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* ViolationOfCommonSense: The fishing rod among with other things.

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* ViolationOfCommonSense: The fishing rod among with other things.puzzle is the most obvious example (requiring you to tie a knife to a rope and ''glue it to a banana'' to act as a makeshift handle), but there's plenty more strange solutions, like using a vintage coin to clog a sink or unlocking a car by removing the door's side panel.
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: Need to open a locked door? Burn the artificial finger you found! Want to catch a fish? Make a fishing rod out of a rope, knife, and banana! Looking for evidence? Open an alcove on a wall, stick a lamp in the alcove and turn it on, hang a picture with a pinhole in it over the alcove and ''tap on the wall where the light shines to find evidence''!!

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* MoonLogicPuzzle: Need to open a locked door? Burn the artificial finger you found! Want to catch a fish? Make a fishing rod out of a rope, a knife, and a banana! Looking for evidence? Open an alcove on a wall, stick a lamp in the alcove and turn it on, hang a picture with a pinhole in it over the alcove and ''tap on the wall where the light shines to find evidence''!!
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Dan McNeely]] is the player character of Trapped but Dialla is the player character of Pursuit and Escape and is the real protagonist of the trilogy.

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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Dan McNeely]] [[spoiler:Dan [=McNeely=]]] is the player character of Trapped but Dialla is the player character of Pursuit and Escape and is the real protagonist of the trilogy.
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* ActingForTwo: The Bodyguard Merik is voiced by [=McNeely's=] Voice actor and only ever shares one conversation with him.

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* ActingForTwo: The Bodyguard Merik is voiced by [=McNeely's=] Voice actor and only ever shares one conversation with him.
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* StealthPun: The main force behind the games, the Armor Gamsees, is a play on "Armor Games", who were the sponsors for the trilogy.
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Apparently, a fourth game, entitled ''Stranded'', was in the works. This will shift focus back to Dan as he finds himself [[TitleDrop stranded]] on an island, with something evil lurking in the background.

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Apparently, a fourth game, entitled ''Stranded'', was in the works. This will shift would have shifted focus back to Dan as he finds himself [[TitleDrop stranded]] on an island, with something evil lurking in the background.
background. With the quiet closure of Godlimations's site in 2014 this never came to be.


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* ActingForTwo: The Bodyguard Merik is voiced by [=McNeely's=] Voice actor and only ever shares one conversation with him.


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** The Treasure being guarded by Armor Gamsees nor the other members gathered around are encountered in the final game and the focus is instead put on the Imorgamzics drug being produced by [=McNeely=].

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* LetsPlay: WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} actually makes it ''enjoyable'' to watch.
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* OffModel:
** [[spoiler:Dialla's]] eyes [[InconsistentColoring changing color]] from ''Trapped'' to ''Pursuit'', for one.
** In ''Escape'': [=McNeely=]'s face and hair change constantly between scenes, and sometimes within the same cutsence.
** [[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} Why are they pulsating? Why are they fucking pulsating?]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[Spoiler: Dan McNeely]] is the player character of Trapped but Dialla is the player character of Pursuit and Escape and is the real protagonist of the trilogy.

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* DecoyProtagonist: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Dan McNeely]] is the player character of Trapped but Dialla is the player character of Pursuit and Escape and is the real protagonist of the trilogy.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[Spoiler: Dan McNeely]] is the player character of Trapped but Dialla is the player character of Pursuit and Escape and is the real protagonist of the trilogy.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Why do I feel so... Trapped?"]]
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* InsaneTrollLogic: The first game has a wallet on the floor with a severed finger in it that you must ''set on fire with a match'' to reveal a lockpick ''inside the finger''. [[SerialEscalation It only goes downhill from there]].
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* TheKillerInMe: The plot twist of ''Trapped'' reveals the amnesiac Dan [=McNeely=] is actually the BigBad of the series and a ruthless murderer and gang leader.
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* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler: Dialla]] used to be the leader of Armor Gamsees. [[spoiler: [=McNeely=]]] also didn't seem so bad when he had amnesia, but he apparently had no trouble going back to being over-the-top evil once he got his memories back.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: See above. [[spoiler: Played straight with Dialla.]]

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* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler: Dialla]] [[spoiler:Dialla]] used to be the leader of Armor Gamsees. [[spoiler: [=McNeely=]]] [[spoiler:[=McNeely=]]] also didn't seem so bad when he had amnesia, but he apparently had no trouble going back to being over-the-top evil once he got his memories back.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: See above. [[spoiler: Played [[spoiler:Played straight with Dialla.]]



* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: Dan [=McNeely=]]] indulges in one at the end of ''Trapped''.
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Inorgamzics is said to have this as a side effect for those who take it.]]

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* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: Dan [[spoiler:Dan [=McNeely=]]] indulges in one at the end of ''Trapped''.
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Inorgamzics [[spoiler:Inorgamzics is said to have this as a side effect for those who take it.]]



* SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate: There's [[http://immorgamsicsgambit.weebly.com/ a website]] dedicated to making a movie of it. Notably, it attempts to explain most of the JustForFun/{{egregious}} plot twists, like [[spoiler: Dialla being the leader of Armor Gamesees]].

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* SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate: There's [[http://immorgamsicsgambit.weebly.com/ a website]] dedicated to making a movie of it. Notably, it attempts to explain most of the JustForFun/{{egregious}} plot twists, like [[spoiler: Dialla [[spoiler:Dialla being the leader of Armor Gamesees]].



* ImportantHaircut: Dialla's hair changes between Pursuit and Escape. [[spoiler: This is explained a bit by saying Jason cut it off, though it never explained how the hell he managed to cut her hair or get the hair.]]

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* ImportantHaircut: Dialla's hair changes between Pursuit and Escape. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is explained a bit by saying Jason cut it off, though it never explained how the hell he managed to cut her hair or get the hair.]]



* ResurrectiveImmortality: The effects of the inorgamzics, which was created by the Armor Gamsees to turn humans into gods. Because [[spoiler: both Dialla & Dan [=McNeely=]]] have consumed this...

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* ResurrectiveImmortality: The effects of the inorgamzics, which was created by the Armor Gamsees to turn humans into gods. Because [[spoiler: both [[spoiler:both Dialla & Dan [=McNeely=]]] have consumed this...



* VoodooShark: [[spoiler: Dialla being the leader of the Armor Gamsees]] doesn't explain ''anything'', and somehow manages to screw up the earlier story.

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* VoodooShark: [[spoiler: Dialla [[spoiler:Dialla being the leader of the Armor Gamsees]] doesn't explain ''anything'', and somehow manages to screw up the earlier story.

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* PocketProtector:
** The bible "Greunbaum" carries in ''Trapped''.

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* PocketProtector:
** The bible
PocketProtector: ''Literature/TheBible'' "Greunbaum" carries in ''Trapped''.



** Didn't do Mickey any good though...



* {{Tuckerization}}: Dan [=McNeely=] and Armor Gamsees are named after, well... Daniel [=McNeely=], founder of Website/ArmorGames, the site where the games are hosted.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: Dan [=McNeely=] and Armor Gamsees are named after, well... Daniel [=McNeely=], founder of Website/ArmorGames, Armor Games, the site where the games are hosted.
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* WorstNewsJudgementEver: At the end of ''Trapped'', we see a newspaper with the headline "WANTED CRIMINAL: DAN MCNEELY. SERIAL KILLER LARGE REWARD". A smaller headline reads "More exciting news! Jesus has returned!". That's right: not even in a ''Christian game'' is the ''Second Coming of Christ'' the main headline!

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* WorstNewsJudgementEver: At PlayedForLaughs at the end of ''Trapped'', we ''Trapped''. We see a newspaper with the headline "WANTED CRIMINAL: DAN MCNEELY. SERIAL KILLER LARGE REWARD". A REWARD"; a smaller headline reads "More exciting news! Jesus has returned!". That's right: not even in a ''Christian game'' is the ''Second Coming of Christ'' the main headline!returned!".

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* SomeDexterityRequired: The interface is rather pain when it comes to combining items.
* SmugSnake: [=McNeely=], especially with the sneering tone he's voiced with.
** This gets lampshaded in Godlimation's later game VideoGame/{{Amea}}, where [=McNeely=] is briefly mentioned in the end and dubbed by the characters "A real snake" and a "Smug bastard".

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* SomeDexterityRequired: The interface is rather pain painful when it comes to combining items.
* SmugSnake: [=McNeely=], especially with the sneering tone he's voiced with.
** This gets lampshaded in Godlimation's later game VideoGame/{{Amea}}, where [=McNeely=] is briefly mentioned in the end and dubbed by the characters "A real snake" and a "Smug bastard".
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* AGodAmI: [=McNeely=] seems to be trying at this with the Inorgamzics.


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* GodhoodSeeker: [=McNeely=] seems to be trying at this with the Inorgamzics.

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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Everybody in the series kills at least one person. Kinda killing the point of this being a game about religion. Pretty much the only decent person is Benjamin Grenbaum, and he's dead before the series even starts.



* GreyAndBlackMorality: Everybody in the series kills at least one person. Kinda killing the point of this being a game about religion. Pretty much the only decent person is Benjamin Grenbaum, and he's dead before the series even starts.
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Not to be confused with the ''VideoGame/TrappedSeries''.

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Not to be confused with the ''VideoGame/TrappedSeries''.''VideoGame/TrappedSeries'' or the UK kids' game show which are similarly named.
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%%* {{Animesque}}* {{Animesque}}: The series is done in an anime-inspired art style.



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: How could I forget my banana?

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* %%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: How could I forget my banana?



** [[spoiler:Dialla's]] eyes changing color from ''Trapped'' to ''Pursuit'', for one.

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** [[spoiler:Dialla's]] eyes [[InconsistentColoring changing color color]] from ''Trapped'' to ''Pursuit'', for one.

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-->''"[[{{Anvilicious}} I've heard about the Word saving people's lives, and this has me all but convinced.]]"''

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-->''"[[{{Anvilicious}} I've -->''"I've heard about the Word saving people's lives, and this has me all but convinced.]]"''"''


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* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler:The protagonist of "TRAPPED"]] becomes the antagonist of the two other games.

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* BigBad: Dan [=McNeely=], leader of the Armor Gamsees crime syndicate [[spoiler:and the [[TomatoInTheMirror amnesiac protagonist]] of the first game]].



* TomatoInTheMirror: Done '''twice'''.

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* TomatoInTheMirror: Done '''twice'''. [[spoiler:The protagonist of the first game is [[BigBad Dan McNeely]], and Dialla was the original leader of the Armor Gamsees and Dan’s boss.]]
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* SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate: There's [[http://immorgamsicsgambit.weebly.com/ a website]] dedicated to making a movie of it. Notably, it attempts to explain most of the {{egregious}} plot twists, like [[spoiler: Dialla being the leader of Armor Gamesees]].

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* SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate: There's [[http://immorgamsicsgambit.weebly.com/ a website]] dedicated to making a movie of it. Notably, it attempts to explain most of the {{egregious}} JustForFun/{{egregious}} plot twists, like [[spoiler: Dialla being the leader of Armor Gamesees]].
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Apparently, a fourth game, entitled ''Stranded'', is in the works. This will shift focus back to Dan as he finds himself [[TitleDrop stranded]] on an island, with something evil lurking in the background.

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Apparently, a fourth game, entitled ''Stranded'', is was in the works. This will shift focus back to Dan as he finds himself [[TitleDrop stranded]] on an island, with something evil lurking in the background.

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* {{Animesque}}
* ArtShift: ''Repeatedly'', sometimes even during the same cutscene.

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* [[spoiler: FakeMemories: Inorgamzics is said to have this as a side effect for those who take it.]]

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* [[spoiler: FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Inorgamzics is said to have this as a side effect for those who take it.]]



* GreyAndBlackMorality: Everybody in the series kills at least one person. Kinda killing the point of this being a game about religion.
** Pretty much the only decent person is Benjamin Grenbaum, and he's dead before the series even starts.

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* GreyAndBlackMorality: Everybody in the series kills at least one person. Kinda killing the point of this being a game about religion.
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religion. Pretty much the only decent person is Benjamin Grenbaum, and he's dead before the series even starts.



* InformingTheFourthWall

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* OffModel: [[spoiler:Dialla's]] eyes changing color from ''Trapped'' to ''Pursuit'', for one.

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** In ''Escape'': [=McNeely=]'s face and hair change constantly between scenes, and sometimes within the same cutsence.



* PocketProtector: The bible "Greunbaum" carries in ''Trapped''.

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* PocketProtector: The PocketProtector:
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bible "Greunbaum" carries in ''Trapped''.



** Didn't do Mickey any good though...



* TooDumbToLive

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* TooDumbToLiveTooDumbToLive:



* UnexpectedGameplayChange[=/=]UnexpectedShmupLevel: The shooting sections of ''Trapped'' and ''Escape''.

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* UnexpectedGameplayChange[=/=]UnexpectedShmupLevel: UnexpectedGameplayChange: The shooting sections of ''Trapped'' and ''Escape''.



* WickedCultured: Not so much the character as the voice actor: Tiong has a way of making [=McNeely=] ''sound'' like this.
** Tiong has a way of making ''[[SmugSnake anyone]]'' sound like this.

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* WickedCultured: Not so much the character as the voice actor: Tiong has a way of making [=McNeely=] ''sound'' like this.
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this. Tiong has a way of making ''[[SmugSnake anyone]]'' sound like this.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Dan [=McNeely=] and Armor Gamsees are named after, well... Daniel [=McNeely=], founder of Armor Games, the site where the games are hosted.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: Dan [=McNeely=] and Armor Gamsees are named after, well... Daniel [=McNeely=], founder of Armor Games, Website/ArmorGames, the site where the games are hosted.

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* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: See above.

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* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: See above. [[spoiler: Played straight with Dialla.]]


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* BitingTheHandHumor: As noted under {{Tuckerization}}, the game's main antagonists are named after the site and founder of the site the game is hosted on. Whether it was intended in this way is up to debate.


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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dialla, probably unintentionally. She's [[ActionGirl quite competent]] ([[FauxActionGirl usually]]), but refuses to leave her apartment without her gun, her teddy bear, her knife, a light-bulb, and a banana. She ''does'' need all these items eventually, but if she somehow knew that, she's a better detective than [[BatDeduction Batman]].


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* FauxActionGirl: Zigzagged with Dialla. Despite being a famed detective InUniverse, she spends 90% of the first game BoundAndGagged, refuses to touch a light-switch because she doesn't want to mess up her nails, and somehow gets locked in her own car. But at other times, she also manages to escape from prison and off multiple would-be assassins.
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* VoodooShark: Dialla being the leader of the Armor Gamsees doesn't explain ''anything'', and somehow manages to screw up the earlier story.

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* VoodooShark: [[spoiler: Dialla being the leader of the Armor Gamsees Gamsees]] doesn't explain ''anything'', and somehow manages to screw up the earlier story.

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