Soul Nomad & the World Eaters: Difference between revisions

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: {{spoiler|Gig's sums up Drazil as being like a graveyard because of how every aspect of a person's life is controlled, to the point that they have to be told what to think. Oh, and the world has no hotpods.}}.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]:* Every unit you can deploy has a Leader, and every manikin inside of a unit contributes a percentage of their stats to the leader of that unit as a constant bonus as long as that manikin is alive. Thus, if for example you stack a bunch of identical manikins with identical levels in a room, the one designated as leader will have significantly higher stats than its twins.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler|[[Up to Eleven|Everyone in the Demon Path]]. Some aversions are usually insane and/or dead.}}.

* [[Badass Bystander]]: You can attack random townspeople. Most of them go down easily, but occasionally, you'll find one stronger than the ''final boss''.

* [[Badass Family]]: Median, Layna {{spoiler|and Revya.}}.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Endorph. {{spoiler|''[[Phantom Brave]]'' players will recognize him as Walnut the bounty hunter, and he's taken a serious [[Took a Level in Badass|level in badass]] since then.}}.

** {{spoiler|Also to Levin/Raksha in the Demon Path, when he decides that [[Good Feels Good]].}}.

* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Drazil}}. {{spoiler|[[Villain Protagonist|Revya]] in the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: ''Soul Nomad'' LOVES this trope to a T. Endorph is a regular subscriber to this. Including the Demon Path, he has about 5 moments. Not just him, but Christophe, {{spoiler|the remaining residents from the Hidden Village}}, Grunzford... There are a lot of [[Big Damn Heroes]] moments, to summarizes.

* [[Big Good]]: {{spoiler|[[The Chessmaster|Virtuous]].}}.

* [[Bonus Boss]]: It's a [[Nippon Ichi]] game. Of course, it's going to have them. {{spoiler|Asagi, Median and [[Grim Grimoire|Lujei]].}}.

** And in case you haven't noticed, {{spoiler|old favorite Baal is ''missing''}}.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: {{spoiler|The Asagi fight ending}}.

{{quote|'''Gig''': {{spoiler|Oh please! You're trying to play the ''victim''? We can't even move on with the story because you destroyed the world! [[Nonstandard Game Over|Now we gotta start all over again!]] Seriously, thanks a lot!}}!}}

** This is especially hilarious as Gig and Revya initially act as though they have absolutely no idea what she's talking about. {{spoiler|As soon as Revya agrees to let Asagi take his / her lead role, however, that's when the Fourth Wall really begins to break.}}.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Trish in the Demon Path comes pre-broken due to her adoptive father being a serial rapist.}}.

** Played for [[Black Comedy]] laughs in {{spoiler|the Demon Path, where this happens to Galahad as he witnesses Revya's atrocities unfold}}, eventually going insane and imagining himself first as a salesman (of the 'buy now, and I'll throw in a second absolutely free' type) and then later as a Prism Ranger.

* [[Broken Aesop]]: Most outstanding one given by {{spoiler|Cuthbert to Agrippa in the Demon Path. When questioned why he's working with Revya and Gig when he doesn't seem like that horrible a person, Cuthbert launches into a sad, serious explanation of his brother's illness and his determination to find the cure at any cost. Almost seems like a [[Pet the Dog]] moment when he warns Agrippa not to make the same mistakes as him... then fails when he names the consequence of doing so as just going bald.}}.

** Ironically, though, {{spoiler|Odie [[Took a Level in Badass]] in the Demon Path, with even Dio, his relative and the most powerful sorcerer in the world, acknowledging his growth.}}.

** {{spoiler|Galahad in the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]:

* [[Cherubic Choir]]: ''"Cradle of the Ivory Moon''", the game's credit music.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: * {{spoiler|Layna/Virtuous}} is one for the side of good, though {{spoiler|she}} still plays Revya and Gig like a fiddle to get them to {{spoiler|stop Drazil from destroying Haephnes by stealing souls from the world.}}.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|The Playstation Is A Cheating Bastard]]: During Inspections, enemy leaders sometimes ignore Decor disadvantages. For instance, "Antimatter" gives you a 90% boost to defense (making you nearly untouchable) at the cost of turning everyone in the room into a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]] -: take any damage at all, and you're dead. Leaders still take normal damage.

* [[Crossdresser]]: Penn.

** Vitali. {{spoiler|He found out Kanan's [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|true gender]] this way. Then, in his ending, he opens up a restaurant and serves his customers... wearing a dress.}}.

** [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: {{spoiler|'Dio'/Odie}} is treated as totally pathetic. Even his brief, dramatic triumph is shattered when {{spoiler|the real Dio reveals that the spell Odie successfully broke after much effort had been severely weakened by the passage of time}}. In actual gameplay, he's quite effective. Justified by the fact that he wasn't that incompetent in the story either, he just thought he was. His brother is still better than him statwise, but you never get a chance to have both of them on your party at the same time, so it hardly matters.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''Soul Nomad'' as a [[Crapsack World|whole]], compared to other [[Nippon Ichi]] games. In other news: {{spoiler|the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: Take {{spoiler|Levin's}} theme, arrange it so it sounds more chaotic and add some [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]. The end result is Crash Landing, {{spoiler|, Raksha's theme}}.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Gig, baby!

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Nearly everyone in the Demon Path, but especially {{spoiler|Shauna, whose in-game vocals change to hollow monosyllabic grunts after her sister dies. Thorndyke almost literally crosses this after he believes he's killed his son, to the point where he's so broken that he's unable to come back to sanity even when it turns out that he didn't.}}.

* [[Dimension Lord]]: {{spoiler|Haephnes and Drazil rule their respective worlds named after them.}}.

* [[The Ditz]]: Danette and Levin. {{spoiler|Though Levin... [[Demonic Possession|not]] [[Magnificent Bastard|so]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity|much]].}}.

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: {{spoiler|Vitali learns, to his surprise and/or horror, that Kanan might just be a man. Well, [[Crossdresser|he]] would know these things.}}.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: The game's title went from "''Soul Cradle"'' to "''Soul Nomad"'' and a couple of characters had their names changed, possibly due to trouble with [[No Pronunciation Guide|pronunciation]] (Exampleexample: Juno was originally Jost, which was pronounced Youst).

* [[Duel Boss]]: The {{spoiler|second Feinne}} fight is an odd example, you CAN summon others to the fight, but {{spoiler|as your level is boosted by 2000, and your foe is 1000, they do nothing more than take an attack for your main character.}}.

** {{spoiler|If you use the item after you summon your allies, their level is boosted as well.}}.

** {{spoiler|The Gestahl battle in Drazil.}}.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: By midway through the Demon routePath, most of your group is outright insane in one fashion or another.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|The nature of Drazil is sufficient to make even Gig disgusted, as he declares quite loudly by claiming the whole place's nothing but a graveyard whose inhabitants just happen to be mobile.}}. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And most importantly, there were no hotpods]].

** {{spoiler|Every sane villain regarding the [[Omnicidal Maniac|player]] [[Complete Monster|character]] actions in the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Evil Is Easy]]: Subverted,; the demonDemon pathPath is much harder, you'll only be able to beat it if you play it a [[New Game+]].

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]:* The basic premise of the game subverts this, in that using Gig can (hopefully) save the world. Also, {{spoiler|both subverted and played straight in the Demon Path -; played straight with Gig and the player character, but subverted when Dio releases Raksha to try and stop you, and ''it works''. Or, at least, Raksha does end up on his side.}}.

** Case of it playing true in the main story {{spoiler|the king of Raide tries to use a crimson tear to control Feinne Gig states that this won't work, and of, of course, it turns out he's right. This instead causes Feinne, who before was just sitting and doing nothing, to level a large portion of the landscape and then kill the king.}}.

** Also {{spoiler|Revya in the Bad Ending of the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Evilly Affable]]: Gig. {{spoiler|And almost everyone in the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Kanan, and to a certain degree, {{spoiler|the real Dio.}}.

** {{spoiler|Also ThorndykeRevya in the Demon Path. And by fallen hero, I mean [[SanityBig Slippage|PainfullyBad]].}}.

** {{spoiler|Gig was originally a kind hearted [[Grim Reaper]] until he was killed and Drazil turned him into the psychopath he is during the game.}}. In essence, not exactly his fault.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: {{spoiler|When Revya decides s/he should get a cooler name during the Demon Path, Gig tries to suggest 'the BFF' (yes, that's right, 'Best Friends Forever'), but is sadly shot down. He gets his comeuppance when he names [[The Empire]] 'The BFF Empire' in Revya's absence.}}.

** {{spoiler|Apparently, the Devourlord annihilates the worlds because of this. See his/her last line in Demon Path's [[Bad Ending.]]}}.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The plot turns out {{spoiler|to be one ''massive'' plan by Layna and Virtuous to make Gig and Revya destroy Drazil (the world that neighbors Haephnes) in order to restore the correct flow of souls which was originally upset by Drazil manipulating Median into slaying Vigilance, the Master of Death of Haephnes. And that isn't even counting Dio and Gestahl's plans to restore Gestahl to his true power as Median, by killing Drazil and his Masters of Life and Death; Raksha's plan to become a god and destroy Drazil and his Masters of Life and Death; and Thuris' plan to fuse with Feinne and Raksha and.... do something else afterward. He kinda fails before he gets the chance to explain his grand plan}}.

* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: 'Dio' and his lackeys, the latter are [[Lampshade Hanging|perfectly aware of their status]], and spend much of their time trying to make the former [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|see past his inferiority complex]] and realize this. {{spoiler|He eventually takes their advice and joins you, becoming a much happier person as a result.}}.

* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: The duality between Gig and the main character in ''Soul Nomad Andand The World Eaters'' is somewhat like this, despite Gig being [[Demonic Possession|an intruder in your mind]] and not a creation of it. In many cases it's not so much 'Gig made me do it' as it is 'Gig made the other guys do it to me so I had to defend myself'. It goes both ways in their case —: by the end of the game, the protagonist has gotten more brash and trigger-happy, much like Gig, and Gig has become a great deal less Omnicidal.

** {{spoiler|Subverted in the Demon Path, where everyone ''thinks'' this at first, but where Gig openly admits that he's just along for the ride.}}.

* [[Good Feels Good]]: {{spoiler|Raksha in the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: {{spoiler|Endorph.}}.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Dio, Raksha, and even ''Drazil'' in the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Dio of the Evil Eye/Odie, who ''says'' he's a legendary wizard, but in reality is just the leader of a [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] with an inferiority complex (him, not his buddies). {{spoiler|He later turns out to have been the only failure in magic to have ever been produced by a legendary clan of wizards, and was so ashamed of himself that he took his older brother's name. He gets over it and joins your party.}}.

* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: Room variant: Hades' Despair. Downside: Whenwhen your Stamina hits o, you die. Upside: Itit increases your stats by 1% each time you lose a Stamina point. Now when you realize you can up the percentage to #5 per point loss, you can have your stats almost up by 300$

** Which crosses it with [[Disc One Nuke]], since a reliable way to farm [[New Game+|cycles]] is to constantly impale yourself against [[Hopeless Boss Fight|Feinne]], which is, what? The fourth battle? And accepting Gig's [[Deal with the Devil|deal]], time and time again until you are satisfied. That or {{spoiler|blazing through the Demon path, which is much shorter than the normal path.}}.

* [[Heroic Mime]]: The player character, though s/he does speak during battles, not to mention {{spoiler|getting an epic [[Evil Laugh]] in the Bad Ending of the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Endorph ([[Phantom Brave|again]]) and Gig, though Gig comes back to life (Endorph too, but you only find that out in his ending). In the Demon Path, Danette lets Revya kill her in battle so that she can turn into a Crimson Tear to be used against Revya and Gig after her death.}}.

* [[Hey, You]]: Gig RARELY calls anyone by name. To list them: Revya: Kid/Soulmate. Danette: Stupid Cow. Levin: Man Cow. Odie: Sluggo. Grunzford: Gramps. Layna/{{spoiler|/Virtuous}}: Old Hag.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Drazil, Virtuous and Gig in the Demon Path's Bad Ending. Drazil in the normal story - his plans to use Gig backfire either way.}}.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Feinne. {{spoiler|Although you can defeat her in subsequent cycles, leading to the [[Bonus Boss]] Battle with Asagi.}}.

** At least ''Soul Nomad'' has the decency to tell you this, with the win condition for the level being "everybody dies.". Though given that Feinne is level 1000 at the fourth fight of the game, it's pretty obvious you're supposed to lose even without being told you're supposed to.

* [[Human Shield]]: Thuris attempts this. It's ruined by the kidnapee having a piece of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] implanted in her. {{spoiler|He also tries it in the Demon Path. Fails even worse, because Revya couldn't care less what happens to Penn, and Penn thinks it's ''awesome''.}}.

* [[Jerkass]]: Gig. Mainly because he's not allowed to express himself fully and kill you all, so he resorts to being an incredible jerk instead. {{spoiler|Gig's [[Character Development]] first becomes noticeable by the fact that he actually refrains from his usual obnoxious comments during truly tragic episodes later in the game.}}.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Averted, and played straight. {{spoiler|After Levin/Raksha is through explaining he's duped you all, Endorph tries to kill him, revealing that the Levin talking to you was an illusion. He then lampshades this. Strangely enough, he then later showboats away his rematch with Endorph by pissing him off by insulting Euphoria and dropping his guard. He ''did'' have his true form to fall back on, but it's weird he fell prey to the trope he had insulted just a day ago.}}.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|EVERYONE}} in the Demon Path.

* [[Knight Templar]]: {{spoiler|'''Drazil'''. And by extension, Gamma and Joules.}}.

* [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]: {{spoiler|Revya/Gig, targeted at Drazil.}}.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Euphoria. {{spoiler|''Literally''}}.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Median is revealed to be the player's father. Immediately after ''they kill him''.}}.

* [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]]: Averted,; if a female Revya elects to take a bath after being possessed by Gig, despite the text suggesting she has concerns about just this kind of thing, Gig mentions he doesn't care. In spite of that, you get twice the boost to Gig's [[Relationship Values|Relationship Value]] as a female than if you choose that option with a male Revya.

* [[Medium Awareness]]: Averted for the most part; like in ''[[Phantom Brave]]'', the fourth wall breaks and [[Genre Savvy]] is kept to a minimum. {{spoiler|Asagi is the main exception.}}.

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Asagi. After winning the first battle against [[Hopeless Boss Fight|Feinne]], Asagi [[Hostile Show Takeover|attempts to take the lead role from Revya and Gig]] and in an attempt to show Gig up, she blows up the planet. Winning the battle rewards you with Asagi as a playable character and Gig pissed off that they'll have to [[New Game+|start the game all over again.]]}}.

* [[The Mole]]: Initially, the game tries to make {{spoiler|Vitali and Christophe}} look like moles, but in the end, they really are on Revya's side. The real mole is {{spoiler|[[Obfuscating Stupidity|Levin]].}}.

* [[My Future Self and Me]]: By abusing the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]], you can unlock the past-era Median as a usable character, then arrange to (briefly) have him in your party at the same time as the modern Median, at least during the Demon Path. Nobody comments on this... though, granted, the fact that you have the past version Median ''at all'' is a matter of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]].

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Gig in Demon Path's Good Ending.}}.

* [[Noble Demon]]: {{spoiler|Gig, after considerable [[Character Development]]. He's still a jerk, though.}}.

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: The build-up to {{spoiler|Endorph's final Psycho Burgundy}} is excellent, but the impact was never shown.

* [[Older and Wiser]]/[[Took a Level in Badass]]: Endorph, {{spoiler|whom you might remember from ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' as Walnut, the [[Jerkass]] with a bit of a [[Social Darwinist]] streak who made life much harder for poor little Marona}}. Now he's [[Just Like Robin Hood]], a [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero]], and inspires the weak-willed to become stronger, which earns him the hatred of [[Dark Action Girl]] Shauna.

* [[One-Woman Wail]]: ''"Crying for the Dark Sky''", Thuris' theme song. Bonus points in that the one woman wailing sounds just a little like Kanan's VA.

** {{spoiler|In the Demon Path, [[Complete Monster|Lobo]] is the sane one in your villainous team, having the common sense to betray you in the end. Thorndyke and Shauna, too. [[Sanity Slippage|Initially]].}}.

* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: They look like midgets that carry shotguns and sound like kids. Lobo lamshades this {{spoiler|as he's holding Agrippa's grandma hostage with a knife to her throat.}}.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Subverted in {{spoiler|the Demon Path}} where {{spoiler|Revya saves the life of a angel just so that s/he could ''kill her friend right in front of her''}}. This behavior is also mocked when {{spoiler|Lobo is revealed to be a traitor in the Demon Path}}, specifically {{spoiler|if you choose to say that you trust Lobo, his [[Freudian Excuse]] kicks into play and he leaves you, claiming that people who trust each other are fools. Gig mocks him for it.}}.

* [[Plot Tumor]]: A good portion of the game is unrelated to the titular world eaters, Gig notes this and provides the quote for the trope's page. {{spoiler|Subverted. Every single one of those quests was the grand plan of Levin, who is actually one of the World Eaters.}}.

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Levin also answers to 'Raksha', and he wants to be a God.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Rocket Punch]]}}: notNot that you would expect that kind of stuff when you first start the game. The attack description goes along the line of {{spoiler|Heavens will fall on your head.}}.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. [[Start of Darkness|It takes you to really bad places]].}}.

* [[Seashell Bra]]: Alexemia, the Neraid queen, takes this a step further with seashell ''nipple-covers''.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Grunzford and Lady Layna {{spoiler|AKAA.K.A. Virtuous}} ship Gig and Female Revya in his ending.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|Both versions of the Median ending. To put it into perspective, in the Victory version of the Median ending Revya and Gig die of Scarlet Iago and are turned into weapons by Drazil.}}.

* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: All the gods in the game, including Gig, wear these, though they actually hover above their shoulders. Your main character gains Gig's [[Shoulders of Doom]] whenever he / she uses Demon Blast. Gig's [[Shoulders of Doom]] can also turn into wings.

** Dialogue before taking down Raksha is a slightly less obvious [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Soul Eater]]'', including questioning Gig whether souls are tasty {{spoiler|and combining the might of his and Revya's souls to unleash an [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]}}.

'''Odie''': No! It's the legendary dragon, [[Captain Ersatz|Sluperam]]! }}

** Also, to ''Disgaea'''s favorite superheroes {{spoiler|in the Demon Path}}. {{spoiler|Galahad}} tells {{spoiler|Trish}} that he'll find her missing feathers. What does he call himself? [[Super Sentai|Prism Beige]]. {{spoiler|byBy this point, Thorndyke, Trish and Galahad are completely off their rockers. Gig must be awesome at [[Break the Cutie]]}}.

* [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum]]: {{spoiler|If you ''win'' the final battle of the Demon Path, Revya kills both Haephnes and Drazil and erases both their worlds from existence, killing everything on them and him/herself with it.}}. And his last words after doing so:

* [[Team Mom]]: {{spoiler|Shauna in the Demon Path. Until later when Trish dies, at which point she, too, utterly gives up on the world.}}.

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]:* Gig has three [[leitmotif]]s, '"Bad Boys'", '"Desperado'" and '"Rock 'N Rocks' --": when the two latter start playing, heads will usually roll. In {{spoiler|the Demon Path}}, however, "Desperado" usually plays when something really bad is going to happen/is happening.

** When Endorph gets seriously pissed off, a certain song that ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' players will recognize starts playing. {{spoiler|That is, '"R&R Junkiee'," akaa.k.a. Walnut's Theme.}}.

* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: {{spoiler|In the Median Victory ending, should Gig and Revya go back in time fight the guy who started this whole mess and win, they get turned into two of the World Eaters. This means that even in non-Median time travel plots, you're fighting alternate future versions of yourselves.}}.

* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: {{spoiler|Kanan and Penn during the Demon Path}}.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Gig. {{spoiler|And Revya, AKAA.K.A. the BFF, during the Demon Path.}}.

* [[Wife Husbandry]]:* {{spoiler|Hawthorne's '[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Judge Turpin-like]] habit of raising girls to the age of 17 to rape and murder afterwards.}}.

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: See Lujei's ''Soul Nomad'' Character page for full details.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The possession during the opening sequence was orchestrated by Layna, who predicted the outcome. If Gig doesn't try poesssion, he stays locked up. If he does and fails, his power is used to wipe out the world eaters. If he tries and succedds, Layna can stuff him back in his can. {{spoiler|Lots of people actually, but Levin/Raksha's is the most jaw-droppingly magnificent.}}.

** Though Layna's gambit {{spoiler|backfires epically in the Demon Path, since she didn't anticipate that you would be ''worse'' than Gig.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[You Bastard]]: Demon Path takes this [[Up to Eleven|to the extreme]]}}.

** {{spoiler|Later, Drazil, Gamma and Joules do the same to Thuris instead of reforming him. They also try it on Feinne, but Revya [[Mercy Kill]]s her first.}}.

** {{spoiler|Finally, your entire party and Gig in the Bad Ending of the Demon Path.}}.

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