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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 Asas Programs|and comes complete with 15 megabytes]] [[Applied Phlebotinum|of double-density, wafer-thin alloy]] [[Techno Babble|forming a virtual reality]] [[One-Man Army|of modern demon extermination...]][[Shin Megami Tensei|need I say more?"]]<ref>[[Ernest Scared Stupid|"Do rattlesnakes kiss carefully?"]]</ref></small>
 
{{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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In the year [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|20XX]], a strange zone of pure blackness appears at the South Pole and gradually begins to expand outwards. Dubbed the "Schwarzwelt", this phenomenon swallows up everything it touches, and all attempts to analyse or explain it end in failure, as do attempts to halt its advance.
 
With no other option, the U.N. assembles four elite teams comprised of the most talented soldiers and scientists from around the world. Armed with the most advanced technology available, including the [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|DEMONICA]] [[Power Armor]] and four massive exploration vehicles, their mission is to physically enter and explore the interior of the Schwarzwelt, and find a way to stop it before the entire world is consumed.
 
You take the role of a decorated soldier on-board the Red Sprite, one of the four exploration vehicles sent into the Schwarzwelt. After a crash landing into the Schwarzwelt, the Red Sprite is separated from the other vehicles, and you soon discover that the interior of the Schwarzwelt is crawling with invisible demons eager to tear you and your comrades to pieces. Fortunately, with the help of a mysterious software program downloaded into your [[Power Armor]], you can perceive, converse with and recruit these demons to your side.
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Cut off from the real world, all you can hope to do is push further into the Schwarzwelt... for some answers, and for a way out.
 
The (under construction) character sheet can be found '''[[Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey (Video Game)/Characters|here]]'''.
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=== ''Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey'' provides examples of: ===
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** Or, god forbid, your ''new-game plus party''.
** It's almost as bad when a Kangiten hits you with Wastrel Beam just before heading off against the final boss.
* [[Base Onon Wheels]]: The Red Sprite, the Blue Jet, the Elve, and the Gigantic {{spoiler|and the Lightning}}. A couple of stories tall, heavily fortified, can emit [[Deflector Shields|plasma shields]], amphibious, and come with VTOL jets for short-distance flight. The interior is equipped with sickbays and laboratories, and each vehicle is run by an autonomous [[AI]]. Also qualify for [[Cool Ship]] with a mix of [[Tank Goodness]]. They can also {{spoiler|1=split in half, each with its own VTOL capabilities: the bow carries the main command bridge, living quarters, and sickbay; the aft contains the manufacturing lab, power core, and auxiliary terminals for Arthur}}.
* [[Barrier Change Boss]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Some responses to random-encounter demons' questions will simply make them go away (or on rare occasions, the demon will brush it off and forgive you). Some other responses, however...
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** You will encounter {{spoiler|a statue of Asura before the demon manifests in it}}. And you ''[[Genre Savvy|know]]'' you'll have to deal with it before long...
* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: The Demonica suit, which is the ''actual'' thing gaining all the levels and allowing you to speak with demons. In fact, in this game, demons are completely invisible to the naked eye without the Demon Summoning Program!
* [[Coincidental Broadcast]]: As the Schwarzwelt Joint Project looks at pictures captured by their probes, the broadcast shows crimes related to the sector they show. [[Earth Is a Battlefield|Antlia]] is shown with a war with Eastern Europe, [[Greed|Carina]] is shown with lootings in Central and South America, [[Lust|Bootes]] is shown with sex crimes in Tokyo, and [[Down in Thethe Dumps|Delphinus]] is shown with pollution in Central Asia.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: As in recent [[Shin Megami Tensei]] games prior to this, the first mandatory demon you recruit (and who gives you the whole Negotiation Tutorial in the first place) is a friendly Pixie.
** The "recipe" for fusing Shiva should be old hat to Megaten veterans.
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** The Three Wise Men [[Expy|are basically]] [[Shin Megami Tensei II|Michael, Uriel, and Raphael]] working incognito, making Gabriel rather suspicious in her absence.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|That's why they need]] {{spoiler|Zelenin.}}
** Slime's Compendium entry refers to the demon and human realms as [[Digital Devil Story (Literature)|Atzilith and Assiah]].
* [[Copy Protection]]: Almost to [[Earthbound|EarthBound]] levels. Playing this game on emulator or a flash cart results in no random encounters, which makes proceeding through the game difficult. Even if you managed to get past that, [[Magnificent Bastard|the game performs a different save routine resulting in corrupt save data, which is then deleted upon attempting to load it!]] Get past ''that'', and the game begrudgingly lets you play, but still crashes at random every so often.
* [[Cosmetic Award]]: In the menu, you can find a list of various things you've accomplished, an amusing description to go along with it, and a title or "medal" case that serves as nothing more than bragging rights. Some of the things you have to pull off are impressive, like beating hidden bosses. Others are silly, like slamming into the walls 255 times (which you'll likely do a lot by accident anyway).
* [[Cosmic Egg]]: While it's never stated whether or not the universe itself hatched from them, the Cosmic Eggs of the game [[End of the World Special|have the power to remake the Earth as a world of absolute Law or Chaos.]] {{spoiler|[[Take a Third Option|They can also be detonated in order to destroy the Schwarzwelt instead]]}}.
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** The Uber-Pixie you can get through a Password provided by [[Atlus]] themselves starts at Lv 1, but has a magic stat of 10 (normally, Pixies have a 3) and a luck stat of ''99'' (compared to the usual 5). On top of this, it has the spells Megidolaon and Mediarahan for heavy damage on every enemy and full HP Recovery for every ally respectively! Granted, you have to pay a very huge ammount of Macca to summon it from your Demon Compendium, but once you can afford it and level it up accordingly, hooooo boy... {{spoiler|The password itself is: Madoka Ueno}}
** If you shuffle your compendium around, you will see a large variety of skills pop up. Some of them are negligible. Then you get to Palibsag with Grand Tack. Proceed to rape nearly every demon with it if you have someone with high enough strength against anything not strong or immune to gun. Once you get to level 55, you get the even more broken RIOT GUN from Kresnik.
* [[Down in Thethe Dumps]]: Sector Delphinus, a sprawling and poisonous garbage dump [[Conveyor Belt of Doom|full of moving floors]], [[Blackout Basement|pitch-black hallways]], [[Hate Plague|a nasty parasite that drives those infected by it to violent insanity]], and some [[Demonic Spiders|fairly nasty demons]]. Ironically, this sector is ruled by [[Chaotic Evil|Asura]], [[Social Darwinist|who intends to "polish" the human spirit by reducing the entire world to a state of savage barbarism]]. In the game's story, riots have started in South Asia due to the catastrophic spread of pollution.
* [[Earth Is a Battlefield]]: While the upper portion of Antila is an [[Ice World]] supposedly set deep in the bowels of the Antarctic, much of the lower levels of the sector are set in a burning urban landscape ruled by Tyrant Morax, who believes the best way to kill humans is to mimic how they kill each other: through modern warfare. One character even comments the area looks like it came out of a World War instead of a more recent conflict, and in the game's story, a prolonged war is going on in Eastern Europe.
* [[Eldritch Location]]: The Schwarzwelt is an exponentially-expanding quantum... hoozit. It is more specifically:
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* [[Evil Makeover]]: Arguable on the "evil" part, but par for the course amongst Shin Megami Tensei games.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Dopplegangers, true to their name, are nothing more than [[Slasher Smile|grinning]] shadows of the protagonist.
* [[Expy]]: Arthur (see [[Shout-Out]] below) to [[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|HAL 9000]]. Especially at the end of the Neutral path, {{spoiler|when he confesses fear before performing his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}. By the same token, {{spoiler|the ascended Gore is Arthur's counterpart --an expy of David Bowman.}}
** While it's in the same game as what it's an Expy to, Demonee-ho is a joke on the main character. [[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army|Sort of]] [[Raidou Kuzunoha VS King Abaddon|like Raiho]].
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Horkos, rather befitting the fact that Sector Carina manifests as an outsize shopping mall. There are numerous conveyor belts ferrying a constant stream of sides of meat to unseen kitchens, which [[Villainous Glutton|are never enough to slake Horkos's hunger.]] And the first time you see him, {{spoiler|he's ''busily eating the Elve''.}} In battle, he may take a grisly bite out of you to restore his health (Taking a Bite), or he'll use [[Flunky Boss|Grocery Run]] to call up one of his minions, so he can eat them. And his minions are demon pigs, too. ''[[Berserk Button|Do not obstruct his meals if you know what's good for you.]]''
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** On a less pleasant note, {{spoiler|Jack's Squad}}.
* [[Four Is Death]]: {{spoiler|The Schwarzwelt is ruled by four "Kings" and four "Mothers".}}
* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: '''DEMO'''untable '''N'''ext '''I'''ntegrated '''C'''apability '''A'''rmor
* [[Fusion Dance]]: As per ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' tradition, you can fuse demons with one another to create another one, which can inherit skills from its progenitors. However, since demons don't learn skills by leveling up (all they do is replace existing skills or drop their [[Green Rocks|Demon Source]]), feel free to fuse fuse fuse with abandon.
** {{spoiler|Jimenez does one with Bugaboo to save its life.}}
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* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: As a callback to the early Super Famicom games, many demon sprites have these, usually flashing red and black or red and white.
* [[God Is Evil]]: {{spoiler|YHVH Himself doesn't put in an appearance, but the Three Wise Men are presumably acting on His orders, and they aren't any nicer than he is in earlier instalments. There are hints they're actually acting on their own initiative, but, aside from [[Shin Megami Tensei II|SMT2]], [[Lawful Stupid|angels]] don't ''usually'' have a history of that in SMT.}}
** Two [[New Game+]] quests more than imply that {{spoiler|Metatron and Demiurge are [[Pieces of God]] who lost to the Mothers before the story began. The Piece that takes Metatron's form even says that God forgot his love for humans and humans stopped believing him in return. Even after fusing with the Demiurge piece he implies that he hasn't changed at all. Luckily you have a chance to [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|seal him away for good]] thanks to a mysterious female entity who is not aligned with Law or Chaos.}} This leads to the question of {{spoiler|whether the Angels are actually acting on their own agenda or were following the Piece that took Metatron's form.}}
* [[Gratuitous German]]: The Schwarz (black) welt (world).
** One demon conversation has the demon translate it as its probable intended meaning, "Black Horizon," which the Schwartzwelt certainly is; a zone of blackness enveloping the Earth.
** There's also {{spoiler|Commander Gore, who becomes the "ubergestalt."}}
** There's an endgame almighty-gun skill called Freischutz, which means "The Marksman" or "The Freeshooter".
* [[Green Aesop]]: A driving force of the entire plot. Earth at the very start of the game has turned into a hellhole of pollution, famine, and insanity, and this is highlighted in the sectors [[Big Labyrinthine Building|Carina]], [[Down in Thethe Dumps|Delphinus]], and [[Ghibli Hills|Eridanus]]. Carina reflects mankind's greedy and endless desire for resources and wealth, Delphinus reflects the results of mankind's greed, depicting endless trash and pollution, and Eridanus depicts what Earth will be like when the Schwarzwelt removes the humans from Earth. It also is an important part of the endings. {{spoiler|The Neutral ending implies that the surviving crew will have the responsibility of teaching mankind about what they witnessed, so the Schwarzwelt doesn't manifest itself again; the Chaos ending explicitly states that, in its [[Social Darwinist]] world where only the strong survive, Earth will revert to a wild and untamed world and Mother Nature will be free to flourish again; finally, the Law ending states that, with every last living thing on Earth in the thrall of Zelenin's Song, mindlessly singing God's praises for all eternity, mankind won't spoil Earth's bounty and the environment will recover gloriously.}}
* [[Guide Dang It]]: You can get through most of the game without needing special outside assistance, but there are several demons that can only be unlocked by entering special passwords. There's no in-game indication of any of these passwords; fortunately for completionists, Special-Password-Only demons don't count towards or against how much of the Compendium you've finished.
** They are, however, very cool. You can summon Demonicas of each alignment for an [[Humanity Is Superior|all-human]] ([[Ambiguously Human|well, sorta]]) party!
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* [[It Got Worse]]: How the Schwarzwelt expedition kicks off. And how it continues afterwards.
* [[It's Personal]]: This is what greets the Protagonist {{spoiler|upon reaching the central chamber of Fornax, and the Tyrants he defeated in the first four sectors proclaim their vengeance towards him}}.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Jerk]]: Jimenez. [[Jerk Withwith 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'Em All]]: {{spoiler|As is tradition for SMT, the Neutral ending has only you, Arthur and a vague number of crew members survive, and even then, Arthur's personality ends up almost completely wiped.}}
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* [[Klingon Promotion]]: {{spoiler|Ryan's promotion to Jack's Squad Commander. He ''really'' didn't want that promotion. At the time.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Somehow, Jack Frost and Pyro Jack know who the mascot is supposed to be. Pyro Jack actually corrects you and then realizes he doesn't know what a mascot is.
* [[Late to Thethe Party]]: When the Red Sprite's crew finds {{spoiler|the Blue Jet crash site}}.
* [[Leitmotif]]: The melody of the opening theme "The Eternal Throne" gets reprised in "Take the Shield, Raise the Spear." The Law and Chaos themes also get a remix each.
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: If you say something about portable videogames to a demon, one might respond with "I'd make one that [[Nintendo DS|folds open and has two screens!]]"
** You can call the Jack brothers mascots. This does not go well with Pyro: "Hey, you've got the wrong Jack!"
** Some demons will ask you what your favorite kind of video game is, and if you answer that you prefer the old classics, some will get angry at you for being stuck in the past and ask if you're sure there isn't ''anything'' about the new ones you like. Given the debate over "old-school" vs. "new-school" Megaten games...
** Trying to talk to a demon while you have the same demon dead in your party: "If you let my pal down, I'll take you down too! Huh? It'd be [[We Cannot Go Onon Without You|game over if that happened?]]"
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Demonee-ho is the only demon that naturally has the skill Desperate Hit.
** Subverted. Demonee-ho is by NO means a joke character. His mix of skills are there to mimic that of the main character but his level, statistics and resistances all add up to an effective beatstick. While Demonee-ho is not broken, it is still in the same vein as Black Frost and it proves it by having no outstanding weakness. By this game's standards, there really are no lethal joke characters because the characters obviously meant to be jokes (Slime) do not ever graduate from that role.
* [[Liberty Over Prosperity]]: This is the demon's path; not to be confused with the "bad" path, the game makes it fairly clear there is no bad or good path, the demons want everyone to be free in all things, which would result in a dystopian planet with no society because everyone would do what they damn well want, and the angel's path leads to a world were everyone is happy, because they have no other choice but to be happy, and are brainwashed into so. {{spoiler|You can also [[Take a Third Option]]}}.
* [[Line in Thethe Sand]]: The [[Point of No Return]] between the various [[Multiple Endings]]. At a certain point, a character forces the Protagonist to decide which faction he will support --earning enmities and alliances depending on his choices.
** A lesser version occurs earlier, when {{spoiler|the half-demon Jimenez and the angelic Zelenin state their ultimate positions before leaving the ''Red Sprite'' for good, convincing several crewmen to follow them along their respective paths}}.
* [[Louis Cypher]]: {{spoiler|This time taking the appearance of a young ''[[Hot Asas Hell|woman]]'', disturbingly similar to a [[Alice in Wonderland|certain famous young girl]] from a previous game in the franchise. The name she actually goes by is Louisa Ferre.}}
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Mitra
** And {{spoiler|Captain Jack}}, who is basically what Mitra would be like {{spoiler|if he was human. And, you know, [[Complete Monster|irredeemable]]}}.
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** In a similar fashion, each faction has alignment-specific missions that yield different equipment, and since they're placed after the [[Point of No Return]], it automatically means you can't use the other faction's equipment until a new cycle.
*** Unless you equip them and then change your alignment. Weapons like the Amanomi Sword are acquired before your alignment is locked so you can change your alignment to Law, equip it, and then change it back to whatever it is you were before. It will stay equipped until you use another weapon.
* [[Mysterious Antarctica]]: The Schwarzwelt is here. [[Word of God]] says that Antarctica was chosen for international appeal (contrasting the standard [[Tokyo Is the Center of Thethe Universe]]) because of the series' growing western fanbase.
** [[Word of God]] also says John Carpenter's ''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]'' was of no small influence, [http://www.nintendopower.com/images/NP251_SMT.jpg too]...
* [[New Game+]]: Despite your best efforts, you won't be able to get 100% of this game finished the first time through. Besides, don't you want to see the different endings?
** You can't access ''half'' of Grus prior to [[New Game+]] (and it's large and confusing enough to have been its own sector.)
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** 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'Em]]}}: This is the Schwarzwelt Joint Project's response to the threat, with the excuse that {{spoiler|it would further destabilize the already unstable particles of the Schwarzwelt and nullify it}}. As you might expect, {{spoiler|it doesn't work...}} {{spoiler|from the outside.}}
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Many demons don't see anything wrong with killing humans, and some humans see no problem in exploiting the demons. See [[Playing Withwith Syringes]] for an example.
* [[Only in It For Thethe Money]]: Why Jimenez went from "warrant officer" to "Schwarzwelt attack participant". Given the rest of his personality pre-Bugaboo, this isn't too surprising.
** Also {{spoiler|Captain Jack and his men, who are so blatant about it that they actually make the ''demons'' look like nice people.}}
*** A note on the demons though, not all of them are complete monsters. Most of the guys you can recruit are just there and while you have the genuinely disgusting folks like Basilisk and Seth who would love nothing else than to tear you apart, you also have folks like Heimdall who is good, just not on your team.
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* [[Path of Most Resistance]]: Story-wise, the Neutral route, where both Heaven and Hell are out for your blood, as per SMT tradition. ''[[Gameplay and Story Segregation|Gameplay]]''-wise, however, it's actually ''Law'', as it requires you to fight ''both'' of the [[That One Boss|absolutely brutal]] path-specific bosses. While you don't have to deal with {{spoiler|Zelenin}} like in the other two routes, the Neutral {{spoiler|Commander Gore}} (who has [[Marathon Boss|absurdly high HP]] and spams devastating physical attacks) and the Chaotic {{spoiler|Mem Aleph}} (hello, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|100% accurate instant kill]]!) make that rather cold comfort.
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: A few of the demons are like this (e.g. Nekomata, Halphas), but it rarely reflects to their personality.
* [[Playing Withwith Syringes]]: In an exceptionally creepy part of the early game, you can find reports on demon experiments done to your crewmates. All of them died [[Squick|quite terribly,]] but the demons don't mind. They're just [[Stepford Smiler|happy to have removed humans of their ability to suffer.]] Then, when you confront Mitra, you find out why Fomorian was so gleeful about his experiments. {{spoiler|As far as Mitra and his goons are concerned, everything they were removing--blood, organic thought (q.v. brain), air, sane diet, protection from the Schwarzwelt--was pointless. Were they trying to strip humans down to their "proper" essence? One wonders if the demons have ''any'' respect for physical matter...}}
** This gets turned around later when you find out what {{spoiler|Captain Jack and his men}} are ''really'' doing in the Schwarzwelt. {{spoiler|Let's just say that the demons are actually portrayed in a sympathetic light for once even as they [[Humans Are Bastards|curse humans]] for being mutilated, torn apart, and put back together. It actually tugs at your heart when you turn off the cultivation tank they're in and put them out of their misery.}}
* [[Pokémon-Speak]]: Bugaboo.
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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 Withwith 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 (Filmfilm)|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]].
** Some demons have an ability called [[Queen|"Bites the Dust"]] that has a chance of giving the bomb status to any party member, [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|which will K-O them if hit again by a physical attack.]]
** A cheat code you can enter to unlock a certain demon is {{spoiler|[[Kid Icarus|ISHTAR FIGHTS TAMMUZ ANGELS]]}}.
*** Not to mention {{spoiler|[[Metroid|TRUSTIN SCALY]]}}. Remember that {{spoiler|the second line is all dashes}}.
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** ''[[Aliens]]'' reference: One of the strike team members you are attempting to save in a certain EX mission shouts something along the lines of "Game over, man!"
** A sidequest in Sector F has you {{spoiler|going "down a rabbit hole" (a trapdoor, but same difference) [[Alice in Wonderland|to chase after a rabbit at the behest of Alice]]. Yes, [[Nightmare Fuel|THAT]] [[Shin Megami Tensei I|Alice]]}}.
** Captain Jack could be a reference to [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Sparrow]] or [[Torchwood (TV)|Harkness]], or both.
*** Alternatively, Captain Jack and his lieutenant Ryan could be a reference to Tom Clancy's character Jack Ryan.
** The demon Asherah can only be created by a special fusion of Asura and Valkyrie; a feud between Asura and a Valkyrie was part of an important [[Sidequest]] in ''[[Lost Kingdoms]] II''.
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** The first rare forma you find, {{spoiler|Lemegetonite}}, is named after one of the alternate names for the [[Ars Goetia]], Lemegeton.
** There is an almighty-gun skill called [[Gratuitous German|Freischutz]], the name of a german play. It was also the inspiration for [[Gratuitous German|Freikugel]], a physical-almighty skill [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|in a different game]].
*** ...In addition to being the name of a marksman from [[Etrian Odyssey (Video Game)|two]] [[Disgaea|other Atlus series]].
** In the room where you fights Horkos, you can see among the pile of various objects behind him a [[Persona 4|TV with a yellow screen]].
** The room that the Three Wise Men pull the Protagonist into, in order to discuss their plans, is designed after the [[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|"hotel room" from David Bowman's journey into the monolith]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: A ''lot'' of EX Missions, demon designs, and even item drops pay very close attention to the demon's particular background, from the Lady of the Lake, to Cú Chulainn, to Tlaloc's appearance, to Hariti's culinary tastes. Par for the course with Atlus.
* [[Sidequest]]: The EX Missions. They make up a lot of the game's content, and some are necessary to make certain demons-even certain ''types'' of demons-available for fusion. {{spoiler|The toughest [[Bonus Boss]] is also confronted in one of these.}}
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* [[Villainous Glutton]]: Horkos. Dear god, Horkos.
* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: Lorelei and Ouroboros.
* [[We Cannot Go Onon Without You]]: In the same vein as recent [[Mega Ten]] games. Protagonist dies, Schwarzwelt swallows Earth, game over. He is the only thing that is tying those demons down and once he kicks it, there is nothing stopping the demons from calling it quits right then and there and just ditching your dead body to the enemy, even if they are on the lawful side of the spectrum.
** While demons can be revived as often as needed with revival beads, resurrecting dead humans seems to be impossible {{spoiler|by conventional means}}, as quite a lot of human characters bite it over the course of the story.
* [[Weird Moon]]: As another [[Shin Megami Tensei|MegaTen]] tradition, during a Full Moon, demons are too deranged to negotiate with you. However, this time you can install a Sub Application in the Demonica that allows successful negotiations during Full Moons, even with otherwise unrecruitable Dark demons. Unfortunately, they're still drunk on [[Incredibly Lame Pun|moonshine]], so whether or not they like what you have to say is pretty much a coin flip.
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: In the final sector, {{spoiler|Gore, having been reborn as an Ubergestalt, reunites with the Red Sprite, where the most alignment-important scene in the game takes place. If you are devoutly Law or Chaos, or answer Gore's questions in a non-Neutral manner, Gore deems you irredeemable and [[Climax Boss|fights you to the death]]. Following his death, the Command Room is shown to be in shambles, Arthur suffers a terminal error in his personality matrix that [[Driven to Suicide|forces him to self-terminate]], and whichever sidekick you're aligned with invades the Red Sprite and brainwashes everyone into worshippers of God or beastly-minded savages.}}
* [[The Wild Hunt]]: It's a demon of the Night race here.
* [[World -Wrecking Wave]]: The result of the Schwarzwelt swelling up unchecked, as the wall of plasma races across the surface of the world, annihilating everything and everyone on it.
* [[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.
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