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* DeathByIrony: Part of the reason the Finches believe themselves to have a death curse is that Finches almost never die mundane deaths, instead falling by something ironically related to their lives and interests, i.e. Sven built the Finch house and died when part of it collapsed on him, Barbara used to be a horror star and (probably) died in a way straight out of a horror movie, and so on.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Many.
** Does the Death Curse actually exist, or are the Finches just blaming every instance of bad luck/the consequences of their actions on a 'curse', which is then perpetuated by their refusal to take personal responsibility, thus continuing their destructive behavior?
** [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Are the more out-there stories true or not?]] And if they aren't, how did the people depicted actually die? Molly has a clear implied cause of death by poisoning (since she ate toothpaste and holly berries), but Barbara and Milton just disappeared, and nobody ever found their bodies.
** What did Edie find on the night she visited the old house?
** Who is [[spoiler: Christopher's father?]]
** Does the Death Curse actually exist, or are the Finches just blaming every instance of bad luck/the consequences of their actions on a 'curse', which is then perpetuated by their refusal to take personal responsibility, thus continuing their destructive behavior?
** [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Are the more out-there stories true or not?]] And if they aren't, how did the people depicted actually die? Molly has a clear implied cause of death by poisoning (since she ate toothpaste and holly berries), but Barbara and Milton just disappeared, and nobody ever found their bodies.
** What did Edie find on the night she visited the old house?
** Who is [[spoiler: Christopher's father?]]
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* AnAesop: WeAllDieSomeday.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Some of the stories clearly have been told from unreliable perspectives.
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* SerialKiller: One is mentioned in Barbara's story, and is [[spoiler:presumably responsible for the death of Barbara and her boyfriend]].
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* SerialKiller: One is mentioned in Barbara's story, and is [[spoiler:presumably responsible for the death of Barbara and her boyfriend]]. At least, that's what the comic book telling Barbara's story claims.
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* {{Irony}}: Despite being one of the more famous Finches (and apparently having multiple stories written about her death), the comic book telling the story of Barbara Finch's death clearly takes so many creative liberties for entertainment purposes, it's hard to tell which details presented are true, and which are fictitious.
** Sam's attempt to combat the family curse was to become knowledgeable about survival and be prepared for anything. [[spoiler: His death happened in the one moment he decided to let his guard down, when he ignored Dawn's claims that the deer she just shot was {{Not Quite Dead}}.]]
** Walter was so traumatized by his siblings' deaths and the family curse, [[spoiler: he hid himself in a bunker under the house and enforced a {{Groundhog Day Loop}} on himself for over thirty years. He died when he finally decided to break his daily cycle and smash through the wall of the bunker...right onto some train tracks.]]
** Sam's attempt to combat the family curse was to become knowledgeable about survival and be prepared for anything. [[spoiler: His death happened in the one moment he decided to let his guard down, when he ignored Dawn's claims that the deer she just shot was {{Not Quite Dead}}.]]
** Walter was so traumatized by his siblings' deaths and the family curse, [[spoiler: he hid himself in a bunker under the house and enforced a {{Groundhog Day Loop}} on himself for over thirty years. He died when he finally decided to break his daily cycle and smash through the wall of the bunker...right onto some train tracks.]]
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* WhamShot: As if the above lines weren't enough of a giveaway, [[spoiler: the very last shot of the game is Edith's son Christopher visiting her mother's grave, confirming she passed away from childbirth and Chris has been reading [[PosthumousCharacter her final posthumous writings the entire time.]]]]
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* HeroicMime: [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. The game's protagonist, Edith, narrates her childhood home visitation constantly. [[spoiler:However, the entire game is actually being played out via her son Christopher reading her journal, who is given vague characterization and never speaks]].
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* TheEnd: At the end of the credits, the magnets rearrange themselves to spell out "The End"
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* BookSafe: The first secret passage is concealed by a book.
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* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler: Lewis]] dies, [[spoiler: by sticking his head under the blade of the cannery chopper.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler: Lewis]] dies, [[spoiler: by [[spoiler:by sticking his head under the blade of the cannery chopper.chopper, with his fantasy showing as him bending down to accept the crown.]]
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* PointOfNoReturn: First is the doggy door. Even though the player revisits some locations in the house, the doors and equivalents tend to work in one direction only.
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* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: These occur in flashbacks, replaying what would be the actions of the previous individual.
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* NatureTinkling: Sam takes a pee during a hunting trip, while his daughter, Dawn, photographs it. Sam is not amused.
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** Gregory Finch died because [[spoiler: his mother went to answer the phone while he was in the bathtub, and he drowned.]]
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** Gregory Finch died because [[spoiler: his mother went to answer argue with her husband on the phone while he was in the bathtub, while Gregory bumped on the faucet and he drowned.]]
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* ThreeSixtyDegreeSwingSetSwing: After Barbara's death, Calvin decides never to be afraid again, so he attempts to do a 360 on a swing facing a cliff. [[GoneHorriblyRight He succeeds, falling off the cliff at the end]]. In the present day, 46 years lager, the swing is still there wound up the tree.
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* ThreeSixtyDegreeSwingSetSwing: After Barbara's death, Calvin decides never to be afraid again, so he attempts to do a 360 on a swing facing a cliff. [[GoneHorriblyRight He succeeds, falling off the cliff at the end]]. In the present day, 46 years lager, later, the swing is still there wound up the tree.
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* DiedOnTheirBirthday: [[spoiler: Barbara Finch, a child star in horror movies in the 1940's and 50's, was born on October 31, 1944 and [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday died on her 16th birthday]]--October 31, 1960--after she gets killed by her own "fans."]]
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* MagicalRealism: Even discounting the stories as Edith's fanciful imagination, the game has the air of a FairyTale, from its OnceUponATime style opening to the house's {{Bizarrchitecture}} resembling a castle.
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* MagicalRealism: Even discounting the stories as Edith's fanciful imagination, the game has the air of a FairyTale, from its OnceUponATime style opening to the house's {{Bizarrchitecture}} resembling a castle. And there ''is'' a house shipwrecked off the shore...
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* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler: Molly, [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].]]
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* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler: Molly, [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].Molly turns into a sea monster and eats her real self. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Maybe]].]]
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* MegaNeko: In Lewis' sequence there is a huge version of the family's cat, Molly, in the throne room scene. If you look around Lewis' (and later Edith's) room there are toy figurines that look exactly like the people in the throne room. Compared to them, the cat is to scale. It means that as the scene plays out in Lewis' imagination, he becomes one of his toys, and the size of the cat is justified.
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* GenerationalSaga: The game tells the story of 4 generations (from Edie to Edith Jr.), or 6 if you include Odin and [[spoiler:Edith's son, Christopher]].
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* GenerationalSaga: The game tells the story of 4 generations (from Edie to Edith Jr.), or 6 if you include Odin and [[spoiler:Edith's son, Christopher]].[[spoiler:Christopher, Edith's son]].
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* WhamLine: Edith: [[spoiler: "If she'd told me there was going to be so much climbing, I never would've come when I was 22 weeks pregnant."]]
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** [[spoiler: "If she'd told me there was going to be so much climbing, I never would've come when I was 22 weeks pregnant."]]
** [[spoiler: "I just want to meet you, and tell you these stories myself. But I guess if you're reading this, things didn't work out that way."]]
** [[spoiler: "If she'd told me there was going to be so much climbing, I never would've come when I was 22 weeks pregnant."]]
** [[spoiler: "I just want to meet you, and tell you these stories myself. But I guess if you're reading this, things didn't work out that way."]]
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** Lewis's story of retreating from a monotonous job into a fantasy world is a WholePlotReference to Lord Dunsany's "The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap," with multiple echoes of phrasing from the story.
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* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The culmination of Lewis's fantasy quest sees him become supreme king of his world in an epic celebration, kneeling to be crowned by his love interest. [[spoiler: In reality, he's being DrivenToSuicide and decapitating himself with the fish chopper. Even in the fantasy, the crowning has a horrifying undercurrent: the "altar" at which King Lewis is crowned resembles a guillotine.]]
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* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The culmination of Lewis's Lewis' fantasy quest sees him become supreme king of his world in an epic celebration, kneeling to be crowned by his love interest. [[spoiler: In reality, he's being DrivenToSuicide and decapitating himself with the fish chopper. Even in the fantasy, the crowning has a horrifying undercurrent: the "altar" at which King Lewis is crowned resembles a guillotine.]]
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** [[spoiler: [[FridgeLogic The very name of the game.]]]]
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* ThreeSixtyDegreeSwingSetSwing: After Barbara's death, Calvin decides never to be afraid again, so he attempts it on a swing facing a cliff. [[GoneHorriblyRight He succeeds, falling off the cliff at the end]]. In the present day, 46 years lager, the swing is still there wound up the tree.
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* ThreeSixtyDegreeSwingSetSwing: After Barbara's death, Calvin decides never to be afraid again, so he attempts it to do a 360 on a swing facing a cliff. [[GoneHorriblyRight He succeeds, falling off the cliff at the end]]. In the present day, 46 years lager, the swing is still there wound up the tree.
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* MilitaryBrat: Sam having been a soldier heavily influences his way of raising his children. For example, their childrens' room looks like a barracks.
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* LastSecondPhotoFailure: Sam tries to take a picture of him and his daughter Dawn in front of the deer she had hunted. The picture catches Sam being hurled off the cliff by the deer as Dawn watches.
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** The family curse as a whole. Does it exist, or has the Finch family just been supremely unlucky for generations (perhaps aided by a heritable tendency for being subtle {{Death Seeker}}s)? The matriarch is 93 when she dies. As the above examples show, we never do get a definite answer.
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** The family curse as a whole. Does it exist, or has the Finch family just been supremely unlucky family's carelessness and neglect made for a SelfFulfillingProphecy for generations (perhaps aided by a heritable tendency for being subtle {{Death Seeker}}s)? The matriarch is 93 when she dies. As the above examples show, we never do get a definite answer.
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* ThreeSixtyDegreeSwingSetSwing: After Barbara's death, Calvin decides never to be afraid again, so he attempts it. Needless to say, [[GoneHorriblyRight it does not end well for him]].
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** Calvin [[spoiler: flew over a cliff by swinging too hard.]]
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* PosterGalleryBedroom: Most of the bedrooms give strong indications of their occupants' personality. The most straight example is Lewis' room, which is literally lined with posters.
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* GriefInducedSplit: Sam and his first wife Kay divorce after [[spoiler:the accidental drowning death of their son Gregory in the bathtub during the time that [[ParentalNeglect Kay left to take a phone call]].]]
