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[[File:Cast_of_Tales_of_Vesperia_smaller.jpg|frame|The cast clockwise from bottom-right: Raven, Flynn, Yuri, Karol, Estelle, Patty, Judith, Rita, Repede]]

 

 

In the world of Terca Lumireis, Blastia are a part of everyday life. From drawing water to animating robots, Blastia's purposes are plentiful and its utility is vital. One of the most important uses of Blastia is to project gigantic barriers that protect towns from the armies of wild monsters roaming the world. Only [[Good Republic, Evil Empire|Imperial Knights and guild members]] are allowed to leave the protection of these barriers, and as a result, most people never experience the large, expansive, and undiscovered world that lies outside.

 

 

One day, a thief steals a fountain Blastia vital to the people of the lower quarter and Yuri lands in jail while attempting to catch him. After escaping, he meets '''Estelle''' (Estellise Sidos Heurassein), an intelligent but [[White Prince|naive]] noble curious about the outside world and desperate to reach Yuri's childhood friend and Imperial Knight, Flynn Scifo. After escaping from the clutches of [[The Empire]], [[Call to Adventure|they decide to venture past the barrier, catch the thief, track down Flynn]], and see the world for themselves.

* '''Karol Capel''': A young boy who's trying to prove himself to his guild and his town. Although enthusiastic, [[Lovable Coward|he often finds himself cowering in the face of uncertainty and dangerous monsters]]. Fights using a [[Drop the Hammer|gigantic hammer]], gigantic sword or a [[An Axe to Grind|gigantic axe]].

* '''Judith''': A [[Boobs of Steel|busty]] [[Ms. Fanservice|young lady]] who speaks without restraint and is a member of the [[Our Elves Are Better|Kritya race]]. As a Kritya, she is intellectual and down-to-earth, but also ''very'' nonchalant (and a little spacy) towards everything, even towards [[Dissonant Serenity|fighting and destruction]]. She fights with a spear or staff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

* [[The Alliance]] - The Guild Union.

* [[Alternate Character Reading]] - "Vesperia" is written as "[[Meaningful Name|Tomorrow Star]]" in kanji.

* [[Artificial Brilliance]] - Estelle has an arte that gathers most enemies into an area. Combine this with Rita or Raven who have spells that affect certain areas, and...

* [[Backstory]] - Unusual for a Team Symphonia Tales game, Raven is the only one with a significant past. The party members ''do'' have backstories, it's just that they're not that important to the plot and you have to go out of your way to find out about them. And even then, [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot|you have to piece a lot of it together yourself]]. For more information on Raven`s past, check the novel and drama CDs.

** [http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/cs/list/taleschannel/ch_ranking_5th/result/ Make that two times.] Actually, aside from the looks of it, aside from Top Mascot (which was, naturally, [[Big Badass Wolf|Repede]]), Yuri [http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/cs/list/taleschannel/ch_ranking_5th/result/class.php pretty much placed first in 'Ideal Older Sibling' and 'Ideal Combination'] ...[[Ho Yay|with Flynn]].

* [[Badass and Child Duo]]: Yuri and Karol.

* [[BFS]] - Karol's sword and hammer weapons are pretty gigantic considering he's like... ''twelve''. One of Yuri's weapons - {{spoiler|the False Dein Nomos, aka Alexei's sword}} - is awkwardly large. Clint also uses a gigantic axe/sword thing. And then there's the gigantic {{spoiler|spirit-powered}} energy blade used in the ending, which is large enough to be seen '''''from orbit'''''.

* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]] - Barbos and Ragou in Part 1 and Cumore and Yeager in Part 2. {{spoiler|They all turn out to be [[The Starscream|Starscreams]] to [[The Man Behind the Man|Alexei.]]}}

* [[Big Eater]] - The waiter minigame has customers ordering up to 100 plates of food at once. One can only imagine what happens when they have to go to the restroom.

* [[Body to Jewel]] - {{spoiler|What happens to the souls of Entelexeia upon their deaths.}}

* [[Bonus Boss]] - Cameo battles, Giganto Monsters, {{spoiler|Gauche/Droite}}, and, if you collect all of the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Swords]], {{spoiler|Duke's new final form}}.

* [[Book Ends]] - The opening song is [[Anime Theme Song|Ring a Bell]] and the ending credits song is a remix of Ring a Bell.

* [[Boss Rush]] - The Memory Dungeon, where you'll fight every single boss in the game (even all the human ones... including {{spoiler|Raven/Schwann}}).

* [[Button Mashing]] - A few characters get skills that reward this. Yuri gets one that adds more hits during his Mystic Arte the faster you mash the attack button, and Rita similarly gets one that shortens casting time.

** [[Simplified Spellcasting|Blah blah blah... TIDAL WAVE!]] (See also: [[Game Breaker|Rita is Broken]])

* [[Capital City]] - Zaphias, capital of [[The Empire]], and Dahngrest, capital of [[The Alliance|The Union]].

* [[Combos]] - If you ever ''aren't'' comboing the enemy, you're probably getting hurt pretty badly.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]] - Using a mystic arte requires the player to first hit the enemy with an unblocked mid-level arte. Bosses can use them from standstill. They can also break free of your combo very easily unless you manage to stun them partway through.

** It gets driven to even greater proportions in {{spoiler|Yuri's final duel with Flynn}}, when the latter is able to actually ''block your mystic arte and counter with his own''.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]] - There's that [[Fan Service|one part]] where you can use Estelle to seduce a guard to get him away from his post. After Yuri knocks him out, he points out that it may have been bad for Estelle if he hadn't jumped in just then. Estelle agrees, but she thought Yuri was talking about how the guard almost recognized her as the princess. [[Attempted Rape|That's not quite it...]]

* [[Conflict Killer]] - One word: {{spoiler|"Adephagos."}}

* [[Covers Always Lie]] - Yuri has a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]] on the cover-his official weapon, but it comes rather late in the game, is the only such blade in the game, and isn't anywhere near his best weapon. [[Rule of Cool|It looks cool, though.]]

* [[Deconstructor Fleet]]: ''Vesperia'' takes aim at [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]. What gives a hero the right to completely and utterly change the world based on their own individual view of morality, completely discarding the opinions of the millions that also live in their world?

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] - {{spoiler|The ending. More specifically, "Yuri, did you just slice a giant space octopus with the [[BFS|Biggest Fucking Sword]] of all time?"}}

** Well, in the voice tracks of Tales of Magic Carta, Yuri states that he can`t see its shape clearly given the fact that he`s right under it.

* [[Different As Night and Day]] - Granted, they're not twins, but still: Yuri has long, dark hair, wears dark clothes, is a [[Deadpan Snarker]], and wields his sword in his left hand. Flynn has short, blond hair, is clad in shiny white-and-blue armor, is honorable to a [[Lawful Stupid|fault]], is unfailingly polite to almost everyone, and wields his sword in his right hand.

** {{spoiler|Raven and Schwann.}}

** To a lesser extent, Gauche and Droite.

* [[Difficulty Spike]] - The difficulty gap between {{spoiler|Duke}} rounds 2 and 3 is simply staggering.

** After sweeping all the bosses in the game in the [[Bonus Dungeon]] and making it to the end, it's slightly surprising to find that the final boss at the end is more difficult than any other before him. Only slightly because, well, this is {{spoiler|[[Badass|Kratos]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Aurion]]}} we're talking about here, and the difficulty may be ameliorated by the possibility that the player had to run through the dungeon several times and level up a ton in the process.

* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]] - {{spoiler|The Enduring Shrine of Zaude}}

* [[Dual Boss]] - Adecor and Boccos, {{spoiler|Belius and her double,}} Tison and Nan, Gauche and Droite.

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]] - When forced into seducing a town guard, one of the options for the feminine wiles is Karol. [[Lampshade Hanging|The hilarity of the situation is not lost on the game]].

** At first, a lot of people confused Yuri for a woman before playing the game. Also, if you enter the Inn in Zaphias and talk to an male NPC, Yuri gets offered a drink.

* [[Duel Boss]] - Yuri fights {{spoiler|Flynn and Estelle. Not at the same time, thankfully.}}

* [[Elite Mooks]]: There's an army of them, the Royal Guard. They can take much more damage, dish out far more damage, and come in numbers ''far greater'' than the standard mooks. In short, they are easily the strongest non-boss human enemies in the game.

** Shining Fang ''has'' become somewhat [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59plP4PEFPE popular...]

* [[Evil Smells Bad]] - Ragou's basement isn't exactly known for its minty freshness.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Subverted with {{spoiler|Duke}}, who in the English dub, has one of the deepest voices. Although he's the [[Final Boss]], he's an [[Anti-Villain]]. Generally, the higher voice an antagonist has, the more likely he's a [[Complete Monster]] -- case in point, Cumore, whose VA is downright ''squeaky''.

** This is, however, played straight with {{spoiler|Alexei, who has a voice deeper than just about everyone in the game.}}

** {{spoiler|Yuri fights Flynn at several points during the game, but they're never actually trying to ''kill'' each other -- just play out their roles or work things out between them.}}

** Karol fighting Nan also counts.

* [[Finishing Move]] - Fatal Strikes.

* [[Five-Man Band]]

** Raven, [[Grumpy Old Man|The Old Guy]]

* [[Flash Step]] - Yuri's Ghost Wolf, then his Mystic Arte for the [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Overkill]] version of this.

** {{spoiler|The Yuri vs Flynn duel is a strange and beautiful [[Friendship Moment]] with [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].}}

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: They do this, which leads to that, while they were already doing something else, which brings out new problems, which leads to another problem, while this is going on behind the scenes, [[Random Events Plot|which throws this in the way of that]], [[Arc Fatigue|which causes this to happen in the middle of that other thing]]... Getting it yet?

* [[Genius Book Club]] - Rita and Estelle, but mostly Rita. Her unique secondary items are books, her reading of books is mentioned in a few skits, and her level up animation shows her reading a book. If and when Estelle sees something in the real world that she had only read about in a book, she'll point it out. In a skit while leaving a crystallized cavern, Estelle says that the cave looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

* [[Ghost Ship]] - The Atherum

* [[God Mode]] - It'll take forever and a day to charge it up, but that level 4 Overlimit is oh so sweet.

* [[Good Is Dumb]] / [[Evil Is Cool]] - {{spoiler|Raven. As Raven,}} the good guy, he's the dumb pervert whom everyone loves. {{spoiler|As Schwann, the bad guy,}} he's the extremely suave knight with a much cooler fighting style.

* [[Good Republic, Evil Empire]] - Heavily subverted - they're both pretty decent for the most part, and there is major corruption on both sides.

* [[Gratuitous Greek]]: Adephagos is Greek for "[[Meaningful Name|gluttonous]]". "Entelexeia" refers to a theory of being in Aristotelian philosophy.

* [[Guide Dang It]] - The time windows for sidequests pretty much require a guide to fully complete. Not to mention the requirements for some of the Secret Missions, for instance, {{spoiler|[[That One Sidequest|having Raven use his "explosion on guard-broken enemies" arte against Yeager, whose guard is very difficult to break.]]}} Who figured ''that'' out on their first try?

* [[Halfway Plot Switch]] - We start with a [[Succession Crisis]] and ruminations on the nature of justice, and then {{spoiler|a giant malevolent octopus from beyond dimensions breaks in to deliver a [[Green Aesop]].}}

* [[Hannibal Lecture]] - {{spoiler|Phaeroh, Alexei and Duke}} all give one at different points, and Yuri [[Shut UP, Hannibal|shoots them all down]].

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] - Yuri and Flynn, even after Yuri's desertion and brushes with the law.

* [[Hold the Line]] - The safest option to take in the first round of the fight against the Baitojoh. Attacking it can potentially end the fight faster, but offers no additional reward.

* [[HP to One]] - Lampshaded by {{spoiler|Duke after every Big Bang: "You still stand?!".}} More ridiculous is his true final form when the player has obtained the Fell Arms, because a single Big Bang does over 12,000 damage to EACH party member.

* [[Human Resources]] - Though {{spoiler|Blastia}} are made of {{spoiler|Entelexeia}}, rather than humans.

* [[I Can Still Fight]] - Pretty much all of your party members will do this at some point in the game.

* [[Identical Twin ID Tag]]

** Even Karol doesn't qualify entirely. He's shrill and cowardly, but (comparable to Estelle's knowledge of history and geography) he does contribute a great deal of wilderness lore and insight into the workings of the Guilds.

** To be fair, there really is ''no'' [[Idiot Hero]] in this game. {{spoiler|Raven}} plays the part, but it's all a facade.

* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: Flynn and Yuri. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] even more so with:

'''Yuri''': I know. }}

* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]] - In one area your party comments that the continent has never been explored before, yet there's still chests in the local dungeon...

* [[Item Crafting]] - If you can use it, you can probably make it using convenient materials from your fallen foes.

* [[It's Up to You]] - Yuri might insist that Flynn gets the hard job of dealing with the nobles, but we all know who gets the short end of the stick.

* [[Library of Babel]] - The libraries in Aspio are so big resident mages have made a habit of sleeping on the shelves.

* [[Limit Break]] - Mystic Artes.

* [[Love Interest]] - Karol and Nan.

* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]] - It's awfully rude for {{spoiler|Duke}} to not thank you for it.

* [[Magical Incantation]] - Required for most magical artes, and get longer for more powerful spells. Subverted by Rita in Overlimit, when all she says is "blah blah blah."

* [[Meaningful Name]] - Gauche and Droite mean left and right in French. The guild's name is also important, as it's {{spoiler|Brave Vesperia}}. Also, {{spoiler|Raven/Schwann, whose two personalities are both named after birds.}}

** {{spoiler|Regaey is Yeager backwards.}}

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: A light example in ''First Strike'' where Chastel accidentally (but persistently) pulls Flynn's face into her assets as she's trying to heal him. Chastel doesn't notice, but [[Luminescent Blush|Flynn does]].

* [[Mercy Kill]]: {{spoiler|The party has to deal one to Belius.}}

* [[My Fist Forgives You]]: {{spoiler|Raven. ''<s>Four</s> [[Updated Rerelease|Five]] times in a row''.}}

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: A variety of characters experience this at one point or another. Examples are Estelle {{spoiler|when she was the cause of Belius' death}}, Flynn {{spoiler|after he realized everything he did for Alexei resulted in negative consequences and that he was being used}}, Patty {{spoiler|after she kills Seifer, even though he asked her to}}, Alexei {{spoiler|after bringing the Adephagos back into the world}}, and Sodia {{spoiler|after she stabs Yuri, causing him to fall from the edge of Zaude}}.

* [[Nerf Arm]]: Estelle gets a duster, Judith gets a broom, and Repede gets Grilled Chicken. Estelle and Judith's gag weapons allow them to perform new attacks such as cleaning the enemy off or sweeping them up, but they're a lot more painful than they sound.

* [[New Game+]]: In which you can use all that Grade you earned in your previous playthrough to buy various rewards to spice up your new one.

** The heroic version is also played straight, when {{spoiler|Estelle's healing artes drive Belius mad and the party's forced to kill her, leading to tension among the major guilds and more unwanted deaths}}.

** The game also uses another variation: Nice Job Breaking It, ''Player''. {{spoiler|If you collect all the Fell Arms, the final boss will absorb their power and gain an extra form that is one of the most powerful enemies in the game.}}

* [[Now Where Was I Going Again?]] - The synopsis, done in the style of the Wonder Reporter writing articles about Yuri's recent activities. It does however, lie about the location of at least one dungeon: {{spoiler|the Manor of the Wicked.}}

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Captain Nylen Fedlock in ''The First Strike'' acts in this capacity to both Yuri and Flynn. {{spoiler|Complete with [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]].}}

* [[Our Elves Are Different]]: The Kritya race, of which party member Judith is a member. They are pointy-eared, long-lived, intelligent, and share a psychic connection with Entelexeia. They are also very pacifistic and have [[Cloudcuckoolander]] tendencies, which makes [[Blood Knight|Judith]] a definite [[Black Sheep]].

* [[Our Monsters Are Different|Our]] <s>[[Fantastic Racism|Monsters]]</s> [[Our Monsters Are Different|Intelligent Non-Humans Are Different]] - The Entelexeia.

* [[Parental Abandonment]] - [[Conveniently an Orphan|None of the main cast members have living parents.]] Most of the supporting cast lacks them too. Though there is a refreshing lack of angst about it.

* [[Precursors]] - The Geraios Civilization.

* [[Put Off Their Food]]: One of the skits has this happen to Rita and Raven, who were enjoying their croquettes... until Raven asks Yuri about the recipe, and Yuri reveals his "secret ingredient". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wLjrwPgyD0 Rita and Raven's reaction say it all.]

* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]

* [[Ring Out]] - One of the Secret Missions requires this.

* [[Running Gag]] - Yuri is cursed.

** The sign of victory!

* [[Sad Battle Music]]: A slow melancholic rendition of the game's theme song, "Ring a Bell", plays during Yuri's battle with Estelle; during which, she pleads with him to kill her to save himself and the others.

** Slightly subverted {{spoiler|in Rita's case, since she wasn't the one that Yuri was after.}}

* [[Say My Name]] - As is contractually required for Tales protagonists.

* [[Scratch Damage]] - Fortunately, they don't allow those 1-point hits to interrupt you.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]] - {{spoiler|Regaey/Yeager}}

* [[See You in Hell]] - {{spoiler|Barbos}} and {{spoiler|Don Whitehorse, though in a kindred manner}}, both to Yuri.

* [[Self-Mutilation Demonstration]] - Inverted by Yuri after {{spoiler|Belius' death}}, giving Estelle a metaphorical [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap in the face]] by slicing his own arm open not so he would heal himself, but knowing she would heal him.

** It may also have something to do with the fact that most people don't consider the two main characters to be Yuri and Estelle; they consider them to be Yuri and ''Flynn''.

*** With the way the story plays out and how it always comes back to Yuri and Flynn, they're most certainly the protagonists. There's little doubt about that.

* [[Shoot the Dog]] - {{spoiler|Yuri often takes it upon himself to punish those who are above the law, even if it means killing them, because he knows Flynn and the rest of his party aren't willing to do it.}}

** Also applied literally whenever Repede gets hit with a projectile in battle.

** Even more literally [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zqLydZYLE/ here.]

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] - Yuri to {{spoiler|Phaeroh}}.

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]] - Largely averted through the synthesis system and regular upgrading of shops.

* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]] - If you see a save spot, especially one that heals, you better save.

* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]] - {{spoiler|Dein Nomos.}}

* [[Take Your Time]] - ''YOU KNOW HOW I HATE WAITING, YURI LOWELL!''

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]] - Several boss fights have the characters chatting it up or arguing in some way, despite the fact that it's an action-oriented RPG and they're already knee-deep in [[Calling Your Attacks]]-goodness.

* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: How Yuri feels about dealing with Ragou and Cumore.

** Yuri tries to pull this when {{spoiler|he heads out alone to Zaphias to "take care" of Estelle}}. [[Subverted Trope|He only makes it halfway before the rest of the party catches up and beats him up.]]

** Arguably [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] with {{spoiler|Judith. Her desire to handle the Hermes Blastia problem by herself gets the party in serious trouble several times.}}

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]] - Estelle, Judith, and Rita.

* [[Time Travel]] - {{spoiler|Yormgen is supposedly an illusion made by Phaeroh, but a sidequest later in the game suggests that did actually travel back somehow.}}

** {{spoiler|Also, Dhaos, the the Time Traveling [[Big Bad]] from Tales of Phantasia, makes a cameo.}}

** Judith gets the title Trophy Wife after taking care of the party's overlooked needs in Mantaic, while in the Japanese version the title means something along the lines of "Perceptive Woman." This also doubles as a serious case of [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Really, Bandai Namco USA, you couldn't have called her [[Team Mom]] or something a little more appropriate?

** {{spoiler|Rita plays the cat.}}

* [[Turns Red]] - Overlimit is not an ability that is exclusive to your party; bosses can use it too. This prevents attack interruption, and allows instant casting and infinite combos. They also get access to their powerful Mystic Artes. Running away is strongly encouraged.

** [[No Export for You|Not that this matters to anyone not living in Japan.]]

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] - During the party's first attempt to {{spoiler|use an apetheia to condense an aer krene}}, you randomly have to play a rhythm game to help Rita and Estelle "concentrate." None of the other attempts require this, which makes it all the more jarring.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Unlike previous ''Tales'' games, the goal of ''Vesperia'''s [[Big Bad]] is ''never'' revealed. {{spoiler|Alexei makes many a grandiose statement about how he intends to change the world and save it from the empire but ''how'' unsealing Zaude is supposed to assist him in this is never actually explained, nor is it explained how Yuri killing Ragou and Cumore was able to help him work without any interruptions, ''nor'' is it explained ''why'' he's doing any of this beyond a vague "The empire is corrupt" motivation, '''''nor''''' is it ever explained why, if he thinks the empire is so corrupt, he didn't just removed the negative elements from it with his power and authority: being the Commandant and all}}.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]] - {{spoiler|Harry Whitehorse}}

* [[Urban Segregation]] - The Lower quarter and the Noble quarter of Zaphias.

* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] - Subverted, as the ''Tales'' series usually does, with {{spoiler|Zaude}}. The real one is {{spoiler|Tarqaron, floating city}}.

* [[Victory Pose]] - After every battle.

Estelle: I wish I could bounce... }}

 

Rita: Would you stop?! }}

 

Rita: ...I can't. I just...can't. }}

 

** [[Running Gag|"The sign of victory!!!"]]

* [[Violence Is the Only Option]] - After {{spoiler|Ragou and Cumore reduce their punishments using their positions in the government, Yuri takes it into his own hands and murders them. Also Duke, who resorts to sacrificing humanity in order to destroy the Adephagos.}}

* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: On the parts of the developers - why on earth would you give a [[Staff Chick]] with only a pittance of a strength stat (albeit high defense) ''melee artes''?

* [[Visible Silence]] - When Rita asks why Judith didn't tell the party about her problem, a gigantic bubble pops up in a dramatic moment with only "..." in large, large font.

** Judith does this ''all the time''. It's like big red arrows going SHE KNOWS SOMETHING. If only the rest of the cast could see her speech bubbles, we could have avoided this.

** Also happens on occasion with Raven, in particular just before {{spoiler|the party has to travel back through the Weasand of Cados, and there's a blockade of Imperial soldiers.}}

* [[Weather Control Machine]] - Several villains use blastia in order to change the weather.

* [[We Sell Everything]] - Healing items, potions, armor, hats, bags, shoes, gloves, books, cloth, knives, glasses, flags, pieces of stone...they sell it ''all''!

** What do you expect from Fortune's Market, Terca Lumireis' equivilent of Costco?

* [[We Will Meet Again]]:

'''Judith''': [[Lampshade Hanging|What an original line.]] }}

* [[Wham! Episode]] - {{spoiler|Ragou's death sets a major tone-change, setting Yuri as a figure willing to be his world's equivalent of [[The Punisher]], brutally murdering the corrupt Councilor. He then provides Cumore with a [[Family-Unfriendly Death]] by quicksand, getting chewed out by Flynn just afterwards.}} That is the setup. The [[Wham! Episode]] is {{spoiler|in the middle of the Hunting Blades attacking Nordopolica to murder Belius, Estelle trying to heal Belius, only to drive her berserk, forcing the party to put her down. Then the Knights' entire blockade trying to capture Estelle and the crystal that represented Belius' remains - including Flynn personally, and LOUDLY, confronting Yuri on both murders, and asking if Yuri would kill him, too, shocking the entire party.}} And if that wasn't painful enough, {{spoiler|Judith, OUT OF NOWHERE, goes back to destroying blastia, leaving the party adrift in the ocean after they had only BARELY escaped.}} All of this in about fifteen minutes of cutscenes, only one fight in the middle.

** Rita, as mentioned above, chews out Judith by essentially saying "[[We Could Have Avoided All This]]!"

* [[Years Too Early]] - One of the victory quotes uses this.

Yuri: ...Not exactly. }}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Cumore.

** Yuri's hair is considered [[Shiny Midnight Black|black]], but definitely has purple highlights.

* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: {{spoiler|Alexei}}. Specifically, {{spoiler|it turns out he was the one (along with Yeager) who orchestrated the Hunting Blades betraying the Union by attacking Nordipolica so that the Guild Union would fall into civil war.}}

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