Dragon Quest IX/Characters: Difference between revisions

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== Protagonists ==

==== The Apprentice ====

* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]

* [[Spoony Bard]]: Always starts as a Minstrel. Amusingly, this is due to the people of Angel Falls taking one look at your character's Celestrian uniform and thinking, "Well, they're dressed like an idiot, what else ''could'' they be?"

* [[Third Person Seductress]]: A shockingly well supported option for customization.

* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]

* [[Winged Humanoid]]

* [[Dub Name Change]]: From Sandy to Stella.

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Wears a big pink flower that's nearly the same size as her face on the side of her head.

* [[Fairy Companion]]

* [[Invisible to Normals]]

==== [[Job System|Classes of Choice - The Basics]] ====

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Limit Break]]: ''Critical Claim'', an automatic [[Critical Hit]].

* [[Mighty Glacier]]

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Whipping Boy lets the user protect one of their companions like this, even against attacks that would normally hurt ''everyone''.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

** [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]

** [[Knife Nut]]

* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: Averted and played straight. The instant death line is actually fairly accurate, making it useful enough for clearing crowds, but given that the endgame is all about boss fights and bosses tend to not be affected by such, it's not as good as a damaging spell would be.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

** [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]

** [[Magic Wand]]

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Seen on both class reps, with the male wearing an open shirt with short sides to get the effect while the female goes the more traditional route of a tiny top.

* [[Black Mage]]

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The outfits are vaguely Persian, with men sporting fezzes and women donning belly dancers' tops.

* [[Limit Break]]: ''0 Zone'', which completely eliminates the cost of ''all'' spells and skills for a brief time.

* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: The [[Nice Hat]] isn't pointy.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

* [[Combat Medic]]

* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Have A Ball: each individual ball doesn't do a lot of damage, but the juggler throws a ''lot'' of them.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Their repertoire includes [[Blow You Away|Woosh]] and [[An Ice Person|Crackle]] spells.

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The outfits are evocative of Gypsies, an ethnicity classically known for their traveling stage shows.

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Selflessness and Forbearance enables the paladin to do this for the rest of their team. It can happen even sooner if you teach them the Warrior's Whipping Boy (which is required to unlock the class in the first place).

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** [[Drop the Hammer]]

** [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]

** [[Magic Wand]]

* [[Elemental Powers]]

* [[Power-Up Letdown]]: Maxing their skill tree gives you the [[Sarcasm Mode|awe inspiring and unique]] HP +30 (a boost to your max HP by 30, where even an easy [[Bonus Boss]] will deal damage in the high 100s with good defenses). The progression from the previous part of the tree costs a heavy 18 points to make it worse. This reward is not unique in anyway (Half the classes give HP bonuses at some point, all doing it earlier, for fewer points and or higher bonuses), or substantial (like the other bonuses for finishing a tree).

* [[Prestige Class]]

* [[Spoony Bard]]: The other reason they're considered a bit sub-par. They are, however, the earliest you are likely to get to use bows, and mastering Fource provides buffs to just about every ability.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

* [[Prestige Class]]

* [[Ranger]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

** [[The Archer]]

** [[Bare-Fisted Monk]]

** [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]

* [[Casting a Shadow]]: Their main attack magic is the ''Zam'' line of Darkness elemental spells.

* [[Crutch Character]]

* {{spoiler|[[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]: Joins during a post-game DLC quest.}}

** It could be Piccolo as well, seeing as he's the hero's teacher. {{spoiler|Also, the way he [[Taking the Bullet|saved the life of said hero.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Failure Knight]]}}

* [[Elderly Immortal]]

* [[The Good Chancellor]]

* [[Our Angels Are Different]]

* {{spoiler|[[Chekhov MIA]]}}

* [[Hair of Gold]]: In flashbacks featuring him and {{spoiler|during the ending.}}

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* {{spoiler|[[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]: Joins during a post-game DLC quest.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Ill Girl]]: A key part of her and Edwinn's backstory.}}

* [[Oblivious to Love]]

* [[Crutch Character]]: Prevents the random monsters from killing or massively injuring the level 1 equipment-less main character and struggling to fight back, but by the time he leaves he isn't needed.

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Could double as a [[Crutch Character]], but can almost immediately be hit by [[Can't Catch Up]] since he doesn't gain any experience and is stuck at Level 3.

* [[No Sell]]: Interesting that the biggest atheist in Angel Falls is the only one who seems to remember that the guardian statue was labeled "Aquila" a short while ago...

* [[Punny Name]]: Ivor Litlun? Oh, come on...

* {{spoiler|[[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]: Joins during a post-game DLC quest.}}

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Catches her hair back in a dark ribbon.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Probaly unintentional, but there's another person working in the inn named [[The Simpsons|Sellma]].

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

* [[The Mafia]]: An ''innkeeping'' mafia!

* [[Punny Name]]: Al Capone, anyone?

* [[Serious Business]]: Again, he runs an ''innkeeping''. '''MAFIA'''.

* [[Lady in Red]]

* [[Mythology Gag]]: She does the once-a-game "puff-puff" gag (in this case, seducing your party members and making them lose a turn). A young girl in the Iluugazar Plains does it also.{{spoiler|...But with sheep.}}

* [[Yandere]]

* [[Big No]]

* [[Bonus Boss]]

* [[Palette Swap]]: Looks just like the Master of Nu'un, only gold.

* [[This Cannot Be!]]

* [[Hikikomori]]

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]

* [[Punny Name]]

* [[Ghostly Goals]]

* [[Posthumous Character]]

* [[Punny Name]]

* [[Dream World]]

* [[Punny Name]]: Names starting with "wand" are very appropriate for the ones giving the mage quests.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: She insists that it's "not right" to be able to eat without working, even though she's a little girl who's probably never worked a day in her life.

** Note that deep-sea fishing is consistently rated [http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/104712/commercial-fishing-one-of-the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-u-s/ one of the most dangerous] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2195847.stm jobs in the world], so you can hardly blame the villagers for wanting to give it up.

* [[Pirate]]

* [[Master of Unlocking]]: His first gift is always the Thief's Key.

==== Buster ====

* [[Evil Laugh]]: "{{spoiler|Corvus}} laughs confidently!"

** Also doubles as a warning, since when he does laugh, it means his next move will be one of his two ultimate attacks.

* {{spoiler|[[Fallen Angel]]}}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|He was betrayed by his true love Serena after trying to save her (although that isn't what really happened, he doesn't know that until she returns as a ghost to tell him the full story- just in time for her to keep him from destroying everything), and subsequently was tortured and experimented on by [[The Empire]]. Even after the Empire fell, he was still left chained and suffering in the oubliette for next ''300 years''. That would make anyone a tad loopy.}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Atoner]]: She unknowingly betrayed Corvus by dosing him with a sleeping potion in an attempt to keep him from harm; it was actually a trap by her father to exchange him for the village's safety. This resulted directly in Corvus' capture by [[The Empire]] and his subsequent madness. Her ghost now seeks to find Corvus and tell him what really happened, so she can calm his fury. She finds him just in time to keep him from destroying the world.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Hero]]: The entire final battle is the heros stalling for time until she can arrive.}}

* [[Invisible to Normals]]: She's a ghost.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]

* [[Mr. Exposition|Miss Exposition]]

* {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream]]: A rare voluntary, non-screaming variant.}}

* {{spoiler|[[World Tree]]}}

The heroes and villains of previous ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games. Party members occasionally check in at the Quester's Rest, while villains can be found in special grottos.

* [[Bonus Boss]]: The villains.

* [[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: And Previous Villain Cameo, too.