History VideoGame / TheComaCuttingClass

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: [[spoiler: The poison tendril hazards resemble a cross between [[Planimal cephalopods and vines]].]]

* Adorkable: Youngho and Seho.

* TheRival: Both Headmaster Mott and Principal Lee are at each other's throats due to their differing backgrounds: the former is an American man [[Nepotism received his job from his father (the former Headmaster)]], while the latter is a Korean woman earned her position via hard work.

* TheRival: Both Headmaster Mott and Principal Lee are at each other's throats due to their differing backgrounds: the former is an American man [[Nepotism received his job from his father (the former Headmaster), while the latter is a Korean woman earned her position via hard work.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: [[spoiler: The Shade and the Noteman]]

Now Youngho must evade the monster(s) and find a way to escape Sehwa.

Well...not ''[[ImplacableMan completely]]'' alone.

* MessyHair: Miss Song usually has her hair styled in a neat fashion during the day. When Youngho wanders outside his classroom after waking up (as he fell asleep during his finals), he immediately encounters Miss Song. For any keen players, they will notice that her hairstyle is slightly messier than usual. [[spoiler: Aside from her eerie BlankEyes, the hair is another indicator that this "Miss Song" is an imposter. Her hair also gets even more dishevelled as the story progresses.]]

* SexualExtortion: [[spoiler:What Headmaster Mott has been doing to the school nurse, Miss Nah. She is indebted to him due to borrowing money from him to pay off her post-secondary school loans. It is revealed that he visits her office after 5 PM to receive regular “compensation”]].

* DeanBitterman: Principal Lee is revealed to be quite a stickler. [[spoiler: She wants to cut down on the school budgets for the music and PE departments]]

* TentacleHead: [[spoiler: Coma!Miss Song's final transformation.]]

* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Seho's pair of spectacles.

* RejectionAffection: [[spoiler: Seho refuses to give up on getting Mina to be his girlfriend, even if she does not like him.]]
* ScaryShinyGlasses: When you find out about what [[spoiler: Seho was actually doing in the Coma]], his glasses serve as a visual reminder of his dark, deranged nature.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There are mild inconsistencies with how the names of two characters are spelled: Seho Ghil/Seho Gill, and Miss Nah/Na.

* SuckySchool: Sehwa High: Its dark past is revealed in its counterpart within the Coma.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: If Youngho helps Coma!Mina before completing a side-objective for [[TheBully Myung-gil]], she'll appear to give this speech to him. In 4 of the 5 endings, Mina will also scold Myung-gil for his behaviour in the real world.]]

* Cthulhumanoid: [[spoiler: Coma!Miss Song's final transformation.]]

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: [[spoiler: The poison tendril hazards resemble a cross between [[Planimal cephalopods and vines]].

* ChildhoodFriends: Youngho and Mina.

* Cthulhumanoid [[spoiler: Coma!Miss Song's final transformation.]]

* Cthulhumanoid: [[spoiler: Coma!Miss Song's final transformation.]]

* DueToTheDead: It's implied that the reason why Yaesol carries so many student ID cards around her neck, [[spoiler: is that they may have belonged to former students who were killed due to entering the Coma.]]

* StandardStatusEffects: The player can be afflicted with bleeding or poison. These effects have same function of doing damage to Youngho over a period of time. These can prove to be fatal if Youngho doesn't have any bandages to staunch his bleeding, or an antidote to nullify the toxin.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Myung-gil is actually being tormented by Seho through the Shade's magic. The bully endures a [[BlessedWithSuck curse]] that forces his body to [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment rapidly starve]].

* HeartsAreHealth: The health meter is represented by five chalk-drawn hearts.

* StableTimeLoop: It's strongly implied that [[spoiler: Youngho]] is trapped in one when you start a new game file.

* SuckySchool: Sehwa High: Its dark past is revealed in its Coma version.

* VaderBreath: Invoked with [[the hostile denizens of the Coma!Sehwa.

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* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler: Miss Song wields a fireaxe at the last section of the game]].

* AsianAndNerdy: Subverted in that ''all'' of the characters are Korean. Seho most resembles this trope.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Myung-gil is actually being tormented by Seho through the Shade's magic. The bully endures a [[BlessedWithSuck curse]] that forces him to [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment rapidly starve]]]].

* AuthorPhobia: Sehwa High and the horrors within are said to reflect the creator's own anxiety and fears when he was at high school in South Korea.

* TheBully: Myung-gil. [[spoiler: He also antagonizes Youngho in The Coma of Sehwa High, where he blocks a hall until you give him his favourite food from the cafeteria. If you refuse to give the food to him, he will attack you once, and damages you for '4 hearts'. Thankfully, he disappears afterwards.]]

* ChekhovsArmy: ''All'' named characters in the prologue- Miss Song, the teacher; Seho, the protagonist's geeky friend; Yaesol, the engimatic girl; Myung-gil, the school bully; Mina, his childhood friend; and Taehoon, the suicide victim- return later in the storyline. [[spoiler:The teacher is a crazed killer, the geeky friend is a budding EvilOverlord, the strange girl explores ''hell'' in her spare time, the school bully is ''also'' a crazed killer, his crush is a phantom, and the suicide victim ended up on the wrong end of an ArtifactOfDoom.]]

* BookEnds: If you obtain endings 1-4, [[spoiler: Youngho suffers a similar fate as Taehoon: Being left in a critical medical condition and driven away from Sehwa High by an ambulance]]

%% * ChekhovsGunman: In the beginning sequence, Youngho has the option of talking to Yaesol on his way to school. It yields nothing except a mildly amusing scene where he tries and fails to flirt with her.

* FetchQuest: [[spoiler: The Shade]] won't stop blocking a particular hallway until Youngho brings her Seho's recorder. The player has the choice of completing several optional side-quests that will affect the game's ending.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: [[spoiler: Seho's true nature]]

* HyperactiveMetabolism: Health is restored through consuming burgers, chips, chocolate bars, and soda. As for Stamina, it will slowly regenerate over time. Stamina can be refilled with water bottles. Energy drinks will increase the speed of Stamina regeneration. As for [[SpotOfTea tea]], and [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]], these beverages will temporarily prevent Youngho's Stamina from dropping at all. Most of these must be bought from vending machines, but these resources can be also found by scavenging from the school.

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: [[spoiler: The Shade, as well as Coma!Miss Song. There are also female ghosts -Creeping Shadows- that can swipe at Youngho to make him bleed, if he steps too close to them.]]

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Invoked and subverted. [[spoiler:Youngho]] considers art "subjective", so he slacks off in art class, figuring he'll pass anyway. He is wrong.

* PowerUpgradingDeformation: As the plot progresses, [[spoiler:Coma!Ms. Song]] becomes less human, while becoming correspondingly faster and stronger. After Youngho unlocks the North Building, her eyes are replaced by ''teeth'' (replaced with BlackEyesOfEvil in the Recut version). She eventually transforms into a humanoid Eldritch Abomination with [[PrehensileHair tentacle hair]], and she can nearly [[OneHitKill Youngho with her attacks.]]

* PowerUpgradingDeformation: As the plot progresses[[spoiler:Coma!Ms. Song]] becomes less human, while becoming correspondingly faster and stronger. After Youngho unlocks the North Building, her eyes are replaced by ''teeth'' (replaced with BlackEyesOfEvil in the Recut version). She eventually transforms into a humanoid Eldritch Abomination with [[PrehensileHair tentacle hair]], and she can nearly OneShotKill Youngho with her attacks.]]

* DueToTheDead: It's implied that the reason why Yaesol carries so many student IDs around her neck, [[spoiler: is that they may have belonged to former students who were killed due to entering the Coma.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler: Miss Song's horrific screeching noises, and the chase music that plays when she appears. When you enter Sehwa High's North Building, the background music gets even more demented.]]

* HyperactiveMetabolism: Health is restored through consuming burgers, chips, chocolate bars, and soda. As for Stamina, this resource can only be restored with certain drinks: water bottles, [[SpotOfTea tea]], and [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]] Most of these must be bought from vending machines, but these resources can be also found by scavenging from the school.

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:Seho's flute, otherwise known as [[MacGuffin The Relic]]. This instrument is what allowed Seho to control the Shade as his personal "succubus". Early in the game, he actually loses the Relic, and the Shade regains possession of this object from Youngho.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: No one and no[[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination thing]] ''wants'' Youngho in the Coma, but they don't know how he could have entered it otherwise.]]

* PowerUpgradingDeformation: [[spoiler:Ms. Song]] becomes faster and stronger (and the plot progresses) she is correspondingly less human. After Youngho unlocks the North Building, her eyes are replaced by ''teeth'' (replaced with BlackEyesOfEvil in the Recut version). She eventually transforms into a humanoid Eldritch Abomination with [[PrehensileHair tentacle hair]].

* ScareChord: Plays whenever [[spoiler: Miss Song]] appears to chase Youngho.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: No one and no[[EldritchAbomination thing]] ''wants'' Youngho in the Coma, but they don't know how he could have entered it otherwise.]]

* CreepyLongFingers: [[The Shade.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler: Miss Song's horrific screeching noises, and the chase music that plays when she appears. When you enter Sehwa High's North Building, the music gets even more demented]]

%%* HotForTeacher: Youngho is attracted to his teacher, Ms. Song, and fantasizes about going on dates with her.

* DueToTheDead: It's implied that the reason why Yaesol carries so many student [ID]s around her neck, [[spoiler: is that they may have belonged to former students who were killed due to entering the Coma.]]

%%* DueToTheDead: It's implied that the reason why Yaesol carries so many student [ID]s around her neck, [[spoiler: is that they may have belonged to former students who were killed due to entering the Coma.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: In four endings, Youngho fails to escape the Coma and is left in a critical condition after experiencing a seizure in real life. He's brought out of Sehwa High in an ambulance]]