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Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#18026: May 6th 2022 at 1:26:46 PM

Thanks.

@ Obi-Wan Kenobi

Biggs and Luke's other friends will appear.

The Empire will recruit or consider recruiting Force users who aren't ex-Jedi to join or assist the Inquisitors.
  • Adalric Brandl, his son, Ladinnare Torbin and other Legends characters could show up this way. Maybe even with Emperor's Hands like Mara Jade, Shira Brie, and Sai Cuis thrown in.

@ The Kaiju Preservation Society new page.

  • Acceptable Political Targets: Donald Trump, his sons, and his administration are only ever mentioned (albeit not by name) in a contemptuous, mocking way.
  • Catharsis Factor: Rob Sanders never stops being an entitled Smug Snake who screws everyone over for his own profit and amusement and brags about it. Seeing Jamie threaten to leave him to be eaten by carnivorous fauna, making a recording of his rulebreaking, and blackmailing him to leave the kaiju world for good is satisfying. Sanders being eaten alive after trying to poach another kaiju and murder the main characters is even better.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Mischievous Thrill Seeker Ace Pilot Satie is a secondary character at best, but he's probably the most popular person in the story.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Rob Sanders is a Hate Sink for the story, but it sinks in just how redeemable he is when he explains that he humiliated and demoted Jamie just for a bet similar to the one in Trading Places and isn't remotely sorry about it. This establishes him as as a truly awful person even before he murders several characters to poach a kaiju for his corporation and cause a nuclear meltdown in our dimension.
  • The Un-Twist: Rob Sanders being behind the abduction of a nuclear-powered kaiju isn't terribly surprising after he's spent the entire book being a smug, greedy prick who tried to steal some kaiju samples earlier and has a bad Lack of Empathy. This is even lampshaded.
    It was Rob Sanders, because of course it was.
@ Rio Lobo @ Justice League: War
  • Silas yanks one of his coworkers to safety as emergency doors close and it looks like she's going to be trapped on the other side.
  • Flash uses his speed to punch one parademon like a jackhammer.
  • Green Lantern is a joke at times (even when he does stuff like conjure a locomotive to ram Darkseid) but one moment that treats him perfectly seriously is when Batman tells him he can't fight with a broken arm and he just creates a cast for himself.
  • Batman lets a parademon capture him, un-costumed, to be a Trojan Prisoner, and then feeds it a bomb.

@ Men of Sherwood

  • The Postman: The Restored Postal Service, despite being mostly manned by adolescent teens and (very) young adults, works as an effective and efficient mail delivery, completely outside Shakespeare's influence (or control, for that matter) despite how dangerous the roads are, although many of them are tragically ambushed and killed.
  • Warm Bodies: The Citadel City's soldiers are surprisingly competent and long-lived, with the exception of most of Julie's fellow salvagers. Only a few soldiers die in the climax, and most live to join forces with the zombies who've regained their humanity and wipe out the Always Chaotic Evil Bonies.
  • Bret King Mysteries: Sheriff Buxton, the other local cops, and volunteers who help them, like Mr. King and Dan Evans, don't get the Adults Are Useless treatment they would in many teen mystery stories. In the first and third books, they use tactics and gunplay (no one is ever killed, only wounded) to capture many of the villains themselves.
  • Ex-Heroes: The Disaster Scavengers are Badass Normals who provide regular support to the superheroes. They are treated as trusted, essential allies, many of them are named, and they aren't treated as disposable Red Shirts or too Overshadowed by Awesome. The wall guards are less prominent, but no less effective.
@ Daria
  • Mr. O'Neill tells the three J's he wants one of them to be placeholder for Kevin in the play and that he's sure Kevin has a perfectly good reason for being late and "sabotaging my play."
  • Joey and Jamie trick Jeffy into using "The Pardoner's Tale" (which talks about lust and drinking) for his script instead of Palomon's part in "The Knight's Tale." They get away with it because all Jeffy can remember is that his role begins with "P".

@ The Passage

  • Do You Want to Haggle?: Ted is a Phrase Catcher for the thought "the price is never the price", as he always asks the storeroom customers for prices that are too high but that he isn't really interested in making them pay.
    Dana 

Dana Jaxson-Curtis

Peter and Theo's older cousin.
  • Action Mom: She has two daughters and trains Watch recruits in combat.
  • Eye Contact as Proof: She repeatedly looks at the table and not Peter while sitting on a council that's issuing several decisions which upset him and which Sanjay suggests he has her support on.
  • Killed Offscreen: Jimmy kills her in his delusions while they'r both off-page.
  • The Quiet One: She appears in several scenes but has little dialogue.
  • Refusal of the Call: She initially declines to inherit her father's seat on the Household running the First Colony. Later, Sanjay poisons her against the idea of Peter having it and persuades her to take it after all.

    Leigh 

Leigh Jaxson-Wilson

Dana's sister, Arlo's wife, and Peter and Theo's cousin. She is a nervous woman with an infant daughter.
  • Bus Crash: The second book says she died sometime after she and the other survivors of the First Colony were taken to the Homeland.
  • Faint in Shock: She faints when she hears about an attack on the way and is worried about her husband.
  • Textile Work Is Feminine: Leigh is a Neutral Female who is always knitting.
@ The Lost Fleet
  • Colonel Badass: Colonel Webb is a stern, confident veteran of close quarters special forces missions.
  • Speak Ill of the Dead: Webb tells Geary that he dislikes people doing serious and dangerous actions without proper orders because a friend of his got brought on a Suicide Mission that his friend's overconfident commander never got proper authorization for. Webb doesn't hesitate to insult the late commander's intelligence and morals, saying there was a good reason the plan didn't get official authorization.

@ Star Wars Legends

  • Commander Teron and Captain Denimoor, two Imperials from the Dark Times arc Fire Carrier, have a decent amount of fan respect for the way they set out to punish some war criminals on their side, are still loyal to their former Jedi generals from the Clone Wars, and actively help K'Kruhk and his companions.

@ Men of Sherwood

  • Power Rangers RPM: Colonel Truman's soldiers are hardened veterans of a global war who Hold the Line to evacuate citizens and themselves in the opening scene and remain impressive, albeit minor, characters afterward.

Edited by Melinda on May 7th 2022 at 8:34:09 AM

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18027: May 6th 2022 at 4:33:37 PM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/GodEaterAragami

Folder->Large Aragami

@Sariel

  • Eyes Do Not Belong There: Its face looks like a beautiful woman with closed eyes. It really hides its true eye underneath, allowing it to shoot lasers at its victims.

@Susano'o

  • Was Once a Man: They are God Eaters who have made the transition from human to Aragami after losing control of their Bias Factor.

Edited by kawaiineko333 on May 6th 2022 at 8:40:47 AM

Strafe2409 Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#18028: May 6th 2022 at 11:22:25 PM

Adding one trope for this page:

  • Great Off Screen War: The second chapter of A Post-Honkai Odyssey has the offscreen conflict called the Great Eruption. First mentioned in the release news video about the game mode, the event gets mentioned in several conversations by certain characters. However, no details are given as of right now, aside from the foreshadowings in some dialogues, along with Mei and Bronya are confirmed being the participants of that event.

As well as this one:

  • Irony: In one of Elysian Realm conversations with Vill-V, Mei learns that she is the creator of Void Archives, the first Divine Key with tons of potentials, including its will to defy its creator. Vill-V offers Mei to teach her the countermeasures, only for Mei rejects her offer, hoping that she shouldn't be fighting it again. Guess what kind of enemy Mei against with eight years later in A Post-Honkai Odyssey?

Teekah Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#18029: May 7th 2022 at 5:35:08 AM

Unfortunate Implications:

  • Lot of fans feel Cat Noir reason for unable to stop flirting Ladybug because "he can't help it because he has too much love on his heart" absolutely inappropiate for kids show because the word itself interpret by older fans that Cat Noir can't stop flirting because male can't control their "love". Worse the show constantly shown that Adrien is innocent due to his upbringing there for him being No Social Skill for lack of knowledge to socialize is fully justified. However it doesn't mean he need to said most insensitive word especially toward a girl that he crush on.

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18030: May 7th 2022 at 7:06:24 AM

[up]@Teekah Is this for Miraculous Ladybug's page or the page itself? There's an Unforunate Implications.Western Animation page to crosswick that.

No Social Skills

Also, after going over the page, it has to be a real source of contention, proper citations and not behind paywalls.

Edited by kawaiineko333 on May 7th 2022 at 10:12:01 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18031: May 7th 2022 at 8:58:32 AM

From page 721 @Kuruni

Here is the development video and here is a demonstration video of how it's supposed to work in a maid robot cafe.

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18032: May 7th 2022 at 9:54:08 AM

Baalbuddy

Edited by kawaiineko333 on May 7th 2022 at 12:54:42 PM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18033: May 7th 2022 at 9:55:18 AM

[up] @Melinda

Adalric Brandl and his son, Ladinnare Torben and other Legends characters...

^ If Ladinnare Torben is Adalric Brandl's son:

Adalric Brandl, <- comma and his son <- no comma Ladinnare Torben and other Legends characters...

^ If he isn't:

Adalric Brandl, <- comma his son <son's name>, Ladinnare Torben and other Legends characters...

^ By the way, I checked on several search engines, and the only place on the Net that has the name "Ladinnare Torben" is your post. Is it spelled correctly?

...are-nylon ever mentioned...

^ This is not correct English.

...and blackmailing him to leave the kaiju world for good...

The film glorifies the Confederacy <- no comma to an extent <- no comma and ...character depth <- no parenthesis as Wayne's character) <- parenthesis are...

...conjure a locomotive to ram Darkseid...

...to be a Trojan Prisoner, <- comma and then feeds it a bomb.

...(or control, for that matter).matter)...

The Citadel City's soldiers...lived, minus most of Julie's fellow salvagers....climax, <- comma and...

^ "minus" is not correct English in this context. Did you mean to write "with the exception of"?

...and volunteers who help them, <- comma like Mr. King and Dan Evans, <- comma don't...

The wall guards are less prominent, <- comma but no less effective.

Eye Contact as Proof

...on the way Land is worried about her husband.

^ From the context, I assume "Land" is the name of a person?

Non Action Girl

^ We don't have this as a trope.

...criminals on their side, <- comma and are still loyal...

Edited by Arivne on May 7th 2022 at 9:58:11 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18034: May 7th 2022 at 10:06:12 AM

[up] @kawaiineko333

It really hides its true eye underneath <missing text>, allowing it to shoot lasers at its victims.

^ What does it hide its true eye under (its face? its closed eyelids?)? If it hides its eyes underneath its eyelids, isn't that what most creatures with eyes and eyelids do?

^ How does doing so allow it to to shoot lasers? If it shoot laser beams from its true eye:

It hides its true eye (which can shoot laser beams at its victims) underneath <missing text>.

Edited by Arivne on May 7th 2022 at 10:07:23 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18035: May 7th 2022 at 10:14:00 AM

[up] @Strafe 2409

...the event is referenced in...Bronya being confirmed as the participants in that event.

^ I changed "mentioned" to "is referenced" because you already used "mentioned" in the sentence.

In one of the Elysian...tons of potential, including...Vill-V offers to teach Mei to teach her the...Mei to reject her...she wouldn't be ...Mei fights against with eight...

Edited by Arivne on May 7th 2022 at 10:14:27 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#18036: May 7th 2022 at 10:15:26 AM

Thank you and sorry for having so much sloppiness.

@ Men of Sherwood

  • The Victors Project: The large interchangeable mass of Anasazi and Settler rebels of District 10 don't get a Flawless Victory against the Capitol like District 3 does, but after a string of retaliatory executions, they lure the peacekeepers into a cunning trap and then take them out with low casualties, while most of the districts experience major losses of life.
  • The Eagle Has Landed: Initially subverted with the American soldiers when their commanding officer displays a sense of Hollywood Tactics. However, once the idiot gets himself killed, his second in command rallies the survivors in an effective way against the Elites Are More Glamorous Forced into Evil German paratroopers.
  • The Magnificent Seven (1960): The villagers need to hire the eponymous gunmen to have a chance against the bandits, but they're willing to help out in the climax and handle themselves well.
  • Honor Harrington: In normal battles, War Is Hell and Anyone Can Die, but the ragtag army of prisoners Honor recruits for the Great Escape do their job amazingly well and survive.
  • The Passage:
    • The Watch defends the First Colony from vampires and, while it is a Dwindling Party, the minor members are almost all skilled and developed characters who kill vampires with and without the main cast's help, help prevent Torches and Pitchforks mobs, and only keep dying because of the dissent Babcock is sowing within the community with his psychic powers.
    • The Army of Texas is the only survivor faction that is gaining ground against the virals instead of losing it, the heroes only encounter them late in the story, and they have a higher survival rate than The Watch.
  • The Scholomance: Minor characters from the larger student body are willing and able to help with the plans to keep mals from killing graduating seniors in the climaxes of the first and second books, doing a lot of work the heroes couldn't do alone and suffering few casualties in the first book and none in the second.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The rest of the seniors in Buffy's class come to graduation with armor and weapons beneath their robes and help Buffy and her friends fight Wilkins and his minions, with only a few kids being killed or turned into vampires.
  • Miami Vice: Late in the episode "Glades", the cops join forces with several local small-time drug smugglers for an Enemy Mine rescue mission against The Cartel. Only one or two of them get any notable dialogue or quirks, but all of them survive.

@ TaleSpin

  • Hero of Another Story: The pilot and "Jumping the Guns" make it clear that the cliff gunners have thwarted several of Karnage's attempts to sneak into the city or attack it by force without any help from Baloo. In the latter episode, two guards playing checkers easily see through Karnage's latest disguise (covering his airship in smoke to seem like a cloud) and casually load their cannon to drive him off while laughing about a Noodle Incident where Karnage tried to sneak past them disguised as a parade float.

Edited by Melinda on May 7th 2022 at 7:49:38 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18037: May 7th 2022 at 10:40:00 AM

[up] @Teekah

Lot of fans feel Cat Noir's reason for being unable to stop flirting with Ladybug, <- comma because "he can't help it because he has too much love in his heart", <- comma is absolutely inappropriate for a kids' show because the word itself interpretation by older fans is that Cat Noir can't stop flirting because a male can't control their "love". Worse, <- comma the show has constantly shown that Adrien is innocent due to his upbringing, <- comma therefore his having No Social Skills for lack of knowledge to socialize is fully justified. However, <- comma it doesn't mean he needs to say a most insensitive word, <- comma especially toward a girl that he has a crush on.

Edited by Arivne on May 7th 2022 at 10:42:25 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18038: May 7th 2022 at 10:50:03 AM

[up] @Melinda

The large interchange mass of Anasazi and Settler rebels...

^ "interchange" is not correct English. Did you mean "interchangeable"?

The Watch defends the First Colony from vampires and, <- comma while...

Minor characters from the larger student body are willing...climaxes of the first and second stuff...

^ "the first and second stuff" isn't proper English. If it has some meaning from the work, you need to explain it.

Edited by Arivne on May 7th 2022 at 10:54:27 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#18039: May 7th 2022 at 11:25:32 AM

I meant first and second books but my mind wandered. Sorry.

@ Men of Sherwood

  • Epic: The minor Leafmen archers are outclassed by the Big Bad, but are several degrees tougher than his Mooks even when they're badly outnumbered.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): The Nova Corps Space Police and Yondu's Space Pirates fight a lot of villains effectively in the climax, with fewer losses than the average fan would expect.
  • The Mummy (1999): The Medal guard the eponymous villain's tomb to keep him from being awakened and to fight him if he does return. Their rank-and-file members are overshadowed by their leader's skills but are quite competent, especially when they're fighting on the same side as the main cast.
  • ''Emberverse: The Corvalis militia, the Dünedain Rangers (who model themselves after the works of J. R. R. Tolkien), and the Morrowland survivors (grown up Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts) are all heroic secondary or tertiary factions who handle themselves just as well as the main ones do.
@ Psych S 06 E 01 Shawn Rescues Darth Vader @ Star Wars Legends
  • Adalric Cessius Brandl is an Inquisitor who only appears in a few short stories, but he's quite popular for his compelling Heel–Face Revolving Door arc, cool name, and Master Actor feats.
@ Limitless Run for the Border
  • In "The Legend of Marco Ramos", the villains unsuccessfully try to flee to Venezuela in a jet while flying under a commercial airliner to hide from radar.

Edited by Melinda on May 8th 2022 at 1:15:29 AM

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18040: May 7th 2022 at 12:55:14 PM

After seeing your correction this time, I had to look up a video on it and saw more spots. Adding more.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/GodEaterAragami

Folder->Large Aragami

@Sariel

  • Eyes Do Not Belong There: Its face looks like a beautiful woman with closed eyes. It hides its true eye above its head, allowing it to shoot lasers at its victims. There are eyes under the skirt that are on full display when it pulls up its barrier.

Put an image link to the monster as well for context.

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18041: May 7th 2022 at 2:53:21 PM

Wake the Dead

  • Viva Las Vegas!: Chapter 15 has the party go into the ruins of Reno, NV, showing what state in the former US the story takes place.

I may be wrong on the trope usage.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/WakeTheDead

Folder->Tower Escapees

@Brynn Archer

  • "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Chapter 20 involves Ash trying to convince her deep down she's still their sister even after being turned into a Queen Zombie. Succeeding has her join Ash for the final battle against the Queen.

Folder->The Tower

@Marcus Blackstock

  • Groin Attack: In Chapter 18 he can be kneed by Ash while he's strangling them.
  • Gun Struggle: He's killed this way in Chapter 18 while fighting for his gun with Ash.

Edited by kawaiineko333 on May 7th 2022 at 8:25:49 AM

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18042: May 8th 2022 at 6:23:15 AM

Covered with Scars

Folder->Films Live Action

  • In The Quick and the Dead, one of the gunmen introduced in the opening is named Scars. He throws a man out of the saloon, making him get on his horse and run for his life. Scars walks out and shoots him dead from 30-40' out. He marks him as victim number 15 by cutting his arm. He's got scars on his face, though whether they're self-inflicted or not is never answered.

Nevermore2002 Since: Jan, 2015
#18043: May 8th 2022 at 7:13:51 AM

Hi. Request for help please:

  • Windows users have criticize Microsoft underhanded tactics to force their userbase to use Edge, comparing them to malware: forcibly opening Edge on start-up, importing your bookmarks from other browsers, changing the default browser to Edge without the user's consent, changing the default program for opening HTML and even PDF to Edge, forcing Bing as the default search engine. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Many thanks.

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18044: May 8th 2022 at 7:18:41 AM

[up]@Nevermore This isn't the forum to go for this discussion.

Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#18045: May 8th 2022 at 7:41:37 AM

@ Melinda

Men of Sherwood

  • Epic: The minor Leafmen archers are outclassed by the Big Bad, but are several degrees tougher than his Mooks even when they're badly outnumbered.

Psych S 06 E 01 Shawn Rescues Darth Vader

^ Zero-Context Example. You need to make it clear that these "problems with young women" are not elaborated on, since this trope's definition states that an incident from a character's past is mentioned, but no further details are given.

Limitless

  • Run for the Border: (colon) In "The Legend of Marco Ramos", the villains unsuccessfully try to flee to Venezuela in a jet (remove comma) while flying under a commercial airliner to hide from radar.

@ kawaiineko333

Wake the Dead

Folder->Tower Escapees

Brynn Archer

  • "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Chapter 20 involves Ash trying to convince her deep down she's still their sister even after being turned into a Queen Zombie. If Ash succeeds, Brynn will join them for the final battle against the Queen.

Folder->The Tower

Marcus Blackstock

  • Gun Struggle: While fighting Ash for his gun in Chapter 18, he is fatally shot in the struggle.
^ Saying "he's killed this way" is a Zero-Context Example because it tells the reader nothing about how he was killed.

Edited by Clare on May 8th 2022 at 4:48:01 PM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18046: May 8th 2022 at 8:25:24 AM

[up] @Melinda

...effectively fight a lot of villains effectively in the climax, <- comma with...

^ "Effectively" has several meanings. The way you used it, you were saying that they actually fight a lot of villains even though they didn't mean to. You meant to write that they fought them in a way that achieved a desired result. The word has to be in a different place in the sentence to have the correct meaning.

Edited by Arivne on May 8th 2022 at 8:46:22 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18047: May 8th 2022 at 8:32:28 AM

[up] @kawaiineko333

Chapter 15 has the party go into the ruins of Reno, NV, showing which state in the former US...

Chapter 20 involves Ash trying to convince her that deep down she's still their sister...

In Chapter 18, <- comma while Marcus is strangling Ash, Ash can knee him in the groin.

^ The way this was written, it wasn't clear who was doing the strangling.

He throws a man out of the saloon, causing the man to get on his horse and try to ride away for his life....He marks the man as...arm. Scars has scars...

^ You can't run if you're riding a horse.

Edited by Arivne on May 8th 2022 at 8:40:21 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#18048: May 8th 2022 at 8:43:41 AM

[up] @Nevermore 2002

Windows users have criticized Microsoft's underhanded tactics of forcing their userbase...Edge, and forcing the use of Bing...

Minorica Rhythm Heroine from Earth Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
Rhythm Heroine
#18049: May 8th 2022 at 8:46:31 AM

For Damsel in Distress Visual Novel:

  • Missing Parts The Tantei Story: In every scenario climax except Case 6 "The Pendant of Rememberance", Kyosuke and his friends find out that the platonic/non-romantic Girl of the Week is taken hostage by the culprit, urging the players to choose correct options in the negotiation sequence. Otherwise, she'll die, leading to the Game Over screen.

For the work page Missing Parts The Tantei Stories (wikiword edit: Missing Parts: The Tantei Stories)

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8e09c952_91da_4a23_8481_ddadc0def719.jpeg
The stories of Kyosuke, his friends, damsels and MacGuffins | The Play Station 2 version |The Play Station Portable version 

Missing Parts: The Tantei Stories or ミッシングパーツ ("Missing Parts: The Detective Stories" in English) is the Visual Novel-styled detective mystery Adventure Game developed by O-Two and System Prisma and published by F.O.G. (for Sega Dreamcast and Play Station 2 versions) and Nippon Ichi (for Play Station Portable).

The story takes place in Touba city (a fictional city in Japan).

The Narumi Detective Agency (no, not that Narumi Detective Agency) was a large-scale private detective service that had several competent detectives under its director, Seiji Narumi, who was called a great detective. However, such fame is now long gone. Since the mysterious disappearance of its director, the fame of the agency has been lost, and the number of employees has been decreasing one by one.

Kyosuke Magami, a young man, comes to the office to search for a pendant (a memento of his parents) decides to become a member of the office himself in order to help Kyoka Narumi, the director-in-charge, after seeing the devastation of the detective agency. And so begins the adventures of the rookie Private Detective Kyosuke. A few moments later, Kyosuke encounters Narumi Tsukishima, a mysterious sexy female shopkeeper in Secundum (the name of her antique shop) and works for her along with Teppei Shiraishi. Kyosuke encounters several murder cases, and in the final case, it's revealed that there's The Conspiracy, who is led by the Big Bad whom Kyosuke failed to catch him in the middle of the story.

Missing Parts is known for having non-romantic/platonic Girl of the Week and MacGuffins in each scenario. The players can explore places, interrogate witnesses and choosing correct options according to their logics, as all of them affect the endings, routes and ranks of cases. It's also infamous for its melancholic, depressing tone in most main cases (especially the (in)famous, not-so-happy golden endings in Case 3 and 5), having extremely long gameplay and a difficulty that requires a guide to get Rank A in each episode/case. However, this game is still well-received by detective game fans due to it's well-made scenarios, characters' backstories and converging lines from seemingly-separate murder cases Kyosuke has solved.

The scenarios are written by Yuuki Nishinomiya (the writer of The Passion of Nagomu Ichiyanagi series) and all artworks, characters and CGs are drawn by Daisaku Kishiue (the main artist and character designer of Kuon no Kizuna).

Installments:

  • Missing Parts: The Tantei Stories Part 1 (Episode 1-2) on January 17, 2002; Part 2 (Episode 3-4) on October 24, 2002; and Part 3 (Episode 5-6) on July 31, 2003 for Sega Dreamcast.
  • Missing Parts: The Tantei Stories Side A (Episode 1-3) on November 27, 2003 and Side B (Episode 4-6) on February 19, 2004 for Play Station 2. The "Nice Price" version (a.k.a. the cheaper version) was released on June 14, 2007.
  • Missing Parts: The Tantei Stories Complete was released on November 29, 2012 for Play Station Portable.

Has a character page under construction.

Compare and contrast Cross Tantei Monogatari, an obscure detective game with more exaggerated, comedic elements, and Mikagura Shoujo Tanteidan, another detective game which takes place in the Taisho era (World War I).

Due to its nature, all spoilers will be unmarked. For those who haven't played the game, please refrain from reading the trope example lists below, You Have Been Warned!

The game provides trope examples for:

Edited by Minorica on Aug 27th 2022 at 10:36:46 PM

"No matter how bad the heroes can get or how bad the situation is, we're sure we can overcome it and get our happy endings..."
kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#18050: May 8th 2022 at 10:12:23 AM

Wake the Dead

  • The Siege: The story involves preparing in advance for the summer solstice surge when thousands of zombies come out in the open to feed. You have to make a balancing act of fortifications, food, trained fighters, research and morale. Chapter 14 involves a smaller surge 7 days before the solstice. Chapter 19 is when the solstice surge begins and all your preparation gets to pay off.


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