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* [[Annoying Arrows]]: ''Very'' averted, especially in ''Let Us Cling Together.'' Archers are widely considered ridiculously overpowered, and for good reason.

* [[Ars Goetia]]: Many of the characters in Tactics Ogre and [[Ogre Battle 64]] are named for Goetic demons. Barbatos, Martym, Andoras, Haborym, Aloser, Forcas, Balzepho (originally Baalzephon), and Vapula, among others.

* [[Brick Joke]] / [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: The mercenary Xapan shows up in chapter two of ''every'' version. In the lawful chapter two, he's on your side and offers to join. If you refuse, you then go separate ways...and then in chapter four, he comes back being hired to fight against you.

** The dragoon Jeunan had a [[Dark and Troubled Past]]. Well it seems to have been behind us now...and in chapter four, it then comes ''right'' back to haunt him.

* [[Catch-22]]: {{spoiler|Denam ''really'' can't win if he becomes ruler of Valeria. Chaos frame too low? Someone assassinates him. Chaos frame high? Then Lodis invades and takes over Valeria.}}

* [[Character Alignment]]: Usually, the Lawful-Chaotic axis is present in most games. In the first game, it's more Good-Evil, and measured on a [[Karma Meter]] both for your individual units and for your revolution as a whole.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Plays a rather good chunk of role in the latter games. In the original Three Dragoons (Slust, Fenril and Fogel) are based on this, as well as the Four Sisters (Cistina, Cerya, Sherri and Olivya). The usual ones are 1. [[Playing with Fire|Fire]], 2. [[Blow You Away|Wind]] and [[Shock and Awe|Lightning]] combined together, 3. [[Making a Splash|Water]] and [[An Ice Person|Ice]] combined together, 4. [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth]], 5. [[Casting a Shadow|Dark/Bane]] and 6. [[Light'Em Up|Light/Virtue]]

** They make nice platforms to get your troops to higher ground in the Tactics games.

* [[False-Flag Operation]]: {{spoiler|In Tactics Ogre, whether or not Denam takes part in this determines his path through the rest of the game. Somewhat surprisingly, choosing to slaughter the town is the ''lawful'' choice.}}

*** However, in [[Ogre Battle 64]], the numeric alignment is replaced with a visual scale representation of "lawful" and "chaotic", and in the game's context, "Lawful" doubles as "good".

* [[Four Is Death]]: The Four Devas (Debonair, Figaro, Previa and Luvalon) plays this straight. Subverted in the Four Sisters because they're not bad guys per se, except that Sherri starts out as an enemy.

* [[Multiple Endings]] : A staple of the series. [[Ogre Battle 64]] seems to indicate that the real ending of the first game {{spoiler|is the 100% good one, with your character giving the throne to the rightful heir.}}

* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: Many, many examples. From the original game, Hikash and Figaro come to mind.

* [[No Arc in Archery]]: You'll love that they averted this whenever you start on the top of a map, and hate them for it whenever you're at the bottom.

* [[Our Liches Are Different]]

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: The Werewolves transform every night instead of following any sort of lunar cycle. They can also talk and don't go berserk.

** ''Knight of Lodis'' is a little better about keeping the named characters in focus due to its much smaller cast in general as well as how there are fewer variations on the story. (ie, it's either Path A or Path B - in ''[[Tactics Ogre]], you had two chapter twos and three chapter threes) However; there are still a bit of variations on the two endings if certain pairs of characters survived or not. {{spoiler|You get a special scene if Rictor and Ivanna survive - I bet you didn't know that, did you?}}

*** Justifiable with Shiven, see [[Fridge Brilliance]] above.

* [[Palette Swap]]: To differentiate NPCs from other units of their class. Some advanced classes are also palate swaps of earlier ones.

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: {{spoiler|The fallen angel Shaher's agenda in The Knight of Lodis}}

* [[Say It with Hearts]]: Deneb.

* [[Schrödinger's Gun]]: Vyce will become your opposite no matter what you choose to become.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Yasumi Matsuno loves the band [[Queen]]. Both "Ogre Battle" and "March of the Black Queen" are the name of Queen songs, and the stage "The Rhyan Sea" is a reference of the Queen song "Seven Seas of Rhye". The subtitle of Tactics Ogre, "Let Us Cling Together", is another Queen song.

** The Hawkman class and the character Canopus Wolph, of the special Vartan class, are inspired by the Hawkmen and their leader Vultan from ''[[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]]''. Although, the true inspiration may still be [[Queen]], who did the soundtrack for the [[Flash Gordon (film)|1980 Flash Gordon film]]. One of the tracks was titled "Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawk Men)." [[Hawkman]] is also based on ''Flash Gordon''.

** In the remake of Tactics Ogre for PSP, an obscure Palace of the Dead class is described as, "Death eater: A dark mage, said to practice cannibalism. They serve one who must not be named." Where did that one come from...

** ''Knight of Lodis'' features one to ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''. When the ogre Rimmon, dies, he regains his "human heart" and says "my precious".

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Wizard units deal excessive amounts of damage, but tend to die easily.

** Depending on the game, in ''Knight of Lodis'', they aren't entirely that good. ''[[The Same but More|Sirens]]'', on the other hand...

* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: Magnus, Dio, and Leia in ''Person of Lordly Calibur''

* [[White Mage]]: Cleric, Priest, and High Priest. The Witch class is also a purely supportive spell-caster, although she does not have healing magic.

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