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''Secret of Mana'' was promoted by Nintendo at the time of its release, featuring revolutionary gameplay features such as ''three'' players being able to control the game at once (taking the roles of the Boy, the Girl and the Sprite at the same time). If only one player is available, the game's AI will control the other characters.
''Secret of Mana'' was intended to launch on the SNES' [[
Despite the rocky story of its creation, ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' is still to this day universally acclaimed as one of the Super Nintendo's crowning gems, and one of the best RPGs ever made for any console.
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[[Secret of Mana Theater]] is a well-known adaptation/affectionate parody of this game.
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* [[Action Bomb]]: Any enemy who can use the Burst spell, and Popoie. Lesser enemies will use this as a [[Suicide Attack]], while stronger enemies and Popoie can blow themselves up repeatedly without any repercussions (aside from MP usage).
* [[Action Girl]]: Purim, in spades. Her default weapons are the [[Bare-Fisted Monk|knuckles]], and she shows up trying to rescue her boyfriend from a decidedly unfriendly witch. And her boyfriend is a ''soldier''.
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** Demon Wall, the upgraded version, just barrages your characters with special attacks if it runs out MP. Which again, it will burn through quickly.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: It has the canon names for the main characters. The boy is Randi, the girl is Purim, and the sprite is Popoie.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Popoie; so the player isn't forced into [[Two Guys and
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' had exhaustive coverage of ''SoM'', including (as was its custom in the early nineties) [http://www.giantbomb.com/secret-of-mana/61-19507/artwork-nintendo-power-issue-64/52-102977/12/51-268472/ original artwork] depicting scenes from the game. These illustrations are decidedly more western in nature; in particular, the Mana Beast looks like something out of [[Gary Gygax]]'s nightmares.
* [[And Man Grew Proud]]: The ancient civilization that gave rise to the Mana Fortress.
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* [[Co-Op Multiplayer]]: It was the first RPG to feature a co-operative multiplayer gameplay mechanic where a second or third player could drop-in and drop-out at any time.
* [[Degraded Boss]]: The [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Dark Stalker]], the boss masquerading as a [[Fake King]]. In the [[Forced Level Grinding|next area]]!
* [[Deal
** {{spoiler|The emperor's in on this too}} in the Japanese game; poor Ted Woolsey ran out of text space, though, so we Stateside never got that plot point.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: There are two occasions where you can't get a game over. The first is up until you beat the first boss. Mostly because they were probably kind enough to not make players sit through the couple of minutes it takes to get from "Enter name" to "Controlling character". The second is, if you really wanted to, you could get a game over during the rematch with the Biting Lizards in the Ice Palace. Except, its host just kicks you out after reviving Randi.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The nation of Tasnica is also called "the Republic", yet it has a king (you even meet him). The sole trait that ''all'' republics have in common is the lack of royalty.
** This is a translation hiccup. (Don't blame Woolsey, he had all of a month to work on this thing.) The kanji for 'republic' (共和国, kyouwakoku) can also be translated 'commonwealth'. That said, Tasnica is probably supposed to work like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (rzeczpospolita) did, with an elected king. Funnily enough, the Polish term's sometimes translated as "republic" on account of having the same root terminology.
* [[
* [[Domino Mask]]: The Scorpion Army.
* [[The Emperor]]: Emperor Vandole.
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* [[Evil Is Not Well Lit]]: Elinee and the Emperor have a fondness for mood lighting.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]] / [[The Starscream]]: Thanatos. And HOW.
* [[Excalibur in
** And thus Excalibur by extension according to the opening scroll! Nifty.
* [[Fake King]]: Sheex's scheme to overthrow Tasnica.
* [[The Ferry Man]]: You meet a cute creature named Karon (a mistranslation of "Charon") in the desert, who will ferry you through the Sea of Stars to the Moon Palace... without cost, of course.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Popoie.
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* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Boreal Face.
** He's actually the only one in the game, though the origin of Frost Gigas is something of a brain wreck.<ref>Santa?!?</ref>
* [[Giving the Sword
* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] / [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Scorpion Army. There's [[Terrible Trio|three of them]].
* [[Good Costume Switch]]: Once she's defeated, Elinee reverts from a hooded psychopath to a kindly old granny with her hair in a bun.
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* [[Hair of Gold]]: Purim and Dyluck.
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Thanatos needs a very special individual to body-jump into. He's even willing to be a blue-haired teenage girl if that's what it takes. (Unfortunately for Dyluck, only he makes the cut.)
* [[
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the Enhanced [[Fan Translation]], where an NPC laments that their island's economy is now ruined by [[Reality Ensues|massive inflation]].
* [[Inevitable Waterfall]]: Whoops! Sorry, Randi.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: Jema himself is a shout to the Gemma Knights of the first game, released in the US as ''[[Final Fantasy Adventure]]''.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Thanatos. I mean, duh.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: In the English translation.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Well, 'old guy', really - remember Dyluck's ill-fated hike to Elinee's castle? Well, {{spoiler|Purim's dad sent him out there because he didn't approve of his daughter wanting to marry a soldier and a commoner's kid at that...and this leads into Dyluck getting voiped by Elinee to the Pandoran ruins and thus involved in the [[Grand Theft Me]] energy-thieving antics and plot machinations of hidden [[Big Bad]] Thanatos...WAY TO GO, ELMAN, you almost screwed the world over on account of your overparenting.}}
** You also get this reaction from the townsfolk in your home village, seeing as how the pulling of that rusty sword out of the stone turned out to break the last straw keeping the world relatively normal.
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* [[No Cutscene Inventory Inertia]]: Not quite a cutscene example, but when you fight your party's doppelgangers late into the game, they'll always wield the sword, knuckles, and boomerang (for the Hero, Girl, and Sprite, respectively), regardless of what your real party members are wielding.
** Averted at all other times; when the script calls for a character to attack someone (such as, say, Purim attacking a Thanatos-possessed {{spoiler|Dyluck}} late in the game), they will do so using whatever weapon you have them equipped with.
* [[No,
* [[No Name Given]]: The original game had no default names for the characters. Names from Japanese game guides had been used to refer to them: "Randi" for the boy, "Purim" for the girl, and "Popoi" for the sprite, but they weren't all confirmed to be their [[Canon Name|Canon Names]] until the iOS version used these as their default names.
* [[Not Completely Useless]]: The Midge Mallet and Moogle Belt normally apply the pygmy and mooglization [[Standard Status Effects|debuffs]] to the targets, and you can only target your own party members with them. Why are they useful? {{spoiler|Because if either of them is used on someone who already has the corresponding debuff, the debuff will be removed instead}}.
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*** Kind of makes you wonder why anyone trusted the guy at all.
*** "Call me... Thanny?"
*** [[Kung Pow! Enter the Fist|"But isn't Thanny a girl's name?"]]
* [[Random Drop]]: Some of the monsters have pretty good armour as rare drops. Top tier armour pieces are actually the common drops from monsters in the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon|mana fortress]], while their rare drops are weapon orbs (or candy if you're already maxed out on that type of orb), and you need seven of them to upgrade every weapon except the sword to level 9.
* [[Rebel Leader]]: Krissie.
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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: It takes an entire game and three boss fights, but the Scorpion Army finally gets wise. You are ''really'' THE Mana Knight.
* [[Shonen Hair]]: Randi. The rebel leader, Krissie, is a female version of this trope.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The second vampire boss that Randi & Co. face is called [[
** The Scorpion Army's ultimate weapon is named Kilroy, a reference to Styx's cult song "Mr Roboto".
*** The Scorpion Army could also be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Terrible Trio|the Dorombo Gang]] from ''[[
** One of the Mandalan crystal balls mentions Lorimar - this is a city that shows up in Seiken I and again in Dawn of Mana. In the Japanese game, this one also mentions Wendel, the holy city of other titles. This can spawn all kinds of [[Wild Mass Guessing]] fits and headaches about just HOW the timeline of the games is supposed to go...
** Subtle, but watch how many of the zombies move around. [[Michael Jackson
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: They're all here: Burning, Sleep, Poison, and all their familiar friends. However, in keeping with the game's "[[Sugar Bowl|cute]]" graphics, they are done with an impish twist: when frozen, characters turn into snowmen, petrifaction renders you a cherubic statue, in lieu of paralyzation you get "balloned", etc.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: The game's finale.
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* [[Supernatural Aid]]: Started the tradition of gaining power from the eight elemental spirits.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Jema. Any time he actually does something it happens offscreen, because [[It's Up to You]].
* [[Taking You
* [[Tin Tyrant]]: Vandole.
* [[Ultimate Blacksmith]]: Watts.
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* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: A few rumors about this game started early on after many people started playing, to name a few - The supposed 9th Magic supposedly called Solar/Life/Mana, Level 9 spells, a hidden helmet with red coloring, and a fourth hidden character.
** The red helmet isn't merely a rumor. It ''does'' indeed exist within the game's code (it's called the Ruby Armet, and is mentioned in Nintendo Power's guide, even), but it's [[Dummied Out]].
* [["Wake
** Boreal Face, sort of. The boss was probably designed to upset the "spam magic until dead" strategy. But it was still plenty vulnerable to weapons.
** Aegagropilon is also another if spamming magic is the preferred strategy and one forget to level up Shade. It'll cast Wall first thing, which reflects all magic.
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* [[Weapon of Choice]]: One of the game's distinctive features.
** [[Cool Sword]]: And the [[Sword of Plot Advancement|Mana Sword]], no less.
** [[Blade
** [[Power Fist]]: Sometimes does a throw instead of an attack, which... actually doesn't damage the enemy at all. [[Useless Useful Spell|Huh.]]
*** It's used to bring back to consciousness enemies that have been knocked out by powerful attacks. Useful if you can't hurt the enemy while it's down.
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: All of the {{spoiler|not-exactly-human}} characters have brightly-coloured hair - Popoi's is pink, Luka's is blue, Geshtar's green, Sheex's purple, Fanha's lurid orange, and Thanatos's is - mauve...? Anyway. Phanna/Pamela is the only person to have this outside the spoiler.
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