Tales of Symphonia/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: (Japanese version) In the sequel, Collete thinks that Regal trains spies to "hide in cardboard boxes and steal top-secret info from rival companies".
 * Media Research Failure: Nintendo Power Magazine incorrectly referred to Raine as Genis' mom.
 * Fan Nickname: Disco Lord Yggdrasil.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: The English voice cast in a lot of ways embodies the transition period between popular 90's voice actors and voice actors who would become popular as the 00's went on.
 * Lloyd clearly having the voice of Scott Menville, aka Robin and Ma-Ti. Also, Kratos' VA is Cam Clarke, who lent his voice in several other productions, as well, brrrrother!
 * Kratos? When will you learn how to turn yourself into a flaming missile?
 * Also, how's Silvermoon, Blood Elf?
 * Oh great, Tidus is back and here to complain about his family iss-- did he just telekinetically slam The Hero into a wall and attempt to murder everybody so that he could ?! Talk about Playing Against Type!
 * Samus? Bastila? Why are you a clumsy big-boobed ninja? Shouldn't you be fighting Metroids and Sith?
 * Or saving the galaxy as one of the greatest badasses ever?
 * Forcystus is also The Other Darrin for Tony Montana
 * Magnius also voices various Grunts and Brutes.
 * Rodyle is, variously Spotswoode, Myotismon and Mercurymon, Timmy's Dad and Cosmo, and the Club Skum MC from "Hobgoblins".
 * He's not Vamdemon, that's Richard Epcar you're thinking of.
 * Not to mention Cliff Freakin McCormack.
 * Remiel is also The Riddler and Renji Abarai.
 * Both Luna and Pronyma are actually Tally Wong, Psylocke, and LeBlanc.
 * Least we forget that she is also Silk FOX, Sarah, and Lisa.
 * Colette has had an on-and-off job as Ducky.
 * She's lowered her voice here, but you hear it, yep yep yep!
 * She also had a one-week stint playing the Reaper's Game.
 * And, to Kalec's dismay, no one could stop her from sacrificing herself as Anveena Teague.
 * And Presea is Tara Strong, aka Bubbles, Ben Tennyson, Raven, Rikku, Twilight Sparkle, the original Diglett, and also Corrine. And many, many other roles.
 * Thanks to Janice Kawaye, Alice's career includes Jenny Wakeman and Ami Onuki.
 * And who can overlook Crispin Freeman and Troy Baker as Regal?
 * In the sequel, Sheena is Viola and Mai Valentine.
 * I Knew It!: Some people saw the  Others came close
 * Name's the Same: No, Kratos is not Kratos from God of War. The fact that he came first should make that more obvious.
 * Coincidentally, this Kratos can obtain the title "War God".
 * Though while the spelling is the same, they are pronounced quite differently. (Krah-tos vs Kray-tos)
 * Names to Know in Anime:
 * Katsuyuki Konishi - Lloyd
 * Ai Orikasa - Genis
 * Nana Mizuki - Colette
 * Fumihiko Tachiki - Kratos
 * Yumi Touma - Raine
 * Houko Kuwashima - Presea
 * Akio Ohtsuka - Regal
 * Masaya Onosaka - Zelos
 * Minami Takayama - Mithos
 * In the Japanese version Lloyd likes kicking reason to the curb! He'll pierce the heavens with his swords!
 * North America Brothers anyone?
 * Also in Japanese, Sheena sounds like a certain red-headed pirate that's great at navigating and bossing her crewmates around in One Piece
 * Kratos clearly shows that Gendo Ikari
 * Nobuhiko Okamoto - Wonder Chef in the OVA specials.
 * No Export for You:
 * Averted after ten years: The PS2 release of Tales of Symphonia was bundled with Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for the PS3, complete with a graphical update, in the "Tales of Symphonia Chronicles" two-pack for North America and Europe.
 * None of the OVAs have been released outside of Japan. Fortunately, the fans have translated them.
 * The Other Darrin: Brian Beacock is the new English voice post-first game, with intense debate resulting. Popular opinion seems to be that, while Beacock did a good job, Scott Menville's hot-headed approach just suits our Idiot Hero Lloyd better. Also a rare example of this actually working to the story's advantage. It's a plot point that a Lloyd imposter is walking around in Dawn of the New World. Had Menville returned, it would've been blazingly obvious which of them was fake.