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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Ness, Jeff, Paula and...[[Unfortunate Names|Poo]]? Heck, even Ness may qualify.
* [[AI Roulette]]: More striking because there are multiple AI moves that do nothing, and still more that ''inflict bad status effects on the enemy that uses them''. Much of this, though, serves to enhance the game's odd world and contribute to the [[Rule of Funny]].
* [[All Cavemen Were Neanderthals]]: One of the enemies hanging out around Stonehenge is the stereotypical neanderthal, complete with fur tunic and club.
* [[Almost-Dead Guy]]: Buzz Buzz and debatably Everdred.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: In every battle.
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* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Bags of Dragonite, the Bottle Rockets, and Jeff's Heavy Bazooka are among some of things.
* [[Bad Future]]: According to Buzz Buzz, this was the state of the future under Giygas's control. It was presumably averted with Giygas's defeat.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Ness only sets out in the first place because Buzz Buzz came from the future saying that he had to.
* [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]]: Brick Road's dungeon {{spoiler|and Dungeon Man}} has tons of signs that lampshade many dungeon cliches.
* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Giygas and Porky Minch, or so it seems; no-one can be completely sure if they're equals, or if one is pulling the strings of the other.
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* [[Literal Junk Food]]: Ness could pick up hamburgers from trash cans early in the game.
* [[Look What I Can Do Now!]]: Poo returns from training to demonstrate new power on a boss obliterating it with PK Starstorm.
* [[Loss of Identity]]: Poo's Mu Training involves his ancestor, in a ritual non-corporeal sense, taking bits of his body until there's nothing left but his mind, which he also plans to take.
* [[Lost in Translation]]: Several puns make more sense in Japanese.
** And it's Porky Minch, not Pokey Minch.
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*** Ironically, it's been said that it isn't music that's problem for re-release in the United States... it's the fact that one of the monsters is based on a real-life painting that's currently surrounded in legal red-tape.
** The Cave of the Past is made entirely out of manipulating the opening to [[Beach Boys]]' Diedre.
* [[Nerf Arm]]: Several of the earlier weapons are based on not-at-all dangerous toys. Examples include the tee-ball bat (which are typically made of thin plastic and hollow) and the yo-yo.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: The Dept. Store Spook in Fourside goes out of his way to avoid pronouncing "hell":
{{quote|You will be gone, and you'll be burning in... Well, you'll go to heaven!}}
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* [[Power-Up Food]]: Ramen noodles ''bring back the dead''.
* [[Power of Friendship]]: {{spoiler|How Giygas is defeated}}. In some way or another, isn't this trope the lesson learned in every Mother game?
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Used throughout the game, both as a replacement for traditional RPG magic and as a plot point. The menu includes:
** [[Telepathy]]: Paula is particularly adept at it, calling out to Ness and later Jeff. Poo uses it as well.
** [[Clairvoyance]]: Occasionally invoked, again most often by Paula, to justify knowing what to do next.
** [[Telekinesis]]: Several subtypes show up in combat, including pyrokinesis (PSI Fire), cryokinesis (PSI Freeze), fulgurkinesis (PSI Thunder), and psychic healing, as well as less easily defined attacks such as Ness's signature attack or PSI Starstorm.
** [[Teleportation]]: Used by both Ness and Poo to travel the world without a plane ticket.
* [[Punny Name]]: By the bushelful.
** The first four towns are called '''One'''tt, '''Two'''son, '''Three'''d, and '''Four'''side.
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