History Cyberpunk2077 / TropesSToZ

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Played with. Heavy AVs aren't ''actually'' airships, seeming to use some combination of jet thrusters and anti-gravity technology for propulsion, but fit into the same aesthetic being huge, lumbering and advert-covered flying machines that can often be seen in the skies above Night City.

* WallOfWeapons: V can build an armory in their apartment which sports a variety of guns, blades, grenades and other hardware on the walls. One wall is reserved for iconic weapons received from main story characters and love interests, the other for iconics crafted from the specs you can loot off of certain sidequest bosses. An unfortunate side effect of this distribution is that players who don't specialize in the Tech attribute will always have one of their armory walls decorated with empty gun racks.

* WhamShot: In the conclusion of the E3 2019 trailer, after V is shot, he wakes up in what looks to be a garbage dump and is approached by a man with a silver cybernetic arm. The man in question is a character modeled and voiced by ''Creator/KeanuReeves''. And according to official materials, ''he's the long-thought-to-be-dead rock star Johnny Silverhand.''
-->'''Johnny:''' Wake the fuck up, ''samurai''. We have a city to burn.

** [[spoiler:If V manages to consult with actual neurologists who can counteract Arasaka tech in the "Tower" ending, they actually ''do'' stop V's neural degradation after removing Johnny's engram...at the cost of V ever being able to wield cyberware again. Given how the extent of their degradation was a PlayerPunch in all other endings, it's not surprising that even with the best treatment available there are going to be complications. Furthermore, the ending also upends V's relationships in a manner no base game ending other than "Temperance" does...but that's because V's been in a coma for two years. Even V's most understanding friends are going to have moved on with their lives during the interim, and not all friends are going to be equally understanding. And lastly, though V can bemoan how they've lost everything that matters to them and nothing will be the same again, Misty will rightly point out that there are far worse fates V could have ended up with.]]

* ThrowAwayGuns: The Budget Arms Slaught-O-Matic is a dirt cheap piece of crap gun that can't be reloaded, you just throw it away and buy a new one, essentially a poor(er) man's [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Tediore]].

* UniversalAmmunition: There are only four types of ammo: pistol, rifle, sniper rifle, and shotgun. All weapons within each category can share ammo. The "rifle" category is the broadest, with [=SMGs=], assault rifles, and [=LMGs=] all sharing ammo. Notably, even the [[MacrossMissileMassacre mini-missile shooting]] smartguns use standard ammo despite theirs being vastly more complex than standard bullets or railgun slugs. The fact, that even weapons from one particular category (e.g. Power pistols) wouldn't have totally interchangeable ammunition doesn't help either.
* UnorthodoxReload: The reloading sequence of Johnny's iconic handgun is essentially two horizontal flipcocks with a magazine change in between, made doubly impressive by the gun lacking the trigger guard one would normally require to even attempt a flipcock in the first place. And then made triply impressive by handguns generally not being able to be flipcocked at all.

** [[spoiler:Swedenborg's following]] seems to be one towards both Qanon's followers and stoner slacktivists

* WhyWeNeedGarbageMen: In the WretchedHive of Night City, trash is EVERYWHERE, with huge mounds of garbage piling up in every avaliable space. Even Kopeki Plaza, an affluent city centre with holographic goldfish floating above, is overflowing with trash. In Kopeki Plaza, garbage dumpsters are full to the brim, garbage cans available to the public are full and overflowing to the point they cannot be closed, and there is so much litter than you quite literally cannot go more than 5 feet without stepping on a discarded wrapper or takeout box. Though there is a giant landfill that exists just outside the city limits [[spoiler:which the player character eventually ends up waking up from after Act I]], even that is not enough to alleviate the excessive garbage accumulation issues as there is no verifiable existence of a working incinerator building to dispose of the trash. Seems as if trash pickup and street cleaners are another thing critically underfunded by the city. Only corporate headquarters like Arasaka tower is free of trash, and even then, only up to the border between corporate property and public street.

* WhyWeNeedGarbageMen: In the WretchedHive of Night City, trash is EVERYWHERE, with huge mounds of garbage piling up in every avaliable space. Even Kopeki Plaza, an affulent city centre with holographic goldfish floating above, is overflowing with trash. In Kopeki Plaza garbage dumpsters are full to the brim, garbage cans avaliable to the public are full and overflowing to the point they cannot be closed, and there is so much litter than you quite literally cannot go more than 5 feet without stepping on a discarded wrapper or takeout box. Seems as if trash pickup and street cleaners are another thing critically underfunded by the city. Only corporate headquarters like Arasaka tower is free of trash, and even then, only up to the border between corporate property and public street.

* ShowerScene: [[spoiler:"Path of Glory" ending allows you to take a shower with your [[RomanceSidequest romantic partner]].]]

** Personal communication technology seems to have developed more in line with Mike Pondsmith's 1988 expectations than anything resembling the real world. For example, phones can create holographic images, but are just phones; they don't even play music, let alone all the functions of a modern smartphone. The 'net is also much more in line with the Internet of the 1990s than slick, modern websites or social media.

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Dying in "(Don't Fear) the Reaper", which has the potential to be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for V if the succeed in assaulting Arasaka tower by themselves, will instantly roll credits and play the friends' and allies' voicemails from the much darker Reaper Ending in which V committed suicide--as it turns out, embarking on a SuicideMission still counts as suicide once you die--and thus shunts into the Reaper Ending.]]

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Dying in "(Don't Fear) the Reaper", one of the more-optimistic endgame routes, will instantly roll credits and play the friends' and allies' voicemails from the much darker Reaper Ending in which V committed suicide--essentially instead of being a a SuicideMission to keep from risking any life on the attempt other than their own, the game treats V dying during the attack as SuicideByCop, and thus shunts into the Reaper Ending.]]

** ** In the end [[spoiler:after V is jerked around as free muscle for most of the main questline, it all proves meaningless since V's condition has deteriorated too much for them to be cured without also losing their ability to wield implants in the "Tower" ending introduced with ''Phantom Liberty''. If you don't pursue that ending, [[YourDaysAreNumbered V's days remain numbered]] and they're only left with the choice of becoming a cyberghost or living out their last few months as themselves]]. In endings that aren't "The Devil", [[spoiler:V does not assist Hanako Arasaka which results in her death and renders Takemura's efforts just as pointless whether he's dead or alive. The "Reaper" ending in particular is an outright ShootTheShaggyDog story, as V decides that continuing to live on is no longer worth the trouble, and everyone they knew and loved is devastated upon learning of their suicide.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: The side job "Killing in the Name" has V go all around Night City to track down the elusive Swedenborg. Turns out [[spoiler:they're just a fortune-telling machine that someone connected to the net behind proxies and modded to spew out anti-corporate messages filtered through fortune messages]]. Johnny at least, is amused at the absurdity of the situation.

** In the end [[spoiler:after V is jerked around as free muscle for most of the main questline, it all proves meaningless since V's condition has deteriorated too much for them to be cured and they're only left with the choice of becoming a cyberghost or living out their last few months as themselves]]. In endings that aren't "The Devil", [[spoiler:V does not assist Hanako Arasaka which results in her death and renders Takemura's efforts just as pointless whether he's dead or alive.]]

** The Summon Vehicle function contains a long disclaimer noting that the feature is in "beta" and the may "fail to recognize or avoid obstacles such as humans," which is a clear TakeThat to Tesla's Smart Summon and Autopilot features' [[PerpetualBeta perpetual]] and [[ObviousBeta obvious]] beta status and general lack of safety.