History VideoGame / LobotomyCorporation

* CreepyChild:
** The Child of the Galaxy is one of these. He's dangerously clingy; [[spoiler:if anyone who worked on him worked on another abnormality, the Qliphoth Counter Decreases, and if that employee dies, his Qliphoth Counter becomes 0. And the penalty of his Qliphoth Counter going to 0 is all employees who worked on him that day dying. Thankfully, he has a generous count of 5 Qliphoth counters before he goes mad.]]
** Laetitia, the first Abnormality added to the new version, is also one of these. She's also lethally clingy; [[spoiler:if anyone who worked on her tries to even work on another Abnormality, that employee will die and become a spider minion before they can even work on it.]]
** Scorched Girl also qualifies, though her version of 'creepy' is more 'outright homicidal'.

** Mimicry, the E.G.O. of Nothing There, is the best Red damage weapon in the game. It attacks lightning fast, has a special scythe move that deals ludicrous damage, and heals for 25% of all damage done. Any person who equips this becomes a StoneWall who heals faster than almost anything else in the game can damage them for. CENSORED's E.G.O. weapon... uh, CENSORED, has a similar effect of healing 40% of all damage done and has much longer range, but attacks much slower and deals Black damage instead. Both weapons complement each other quite well.
** Twilight, the E.G.O. of [[spoiler: Apocalypse Bird]] does 12-18 damage of all four types at once, ensuring it will penetrate any defense and can handle any kind of situation.

* ProductionForeshadowing: One of the FlavourText for the White Ordeal is "The colossal tower of light was titled The Library. It is only natural for the Fixers to be drawn to such a mystic place of life and death." and "Bookhunters... One day they will rummage through The Library reigned over by the Pale Librarian. They are what shall become of the Fixers." Foreshadowing the events of ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'' well in advance

!!''Lobotomy Corporation'' provides examples of:

''[[http://www.lobotomycorp.kr/en/ Lobotomy Corporation]]'' is a SpaceManagementGame developed and published by South Korean independent video game studio Creator/ProjectMoon, inspired by ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', and ''Series/Warehouse13''. It was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on December 16th, 2016, and was in Early Access until April 9th, 2018.

** While minor (and unintentional), Dream of a Black Swan's backstory tells of a hardworking girl named [[spoiler:Elijah who, in the process of trying to help those dear to her, ends up turning into a bizarre human-swan hybrid due to a strange, mutating smoke. Elijah is also the true name of Malkuth, who originally died when she attempted to conduct a research test on Cogito by herself and was overloaded as a result of it.]]

Congratulations, and welcome to your new job as a site manager for The Lobotomy Corporation, the newest company in the innovative new field of energy production! We at the Lobotomy Corporation have discovered a new untapped source of energy... [[EldritchAbomination monsters of mysterious origin]]. As the manager, your job is to oversee the facility you have been assigned to and make sure that everything is running smoothly. That includes hiring new agents, researching the monsters you've been assigned, and finding the best way to get the highest amount of energy out of them... [[MoodWhiplash aaaaaand dealing with the occasional containment breach, during which many agents will be murdered and/or go insane]].

But don't worry, we're not going to make you do this by yourself. You'll be assisted by our new A.I., Angela, who will help you in overseeing the facility by sending your orders to the agents who work there, and perhaps engage in some stimulating conversation with you when you're off the clock.

* MainliningTheMonster: The entire point of keeping so many horrific abnormalities in one place is to harvest from them a substance known as Enkephalin, which is the most powerful source of energy in the setting and is extremely lucrative as a result.
* MonsterClown: The monsters spawned from the Crimson Ordeals are themed around this.

** The City in which Lobotomy Corp is situated in, and by extension most of the advanced world, is facing an energy crisis of such a scale that organizations competing to profit off this dilemma end up waging wars on each other to eliminate competition (leading to the deserted ruins known as the Outskirts), along with gaining their energy from dubious sources. If Angela is to be believed, one such corporation was gaining energy straight from hell at some point (a quote that’s accompanied by an entity resembling [[LightIsNotGood [=WhiteNight=]]] flying before a holy backdrop).

** The [[TheLostWoods Black Forest]] has fallen into perpetual darkness thanks to the curse that summoned the Apocalypse Bird, leaving it barren of most life and haunted by three murderous Birds. Villagers near the area regard the Forest and its story with fear, warning their children of the Big Bird and Judgement Bird, the former who'll sever your head if you trespass into the Forest and the latter who will hunt you down and punish you for your sins. [[spoiler:Though whether the Black Forest actually exists, given Abnormalities are manufacted at L Corp, is ambiguous.]]
** [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Emerald City]] has been twisted by the collective human unconscious into a metaphor for the real City, corrupt and heavily influenced by its upper class society. As seen in the Scarecrow Searching for Wisdom's story; the poor and lower class people who enter the city hospitals face the risk of being secretly killed and having their organs harvested to save higher class citizens instead. [[spoiler:Similarly to the Black Forest, the Emerald City also not actually exist to begin with.]]

* ActionBomb: Cirque de Sang, the {{monster clown}}s that you encounter in the Legacy version's Crimson Dusk, along with Cheers for the Start, the Crimson Dawn Ordeal, explode shortly after death.

* AllWomenLoveShoes: Ladies who work with the Red Shoes will go a little AxCrazy, metaphorically ''and'' literally, towards their fellow employees.
** At least this was in the older version. In the current version, the shoes can possess anyone with a Temperance level of 2 or less.

** There is a certain mod that turns off messages when Punishing Bird has breached. This is a welcome addition one might consider when taking in Punishing Bird, since suppressing it is [[BerserkButton practically suicide]], [[ArtificialStupidity yet the system will treat it as a breach as dangerous as any other and will send you a message from one of the Sephiroth noting the breach]].
** Qliphoth Meltdowns will not occur in branches where [[spoiler:Sefirot]] are melting down. Furthermore, for [[spoiler: Gebura and Binah's]] Meltdowns, the player only needs to suppress them and need not worry about energy for the day. Lastly, once a [[spoiler: Sephirah has been suppressed, the department they govern will never suffer from Qliphoth Meltdowns ever again.]]

*** On Day 47, [[spoiler: the Asiyah Sefirot will stack their bonuses one at a time instead of all at once. This makes it easier to get a headstart by working on higher-tier, dangerous abnormalities to build up an energy base before Hod's suppression debuff begins.]]

** [[spoiler:Beauty and the Beast tells the tale of Beauty, who entered a Count's castle and betrayed him to get his riches, but upon slaying the Beast, she became the new Beast in his place. She now has all his riches but is a horrific abomination]].
* BerserkButton: A good number of the abnormalities have one, and usually you'll learn about it when an employee suddenly gets eaten or worse. As an example of how it used to work in the Legacy version: don't order anyone to clean [[SpiderSwarm Spider Bud's]] room, as they'll inevitably step on its babies, and then that agent is lunch (This only happened to male employees with the Principalist personality). In the current version, this will happen to anyone that performs Insight/Cleaning work on it.
* TheBigBadWolf: One of the anomalies your facility holds is called "Big And Will Be Bad Wolf". Despite how innocent he may seem at first, he is called "Big and ''Will'' be Bad Wolf" for a reason; Once his Qliphoth Counter hits zero, he will escape from his holding cell and drop the cutesy facade as he massacres your employees.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: This was the case in the older English version since the developer's native language is Korean, and the game's writing suffered in the translation. While for the most part it could easily be overlooked in the dialogue, it was a little annoying when it popped up in the Abnormality notes, which convey important gameplay-related information.
** Averted since May 2020, as the translation has been updated to correct grammar and inaccurate translations.

* BossBattle: A downplayed example. [[spoiler:Sefirot will eventually have their own version of a Meltdown,]] which causes them to mutate into a biomechanical monstrosity. Most of them, with a couple of exceptions, are not destructible entities however; what they do instead is cause a bunch of unwanted effects that worsen as the workday goes on, and you must advance the day to a certain point to win. [[spoiler:The last few days before endgame will features [[BossRush multiple Sephirah Meltdowns at once]].]]

** The Sefirot themselves and their respective departments are also tied to a certain color, respectively brown for Malkuth, purple for Yesod, orange for Hod, Green for Netzach, Yellow for Tipereth, Red for Gebura, Blue for Chesed, Black for Binah, Grey for Hokma, and finally [[spoiler:White for [=Kether/you=]]]. [[ShownTheirWork These are actually the colors represented by the Sephirot in the actual Kabbalah]] as seen [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/63/47/29634729a9a9e86df041c56364259109.png here]].

** The city in which Lobotomy Corp is situated in, and by extension most of the advanced world, is facing an energy crisis of such a scale that organizations competing to profit off this dilemma end up waging wars on each other to eliminate competition (leading to the deserted ruins known as the Outskirts), along with gaining their energy from dubious sources. If Angela is to be believed, one such corporation was gaining energy straight from hell at some point (a quote that’s accompanied by an entity resembling [[LightIsNotGood [=WhiteNight=]]] flying before a holy backdrop).
** Outside the city walls is a place known as the Outskirts, a deserted and ruined city caused by a war waged between various Corporations. This war-torn area is only populated by the people who were unable to get inside the city before it closed and bands of killers and cannibals known as the Sweepers, who favor targeting easy prey such as children. Along with cannibalizing them, it’s also said that they sometimes ‘accompany’ their catches to convert them into more Sweepers. According to Tiphereth/[[spoiler:Lisa and Enoch]], it’s no surprise that children die by the dozens everyday one way or another in the Outskirts.
** The [[TheLostWoods Black Forest]] has fallen into perpetual darkness thanks to the curse that summoned the Apocalypse Bird, leaving it barren of most life and haunted by three murderous Birds. Villagers near the area regard the Forest and its story with fear, warning their children of the Big Bird and Judgement Bird, the former who'll sever your head if you trespass into the Forest and the latter who will hunt you down and punish you for your sins.
** [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Emerald City]] has been twisted by the collective human unconscious into a metaphor for the real City, corrupt and heavily influenced by its upper class society. As seen in the Scarecrow Searching for Wisdom's story; the poor and lower class people who enter the city hospitals face the risk of being secretly killed and having their organs harvested to save higher class citizens instead.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[spoiler:Alriune]] will immediately escape if you were to get not only a Bad result, but a Good result as well. The only way to keep it in containment is to strive for a Neutral result.

** The Snow queen's entry features a man who put what appears to be his love interest who fell into depression and committed suicide into a cryo-coffin, and he attempted to recreate her with a machine, but failed. The woman is actually [[spoiler:Carmen, the man is actually A and the machine is Angela.]]

* FungusHumongous: ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''. It's a large, sentient mushroom who can create a rather gruesome infection.

** Don't let [[spoiler:Big Bird, Punishing Bird and the Bird of Judgment]] escape together, or they will fuse into the [[spoiler:Apocalypse Bird]], a massive abomination capable of creating facility wide chaos.
** Don't let [[spoiler: Yin and Yang]] reach each other, either. They will turn into a [[spoiler:massive Dragon that reverses the HP and SP of all on-screen entities and reverse the Qliphoth Counters of the Abnormalities that didn't breach, which basically means many employees in the facility dying and more abnormalities breaching.]]

** Mimicry, the E.G.O. of Nothing There, is the best Red damage weapon in the game. It attacks lightning fast, has a special scythe move that deals ludicrous damage, and heals for 25% of all damage done. Any person who equips this becomes a StoneWall who heals faster than almost anything else in the game can damage them for. CENSORED's E.G.O. weapon... uh, CENSORED, has a similar effect of healing 40% of all damage done, but attacks much slower and deals Black damage instead. Both weapons complement each other quite well.

* LittleRedFightingHood: One of the anomalies you have to manage is Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary, who may or may not be the original Red Riding Hood, having grown up to be a mercenary. Oh, and she has a serious vendetta against the Big And Will Be Bad Wolf.

* MagicalGirl: At least three of the creatures you have to manage are this. They seem to be harsh [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructions]] of this trope, as all of them eventually became [[FallenHero fallen heroines]] after completely winning against their evil villains, that now embrace [[SevenDeadlySins Wrath and Greed]] (plus Despair).

** Ending A: [[spoiler:Fail to suppress all of the Asiyah Sefirot.]] [[spoiler:Abel says you are not ready to see what is behind the door and sends you away.]] This can also be triggered if you did clear all [[spoiler:Asiyah Sephirah meltdowns]], but fail to answer [[spoiler:Abel's questions correctly.]]
** Ending B: [[spoiler:Fail to suppress all of the Briah Sefirot.]] [[spoiler:Abram blows up the facility to stay with Carmen forever.]] This can also be triggered if you did clear all [[spoiler:Briah Sephirah meltdowns]], but fail to answer [[spoiler:Abram's questions correctly.]]
** Ending C: [[spoiler:Fail to suppress all of the Atziluth Sefirot.]] [[spoiler:Adam fulfills Carmen's ambition and unleashes all of the previously contained abnormalities onto the world.]] This can also be triggered if you did clear all [[spoiler:Atziluth Sephirah meltdowns]], but fail to answer [[spoiler:Adam's questions correctly.]]
** True Ending: [[spoiler:Complete Day 50 synchronized with every Sephirah.]] [[spoiler:The Tree of Light is executed and a seed of hope is planted. The facility is shut down and all of the Sefirot are finally put to rest.]] [[spoiler:Except Angela goes rogue and uses the light for her own plans to be free, [[VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina wishing to build a great library for all of the City's knowledge]].]]

** In the Legacy version, Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary would remove her mask under special conditions to reveal that she's missing the skin on her face, an eye, and all of her teeth.

* PlayingCardMotifs: The magical girls are all associated with the four suits. The Queen of Hatred is associated with hearts (she has a heart-shaped barrette and her staff has hearts on it), the Knight of Despair is associated with the spade (she has three spades on her tiara and her dress has a spade design on it) and the King of Greed is associated with the diamond (the window inside the gem she is trapped inside is diamond-shaped). There is no equivalent to the club suit in the game itself, but the MagicalGirl associated with the club suit does exist, albeit relegated to [[Webcomic/{{Wonderlab}} a webcomic spinoff]].

** The Sephira [[spoiler: are human, not artificial intelligence. Their personalities and appearances are based off the members of A's inner circle. Specifically, the Asiyah layer are all his underlings whose lives were ruined through inaction, the Briah layer are all close colleagues who died "in service" of the company, and the Azitluth layer duo are people who act as guiding figures for A, whether directly in Hokma's case or indirectly in Binah's.]] Angela is not lying when she says [[spoiler: that she's the only "true" A.I. in the facility.]]

** A's true role in the facility [[spoiler: is X, the manager who you play as. X is, in reality, A with most of his memories wiped. This is due to A not being able to handle the mental trauma of being responsible for the demise of his friends, as well as the stress of running the Seed of Light scenario. Midway into the game, X has his memories returned to him, at which point all of the Sefirot refer to you as A.]]

* WhamShot: Day 24. First, [[spoiler:the revelation of the Sefirot's true forms]], quickly followed by [[spoiler:Tiphereth B being crushed under a press with [[BrainUploading a little bit of brain showing through the scraps.]]]]

* SkippableBoss: The fight against [[spoiler:WhiteNight]] can be finished extremely easily if you know what to do: [[spoiler:Simply have the 12th apostle pray to One Sin, and WhiteNight will take repeated Pale damage of 666 until dead]]. Doing so does immediately end the fight with the least amount of bloodshed, but you cannot get the [[spoiler:Paradise Lost]] weapon without killing it conventionally, and the weapon is easily one of the absolute best to obtain. The fight is completely optional, but you are required to trigger it at least once in order to obtain 100% and complete the game properly. Since the boss disables pausing the game or exiting to the menu after triggering it, you have to choose how you want to handle it.