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* [[Abduction Is Love]]: Palpaleos kidnaps Princess Yoyo, {{spoiler|and then they fall in love.}}.
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: Fahrenheit's main function besides being an HQ, just replace Aircraft with Dragons.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: {{spoiler|Poor Byuu.}}.
* [[Another Dimension]]: {{spoiler|Altair.}}.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|Both Sauzer and Palpaleos.}}
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: The number of units allowed on the field is determined by how many dragons are under your control, with four humans being assigned to each dragon.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Don't expect your dragons to differentiate between a switch and normal floor. Even if that switch will trigger a trapdoor that instantly kills four of your characters.
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* [[Character Development]]: A surprising amount. Mostly for Yoyo.
* [[The Chosen One]]: The Dragnar.
* [[Cognizant Limbs]]: The [[Final Boss]], {{spoiler|a five-headed dragon}}. Sadly, the engine doesn't handle it nearly as well as it could have.
* [[The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches|Console RPG Cliches]]: Bahamut Lagoon is notable for [[Averted Trope|averting]] or [[Subverted Trope|subverting]] a great number of them.
* [[Cool Ship]]: An entire floating ''continent''.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Yoyo. A good part of the game is spent attempting to rescue her from the Empire. {{spoiler|Associated tropes are subverted, though, in that she falls for her kidnapper and is actually the one of most powerful characters in the game, in terms of both story and gameplay.}}.
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: See [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] below.
* [[The Dragon]]: Palpaleos to Emperor Sauzer.
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* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]
* [[Element Number Five]]: Earth, Light and Dark aren't visible in your dragons' stats. Earth is the first extra element, a dragon who knows [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|Fire, Ice and Lightning]] magic can use Earth at the same level as its worst element. Then, a dragon with maxed out Earth, Healing, Poison, Strength and Defense will gain access to the Light and Dark elements. Very few monsters resist these elements, and finishing off enemies with them gives a chance to drop the best items in the game. Unfortunately, they also cost a lot of MP to cast.
* [[The Empire]]: Granbelos. {{spoiler|Subverted in ending - Kahna itself becomes an empire from [[La Résistance]]'s work in-game, but is obviously not evil.}}.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Subverted - Yoyo becomes the queen of Kahna after its liberation.
* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]
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* [[Geo Effects]]: Different terrains hurt, heal or protect, and all can be altered with the right elemental attack.
** [[Grimy Water]]: The poison swamp Geo Effect, which could be changed to a normal swamp via healing magic.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Palpaleos.}}.
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Byuu actually uses ''two'' swords, to establish him as cooler than the stock sword-wielding units.
* [[Heroic Mime]]
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* [[The Kingdom]]: Every other nation besides the Granbelos Empire.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear]]: Byuu finds quite a number of "drawer things" - things from a drawer in the wink and nudge sense. You can also find "Princess' ???", usually in the suspicious location of Yoyo's bed. However, you can also find "Gunso's ???" by talking to him at pretty much any time...
* [[Lady of War]]: The Light Armors - Lukia, Jeanne, and Mist.
* [[La Résistance]]: The Resistance/Orelus Liberation Army.
* [[Magic Knight]]: Every physical combatant, courtesy of the dragons.
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* [[Ninja]]: Assassins Sajin and Zeroshin.
* [[Non-Elemental]]: Uni magic. It's typeless, does double damage, but also has a 50% failure rate.
* [[No Name Given]]: Zora's son. {{spoiler|Eventually revealed to be Orelus, the same name as the world. No plot relevance, though.}}.
* [[Not So Different]]: Sauzer. {{spoiler|He wants to usher in the new age and prevent apocalypse, just with ''himself'' as the Dragnar. Given Yoyo's weakness and the other part of the prophecy}}...}}
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: The final boss starts as a giant {{spoiler|dragon}}, and after defeat transforms into a giant, five-headed {{spoiler|dragon}} that takes up the whole map.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Both the dragons and the Holy Dragons.
* [[Plot Coupon]]: The Holy Dragons.
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* [[Talented Princess, Regular Guy]]: Byuu might be a pretty good knight, but he takes a back seat, both in power and story role, to Princess Yoyo.
* [[This Is the Final Battle]]: Subverted. Hornet tells you the final battle is about to begin in chapter 18, but it doesn't actually happen until chapter 23.
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: With no less than ''three'' example groups: main characters Yoyo, Melodia (the [[Bratty Half-Pint]] / [[Token Mini-Moe]]) and Zora (the mother); light armor warriors Lukia (the feminine one), Jeanne (the [[Tomboy]]), and Mist (the fragile one); and healers Joy (the [[White Magician Girl]]), Diana (the [[Tomboy]]) and Frederica (the fragile, childish one).
* [[Token Mini-Moe]]: Melodia.
* [[Units Not to Scale]]: Units, forests, castles, houses - they all take up one square. This even has the added bonus of combining this trope with [[Party in My Pocket]].
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Byuu. Yoyo ends up choosing Palpaleos over him.}}.
** {{spoiler|Matelite}}, in a way, is one as well.
*** Then again, {{spoiler|Palpaleos end up dead and Byuu wandering the sky on Bahamut's back, so Matelite}} still has his chances, thanks to the competition being gone (who said that [[Undying Loyalty|thick headed loyalty]] did not pay?).
* [[Unsound Effect]]: The "weird noises" that seem to pop up spontaneously during dialogue seem to indicate arousal (Donfan's trademark "boing" sound, natch), scheming (Ectarina's), and spitefulness (Mist).
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: The game offers ample opportunities to rudely break poor Sendak's heart over and over and over again. ("I don't need any, you old man!")
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