History VisualNovel / EndlessSummer

** [[spoiler: If Taylor and the gang stay on the island, they live out their lives in relative comfort in La Huerta, but with the rest of the world destroyed, their futures are extremely limited, not to mention everyone they ever knew (apart from each other) is gone.]]

** [[spoiler: If Taylor and the gang stay on the island, they live out their lives in relative comfort in La Huerta, but with the rest of the world destroyed, they have to basically give up on most of their ambitions for the future, not to mention everyone they ever knew (apart from each other) is gone.]]

** [[spoiler: If Taylor and the gang stay on the island, they live happily in La Huerta, but the rest of the world dies.]]

** Chapter 7 is Jake's pilot helmet, given to him when he is overwhelmed by the situation with Mike. In his vision, he and Mike testify against Lundgren during a trial, which ends with Lundgren being declared guilty and sentenced to 180 years in prison.[[note]]This is the only one that [[spoiler:definetely doesn't come true even in the ending where the future is restored, because both Mike and Lundgren are dead.]][[/note]]

* OneTrueLove: Book 3 Chapter 2 introduces the Vaanti concept of “handfasting” where if a couple love each other very much, they bond their lives in a ceremony called Niala’rei. Before friends and family, they are symbolically joined and must spend a year and a day in each other’s presence. If they still love each other at the end of that time, their spirits are bound for eternity.

*** His idol vision in Book 2 sheds more light on this, revealing that he discovered he was rejected for the NFL draft just before leaving for La Huerta.

* GuileHero: The game actually encourages the player to say and act to gain sympathy points with the rest of the group, even if it's not the true feelings towards them. In some cases, BrutalHonesty will make Taylor loose points (like, for example, telling Michelle off in Book 1 Chapter 1 takes -4 points away, and straight up telling Lila in Book 1 Chapter 8 that the group doesn't trust her takes -5 points away), so in some cases lying actually helps you get by.

* EternalEquinox: Averted. In Book 1 Chapter 9, the day/night cycle is out of whack on the mountain. For example, the team leaving at dawn only for it to get dark again three hours later. In the premium scene where Estela and Taylor go to fight the Giant Crab, the cycle changes again, but they later learn that the rest of the group hadn't experienced that, suggesting that it's not only bizarrely timed but also is not consistent even across relatively short distances.

!!Endless Summer includes tropes of:

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: InUniverse in Book 1 Chapter 10: If Taylor goes with Sean into the pod, they are surrounded by constellations. Ones that don't match where the island is and haven't looked like that for millions of years.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In Book 1 Chapter 4, Aleister calls out Diego for calling a smilodon Jurassic when it's actually Pleistocene.

* {{Constellations}}: [[spoiler:The AnimalMotif everyone in the group has are based on constellations seen from the La Huerta's sky. Taylor's symbol, a DNA helix, corresponds to Andromeda.]]

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Book 1 Chapter 5 has Quinn getting dragged down into the water by vines. Whether Jake or Taylor resuscitates her, she'll be back to normal.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Lila]] has a knack of killing her victims like this.

** The last chapter of Book 2 has ''three'' of them, although one is a diamond scene and one is in the epilogue.

*** [[spoiler:Book 2 Epilogue reveals that The Endless (who is in reality a future version of Taylor) has been planting clues around the island to help the group survive, and the only one aware of this alterations is Taylor. Jake also discovers that he had to reveal his location to the Arachnids to keep the reality stable and avoid a paradox, allowing the helicopter to materialize.]]
** In Book 3 Chapter 7, Varyyn realizes that the items given to him by other Vaanti are fading away when the group (except Jake and Mike) are in 1921. To keep them from vanishing, the group has to have the bride Flora confess her love for Eugene.

** Taylor choosing to [[spoiler:merge with Vaanu will undo the destruction of the world and consequently revive the planet's population, including the group's friends and family.]]

* TokenMinority: The gang is made up of minorities with the exception of Jake, Quinn, Aleister, and Taylor if the player chooses to make Taylor white. As for the rest, Sean and Grace are black, Diego and Estela are Hispanic, Craig is Taiwanese, Michelle is Vietnamese, Zahra is Iranian, and Raj is Indian.

* TokenMinority: The gang is made up of minorities with the exception of Jake, Quinn, and Aleister (and sometimes Taylor, depending on player choices). As for the rest, Sean and Grace are black, Diego and Estela are Hispanic, Craig is Taiwanese, Michelle is Vietnamese, Zahra is Iranian, and Raj is Indian.

* TheNicknamer: Jake. Taylor can give him one the first time you meet. Lampshaded in book 3, where Jake addresses several of his friends by their nicknames (presumably as a clever way to [[spoiler: confuse Tetra, who's chasing them at that point]]), and Kele asking if those people are even there. However, everyone is so used to them, that they understand what they mean anyway. [[note]] He said: 'Princess, Ariel, Short Stuff and Big Guy, you take Papa Smurf and head left.', which translates to 'MC, Quinn, Grace and Craig, you take Varyyn and head left'. [[/note]]

* ArtMajorBiology: Craig thinks that eating a candy bar he dropped into a public hot tub is fine cause hot water is sterile.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In-universe. Book 3 introduces Embers of Hope, showing what could have happened to the Catalysts if [[spoiler:the world hadn't been destroyed]], each one given by a glowing mysterious figure.

** Chapter 7 is Jake's pilot helmet, given to him when he is overwhelmed by the situation with Mike. In his vision, he and Mike testify against Lundgren during a trial, which ends with Lundgren being declared guilty and sentenced to 180 years in prison.[[note]]This is the only one that [[spoiler:definitively won't come true even in the ending where the future is restored, because both Mike and Lundgren are dead.]][[/note]]

** Chapter 9 is Aleister's magazine, given to him as he's reeling from yet another bombshell his father has dropped on him. In his vision, he and Grace are HappilyMarried with a son named Reginald, whom [[GoodParents they love dearly]]. While Grace is away at work, Aleister sings a lullaby to Reginald, and vows to be a better father than Rourke was to him.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first two scenes, while they're on the airplane and once they get off. Taylor has a strange dream, Diego is right by Taylor's side, Jake is sarcastic even as the plane goes through severe turbulence, Estela is silent and unfazed, Quinn is having trouble breathing, Sean tries to calm everyone down, Aleister worries he's going to die surrounded by morons, Zahra grumpily asks if it's too late to jump out the plane, Raj regrets the chipotle he ate, Lila insists on everyone putting their seat belt on, Grace remarks on how La Huerta is home to a number of plants and animals, Craig calls Grace a dork and Michele calls Taylor desperate.

** Grace's profile says she has a criminal record (even her photo is a police mugshot). A flashback reveals that [[spoiler:she smashed her professor's car after he was condescending to her (or at least that's how she percieved it) when she got a B on a paper]]. Her threat level is 6.

** Rourke = ComicBook/LexLuthor[=/=][[Characters/IronMan Phony Stark]]

** Chapter 2 is Raj’s grandmother's cookbook, given to him when he feels guilty over not being able to maintain his role of cheering everyone up. In his vision, Raj is the host of his show, “Bhandakar Fills Bellies”, shooting an episode in Barcelona with Craig as a special guest. He gets a phone call from Chris Winters asking him to personally cater an after-party in Milan with Craig along for the ride. His vision shows him running his own cooking show and getting called personally by a celebrity to cater an event last minute.

** Quinn = Literature/PippiLongstocking/[[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]]

** Sean = Comicbook/CaptainAmerica[=/=]Magellan

** In Book 1 Chapter 13, the player has to choose between Michelle's idea of using the oxygen tank as a missile and Grace's idea of leaving it by the pool to hide. Some time later, the player then has a separate choice of whether or not to close the tsunami shutters. If the player chooses to close the shutters after having chosen Grace's idea in the earlier scene, it becomes this, which is {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in-universe.

** [[spoiler:Book 2 Epilogue reveals that The Endless (who is in reality a future version of Taylor) has been planting clues around the island to help the group survive, and the only one aware of this alterations is Taylor. Jake also discovers that he had to reveal his location to the Arachnids to keep the reality stable and avoid a paradox, allowing the helicopter to materialize.]]