Lunar: Eternal Blue: Difference between revisions

* [[Defeat Means Playable]]: It takes a while for the payoff, but Leo. He needs to have his [[Heroic BSOD]] first.

** Hiro invokes this with {{spoiler|Ghaleon}} with the apparent intent of taking him on as a [[Sixth Ranger]], but [[Too Cool to Live|it's not to be]]. {{spoiler|Zophar's power is keeping him alive, and Ghaleon re-dies soon after betraying Zophar.}}

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The defeat of [[God of Evil|Zophar]] by Hiro, Ronfar, Jean, Lemina, Leo, Lucia, and Ruby.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Story-wise, female Ruby plays much the same role in ''Lunar 2'' as male Nall does in ''Lunar 1''.

* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: {{spoiler|Ghaleon, to the point of [[Reverse Mole]].}}

* [[Easter Egg]]: Working Designs were fans of this trope.

** When fighting the game's first boss, the Guardian, It is possible for Hiro and Gwyn to faint in positions that will block the Guardian's movement and prevent him from reaching Lucia (who cannot attack in this battle). In this unlikely event, Ruby will swoop down and use her fire-breath on the Guardian, destroying it in one hit. Not only a very cool bug fix, but also a bit of [[Foreshadowing]].

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Apparently being {{spoiler|dead for a thousand years}} gave {{spoiler|Ghaleon}} a lot of time to reconsider his past actions. So when he's {{spoiler|resurrected as Zophar's [[The Dragon|Dragon]]}}, he immediately begins subverting the [[Big Bad]]'s plot. First subtly, and then overtly, despite knowing he's [[Redemption Equals Death|guaranteed to die]] {{spoiler|again}} as a result.

** In the Sega-CD version, he's pretty explicitly playing both sides up until the last moment, going so far as to {{spoiler|kill the main character}} to try to {{spoiler|1=[http://www.lunar-net.com/eb/screenshots.php?startingNo=495&endingNo=622&directoryNo=3&fileBegin=LUNAR%20%20ETERNAL%20BLUE_&pageTitle=Ghaleons%20Crisis goad Lucia into giving him the secret to an actual resurrection.]}}

* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|White Knight Leo. This is the reason why he flip-flops between Heel and Face. By the time he's mostly sided with Hiro, he's had to accept that the Althena he served was a fake goddess, put into position by the real dark god, Zophar, and that the woman he's been trying to slay, Lucia "the destroyer", was ''actually'' carrying out the will of the ''real'' goddess Althena by trying to protect the world from Zophar.}} It's a tough pill to swallow.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: White Knight Leo, who, after finding out that he's a {{spoiler|servant for Zophar}}, has one that lasts until the final act of the game, at which point he becomes permanently playable.

* [[Power Fist]]: {{spoiler|Jean's weapon of choice after her [[Took a Level In Badass|costume change]].}}

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: {{spoiler|The fake Althena}} has dark, curly hair that reaches the floor.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Ghaleon. Well, re-death in his case. An interesting example, sort of a combination of [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and a [[Double Subversion]] of [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves]]. ''At the same time.''}}

* [[Restraining Bolt]]: {{spoiler|Ghaleon is only kept alive by Zophar's power}} meaning Zophar can kill him at any time, just by no longer supplying it. While that would work with a case of [[Ambition Is Evil]] {{spoiler|it's not a big deal to a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|type IV]] [[Anti-Hero]] who didn't mind dying once he'd achieved his goal the first time around.}}

* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|Ghaleon. Interestingly, in the original version of the first game, which this follows from, Nash pulled this on him, which is probably part of why he's so [[Genre Savvy]] about it.}}

* [[Secret Identity]]: When forced to break his vows, Leo becomes {{spoiler|''The Amazing Mystere!''}} to correct things. He apparently doesn't realize that his [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] doesn't fool the heroes.

* [[We Are as Mayflies]]: In ''Eternal Blue'', Nall has been alive for the past thousand years, long after his friends from the first game are dead and gone. This is a major cornerstone for his friendship with Ruby, who has to come to terms that she'll long outlive her non-dragon friends, too...

* [[Wham! Episode]]: {{spoiler|Midgame wham - The Althena Church is obviously corrupt, but it turns out to be the front for Zophar's world domination efforts. And it's effectively succeeded already. Lategame wham - Lucia is a destroyer after all, though unintentionally. If she uses Althena's power to destroy Zophar, it will un-create the world.}}

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Caldor Isle, a major location in the first game. You visit a ton of areas from ''Lunar 1'', but never Caldor Isle. The place is barely even mentioned, which seems odd given how historically important it is.

** Given that it's a thousand years later, and geography can change quite a bit in that amount of time, Caldor is highly likely ''gone'' by now. Especially seeing as the world maps no longer match up very well at all, and the area that roughly corresponds to where it used to be seems to be one massive glacier now.