Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: Difference between revisions

* [[Badass Beard]]: Isaac has grown one as a part of his "I am now the most badass man on the planet" ensemble.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Hou Zan, who managed to {{spoiler|protect Ryu Kou and Hou Ju from the eclipse monsters until Matthew came to rescue them, at the cost of his own life}}. This is also the same guy who shares with Tyrell the distinction of {{spoiler|actually trying to hurt Alex}}!

'''Hou Zan:''' [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Once more, apparently.]] }}

** {{spoiler|Briggs also is attacked by the immensely powerful eclipse monsters and survives long enough to be found by the heroes and die reassuring his son.}} He only disqualifies on the basis of not having any known grandkids (though with a son [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|that good-looking]]... one never knows).

* [[Bubbly Clouds]]: The area right before Craggy Peak Ruins.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: The Djinni Pewter.

* [[Burial At Sea]]: {{spoiler|Briggs. Eoleo states it's what he would have wanted.}}

* [[But Thou Must!]]: In the same vein as the previous games' Yes/No questions, Matthew occasionally has the option of expressing which emotion he's feeling -- happy, thrilled, sad, or angry. Like the Yes/No questions, though, they only change the next few lines of dialogue at the most.

* [[Red Right Hand]]: Blados has blue skin and Chalis has horns.

* [[Remembered I Could Fly]]: When confronted by {{spoiler|Chaos Hound}}, Tyrell has to remind Sveta about her power before she uses Slap on it.

** Sveta also seemingly has to remember that, as a beastman, she can scent the identity of {{spoiler|the Chaos Hound}}.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: {{spoiler|The entire second party.}}

** Or Boreas going from giant stationary icegrinder to bigger-than-mountains train-horse causing avalanches by slamming its hooves in the ground.

* [[Running Gag]]: Everybody Kraden ever met in ''The Lost Age'' is surprised to see that he hasn't aged a day since then. ''Everybody.''

* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Briggs}}.

* [[Sadly Mythtaken]]: Same as in the previous games in regards to the elements/gods association... yet there are a couple of [[Shown Their Work|notable details]] added to the summons from the previous games, such as Procne now showing [[wikipedia:Philomela (princess of Athens)|a nightingale and swallow in flight]] as well as the old gigantic monster-bird, and [[wikipedia:Zagan (demon)#King.2FPresident Zagan|Zagan]] getting a design makeover and being shown sitting in Hell when summoned. They also remade Thor as a redhead - Norse mythology buffs rejoiced.

** Granted, [[The Stinger]] is pretty much just {{spoiler|a [[Call Back]] to what appeared to be the original plot.}}

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Inevitable due to the premise and unlikely to end well due to the series extensive [[Shipping]]. Sorry, Mudshippers [[Ship Mates|and]] Flameshippers: Isaac picked Jenna. The scene in which this is off-handidly revealed even takes place in a shipyard.

** {{spoiler|Mia*Piers is also obliquely sunk when Kraden reveals that Nowell--Mia's daughter--has a crush on Piers.}}

** There's nothing indicating that Garet's son and Mia's two children are related. Poor Steamshippers.

* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|What Do You Mean It]] '''[[Inverted Trope|Was]]''' [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|Made On Alcohol?]]: [[Invoked]], bizarrely, during the very ''creation'' of the game itself. [http://goldensunwiki.net/Takahashi_Brothers According to the Golden Sun Wiki], Hiroyuki Takahashi only came up with the idea of making a new ''Golden Sun'' after "having been liquored and eaten a lot of nori".

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: In the same town and brought about by the same event as the [[Light'Em Up]] example above, another NPC claims to have gained the power to {{spoiler|calculate compound interest.}}

* [[What's Up, King Dude?]]: Lampshaded a couple of times (in Ayuthay, for instance), but overall it tends to be justified. In Kaocho, [[The Man Behind the Man]] makes it happen. In Yamatai, Kraden is able to make your excuses.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The original eight player characters (and Kraden) barely age due to being exposed to so much elemental energy, but it's noted by their kids that the original eight might outlive their children by a significant margin. As for Kraden, he might be ageless... but he was already 70 at the time.