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Also, for some reason, a great deal of things in the games are made out of gummi. Including the power-ups and the [[Cosmic Keystone|Cosmic Keystones]].
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* [[An Ice Person]]: Sorbet
** Blueberry in Vacation.
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* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Semolina immediately volunteers to be made into a [[Cosmic Keystone]], and does so before the party can try to stop her. And Sorbet reveals if Semolina hadn't done it, she would have.}}
* [[Elemental Powers]]: The main system of magic. The full list of elements in the game is earth, machine, bug, wood, poison, beast, thunder, water, beauty, sword, wind, sound, fire, love, darkness, and light. The sequel trims it down to earth, fire, wind, water, wood, light, and darkness.
* [[Elemental Rock
* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: The first [[Space Police]] detective the party faces is Mugwort, an [[Funny Afro|afro-wearing]] lizard with bell-bottom pants and platform shoes. He even strikes the classic Disco pose when casting.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: One of the otters is named - I kid you not - '''Hard-Up Hank'''.
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* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Everyone looks at Chai as the weakest team member because sissy plant magic is "hardly galactic hero material". Then he ''breaks open a gargantuan boulder that the Earth mage couldn't even move''...'''using a single sprout'''.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Brie Pourri and a good portion of the Space Police.}}
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: You get to name your entire party. Not only that, the dev team went the extra mile with when user-inputted names are spoken in certain context: Soon after Mokka joins the party, Lassi has a line where she whispers to your character, addressing him/her by name in a hoarser whisper. How do they show that she's adding emphasis without the ability to use italics? The same way most people do it: ALL-CAPS. ''Even if your name isn't in all-caps.'' Most games don't do this, even in mid-all-caps lines.
* [[HP to One]]: One party member starts this way in the final boss battle, in addition to losing access to some commands. {{spoiler|It's Mokka, after he inflicts [[Explosive Instrumentation]] on himself.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Human Resources]]}}: {{spoiler|Robots? Their battery cores are made from gummified humans. Even your [[Robot Buddy]] Mokka.}}
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* [[Kill It With Water]]: Sorbet
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The Space Police make a good example.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Parodied, a [[Red Shirt|dwarf]] tells this to a [[Mook|Pirate Otter]]. [[Fridge Brilliance|A dwarf who'd inherited an exile on Cassia...]]
* [[Magic Knight]]: Especially Pico, who can have a good mix of attack and IQ, but Mokka, the main character, and Chai can pull this role off as well.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Mokka. Slow as hell and has almost one and a half times as much health as anyone else. Also has the best defense out of anyone else.
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Inverted, as the (until then) light-hearted, goofy gameplay gives way to a cutscene where a likable (yet creepy) side character {{spoiler|commits suicide by letting herself be eaten by a plant}}, to allow you to continue on your way. The game itself gets fairly dark towards the end, but after the aforementioned scene they head back to light-hearted for a few hours of gameplay. Oh, and you still get the cheerful "You got a Cosmic Keystone!" jingle.
** Right after said scene, {{spoiler|Sorbet tells you SHE was about to make the sacrifice needed.}}
** {{spoiler|The fact the main ingredient in a robot power core is a gummy made from magic users, right there in black and white, within something you need to read for plot purposes?}} Which becomes a lot more of a [[Wham Episode|shock]] when you learn {{spoiler|that's why there's ruins on Erd and that the robots will eventually move on to other worlds when they need more.}} Oh, and when you find what's left of them? {{spoiler|You can go upstairs and fight a girl who happened to be one of the ones that lived through the process. [[I Cannot Self
*** Oh, and remember, this was made by the same team who brought you [[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]].
* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Saved Enough]]}}: {{spoiler|Miss Madeline}}.
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*** Pico: Id, hot-headed, needs to be brought back to earth by Sorbet regularly.
*** Sorbet: Superego, tries to keep Pico in line.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Pico and Sorbet. Also the closest thing to a canon couple the game gives us.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The sequel has an 800 year timeskip. The same teachers are still teaching at the magic school, and they still look the same.
** Lampshaded by Chai.
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* [[Terrible Trio]]: Pirate otters, who sometimes come in Terrible Quartets, too.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Every town/race has a different theme. The dwarves are named after sauces, the otters are named after famous musicians (mostly rockers), and the residents of Bena Rikashi are named after elements, metals, and the like.
** In addition, all the playable characters in Magical Starsign (except for the protagonist, [[Hello, Insert Name Here|who you name]]) are named after foods.
** Not only that, but the spiny moles are all named after cheese. This is even Lampshaded when one digs a tunnel and the map title for it is "Gorgonzola's Hole-a".
** In Vacation, The heroes' first names are foods, while their last names hint to their elemental powers, either by something simple like 'Blueberry Lakeside' or the color that represents said element, such as 'Candy Mintblue'.
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** Gil Mudflap and Abalon Demar also count, though they're much less recurring.
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Book of the Darned. And it used to be standard curriculum, too.
* [[Two
* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: Master Chard at Cassia is by far the hardest boss faced to that point in the game.
* [[Warmup Boss]]: The Antlion on Erd.
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