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Tales of Symphonia is a 2003 video game, the fifth game in Namco's famous ''[[Tales (series)]]'', and the third to ever be released outside of Japan; [[No Export for You|first in Europe]]. It stands as the top selling game in the entire series, and the only one to break a million copies sold due to extensive worldwide sales.

* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Presea and Abyssion are the only people out of a population of two whole planets who can hear Nebilim's voice.

* [[Is It Something You Eat?]]:

[[Double Entendre|"I don't think you'd want to eat one."]] }}

* [[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One]]: A lot. For both Colette and Zelos.

** Actually subverted {{spoiler|with Presea}}

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]

'''Lloyd:''' "Do you ever say anything original?" }}

* [[Leaked Experience]]: meaning you don't have to swap characters around if you don't want to.

** Raine. She has rather... Interesting ideas on cuisine, such as one skit where she wonders about making a spicy cake. Half of her recipes have lemon as an additional ingredient. And a skit in the sequel has her cooking "lemon rice" for the party. She can even fail at making a ''Bread Sandwich!'' Sheena also has weird ideas about food, but she knows ''which weird ideas work'' so she is still a good cook (one of the best three, in fact, along with Genis and Regal).

** One of the funniest moments in the game involves Raine's cooking skills. In a small skit, the stone-faced, humorless stoic Kratos samples some of Raine's cooking to be polite. He even makes a gallant attempt at finding something nice to say about it ("Well, it has an interesting texture") before the aftertaste sets in and Kratos's first reaction is to use one of his healing spells ''on himself.'' It's funnier because [[The Comically Serious|it's Kratos]].

** In an [[OVA]], Raine's cooking is literally used as a weapon to kill Kratos...

* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: {{spoiler|After restoring Luin}}, each character gets the ability to buy one of these; they are among the most powerful weapons you can buy for that character. Lloyd gets a [[Paper Fan of Doom]], Colette a tambourine, Genis a toy kendama, Raine a mop, Sheena a wallet, Zelos/Kratos a [[Batter Up|baseball bat]] or a pink plastic dagger, Presea a squeaky toy hammer, and Regal a pair of silver boots.

* [[Once Is Not Enough]]: {{spoiler|Yggdrasial dies in [[Third Time's the Charm|his third confrontation with the party]], and all that's left is his Cruxis Crystal. Genis picks it up, aware that his subconscious might still be inside (if what happened to Alicia was any indication) but wanted to wait until Lloyd used the Eternal Sword to reunite the worlds until doing so, to show him the new world he strived for. Turns out he manages to survive in the crystal and tries to [[Grand Theft Me|take over Lloyd's body]] right after making the pact with Origin ([[Relationship Values|only for Lloyd's closest party member to take his place]]). Even after getting kicked out of that body during [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], he manages to recover his original body for the final battle(s).}}

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Subverted; the main reason the summoner mentioned by the various Summon Spirits, Mithos, is not thought to be the hero of legend is because it has become a common boy's name. {{spoiler|But then it gets played with later when it's revealed that said Mithos is not only the summoner and legendary hero, but also the game's [[Big Bad]].}}

* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: And they're ''aliens''!

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The skit "For Lazy People".

* [[Prison Episode]]: This game had Lloyd, the main character, tossed into a Desian prison in the middle of the desert. {{spoiler|He busts out on his own, just before the party shows up... too late.}}

* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: Actually punctuated slashing.

* [[Redemption Demotion]]:

** All party members gained through [[Defeat Means Friendship]].