History Videogame / Aquanox

* DisappearedDad: William Drake's father, Alonzo Drake[[note]]Originally Alonzo de Granada before marrying into the Drake family[[/note]], disappeared without a word after William's mother Emma was killed by pirates. He was later told that his father had died, but he himself isn't quite sure. [[spoiler: He was killed by the Order Mercenaries while looking for the "Angel's Tears", namely by Lt. Hamlet, whom William meets in Atacama City.]]

* DisappearedDad: William Drake's father, Alonzo Drake, disappeared without a word after William's mother Emma was killed by pirates. He was later told that his father had died, but he himself isn't quite sure. [[spoiler: He was killed by the Order Mercenaries, namely Lt. Hamlet, whom William meets in Atacama City.]]

* YouKilledMyFather: {{Inverted|Trope}}. [[spoiler: Lt. Hamlet tries to provoke William Drake with this prior to their showdown, but it doesn't have that much of an effect since William already challenged him to a DuelToTheDeath.]]

* DisappearedDad: William Drake's father, Alonzo Drake, disappeared without a word after William's mother Emma was killed by pirates. He was later told that his father had died, but he himself isn't quite sure.

* [[CoolBoat Cool Sub]]: ...and how!

* RedBlackAndEvilAllOver: The subs piloted by the Order Mercenaries have a primarily black and grey color scheme with red lights. They are also the personal army of the vicious BigBad of ''Aquanox 2''.

* BigBad: ''Aquanox 2'' has Queen Strega, the vicious leader of the Order Mercenaries who wants to find the lost treasure known as the "Angel's Tears" at all costs and [[spoiler: is also Drake's EvilAunt]].

* GoldTooth: Atahualpa Jones has a prominent one, though it is a bit easier to see in ''Aquanox 2''.

* KillSat: Project Brainfire.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Flint and co. do good work for better credits.

* WideEyedIdealist: William Drake, at first. [[CharacterDevelopment He gets better in this regard.]]

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: {{Downplayed|Trope}} compared to the below example, but the mission "The Race" in ''Aquanox 2'' has you engage in a friendly race against Stoney Fox, another crewmate of Amitab. His sub has superior speed to yours, so the only way of winning the race is to shoot him with EMP weapons to briefly stun him so you can get some distance, at which point he will try to return the favor. The problem is that Stoney will have a ''significant'' head start if you skip the beginning cutscene, making it impossible for your guns to actually reach him. You don't actually need to win the race to finish the mission, but you get an extra reward if you do.
* {{Unwinnable}}: In one version of the game, the final part of the final mission is bugged.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In ''Revelations'', Drake ultimately learns he's destined to prepare humanity for a battle against an enemy even greater than the Bionts, though exactly who that is is left completely vague, as the game doesn't seem to be precisely describing either the Squids or the Senthic.
* HotSubOnSubAction: Obviously.

* DisappearedDad: William Drake's father disappeared without a word after William's mother was killed by pirates. He was later told that his father had died, but he himself isn't quite sure.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In ''Revelations'', Drake ultimately learns he's destined to prepare humanity for a battle against an enemy even greater than the Bionts, though exactly who that is, is left completely vague, as the game doesn't seem to be precisely describing either the Squids or the Senthic.

* WouldNotShootAGoodGuy: Admiral Cox's rebel forces primarily fight with non-lethal EMP weaponry, which disable enemy subs instead of destroying them. The player is encouraged to return the favor, but there's no real gameplay or plot punishment for just straight killing them instead.
* {{Yandere}}: May Ling, a.k.a. "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast MayDay]]".

* SubmarinePirates: The world of Aqua has them. In fact, the main plot of ''Aqua Nox: Revelation'' is kicked off when your character's [[TheMothership home sub]] is hijacked by pirates while he is away, and he is forced to deal with them from then on ([[spoiler:one of them later turns out to be his uncle]]).

The first game was released in 2001 and placed you in the role of [[AwesomeMcCoolName Emerald "Deadeye" Flint]], a [[{{Privateer}} mercenary]] fighting a race of cyborgs called the Bionts (picking up from where you left off in ''Archimedean Dynasty''). 2003's sequel, ''Aquanox 2: The Revelation'', gives you the role of William Drake, a young (and initially [[WideEyedIdealist quite naive]]) man whose cargo freighter gets hijacked by a bunch of pirates, led by a treasure-obsessed man named Amitab, who then shanghais him into fighting for them.

* ApocalypseHow: Scope: planetary. Severity: societal disruption..

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Emerald "Deadeye" Flint.

* FallenHero: Admiral Cox becomes an antagonist and leads a coup. He gets an AlasPoorVillain.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Flint has an enormous amount of "old friends", and a lot of them return in ''Aquanox II''.

%%* AfterTheEnd:

* ItsPronouncedTropay: Flint always refers to his stolen sub "Succubus" as "Zoo-koo-bahs".

* {{Precursors}}: ''Deep Descent'' reveals that [[spoiler: an underwater race known as the Senthic, living under Antarctica, predate humanity and have technology so advanced they might as well be gods. They're responsible for the radioactive plankton layer cutting Aqua off from the Earth's surface, as punishment for mankind destroying the planet. They're also inadvertently responsible for the creation of the Bionts, as a pre-War scientist who knew of their existence used nanites to become the Bionts in order to live long enough to achieve the enlightenment that would be necessary to negotiate with them.]]