History VideoGame / TheNeverhood

* SchmuckBait: The BottomlessPit is [[PressXToDie clearly labeled as such]] by no less than 3 signposts.
%% ** Also: [[spoiler:"Klaaaayman, up here!"]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pulling a lever inside the Hall of Records shows [[spoiler:moving glyphs of a giant robot having its head blown off by a cannon, foreshadowing Big Robot Bil's fate.]]

* EveryoneIsRelated: Aside from robots and animals, [[spoiler:everyone present within the game falls under this. Klaymen and Klogg are brothers, Willie Trombone is their cousin (due to his father Ottoborg being Hoborg's brother) and Hoborg could be considered Klaymen and Klogg's father because, well, he created them.]]

** If you wait too long to make the LastSecondEndingChoice, Klogg tells Klaymen to take his time, as he can wait as long as Klaymen can.

* TakeAThirdOption: This is actually the solution to one of the [[MoonLogicPuzzle Moon Logic Puzzles]]. Near the end of the game, you come across a room with five ceiling rings and a flytrap, nigh-identical to the room in the Nursery. There is a door to the right, but it's blocked by spikes and a drawbridge. One of the rings lowers the drawbridge, and one removes the spikes, but there is only one flytrap to hold a ring down and make the choice stick. The solution? [[spoiler: Hang from the rightmost ring and fall into the flytrap, which will spit you out to the other side of the door.]]

* MeaningfulName: Klogg. Which is pronounced like "clog". Hoborg was ''going'' to create more friends for him and Klogg, but since Klogg [[spoiler: stole Hoborg's crown, which he needed to be alive and moving]], all further creations by Hoborg are stopped up.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pulling a lever inside the Hall of Records shows [[spoiler:moving glyphs of a giant robot having its head blown off by a cannon...]]

* BookEnds: The game begins in a big empty room with a door, and a one-way path to a room with ring switches and a flytrap. The final puzzle features [[spoiler:more rings and flytraps, and it's a one-way path to a big empty room with a door.]]

%% * BiggerOnTheInside: The Hall of Records.

* BookEnds: The game begins with Klaymen waking up alone. The game ends with Klaymen waking up [[spoiler:surrounded by new friends.]]

Many years later, the original creators came back together to create a sort of reboot (maybe; it seems, in fact, to have very little to do with the original): ''Return to the Neverhood'', a comic and album, both of which can be bought (digitally) [[https://danielamosboots.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-the-neverhood here]].

%% * GiantRobot: Bil, and the Clockwork Beast.

%% * LargeHam: Klogg, quite obviously. "I DECLARE MYSELF KLOGG, ''RULER'' OF THE NEVERHOOD!"

%% * SchmuckBait: See BottomlessPit.

** One could probably guess that Ogdilla's section is an Expy of ''[[Literature/GulliversTravels Gulliver's Travels]]''... (...Or maybe Aloh Al's diary too is this)

* BrickJoke: There's a joke in the Hall of Records that doesn't pay off unless you read the whole thing -- it's the same story told from two wildly differing perspectives.

* MinimalistCast: Within the game itself, there are only about seven characters who contribute to the plot in a worthwhile way. However, the game's lore discusses several other characters not present in the game, subverting this trope. Also, [[spoiler:this is subverted in the game's GoodEnding, where Hoborg creates several more creations to act as friends for Klaymen.]]

* BookEnds: The game begins and ends with Klaymen waking up.

* BiblicalMotifs: The "Making Of" commentary outright admits that most of the story's plot is based on that of the Bible.

* CurseCutShort: Klogg, moments before his defeat. Although given how is defeated, perhaps he was going to say "Son of a gun!"

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* GaidenGame: The Japanese publishers of the game made one, called ''Klaymen Gun-Hockey''. Klogg comes back (again) and challenges everyone to air hockey played with guns. [[WidgetSeries As if the original games weren't weird enough...]]

* DevelopersForesight: Throughout the game, Willie will provide you with hints in the Nursery. When [[spoiler:he is thrown off the Neverhood by Klogg, you can go back to the Nursery to find Klogg sending you notes instead.]]

* CainAndAbel: Klogg being Klaymen's quintessential evil older brother. Although the evil did come before he even HAD a brother.

* EveryoneIsRelated: Aside from robots and animals, [[spoiler:everyone present within the game falls under this. Klaymen and Klogg are brothers due to being Hoborg's "children", Willie Trombone is their cousin due to his father being Hoborg's brother and Hoborg could be considered Klaymen and Klogg's father because, well, he created them.]]