if only so that he can finally get some sleep.
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King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillainousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape 18 years later and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
The second game is about Zanthia, a young femalewizard alchemist who has been asked is chosen by the alchemists her fellow mystics to go to the center of the Earth world to retrieve a magical anchor stone, since Kyrandia has been disappearing piece by piece. A giant [[WhiteGloves glove]], The Hand, seems to be behind all this.
The third game sets Malcolm, the BigBad of the first game, as theplaying central character. He has finally been freed from his [[TakenForGranite statue prison]] and seeks to clear his name from the crime of killing King William, if only so that he can finally get some sleep.
The second game is about Zanthia, a young female
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* EarWorm: Most of Frank Klepacki's output for Creator/WestwoodStudios; [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVNubbPiZAU Act on Instict]] is a big offender. The first game has the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c5QrnYYk3Y# t=5m35s first forest theme]].
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* LongSongShortSceneLongSongShortScene: The first game features [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9phSr8EVDY a rather long and catchy tune]] which plays in exactly one room in the entire game: the emerald room of Serpent's Grotto, which is completely optional. Most players never hear more than 10 seconds of it, if even that much.
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* LongSongShortSceneLongSongShortScene: LongSongShortScene: The first game features [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9phSr8EVDY a rather long and catchy tune]] which plays in exactly one room in the entire game: the emerald room of Serpent's Grotto, which is completely optional. Most players never hear more than 10 seconds of it, if even that much.
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* BrokenBridge: In the first installment, there are several broken bridges that stop you getting to the next area until you have completed a specific thing, ranging from an actual broken bridge that is repaired by an NPC to a frozen cave mouth and several bottomless pits.
* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes: [[BigBad Malcolm]] in the first game is fond of [[TakenForGranite turning people to stone]], but adds a cruel twist to this when he does it to Kallak by leaving his eyes un-stoned.
* CantYouReadTheSign: In ''Book 3: Malcolm's Revenge'', one section involves navigating sheer-faced cliffs and waterfalls, and the only way to go is up or down with the aid of certain items. There are signs posted on each screen that inform what items are not allowed ("No climbing shoes", "No [[ParasolParachute umbrellas]]", etc.) However, it's reverse psychology. The forbidden items are the items that will ''work''.
* CantYouReadTheSign: In ''Book 3: Malcolm's Revenge'', one section involves navigating sheer-faced cliffs and waterfalls, and the only way to go is up or down with the aid of certain items. There are signs posted on each screen that inform what items are not allowed ("No climbing shoes", "No [[ParasolParachute umbrellas]]", etc.) However, it's reverse psychology. The forbidden items are the items that will ''work''.
* CelestialBureaucracy: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'', Malcolm arrives in the lobby of such a bureaucracy and is made to wait in line behind a CaptainErsatz of ElvisPresley before he is able to progress to Hell.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In the first game, the protagonist is a classic heroic PrinceCharming. In the second, the protagonist is a PluckyGirl alchemist. In the third, the protagonist is an OmnicidalManiac.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: The first game has a puzzle in which there is a massive lava flow going under a bridge. Seemingly played only for drama, when your character begins to cross the bridge he catches fire and burns up painfully. To get through you need to find a scroll of freezing to turn the lava into ice.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: The first game has a puzzle in which there is a massive lava flow going under a bridge. Seemingly played only for drama, when your character begins to cross the bridge he catches fire and burns up painfully. To get through you need to find a scroll of freezing to turn the lava into ice.
* DarknessEqualsDeath: The first game featured a segment that plays the trope quite literally. Just before the darkness, you have access to a bush full of glowing fruit. You have to carry the fruit with you through a maze of caves so as to light them. But they can only be carried through three rooms. Go into a fourth room, and they literally burn out. And if you're caught in one of the caves when it's pitch black, it's game over. You need to find another such bush within the maze to keep going. Gets a little tricky at points because you can be at the point where the next move burns out your fruit, so most players save just before then just in case they take the wrong turn.
* EarWorm: Most of Frank Klepacki's output for Creator/WestwoodStudios; [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVNubbPiZAU Act on Instict]] is a big offender. The first game has the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c5QrnYYk3Y# t=5m35s first forest theme]].
* FingerTwitchingRevival: The series uses it in a [[TheStinger stinger]] at the end of the second game: Malcolm is freed from his [[TakenForGranite statue form]], but all we get to see is him twitching his finger.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: In the third game, Malcolm has a bad angel called Gunther who frequently appears to comment on his actions. The introduction shows that Malcolm's good angel, Stewart, ended up stucked under a stone, which may be why Malcolm became so nasty. Near the end of the game, Stewart shows up again and Malcolm can choose whether to keep just Gunther, just Stewart or both.
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* GiveMeYourInventoryItem: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'', you encounter a pirate who takes you prisoner and demands that you give him valuable items from your inventory. By this point in the game you have likely picked up a fair quantity of gemstones, and if you don't know the secret to getting past this part, you can end up giving them all to him without satisfying his demand. Instead, you have to give him the gold collar you acquired in the previous section, which he will promptly put on -- only to be yanked away by another antagonist, leaving you free to go.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: In the third game, Malcolm has a bad angel called Gunther who frequently appears to comment on his actions. The introduction shows that Malcolm's good angel, Stewart, ended up stucked under a stone, which may be why Malcolm became so nasty. Near the end of the game, Stewart shows up again and Malcolm can choose whether to keep just Gunther, just Stewart orboth.to [[TakeAThirdOption choose]] [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil both]] since Malcolm himself doesn't care about morality, just wanting to [[ClearMyName Clear His Name]] so that he can finally go home and take a nap.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: In the third game, Malcolm has a bad angel called Gunther who frequently appears to comment on his actions. The introduction shows that Malcolm's good angel, Stewart, ended up stucked under a stone, which may be why Malcolm became so nasty. Near the end of the game, Stewart shows up again and Malcolm can choose whether to keep just Gunther, just Stewart or
* HonestJohnsDealership: One of the salesmen on Volcania in ''Hand of Fate'' is like this. If you keep gathering seashells, coins, and starfish for him (not required and takes a long time), you eventually become so pissed off you punch him out.
* HundredPercentCompletion: The third game parodied the scorekeeping mechanic of other contemporary adventure games. The stated maximum score is 911, but the developers have admitted that they pulled the number out of thin air, and it is absolutely impossible to actually reach that score. Points are often awarded for completely irrevelant and nonsensical actions, such as ''tripping over a log''.
* ICantUseTheseThingsTogether: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'' this is taken to hilarious levels with the Malcolm and [[GoodAngelBadAngel Gunther's]] running commentary on the players decisions. Especially Malcolm's [[OverlyLongGag twenty-four different responses]] to eating a [[DoesNotLikeSpam Fish Cream Sandwich]].
* HundredPercentCompletion: The third game parodied the scorekeeping mechanic of other contemporary adventure games. The stated maximum score is 911, but the developers have admitted that they pulled the number out of thin air, and it is absolutely impossible to actually reach that score. Points are often awarded for completely irrevelant and nonsensical actions, such as ''tripping over a log''.
* ICantUseTheseThingsTogether: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'' this is taken to hilarious levels with the Malcolm and [[GoodAngelBadAngel Gunther's]] running commentary on the players decisions. Especially Malcolm's [[OverlyLongGag twenty-four different responses]] to eating a [[DoesNotLikeSpam Fish Cream Sandwich]].
* KillerRabbit: The Kyrandian Killer Squirrels. In the third installment, ''Malcolm's Revenge'', there's one on the very first screen--allowing you to produce one of the fastest Game Overs in video game history, simply by teasing the squirrel twice--at which point it'll leap at your face, kill you, and drag off your corpse to feed its young.
* LaughTrack: ''Malcolm's Revenge'' has what is presumably a parody of this: laughter will often occur after Malcolm's comments, regardless of whether they are intended to be funny. Thankfully, it can be disabled in the options menu.
* LimitedWardrobe: Zanthia, the protagonist of the second game, changes outfits frequently by means of a handy wardrobe gem on her belt. Some are just palette swaps of her normal outfit, but she also has a flower-print wrap dress, a casual hiking outfit, snow gear, and even a bathrobe/towel/fuzzy slippers combo. (It isn't a case of UnlimitedWardrobe, though, since near the end of the game she mentions that the gem is almost empty.)
* LongSongShortSceneLongSongShortScene: The first game features [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9phSr8EVDY a rather long and catchy tune]] which plays in exactly one room in the entire game: the emerald room of Serpent's Grotto, which is completely optional. Most players never hear more than 10 seconds of it, if even that much.
* MagicAmpersand: ''Fables & Fiends''
* LongSongShortSceneLongSongShortScene: The first game features [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9phSr8EVDY a rather long and catchy tune]] which plays in exactly one room in the entire game: the emerald room of Serpent's Grotto, which is completely optional. Most players never hear more than 10 seconds of it, if even that much.
* MagicAmpersand: ''Fables & Fiends''
* TheMaze:
** The first game has a particularly obnoxious maze midway through the game that forces you to repeatedly backtrack in order to have enough fire berries with you to light up otherwise dark rooms. The berries decay with each move you make, and if you don't have one when you enter a room, you instantly die. The only way to get more is through sparsely scattered bushes in the maze, but there is no way to know where they are beforehand, resulting in a lot of backtracking as you go back and forth fetching more light sources hoping to make it to the next bush before they all go out.
** ''Kyrandia 3'''s jungle maze also attained ScrappyLevel status. The navigation is completely unintuitive, and once in a while you get infested with fleas and scratch yourself to death.
** The first game has a particularly obnoxious maze midway through the game that forces you to repeatedly backtrack in order to have enough fire berries with you to light up otherwise dark rooms. The berries decay with each move you make, and if you don't have one when you enter a room, you instantly die. The only way to get more is through sparsely scattered bushes in the maze, but there is no way to know where they are beforehand, resulting in a lot of backtracking as you go back and forth fetching more light sources hoping to make it to the next bush before they all go out.
** ''Kyrandia 3'''s jungle maze also attained ScrappyLevel status. The navigation is completely unintuitive, and once in a while you get infested with fleas and scratch yourself to death.
* PolygonCeiling: ''The Legend of Kyrandia'' 1 and 2 were widely praised, while the 3rd got a mixed reception. Transition from painted to rendered backgrounds and objects was not the main peeve, but it definitely [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks affected the game atmosphere]]. The primitivism of models also did not help.
* RedHerring: In the first game you can find a "Piscata Rosea" item near the end.
* RevengeOfTheSequel: ''The Legend of Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge''
* RedHerring: In the first game you can find a "Piscata Rosea" item near the end.
* RevengeOfTheSequel: ''The Legend of Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge''
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* ShrineToSelf: In ''Fables and Fiends'' Malcom turns the Kyragem Vault into one of these, with portraits of himself and floor-to-ceiling mirrors. [[spoiler: The mirrors prove to be an [[AttackReflector unfortunate design choice...]]]]
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* SealedEvilInACan: ''Malcolm's Revenge'' has the player ''play as'' a Sealed Evil in a Can, who is rather dismayed to discover that being unsealed ''does not'' include getting his awesome magical powers of doom back, leaving him running around with no powers in a fantasy kingdom where everyone hates his guts.
* ShrineToSelf: In ''Fables and Fiends''Malcom Malcolm turns the Kyragem Vault into one of these, with portraits of himself and floor-to-ceiling mirrors. [[spoiler: The mirrors prove to be an [[AttackReflector unfortunate design choice...]]]]
* ShrineToSelf: In ''Fables and Fiends''
* SpringtimeForHitler:: In ''Book 3'', the protagonist Malcolm is summoned by the Fish Queen for a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Despite her enthusiasm for the game, she is exceptionally bad at it, and will always demand a rematch if Malcolm wins. Thus, you have to go out of your way to lose.
* TheStinger: ''Hand of Fate'': Oh, hey, it's the petrified Malcolm from the first game. Oh, hey, [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning storm]].
* TheStinger: ''Hand of Fate'': Oh, hey, it's the petrified Malcolm from the first game. Oh, hey, [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning storm]].
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Malcolm has a lot of this, considering he was blamed and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.
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* TenSecondFlashlight: The memorable Serpent's Grotto puzzle from the first game involves clever use of multiple disposable [[TenSecondFlashlight Ten Second Flashlights]]. Serpent's Grotto consists mostly of a series of caverns with glowing Fireberry bushes growing at strategic locations throughout. Warmth (from Brandon's hand) causes the berries to decay and lose their glow (a Fireberry continues to give off light for exactly three screens when held); when they're on the cold floor, the decay stops and the glow remains constant. So Brandon must explore the Grotto by dropping Fireberries on the floor to light up otherwise pitch-black rooms. Get caught in a room with no bush and no berries, and [[DarknessEqualsDeath the results are predictably unpleasant.]]
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Malcolm has a lot of this, considering he was blamed and imprisoned for a crime he didn'tcommit.commit.
* TowersOfHanoi: This is the last puzzle in ''Hand of Fate''.
* TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: The Kyragem, a powerful magical artifact. It is roughly as wide as a regular kitchen table and set into the ground. May not count since not only is it a powerful magical artifact, it's the powerful magical artifact that's the source of all the magic in the kingdom.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Malcolm has a lot of this, considering he was blamed and imprisoned for a crime he didn't
* TowersOfHanoi: This is the last puzzle in ''Hand of Fate''.
* TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: The Kyragem, a powerful magical artifact. It is roughly as wide as a regular kitchen table and set into the ground. May not count since not only is it a powerful magical artifact, it's the powerful magical artifact that's the source of all the magic in the kingdom.
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* VillainousHarlequin: Malcolm.
** In the third game he's less evil and more of a {{Jerkass}}.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of the potential deaths in the second game, if you eat and drink too much. Complete with passing out in the puddle of puke.
** In the third game he's less evil and more of a {{Jerkass}}.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of the potential deaths in the second game, if you eat and drink too much. Complete with passing out in the puddle of puke.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In ''The Legend of Kyrandia III'', Malcolm can hypnotize a squirrel to wear it as a hat, put a squirrel through a machine to turn it into a leather ball, or make a squirrel paste sandwich out of it. Even though the squirrels aren't exactly friendly in that game (click on them too many times and they kill you).
* VillainousHarlequin:Malcolm.
**Malcolm. In the third game he's less evil and more of a {{Jerkass}}.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of the potential deaths in the second game, if you eat and drink too much. Complete with passing out in the puddle ofpuke. puke.
* WelcomeToCorneria: Though largely played straight, ''Malcolm's Revenge'' does have one funny aversion. Try to make Malcolm eat a Fish Cream Sandwich and he’ll give you more than twenty-five different phrases culminating with something like [[BreakingTheFourthWall "Stop touching me with that damn thing!"]]
* VillainousHarlequin:
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of the potential deaths in the second game, if you eat and drink too much. Complete with passing out in the puddle of
* WelcomeToCorneria: Though largely played straight, ''Malcolm's Revenge'' does have one funny aversion. Try to make Malcolm eat a Fish Cream Sandwich and he’ll give you more than twenty-five different phrases culminating with something like [[BreakingTheFourthWall "Stop touching me with that damn thing!"]]
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* WhiteGloves: The Hand in ''Hand of Fate'' is an animated sentient giant white glove.
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* WhiteGloves: The Hand in ''Hand of Fate'' is an animated sentient giant white glove. It too was revealed to have belonged to a wizard near the midpoint of the game.
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* BallOfLightTransformation: In ''Fables and Fiends'', the purple spell from the amulet allows you to transform into a Will-O-Wisp (a group of purple, floating lights). You can float over things that have no ground, can travel in cavern rooms indefinitely (you light your own room, so cannot be hurt by the beings that lurk in the dark).
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* LifeImitatesArt: The photo album shows that Queen Catherine bears an uncanny resemblance to [[TheHouseOfWindsor Princess Diana]], right down to her being a commoner who married a royal. Then a few years later the real-life Princess Diana also died under tragic and suspicious circumstances. Creepy...
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: ''Hand of Fate'' has a pub full of these. Apparently they've reformed and now just sit around drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer]] and hosting Pirate Poetry Nights.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'', clicking on a tic-tac-toe board results in what is perhaps one of the game's greatest moments.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: ''Hand of Fate'' has a pub full of these. Apparently they've reformed and now just sit around drinking and hosting Pirate Poetry Nights.
** Drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer]].
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: ''Hand of Fate'' has a pub full of these. Apparently they've reformed and now just sit around drinking and hosting Pirate Poetry Nights.
** Drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer]].
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'', clicking on a tic-tac-toe board results in what is perhaps one of the game's greatest moments.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: ''Hand of Fate''ThenLetMeBeEvil: Malcolm has a pub full lot of these. Apparently they've reformed this, considering he was blamed and now just sit around drinking and hosting Pirate Poetry Nights.
** Drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer]].imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: ''Hand of Fate''
** Drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer]].
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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Zanthia has a spell for this.
** Not truly unlimited, since she does mention near the end of the game that the wardrobe gem she uses is running out of clothes. Still a pretty extensive set of outfits, though.
** Not truly unlimited, since she does mention near the end of the game that the wardrobe gem she uses is running out of clothes. Still a pretty extensive set of outfits, though.
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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Zanthia has a spell for this.
**this. Not truly unlimited, since she does mention near the end of the game that the wardrobe gem she uses is running out of clothes. Still a pretty extensive set of outfits, though.
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* AndIMustScream: In the first game, Malcolm turns lots of people [[TakenForGranite into stone]]. Kallak had it better... or worse - he had ''his eyes untouched''.
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* CallBack: One of the ways Brandon can die in the first game is being swallowed whole by a slug. In the second game, if the slug tries to eat Zanthia, she grabs it by the tongue and scolds it.
* CaptainErsatz:
* ChekhovsGun: In the second and third game. No spoilers, just mentioning that they exist is a major clue.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Brynn. She plays a major role in the first game. In the second game, she only appears in the opening cinematic and is sporadically mentioned later. In the third game, she is nowhere to be found and never mentioned.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Brynn. She plays a major role in the first game. In the second game, she only appears in the opening cinematic and is sporadically mentioned later. In the third game, she is nowhere to be found and never mentioned.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Brandon spends the majority of the first game complaining about his boots being uncomfortable. He seems to be fine with sandals though.
** In the third game, Malcolm has no magic powers.
* ForeignQueasine: Fish Cream Sandwiches are very popular in Kyrandia, and they look as disgusting as they sound. According to [[spoiler: The Voice of Reason]] they taste just as bad.
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* GoodLuckCharm: There's a horseshoe that acts as a lucky charm (and magnet), and it's a component in one of the potions.potions.
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** Not truly unlimited, since she does mention near the end of the game that the wardrobe gem she uses is running out of clothes. Still a pretty extensive set of outfits, though. though.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Though Malcolm is ultimately cleared of the charge of regicide, it was never revealed who, if anyone, arranged William and Katherine's demise.]]
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Though Malcolm is ultimately cleared of the charge of regicide, it was never revealed who, if anyone, arranged William and Katherine's demise.]]
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: After finding her spellbook from first year of magician's school, Zanthia derides the sparse collection of "kiddie potions" inside. They turn out to be exactly what she needs to succeed in her adventure.
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An AdventureGame trilogy made by Creator/WestwoodStudios. It consists of the following titles:
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book One: Fables and Fiends (1992)
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Two: Hand of Fate (1993)
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge (1994)
The series happen in a HighFantasy setting, in the fictional land of Kyrandia.
King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillainousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
The second game is about Zanthia, a young female wizard who has been asked by the alchemists to go to the center of the Earth to retrieve a magical anchor since Kyrandia has been disappearing piece by piece. A giant [[WhiteGloves glove]], The Hand, seems to be behind all this.
The third game sets Malcolm, the BigBad of the first game, as the playing character. He has finally been freed from his [[TakenForGranite statue prison]] and seeks to clear his name from the crime of killing King William, if only so that he can finally get some sleep.
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Tropes include:
* BagOfSpilling: Lampshaded.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Met by Zanthia in the second game. He falls in love with her when she dresses up as a yeti. He has a jacuzzi, a bar and barbells in his home cave.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: In the Grotto cave maze of the first game, should Brandon be unfortunate enough to walk into an unlit room, he will be killed by a horde of monsters, but all the player sees is a bunch of glowing eyes converging on the same spot in the dark.
* CannibalTribe: Met by Zanthia in the second game. It's a good thing they enjoy sandwiches more than "Mystic soup".
* CatsAreMean: Subverted in the third game. Anthropomorphic cats are reduced to slavery by mean anthropomorphic dogs.
* ClearMyName: [[spoiler:Malcolm in ''Malcolm's Revenge'', accused of murdering King William and Queen Katherine. In ''Fables and Fiends'', his strategy seems to be "take over the kingdom and cause lot of ruckus" while he does it a bit more seriously in the last game.]]
* CoolBoat: Subverted in ''Malcolm's Revenge''. Jean-Claude Barbecue's boat looks really lame. On the cover, it looks more like a traditional "pirate ship".
* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of ''Fables and Fiends'' shows Malcolm spying on Brandon who reads a scroll while being accompanied by a shiny blue-green fairy being. This latter character does NOT appear in the game.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: The "Dark forest" areas in ''Fables and Fiends''. Even lampshaded by Brandon.
* EnemyMime: One that will kill Malcolm if provoked.
* EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Malcolm kills a squirrel by blowing up a tree in the first game's intro. Squirrels are featured more prominently in the third game. In the first screen, there is a squirrel in the dump and if Malcolm tries to annoy it too much by speaking to it, it will kill ''him'' and drag his corpse. He can also bait it and [[spoiler: hypnotise it to paralysis so he can carry it as a hat or wake it up in a parlour to cause havock.]]
** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential ...Or feed it to a dragon, or cram it into a toy-making machine and turn it into a leather ball, or...]]
*** ... put it inside a magic cauldron to make a potion that turns momentarily whoever drinks it into a humanoid squirrel or put it inside a sandwich machine to make... squirrel cream sandwich!
* EvilSorcerer: Malcolm, who strangely enough, has become such a powerful wizard that the others in the realm can hardly stand up to him. And he is a ''jester''.
** He also controls the source of all the magic in the land and denied the other wizards access for years upon years.
* FishPeople: Malcolm meets many of them in the Kingdom of Limbo in the third game. There are also [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merfolk]] around.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: In the third game, Malcolm has a bad angel called Gunther who frequently appears to comment on his actions. The introduction shows that Malcolm's good angel, Stewart, ended up stucked under a stone, which may be why Malcolm became so nasty. Near the end of the game, Stewart shows up again and Malcolm can choose whether to keep just Gunther, just Stewart or both.
* GuideDangIt: The games don't give you a clue on several of the puzzles.
* HaveANiceDeath: Kind of subverted. Whenever Brandon, Zanthia or Malcolm dies, there is a screen that says ''"Rest in peace, [name of player]..."''.
* HeadPet: Malcolm can use a hypnotized squirrel as a hat for disguise.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Malcolm near the end of ''Malcolm's Revenge'']].
* HeliumSpeech: ''Malcolm's Revenge'' had an sound option that made every character's voice squeaky and high-pitched.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Malcolm is turned into a statue by his own reflecting spell in the end of ''Fables and Fiends'']].
* KickTheDog: Malcolm kills a squirrel in the first game's intro just for fun. Not to mention he destroys dozens of trees just for the heck of it.
* LaResistance: On the Isle of Cats in the third game, there is a cat resistance leader called Fluffy fighting against the dog invaders.
* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: At the end of ''Fables and Fiends'', Brandon has to defeat Malcolm [[spoiler: by having him shoot his petrifying spell on a mirror... leading himself to be HoistByHisOwnPetard.]]
* LightningCanDoAnything: Malcolm gets freed from his statue spell by a thunderbolt in the opening of ''Malcolm's Revenge''.
** Strongly alluded to by the [[TheStinger after-the-credits clip]] of ''Hand of Fate''. In fact, the leap from lushious hand-painted 2D to very early and primitive pre-rendered 3D shows off the [[OffModel major art derailment]].
* TheMagicGoesAway: When Malcolm is defeated in the first game's ending.
* MineralMacGuffin: The Kyragem in the first game.
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%%-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8JgHGaiKDM&fmt=18 The key fit, but did it work?]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Brandywine is a purple female dragon who is the companion of Darm. She is a friendly character, whether it be to Brandon or Malcolm. She likes to eat squirrels and dislikes being forced to eat only knights who are "hard to peel".
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Queen Katherine appears as a ghost on her tombstone if Brandon drops a flower on it. Malcolm can do the same, but needs to drop two flowers. A BedsheetGhost (a bodyguard?) appears to Malcolm if he approaches the tombstone without those requirements. Pirate Jean-Claude Barbecue's boat also shows many ghosts in it if Malcolm messes around with the furniture inside.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: In the Kingdom of Limbo are mainly FishPeople, but also a few Merfolk who stay around the Queen.
* PaperThinDisguise: Malcolm can dress up with just a leather coat or a squirrel hat, and some characters like the Fish Cream Bar bartender, Darm and Vince will not recognize him. Zanthia is harder to fool, as both the coat and squirrel hat are required for her to mistake Malcolm as a Farmer called Brown.
* ScaryScarecrows: Not a scary one. Zanthia makes a scarecrow come to life in ''Hand of Fate'', causing his owner to pursue him through the fields and he is later found in a bar brawl.
* ScoringPoints: ''Malcolm's Revenge'' gives points both for solving puzzles and for finding interesting ways to mess around with people and objects, but the points are quite useless and mostly serve as extra humor.
* ShrineToSelf: In ''Fables and Fiends'' Malcom turns the Kyragem Vault into one of these, with portraits of himself and floor-to-ceiling mirrors. [[spoiler: The mirrors prove to be an [[AttackReflector unfortunate design choice...]]]]
* TakenForGranite: Malcolm turns a lot of characters into stone in ''Fables and Fiends''. Strangely enough, he can also decide which part of the body to not be transformed, as he does with Kallak's eyes.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'', clicking on a tic-tac-toe board results in what is perhaps one of the game's greatest moments.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: ''Hand of Fate'' has a pub full of these. Apparently they've reformed and now just sit around drinking and hosting Pirate Poetry Nights.
** Drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer]].
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Several of the puzzles, including the mazes from the first and the third games.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Zanthia has a spell for this.
** Not truly unlimited, since she does mention near the end of the game that the wardrobe gem she uses is running out of clothes. Still a pretty extensive set of outfits, though.
* UnwinnableByDesign: In ''Fables and Fiends'', if you [[spoiler: eat both of your apples before putting them to use, or if you go to the castle island without the iron key, royal chalice and a flower]]
* VillainousHarlequin: Malcolm.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of the potential deaths in the second game, if you eat and drink too much. Complete with passing out in the puddle of puke.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Okay, just how the heck did the [[spoiler:Enchanted Knife happen to be with William and Malcolm? Malcolm thinks about it when exploring an old temple on Cat Island and suspects Kallak may be the one behind all this]], but it is never given a conclusion.
* WhiteGloves: The Hand in ''Hand of Fate'' is an animated sentient giant white glove.
* WorldOfPun: At least in the second game, especially with some of the spell ingredients.
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An AdventureGame trilogy made by Creator/WestwoodStudios. It consists of the following titles:
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book One: Fables and Fiends (1992)
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Two: Hand of Fate (1993)
* The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge (1994)
The series happen in a HighFantasy setting, in the fictional land of Kyrandia.
King William and Queen Katherine have been murdered by the [[VillainousHarlequin court jester]], Malcolm. Imprisoned, he manages to escape and proceeds to take over Kyrandia using his great magic powers. Meanwhile, Brandon, a young man living in the forest with his grandfather Kallak, finds out that he is the son of the murdered king and queen, and that he must stop Malcolm from his evil designs and retrieve the [[MineralMacGuffin Kyragem]], center of the balance of nature. In order to do this, he must gather magic powers himself from the Mystics of the Kingdom.
The second game is about Zanthia, a young female wizard who has been asked by the alchemists to go to the center of the Earth to retrieve a magical anchor since Kyrandia has been disappearing piece by piece. A giant [[WhiteGloves glove]], The Hand, seems to be behind all this.
The third game sets Malcolm, the BigBad of the first game, as the playing character. He has finally been freed from his [[TakenForGranite statue prison]] and seeks to clear his name from the crime of killing King William, if only so that he can finally get some sleep.
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Tropes include:
* BagOfSpilling: Lampshaded.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Met by Zanthia in the second game. He falls in love with her when she dresses up as a yeti. He has a jacuzzi, a bar and barbells in his home cave.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: In the Grotto cave maze of the first game, should Brandon be unfortunate enough to walk into an unlit room, he will be killed by a horde of monsters, but all the player sees is a bunch of glowing eyes converging on the same spot in the dark.
* CannibalTribe: Met by Zanthia in the second game. It's a good thing they enjoy sandwiches more than "Mystic soup".
* CatsAreMean: Subverted in the third game. Anthropomorphic cats are reduced to slavery by mean anthropomorphic dogs.
* ClearMyName: [[spoiler:Malcolm in ''Malcolm's Revenge'', accused of murdering King William and Queen Katherine. In ''Fables and Fiends'', his strategy seems to be "take over the kingdom and cause lot of ruckus" while he does it a bit more seriously in the last game.]]
* CoolBoat: Subverted in ''Malcolm's Revenge''. Jean-Claude Barbecue's boat looks really lame. On the cover, it looks more like a traditional "pirate ship".
* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of ''Fables and Fiends'' shows Malcolm spying on Brandon who reads a scroll while being accompanied by a shiny blue-green fairy being. This latter character does NOT appear in the game.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: The "Dark forest" areas in ''Fables and Fiends''. Even lampshaded by Brandon.
* EnemyMime: One that will kill Malcolm if provoked.
* EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Malcolm kills a squirrel by blowing up a tree in the first game's intro. Squirrels are featured more prominently in the third game. In the first screen, there is a squirrel in the dump and if Malcolm tries to annoy it too much by speaking to it, it will kill ''him'' and drag his corpse. He can also bait it and [[spoiler: hypnotise it to paralysis so he can carry it as a hat or wake it up in a parlour to cause havock.]]
** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential ...Or feed it to a dragon, or cram it into a toy-making machine and turn it into a leather ball, or...]]
*** ... put it inside a magic cauldron to make a potion that turns momentarily whoever drinks it into a humanoid squirrel or put it inside a sandwich machine to make... squirrel cream sandwich!
* EvilSorcerer: Malcolm, who strangely enough, has become such a powerful wizard that the others in the realm can hardly stand up to him. And he is a ''jester''.
** He also controls the source of all the magic in the land and denied the other wizards access for years upon years.
* FishPeople: Malcolm meets many of them in the Kingdom of Limbo in the third game. There are also [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merfolk]] around.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: In the third game, Malcolm has a bad angel called Gunther who frequently appears to comment on his actions. The introduction shows that Malcolm's good angel, Stewart, ended up stucked under a stone, which may be why Malcolm became so nasty. Near the end of the game, Stewart shows up again and Malcolm can choose whether to keep just Gunther, just Stewart or both.
* GuideDangIt: The games don't give you a clue on several of the puzzles.
* HaveANiceDeath: Kind of subverted. Whenever Brandon, Zanthia or Malcolm dies, there is a screen that says ''"Rest in peace, [name of player]..."''.
* HeadPet: Malcolm can use a hypnotized squirrel as a hat for disguise.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Malcolm near the end of ''Malcolm's Revenge'']].
* HeliumSpeech: ''Malcolm's Revenge'' had an sound option that made every character's voice squeaky and high-pitched.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Malcolm is turned into a statue by his own reflecting spell in the end of ''Fables and Fiends'']].
* KickTheDog: Malcolm kills a squirrel in the first game's intro just for fun. Not to mention he destroys dozens of trees just for the heck of it.
* LaResistance: On the Isle of Cats in the third game, there is a cat resistance leader called Fluffy fighting against the dog invaders.
* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: At the end of ''Fables and Fiends'', Brandon has to defeat Malcolm [[spoiler: by having him shoot his petrifying spell on a mirror... leading himself to be HoistByHisOwnPetard.]]
* LightningCanDoAnything: Malcolm gets freed from his statue spell by a thunderbolt in the opening of ''Malcolm's Revenge''.
** Strongly alluded to by the [[TheStinger after-the-credits clip]] of ''Hand of Fate''. In fact, the leap from lushious hand-painted 2D to very early and primitive pre-rendered 3D shows off the [[OffModel major art derailment]].
* TheMagicGoesAway: When Malcolm is defeated in the first game's ending.
* MineralMacGuffin: The Kyragem in the first game.
%% The video is misplaced. Probably was stuck to some other trope. Move where appropriate.
%%-->[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8JgHGaiKDM&fmt=18 The key fit, but did it work?]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Brandywine is a purple female dragon who is the companion of Darm. She is a friendly character, whether it be to Brandon or Malcolm. She likes to eat squirrels and dislikes being forced to eat only knights who are "hard to peel".
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Queen Katherine appears as a ghost on her tombstone if Brandon drops a flower on it. Malcolm can do the same, but needs to drop two flowers. A BedsheetGhost (a bodyguard?) appears to Malcolm if he approaches the tombstone without those requirements. Pirate Jean-Claude Barbecue's boat also shows many ghosts in it if Malcolm messes around with the furniture inside.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: In the Kingdom of Limbo are mainly FishPeople, but also a few Merfolk who stay around the Queen.
* PaperThinDisguise: Malcolm can dress up with just a leather coat or a squirrel hat, and some characters like the Fish Cream Bar bartender, Darm and Vince will not recognize him. Zanthia is harder to fool, as both the coat and squirrel hat are required for her to mistake Malcolm as a Farmer called Brown.
* ScaryScarecrows: Not a scary one. Zanthia makes a scarecrow come to life in ''Hand of Fate'', causing his owner to pursue him through the fields and he is later found in a bar brawl.
* ScoringPoints: ''Malcolm's Revenge'' gives points both for solving puzzles and for finding interesting ways to mess around with people and objects, but the points are quite useless and mostly serve as extra humor.
* ShrineToSelf: In ''Fables and Fiends'' Malcom turns the Kyragem Vault into one of these, with portraits of himself and floor-to-ceiling mirrors. [[spoiler: The mirrors prove to be an [[AttackReflector unfortunate design choice...]]]]
* TakenForGranite: Malcolm turns a lot of characters into stone in ''Fables and Fiends''. Strangely enough, he can also decide which part of the body to not be transformed, as he does with Kallak's eyes.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: In ''Malcolm's Revenge'', clicking on a tic-tac-toe board results in what is perhaps one of the game's greatest moments.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: ''Hand of Fate'' has a pub full of these. Apparently they've reformed and now just sit around drinking and hosting Pirate Poetry Nights.
** Drinking [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer]].
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Several of the puzzles, including the mazes from the first and the third games.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Zanthia has a spell for this.
** Not truly unlimited, since she does mention near the end of the game that the wardrobe gem she uses is running out of clothes. Still a pretty extensive set of outfits, though.
* UnwinnableByDesign: In ''Fables and Fiends'', if you [[spoiler: eat both of your apples before putting them to use, or if you go to the castle island without the iron key, royal chalice and a flower]]
* VillainousHarlequin: Malcolm.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of the potential deaths in the second game, if you eat and drink too much. Complete with passing out in the puddle of puke.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Okay, just how the heck did the [[spoiler:Enchanted Knife happen to be with William and Malcolm? Malcolm thinks about it when exploring an old temple on Cat Island and suspects Kallak may be the one behind all this]], but it is never given a conclusion.
* WhiteGloves: The Hand in ''Hand of Fate'' is an animated sentient giant white glove.
* WorldOfPun: At least in the second game, especially with some of the spell ingredients.
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