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'''''Monster Girl Quest
▲[[File:Monster Girl Quest Paradox logo.png|thumb|400px|right]]
▲'''''Monster Girl Quest: Paradox''''' is the sequel to ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]'', though it's not a direct sequel. It uses the [[RPG Maker]] VX Ace engine instead of a [[Visual Novel]] engine, and is set in an [[Alternate Universe]] to the original game.
The game starts in the same year as the original did, but with a twist. Thirty years prior to this, the Great Disaster occurred. This consisted of a number of strange and world-shaking events, the most notable being the disappearance of the Goddess Ilias. Needless to say, the entire world (monster and human alike) was stunned by this. Since then, monsters and humans have mostly decided to get along - a major departure from the original game.
Luka (the hero of the original game) has a dream of Ilias, the night before his baptism. She is apparently using all of her power to send him a message that things have gone horribly pear-shaped in the world, and hints that it's the reason for her apparent disappearance. Luka wakes up wondering what it means.
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Unlike the last game, this is an actual roleplaying game instead of a visual novel with roleplaying elements. The game has elements of ''[[Dragon Quest]], [[Shin Megami Tensei]]'', and ''[[Suikoden]]'' incorporated into the gameplay mechanics, though it retains several [[Visual Novel]] like elements.
The game consists of three parts, or chapters. Part 1 was released on 14 March 2015, while Part 2 was released on 23 June 2017. The trailer for Part 3 was released on 18 June 2022.
Both parts have been completely translated into English. As of November 2020, the latest version of the English translation can be found [https://bitbucket.org/ArzorX/monster-girl-quest-paradox-translation/downloads/ here.]
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* [[Abandoned Laboratory]]: The Ancient Temple Ruins.
* [[Action Girl]]: The vast majority of enemies and allies are female.
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Many Monster Girls are far stronger here than they were in the previous game. For example, Vampire Girl was, much like the other bandits, almost harmless and easy for Luka to defeat in the first game. Here she has a powerful AoE attack as an enemy, and is a powerful tank if recruited.
* [[Alice Allusion]]: Even more than the previous game, to the point that there is an actual character called the White Rabbit, who leads Alice around.
* [[All in a Row]]: Party members follow the party leader in this manner. This leads to amusingly-long lines if your active party includes characters that appear as separate sprites on the map, like the Sluggy Stars or Nefertiti Lamias.
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* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The vast majority of companions are female, and you can easily make the entire active party female (though Luka has to be in the party somewhere). Additionally, most enemies is female.
* [[Animated Armor]]: The Armoured Berserker gives this impression.
* [[Anti Frustration Feature]]:
** The game has many sidequests, but these are helpfully listed on a notice board in the Pocket Monster Lord's Castle, so you can keep track of them.
** The Evaluations return from the original game, giving you advice on how to handle enemies after you lose to them.
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* [[Background Magic Field]]: One of these was created by the Great Disaster, allowing all humans to use magic.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Any of the companions who are or have the bodies of children, like the Four Bandits, Mini, Alice and Ilias.
* [[Badass Family]]:
** All Monster Lords are the direct descendants of the Dark Goddess, Alice the First.
** {{spoiler|Heinrich}}, Marcellus and Luka, a line of legendary heroes.
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* [[Bare Fisted Monk]]: The Martial Artist job and its variants.
* [[The Battle Didn't Count]]: The fights against Morrigan and Astaroth. Justified by them being far more powerful than the party, and holding back.
* [[Beef Gate]]:
** You can enter the forest around Enrika as soon as you can leave Ilias Village. The inhabitants will one-shot you if you try this, however.
** The Gold region has a set of ruins that can be entered prior to the fourth Tartarus, inhabited by extremely powerful chimeras. You're meant to explore this only after finishing the second chapter.
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* [[Big Eater]]: Both Alice and Ilias.
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The "Pocket Castle" is a massive castle shrunk down to pocket size you can enter and exit on the world map to switch out companions. In fact, after recruiting certain party members, you can also use it as a portable inn, item shop, and a weapons/armor store.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]:
** The end of the first chapter. {{spoiler|You manage to return safely to the Paradox world, with important information on the threat of Chaos. But an entire world has fallen to Chaos, and the last living (for certain values of the word) inhabitant of that world sacrificed herself to let you escape}}.
** On the Ilias route, the ending of the second chapter also qualifies. {{spoiler|Sonya sacrifices herself to banish Adramelech and uses the last of her power to repair the damage to the world. She copies over an alternate version of her so that Luka won't be lonely, and erases everyone's memories of what happened.}}
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* [[Black Magic]]: A skill type, which includes spells that do elemental damage and inflict status ailments.
* [[Bleak Level]]: The Tartarus, and the town of Remina accessed from them. They represent a sudden, unnerving shift from the otherwise bright aesthetic of the rest of the game.
* [[Blow You Away]]:
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** Sylph is the spirit of wind, and resembles a fairy. Summoning her grants Luka a buff that increases agility, accuracy and evasion, makes his normal attack wind-elemental and boosts wind damage.
* [[Body Horror]]: The Apoptosis monsters, which are either combinations of biological and mechanical parts, or have extreme deformities, or both.
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Several characters suffer this at the hands of the Lilith Sisters, which causes all sorts of trouble.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Remember how it was mentioned in the original game heroes can enter peoples houses and take stuff? You can do that yourself now.
* [[Broken Bridge]]:
** As in the original game, the sea route between the Ilias and Sentora Continents is blocked by unnatural storms, requiring you to obtain a magical artifact to get through. Though unlike the original, {{spoiler|the storm is caused by Morrigan instead of Alma Elma}}.
** Somewhat more literally, a tunnel on the Sentora continent has collapsed, preventing access to the northern half until the second chapter.
* [[But Thou Must]]:
** You cannot avoid choosing between Alice and Ilias at the start of the game. They won't let Luka leave the inn before he decides.
** Several party members will force their way into the party regardless of the player's decision, or won't even give you the opportunity to choose. While Sonya and Nuruko can seemingly be avoided, they're forced into the party by the White Rabbit near the end of Part 2.
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* [[Can't Catch Up]]: With more than a hundred possible companions, this is inevitable. However, thanks to reserve party members receiving [[Leaked Experience]] with no risk, they can catch up quite quickly.
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: Luka can never be removed from the party, although he can be in either the active or reserve party.
* [[Cap]]: Jobs and Races cap at level 10, while normal level is capped at 30 (in Part 1) and later 60 (in Part 2) and increased to 70 in the version that includes the Collab Event. However, enemies in the Labyrinth of Chaos have stats and movesets that easily exceed this by unfathomable amounts.
* [[Casino Park]]: Grandoll, complete with gambling minigames.
* [[Cast from Hit Points]]: Dark and Necromancy skills consume HP to use, rather than SP or MP.
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: Even though there's well over a hundred party members in Part 1 alone, they all still have distinct personalities. It's also reflected in gameplay, as every character has a unique trait that affects their stats, skills, abilities and/or what equipment they use.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The game starts off with a bright and colorful aesthetic, cute monsters and light-hearted quests. Then you enter the first Tartarus... each one containing [[And I Must Scream|more nightmarish sights]] than the last...
** {{spoiler| It hurts '''It HURTS'''}}
* [[Chainmail Bikini]]: All over the place. The sprites for many monsters (notably the Devil Fighter) lack serious armor, and there's even an armor type called Skimpy.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Even your human party members can eventually grow powerful enough to survive being hit by multiple meteors by an [[Eldrich Abomination]].
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* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Scylla have these, and they allow them to attack multiple times per turn.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: The Gold Volcano dungeon is a huge offender. Standing on magma damages the party, but standing on a tile right next to magma is perfectly safe.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: In the Labyrinth of Chaos, the enemies often have access to skills or abilities that your characters cannot access. For example, complete and innate immunity to physical or magical attacks.
** Even before the Labyrinth, enemies have skills that they don't have as your party members. An egregious example is Rami the imp, who has the high-level fire spell Omega Blaze as an enemy (though lacks the MP to cast it) but not as your companion.
* [[Cosmic Horror]]: The true nature of {{spoiler|Chaos}}.
* [[Counter Attack]]: When attacked, a character has a chance of launching a counterattack, which can be improved with certain pieces of equipment.
* [[Cover-Blowing Superpower]]: Both Nero and Neris seem to be wary of using their true power. {{spoiler|This is because their true forms have the purple skin and white hair of the Monster Lords, as well as angelic energy wings. It's one of the many indications of their parentage}}.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:
** Neris' backstory has her inflicting these on many powerful groups, including Lady's Village, the Arachne race, and Plansect Forest, all in the space of a single day.
** The game's [[Hopeless Boss Fight|Hopeless Boss Fight]] tend to follow the same format: you input commands for your party members, then the boss KOs everyone in a single hit before you can act. If you're lucky, some of your party members will actually get an action in first and/or some will survive the attack.
* [[Cut and Paste Environments]]:
** The interiors of the Tartarus consist of fragments of various other areas, all jumbled together with no apparent pattern.
** Similarly, each floor of the Labyrinth of Chaos is a copy of an existing area on the world map.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Naturally. They make up most of the enemies and recruitable allies in the game.
* [[Cyborg]]: Many of the Chimera and Apoptosis monsters. Also {{spoiler|the San Ilias King and Marcellus}}.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: All monsters are dark-aligned to some extent, but that doesn't automatically make them evil.
* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]:
** Not only can you reload from a previous save, but in-universe, the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of death itself will allow Luka to come back to life, for reasons that are still unclear.
** In Iliasburg, you can kill Amira infinitely. The moment you leave, she comes back to life, with no explanation.
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* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: Adrammalek, a high-level Apoptosis, complete with her unique theme music.
* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: The Administrator's Tower.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]:
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** Gnome is the spirit of earth, and resembles a small elf. Summoning her grants Luka a buff that increases defence and critical hit chance, makes his normal attack wind-elemental, and boosts earth damage.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: When enemies fall below half HP, there's a chance that they will attempt to 'tempt' Luka. If the player chooses to give in, they will use powerful pleasure attacks, potentially leading to a Game Over.
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* [[Elemental Embodiment]]: The Four Great Spirits. Modeled after Paracelsus' elementals, they represent the four classical elements of wind, earth, water and fire. Additionally, the Goddess Ilias and the Dark Goddess Alipheese the First are elementals of light and darkness, respectively.
* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: There are twelve elements: fire, ice, lightning, water, wind, earth, holy, dark, physical, pleasure, bio and sonic.
** The first three are classified as the magical elements, the second three as the natural elements. Some enemies are aligned with one category or the other, such that magic-aligned characters are resistant to fire, ice and lightning and weak to water, wind and earth; and vice versa for nature-aligned characters.
** Holy and dark are clear [[Infinity+1 Element|Infinity+1 Elements]], with most monsters being weak to holy while angels and a few monsters are weak to dark. These two elements are used much more rarely than the others, but they cannot be evaded or reflected by their target.
** The physical element is, naturally, used by physical attacks. Physical resistance is rarer than the other types of elemental resistances.
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: When {{spoiler|Adramelech}} is summoned into the world, {{spoiler|the Lilith Sisters and the three Seraphs}} ally in an attempt to take her down.
* [[The Engineer]]: The Engineer job and its variants, specialising in using machines.
* [[Exclusively Evil]]:
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** It's even averted for the Apoptosis monsters, to the point that they can also be recruited (though this is more difficult than recruiting normal monsters). Even personality-wise, while they do stay in the Chaotic side of the [[Character Alignment]] spectrum, they are mostly either proud warriors, normal beings afflicted by their transformation or just plain curious to the outside world.
* [[Experience Booster]]: Many pieces of equipment, skills, or abilities boost either normal or Job EXP gain. However, these generally have downsides, like increasing normal EXP but decreasing Job EXP by the same amount.
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* [[Gambit Pileup]]: There's countless factions in the game, all working towards their own, inscrutable ends. The fact that some of them come from alternate universes only complicates things further.
** Nero and Neris, {{spoiler|who are almost certainly the children of Luka and Alice}}, seem to be the group most focused on helping out Luka's party.
** Luka's father Marcellus appears to be on Luka's side, but is pursuing his own plans, which are uncertain. What faction he's allied with, if any of them, is a mystery.
** The Lilith Sisters are behind several of the problems the party encounters, but claim to be saving the world. What's more, they seem to be following the orders of {{spoiler|Alice I}}. They turn out to be {{spoiler|from an alternate world where the monsters won the Great Monster Wars, and they are trying to transfer the souls of the Paradox world's inhabitants to their own.}}
** The three Seraphs, who also appear to be trying to preserve the world and are directly opposed to the Lilith Sisters. They turn out to be {{spoiler|from an alternate world where the angels won the Great Monster Wars, and are selecting a subset of humans to bring to their own world.}}
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** The kingdom of Grangold has declared war on the other human nations, and is currently winning, thanks to its army of monsters and dolls and its mysteriously powerful king. {{spoiler|It has been taken over by the Tamamo no Mae of the same world the Lilith Sisters came from, and she is driving it to ruin for her own amusement.}}
** Most bewildering of all, the mafia is also a powerful faction, if a hidden one. It seems to be opposing the Church, to the point of attempting to assassinate the San Ilia King. {{spoiler|Merlin and Lazarus}} are high-ranking figures in it, and seem to have their own plans...
** The Collab Scenario introduces another group, the Apostles of Chaos, a group of extremely powerful Apoptosis who wish to "return everything to nothingness". One would think they'd be part of Black Alice's faction, but they make zero mention of her and are pursuing their own plans, revolving around a mysterious figure they call "The Father of Chaos", {{spoiler|who is heavily implied to be a potential future version of Luka}}.
* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]: ▼
** The preview for Part 3 introduces YET ANOTHER faction, the Alliance of Wisdom, which seems to be made up of alternate timeline versions of Promestein (not the Promestein in the player's party) and her Seekers of Truth from the first game. They have their own objectives and their own plan for dealing with Chaos.
** Each character's trait and list of races tends to reflect their background. For example, Luka has an advantage with hero-related skills and weapons, and has access to the Human race {{spoiler|and the Angel race}}.
** Harpy Wings, an item used to travel to previously-visited towns, are also used by NPCs. One example is the merchant in Ilias Village, who uses one when you visit him for Vanilla's quest.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]:
** Almost all enemies have access to pleasure attacks, but few actually keep them when you recruit them.
** Since it's possible to grind in this game, unlike the original, it's therefore possible to become vastly more powerful than any storyline boss. But even if you can defeat them in one hit and are immune to everything they can dish out, bosses like Morrigan and Astaroth are still treated as holding back and capable of winning if they were to get serious.
** Harpy Wings (and similar means of instant transportation) can only take you to places you've already been to. You don't have the option of, say, making Gob use a Harpy Wing to visit Yamatai (her birthplace) early.
** You can't get to Hellgondo without awakening the Garuda Girl to carry you there. It's [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]] that only the strongest of flying monsters can fly there, but you can recruit high-ranking flying monsters like the Queen Harpy or a Wyvern Girl, yet even they are seemingly up to the task. And of course, you can't use a Harpy Wing to get there, either.
** Late in Chapter 2, Sonya is concerned about holding the party back due to being a normal human. She says this even if she has been given the Worm Summoner or Vampire races, which all humans can access after you've completed certain sidequests.
* [[Genius Bonus]]:
** In real-life, apoptosis is the self-destruction of cells, and one of its purposes is to fight infection by destroying infected cells. In the game, Apoptosis is the immune system of space itself, and acts to stop the spread of Chaos by destroying people who trespass between universes.
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* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: You can recruit monsters to join your team, and you can recruit a staggering amount of them.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Reaper, apparently. Like all supernatural entities in the setting, she appears as a [[Cute Monster Girl]], one with red hair, purple eyes, black clothing and a [[Sinister Scythe]]. She resides in Hades, which similarly is the afterlife of the setting.
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: The guards
** The same also applies to the Navy Marines as well. Is that a suspicious Dog Girl spy? Nah, it's just a friendly bribe-giving person, no need to worry about it.
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]:
** Nero becomes the only controllable character if you lose against the Armored Berserker. He's easily powerful enough to defeat the boss on his own, but you lose control after winning the battle.
** Alma Elma joins the party temporarily at two points, {{spoiler|to defeat Granberia in the Coliseum and for the infiltration of Gold Fort. She can be permanently recruited after clearing Part 2, in an optional sidequest.}}
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* [[Job System]]: Set up very similar to the one used by ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]''.
* [[Joke Character]]: The four Unfortunate Friends: Amira, Pyhar, Domaimer and Santos. The human and monster parts of their bodies are inverted (reflected in the names of the first three, which are the Japanese syllables for lamia, harpy and mermaid reversed). They're the only monster companions to have no request scenes.
** [[Lethal Joke Character]]: But they're not necessarily useless. Pyhar, for example, gains a bonus to evasion and magic evasion from her trait. Combined with the innately high evasion of harpies, and another buff to boost it further, she can achieve 100% evasion and avoid all attacks. (With the exception of Auto-Hit-type attacks that usually guaranteed to hit, unless cancelled out by a party members' counter attack such as Hild's CIWS/Advanced CIWS Defense Ability for instance before it hits) Santos is an even '''better''' example since his trait allows him a 20% chance to "divide" after each turn, thus granting him a temporary buff to act twice or even '''four times''' per turn whilst the "Divide/Divine Destiny" buff(s) are active.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: As is standard for the series, all enemy monsters will rape Luka upon defeating the party, and many will outright kill him. Some of them explicitly have histories of crimes against humans, the Roper being one example. This doesn't prevent them from being recruited, at which point there's no way to punish them.
* [[Keystone Army]]: Monster armies can be routed by defeating their leader(s). This is how you stop {{spoiler|the monster invasions of the four human nations in the second chapter.}}
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* [[Laser Guided Amnesia]]: The ending of Chapter 2 features two possible versions of this, depending on whether Alice or Ilias was recruited. On the Alice route, {{spoiler|Sonya doesn't remember the previous events, including the fact that she's an Apoptosis, but everyone else does}}. On the Ilias route, {{spoiler|everyone loses their memories of the past 17 minutes due to Sonya overwriting the world, so no one remembers that Sonya is an Apoptosis or that the one currently with them is a copy. However, Luka does experiences flashes of memory.}}
* [[Last Chance Hit Point]]: The Endure ability will let a character survive a normally lethal blow with 1 HP, once per battle. Formerly, it was bugged and worked an indefinite number of times per battle, which effectively made the party immortal so long as characters were healed.
* [[Lazy Backup]]: A partial example, similar to [[Final Fantasy X|''Final Fantasy X'']]. There's 4 characters in the active party and 4 (eventually increased to 8) in the reserve party, and they can be freely switched out during your turn in battle. However, if all 4 active members die, you lose the fight even if some reserve members are still alive.
* [[Leaked Experience]]: Party members in reserve receive just as much EXP and Job EXP as those in the active party. This can be exploited, by giving them equipment or skills that boost EXP and/or Job EXP while giving a penalty (e.g. the Bondage Rope accessory, which doubles EXP but gives the user the Blind, Silence and Paralyzed ailments). The reserve members will level up quickly without even having to fight.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Gold Volcano. Most of the ground is literal magma, though it doesn't damage the party any more than walking on a poison swamp does.
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* [[Ludd Was Right]]: The inhabitants of the aptly named Luddite Village believe this. They eschew the advanced technology that the rest of the world uses, believing it to be heretical, even as the majority of the faith accepts it.
== M-R ==
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Promestein, full stop.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: In the Remina accessed through the first Tartarus, the people you encounter will at first talk normally, but devolve into gibberish. {{spoiler|One of them transforms into an Apoptosis and attacks}}.
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* [[Magic Knight]]: The Magiknight job.
* [[Magitek]]: Various examples, such as Brynhildr.
* [[Making a Splash]]:
▲* [[Making a Splash]]: The water element, which mermaids and sea-dwellers specialise in. One of the three natural elements.
** The water element, which mermaids and sea-dwellers specialise in. One of the three natural elements.
** Undine is the spirit of water, and resembles a mermaid-shaped slime.
* [[Mana Meter]]: There are 2 meters, MP and SP. MP is used for magic, SP for physical skills. Some skills (e.g. Holy skills) use both MP and SP. Party members automatically begin battle with half their maximum SP (more with certain equipment), but MP doesn't replenish on its own.
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* [[Monster Progenitor]]: Alice I created the Six Ancestors, who each gave rise to a lineage of monsters: succubi and other humanoid monsters (Minagi), slimes (Kanade), plants (Kanon), beasts and kitsune (Tamamo-no-Mae), scyllas (Hiruko) and harpies, lamias and dragons (Saja).
* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: You can recruit as many companions as you want (barring mutually-exclusive ones) with no penalty. That said, trying to level up over a hundred companions...
* [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members]]:
** Part 1 has Alice and Ilias, and Lily and Lucia. It's possible to have both of the latter pair on a New Game Plus, due to party members other than Alice/Ilias being carried over. Having both Alice and Ilias is impossible without cheating.
** Part 2 introduces more of these, including some companions who are exclusive to the Alice or Ilias routes. Alice gives access to {{spoiler|Alicetroemeria, Lilith and Lilim, and Morrigan}}, while Ilias gives access to {{spoiler|Heinrich, Eden, Micaela-chan and Lucifina-chan}}.
* [[Mutually Exclusive Powerups]]: Both Alice and Ilias, and Lily and Lucia, offer various skills and abilities. Thanks to the above restriction, these are mutually exclusive. However, the Holy skills taught by Ilias can be learnt later when {{spoiler|Luka unlocks the Angel race}}. Similarly, the Cursed Sword skills taught by Alice can be learnt from a job available in Part 2.
* [[Necromancer]]: An intermediate job, whose skills are [[Cast from Hit Points]]. Also the professions of Chrome, La Croix and Kagetsumugi.
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* [[No Hero Discount]]: By the end of the first chapter, you are literally fighting to save {{spoiler|the entire multiverse from destruction}}. By the end of the second, you're renowned for {{spoiler|stopping the Grangold war and the monster invasions}}. Don't expect any shop to care about this. Not even the shops run by your own party members.
* [[No Name Given]]: Averted. Most of the monster girls from the first game now have names, though this only applies to the ones that join your party.
* [[Non-Lethal KO]]:
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** The Angel Halo presumably causes this, as in the previous game.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: Invoked upon first-timers of Paradox that completed the original MGQ Trilogy. Most might expect that most events occurs as they did in the original MGQ Trilogy, to varying degrees of reaction. For instance, expecting {{spoiler|Alma Elma}} being the one causing the storm between the sea section of the Ilias and Sentora continents? {{spoiler|Sorry, wrong number pal.}}
* [[Notice This]]: Places that you should investigate are marked with sparkles.
* [[One Hit KO]]: There are four types of instant death in the game: 'normal' Instant Death, Ascension, Climax, and Predation.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: The Suicidal Training ability doubles EXP gain but also reduces maximum HP to 1% of normal. The trope can also be invoked with they key item Orb of Life Drain, which decreases Luka's HP by any amount and can be used to bring it down to 1.
* [[One Man Army]]:
** Neris. In one day, she manages to conquer Plansect Village, defeat Cassandra (considered the equal of Alice XV), defeat the entire Arachne faction, and fight Granberia to a draw. And after fighting the last of these, she claimed to be holding back. {{spoiler|Given who her parents are, this isn't surprising}}.
** The Grangold King has also become this. He even receives a cutscene in which he devastates an army with powerful magic.
* [[One Size Fits All]]: Played with. All characters of the same race can all wear the same armor, even if they vary in size (e.g. Ilias can wear the same armor as Promestein, despite the former having a child's body, because they're both angels). However, different races have access to different combinations of armor types. Races with drastically inhuman shapes, like Slimes or Insects, can't wear many types of armor.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. All Monster Lords use the name Alice, and "White Rabbit" is the name of both a person and a drug.
* [[One-Time Dungeon]]:
** The Administrator's Tower, due to {{spoiler|the entire universe it's located in being consumed by Apoptosis}}. Partially subverted, as you can enter the ruins {{spoiler|of the version in the Paradox universe}} and encounter the same enemies, so nothing there is potentially [[Lost Forever]].
** Grangold Castle becomes temporarily inaccessible after you complete it, {{spoiler|being destroyed after the quest there.}}
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* [[The Paladin]]: An intermediate job. Arguably, the Holy Knight is this as well.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Black Alice's disguise as Alicetroemeria consists of wearing a different outfit and slightly changing her hairstyle. She still has the same facial expression, speaks in the same manner and ''carries around the same teddy bear''. Alice/Ilias immediately realize her true identity upon meeting her.
* [[Parental Incest]]:
** While it's not explicitly spelled out, {{spoiler|Neris' crush on Luka}} falls into this. Though, technically, the latter is merely an alternate-universe version of her father.
** Luka can Request scenes with {{spoiler|Ilias, Lucifina-chan and Micaela-chan}}, who are respectively his {{spoiler|grandmother, mother and aunt. However, it's not clear whether they (especially the first and third) actually have any genetic relationship with him, given that they're beings of holy energy. Additionally, this Ilias is from a parallel world while the latter two are recreations}}.
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* [[Physical God]]: Ilias and Alipheese the First are the goddesses of light and darkness, respectively. Both Reaper and White Rabbit seem to be goddesses as well, though the latter's sphere of influence isn't quite clear. {{spoiler|And it's revealed that Black Alice has become the goddess of Chaos}}.
* [[Pillar of Light]]: Some Holy skills have this effect.
* [[Playing With Fire]]:
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** Salamander is the spirit of fire, and appears to be a naked elf with hair made of fire.
* [[Powers of Two Minus One]]: Inverted with the three book monsters. Their names use powers of two plus one (i.e. 17, 257, 65537).
* [[Pretend We're Dead]]: When infiltrating Grangold, the party is accosted by an Ant Girl. Luka moans "Queen..." in the same manner as the brainwashed citizens, and manages to successfully fool the Ant Girl.
* [[Quicksand Box]]: The game is even larger than its predecessor, with countless sidequests to get lost in.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]:
** Just at the end of the first chapter, the party is likely to consist of: a [[Nephilim]] hero, either the Monster Lord or the goddess who created humans and angels, a club-wielding priestess, a boomerang-loving slime, a mysterious tentacled being that looks like a young scylla, an angel [[Mad Scientist]], the leader of the human faith, a gynoid, the spirit of wind, a former princess who's now a succubus, an alchemist with worms for arms, the spirit of earth, and a second gynoid... and that's just some of the major characters!
** The second chapter adds even more. Again, just considering major characters, the party will now include the queen of Grand Noah, two of her guard captains, the queen's adviser whose allegiance is extremely ambiguous, various monster queens, the spirit of water, the king of Grangold {{spoiler|who's become a [[Humanoid Abomination]]
* [[Random Effect Spell]]: The Oracle skills, learned by the Fortune Teller job and its variants.
* [[Random Encounters]]: In contrast to the original, where every encounter was unique.
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* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: Anything with the Zombie status, though it also works the other way around: poison heals them.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: All of the royals seen in the setting are competent as both leaders and fighters (the latter demonstrated by them all being recruitable companions). Depending on how you interpret the Job system, you can make any character this by assigning them the Noble or King jobs.
* [[Royalty Super Power]]:
** The line of the Fateburns is far more powerful than most monsters, having the genes of every monster race. As a result, while the position of Monster Lord is decided through [[Asskicking Equals Authority]], this family has continuously held the position.
** The Sabasa royal family is descended from the legendary monster Sphinx, and contain traces of her blood. {{spoiler|When this is awakened in Sara, she becomes a powerful succubus.}}
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** Elves acting in a perverted manner and denying it. This is even reflected in the game mechanics: elves learn many pleasure skills (and are good at using them due to a high Dexterity) but also take extra damage from the pleasure element.
** When asked about what Luka wants to do or become in the future, the player can choose to have him answer that he wants to conquer the world.
== S-Z ==
* [[Say It With Hearts]]: Or stars, in Saki's case.
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* [[Standard Status Effects]]: There's the usual status effects like Poison, as well as rarer ones like Burn, and (appropriate for the type of game) sexual status effects like Trance.
* [[Starfish Language]]: The speech of Apoptosis is represented with the majority of letters blocked by white boxes, often requiring guesswork to understand what they're saying. In some cases, entire sentences are completely blocked in this manner.
* [[Stealth Sequel]]: Despite its alternate universe setting, the game is still a sequel to the original [[Monster Girl Quest|''Monster Girl Quest'']]. It is strongly recommended that you play that first as ''Paradox'' spoils major plot points from the original and its own plot is difficult to understand otherwise.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: All over the place. Succubi in particular are examples of this.
** Strangely enough, the treatment of this in-universe tends to be inconsistent. The skimpy clothing of some characters (e.g. Devil Fighter, Karen) is called out as unusual, but noone seems to care about the many others wearing just as little, or even less (e.g. most monsters).
* [[Succession Crisis]]: The disappearance of Alice XVI from the Monster Lord's throne has led to three contenders vying for the position. All of them are people who shouldn't be alive: the tyrant Alice VIII (supposedly killed 500 years ago), the former Monster Lord Alice XV (supposedly went missing recently), and someone calling herself Alice XVII (despite Alice XVI having no children).
* [[Summon Magic]]:
** The Summoner job and Summoning skill type.
** Luka has access to unique summoning skills, being able to summon the spirits to grant a range of buffs.
* [[Super Mode]]: The Transform skill from the Hero of Justice and Magical Girl jobs triggers this.
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* [[Take Your Time]]: A war raging on the horizon, between the four main human nations? A crisis of succession among the monsters? {{spoiler|The multiverse being threatened by the spread of Chaos}}? All of it will wait for you, as you fight battle after battle trying to recruit every monster.
* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: The basic Talk skill merely allows you to raise enemy Affinity. However, more advanced variants are available, which can inflict status ailments or even literally [[One-Hit Kill]] enemies.
* [[A Taste of Power]]:
** If you're defeated by the Armored Berserker - [[Hopeless Boss Fight|and you almost certainly will be]] - then Nero will step in, and you control him for the rest of the fight. He's incredibly powerful, with a number of skills that you can't otherwise access legitimately.
** Alma Elma temporarily joins the party on two occasions in Part 2. As a Level 60 Queen Succubus, she's vastly above any other character you'll have at the time (barring extreme amounts of grinding).
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* [[Time Stands Still]]: The skill Chaos Drive, usable only by {{spoiler|Nero, White Rabbit and Reaper}}. It allows the user to act with impunity for several turns. A localised version of this can be inflicted with the Stop status.
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Throughout the first two chapters, there's been repeated hints that something isn't quite right with {{spoiler|Sonya}}. The trailers also call attention to this. It's eventually revealed that {{spoiler|she is a high-ranking Apoptosis. When the Lilith Sisters and the Seraphs clash at the end of Part 2, the inter-dimensional contact causes her true nature to awaken}}.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]:
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** In the original game, the King of San Ilia was an ineffectual, doddering old man who barely did anything. In this game {{spoiler|he's been turned into a cyborg after an attempted bombing, and along with the vast array of weaponry his new bodies contains, it also seems to have sharpened his mind, such that he's almost a completely different character: shrewd, proactive, possessing powerful holy magic, and is an expert machinist on top of all that}}.
** In the original game, Lazarus was the leader of the ineffectual [[Fantastic Racism|Ilias Kreuz]] organisation, and couldn't even manage to kill monsters with his bombings. Here? {{spoiler|He's a high-ranking figure in [[The Mafia]], which is presented as a major faction in the setting}}.
** Likewise, the Grangold King. He couldn't fight at all in the original game (though he did become a competent ruler). Here, he's a [[One Man Army]] with magic capable of devastating armies. This is because {{spoiler|he (like other royals) has the bloodline of an ancient race of powerful humans. This blood was awakened by Lilith, turning him into what can only be described as an [[Eldritch Abomination]]}}.
* [[Tournament Arc]]: The Queen's Cup in Grand Noah, which Luka's party must win to prove that they are strong enough to investigate the Esta Tartarus.
* [[Trauma Inn]]: There's usually an inn in every village for this purpose. The inn in Ilias Village, being owned by Luka, can be used for free.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]:
** Nobody notices that Alice and Ilias look like shrunken-down versions of the Monster Lord and the Goddess of light, respectively. Though to be fair, most people in-universe wouldn't consider it possible for such powerful beings to be weakened in this manner.
** More generally, no one seems to pay attention to your party even if it includes Apoptosis monsters, which are generally perceived as [[Always Chaotic Evil]] and otherwise never leave the Tartarus. Similarly, you can take an all-monster party into areas where there is prejudice against monsters (Luddite Village, the alternate worlds set in the past).
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* [[Whip It Good]]: A weapon type, which Plants specialise in.
* [[White Magic]]: A skill type, which includes skills that heal and confer status buffs.
* [[Won't Work On Me]]:
** It's possible to gain complete immunity to specific elements and statuses.
** Taken [[Up To Eleven]] by enemies in the Labyrinth of Chaos. Not only are their stats higher in general, but their resistances are increased as well, such that resistances that were previously only 50% will now be 100% or even absorption of that element. Additionally, certain enemy types (e.g. Slimes) now start getting physical resistance, which doesn't appear in the main game. To top it all off, some bosses and races get complete immunity to either physical or magical attacks!
* [[The Worf Effect]]:
** Neris is mentioned to have singlehandedly defeated the Arachne race and the entire populations of Lady's Village and Plansect Village, and dueled Granberia to a draw, all in the same day.
** In your first encounter with her, Nanabi is too powerful to defeat normally. After the first turn, {{spoiler|Neris steps in and defeats her with one Vaporising Rebellion Sword}}.
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* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Hades appears to work this way. No matter how much time Luka spends here, his companions will only see him staring at a wall for an unspecified, but implicitly much shorter period of time.
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]:
** Mixing Light and Dark energies is extremely dangerous, but if done correctly, it produces a hybrid energy greater than the sum of its parts: Chaos energy. Beings who can use Chaos are among the most powerful and dangerous in the game.
** The Apoptosis monsters can use both light and dark power.
** Nero and Neris also fit, {{spoiler|likely due to their lineage}}.
** {{spoiler|Black Alice was infused with both Light and Dark energies in the original game, and supercharged from the experiment that summoned her into the Paradox timeline, becoming the most powerful known being in existence}}.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: {{spoiler|When Adramelech attacks the Administrator's Tower, La Croix holds her off while the party flees. Adramelech breaks through, but not without being weakened to 10% of her power}}.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Not literally zombies, but the spread of Apoptosis in {{spoiler|the world of the alternate Administrator's Tower}} strongly fits this trope.
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