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* GuideDangIt: A minor example in chapter 1. Depending on whether you place an envelope of money in a locker or outside the Chronos Cafe, [[spoiler: Ethan receives either a bag of homemade cookies, or a homemade birthday card. Obviously the bag of cookies is the better gift, but there's no hint as to which solution results in which. You're actually supposed to place the envelope inside the locker so you can get the cookies; if you place it outside Chronos, Emily and Ashley don't have time to get you any real presents, so they settle for a birthday card.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Emily, in one timeline, caused Ashley to run off and disappear by yelling at her and shoving her when Ashley supposedly lost the money needed to buy Ethan a present.]]
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* TenderTears: [[spoiler: In one timeline, Emily explains that it was her fault Ashley disappeared, since Ashley ran off after Emily didn't believe her about the lost money. Then we get a picture of Emily crying, eaten up with guilt.]]
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* RedHerring: At the beginning of the game, Derek comes over to borrow money from his brother Timothy, who refuses and scolds Derek for "relying" on the Kairos family. Derek loses his temper and accuses Timothy of always having been "down" on him, and then leaves while advising Timothy to watch his back. This makes Derek look incredibly suspicious, almost like he's going to be the villain of this story, complete with a motive...[[spoiler: nope, actually he's one of the ''heroes'' of this story, the villain turns out to be someone else entirely.]]
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** [[spoiler: And Emily Niner has a more minor example: as Ashley finds out the hard way in one alternate reality, if Ashley loses money that would've bought Ethan a present, this makes Emily mad enough to shout at Ashley, and if the flashback's picture is accurate even apparently shove Ashley to the ground.]]
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* SayingTooMuch: This is what first tips Ethan off that something's off about [[spoiler: Irving. When Ethan visits Irving's shop, Irving talks about two high school girls, namely Emily and Ashley, buying Ethan a clock for Ethan's birthday. But the reality in which that happened was wiped out of existence earlier in the game, so in this reality they only made cookies or a birthday card! So how the heck would Irving know about the reality in which they bought a clock...unless Irving also has a Hollow Pen?]]
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Loops are not paradoxes.
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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The ending.]] And the game was doing ''so'' well at avoiding paradoxes up to that point!
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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The ending.]] And the game was doing ''so'' well at avoiding paradoxes up to that point!]]
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** [[spoiler: It could just be Kori and Irving, but there's no proof of that]].
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** A potential problem for any player on a given play-through, given that it's entirely possible to miss out on changes you can make in some pasts (e.g. fixing Morris' or Vin's lives), despite being made aware that they could use some Hollow Pen help.
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Cute Shotaro Boy has been renamed to Adorably Precocious Child. The trope is a young child who is considered cute because they try to act mature and responsible beyond their years. Due to heavy misuse, Zero Context Examples and entries that don\'t fit the description will be deleted.
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* CuteShotaroBoy: Complete with cute dog!
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Mary Onegin keeps changing the past to cause her and her son's deaths when she realizes he's a CompleteMonster. Unfortunately for her, he always ends up living and she always dies.]]
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Mary Onegin keeps changing the past to cause her and her son's deaths when she realizes he's a CompleteMonster.pure evil. Unfortunately for her, he always ends up living and she always dies.]]
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Anyone who is a holder of a Hollow Pen or does not experience time has this. Occasionally overlaps with OnlySaneMan, such as when [[spoiler:[[CompleteMonster Irving]] kills Ethan's homeroom teacher in the past and assumes his identity.]]
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Anyone who is a holder of a Hollow Pen or does not experience time has this. Occasionally overlaps with OnlySaneMan, such as when [[spoiler:[[CompleteMonster Irving]] [[spoiler:Irving kills Ethan's homeroom teacher in the past and assumes his identity.]]
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* VehicularSabotage: In one timeline, Irving cuts the brakes on Olivia's bike, and she subsequently dies in an accident
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* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: ''Ben Fourier'' of all people, whom Ethan describes in his profile as "kind of a wuss, but not a bad guy", has one. The berserk button is dogs. When Ben was a child, he was taking care of a dog named Shiloh, but one day there was a huge lightning storm that set the treehouse on fire...and Ben ''forgot to untie Shiloh from the treehouse before he left,'' causing Shiloh to burn to death. Ben is tormented with guilt, so when he sees a dog named Lucky, he flips out and starts screaming at the little boy who owns Lucky. Aaron comes out of the cafe to investigate the commotion, and his attempt to save the boy from Ben causes the two of them to fight.]]
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* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: ''Ben Fourier'' of all people, whom Ethan describes in his profile as "kind of a wuss, but not a bad guy", has one. The berserk button is dogs. When Ben was a child, he was taking care of a dog named Shiloh, but one day there was a huge lightning storm that set the treehouse on fire...and Ben ''forgot to untie Shiloh from the treehouse before he left,'' causing Shiloh to burn to death. Ben is tormented with guilt, so when he sees a dog named Lucky, he flips out and starts screaming at hitting the dog. The little boy who owns Lucky. the dog calls for help, Aaron comes out of the cafe to investigate the commotion, and his attempt to save the boy from Ben causes the two of them to fight.fight, which depending on whether Ben has access to pliers or Aaron has access to a rock will end up with either Ben or Aaron hospitalized/dead.]]
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* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: ''Ben Fourier'' of all people, whom Ethan describes in his profile as "kind of a wuss, but not a bad guy", has one. The berserk button is dogs. When Ben was a child, he was taking care of a dog named Shiloh, but one day there was a huge lightning storm that set the treehouse on fire...and Ben ''forgot to untie Shiloh from the treehouse before he left,'' causing Shiloh to burn to death. Ben is tormented with guilt, so when he sees a dog named Lucky, he flips out and starts screaming at the little boy who owns Lucky. Aaron comes out of the cafe to investigate the commotion, and his attempt to save the boy from Ben causes the two of them to fight.]]
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Ethan prevents an accident where a woman he knows dies, but the accident instead injures a boy and kills his dog. The only way to save them both is to not to fix the woman's bicycle but to fix the truck that caused the accident in the first place.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Ethan prevents an accident where a woman he knows dies, but the accident instead injures a boy and kills his dog. The only way to save all of them both is to not to fix the woman's bicycle bicycle, which is what Ethan did first to save the woman, but to fix the truck that caused the accident in the first place.
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** He also saves someone else's life, but causes his friend to drop out of high school. Unlike with the previous example, [[CloseEnoughTimeline Ethan doesn't bother to fix this]].
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Ethan prevents an accident where a woman he knows dies, but the accident instead injures a boy and kills his dog.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Ethan prevents an accident where a woman he knows dies, but the accident instead injures a boy and kills his dog. The only way to save them both is to not to fix the woman's bicycle but to fix the truck that caused the accident in the first place.
** He also prevents [[spoiler: Ben Fourier from killing Aaron by taking away his pliers, but that causes ''Aaron'' to win the fight instead and put Ben in the hospital. Or, if the player removed the pliers in advance, Aaron wins the fight first by shoving Ben down as Ben hits his head on a rock, so Ethan fixes it by moving the rock...but then Ben beats Aaron instead. The only real way to stop the fight is to go further back in time and save the life of a dog Ben left tied up in a fire, to prevent Ben from getting traumatic memories every time he sees a dog, which is what always starts a conflict between him and Aaron]].
** He also prevents [[spoiler: Ben Fourier from killing Aaron by taking away his pliers, but that causes ''Aaron'' to win the fight instead and put Ben in the hospital. Or, if the player removed the pliers in advance, Aaron wins the fight first by shoving Ben down as Ben hits his head on a rock, so Ethan fixes it by moving the rock...but then Ben beats Aaron instead. The only real way to stop the fight is to go further back in time and save the life of a dog Ben left tied up in a fire, to prevent Ben from getting traumatic memories every time he sees a dog, which is what always starts a conflict between him and Aaron]].
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** To be fair, it's mostly due to Sox [[HatesBaths hating baths]] instead of him being truly malicious.
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* AnyoneCanDie: There are probably ''less'' named characters who die in one alternate timeline or other than ones that don't. [[IGotBetter They get better]] when Ethan fixes the the timeline in question, though.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: A pair of needle-nose pliers may not sound like a particularly impressive weapon, but that doesn't stop [[spoiler: Ben from ''killing'' Aaron with them]] in one timeline.
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* NeckSnap: This is how [[spoiler: Morris]] gets killed in one of the timelines you must fix.
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* AnyoneCanDie: There are probably ''less'' named characters who die in one alternate timeline or other than ones that don't. [[IGotBetter They get better]] when Ethan fixes the the timeline in question, though.
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* TheGlassesGottaGo: You can make Ethan enforce this trope on Emily by [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential having him steal her glasses from through a Hole]]. You're given several opportunities to give them back, but [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment if you don't...]]
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* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Irving, ''big time''.]]
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* TheDogIsTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Sox. Maybe.]]
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* KnifeNut: [[spoiler:Irving]] seems to have knives as his weapon of choice. [[spoiler:Mary even mentions that stopping him from pushing Kori just leads to him stabbing her.]]
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Irving]] switches between trying to stop Ethan by messing with the past and just plain trying to shank him with alarming frequency.
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* NoRomanticResolution: Ethan never does pick between Emily, Ashley and [[spoiler:Kori - or, when she's pulled out of the running, her [[IdenticalGrandson identical]] [[KissingCousins daughter]]]].
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* TenchiSolution: Ethan never does pick between Emily, Ashley and [[spoiler:Kori - or, when she's pulled out of the running, her [[IdenticalGrandson identical daughter]]]].
** Considering that the [[spoiler:aforementioned identical daughter would technically be his [[KissingCousins cousin]], one would hope he limits his choices to Emily or Ashley.]] Then again, it ''is'' a [[ValuesDissonance Japanese game]]
** Considering that the [[spoiler:aforementioned identical daughter would technically be his [[KissingCousins cousin]], one would hope he limits his choices to Emily or Ashley.]] Then again, it ''is'' a [[ValuesDissonance Japanese game]]
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* TimeStandsStill: Whenever someone uses a Hollow Pen, this happens to any non-user.
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* TimeStandsStill: Whenever someone uses a Hollow Pen, this happens to any non-user. [[spoiler:Or those pulled out of time.]]
