History VideoGame / DeusExHumanRevolution

* GiantMook: The Special Forces Ogres encountered as key points of the game are, quite simply, massive brutes. They are a head taller than [[TallDarkAndSnarky Jensen]], significantly wider, clad in armor plating, have their own Typhoon implants and invariably carry heavy machine guns that can put most [=SAWs=] to shame. And even if you manage to slip a tranquilizer between their armor, they take for-flipping-ever to go down.

* HeavilyArmoredMook: Belltower Heavies and Ogres.

* IronicEcho: "[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Women always underestimate men.]]"

* CutsceneIncompetence: Adam letting a lumbering brute like Barrett sneak up behind him, or letting [[spoiler:Zhao Yun Ru]] push him out while she locks herself in a saferoom, for starters.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps they used the silent walk and persuasion augs?]]
** You cannot attempt to use the persuasion augment during cutscene conversations and its presence isn't even acknowledged. Normally you can at least attempt to use it, even against NPCs that are immune to its effects.

** Jensen also punches [[spoiler:Namir]] so hard he sends [[spoiler:him]] crashing through a pane of reinforced glass, but you can't do this to people normally.

* PrisonRape: [[spoiler: In "The Missing Link" DLC, you can read a reprimand issued by Belltower to its guards regarding them raping female Unprivileged Detainees in their cells. Belltower is concerned this will damage useful women before they can be processed for scientific experimentation.]]

* SwordDrag: Done by Adam in one of his lethal takedown animations.

* SlobsVersusSnobs: The DRB live in a very run-down area, rely on sheer numbers, and get their weapons from various shady sources. The MRC live in a costly apartment, have gold-plated augmentations, give themselves fancy nicknames, and get their weapons from guys who own computers and fancy storage lockers with sophisticated security systems.

* JustPlaneWrong: How exactly a bulky VTOL two-seater can cross the Pacific Ocean (and then some) is never explained.

* HeroicSacrifice: You can let [[spoiler:Malik]] do this after [[spoiler:her VTOL is shot down in Hengsha]], to allow you to escape undetected. Or you can be a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero]] and [[spoiler:kill/incapacitate everyone attacking her, including an air-dropped box guard robot, allowing her to repair the engines and take off unharmed, picking up the scientists you rescue later on in Singapore.]]
* HeyYouHaymaker: Adam will sometimes execute one of these as a non-leathal melee takedown, assuming that he engages from behind an unaware target.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: A [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14652/deus-ex-hr-boss-battles-were-outsourced bizarre example]]: The boss battles were outsourced to Grip Entertainment, and the developer's boss, Paul Kruszewski, admitted he didn't know a lot about the ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' world. This resulted in much of the BrokenBase over the boss battles in which everything you developed your character for were seemingly thrown out the window, even gamers on a PacifistRun. The DLC ''The Missing Link'', being developed by Eidos Montreal, will actually allow players to non-lethally deal with ''its'' boss.

** You can also use crates to block cameras' line of sight.

** It is nearly impossible to unlock the CASIE social augmentation by the end of the first mission when you confront Zeke Sanders. You literally have to take down every single Purity First member and get both the Ghost and Smooth Operator bonuses, as well as hack every terminal. But ''if'' you go so far as to eke out every drop of XP and get the CASIE mod unlocked, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1oEiU2Q8Dw Sanders has the usual persuasion responses that every other social "boss" encounter involves.]] Although he doesn't have the Alpha/Beta/Omega and pheromone option.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: A [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14652/deus-ex-hr-boss-battles-were-outsourced bizarre example]]: The boss battles were outsourced to Grip Entertainment, and the developer's boss, Paul Kruszewski admitted he didn't know a lot about the ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' world. This resulted in much of the BrokenBase over the boss battles in which everything you developed your character for were seemingly thrown out the window, even gamers on a PacifistRun. The DLC ''The Missing Link'', being developed by Eidos Montreal, will actually allow players to non-lethally deal with ''its'' boss.

** The Xbox 360 version of the game was leaked a week before release. The developers were probably a bit less happy about that.
* DirtyCop: Detective Chet Wagner was never a model policeman to begin with, hacking his office email suggests that he takes bribes, and his unreliability [[spoiler: proves useful to the conspirators, as he is assigned to the Sarif Industries Attack Investigation and predictably botches it horribly.]]

* EnemyScan: As featured in one of the CGI trailers, an augmentation allows Adam to scan nearby enemies for weaponry and vulnerabilities.
** Sadly, it didn't make it into the game proper.
** Th Smart Vision aug, fully upgraded, doesn't include the weapon scan part but DOES allow you to see (and mark, with the Mark&Track aug) track enemies through walls.

* {{Expy}}: Adam Jensen has a lot in common with original protagonist JC Denton (i.e. BadassLongcoat, DeadpanSnarker GutturalGrowler voice, CoolShades, technological augmentation, etc.) It's even been pointed out by certain fans that "Adam Jensen" sounds like a phonetic inversion of "JC Denton."

** Not only Adam, several character in the game have similar roles to those in the first game, such as:

**** Given what they do, LIMB could also double as an IncrediblyLamePun

* GlassCannon: Deus Ex difficulty effectively turns Adam into one. While he's lethally proficient with any weapon and can effortlessly wipe out most enemies with takedowns and the Typhoon aug, he is unable to survive anything more than a few seconds of gunfire.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The game not only allows, but ''expects'' you to create some truly insane jumping puzzles if you don't have the right augmentations to bypass an obstacle. Why invest points in Hacking when I can go past a gate, or a laser grid, by creating a stairway out of ''cardboard boxes''?
** You can use crates to block cameras' line of sight.

* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies=/=KillEmAll: In one of the possible endings.]]

** Video of the post-credits stinger [[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf21Dl1vNvg available here]].

** D:[[spoiler:Destroy TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, along with [[KillEmAll himself and all three major conspirators]], leaving the public to decide the fate of augmentation technology for itself.]]
*** [[spoiler: This ending is notably the most optimistic, as, although Adam chooses to die and kill everyone in Panchaea, he notes that humanity has made the right choices in the past in regards to advancement, and has the opportunity to do so again, without the machinations of the people in Panchaea messing things up.]]

** Heng Sha is actually a clever variation on the classic vertically segregated city - rather than the poor living on the bottom and the rich living on the top, ''everyone'' lives in Lower Heng Sha, while Upper Heng Sha is home to businesses and institutions.

** In a similar vein crazy prophet in your second visit in Detroit prophesizes that a "gray and deadly" plague will come on the backs of 12 kings... cue MJ12.

* GiantMook: The Special Forces Ogres encountered as key points of the game are, quite simply, massive brutes. They are a head taller than [[TallDarkAndSnarky Jensen]], significantly wider, clad in armor plating, have their own Typhoon implants and invariably carry heavy machine guns that can put most SAWs to shame. And even if you manage to slip a tranquilizer between their armor, they take for-flipping-ever to go down.

** They do, however, notice when you leave a dirty great hole in a wall, and mutter something about a tank coming through here.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: In the Detroit Hub and Heng Sha.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Arguably, if the Taggart and the Destroy Panchaea endings have any foundation with canon, these are it. Jensen hopes that the Illumanti will be able to lead humanity into a brighter future with the first ending, and in the second, he hopes that the destruction of Panchea and keeping the truth of what happened there will allow humanity to make it's own decisions on matters in the world, and lead to a better future. [[VideoGame/DeusEx Fast forward 25 years later...]] Also, by itself, the Destroy Panchea ending has this too, as everyone on board the Panchaea dies. ]]

* CityNoir: Detroit is quite noir but it has nothing on Heng Sha - a true urban planist's nightmare that would make an oil rig look like Taj Mahal in comparison.

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: In the cutscene just before the final boss battle, Adam somehow manages to outrun ''Turret Fire''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKgPn-L2vdI&feature=player_detailpage#t=134s See for yourself.]]

* {{Cyberpunk}}: The ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' series as a whole crosses between this and PostCyberpunk, depending on the time period. ''Human Revolution'' leans towards "traditional" cyberpunk, with its noir-style story of corporate conspiracies and [[spoiler: endings that don't change anything in the long run]]. Except they actually do. See [[FridgeLogic]], because [[spoiler: depending on which ending you choose, you actually create the situations which necessitate the creation of the Gray Plague from the first game, and the use of nanotechnology.]]. But really [[spoiler: if you really think about it, any one of the endings could plausibly lead the way to the events of the first game.]].

-->'''Jenson''': Yeah, by a clown and a midget for a while. But they eventually met the bearded woman they were looking for near a coffee shop and we went our seperate ways.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Malik]] can easily [[spoiler: die]] but you can prevent it if you work your ass off saving her.
** Extra happiness points if you still do it on a PacifistRun.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: If you don't skip the credits, the post credits scene reveals that Megan Reed is now working with the Majestic 12]].

* ForegoneConclusion: Since it's a prequel, you had to expect ''Human Revolution'' to end with a [[DownerEnding downer]], or at least in a [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet way]] for its characters. [[spoiler: Despite Jensen's efforts and sacrifices, none of his [[MultipleEndings ending choices]] will change the fact that ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' will happen.]] Logically, however, every ending should have drastic effects on the Illuminati's plans: [[spoiler: Taggart's ending should prevent the Illuminati from biochipping a large segment of the population, weakening their control. Darrow's ending should do not only do this, but free the population from Neuropozyne dependence. Sarif's ending should trigger TheSingularity - neutralizing both biochips and Neuropozyne, and creating superhumans who would drive the Illuminati into extinction. Even the KillEmAll ending leaves Pritchard's evidence intact, which would fuel resistance movements such as Silhouette.]] Regardless of which ending is chosen, the events of this game lead to the exact situation which allows the Majestic 12 conspiracy to be executed and dispose of the Illuminati. In addition, [[spoiler:lacking the biochip and neuropozyne]] control methods they had based their entire Xanatos Gambit on, it necessitates the creation of another method of control - [[spoiler: the Gray Death.]]

* GiantMook: The Special Forces Ogres encountered as key points of the game are, quite simply, massive brutes. They are a head taller than [[TallDarkAndSnarky Jensen]], significantly wider, clad in armor plating, and invariably carry heavy machine guns that can put most SAWs to shame. And even if you manage to slip a tranquilizer between their armor, they take for-flipping-ever to go down.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: You can find hints of this literally within five steps of the game turning control of Adam over to you. As the game progresses, the decisions you have to make only get harder - by the end of it you are presented with three options that will profoundly influence the future of humanity (although it is revealed in [[spoiler: the post-credit sequence that all of the endings will inevitably lead to the first game.]]), all of them offered by people who have done highly questionable, if not outright evil things over the course of the story, and the hell of it is they all have a pretty good case for why you should side with them. [[spoiler: And then there's the most canonical fourth option, which takes the decision out of everyone's hands.]]

* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: In one of the possible endings, which is most likely the [[DownerEnding canon ending]].]]
* [[spoiler: HellishCopter: On the return trip to Heng Sha, Malik's bird is shot down by an EMP missile. Jensen jumps clear of the wreck while Mailk scrambles to repair the aircraft so she can escape the area. Moments later, mercs attack the wreck and Jensen has to kill or pacify a large number of mooks in a very short time to save her. Notably, failure to do so does not result in a NonstandardGameOver, but rather Malik being KilledOffForReal]]

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler: Eliza to Adam should he use the "Kill everyone on the base" ending.]]

* StoryDrivenInvulnerability: Generally avoided by adding areas that you are not allowed to use your weapons in. However, later in the game important NPCs appear outside of these areas. If you shoot them, they don't even flinch.

*** Interestingly, despite the general unkempt state of his apartment, Adam apparently has an interesting in clock-making.

** This even happens when you are trying to hack a keypad to a random weapons stash in Hengsha. How do the cops know you're not the owner, trying to enter the right combination?