History VisualNovel / HatePlus

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Eun-a's "sister" kills herself, believing she is useless to Eun-a, who is busy with her plot to overthrow the government.]] Also, [[spoiler:*Mute after reading the Death of Old *Mute log. *Hyun-ae will stop her in harem route, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption in her own route ...]]]]

* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Despite seemingly being a very loving husband, Kim So-yi's husband writes a log titled "Worthless as a Wife". [[spoiler:It turns out that he's using ''her exact words'': she's just been fired and driven to a nervous breakdown by the new societal pressure to [[StayInTheKitchen stay at home and be subservient to your man]]. He's deeply worried about her and does his best to help her.]] *Hyun-ae lampshades this if you're on her route by getting outraged at the title, but realizing it wasn't what it meant.

*** [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask --48 HOURS REMAIN--]], complete with Old *Mute's face as the moon.

*** "[[CowboyBebop See you, Space Investigator.]]"
*** "Don't create a [[MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater TIME PARADOX!]]", with *Hyun-ae posing as the [[MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Colonel]].

** Asking her to talk about hate talks about how the game is far superior to VideoGame/DigitalALoveStory.

* LipstickLesbian:
** [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a,]] to the extreme. It's probably part {{gayngst}} (and part LoveMakesYouEvil, [[JerkassWoobie surprisingly]]) that makes her [[spoiler:want society to return to the ultra-patriarchal Neo-Confucian ideal where women are dominated by men and "know their place".]]
** Heo Ae-Jeong seems to lament her inability to fulfill this trope, due to acting lovestruck and awkward in the presence of her girlfriend.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Eun-a's sister kills herself, believing she is useless to her sister, who is busy with her plot to overthrow the government.]] Also, [[spoiler:*Mute after reading the Death of Old *Mute log. *Hyun-ae will stop her in harem route, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption in her own route ...]]]]
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Despite seemingly being a very loving husband, Kim So-yi's husband writes a log titled "Worthless as a Wife". [[spoiler:It turns out that he's using ''her exact words'': she's just been fired and driven to a nervous breakdown by the new societal pressure to [[StayInTheKitchen stay at home and be subservient to your man]]. He's deeply worried about her and does his best to help her.]] *Hyun-ae lampshades this if you're on her route.

* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:An odd but still meaningful example from *Hyun-ae. Initially she views Oh Eun-a as a kindred spirit, as a woman who was married to an Emperor Ryu ... and ''then'' she learns that not only was it willing, but Eun-a actually ''orchestrated'' the wonky society that drove her to homicidal mania out of a never-ending parade of misery in the first place! Needless to say, she isn't happy.]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Some characters (for example, Kim So-Yi's boss, the Research Chief) are never referred to with a proper name. More or less [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the format: presumably they all have real names, but they're simply not used in the handful of text logs that we have access to, so they can only be referred to by what you know about them.

* ExactWords: The harem ending. It's a Harem alright... It just the player isn't the center of it. *Hyun-ae is.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: *Mute talks about a similar rebellion that happened two centuries into the ship's launch, and ended just as bad. In it, [[spoiler:a critical portion of the ship was permanently damaged (both an AI and the ship itself), and there was major social upheaval. Guess what happens at the end of the story.]]

* [[spoiler:ICannotSelfTerminate: Or, more accurately, I Cannot Allow Myself To Die Even If It Is The Better Outcome. When Old *Mute and Heo Seo-yeong try to take down Ryu once and for all, Ryu reveals that he's planted a bomb in the ship's computer core, which only he can disarm. Old *Mute explicitly wishes that she could allow herself to be "killed" if it meant that Ryu would lose his power (and his life), but as the security AI, she is hard-coded to take the option that ensures the security of the ship, and thus she's forced to surrender.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: *Mute sometimes expresses this opinion if you romance her as a woman. She believes that a woman cannot be happy unless she is married to a man, so while she appreciates (and even reciprocates) your feelings, she sees herself as a poor substitute for a husband, and wants you to find true fulfillment.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several examples. In *Hyun-ae's route, she gets frustrated by her inability to actually speak to you, and accuses you of treating her like just another girl in a dating sim. Which, of course, she ''is''.
** At one point, she'll even ask you to bake a cake for her. In real life. No, actually ''get up from your chair and bake one.'' If you can't do that, at least ''buy'' one.

* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a,]] to the extreme. It's probably part {{gayngst}} (and part LoveMakesYouEvil, [[JerkassWoobie surprisingly]]) that makes her [[spoiler:want society to return to the ultra-patriarchal Neo-Confucian ideal where women are dominated by men and "know their place".]]

* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: Read through most of the logs, and you'll come to understand just how deviously Ryu manipulated Old *Mute and the council. Read through the logs in Block M3, most of them written by his wife Eun-a, and you'll come to understand just how deviously ''she'' manipulated ''him''.]]

* NeverMyFault: In the Harem route (which is generally more comedic than the "standard" routes), *Mute blames the translation problem entirely on *Hyun-ae.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: A minor example with Mae Jin-a, who not only recognizes when she's being subtly mocked, but manages to very cleverly burn her mocker with a single question.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, annoyingly. The various councillors on the ship are only known by their title and family name (and occasionally their department, such as "Justice" or "Culture"). After the Meritocracy Act passes, several councillors are replaced, but often by members of the same family, who thus have the same family name. So there are two Councillor Ohs, two Councillor Yangs, two Councillor Jos ... it can be a bit confusing, and since most of the councillors don't have portraits, sometimes the only way to tell is whether the date of the log is pre- or post-Meritocracy.

* OverlyLongGag: All tracks on the OST are no longer than four minutes...except for "Cake!", the track that plays when eating cake with *Hyun-ae. For some reason, it's ''21 minutes and 5 seconds'' long. As in, twenty-one minutes of actual music, not just a few minutes followed by a long period of silence.

* PuppetKing: What both President Park, the "populist" agitator for democracy, and Chief Councillor Ryu (an apparently unambitious man) were supposed to be, to the rest of the Council. [[spoiler:Park eventually takes the fall, while Ryu seizes power, gets rid of everyone else and declares himself Emperor. Towards the end, the councillors are clearly ''his'' puppets.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: When you start reading the old logs, *Mute discovers that Old *Mute was over ''1600'' years old, which seems unimaginably ancient to her. Kind of amusing, considering that current *Mute is no spring chicken either, since she's 900-something and looks around 14.

* ShaggyDogStory: Made extremely obvious in *Mute's route, in regards to the events that lead up to VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory. Mute will note that everything that Kim So-Yi worked for would be wiped out in the system reboot, that the Neo-Joseon Dynasty's numbers will decline, due to the loss of research, and that [[spoiler:the descendents will be killed by the Pale Bride.]]
** The situation with So-Yi deserves a bit more explanation. [[spoiler:She was literally ''days'' away from presenting her report to the science department when the Mugunghwa's computers were wiped by Ryu Hyeon-su's coup d'etat, taking her data with it.]]

* TakeThatUs: Mixed in with TakeThat is if you complete the Harem route and ask Hyun-ae to talk about what's happened so far. One of the choices makes her break the fourth wall and note that the harem route and the player's cheating nullified everything that's happened, with no real consequences!

* YouBastard: If you try to power through the cake sequence on Hyun-ae's route on Day 3, you will get a fourth-wall breaking lecture that Hyun-ae isn't to be treated like a flat eroge girl there for sex and easy-to-get-into love. See AddressingThePlayer.

* The end of the Harem ending shows that it's a Type 7... With *Hyun-ae in the center.

* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Heo Seo-yeong loves an AI that can't love her back, her husband cheats on her with the maids, he's murdered when he becomes too much of a nuisance to Oh Eun-a, and her whole society is getting whittled back to an oppressive, patriarchal dystopia. When she and Old *Mute finally attempt a coup, Old *Mute is essentially forced to back them down; when Seo-yeong hesitates, Old *Mute has to resort to emotional blackmail to stop her from killing President/Chief Councillor Ryu. Seo-yeong has to watch as Old *Mute gets her memories wiped, setting the stage for a complete reworking of all society. Seo-yeong is made into the scapegoat for a "failed rebellion," and worst of all, she's blamed for wiping Old *Mute; she is utterly despised by the new version of the AI she once loved. She's imprisoned for ten years before finally committing suicide, and it's unclear whether she actually took her own life or was simply eliminated by the government. She's remembered as a monster.]]

*** "[[FinalFantasyVII Level Four Revive Materia]]". [[spoiler:Appropriately, this achievement named after an UrbanLegendOfZelda is [[UnwinnableByDesign impossible to get.]]]]

** Many of the achievements:

* HatesEveryoneEqually: It's actually a response you can give, though it's more out of pity than outright hate.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: On *Hyun-ae's path, you order a robot body for her, the details of which are described in an inbox message responding to your order. It's designed to be as realistic and human-like as possible, right down to ''artificial tear ducts''.

** In harem route, you can convince [[spoiler:*Hyun-ae to confess her love to *Mute. At first *Mute thinks *Hyun-ae is joking; when she realizes that *Hyun-ae is serious, her shocked scream goes on for several text boxes.]]

** A deliberate, comedic, in-universe example: Heo Seung-bok visits his lover Mimi, who's spending time with ... Heo Seung-bok. Who looks ''exactly'' like ''the other'' Heo Seung-bok. And who ''also'' loves Mimi, and is ''also'' a security officer (but higher-ranking), and even ''orders the same things off the menu at a restaurant''. [[spoiler:Turns out Mimi's just messing with Seung-bok's head. The whole incident was a set-up by Mimi, and a deliberate reference to the classic Chinese novel ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'', which features a similar character meeting his "mirror" - the book of which Heo was supposed to be studying for class.]]

* {{Railroading}}: Used more than once, and lampshaded during *Mute's route. When she asks you to go through the logs together, the choices essentially boil down to "Yes", "Yes, since you want to", and "Whatever." Picking the first one has her apologize for the railroading.

** It's even a kind of SelfDemonstratingArticle: [[DontExplainTheJoke she's saying, essentially, that people are wasting too much time with talk.]]

* UnusualEuphemism: Not that unusual, and not really a euphemism for anything, but multiple characters in both the past and the present use the term "shitshow" to describe a difficult situation.

** A deliberate, comedic, in-universe example: Heo Seung-bok visits his lover Mimi, who's spending time with ... Heo Seung-bok. Who looks ''exactly'' like ''the other'' Heo Seung-bok. And who ''also'' loves Mimi, and is ''also'' a security officer (but higher-ranking), and even ''orders the same things off the menu at a restaurant''. [[spoiler:Turns out Mimi's just messing with Seung-bok's head. The whole incident was a set-up by Mimi, and a deliberate reference to the classic Chinese novel ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'', which features a similar character meeting his "mirror".]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: When you start reading the old logs, *Mute discovers that Old *Mute was over ''1600'' years old, which seems unimaginably ancient to her. Kind of amusing, considering that current *Mute is no spring chicken either, since she's 622 and looks around 14.

* GagPenis: Minor, comedic example in Harem route. When [[spoiler: Oh Eun-a]] first meets [[spoiler:her future husband Ryu]], *Mute is scandalized to discover that [[spoiler:the future Empress]] was initially "just interested in his cock." This leads to a funny exchange with *Hyun-ae, who [[spoiler:slept with Ryu's descendent back when she was alive:]]

* IHatePastMe: "Hate" might be a little strong, but *Mute very vocally disagrees with many of the decisions of her "predecessor".

* MonsterSobStory: [[spoiler:Eun-a manipulated the regression of her entire society, and ordered the death of at least one person who opposed her, in addition to planning for the deaths of many more if necessary, but when you read her logs and understand she did it all for love ... well, she's still a monster, but at least you know ''why''.]]

** A deliberate, comedic, in-universe example: Heo Seung-bok visits his lover Mimi, who's spending time with ... Heo Seung-bok. Who looks ''exactly'' like ''the other'' Heo Seung-bok. And who ''also'' loves Mimi, and is ''also'' a security officer (but higher-ranking), and even ''orders the same things off the menu at a restaurant''. [[spoiler:Turns out Mimi's just messing with Seung-bok's head. The whole incident was a set-up by Mimi, and a deliberate reference to the classic Chinese novel ''Literature/DreamOfTheRedChamber'', which features another "mirror" character with the same name.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a's "sister" Mi-seun is worried sick about the long periods of time Eun-a spends away from home and the time Eun-a is spending with Ryu. However, Eun-a's usage of big words and concepts that fly over Mi-seun's head, and Eun-a's [[NoExceptYes way of explaining, which implies Mi-seun's useless]], intimidates Mi-seun, who writes long letters to her "big sister" that she never actually sends. Mi-seun eventually [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]], which causes Eun-a [[TalkingToTheDead to lose it.]]]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Everyone mentioned in the log files has been dead for at least 600 years. Within the logs themselves, the very briefly mentioned *Star, the navigation AI who was killed in a rebellion only two hundred years after the launch of the ''Mugunghwa'', thus explaining why the ship never got where it was supposed to go in the first place.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: When you start reading the old logs, *Mute discovers that Old *Mute was over ''1600'' years old, which seems unimaginably ancient to her. Kind of amusing, considering that current *Mute is no spring chicken either, since she's about 600 and looks around 14.

* [[TranslatorMicrobes Translation Software]]: Used in the sense that all the documents were "originally" written in Korean (either Hangul or Hanmun) but are "displayed" in English, but also amusingly subverted in the larger sense: when your AI(s) attempt to install a more up-to-date Korean-English language pack, it somehow breaks their software and makes them incapable of understanding your input. So the whole reason you ''can't'' talk to them is ''because of'' the Translation Software.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Heo Seo-yeong loves an AI that can't love her back, her husband cheats on her with the maids, he's killed when he becomes too much of a nuisance to Oh Eun-a, and her society is getting whittled back to an oppressive, patriarchal dystopia. When she and Old *Mute finally attempt a coup, Old *Mute is essentially forced to back them down; when Seo-yeong hesitates, Old *Mute has to resort to emotional blackmail to stop her from killing President/Chief Councillor Ryu. Seo-yeong has to watch as Old *Mute gets her memories wiped, setting the stage for a complete reworking of all society. Seo-yeong is made into the scapegoat for a "failed rebellion," and worst of all, she's blamed for wiping Old *Mute; she is utterly despised by the new version of the AI she once loved. She's imprisoned for ten years before finally committing suicide, and it's unclear whether she actually took her own life or was simply eliminated by the government. She's remembered as a monster.]]