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Wax Works (Video Game)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })After the success of their Elvira-based adventure games, HorrorSoft followed them up in 1992 with another point-and-click horror/adventure in the original IP Wax Works, which is so similar to the Elvira games that it's often considered a spiritual sequel.The storyline was fairly simple: After the death of your uncle, he leaves you his wax works, a crystal ball, and a letter telling you that you must rid the family of a curse put upon it by Ixona, an evil witch from the distant past, which has affected them whenever twins were born. One twin turns out good, and the other evil. To defeat each evil twin, you must use your uncle's wax works to go back in time to four periods and locations: An Ancient-Egyptian pyramid, Victorian London — in which the evil twin is none other than Jack the Ripper — a cemetery teeming with zombies, and a vast mine shaft filled with plant mutants. If you can destroy the evil twin from each stage, you will be able to enter one final wax work, the Witch's lair, and rid the family of its curse for good. If you need assistance, you can speak to your uncle through the crystal ball for clues and tips.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })But much like the Elvira games, the story is hardly the most memorable aspect. In addition to being Nintendo Hard, the game is notorious for having horrifically realistic and gory death scenes. If this isn't the game with the most disturbing Game Over screens in history, then it is certainly a worthy contender for the title. It actually makes the Elvira games seem somewhat tame by comparison. That said, it's a great point-and-click adventure game. Just prepare like you won't believe... and you may wish to avoid eating during gameplay.For those interested in the game, a longplay of the Amiga version can be found here, and the game is available for sale as a download at Gog.com. A Video Game Remake by Went2Play is currently in progress, and can be played through early access on Steam.Not to be confused with the film Waxwork, which had a similar premise.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The game came with a short novel that served as both exposition and prologue. It also reveals the witch's name as Ixona, which is never mentioned in the game.
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Abandoned Mine
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Abandoned Mine: The Mines level. Also counts as a sort of plant version of a Womb Level, as the vines and deadly plants that litter the walls all belong to the evil brother of that level.
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Skeleton Key
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Skeleton Key: One of the items found in London is a skeleton key which can be used on most locked doors.
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Bloodier and Gorier
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Bloodier and Gorier: While the game isn't a true sequel to the Elvira games, it's similar enough that it might as well be, and is a lot gorier than either of them — and keep in mind, they were no slouches in the gore department, either.
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Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egypt: One of the levels is set inside an Egyptian pyramid.
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown / Curbstomp Battle: The final boss fight with the witch.
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Anachronism Stew
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Anachronism Stew: Not too serious, but there are several items that don't belong to the period they're found in: Giant glass panels and tuning forks in ancient Egypt. The graveyard level is supposed to take place after the mineshaft level if you are to believe the plaques. However, in the latter you find a lot of modern technologies — Dynamite, elevators, pneumatic drills and a truck at the end — while there are no traces of such in the former, and even the clothing has more of an 18-19th century style.
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Porn Stache
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Porn Stache: Oddly enough, one of the zombie models in the Graveyard waxwork is sporting one of these.
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay: You WILL die. A lot.
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Tomato in the Mirror
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Tomato in the Mirror: You're the evil twin.
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Rapid Aging
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Rapid Aging: Vladimir's spell makes the playable character turn much older before he dies.
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Deadly Gas
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Deadly Gas: Used as a trap in the pyramids and a plant in the underground mine can release noxious fumes.
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NoKillLikeOverKill
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No Kill Like Overkill: How the last evil twin kills Ixona the witch during the climax before she can cast her curse. Let's see, a glass vial of acidic poison to the face, her hand getting chopped off, a crossbow bolt through the eye, and being stabbed multiple times through the throat.
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Copy Protection
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Copy Protection: At the start of the game, your uncle's assistant asks for your ticket. You must then supply a ticket number based on four words and images.
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Daylight Horror
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Daylight Horror: The only waxworks that take place during the day are the Mine and Witch scenarios. Both the Graveyard and London ones are set at night, and the Ancient Egypt one takes place during a single night. The sun sets just as you enter the pyramid, and rises as you leave.
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Catching Some Z's
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Catching Some Z's: The pause icon is represented by three zs, making it clear it's there if you need a break (potentially for sleep).
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Two-Faced
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Two-Faced: One of the zombies in the Graveyard waxwork is missing the flesh on one side of his face, exposing the skull.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Those plant mutants in the mine? They used to be human. The worst case of this is your twin brother, who is so badly mutated that he doesn't look even remotely human anymore. And of course, this trope can happen to you — especially the tongue mutant death.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Long ago, one of your ancestors cut the hand off of a witch for attempting to steal his chickens. Her curse in revenge was to condemn one of every set of twins born to the family to serve Beelzebub and become evil.
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All Your Powers Combined
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All Your Powers Combined: To defeat Ixona the Witch, you have to use various items belonging to the various evil twins you've defeated in the game to battle her.
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History: The prologue states that the first evil twin born after the witch curses the bloodline became known as Vlad IV, later known as Vlad the Impaler.note The real Vlad the Impaler was Vlad III
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: Go ahead, try to have the policemen roaming around the Victorian level help you. Too bad you look much like their suspect, your twin brother.
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Disney Villain Death
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Disney Villain Death: Jack the Ripper meets his end with a variation of this at the end of the London stage — he's impaled through the chest, falling off a high dock and into the River Thames as he dies.
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Animal Stereotypes
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Animal Stereotypes: Invoked twice in the pyramid: One death has you being dragged into the water by a crocodile and eaten, and the other involves snakes crawling out of holes in the wall and one of them biting you.
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Nintendo Hard
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Nintendo Hard: Just like the Elvira games, WaxWorks is very difficult.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The fact that you, the evil twin, is going to hell and back numerous times to save your twin brother and prevent the curse from starting says a lot about the protagonist.
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Gameplay Roulette
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Gameplay Roulette: Each level has its own style of play. The pyramid is based around puzzles and traps, Victorian London is stealth and evasion, the graveyard is the most action-packed, and the mine is almost like a pre-Resident Evil as you traverse a mine shaft full of plant mutants. The best weapon against them is the chemical thrower, but it has limited fuel and you must go to a certain spot on the map to refuel it.
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Indy Escape
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Indy Escape: There are a couple of giant boulders in the Egyptian levels that you must dodge or be crushed.
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Facial Horror
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Facial Horror: A lot of the deaths involve horrible things happening to your face. Also, the two zombie models in the Graveyard waxwork have decomposed faces that are pretty unsightly, to say the least.
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Big Brother Instinct
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Big Brother Instinct: The other goal of the game besides lifting the curse is to recover your twin brother's soul and save him.
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Video Game Remake
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Video Game Remake: The game has been remade in 2020 as Waxworks: Curse of the Ancestors, with modern 3D graphics, more user-friendly design choices, voice acting, and an entirely new level called Ixona's Forest to explore.
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: See that melting candle comprised of creepy faces up there? Nothing even resembling it appears in the game.
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Kaizo Trap
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Kaizo Trap: In the mines, you might be tempted to prime the TNT right away after you supposedly defeat the Evil Twin, thinking that doing so will invoke a Timed Mission, or maybe Take Your Time. That is most definitely not the case, as you only have a few seconds before the TNT explodes and collapses the mine.
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Circling Birdies
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Circling Birdies: If you're getting hit from behind, you'll see stars to indicate it.
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Slashed Throat
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Slashed Throat: Jack the Ripper's specialty. In the London Waxwork, the first thing you see is a girl whose throat was slit. The same happens to you if you lose in the fight with Jack.
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Bad Moon Rising
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Bad Moon Rising: In the Jack the Ripper segment, the moon looks like a skull. But not, oddly, in the graveyard level.
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Spikes of Doom
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Spikes of Doom: One of the deaths in the pyramid involves a very nasty encounter with a spike pit.
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Eldritch Abomination
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In the mine scenario, to incapacitate your horribly mutated twin brother, you have to locate and stab out all of its seven or eight eyes with a rail.
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Creepy Good
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Creepy Good: The butler. Yes, his sinister face and big frame are intimidating, and he can push you away, but he doesn't intend to harm you, is supportive of your mission, and gives you the crystal ball to talk to your uncle.
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Karmic Death
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The prologue also explains that the first twin had Ixona imprisoned and repeatedly tortured before finally having her executed, the latter of which took two whole days for her to finally die, during which time the snakes and snapping turtles in the surrounding bog slowly ate away at her still-living flesh, which could be seen as an example of Karmic Death.
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Victorian London
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Victorian London: One of the levels is set here.
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Press X to Die
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Press X to Die: In the Egyptian pyramid, you can find an option that lets you knock down a supporting pillar. Take a wild guess what happens when you do it.
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Death by Irony
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Death by Irony: Up to Eleven according to the prologue. After the witch places the curse, she is later killed by the first evil twin for refusing to lift the curse. The irony then goes up to infinity and beyond in the ending after it is revealed you've been playing as the evil twin all along and Alex is actually the good twin. That means the last evil twin got to her before she was even able to cast the curse to begin with. The prologue also explains that the first twin had Ixona imprisoned and repeatedly tortured before finally having her executed, the latter of which took two whole days for her to finally die, during which time the snakes and snapping turtles in the surrounding bog slowly ate away at her still-living flesh, which could be seen as an example of Karmic Death.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: Quite a few of the deaths depict ocular damage. The only way to defeat the last boss is to utterly mutilate her with a barrage of attacks, including shooting a crossbow bolt through her eye. In the mine scenario, to incapacitate your horribly mutated twin brother, you have to locate and stab out all of its seven or eight eyes with a rail.
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The Many Deaths of You
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The Many Deaths of You: You would be hard-pressed to find a better — and more disturbing — example of this trope.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: At one point in the Graveyard level, you find a relatively good-looking woman with impressive cleavage. Unfortunately, she's dead, there's a huge open hole in her chest, and you can take her heart from it to use it for a healing spell.
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Witch Hunt
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Witch Hunt: There is a mob searching for Jack the Ripper. If the player comes across them, they'll mistake the player as the killer and beat him to death.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The part in the pyramid where the snakes come out of holes in the wall is very similar to an infamous scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. No snakes slithering out of human skulls, thankfully.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: According to the prologue and the waxwork itself, this is how Vlad the Impaler, the first evil twin, killed Ixona after she refuses to lift the curse.
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Everything's Deader with Zombies
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Everything's Deader with Zombies: The Graveyard waxwork is teeming with the undead, and the best way to kill them is by lopping their arms and heads off with a sickle you find.
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Temple of Doom
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Temple of Doom: The Egyptian level, which is filled with traps and puzzles made to kill the player instantly. Unlike most examples of this trope though, the player is entering it in ancient times instead of thousands of years later.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: For many players, the vicious brutality they inflict on the witch at the climax is payback for the many gruesome deaths they undoubtedly suffered up to that point. Also character-wise, as it is your twin you're trying to save and the game makes it very clear nothing is going to stop you from doing so. Up to Eleven and then some if you consider you're trying to save the good twin.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: See Death by Irony above and Impaled with Extreme Prejudice below.
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Cue the Sun
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Cue the Sun: The ending of the Egyptian wax work will have you and the Princess leave the maze just in time to watch the sun rise over the Pyramids.
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Battle Theme Music
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Battle Theme Music: Each location (except for London) has unique music playing during enemy battles, with it being based on the location's theme but faster and more action-oriented than the music which plays while exploring.
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Crystal Ball
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Crystal Ball: You speak to your dead uncle through the green crystal ball to ask for help and advice at the cost of psychic energy.
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Gorn
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Gorn: Saw has nothing on this game.
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Cartography Sidequest
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Cartography Sidequest: You get experience for each part of the map visited in an area. This is the only way to level up in London.
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Cain and Abel
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Cain and Abel: Your family was cursed so that one of every set of twins becomes evil, and you have to go back in time using the titular waxworks building to kill the worst of them and break the curse. Your own brother is incapacitated before and throughout the game, and part of your goal is to save him, but other than this, the "evil twin" aspect isn't played up much: the evil brothers of the past include Jack the Ripper, a necromancer who looks far older than his good twin, and a human/fungus mutant who doesn't even resemble a human anymore. Then you get to the ending, however, and the "evil twin" aspect comes back to hit you in the face in full force.
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