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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Okame-no-Kata in the Bakumatsu chapter.
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* [[Acrofatic]]: Sammo, naturally.
* [[Action Girl]]: Li.
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* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: There are multiple in the final chapter; the most notable example is the guardian of Masaru's bonus dungeon, who only appears if Masaru is in your party.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Several. Yuan has the highest power rating of the Kung Fu heroes, but the lowest HP. The Sundown Kid has very low HP as well, but strong, long-range attacks and some of the most devastating techniques in the game. Oboro is similarly flimsy, but he's a [[Ninja]], which is enough said right there. {{spoiler|From Oersted's chapter, we also have Straybow, a standard swords-and-sorcery elemental mage. He's not so Glassy the second time you fight him, though.}}
* [[Grand Finale]]: The best ending.▼
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Congratulations, Straybow! {{spoiler|You've managed to break Oersted and turn him into a villain in your world! It had the unfortunate side-effect of him transforming into the Demon King, a villain which transcends time and space!}}
▲* [[Grand Finale]]: The best ending.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Oboro's chapter, period.
* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: Averted. The Sundown Kid is the strongest character in the game, even moreso if you get his [[Infinity+1 Sword|.44 Magnum.]] Gun attacks in general are long-ranged, damaging, take no time whatsoever, and tend to not pose a significant disadvantage on the character using them.
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* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Beating Pluto in Captain Square depends entirely on how often the enemies use their strongest attack.
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Bel, in Pogo's chapter. She is ''unspeakably'' underpowered compared to Pogo and Gori, especially against the enemy levels you're up against at the time. However, if you manage to carry her all the way to level 7 in the short time before she's [[Damsel in Distress|kidnapped again]], she learns "La La", a ranged [[Musical Assassin|singing attack]] that packs enough power to ''ruin'' O-D-O in 2 rounds.
* [[Mega Manning]]: Masaru. Each time he gets hit by a wrestler's signature moves, he learns that move immediately; it's actually possible to have him defeat a wrestler using that wrestler's signature move. Also the Xin Shan Quan inheritors, sort of. Any of them ({{spoiler|whichever one doesn't die}}) will learn all of the Master's attacks anyway, but you can influence which ones they learn first during the training sessions. Beat one up with only the Ryuuhawan, for example, and they'll learn the Ryuuhawan when they next level. Switch to killing them with Old Fox Dance after that, and they'll learn Old Fox Dance next, etc.▼
* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|The end-of-chapter bosses, with the exception of Straybow, are all variations on "Odio". And ''odio'' is Latin for "hatred".}}
▲* [[Mega Manning]]: Masaru. Each time he gets hit by a wrestler's signature moves, he learns that move immediately; it's actually possible to have him defeat a wrestler using that wrestler's signature move. Also the Xin Shan Quan inheritors, sort of. Any of them ({{spoiler|whichever one doesn't die}}) will learn all of the Master's attacks anyway, but you can influence which ones they learn first during the training sessions. Beat one up with only the Ryuuhawan, for example, and they'll learn the Ryuuhawan when they next level. Switch to killing them with Old Fox Dance after that, and they'll learn Old Fox Dance next, etc.
* [[More Dakka]]: O. Dio's solution to a lot of things.
{{quote|'''O. Dio''': It doesn't matter how many rats you rustle up...
'''O. Dio''': You won't be able to win against a Gatling Gun!! }}
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Odie Oldbright kills all the wrestlers that Masaru faces in his chapter. [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|Masaru proves him]] [[Subverted Trope|wrong.]]▼
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Four in total.
▲* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Odie Oldbright kills all the wrestlers that Masaru faces in his chapter. [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|Masaru proves him]] [[Subverted Trope|wrong.]]
* [[Nightmare Face]]: {{spoiler|OD-10's manifestation in the virtual world. Even moreso if you scan the central tile on it's body.}}
* [[Ninja]]: Oboro's chapter.
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** If you play the piano in Akira's chapter he'll play the [[Final Fantasy|Chocobo Theme]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Largely idealistic.
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Poison, Paralysis, Blindness, Confused, Petrified, Slow, Faint, Death (In which the character disappears from battle and cannot be revived). Along with these, there is also Drunk, Broken Arms, and Broken Legs.▼
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Li is the only female protagonist. She's only one of two playable female characters in the entire game. On top of that, she's optional; depending on the player's choices in the Kung Fu chapter, Sammo or Yuan could take her place.
* [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying]]: Surprisingly averted in Pogo's chapter. {{spoiler|The final boss is a dinosaur, but it's also the ''only'' dinosaur in the entire chapter. It makes sense for Zaki's tribe to worship the last living tyrannosaur on the planet as a god.}}
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: [[Chrono Trigger]] shares many similarities with '''Live a Live'''.
▲* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Poison, Paralysis, Blindness, Confused, Petrified, Slow, Faint, Death (In which the character disappears from battle and cannot be revived). Along with these, there is also Drunk, Broken Arms, and Broken Legs.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: {{spoiler|Oersted's chapter.}}
* [[The Stinger]]: Particularly in Pogo's chapter. It ends with Pogo speaking the first words mankind ever spoke. Namely, Love. And the Gori snickers. Most chapters have a stinger of their own, but it's mostly just a 'fin' screen.
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* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Pretty much once per chapter, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|but best embodied by Buriki Daioh.]]
* [[Then Let Me Be Evil]]: {{spoiler|Oersted.}}▼
* [[Toilet Humor]]: One of Gori's attacks is him throwing his poo at the opponent. Just like a real ape!
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: O. Dio is the last survivor of the infantry that was wiped out, yes. {{spoiler|What you don't know is that the last survivor was a horse, who was possessed by the spirits of all those who were slain.}}
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: At least half of the playable characters become [[Badass]]es over the course of their chapters. The rest were [[Badass]] to begin with.
* [[The Trope Kid]]: The Sundown Kid.
▲* [[Then Let Me Be Evil]]: {{spoiler|Oersted.}}
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Akira.
* [[Turncoat]]: {{spoiler|Straybow, with a [[Face Heel Turn]]. Also fulfills the [[Forgotten Childhood Friend]] trope.}}
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** {{spoiler|The real demon king -- that is, the one Hash killed previously -- never came back from the dead at all; he was never present at any point in the chapter. It was all a ploy by Straybow, at least up until the point where Oersted takes up the mantle himself. Hash's comment is a hint that Straybow's was an illusion without the Demon King's real strength.}}
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|When All You Have Is A Gun]]: Whereas the rest of the characters in the game get a pretty good variety of attacks, Sunset's and Mad Dog's attacks can pretty much be summarized as "shooting people," "shooting multiple people," and "shooting multiple people many times."
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Odio Mole, {{spoiler|who seems to be Oersted after getting a pair of vulture wings and becoming completely bald and naked}}▼
* [[The Wild West]]: Sundown's chapter.
▲* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Odio Mole, {{spoiler|who seems to be Oersted after getting a pair of vulture wings and becoming completely bald and naked}}
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Oersted, who loses, is rejected by, or is horribly betrayed by pretty much everyone and finally becomes the [[Big Bad|Demon King Odio]].}}
* [[Yoko Shimomura]]
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