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* [[After the End]]: After two, technically, if you take into account the events of the last game that killed off a lot of people the first end didn't.
* [[Artificial Human]]: {{spoiler|All of the main characters listed above, with the exception of Hiroko}}.
* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: {{spoiler|YHVH. As long as at least one person continues to desire a Higher Power to believe in and rely upon, he can never truly be destroyed}}.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: For the first part of the game. Eventually, you get the freedom to make your own choices.
* [[Character Alignment]]: Measured by two
* [[Church Militant]]: The Messians are back, and are now even stronger and more genocidal than ever. However, they are the rulers of Tokyo Millennium, one of the last stable human civilizations left in the entire world. The Gaian Church also appears
* [[Clone Jesus]]: {{spoiler|Aleph, an artificial Messiah created by the Messians after they got bored waiting for the real [[Second Coming]]. Needless to say, YHVH is pretty pissed at this}}.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Earth a.k.a. Malkuth. The environment is permanently polluted from a catastrophic nuclear war that happened
* [[Corrupt Church]]: While there are sincere believers, most of the hierarchy is some flavor of corrupt. {{spoiler|And the rot is so bad even YHVH is not immune}}.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Daleth. You can choose to make Aleph one of these too.
* [[Designer Babies]]
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|More of Did you just punch out [[God]]}}?
* [[Disc One Nuke]]/[[Game Breaker]]: There are 2 races of demons that correspond to both Gaians and Templars which are composed entirely of trained humans, and, since they aren't demons in the strict sense, they don't follow the same rules regular demons do
* [[End of the World Special]]
* [[Fake Memories]]
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* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: {{spoiler|Hiroko... [[Mind Screw|kinda]]}}.
* [[Inside a Computer System]]: {{spoiler|Arcadia}}.
** The VR Battle training areas tend to have this as a motif.
* [[Karma Meter]]: The Law/Neutral/Chaos alignments. Law is associated with kind actions and generally maintaining order and rules, Chaos is associated with being cruel and being free, and Neutral is based on keeping a balance between
* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|YHVH's solution to everything, regardless of your alignment}}.
* [[Knight Templar]]: The elite Messians of the Center, including the Temple Knights, and the Angels.
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* [[Multiple Endings]]
* [[Mutants]]: There is a small mutant population living in the ruins of Old Tokyo. Apart from blue skin, and a few with deformities, they seem relatively healthy. This didn't stop the Centre from oppressing them and preventing them from leaving the Underworld.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Somewhat less so if you take advantage of some game bugs and some [[Sequence Breaking]] compared to the last game, but this oen can still be quite hard otherwise.
* [[No Campaign for the Wicked]]: Just like the previous game, Aleph's Law-Chaos alignment can be
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Due to the game mechanics, if Aleph should be in a dying state in the second fight with Daleth after you beat him, then you'll get a game over in the middle of the next cutscene because {{spoiler|Beth sacrifices herself to defend you}}. A bit of a [[Tear Jerker]] when you realize that this means that {{spoiler|both Aleph and Beth crossover to Nirvana together in what is literally a better fate than what'll happen to Aleph when he kills God}}.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: {{spoiler|Satan/Zayin crumbles to dust after helping you defeat YHVH in the Law path, as he cannot survive having destroyed his creator. This also happens to Lucifer ''if he's in the party'' during the Chaos path; if he isn't around for the
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: Averted. You can get punched in the face by demons, even those much weaker than you, and get hurt. But get thrown out of {{spoiler|Eden}} for {{spoiler|refusing to ally with the Messians}}, and you fall hundreds of feet to the surface without so much as a single hit point lost.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: "Satan points his finger!" "YHVH let out
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Zayin, upon discovering his true nature as Satan}}.
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]
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* [[Satan]]: ''A.k.a.'' {{spoiler|[[God]]'s [[The Dragon|Dragon]]}}.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Almost all of the women seen in the dance clubs dress this way.
** Gets downright ridiculous when you see Bodycondians and Man-Eaters more interested in busting a move on the dance floor as opposed to being enemies of peoples.
* [[That's No Moon]]: Mountains seen in Makai and the Underground are actually the spines of the giant dragon Kuzuryu. They actually move. The top of Tokyo Millennium is, in fact, {{spoiler|a space station}}.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: The Megiddo Arc.
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