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* [[Abandoned By the Cavalry|Abandoned By The Dragon Cavalry]]:
* [[Action Mom]]: Kisara.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The manga, due to not being as bound to the prince's POV, involves a lot more exploration of the characters. Amongst other things it follows the point of view of the Godwins {{spoiler|during their coup d'etat, including Lord Godwin considering his uprising [[Dirty Business]] and especially employing his wife's murderers
* [[Affably Evil]]: Gizel Godwin. Bahram Luger and Dilber Novum could count if their "evilness" wasn't... debatable.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Bahram Luger, Dilber Novum, Sialeeds ([[Fake Defector|although whether she qualifies as a villain is debatable)]] and Gizel Godwin
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Roy is in love with Lyon, while Faylen pines over him, while Lyon has feelings for her charge the Prince. Whether or not any of it gets resolved is all up to the ending the player gets.
* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: Randomly acquired potted plants and paintings gotten from [[Impossible Item Drop|enemies]] can be used to decorate sections of your castle.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Bahram Luger didn't want bloodshed, and most certainly didn't want to fight his old mentor Raja. A shame he was too damn loyal to defect.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Well, just about
* [[Atonement Detective]]:
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Childerich
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]:
** The prince plays it a bit straighter, being among the best fighters in the game who surpasses some of his elite bodyguards, both in and out of cutscenes, even though nothing was ever expected of him, combat-related or otherwise. Then again, [[Badass Family|his whole paternal family tree seems to be like that]]. Some funny lines are spoken by opponents who learn this the hard way. Something along the lines of "I thought this guy was supposed to be a pushover!".
** Subverted with Gizel Godwin who, though not incompetent, has just average skills regardless of his rank.
* [[Badass]]: The beavers look ridiculous, cute and cuddly, which is probably the reason why the bad guys completely underestimate their importance in the river-covered Falena. Not only do the beavers have such good dam-building ability that they can transform the land through river-rerouting, but they make terrifying naval shocktroopers, since they can swim out to enemy ships and bite holes in their hulls.
** They're also quite good in normal battles. They're faster than hell, multi-hit a LOT, 3 out of 5 of them are great magicians, all but one have the HP-restoring Bath skill, and the 5 of them have a powerful [[Combination Attack]] that either instantly kills the target or just deals a crapload of damage.
** To put their naval capabilities in perspective, the battle system has a rock-paper-scissors type of unit balancing, so one type of boat is stronger than one other type, but weaker to the other. Beaver units are [[Game Breaker|strong against all types]]. In fact, just keep a healing unit handy, and you can pretty much solo any water-terrain encounters with them.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]:
** Raja, the retired navy admiral, is still the best at her job and proves it by thoroughly crushing her ex-disciples in open combat.
** He doesn't get to do much on screen, but Skald Egan certainly has a reputation for being exactly this. From what you can see of his descendants, [[Badass Family|it's hereditary]].
* [[
* [[Bare-Fisted Monk]]: Nikea, Shoon.
* [[Base on Wheels]]: Raftfleet is a town made of interconnected boats. Since Falena is full of rivers, they are effectively a mobile town, and you find them in different places throughout the game.
* [[The Battle Didn't Count]]: If you do win the not-quite [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] at the start against {{spoiler|Childerich and Dolph}}, they just get up completely unharmed.
* [[Big Eater]]: Nikea; she goes around entering tournaments just to support her appetite.
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The members of the Falenan royal family ''you get to see'' are all very nice people. You don't get to see the others because they are all dead, thanks to struggle for power that gave the resident [[Murder, Inc.]] plenty of jobs from all sides. Several NPCs repeatedly note how remarkably morally upstanding Arshtat and Sialeeds are compared to her predecessors.
* [[Bishounen]]: The Prince, Rahal
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Shigure. {{spoiler|Given the trend, he may have [[Monochromatic Eyes]] behind that mop of hair
* [[Bodyguard Betrayal]]: Georg is accused of this; straighter examples are
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Lyon towards the Prince.
** In an [[Furo Scene|optional scene]], Dinn assumes that Isato and Mathias feel the same way toward their charges.
*** Mathias looks like a straight example at first, as he is from Warrior's Village, and the men of that village are famous for naming their signature weapon after the person they care about the most, and his weapon is named Isabel. Of course, that doesn't mean he loves her 'romantically', only that he has dedicated himself to her service above all else.
** There's also Lelei's [[Les Yay|crush on her "Lady," Lucretia Merces]]. If you have Oboro dig into her past, he comes up with the following:
{{quote|'''Oboro''': "Lelei used to be a guard at Agate Prison, but she fell for Lucretia's pretty -- I MEAN, she was concerned about Lucretia, as she came with her. Now she's kind of Lucretia's... assistant."}}
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Several. Ferid initially comes off as the type, but resident [[The Big Guy|big guy]] Boz Wilde takes up the part for most of the game.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Part of Richard's backstory. His father was an abusive son of a bitch, up until Mueller killed him and all but adopted the boy.
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* [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]]: Sisterhood, in this case. Nifsara and Linfa form a secret society dedicated to protecting pretty boys: the Secret Alliance for the Protection of Pretty Hunks in Real Endangerment ([[Fun with Acronyms|SAPPHIRE]]). Their motto is: "To observe! To protect! To observe some more!"
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Averted in several places, leading to [[Nonstandard Game Over]]s in most instances.
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: Belcoot, of all people. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Sialeeds and Georg that they wonder if the guy is REALLY from Kanakan, a place well known for its liquor. {{spoiler|He's not. He's actually a native Falenan, who escaped slavery and then was trained to become a master swordsman in Kanakan
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** Mathias usually finishes sentences about your enemies by describing how he will exact final retribution to said enemy and cast their loathsome corpse into nearby swamps, bogs, rivers or other bodies of water. It's almost a [[Running Gag]].
** Shigure's is "what a pain...".
** Who can forget Richard reciting Mueller's name as a full sentence?
* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: Those sluice gates have more than one use.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The sewers of Stormfist.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lucretia Merces. In every conceivable way. She's pretty much an [[Expy]] of [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms (novel)|Zhuge Liang]].
* [[Chick Magnet]]: The Prince of Falena.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]:
** Gavaya: he isn't really all that much of a pervert either, though he comes off as creepy due to his borderline [[Gonk]] status.
** Kyle displays interest on mostly everything resembling a female. Whether his chivalrous side depends entirely on his own conscience or is partly due to the fact that he's usually too busy/somewhere else when you get to meet women is up for debate.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Miakis, although she becomes more serious later and fits the [[Genki Girl]] archetype more.
* [[Cool Boat]]/[[Base on Wheels]]: Raftfleet is basically a floating city formed from various individual ships that lash themselves together whenever they make port. It changes location several times throughout the game.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Galleon, Bahram, Dilber.
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Raja.
* [[Crutch Character]]:
** Georg. He differs from the usual Crutch in that he remains a [[Game Breaker]] throughout the entire game (which is why he gets [[Put on a Bus]] until late in the game, whereupon he's still overpowered, but not ludicrously so). Physically, at least. His defense against magic is severely lacking.
** Sialeeds starts out as powerful long-ranged fighter and mage and thus qualifies, with only one rune slot and irremovable Wind Rune. {{spoiler|Possibly a subtle way to discourage the player from being too dependent on her, so her [[Face Heel Turn]] later in the game won't cripple your party}}.
* [[Cue the Sun]]: Which can actually be used as an attack.
* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Lucretia.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Sialeeds is pretty good at this, as is Shigure. Miakis, meanwhile, is more of a [[Genki Girl|Genki]] [[Deadpan Snarker|Snarker]].
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: {{spoiler|If [[Mysterious Waif|Eresh]] gets killed in a war battle, Jeane sends the Prince a letter implying that she will eventually get better. The player will still be prevented from getting the best ending though
* [[Determinator]]: Nakula.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: {{spoiler|[[Wholesome Crossdresser|Rahal, whos's indistinguishable from his sister when in drag]]. Even Roog admits that [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|he COULD get distracted
* [[Dragon Rider]]: The Feitas Dragon Cavalry.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Mueller will smack his subordinates upside the head with an iron rod if they screw around. Richard sees him as more of a [[Sergeant Rock]].
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: The Prince himself. He looks feminine no matter how he dresses, but the costume with no sleeves, long gloves, some kind of kilt and tights doesn't help.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Zerase; one of the bath scenes revolves around this.
* [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Guy]]: Dolph. {{spoiler|Subverted when it turns out that he is a [[Blood Knight]] whose cannot emote due to the drugs he uses to increase his power
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Lady Sialeeds after her
* [[Expy]]:
** Lucretica Merces is basically a hot female [[Dark-Skinned Blond|Karayan]] version of Zhuge Liang.
** Childerich is not at all suppposed to remind us of [[Suikoden II|Luca Blight]].
** Shoon looks a little like a [[Saint Seiya|Seiya]].
** Shigure channels [[Naruto|Shikamaru]] just a bit...
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Worn by Georg Prime.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Roy. {{spoiler|It's the main way of telling him apart from the Prince when he's in costume
** And even then, only Lyon {{spoiler|can tell them apart}}. How curious.
*** Possibly because {{spoiler|Lyon has spent very long time with Prince, so she may be able to distinguish them through other subtler features}}.
*** Problem is, different eye color is a pretty blatant sign, yet still ''somehow'' overlooked by even {{spoiler|his ''aunt'', Sialeeds}}. Justified if {{spoiler|Roy uses contact lenses}}... which is very much unlikely.
** Actually, he only has yellow eyes in that one cut scene,
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The elves of Alseid hate "barbarous humans" and say "[[Hidden Elf Village|screw the world]]"; the Beavers of Beaver Lodge don't mind humans, but are kind of "[[Apathetic Citizens|eeeeh...]]" about getting involved in the whole war thing;
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: There are magic runes, talking animals, dragons, dwarves, elves, etc, in Falena.
* [[Fishing Minigame]]: Run by Subala, who turns it into a four-way contest between the Prince, herself, Logg and Lun. Complete with [[Trash Talk]]ing and boat-ramming
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: The Godwins.
** [[Big Bad]]: Marscal Godwin.
** [[The Dragon]]: Dolph.
** [[Evil Genius|The Evil Genius]]: Gizel Godwin.
** [[The Brute]]: Childerich, although most of the Godwin generals have elements of this as well.
** [[The Dark Chick]]:
* [[Five-Man Band]]: The party with the [[Combination Attack]] Falena's Finest.
** [[The Hero]]: The Prince.
** [[The Lancer]]: Lyon and Miakis.
** [[The Big Guy]]: Kyle.
** [[The Mentor]]: Galleon.
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Georg.
* [[Foil]]: The Prince and Lyon are complementary to each other, representing "Dawn" (the Prince) and "Twilight" (Lyon). This ties in with the game's sun motif.
* [[For Great Justice]]: The [[Knight in Shining Armor|Maximillian Knights']] one and only raison d'être. Their philosophy shows them to have [[Hidden Depths]], however, as they consider their killing of evildoers as a crime in itself.
* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Cathari.
* [[Furo Scene]]: Taking the right people into the baths triggers [[Subtext]]-laden scenes, for all your [[Ho Yay]]
* [[The Gadfly]]: Miakis, who, among many other things, tries to get the Prince to ruin Lym's wedding reception.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Gizel Godwin's preferred method of scheming: he sets multiple plans in motion and just sits back to see what takes root. At one point, his father warns him about this kind of reckless behaviour, pointing out that his failed plans have only stoked dissent against him and advising him to be more conservative and careful in his machinations. {{spoiler|Gizel ignores this advice even after seizing the queendom, which only helps the Prince find allies}}.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]:
*
** Gizel actually prefers this sort of plot, comparing it to throwing a bunch of seeds onto a field and seeing what bears fruit. It's lampshaded by his father, who tells him to intrigue decisively, if he's going to do so at all. {{spoiler|Worth noting that his machinations during the Sacred Games were indirectly responsible for allowing the Prince to escape during the Coup. It also sows the seeds to make him a [[Badass]]}}.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: The potentially profound tactical advantage of having Viki, a character capable of teleporting people instantly to anywhere in the country, is never explored.
** On the other hand, Sialeeds, a Wind Rune user, does make use of her power to make a boat fly over the water faster. Usually only when she's not in your party
** For Viki, she has stated that she can only teleport you to a location you have been to before, and only if there are no hostiles in the area (the latter seemingly a gameplay-based restriction
** The Prince acquires the spell "First Light" as part of a side quest to heal Lyon. That spell can be used in battle.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Nikea. There's also Lu, who can't seem to speak without using nicknames and sound effects.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Zerase is a bit of a bitch in the early parts of the game.
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
** Oboro can be a big offender here, along with {{spoiler|Sagiri and Nakula}}, among others.
** Other big examples would be Cornelio, who has a VERY brief window of opportunity to be recruited (with no build-up to him at all, and no indication of when you're able to get him), and practically everyone in Lunas, as even getting back in requires one obscure support character that few people would ever use otherwise (who in fact might be considered a [[Guide Dang It]] himself).
** And Josephine, who you can either recruit very early in the game or really, really late
** Not to mention Egbert. You have to endure an extremely long speech from him at the lowest text scroll speed. {{spoiler|If you press X even once during the speech (the button that would usually let you skip the text), then he will refuse to join until you leave the cave and try again. This is not even hinted at
* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: [[Lampshaded]] when a member of the Howling Voice Guild—and the game's only gun wielder—explains that rifles are inferior to the bow-and-arrow because of the cost, difficulty to manufacture and reduced accuracy: however, they ''are'' useful as an intimidation tactic. She then zizags this trope: in the very same scene where the rifle user explains the limitations of rifles, she then adds that those who are aware of their limitations can work around them, and everyone who are given rifles ''knows''. Leaving one arrogant elf and a certain lady samurai very upset that they'd just been toyed with.
* [[Happily Married]]: A few examples, but most notably Arshtat and Ferid.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Interestingly, the Prince has one (despite his [[Heroic Mime]] status). He goes through a large amount of trauma throughout the story, but he finally cracks {{spoiler|after the events of The New Queen's Campaign: Sialeeds betrays him, and Lyon nearly dies from a stab wound
* [[Heroic Mime]]: The Prince. There was one sequence where it seemed that this is averted, but it's
* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Georg. {{spoiler|He eventually leaves the country due to it}}.
* [[
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]:
*
** [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] via Raven, a loud, obnoxious thief, who dresses like a ninja and
* [[The High Queen]]: Queen Arshtat of the Queendom of Falena fits this trope rather well, at least while at court, and ''especially'' while being influenced by the Sun Rune.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Poor Gavaya.
* [[Hope Spot]]: The entirety of the Sacred Games is full of these. {{spoiler|Hey, the Godwins rescue you from certain death by shipwreck! They might not be plotting against the Queen after all! Well, actually, yes they are, as shown by a cutscene. But wait, they still have to win the Sacred Games to put their plan into action, and the Barrows family gladiator is a much better fighter than theirs! Nope, the Godwins frame said gladiator as being an Armes spy and get him disqualified. But wait, a
* [[Hot-Blooded]]:
{{quote|'''Boz Wilde:''' Sometimes justice is just a pretty word, other times it's three feet of steel to the face.}}
* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Arshtat, oh yeah, Arshtat.
** Who is married to [[Hot Shoujo Dad]] Ferid.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: A massive one gets trotted out for
** There's also
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Loads of 'em.
** Most notably Viki, whose staff is supposed to be her weapon, yet she attacks by... randomly teleporting and dropping stuff on the enemy.
** A curious example is the Prince himself, who uses a slightly-too-thick but otherwise real three-section staff... except for the fact that its middle section is somehow split in two for easier carrying. The method of assembling displayed in the artbook makes one wonder just how skilled the Prince is to be able to pull it out and piece it together in a single motion every battle. Not to mention his skills in turning it into a staff and back at a moment's notice.
* [[Incest Subtext]]: Miakis tells Lym that if the Prince wins, she'll have to marry him. Miakis has a really wild sense of humor. Then Lym attacks the Prince for winning his ''ceremonial'' match, out of fear that they'll have to marry. Third, in the best ending, the prince {{spoiler|becomes Commander of the Queen's Knights, a position normally reserved for the Queen's husband. Given the [[Ship Tease]] between the two earlier}}...
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Euram Barrows, until {{spoiler|his optional [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Taylor.
* [[Its Pronounced Tropay]]: The English dub wierdly pronounce Georg Prime (normally pronounced Gay-org) George.
* [[Jerkass]]: Killey. Cornelio, until you get his [[Do Re Mi]] elves back. He'll still refer to everyone else as mediocrity.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Roy, following his [[Character Development]].
* [[Killed Off for Real]]:
** Roy can end up like this, {{spoiler|if you stubbornly choose to defend your castle instead of abandoning it}}. This is not recommended, {{spoiler|because his death bars you from getting the best ending}}.
** {{spoiler|Faylon and Faylen}}, too, if you wait too long to recruit them.
** In the [[Leave Him to Me]] entry below, if the characters you choose lost the duel, they also end up like this.
* [[Killer Rabbit]]:
** A type of [[Random Encounter]] enemies that have been in the series since the first game are literally called Killer Rabbits/Bunnies, which happen to be fluffy little black rabbits... wielding throwing-axes.
** The beavers also qualify. They're half your size, furry, and wield an [[Improvised Weapon]] each, but get five of them together, and they have an attack that can cause instant death. Oh, and their troops literally eat up enemy ships. As the official guide puts it, beaver troops turn the naval component of the usual rock/paper/scissors to "Beaver smashes rock, beaver shreds paper, and beaver breaks scissors." That's a pretty accurate description.
* [[Kill Sat]]: The Sun Rune's ultimate power, once unleashed, can burn an entire county with a column of light from the sky.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Georg Prime, though he's pretty nice. He just prefers to dispense with formalities.
* [[Large Ham]]: Barring Luserina, the Barows family are deliciously hammy.
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Lymsleia, [[In-Universe]]. Partly justified by the fact that she's a princess, and her husband will sit the throne beside her, but several individuals seem to [[Lolicon|actually desire ''her'']], either in text or subtext.
* [[Leave Him to Me]]: Take the right people along when you finally face off with Childerich, you get to see what happens when several people try to claim this right all at once. Specifically, it's {{spoiler|Belcoot, Zegai and Richard -- in this order of priority -- who will make the offer; those who entered the Sacred Games}}.
* [[Lima Syndrome]]: It's implied Lelei fell for Lucretia while {{spoiler|guarding her cell}}. {{spoiler|Cius}} also qualifies, as he was a hard-lined rules lawyer, and yet {{spoiler|he broke the rules to keep Lucretia informed, and ultimately broke her out of jail}}.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: It's ''Suikoden'', after all.
* [[Lolicon]]: Euram's slavish declarations of love for Crown Princess Lymsleia, who's all of ''ten''... Sure, marrying her will net him the kingdom, but he goes a ''biiiiit'' [[Squick|over the top]]. Whether it's [[Squick|disturbing]] or [[Large Ham|funny]] is up to you.
** [[Averted]] with Gizel, however, who barely gives a polite pretense of interest in ''her''.
** Gavaya also seems creepily into Lymsleia. But he also feels that way for [[Anything That Moves|anyone else with a vagina]].
** And then there's the [[Sleep Cute]] and [[Ship Tease]] Lymsleia gets with [[Brother-Sister Incest|the Prince
* [[Lost Technology]]: Rune Cannons from ''Suikoden IV'' are now a lost art, and in fact, you blow up the last of them for being "too powerful".
* [[Magic Antidote]]:
* [[Magikarp Power]]:
* [[Mama Bear]]: You don't want to insult or threaten Arshtat's family. You ''really'' don't. On a similar but less dangerous note, don't pull anything around Sialeeds either
* [[Master Swordsman]]: Richard is called the Blade Master, and it's a justified moniker.
* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]:
* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]: Dolph has dull brown, emotionless eyes. Two other characters with similarly "flat" eyes are
* [[Monster Protection Racket]]:
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Aside from the [[108|108 Stars]] endings (and yes, there's a few variations on that!), and the not-so-good endings where the player didn't [[Guide Dang It|track everyone down]], there are several premature endings the player can stumble across.
* [[Murder, Inc.]]: Nether Gate.
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Galleon in a nutshell. He continues to work for the monarch that reduced his hometown to a desert. Dilber and Luger also suffer from this.
* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Eresh.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The alternate outfits worn by the Prince, Lyon and Kyle during certain sections of the plot are meant to invoke the outfits worn by McDohl, Cleo and Viktor in [[Suikoden I|the original game]]. You also get to go to an [[Suikoden IV|Island Nations]] city and fight a battle there with a remix of ''[[Suikoden IV]]'''s battle soundtrack. Not to mention the recurring characters.
* [[Non-Idle Rich]]:
** Luserina Barows, a girl born in a dynasty of [[Upper Class Twit]]s who lacks any of her relatives' haughtiness and actually performs the majority of the administrative business of their house.
** Sialeeds, the queen Arshtat's sister, officially tasked with [[Upper Class Wit|absolutely nothing]], served as a sort of counter-intelligence/micromanaging problem-solver for her sister, and had no problem [[Lady of War|engaging in combat herself]]. Arshtat probably intended for the prince to become this as well, until [[Call to Adventure|the plot just went and did the job for her]]. {{spoiler|[[The Call Knows Where You Live|By doing her in]]}}.
** There's also {{spoiler|Josephine, who's actually Shula's sister Yuma, who came to Haud in search of... ''culture''. Despite her questionable tastes though, she's surprisingly effective in battle, and you'll probably get a lot of mileage out of her magic skills during the early war battles}}.
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Lyon and the prince, who were brought up together as lord and bodyguard.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: {{spoiler|The jovial and seemingly scatterbrained Salum Barrows is revealed to be the mastermind of the theft of the Dawn Rune, and by extension, the Lordlake incident
** Lym is pretty sharp and has more political and people smarts than you would expect from a
** The Prince himself falls under this as well. As noted above, not many really expected the Prince to be a major player in the game's storyline
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]:
** {{spoiler|Lord Barrows}} and Skald Egan.
** Oboro's a detective who downplays his real talents... {{spoiler|and used to gather intelligence for Nether Gate}}.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Fun loving, lecherous and hammy mercenary captain Wilhelm, and his stern, dour right hand man Mueller.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Fuyo, who's all [[Puni Plush]], big pigtails and big skirts.
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** Could also be said about Georg towards the prince, Lym and Lyon.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: {{spoiler|Faylen and Faylon}} tried to pull this to impersonate {{spoiler|Lyon and Georg}}, although it didn't work since {{spoiler|Roy laughed off at Faylen's disguise, and Faylon ripped out the costume when he tried it on}}.
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Beavers]].
* [[Power At a Price]]:
** Raging Nostrum. {{spoiler|A [[Psycho Serum]] developed by [[Murder, Inc.|Nether Gate]] that sends the user into a [[Unstoppable Rage]], but [[Deadly Upgrade|they die afterwards]]}}.
** The Sun Rune also qualifies, the ability to utterly decimates one's foes comes at the cost of one's sanity erroding away.
* [[Precursors]]:
** The Sindar are the staple ancient civilization of ''Suikoden'', having left heaps of [[Ragnarok Proofing|still functioning]] [[Lost Technology|cryptic devices and ruins]] all over.
** The ancient Armes Dynasty also [[And Man Grew Proud|got themselves wiped clean]] with the same [[MacGuffin]] that triggers most of the conflict. Their stuff isn't quite as durable.
* [[Private Detective]]: The Oboro Detective Agency, composed of three detectives, a plump secretary and a well trained mouse. {{spoiler|Said three detectives are also former assassins
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Lindwurm mercenary brigade.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Childerich.
* [[Random Encounter]]: Not quite high as in ''[[Suikoden IV]]'', but still... Even in the very first dungeon, you won't leave it without at least ten random encounters while getting two mediocre treasures.
* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: Egbert Aethelbald, who will always quickly descend to ranting about '''FILTHY GODWIN DEVILS!!!!''' in mere seconds.
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: {{spoiler|Yuma Valya, a [[Spoiled Brat]] version who fled to Falena because she saw New Armes as "uncultured". She goes by the assumed name Josephine}}... {{spoiler|It wasn't exactly New Armes being "uncultured" that did it. She was tired of living in her brother Shula's shadow}}.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Roog and Rahal. Their mounts even share the color scheme, if not the dynamic.
* [[Redundant Researcher]]: Zweig, Lorelai and Killey.
* [[Restraining Bolt]]: The Sun Rune, worn on the head, is meant to be worn along with the Dawn Rune and the Twilight rune (on either hand) in order to keep its power in check and prevent the wielder from going insane. Unfortunately, Arshadt has access to neither when she takes up the Sun Rune.
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: Nakula, arguably.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: The
* [[Secret Project Refugee Family]]: {{spoiler|The Oboro Detective Agency}}.
* [[Ship Tease]]:
*
** The manga teases the prince with Luserina Barrows.
** There's also Roog and Miakis, though that may be one-sided.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[H.P. Lovecraft|Alhazred]], and his weapons are all named for the different "translations" of the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Necronomicon]].
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: The prince and Princess Lymsleia; Euram and Luserina Barrows; Faylon and Faylen.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Small Girl Big Weapon]]: Faylen and her boomerang; Lu and her crossbow...
* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: Luserina Barows. She's sweet and graceful and apparently stays home while her dad and brother politic in the capital. However, if you talk around Rainwall, you'll find out that ''she'' is the one running the place. She also takes part in the coming battles as 'morale', in other words, encrouaging them to victory.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Nakula, Mathias may also count given his... hobby of killing enemies and throwing them into water.
* [[Spare to the Throne]]: A non-royal example with the House of Barows. After his older brother Hiram was assassinated during the bloody Succession Conflict, Euram was thrust into the role of his father's heir, as well as dealing with his mother's extended [[Despair Event Horizon|BSOD]]. This stress of this helps shape him into the irritating [[Epic Fail]]ing [[Upper Class Twit]] everyone has to deal with during the events of the game, until [[Character Development]] enables him to grow out of it.
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Dolph does this all the time.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: A disturbing example can be found in {{spoiler|Sagiri, a former Nether Gate assassin trained to smile while she killed her targets. It's her one and only expression. The people closest to her are actually waiting [[Tear Jerker|for the day she cries]]
* [[The Strategist]]: Lucretia Merces, particularly notable for being the first character to play this role in the series not related to the Silverbergs in any form.
* [[Street Urchin]]: Roy, Faylen and Faylon.
* [[Stripperific]]: Many examples, but the biggest offenders are Jeane (as usual), Nikea, Urda, Nifsara
* [[Summon Magic]]: The 'Pale Gate' rune.
* [[Sympathetic Murder Backstory]]: Lyon reveals {{spoiler|she was a former member of Nether Gate, an assassin's guild in service to Falena's royal family. They took her in while she was still a child an trained her. She was eventually rescued by the
* [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: As usual for the series, both Duels and War Battles function through these. The latter gets a bit more complicated
* [[Team Mom]]: Fuyo to the Oboro Detectives. Oboro serves as a [[Team Dad]]. Together, they're a kind of defacto husband and wife.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Rahal and Roog; Logg and his daughter Lun.
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The "miraculous book" your character receives in the inn at Yashuna Village by a stranger, {{spoiler|who is later revealed to be Euram Barows, is a cursed tome that brings death to those who possess it
* [[Triang Relations]]:
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** There's also {{spoiler|Roy, Lyon and Feylen. Roy has the hots for Lyon, Feylen has the hots for Roy, and Lyon only has eyes for the Prince}}.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Faylen ''really likes'' Roy, but he's too interested in [[All Love Is Unrequited|Lyon]] to notice. {{spoiler|Even if he makes his [[Heroic Sacrifice]], his last thoughts are of ''Lyon'' while ''Faylen'''s the one who 'gets' to watch him die... ''[[Tear Jerker|Ouch]]''}}.
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Euram, through and through.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]:
** [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Lelei and Lucretia]] [[Hide Your Lesbians|may be resolved, however
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* [[Warrior Prince]]: The prince not only directly leads the army in combat, he fights as part of the infantry.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Godwins seek to empower Falena as a nation so that the losses suffered in the bloody civil war several years ago is not repeated. Unfortunately, they try to do this by overthrowing the royal family, reviving a defunct assassin's guild, and {{spoiler|attempting to purge the nation of all nonhumans
** {{spoiler|In contrast, we have Sialeeds. She planned to dissolve the bickering Senate and eliminate the two factions in it, probably because of her great hate of what happened with her mom and aunt on the last civil war, but also so that such a civil war wouldn't be repeated (at least, not by the same people). She succeeded. Gizel and Marscal just realized it around the time Sialeeds died}}.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Prince Felanas. He even gets called a pretty boy in-game.
** Oddly enough, you could probably say he fits the [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] trope better: he is chosen by a rune (magical properties) and is a good commander despite his young age. The ''real'' [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]], with its connotations of villainy, is actually
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]:
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The Sun Rune is one of the strongest of the 27 True Runes, and can cause moments of extreme megalomania in it's bearer, as they believe themselves to be a God. Even the kind and loving Arshtat fell victim to this, destroying Lordlake {{spoiler|and almost doing the same to the entire country of Falena}} because of the rune's influence. This is in fact what happened to empire that existed where Falena does long before the game takes place. The ruler who wielded the Sun Rune went mad and annihilated his entire nation overnight. Supposedly, having possesion of both the Dawn and Twilight Runes prevents this from happening to the wielder of the Sun Rune.
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: Queen Arshtat.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Lucretia wields one of these masterfully to beat the combined Armes/Godwin army, first feigning defeat to get the enemy armies to occupy the rebel headquarters, then flooding the entire thing, then launching a full out assault on the weakened enemy forces. Truly worthy of being an [[Expy]] of [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms (novel)|Zhuge Liang]]. She really did think of everything. Leaving the castle itself is a good move because they would be surrounded otherwise, and it denies the enemy desperately needed food. Even if the Armes/Godwin army ''didn't'' fall for the trap, they'd still be chasing a fully stocked army with empty bellies and grumbling mouths.
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]: The Twilight Rune and the Dawn Rune have an incredibly powerful combination spell that heals the friendly party and damages all enemies at once.
* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Very, very obvious, and very ''very'' painful. Especially since the quality of the writing repeatedly forces blatant false hope on the player that serves only to underscore this trope.
* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: One-on-one duels are carried out by executing three possible commands that cancel each other by [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]] mechanics. How to tell what the enemy is going to do? By their pre-action taunts, of course. While this is a staple of the series, ''Suikoden V'' takes it further by adding a time limit to the input so you are in a bit more of a hurry. The catch? Certain characters with apparent [[Medium Awareness]] start taking advantage of this rush by making ''feint taunts'' that seem like they'll be one action and change to another by the end of their speech.
* [[You're Insane!]]: {{spoiler|Lyon says this to Dolph when she learns that he works for the Godwins just so he can continue to kill people}}.
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