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** If Jesse chooses to accompany Lukas and Radar in Season 2 episode 2, they will be forced to run from Snow Golems. [[Creator/YuriLowenthal Radar]] is afraid to jump a large gap and Jesse responds with "Sometimes you've just got to fake it, Radar. [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 Hero time!]]"

* LoopholeAbuse: In Episode 4, [[spoiler:after Soren finally confesses the truth about how the Order of the Stone faked defeating Ender Dragon and Ivor says how the whole Order agreed to keep it a secret, Soren snaps at Ivor that ''he'' agreed to stay quiet about it when he left the Order too, in exchange for all of their treasures. Ivor is silent for a moment before stating that he technically never told anybody, since Jesse figured it out on their own.]]

* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:When the Admin steals Jesse's identity and returns to Becontown, he becomes a tyrant and enslaves everyone not long after arriving, and everyone, including several of Jesse's closest friends, thinks that the real Jesse has [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide gone mad with power]]. After defeating the Admin though, everyone is told about the mistaken identity and Jesse regains his status of being LovedByAll.]]

* AdaptedOut: While almost every Mob has shown up in the game, Villagers are noticeably absent, although at least one citizen in Sky City has a head resembling a Villager, suggesting that they were just mixed with townsfolk similar to normal players. Villagers are also mentioned in passing in Episode 3 [[spoiler: by Petra if you rescued her from the Wither Storm in Episode 1]], implying that they still exist, just offscreen.

** A villainous one comes from [[spoiler:Aiden]] near the end of episode 5 after he's lost his sword during the BattleInTheRain with Jesse. His voice completely transitions from [[WhyWontYouDie loud insane screaming]] to panicked pleading; with Jesse not so much as saying a word, he [[spoiler:gives back the enchanted flint and steel he stole earlier]] and kneels before them. Making the right choices and dialogue options makes it clear that he's genuinely submitting himself.

* AllInARow: Usually {{averted}}, but gets {{invoked}} in ''The Last Place You Look''. Jesse is the only person who won't get attacked by Endermen, so the others have to form a connected line behind them to travel past a haunting of them.
* AmnesiaEpisode: “A Block and a Hard Place”.

* ArcVillain: The Wither Storm for the first four episodes, then it rotates to single episode antagonists afterwards with the Blaze Rods led by Aiden in ''Order Up!'', the White Pumpkin/[[spoiler:Cassie Rose]] in ''A Portal to Mystery'', [[spoiler: [[AIIsACrapshoot PAMA]]]] in ''Access Denied'', & [[spoiler:[[BigBadDuumvirate Hadrian & Mevia]]]][[note]]Two thirds of the [[spoiler:Old Builder]] leaders[[/note]] in ''A Journey's End?''.

* CelebrityCasualty: Episode 6 features guest appearances of various YouTubers, and out of them, [[spoiler: [=CaptainSparklez=] ]] and [[spoiler:either [=LDShadowLady=] or [=DanTDM=] ]] end up biting the dust.

** In episode 1, you can accidentally make a lever while trying to create a sword. If you did this, Jesse will use the lever to [[spoiler:open a secret passageway]] in episode 4.
** At the start of episode 5, when building a dirt bridge towards the Sky City, Ivor builds a skull with lava dropping from its eyes. Later, when [[spoiler:Aiden throws Jesse off Sky City]], they have to dodge that lava when falling.
** Earlier in episode 5, you grab a pumpkin as part of the treasure from the jungle temple Ivor pointed you and your friends towards. [[spoiler: If you chose to go with Milo instead of helping Ivor--thereby ending up in Build Club--when you're tasked with building something, you can use that pumpkin alongside the iron blocks you're given to build an Iron Golem.]]
** When trying to decide what to take from Soren's stash, Olivia eventually decides on a fishing rod. [[spoiler: She later uses it to keep you from getting sucked into the Wither Storm with the Formidi-Bomb.]]

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[spoiler: In the tail end of Episode 3, whoever you didn't save from the Wither Storm in Episode 1 saves you from being sucked up by the command block after the Wither Storm was blown up. You learn shortly after that they have amnesia. They have no memory of who you are, nor do they remember what the Wither Storm or command block are or why they're a threat. They don't even remember who ''they'' are; all that happens is that they see someone in danger and immediately step in to help without a second thought.]]
* CityOfGold: Sky City in episode 5. Iron as well, but metal is not usually common enough to be a standard building material. Conversely, dirt and things grown from dirt are rare and precious in that town. One of the puzzles has you figuring out how to make stone, which is normally a readily minable substance. [[spoiler: Justified, as the city gets its materials only from mob drops.]]
* ComplexityAddiction: Justified in Episode 7 with [[spoiler: Harper's lab. According to her, she makes the systems in her lab more complicated than necessary to confuse PAMA on the off chance he made it down there.]]

'''Jesse:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh yeah, the perfect crime.]]

** Similarly, Ellegaard freezes in shock when she sees [[spoiler: the Wither Storm]] for the first time. Jesse and Olivia had already described it to her, but she hadn't fully understood how big the threat was until then, so all she can do is stare at it and stutter out a terrified apology to Jesse.

** When you're asked to choose between Olivia and Axel's plans at the end of the first episode, they start listing reasons why you should go with their choice. If you stand around long enough they eventually fall silent and just wait for your decision, but if you wait even ''longer...''

** In episode four, when Jesse is tasked to make a weapon to destroy the command block, they're given enough diamonds and sticks to make every diamond tool in the game - including a more unconventional weapon such as a shovel or hoe. In fact, if you do make a hoe, Rueben will laugh at you for picking such a strange weapon.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Either Ellegaard or Magnus will give you their armor before the confrontation with the Wither Storm and will end up being fatally wounded in the ensuing chaos. After the Wither Storm is defeated, you find Soren cradling his dying friend.]]

** [[spoiler: Soren being one is hinted at in ''The Last Place You Look'' and comes to fruition in ''A Block and a Hard Place'', where he abandons the group right before the final battle. You are even given the option to call him a coward as he flees.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In Episode 8, Nell has a wheat patch that she keeps secret from everyone else. This, along with [[TheStoner her personality]] makes it seem more like a marijuana patch.

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Wither Storm, made by substituting one of the soul sand for a command block. Its mere existence breaks the world. Starting as an average Wither, it goes OneWingedAngel, looking less like its original shape and more like something from Creator/HPLovecraft, sprouting CombatTentacles, growing to ten times its size and eventually becoming a distorted, black mass of destruction and death. It gets even worse in Episode 3, where it turns out to be an AsteroidsMonster.]]

** In Episode 8, [[spoiler: after Jesse respawns and loses all of her inventory and armor, their friends show up and give them several enchanted diamond weapons, a shield, and "Tim"'s armor]]

* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler: Ivor planned to show everyone that Gabriel was a loser by summoning a controllable Wither and making it fight him. Unfortunately for him, slapping a Command Block into a Wither assembly does not make a controllable Wither, but a Wither that can control the landscape around it and assimilate it into itself, giving birth to the Wither Storm.]]

-->'''Jesse:''' Hadrian, for an Old Builder, you're not that bright, you know that?
-->'''Hadrian:''' What?

** The prologue talks about how legends will eventually fade into myths and then lies. Immediately after that, it states that the "Legend of the Order of the Stone" will last forever. [[spoiler: As it turns out, even the "Legend of the Order of the Stone" got distorted, as the Order didn't even fight the Ender Dragon, having instead used the Command Block to blink it out of existence.]]

** [[spoiler: Ivor creates a skull that cries lava flows while creating a bridge over to the Sky City]] in Episode 5.
** [[spoiler: The townsfolk of Sky City at the end of Episode 5. One is seen hugging a tree, one is going to town on a tree, and another is REALLY excited about building a wood hoe.]]

** [[spoiler: Benedict the chicken in Episode 5. We know she's not a rooster because her owner used the pronoun "her" a few lines before revealing her name,and she lays eggs after all.]]

* GrowlingGut: When everyone's tired and hungry early on the way to [[spoiler: the Far Lands]] in Episode 4, if you idle during one dialog choice after Ivor warns of the dangers of stopping in a swamp, there's a loud growl that everyone initially thinks is a monster, only for Soren to admit it was his stomach.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: The apparent demise of the Wither Storm in Episode 3, kind of tainted by InterfaceSpoiler below.]]

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: Inflicted upon whoever Jesse saved from the Wither Storm when they rejoin the group.]]

** Played with in Episode 6, which is a Whodunnit Murder Mystery with an Axe Killer, only completely bloodless due to the medium of the universe it is set in.
** Oddly enough, it also manages to be DarkerAndEdgier when compared to ''{{Videogame/Minecraft}}'' itself, with such concepts as [[spoiler:the Wither Storm, which when compared to the already EnemyToAllLivingThings version in-game is upgraded to a PersonOfMassDestruction, acting like a living natural disaster and destroying entire cities merely by being present. As an extension of that, this game's version of Wither Sickness is an IncurableCoughOfDeath that literally causes a person to rot away to nothing.]]
** Episode 5 is this relative to the rest of the series, except for the fact that [[spoiler: Jesse is still grieving over the death of Rueben.]]
* LightsOffSomebodyDies: In Season 1 Episode 6, the first murder plays off like this. [[spoiler: [[AssholeVictim TorqueDawg]] died.]]

* MotivationalLie: In Chapter 8, [[spoiler: people are motivated to keep playing the Builder Games despite numerous losses via the legend of Tim. Naturally, you learn he's not real. Later on, when you're giving everyone a pep-talk to work together to win the games, you can choose whether to come clean or let them keep believing the lie.]]

* NotHimself: Lukas is uncharacteristically vitriolic during the first half of ''The Last Place You Look'' [[spoiler:because he knows that Jesse is withholding information from the rest of the group.]]

'''Axel:''' Well, as a long time observer of human behaviour--\\

* NotSoDifferentRemark: You can engage in a bit of this in Episode 8; [[spoiler: When you're trying to rally the other teams to come together and win together, Emily points out that no-one has ever one the games. A member of the yellow team points out that Tim did...except you've recently learned that "Tim" never actually existed and was made up to motivate everyone to keep playing an unwinnable game. You have a choice as to whether to agree with him or spill the beans. If you choose the former, you're lying about Tim's existence for the same reason Hadrian did--to give everyone hope where there would otherwise be none.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In Episode 6, Ivor stops being goofy and obviously evil and lends his wealth of knowledge to help Jesse and the gang[[spoiler: catch a psychotic murderer in a mansion riddled with traps]]. He even acts relatively calmly and rationally compared to his usual LargeHam self.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: In the new Order of the Stone's treasure room, there's a Dragon Egg and ''two'' (normal) Nether Stars, indicating that not only did they go on to defeat the Ender Dragon, but summoned and defeated the Wither ''twice''.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In Episode 8, [[spoiler: Hadrian and Mevia use the Portal Atlas to kidnap Jesse's friends to coerce Jesse into another deal. They go for Olivia, Axel, and Reuben...except Reuben died in Episode 4. Since they don't know this, they end up kidnapping Episode 1's bouncer, who also happens to be named Reuben.]]

* OutOfFocus: Axel and Olivia go on to do their own thing in Episode 5, and are absent for the rest of the episode and the next, with the episodes being primarily about Jesse, Petra, Lukas, and [[spoiler:Ivor]]. [[spoiler: They finally return in Episode 8, as Hadrian tries to goad Jesse into losing for their safety.]]

-->'''Jesse:''' [[TranquilFury Give. Me. Back. My. Pig.]]
* PurelyAestheticGender: The player may choose Jesse's gender at the start of the game. The story will not be affected by this decision and characters will treat both male and female Jesse the same way.

** This is a usual thing in Telltale Games, though this is especially noteworthy with Lukas since it'll determine whether [[spoiler:you can convince him to stay with Jesse's group]] in Episode 4, and [[spoiler: whether or not he'll return to help you with the final battle against the Wither Storm.]]

** [[spoiler: Upon realizing Ivor was a member of the Order of The Stone, you'll notice that the narrator of the intro cinematic puts emphasis on "FOUR" heroes, and why the legend is self-evident fact.]]
** [[spoiler: In Episode 3, if you realize that Lukas knows about Petra/Gabriel's illness, you can spot him looking away from them in panic in some scenes.]]

** At one point in the first episode, Aiden floods your Endercon booth with lava, which sets Reuben (Jesse's pet pig) on fire, but also puts your machine at risk of heat damage. Will you have your friends help you find Reuben, or have them stay and save the machine? Unlike most sadistic choices, this one has a correct answer, non-obvious though it may be, which is [[spoiler: to have your friends stay behind. They don't actually help at all in the search for Reuben, but they do save the machine. If the machine survives, it wins the Endercon building competition, but if your friends aren't around to save it, the Ocelots win instead.]]
** [[spoiler: At one point within the story, you're given the option of saving either Gabriel or Petra from the Wither Storm. You can't choose both.]]

** In episode 7, you have to choose between saving either [[spoiler:Petra or Lukas; once you push one of them into a water stream and de-brainwash them, the other will escape and won't be de-brainwashed until the climax.]]

** [[spoiler: When Petra[=/=]Gabriel (whoever you rescued from the Wither Storm at the beginning of Episode 1) comes down with Wither Sickness, he/she tells you privately and asks that you tell no-one else so as not to drag down morale. When Lukas confronts you in episode 3, you can choose whether or not to tell him. If you do, you can then choose whether or not to tell Petra[=/=]Gabriel that Lukas now knows about it.]]
** [[spoiler: After defeating the Wither Storm, Jesse can convince Gabriel to either come clean about the Order of the Stone or allow the people to continue believing in their legend.]]
** [[spoiler: After learning that "Tim", who allegedly was the only one to win the Games, never actually existed and was made up by the Old Builders to keep everyone playing a game that was UnwinnableByDesign, you're tasked with rallying all of the other teams to work together against the Old Builders. When Tim is brought up, you can choose whether to let them keep believing in him or confess that he never existed.]]
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler: Whoever you saved from the Wither Storm [[TheCorruption has been infected by it]]. They don't want to tell the rest of the group because they're worried it'll slow down the quest, but most of the party has already figured out that something's up.]]
* ShellShockSilence: [[spoiler: After Jesse wakes up from blowing up the Wither Storm with the Formidi-bomb, all they can hear is a faint ringing sound and the occasional "'''THUD'''" of Wither Storm parts hitting the ground. You can see other characters' lips moving, but nothing they say can be heard.]]

** [[Film/{{Babe}} "That'll do, Reuben. That'll do."]]
** When asked where the stairs in the Temple of the Order go, one of your choices are: [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} "They go up."]]
** In episode 5, [[spoiler: if you choose the Speed potion Ivor offers]], Jesse will say "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Gotta go fast!]]"
** [[Franchise/StarWars "Execute maneuver 66!"]]

** Also from Episode 8, Emily tells her partner Nell [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} "Get dunked on]], slacker!" Later on, if you idle until the time runs out during one of the dialogue choices of your RousingSpeech to the other teams, Nell will say something along the lines of "But that stare of yours is filling me with... determination."
* ShroudedInMyth: [[spoiler: Contrary to what the narrator said, this is what happened to the "Legend of the Order of the Stone". At least one detail is different than what actually happened, namely that there was an extra member of the team the legend doesn't mention. But that's not the only deception...]]

** Petra will call your team out on this if you were to say "losing sucks" while they're talking about [[spoiler: how they lost the Build-Off.]]
** [[spoiler: Aiden and his crew is this when Jesse's new Order of The Stone keep finding treasure. What's more, Aiden wanted to be the hero of the Wither Storm crisis instead of Jesse, because he doesn't feel Jesse truly earned it.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Even the closed captions of the game can't agree on whether it's [[spoiler: "Wither Storm" or "Witherstorm".]]

* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler: Magnus and Ellegaard attempt to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this, telling Jesse that they should go check on the survivors instead of staying with them, but Jesse can choose to ignore this request and kneel beside them until they pass away.]]

* StylisticSelfParody: The game has several nods to the fact that it's set within the world of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', from the name of "Boom Town" being written using LeetLingo to the in-universe term for "criminal" being "{{griefer}}" to blocks floating in mid-air.
** [[spoiler: When the Sky City is abandoned in Episode 5, Jesse advises the inhabitants to start punching trees as the first thing they should do.]]

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Once you get out of [[spoiler: Soren's fortress]] and see how much the Witherstorm has grown, this is word-for-word one of the dialog choices.

* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler: Ivor in Episode 4 and 5, though he gets better in Episode 6.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Jesse and their friends [[spoiler: become the new Order of The Stone in Episode 4, and in Episode 5, Jesse begins the episode by effortlessly dispatching hordes of monsters.]]

* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Aiden and the Ocelots abandon Lukas and form their own crew, The Blaze Rods, regardless of whether or not he went to go find them in Episode 4.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: The one narrating the prologue was lying about the "Legend of the Order of the Stone" never fading into myth and becoming a lie.]]

* VideogameCaringPotential: You can protect Reuben from harm, support Olivia and Axel's endeavors, encourage Lukas, assist [=NPCs=], etc.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: Or you could go the opposite direction and have Jesse be a jerk to everyone.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If you make Slab late taking you to Hadrian and mock him about not being able to kill you, [[spoiler: he won't join you when you and the other competitors in the last game rebel, and you won't get Lukas's book back.]]

* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: If you go to Boom Town and beat Magnus in a duel and as a result become King, some people will start to consider usurping you. Then the Wither Storm shows up to level everything to the ground (in a way that puts even [[MadBomber Magnus]] to shame) and snack on the inhabitants.]]
* VoicesAreMental: [[spoiler: When PAMA puts microchips behind peoples' heads to assimilate them, their voices become robotic for no reason except to make it clear to the audience that they're controlled by the computer.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In the Sky City from Episode 5, crafting anything (even food) without permission is a crime that's harshly punished by the Founder. [[spoiler: We later find out that it's because everyone, including the Founder, thought the city was isolated so the Founder had to carefully manage the resources they had. When they later find out that the Sky City was suspended over land (and not over a bottomless void), she's still a bit suspicious and careful but when you make Jesse tell her and Milo that they can have a plan without planning every little thing, she goes explore the new land with her chicken.]]

** [[spoiler: What became of the enchanted weapon you crafted in the tail end of Episode 4? We don't even see it in the treasure room.]]

** When you and the other competitors [[spoiler: come together and rise at the end of episode 8, if you made Slab and you late in meeting Hadrian, he'll call you out for being inconsiderate and refuse to join you.]]

* WhiteStallion: When fleeing from [[spoiler: the reformed Witherstorm]] early in episode 4, everyone has to ride horses to get away. Most of them are brown, except for Jesse's which is white.

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:The Admin.]]

* BehemothBattle: [[spoiler: If you left Radar behind in the Underneath, when everyone's escaping from Terminal Space, he'll arrive with the giant Enderman that was chasing him. The Enderman will proceed to pick a fight with a rogue Prismarine Colossus, allowing everyone else to escape.]]

** When you meet Jack for the first time, you tell Petra to either be herself, or play it cool. Later in Episode 5, [[spoiler: Jack has a similar reaction to meeting Ivor. And you're given the same two options again. Bonus points for being in the same building]]
** The main story begins with Jesse getting a gauntlet stuck to their hand. [[spoiler: You defeat Romeo by using a different gauntlet to take his admin powers away.]]

-->'''Jesse:''' I've fought creepers, zombies, [[spoiler: [[ContinuityNod a giant computer, a witherstorm]]]]... ''(as everyone strikes an AssKickingPose)'' Bring out your army. We can take it.\\

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Xara used to be an Admin but was stripped of her powers. Later on, this is how you defeat Romeo.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Whatever happens, Petra will decide at the end to leave Beacontown and pursue her own path, [[CharacterDevelopment having made peace with being separated from her friends to this end, just as everyone else has moved on.]] You can choose whether or not to have Jesse join her.]]

** Some of the characters you met during Season 1's Adventure Pass arc reappear in minor roles in Episode 1 of Season 2. [[spoiler: And if you choose to remain in Beacontown at the very end of the game, you're told that you have letters from Aiden and WP--the latter presumably meaning "White Pumpkin"]].

* ControllableHelplessness: [[spoiler: If you idle too long trying to decide whether to leave Nurm or Lluna in the booby-trapped prison cell near the end of "Jailhouse Block", Xara will get annoyed and take them both, leaving you behind. You can wander around the cell all you want, but nothing else will happen, and trying to leave will result in the trap triggering and blowing you up.]]
* CurbStompCushion: [[spoiler: When confronting the Admin in his tower, if you tell the New Ocelots to charge, the Admin will toss them aside like ragdolls, but Lukas will actually manage to land a punch.]]

** Defied with the Youtubers that appear in Episode 1 [[spoiler: since either Dan or Lizzie could have died based on your choices, but that's not something you can pick at the start of the game, neither of them appear; just Stacy and Stampy, both of whom survive no matter what.]]
** Played with in the flashback in the beginning of Episode 1; it shows Jesse wearing the armor of [[spoiler: Magnus[=/=]Ellegard (whoever's armor you chose to take at the beginning), and wielding an enchanted pickaxe, when battling the Wither Storm]], no matter what you actually did in Season 1 (this is not something you can choose at the beginning of the game). However, it turns out to be Lukas's literary adaptation of your adventures, and he's revealed in that scene to be a bit of an UnreliableNarrator, leaving it up in the air what the game actually thinks Jesse used.

* DoomedHometown: Downplayed, as Beacontown is never fully destroyed; During the RegularCaller discussion with Lukas after [[spoiler: defeating the Admin's Prismarine Colossus]], one dialogue option is to have Jesse lament that they can't seem to go on adventures alongside running Beacontown without the residents getting put in danger as a result. What's more, the Admin's challenges immediately before and after that conversation basically boil down to "Beat this challenge or Beacontown is doomed" in order to get Jesse to cooperate.

* FakeShemp: Lukas has only two line in episode four[[note]]"Jesse? Man, is it good to see you." and "Where are the others?"[[/note]]. As it would have been awfully inconvenient to call in his voice actor to record just two lines, both lines were reused from different episodes.
* FakeUltimateMook: If you stand completely still, [[spoiler: the Three-Headed Ghast]] can take several minutes to kill you.

** When trying to escape the Sunshine Institute in "Jailhouse Block", [[spoiler: someone has to stay behind in Prisoner X's cell so a TNT trap won't spring. Nurm immediately volunteers, and you can choose whether to let him or instead leave a less-willing Lluna behind.]]
** When everyone is about to leave the Underneath in "Below The Bedrock", [[spoiler: Radar volunteers to stay behind to distract a giant Enderman so everyone from Fred's Keep can escape. As before, you can choose whether to let him or instead bring him along and leave the Fred Folk behind.]] However, this choice will come back to haunt you...
** ...at the end of "Above and Beyond"; [[spoiler: if you chose to ''not'' leave Radar behind in the Underneath, when a Prismarine Colossus goes rogue after Romeo is stripped of his powers, Romeo will sacrifice himself to allow everyone else to escape. Unlike the previous two, you can't choose someone else as bait in this case--the only way to ensure Romeo survives is to allow Radar to go through with his sacrifice, allowing him to return with the giant Enderman in tow to distract the Colossus so everyone can escape.]]

* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: Variant. The first part of Jesse's plan to [[spoiler: infiltrate the Admin's tower in Episode 5 requires them to get Stella's help; to get to her, they have to impersonate the Admin, who has been running Beacontown disguised as Jesse since Episode 3. The effectiveness of this is ZigZagged: Stella's the first one to see through it, due to walking in on you taking a Fireworks Guild uniform shortly after she just finished talking to the Admin. Later on, however, Lukas and several others see you, Jack, and Petra in those uniforms (keep in mind that it's never explained how the Admin justified Jack and Petra's absence until this point), and you have to convince him that you're the real Jesse and it wasn't you terrorizing everyone. How believable it is that all the other citizens buy it depends on your dialog choices--you can either be as brutal as the Admin or the complete opposite, and their reactions will vary accordingly, but they're all so terrified of Admin!Jesse that none of them will question you either way.]]

* MeaningfulEcho: Vos saying that [[spoiler: [[WhamLine losers are supposed to lose]] as it reveals [[PlotTwist that he’s the Admin.]]]]
* MercyMode: In a first for Telltale, after so many deaths, the game will refuse to allow you to take damage anymore. [[TheManyDeathsOfYou You do have to die quite a bit to trigger this]], though, making it hard to even get intentionally. [[note]]If you die exactly once at every opportunity the game gives you, it should trigger once you're killed by the [[spoiler: three-headed Ghast]] near the end of Episode 3.[[/note]]

* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler: The "overarching choices" at the very end of the game treat giving Xara her bed, thereby convincing her that there is still hope in the world, as the better option. However, doing this dooms Champion City and potentially hundreds of lives--if you ''don't'' give Xara her bed, letting her believe that nothing matters except her desire for revenge, then when Romeo goes to destroy Champion City, Xara will appear, try to attack him, and end up getting killed, leaving Champion City untouched.]]

* MixAndMatchCritters: The Admin seems to be fond of these, including Wither Zombies, Spider Creepers, Ender Creepers, and what appear to be Magma Slimes. He also has a few varieties of the Iron Golem--Ice, Magma, and Ender.

* MythologyGag: Like in Season 1, the [=YouTubers=]' content gets referenced when they appear, such as [[CanineCompanion Wink]] from Stacy Plays' ''Dogcraft'' series, a miniature version of Stampy's house and Love Garden from his ''[[WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld Lovely World]]'' series (along with his love for cake, once again), and Anthony's love for cookies.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler: When you and Petra read Fred's journal to find out how to defeat Romeo once and for all, Fred talks about how much Romeo cared about his friends--Fred and Xara--and how, more than anything, he wanted to keep them together. Petra realizes that she's been the same way the whole time, getting upset when her friends couldn't spend time with her and not wanting them to move on with their lives, and dreads the idea of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope like what happened with Romeo.]]

** After [[spoiler: the Admin's Colossus avatar is defeated]], Lukas lampshades how typical it seems for Jesse to be caught up in stuff like this, and how they can't seem to escape that kind of life.

*** However, choosing [[spoiler:Petra]] is arguably better because [[spoiler:you already spent a lot of effort retrieving [[ICallItVera "Miss Butter"]] from a different situation earlier, you've known Petra for longer, Jack was already blind in that eye, and he won't complain as much]]. Still, though, losing a[[spoiler:n eye]] is a lot more painful than losing a[[spoiler: sword]].

*** [[spoiler: However, whoever you didn't pick rejoins you later thanks to Ivor, making this less sadistic than it seems at first glance, and leaving Nurm behind is ''barely'' the better choice, gameplay-wise, as Lluna will later sniff out some good armor in Romeoburg that would otherwise be inaccessible. However, this comes at the cost of listening to Jack mourn Nurm until he reappears, and the armor is more cosmetic than anything else.]]

*** [[spoiler: However, if Radar is left behind, he reappears at the very end of "Above and Beyond" with the giant Enderman still following him. The Enderman will attack a rogue Prismarine Colossus, allowing everyone the opportunity to escape. Had you left the Fred Folk behind, a newly depowered Romeo would perform a HeroicSacrifice to let everyone else escape. This makes leaving Radar behind an arguably better option.]]

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: ZigZagged in Episode 5; [[spoiler: the bare-bone points of Jesse's plan to get into the Admin's tower are more or less successful, but the plan as a whole is not without hiccups. Plus, it only gets as far as getting into the tower--they're intercepted by the Admin before they make it to the terminal, while they were hoping to get there before the Admin even realized they'd gotten in.]]

->'''Jesse:''' [[spoiler:Administrate this.]]

* WhatTheHellPlayer: [[spoiler: When Jesse is roaming Beacontown posing as the Admin in Episode 5, they can talk to the pig owner, who was forced to butcher and cook his pet pigs. He'll fearfully offer them a porkchop, and if they say they'll try one, [[PlayerPunch he'll actually list them by the names of the pigs they once were.]] [[VideogameCrueltyPotential If Jesse still brings themself to pick and eat one]], you'll get a Telltale popup that reads "You ate the porkchop. Wow."]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulEcho "Losers are supposed to lose."]]]]

* ISurrenderSuckers: In Episode 8, when Jesse gains the upper hand in a fight against Hadrian, the latter begs for a truce and begins to tell his StartOfDarkness story. Unfortunately, this was all a ruse to distract Jesse so Mevia could sneak up and attack them from behind, but fortunately, Jesse manages to dodge her just in time.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, [[UsefulNotes/MacOS OS X]], [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]], {{UsefulNotes/Android|Games}}, UsefulNotes/WiiU , [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita PS Vita]], and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. A simplified version of the first five episodes was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on November 27, 2018, reworking the series into a {{Gamebook}}-style narrative controlled by the viewer using their remote. It's notably one of the only two games by Creator/TelltaleGames to turn a profit.

*** A more obvious one at the climax, though it's less sadistic and more of a TearJerker: [[spoiler:Cassie is left above an endermite-filled pit with no escape, doomed to either starve to death or jump/fall down and get eaten. She begs Jesse to at least toss her cat Winslow down to her, as he's her only friend. Say yes, and you're dooming a mostly-innocent cat to die with its owner. Say no, and Cassie continues to beg as you walk away as Winslow looks down sadly.]] Many players wished they could TakeAThirdOption and [[spoiler:help Cassie come back up and have her take a HeelFaceTurn similar to if you helped Aiden in episode 5]].

*** A more obvious one at the climax, though it's less sadistic and more of a TearJerker: [[spoiler:Cassie is left above a silverfish-filled pit with no escape, doomed to either starve to death or jump/fall down and get eaten. She begs Jesse to at least toss her cat Winslow down to her, as he's her only friend. Say yes, and you're dooming a mostly-innocent cat to die with its owner. Say no, and Cassie continues to beg as you walk away as Winslow looks down sadly.]] Many players wished they could TakeAThirdOption and [[spoiler:help Cassie come back up and have her take a HeelFaceTurn similar to if you helped Aiden in episode 5]].

* ThreeAmigos: Jesse, Olivia, Axel.

** Subverted with humans and [[spoiler:the Wither Storm, as when it's finally killed in the end, its remains fall to the ground. It also leaves a unique black Nether Star behind.]]

* {{Acrofatic}}: The Ender Golems in Episode 3 are just as big and bulky as normal Iron Golems, but are far faster and more agile.

Due to the shutdown of Telltale Games, [[{{Abandonware}} sales of Minecraft: Story Mode have been discontinued, and all official support for the game ended on June 25, 2019]]. The first five episodes are still on Netflix, however, albeit with the non-FMV sections removed.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, [[UsefulNotes/MacOS OS X]], [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]], {{UsefulNotes/Android|Games}}, UsefulNotes/WiiU , [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita PS Vita]], and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. A simplified version of the first five episodes was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on November 27, 2018, reworking the series into a {{Gamebook}}-style narrative controlled by the viewer using their remote.

Due to the shutdown of Telltale Games, [[{{Abandonware}} sales of Minecraft: Story Mode have been discontinued, and all official support for the game ended on June 25, 2019]]. The first five episodes are still on Netflix, however.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Founder is this in Episode 5, whipping out Kung Fu moves and dual sword attacks. [[spoiler:Justified since the Eversource is a spawn egg-laying chicken, and any resource the Founder wants or needs has to be gotten from mob drops, meaning she ''has'' to be badass in battle to survive killing all the hostile mobs she needs to.]]
** As of Season 2, [[spoiler:Jesse]] is Beacontown's hero-in-residence, but [[spoiler:they]] did get rusty in those years.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:When the Admin steals Jesse's identity and returns to Becontown, he becomes a tyrant and enslaves everyone not long after arriving, and everyone, including several of Jesse's closest friends, thinks that the real Jesse has [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide gone mad with power]]. After defeating the Admin though, everyone is told about the mistaken identity and Jesse gets his HundredPercentAdorationRating back.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Jesse is beloved by everyone in Beacontown for all they have accomplished. Though this has the drawback of not having as much free time as they used to because they have many responsibilities around town and people are always asking them for help or asking them questions about his adventures.

* AmnesiaEpisode: With [[spoiler: Gabriel or Petra]] [[note]] [[spoiler: Whoever you ''didn't'' save in Episode 1]] [[/note]] spending almost the entire episode with amnesia, the AmnesiaEpisode would be "A Block and a Hard Place".

* OffhandBackhand: At the beginning of Episode 5, a zombie approaches Jesse from behind. She just hits it with her sword without looking.

* AmnesiaEpisode: With [[spoiler: Gabriel or Petra]] [[note [[spoiler: Whoever you ''didn't'' save in Episode 1]] [[/note]] spending almost the entire episode with amnesia, the AmnesiaEpisode would be "A Block and a Hard Place".

** Episode eight has Petra, Lukas, and Jesse all die and respawn without their armour and in their original clothes. Considering that this is the outfits the audience was introduced to them in and we haven't seen them wear them since episode three (for Jesse) and episode four (for Lukas and Petra), it creates a nice contrast for the final episode in the season.