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* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Jimenez in the Neutral path. Even before the fight, he expresses regret that things have lead to a [[Duel to The Death]] due to your bond with each other, and after the battle, as he dies he acknowledges that you were always better than him.}}
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Jimenez in the Neutral path. Even before the fight, he expresses regret that things have lead to a [[Duel to the Death]] due to your bond with each other, and after the battle, as he dies he acknowledges that you were always better than him.}}
* [[Anvilicious]]: The game drops a lot of anvils about everything wrong with humanity, especially in conversation with demons. [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]], though. The Demon Lords are ''excellent'' at hammering the point. A point likely to keep bugging you, long after you turn off the DS.
* [[Anvilicious]]: The game drops a lot of anvils about everything wrong with humanity, especially in conversation with demons. [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]], though. The Demon Lords are ''excellent'' at hammering the point. A point likely to keep bugging you, long after you turn off the DS.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The ex mission where you fight the god of toilets.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The ex mission where you fight the god of toilets.
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** Any situation where the appropriately-titled track [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzeA_9z6e9I "Sorrow"] plays, such as {{spoiler|seeing the results of Jack's Squad's experiments}} in Jack's Squad HQ or {{spoiler|Arthur malfunctioning and self-terminating}} just after the [[Point of No Return]] in the Law and Chaos routes.
** Any situation where the appropriately-titled track [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzeA_9z6e9I "Sorrow"] plays, such as {{spoiler|seeing the results of Jack's Squad's experiments}} in Jack's Squad HQ or {{spoiler|Arthur malfunctioning and self-terminating}} just after the [[Point of No Return]] in the Law and Chaos routes.
* [[That One Boss]]: This being an Atlus game, there's quite a few of them, but the one that gets the most attention is Ouroboros, the final boss of the fifth block. Her first form isn't terribly hard, except for the fact that she heals about 160 damage per round, which is more damage than you can do to her unless you exploit her weakness to fire. Her attacks include Wild Thunder, a powerful group lightning spell, and Disaster Cycle, a spell that hits for moderate physical damage and inflicts random status ailments. That last one is really nasty because sometimes she gets ''really'' lucky with it and manages to either leave you with a dead weight party or petrify the main character (instant game over). Fortunately, your chances of seeing Disaster Cycle are slim. All this is just her ''first form'', however. Her second form no longer regenerates every turn, but now she uses Disaster Cycle almost every turn, and whenever she's not using Disaster Cycle, she's using Wave of Death which hits the whole party for nearly 300+ physical damage per hit! Her liberal use of Disaster Cycle almost makes the fight a [[Luck-Based Mission]]. Fortunately you can save between her two forms.
* [[That One Boss]]: This being an Atlus game, there's quite a few of them, but the one that gets the most attention is Ouroboros, the final boss of the fifth block. Her first form isn't terribly hard, except for the fact that she heals about 160 damage per round, which is more damage than you can do to her unless you exploit her weakness to fire. Her attacks include Wild Thunder, a powerful group lightning spell, and Disaster Cycle, a spell that hits for moderate physical damage and inflicts random status ailments. That last one is really nasty because sometimes she gets ''really'' lucky with it and manages to either leave you with a dead weight party or petrify the main character (instant game over). Fortunately, your chances of seeing Disaster Cycle are slim. All this is just her ''first form'', however. Her second form no longer regenerates every turn, but now she uses Disaster Cycle almost every turn, and whenever she's not using Disaster Cycle, she's using Wave of Death which hits the whole party for nearly 300+ physical damage per hit! Her liberal use of Disaster Cycle almost makes the fight a [[Luck-Based Mission]]. Fortunately you can save between her two forms.
** Maya, the boss of Sector G also qualifies. For starters, if anyone on your team uses an Elemental- or Almighty-skill, [[One-Hit Kill|they're dead]]. [[We Cannot Go On Without You|No exceptions]]. She can safely be damaged with Phys. and Piercing skills, the latter of which she is weak against, but just hitting her can be a problem as she has a tendency to use Illusion Ritual, which doubles her agility. Oh, and she knows pretty much all of the single-hit -dyne spells, extremely powerful Gate spells which can oneshot anything vulnerable to their element, and [[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|Ultraviolence]], a hit-all attack that deals gobsmacking amounts of physical damage. Basically, if you don't have the ability to nullify her stat changes and/or have demons that block or repel Phys., you're not going to win.
** Maya, the boss of Sector G also qualifies. For starters, if anyone on your team uses an Elemental- or Almighty-skill, [[One-Hit Kill|they're dead]]. [[We Cannot Go on Without You|No exceptions]]. She can safely be damaged with Phys. and Piercing skills, the latter of which she is weak against, but just hitting her can be a problem as she has a tendency to use Illusion Ritual, which doubles her agility. Oh, and she knows pretty much all of the single-hit -dyne spells, extremely powerful Gate spells which can oneshot anything vulnerable to their element, and [[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|Ultraviolence]], a hit-all attack that deals gobsmacking amounts of physical damage. Basically, if you don't have the ability to nullify her stat changes and/or have demons that block or repel Phys., you're not going to win.
*** A demon with Luster Candy helps here. Stack three shots of this and you can usually hit Maya even if she does Illusion Ritual, and it'll also soften the blow of her elemental spells. Unfortunately, she also has a move that randomly petrifies people. If this hits the MC, game over.
*** A demon with Luster Candy helps here. Stack three shots of this and you can usually hit Maya even if she does Illusion Ritual, and it'll also soften the blow of her elemental spells. Unfortunately, she also has a move that randomly petrifies people. If this hits the MC, game over.
** The final boss of the Law and Neutral paths. When you reach it, you will probably be around level 75. At that point any of its attacks will kill you in two hits (three if you're guarding). It has extremely powerful spells of all elements as well as a particularly nasty physical attack that hits up to eight times (random target each hit) which is perfectly capable of killing a guarding protagonist at full health. It is also capable of cancelling all buffs and debuffs (healing about 600 HP in the process) and possesses the Disaster Cycle attack of Ouroboros. This is its first form. The second one, which is a [[Clipped-Wing Angel]] in appearance but a [[One-Winged Angel]] in gameplay, does about twice the damage the first form did and gets the ridiculous MA attack, which instantly kills a party member and absorbs their HP without fail. Pray it doesn't happen to the protagonist. All in all your best bet is to get demons that reflect as many of its attacks as possible and hope for the best. Even the "perfect final boss party" you can get through passwords isn't a guarantee you will win.
** The final boss of the Law and Neutral paths. When you reach it, you will probably be around level 75. At that point any of its attacks will kill you in two hits (three if you're guarding). It has extremely powerful spells of all elements as well as a particularly nasty physical attack that hits up to eight times (random target each hit) which is perfectly capable of killing a guarding protagonist at full health. It is also capable of cancelling all buffs and debuffs (healing about 600 HP in the process) and possesses the Disaster Cycle attack of Ouroboros. This is its first form. The second one, which is a [[Clipped-Wing Angel]] in appearance but a [[One-Winged Angel]] in gameplay, does about twice the damage the first form did and gets the ridiculous MA attack, which instantly kills a party member and absorbs their HP without fail. Pray it doesn't happen to the protagonist. All in all your best bet is to get demons that reflect as many of its attacks as possible and hope for the best. Even the "perfect final boss party" you can get through passwords isn't a guarantee you will win.
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