History VideoGame / EdnaAndHarveyTheBreakout

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* ChekhovsBoomerang: During the course of the game, you learn how to copy a key. An ability that comes in handy more than once.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:

* WidgetSeries: This is a Weird German Thing, after all.
* YouWakeUpInARoom

*** In the same context, if Edna uses her phone with the wall, she simulates a phone call with a demolition company, telling them she has a wall that needs to be teared down. They answer: ''"Sorry, we don't do walls anymore - not after that debacle back then in Berlin."''

* PantyShot: When she's crawling through the vent, climbing a ladder, or simply walking away from the screen it's pretty hard to miss Edna's panties. Not much of FanService though.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Edna's hair is purple, and the Keymaster's hair is green.

* PixelHunt: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Like in VideoGame/SimonTheSorcerer 1 and 2, you can highlight all the hotspots in a room by pressing the space bar. This didn’t stop certain game reviewers from complaining about pixel-hunting because they didn’t ReadTheFreakingManual. They spin-off avoids this by mentioning the feature in the tutorial.

* SelfServingMemory: Not Edna herself, but when tempomorphing into her memories, Harvey can get wrong impression of events Edna did not directly observe, for example he saw [[spoiler:Mattis killing children and serving Devil]].
* ShoutOut: Edna's ragdoll rabbit is called Film/{{Harvey}}.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Despite Edna and Alfred having been fighting basically all the time when they were kids, Edna remembers him fondly, speaking about him in a friendly voice even when she calls him an idiot or "frog-face". And with all the pranks she played on him, outletting her destructive tendencies by playing some borderline cruel games, Alfred never seems to have even considered to look for another friend.

* VocalDissonance: In the English version Edna has a soft, gentle voice that clashes slightly with her appearance and personality.

* DummiedOut: See [[http://tcrf.net/Edna_%26_Harvey:_The_Breakout here]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue

* ArtStyleDissonance

* {{Stripperiffic}}: During the entire game, excepting flashbacks, Edna wears only a hospital gown and a very tight-fitting pair of panties. It's considerably less [[FanService fanservice-y]] than it sounds, considering the cartoon-y art style and the fact that Edna has been hold captive in a house for ten years, underfed and with little to no access to natural light and fresh air.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: During the entire game, excepting flashbacks, Edna wears only a hospital gown and a very tight-fitting pair of panties. It's considerably less [[FanService fanservice-y]] than it sounds, considering the sketch-like art style and the fact that Edna has been hold captive in a house for ten years, underfed and with little to no access to natural light and fresh air.

Had a [[GaidenGame spin-off]] titled ''VideoGame/EdnaAndHarveyHarveysNewEyes'' in 2011. It was released in English in 2012.

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: One of the possible endings.]]
** [[spoiler:Or both of them, depending on how you interpret Harvey's character.]]

* [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody: Edna, in the Harvey ending.]]
** Justified [[spoiler: in that the [[EdnaAndHarveyHarveysNewEyes sequel]] showed Edna being alive and well after she chose this ending and escaped the asylum.]]

* [[spoiler:TwistEnding]]

** A bird bath gives rise to a shout out to [[RomeoAndJuliet Romeo And Juliet]].

** Edna quotes from ''LordOfTheRings''.

* PsychoPsychologist: Doctor Marcel. Even before his son died he used [[MindRape ''therapy'']] to cure children of their childishness. And after that? Well, besides erasing Edna's memory multiple times, he also killed an inmate that nearly escaped by breaking his legs and leaving him to starve in a padded room.

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Indirectly and unintentionally. Edna committed the murder for which her father took the blame and was subsequently sentenced to death. What happened to Edna’s mother is anyone’s guess.]]

* ShoutOut: Edna’s ragdoll rabbit is called Film/{{Harvey}}.

** At least three ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' references respectively.

** Edna can write onto the clinicum's wall: ''"Die Mauer muss weg!"'', which is German for ''"The Wall has to go!"'' and was 1989 a pretty common chant in the Peaceful Revolution that lead to the Fall of the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: During the entire game, excepting flashbacks, Edna wears only a hospital gown and a very tight-fitting pair of panties. It's considerably less [[FanService fanservice-y]] than it sounds, taking the sketch-like art style into account and the fact that Edna has been hold captive in a house for ten years, underfed and with little to no access to natural light and fresh air.

** She can also comment a cross on the church's altar with ''[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "One cross each!"]]''

--> ''“I have the […] feeling that time has slowed down while we were talking.”''

** Depending on how you interpret their relationship, might double as PuppyLove - after all, they have quite some ShipTease as [[spoiler: Alfred clearly is mad about the fact that Edna mentions him in her diary only in a derogatory manner while having a much better-working friendship with Harvey.]] Even Edna's father Mattis sees this, as he points out to Dr. Marcel that the two kids would make for a pretty couple and could have a future together.

* TheGreatRepair: One of the many things you have to do in order to escape the asylum is repair a vehicle. [[spoiler:And then you don’t even use it.]]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Looking at a globe, Edna asks Harvey what country they live in, which is a very good question considering that it is [[YouFailLawForever a German-speaking country in which the death penalty is legal]].