History VideoGame / ShadowOfTheComet

* TakeMyHand: Mrs Webster saves the protagonist this way. Escaping the tomb/labyrinth and hurridly climbing up a rope the protagonist slips and almost falls to certain death....except Mrs Webster who tends the graveyard heard all the commotion, and manages to grab one of his arms with both her hands and haul him up with the help of her son.

* NiceGuy: Thomas Bishop, he is certainly one of the more friendly townsfolk, and one of the few willing to help you. He also seems to help in the local community, checking on Curtis, and helping to look after Thomas Greewood, a deaf/blind mute who is also Curtis's friend.

* ChestBurster: How one of the characters dies, with several tentacles busting out of their chest cavity.

An Adventure horror game from 1993 by Infocom. The player assume the role of the British photographer, John Parker, who travels to the isolated town, Illsmouth in New England, on the official business of photographing the soon arriving Halleys Comet, but he has an objective of his own: Uncovering the truth about what happened to the scientist, Lord Boleskin, who went mad when the comet passed by the town in 1834.

* AllDeathsFinal: Played straight dead characters do not come back, unless you count Alistair Boleskins' ghost..

* AllDeathsFinal: Played straight unless you count Alistair Boleskins' ghost. Dead characters do not come back.

An Adventure horror game by Infocom.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Sergeant Baggs is probably one of the most prejudiced, clueless, and most easily manipulated character in the entire game.
* ReligionOfEvil: The cult that worships Cthulhu and Dagon and is trying to help them return to Earth.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Necronomicon is this, you will need to read it at some point, but carrying it around is not a good idea.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Illsmouth is this despite it seeming like a pretty and quiet little fishing town at first glance. Even the locals who aren't involved in the cult, are aware of or feel its influence to some extent.
* [[WhenThePlanetsAlign When The Stars Are Right]] : The passing of Halleys Comet every 76 years happens to coincide with an astral conjuncture of stars and planets, which is needed to open the portal to let the Eldritch gods return to Earth.

* HotGypsyWoman: Subverted. Lilith has the pretty looks, but is neither flirtacious or quick tempered. Of the two times she speaks to you the first is just to thank you for speaking up for her family in the village, and the second is to praise you for having the courage to fight the evil tainting the area, to read your fortune for you, and to give some parting words of encouragement before you leave.

* HotGypsyWoman: Subverted. Lilith has the looks, but is neither flirtacious or quick tempered. Of the two times she speaks to you the first is just to thank you for speaking up for her family in the village, and the second is to praise you for having the courage to fight the evil tainting the area, to read your fortune for you, and to give some parting words of encouragement before you leave.

* PoliceAreUseless: Sergeant Baggs is probably one of the most prejudiced, clueless, and most easily manipulated characters in the entire game.

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Lord Boleskin, especially if you read the additional information that came with the boxed version of the game where he is revealed to be very aggressive and even does permanent damage to one of the doctors trying to treat him.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Between John Parker and Tobias Jugg

* {{Badass}}: John Parker himself. He's a human scientist and investigative reporter with no supernatural powers or immortality unlike most of his enemies, yet he still determines to stop the cultists and even faces some of the gods themselves.

* Badass: John Parker himself. He's a human scientist and investigative reporter with no supernatural powers or immortality unlike most of his enemies, yet he still determines to stop the cultists and even faces some of the gods themselves.

* BadassNormal: John Parker himself. He's a human scientist and investigative reporter with no supernatural powers or immortality unlike most of his enemies, yet he still determines to stop the cultists and even faces some of the gods themselves.

BigDamnHeroes: Parker arriving just in time to save Walter Webster and his mother from being sacrificed.

* SpiritAdvisor: The(sane)ghost of Lord Boleskin serves as this on a few occasions, and in a slight variation Natawanga also acts as this on one occasion too...although as he isn't dead it's more a form of AstralProjection

* SpiritAdvisor: The(sane)ghost of Lord Boleskin serves as this on a few occasions, Natawanga too, once...although as he isn't dead it's more a form of AstralProjection

* MoralGuardian: Miss Picott seems to have appointed herself as this for the entire village.

* BritishEnglish: Despite the story being set in America, all the characters talk like this. Some even have British accents.

* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Both Curtis and Wilbur, who are half Deep One, have mismatched eyes and webbed hands. In both cases one eye is brown and the other green.

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Lord Boleskin, especially if you read the additional information that came with the boxed version of the game where he is revealed to be very aggressive and even does permanent damage to one of the doctotrs trying to treat him.