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* {{Dystopia}}: Kanai Ward is a PoliceState (as a result of [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans senseless despotism]]) run by an organization of [[DirtyCop dirty cops]] known as the Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeepers and its current condition is marginally the responsibility of [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist Makoto Kagutsuchi, the company's CEO, who, while certainly better than Yomi, is actually [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the same has him only with the altruism and empathy that Yomi lacks]], who hides that the city's population are homunculus clones of their original counterparts and they've been tricked into eating human flesh as part of their dietary needs for the past three years.]]

* InstantSedation: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Makoto]] knocks out the Master Detectives with sleeping gas at the end of Chapter 4 with little issue, Shinigami comments on this at the beginning of the following chapter.]]

* InstantSedative: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Makoto]] knocks out the Master Detectives with sleeping gas at the end of Chapter 4 with little issue, Shinigami comments on this at the beginning of the following chapter.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: While Yomi Hellsmile serves as the Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeepers' director getting in the way of the Master Detectives as they investigate Kanai Ward, serving as TheHeavy, [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, Amaterasu's CEO, is the one who sends Master Detectives to investigate Kanai Ward in the first place, because he is in opposition with Yomi in their power struggle over the company and is using detectives as a means to an end. Makoto eventually takes Yomi out of the picture in Chapter 4, making him the FinalBoss in Chapter 5.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:It's revealed that, up to six months ago, Yomi and Dr. Huesca worked together to sell Amaterasu trade secrets to other companies and allow Yomi to reap the profits by bribing others to gain control over Kanai Ward, with Huesca likely also providing Yomi and the Peacekeepers his weapons, and they also had a hand in creating homunculus clones of Kanai Ward's residents to rival the UG's research, with Yomi ordering the blood samples and Huesca using them to create the clones. In the present, however, [[EvilVersusEvil Yomi conducts a plot to have Huesca eliminated after Huesca decided he should escape instead]].]]

** [[spoiler:Before Yuma even arrives at Kanai Ward, "Zilch" kills the detectives riding to Kanai Ward with him through immolation.]]
** [[spoiler:The Priest and the Worshipper are the culprits in Chapter 1, the former being a SerialKiller called the Nail Man and enacting VigilanteExecution, and the latter being a [[JackTheRipoff copycat killler]].]]
** [[spoiler:Yoshiko, Waruna, and Kurane are the culprits of Karen's murder in Chapter 2.]]
** [[spoiler:Icardi is the culprit of Shachi's murder in Chapter 3.]]
** [[spoiler:Chief Yakou is the culprit of Dr. Huesca's murder in Chapter 4. Downplayed, in that he isn't actually a villain himself, and was actually driven by a misguided sense of revenge provoked by Yomi, who is the chapter's ''true'' villain.]]

** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] is the culprit of the kidnapping case revealed at the end of Chapter 4.]]

** [[spoiler:The Nail Man and the priest are the Nail Man in Chapter 1.]]

* BattleThemeMusic: Reasoning Death Match sequences are accompanied by a dance track of the same name. For the main culprits, the normal variation plays, which is heavily synth-based. [[spoiler:Later on, when battling [[BigBadEnsemble Yomi Hellsmile, and then Makoto Kagutsuchi,]] the music is upgraded to an even more energetic rock remix, which also adds an erratic organ sequence in place of the stock piano in the normal variation.]]

* {{Dolls}}: The Nail Man takes requests for who to kill with dolls nailed down to the trees in the church's forest, and the dolls have a name tag that specifies the target's specific identity. After killing them, the Nail Man then places that same doll used to target them at the crime scene as a CallingCard. [[spoiler:The Nail Man turns out to be the priest of the church, which explains why the dolls are found there in the first place.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Even factoring in Kanai Ward's isolation from outside authority, the Peacekeepers and their [[DirtyCop grave misconduct]] would have them removed from their power by an external constitution ''long ago'', especially Yomi, who's clear in his murderous intent and [[spoiler:acts on it in Chapter 4]]. As for the BigBad, [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutuschi, CEO of Amaterasu Corporation, would not be allowed his position without a background check, therefore exposing his status as the Unified Government's clone of Number One]]. However, this would require the government itself to be adept in finding out anyone acting illegally; it's revealed that said government in this game, the UG, is, unsurprisingly, [[spoiler:equally as corrupt, with [[GovernmentConspiracy their conduction of unethical homunculus research]]. Also, the UG was directly complicit in Kanai Ward's isolation and Makoto's ascent as CEO, so it's no wonder they don't do anything about it themselves.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: [[spoiler:[[TheHeavy Yomi]] and [[BigBad Makoto]] are a villainous example of this trope. While the both of them are dedicated to wanting control over Kanai Ward for their own reasons and are associated with Amaterasu Corporation, [[LackOfEmpathy caring naught for who suffers in the process]] of their plans to dominate the city, Yomi is an AxCrazy [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who openly cares only about what he benefits from it, and is willing to crush those who get in the way or execute anyone who seems even ''remotely'' suspicious, seemingly being a WildCard with no sense of direction and going on a hapless rampage. Makoto, on the other hand, is much more dignified and reserved, and prefers to keep his agenda to control a [[HiddenAgendaVillain secret]], working from behind the scenes and actively outwitting Yomi by taking into account other people and his environment before making any moves, and while he ''does'' do it out of his own personal angst as a homunculus, he's also doing it [[KnightTemplar because he believes in his purity and thinks that anything goes as long as it's for the sake of the other homunculi within Kanai Ward]].]]

* RuleOfCool: Why can detectives use supernatural dispositions to investigate cases? Why can the protagonist be possessed by a {{Shinigami}} in the first place? Why add a city of eternal rain as the setting for ''all'' of it? Why make the CEO of a corporation [[spoiler:a clone of the protagonist, who turns out to ''actually'' be the top detective of the organization, of whom is clone is based off]]? Because you can write all of that into your story if you want to and it's also cool.

* RuleOfCool: Why can detectives use supernatural dispositions to investigate cases? Why can the protagonist be possessed by a {{Shinigami}} in the first place? Why add a city of eternal rain as the setting for ''all'' of it? Why make the CEO of a corporation [[spoiler:a clone of the protagonist, who turns out to ''actually'' be the top detective of the organization, of whom is clone is based off]]? Because you can and it's cool.

* CityInABottle: Kanai Ward as a result of being isolated from the rest of the world. Nothing goes in it, nothing comes out of it. [[spoiler:That is, until the epilogue, where the isolation is revoked and the world accepts the residents for what they are.]]

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Much of the game doesn't come as a surprise with the advertising, as well as the character profiles on Spike Chunsoft's website, giving away characters' general personalities ''and'' the Master Detectives' Forensic Fortes before the game was even released. Along with this, the game's launch trailer also more significantly gives away [[spoiler:the end of Chapter 4 involving Yakou Furio's death (his empty seat is shown), the footage of the WDO building caught in a terrorist bombing, and the detectives being struck by KnockoutGas. It also shows Dr. Huesca's final message and Yuma's encounter with an undead homunculus in the restricted area.]]

* HeroWithAnFInGood: The actual BigBad is [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, who is a WellIntentionedExtremist for the homunnculi of Kanai Ward. He ''does'' keep the city thriving, something he claims to Yuma in the FinalBattle, which is true as there wouldn't be a city to be sent to in the first place if not for Makoto. However, he's also an overly ambitious criminal mastermind who is taking advantage of his identity as Number One's clone as a result of his extremism, which means he's also ''quite'' morally unwell, to put it lightly.]] %%For clarity, this applies to villains.