History VideoGame / DarkDeception

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Mascot Mayhem ends with Doug being caught by the Joy Joy Gang and [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by Malak, revealing his DarkAndTroubledPast and allowing Malak and the Nightmare monsters to invade the Ballroom. Bierce uses a ring piece to drive them out, but not before she is wounded and the other pieces are stolen. Despite this, Malak is still able to drag the now powerless Doug into Bearly Buried, where he's left to be murdered by Mama Bear and her Trigger Teddies...if not for a mysterious blue sphere of light, who is actually Tammy, Doug's deceased daughter.]]

--> '''Malak''': "Bierce, [[DoomedPredecessor why not tell him what fate befell the last person that trusted you]], hmm?

* BananaPeel: In Monster in Mortals, the trap for the hotel level is actually this, which makes sense considering the fact that [[StockAnimalDiet monkeys often like to eat bananas]]. However, these peels won't kill you, but instead stun you for a short while. They are also one of the few traps that can be destroyed.

* BottomlessPit: The hanging rock platform where the cave's ring alter is located hangs over a vast chasm. [[spoiler: Malak gives Doug some pretty terrible advice about using it to kill himself.]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Malak''']]: "That looks pretty deep, imagine if you fell in. [[DrivenToSuicide Why not just throw yourself into the pit]] and [[GetItOverWith get it over with?]]"
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:Doug is stripped off of all of the ring pieces at the end of ''Mascot Mayhem'' with all of his power-ups and is left to die in the Cave. Doesn't stop him from getting all of them back and evading dozen of Trigger Teddies and Mama Bear]].
* CarMeetsHouse: For some reason, near the beginning of the school there is a bus that had crashed through a wall. [[NothingIsFunnier And it is never explained how it got there...]]

* ChekhovsGun: Zone 3 of ''Mascot Mayhem'' reveals a set of crusher pistons around the beginning. [[spoiler:These are later used to defeat the frenzied Joy Joy Gang, as well as subduing Joy Kill later on]].

* CutsceneIncompetence: A bizarre case considering it comes shortly after a case of CutscenePowerToTheMax: At the end of ''Mascot Mayhem'', [[spoiler: Joy Kill suddenly drops between Doug and the exit portal. However, unlike when Doug got cornered at the end of ''Torment Therapy'', Doug makes no attempt to use his abilities to get past the monster, and ends up getting subdued.]]

* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler:A villanous example. It's revealed that this is how Malak dispatches his rivals, specifically by sending them to Mama Bear and her Trigger Teddies to eat or torture them at their leisure. He nearly does this to Doug too had a [[BigDamnHeroes certain magical orb not save him]]]].

* AnAxeToGrind: The Gold Watchers will use one or [[DualWielding two]] axes to execute the player in some of their death scenes.
** Similarly the Titan Watchers will try to kill the protagonist by throwing giant axes at them.

** [[spoiler: Also, some secret documents in Bearly Buried indicate that Doug's mother was also this to her son, as she admits she sees Doug as nothing but a burden and reminder of her [[DomesticAbuse horrible husband]], while admitting she took delight in hearing him "beg" when she locked him up in the dark on one occasion. Doug's wife also notes that Doug does not want to visit her again when the question is brought up.]]

* AbusiveParents: Doug wasn't a very loving father to his daughter Tammy, calling her "a defective child" for being autistic and inheriting her mother's bipolar disorder.
** [[spoiler: Also, some secret documents in Bearly Buried indicate that Doug's mother was also this to her son, who too saw Doug as nothing but a burden and reminder of her [[DomesticAbuse horrible husband]]. Doug's wife also notes that Doug does not want to visit her again when the question is brought up.]]

* HallOfMirrors: A strange example as in the funhouse, while there is mirror maze, it doesn't seem to have nay mirrors.

* {[Tulpa}}: All the monsters seem to be symbolic of some kind of sin or thought.

* AlliterativeTitle: The game's title, as well as various levels, such as Elementary Evil and Deadly Decadence. The only exception so far is the first level, Monkey Business.

* AlliterativeName: The '''M'''urder '''M'''onkeys, '''D'''read '''D'''uckies, '''D'''oom '''D'''ucky, and '''T'''rigger '''T'''eddy.

* AlliterativeName: The Murder Monkeys, Dread Duckies, Doom Ducky, and Trigger Teddy.

* AllForNothing: [[spoilers: The Joy Joy Gang are the only monsters to successfully capture Doug for Malak in Mascot Mayhem. However in Bearly Buried, due to the blue orb's intervention and Malak's tendency to again underestimate Doug and also hide the ring pieces at Mama Bears' level, their efforts became for naught as Doug manages to get back all the ring pieces including the new one and escape.]]

* ArmorPiercingResponse: Malak delivers one to Bierce after she claims she will become powerful enough to fulfill Doug's every wish. Not only is it a major WhamLine, but it also causes Bierce to look away in ashamed silence.

** In ''Torment Therapy", the Therapy Unit is filled with graffiti that seems to be written by the Reapers to vent their rage. This varies from simple taunts like "Liar, Liar", to vulgar threats like "Men are Pigs".

* FlashStep: The teleportation power allows them to quickly move past enemies and traps if they were to ever find themselves cornered.

* TheLostWoods: Downplayed, and ultimately subverted in the eighth level. It seems that this nightmare that [[spoiler:Malak has dragged you into]] would seem to take place in a forest right? Nope, it is actually most of the time underground in a vast cave system. There is a reason why it is called, "Bearly ''Buried''".

--> '''Malak''': "Bierce, [[DoomPredecessor why not tell him what fate befell the last person that trusted you]], hmm?