Console RPG Clichés: The All The Tropes Version: Difference between revisions

# '''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Yosuke's Lament:]]''' Your character will ''[[Nobody Poops|never]]'' [[Bottomless Bladder|need to use a bathroom]], and sleep and eating are completely optional.

# '''Astroturf Clause:''' No matter what you do in battle while in a forest you'll never set the forest on fire. You can cast massive fireballs, pull meteorites from the heavens, or summon a planet-sized dragon to assault your enemy with a [[Wave Motion Gun]] from space, but those trees just aren't going up.

# '''Level 1 Hero, Level 50 Rock Climber:''' Similarly, the only mountain-climbing allowed involves no gear whatever. Mountains are essentially big staircases, and you just need to pull yourself from ledge to ledge.

# '''Beelzebombed:''' Summoning dark forces (Demons, Devils, [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], etc) never works. Despite this, the evil wizards keep trying, lured by promises of fame, wealth and power, and generally [[Evil Is Not a Toy|wind up dead instead]].

#'''Screw the Money, I Have Destiny:''' Opposite of the above, but rare and applies mostly to the hero. Should the hero be rich, the player will never have access to their income, supplies, or other items they have, for being as rich as they are. Addendum: At least one cutscene will involve this character's parents/family/butlers sacrificing themselves to protect the character.

#'''Makin' Use of Instinct''': If the main character is [[Half-Human Hybrid|any part Fantastic Race and any part human]], expect them to fall victim to any and every one of the "natural instincts" of that non-human at least twice in the story, more if they don't know about their mixed heritage.

# '''Emotional Stability is For Wimps ([[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Cloud]] and [[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Squall]] Rule)''': The [[Dark and Troubled Past|emotional baggage a character has]] contributes directly to the badassery they possess.

# '''[[We Buy Anything|The Shopkeeper's Holding Out On Them]]''': Regardless of how destitute a town is the shopkeepers can still afford to buy your insanely valuable equipment from you for the same price as the shopkeeper in the richest city in the world.

# '''[[Framchise/The Legend Of Zelda|Link's Law]]:''' Should the protagonists be able to wield a weapon other than their preferred, they will invariably have a [[Instant Expert|masterly level of skill]]. This is true even and ''especially'' if this does not make sense given the character's backstory. (e.g. street rat, farmer, businessman, etc.)

# '''Bought Your Halo:''' The hero and villain's public image directly corresponds to the amount of money in the villain's savings account.

# '''The Third Rule of Red''': Fire is always associated with deep red colors, even though real flames are often orange-red, and can also be yellow, blue, or white.

# '''Maturity Is Breast Size''': In the event that one of your female party members is considered mature by virtue of being a few (like, three) years older than the hero, she will invariably have large breasts -- which [[A Cup Angst|the other female members will consistently express envy over]].

# '''[[Magnetic Hero|Heroes Attract]]:''' Heroes will recruit numerous people to their cause like flies to honey, often as party members, including people that are nothing like them and that wouldn't make sense for them to get together.

# '''[[All Swords Are the Same]]:''' All weapons of a specific type will perform and look exactly the same.

# '''Heroic Presence=Everybody's incompetence:''' Despite all indications to the contrary prior to this, a empire/kingdom/organization/some guy on the street/etc.'s competence is inversely proportional to the amount of heroes in the given area at any given time. As a result, the now incompetent people will get the hero to do a bunch of tasks they should be more than capable of doing themselves.

# '''Good Guys=Good Guns Bad Guys=Bad Guns:''' If guns are used by both sides, the hero's guns will be far more effective and they will be far more skilled in their use than trained and (one would think) far better funded and equipped soldiers of the villain's side, even if the hero has never picked up a gun at any time in their lives before the beginning of the story.

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