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{{quote|''"Oh no! A [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|plot-unrelated boss monster]]!"''|The titular character, Mardek, on being roared at by a Zombie Warrior}}
 
{{quote|''"What if those bandits had families? Wives and little children that they'd never be able to return home because they died by OUR hands? [...] Justice? Is it justice? What's justice? Just an opinion, really... I mean, those bandits... They could've been doing what they thought was right, what was 'just' in their eyes... It's just that their opinions conflicted with ours, so there's bloodshed... Is it ever necessary?"''|Emela, [[Discussed Trope|discussing]] [[What Measure Is a Mook?|What Measure Is A Mook]]}}
 
The [http://www.fighunter.com/?page=games MARDEK] series is a series of online Flash [[RPG|RPGs]] designed and created by Pseudolonewolf of [[Fig Hunter]] [http://www.fighunter.com/ Games]. They revolve around a lad named [[The Hero|Mardek]], his childhood friend [[The Lancer|Deugan]], their female colleague [[The Chick|Emela]], and the magical space ghost [[Sharing a Body|living inside Mardek's body]] called [[The Smart Guy|Rohoph]]. The games take place on the planet Belfan, where magic and all that nonsense are pretty commonplace. Part of what makes up MARDEK's charm is the game's sense of humour, as almost everyone on the planet seems totally aware that it's an RPG world, [[Lampshade Hanging|and are quick to point out that most of what happens make little to no sense whatsoever]]. Make no mistake, though; at the center of it all is a well-written story and well-constructed world that, as the quote above demonstrates, can be rather dark at times.
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* [[Arbitrary Gun Power]]: Muriance's gun.
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]] / [[Lazy Backup]]: Only up to three of Mardek's allies can participate in any given battle.
* [[Armor -Piercing Attack]]: Ripping Slash.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Violet Crystal. A variation is that it starts out in the villains' possession, meaning that they [[Oh Crap|begin the story with heightened power]].
** Possibly the dark crystal too, although that one just contains power and doesn't try to corrupt/kill the holder. Not directly.
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* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Annunaki that perform soul transfers can become [[Damaged Soul|Class 2]]s if they aren't careful, though it's the mind that's damaged, not the soul.
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: In the first two chapters, Mardek, Deugan, and Emela can't be dropped. In the third chapter, Mardek can't be dropped; this is less of a problem than it could be because Mardek is a support hero and would get less exp than other characters if the same party was used throughout the game.
** Starts becoming a problem in Chapter 3 however; it's very possible to have Mardek at lv40 (Higher level than several bosses!) and the rest of your allies at around level 25 by the end of the game if you frequently switch them to divide exp between them. Cue the [[Self -Imposed Challenge|solo Bonus Boss fights]].
*** Actually, some of the easiest strategies against the first half of the super-bonus boss in chapter 3 is soloing him with Mardek and a few special items. You can still manage to revive everyone at the end, and even let someone else make the killing blow for massive amounts of exp more than the shared kill-XP.
* [[Capital Letters Are Magic]]
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* [[Earth Is the Center of The Universe]]: Completely averted, or possibly even inverted; Earth is in a completely different galaxy, and therefore doesn't even exist as far as everyone is concerned.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: There's even one Governance de Magi member for each element! (Well, except for Fig, since Fig-elemental people are exceptionally rare) This is pretty much [[Justified]] by in-universe reasoning. It's just how their governmental system works.
* [[Elemental Rock -Paper -Scissors]]: Fire consumes Air, Air erodes Earth, Earth absorbs Water, and Water douses Fire. Light banishes Darkness, but at the same time, Darkness consumes and extinguishes Light. (Fig and Ether form a similar duality, though why souls are weak to [[Psychic Powers]] and figments of imagination are weak to [[Soul Power]] is not explained)
** [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|They aren't. The Spiritual elements are given strengths and weaknesses purely for game balance reasons, and are neutral in-story.]]
** There are also "pseudo-elements", namely physical and thauma (pure magic), and divine. The latter 2 are extremely rare though.
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** In Chapter 2 you can drop axes and staves from certain enemies, which none of the characters can use. If you carry them over to the next chapter, you'll find out they're actually starting weapons for Sslen'ck and Gloria.
** In Chapter 3 you can buy a weapon usable only by a character that's considered missing-in-action as of second chapter's ending. It sprouted fan speculations about the character returning in a future installment.
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: Turned around from its usual form; {{spoiler|Rohoph betrays the Governance de Magi, his former friends and allies, time and time again}}.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Social Fox and Mardek have this effect on some NPCs.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Said almost word-for-word in one of the encyclopedia entries.
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* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: Averted for the Governance de Magi, despite them ''not'' averting [[Evil Is Not Well Lit]].
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: A two-way example; both Reptoids and humans dislike each other and think that they're evil savages.
* [[Family -Unfriendly Aesop]]: In-universe example: {{spoiler|Rohoph}} tells Mardek that he shouldn't get emotionally attached to people, because they could die at any moment, or use his trust to betray him.
* [[Fight Woosh]]
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: The Governance de Magi.
** [[Big Bad]]: Anu
** [[The Dragon]]: (Unknown, possibly Melchior or Balthazar)
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** Also, the mad, sociopathic Saul to the good-natured, pacifistic Meraeador.
* [[Genius Loci]]: The planet is established to be alive, just not in the same way as us. The shamans can commune with it, however.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Rohoph, who advises Mardek not to form emotional attachments to people, because then his enemies can use them against him in a [[Sadistic Choice]], or ''they'' could simply [[Et Tu, Brute?|betray him themselves]].
** {{spoiler|Granted, this is probably influenced by Rohoph's extreme paranoia caused by his own corruption from the violet crystal.}}
* [[God of Evil]]: SHUMBRA, the elemental deity of darkness.
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* [[Necessarily Evil]]: It's stated that despite [[Dark Is Evil|dark generally being evil]], having something to surmount encourages progress.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: There are knights, lizard people, mad scientists, zombies, aliens, robots, dragons, dragon-zombies, alien dragons, zombie-alien-dragon-robots [[Overly Long Gag|re-reanimated zombie-alien-dragon-robots who are barely anything more than bone]]... The list goes on and on. Sadly, ninjas and pirates have yet to be introduced, though there are bandits, and Mardek's father is said to wield a katana...
* [[Non -Elemental]]: Subverted; physical attacks ''do'' have their own element that ''can'' be resisted, [[Non -Indicative Name|despite it being referred to as "non-elemental"]]. Played straight with the Divine element, although no attacks or creatures with that element have been revealed thus far, only items and/providing passive skills.
** Prior to the chapter 3 updates, attacks that would be physical ''were'' [[Non -Elemental]], and the element of a physical attack would depend on the element of the equipped weapon. Because the Physical element didn't exist yet, [[Non -Elemental]] attacks would do neutral damage to everything.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The Aeropolis shaman, according to the encyclopedia.
** [[Completely Missing the Point|But he's totally rad, man.]]
* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: The Governance de Magi.
* [[One -Gender Race]]: Of a sort. Solaar and all Aruan are genderless and use the gender-neutral pronoun "xe." Also, Reptoids and Annunaki are hermaphroditic and don't have single sexes or gender, but are usually referred to as "he."
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Rohoph {{spoiler|and, according to Qualna, ALL members of the Governance de Magi,}} thinks of himself as this compared to the rest of the Governance de Magi. {{spoiler|Subverted in that, in fact, Rohoph is just as insane in his own way as the rest of the Governance. Played straight with Qualna, thus far.}}
* [[Opening the Sandbox]]: Happens every chapter, usually just before the final dungeon. There are usually some sidequests you can complete before then, though.
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** Magmazard, [[Pokémon|fire-elemental lizards with a flame lit tail.]]
** Lovely Elfs can drop an item called "[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|Elf Cap]]".
** One of the souls inhabiting Legion is clincally depressed. Everyone in his town [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|called him Miserable Ol' Martin]], which further depressed him, as his name was actually Eric. Hm. A depressed, whiny [[Robot Buddy]]... [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Where have we seen this before?]]
** Muriance, a thief (well, bandit, actually), claims to be a [[Final Fantasy VI|'Treasure Hunter']] when you meet up with him in chapter 3.
** One of the quotes from a bookshelf:
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* [[Time Skip]]: Between every chapter thus far.
* [[Title Theme Drop]]: Though this isn't used directly, ''quoting'' the main theme in plot-important pieces is very common.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Bernard is the only dark-elemental character in the World's Saviors. Actually subverted, as he seems to be a good guy, or at the very least, an [[Anti -Hero]].
** He's more like the [[Jerkass|Token Jerk Ass Teammate]].
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato in The Mirror]]}}: {{spoiler|[[Oh Crap|Rohoph was not immune to the Violet Crystal's effects.]]}}
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* [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]]: Rather [[Egregious]], since you can click on an enemy's lifebar at any time to see a detailed description of their stats, equipment, etc., and only a few enemies will actually drop said equipment as a [[Randomly Drops|random drop]]. It's also subverted, however, as a lot of the enemy equipment is actual equipment that you can buy or find in treasure chests.
* [[The Von Trope Family]]: [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Baron von Doomkill]].
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: Sidestepped; it's explicitly stated multiple times that monsters aren't sapient, therefore killing them is okay. There's even a pacifist in your party who uses this as justification for why he fights! Enemies that ''are'' actual humans, however, [[What Measure Is a Mook?|deeply]] [[Averted Trope|disturb]] the characters, who view it as a form of [[Shoot the Dog]].
* [[Whatevermancy]]
* [[White and Gray Morality]]: A surprisingly [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]] version; though the main characters are unambiguously good, the fact that the villains are of gray morality is stressed many times, and emphasizes the fact that fighting the villains is not necessarily a good thing.
** Slides toward [[Grey and Gray Morality]] in Chapter 3, as {{spoiler|Rohoph's [[Knight Templar]] tendencies start to become more pronounced. By the end of the chapter, he's [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] so much that he's starting to verge on [[Complete Monster]].}} Additionally, the story dwells a good bit on the fact that even actions taken fighting an indisputably evil villain (namely, {{spoiler|Steele}}) can have wider negative repercussions.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Undead?]]: Sslen'ck can't stand zombies. {{spoiler|Justified, as they killed his parents when he was young.}}
** [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Pixies?]]: Bostolm, Legion's Sanguine soul, starts screaming incoherently whenever he's near a pixie. To quote his P-dialogue in the Lifewood:
{{quote| '''Legion''': OH NOOOOOO!!!!! PIXIES LIVE HERE!!!!! AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!! And fairies. I don't mind fairies. They're nice. But PIXIES?!? THEY DIG IN MY MIIIIIND!!! But they won't find any chocolate! Hee! HEE.}}
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The Governance de Magi, and how.
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* [[BGM Override]]: In the first area, the "Mighty Heroes" track plays over everything else up until the boss fight.
* [[The Bully]]: Mugbert's bestiary and encyclopedia article lists him as such. {{spoiler|And, while examples of his bullying are unseen, beating him up at the end of this chapter is strangely satisfying...}}
* [[ClicheCliché Storm]]: The beginning.
** [[Tropes Are Not Bad|In the]] [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|best]] [[Stylistic Suck|possible way.]]
* [[Fake Action Prologue]]
* [[Fat Bastard]]: The final boss of this chapter is {{spoiler|A fat, ugly kid named Mugbert, who likes to bully Mardek and Deugan.}}
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* [[Angrish]]: The ''encyclopedia'' lapses into this in the description of the {{spoiler|zombie locksmith}} miniboss.
* [[Anti -Hero]]: A hilarious example of parody within the game would be [[Jerkass|Steele.]] {{spoiler|Until he seemingly dies, that is.}}
* [[Author Filibuster]] / [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on which one the [[What Measure Is a Mook?]] discussion is.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Hooray! You saved your world and became a hero! But, in the process of doing so, you lost your closest friend, your love interest left for vague reasons, the other two allies you may have made ditched you for weak reasons, and you were forced to fight the reanimated corpse of your childhood hero. Ouch.}}
* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|The zombie dragon}}.
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* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: The Worlds' Saviours.
* [[Flunky Boss]]: Moric.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Rohoph, a light-elemental, loses {{spoiler|Moric, an earth-elemental,}} whom [[Alas, Poor Villain|he had once considered a friend.]] Guess which character close to Mardek {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself so that the rest of the party can escape the ship a mere few minutes later?]]}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Deugan}}'s "I'll hold him off, you get to safety" scene.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Not one you face, mind you. Bartholio assumes that your party is one of these to his, thinking that, should you fight again, they will surely win. {{spoiler|And, if you're successful in the hidden arena, you prove him wrong on that, as well.}}
* [[Load -Bearing Boss]]: {{spoiler|Moric}}.
* [[Lost Forever]]: The Trilobite Key IV, although it's very hard to miss, and if you do, [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|you deserve it]]. Luckily, in Chapter 3, there's an obscure shop in Acropolis that sells all the Trilobite keys if you missed any of them.
* [[Mercy Rewarded]]: Gope, [[Guide Dang It|infam]][[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|ously]].
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Subverted or possibly inverted with {{spoiler|Moric}}, who you fight in his giant-monster-type form first, then later in his second form, {{spoiler|the possessed corpse of Social Fox.}}
* [[Point of No Return]]: You can't leave once you enter Moric's battleship.
* [[Say My Name]]: "Moric!" "Rohoph!" "Moric..." "Rohoph..."
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Vehrn when he wonders why when the heroes argue over what to do about a certain monster, it just sits idly waiting for them to finish their conversation.
* [[Title Drop]]: Kinda. Mardek and Deugan try to become this, to replace Social Fox. {{spoiler|Both succeed, especially Deugan, who actually becomes the next Great Adventurer.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Discussed after the first mission, in one of the game's darker scenes. Also subverted in the case of Gope.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: If you don't kill a bandit named Gope at the beginning, he'll later give you the Trilobite Key IV, which is essential for completing a sidequest. But if you killed him, too bad, it's [[Lost Forever]]...Until Chapter 3. See [[Lost Forever]] above.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Happens twice, though it's mostly [[Played for Laughs]].
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'''Mardek''': I don't remember ever doing that...<br />
'''Elwyen''': IN MY DREAMS YOU DID!!! }}
* [[Badass Boast]]: [[Bonus Boss|The Annihilator]] scoffs at you when you try to fight it, saying that it has wiped out an entire civilization, and that you have no hope of defeating it in single combat. [[Violation of Common Sense|Mardek does so]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|anyway]].
** Granted, it is by far the hardest battle in the entire series so far. (including the security demon, which is hard for completely different reasons)
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Where to begin? Well, first you have to fight your own king. Who afterwards promptly dies. [[Accidental Murder|Oops.]] And did we mention that he's actually the father of one of your party members? Then it turns out Qualna wasn't even trying to get you to kill the king, and this is exactly the example he was trying to create to show [[Knight Templar|Rohoph]] that he's gone off the deep end, and to get him to rejoin the Governance de Magi peacefully. (Although most of the Magi have gone off that end too.) Rohoph promptly kills Qualna too and seals his soul so he can no longer escape after telling her that he wouldn't. Mardek and Elwyen go to a play afterwards to lighten the mood, until Rohoph forces her away, to Mardek's disdain and anger. So now King Gonoroth and probably the most friendly of the Governance de Magi are dead, and Rohoph wants Mardek to have no more friends to become attached to. Yeah. At least Lone Wolf (Deugan) finally talks to Mardek's face, although he doesn't reveal who he is.}}
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* [[Development Hell]]: The chapter took ''three years'' to complete, due to many factors, such as the developer having to rewrite the engine ''twice'', once in a programming language he was unfamiliar with, and also the fact that the game was so gigantic that sponsors were reluctant to put it on their sites.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Abdication annuls not just the current ruler's right to rule, but that of their ''entire bloodline''. Therefore, if {{spoiler|King Gonoroth}} abdicated, {{spoiler|Donovan}} would ''not'' become king, even though they say they would at one point.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Subverted in that it isn't actually a god, but the most powerful [[Bonus Boss]] is {{spoiler|a super-powerful alien monstrosity that wiped out an ''entire civilization''. And not only can you defeat its body, but its ''soul'' as well.}}
** Just to put this in perspective, a book you can read within the Lizard Tribe village {{spoiler|states that said alien monstrosity had its body and soul seperated by an ancient race to stop its path of destruction. [[Up to Eleven|Sadly, both the body and soul merely went on destruction sprees of their own, giving the race two deadly enemies to face.]] They managed to [[Sealed Evil in A Can|seal both parts of the monster away,]] but didn't quite make it through afterwards.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]}}: Subverted, as {{spoiler|the mastermind ''is'' a major villain, but disguised as a "dog". Remember Clavis, that enigmatic but inconspicuous guy who just seemed to like talking about balance? He's Qualna in disguise}}.
* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: Mentioned within a novel in Xantusia is one Baron von Doomkill, a 'crystal tyrant' who had, in the past, seized control of an elemental crystal and attempted to conquer the world. {{spoiler|He's one of the four souls summoned into Legion.}}
* [[Double Entendre]]:
{{quote| '''Melchior:''' I liked Qualna. He had one eye. I liked that about him because I have one eye too. So does everyone in this chamber. We're like one big happy family! He also solved his problems with words. Words which weren't things like "DIE!!" or "[[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|I have a small peanut and I'm not afraid to use it]]!"<br />
'''Balthazar:''' You have a small ''what''?<br />
'''Melchior:''' I'm a hermaphrodite. }}
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* [[For the Evulz]]: Bernard makes a zombie which disrupts the play at the end of the story. When people call him out for this, he responds that no one was hurt and he enjoyed doing it.
** He knows that the members Bartholio's party aren't the true heroes of the game. He just follows them around for kicks. Or, in other words, to watch them fail time and time again.
* [[Four -Temperament Ensemble]]: All in one character, the multi-souled Legion. The colours of the souls even correspond to their temperaments' colours.
** Also, the four Solakian monks that you need to rescue in a sidequest.
** There's even a ''monster'' like this, "Temperance", which is basically a totem pole with the heads of the four temperaments.
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{{quote| '''Bostolm:''' EEEEHeeheeheee! I am difficult to WRITE DIALOGUE FOR!!!}}
* [[Marathon Boss]]: All of the [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] other than the [[Glass Cannon|Bone Demon]], particularly the Annihilator. Both of its forms can spam a spell that nullifies all damage once, and YALORT help you if you used up your last Candiathrope before fighting Animus -- since Gemsplosion: Candiathrope is the ''only attack in the entire game'' that it isn't resistant to. Karnos also has a whopping 65,000 hit points, though you ''can'' inflict Bleed on it, [[Revive Kills Zombie|which will drain its health at record speed]].
* [[May -December Romance]]: If Elwyen is seriously right about Gloria and Mereador getting together. Consider that the Meraeador was an adult while Mardek was a kid, and Mardek grew up for a few years in between chapters 1 and 2 when he met Gloria, who was a child then. Sure, Gloria's a shaman, so age means nothing to her, but still...
** Mereador actually comments on this on one of his backstory party talks. Unfortunately, Mardek also says that it's okay for a 10-year-old kid to love an old woman, so...
*** Though Mardek is a bit... Well, [[Cloudcuckoolander|off when it comes to reality.]]
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* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain]]: The {{spoiler|Qualna-possessed King}} makes several remarks to this effect. {{spoiler|This is actually invoked, however; Qualna purposefully put up a terrible act in a [[Reverse Psychology]] gambit.}}
** Also, Muriance.
* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: The [[Paper -Thin Disguise|Mysterious]] Man has his copious swearing replaced by [PROFANITY] in the textual equivalent of a [[Sound Effect Bleep]]. Though, hilariously enough, one bit of dialogue suggests that this may not be the case- he's actually ''saying the word'' "PROFANITY" in the middle of his sentences. (That, or Mardek is [[No Fourth Wall|reading the dialogue boxes]]. It can be hard to tell with this game.)
* [[Nice Hat|Nice Helmet]]: Mardek's helmet, complete with "M!" emblazoned on the front, is almost humorously cheesy. Then you realize, as mentioned above, that [[Fridge Brilliance|he uses it to hide]] [[Mind Control Eyes|the glow in his eyes that appears whenever Rohoph takes over.]]
** Elwyen's Dreamstone suggests there may be another, not entirely unrelated reason. She thinks he became self-conscious after she pointed out {{spoiler|the weird sores on his face and bags under his eyes.}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Two examples. The first one, which makes up the two optional boss battles, involves a [[Starfish Aliens|starfish alien]] [[Eldritch Abomination|eldritch abomination]] that lands on Belfan and starts annihilating [[Meaningful Name|(thus its name)]] and begins wiping out the first civilization before humans came to power. In a desperate attempt to save themselves, {{spoiler|they use their magic to seperate its spirit from its body, hoping it would just stop moving or something to that effect; all that did was made the monster even ''more'' destructive and prone to rampaging than before. Not only that, but you find out by reading the encyclopedia by defeating its soul next that had its trapped soul been left alone long enough, it could have eventually formed a new body anyways, repeating the process. Nice job breaking it, guys!}}
** The other example is after defeating the final boss of the chapter {{spoiler|turns out that Qualna was actually the least affected by the Violet Crystal, merely ''acting'' like it affected him like the others in order to not be run off just like Rohoph. Not only is he aware that the Violet Crystal has, slightly, affected him somewhat AND he wants to destroy it just like Rohoph wanted to, helping him no less, but he's aware that the Violet Crystal has greatly affected Rohoph just as much as the other Governance de Magi. While he wanted to help Moric in the last chapter, Rohoph is in his [[Knight Templar]] mode and simply wants to kill off Qualna because he's supposedly evil too. And, even after giving his word that he would let Qualna go to the afterlife afer his death, Rohoph ''still'' seals his soul in a crystal. You find out from the dreamstone he drops that he was genuine in his desire to help Rohoph and destroy the Violet Crystal, which means Rohoph just sealed a harmless, innocent person and the only member of his race that wanted to ''help'' him. Nice job sealing him, [[Jerkass]].}}
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Steele comes back as a major antagonist.}}
** This is amazingly ''subverted'' with {{spoiler|Deugan}}, who {{spoiler|decides not to return to the group for various reasons shown throughout his dreamstones. In his final one, he says that [[That Man Is Dead|he is dead, but is reborn anew]]...as "Lone Wolf", the next Grand Adventurer.}}
*** Which, seeing how he all but abandons {{spoiler|Emela}}, makes him sort of a [[Jerkass]].
** And it's parodied as well. After the boss fight against Sslen'ck, speaking to his fallen lizard guards reveals that they're still [[Non -Lethal KO|very much alive]] and somewhat irked to left lying there.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: A few villains in this chapter act this way, but Saul is the best example, as his appearance, mannerisms, and profession make it as subtle as a brick to the head, boosting him up to cartoonish levels of villainy. Sslen'ck's chancellor also hilariously parodies obviously evil characters who are trusted nonetheless.
{{quote| ''As my most trusted advisssor, Blatantly Evil Chancellor, I leave the care of our village in your capable handsss.''}}
* [[Oculothorax]]: The numerous eyeball enemies, including the elemental-based [[Palette Swap|Palette Swaps]].
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: The Warport security. [[Lampshading|Even the employees refer to it as such.]]
* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]: The water temple guardian, whose identity should be obvious to anyone who played the last game, wears only a see-through veil to cover her face. [[Idiot Hero|Mardek doesn't recognize her.]]
** Also, the Mysterious Man {{spoiler|AKA Steele.}} Mardek comments that he never knew anyone with an eyepatch, despite his facial features and personality completely giving his identity away. Heck, if you have Donovan in your party, he'll ask "why did he have to come back?"
** Oddly enough, we see its inverse at the end of the game. When Lone Wolf starts talking with Mardek, Mardek appears to recognize who he actually is despite the fact that he's much more disguised than the other two.
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** Considering they're demons, though, this is not really surprising.
* [[Take That]]: Rohoph makes a jab at Sonny, a rival Flash RPG, when talking to an NPC in Goznor.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Saul takes this [[Purple Prose|further]] [[Small Name, Big Ego|than]] [[Large Ham|most.]]
{{quote| '''Saul''': That would be I, answered Saul affirmatively. What of this?, he went on further to ask, the ivory protuberances of his gaunt visage lit eerily by the dim torchlight; the furry dark caterpillars of his brow dancing in antipode to suggest particular suspicion; wanting for an answer that does not test his patience and his undead...}}
* [[Title Drop]]: Multiple times, whenever you talk to Clavis.
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: Fighting the Annihilator, an alien monstrosity that wiped out an ''entire civilization'', in single combat. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|You can win]].
* [[Volcano Lair]]: At least one NPC lives in a volcano, a mad hermit inside a little cave {{spoiler|who is actually the shaman of the area, [[My God, What Have I Done?|driven insane from guilt]]}}.
* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|"YOU UTTER MONSTER!"}}
* [[What You Are in The Dark]]: Subverted with {{spoiler|Rohoph}}, who reveals himself to be {{spoiler|a [[Knight Templar]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]].}}
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