Shadow Hearts/Fridge


 * Fridge Brilliance:
 * Some characters like Alice, Halley, and Anastasia have rather low SP, while some characters like the vampires have ridiculously high SP. Fridge Brilliance because the vampires are used to seeing supernatural things and are desensitized, whereas the others have been relatively sheltered. Naturally, SP Growth is them being more "Desensitized".
 * Halley has ESP abilities in Shadow Hearts - they're nice, but suck a lot of his MP out. This actually makes sense when you consider he's not had that much time to train his abilities and that they sometimes pop up when he is having a tantrum. (He even shouts, "Gah! I hate you! I hate you!" when using his psychic powers.)
 * The Sanity Points. Vampires always have high SP because they're used to seeing supernatural creatures on a day-to-day basis. People like Alice, Halley, Karin, and Anastasia who have low SP aren't so they're getting used to seeing these monsters. They also grow as they level up; as the character of course gets more and more desensitized to the existence of monsters, so it quite literally takes more to drive them insane. The Harmonixers always have high SP because, well, that power threatens to drive them insane so they have to get used to it.
 * Anastasia's Summon Magic operates through a camera and pictures; and she can't use the Summon Magic until she attains the proper picture. This is actually Fridge Brilliance because some people used to believe that cameras would steal your soul.
 * Fridge Horror: Oh so much...just read the monster descriptions.
 * This is a pretty Crapsack (later Crapsaccharine) world, actually. You could kill monsters, but their malice may come back and haunt you. Nicolai unleashed a shitton of Malice on the world at once, resulting in a lot of other monsters.