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* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: In the PSP remake: it's important to protect Jessica against the final boss because he actually [[Shoot the Medic First|goes after her first!]]
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In the Sega-CD game, Luna is in the party for about a fourth of the game and doesn't have a major role until she gets kidnapped {{spoiler|and brainwashed into the evil goddess}} around the halfway point. In ''Silver Star Story'', she stays with the party until the aformentioned kidnapping.
* [[Award Bait Song]]: Tsubasa/Wings and Wind's Nocturne from ''Silver Star Story''/''Silver Star Harmony''. Both songs fit the description to a T.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Despite all their fighting, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Kyle]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|breaks out of stone]]'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|to save Jessica]].
* [[Badass Normal]]: Despite being part of a group that also contains three magic users and guy who dreams of becoming a Dragonmaster {{spoiler|and eventually does}}, Kyle is content with taking a sword and slaying monsters with brute force.
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* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Jessica and Kyle.
* [[Betting Minigame]]: The original ''Lunar'' features a blackjack mini-game with Brett in Saith. A bit of advice: ''do not'' take up his offer for a double-or-nothing game. He's a [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|Cheating Bastard]] from Reza, the game's designated [[Vice City|city of thieves]]. As it turns out, there is another NPC in Reza who will play the same game with you, but she proves less of a jerk by playing fair.
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Not really her position, but in the remakes of ''The Silver Star'', Xenobia harbors an unrequited love for {{spoiler|Ghaleon}}. [[Genre Savvy|She even seems aware that he'll never return her affections]], and claims it's part of what attracts her to him.
** In the intro to ''Silver Star Harmony'', Dragonmaster Dyne acts like a schoolboy trying to work up the courage to ask Althena to the big dance. Ghaleon might have had a thing for her too. He's either a devout believer in the Goddess, or he's crushing on her, hard. Or both.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Kyle: party resident crude, muscle-bound leader of a band of (friendly!) bandits. In the remakes, he fools enemies with a considerably ugly and unconvincing [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] disguise. Another example is Master Mel: a crude, muscle-bound former leader of a band of ''pirates''.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: The Sega CD version gave the characters ''several'' more spells for all characters (including attack songs for Luna), but several of these were just multi-target variations on existing spells or were too overspecialized to be useful (curing only sleep instead of all status effects, for instance). ''Silver Star Story'', in contrast, gives each character only up to eight spells, tops.
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** [[Team Pet]]: Nall.
* [[Floating Continent]]: The magic city of Vane. The first time you go through, you have to pass through a large dungeon with enemies that are highly resistant to physical attacks. Once you make it to the end of the dungeon, you don't have to visit it again.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: The original and current generation of heroes. Made very explicit in the intro to ''Silver Star Harmony''.
** Hell Mel and Lemia bicker like Kyle and Jess.
** Dyne rescues Althena like Alex rescues Luna.
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** Luna has one of these as well {{spoiler|just before she get's kidnapped by Ghaleon}}. [http://lunar-net.com/sssc/screens/18/images/image_86_07-19-2004_61432.68.jpg It's pretty epic too].
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Alex really, ''really'' loves Dragonmaster Dyne... but [[Ho Yay|not in that way, of course]]. He actually gets a chance to [[Ascended Fanboy|live out his dream]].
** Ghaleon towards Althena in the intro to ''Silver Star Harmony'': appropriate, since she ''is'' a goddess.
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: In the first remake, you're treated to a bunch of these if you watch the credits roll completely. Unsurprisingly, the VA for [[Large Ham|the Magic Emperor]] gets the lion's share of these.
* [[A Human Am I]]: Luna.
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* [[Musical Spoiler]]: In ''Silver Star Story Complete'', the Alex's Ocarina item functions as a music test. One of the tracks is titled {{spoiler|"Magic Emperor Ghaleon". Yeah}}...
* [[Music for Courage]]: Luna and the other imprisoned girls in the Grindery when Alex is trying to raise the Blue Dragon Shrine.
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: In ''Silver Star Harmony'', when Jessica mopes after the rest of your party gets turned to stone.
{{quote|'''Jessica''': "My father... my friends... and Kyle..."}}
** Granted, this one is a bit different than usual, as instead of the Zoidberg here being less important than the others, the loss of Kyle is the one that hits Jess the hardest.
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** Fresca and Phacia: [[Sakura Tange]].
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The [[PS 1]] version, in comparison to the PSP. The [[PS 1]] hasn't the same item storage style, meaning less space. They also haven't limit breaks, meaning bosses are much harder (since you can't rely on Luna's Limit for most of the game to restore mp, or any of the attack Limits in battle). Also, experience seems to be slightly slower. For a good comparison, in the first forest in Harmony, it is possible to win at least the first battle, and possibly the second (without asking for help). It's not as much to do so without the help of limit breaks though.
* [[No Loves Intersect]]: The main party can be broken down into three perfect [[Official Couple]]s; the question is not who's going to hook up with who, but how. Possibly not the case for the previous generation
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Luna is Alex's adopted sister. Thankfully, this fact is not brought up much, and they are presented more as childhood friends than as brother and sister.
* [[Not Himself|Not Herself]]: Lemia. She throws Alex and company into the dungeon upon their first meeting at the Vane magic guild. {{spoiler|It is later revealed that this Lemia was actually Xenobia, and the real Lemia was thrown in the dungeon and slapped with a crown that robbed her of most of her memory}}.
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* [[Sure Why Not]]: For many years there was nary a hint about Ghaleon's background. Coupled with the fact that his appearance doesn't fit any of Lunar's races, this sparked substantial fan speculation. The spin-off manga ''Lunar: Vheen Airship Story'' proposed that Ghaleon is [[Last of His Kind|the last]] of a long-lived Vile Tribe subspecies that once ruled the magic city of Vane. One of these details was imported into ''Silver Star Harmony'' to become the only canon bit of Ghaleon background: the member of a long-lived race part.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Hell Mel.
* [[A Taste of Power]]: In ''Silver Star Harmony'', the prologue sequence involves controlling the Four Heroes in their prime. They're all based on what the main cast would eventually become (though missing a member: Ghaleon doubles for both Jessica and Nash).
* [[Three Amigos]]: Alex, Ramus and Luna.
* [[Tin Tyrant]]: The Magic Emperor.
* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Royce.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Nash apparently in his introduction in the ''Silver Star Story''/''Silver Star Harmony'', though he's [[Idiot Ball|not that bad in rest of the game]]. The party comes across a very [[Obvious Trap]], commenting that [[Schmuck Bait|only a complete idiot would fall for]] such a thing. Cue Nash screaming for help.
* [[Troperiffic]]: The head writer knew that the twists in ''Lunar 1'' were easy to read. [[Word of God|That's what he was was going for]]: rewarding genre savvy players by [[Trope Telegraphing|playing to their expectations]].
* [[Tsundere]]: Jessica, who as a priestess-in-training has a sensitive side, but also a very mean streak... especially when her boyfriend Kyle does something stupid.
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