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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Skye in ''DS Cute'' was created primarily so that there'd be a "special" marriage candidate for the girl versions, and he's extremely hard to find and talk to. Oh, he's also a [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|bad boy]] [[Bishonen|bishie.]] Is it any surprise, then, that he's become one of the most popular boys in the series?

** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4196348/1/Skye_Must_Die This FanFiction]'' plays up and parodies this quite sufficiently.

** Other games have them as well, but with the exception of Skye, most are NPCs you can't marry. Examples include Flora (AWL version), Pastor Carter (More Friends version), Alisa (Island of Happiness), Marian (Grand Bazaar) and Eileen (Two Towns). ''Sunshine Islands'' even trolls you by giving Alisa heart events like a marriageable girl, but [[Married to ~~The~~ Job|having her turn you down.]] {{spoiler|It looks like you ''can'' marry her in ''A Tale of Two Towns'', though. But since she is a priestess, no child!(Something that Lara from Frontier does opposite.)}}

** Other games have them as well, but with the exception of Skye, most are NPCs you can't marry. Examples include Flora (AWL version), Pastor Carter (More Friends version), Alisa (Island of Happiness), Marian (Grand Bazaar) and Eileen (Two Towns). ''Sunshine Islands'' even trolls you by giving Alisa heart events like a marriageable girl, but [[Married to the Job|having her turn you down.]] {{spoiler|It looks like you ''can'' marry her in ''A Tale of Two Towns'', though. But since she is a priestess, no child!(Something that Lara from Frontier does opposite.)}}

** Wizard from ''Animal Parade'' certainly seems to be one of the most popular bachelors with the fandom along with [[Tsundere|Gill]], [[Deadpan Snarker|Chase]] and [[The Fool|Luke]].

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: A common thing in dating sims but... The best way to befriend somebody or have them fall in love with you is to shower them with gifts.

** Sort of justified, though. Everyone lives in a community were most everyone specializes in one type of product. Stands to reason that the best thing you could do for a person is provide them with foods or materials they don't have.

*** Which still doesn't explain why Rick and Popuri, who own a ''chicken ranch,'' are most easily wooed with ''eggs.''

* [[Fan Preferred Couple]]: It has recently started to pop up often, when before fans tended to be spread evenly through the bachelors and bachelorettes. Pony x Marlin, Pony x Skye, Tina x Jamie, Chelsea x Vaughn, Angela x Gill, Molly x Chase, and female-Twin-Villages-protagonist x Kamil.

* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: It has recently started to pop up often, when before fans tended to be spread evenly through the bachelors and bachelorettes. Pony x Marlin, Pony x Skye, Tina x Jamie, Chelsea x Vaughn, Angela x Gill, Molly x Chase, and female-Twin-Villages-protagonist x Kamil.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: In the first two DS games, Thomas mentions a Mineral Town farmer. Now who could that be? It's ''your psuedo gender character''. Claire or Jill for Pete, and Pete for the girls.

** In DS and Cute, "Karen" lacks her signature blond bangs. Why exactly? Well, Karen with her blond bangs is a direct decedent of the blond Eve from SNES. In DS-Cute it's ''that'' Karen's descendant, so the blond has probably been knocked out of her genes or isn't main like with the other.

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* [[Mis Blamed]]: A lot of people mistake Natsume as being the makers of the games, when in reality they are only translators for the America's. Thus errors and glitches in gameplay that aren't related to Natsume (such as the mailbox being locked in a lot of games) are often [[Mis Blamed]] at Natsume.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: When your animal dies in the Wonderful Life series.

* [[The Scrappy]]: In Tree of Tranquility/Animal Parade, [[Token Mini-Moe|Luna]] and [[Attention Whore|Selena]] are not well liked by the fandom. Doesn't help that they can marry two of the most popular guys in the series but the former gets more flak mainly because Gil (who as shown above is part of the [[Fan Preferred Couple]] with the female protagonist and somewhat of an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] and his rivalry scenes with Luna have her act very immature to Gill's calm nature. Doesn't help that if the player tells Luna that she likes Gill, she'll act like a complete bitch to you by saying, "I'm prettier than you." Not something you say to the player that can decide your fate and make you single because of it.

* [[The Scrappy]]: In Tree of Tranquility/Animal Parade, [[Token Mini-Moe|Luna]] and [[Attention Whore|Selena]] are not well liked by the fandom. Doesn't help that they can marry two of the most popular guys in the series but the former gets more flak mainly because Gil (who as shown above is part of the [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] with the female protagonist and somewhat of an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] and his rivalry scenes with Luna have her act very immature to Gill's calm nature. Doesn't help that if the player tells Luna that she likes Gill, she'll act like a complete bitch to you by saying, "I'm prettier than you." Not something you say to the player that can decide your fate and make you single because of it.

** However, almost ALL of the bachelorettes act pretty catty when the player discourages them from confessing. They're really just hated because they marry the most popular guys in the game, similar to Sabrina from [[Io H]].

* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: Seem to pop up with regularity in the DS games, including the cooking mechanics in [IoH/SI], the animal mini-games in DS/DS Cute, the storage system in Grand Bazaar and the farm expansion and tool upgrade systems in Two Towns.

* [[Shipping]]: The fandom is completely devoted to this aspect of the series, and we ain't talkin' about what you do with your crops. Makes a certainly amount of sense, since the games are practically half [[Dating Sim]] anyway.

* [[Strangled By the Red String]]: ''A[nother] Wonderful Life'' will simply throw you at the character with the highest affection when the time comes, and hit you with a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] if you balk. In other games, there's frequently little to nothing stopping you from marrying girls the moment you get their affection high enough, which means they'll [[Fourth Date Marriage|agree to marry you even if that's really the first they've heard of your feelings for them.]]

* [[Strangled by the Red String]]: ''A[nother] Wonderful Life'' will simply throw you at the character with the highest affection when the time comes, and hit you with a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] if you balk. In other games, there's frequently little to nothing stopping you from marrying girls the moment you get their affection high enough, which means they'll [[Fourth Date Marriage|agree to marry you even if that's really the first they've heard of your feelings for them.]]

** The latter point is especially [[Egregious]] in ''Grand Bazaar'', where the dialogue of the marriage candidates doesn't change at all until after you get married.

** It's better in ''Animal Parade,'' though. As you build up hearts with a marriage candidate, they actually ''woo you back,'' giving you gifts, sending you love letters, and even going on dates with you!

** In the [[Game Boy]] games you can only marry your farm hand.

* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: Maya. "Oooh, a birthday prezzie? Thanksies! [[Say It ~~With~~ Hearts|<3]]"

* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: Maya. "Oooh, a birthday prezzie? Thanksies! [[Say It with Hearts|<3]]"

* [[Tear Jerker]]: In A Wonderful Life, it's unavoidable. No matter what girl you pick to marry, the other two will have sad lives. Muffy remains a single waitress all her life and will occasionally be seen on the beach at night crying about losing her beauty and never getting a chance to have a child. Celia grows into an angry bitter man-hater who seems to give Marlin hell at the farm. And Nami runs out of money and tearfully has to leave town to live with her deadbeat dad, and years later when she returns she spends all her time drinking herself into a stupor.

* [[That One Sidequest]]: DS' Fourth Mine. So very much...