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** Also, Lyle the Strike Knight in SFI, even though you get him nearly halfway through the game. Centaur movement range on flat ground, 2-3 square archer range, high damage, and decent defense. You have to grind him up some so he has buffed stats before you promote him to Assault Knight, but when you do it is ''glorious.'' He ties with wolf warrior Zylo in terms of damage output with the added bonus of long range sniping ability.
** In II in general, while ''arrows'' and Archers are useless, the Brass Gunner is a [[Mighty Glacier]] with a ranged attack, and artillery shells do fairly good damage.
* [[Anti
** Subverted in ''Shining Force'', so any healing done gets 10 experience points without fail. You have won the moment you can use it 10 times per fight.
** Subverted even harder in Shining Force 2, and the GBA remake: You no longer had to actually heal damage to get the experience. Comes at the same rate. And Aura spells, which heal more than one character at a time, can give a healer ''25'' experience points.
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: If your save file is corrupted in Shining Force II, ominous music plays while the witch informs you that it's corrupted. Yes, they designed the game to play appropriate music for ''losing your file''.
* [[Bring My Red Jacket]]: Sir Lemon [AKA the Red Baron before he finally exits the [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]] can revive himself from death after a battle, and wears armor that is ''precisely'' the color of blood -- because it's ''painted with the blood of his dead enemies''.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Most egregious moment is in ''II'', where Thou Must go kiss the Princess Elis, the [[Distressed Damsel]] who you've known for maybe all of two minutes, and later get the implied [[Standard Hero Reward]]. Sarah, the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]], is heartbroken and runs off, leading Kazan to go "[[Pair the Spares|comfort]]" her. Needless to say, [[Fan
** This is also used to force the player to forgive bosses after they're defeated, no matter how much of a [[Dirty Coward]] or [[Complete Monster]] they are.
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: It never lets you. And when the hero dies, it's a game over. But because of this, it leads to the hero typically being many times stronger than the other characters. See [[One Man Party]] below.
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* Expy: Fenrir in Shining Blade is essentially an expy of [[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger|Doggie Kruiser]].
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: in ''[[Shining Force]] II'', {{spoiler|Oddler, the blind boy who travels with you for about a while, later [[The Reveal|reveals himself]] as Odd-Eye, one of Zeon's top fighters.}}
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: In ''Shining Force II'', there is a boss called Taros that can only be defeated by the main character, who is the only one that can damage it with a [[Forgotten Superweapon|special sword]]. This scenario repeats itself in the second [[Gaiden Game]], "The Sword of Hajya". Prince Nick, whose right arm is turned to stone and rendered unusable for the majority of the game, [[Last
* [[Fake King]]: In ''The Sword of Hayja'', a king gets sacrificed to Iom, and one of Iom's minions take's the king's place.
* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Or rather, Blaze, Freeze and Bolt/Spark.
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* [[Joke Character]]: Jogurt in the first game, the penguins in the third. Jogurt can only inflict [[Scratch Damage]], and if by some twist of fate he happens to kill someone, he receives an item that can have any other player character turn into him.
* [[Kill Sat]]: In the remake of the first game, this powers a line of spells exclusive to Max.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear]] (Appears in II)
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: In the third book of ''Shining Force CD'', after you get past the second battle Prince Nick and Gyan encounter a harem of sorts, who's members encourage them to rest by saying "Why don't you relax? You can even try '''THAT''' with us."
{{quote| Gyan: Th...THAT??!!<br />
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Mayfair: That's disgusting! }}
* [[Landmark of Lore]]: ''SF II'' contains a [[Lost Technology|hidden]] [[Cool Ship|airship]] that has the same outline as the Nazca lines.
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: The Shining Force gets separated for a while in ''The Sword of Haija'' and you must work through a few battles with only six characters.
* [[Light Is Good]]: In ''Shining Force II'' two of the main [[Amplifier Artifact|Amplifier Artifacts]] are the Jewel of Light and the Jewel of Evil, not Darkness.
* [[Lions and Tigers And Humans, Oh My!]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Usually about thirty per game, some of whom are [[Optional Party Member|Optional Party Members]], and can be [[Lost Forever]] if you're not prudent. You're also left with a choice of who to use since you can only have 12 characters at a time attending a battle.
* [[Lost Forever]]: A few characters, and often items you miss. The Game Gear version has an interesting subversion for items, where you can simply buy items you miss from the shop under deals. They cost a lot, which would be annoying, except the game soon ends up as [[Money for Nothing]].
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* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: In the first game, {{spoiler|Max is the brother of Kane, one of Runefaust's top generals}}. Similarly in the Game Gear version, {{spoiler|Hiemdiel, [[The Mole]], is your brother.}}
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Bleu, the baby dragon in the first game; Arthur, a Centaur also from the first game; and Slade, the rat thief from the second. Arguably, Domingo in the first game as well - a low level mage that turns into a [[Meat Shield]] at higher levels, despite being otherwise portrayed as the typical [[Squishy Wizard]].
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Almost every boss you will ever fight in the first game is actually innocent and under the control of Darksol. [[But Thou Must!|You aren't allowed to hold grudges against any of them]] no matter how angry you are after they've destroyed most of your force and you've had so much trouble defeating them.}}
* [[Meat Shield]]: Domingo's status as this bears repeating. He eventually gets one of the best HP and defense in the game. ''And'' the best evasion. So ''if'' a character can hit him, they generally only do [[Scratch Damage]], and he has enough HP to weather it all. He's also one of the highest priority targets to the computer, above most healers and other magicians, and below Max, [[The Hero]]. This means that if you put Domingo and almost any other character on either side of an opponent, they'll always go for him, allowing the other to hit them repeatedly from behind.
* [[Megumi Hayashibara]]: Neige, in the game. In ''Tears X Wind'', her lines were recorded by someone else (Ayako Kawasumi, AKA [[Fate Stay Night|Saber]])
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** Amusingly enough, Mithril is the name of the currency in Feather, which you get from every single enemy you kill. However, since it seems to take the form of blue crystals, it's probably not the same thing.
** In ''Shining Force EXA'', Mithril is used to power up your weapons and armor.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: This is the only reason General Eliot fights you in the first game. In the second, Lemon is this way when he obeys an obviously [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] king who commands him and his army to slaughter the citizens of a city that was their ally.
* [[Name of Cain]]: Kane in the first game.
* [[Non
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Try not to let a final boss use De-soul, by far the cheapest magic attack possible as it can suddenly kill anyone even at full health, on the leader of the force.
* [[One Man Party]]: The flipside to [[Anti
** Healers are an exception, as they gain a fair chunk of XP when they heal someone. Also, back-row characters can be leveled up by farming injured enemies.
*** Making Sheela and Karna (if you promote her to Master Monk instead of Sarah) absolute wrecking machines. High Attack + Aura + Boost = A character who will level up very, very, VERY fast.
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* [[Samurai]]: Musashi, a secret character from the first game and ''Shining Force CD'', inexplicably renamed Rush in the latter's US version.
* [[Save the Princess]]: In ''Shining Force II''. A rare [[Gender Flip]] occurs in ''The Sword of Hayja'' where you must save the prince.
* [[Schizo
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]] (All ''over'' the place.)
* [[Sealed Room in The Middle of Nowhere]]: In ''SFII'' when the Shining Force gets shrunk at Mr. Creed's residence and put onto a desk with an entire community of people who had the same thing happen to them. (The Shining Force gets away eventually of course, but for the other potential party members they must remain there until pre-departure on the Nazca ship, but it could still be like [[And I Must Scream]] as the others would be harder to level up at this point). The NPCs who have made a kingdom of their own are actually ''thankful'' to Creed for their Desktop Kingdom.
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* [[Shoot the Medic First]]: A good policy for both sides, however, this is taken to an extreme by the enemies in the first game. Starting from the beginning, they will aim directly for your magician Tao, and once she dies (which will be often), they will aim for all your other magicians and healers.
** The healers and magicians have lower defense and are often easier to kill, and the AI loves preying on anyone it can kill quickly and in one turn. It goes for the other Shining Force games as well. They usually won't exclusively go after Master Monks in the second game because they can take hits and defend themselves.
* [[Shout
** Also, the rat boss in ''SFII'' is named [[Willard]].
* [[The Something Force]]
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