Line #123 Recap/FilmRerollMemento


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4	-> Memento hurtles towards its evitable beginning! Aram joins a parade! Lisa reads someone’s diary! Steve eats scrambled eggs! Alex calls himself pontoon!
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6	Episodes 93-99 of Podcast/FilmReroll. Based on [[Film/{{Memento}} the 2000 thriller.]]
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8	Leonard Shelby has a problem. Ever since his wife was murdered he has been suffering from anterograde amnesia, leaving him unable to retain any new memories for long. Still, he’s been determined to track down the supposed killer, Jimmy Grantz, to get his revenge. However this is all in the past, as our story starts with Leonard waking up in a hospital bed with severe injuries, and soon meets up with Anne Summer, a woman who claims to be his wife and that Leonard has already gotten the hit on Grantz. Is Jimmy really dead? Is Anne telling the truth? And just how did she get that ring?
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10	To replicate the effect of Leonard’s condition, DM Paulo Quiros had him played by no less than twenty actors, who were not informed of what their predecessors had done. Their segments were then released in reverse order, showing the listeners HowWeGotHere. This technically manages to make it both the first single-player campaign since [[Recap/FilmRerollLabyrinth Labyrinth]], and the campaign with the largest cast by far. Every player to have ever appeared in a Film Reroll episode (and then some) show up at some point in the story.
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12	Consisting of seven episodes, Leonard’s story is one of the longest campaign in the show’s history, only matched by [[Recap/FilmRerollHalloweenIII Halloween 3]], and being over taken by [[Recap/FilmRerollRogueTwoANewHope Rogue Two]]'s ''eight''.
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14	Starring [[{{Understatement}} a]] ''[[RevolvingDoorCasting bunch]]'' [[LongList of people]][[note]]Specifically: Carolyn Faye Kramer, Jon Miller, Mirirai Sithole (FirstAppearance), Kara Strait (credited as “Pitr Strait”), Paige Patterson (FirstAppearance), Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer, Lusia Menzen (FirstAppearance), Andy Hoover, Scott Aiello, James D'Amato (FirstAppearance), Courtney Alana Ward, Brian [=McManamon=] (FirstAppearance), Timothy "Tim" Nolan, Daniel Kibblesmith, Jon Miller (again), Aram Vartian (FirstAppearance), Lisa Kopitsky, [[SpecialGuest Steve Jackson]] (FirstAppearance), Alex Demers (FirstAppearance), Andy Hoover (again), Lane Moore, Kara Strait (again; same crediting), Carolyn Faye Kramer (again), [[TheBusCameBack Jonathan West]], Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer (again), and Scott Aiello (again)[[/note]] as Leonard Shelby and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.
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16	Followed by [[Recap/FilmRerollTheSearchers The Searchers.]]
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19	!!Tropes:
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21	* AbductionIsLove: Anne Summer falls in love with Leonard after he kidnaps and interrogates her, which even he is very bothered by. Granted, by that point he has completely stopped antagonizing her and made it clear that he would prefer to be on her side.
22	* ActionPrologue: Because the story is told backwards, it starts off with a somewhat dramatic SequelHook before going right into the climax, where Leonard has a shootout against Chris Manfield in a dark cave.
23	* AccidentalMisnaming: Scott Aiello — the first chronological Leonard — mishears “Jimmy Grantz” as “Jimmy Gantz” and writes it down as such, creating much confusion for later players regarding the character’s actual name.
24	* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The story now ends with Leonard getting a new, comparatively benevolent manipulator in the form of Anne, who might be able to give him some closure and help him move on with his life. Paulo Quiros describes this as just about the happiest ending he could have gotten, given the circumstances.
25	* AdaptationalExplanation: DM Paulo Quiros mentions that he doesn’t necessarily enjoy doing this when the ambiguity was the whole point of the original story, even when said explanation is resigned to his private worldbuilding notes and not actually revealed in-story.
26	* AdaptationalHeroism: While his actual morality varies from player to player, there are little to no cases of Leonard pulling {{Memory Gambit}}s on himself here. Generally, he’s either being manipulated by others, or misinterpreting his own earnest notes.
27	* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike in the film, Teddy ouright refers to Catherine’s death as a murder, and never implies that it was an accident (or a suicide by proxy). Depending on whether his story is true or not, this trope either applies to the culprit, or to Teddy himself.
28	* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Teddy does not go fully into the details of Catherine’s death, assuming the explanation he gave in the film was even true to begin with.
29	* AdaptationNameChange: There is no indication that Teddy’s name is an ([[MiddleNameBasis sort-of]]) alias.
30	* AdaptedOut: Natalie never appears, with Anne generally filling the same role as the enigmatic, manipulative love interest. [[TropesAreTools This was a generally well-recieved change, as it created a new mystery to solve even for people who had seen the film.]]
31	* AfterActionHealingDrama: After shooting Teddy in the chest and grilling him for information, Johnathan!Leonard can't bring himself to kill Teddy outright. Instead, after Teddy passes out from blood loss, he opts to rush him over to the hospital (after getting severely lost on the way).
32	* AirVentPassageway: Used by Andy!Leonard to break into the bank. For Lusia!Leonard, ''leaving'' the bank that way is far trickier.
33	* AmbiguouslyEvil:
34	** Anne is introduced in a BigDamnHeroes moment, saving her beloved Leonard, which leads into the supposed HappyEnding. However, the more we learn about their backstory, the more clear it becomes that she's manipulating him for some unknown purpose.
35	** That said, she ''is'' shown to be extremely loyal to Leonard, even diving into a sewer to save him despite having no obvious way back up. She also tries to rescue three dogs which attacked them moments earlier.
36	* AmbiguousSituation:
37	** We never really learn for certain just how bad the Our Lady of Good Harbour church is. Many of its members ''are'' former criminals (and possibly unprosecuted, given how easily they accept "Brother Pontoon" despite him coming straight from a gunfight), but most of the creepy culty stuff turns out to have simple explanations. Michael accuses them of killing Sister Lily, but finds no evidence for this. Even the finger cutting may or may not just have been an accident.
38	** In the final episode, Teddy drops the bombshell that Jimmy Grantz didn’t kill Leonard’s wife, and that numerous criminal organizations have been exploiting his amnesia for years by using him as their perfect assassin. Jonathan West rolls interrogation on Teddy to get this information out, but he and DM Paulo Quiros deliberately don’t tell the listeners how well he rolled...
39	** This carries over into the following (and last) segment, where Scott!Leonard fails his detect lies roll on Grantz when he claims to have never killed anybody, much less Leonard’s wife.
40	* AmnesiacHero: Leonard, of course. Though the "hero" part may be somewhat debateable...
41	* AndTheAdventureContinues: The story ends -- chronologically -- with Leonard and Anne escaping both the police and their criminal pursuers and [[RidingIntoTheSunset driving off into the sunset,]] supposedly to find Anne's lost sister.
42	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Church of Our Lady of Good Harbour welcomes all forms of atoning sinners, including thieves, drug dealers and [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyers.]]
43	* AskAStupidQuestion: When Jonathan!Leonard starts grilling Teddy about the truth over what they're doing and why he had to kill Jimmy Grantz, the first question he asks is how they got there.[[note]]Now, while it's clear he meant why they got to the point of needing to kill a man, Teddy interprets it literally.[[/note]]
44	-->'''Teddy''': ''We drove!''
45	* BadBadActing:
46	** PlayedWith. Carolyn!Leonard ''is'' a terrible liar, and the police officer questioning him doesn't remotely buy his excuses for his gunshot wounds. [[CassandraTruth On the other hand, she ''also'' doesn't buy that he has a hard time remembering things because of his amnesia, which is in fact entirely true.]]
47	** After shooting John, Joz!Leonard fails to fake crying, then fails to fake an EvilLaugh, ''then'' succeeds at going dead silent. It ''does'' convince the other gangsters that Leonard is completely insane however. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Arthur Kane is creeped out.]]
48	** Mirarai!Leonard's attempt at deceiving the thugs on the beach doesn't go much better, though it ''does'' confuse them long enough for him to make a getaway.
49	** Aram!Leonard however does a pretty good job with his acting rolls, managing to both fake a sudden HeelRealization mid-fight -- which was at least enough to momentarily put his opponent off guard -- and later tricking the congregation into thinking that they're surrounded by the FBI.
50	** Jonathan!Leonard does a pretty good job tricking some random construction workers into thinking that Teddy was shot by street thugs and not by him, but he doesn’t have nearly as much luck with trying to explain his gun away to the police (which amounts to lying about being an undercover cop) leading to his arrest.
51	* TheBartender: Kevin, who helps Jon!Leonard find Jordan the Fisherman (and is probably a retired biker).
52	* BedsheetLadder: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Carolyn!Leonard is happy to ''not'' have to use one for his hospital escape, as Anne was forward-thinking enough to bring a rope.
53	* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: James!Leonard is one of the nicest Leonards of the campaign, but he can be an absolutely ''brutal'' SoftSpokenSadist if the situation calls for it, as Kevin Kane can attest to.
54	* BlackAndGreyMorality: Arthur is a manipulative mob boss who doesn't hesitate to have people killed, but he ''still'' comes across like a ReasonableAuthorityFigure compared to his rival The Fox, who comes across like an outright psychopath.
55	* BondOneLiner: After hitting Kevin Kane in the head with a winebottle, James!Leonard leans in towards him and quotes Creator/EdgarAllanPoe while stabbing him in the throat, staring the man in the eyes as he dies. It's creepy enough that Bestozo thinks Leonard himself might be a demon.
56	--> '''James!Leonard''': May he rest in peace.
57	* BookEnds:
58	** Downplayed: Carolyn is the first person to play Leonard in the first and last episodes of the campaign, but she isn't actually the first ''chronological'' Leonard.[[note]]While Carolyn started Part 7, ''Scott'' was the one to start the campaign itself.[[/note]]
59	** Both the beginning and the ending of the campaign each has a different character give the exact same speech to Leonard.
60	--->We're a good team, you and I. If you put your mind to something you’re unstoppable. Sometimes, you just need a little help getting where you're going.
61	* BrainUploading: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Paulo assures both Carolyn and the audience that he ''hasn't'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial uploaded his consciousness to the Internet and created a hyper-realistic deepfake simulation for video calls.]]
62	* BunnyEarsLawyer: James!Leonard is a TalkativeLoon and a LargeHam, but he still gives Anne a thorough explanation of what it feels like to have his condition, and is one of the only Leonards to point out how messed up their relationship actually is.
63	* CallBack:
64	** King Eru's riddle [[note]]We are little airy creatures, all of different voice and features. One of us in glass is held. One of us, you'll find in felt. The third is locked away in tin. The fourth is in a box within. The fifth you'll find inside a cup. If you'd pass, than hurry up. Tell us our collective name. Else return from whence you came.[[/note]] previously appeared in [[Recap/FilmRerollLabyrinth Labyrinth]]. This doesn't make it any easier for Tim Nolan to solve it, though.
65	-->'''Tim!Leonard:''' Is it bubbles? [[note]]The correct answer is "vowels."[[/note]]
66	** Lisa Kopitsky gets DM Paulo Quiros [[Recap/FilmRerollPracticalMagic to once again play the guitar,]] which is [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded.]]
67	* CarFu: Kara!Leonard engages in this with Chris Manfield, which ends up utterly wrecking both cars.
68	* CassandraTruth:
69	** Anne doesn't quite believe that Leonard is telling the truth about his condition until he wakes up and remembers ''nothing'' about the day before. ''After'' that, she's enthrałled by the concept, comparing him to a super hero, [[BlessedWithSuck which Jon!Leonard has a hard time agreeing with.]]
70	** Neither does Brother Michael, who treats it like a stupid cover story. Though since he is an undercover cop who believes Leonard to be one as well, it comes across more like ConstructiveCriticism than anything.
71	** Travis Field doesn’t quite trust Leonard’s story either, but rolls with it anyway [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor due to being intrigued by the adventure he’s being taken on.]]
72	* CoDragons: Arthur and his brother Kevin present themselves as such in regards to Mr. Big. As it turns out, they are actually TheManInFrontOfTheMan.
73	* ConcealingCanvas: Jon!Leonard finds a certain ring hidden in a safe behind a painting in The Jewel, an abandoned brothel turned homeless residence.
74	* CorruptCop:
75	** The detectives interrogating Carolyn!Leonard agree to let him go and destroy the incriminating evidence in exchange for the stolen money ([[AchievementsInIgnorance which Leonard was legitimately trying to turn in as stolen loot]]). They suspect him of being an assassin sent by the Russian mob, which they really don’t want to mess with.
76	** There is also Teddy, who is perfectly happy talking Leonard into assassinating a drug runner and stealing the aforementioned fortune in his trunk.
77	* CreatorInJoke: "Pontoon" -- the somewhat odd alias Alex Demers has Leonard Shelby use -- was originally his nickname for Andy Hoover (who did incidentally play the character later, among many others).
78	* CreepySouvenir: Before leaving the church ceremony, Aram!Leonard makes sure to grab his own, cut-off finger. He throws it away once he gets to a motel in the evening, though.
79	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Anne claims to have had one, spending two years in a cult and God knows how long in a bad relationship.
80	* DaydreamBeliever: Seems to be the case with the flamboyant King Eru, who sits on a throne in an empty warehouse, wearing two garish bathrobes, surrounded by papier-mâché servants.
81	* DeadAllAlong:
82	** Chris Manfield claims that this is the case with Jimmy Grantz, something later backed up by Leonard’s notes. Eventually confirmed when his dead body is discovered.
83	** The concept is also mocked by Teddy, who claims that Leonard would probably believe him if he said that he was [[TomatoInTheMirror a vengeful wraith of a man who had died ten years earlier.]]
84	* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Leonard manages to win Morgan and Bestozo over to his side after killing their boss Kevin. While this is initially based on intimidation, Bestozo especially comes to form a genuine friendship with him.
85	* DesignatedMonkey: Jordan the Fisherman, a seemingly homeless man who has not only -- much like Leonard -- lost his wife, but also gotten the anchor of his boat stolen and nearly become an innocent casuality in a gunfight.
86	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Doubles as KilledOffscreen: While at "Cannery Mill", Teddy gets into a gunfight with several associates of The Fox that Leonard had mistakenly gotten involved with, only to get shot and begin bleeding out; Leonard winds up fleeing the warehouse, only to lose focus after getting shot in the shoulder by Chris Manfield. When Leonard comes to, he hears Teddy in the distance trying to get him to stay, but he instead leaves the warehouse. Since this is the last time Teddy is acknowledged in the campaign (narratively; technically, this is Teddy's ''first'' scene), it can be inferred that Teddy died soon after.
87	* DontTouchItYouIdiot: Elias explains to Lusia!Leonard that he has to rob safe 366 without touching the floor, lest the alarm will be triggered. Unfortunately, while he doesn't ''personally'' touch it, he still drops objects down to the floor, alerting the police and forcing him to make a quick getaway.
88	* DragonTheirFeet: Chris Manfield — a thug hunting Leonard for personal reasons — serves as the FinalBoss of the campaign, as The Fox is injured and his fellow gangsters are too afraid of the police to do anything.
89	* EnforcedMethodActing: The character of Leonard is recast repeatedly throughout the campaign to give the actors a sense of what it would be like to constantly find yourself in new situations without knowing how you got there. The players were also told to not watch (or rewatch) Film/{{Memento}} beforehand, just to make it even more believable.
90	* EpicFail: The Fox manages to critically fail his punch, somehow ''breaking his hand'' after hitting Leonard, who doesn't even flinch.
91	* EveryoneHasStandards: Tim!Leonard feels very bad about having to fight King Eru's dog Michelangelo, and does what he can to not injure the animal.
92	* FailedASpotCheck: Both Carolyn!Leonard and Jon!Leonard take quite a while to notice their severe hand injury.
93	* FakeFaithHealer: While The Reverend is a former doctor -- even a competent enough [[BackAlleyDoctor back alley kind]] -- he still uses faith healing and -- in spite of Anne's protests -- encourages the rest of the congregation to not take Brother James to the hospital, fearing that it would uncover some of the darker sides of the church.
94	* FriendOnTheForce: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in regards to Teddy, a ManipulativeBastard CorruptCop whose partnership with Leonard eventually results in his death.
95	* TheGadfly: Anne has shades of this, playing with the urinals in the men's washroom, and admitting that she would screw a demon if she could.
96	* GenderBlenderName: Joz!Leonard briefly takes on the alias of "Whitney", the name of the person who owned the car he stole.
97	* GenderFlip:
98	** An unintentional example. Morgan, one of Kane's cronies, was named after a Patreon supporter who has since come out as a transwoman.
99	*** Incidentally, cast member Kara Strait would also come out as the same while this campaign was ongoing. Though given how bad the ScheduleSlip was, maybe this isn’t ''quite'' as big of a coincidence as it sounds.
100	* GenreBlind: With a dash of CannotTellFictionFromReality. While trekking through the sewer, James!Leonard fears that he and Anne might run into demons, like in the film Film/AsAboveSoBelow, [[HandWave which he aleady knows about because he used to be the screenwriters' roommate.]] Paulo Quiros admits that this is something he ''would'' do, and regrets not coming up with it.
101	* GoneHorriblyWrong: Teddy outright tells Kara!Leonard to not have the drug dealers meet him at the hospital, but rather stall them so he has time to clear up the mess our protagonist made. Of course, Leonard immediately loses his memory and takes them to the hospital anyway.
102	* HandicappedBadass: Teddy, an undercover cop who — despite having broken his arm and walking with a cane — still (unwillingly) comes along for a dangerous heist-turned-shoot-out. He doesn’t make it through alive, however.
103	* HaveAGayOldTime: Being German, Lusia Mensen was unfamiliar with the term "strip mall" [[note]] a building consisting entirely of stores, with no other interior, all entered from the street [[/note]] leading to DM Paulo Quiros assuring her that it has nothing to do with ''that''.
104	* HeroStoleMyBike: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Alex!Leonard tries to "steal" a car... only to realize that he already had the keys to it.
105	* HerrDoctor: The doctor who treats Andy!Leonard's injuries has a German accent.
106	* HiddenDepths: Joz!Leonard realizes that he is a numismatist -- a lover of old currency -- and can easily identify all the coins in the loot from the bank. They are quite valuable, but Arthur Kane is only interested in the contents of vault 366, which turns out to be a box containing a single gun.
107	* HisNameIs: PlayedWith. Leonard shoots Chris Manfield ''himself'' before he can give up his own name, as he saw that the man was about to shoot Anne.
108	* HotPursuit: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] After the bank robbery Joz!Leonard casually drives away and doesn't catch the attention of the police.
109	* HumanSacrifice: Lisa!Leonard fears that The Church of Our Lady of Good Harbour are going to do this to him. Turns out that they "only" cut off his pinky finger, and even that may not have been intentional.
110	* HumanShield: During the shootout at the warehouse, Alex!Leonard takes Jordan the Fisherman hostage and uses him as one, apologizing profusely later.
111	* IAmWho: A constant problem for Leonard, especially his Jon Miller incarnation, who is told by Chris Manfield that he's involved in organised crime and should have many lives on his conscience.
112	* IdenticalTwinMistake: Steve!Leonard confuses Anne and Cynthia for one woman, and questions just how she [[OffscreenTeleportation can move about so quickly.]] Also counts as DramaticIrony, as the listeners are well aware of what's going on by this point.
113	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: John Bestozo tries to appeal to Joz!Leonard, begging him not to shoot him while claiming to be his old friend. Leonard doesn't know if he's telling the truth or not, and thus shoots him in the right lung, a place which ''looks'' lethal but isn't neccessarily, and doesn't make it obvious that he ''wasn't'' trying to kill him.
114	* IMeantToDoThat: Tim!Leonard claims that he burned down the building in which he met with Jordan the Fisherman ''deliberately.'' Not because he tried to kill him, mind you. He just ''really'' [[EvilIsPetty hated the place.]] [[WrongGenreSavvy As we see later, this is blatantly untrue.]]
115	* InMediasRes: Due to the AnachronicOrder, the whole campaign is basically a series of these.
116	* JerkassWoobie: InUniverse, Brother John considers Brother James to be one. Yes, he did lash out against Leonard with little justification, but this was because he was unwittingly wearing (gender-neutral) clothes belonging to Sister Lily, who left both James and the church two weeks earlier.
117	* TheKlutz: Daniel!Leonard, who -- during his brief tenure -- falls down the same trash compactor twice and accidentally lights a building on fire.
118	* KnifeFight: Aram!Leonard ends up facing off against [[TheBigGuy Brother Ian]] in an alley, defeating him with a GroinAttack.
119	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: InvertedTrope. Anne claims to not know much about jazz, but actually has quite encyclopedic knowledge about the subject. James!Leonard encourages her to not have such a low opinion about herself.
120	* LighterAndSofter: While the setting is still full of crime and corruption, Leonard does receive more support than in the film, and there is some hope for a relatively happy future for him.
121	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: While [[{{Understatement}} naturally a given]] due to how Paulo structured the campaign, the fact of the matter is that ''every person'' who played Leonard wound up with absolutely zero context for what had transpired before their go. But, to list some noteworthy examples:
122	** The ''[[BackToFront very opening scene]]'' of the campaign sees Carolyn!Leonard wake up in a hospital bed, having been repeatedly shot, and having to learn from Anne that [[UnreliableNarrator they're married]].
123	** Kara's second go as Leonard starts with her [[PunkInTheTrunk locked in a trunk]]; not only that, but there was ''a corpse'' in there with him, something Leonard only learns when he sees it dumped into the ocean.
124	** Not only does Alex!Leonard unknowingly abandon Teddy to [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation bleed to death in the warehouse]], but when going through his notes, he decides to '''[[WrongGenreSavvy throw most of them away]]''' due to not understanding them.
125	* LostInACrowd: Leonard hides from the Our Lady of Good Harbour church in the crowd at a parade. He ''does'' look rather conspicuous, but there are enough people there for it to work, anyway.
126	* LoveableRogue: Scott!Leonard presents himself as such, encouraging Bestozo to take him to The Man Upstairs and knock out his henchmen by framing it as a great opportunity.
127	* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Aaron Woodward turns out to be another amnesiac who spends his days watching cartoons, blissfully unaware that the Kane brothers are holding him prisoner, have stolen his money, and are now carrying out illegal activities in his name.
128	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The One Ring seems to be portrayed this way. The Fox's obsession over it could just be part of his own unhingedness, and Leonard seeing it glowing could just be a stress-induced hallucination.
129	* MediumAwareness: James!Leonard is quite aware that he's an RPG character, and -- along with Anne -- makes several remarks about the session itself.
130	* MeetTheNewBoss: Anne and Cynthia used to be members of a nasty cult, only to leave it and join the also somewhat cult-like church Our Lady of Good Harbour. Anne's admiration of Leonard is also rather cult-like in and of itself.
131	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Michael joined Our Lady of Good Harbour to investigate them for tax fraud, only for Sister Lily to disappear, turing it all into a murder investigation. However we never learn for certain if any of them are guilty or if Lily is even dead.
132	* MissionControl: Elias Mord serves as such during the bank robbery. As does Anne Summer, but only because she nicked John's earpiece.
133	* MistakenIdentity: Chris Mansfield briefly mistakes Carolyn!Leonard for Jimmy Grantz when he pulls up in the latter’s car. He becomes furious when realizing his mistake, concluding that Leonard likely killed Jimmy.
134	* MistakenForBadass: Leonard has elements of this. While he ''is'' a legitimate badass, his condition only lets him remember his latest deeds, and basically forced him to make everything up as he goes along. There are several moments where he essentially has to impersonate himself and pretend to remember more than he actually does.
135	* MistakenIdentity:
136	** Half delirious from gunshot wound, Jon!Leonard believe Anne to be his dead wife Katherine. [[EntertaininglyWrong She just thinks it's some cover name he's made up for her.]]
137	** It's also heavily implied that Brother John had nothing to do with Katherine's murder, and that his suspicious behavior -- which ended up getting him stabbed by Lisa!Leonard -- was a case of NotWhatItLooksLike.
138	* MundaneUtility: In the Cannery Mill hangar, Andy!Leonard uses his pistol to shoot a hole through the wall in order to... get a reading light, in the middle of a violent gunfight!
139	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Finding himself smelling strangely in a room full of rainbows, one of which is burning]], Tim!Leonard panics and throws his improvised torch to the ground. It ends up catching another rainbow -- and eventually the whole building -- on fire.
140	* NoIndoorVoice: The Reverend of Our Lady of Good Harbour calls out his eccentric deacon -- a [[RecurringCharacter quite familiar-sounding]] man named [[Recap/FilmRerollHalloween1978 Jeff]] for yelling in a church.
141	* NoodleImplements: Both Aram!Leonard and Anne are confused as to why there are a pair of fishes and an anchor in the former's car. Only later do we learn that these items were placed there by Jordan the Fisherman.
142	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Scott!Leonard tells Aaron Woodward that they have more in common than either of them would wish, as they both have the same condition which prevents them from moving on with their lives, and both end up being exploited for it. Of course, because of their amnesia, neither of them remember even this conversation afterwards.
143	* OffWithHisHead: Andy Hoover jokes that had he critically succeeded on his break-in roll, he might have been able to decapitate Jimmy Grantz from three blocks away without realizing it.
144	* OnlySaneMan: James!Leonard is a polite-to-a-fault NiceGuy who actually understands how self-destructive his life is, tries to get treatment for his condition, and attempts to improve Anne's situation, whether by being a better boyfriend or by suggesting that she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy find someone better for herself.]]
145	* OutrunTheFireball: Courtney!Leonard finds himself in a burning building, and only manages to escape it -- along with another man, his three dogs and Anne -- at the last second.
146	* PlayingBothSides: The Society of the Sleeping Heart is doing deals with both local crime gangs and the Russian mob, who are otherwise at war with one another.
147	* PointOfDivergence:
148	** Anne Summer becoming Leonard's love interest turns out to have been the result of a long series of coincidences. To wit, it only happens after Aram!Leonard picks up her sister's diary before leaving the chapel, runs past said sister in the way out, hears her shouting that the book is hers, holds onto the diary despite not knowing if it's important and finally decides with a ''coin flip'' to go back and question her. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane It almost makes Anne's claim that God sent her to look after Leonard sound plausible.]]
149	** At the end of the campaign (which is the first scene narratively), we see the exact moment the campaign starts to deviate from the plot of the film: Scott!Leonard manages to fast-talk Teddy into giving him a gun when they meet up... but, in turn, he ''doesn't'' take a picture of the hotel he started the campaign in, meaning he effectively loses his files on the "case" once he loses focus.
150	* PunkInTheTrunk: The villains put Leonard and the now dead body of Elias Mord in the trunk of their car and drive them to the ocean for disposal.
151	* RealityIsUnrealistic: [[invoked]] Invoked: When Teddy [[AmbiguousSituation tells Leonard]] that there's a guy in Chinatown that gave Leonard all of his tattoos and notes, he points out that [[WhamLine it isn't actually that impossible to imitate his handwriting]]. "You think that's fuckin' sci-fi technology?!"
152	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Teddy gives Kara!Leonard one over the phone, calling him [[JustForFun/XMeetsY a cross between]] WesternAnimation/MrMagoo and Film/CapeFear.
153	* RedBaron:
154	** The Fox, the BigBad crime boss.
155	** Aaron Woodward, also known as "Mr. Big" and "The Man Upstairs", [[TokenGoodTeammate though he really doesn't live up to his reputation.]]
156	* RedHerring: When chewing Leonard out over his severe amnesia and how he doesn't know himself anymore, Teddy tosses out three "explanations" that he immediately points out are bullshit: Leonard actually died long ago and is now a vengeful wraith, Leonard is actually a Mafia hitman that's the best in the business, and Leonard actually has a daughter that he didn't know about.
157	* RhymesOnADime: As the delusional King Eru speaks only in rhyme, Paulo Quiros had to actually pull this off to play him, impressing Tim Nolan greatly, though he ''did'' have a hard time coming up with a rhyme for "Cerberus".
158	* SacrificialLion:
159	** Arthur Kane has Morgan shot dead just to show that he means business.
160	** There’s also Travis Field, a NiceGuy former coworker of Leonard who is completely out of his depth in the criminal world our protagonist pulls him into, and ends up paying for this with his life.
161	* SadisticChoice: At the headquarters of the Fox, Paige!Leonard runs into a hostage who just happens to be an old coworker of his, and has to choose between saving him and continuing his mission. He chooses the latter.
162	* SecretTestOfCharacter: Arthur Kane has Anne Summer threatened with a gun to see if Leonard's memory really is as bad as he claims, having pointed out that his condition is easy to fake. He doesn't recognize her as his girlfriend and gives the gangsters the permission to kill her. Rather than going through with it, they simply declare him to have passed the test.
163	* ShaggyDogStory: Tim!Leonard grows suspicious of Annie and considers getting rid of her... only to lose his memory -- ironically while fighting an actual dog -- before he can do anything about it.
164	* ShapedLikeItself: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Leonard Shelby -- protagonist of Memento -- mentions his "Memento condition" and Anne asks if that's the technical term.
165	* ShoutOut:
166	** Andy!Leonard wakes up sitting in a small movie theatre, watching WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc. We later learn that this film was playing by Scott!Leonard's request, as WesternAnimation/RabbitFire was previously being shown.
167	** Aaron references Literature/TheMostDangerousGame, which is [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour a bit jarring]] for a character who is otherwise treated like [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent an innocent amnesiac]] with [[ManChild the mind of a child.]]
168	** James!Leonard brings up the film Film/FiftyFirstDates, and how the plot of that film is eerily similar to his and Annie's relationship. Unfortunately, DM Paulo Quiros forces him to take it back, [[AnachronismStew as the film hasn't been released yet.]]
169	** James!Leonard references Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado -- [[PopCultureIsolation a story Anne hasn't read, as she dropped out of school]] -- saying that you shouldn't ruin your life with an obsessive quest for revenge. Of course, this lesson doesn't stay with him once he spaces out and becomes Scott!Leonard...
170	** King Eru's challenge involves [[Literature/TheHobbit "Riddles, riddles, riddles in the dark..."]] Tim Nolan later brings up the book itself (and how he didn't like the corresponding chapter).
171	* ShroudedInMyth: The Society of the Sleeping Heart is led by The Man Upstairs, [[OrcusOnHisThrone a mysterious figure who never interacts with his underlings.]] It's been speculated that he's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, or that he's several people sharing a CollectiveIdentity. Some also say that he doesn't have a name, having been found and raised by mute monks in a monastery. The truth turns out to be something far more simple and tragic.
172	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Jimmy Grantz only appears alive for one scene, but his death and the accusations leveled towards him cast a shadow over the rest of the campaign.
173	* SoftWater: PlayedWith. Courtney!Leonard and Anne both survive the fall into the AbsurdlySpaciousSewer, but The Flamboyant Man and his three dogs Mozart, Wolfgang and Wendigo are unaccounted for, and may have drowned... [[ShaggyDogStory immediately after Leonard saved them from a burning building.]]
174	* SpannerInTheWorks: Paulo Quiros outright calls Andy!Leonard one [[note]] using the American word for spanner; "wrench" [[/note]] without explaining ''how'' he ruined the plan.
175	* SpecialGuest: ''Steve Jackson'', the creator of TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} himself, appears in the fifth part, getting his chance to play Leonard Shelby.
176	* SpottingTheThread: Jon!Leonard correctly deduces that the rundown establishment in Chinatown is in far too fancy a location for it to make sense, and is actually a front for a crime gang made to ''look'' like a failing business to throw off suspicions.
177	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: After Teddy tells the gun-wielding thugs that it wasn’t him but Leonard who killed Jimmy Grantz, Jane!Leonard gets understandably pissed off. Teddy then quickly changes his mind and claims that Grantz was really killed by a one-eyed ranger, which the thugs actually seem to believe.
178	* SympatheticPOV: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded.]] Chris Manfield argues that Leonard is a far worse person than him, and the real villain of the story.
179	* TapOnTheHead:
180	** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. Andy!Leonard decides to ''not'' do this to an innocent security guard, as he fears that might give him lasting injuries similar to those [[HeWhoFightsMonsters he himself recieved.]] He chokes the man out instead, ''hoping'' that it won't do any permanent damage.
181	** However, [[AnachronicOrder before/after that]], Andy!Leonard had few qualms knocking out Chris Manfield’s not-so-innocent partner-in-crime, with the same [[CrowbarCombatant crowbar]] he [[ChekhovsGun used to break into Cannery Mill.]]
182	* ThereWasADoor: Lusia!Leonard breaks a window to get out of the Chinese restaurant and reach Anne. Paulo then points out that he ''could'' have simply unlocked the door...
183	* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Anne Summer becomes this for Leonard, believing herself to be on a MissionFromGod to look after him, while also seeing the man as the only protection she has. After he loses his memory again, he becomes dependent on her as his biggest -- [[UnreliableNarrator but sadly not always trustworthy]] -- source of information.
184	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Tim!Leonard ''believes'' himself to be on drugs because of the surreal environment he wakes up in. Anne has no reason to doubt him and [[EntertaininglyWrong comes to think the same thing.]]
185	* TokenGoodTeammate: Possibly, Jeff, who is treated like an innocent deacon with no involvement in his church's nightly ceremonies. Of course, the rest of the congregation are merely AmbiguouslyEvil to begin with...
186	* UnreliableNarrator:
187	** Anne is shown to be quite manipulative, claiming to be Leonard's wife while previously only saying that she was his girlfriend. She also keeps increasing the time they have supposedly been together, even though only hours pass InUniverse.
188	** Arthur Kane also sends him on a mission to take out Jimmy Grantz, while Chris Manfield claims that Grantz has already been dead for some time.
189	** DM Paulo Quiros makes it a point that Teddy is likely one, and that he doesn’t see the character’s TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the end of the film as [[TheEndingChangesEverything the one explanation for the story]], but rather as [[RashomonStyle yet another possibility brought forward by a dubious source.]] Notably, the equivalent scene in the campaign has Teddy mention supposed facts not stated in the movie while omitting others, making it a bit of a {{Revision}}, if not flat-out MultipleChoicePast.
190	* ViceCity: Los Angeles is portrayed as such. Gang wars are running rampant, the PoliceAreUseless or corrupt, a charity organization is a front for organised crime, the local church might be covering up a murder, and the basement of a homeless shelter has been taken over by a lunatic. There are very few truly good characters and most of them end up either dead or miserable.
191	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Arthur Kane and -- by extension -- the entire Society of the Sleeping Heart (also known as The Society of the ''Waking'' Heart) which is a mob hiding behind the front of a fundraiser organization.
192	* TheWallsAreClosingIn: After failing to jump over a trash compactor pit, our heroes have to climb out of it without getting crushed. Anne gets out pretty fast but Daniel!Leonard falls down to the side of the press and has to escape ''again'' before it ''opens''.
193	* WeHardlyKnewYou: On a meta level, Brian [=McManamon=] lasts only for about twelve minutes -- ''including'' his intro and outro with Paulo Quiros -- before his character loses focus and has to be handed off to another player. Just about the only thing he has time to do is making the decision to SaveTheVillain, and realizing that he has a quite strange ring on his finger...
194	* WhamLine:
195	** At the end of episode three, DM Paulo Quiros says one sentence which confirms that Leonard ''has'' found the ultimate ''Film Reroll'' collectible, and he still has it by the end of the story.
196	-->'''DM Paulo Quiros''': [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The ring on your finger seems to be glowing with some sort of text on it.]]
197	** [[invoked]] In Part 7, Teddy [[AmbiguousSituation explains]] that he acquired Leonard from a guy in Chinatown who had him severely strung out, and that ''he'' is the one who gave Leonard all those tattoos... and all of his notes.
198	--->'''Teddy''': [[ParanoiaFuel What, you never thought maybe somebody else in the world might be able to imitate your handwriting?]]
199	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Anne spends much of the campaign worrying about her sister, who is eventually revealed to be a twin named Cynthia, and to have been in the church during the razzia. Anne and Leonard setting out to look for her serves as an AndTheAdventureContinues ending for the campaign.
200	* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: InUniverse. Joz!Leonard asks Anne why she's still with him. She says it's because he saved her life, she needs his help to find her lost sister, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe and she didn't have much else before meeting him.]]
201	* WontDoYourDirtyWork: As Jonathan!Leonard has gotten suspicious about the whole revenge plot, he refuses to finish off Jimmy Grantz and instead orders Teddy to do the deed, even photographing him in the act.

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