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** 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 the 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.
* [[Dump Stat]]: For your Demonica, Magic. You'd expect it to influence how powerful your Gun skills are, seeing as Gun skills are basically your suit's version of magic spells, but that's actually the domain of the ''Strength'' stat. Magic instead influences how powerful your attack items are, which don't come very often and thus can fall into [[Too Awesome to Use]] territory easily, while MP can be recharged onboard the ''Red Sprite'' and at healing stations in the field for a small fee.
** At higher levels, your dump stat becomes Agility for a number of reasons. Since your character's damage output is limited by his inability to use magic or skills, it is often the demons that will be pulling the weight of the party around, meaning that his primary use becomes the item caddy (where every item has a maximum stock of 99). Since items have turn priority, it doesn't matter how slow he is, he will still go first. Since a missed attack is more or less just a missed attack, the main character has no reason to invest in accuracy unless he really wants to be an active participant for damage. The last and probably the most important reason is that with the way armor works, it is entirely possible to have your character take next to no damage from attacks simply by stacking magic and vitality. By the end of the game, the only stats that really matter to you is Magic (magic defense), vitality (physical defense and HP) and Luck (survival).
* [[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:
** [[Negative Space Wedgie]]: An exponentially-increasing quantum gate thinger...
** [[Ironic Hell]]: and [[Halo|a monument to all your sins]].
* [[Encounter Bait]]/[[Encounter Repellant]]: Both abilities exist as sub-apps in the Demonica, each with two levels of effectiveness: Enemy Welcome and Enemy Challenge for the former, and Enemy Begone and Enemy Lullaby for the latter. After beating the game once, you also unlock Red Carpet, which turns off random encounters entirely. ''Redux'' adds Enemy Banish, obtainable very early by completing an EX Mission in the Womb of Grief, and can be obtained on the first playthrough. This app prevents encounters with enemies a certain number of levels below you, making it functionally identical to Red Carpet if you grind enough.
* [[End of the World Special]]: {{spoiler|Subverted in the Neutral ending: you have Arthur destroy the Schwarzwelt instead. Played straight in the other endings: you throw the Cosmic Eggs into the Vanishing Point and create a world of Law/Chaos}}.
* [[Enemy-Detecting Radar]]: The Demonica HUD includes a moving bar at the top of your field of vision: [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|blue for standard situations, yellow for "alert: demons nearby", and red for "attack is imminent"]].
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*** {{spoiler|Eridanus actually is symbolic in that it represents how some demons like Ouroboros Maia see the new world would be like: a perfect garden where science and nature coexist without humans around to trample it}}.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: {{spoiler|Jack Squad. They even use pitch black Demonicas in contrast to the Team's golden ones}}.
* [[Evil Makeover]]: Arguable on the "evil" part, but par for the course amongst ''Shin Megami Tensei'' games. A couple of times, you see an important character leave behind their humanity, and they gain a radically new appearance which is simultaneously badass and off-putting.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Dopplegangers, true to their name, are nothing more than [[Slasher Smile|grinning]] shadows of the protagonist.
* [[Expy]]:
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** 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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** [[The Smart Guy]]: Arthur.
** [[The Chick]]: Zelenin.
* [[Five-Token Band]]:
* [[For Science!]]:
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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"}}.
* [[From Bad to Worse]]: How the Schwarzwelt expedition kicks off. And how it continues afterwards.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: '''DEMO'''untable '''N'''ext '''I'''ntegrated '''C'''apability '''A'''rmor.
* [[Fusion Dance]]:
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** {{spoiler|Jimenez does one with Bugaboo to save its life}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Future Badass]]}}: {{spoiler|''The Protagonist''}} in the conclusion of the {{spoiler|Madness of Yggdrasil}} EX Mission.
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