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* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: But of course!
* [[Expy]]: Of [[Indiana Jones]].
* [[Heroic Mime]]: As is the standard of all protaginistsprotagonists.
* [[McNinja]]: [[All There in the Manual|According to the manual]], at least.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kosugi means "small cedar".
* [[Multi Melee Master]]
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Has a cigarette in his mouth in the PC manual and in the [[Wii Ware]] official artwork. [[Bowdlerization|It's removed from pictures on the English side of the website though]].
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]/[[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: In Japanese, his name is written as ルエミーザ (''ruemiiza'') while his name is always written in English as Lemeza. Does he use a different name depending on language or is Lemeza meant to be pronounced like "ruemiiza"?
* [[Whip It Good]]: His primary weapon.
 
=== Shorn Kosugi (ショーン　小杉, ''shoun kosugi'') ===
Father of Lemeza. He sets of the game's plot by discovering the Ruinsruins.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: A renowned one.
* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: Taunted Lemeza into coming to the ruins, {{spoiler|and basically waited for Lemeza to obtain the Treasure of Life before STEALING IT FROM HIS OWN SON}}.
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=== Elder Xelpud (ゼルプド長老, ''zerupudo chourou'') ===
The Elderelder of the village, and the guy who saves your game and generally chats to you.
* {{spoiler|[[Badass Grandpa]]/[[Hidden Badass]]: In the Wii version. Remember that one puzzle where you have to get Shorn's diary, involving that falling pillar? inIn the original, you use the time lantern. In the Wii version, you talk to Xelpud, and he literally comes down to that room in the ruins, JUMPS IN ITS FALLING PATH, AND THEN LIFTS IT UP FOR YOU TO GET PAST}}.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]/[[Talkative Loon]]: Rambles endlessly about the MSX in the PC version.
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=== Mulbruk (ムーブルク, ''muuburuku'') ===
A girl who lives in the Sun Shrine who offers advice on where to go or what to do. She only appears in the Wiiware[[Wii Ware]] version.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|At the end, instead of escaping the ruins through the Guidance Gate entrance, Lemeza has to go talk to her. They both then run through an alternative exit}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Fan Service]]: There is some concept art of Mulbruk donning the "Treasure that must not be seen" the pictures can be found on Naramura's Twitter}}.
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=== Sakit (サキト, ''sakito'') ===
A giant who wished for The Mother not to return to the sky
* [[Golem]]: All the Giantsgiants are preserved as huge stone statues. Most of them can move depending on what the time of day is (it's a puzzle, you hit three stone lanterns to change the insgniainsignia so their all either star, sun or moon). Sakit can only be fought when the Moon is showing.
* [[Knight Templar]]/[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Wants Mother to remain on Earth and will fight anyone to the death over it.
* [[Leitmotif]]: "Giants' Rage".
* [[Regime Change]]: "Sakit took power into his hand,", both figuratively and literally.
* [[Rocket Punch]]: A variant in the original, literally in the [[Wii Ware]] version.
* [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]]: Oh boy, is he ever.
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* [[Leitmotif]]: "Ancient Machine".
* [[Made of Explodium]]
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Your fighting a Alien who's piloting a giant ''Gradius''-inspired ship on a tiny little toy plane. With shurikens. While he has lazers and bombs and all sorts of things.
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You with Me]]: In the remake of the game, once his ship is trashed, he jumps out of his ship and blows up, killing you both if you don't retaliate in time}}.
* [[Unexpected Shmup Level|Unexpected Shmup Boss]]
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* [[One-Winged Angel]]: In the [[Wii Ware]] version.
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]
* [[Summoning Ritual]]: The witches you've been harasingharassing throughout the Twin Labyrinth invoke one to summon the boss to kill you.
 
=== Tiamat (ティアマト, ''tiamato'') ===
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* [[Marathon Boss]]: Unless you use the knife combo trick.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: {{spoiler|The mantra to chant in Tiamat's area is "MARDUK", the mythological character that killed Tiamat according to legend}}.
* [[Reality Warper]]: She changed the sides of her part of the Ruinsruins round. That's right: the Endless corridorCorridor is actually the BACKSIDE AREA of the Dimensional Corridor.
 
=== The Mother (聖母, ''seibo''){{spoiler|1=/Mother's Soul (魂の聖母, ''tamashii no seibo'')}} ===
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* {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream]]: Has been trapped on Earth unable to move for millions of years}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Bloody Tears]]: One of her forms cries these}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Energy Beings]]: Her soul's first form is definatlydefiantly this. She turns into it again to fight you in her final form}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Fetus Terrible]]: Her implied true form. Look at the background during the final form fight}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Final Boss]]}}
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