Tear Ring Saga/Characters

General:

 * The Archer: Ruka, Racquel, Thomas, Rennie, Holmes, Shirou, Hagaru.
 * Bodyguard Crush: Billford to Sharon.
 * Crutch Character: In theory, this would be Eugen, but he isn't a playable unit. The closest would be Raphin who starts out pre-promoted and arrives in chapter 2, he however is only a partial example because he still grows well and can even promote again as shown below.
 * Dragon Rider: In addition to the standard promotion of Pegasus Knights to Dragon Knights, Raphin (a horse-riding Command Knight) may also promote to a Dragon Knight in a break from tradition.
 * Eleventh Hour Superpower: Tia receives the ring which unlocks her Holy Sword Of Leda midway into the final chapter.
 * Everything's Better With Princesses: Sasha and Tia.
 * Gonk: Garo and Norton.
 * Magikarp Power: Narron.
 * Mighty Glacier/Genius Bruiser: Billford, Norton and Zachariah
 * My Country Right or Wrong: Ernst.
 * Sinister Minister: Gwenchaos
 * Those Two Guys: Kreiss and Archis.
 * Worthy Opponent: Ernst.

Specific tropes:

 * Combination Attack: Required to kill the final boss without it just getting right back up again. At full health.
 * Heel Face Mole/Guest Star Party Member/Too Awesome to Use:
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill: Raquel won't kill any human enemies, but she can kill monsters.
 * Tier Induced Scrappy: Maerhen, he starts off with low stats and has possibly the worst growths in the game. He also has the mug skill which decreases the hit and avoid of party members in a 3 square radius by 50%. This skill does allow you to take enemy's stuff once you've killed him, but Maerhen won't be killing much with his bad stats and growths.
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl: If you surround Roger on mission 4 with just female units, he won't attack them.