History VideoGame / UnforeseenIncidents

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Despite ostensibly being set in a Twin Peaks-esque American small town, most of the major characters and locations in the game are named after streets, parks, and other landmarks in and around UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} and southern British Columbia, Canada, where one of the devs studied: Harper, Pendrell, Rupert, Denman, Jervis, Cardero, Harwood, Rankin, and Thurlow are all streets; '''Mc'''Bride, Morton, Leroy, and Gr'''e'''ystone are local parks, while Helliwell Bluffs is a provincial park on nearby Hornby Island in the Georgia Strait, and the Kahona Cruncher is a bike trail across the same strait on Vancouver Island; '''Yale'''town is a trendy downtown neighbourhood, a gentrified former factory district; the Nicola Valley is a valley in Rocky Mountains of the province's Interior. Silverdale, meanwhile, is an unincorporated town in Washington, west of Seattle across the Puget Sound.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Professor [=MacBride=]]] TakesTheBullet for Helliwell [[spoiler:after several spins in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor at Aquila.]]

* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:The disease that becomes known as Yelltown Fever turns out to be an artificial plague which the BigBad intends to deliberately unleash so that they can then play the hero by curing it, thus securing ever-greater power over a grateful public.]]

* ForestRanger: "Colonel" Abarrane Jervis is a badass park ranger, as was her father Arbroath (an actual colonel) before her.

* ThePlague: Yelltown Fever, a disease with an extremely rapid onset that kills within hours. [[spoiler:It was engineered by Aquila, and ends up being released ''deliberately'', killing the entire population of Yelltown. Harper, Helliwell, and [=MacBride=] only escape by virtue of being at the RHC camp at the time.]]

* TheHeavy: Gun-toting man in black Devlin is [[spoiler:the Votary]]'s PsychoForHire. [[spoiler:He dies after being locked in the virus containment facility, then lives just long enough to contract Yelltown Fever before dying in the explosion that destroys Aquila's ElaborateUndergroundBase at Kahona.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Jervis has elements of the CrazySurvivalist and TheHermit, but under the circumstances turns out to be largely justified, under the circumstances. Her only mistake was not trusting Harper, and in fairness she had ample reason not to at the time.

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Despite ostensibly being set in a Twin Peaks-esque American small town, most of the major characters and locations in the game are named after streets, parks, and other landmarks in and around UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} and southern British Columbia, Canada, where one of the devs studied: Harper, Pendrell, Rupert, Denman, Jervis, Cardero, Harwood, Rankin, and Thurlow are all streets; '''Mc'''Bride, Morton, Leroy, and Gr'''e'''ystone are local parks, while Helliwell Bluffs is a provincial park on Hornby Island in the Georgia Strait, and the Kahona Cruncher is a bike trail on nearby Vancouver Island; '''Yale'''town is a trendy downtown neighbourhood, a gentrified factory district; the Nicola Valley is a valley in Rocky Mountains of the province's Interior. Silverdale is an unincorporated town in Washington, west of Seattle across the Puget Sound.

--->'''Harper:''' I'm Chet Manningly, and you're listening to ''Slow Dance the Apocalypse''.

* DeadpanSnarker: More proof that Harper is smarter than he thinks: he has a ready quip for most any occasion, [[CasualDangerDialogue even with a gun to his head]].

* LongGame: The BigBad first conceived of their EvilPlan [[spoiler:while still at university. In the years since, she's become a US senator, created a cult that all but worships her, and used government funds and a stolen corporation to build a number of secret facilities across the US and Canada.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Professor MacBride went to university with the woman who later became the Votary, and ends up helping Aquila because he's still in love with her.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Jervis has elements of the CrazySurvivalist, but under the circumstances turns out to be largely justified, under the circumstances. Her only mistake was not trusting Harper, and in fairness she had ample reason not to at the time.

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Despite ostensibly being set in a Twin Peaks-esque American small town, most of the major characters and locations in the game are named after streets, parks, and other landmarks in and around UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} and southern British Columbia, Canada, where one of the devs studied: Harper, Pendrell, Rupert, Denman, Jervis, Cardero, Harwood, Rankin, and Thurlow are all streets; '''Mc'''Bride, Morton, Leroy, and Greystone are local parks, while Helliwell Bluffs is a provincial park on Hornby Island in the Georgia Strait, and the Kahona Cruncher is a bike trail on nearby Vancouver Island; '''Yale'''town is a trendy downtown neighbourhood, a gentrified factory district; the Nicola Valley is a valley in Rocky Mountains of the province's Interior. Silverdale is an unincorporated town in Washington, west of Seattle across the Puget Sound.

* BigBad: Patrick Rancho, head of RHC, is [[spoiler:a RedHerring, an actor paid to take on the role of the cult's public face. The ''real'' BigBad is the Votary, leader of Aquila -- AKA US Senator Sylvia Thurlow.]]

* TheHeavy: Gun-toting man in black Devlin is [[spoiler:the Votary]]'s PsychoForHire.

* MrFixit: Harper's hat: his IconicItem is his multitool, he can pick locks using a screwdriver, he hoards old electronics and spends hours picking over the local junkyard, and he repairs the Professor's car using, among other things, a pair of old pantyhose. The same MacGyvering mindset is what allows him to solve most of the game's puzzles, despite his own [[HeroicSelfDeprecation insistence that he's dumb.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Jervis has elements of the CrazySurvivalist, but under the circumstances turns out to be ProperlyParanoid. Her only mistake was not trusting Harper, and that was probably justified under the circumstances.

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Despite ostensibly being set in a Twin Peaks-esque American small town, most of the major characters and locations in the game are named after streets, parks, neighborhoods, and other landmarks in and around UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} and southern British Columbia, Canada, where one of the devs studied: Harper, Pendrell, Rupert, Denman, Jervis, Cardero, Harwood, Rankin, and Thurlow are all streets; '''Mc'''Bride, Morton, Leroy, and Greystone are local parks, while Helliwell Bluffs is a provincial park on Hornby Island in the Georgia Strait, and Kahona is a bike trail on nearby Vancouver Island; '''Yale'''town is a trendy downtown neighborhood, a gentrified factory district; the Nicola Valley is a valley in Rocky Mountains of the province's Interior. Silverdale is an unincorporated town in Washington, west of Seattle across the Puget Sound.

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Despite ostensibly being set in a Twin Peaks-esque American small town, most of the major characters and locations in the game are named after streets, parks, neighborhoods, and other landmarks in and around UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} and southern British Columbia, Canada, where one of the devs studied: Harper, Pendrell, Rupert, Denman, Jervis, Cardero, Harwood, Rankin, and Thurlow are all streets; '''Mc'''Bride, Morton, Leroy, and Greystone are local parks, while Helliwell Bluffs is a provincial park in the Georgia Strait; Kahona is a bike trail on nearby Vancouver Island; '''Yale'''town is a trendy downtown neighborhood, a gentrified factory district; the Nicola Valley is a valley in the province's Interior. Silverdale is an unincorporated town in Washington, west of Seattle across the Puget Sound.

''Unforeseen Circumstances'' is a {{Point And Click| Game}} AdventureGame from 2018 co-developed by Backwoods Entertainment and Application Systems Heidelberg.

* DyingTown: Yelltown is a fading, backwater factory town. Many inhabitants have simply picked up and left, particularly as fears of Yelltown Fever have taken hold. [[spoiler:They turn out to be the lucky ones.]]

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Despite ostensibly being set in a Twin Peaks-esque American small town, most of the major characters and locations in the game are named after streets, parks, neighborhoods, and other landmarks in and around UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} and southern British Columbia, Canada, where one of the devs studied: Harper, Pendrell, Rupert, Denman, Jervis, Cardero, Harwood, Rankin, and Thurlow are all streets; '''Mc'''Bride, Morton, Leroy, and Greystone are local parks, while Helliwell Bluffs is a provincial park in the Georgia Strait; Kahona is a bike trail on nearby Vancouver Island; '''Yale'''town is a trendy dowtown neighborhood, a gentrified factory district; the Nicola Valley is a valley in the province's Interior. Silverdale is an unincorporated town in Washington, west of Seattle across the Puget Sound.
* TheSlacker: Harper -- despite a real gift for electronics and a childhood dream of being an engineer, he dropped out of university after only three weeks, feeling like it was too hard and that he wasn't smart enough. He's spent years since in his "dead-end" (as he later describes it) hometown, living in his parents' old house, hoarding old junk, and eking out a meagre existence.

* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: If Harper hadn't gone to fix the professor's laptop, he never would have run into [[spoiler:Patty Silverdale]] and been given the envelope that led him to Helliwell.

* TheSlacker: Harper -- despite a real gift for electronics and a childhood dream of being an engineer, he dropped out of university after only three weeks, feeling like it was too hard and that he wasn't smart enough. He's spent years since in his "dead-end" (as he later describes it) hometown, living in his parents' old house, hoarding old junk, and eking out a meagre existence.