History VideoGame / TheDeadCase

''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/173654 The Dead Case]]'' is a PointAndClickGame mystery game by Zachery Shaffer, released on ''Website/{{Newgrounds}}'' on June 7th, 2004.

* PaintingTheMedium: When the church ghost gets part of her memory back and when the school ghost gets her eyes back, their reactions break from the standard presentation by using smaller and/or larger text than usual.
-->'''Church Ghost:''' [--Oh my...--] [-I had forgotten...-] '''How could I have ''forgotten''?'''\\

* DoesNotLikeMen: The church ghost. [[spoiler: She hated her husband, but forgot him in death, so her feelings got directed toward men in general. Once she remembers him, her hatred is aimed solely at him.]]
* DoubleTake: One of the kids you scare glances at you, goes back to looking bored, then looks at you in fear before running off.

* AdultFear: The backstories of the ghosts all deal with this. The school ghost [[spoiler:committed suicide after losing her husband and her daughter]], the hospital ghost [[spoiler:was injured while on his motorcycle and died in the hospital because of a mistake by the staff]], and the church ghost [[spoiler:found out her husband was a serial killer and ended up dying when he set the house on fire to hide his crimes]]. As for the protagonist, he [[spoiler:was shot by the serial killer because his fiancée was the killer's next target and he was in the way. Stopping the killer from shooting the fiancée ends up being the game's climax.]]

* ThemeNaming: The three bullies' names start with A, B, and C: Alec, Bobby, and Clyde.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: After you beat the game, you see what happens to the various characters.

* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:The church ghost's husband stalked and murdered a number of women, always keeping photographs of his victims and burying at least one of them in the basement. He's also responsible for the murders of the protagonist and the church ghost.]]

->''It was dark. Very dark. But then, you'd expect that [[StartsWithTheirFuneral in a coffin, wouldn't you]]?''

--> ''It was dark. Very dark. But then, you'd expect that [[StartsWithTheirFuneral in a coffin, wouldn't you]]?''

''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/173654 The Dead Case]]'' is a PointAndClickGame mystery game by Zachery Shaffer. You play as a ghost who is [[WhodunnitToMe is trying to solve his own murder]] after [[GhostAmnesia losing his memories in death]].

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* WomanScorned: The church ghost manages to remember hating her husband because she thought he was cheating on her. [[spoiler:What he actually was doing was ''much'' worse...]]

* AdultFear: The backstories of the ghosts all deal with this. The school ghost [[spoiler:committed suicide after losing her husband and her daughter]], the hospital ghost [[spoiler:was injured while on his motorcycle and died in the hospital because of a mistake by the staff]], and the church ghost [[spoiler:found out her husband was a serial killer and ended up dying when he set the house on fire to hide his crimes]]. As for the protagonist, he [[spoiler:was shot by the serial killer because his fiance was the killer's next target and he was in the way. Stopping the killer from shooting the fiance ends up being the game's climax.]]

** The library ghost [[spoiler:is a former police detective that was forced to quit due to health problems. Since his spiritual form is mostly unmarred, it's likely he died from a heart attack or similar medical condition.]]

* MurderTheHypotenuse: A rather dark variation. [[spoiler:The protagonist was murdered by the serial killer because the killer wanted his fiance as his "bride" (that is, he wanted to kill her so he could have her and his other victims as a harem in the afterlife). When the protagonist finds a board with the photos of the killer's victims on it, his own picture is there captioned "He got in the way".]]

* NonstandardGameOver: The player gets one if they [[spoiler:don't stop the church ghost from setting the fiance's house on fire to try to kill her husband. The ending will say that the fiance will die in the fire, but the serial killer husband will escape.]]

* [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse:]] A rather dark variation. [[spoiler:The protagonist was murdered by the serial killer because the killer wanted his fiance as his "bride" (that is, he wanted to kill her so he could have her and his other victims as a harem in the afterlife). When the protagonist finds a board with the photos of the killer's victims on it, his own picture is there captioned "He got in the way".]]

* NoNameGiven: Subverted with pretty much every major character. [[spoiler:The hospital ghost is named Stephen Hicks, the school ghost is Rebecca Holloway, the church ghost is Marion Toberin, the library ghost is Ivan Kent, and the killer is Greg Toberin. And the player character is named Adam Smith.]]

* NoNameGiven: Subverted with pretty much every major character. [[spoiler:The hospital ghost is named Stephen Hicks, the school ghost is Rebecca Holloway, the church ghost is Marion Toberin, the library ghost is Ivan, and the killer is Greg Toberin. And the player character is named Adam Smith.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: The cops of the town seem pretty incompetent. According to the library ghost they're covering up the protagonist's murder and one is shown playing solitaire on the computer when she's supposed to be working. [[spoiler:Subverted by the library ghost, who used to be a cop in real life and spends the rest of eternity researching various murder cases to try to solve them]].

!!!''The Dead Case'' contains the following tropes:

* [[spoiler:TortureCellar:]] Implied to have been kept by [[spoiler:the serial killer, since his burned-down house has human bones in it and his wife remembers going into the basement where she discovered evidence of his crimes.]]

''[[http://www.newsandentertainment.com/zfdeadcase.html The Dead Case]]'' is a PointAndClickGame mystery game by Zachery Shaffer. You play as a ghost who is [[WhodunnitToMe is trying to solve his own murder]] after [[GhostAmnesia losing his memories in death]].

''[[http://www.newsandentertainment.com/zfdeadcase.html Dead Case]]'' is a PointAndClickGame mystery game by Zachery Shaffer. You play as a ghost who is [[WhodunnitToMe is trying to solve his own murder]] after [[GhostAmnesia losing his memories in death]].

!!!Dead Case contains the following tropes