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%% ** Wait until you see "the larger picture", a revelation with a scene that's even more shocking in the UsefulNotes/PC98 version. Also, [[spoiler:Ishida's murder]], which borders on {{Gorn}}.

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%% ** Wait until you see "the larger picture", a revelation with a scene that's even more shocking in the UsefulNotes/PC98 Platform/PC98 version. Also, [[spoiler:Ishida's murder]], which borders on {{Gorn}}.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Jonathan's favorite brand of cigarettes, "Moslems", was real, and they were 'break' cigarettes; required no lighter, but had a sulfuric compound in the tip that activated when you broke the end.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Perhaps it's not so subtle that Redwood happened to be Lorraine's killer.]] Arguably lampshaded, as the game starts dropping more and more hints leading up to the actual reveal.

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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Perhaps it's not so subtle that Redwood happened Nwotyzal said something stupid like "I actually think Drake would've worked if it started in any medium OTHER than a video game." which is wrong of course because it still would've been badly written. Don't try to be Lorraine's killer.]] Arguably lampshaded, as insult specific mediums.

Master N said something like "Guess Origami king wasn't
the game starts dropping more and more hints leading up masterpiece it was made out to the actual reveal.be." just because it doesn't have a CM, which is wrong of course, a CM in a work doesn't make it better or worse.

Libraryseraph said "People will DILP any villain." which is also wrong of course.
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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Chris Goldwin is arguably this. After spending much of the game as a seemingly friendly bystander, it's revealed at the end of Act 6 that she's been entangled in Tokugawa's web of evil since long before the game's events. Jonathan catches her trying to kill Ed while he's recovering from surgery, and she confesses that she was acting under orders from Tokugawa. Chris expresses remorse at having had to lie to Jonathan all along, and at having to become Joseph Tokugawa's mistress in order to keep BCCH going. She confesses that Tony Redwood is her son, but since Frozeners are legally government property, she could never get close to him on her own--another reason for her subservience to Tokugawa. After Jonathan convinces her that it's not too late to turn things around, Chris [[HeelFaceTurn says she's ready to tell Jonathan everything]]. At that moment, Redwood flies up to the window in an EMPS, and [[{{Matricide}} shoots her dead]].]]
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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Chris Goldwin is arguably this. After spending much of the game as a seemingly friendly bystander, it's revealed at the end of Act 6 that she's been entangled in Tokugawa's web of evil since long before the game's events. Jonathan catches her trying to kill Ed while he's recovering from surgery, and she confesses that she was acting under orders from Tokugawa. Chris expresses remorse at having had to lie to Jonathan all along, and at having to become Joseph Tokugawa's mistress in order to keep BCCH going. She confesses that Tony Redwood is her son, but since Frozeners are legally government property, she could never get close to him on her own--another reason for her subservience to Tokugawa. After Jonathan convinces her that it's not too late to turn things around, Chris [[HeelFaceTurn says she's ready to tell Jonathan everything]]. At that moment, Redwood flies up to the window in an EMPS, and [[{{Matricide}} shoots her dead]].]]
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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Perhaps it's not so subtle that Redwood happened to be Lorraine's killer.]]

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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Perhaps it's not so subtle that Redwood happened to be Lorraine's killer.]]]] Arguably lampshaded, as the game starts dropping more and more hints leading up to the actual reveal.



** [[DirtyCop Gates Becker]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joseph Sadaoki Tokugawa]] work [[BigBadDuumvirate together]] to push humankind into space to satisfy their desires for control and profit. With Gates as his hidden partner, Tokugawa created a SexSlave operation where he had famous female celebrities cloned and used for pleasure by himself and the highest bidders. The two have anyone in their way assassinated; when Jonathan Ingram finds their headquarters, he realizes the extent of their evil: the two have been placing human beings in stasis and [[OrganTheft harvesting their organs]] while using cloning technology to regrow the organs for an endless supply.
** [[TheDragon Tony Redwood]] spends most of the game as a killer in a mask. When [[PlayerCharacter Jonathan Ingram]] comes out of a 30-year stint in suspended animation, Redwood kills his former wife with a car bomb, and later in the game guns down another of his friends. In order to frame Jonathan, Redwood murders a captive scientist with Jonathan's gun, placing him under suspicion for the murder. To escape, he also installs a bomb in a civilian shop so the police [[SadisticChoice have to choose]] between chasing Redwood or saving innocent lives. Redwood takes the adopted child of Jonathan's partner hostage later and puts the partner in the hospital. When another operative fails in her task to shut off his life support and shows signs of performing a HeelFaceTurn, Redwood murders her despite her being his own mother. When defeated, Redwood opts to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled throw himself to his death]], laughing madly, solely to deny Jonathan the satisfaction of taking him in.
* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: Redwood dies from [[DisneyVillainDeath falling from a stairway to his death]].]] Then, on May 9, 2000, Creator/KanetoShiozawa, the voice actor who played Redwood, [[StaircaseTumble fell down the stairway of his home and died hours later]]. Also, Creator/TonyScott, the film director Redwood was based on, committed suicide by jumping off a bridge to his death.

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** [[DirtyCop [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Gates Becker]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joseph Sadaoki Tokugawa]] work [[BigBadDuumvirate together]] to push humankind into space to satisfy their desires for control and profit. With Gates as his hidden partner, Tokugawa created a SexSlave operation where he had famous female celebrities cloned and used for pleasure by himself and the highest bidders. The two have anyone in their way assassinated; when Jonathan Ingram finds their headquarters, he realizes the extent of their evil: the two have been placing human beings in stasis and [[OrganTheft harvesting their organs]] while using cloning technology to regrow the organs for an endless supply.
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** [[TheDragon [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Tony Redwood]] spends most of the game as a killer in a mask. When [[PlayerCharacter Jonathan Ingram]] comes out of a 30-year 25-year stint in suspended animation, Redwood kills his former wife with a car bomb, and later in the game guns down another of his friends. In order to frame Jonathan, Redwood murders a captive scientist with Jonathan's gun, placing him under suspicion for the murder. To escape, he also installs a bomb in a civilian shop so the police [[SadisticChoice have to choose]] between chasing Redwood or saving innocent lives. Redwood takes the adopted child of Jonathan's partner hostage later and puts the partner in the hospital. When another operative fails in her task to shut off his life support and shows signs of performing a HeelFaceTurn, Redwood murders her despite her being his own mother. When defeated, Redwood opts to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled throw himself to his death]], laughing madly, solely to deny Jonathan the satisfaction of taking him in.
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: Redwood dies from [[DisneyVillainDeath falling from a stairway to his death]].]] Then, on May 9, 2000, Creator/KanetoShiozawa, the voice actor who played Redwood, [[StaircaseTumble fell down the stairway of his home and died hours later]]. Also, Creator/TonyScott, the film director Redwood was based on, committed suicide by jumping off a bridge to his death.]]



* NightmareFuel: Salvatore's death in the PC-98 version is far more gruesome than in the console versions. When defeated, he suddenly gets ''hanged'' by the steel cords and ''electrocuted''.

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* NightmareFuel: Salvatore's [[spoiler:Salvatore's death in the PC-98 version is far more gruesome than in the console versions. When defeated, he suddenly gets ''hanged'' by the steel cords and ''electrocuted''.]]



* ThatOnePuzzle: The infamous bomb diffusing sequence at the end of Act 2.

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* ThatOnePuzzle: The infamous bomb diffusing notorious bomb-defusing sequence at the end of Act 2.

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* NightmareFuel: Wait until you see "the larger picture", a revelation with a scene that's even more shocking in the UsefulNotes/PC98 version. Also, [[spoiler:Ishida's murder]], which borders on {{Gorn}}.
** Salvatore's death in the PC-98 version is far more gruesome than in the console versions. When defeated, he suddenly gets ''hanged'' by the steel cords and ''electrocuted''.

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* NightmareFuel: Salvatore's death in the PC-98 version is far more gruesome than in the console versions. When defeated, he suddenly gets ''hanged'' by the steel cords and ''electrocuted''.
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Wait until you see "the larger picture", a revelation with a scene that's even more shocking in the UsefulNotes/PC98 version. Also, [[spoiler:Ishida's murder]], which borders on {{Gorn}}.
** Salvatore's death in the PC-98 version is far more gruesome than in the console versions. When defeated, he suddenly gets ''hanged'' by the steel cords and ''electrocuted''.
{{Gorn}}.

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