History VideoGame / DetroitBecomeHuman

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: If Connor [[spoiler: spares hank in Cyberlife Tower and then Don't do anything, The other Connor will headshot him, which is more than enough. But even so, he proceeds to shoot him 10 more times.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: If [[Spoiler: Markus chooses to take John back to Jericho during Spare Parts, then [[HeroicSacrifice chooses to sacrifice himself]] during Freedom March, John will intervene to save his life, at the cost of his own. As Markus is dragged away, John is briefly seen with a smile on his face before the police shoot him in the head.]]
** Also, [[Spoiler: if you look closely at John's face before he is shot, you can see the LED on his head is blue. Given that a blue LED indicates a stable condition, this shows that John is satisfied Markus was able to escape, and is content with dying as a result.]]

* DirtyBomb: An android steals a truck loaded with radioactive cobalt, wires it up to explode, then gives the remote detonator to Markus, leader of the android rights movement. Significantly, this bomb could make all of Detroit uninhabitable for humans, but the radiation would pose no threat to the androids. It's up to the player whether Markus sets off the bomb or not--[[spoiler:if you do, it results in a BolivianArmyEnding where the US President declares this the start of an all-out war against the androids]].

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: some androids, like North, espouse this belief. The FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you recall that the vast majority of deviants became so in defense of their own lives; for them, life and violence are, literally, synonymous. Markus, the only android to date who went deviant to defend ''someone else'', can introduce a different perspective to them.

* AnachronicOrder: chapters may zig-zag back and forth in time by as much as eight hours: for instance, Connor interrogates someone at 1 AM, whereas the following chapter takes place 2 hours earlier as Kara seeks shelter. {{Downplayed}} as this has no real effect on the plot; it's more about juggling the ThreeLinesSomeWaiting.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: {{exaggerated}}. During TheHeist in Chapter 23, Markus is so confident in his plan that he doesn't even tell ''the player'' about it, requiring you to respond to on-screen prompts and not giving you any opportunity to prepare Markus for whatever is coming next.

* CyberPunk: Downplayed, but still prevalent as despite numerous innovations in technology such as the androids themselves, life has arguably gotten worse due to the shortages of jobs thanks to android labor. This causes numerous cases of abuse and discrimination towards them. It also doesn't help that due to shortages of resources, World War III is on the horizon.

* TechnoDystopia: downplayed but present. The unemployment rate in Detroit is a mind-boggling ''37%'' -- higher than that of The Great Depression, which maxed out at 25.6%. While it's AllThereInTheManual, various found documents indicate that androids have impacted almost all aspects of human life, with people debating (for instance) their participation in sports due to their "unnatural advantages." And automated technology brings its share of conundrums, with one magazine article in Todd's house describing [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the grim calculus]] programmed into self-driving cars.

** Zlatko, [[spoiler: what he does to androids makes him very similar to Sid from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''. Zlatko even meets his end in similar way Sid's toys defeat him in the first movie.]]

** Zlatko, [[spoiler: what he does to androids makes him very similar to Sid from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''.]]

** Carl's son ridicules his father for seeing Markus as a son, callously calling Markus a "fucking machine" before giving Markus a malicious shove. Carl is probably jealous because Carl treats Markus as a son more than him. If Markus pushes him down to the ground, [[spoiler:he'll have a Heel Realization later on the story and apologize to Carl for his awful behavior.]]

* ExtyYearsFromNow: Released in 2018, set in 2038.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Should Markus lead a successful revolution, President Warren says she will convene with the United Nations Security Council to determine how to combat the android uprising. This would suggest an alliance with the Russian Federation, originally a potential adversary of the United States in the impending Third World War, which is implied to be dealing with its own android crisis.]]

** [[spoiler: In a "Connor acts with empathy and not like a machine, and eventually turns deviant" playthrough, when Connor chooses to give up on vital information to spare Chloe, Kamski tells him "By the way, I always have an emergency exit in my programs. Just in case." When, at the very end of the game, Amanda hacks Connor to force him to assassinate Markus, Connor can use the emergency exit to break the hack and foil her plan. In fact, Kamski's words echo at the beginning of that scene. The actual emergency exit itself is this too, in every single Amanda scene, you can see and interact with it, but it's purpose remains unexplained until the end of the game.]]

** [[spoiler: The way the recycling plant works is extremely similar to a Nazi Germany extermination camp. The inmates have their personal belongings stripped off (including their human skin tone), and are then sent on a march into the ovens.]]

** Rather amusingly, it's almost lampshaded in the game, where Rose explains that her reason for helping androïds is explicitly because she sees how similar their struggle is to black people's in the past.

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: "The Stratford Tower" has Markus and his crew hijacking the citywide news channel from the titular building to broadcast a speech demanding android rights. Whether this speech is promisingly peaceful or threatens violence will have a significant effect on the public opinion of androids.

* DuelingPlayerCharacters: [[spoiler:Connor will come into conflict with Kara and can have a climactic fight to the death with Markus. Connor and Hank will have an investigation on Kara early in the story, and if Kara exposes herself, Connor will try to catch her. If Connor stays loyal to Amanda (i.e. remain machine), he will go through his plans to assassinate Markus (provided that Markus is alive), and, if Markus has a revolution, eventually fight with Markus in a fight where the player can choose who they want to play as, and always ending with one character's death. ]]

** When vandalizing the benches outside the [=CyberLife=] store with Jericho, one of the options for the possible symbols you can choose is the symbol needed for the ritual in Quantic Dream's ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls''.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: If Markus choose "Revolution" path, both Russia and US would put the impending World War III on hold in order to deal with the possible robot rebellion in their countries. This is far more emphasized when President Warren decided to discuss the issue of Android war on United Nations Security Council.]]

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Depending on your choices, [[spoiler:Carl can die in Markus' arms]] when the son breaks into the house.

** [[spoiler: Markus can find an android port worker named John (almost literally a John Doe android) and either kill him, convert him and leave him be, or convert him and take him to Jericho. The immediate consequence is a series of relationship changes with Jericho due to the possibility of him having a tracker. He disappears for most of the story but comes back much later in Markus's freedom march. If Markus and the protesters stand their ground, the crowd will be shot by the riot police. If Markus chooses to sacrifice himself to send a message, he will be shot, but ''John'' comes out and sacrifices himself to save Markus from being killed by the police, complete with a flashback to the seemingly completely irrelevant moment of bringing John to Jericho.]]
** A random punk can be found the first time Connor arrives at DPD HQ, locked up in the confinement. [[spoiler: Later in the game, Connor needs to distract Agent Perkins to go to the evidence room and find info on the location of Jericho. If Connor has a poor relationship with Hank, Hank won't help distract Perkins. The punk can then be deliberately released by Connor to distract Perkins.]]

** [[FatBastard Carlos]] is repeatedly stabbed to death by his [=HK300=] android.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Deviants will often commit suicide when cornered to avoid capture and/or destruction, or, as Connor puts it: "Deviants have a tendency to self-destruct when they're in stressful situations." Namely, Carlos' android can shoot itself or bash its head into the desk after The Interrogation (or later in its prison cell), Rupert jumps off the roof after being cornered by Connor (with the latter ''specifically'' pointing out that he will be decommissioned for deviancy), Simon shoots himself if Connor probes his memory at the rooftop, Deviant Operator shoots himself if Connor doesn't shoot him, Machine Connor can drop himself of the roof to avoid trouble with Captain Allen (despite not being a deviant), and finally, Markus and his friends can burn themselves in front of the soldiers if they're cornered by them.

* JobStealingRobot: Unemployment is at an unprecedented 40 percent in the United States due to the androids. Todd was hit particularly hard by this, first as a taxi cab driver and then as a variety of other jobs that all got taken over by androids.

* KilledOffForReal: If the player makes the choices, then the playable characters will die and the story will continue. Connor and/or the hostage can be killed during the hostage situation, for example. Same goes for Kara and her owner's daughter, or Markus and his friends at Jericho.

* OneSteveLimit: Minor example. Connor ([=RK800=]) is the only one in the regular gameplay with that name, but depending on the path you played, Connor's credits-scene [[spoiler:will have Amanda introduce him to the successor model [=RK900=], with that specific one also called Connor.]]

** When Connor is looking through the evidence room for the location of Jericho, while on a somewhat strict timer, one available interaction is to rewatch the video of Markus' revolutionary speech. This wastes about 30 seconds and accomplishes nothing.
--> This is situational; in actuality, all evidence you find can be either incredibly useful or a waste of your time, depending on your other decisions. The video of the speech, for instance, is useful if you successfully apprehended the android in the TV station; watching the video allows you to mimic Markus' voice. Since the TV android's visual unit was damaged when you destroyed him, Connor will ask for Jericho's location in Markus' voice.

* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Kara seeing an android Alice with the circle LED attached. This leads to a flashback where she sees Alice on a [=CyberLife=] sales magazine and Luther explaining to her that she's been repressing her knowledge that Alice was an android out of her need to protect her.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Hank and Connor had no problem tussling with the two female androids at Eden's Club. [[spoiler: Connor also later on has the option to shoot Chloe in the head at Kamski's mansion.]]
** [[spoiler: The male military soldiers unquestionably gunned down androids during the revolution regardless of their gender.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[{{Tagline}} I am one of them and this is our story]]'']]

* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler: Markus is able to save all his companions (North, Simon, and Josh) and lead a peaceful demonstration that results in the humans leaving Detroit, Connor becomes a deviant and is able to connect with Hank and become his friend (preventing him from killing himself), Kara saves Alice, Luther, and Jerry from being executed and all of them are able to make it across the border.]]

** If Kara abandoned Alice [[spoiler:at Jericho or the android recycling camp, she'll be shown living a normal life among the human populace in Detroit, only to be guilt-tripped about her decision when she across a paper advertisement for Alice's android model.]]
** If Markus was rejected by Jericho for his incompetence as a leader [[spoiler:and doesn't come to their aid when the military raid arrives, he's shown dejectedly looking over the Detroit skyline from the same hideout he went to at the beginning of "Freedom March".]]