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* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Daxter ''finally'' gets his pants at the end of the game.
** Also, you get the original Jak outfit if you collect all 600 orbs.
* [[Anti -Hero]]: Jak likes causing chaos and occasionally loses his temper, but since his opponents are usually [[Always Chaotic Evil]], this is somewhat mitigated.
* [[Arbitrary Gun Power]]: Justified in most examples, since what you're shooting usually has super-strong armor.
* [[Ask a Stupid Question]]: Happens early when our heroes meet Kleiver:
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* [[Benevolent Architecture]]: Who exactly puts all those Eco vents just where Jak needs them? This gets particularly egregious on the Terraformer boss platform, which has, of all things, a Light Eco vent.
** As for {{spoiler|the Light and Dark Eco vents in the Haven City ruins, it could have been ''[[Fridge Brilliance|Mar]]''}}.
* [[BFG]]: Jak's Morph Gun, particularly the Peace Maker and the [[Nuke 'Em|Super Nova]].
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Count Veger}} is considered the main one by many because {{spoiler|he was responsible for nearly everything that went wrong in the heroes' lives}}. {{spoiler|Cyber-Errol}} seems to be the official [[Big Bad]] for this game, being the [[Final Boss]].
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Damas
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* [[Brain Uploading]] - {{spoiler|Vin "survives" a Metal Head attack by doing this.}}
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: As per the [[Running Gag]]: "This isn't a game!" Also accompanied with an [[Aside Glance]].
* [[Break the Haughty]] / [[Laser -Guided Karma]]: Veger gets his comeuppance when {{spoiler|he discovers the Precursors (who he idolized) are ottsels, gets [[Karmic Transformation|turned into]] an ottsel, and becomes Kleiver's sidekick.}} Almost makes you feel sorry for him... oh, wait, no it doesn't.
** A more minor example is when he appeals to Jak's friends and tries to persuade them to let him (Veger) lead the expedition to the catacombs. Not only do they all side with Jak, but Ashelin removes him from authority. The cutscene is even called [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|"Veger Gets Humiliated"]].
* [[Breath Weapon]]: The Terraformer.
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* [[Cutscene Power to The Max]]: Did you see how far Jak fell near the end of the Act Three climax? Keep that in mind when you then consider how high his Angel-Winged Light Form can fly during gameplay.
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: {{spoiler|Apparently what happened to Cyber-Errol between this game and the previous one.}}
* [[Dark Is Evil]]: Dark Eco, the Metal Heads, {{spoiler|the Dark Makers}}...KnightTemplar or not, Count Veger is at least justified in his hatred of Dark Eco. Jak's [[Super -Powered Evil Side]] ends up as a [[Subverted Trope|''subversion''.]] (See below}
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Jak is the exception, and even he needed Light Eco to counter its worse effects. Even still, Jak's [[Hero]] status is overlooked by Count Veger.
* [[Deadly Training Area]]: There is sort of a gladiator pit with periodically rising, deadly lava, and guys that swing their pointy, deadly swords at Jak.
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* [[Double Jump]]: Unabashedly. You can also use a spin kick to stay airborne even longer.
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Veger drops his cane/scepter/whatever-it-is after [[The Reveal]].
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Torn gets on better with Jak now, though he still doesn't seem to like Daxter much.
* [[Easter Egg]]: Everything you can unlock with the Precursor Orbs.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - {{spoiler|The Dark Makers. Given what Daxter's [[Super -Powered Evil Side]] looks like,}} the fan theory that they're really robots has some credibility, but until official confirmation, they fall under this trope.
* [[Escort Mission]]: Quite a good one in Act Three where you have to escort Torn's explosives-laden vehicle from New Haven City to the Metal Head Nest - at least until you reach the port, where he suddenly decides [[Too Dumb to Live|to fly around the two towers rather than just, you know, head straight into the Metal Head Nest]].
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Veger's introduction, Kleiver's introduction, and Sig's refusal to kill Jak among others.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]] - The zoomers are as fragile as ever. Even the desert vehicles appear to be [[Made of Explodium]].
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs]]: The Wasteland Metal Heads look strongly like a cross between Metal Kor and [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]. They are joined in Act Two by pterodactly-style Metal Heads during the [[First -Person Shooter]] mission with Sig.
* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The Metal Head Tower, especially at night. {{spoiler|At least before you blow its head off and leave it a smoking mess on the skyline}}.
* [[Exploding Barrels]]: Eco barrels, to be precise. This comes in useful during the [[Escort Mission]] in Act Three (see above).
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* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Averted, once the Krimzon Guard become the Freedom League, they suddenly learn how to shoot. One of the rare examples where the good guys are better. Also, sadly, averted with the KG Deathbots - they are deadly accurate if they get a chance to aim at you.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Daxter and Tess. Thankfully, they don't actually ''do'' anything {{spoiler|until Tess gets turned into an ottsel}}.
* [[ItsIt's All Upstairs From Here]]: The Metal Head Tower requires Jak to ascend slopes, glowing bridges and platforms to reach the elevator to the topmost chamber in Act Three.
* [[ItsIt's Up to You]]: During the last two acts, Jak is asked to do all the major missions, something which Daxter snarks about often. Amusingly, on the one occasion when Ashelin seems to be about to subvert this trope, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Daxter is affronted and complains even more about that.]]
* [[I Will Fight Some More Forever]]: Marauders, Metal Heads, KG Robots {{spoiler|and Dark Makers}} seem completely oblivious to the fact that Jak is a [[One -Man Army]] [[Person of Mass Destruction]].
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Considering the things he does, Veger gets off lightly.
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Veger. CMoF. That is all.
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* {{spoiler|[[Killer Rabbit]]: The most powerful beings in the universe are [[Weasel Mascot|fluffy and adorable]]}}
* [[Kissing Discretion Shot]]: At the end.
* [[Large Ham]]: Veger, thanks to some delightfully over-the-top voice acting. His entire [[Motive Rant]] and [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Jak just before the Precursor Robot fight was Made of Ham. {{spoiler|Cyber-Errol}} gets in on the act, too. This is probably why the animators during the commentary said that it was such good fun animating these characters.
* [[Laser Sight]] - The Morph Gun.
* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]] - Averted: Jak's gun actually does jerk back after firing.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]] - The Volcano and the Spargus Arena.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Count Veger is revealed to be this. He compounds this in his aforementioned [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Jak.
* [[Like You Were Dying]]: After a fashion, anyway.
* [[Limit Break]]: Dark Jak.
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* [[The Battle Didn't Count]]: {{spoiler|Cyber-Errol}} escapes the first time you beat him, but it has the effect of shutting down the War Factory.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: After you reach the end the sewer you access within North Town, the pipes you hop across to reach the part of the sewer that leads you into the Metal Head side of the city will be constantly shooting out poisonous gas. Even if you cheat and use invincibility to bypass them, the door leading to that part of the sewer won't open, thus preventing any sequence breaking.
* [[Third -Person Shooter]]
* [[This Is Reality]] - Jak and Daxter look directly at the player after Seem's "This isn't a game!"
* [[Three Act Structure]]
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* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: The citizens of Haven City, when the war breaks out, immediately pin the blame on Jak, who saved them from certain extinction in [[Jak II Renegade]]. It's [[All There in the Manual]].
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]] - Jak's strange Wastelander costume, Light Eco form, {{BFG BFG}}-type [[Swiss Army Gun]] and [[Super -Powered Evil Side]] will go unremarked in civilian areas - the worst they do is run away if you get too close.
* [[Up to Eleven]]: This is essentially what Naughty Dog did with each game mechanic from [[Jak II Renegade]] when making this game.
** [[Swiss Army Gun]]: Jak now has extra weapon mods, taking the grand total of guns up to twelve. That's three times the number of guns he had in the previous game.
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** [[Expansion Pack]] environments compared with the previous game - while Haven City has shrunk compared with the original, this is more than made up for by the impossibly large desert region, Spargus City, and the Precursor [[Temple of Doom]]. There are also missions in the Volcano, the Eco Mine, the expanded sewer system, the Floating War Factory, and even {{spoiler|the Dark Maker ship}}.
** More [[Timed Missions]] and [[Boss Battle]] challenges, such as the Wastelander Rescue Mission and dark satellite battle, more Blast Bot encounters, and a one-against-three fight with the floating KG vehicles once you report to New Haven City.
** [[Minigames]] Some, like the jetboard challenge and 'find the orb' timed missions, make a comeback, but there's also [[First -Person Shooter]] games, a [[Riding the Bomb]] mission, a ride down the Catacombs and even a pac-man style game.
** Dark Jak returns with new upgrades, and is joined with a Light Jak form, giving a grand total of eight new upgrades.
** Even the jet-board has new features built into it, such as a permanent turbo option in the desert section and the small shock wave attack.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can start huge shootouts with the Wastelanders. Get one to start shooting at you, get that one to accidentally hit someone else...
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Daxter and Pecker do not get on very well, but are unambiguously on the same side.
* {{spoiler|[[What Happened to The Mouse?|What Happened To The Metal Heads?]] }}
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: Possibly the logic behind making the KG Robots major enemies {{spoiler|and Cyber-Errol}}, though the robots are little more than killing machines and in any case they're [[Always Chaotic Evil]].
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]
* [[Womb Level]] - The deepest part of the Metal Head nest under the volcano. Also the Metal Head section of the city and the Metal Head tower.
* [[Word of God]] / [[All There in the Manual]] - Commentary refers to [[Ambiguous Gender|Seem]] as a "she."
* [[Yin -Yang Bomb]]: Jak now has both Dark and Light powers at his disposal. For Dark powers, he has [[Shockwave Stomp|Dark Bomb]], a [[Shock and Awe|Dark Blast]], [[Invisibility]], and [[Kamehame Hadoken|a supercharged blast attack]]. For Light powers, he has [[Healing Hands]], [[Time Stands Still|Flash Freeze]], [[Deflector Shield]], and [[Video Game Flight|limited flight]].
 
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