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* [[Artificial Human]]: Rika.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The various instant-kills of the game never work on bosses, and the vast majority only work on certain (very large) subsets of enemies. Within these limits, they work surprisingly often, and as most have their own quantity of uses, employing them generally doesn't limit a character's ability to do anything else. So, during long dungeon crawls, instant-kill attacks are an effective way to ''preserve'' a party's strength for the boss.
** Many [[Combination Attack|Combination Attacks]] are also this, as they're generally less-expensive ways to wipe out random encounters and/or do large amounts of damage to bosses.
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* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Averted and played straight. When first arriving at the Air Castle, which is floating amidst the asteroid field of debris that is the remains of the planet Parma, the party is genuinely surprised to find a breathable atmosphere waiting for them. However, on the artificial satellites Kuran and Zelan, there are a number of places traversed by Chaz and Co. that look directly upon the vacuum of space and aren't visibly enclosed in any meaningful way.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: A client in one of the guild missions tries to pull one off by {{spoiler|siccing some hired hunters onto the head honcho of a flock of birds he himself bred. He assumed the hunters would be defeated and his fellow villagers would be encouraged to leave the flock alone}}. It backfires on him, since the hunters he hired just got back from fighting an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
** Incidentally, his choice of words ("head honcho bird") was mercilessly lampooned in the [[Let's Play]] run of PSIV.
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*** That monster's name in the Japanese version is [[Eldritch Abomination|Dark]] [[Phantasy Star|Falz]], and [[Call Back|looks ''exactly'' like the original one.]]
* [[Broken Bridge]]: Quite a few, though generally not solved with "fixing the bridge." The more common solution is {{spoiler|"now we've got a super-high-tech vehicle that obviates the obstruction."}}
* [[Bruiser with a Soft Center]]: When Alys isn't busy maintaining her status as the guild's top hunter, pressuring information out of suspicious clients, slugging dirty old men in the face and being all around badass, she cooks tasty food for her elderly neighbour... which genuinely surprises the other party members when it's revealed. Much to Alys' embarassment. Said neighbour later reveals Alys is also into poetry. You do the math.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Everyone leaves to return to their lives at the game's end. {{spoiler|But this applies to Rune more than the others, as he as to pass on Lutz' essence to future generations.}}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Hahn, [[The Smart Guy]], is this for the first part of the game.
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* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Kyra views herself as this towards Chaz.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Raja, who is also a [[Deadpan Snarker]].
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: This game reveals that {{spoiler|the Algo System is the padlock on a dimensional cage sealing the Profound Darkness. Palmans, Motavians, and Dezorians were created by the Great Light to prevent the Profound Darkness from breaking free--and that the reign of Lassic and the destruction of Palma by the Earthlings were just a part of its attempts to escape. Chaz is not happy with this, though he ultimately stands against the Darkness anyway.}}
* [[Crutch Character]]: Alys is much more powerful than the other early game characters at first, but even leaving aside {{spoiler|the fact that you lose her after her [[Plotline Death]]}}, her growth curve is such that other characters quickly catch up if you [[Level Grinding]].
** Not to mention Rune, when he first joints the party; he's capable of wiping out screenfuls of enemies with a single attack and comes with a weapon that can be used as an unlimited supply of healing spells. Taking a moment to level grind with a macro that starts with someone using the Wood-Cane and Rune casting Hewn or Gra is a very easy exploit.
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* [[Magic Knight]]: Chaz eventually evolves into one; Kyra can be one too.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|The Profound Darkness.}}
* [[The Medic]]: Raja
* [[Mega Neko]]: {{spoiler|Myau.}}
* [[Miser Advisor]]: Alys.
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* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: {{spoiler|The Profound Darkness ... and the Algo System is the seal.}}
* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: The guardians on {{spoiler|Rykros}}, and arguably {{spoiler|Elsydeon}}, given that it contains {{spoiler|the spirits of previous heroes that saved Algo}}.
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: {{spoiler|Re-Faze and the Anger Tower in Rkyros. Re-Faze does a pretty nasty thing by separating Chaz from his party, then forcing Chaz to fight a copy of Alys, his dead mentor. Then Re-Faze offers to teach Chaz [[Last-Disc Magic|Megid]]. If Chaz doesn't refuse, Re-Faze [[Hopeless Boss Fight|will kill him]].}}
* [[Shields Are Useless]]: Similar to [[Phantasy Star II]], Shields take up a weapon slot as opposed to an armor slot, yet for most of your party (barring Rika, Hahn, Alys, and Kyra) the best weapons are two-handed, strongly encouraging a player not to use them at all.
** This is subverted, however, by some equipment strategies for [[Squishy Wizard|Rune]] and [[White Mage|Raja]] that advocate them using two shields as opposed to their (only) other option, staves. While this does prevent them from having a basic attack, their basic attack is all but useless, anyway, and in exchange they become the toughest party members despite their low HP.
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