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[[caption-width-right:250:<small>[[Super Soldier|"You see before you the state-of-the-art demon fighter of tomorrow.]] [[Dungeon Crawling|This multidirectional, unitized,]] [[Awesome Yet Practical|high-tech fighting machine]] [[Our Monsters Are Weird|is salt-free, tuna-safe]] [[Powers As Programs|and comes complete with 15 megabytes]] [[Applied Phlebotinum|of double-density, wafer-thin alloy]] [[Techno Babble|forming a virtual reality]] [[One
{{quote| ''The outset of the 21th century... Earth is a planet teeming with life. Mankind, 7 billion strong, continued to prosper.''}}
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* [[Faceless Goons]]: What most members of the Strike Team are reduced to, thanks to their Demonica helmets. You may know their names, and they may sometimes have individual field sprites and battle stances, but you'll only see the faces of a select few. It seems to work against them, as many [[Red Shirt|Strike Team members end up getting killed rather quickly]].
* [[The Fair Folk]]: There's a recurring series of side-missions where you help a Fairy Pixie build a Fairy village. These ones are generally pretty nice to you since you recruited them; enemy fairies, on the other hand, can be very mischevous and cruel.
* [[Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|[[One Bad Mother|Mem]] [[Gaias Revenge|Aleph]]}} on the Law and Neutral paths, {{spoiler|[[One
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Protagonist
** [[The Lancer]]: Jimenez
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** [[The Chick]]: Zelenin
* [[Five Token Band]]: In the JP version, there's an Asian one, a Hispanic one, a White one, and a Black one. Instead of a disabled one, we have a robot.
* [[For Science!]]: Once they've gotten over their reservations and initial fear, [[Gadgeteer Genius|Irving and Chen]] are positively ''thrilled'' at devising new and exciting equipment with the Forma (Schwarzwelt-borne materials) you scavenge for them.
** On a less pleasant note, {{spoiler|Jack's Squad}}.
* [[Four Is Death]]: {{spoiler|The Schwarzwelt is ruled by four "Kings" and four "Mothers".}}
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* [[Item Crafting]]: You obtain most of your items, as well as weapon, armor, application, and accessory upgrades, by having the Red Sprite's lab manufacture them by mixing together Forma scavenged during exploration and combat.
* [[It Got Worse]]: How the Schwarzwelt expedition kicks off. And how it continues afterwards.
* [[
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk]]: Jimenez. [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|His heart of gold]] starts to shine through once he finds [[Morality Pet|a demon he becomes personally attached to]], though, but he's still a major jerk to everyone ''except'' that demon and you. It's clear that "look out for number one" is his motto. When he {{spoiler|fuses with Bugaboo to become a demon himself, he's pretty much able to use it as an excuse to say "Screw you guys, I'm going to do what I want" and leave}}.
** {{spoiler|Though after leaving he does come back by to give you a forma for helping him}}.
* [[Kill
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: You're basically under orders from Irving to pick up every single thing you see. [[Lampshaded]] in one [[Sidequest|EX Mission]], where a demon yells at you for getting on his case about taking something when you've been grabbing anything that catches your eye.
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: {{spoiler|Ryan's promotion to Jack's Squad Commander. He ''really'' didn't want that promotion. At the time.}}
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* [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]]: Some of the strike force are this way after you C4 a boulder blocking the way to a wrecked ship, as though ''this'' is evidence that the Schwarzwelt's denizens can't stand up to them. Cue [[Curb Stomp Battle]] from an Orias legionary. A ''much weaker than usual'' Orias legionary (they usually start out at L27. This one's at L7.).
** Happens several times as the team makes progress only to find more trouble, again and again. Eventually they get used to it, or [[Heroic BSOD|go crazy.]]
* {{spoiler|[[Nuke
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Many demons don't see anything wrong with killing humans, and some humans see no problem in exploiting the demons. See [[Playing With Syringes]] for an example.
* [[Only in It For The Money]]: Why Jimenez went from "warrant officer" to "Schwarzwelt attack participant". Given the rest of his personality pre-Bugaboo, this isn't too surprising.
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* [[Serial Romeo]]: Anthony.
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: It's not immediately obvious or pointed out, but the different areas of the Schwarzwelt follow this theme (it should click by the time you get the demonic shopping mall, though).
* [[Shout Out]]: The translation team, [http://www.atlus.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5948 stuck at what exactly Makurein was meant to be] (as it could have been "[[Spell My Name With an "S"|McClain, MacClane, MacLaine or any of several other Scottish surnames"]]) went with the assumption is was a shout out to ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]''. Two [[AI|AIs]] are named [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)|Arthur]] and [[Jules Verne|Verne]].
** Crewmen Blair and Norris are references to ''[[The Thing (Film)|The Thing]]'', as is one of the EX Missions where you have to weed out which of the fellow crewmen are "normal". Dent possibly refers to [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|the other Arthur]].
** Among the guns available to you is the [[Persona 3|Reaper Colt]].
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* [[Social Darwinist]]: Asura.
* [[Some Kind of Force Field]]: The last wrench the Schwarzwelt tosses in the Protagonist's path, after the Dark Zones, conveyor corridors, dimensional pocket spaces, warp tiles, and {{spoiler|pathways in the air}}, is a single-room maze filled with {{spoiler|invisible walls that become briefly visible when bumping directly into them}}.
* [[Southern
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: to ''[[Soul Hackers|Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers]]'' where the "aps" system comes from.
** Not to mention that many of the game's sprites for the demons come from the Devil Summoner games.
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* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]: ''All'' demons show up as static in the Demonica's display until you've encountered them, or fused them, at least once, and until then you can't even understand their speech. Taken even further with {{spoiler|Mem Aleph}}, an entity [[Readings Are Off the Scale|so unbelievably powerful that you can't even try to analyze it]] until {{spoiler|a traveler of the Schwarzwelt grants you with the "brilliance" to see it}}.
** Also spoken in so many words by {{spoiler|Yggdrasill}} the first time it hits you with it's time-bending powers.
{{quote| Something nearly imperceptible happened to [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]!}}
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: {{spoiler|The Red Sprite finds the Vanishing Point atop Sector E, and is about to leave the Schwarzwelt, when their plans... hit a snag, so to say.}}
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