History VideoGame / GrimTales

** Played straight with[[spoiler:Anna and Luisa's elder half-sisters, their father's daughters from his first marriage]].

* NoNameGiven: Anna never learns the names of [[spoiler:her elder twin half-sisters, who died years before she was born. She only ever knows of them as "the twins"]].

* UnseenNoMore: Richard's first wife, Agatha, the mother of Anna's older half-sisters, is finally shown.

* ''The Bride''
* ''The Legacy''
* ''The Wishes''
* ''The Stone Queen''
* ''Bloody Mary''
* ''The Vengeance''
* ''Color of Fright''
* ''The Final Suspect''
* ''Threads of Destiny''
* ''The Heir''
* ''Crimson Hollow''
* ''Graywitch''
* ''The White Lady''
* ''The Time Traveler''
* ''The Hunger''
* ''The Nomad''
* ''Guest from the Future''
* ''The Generous Gift''
* ''Heritage''
* ''Trace in Time''
* ''Echo of the Past''
* ''Horizon of Wishes''
* ''Dual Disposition''
* ''All Shades of Black''
* ''Light in the Darkness'' (currently in beta)

* NoNameGiven: Until the eighth game, Anna's name wasn't officially given, and she was simply known as Miss Gray or Aunt Gray.

* UnseenNoMore: Richard's first wife, Agatha, the mother of Anna's older half-sisters, is finally shown

* DamselInDistress: Anna and Dorian both get kidnapped by the villain of the bonus chapter.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Yes Dorian killed all the girls that disappeared into his mansion but that was because they all tried to kill him and he was forced to kill them in self-defense, not out of some malicious intent.

* DamselInDistress: Stacy accidentally got sent back in time and was captured by the guards and thrown in jail because they thought she was a witch. Anna has to follow her back into the past to rescue her.
* EnemyMine: The demon that Victor summons to help him in the bonus chapter explains that even the other demons don't want the Unspeakable One to be revived, which is why it agreed to help him.

* FamilyOfChoice: Jared had somehow found out about his birth family and even had a close relationship with his twin sister Jackie; despite this, he considered the Outcasts to be his true family.

* MyGreatestFailure: Dr. Oliver in the past failed to take away an individual's powers away before they were taken away by the military to be used as a tool against their will.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Dr. Oliver wanted to take empowered individuals' powers away, as he feared they would end up being a danger not only to people around them, but also to themselves. He never intended for them to get hurt; he just wants to take their powers away and have their memories erased about the experience.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: During the main chapter, Jackie gets killed by the serial killer, leaving Alexander in distress. Fortunately, Anna is able to prevent it from happening.

* HumbleHero: Anastasia decided to let Alexandra get all the glory of their adventures together; she arranged to delete any references to her in the records of Alexandra's exploits, instead choosing to focus on her family.

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[[folder: Games in the series]]

[[folder: Tropes for the entire series]]

** Played straight with[[spoiler: Anna and Luisa's elder half-sisters, their father's daughters from his first marriage.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** Anna's twin sister's names have ranged from Luisa to Louisa to Louise.
** Natalia is the wife of Luisa's husband John's brother Alexander, and her name has been spelled as Natalya and Natalie.

* TangledFamilyTree: The Grays are impossible to accurately chart. For one thing, Anna's sister Luisa married John Gray - yes, that was his name before they got married, and no, he's not related to his wife except by marriage. Roughly half of the Grays whom Anna assists in the games are actually related to ''him,'' and not to her. Additionally, John's extended family includes the [=McGray=], Maxwell, and Nash branches, although beyond the term 'cousin' (which is largely ambiguous) it's not clarified exactly how they're related.

[[folder:The Bride]]

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed that Luisa is still alive, but she's being held captive by the "demon," who is really Anna and Luisa's father.]]

* DisappearedDad: Anna's and Luisa's father disappeared soon after their mother's death. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that their father is the antagonist of the main game.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Anna's father falls to his death when the ground he was standing on collapses.]]

* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Anna and Luisa's father intends to sacrifice them to gain power. He had already sacrificed their half-sisters years before they were born, for the same purpose.]]

* NoNameGiven: Anna never learns the names of [[spoiler: her elder twin half-sisters, who died years before she was born. She only ever knows of them as "the twins."]]
* OffingTheOffspring: The "demon" is later revealed to be [[spoiler: Anna's and Luisa's father, who was planning to sacrifice them to gain more power when they came of age. Their older half-sisters were sacrificed for the same thing.]]

* RedHerring: While traversing Luisa's memories, Anna begins to think that John was an abusive jerk to Luisa and suspects that he might be involved in Luisa's death. [[spoiler: It is later revealed to be the "demon" trying to manipulate her to think so.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Anna's and Luisa's father sacrificed their half-sisters for power years earlier and tried to do the same to them. The demons in the bonus chapter were also willing to suck out the soul of the Taylors' son so his body could be used as a vessel for them.]]

[[folder:The Legacy]]

* [[spoiler: HereditaryCurse: John inherited a curse from his grandfather to become a mindless wolf. Years earlier, his grandfather had been bitten by a wolf that was infected.]]
* LateToTheTragedy: When Anna arrives at John's and Luisa's castle, it is devoid of human life with wolves stalking its hallways [[spoiler: which are later revealed to be a transformed John and Luisa.]]
* [[spoiler: LockedUpAndLeftBehind: When it was realized that no one could help Caine and he was losing his humanity, he was locked in a dungeon and left to die.]]
* [[spoiler: OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lord Caine got bitten by an infected wolf that caused him and his descendants to transform into wolves, with John also infecting Luisa and Brandon.]]
* SavageWolves: Wolves stalk Anna throughout her time in the castle. [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed that these are actually John and Luisa, who have transformed into wolves thanks to a curse.]]

[[folder:The Wishes]]

[[folder:The Stone Queen]]

[[folder:Bloody Mary]]

* DemonicPossession: The children are possessed by demons, and Anna needs to expel the demons in order to save the children. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that Jackie had been possessed by Bloody Mary's spirit the whole time also.]]

[[folder:The Vengeance]]

[[folder:Color of Fright]]

* UnPerson: The rest of the series basically does this to Thomas - not only does he never appear in the games again, but he's never even mentioned.

[[folder: The Final Suspect]]

[[folder: Threads of Destiny]]

[[folder: The Heir]]

* CharacterTitle: The 'heir' in question is actually [[spoiler:Anna herself, in the sense that she's the heir to her father's powers.]]

* OffingTheOffspring: It turns out that the BigBad of this game is [[spoiler:Anna's grandfather, Samuel Gray, who wants to use Billy (his great-great-grandson) in a ritual to regain his power.]]

[[folder:Crimson Hollow]]

* DisappearedDad: Stacy's father disappeared when she was incredibly young and she had no memories of him, with her commenting the only thing she got from him is his last name. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that he was kidnapped by Rosette and brainwashed into her puppet.]]

* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Rosette was planning to sacrifice Stacy to resurrect her ancestor; when that doesn't work out, she uses herself as a sacrifice instead.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: The main antagonist of the bonus chapter is revealed to be [[spoiler: Stacy's missing father, Alex Gray, who was twisted by Rosette's experiments.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook[=/=]ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Dorian is revealed to be at least 100 years old but looks like he's in his twenties.

* SoulJar: Dorian uses a painting to hold his soul to gain immortality. Unfortunately, that means if anything happens to it, it will affect Dorian - as we see when Rosette Darkwood sets the painting on fire. He likely would have died if Anna didn't restore the painting in time.

* WithThisRing: The bonus chapter, set an indeterminate amount of time after the main game, ends with Anna and Dorian getting married.

[[folder:Graywitch]]

[[folder: The White Lady]]

[[folder:The Time Traveler]]
* BabiesEverAfter

[[folder: The Hunger]]

[[folder:The Nomad]]
* AnimalMotif: Overlapping with SigilSpam, the emblem of the Outcasts appears everywhere and resembles an origami elephant head. Anna finds a note which says they chose the elephant because they are powerful animals and often associated with royalty.

* SeriesContinuityError: Richard, at one point, refers to Jared as his grandson. Jared is not related to Richard or Anna at all, except distantly by marriage - he is the son of Anna's sister's husband's brother.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Who took Jared away when he was born, separating him from his birth family? [[TheUnreveal It's never explained in the end.]]
** Also, what happens to Jared's adoptive father after [[spoiler:Jared reunites with the Grays? Do they adopt him into the fold?]]

[[folder:Guest From the Future]]

[[folder: The Generous Gift]]

[[folder:Heritage]]

[[folder:Trace in Time]]
* AnimalMotif: It's revealed in this game that the emblem of the Gray family is a fox.

[[folder: Echo of the Past]]

* WithThisRing: The bonus chapter ends with Lars proposing to Alexandra.

[[folder:Horizon of Wishes]]

** NonHumanSidekick[=/=]SpiritAdvisor: Anastasia's cameo takes the spot on the inventory bar where Richard's skull has sat in several past games, and she takes on this role throughout the adventure.

[[folder: Dual Disposition]]

* ContinuityCameo: Anna's FriendOnTheForce, Chris Lewis, has this; he's only in the game for the first ten minutes or so, and is a returning character from the previous installment ''The Hunger''.

* TheMagicGoesAway: Lady A's antics are causing a huge disruption in the flow of magic between all worlds, and the loss of the magic will - among other things - remove Anna's ability to communicate with her mother's ghost.

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Anna (or rather, the player) has no choice but to agree to help Lady A with her goal to use an enchanted goblet to stop her enemies from chasing her. [[spoiler:The enemy in question is the Keeper - she wants to amass unlimited power, and the goblet will help with that. After she has it in her possession, Lady A mocks Anna for not realizing that she was using her the whole time to get the goblet.]]

[[folder:All Shades of Black]]

* ''All Shades of Black'' (currently in beta)

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Anna (or rather, the player) has no choice but to agree to help Lady A with her goal to use an enchanted goblet to stop her enemies from chasing her. [[spoiler:The enemy in question is the Keeper - she wants to amass unlimited power, and the goblet will help with that. After she has it in her possession, she mocks Anna for not realizing that she was using her the whole time to get the goblet.]]

* TangledFamilyTree: The Grays are impossible to accurately chart. For one thing, Anna's sister Luisa married John Gray - yes, that was his name before they got married, and no, he's not related to his wife except by marriage. Roughly half of the Grays whom Anna assists in the games are actually related to ''him,'' and not to her. John's extended family also includes the [=McGray=], Maxwell, and Nash branches, although beyond the term 'cousin' (which is largely ambiguous) it's not clarified exactly how they're related.

* EvilTwin: The BigBad of this installment is Lady A, who looks suspiciously like Anna. (Her appearance, particularly the fact that she has red eyes, suggests that this may be Dark Anna, one of the recurring antagonists from the ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'' series. Nothing in the narrative either confirms or denies this, however.)

* SharedUniverse: These games exist in the same universe as several other Elephant Games properties, including ''VideoGame/MysteryTrackers, VideoGame/HauntedHotel,'' and ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited''. They also are revealed to exist in the same universe as the ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles'', owing to the fact that Richard Gray once studied at a black magic school run by Alister Dalimar. (Elephant Games was the developer for two of the MCF games.)

* FourElementEnsemble: The petals of the Flower of Life become creatures of the four elements when separated from their stem.

* TriangRelations: Type Four. Brandon and Daniel were both in love with Elena, but Elena only had eyes for Brandon. It's not clear whether she was even aware of Daniel's feelings for her.

* SeparatedAtBirth: As shown in the bonus chapter of ''The Hunger'', Jared and Jackie were split apart from each other after being born, with Jackie raised by their biological parents and Jared given up for adoption. Jackie explains that because of this, they both always felt something was missing from their lives, until they finally met a few years before the events of the game.

* SupernaturalTeam: Thunder assembled the other three because they all had special powers that would make his crime ambitions easy to achieve.

* AnimalMotif: Overlapping with SigilSpam, the emblem of the Outcasts appears everywhere and resembles an origami elephant head.

* FamilyOfChoice: While Jared knew about his biological family and had even met his twin sister Jackie, he considers the Outcasts to be his real family.

* MissingDad: Anna's and Luisa's father disappeared soon after their mother's death. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that their father is the antagonist of the main game.]]

* FriendOnTheForce: Officer Chris Lewis first met Anna during the events of ''The Hunger'', when she helped him resolving the case. They have been friends ever since.

* EvilTwin: The BigBad of this installment is Lady A, who looks suspiciously like Anna. (Her appearance, and particularly the fact that she has red eyes, suggests that this may be Dark Anna, one of the recurring antagonists from the ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'' series.)