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* [[Badass]]: ''Plenty'' of examples.
** If you didn't read the above [[Annoying Arrows]] example with Lyle (SFI), then let this statement be an example: Once you put [[Big Badass Wolf|Zylo]] onto your team, chances are you will ''[[Lightning Bruiser|never]]'' remove him.
* [[Bare
* [[Battle Couple]]: The birdman Amon and her husband Balbaroy, from the first game; Janet and Elric, two elven archers, in the second game.
* [[Beef Gate]]: The Kraken of Shining Force II, whom can be challenged once the player receives the raft, but is best fought when the the player is ''required to'' fight it to advance. Also counts as [[That One Boss]] for some players, as it is one of the hardest bosses in the game.
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* [[Chess Motifs]]: A battle in ''Shining Force II'' takes place on a chess board. The pieces move like regular enemies though.
* [[Cognizant Limbs]]: The Kraken boss in ''Shining Force II'' and ''Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict''.
* [[Combat Medic]]: The [[Bare
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: In ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'', see above.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Yes, it's a turn-based game, but the turns seem to be given at random, and it's not uncommon for an ememy to get two turns to kill your character in peril before that character gets one turn to move away or heal themselves. And in boss battles, the boss can get as many as three turns before you even get one, just enough to kill a character who before was at full health.
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* [[Clown Car Base]]: The tank that the Shining Force is kept in, in ''Shining Force II''.
* [[Crutch Character]]: Kiwi in ''Shining Force II'', who can also be [[Lost Forever]]. Although his defense is stellar right from the start, making him a useful [[Meat Shield]] if nothing else, defense has no effect on magic, and his [[Hit Point]] gains are always tiny, making him increasingly useless despite the ability (once promoted) to fly and breathe fire.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Usually not the case; "Dark" or "Evil" items are generally [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|cursed and damage their user]] in exchange for their awesome power, but when part of a [[Yin
* [[Death Seeker]]: Lemon from ''Shining Force II''. However, it later turns out he's [[Our Vampires Are Different|half-vampire]], and can't end his own life by conventional means.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: The whole story of Blanc Neige in ''Shining Tears''. And, no, [[An Ice Person|Her ice powers didn't defrost]].
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* [[Doomed Hometown]]: The destruction of the first Granseal palace and town in SFII.
* [[Downer Ending]]: [[Subverted Trope]], the ending of the first Force game, where {{spoiler|Max is sunk under the water with the Chaos Breaker while a majority of the remaining of the force is [[Teleporters and Transporters|Egressed]] out scot-free,}} it is rather convincing until {{spoiler|you watch the cut scene after the credits, showing Max and Adam and alive and well}}.
** Still a bit of a downer though, because {{spoiler|[[What the Hell, Hero?|Max has for some reason chosen to let his friends who care for him dearly and mourned him at the end of the game believe that he is dead when he isn't]].}}
*** However he {{spoiler|is a playable character in Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict}}.
* [[Dronejam]]
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* [[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 Episode New Character|shows up in the confrontation with the]] [[Final Boss]]. The only thing that can break the invincibility seal on the boss is the titular sword, and he is the only one who can use it to its full extent. And if [[That One Boss|Iom]] happens to kill Nick before he gets a chance to use his sword, which in this battle ''can'' easily happen, you'll have to start all over again because it becomes [[Unwinnable]].
* [[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.
* [[Flunky Boss]]: Pretty much every boss in the games is this.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Archers and birdmen, the latter of whom [[Captain Obvious|can fly]]. Also Slade in ''SFII''.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
* [[Furry Confusion]]: Shining Force II has an anthropomorphic rat character named Slade, and later in the game there is a boss that is a real rat.
* [[Game Mod]]: For starters there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVf6Hdni7g Shining Force 2 CD-I], a fan-made [[Youtube Poop]]-themed mod where the characters are replaced by characters from [[The Legend of Zelda CDi Games]] and [[Hotel Mario (Video Game)|Hotel Mario]].
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* [[Glass Cannon]]: Mages/Wizards, archers, and occasionally certain centaurs.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Recruiting the more obscure characters can get silly sometimes, but the first game takes the crown: the ninja Hanzo is hiding in one of the game's towns disguised as a bush, and will join if you inspect his leafy disguise. In the US version, there's {{spoiler|a piece of paper on the bush to make it stand out}}. In the Japanese edition, he looks like ''every other bush in the game'', none of which have anything to gain by examining them.
* [[Half
* [[Headless Horseman]]: In the first game, Dullahans are headless ''centaur'' knights that you start to encounter from the march to Dragonia onwards.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Jaro (if you don't attack him) and Lemon in ''SF II'', and Graham in ''SFG II''. Also {{spoiler|takes on an NPC role through Kane}} in the original ''Shining Force''.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Max in ''Shining Force I''. In the remake, he's "upgraded" to [[Laser
* [[Hero Must Survive]]: Central to every game. You are given a hero character who acts as the leader of the force. If they die, you lose and are sent back to the last priest.
* [[Hidden Elf Village|Hidden Dwarf Village]]
* [[Hobbits]]: Halflings are a common race, typified by Lowe from the first game.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Hanzo in the first game, {{spoiler|Slade}} in the second once promoted.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: It's implied Mae has a thing for Max in the first game. Mae is a centaur.
* [[
* [[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.
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** The first game for the Sega Genesis has this in spades, due to the game being very linear with little backtracking. If you missed recruiting a character or performing the steps you need to for them to show up later, you've lost them for good. Thirteen out of the thirty characters in the game are optional and while most of them are hard to miss, on a first play-through the player will have no idea that they've screwed up and missed out on some of the more useful and powerful force members until long after the fact.
* [[Lost Technology]]: All over the place.
* [[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.}}
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* [[Name of Cain]]: Kane in the first game.
* [[Non Linear Sequel]]: Shining Force II to the first Shining Force game, barring a single reference to Max and Guardiana. The Game Gear games however avert this and continue the story of the first game, with Anri as queen of Guardiana.
* [[One
* [[One Man Party]]: The flipside to [[Anti Grinding]] -- your heaviest hitters are going to hit the level plateau really quickly, and your support characters... aren't.
** 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.
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** Also, the rat boss in ''SFII'' is named [[Willard]].
* [[The Something Force]]
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Happened in ''Shining Wisdom'', because Sega (who had most Shining games) had the license to use the names but the game was licensed by [[Working Designs]], who had to rename everything that appeared in another game; for instance, Parmecia became Palacia.
** Also Luke/Lug, Kyantol/Cantaur...
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: [[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]].
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** The Oddball: Mishaela
** [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Darksol
* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: ''SFII's'' ending shows {{spoiler|Bowie using a [[True
* [[Steampunk]]
* [[The Strategist]]: Nova in ''SFI'', Sir Astral in ''SFII'', Lowe in ''SFG'', and Mayfair in ''SFG II'' (the last two were playable characters before becoming advisors to a different Shining Force team).
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* [[The Vicar]]: The promoted class of healers in most games.
* [[We Cannot Go On Without You]]: losing Max at any point forces you to restart from the last save point. This is quite odd, in that it's the case in every battle, even when he has ''no apparent importance whatsoever''. [[Because Destiny Says So]] indeed.
* [[White
* [[White Magician Girl]]: Most of the games have at least one of these, a female healer who usually (unless promoted to master monk) has no real offensive power besides maybe a Blast spell.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Elliott from the original, and {{spoiler|1=arguably OddEye}} in SFII.
* [[Yin
** The Jewels of Light and Evil in SFII, though they have no effect on gameplay. The Shining Force swords in ''EXA'' also have a similar effect.
* [[You Dirty Rat]]: Slade the Rat is the cause of everything that goes wrong in SFII. Though it is mentioned that he was more of a Robin Hood-type [[Loveable Rogue]] who [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|simply had no idea what he was unleashing]] when he stole the jewels of Light and Evil. He does later join the Shining Force and redeem himself.
** Redeem himself? He becomes one of the best members of the force, barring [[The Hero|Bowie]] and [[Game Breaker|Peter]]. He's also the only member, when promoted, to be able to [[One Hit KO|slice things in two]] without damage rolls (except a boss) if he lands a critical. {{spoiler|Guess that's what [[Took a Level In Badass|being promoted from a thief to a ninja]] does for you!}}
* [[Your Mom]]: In ''Shining Wisdom'': "Your mama's so ugly she looks out the window and gets arrested for moonin'!"
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