History VideoGame / CliveBarkersUndying

* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: It's mentioned in the backstory that excessive usage of the Gel'ziabar stone will cause the user to be hunted by the Hound of Gel'ziabar. This doesn't actually happen in gameplay, although the Hound does pop up during a couple pre-scripted events. According to WordOfGod, creatures like Skarrows, Flickering Stalkers and Monto Shonoi are interdimensional squatters, magic scavengers, that were attracted to Oneiros and the manor, and later enslaved.

* EvilMakeover: ''And how''.

* {{Determinator}}: Let's face it: Patrick pretty much IS this trope. Let's see here: Survive UsefulNotes/WorldWarI? Check. Survive at least decades of conflict with Otto Keisinger? Check. Get through Irish customs unnoticed in order to fulfill a life debt? Check. Fight through wave after wave of unspeakable abominations that have racked up quite the kill count? Check. Handle the ArtifactOfDoom with fairly marginal damage? Check. Kill off the undead and superhuman Covenant siblings one by one? Check. Go into HELL to defeat Keisinger? Check. Survive [[spoiler: Jeremiah]]'s betrayal? Check. Take down the [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination]] that helped cause this godforsaken train wreck in the first place? Check. Basically, by the end, he is pretty much surviving more-or-less because it seems like he can't bloody DIE.

* BodyHorror: Bethany got her final revenge on her brother Aaron by [[spoiler:chaining him inside her private dungeon and letting rats ''eat him alive'', removing his jawbone so he couldn't scream. Which also qualifies as ArtisticLicenseBiology, since removing someone's jawbone does not affect his ability to scream - the ''vocal cords'' should be removed for it. As a matter of fact, he could probably do ''nothing but scream'']].[[note]]The wording might be meant to convey Aaron's inability to scream ''for help''--that is, to say comprehensible words--but it's not clear.[[/note]]

* BodyHorror: Bethany got her final revenge on her brother Aaron by [[spoiler:chaining him inside her private dungeon and letting rats ''eat him alive'', removing his jawbone so he couldn't scream. Which also qualifies as ArtisticLicenseBiology, since removing someone's jawbone does not affect his ability to scream - the ''vocal cords'' should be removed for it. As a matter of fact, he could probably do ''nothing but scream'']].

* TheSouthpaw: Patrick Galloway is notable as one of the few FPS protagonists to hold most, if not all of his weapons in his left hand during gameplay.

* ZombifyTheLiving: You can use the Revive spell on some living enemies, which makes them DrivenToSuicide.

** Patrick is picked up drifting in the sea by a hooded figure in a boat, who takes the Gal'ziabar stone off him. Patrick says, "You! But it can't be!"

** "You know what [[spoiler:Jeremiah]]? You talk too much." * slices off his head*

** ArtisticLicenseAnatomy: Without a lower jaw, the only thing you ''could'' do is scream.

* BodyHorror: Bethany got her final revenge on her brother Aaron by [[spoiler:chaining him inside her private dungeon and letting rats ''eat him alive'', removing his jawbone so he couldn't scream. Which also qualifies as YouFailBiologyForever, since removing someone's jawbone does not affect his ability to scream - the ''vocal cords'' should be removed for it. As a matter of fact, he could probably do ''nothing but scream'']].

--->[[spoiler:Lizbeth:]] "The family will be reuniteeeeeeedddddddddd!"

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Well, not the ''main'' bad guys, but by the end of the game it seems Keisinger has acquired the Gel'ziabar Stone and, with it, its vast occult power.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Keisinger's motives for [[spoiler: getting Patrick to safety at the end of the game]] are left ambiguous, although it's rather doubtful it was do to any compassion on his part.

* NotQuiteDead: It's ''heavily'' implied that the man Patrick encounters at the end of the game and who [[spoiler: steals the Gel'ziabar stone]] is [[spoiler: Keisinger.]]

* AnimateDead: The game has the Invoke spell, which raises dead enemies to fight on your side for a little while. It also [[ReviveKillsZombie insta-kills skeletons]]. And [[spoiler: makes a targeted male Trsanti '''''kill himself''''', though not the female Trsanti for some reason]]. A journal [[spoiler: written by a Trsanti witch [[LampshadeHanging specifically calls out]] the tribe's men for their weak-mindedness]].

* CainAndAbel: All the Covenant children fell to the curse of the Undying King, only to be resurrected as monstrous forms of their previous selves. They're out to kill Jeremiah, the last surviving son, to complete the curse.

* DeusExMachina: Played with in the [[spoiler: giant hellhound that makes it possible for you to defeat Ambrose.]] It seems like it [[AssPull comes out of nowhere,]] but read Patrick's journal and he'll mention that if you use the Gel'ziabar stone too much; you know, the one [[spoiler: Ambrose]] just stole and is using against you; a "strange dog-like beast" might show up to menace you. According to WordOfGod, the stone was once used to open a rift between our world and the hounds' dimension that never closed.

* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: It's mentioned in the backstory that excessive usage of the Gel'ziabar stone will cause the user to be hunted by the Hound of Gel'ziabar. This doesn't actually happen in gameplay, although the Hound does pop up during a couple pre-scripted events.
** According to WordOfGod, creatures like Skarrows, Flickering Stalkers and Monto Shonoi are interdimensional squatters, magic scavengers, that were attracted to Oneiros and the manor, and later enslaved.

* SanitySlippage: Journal entries show that this was inevitable for the Covenant siblings.

* ShutUpHannibal: "You know what [[spoiler:Jeremiah]]? You talk too much." * slices off his head*