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The first installment in the [[Wild Arms (Franchise)|Wild ARMs series]] on the Playstation. Notable for combining the Western (as in cowboys) genre with both Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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The first installment in the ''[[Wild Arms (Franchise)|Wild ARMs series]]'' series on the Playstation[[PlayStation]]. Notable for combining the Western (as in cowboys) genre with both Fantasy and Science Fiction.
 
''Wild ARMs'' is the first appearance of the eternally cursed planet Filgaia. The planet is dying after a long, destructive war with alien creatures known as demons. The weapons of the old war are blamed for the decay of the planet, and most of them are sealed away and shunned.
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* '''Cecilia Lynne Adlehyde''' is the [[Rebellious Princess]] of Adelhyde. She was educated in Curan Abbey as a [[Squishy Wizard|Crest Sorceress]] and possesses a mysterious artifact called the [[MacGuffin|Teardrop]] which allows her to commune with Guardians. Before leaving the Abbey, she unsealed the water Guardian from his long imprisonment there. She is on a quest to find and unlock all the Guardians to prevent a disaster brought about by the demons.
 
The three find themselves chosen by the Guardian Spirits of Filgaia to combat the returning Demons, who have come to [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|revive their ancient leader, Mother]]. However, it turns out everyone -even the ''villains''- have secrets they must deal with...
 
This game was [[Video Game Remake|remade]] as ''Wild ARMs: Alter Code F'' for the Playstation[[PlayStation 2]].
 
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{{tropelist}}
This game provides examples of:
 
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Deconstructed. Only Hanpan is small enough to get out this way.
* [[Alien Sky]]: There are two moons, the natural moon and the artificial moon Malduke which {{spoiler|serves as [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]}}.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The minute the villagers find out Rudy has an ARM, they immediately forget he just saved Tony's life in the caves and protected them all from a really nasty monster. They drive him out without so much as a thank you.
** The fact that many people consider the ARMs to be terrible weapons used by the demons didn't exactly help.
** {{spoiler|A flashback reveals that he has been an outcast his entire life, not just because he has an ARM, but because his nature as a "Holmcross" gives him unnatural strength and combat abilities (with said weapons). This tended to freak people out more often than not.}}
* [[Artificial Human]]: {{spoiler|Rudy}}
* [[Audible Sharpness]]
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: In the remake, {{spoiler|Berserk is resurrected for one last rematch during the finale.}}
* [[Badass]]: Boomerang. After {{spoiler|dying while pulling off a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to protect the main characters, he claws his way up back from hell so that he can fight them one more time.}}
** {{spoiler|Which is kind of funny to think about if your party loses to him.}}
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* [[Big Eater]]: Cecilia. How she keeps that figure is anyone's guess.
** Lampshaded - apparently being a mage just uses that much energy! In the remake, she claims that she's one of the ''lighter'' eaters at the Abbey.
* [[Bishonen Line]]: {{spoiler|Mother is initially a fleshy, larva-like demonic creature. After absorbing Zeikfried, however, her "Motherfried" form looks serene and human, even cradling Zeikfried in her arms like a baby.}}
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The original game. "Ray Line" indeed. The remake, while it fixes some of the worst typos, somehow manages to come up with its own that are just as bad - "How do we get thru this barrier?" indeed. In both, Jack's surname is supposed to be ''Vambrace'', which is why he calls himself "The armguard." "Van Burace" makes the metaphor meaningless.
** Where the hell did "Arch" come from when the original translation was "cocoon" in the remake's version of the prologue movie at Arctica?
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** "[[Alice in Wonderland|Jabberwocky]]" became "Javawalk."
** "Jack-o-Lantern" became "Jacklanton." ''...Really?''
** "[[Tower of Babel|Ka Dingir]]" (or Ka Dig̃ir—the Sumerian name for Babel/Babylon) became "Ka Dingel."
** "Lucied" became "Luceid," which appears to be a typo...copypasted across the entire script.
** "[[Mesopotamian Mythology|Marduk]]" became "Malduke."
** "[[The Bible|Megiddo]] Flame" became "Megid Flame"."
** "Nicola" [[Inconsistent Dub|inconsistently]] became "Nicholi" or "Nichola."
** "Ragu O Ragula" [[Inconsistent Dub|inconsistently]] became "Rago Ragla", "Ragu Ragla" or "Raguragura." [[Egregious|That's just sad.]]
** "Saint Centaur" became "Saint Centour."
** "[[Kabbalah|Sephirot(h)]]" became "Sephiroto"."
** "[[Norse Mythology|Siegfried]]" became "Zeikfried."
*** {{spoiler|"Sieg [[Gratuitous German|Zwei]]" became the even more mangled "Zeik Tuvai."}}
* [[Blood Knight]]: Boomerang and Lucied.
* [[Body Horror]]: What {{spoiler|Alhazad's Demon Seed}} does to its victims is not pretty. And then there's Mother, {{spoiler|especially after she "merges" with Zeikfried}}.
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* [[Bottomless Pits]]
* [[Braggart Boss]]: Zed.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Alter Code F, after Rudy defeats the Rotting Beast
* [[Cat Fight]]: [[Duel Boss|Cecilia VS Elizabeth]] is nothing but this.
* [[Chew Toy]]: Poor, poor Bartholomew, especially in ACF. People seem to care about everyone else except him, especially when it comes to retrieving the second Gemini circuit.
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* [[Cosmic Keystone]]: The Teardrop and the Leyline.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The demons' assault on Arctica. The humans never stood a chance.
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: While all of the battles against the Quarter Knights are winnable, most of the after fight cutscenes in the remake make it seem like your party was utterly trounced, or at least beaten half to death. This is especially noticablenoticeable in the first few Berserk fights and the first Boomerang fight.
* [[Death Course]]: Jack's introduction.
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Mother}}
* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: The Photosphere
* [[Dub Text]]: In one of the more hilarious typos in the [[They Just Didn't Care|Agetec-translated]] remake, Alhazad gets called a "she" in his first appearance in the prologue. What makes this hilarious is that one of Al's defining traits is his creepy advances towards [[Dark Action Girl|Lady Harken]], so Agetec ''accidentally turned him into a [[Psycho Lesbian]]'', making it apparent that they never bothered to check up the plot of the game beforehand since Alhazad shows this part of his nature ''at the end of the same prologue''. They caught on later, having the next reference to his gender being a comment from Magdalen about that "fellow"." However, that one "she" was never fixed, making this also an example of [[Inconsistent Dub]].
* [[Duel Boss]]: Jack vs. Harken, Cecilia vs. Elizabeth, and, in Alter Code F only, Rudy vs. the Rotting Beast again in a sidequest.
* [[Edge Gravity]]
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* [[Evil Genius]]: Alhazad.
* [[Evil Is Dumb]]: [[Harmless Villain]] {{spoiler|Zed}}'s dramatic improvement in effectiveness when he becomes a secret recruitable party member in ''Alter Code F''.
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|The demons awaken the [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]], Mother. She immediately reveals her plans to kill them and destroy their new world. So the demons naturally turn on her and kill her. Unfortunately, she turns out to be [[Not Quite Dead]] and she possesses Zeikfried anyway, fulfilling the trope.}}
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Mother has a ''voiced'' one. Also, Alhazad has one for each version. (A sickening "Khhk khhk khhk" in the original, and a less sickening, but still pretty creepy "kekeke" in ''Alter Code F'')
** Berserk had one too.
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* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: {{spoiler|Alhazad's true form has a single eye. In his ''mouth''.}}
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Lucied, Guardian of Desire, is said to have defected to the demons during the war. She actually became the partner to [[Blood Knight]] Boomerang, who [[Wild Card|served no one.]] }}
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Mother}}
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: In order to get the player to manage their resources, there were no MP- or special cartridge bullet-restoring items programmed into ''Alter Code F'' - the only way to restore either is by leveling up or sleeping at an inn.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Relations between humans and Elw are less then rosy.
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: Mother and the Quarter Knights.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Most, if not all, of Alhazad's various atrocities were done solely for his own amusement.
* [[Fridge Brilliance]] / [[Fridge Logic]] : See the [[Wild Arms 1 (Video Game)/Fridge|fridge namespace]] for this work.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Averted to varying degrees. For example, Jack's special ability is the Fast Draw, based on his ability to create magical effects from drawing his sword quickly. He's all about speed. In gameplay terms, he is pretty much the fastest character, friend or foe: he almost always goes first. There is pretty much only one enemy that's faster: Lady Harken. This is in fact a plot point: she also uses the Fast Draw, and is {{spoiler|Elmina, one of the Fenril Knights who sacrificed herself for Jack.}}
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: In the original, an item-duplication glitch renders resources almost completely trivial. Unlimited Crest Graphs means Cecilia's balancing factor (limited number of spells available) is gone, while unlimited [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys|Duplicators]] means getting access to high powered stuff way too early.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Rudy.
* [[Hammerspace]]: Where ''does'' Rudy keep that huge shotgun when he's not using it? And how did the villagers miss it before he used it to protect them?
* [[Harmless Villain]]: Zed. {{spoiler|In both games, he becomes a [[Not So Harmless Villain|Not So Harmless]] [[Bonus Boss]]; in the remake, he joins as one of the strongest party members.}}
* [[Hammerspace]]: Where ''does'' Rudy keep that huge shotgun when he's not using it? And how did the villagers miss it before he used it to protect them?
** In answer to the first... well, [[Hammerspace]]. In answer to the second, apparently it was hidden amongst his belongings - one of the villagers admits to having found it when he searched them!
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Mother gives one during the first confrontation with her. It basically boils down to, "All things are meant to come to an end, [[Omnicidal Maniac|and what better way to have it end then me]]?"
* [[Harmless Villain]]: Zed. {{spoiler|In both games, he becomes a [[Not -So -Harmless Villain|Not So Harmless]] [[Bonus Boss]]; in the remake, he joins as one of the strongest party members.}}
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Lose to any Quarter Knight in the remake and its game over. ''Win'', and the after fight cutscene acts like you lost anyway.
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Oddly, in the original, Rudy used a sword, despite him wielding a pistol-looking weapon in all official art. ''Alter Code F'' changed it so that he used the above-mentioned [[BFG]] for normal attacks as well as his special moves.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Rudy
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* [[How We Got Here]]: The opening sequence of the remake is essentially {{spoiler|the ending of the game.}} You just have to find out those events.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In the remake's ending, {{spoiler|Jane claims she isn't brash or rude enough to interrupt Rudy and Jack's reunion with Cecilia.}}
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: In the remake, Jane does not like having "Calamity" put in front of her name.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Cecilia cuts off her hair to prove to Jack that she's serious about going after the demons.
* [[In -Game Novel]]: Only present in the remake.
* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Subverted in Jack's opening dungeon, many of the chest have already been looted. Otherwise played straight.
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Zed, while not exactly a pushover in battle, is largely viewed as a joke that can't do anything right, both by the heroes and his fellow villains. Which makes the [[Bonus Boss|optional battle]] against him late in the game much more alarming when he proves surprisingly capable of handing you your ass...
* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Subverted in Jack's opening dungeon, many of the chest have already been looted. Otherwise played straight.
* [[Innocent Flower Girl]]: Mariel
* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: Duplicators, although it is justified because they're actually magic keys that can only take on one shape once, and thus only unlock one lock.
* [[Interface Screw]]: In the original, a confused character wouldn't respond correctly to player input. Changing leads fixes this.
* [[Item Caddy]]: Jane, to a degree.
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: Jack never forgave the demons for {{spoiler|the destruction of Arctica}}.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Jack
* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: {{spoiler|You know that Darkness Tear that was supposed to destroy the Guardians and eradicate all life on Filgaia and was the focus of the plot for a quarter of the game? Only a mere distraction to allow Zeikfried to locate and raise Ka Dingel.}}
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Despite the fact that Jack {{spoiler|was a Western-style knight}}, he uses a katana.
* [[Kill Sat]]: {{spoiler|[[Bonus Boss]] Barbados fires off a laser ''before'' you start out the battle against it. If you had Asgard with you though, he'll nullify it with a barrier.}}
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** Did you miss opening a single treasure chest? Have fun scouring through EVERY dungeon again in order to find it before being able to open the Black Box.
* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]]: Rudy's ARM exhibits no recoil in the remake. {{spoiler|This may be because he's made of metal - but no one mentions he's particularly heavy, even Jack who carries him at a few points.}}
** It is actually mentioned (and shown) that Rudy is very, VERY strong. Much stronger than one would think given his size and apparent age.
*** Why he's so strong is actually a plot point that's explained by ''[[The Reveal]]'' and not a case of ''[[Muscles Are Meaningless]].''
* [[Leitmotif]]: Each Quarter Knight has their own unique theme in the remake, and they are ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome]]''.
* [[Ley Line]]: Infamously [[Blind Idiot Translation|mistranslated]] as Ray Line in the original.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Jack.
* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: Rudy {{spoiler|cuts off (or blows off, in the remake) his own arm to save himself.}}
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Jack.
* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: Boomerang's explanation when he returns as a bonus boss.
* [[Lost Forever]]: Played straight in the original with several items (including Crest Graphs and one Rune) in numerous one-shot dungeons. Averted in the remake as all items in one-shot dungeons are required to obtain or dropped by the boss while monsters in those dungeons can appear in the Forest Prison.
* [[Lost Technology]]: In addition to ARMs and golemsGolems, {{spoiler|Rudy himself is made of lost technology}}.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Both Cecelia and Jane have a thing for Rudy but Rudy seems to either be going for the harem ending or is just [[Oblivious to Love]].
* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: Quite literally -- [[Stupidity Is the Only Option|you actually go to great lengths in order to do just that, fully aware of whom you're giving it to and how much of a bad idea it is]], although it's basically the heroes being unable to [[Take a Third Option|Take (or Think Up) a Third Option]] on the [[Sadistic Choice]]. This essentially sets up the plot for the first half of the game.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Alhazad has traits of this.
* [[Mass "Oh Crap"]]: The Quarter Knights, upon learning Mother's [[Omnicidal Maniac|true objectives]]. Even worse in the remake when {{spoiler|she flat-out tells the Quarter Knights that their entire reason for existing is for them to become her next vessels.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: A [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Vambrace |"vambrace"]] is a piece of armor that covers the forearm, {{spoiler|the significance of which is pointed out when Jack / Garrett receives the title in his [[Backstory]], as he can protect the "sword arm" of the Fenril Knights.}} [[Lost in Translation|This would have made a lot more sense if his name hadn't been translated as Van Burace.]]
** Boomerang plays this straight in the original (guess his [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|weapon]]), but in the remake he has a sword...that acts like a boomerang.
* [[Mega Manning]]: Emma gets her skill set by downloading the abilities of monsters, much like Marivel of ''[[Wild Arms 2 (Video Game)|Wild ArmsARMs 2]]''.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Rudy.
* [[Mirror Match]]: The Doppelganger enemy. Also the Shadow enemy in the Abyss; if the mirrored character is in the vanguard at the time, s/he will feel the same damage given to the Shadows.
* [[Monster Arena]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Most closely applies to Jack after defeating Harken in the Demon's Lab dungeon and seeing who she really is.
** Also {{spoiler|Magdalen}} reveals he had one of these during his backstory in the remake. {{spoiler|He was originally a Wanderer who found an old ARM that was placed on display at an exhibition. It went out of control and killed several people. Nicholi Maxwell took responsibility and took in the orphaned children from the accident. Magdalen swore loyalty to the family to repay that debt and especially after Mrs. Maxwell died in childbirth when Jane was born.}}
* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: The Rotting Beast, which can regenerate from literally ''any'' wound. The best one can hope to do is seal it away with a Holy Berry. {{spoiler|And in the remake, not even ''that'' is enough.}}
* [[Noble Demon]]: Zed, Boomerang and Harken, especially Zed.
* [[Non -Human Sidekick]]: Hanpan
* [[Not -So -Harmless Villain]]: In the original, Belselk/Berserk was pathetically easy. In the remake? [[That One Boss|Not]] [[Hopeless Boss Fight|so]] [["Wake -Up Call" Boss|much]]. Also happens in-story with the vast difference between Zed's story battles and the optional boss fight against him.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Jane in both versions when she finds the team talking to her father at Court Seim, mainly because {{spoiler|she does NOT want him to know that she's Calamity Jane and has been hunting dangerous bounties to keep the orphanage afloat.}}
** In the remake it doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: {{spoiler|When the evil tower [[Tower of Babel|Ka Dingel]]}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-e98vmWyw {{spoiler|rises from the sea}}].
*: ''Et sōlis aurōra, paradīsī porta, per quam lūx est orta!''
*: ''ET SŌLIS AURŌRA, PARADĪSĪ PORTA, PER QUAM LŪX EST ORTA!''
*: '''''ET SŌLIS AURŌRA, PARADĪSĪ PORTA, PER QUAM LŪX EST ORTA!'''''
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Mother. Apparently, Zeikfried and the other Quarter Knights were ''not'' aware of this, and are understandably [[Even Evil Has Standards|shocked/horrified]] when they find out.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Zed, Boomerang, Alhazad and Zeikfried.}}
* [[One Bad Mother]]: And how!
* [[One Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Zed, Boomerang, Alhazad and Zeikfried.}}
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: The demons are from the planet Hyades and made of metal. {{spoiler|Lady Harken is the exception, as she is from Filgaea and was human.}}
* [[Our Homunculi Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Rudy}}. He's made of living metal, for one thing.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Boomerang {{spoiler|allowing the party to leave with one of Asgard's power units after fighting them to a standstill.}} Zed {{spoiler|choosing to protect the blind girl who was the sole survivor of Alhazad's [[Moral Event Horizon|Demon Seed experiment]] rather than killing her.}}
* [[Plaguemaster]]: Alhazad
* [[Powers Asas Programs]]: Emma can download enemy skills to learn them in the remake.
* [[Precision -Guided Boomerang]]: Hanpan serves the role of one.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Possibly Alhazad, who refers to humanity as his "toys" and states that his one wish is to "play with them" (read: subject to horrible experiments) forever.
* [[Precision Guided Boomerang]]: Hanpan serves the role of one.
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: The Shadow and Alhazad in the remake.
* [[Rare Candy]]: Apples. They increase various stats in the original and give an automatic level up in the remake.
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* [[Robotic Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Rudy, after he cuts/shoots off his own arm.}}
** The character in question is not really a robot (and is, in every sense, a living being). They are, however, artificially created.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Hanpan. That a flying mouse is the smart guy on the team may say something about the other characters.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: The main plot is started by one.
* [[Scavenger World]]
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Emma, of all people. Hard to believe she's 39.
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: Mother.
* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: Angol Moa/Angolmois, Van Burace/Vambrace, Fenril/Fenrir Knights, and Zeikfried/Siegfried, among others. Also, some [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Names]] [[Lost in Translation]]--not only Vambrace, but [[HP Lovecraft|Alhazred]] rendered as Alhazad, and the granddaddy of them all, or at least Rudy, "Zepet" Roughnight. [[Pinocchio|Gepetto]] ring any bells?
* [[Scavenger World]]
* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Mother.
* [[Shadow Pin]]: Jack's Shadowbind.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Emma, of all people. Hard to believe she's 39.
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: The Sand River dungeon.
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Lady Harken.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Quite literal. At one point, the party has to kill a dog mutated by Alhazad's Demon Seed.}}
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Lady Harken.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Hanpan. That a flying mouse is the smart guy on the team may say something about the other characters.
* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: There was a puzzle involving five chests on one side of a dungeon and five bookcases on the other side of the dungeon. You had to somehow read the books in the bookcases to tell you whether or not to leave it's respective chest open or close. It may have been [[Lost in Translation]]. And it returned in the remake, and was [[Guide Dang It|still freaking hard to understand!]] But fortunately, this time it was optional.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Sort of averted in that Belselk is the first Quarter Knight you face. As [[The Brute]], he's actually the strongest of the bunch, and in the remake {{spoiler|is resurrected right before the final battle}}.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Angol Moa/Angolmois, Van Burace/Vambrace, Fenril/Fenrir Knights, and Zeikfried/Siegfried, among others. Also, some [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Names]] [[Lost in Translation]]--not only Vambrace, but [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|Alhazred]] rendered as Alhazad, and the granddaddy of them all, or at least Rudy, "Zepet" Roughnight. [[Pinocchio|Gepetto]] ring any bells?
* [[Sprite Polygon Mix]]: In the original.
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Cecilia. Emma in the remake is even squishier, though it's more accurate to call her a Squishy Scientist.
* [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|Zeikfried helps the heroes defeat Mother so he can take over once he discovers her goals...[[Omnicidal Maniac|weren't exactly what he thought they were.]]}}
* [[Summon Magic]]: The Guardians.
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: {{spoiler|Arguably the entire point of Zeikfried's [[One -Winged Angel]] form.}}
* [[Talking Animal]]: Hanpan.
* [[Technicolor Death]]: Each generic enemy dies by flashing colors and collapsing vertically into a little pool on the ground. Bosses get enhanced effects.
* [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: Rudy after he {{spoiler|loses an arm and finds out he's an [[Artificial Human]].}}
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Jack does not like being reminded of his old life of being {{spoiler|Garret, a guard of Arctica Palace.}}
* [[Theme Music Power -Up]]: Rudy during {{spoiler|his rematch against the Rotting Beast in the remake.}}
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: The final battle with Lady Harken, which, as noted above, [[Duel Boss|Jack fights alone]].
* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Rudy}}.
* [[Took a Shortcut]]: Jane somehow gets around with ease, despite her home being in an inaccessible location only available to the party after obtaining a unique vehicle.
* [[To the Tune Of]]: The title theme, "Into the Wilderness," sounds strangely like "Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport."
* [[Tomato in The Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Rudy}}.
* [[Took a Shortcut]]: Jane somehow gets around with ease, despite her home being in an inaccessible location only available to the party after obtaining a unique vehicle.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cecilia and burgers or curry, depending on the translation.
* [[Tragic Monster]]: {{spoiler|Lady Harken used to be a guard at Arctica like Jack, and was actually his best friend and possible lover. She actually realizes this eventually, and allows Jack to kill her in their last battle.}}
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* [[Video Game Remake]]: They went all out: new sidequests, new characters, clarified plot points, the whole nine yards. Now if only the translation was updated too...
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|When Mother is defeated the first time, she starts to break down because she can't understand how she could be defeated if she's the "destined destroyer" of reality. Its made more explicit in the remake.}}
* [[Technicolor Death]]: Each generic enemy dies by flashing colors and collapsing vertically into a little pool on the ground. Bosses get enhanced effects.
* [[The Virus]]: {{spoiler|Alhazad's Demon Seed parasite.}}
* [[Walking the Earth]]: What Rudy and Jack were doing before the game opened. All Wanderers do this, to some extent.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: In the original, Jane mentions that she has an older sister named Jessica. While she never actually appears on screen, she's apparently even cuter than Jane and one kid comments on how [[She's Got Legs]]. In the remake, Jessica only gets a passing mention during a bit of backstory exposition prior to Jane becoming a permanent member.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: After Berserk's attack on Adelhyde, Jack calls Cecillia out for not taking the demon threat seriously.
* [[White Magician Girl]]: Cecilia.
* [[Wild Card]]: Boomerang pretty much only cares about fighting, so much so that his strong desire for battle seduced {{spoiler|the Guardian of Desire}} to follow him. At one point, he even protects the party from his supposed allies in order to be able to fight with them again.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Boomerang and Lucied
* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: Most of the villains were given a completely different appearance in the remake. Boomerang is now a cyborg with a [[Badass Longcoat]], Harken is more akin to a Valkyrie, Berserk has more traditional battle armor [[White -Haired Pretty Boy|and long white hair]], Zed was made fairly more human-like, Mother became much paler and taller, and some would argue even more frightening, and Ziekfried is now completleycompletely armored head to toe, and bears a slight resemblenceresemblance to [[Soul Series|Nightmare]]. The only villain who retained his original appearance was Alhazad.
* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: {{spoiler|You know that Darkness Tear that was supposed to destroy the Guardians and eradicate all life on Filgaia and was the focus of the plot for a quarter of the game? Only a mere distraction to allow Zeikfried to locate and raise Ka Dingel.}}
* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: Most of the villains were given a completely different appearance in the remake. Boomerang is now a cyborg with a [[Badass Longcoat]], Harken is more akin to a Valkyrie, Berserk has more traditional battle armor [[White Haired Pretty Boy|and long white hair]], Zed was made fairly more human-like, Mother became much paler and taller, and some would argue even more frightening, and Ziekfried is now completley armored head to toe, and bears a slight resemblence to [[Soul Series|Nightmare]]. The only villain who retained his original appearance was Alhazad.
** Several human characters had several changes as well. Magdalen is much older. Bartholomew actually looks like a sea captain (while Drake looks like a typical pirate). Jane mostly retains her appearance but her personality is refined to make her a much bigger tomboy while retaining her tsundere nature. Zepet looks more like the adventurer he was. And finally, Nicholi actually looks like Jane's father.
*** This could apply during the end credits art montage in the original. While Jane was a blonde during the game, at the very end her hair is suddenly brown.
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