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* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}- {{spoiler|Enlil.}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]- {{spoiler|Subverted in Route B': Ningirsu attempts to do this by letting his teammates go ahead while he's stuck next to dynamite, but it's subverted when the sprinklers in the building activate, defusing the dynamite.}}

** Perhaps due to Romeo Tanaka's influence, this game shares several voice actors with [[Yume Miru Kusuri]], such as Michihiko Hagi (who voices Hinata in I/O and Takeshi in YMK), Ryoko Tanaka (who voices Sakuya in I/O and Mizuki in YMK), and Kayo Nagata (who voices Mutsuki in I/O and Nekoko in YMK). Incidentally, the two games were released a month apart from each other.

* [[Hope Spot]]- {{spoiler|At the end of Route B, it looks like Criminal and the others are finally going to make it to the helicopter pad... and then Hinata's father gets shot. [[Downer Ending|It all goes downhill from there.]]}}

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]- {{spoiler|Mayumi acknowledges that while she loves Hinata, he has Sakuya, and so she resolves to let them be happy together. However, in the ending of Route B', where Hinata is unable to save Sakuya, it's implied that Mayumi will eventually confess to Hinata.}}

* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]- {{spoiler|Masami, who's haughty attitude is used to hide the fact that she feels inferior to her sister Mayumi, who is more loved by the rest of the members of Criminal. Ironically, Route C' reveals that Mayumi also felt inferior to Masami.}}

* {{spoiler|[[It's Personal]]}}- {{spoiler|It's eventually revealed that many members of "Code" are actually normal people who had relatives who worked at eXarch that got killed off by them, hence why their main target is eXarch.}}

* [[Japanese Ranguage]]- Actually used as a plot point once. {{spoiler|When trying to solve Mutsuki's crossword puzzle, Hinata can't figure out the clue for the word "Lunar Excursion Module" due to the lack of an L in Japanese, and so is stumped until Mayumi helps him. She even lampshades the trope.}}

* [[Sacrificial Lion]]- {{spoiler|Mika in Route B.}}

* [[Shrinking Violet]]- Mayumi.

** There are more to various pieces of literature, such as [[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Alice in Wonderland]], The Once and Future King, [[Macbeth]], [[The Epic of Gilgamesh]], [[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court]], [[Blade Runner|Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep]]... the list goes on.

* {{spoiler|[[Sole Survivor]]}}- {{spoiler|Mayumi is the only member of Criminal who survived the assault on eXarch.}}

* [[Stalker With a Crush]]- Andras to Mika, which traumatizes her horribly. {{spoiler|In one of the Bad Endings, he ends up killing her, while in another, she shoots him dead.}}

* [[Sunglasses At Night]]- "He" always wears sunglasses, regardless of time or place. {{spoiler|When he does take them off, it's to signify that he's fully speaking as Hinata at that moment.}}

* [[Surprisingly Good English]]- With a few exceptions, the written English in the game is correct, both grammatically and spelling-wise.

* {{spoiler|[[Survivors Guilt]]}}- {{spoiler|Mayumi. The scene where it hits her is even called "Survivor's Syndrome".}}