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** Apparently Loewe was popular enough to appear in Alternative Saga as a playable character. His [[Leitmotif]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|really helps his popularity...]]
*** Naturally, Renne's popularity led to her being playable in Alternative Saga, too.
* [[Epileptic Trees]]: One's worthy of noting outside the WMG page, with the speculation that this game may take place in the future of the world ''[[
** The idea that the Kiseki world is the future of Ys seems exclusive to the English-speaking (and non-Japanese-reading) fandom; the game itself says the characters were drawn from different worlds (the setting is also largely derived from Xanadu Next but nobody seems to think that it's the same world as the Ys or Kiseki games) and it's pretty clear from {{spoiler|the [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|lack of reaction]] to [[Back From the Dead|Chester and Loewe]] and Lloyd not recognizing Renne or the Brights in [[Zero no Kiseki]] that the events of the game didn't 'really' happen.}} The connections to Gagharv are much more solid, mostly centered around the Doll Knight novels from Cagesong of the Ocean.
* [[Even Better Sequel]]: While the backstory and setting of ''FC'' is sweeping in scope, the combat is fun and the characters likable, ''FC'' ultimately plays a fair number of tropes relatively straight {{spoiler|at least up until its very last act}} and even comes across as a little cliche at times, and really serves as more of a setting-establishment piece. It was ''SC'' that completely blew the lid off of player expectations (and a whole mess of tropes) across the board and cemented ''Trails''' place in history and the Japanese gaming zeitgeist. (Given what [[One Game for
* [[Fashion Victim Villain]]: The Lord of Phantasma, anyone?
* [[Game Breaker]]: Agate in SC, {{spoiler|Alan}} in 3rd.
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* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Man, by the end of the main plot a ''lot'' of characters have generous helpings of this in their backstories. The younger Ouroboros members {{spoiler|like Joshua and Renne}} have it ''particularly'' bad. {{spoiler|And then there's what Weissman does during the game, and what ends up ''happening'' to him...}} Needless to say, despite being ultimately optimistic this game gets ''really, really '''dark''''' at times.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Cassius. A rare case where such a character is on the protagonist's side. {{spoiler|Mostly.}}
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Among the Japanese fanbase - <s> DRAGON</s> [[Lolicon
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Weissman crosses this when he reveals that {{spoiler|not only did he [[Brainwashed and Crazy|mind control Joshua and turn him into a puppet]] but also indirectly cause the attack on Joshua's village that led to Joshua's sister's death and made Joshua and Loewe's lives a living hell}}.
* [[Sequel Displacement]]: The trilogy-cum-franchise has proven to be so popular that it's basically supplanted its parent Legend Of Heroes franchise; the following two games are ''[[Zero no Kiseki]]'' and ''Ao no Kiseki'', both of which still technically keep the "Legend of Heroes" franchise title but practically as a footnote, and don't even bother with numbering any longer. And the next one, aka ''Nayuta no Kiseki'', drops "The Legend of Heroes" altogether.
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