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* ShoutOut: A few are present in the remake.
**If Agnes grabs the doll from the toilet maze and goes back into the woods (before talking to Ivy, as the entrance will disappear if you do) you can see a figure that looks a lot like [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]]. There is an achivement for doing this.
** If the player picks certain phrases during Joe's final argument with Doctor Z, it can wind up sounding a lot like a certain [[MemeticMutation memetic]] motivational speech Creator/ShiaLaBeouf gave. [[spoiler: '''"Just do it!"''']]. Like the above, there is an achievement for doing this.
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* BlondGuysAreEvil: Mr. Harris.
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** Adverted when Agnes [[spoiler: falls over Harrison's legs and lands in the mush that came from the Sophie Joe blew up with gas from the stove.]]

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** Adverted Averted when Agnes [[spoiler: falls over Harrison's legs and lands in the mush that came from the Sophie Joe blew up with gas from the stove.]]
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* TheVamp: The receptionist takes this role in the remake as she, [[spoiler: tries to seduce Joe in killing Agnes which if Joe agrees to results in a DownerEnding]]
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* ArtShift: The entirety of the remake is upgraded from pixels to have a simliar artstyle and feel to The Cat Lady.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Agnes, at least in the remake. Her skin appears notably darker than that of any other character she contacts with, even with the Main/DeliberatelyMonochrome art style.



* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Agnes, she accompanies the constantly brooding Joe and he is noticeably more relaxed when she's around. [[spoiler: Since she's a literately made from Joe's fond memories of his wife in the remake, this may also apply to Ivy.]]



* PluckyComicRelief: Agnes.
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** Adverted when Agnes [[spoiler: falls over Harrison's legs and lands in the mush that came from the Sophie Joe blew up with gas from the stove.]]
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The original 2009 version can be [[http://www.quiethavenhotel.co.uk/ downloaded as freeware]]. Due to the original game's code being corrupt (and therefore incapable of being put on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) a complete remake had to be made and is now available.

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The original 2009 version can be [[http://www.quiethavenhotel.co.uk/ downloaded as freeware]]. Due to the original game's code being corrupt (and therefore incapable of being put on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) a complete remake had to be made and is now available.
available. It should be noted that the remake changes some plot details and characters from the original in addition to having updated artwork and soundtrack.
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** It could also be a small clue that she's recovering from her depression and is taking better care of herself, having put on some weight as well and looking less frail.
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** "The Sixth Parasite" (Bad Ending): [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, and finishes him off by placing him on the chair and electrocuting him before incinerating Ivy's corpse. She then returns to her flat on her computer, where she is on a blog with a person contemplating suicide. The camera pans over her "trophies", including the mace used to kill Dr. X, the Pest Control Man's gas mask and shotgun and two rings marked under "J and I", and then returns to Susan and her computer, where she tells the person to "do it" [[BecomeTheirOwnAntitheisis à la Eye of Adam]]. Joe and Ivy's corpses were found burnt to a crisp in the basement, together on the operating table.]]

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** "The Sixth Parasite" (Bad Ending): [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, and finishes him off by placing him on the chair and electrocuting him before incinerating Ivy's corpse. She then returns to her flat on her computer, where she is on a blog with a person contemplating suicide. The camera pans over her "trophies", including the mace used to kill Dr. X, the Pest Control Man's gas mask and shotgun and two rings marked under "J and I", and then returns to Susan and her computer, where she tells the person to "do it" [[BecomeTheirOwnAntitheisis [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis à la Eye of Adam]]. Joe and Ivy's corpses were found burnt to a crisp in the basement, together on the operating table.]]
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* MultipleEndings:
** "On the Run" (Normal Ending): [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, with Mitzi joining her shortly afterwards. The pair mourn over Ivy, and Mitzi leaves to call the police while Susan stays a few minutes longer. Just as she is about to leave, Joe stands up once more, bloody fireaxe in hand as the screen goes black... He is later seen escaping the hotel with Ivy's corpse in hand.]]
** "GoldenEnding": [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, with Mitzi joining her shortly afterwards. The pair mourn over Ivy, and Mitzi leaves to call the police. While she is gone, Ivy begins to have a pulse again, and Susan calls out to call an ambulance instead. As she takes a few steps, a hacking sound is heard, and Susan falls to the ground with Joe's axe in her back - but it isn't Joe who attacked her, it was Ivy. Ivy goes to Joe, who is still alive, and the two escape the hotel. Susan is still alive, and the fire is blamed on the escaped couple who have left together.]]
** "The Sixth Parasite" (Bad Ending): [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, and finishes him off by placing him on the chair and electrocuting him before incinerating Ivy's corpse. She then returns to her flat on her computer, where she is on a blog with a person contemplating suicide. The camera pans over her "trophies", including the mace used to kill Dr. X, the Pest Control Man's gas mask and shotgun and two rings marked under "J and I", and then returns to Susan and her computer, where she tells the person to "do it" [[BecomeTheirOwnAntitheisis à la Eye of Adam]]. Joe and Ivy's corpses were found burnt to a crisp in the basement, together on the operating table.]]


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**[[spoiler:Joe. In the "On the Run" and Golden Endings, he is ambushed by [[VideoGame/TheCatLady Susan Ashworth]]. In the former he rises to his feet as the Axeman, now cornering the unarmed Susan, and in the latter he is saved by Ivy, who attacks Susan and escaped the hotel with him. In the last ending, "The Sixth Parasite", Susan notes that he is tough - and promptly finishes him off by electrocuting him on the chair.]]
**[[spoiler:Susan herself counts, as in the Golden Ending she is last seen bleeding on the ground after being hacked in the back by the resurrected Ivy, though the newspaper clipping at the end mentions that she is a survivor of the hotel events, and though she claims to have been attacked by Joe and Ivy the article also mentions that she "sustained no injury and did not require medical attention".]]
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Agnes, at least in the remake. Her skin appears notably darker than that of any other character she contacts with, even with the Main/DeliberatelyMonochrome art style.
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* TookALevelInBadass: The once meek [[spoiler: Cat lady is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons, and utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching whom she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated on how she nearly kills Joe during Ivy's resurrection.]]

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* TookALevelInBadass: The once meek [[spoiler: Cat lady is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons, and utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching whom she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated on how she nearly kills Joe during Ivy's resurrection.his attempt to resurrect Ivy.]]
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* CosmicPlaything: Poor Joe...at least in the remake. From then moment [[spoiler: his brother died]], his life turned for the worse. [[spoiler: His own mother committed suicide out of grief, from his father blaming him entirely and assuring him that it would have been better if he was the one that died]]. Meeting Ivy again and marrying her was one of the last moments of joy and peace he had before she started [[spoiler: becoming anorexic and making herself sick]] which resulted in their marriage collapsing on it's knees. He can spend the rest of the game bitterly trying to pick up the pieces of this broken relationship until it's made abundantly clear that there's nothing left. The fact that he falls into his own Darkworld is just the icing on the cake, it's evident that his story can't end well. [[spoiler: That is unless he gets the GoldenEnding and reconciles with Ivy]]

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* CosmicPlaything: Poor Joe...at least in the remake. From then the moment [[spoiler: his brother died]], his life turned for the worse. [[spoiler: His own mother committed suicide out of grief, from his father blaming him entirely and assuring him that it would have been better if he was the one that died]]. Meeting Ivy again and marrying her was one of the last moments of joy and peace he had before she started [[spoiler: becoming anorexic and making herself sick]] which resulted in their marriage collapsing on it's knees. He can spend the rest of the game bitterly trying to pick up the pieces of this broken relationship until it's made abundantly clear that there's nothing left. The fact that he falls into his own Darkworld is just the icing on the cake, it's evident that his story can't end well. [[spoiler: That is unless he gets the GoldenEnding and reconciles with Ivy]]
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Ivy has this look in the remake.
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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/a93ec101d665eb6fdf1eb06c4a0c1564edd9c5db.jpg]] and latter well just look at her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the remake [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]

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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former going from a pixelated figure [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/the-cat-lady/images/3/38/Ivy_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140429113150]] to being an a fully rendered EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/a93ec101d665eb6fdf1eb06c4a0c1564edd9c5db.jpg]] and latter well just look at her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the remake [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]
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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/a93ec101d665eb6fdf1eb06c4a0c1564edd9c5db.jpg]] and latter well just look at her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the reamke [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]

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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/a93ec101d665eb6fdf1eb06c4a0c1564edd9c5db.jpg]] and latter well just look at her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the reamke remake [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]

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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and latter well just look at her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the reamke [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]

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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/a93ec101d665eb6fdf1eb06c4a0c1564edd9c5db.jpg]] and latter well just look at her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the reamke [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]


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* WhenSheSmiles: Invoked by Ivy. Joe recalls how her smiles and laughs are part of the reasons he fell in-love with her.
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* SickeninglySweethearts: It's possible for the player to make Joe and Ivy like this in the Remake, however this makes the collapse of their marriage all the more tragic.

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* SickeninglySweethearts: It's possible for the player to make Joe and Ivy like this in the Remake, however this makes the collapse of their marriage all the more tragic. Just look at them having a heart to heart in their bed. [[https://alternativemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/screenshot-2.png?w=500&h=375]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Agnes, she accompanies the constantly brooding Joe and he is noticeably more relaxed when she's around. [[spoiler: Since she's a literately made from Joe's fond memories of his wife in the remake, this may also apply to Ivy.]]
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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and latter well just look at her. [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]

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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and latter well just look at her. her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the reamke [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]
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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former having RavenHairIvorySkin and latter..well just look at her

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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former having RavenHairIvorySkin being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette and latter..latter well just look at herher. [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]
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** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former having RavenHairIvorySkin and latter..well just look at her
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* CosmicPlaything: Poor Joe...at least in the remake. From then moment [[spoiler: his brother died]], his life turned for the worse. [[spoiler: His own mother committed suicide out of grief, from his father blaming him entirely and assuring him that it would have been better if he was the one that died]]. Meeting Ivy again and marrying her was one of the last moments of joy and peace he had before she started [[spoiler: becoming anorexic and making herself sick]] which resulted in their marriage collapsing on it's knees. He can spend the rest of the game bitterly trying to pick up the pieces of this broken relationship until it's made abundantly clear that there's nothing left. The fact that he fall into his own Darkworld is just the icing on the cake, it's evident that his story can't end well. [[spoiler: That is unless he gets the GoldenEnding and reconciles with Ivy]]

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* CosmicPlaything: Poor Joe...at least in the remake. From then moment [[spoiler: his brother died]], his life turned for the worse. [[spoiler: His own mother committed suicide out of grief, from his father blaming him entirely and assuring him that it would have been better if he was the one that died]]. Meeting Ivy again and marrying her was one of the last moments of joy and peace he had before she started [[spoiler: becoming anorexic and making herself sick]] which resulted in their marriage collapsing on it's knees. He can spend the rest of the game bitterly trying to pick up the pieces of this broken relationship until it's made abundantly clear that there's nothing left. The fact that he fall falls into his own Darkworld is just the icing on the cake, it's evident that his story can't end well. [[spoiler: That is unless he gets the GoldenEnding and reconciles with Ivy]]
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* CosmicPlaything: Poor Joe...at least in the remake. From then moment [[spoiler: his brother died]], his life turned for the worse. [[spoiler: His own mother committed suicide out of grief, from his father blaming him entirely and assuring him that it would have been better if he was the one that died]]. Meeting Ivy again and marrying her was one of the last moments of joy and peace he had before she started [[spoiler: becoming anorexic and making herself sick]] which resulted in their marriage collapsing on it's knees. He can spend the rest of the game bitterly trying to pick up the pieces of this broken relationship until it's made abundantly clear that there's nothing left. The fact that he fall into his own Darkworld is just the icing on the cake, it's evident that his story can't end well. [[spoiler: That is unless he gets the GoldenEnding and reconciles with Ivy]]
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* Took a Level in Badass : The once meek [[spoiler: Cat lady is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons, and utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching whom she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated on how she nearly kills Joe during Ivy's resurrection.]]

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* Took a Level in Badass : TookALevelInBadass: The once meek [[spoiler: Cat lady is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons, and utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching whom she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated on how she nearly kills Joe during Ivy's resurrection.]]

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* Took a Level in Badass: The once meek [[spoiler: Cat lady is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons, and utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching whom she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated on how she nearly kills Joe during Ivy's resurrection.]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[spoiler: The Cat lady is far more attractive compared to how she looked in her game. Though it could be a case of her Informed Attractiveness being addressed.]]


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* [[spoiler:BecameTheirOwnAntithesis]]: [[spoiler: After spending her entire game killing parasites that make people kill themselves, it's revealed that the Cat lady is now encouraging people to commit suicide in the game's Downerending.]]

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* [[spoiler:BecameTheirOwnAntithesis]]: [[spoiler: After spending her entire game killing destroying parasites that make people kill themselves, it's revealed that the Cat lady is now encouraging people to commit suicide in the game's Downerending.remake's Downer ending.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Both Joe and Ivy suffer from this in the remake.


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* [[spoiler:BecameTheirOwnAntithesis]]: [[spoiler: After spending her entire game killing parasites that make people kill themselves, it's revealed that the Cat lady is now encouraging people to commit suicide in the game's Downerending.]]


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** The same thing happens in the remake, the difference being is that this time [[spoiler: Joe carries Ivy to Dr Z's machine to resurrect her after she's already died.]]


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** The room can be entered in the remake, inside it is [[spoiler: The Maggot Queen herself.]] Players don't even know they entered it till after they've left.


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* TogetherInDeath: Occurs in one of the remake's endings between [[spoiler: Joe and Ivy, after the Cat lady electrocutes Joe and burns Ivy's corpse. Their charred corpses are shown embracing each in the blacked remains of a bed]]

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