History VideoGame / MediEvil

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Lightning. It's powerful, sure, but it has a limited amount, and by that time you already have the Magick Sword and a variety of arguably better ranged weapons. Same goes for the PSP remake, even if the lightning can be replenished.

* BittersweetEnding: More sweet than bitter. [[spoiler: Dan defeats Zarok, [[TakingYouWithMe who then spitefully collapses his lair in an attempt to kill Dan once and for all]], getting crushed by falling debris in the process. His death releases all the souls he'd previously captured, but his magic was also the only thing keeping Dan alive, and he returns to his crypt and goes back to his eternal rest. The people of Gallowmere will likely never know what Dan did, but he's finally the hero everyone thought he was. And if you collect all the Chalices, he's welcomed into the Hall of Heroes and gets his own statue.]]

* MyGreatestSecondChance: ''[=MediEvil=]'' could very well be called ''My Greatest Second Chance: The Game''; a soldier who died an ignoble death is given a hero's burial, with stories being written of how he slew Zarok before succumbing to a mortal wound. Then when Gallowmere is threatened by Zarok again, he's inadvertently brought back from the dead as a side-effect of the sorcerer's magic and given a chance to finally kill Zarok and become the hero he failed to be in life.

* BigBoosHaunt: The first few stages are set in a CreepyCemetery named after our hero.

* BareYourMidriff: Imanzi Shongoma, the amazon warrior in the Hall of Heroes, sports such a look.

* BottomlessPits: Quite frequent. Some entire levels are suspended over these, but the strangest example is on the Ghost Ship, where there's a BottomlessPit contained within a ship.

* AnAxeToGrind: Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver gives Sir Dan a huge, double-bladed axe that, despite being as large as Dan's torso, can be [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang thrown like a boomerang]] to deal heavy damage to enemies at range.

* HyperspaceArsenal: As either game progresses, Dan gets weighed down with more and more weapons, some nearly as [[{{BFS}} large]] [[AnAxeToGrind as]] [[DropTheHammer he]] [[{{BFG}} is]], and [[SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness others that go completely unused after a certain point]].

* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: Fortesque and Zarok. Well, maybe "Good - looking" for Zarok is a baloney, but he beats Fortesque's ugliness probably because he has a human body.
** Although Fortesque can definitely be considered UglyCute. Zarok's ugly no matter how you look at him.

* CoolTrain: Zarok's "Chariot".

* ItsPronouncedTropay: Sir Daniel ''Forteskyou''. Quickly resolved, as the narrator says it almost immediately. On the other hand, a notable subversion involves Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver, a Spaniard, pronouncing "Fortesque" as "Fortiskay," as "que" in Spanish is pronounced "kay."

** The [=PS4=] remake has another example in Zarok's enrty of the Book of Gallowmere, stating his ambitions are to command the forces of darkness, enslave mankind, and play ball one last time with dear old Mr Snuffy.

** The PS4 remake has another example in Zarok's enrty of the Book of Gallowmere, stating his ambitions are to command the forces of darkness, enslave mankind, and play ball one last time with dear old Mr Snuffy.

* InfantImmortality: The little girls in Sleeping Village will run away when attacked rather than dying.

* CutsceneIncompetence: The prologue shows Fortesque being killed by the first arrow shot when he leads the armies of Gallowmere into battle. When you take over, Fortesque can prove to have actually been a pretty good fighter after all.

* DropTheHammer: The hammer of Stanyer Iron Hewer, to be precise. It [[SquashedFlat squashes flat]] anything you kill with it, and can be charged up for a devastating shockwave attack. And Dan manages to hold it easily with one hand.

* SquashedFlat: This is what happens to Zarok when Dan defeats him at the end of the game. A piece of debris falls down and unceremoniously crushes Zarok, with him squealing at his last breath.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Fortesque can't swim at all. Justified, since as the game puts it, the armored dead have buoyancy problems. For laughs, the player has to use this to defeat certain enemies at the Pools of the Ancient Dead.
TacticalSuicideBoss:

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: A spellbook of Zarok's has chapters for things like raising the dead, stealing the souls of the innocent, and card tricks.

* GangstaStyle: the secondary attack function of the crossbow has Dan hold the crossbow sideways while firing.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Imanzi Shongama is significantly less curvy compared to the original game and ''Resurrection''.

* BestialityIsDepraved: Implied - Zarok accidentally summons a sheep while trying to find a spell to use against Fortescue. He gives a distracted "Oooooooh!", then dismissed it by saying "Oh, not right now!".

* The pirate captain is out of range of Dan's attacks, but there are two cannons (one aimable one in the PS4 remake) that Dan can fire at him by using the club as a torch.

* CollapsingLair: Done twice, once heroicly and once villainously:

* CoolSword: The Longsword is a fairly standard starting weapon, but Sir Dan can also obtain the Broadsword that can be enchanted to do more damage, and the Magic Sword, the best melee weapon in the game.

* MatchstickWeapon: Dan's club can sometimes be lit on fire, and used to light torches and burn enemies and some features of the terrain (such as the haystacks in the scarecrow fields).

* NoHarmRequirement: Because the villagers in the Sleeping Village level are insane-but-otherwise-innocent people rather than monsters, killing them will trigger a warning stating "A good soul has been lost!" and reduce Dan's chalice completion score, making it harder for him to collect the chalice and visit the hall of heroes.

* NewEaponTargetRange: Gallows Gauntlet, the area immediately after you require the dragon armour, has a burning gate that can only be safely passed using the armour's fire immunity, and a lot of burnable enemies that are very vulnerable to the fire damage of its BreathWeapon.