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** [[Sequel Gap|It's coming...]]
* [[Badass]]: Ryo, Ren and Lan Di most prominently. Xiuying likewise, though she's not one to flaunt her badassery.
* [[Badass Biker]]: Ryo, when he dashes to the harbor on his friend's motorcycle after Nozomi is kidnapped.
* [[Battle Butler]]
* [[Betting Minigame]]: Would you like to play a game of Lucky Hit?!
* [[Bottomless Bladder]]: You follow Ryo pretty much every minute of every day, and he never hits the bathroom, even if you spend every yen he has on pop machines.
* [[Bumbling Sidekick]]: Fuku-san, God bless his dumb little heart.
* [[Chaste Hero]]: You can practically hear the stuck clockwork in Ryo's head anytime an attractive girl hits on him.
* [[Cool Old Lady]]
* [[Cosmic Keystone]]: Apparently there are two mirrors, the ''Dragon Mirror'' and the ''Phoenix Mirror'', which, when together, grant their holder unbelievable power.
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Nozomi near the end of Chapter 1.
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* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]
* [[Lady of War]]: Xiuying could be a poster girl for this trope. She effortlessly avoids Ryo's attacks, then puts him in his place with a bare minimum of force... all while wearing a stunningly elegant [[Chinese Dress]].
* [[Mobstacle Course]]: Many QTE chases have you dodging around civilians in order to catch up.
* [[Non-Lethal KO]]: Ryo has yet to definitvely kill any of his opponents, and the only way for him to die in the first game is via the [[Nonstandard Game Over]] mentioned below. There are, however, several QTEs and one free battle in ''Shenmue II'' that can indeed be fatal to Ryo even if [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist|the game just lets you take as many Mulligans as you have to]].
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: You have until April 14th to finish the first game. When April 15th rolls around, {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Lan Di reappears in the dojo and kills Ryo [[Call Back|the same way he killed Ryo's father]]}}.
** Similarly, failing to progress to the next chapter in the second game in a reasonable amount of time would result in a game over as Lan Di's trail went cold.
* [[Old Master]]: Several, in fact.
* [[Present Day Past]]: The game puts you between the end of 1986 and the start of 1987; however, you will find Sega-themed trappings from the early and mid-90s pretty frequently (the Sega Saturn, ''Virtua Fighter'', ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' and others).
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: One of the earliest to make use of the QTEs, and a good user on that. In fact, you could say that ''Shenmue'' is ''The Godfather'' of the mid cutscene QTE (It even coined the actual term!).
** And yet, in ''Shenmue II'', it managed to sneak in a subversion; when learning the Wude principle of Dan, {{spoiler|DO NOT press A}}.
* [[Real Place Background]]: Yokosuka is filled with the memories Yu Suzuki had when he was living there.
* [[Role Reprisal]]: [[Masaya Matsukaze]] returns as Ryo for the third installment. Corey Marshall, who voiced Ryo in the English dub, has also been confirmed to reprise his role for the third game.
* [[Run, Don't Walk]]
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* [[Stout Strength]]: Dou Niu, Lan Di's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] in ''Shenmue II''.
* [[Stupidity Is the Only Option]]
* [[Talk to Everyone]]: The game cannot further emphasize the importance of interacting with the world: in this game, the NPCs have a lot of things to say, and these things themselves change as the plot moves on too. Plus, some characters like the hilarious Goro, Tom the hot dog stand vendor and the cute Nozomi are quite pleasant to chat with!
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Dou Niu's knowledge of martial arts is basically limited to just slamming his fists into his victims. He makes up for it by being built like a Gorilla.
* [[Wax On, Wax Off]]: Ryo learns techniques from a myriad of masters, but almost none in the game actually simply give him straightforward lessons.
* [[What Are You Looking At?]]: ''Shenmue'' is very guilty of this, having people that stare at walls for no apparent reason.
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: ''Shenmue'' was possibly the first 3D sandbox game, to the point that Sega gave it its own genre
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