History Videogame / InFamous2

* KickTheDog: Most of Mary's teachings are this, with the notable exception of one that invokes KickTheSonOfABitch instead.

'''''[=inFAMOUS=] 2''''' is a UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 ActionAdventure WideOpenSandbox {{Superhero}} video game and the 2011 sequel to ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}''.

** At one point Cole says "[[Franchise/SpiderMan My Vampire senses are tingling]]".

* TheCorruption: "The Corrupted" is the collective name of the various swamp monsters assaulting New Marais. And to make it worse, all of them [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]].

* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: In the final battle, [[spoiler:The Militia, who have spent the game abusing their power and the people they're ostensibly protecting, are seen freely helping and encouraging Cole in his fight against The Beast in a Hero path.]]

* TheAtoner: As mentioned above, Zeke wasn't EasilyForgiven for betraying Cole in the last game, and worked his ass off to atone what he did. Even then, it isn't until he saves Cole from a militia ambush later in the game that he is fully forgiven.

** [[spoiler:In the Evil ending: Cole will be able use the powers of the the Beast to save the dormant Conduits, but he's forced to kill both Nix and Zeke, as well as billions more humans without the Conduit gene to come.]]

** [[spoiler: Sacrificing yourself to save everyone infected with the plague and stop The Beast, good; siding with The Beast and wiping out most of humanity to save yourself and a handful of others, bad]].

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:The good ending. Sure, Cole kills himself (Or does he?) and every other Conduit in the world, but he saves humanity from the Beast and the plague at the same time.]]
** [[spoiler:Apparently not all conduits died, as ''Infamous: Second Son'' picks up from the Good Ending and there are clearly conduits still running around including the protagonist.]]

-> Cole:''"Get out of my way... the Devil's comin' through!"''

The heroic ending of ''inFAMOUS 2'' is canon for the sequel, ''VideoGame/InFamousSecondSon''.

* HesitantSacrifice: [[spoiler: Kuo [[{{Pun}} gets cold feet]] when it comes time to perform the species-wide HeroicSacrifice, and pulls a FaceHeelTurn. In the good ending, she eventually [[HeelRealization admits that she was wrong and selfish]], and that she's [[MortalityPhobia scared]].]]

* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Averted, finally, and lampshaded; you actually ''get a trophy'' for climbing over a chain-link fence[[note]]The trophy itself is hilarious as well: the name is ''Don't Fence Me In'', and the description for how to get it is "Climb a chain link fence and rejoice."[[/note]].
* {{Irony}}: In the first game, Kessler praised Cole if he chose the Infamous action of using the Ray Sphere a second time to enhance his own powers and derided him if he took the Heroic route of just destroying the damn thing. [[spoiler:In the Infamous ending of THIS game, Cole becomes the Beast and continues his work, while Hero Cole does what Kessler wanted.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-karma-infamous-2/710914 iF2's Karma Trailer]]. Nix represents the proverbial evil devil on one's shoulder, while Kuo represents the inspiring good angel. It's not clear whether Sucker Punch actually knows that the Latin for "left", Nix's "shoulder", is "sinister". In the ending of the game, [[spoiler:Kuo is making the selfish, evil decision, and is on Cole's left shoulder, while Nix is making the angry, revenge-driven, yet good decision, and is on his right shoulder.]]

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the beginning. Even though Cole does his best to fight off the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City after he loses and the Beast wipes it off the map.

*** [[spoiler:Also subverted in one of the missions, where you meet someone who had relatives in Empire. If you went the Good Karma route, she thanks you for helping and gives you a kiss on the cheek. (If you went the Evil route, you're attacked.)]]

-->'''Zeke''': Man, this feels like Empire City, when Kessler kicked my ass.
-->'''Cole''': ''I'' should kick your ass.
-->'''Zeke''': [[spoiler: Eh, same difference.]]

--->'''Cole:''' Oh, I finally get it. [[spoiler:Oh, you thought the Ray Sphere was gonna turn you into some sort of ''shiny superhuman'', but instead it turned you into a fifty-foot ''maggot''.]]

** When Cole tells Zeke he's a vampire, Zeke jokes "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Do teenage girls suddenly find you]] ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} irresistible]]''?"

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Mary as well as the other female vampires, but their heels are extended making it look like they are wearing high heals.

'''''[=inFAMOUS=] 2''''' is a UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 ActionAdventure WideOpenSandbox {{Superhero}} video game and the 2011 sequel to ''VideoGame/{{InFAMOUS}}''.

The heroic ending of ''inFAMOUS 2'' is canon for the sequel, ''[[VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon inFAMOUS: Second Son]]''.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Regardless of who you choose to take powers from, the following cutscene will involve the girl you didn't opt to swap powers with ranting about how Cole is a terrible person and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. Fifteen minutes later, you can go on missions with her again as though nothing happened.

* ArtShift: ''2'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_itninhRc lost]] the [[https://i.neoseeker.com/ca/infamous_ps3_conceptart_LdQdn.jpg gritty ink spatter effect]] from the first game for a more "watercolor" feel, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchgC23xMM4 like this]]. For consistency's sake, the opening flashbacks, in Empire City, use the first game's art style, even when they're all-new. It makes sense, the first game is in a grimy, half-dead city, the second is in a flooded, living one.

* BatPeople: In the "Festival of Blood" DLC, the Blood Conduits are a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] breed of EliteMooks that can disguise themselves as regular humans. Cole can distinguish them from humans with his vampire vision and can on-shot kill them while in this state. If provoked, they transform into giant bat monsters, being much harder to kill than the common vampire.
* BettyAndVeronica: There are two possible female partners for Cole; the sensible and down to earth [[AnIcePerson ice-using]] Kuo or the wild [[PlayingWithFire fire-using]] Nix. [[spoiler:It's reversed when Kuo does a FaceHeelTurn out of fear and Nix does a HeelFaceTurn looking for revenge.]]

** [[spoiler:In the Hero ending, The Beast is dead, the plague is gone, the world is saved and "The Demon of Empire City" is now hailed as the savior of New Marais. But Nix, Kuo, Cole and every other Conduit on Earth were sacrificed to do it.]]
** [[spoiler:In the Evil ending: Cole will be able use the powers of the the Beast to save the dormant Conduits, but he's forced to kill both Nix and Zeke, and millions more "normal" humans to come.]]

** [[spoiler: Sacrificing yourself to save everyone infected with the plague and stop The Beast, good, siding with The Beast, and wiping out most of humanity to save yourself and a handful of others, bad]].
* BookEnds: The first thing the player does in ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}'' is press Start, [[spoiler: which activates the Ray Sphere and makes Cole into a Conduit. The last thing the canon Hero ending of ''[=inFAMOUS 2=]'' has you do is let go of all the shoulder buttons, activating the RFI and killing every Conduit alive, including Cole.]]

-->'''Zeke''': Man, this feels like Empire City, when Kessler beat me up.
-->'''Cole''': ''I'' should beat you up.
-->'''Zeke''': [[spoiler: Eh', same diff'.]]
* CapeBusters: While the Militia were made to fight off the Swamp Monsters, they also like to spend their time and resources hunting Conduits, making Cole number 1 on their list.
* ColorCodedElements: Kuo has icy blue powers while Nix has red fire powers, and which of these two he's more in tune with affects the color of his lightning.
* CombinationAttack: Cole can do this with Kuo or Nix.

* CrapsackWorld: The world has gotten worse since ''inFAMOUS'', as the chaos has expanded outside of Empire City, and the Beast only brings more destruction in its wake as it pursues Cole. This causes massive unemployment, the US military to withdraw from around the world, yet another world-wide economic collapse, and thus other countries refusing to give aid. Oh, and that [[ThePlague plague]] in the first game wasn't stopped by the quarantine at all, and is slowly spreading worldwide.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: The bad ending: Cole sides with John/The Beast to save all the conduits from the plague. At the cost of all ordinary humans' lives.]]

* DevilComplex: The evil ending, [[spoiler:where despite his now godlike powers Cole admits he hasn't become a god at all, but the devil.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Finally, Cole killed Bertrand and has used every Blast Core. Now he can use the RFI, kill the Beast and save the world! But uh oh! [[spoiler:The RFI was ''actually'' made to kill Conduits!]] So Cole is left with a choice; activate the RFI, [[spoiler:[[DeusExMachina nullify the ray field radiation killing everyone]]]] and kill the Beast [[spoiler:along with every other conduit in the world including himself]] or live and allow the Beast to activate all of the conduits in the world and doom the rest of mankind to die of radiation poisoning.

** In a more CaptainErsatz related example: Joseph Bartrand and his pseudo-religionistic military group doesn't look like much... unless you're an X-Men fan. Bartrand himself, his motives and his agenda look like they could be taken straight from the pages of ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills''. To Sucker Punch's credit - that's not a bad thing.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the beginning Even though Cole attempts to fight the Beast, he's blamed for the destruction of Empire City as a result.
** [[spoiler:Though thankfully for Cole ''finally'' gets subverted in the Hero ending, as instead of yet again being the unsung savior of the world, Cole becomes the patron saint of New Marais.]]

* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: In the good and canon ending, every single named character minus Zeke dies.]]

* FinalBossPreview: The game opens with Cole battling the Beast, then retreating to New Marais to lick his wounds and prepare for the rematch. Unusually for the trope, Cole is able to do a lot of damage to the Beast. It's just that the Beast can regenerate fairly easy.

** Kuo is TheSpock. The majority of the time she is the one urging Cole to decide to make the choices that give Cole good karma, her plans based in a "hearts and minds" form of logic. [[spoiler:In the final decisions whether to activate the RFI or join the Beast, here it is proven that the "smart" thing isn't always the "right" thing, Kuo reasoning that joining forces with The Beast is the best choice for survival]]. When Kuo is kidnapped by the Militia, Zeke takes her place.

** Just having his head blown off? Try [[spoiler:''surviving a nuke'']].
* InASingleBound: The ice troopers primarily use this to get around; rather than having super-strong legs, they instantly create a small pillar of ice under their feet, launching themselves into the air. Cole can optionally get this power as well; it makes his jump distance nearly triple what it ordinarily does.

* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Averted, finally, and lampshaded, you actually get a trophy for climbing over a chain-link fence[[note]] The trophy itself is hilarious: the name is Don't Fence Me In, and the description for how to get it is "Climb a chain link fence and rejoice."[[/note]].
* {{Irony}}: In the first game Kessler praised Cole when he did Infamous actions and derided him for hero actions. [[spoiler:In the Infamous ending he becomes the Beast and continues his work, while Hero Cole does what Kessler wanted.]]

* KarmaMeter: The KarmaMeter from the first games has been revised so that all the Karma choices, bar one, be an active choice between two missions. Not necessarily different versions of one mission, but usually different missions entirely, in different locations, taken from different people, with different enemies.

** Actually [[spoiler: it is because of him being a conduit that he hates them, his own powers are so horrifying that, as his last conversation with Cole hints, he wants everyone to share in his hatred, and his plan is to make conduits of the most violent and horrifying kind, his own corrupted and the increasingly unstable ice gang, so prevalent that no one on earth would object to killing them all. It is outright stated that he sees himself as a monster as well, making all of his work as way of justifying his feelings, he needs to believe that all conduits are monsters are evil, or else it is just him.]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: In an aversion, especially considering how much of a huge twist it was, the second game doesn't spoil the fact that Kessler and Cole are the same person. Only Cole and Zeke know, and they never discuss it or tell anyone else. Doctor Wolfe noticing that Cole "looks just the same" as Kessler is the only hint, and Cole quickly dismisses it. He does wonder if they happen to be related.

* MagicPants: Averted when [[spoiler:the Behemoth reveals itself to be Bertrand, he is naked]].

-->'''Cole:''' Half as long.\\
'''Zeke:''' Twice as bright.

** [[spoiler:the Evil Ending, where the Beast give Cole his powers. After that, Cole sets out on a global conquest, awakening any conduits and killing any human in his wake. He becomes what Kessler was trying to stop.]]

* NoBodyLeftBehind: The usual enemies vanish when they go off-screen, but it's oh so definitely averted with [[spoiler: Bertrand's]] remains:
--> '''Laroche:''' Well, it took thirty men, seven chainsaws and twelve pickups, but we finally got that monster's corpse of the streets.
* NoCanonForTheWicked: WordOfGod confirmed that the Hero ending is canon for in this game as well.

* OhCrap: When the Beast shows up. His first reaction to the destruction and smoke everywhere, is speechless shock, and then, "No... No, no... ''No!''"
** During the second-to-last mission, the mooks you're fighting can experience this: [[spoiler:Iceman: "He's getting power from THE STORM!!"]]
* OldSaveBonus: If you played the original game, ''[=inFAMOUS=] 2'' will grant you bonuses based on what trophies you've unlocked in the save file you import.

* ThePlague: It's learned that the plague from the first game [[spoiler:is in fact ray field radiation slowly killing every person who isn't an active Conduit.]]

* PropheticFallacy: Kessler didn't actually know why [[spoiler:the Beast will go on its apparently world-ending rampage, and thus, neither does anyone who gets the warning, including Cole]]. Whether Cole acts on that missing puzzle piece once it's discovered or decides that it changes nothing is the crux of the ultimate karmic choice.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: Kessler's plan to stop the Beast by turning Cole into TheUnfettered? Turns out that the only reason the Beast exists is because of the Ray Sphere, which Kessler created.]]

** All the good you did for Empire City? It is blasted off the map in the first five minutes.
** The Beast spends the beginning and middle of the game carving a path through America towards Cole, [[spoiler: activating conduits and killing ordinary humans to cure the plague. In the Hero ending the RFI is used which cures the plague and kills all conduits, everywhere.]]
** Kessler went back in time to stop the Beast from rampaging the planet. In the evil ending [[spoiler: Cole becomes the Beast and decimates humanity for conduits.]]

* ShutUpHannibal: When [[spoiler:Bertrand is revealed as the leader of the Corrupted after trying to give himself powers, and bent on starting a genocide on himself and all conduits, Cole quickly puts him into his place.]]
--->'''Cole:''' Oh, I finally get it. [[spoiler:Oh, you thought the Ray Sphere was gonna turn you into some sort of shiny superhuman, but instead it turned you into a fifty foot ''maggot''.]]

** Zeke's might be justified in that; [[spoiler: he's hiding the rest of his face so Cole won't piece together he has the plague]].

'''Zeke''': Man, if you know what it is, THEN STOP SHOOTING AT IT!!!!

* VideoGameCaringPotential: Holy shit does the game managed to pull this with choices for the ending. [[spoiler: Neither choice is easy, between killing thousands of humans or helping the Beast under the belief that it's the only way to save humanity. Since the Good Karma choice proved the lesser of two evils and being forced to kill Zeke proved such a PlayerPunch, the game brought this so hard that players ended up preferring the Good ending over the evil one, contrary to the developers expectations.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Cole himself also does this late in the second game, if he's a Hero. [[spoiler:Kuo will let the Beast live because she's scared of dying, and Cole calls her out on it.]]
** There's a minor one with Dr Wolfe by the resident Conduits near the end. He explains that the RFI could be used to subtract the Beast's abilities, rendering it weak enough for Cole to lay the smackdown. [[spoiler:What he DOESN'T explain is that the RFI actually kills all conduits across the world when fully charged. Needless to say, Cole, Nix and Kuo aren't happy they were lied to. Wolfe's last Dead Drop - his last message to Kuo - is simply titled, "[[http://infamous.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Drops/Messages/inFamous_2#Forgive_Me Forgive Me]]." Hint: she doesn't.]]

* CutsceneIncompetence: Regardless of who you choose to take powers from, the following cutscene will involve the girl you didn't opt to swap powers with ranting about how Cole is a terrible person and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. Fifteen minutes later, you can go on missions with her again as though nothing happened.

** [[spoiler:In the good ending, Kuo turns good again right before the end, admitting she only sided with the Beast out of fear of death but realizing that Cole's decision was the right one.]]

* ATasteOfPower: The beginning has a fully powered Cole with [[BottomlessMagazines infinite energy]] and Megawatt Hammer rockets ''as a default attack'' facing off against The Beast. However, Cole soon [[BagOfSpilling loses all these powers]] and spends a good part of the game getting them back.

** In a more CaptainErsatz related example: Joseph Bartrand and his pseudo-religionistic military group doesn't look like much... unless you're an X-Men fan. Bartrand himself, his motives and his agenda look like they could be taken straight from the pages of ''Comicbook/GodLovesManKills''. To Sucker Punch's credit - that's not a bad thing.

* {{Expy}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt4CzFW1Cg&feature=player_detailpage#t=519s There is one Vermaak 88 soldier]] with dialogue, dark suit, breathing sounds, and mannerisms that is reminiscent of [[StarWars Darth Vader]].

* HesitantSacrifice: [[spoiler: Kuo [[IncrediblyLamePun gets cold feet]] when it comes time to perform the species-wide HeroicSacrifice, and pulls a FaceHeelTurn. In the good ending, she eventually [[HeelRealization admits that she was wrong and selfish]], and that she's [[MortalityPhobia scared]].]]

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* RareGuns: The Militia use Remington ACR Assault Rifles.

* RealityEnsues: As mentioned above, Zeke wasn't EasilyForgiven for betraying Cole in the last game, and worked his ass off to [[TheAtoner atone what he did.]] Even then, it isn't until he saves Cole from a militia ambush later in the game that he is fully forgiven.