Spellbinding Radiance: Difference between revisions

* [[Disguised in Drag]]: {{spoiler|John has to dress up as a female whom he arbitrarily names Sophia Domivere. This is one of the uncommon cases where, overall, it isn't [[Played for Laughs]]}}

* [[Dope Slap]]: Ash delivers one to John in Chapter 86.

'''Ash''': *slap* }}

* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: {{spoiler|Patrick as of the Radiant Dawn arc.}}

* [[Friendly Enemy]]: John and Petrine

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Well, John, obviously. However, recently Soren has got into the action as well.

** Patrick seems to want in on this, too, since the Radiant Dawn portion started.

* [[Giving Radio to the Romans]]: John comes into Tellius with a pocket watch (which is never explained what happened to it), a wallet, a trumpet mouthpiece for some reason, and his cell phone. Subverted when he throws the cell phone into the water instead of using it to improve life for the citizens of Tellius.

** Patrick attempts to be one of these when using {{spoiler|Wallace's spring loaded chain axe}} despite having no prior training with it at all. The results [[Reality Ensues|were]] [[Oh Crap|as]] [[Epic Fail|expected]].

* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: There is a small, hilarious exchange between John and Titania in their mock date.

'''John'''Uh, I think I gotta go to the bathroom. }}

* [[Inverse Dialogue Death Rule]]: This trope has been played straight and subverted in the fic.

** This is from actual canon.

* [[Light Bulb Joke]]: Chapter 35!

'''John''': Three! Two to fight over who's going to do it and one to bark orders! }}

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: This is Fire Emblem, after all. Not to mention that aside from the standard Path of Radiance cast, there's [[Canon Foreigner|other Fire Emblem characters]] such as [[Fire Emblem|Selena, Karla, Cormag, Linde, Nino...]] just to name a few as well as [[Soul Series|Carin {{spoiler|who is actually Cassandra Alexandra}}]] and [[Mass Vexations|Ash]]. There are also some original characters, such as Gabriella, Phoenix Apollo Irving, Katrina... and so on. Many characters are introduced, given seeming importance, then [[Put on a Bus]] until convenient. That's just the story characters, too.

* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: Jay knew quite well that {{spoiler|Jill was going to die}} but didn't say anything to John to try and avert it. {{spoiler|She has a '''VERY''' [[Grandfather Paradox|good reason]].}}

* [[One of Us]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Do what you will to John, but you do '''''NOT''''' mess with his friends if you know what's good for you.

* [[Pop-Cultured Badass]]: For those rare moments where John isn't [[You Suck|getting his ass royally handed to him]], he certainly qualifies. Patrick is perhaps even more of a contender, considering he was the one to {{spoiler|off Ashnard}}.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Selena is always portrayed as a calm character, always being a gentle, kind guide to the rash hero of the story. However, Chapter 88 has a gem that is very rarely seen in the form of a rare moment of despair.

** There is another one in chapter 91 with Selena as well.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Petrine. [[Player Punch|Despair was had all around.]]}}

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Elincia becomes one '''''way''''' earlier than she was supposed to in the original game.

* [[This Cannot Be!]]: {{spoiler|Zelgius flies into a combination of this and [[Unstoppable Rage]] after he gets his ass kicked not by Ike, but by '''''Mist'''''.}}

* [[This Is Sparta]]: This happens in the story a lot.

** Note, though, that it never seems to work that well whenever John tries to invoke the trope by name...

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: John takes quite a few by the time the fic gets to the final quarter of the Path of Radiance arc. The cincher comes during chapter 57.

** And then Chapter 102. [[Mind Fuck]] much?

* [[Wham! Line]]: ''Twice'' in the same chapter.

* [[Write Who You Know]]: John, obviously.

** It's starting to become subverted as [[Word of God]] has mentioned numerous times that fiction John and author John have become so different that it's like writing a whole other character.