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Each 'environment' in Evermore seems to exist in its own biome; each is separated from the others in some way (Fire Eyes' village is on a massive plateau, some areas are only reachable by travelling through sewer pipes, and the final area of the game isn't part of Evermore at all). Likewise, each area has its own distinct life-forms, which are unique to the region and do not appear in other locales.
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=== Secret of Evermore is the [[Trope Namer]] for: ===
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: There are several of these, and each is a maze that must be successfully navigated to proceed.
* [[Adipose Rex]]: A female variant -- Queen Bluegarden, whose derrière is the size of a Buick.
* [[Adventurer Outfit]]: Horace.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Ruffleberg outfitted {{spoiler|Carltron}} with an intelligence chip so he would play chess with him. [[Psycho Prototype|Bad idea]].
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{{quote|'''Boy''': Wow! That boulder was flying for a long time!}}
* [[Broken Bridge]]: There is an actual broken bridge in Crustacia cutting off access to the west bank of the river. Only the dog can jump across. There is also a raised drawbridge in Gothica cutting off direct access to Ebon Keep.
* {{spoiler|[[The Butler Did It]]}}: As anyone who's read old crime novels would expect. [[The Untwist|Seriously]].
* [[The Cameo]]: Cecil Harvey from ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' shows up as a shopkeeper in Ebon Keep, and even [[Shout-Out|makes references to his adventures from that game]].
** Also, during the [[Gladiator Games]] in Nobilia, you can see [[Final Fantasy VI|Terra, Locke, Mog, Strago, Relm, and Umaro]] in the spectator stands.
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* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: Elizabeth.
* [[Climax Boss]]: Aegis is one for Nobilia; he's not the last boss, but he's unleashed by the villain's plan.
* [[Cognizant Limbs]]: Thraxx, and later his stronger [[Palette Swap|Palette Swapped]] offspring, Choleoptera. Their ribcages shield their [[Achilles' Heel|hearts]] from damage.
* [[Commonplace Rare]]: Some of the alchemy ingredients. How is water so expensive?
** Most likely, it's ''pure'' water, which would be pretty rare in the first two civilizations (and the last two don't sell it).
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* [[Fireballs]]: At least four different spells have this effect in varying degrees. Most are very effective with a little leveling.
* [[Fisher Kingdom]]
* [[Flashback Effects]]: The prologue is told in [[Deliberately Monochrome|Deliberate Monochrome]].
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Designed as an ''[[Earthbound]]'' killer, and released four months after that game did.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: After taking out the Guardbots with his bazooka and descending down a floor iris, the Boy runs into his dog again, which barks a greeting at him. At first, you notice something off about it, but you figure maybe it's just all the metal around where the Boy's currently located distorting his barking. Turns out that it was an [[Early-Bird Cameo]] of the Toaster Dog.
* [[Garden of Evil]]
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Fire Eyes.
* [[Global Currency]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Each world the boy visits has its own form of currency, and there's a steep exchange rate for each of them.
* [[Global Airship]]: Tinker's [[Those Magnificent Flying Machines|flying machine]]. Later one of the Omnitopian escape shuttles.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Good luck finding some of the Alchemy formulas without one. Sting, the formula in the desert, is probably the most annoying one.
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* [[Meganekko]]: Elizabeth makes her coke-bottle [[Nerd Glasses]] look cute.
* [[Mirror Boss]]: Bad Boy and Bad Dawg. {{spoiler|And Dark Toaster}}
* [[Money Grinding]]: Lampshaded in one case, where a shady character is offering the amulet you need to get a ride across the desert and charging an outrageous price for it. To come up with the money in the local currency, you'll most likely have to do a lot of this. When you actually do return with the money, the shady character says something like "You must have been out fighting lots of bad guys to get it!"
* [[NameTron]]: Carltron.
* [[New World Tease]]: The Boy's first visit to Omnitopia.
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* [[Ring Menu]]: It's based on the ''Mana'' engine, after all.
* [[Robot Master]]: {{spoiler|Carltron}}. Who better, right?
* [[Ruins for Ruins Sake]]: Literally, since Antiqua -- a land based on a pastiche of [[Ancient Egypt]], [[Mayincatec]], [[Ancient Grome]] and [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|Pirates]] -- is created from Horace Highwater's ideal utopia, which involved archaeology.
* [[Running Gag]]: In Nobilia and Crustacia, mummified cats. They're part of the desert tour, they're on tapestries, in juggling acts, and in the Great Pyramid they even show up as enemies.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Elizabeth's Call bead animation.
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** [[Big Fancy Castle]]: Gothica and Ebon Keep.
** [[Blackout Basement]] / [[Underground Level]]: Oglin Cave.
** [[Bleak Level]]: Ebon Keep, though it is more melancholy than anything.
** [[Bubblegloop Swamp]] / [[Noob Cave]]: Bugmuck Swamp. Lovely.
** [[Build Like an Egyptian]]: Great Pyramid.
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