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* [[Autobots Rock Out]]: Possibly inverted, since the majority of the battle themes qualify as this.
* [[Awful Truth]]: See "Once More With Clarity."
* [[BFS]]: The Granasaber, which is so huge it could cleave mountains (literally; it's that huge). {{spoiler|Subverted. Turns out it's a spacecraft.}}▼
{{quote|'''Ryudo''': So this is the power of the Granasaber. It fights evil and has {{spoiler|plenty of leg room}}.}}▼
** Though you do get a more usable one near the end of the game.▼
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Father Carius turns out to have some attack magic under his sleeve when Millenia blows up his church.
* [[Bad Moon Rising]]: Valmar's moon, as shown in the header picture.
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* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]] / [[Dream Land]]: After {{spoiler|Aira}} retreats into her own subconscious, the party must follow after her.
** Elena and Millenia both enter Ryudo's mind after {{spoiler|he is infected by Valmar's Horns in order to seal it away}}.
* [[Beat Still My Heart]]: Valmar's Heart. And it is gross.▼
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Aira's mother, Sandra, prayed fervently for her daughter's sight to be restored. After Aira was {{spoiler|possessed by Valmar's Eye}}, she believed that Granas gave it to her, and is [[Dramatic Irony|very proud of her uniqueness]].
** Similarly, Aira's one wish was for everyone in the world to stop fighting and love one another.
▲* [[Beat Still My Heart]]: Valmar's Heart. And it is gross.
* [[Being Watched]]: You are, indeed. By overgrown flying eyeballs.
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: Giga Mantises.▼
* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: Big Foots in Lumir Forest. [[Underground Monkey|Yetis]] are in the Birthplace of the Gods, but it's anyone's guess why they're there.▼
* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]: Valmar's Claws and the Crimson Tails.
▲* [[BFS]]: The Granasaber, which is so huge it could cleave mountains (literally; it's that huge). {{spoiler|Subverted. Turns out it's a spacecraft.}}
▲{{quote|'''Ryudo''': So this is the power of the Granasaber. It fights evil and has {{spoiler|plenty of leg room}}.}}
▲** Though you do get a more usable one near the end of the game.
▲* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: Giga Mantises.
* [[Big Eater]]: Ryudo pokes fun at Elena's huge appetite [[Running Gag|throughout the game]]. She has a rival in Mareg, though, whose meals consist of giant platters of steaks.
{{quote|'''Elena:''' Awwww! Mareg, that was mine! .....Too late...
'''Mareg:''' I beg your pardon, Elena, but I must note that had your ear been more alert, you would have marked that [[Too Slow|I had requested seconds]]. }}
▲* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: Big Foots in Lumir Forest. [[Underground Monkey|Yetis]] are in the Birthplace of the Gods, but it's anyone's guess why they're there.
* [[Big No]]: Aira, realizing that {{spoiler|Granas isn't responsible for her new eye}}.
** Elena (along with [[Say My Name]]) when Ryudo is {{spoiler|infected by the Horns of Valmar}}.
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* [[Blind Seer]] / [[Creepy Child]]: Aira, a little girl in Mirumu village, has been blind since birth. She mysteriously regained her sight, along with some sort of clairvoyance. {{spoiler|(She's possessed by the Eye of Valmar.)}}
* [[Blond Brunette Redhead]]: Elena (the good), Selene (the bad), and Millenia ([[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|the naughty]]).
* [[Bonus Dungeon]] / [[Remixed Level]]: Raul Hills Labyrinth, which hides key items that double the amount of experience and SC you receive after battle, in addition to the best accessories in the game and a Mana Egg. It's also full of demons that can wipe out your entire party with one attack.▼
* [[Body Motifs]]: Valmar's parts inflict side-effects on their hosts, as well as on surrounding villages. The Tongue reduces Gaden to a corpulent money-grubber, and robs people of their sense of the taste; the Eye grants {{spoiler|Aira the gift of sight}}, but also invades people's dreams with their darkest memories; the Horns turns the peace-loving {{spoiler|Melfice}} into a bloodthirsty killer; the Heart fills {{spoiler|Selene}} with an abundant love for Pope Zera, but zero compassion for everyone else.
** The Claws don't do anything, apart from turning Tio into a Dalek. Perhaps because she isn't human?
▲* [[Bonus Dungeon]] / [[Remixed Level]]: Raul Hills Labyrinth, which hides key items that double the amount of experience and SC you receive after battle, in addition to the best accessories in the game and a Mana Egg. It's also full of demons that can wipe out your entire party with one attack.
* [[Bookcase Passage]]: Cyrum Castle conceals a revolving wall passage, from which Roan and his buddies exit the sewers.
* [[Boss Rush]]: Three parts of Valmar are fought again just before the final boss. Justified in that {{spoiler|Zera}} has already absorbed them all.
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* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Praise unto Lord Granas!
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: From the wide-eyed idealism of the first game to a main character that wants to kill his brother and body-surfing demons in the sequel.
* [[Darkest Hour]]: {{spoiler|Mareg}} is dead, {{spoiler|Millenia}} is dead (or so it seems), Valmar is awake, the {{spoiler|Granasaber}} has been smashed into itty bitty pieces, the entire city of {{spoiler|St. Heim}} has ''melted'' into a howling, black wasteland, Cyrum Kingdom is burning, and the dead now walk. But the ultimate insult comes when Ryudo remembers he's still holding a {{spoiler|piece of Valmar}}, which Valmar is still looking for -- and is putting the whole city at risk just by ''being there''. It's time to retreat. ▼
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Millenia winds up being this, however this trope is {{spoiler|half the point of the game itself}}.
* [[The Dark Side]]: Elena and Roan point out that Ryudo's psyche has been compromised by the deaths of {{spoiler|Millenia and Mareg}}; he can't raise his sword against Valmar's monsters without the {{spoiler|Horns of Valmar}} taking him over. Ultimately, Ryudo asks Elmo to remove the barrier Millenia placed on his soul, though he risks being {{spoiler|possessed by Valmar, just like the previous hosts}}. Fortunately, Ryudo triumphs and his inner evil is extinguished for good.
▲* [[Darkest Hour]]: {{spoiler|Mareg}} is dead, {{spoiler|Millenia}} is dead (or so it seems), Valmar is awake, the {{spoiler|Granasaber}} has been smashed into itty bitty pieces, the entire city of {{spoiler|St. Heim}} has ''melted'' into a howling, black wasteland, Cyrum Kingdom is burning, and the dead now walk. But the ultimate insult comes when Ryudo remembers he's still holding a {{spoiler|piece of Valmar}}, which Valmar is still looking for -- and is putting the whole city at risk just by ''being there''. It's time to retreat.
* [[The Day of Reckoning]]: The Day of Darkness.
* [[Death Mountain]]: Grail Mountain.
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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: The "Day of Darkness", foreshadowed by a miasma that spreads famine and drought.
* [[Environmental Symbolism]]: Mirumu's town hall is filling up with comatose villagers. If you take a look at the outside, you'll notice the roof shingles visually resemble {{spoiler|eyes}}.
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: The word "monster" inadvertently passes through Sandra's mind when she glimpses {{spoiler|her child's third eye}}; this last betrayal causes her to retreat back into her dreamspace. ▼
* [[Eternal Engine]]: The Underground Plant, a facility for building Automata soldiers.
▲* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: The word "monster" inadvertently passes through Sandra's mind when she glimpses {{spoiler|her child's third eye}}; this last betrayal causes her to retreat back into her dreamspace.
* [[Eureka Moment]]: Roan has one when Ryudo, speaking of Valmar's army, says aloud "We need to <small>BURY</small> them." This jogs Roan's memory about Cyrum's royal mausoleum, which contains records of Valmar from the time of the war. "That's ''it''! Graves!"
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Subverted. Millenia is a piece of the world's devil, so many think Millenia is evil, even herself. But helping Roan shows early on that she might be something else.
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* [[Foreign Queasine]]: Arum root. The most tasteless, gag-inducing vegetable around is, ironically, the only food Liligue's citizens can now eat.
* [[Forgotten Friend, New Foe]]: Ryudo's former best friend, Gatta, is practically leading a lynch mob when he returns home.
* [[Full-Moon Silhouette]]: The animation for Millenia's Fallen Wings attack.
** Ryudo spots Millenia standing atop a spire on Granas Cathedral, wreathed in light from Valmar's moon.
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