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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Without the A ending, the best you can hope for is a "meh". The B ending is pretty anticlimactic.
* [[Easter Egg]]
* [[Eleventh -Hour Superpower]]: In the best ending only, where the last hit of Lenneth's [[Evolving Attack|upgraded]] [[Finishing Move]] can hit the final boss for 65k damage. Even with two million HP, that's a big "''OUCH''".
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Lenneth early on, at least until she regained her memories and thus her emotion.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: In the best ending, {{spoiler|Arngrim and Mystina enlist the aid of Brahms (king of the vampires, but not all that bad a guy) and Lezard (who is outright evil, [[Stalker With a Crush|among other things]]) to save Lenneth.}}
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* [[Final Speech]]: Badrach makes a rather long one to convince Lenneth to not send him to Hel, goddess of Nifelheim.
* [[Finishing Move]]: Everyone has one, and mages technically have 12, but they all share those 12.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: Lezard, sort of.
* [[Fragile Flower]]: Nanami and Yumei; it's even listed as one of their negative traits.
* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: Suo.
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* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] / [[Equivalent Exchange]]: The process of "Soul Exchange".
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: TAJ Productions (A.K.A. the [[Four Kids4Kids! Entertainment]] cast) dubbed the first game.
** Jayle, Aelia, and Fuyuki sound almost ''exactly'' like {{Anime/Pokemon Ash Ketchum}}! Mystina sounds ''exactly'' like Jessie, Jelanda sounds ''exactly'' like Misty, and Lucien is pretty much Brock.
*** Which makes it hilarious to have Jayle, Jelanda, and Lucien in the party at the same time. [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Midgard, Valkyries train YOU!]]
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* [[Holding Out for A Hero]]
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Freya and Brahms are supposed to be this, as they're massively powerful and nearly immune to your attacks, but it is possible to beat them. Beating Freya doesn't change [[Nonstandard Game Over|the outcome]], but beating Brahms makes the game act as if you had decided not to fight him.
* [[Hundred -Percent Completion]]
* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Though to be fair, they sometimes mix it up with bags full of loot instead.
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Swords, actually. And staves. And spears. And...
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* [[Let's Play]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXA90XUTeI crimeinpartner] gives us a wonderfully masterful one.
* [[Levels Take Flight]]: The Celestial Castle. It's not long, but an unavoidable section of it is tiny platforms with nothing below them, and booby-trapped treasure chests that explode and knock you off the edges. Those rooms also feature flying enemies that will force you into battle, after which you will fall unless you have the presence of mind to re-grab onto the ropes you're supposed to use to cross the gaps. The game has a time limit, and every time you fall off you end up outside, and have to spend more time going in again.
* [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]]: Played through. Mages are okay at first, but once you get staves that allows them to use great magic without it breaking, they'll soon start ''ruining'' bosses. Heavy Arms and Lancers can eventually get a near end-game quality weapon with [[Guide Dang It|a little searching]] in ''chapter four'', making them (with the exception of Grey) potentially powerful. Archers, meanwhile, tend to lag behind, majorly. With a few exceptions (Janus and Lenneth, who for a while is more powerful with a bow in her hands), they're utterly worthless for anything beyond increasing the combo gauge.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: All the different Einherjar, with their unique backstories and recruitment scenes, are the focus of the bulk of gameplay. The second game features even ''more'' of them, though their story significance is reduced significantly, to the point where their whole backgrounds are reduced to [[All There in the Manual]] status. The third game features fewer recruitable characters, but their stories are pushed back to the forefront.
* [[Lost Forever]]: Odin demands that you give up any items you find at the end of dungeons. Giving them up takes away the item but gives a boost to the [[Karma Meter]] and a bucket of exp. Keeping them drops the meter by five times the amount it would have risen.
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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Suo suffered a [[Heroic BSOD]], allowing a peasant to strike him down as he was deep in thought.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Freya.
* [[Non -Human Undead]]: Zombie dragons as bosses and subbosses.
* [[Non -Linear Sequel]]: ''[[Valkyrie Profile Silmeria]]'' manages to be a sequel and a prequel at the same time without crossing over into the first game's timeline. A [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] is involved.
** Likewise, because of the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]], ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume]]'' chronologically takes place before ''Lenneth'', but after Silmeria is sealed in Brahms' castle, but "before" Lezard's little time traveling expedition, as {{spoiler|Odin is still alive}}.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Ending C.
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** Although, you only need 95% of the voice clips, as the remaining 5% will then be filled in automatically.
* [[Selfless Wish]]: Deconstructed with Yumei's story. Fuyuki gets a chance to wish for a big boat, but instead wishes for Yumei to be with her parents. Unfortunately, her parents are already dead...
* [[Shout -Out]]: Lezard is pretty much a [[Shout -Out]] of [[Harry Potter]]. He often mentions "The Philosopher's Stone" and his secret lab is called the "Chamber of Secrets". Didn't help he looks just like him, except for the hair. He also makes some fourth wall breaking comments about [[Final Fantasy]] and [[Dragon Quest]].
** Aelia's PWS is probably a shout out to [[Final Fantasy|Bahamut]].
* [[Signature Move]]: The Valkyries all use Nibelung Valesti as their [[Limit Break]].
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: {{spoiler|Odin}}'s favorite position while calmly contemplating his evil plans in the second game. It's notable that the plan goes perfectly while he's slouching magnificently. It all falls apart once he gets up out of the chair.
* [[Sole Survivor]]: {{spoiler|Celia ends up being the last alive out of her mercenary group; Arngrim, Lawfer, Aelia, and Kashell die earlier in the game (the lattermost right in front of her), while even the man she sought to confront and possibly kill ends up acting as an [[Almost -Dead Guy]] through a failed attempt at self-sacrifice, living long enough to give just an apology. Celia even mentions two other people not detailed by the game, presumed dead.}}
** {{spoiler|Also, Lezard Valeth sacrifices the Philosopher's Stone in order to survive Ragnarok.}}
* [[Soul Jar]]: Valkyries are stored within the bodies of humans until Odin needs them.
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* [[Stripperiffic]]: Mystina, which is especially noticeable when ''none'' of the ten other female characters are this. Hers is a rather practical outfit, unlike what most female wizards wear in most fictions, though it still displays much of her lower half.
** Freya, even more so than Mystina.
* [[Sucking in-In Lines]]: Aelia's finishing move.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Jayle.
* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]: Sort of. In the [[Golden Ending]], {{spoiler|Loki wipes out your party initially, then smuggly scoffs that even the Demon Sword Levantine's power didn't help the Valkyrie}}, with the game apparently assuming that you'd immediately equip Valkyrie with the [[Infinity-1 Sword]] the second you got a hold of it.
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** If you use Sap Guard on him first, everyone in your party can make a significant dent on him (Though Valkyrie will still deal the most damage)
** Also, if you have Unicorn horn, Mystic Stars can really take a huge chunk of his HP off, but again, not as much as Valkyrie.
* [[Tsundere]]: Jelanda and Mystina, who are [[Hey, It's That Voice!|both voiced by the same person]].
* [[Unbreakable Weapons]]: Most weapons are this.
* [[Underground Level]]
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* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Most undead bosses.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Yumei can switch between mermaid or human form at will. Aelia also changes form when doing her PWS.
* [[Weapon of X -Slaying]]: There's a handful of weapons named [blank]slayer, which when used will kill whatever enemy of that type it hits in one shot. They tend to be [[Breakable Weapons]], making them [[Too Awesome to Use]] except for against bosses. But, because of a bug in the way breakable weapons are tracked<ref>It only checks when the enemy's turn comes up, so if you finish the boss off, it won't check.</ref>, they can easily last you the whole game.
** There's another subset of weapons that have a Death effect based around the elemental weaknesses of an enemy rather than the type. One such sword, acquired about half-way through the game, turns the penultimate boss into a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] for your side.
* [[We Cannot Go On Without You]]: If Lenneth is dead for three rounds, the whole rest of the party goes with her. Justified in that, since they're manifestations from Lenneth herself, if she dies, they do too. Becomes an acceptable bit of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]], too.
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* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: In order to get rid of Jelanda, Lombert kidnaps her and pays two mercenaries to carry her to Villnore. Then, he sends a few soldiers to save Jelanda and gives them a "medicine" (which is, in fact, [[Body Horror|Ghoul Powder]]). If the mercenaries manage to get to Villnore, Lombert wins, if the soldiers catch up with them, they give Jelanda the "medicine", she turns into a monster and dies, and Lombert still wins.
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Nanami.
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: Lenneth is personally responsible for killing no less than two souls that join her, and a few more die due to her actions.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]
* [[Zero Effort Boss]]: {{spoiler|Hrist}}; one could say it is an interactive [[Cutscene Boss]] since she is unable to hurt anyone in your party, including 2 [[Game Breaker]] [[Guest Star Party Member|Guest Star Party Members]]. In fact, right before the fight, {{spoiler|Brahms}} says that she isn't anywhere near her true power.
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