History Videogame / IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis

* HeroesWantRedheads: Indy's LoveInterest Sophia Hapgood is a fiery-haired SpiritedYoungLady.

Set in the months prior to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the storyline sees Indy team up with an [[RememberTheNewGuy old flame]], [[HeroesWantRedheads Sophia]] [[ActionGirl Hapgood]], an expert on the mythical city of {{Atlantis}}, and in particular its god [[KingOfAllCosmos Nur-ab-sal]]. This being an Indiana Jones story, it of course turns out that Atlantis was real, and our hero finds himself in a race against time to get there before the Third Reich can harness its power to TakeOverTheWorld.

* UnwinnableByMistake: You can replenish your stock of orichalcum beads should you run out, the issue is that one of the items required to activate the bead machine gets used up in a later puzzle and if you reach the hulking machine screen without any beads, there's no way to go back and get any more which locks the game and requires you to go back to a previous save.

* WillReturnCaption: The end credits finish up with a note to the players to watch for Indy's next adventure, "perhaps as [[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles a much younger man]]". Unfortunately, Lucasarts never actually made any such sequel.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
** Sophia, along with every single other archaeologist who knows anything about Atlantis. [[BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible Justified because]]...
** The red fez guy on the Wits path.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Omar on the Wits path. On every other path, he's friendly and helpful, but on this one, he's one hostile SOB.

-->'''Kerner (CD):''' Fritz... Fantastic news! I think we've found the treasure we seek.\\
-->'''Kerner (Talkie):''' Dr. Ubermann... Fantastic news! We've found the treasure we seek.

%%* {{Aesoptinum}}: [[spoiler:the Ascension/God Machine]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The innermost sections of Atlantis are littered with the twisted skeletons of people mutated by the Atlanteans' failed experiments with their ascension machine. When Klaus Kerner decides to try the machine himself, he ends up transforming first into a giant, then into a stunted minotaur.]]

* DeathlyDiesIrae: "Dies Irae" is heard in a couple places deep in Atlantis, first in an Atlantean tomb containing hideously deformed skeletons, and later when arriving to the godhood machine, hinting that it's actually a machine of death.

** Anyone who successfully uses the Ascension Machine.

%%* EternalEngine: The Ascension Machine. [[spoiler:It sits in the Third Circle of Atlantis, atop an underwater volcano.]]

* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler: The Atlantean ascension machine is very bad at making gods and very good at making monsters. Even a "successful" god only lasts less than half a minute before dissipating into nothingness. The comics reveal the God Machine is really just a random mutation machine created by the misguided Atlanteans due to their incomplete understanding, and the ''real'' "gods" were just AncientAstronauts (in space suits!) using SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology.]]

* GodhoodSeeker: The goal of Klaus Kerner and Dr. Hans Ubermann, using the Atlantean ascension machine. [[spoiler: It doesn't work out very well for either of them.]]

* MisplacedADecimalPoint: Plato's ten-fold error shows up as a plot point, both in regards to the distances Plato gave, [[spoiler: as well as the number of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Orichalcum beads]] required to make the Atlantean [[UpgradeArtifact ascension device]] work properly. Though the comic adaptation revealed it didn't matter in the end, the thing wasn't meant to be used on humans because it was ''alien technology'' after all.]]

* OneWingedAngel: At the end, Indy convinces the evil Colonel Kerner to try the ascension machine in lieu of using him as a guinea pig. As it activates, he becomes taller and taller, his eyes glow, and he can feel the power of godhood surging through him when -- he suddenly crumples into a misshapen little imp. Horrified by his appearance, he kills himself by jumping into the lava. Par for the course in an ''[[Franchise/IndianaJones Indy]]'' climax. A minute later, the evil scientist Dr. Ubermann undergoes the exact same fate when Indy convinces ''him'' to step into the ascension machine too. Ubermann ''does'' succeed in transforming into an energy being, but the raw power is too much for him and he quickly dissipates into nothingness, [[LoadBearingBoss taking Atlantis with him]]. (In the comic book, they were both just horribly mutated instead.)

%%* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Ascension Machine. ''[[BodyHorror And how]].''

%%* TheTower: The Ascension Machine

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler: An implied side effect of the Atlantean ascension machine; Even Indy becomes a cackling, malevolent being if he ends up going into the machine. Regardless of who ultimately ends up being transformed, they don't survive long enough to be certain.]]