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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The [[spoiler:five red symbols]] in the first game form the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_of_Baphomet Sigil of Baphomet]], showing that there is more going on than first meets the eye.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The [[spoiler:five red symbols]] in the first game form the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_of_Baphomet Sigil of Baphomet]], showing that there is more going on than first meets the eye.
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* AbandonedMine: Samuel falls into one in the second chapter of the first game, with his escape from the mine being the last third of the second chapter.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Robert Gordon]] and [[spoiler:Dr. Hermann]] deserved their deaths for their involvement in [[spoiler:illegal medical experiments]], with Samuel even expressing that he hopes that Robert "burns in hell" for his deeds.
* BedlamHouse: Samuel's uncle, Robert Gordon, runs one of these in the first game. [[spoiler:However, he uses his patients for illegal medical experiments, including his half-brother James Gordon.]]
* GraveRobbing: This is how [[spoiler:Samuel obtains the keys in the first game - save for James' key, which he takes from James' body before the latter has been buried.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The [[spoiler:five red symbols]] in the first game form the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_of_Baphomet Sigil of Baphomet]], showing that there is more going on than first meets the eye.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Two examples in the first game.
** The first is Robert Gordon, who [[spoiler:uses the patients in the BedlamHouse he runs for illegal medical experiments. By the end of the entries in his diary, he abandons any pretensions of science and all but writes that he intends to poison his half-brother James Gordon to silence him.]]
** The second is Dr. Hermann, the local pathologist, who [[spoiler:has been paid off by Robert Gordon to get rid of any dead bodies resulting from the latter's "research".]]
** The first is Robert Gordon, who [[spoiler:uses the patients in the BedlamHouse he runs for illegal medical experiments. By the end of the entries in his diary, he abandons any pretensions of science and all but writes that he intends to poison his half-brother James Gordon to silence him.]]
** The second is Dr. Hermann, the local pathologist, who [[spoiler:has been paid off by Robert Gordon to get rid of any dead bodies resulting from the latter's "research".]]
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* ShootOutTheLock: Required by Samuel at one point while trapped in an abandoned mine. [[spoiler: The player has to examine the padlock beforehand, revealing a weak point which Samuel can then aim at. Otherwise, it takes two bullets to destroy the lock, leaving Samuel with nothing to defend himself with when the wolf attacks outside the mine.]]
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* ShootOutTheLock: Required by Samuel at one point while trapped in an abandoned mine. [[spoiler: The player has to examine the padlock beforehand, revealing a weak point which Samuel can then aim at. Otherwise, it takes two bullets to destroy the lock, [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable leaving Samuel with nothing to defend himself with when the wolf attacks outside the mine.mine]].]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Samuel's third HumanSacrifice]] is a young local boy.
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Every local Darren initially meets in Willow Creek in the second game is dead by the end of the third (with the except of three characters: Bobby, Murray, and Ralph).]]
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* InfallibleBabble: In the second game there's the drunk who approaches Darren and in the third there's [[FortuneTeller Madame Fortuna]]
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* InfallibleBabble: In the second game there's the drunk who approaches Darren and in the third there's [[FortuneTeller Madame Fortuna]]Fortuna]].
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** In Black Mirror II, there is talk early in the game of a woman named Kerry who committed suicide in the small Maine town. You never hear of her again once you leave the town. It's possible that [[spoiler: she was raped and then blackmailed by Fuller and killed herself as a result - after all, her picture is in Fuller's window.]]
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** In Black Mirror II, there is talk early in the game of a woman named Kerry Carrie who committed suicide in the small Maine town. You never hear of her again once you leave the town. It's possible that [[spoiler: she was raped and then blackmailed by Fuller and killed herself as a result - after all, her picture is in Fuller's window.]]
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* ByTheBookCop: Constable Zack
* CainAndAbel: Marcus and Mordred, the founders of the castle
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: Poor Ralph and his "best friend" Mr Bubby.
* CainAndAbel: Marcus and Mordred, the founders of the castle
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: Poor Ralph and his "best friend" Mr Bubby.
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%% * CainAndAbel: Marcus and Mordred, the founders of the castle
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Samuel
* DeadpanSnarker: Darren
* DirtyOldMan: Darren's boss Fuller
* DomesticAbuse: Mr Biba beats his wife
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Angelina.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: William and Samuel]] and [[spoiler:Darren/Adrian]] in the third, he almost succeeds.
* DyingTown: Willow Creek.
* DeadpanSnarker: Darren
* DirtyOldMan: Darren's boss Fuller
* DomesticAbuse: Mr Biba beats his wife
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Angelina.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: William and Samuel]] and [[spoiler:Darren/Adrian]] in the third, he almost succeeds.
* DyingTown: Willow Creek.
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%% * DarkAndTroubledPast: Samuel
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Darren
%% * DirtyOldMan: Darren's boss Fuller
%% * DomesticAbuse: Mr Biba beats his wife
%% * TheDragon: [[spoiler: Angelina.]]
%% * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: William and Samuel]] and [[spoiler:Darren/Adrian]] in the third, he almost succeeds.
%% * DyingTown: Willow Creek.
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Darren
%% * DirtyOldMan: Darren's boss Fuller
%% * DomesticAbuse: Mr Biba beats his wife
%% * TheDragon: [[spoiler: Angelina.]]
%% * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: William and Samuel]] and [[spoiler:Darren/Adrian]] in the third, he almost succeeds.
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%% * KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: The horrible fate of Miss Valley]]
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* TheShrink: Dr. Winterbottom in the third game. Definitely well meaning, but to call her awesome would be too much.
* SmugSnake: Murray, the owner of the Willow Creek hotel.
* SmugSnake: Murray, the owner of the Willow Creek hotel.
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%% * TheShrink: Dr. Winterbottom in the third game. Definitely well meaning, but to call her awesome would be too much.
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* {{Twincest}}: [[spoiler:Darren and Angelina. She knows, he doesn't. Although it's never stated if they ever went further than kissing.]]
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* AbortedArc: The death of Samuel's wife, Cathrin, is brought up a few times as a key factor in his having left Black Mirror 12 years ago. This would imply that it's going to be significant later on, but it's never brought up again.
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* AbortedArc: The death of Samuel's wife, Cathrin, is brought up a few times as a key factor in his having left Black Mirror 12 years ago. This would imply that it's going to be significant later on, but it's never brought up again. again in the first game. [[spoiler: Not so aborted after the first game, though it takes until the third for the fully story...]]
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* AbortedArc: In Black Mirror II, there is talk early in the game of a woman named Kerry who committed suicide in the small Maine town. You never hear of her again once you leave the town. It's possible that [[spoiler: she was raped and then blackmailed by Fuller and killed herself as a result - after all, her picture is in Fuller's window.]]
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* AbortedArc: The death of Samuel's wife, Cathrin, is brought up a few times as a key factor in his having left Black Mirror 12 years ago. This would imply that it's going to be significant later on, but it's never brought up again.
** In Black Mirror II, there is talk early in the game of a woman named Kerry who committed suicide in the small Maine town. You never hear of her again once you leave the town. It's possible that [[spoiler: she was raped and then blackmailed by Fuller and killed herself as a result - after all, her picture is in Fuller's window.]]
*AbsurdlySpaciousSewerAbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The one under Ashburry is not seen, but it's big enough for several people to have escaped through it. The sewers [[spoiler:under Black Mirror]] are a much more straight-laced example.
** In Black Mirror II, there is talk early in the game of a woman named Kerry who committed suicide in the small Maine town. You never hear of her again once you leave the town. It's possible that [[spoiler: she was raped and then blackmailed by Fuller and killed herself as a result - after all, her picture is in Fuller's window.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Samuel kills himself at the end of ''1'' to stop the curse from affecting anyone else; you can look at ''2'' and ''3'' to see how well ''that'' went]].
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mordred]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Darren/Adrian when Mordred's soul is taking him over.]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Darren/Adrian when Mordred's soul is taking him over.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mordred]]
[[spoiler:Mordred]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Samuel has ended the family curse, or so it seems, and stopped whatever Mordred's curse would have lead to, but he commits suicide to make up for his actions]].
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Samuel has these when under the influence of the family curse. Darren/Adrian gets them when Mordred's soul is taking him over.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Samuel has ended the family curse, or so it seems, and stopped whatever Mordred's curse would have lead to, but he commits suicide to make up for his actions]].
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Samuel has these when under the influence of the family curse. Darren/Adrian gets them when Mordred's soul is taking him over.]]
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** Samuel Samuel, too. While taking things that aren't yours and swindling the odd NPC is [[PointAndClickGame a long-respected genre tradition]], a few Samuel's actions are pretty shady. rapidly cross the line from "shady" to "incredibly illegal." Outright theft, subversion of the law, tampering with crime scenes and evidence, arson, passing off dyed water as an obscure chemical.chemical, ''[[spoiler:locking somebody into a crypt]]''.. Most of them because he couldn't be arsed to wait a few days. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Yes, waiting or doing a timeskip would downplay player agency]] but still...
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* PoliceAreUselessPoliceAreUseless: Detective Collier is so eager to close the cases he investigates and so uninterested in following leads that you could easily assume he's in on whatever's going on, but he isn't.
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[[caption-width-right:265:That fireball is the least of his problems.]]
''The Black Mirror'' is a 2003 [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] horror adventure game developed by Czech studio Future Games. The name refers to the ancestral manor of the Gordon family located in England.
After the mysterious death of his grandfather, Samuel Gordon is forced to return to his home Black Mirror Castle after twelve years. Everyone believes his grandfather committed suicide, but Samuel isn't so sure about that and wants to find out what really happened. It doesn't help that Samuel suddenly gets a lot of vivid nightmares and excruciating headaches. Soon, strange and unexpected deaths occur in the nearby village Willow Creek and Samuel gets closer and closer to a dark secret.
''Black Mirror 2'' (2009) and ''Black Mirror 3'' (2011) were developed by German studio Cranberry Production. They take place in the 1990s, twelve years after the first game. The [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent college student]] Darren Michaels is working at the local photo shop in Biddeford, a small town in New England. One afternoon, he meets the beautiful Angelina who promptly gets accused of murdering Darren's boss [[AssholeVictim Fuller]]. While trying to help her, he realizes things aren't what they seem to be: a mysterious stranger is following Angelina around and Darren himself gets involved in a series of strange events that eventually lead him to the small English village of Willow Creek. He learns about the Gordon family and a century-old curse that is connected with them.
A reboot titled ''Black Mirror'' was released in 2017. It was developed by German studio King Art Games and published by Creator/THQNordic.
Not to be confused with the [[Series/BlackMirror British TV series of the same name]].
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [[spoiler: The room Angelina was staying in at the hotel in Willow Creek had the number 13 while Darren's had the much more positive number 12.]]
* AbortedArc: In Black Mirror II, there is talk early in the game of a woman named Kerry who committed suicide in the small Maine town. You never hear of her again once you leave the town. It's possible that [[spoiler: she was raped and then blackmailed by Fuller and killed herself as a result - after all, her picture is in Fuller's window.]]
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer
* TheAlcoholic: Henry, the gardener.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler: In the last quarter of the last game, the Vatican agent, Valentina, suddenly gets thrown into the mix as a playable character, though you still play as Darren/Adrian at the same time.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Darren believes absolutely everything he is told about the Gordon family but he won't believe a FortuneTeller even when there's proof that she can predict the future.
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: There's an actual black mirror that the castle is named for. It transports the souls of anyone evil who dies near it to some kind of hellish dimension (if it isn't ''the'' Hell), generates shadow versions of people that can torture said souls or kill the living, and literally radiates evil that only certain people can resist. It's heavily implied that Mordred was a good person until he was corrupted by it when he tried to study it. No one knows why it exists or who made it, but Valentina speculates that it's as old as the universe itself.]]
* AxCrazy:
** Mordred. [[spoiler:Whenever Darren/Adrian lays a hand on anything with a sharp edge, Mordred goes nuts with admiration for the weapon.]]
** [[spoiler:Angelina, who has no compunction about killing members of her own family, including her own mother and brother.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mordred]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Darren/Adrian when Mordred's soul is taking him over.]]
* ByTheBookCop: Constable Zack
* CainAndAbel: Marcus and Mordred, the founders of the castle
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: Poor Ralph and his "best friend" Mr Bubby.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: For a good part of the second game Angelina seems to be this, and later her apparent death inspires Darren to contemplate a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. The truth is worse; she's an AxCrazy sociopath who managed to get Darren to work against the only people who could have helped him and told him the truth about his heritage until it was too late.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Samuel
* DeadpanSnarker: Darren
* DirtyOldMan: Darren's boss Fuller
* DomesticAbuse: Mr Biba beats his wife
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Angelina.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: William and Samuel]] and [[spoiler:Darren/Adrian]] in the third, he almost succeeds.
* DyingTown: Willow Creek
* EtherealWhiteDress: [[spoiler:Maria's ghost is wearing white. Darren see her in the woods, when he is locked in the cabin.]]
* EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:Samuel and later Darren, although not as... horrifying.]]
* EvilTwin
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: In the third, Mordred wants to take over Darren/Adrian's body.]]
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Darren and his adoptive mother got on well during their life in America. Or so we are told, since she dies in the first chapter before we ever get to talk to her.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Adrian's and Angelina's real mother takes the evil Angelina with her when she jumps into the abyss so Adrian can live.]]
* {{Hipster}}: Darren is of the 1993, grunge variety.
* InfallibleBabble: In the second game there's the drunk who approaches Darren and in the third there's [[FortuneTeller Madame Fortuna]]
%%* InformingTheFourthWall
* {{Jerkass}}: Fuller, Murray, Tom, Phil.. Also Darren to an extent in the beginning.
** Samuel too. While taking things that aren't yours and swindling the odd NPC is [[PointAndClickGame a long-respected genre tradition]], a few Samuel's actions are pretty shady. Outright theft, subversion of the law, and passing off dyed water as an obscure chemical. Most of them because he couldn't be arsed to wait a few days. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Yes, waiting or doing a timeskip would downplay player agency]] but still...
** Samuel also has a habit of being unsympathetic or downright nasty to people in his search for answers. He threatens some of the staff of the manor with unemployment if they don't follow his orders quickly enough and puts undue stress on a lot of his family because of his impatience. Poor Bates is often forced to describe traumatizing events that he has no interest in reliving.
-->'''Bates:''' It was very unpleasant having to describe [a murder scene] all over again, Sir.
-->'''Samuel:''' Oh? Can you repeat to me what you told him?
-->'''Bates:''' I was afraid you would ask...
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Every local Darren initially meets in Willow Creek in the second game is dead by the end of the third (with the except of three characters: Bobby, Murray, and Ralph).]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: The horrible fate of Miss Valley]]
* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:Samuel, complete with TomatoInTheMirror]]
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: At one point Darren is locked in a cell, how does he escape? [[spoiler: He uses rust and an aluminum dish to make thermite that he ignites in the lock of his prison. This and similar feats are [[HandWave handwaved]] by the fact that Darren is a student of physics.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Darren for Angelina
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Darren is really Adrian Gordon, Samuel's son.]]
* NotAlwaysEvil: [[spoiler:The Order of the second game, though they're completely useless at their job.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: Mordred's portrait in the Gordon mansion foyer would give [[Film/GhostbustersII Vigo the Carpathian]] a run for his money.
* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler: Something that Darren has to face not once, not twice but ''three times''. When his adoptive mother dies from injuries caused by Angelina, when his newly discovered birth mother sacrifices herself to take down Angelina, and when the last living member of his family, Lady Victoria, dies from her injuries, you guessed it, Angelina is responsible for.]]
* PlayingDrunk: Darren was pretending to be drinking along with Tom to get information from him.
* PoliceAreUseless
* RagnarokProofing: Zig-Zagged. While some of the ancient tombs that Samuel locates still contain utilize mechanisms that are... um, [[BambooTechnology somewhat advanced]] and [[ElaborateUndergroundBase oddly elaborate]], he still has to deal with the fact that these ''are'' old ruins and he has to deal with cave-ins and broken architecture more than once.
* SequelHook: Definitely with the second game, which ends [[spoiler: with Mordred possessing Darren/Adrian]] and the third game is a direct continuation of the story. The third game arguably ends with one too [[spoiler: since Adrian learns he is now responsible for protecting the world of the living from the Black Mirror and the dangerous shades it may have unleashed in the past. Also there's the spirit of an evil king from the distant past whom Mordred tried to summon and is implied to have escaped from the mirror]]. Unfortunately, to date there isn't a ''Black Mirror IV'', but at least the trilogy we have manages to wrap up pretty much everything.
* ShootOutTheLock: Required by Samuel at one point while trapped in an abandoned mine. [[spoiler: The player has to examine the padlock beforehand, revealing a weak point which Samuel can then aim at. Otherwise, it takes two bullets to destroy the lock, leaving Samuel with nothing to defend himself with when the wolf attacks outside the mine.]]
* TheShrink: Dr. Winterbottom in the third game. Definitely well meaning, but to call her awesome would be too much.
* SmugSnake: Murray, the owner of the Willow Creek hotel.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler: Dr. Heinz Hermann.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Willow Creek. [[spoiler: Aside from the fact that the town is next door to a castle built on top of an ArtifactOfDoom? The owner of the local pub runs an operation that films and sells videos of people being tortured.]]
* {{Twincest}}: [[spoiler:Darren and Angelina. She knows, he doesn't. Although it's never stated if they ever went further than kissing.]]
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''The Black Mirror'' is a 2003 [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] horror adventure game developed by Czech studio Future Games. The name refers to the ancestral manor of the Gordon family located in England.
After the mysterious death of his grandfather, Samuel Gordon is forced to return to his home Black Mirror Castle after twelve years. Everyone believes his grandfather committed suicide, but Samuel isn't so sure about that and wants to find out what really happened. It doesn't help that Samuel suddenly gets a lot of vivid nightmares and excruciating headaches. Soon, strange and unexpected deaths occur in the nearby village Willow Creek and Samuel gets closer and closer to a dark secret.
''Black Mirror 2'' (2009) and ''Black Mirror 3'' (2011) were developed by German studio Cranberry Production. They take place in the 1990s, twelve years after the first game. The [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent college student]] Darren Michaels is working at the local photo shop in Biddeford, a small town in New England. One afternoon, he meets the beautiful Angelina who promptly gets accused of murdering Darren's boss [[AssholeVictim Fuller]]. While trying to help her, he realizes things aren't what they seem to be: a mysterious stranger is following Angelina around and Darren himself gets involved in a series of strange events that eventually lead him to the small English village of Willow Creek. He learns about the Gordon family and a century-old curse that is connected with them.
A reboot titled ''Black Mirror'' was released in 2017. It was developed by German studio King Art Games and published by Creator/THQNordic.
Not to be confused with the [[Series/BlackMirror British TV series of the same name]].
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [[spoiler: The room Angelina was staying in at the hotel in Willow Creek had the number 13 while Darren's had the much more positive number 12.]]
* AbortedArc: In Black Mirror II, there is talk early in the game of a woman named Kerry who committed suicide in the small Maine town. You never hear of her again once you leave the town. It's possible that [[spoiler: she was raped and then blackmailed by Fuller and killed herself as a result - after all, her picture is in Fuller's window.]]
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer
* TheAlcoholic: Henry, the gardener.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler: In the last quarter of the last game, the Vatican agent, Valentina, suddenly gets thrown into the mix as a playable character, though you still play as Darren/Adrian at the same time.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Darren believes absolutely everything he is told about the Gordon family but he won't believe a FortuneTeller even when there's proof that she can predict the future.
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: There's an actual black mirror that the castle is named for. It transports the souls of anyone evil who dies near it to some kind of hellish dimension (if it isn't ''the'' Hell), generates shadow versions of people that can torture said souls or kill the living, and literally radiates evil that only certain people can resist. It's heavily implied that Mordred was a good person until he was corrupted by it when he tried to study it. No one knows why it exists or who made it, but Valentina speculates that it's as old as the universe itself.]]
* AxCrazy:
** Mordred. [[spoiler:Whenever Darren/Adrian lays a hand on anything with a sharp edge, Mordred goes nuts with admiration for the weapon.]]
** [[spoiler:Angelina, who has no compunction about killing members of her own family, including her own mother and brother.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mordred]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Darren/Adrian when Mordred's soul is taking him over.]]
* ByTheBookCop: Constable Zack
* CainAndAbel: Marcus and Mordred, the founders of the castle
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: Poor Ralph and his "best friend" Mr Bubby.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: For a good part of the second game Angelina seems to be this, and later her apparent death inspires Darren to contemplate a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. The truth is worse; she's an AxCrazy sociopath who managed to get Darren to work against the only people who could have helped him and told him the truth about his heritage until it was too late.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Samuel
* DeadpanSnarker: Darren
* DirtyOldMan: Darren's boss Fuller
* DomesticAbuse: Mr Biba beats his wife
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Angelina.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: William and Samuel]] and [[spoiler:Darren/Adrian]] in the third, he almost succeeds.
* DyingTown: Willow Creek
* EtherealWhiteDress: [[spoiler:Maria's ghost is wearing white. Darren see her in the woods, when he is locked in the cabin.]]
* EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:Samuel and later Darren, although not as... horrifying.]]
* EvilTwin
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: In the third, Mordred wants to take over Darren/Adrian's body.]]
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Darren and his adoptive mother got on well during their life in America. Or so we are told, since she dies in the first chapter before we ever get to talk to her.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Adrian's and Angelina's real mother takes the evil Angelina with her when she jumps into the abyss so Adrian can live.]]
* {{Hipster}}: Darren is of the 1993, grunge variety.
* InfallibleBabble: In the second game there's the drunk who approaches Darren and in the third there's [[FortuneTeller Madame Fortuna]]
%%* InformingTheFourthWall
* {{Jerkass}}: Fuller, Murray, Tom, Phil.. Also Darren to an extent in the beginning.
** Samuel too. While taking things that aren't yours and swindling the odd NPC is [[PointAndClickGame a long-respected genre tradition]], a few Samuel's actions are pretty shady. Outright theft, subversion of the law, and passing off dyed water as an obscure chemical. Most of them because he couldn't be arsed to wait a few days. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Yes, waiting or doing a timeskip would downplay player agency]] but still...
** Samuel also has a habit of being unsympathetic or downright nasty to people in his search for answers. He threatens some of the staff of the manor with unemployment if they don't follow his orders quickly enough and puts undue stress on a lot of his family because of his impatience. Poor Bates is often forced to describe traumatizing events that he has no interest in reliving.
-->'''Bates:''' It was very unpleasant having to describe [a murder scene] all over again, Sir.
-->'''Samuel:''' Oh? Can you repeat to me what you told him?
-->'''Bates:''' I was afraid you would ask...
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Every local Darren initially meets in Willow Creek in the second game is dead by the end of the third (with the except of three characters: Bobby, Murray, and Ralph).]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: The horrible fate of Miss Valley]]
* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:Samuel, complete with TomatoInTheMirror]]
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: At one point Darren is locked in a cell, how does he escape? [[spoiler: He uses rust and an aluminum dish to make thermite that he ignites in the lock of his prison. This and similar feats are [[HandWave handwaved]] by the fact that Darren is a student of physics.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Darren for Angelina
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Darren is really Adrian Gordon, Samuel's son.]]
* NotAlwaysEvil: [[spoiler:The Order of the second game, though they're completely useless at their job.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: Mordred's portrait in the Gordon mansion foyer would give [[Film/GhostbustersII Vigo the Carpathian]] a run for his money.
* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler: Something that Darren has to face not once, not twice but ''three times''. When his adoptive mother dies from injuries caused by Angelina, when his newly discovered birth mother sacrifices herself to take down Angelina, and when the last living member of his family, Lady Victoria, dies from her injuries, you guessed it, Angelina is responsible for.]]
* PlayingDrunk: Darren was pretending to be drinking along with Tom to get information from him.
* PoliceAreUseless
* RagnarokProofing: Zig-Zagged. While some of the ancient tombs that Samuel locates still contain utilize mechanisms that are... um, [[BambooTechnology somewhat advanced]] and [[ElaborateUndergroundBase oddly elaborate]], he still has to deal with the fact that these ''are'' old ruins and he has to deal with cave-ins and broken architecture more than once.
* SequelHook: Definitely with the second game, which ends [[spoiler: with Mordred possessing Darren/Adrian]] and the third game is a direct continuation of the story. The third game arguably ends with one too [[spoiler: since Adrian learns he is now responsible for protecting the world of the living from the Black Mirror and the dangerous shades it may have unleashed in the past. Also there's the spirit of an evil king from the distant past whom Mordred tried to summon and is implied to have escaped from the mirror]]. Unfortunately, to date there isn't a ''Black Mirror IV'', but at least the trilogy we have manages to wrap up pretty much everything.
* ShootOutTheLock: Required by Samuel at one point while trapped in an abandoned mine. [[spoiler: The player has to examine the padlock beforehand, revealing a weak point which Samuel can then aim at. Otherwise, it takes two bullets to destroy the lock, leaving Samuel with nothing to defend himself with when the wolf attacks outside the mine.]]
* TheShrink: Dr. Winterbottom in the third game. Definitely well meaning, but to call her awesome would be too much.
* SmugSnake: Murray, the owner of the Willow Creek hotel.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler: Dr. Heinz Hermann.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Willow Creek. [[spoiler: Aside from the fact that the town is next door to a castle built on top of an ArtifactOfDoom? The owner of the local pub runs an operation that films and sells videos of people being tortured.]]
* {{Twincest}}: [[spoiler:Darren and Angelina. She knows, he doesn't. Although it's never stated if they ever went further than kissing.]]
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