History VideoGame / ThomasWasAlone

** [[spoiler: 11.9, the penultimate level of the DLC, has Benjamin travelling through a maze. You will probably get lost a few times, fitting considering the fact that Benjamin is blind isn't revealed until about halfway through.]]

* [[spoiler:BattleintheRain: 9.9 is raining and even includes a "cliff face" for extra drama during the confrontation between Paul and Grey.]]

* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The programmers and staff who are quoted from time to time. When Thomas and co. dissolve themselves into the data stream, they lock up the company and walk away, having no idea what's going to happen next. It's also played with too; some discuss the events clinically and historically while one grumbles that if they had done things properly, he wouldn't be out of a job.]]

* [[spoiler:PowersAsPrograms: The zones in Generation and Y+1,X+1 that give the grey rectangles powers.]]

* [[spoiler:TheSingularity: From the blurbs written at the beginning of the chapters, the narrative can be gleaned that Thomas and Co. gave the other [=AIs=] in their system the chance to escape it and awaken in the real world. In fact, one of the narrations is from an [=AI=] who's a rights activist and cites Thomas's sacrifice as the beginning of their existence]].

* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist: Grey is one of the playable characters.]]

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Benjamin is left blinded, and will likely not return home any time soon. Also, the Pixel Clouds are now unleashed upon the world.]]

* [[spoiler:IcarusAllusion: Benjamin takes his father's invention, flies too close to the light of the Fountain, and is blinded by the Internet.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Most of the AI rectangles are very sweet, but Chris is a little abrasive, Sarah and John suffer from superiority complexes and Grey is downright evil. The Pixel Clouds are also shown to be intelligent, and are treated as EldritchAbomination HeroKiller monsters.

* ActionSurvivor: A variant. [[spoiler:Sam and Jo get through dangerous environments, Grey's [[It'sAllAboutMe It's All About Me]] villainy, and the [[EldritchAbomination Pixel Cloud]] to escape the system.]]

* ActionSurvivor: A variant. [[spoiler:Sam and Jo get through dangerous environments, Grey's [[It'sAllAboutMe]] villainy, and the [[EldritchAbomination Pixel Cloud]] to escape the system.]]

* ActionSurvivor: A variant. [[spoiler:Sam and Jo get through dangerous environments, Grey's It'sAllAboutMe villainy, and the [[EldritchAbomination Pixel Cloud]] to escape the system.]]

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Purge has the original five characters being eaten by the pixel cloud one-by-one, starting with [[TheHeroDies Thomas]] and ending with John.]] Another Downplayed example occurs in [[spoiler:'X+1, Y+1', where Team Jump is sent to safety, Grey the Liar is eaten by the Pixel Cloud, and Paul's fate after confronting Grey in 9.9 is unknown, leaving Jo and Sam as the first AIs to gain access to the outer world.]]

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Purge has the original five characters being eaten by the pixel cloud one-by-one, starting with [[TheHeroDies Thomas]] and ending with John.]] Another example occurs in [[spoiler:'X+1, Y+1', where Team Jump is sent to safety, Grey the Liar is eaten by the Pixel Cloud, and Paul's fate after confronting Grey in 9.9 is unknown, leaving Jo and Sam as the first AIs to gain access to the outer world.]]

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Purge has the original five characters being eaten by the pixel cloud one-by-one, starting with [[TheHeroDies Thomas]] and ending with John.]] Another example occurs in [[spoiler'X+1, Y+1', where Team Jump is sent to safety, Grey the Liar is eaten by the Pixel Cloud, and Paul's fate after confronting Grey in 9.9 is unknown, leaving Jo and Sam as the first AIs to gain access to the outer world.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Early in the game, before the plot kicks in, there are several moments when the characters question why they should be jumping everywhere, and why the world they were in was constantly getting more complicated, and why they are constantly moving to the right.

* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: Thomas
** TheLancer: John
** TheSmartGuy: Chris
** TheBigGuy: Claire
** TheChick: James
** TheHeart: Laura
** TheMentor: Sarah

''Thomas Was Alone'' is a story about a group of {{Artificial Intelligence}}s who meet up in their respective test instances thanks to an error in the coding of how each chamber is generated. It starts with Thomas finding himself alone, but after traversing through the first couple test instances (see: Tutorial) he finds himself in an instance with Chris, who doesn't much care for Thomas, or his ability to [[TheLoad jump much higher than he can]]. This goes on, showcasing each new character and their special ability in the world until we have our band of seven: [[TheMario Thomas]] the Friendly, [[InASingleBound John]] the Proud, [[FloatingPlatforms Claire]] the [[CloudCuckooLander Superhero]], [[GoombaSpringboard Laura]] the Helpful, [[GravityScrew James]] the Self Conscious, [[DoubleJump Sarah]] the Adventurer, and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Chris]] the Insecure.

* BigBad: The [[HeroKiller Pixel Cloud]] for most of the game. [[spoiler:In the final two scenarios, [[ItsAllAboutMe Grey the Liar]] takes this role, with the [[LastOfHisKind final Pixel Cloud]] serving as BiggerBad.]]

* ShoutOut: Namely to Internet memes, with '[[LOLcats cats who can't spell]]' but also to ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''.

* [[spoiler:AdamAndEvePlot: At the end of the game, Sam and Jo are the two [=AIs=] who manage to escape the system into the real world, and apparently become parents to a new [=AI=] race. See TheSingularity below]].

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: The protagonist of the story, Thomas, dies about halfway through the game.]] See [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]] below.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Thomas and rest of the original crew disperse themselves into the datastream in order to awaken all the other AIs.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: The game is narrated by Danny Wallace, known best to gamers as the voice of Shaun Hastings in the Assassin's Creed series.

* MeaningfulName: The final scenario is named "X+1, Y+1". In the Cartesian coordinate system, also known as an XY graph, this is plotted out as one unit right, and one unit up. [[ArcWords Up and to the right.]]

* Meaningful Name: The final scenario is named "X+1, Y+1". In the Cartesian coordinate system, also known as an XY graph, this is plotted out as one unit right, and one unit up. [[ArcWords Up and to the right.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: The game is narrated by Danny Wallace, known best to gamers as the voice of Shaun Hastings in the Assassin's Creed series.

Additional content to the game, entitled ''Benjamin's Flight'', tells a story that takes place prior to Thomas's adventure. Inspired by the picnics taken with his father, the young Benjamin steals his dad's new jet pack and sets off to reach the Fountain, joined by the moody Anna and familiar face...purple rectangle Sarah.

Oh, and also...it looks like these guys are going to become costumes in VideoGame/{{LittleBigPlanet}} 3.