History YMMV / InFamous2

* EvilIsSexy: Nix and Bloody Mary.

* UnnecessaryMakeover: Almost happened. Cole's redesign initially looked like [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/infamous/images/d/d8/IF2_Cole_Concept_Art2.png/revision/latest?cb=20130223193402 this]], but fan outcry was so bad that Sucker Punch changed him back to how he looked in the first game.

* GoodBadBug:

* HilariousInHindsight: Two of the DLC amp skins turned out to be prophetic; One is [[VideoGame/SlyCooper Sly's cane]] two years before [[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime the raccoon made his comeback]] (and actually returned the favor with an amp skin for Sly's cane), and the other is a samurai sword, years before the studio would come up with VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima.

** More a pragmatic than evil decision in-universe due to the surprisingly deep and complicated moral dilemma but the game locks Cole in the Evil ending [[spoiler:if he joins [[DarkMessiah the Beast]]]]

* UnnecessaryMakeover: Almost happened. Cole's redesign initially looked like [[http://infamous.wikia.com/wiki/File:IF2_Cole_Concept_Art2.png this]], but fan outcry was so bad that Sucker Punch changed him back to how he looked in the first game.

* NightmareFuel:
** The Beast. Just the idea of a MagmaMan who can turn into a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant]] is pretty damn intimidating.
** [[spoiler: Bertrand's beast form is also quite freaky. Heck, even in his human form, he comes off as scary.]]
** From the evil ending, [[spoiler: Nix's death. After defeating her, she's laying on the ground defenseless. Cole walks up, and pins her head under the amp. No prizes for guessing what happens next. After that, Cole also kills his best friend and becomes what he wanted to destroy.]]

* AcceptableTargets: The game apparently considers street performers who pose as statues this trope. You get a trophy for beating one up, and one mission has you fight a whole crowd of [[{{Mooks}} Militia members]] disguised as them.
** The militia are sometimes seen using Confederate flags, so the game also considers Neo Confederates this.

* GameplayDerailment: User Generated Content can be used to collect all the UGC related trophies just be searching for missions that are deliberately short. Even further than this is a UGC mission that will auto-colloect all 305 blast shards, netting you a full power bar and the ''Just One More'' trophy.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Pre-release, Cole was heavily redesigned to resemble [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Nathan Drake.]] The backlash against this was large enough for Sucker Punch to reconsider and change Cole back to his original design.
** The ability to locate Blast shards regardless of distance was likely implemented due to the tedious short-range radar system of the previous game.

* UncannyValley: Most characters are fairly standard modern CGI. Nix, though, looks disturbingly not-human.

* GoddamnBats: Shotgunners, who will use their powers to get right up in your face and hit you point blank with a shotgun blast.

* GoodBadBug: Its possible to use User Generated Content to bypass a BrokenBridge to enter the second half of the city before you're supposed to. Depending on the content there can be no enemies whatsoever, and with the power out only the blast shards will show up on the radar. Makes it very easy to find them in that area.Just remember to die before aborting the mission, or [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable you might get stuck]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Considering all the atrocities he commits, it's hard to pin down when exactly Bertrand crossed this. [[spoiler:Turns out it was before the game even began. He rounded up hundreds of poor people into the swamp, including Nix's family, and killed them all with a Ray Sphere. All to empower his transformation into a Conduit.]]

* NightmareFuel: The Beast. Just the idea of a MagmaMan who can turn into a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant]] is pretty damn intimidating.

* ScrappyMechanic: The Amp, as it can be slightly difficult to control. A smaller, less notable one, would be that Cole's ability to regain health by grinding on power lines is gone.

* GoodBadBug: Its possible to use User Generated Content to bypass a BrokenBridge to enter the second half of the city before you're supposed to. Depending on the content there can be no enemies whatsoever, and with the power out only the blast shards will show up on the radar. Makes it very easy to find them in that area.Just remember to die before aborting the mission, or [[UnwinnableByMistake you might get stuck]].

** From the evil ending, [[spoiler: Nix's death. After defeating her, she's laying on the ground defenseless. Cole walks up, and pins her head under the amp. No prizes for guessing what happens next.]]
* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler:Both endings are a real gut punch. The Evil Ending requires Cole to personally kill Zeke. He takes multiple hits, and just keeps raising his gun. And the good ending has you go through the process of activating the RFI, knowing it will kill yourself, Kuo, and every Conduit all across the globe.]]

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Kuo's reluctance to [[spoiler: sacrifice herself when the RFI gets activated]]. Even if the RFI was the only way to [[spoiler: stop the Beast, which could kill millions]], anybody in that situation would be apprehensive about giving up their lives suddenly unless they were suicidal. Not helping matters is that many people with the Conduit Gene had to [[spoiler: die without knowing why]]. However, despite that, she's painted as a DirtyCoward.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Zeke was hated by more than a few players in the first game, but considering how Zeke became more mature, useful and was genuinely sorry for his actions in inFAMOUS, he won over some of his haters.

** The game is also a great adaptation of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' graphic novel ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', with Bertrand as a Right-Wing Militia Fanatic version of William Stryker and the Final Boss being equal parts Dr. Manhattan and the Phoenix Force.

* SpiritualAdaptation: To ''Literature/MichaelVey.'' Both stories have protagonists with electric powers, the hero's best friend is a chubby tech genius, and the BigBad is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who turns out to be a [[spoiler: BoomerangBigot]].