History VideoGame / TheSuffering

* ShoutOut: Usually, picking up a phone when it's not ringing does nothing. If you happen to pick up one phone late in the game, though, a girl informs you that [[TheRing you will die in seven days.]]

* SkeweredPriorities: At one point, Torque and Dallas come across a gang of three convicts in the prison yard, after just defeating a couple Slayers. Instead of working together, the head convict, Chico, is hung up over Dallas apparently swindling drugs under his nose, and tries to kill them both. It naturally doesn't end well for them.

* {{Retcon}}: The good karma ending of the first game revealed that Torque was innocent of his family's murders. [[spoiler:But the second game revealed that, no, he wasn't. He, in his Blackmore guise, was the one who sent the thugs to intimidate Carmen, which resulted in her and the boys deaths. Though part of its own good karma ending explains that Blackmore was angered that they misunderstood what he really wanted them to do.]]

* {{Retcon}}: The good karma ending of the first game revealed that Torque was innocent of his family's murders. [[spoiler:But the second game revealed that, no, he wasn't. He, in his Blackmore guise, was the one who sent the thugs to intimidate Carmen, which resulted in her and the boys deaths. Though part of its own good karma ending explains that it was the thugs who chose to kill them due to a misunderstanding, which angered Blackmore since that wasn't what he wanted them to do.]]

* {{Retcon}}: The good karma ending of the first game revealed that Torque was innocent of his family's murders. [[spoiler:But the second game revealed that, no, he wasn't. He, in his Blackmore guise, was the one who sent the thugs to intimidate Carmen, which resulted in her and the boys deaths.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:The neutral ending for Torque in the first game.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Dr. Killjoy.

* ShownTheirWork: When discussing [[BurnTheWitch the background of the Infernas]], Clem takes a moment to note how witch burnings never took place during the Salem Witch Trials, and that the execution method was apparently unique to Carnate Island in America.

-->'''Malcolm:''' [[Literature/{{IT}} We all float down here]].

* StrangeBedfellows: Twice in the first game, once in the second. In the first, [=COs=] team up with the prisoner Torque in order to fight their way out through a part of the level. In the second, [[spoiler:Jordan of the Foundation]] teams up with Torque when the Malefactors REALLY get thick. [[spoiler:Except she still wants to kill you. Whoops.]]
** If you've been going the Evil route, [[spoiler:she does genuinely team up with you.]] But [[spoiler:if you don't end up killing her she gets captured by The Creeper and you get good karma]].

* HappyEndingOverride: ''Ties That Bind'' does this to the first game if you got the good karma ending. So you conquered your demons, learned you were innocent, and escaped Carnate? Whoops, you just got captured, the creatures are now in Baltimore and your innocence, not to mention sanity, is once again in question.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: If you try to get on Clem's raft without him, he laughs as the raft bursts into flames, injuring you.

* FailOSuckyname: In-universe: the first time Torque met his future wife, she went "Torque? What kinda fool name is that?" in a playful manner.

* FightsLikeANormal: In the first game, Torque spends half the narrative trying to rein in and control his emerging [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity monstrous superpowers]], despite the fact that they are his greatest advantage against the Malefactors. You know, apart from the [[{{Badass}} obvious...]]

* {{Badass}}: Somewhere between [[{{Madworld}} Jack Caiman]] and [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] you will behold Torque, standing resplendent on a mountain of hideous corpses, and still blasting through hordes of [[EldritchAbomination unyielding horrors from beyond your imagination]], baptising himself in oceans of their blood. And that's when he hasn't [[SuperpoweredEvilSide lost his temper]]...