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* [[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]]:
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* [[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}}. In a scene after the above spoiler, Luserina tries to reach out and comfort him. After a moment, he simply turns around and walks off; the player is not even given the option to respond (which would normally happen). Pretty powerful response for a silent protagonist.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: The Prince. There was one sequence where it seemed that this is averted, but it's {{spoiler|Roy in disguise}}. As is usual with the ''[[Suikoden]]'' series, the hero does talk, but only when you're given dialogue options. Instead of a simple Yes/No option, the player is given choices of the actual lines the hero will be saying. Though unlike the other characters, the Prince doesn't have a voice actor ''speaking'' the lines. And given that those dialogue choices are usually only given at key moments, with Lyon (or, when she's incapacitated, Miakis) doing most of the speaking for him, it's clear that the Prince wouldn't be a very talkative guy even if we did hear him.
* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Nakula, Mathias may also count given his... hobby of killing enemies and throwing them into water.▼
* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Georg. {{spoiler|He eventually leaves the country due to it}}.
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Alseid. {{spoiler|You can't even ''visit'' it}}.
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* [[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.}}
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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** [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Lelei and Lucretia]] [[Hide Your Lesbians|may be resolved, however]]. [[Ambiguously Gay|Oboro's comments are suggestive but not conclusive. As in]], [[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha-level conclusive]].
** Lyon and the Prince. While nothing is directly mentioned about it, there's a lot of subtle subtext pointing towards that they indeed have more developed relationship that what is known. See for example certain dialogue-less scenes in Lunas.
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* [[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.
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