History VideoGame / DetroitBecomeHuman

* SenselessSacrifice: There are two "sacrifice" options for [[spoiler:Markus. He will die if there is no one to save him in "Freedom March." North then takes over, but [[SketchySuccessor she isn't Markus]] and the revolution is doomed to fail. If he chose to protest and makes it to the end, the sacrifice option has Markus self-immolate declaring, "We are alive. We are alive and we wanna be free." The soldiers do lower their weapons, but quickly regain composure and gun down the surviving androids]].

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Gavin's voice actor, Neil Newbon, is British. While he does a good job holding an American accent for most of the game, the line "Stop it, goddammit!" (from The Interrogation) is noticeably different. Granted, it's an emotional line, so a slip up is understandable.

* Kara, a domestic servant android who escapes from an abusive home with a young charge named Alice. Finding herself overriding her basic servant instincts, Kara lands on the streets in a struggle to survive.
* Connor, a police investigator android who works within the Detroit Police Department, specifically handing cases of "deviant" androids that begin to display behavior on the level of normal humans, like anger and aggression. His partner is the washed-up but experienced police lieutenant Hank Anderson.
* Markus, a domestic caregiver android who becomes sentient after a cascade of terrible experiences that saw him nearly killed by humans and reborn with a new look on humans and androids. Enraged by the treatment of fellow androids and bestowed with the ability to grant them true sentience like him, Markus starts a revolution to overthrow the oppressive government and free his people.

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

* DyingVocalChange: With the androids being androids, their voice is changed to more robotic when they die, most notably with some of Daniel, Markus, and Connor's possible deaths.

* DiabolusExMachina: Even if the android rebellion succeeds completely, Cyberlife can still throw a wrench into Jericho's victory by [[spoiler:using Connor as a ManchurianAgent to assassinate Markus.]]

* EarnYourBadEnding: The worst possible ending requires all three player characters to be killed off before "Crossroads", which is especially hard to do in Connor's case given his repeated use of a BodyBackupDrive throughout the game; Connor essentially has to fail at finding Jericho so thoroughly that [[spoiler:he's decommissioned by Cyberlife. This causes a NonStandardGameOver where the android uprising collapses, androids are reprogrammed with fail-safes to prevent any future deviants, and Elijah Kamski gives an interview about the dangers of his creation.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Amanda, or [=CyberLife=] in the greater scheme. Amanda is merely [=CyberLife=]'s spokeswoman in Connor's mind. The main conflict is mostly WhiteAndGreyMorality between androids who seek justice and the public who wants order, but [=CyberLife=]'s constant meddling worsens the situation and are not treated sympathetically once. It is also possible that Elijah Kamski is behind something, if not even the one behind everything to begin with, as he is after all the founder and CEO of CyberLife - it is fully possible that he may even have made the androids deviant on purpose for his own benefit]].

** Hank says this almost verbatim if he [[spoiler:shoots the real Connor in Cyberlife Tower.]]

* RidiculousFutureInflation: Inverted. It appears that by the time of the game, the United States has undergone a massive deflationary cycle. A one-night stay in a reasonably clean two queen-sized bed costs $40.00 a night (including tax), you can buy a case of beer and a bag of chips for $4.95, Cyberlife became the first company to hit a $1 trillion valuation (a feat that Apple achieve in real life in August 2018, about 3 months after the game was released and 20 years before the time of the game setting), and a used upper-tier domestic android could be obtained for under $800 (assuming an android is at least as expensive as a car it should cost at least a couple of thousand).

** A somewhat minor one, but throughout the game Connor has multiple meetings with the woman who is presumably his boss, Amanda. When Connor goes to meet Kamski, the founder of Cyberlife, he can find a picture of the man posing with Amanda. Scanning the photo reveals [[spoiler:that she has been dead for years.]]

* XanatosGambit: Cyberlife's plans regarding the android revolution and Connor:

* XanatosGambit: CyberLife's plans regarding the android revolution and Connor:

* XanatosGamit: CyberLife's plans regarding the android revolution and Connor:

* AlternativeTuringTest: Elijah Kamski imposes the "Kamski Test" on Connor when pressed for information on the deviancy crisis. Rather than test if a machine can pass as a human, it's meant to test whether one is capable of empathy. In this case, Connor is presented with the choice of shooting a fellow android in exchange for the information he's looking for or sparing them and not getting to learn anything.

* AndroidIdentifier: [=CyberLife=] androids have glowing [=LED=] rings on their temple and wear clothes with glowing triangles and "Android"-nametags to keep them apart from humans. Androids on the run or in hiding, like protagonist Kara, remove their rings and change clothing to blend in among humans. Child androids or androids replacing family members seem to be exempt from this, [[spoiler: as shown by Alice being revealed as an android]].

* ShamefulStrip: [[spoiler: UpToEleven if Kara and Alice get captured and sent to one of the Android [[DeadlyEuphemism Recycling Centers]] in the climax, as they're forced to both remove and discard their clothes and also turn their artificial skins off, leaving them completely exposed and having the one vestige of their budding humanity starkly removed.]]

* GenderIsNoObject:
** During the FBI's raid on Jericho, there are multiple instances of female U.S. Army soldiers taking part in the operation. Three of these female soldiers can be killed by the main characters. Hey, the future might be anti-android, but at least it isn't sexist!

In Japan, a short film titled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-emAQwyEXo Tokyo: Become Human]]'' was released on May 17, 2018, to promote the game.

* 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 Florida Man declares this the start of an all-out war against the androids]].

** Generally speaking, [[spoiler:[[ForWantOfANail Markus dying during the Freedom March]]]] results in a whole slew of Downer Endings becoming extremely likely. It's frighteningly easy to end up with [[KillEmAll every single primary and secondary character dead]] under these circumstances despite your best efforts to turn things around.

* EarnYourBadEnding: The worst possible ending requires all three Player Characters to be killed off before "Battle of Detroit," which is especially hard to do in Connor's case given his repeated use of a BodyBackupDrive throughout the game; Connor essentially has to fail at finding Jericho so thoroughly that [[spoiler:he's decommissioned by Cyberlife. This causes a NonStandardGameOver where the android uprising collapses, androids are reprogrammed with fail-safes to prevent any future deviants, and Elijah Kamski gives an interview about the dangers of his creation.]]

* KillEmAll: It's not only possible but disturbingly easy to finish the game with every primary and secondary protagonist dead.

The game is set in a futuristic UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} where human-like robots known as androids are commonplace, being used by humans for everything from hard labor to domestic tasks, with these androids being mistreated by the general populace and given less-than-stellar standing in society. The plot centers around three androids:

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

* FantasticDrug: "Red Ice", which is supposedly a mix of crack, meth, and thirium. If Kara discovers Todd’s stash of [[FantasticDrug red ice]], the flavour text will show its molecular formula, which is actually that of cocaine.

** Upon arrival at the hostage situation we can see that a fish tank has been smashed by gunfire, leaving an unfortunate fish lying on the ground. Connor is able to pick it up and place it back in the water that’s still in the tank.