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* [[Arc Words]]: Hero. The entire game seems to be an analysis of what it means to be a hero.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: You'll be surprised to see how much Tony took Marina's screen time in the Drama CD.
* [[Badass Long Hair]]" Brad definitely, Anastasia back in the day
* [[BFS]]
** Ashley's weapon isn't actually a sword, but a rather normal rifle...equipped with a ridiculously large bayonet that may as well ''be'' a sword.
** The sword
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Irving and his sister Altaecia both had to die to destroy the Kuiper Belt. And, as always, Filgaia is still a wasteland that is slowly recovering.}}
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The game script has signs of this throughout and it's jarring when one comes upon them, but overall the translation is actually fairly decent for a
* [[Block Puzzle]]
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Lots of them, entrapped within the sealed pyramids you see floating around certain towns and dungeons.
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** Both games' worlds have extremely violent histories that at least once or twice involved the a planet-wide near-genocide. But the theme of Filgaia being a scorched world is common to the ''Wild Arms'' series in general.
** The Sword Magess was a fairly ordinary girl who became a Hero of extraordinary means and elevated to legendary icon [[Sacrificial Lion]], reminiscent of Sophia's tragic canonization in ''Xenogears''.
** Though a trend already started in the first ''[[Wild ARMs]]'' game, Filgaia is a scorched world, having seen the trauma of cataclysms in the past. Similarly, the world of ''Xenogears'' has been battered just as badly, with one continent shattered and another continent all but
*** Ashley holds two conflicting personalities within him, one of which is a veritable [[Eldritch Abomination]], which is very reminiscent of Fei's cataclysmic Id in ''Xenogears''. In both cases, the protagonist gains effective partial control over their dark size and summon it to battle when necessary. But neither have total control over it.
*** Brad and Rico are both tall half-[[Walking Shirtless Scene]] [[Mighty Glacier]] [[Badass]]es wearing an [[Explosive Leash]] while sitting in prison for years, slated to become mighty heroes with a potent [[Fan Yay]] factor. And considering that Rico's chronic roommate is a smaller [[Ambiguously Gay]] guy {{spoiler|whom Rico later mourns and frequently reminisces about}}, it begins to seem like Brad is all but a [[Race Lift]] [[Captain Ersatz]] of Rico.
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Lord Blazer, along with other [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] like Ragu O'Ragula. And then there's {{spoiler|the Kuiper Belt}}, which is somewhere between this and...
* [[Eldritch Location]]: {{spoiler|[[Boss Subtitles|Encroaching Parallel Universe: Kuiper Belt]]}}
* [[Evolving Credits]]: The opening animation changes depending on how far into the game you are. (Actually, when you change game discs.)
* [[Evolving Weapon]]: You can buy upgrades for Ashley's and Brad's guns.
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: You can't buy healing items (though as with later games, this is justified as Filgaia is mostly a barren wasteland). You also can't take back Personal Skill points once you've used them to buy skills. Did you buy a useless skill? Sorry! {{spoiler|Put everything into Up HP first and don't ever get the status resistances.}} However, see the [[Game Breaker]] entry on healing items.
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* [[Free Rotating Camera]]
* [[G-Rated Sex]]: {{spoiler|Ashley and his girlfriend}}. The scene does a [[Fade to Black]], but the subtitles that stay are pretty much [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: See [[G-Rated Sex]] below. Also, [[spoiler:Irving and Altaecia are very strongly implied as [[Brother-Sister Incest|being in a relationship]]}}.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: {{spoiler|The Kuiper Belt}} is not even hinted at for the entire first disc, and is the focus of the second.
** On a smaller scale, there are also plenty of random giant monsters for the party to fight throughout the story.
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** "Dragons" in this game are essentially Humongous Bio-Mecha, but especially Lombardia, who can [[Transforming Mecha|turn into a jet]]. {{spoiler|He even gets a Gundam-esque "launch sequence" when you first recruit him as your [[Global Airship]].}}
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Lilka (umbrellas) and Marivel (robot-things)
* [[Inept Mage]]: Lika, though not as extreme as the other trope examples: she's still learning some things, but...
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Marivel, mixed with [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Girl]]. And Liz.
* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: Duplicators.
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: [[Quirky Mini Boss Squad|Liz and Ard]]'s special battle theme sounds like the main theme to ''[[The Good the Bad and the Ugly|The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly]]''.
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* [[Non Lethal Bottomless Pits]]
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: Unlike in the other Wild Arms games, the demons here are not aliens, but actual supernatural beings.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Marivel}} and the Crimson Nobles. They're still pretty traditional Vampires as far as this trope is concerned (
* [[Party in My Pocket]]
* [[Pensieve Flashback]]: The Memory Maze
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* [[Plot Tailored to the Party]]: Some of the dungeons are tailored to the party's skills to a ''ridiculous'' extreme.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: A mild theme throughout the game, {{spoiler|exemplified in Ashley's Impulse ability in the final battle}}.
* [[Recurring Boss]]: You fight almost every major villain three times, including each member of Cocytus, as well as Kanon, Liz and Ard, and Vinsfeld {{spoiler|(the third time is his ghost, as a [[Bonus Boss]])}}.
* [[Save Point]]: The [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|Memory Service Ladies]] who appear in towns and the Amazing Stones that are found in dungeons.
* [[The Scapegoat]]: Brad is in jail for a crime he didn't commit; later, Ashley and company almost get executed
* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: Lilka's sister is {{spoiler|trapped in another dimension; unusually for this trope, she never gets freed from the can and Lilka even has to ''give up the hope of ever getting her back'' to save Ashley instead}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The land of Urartu was once the home of the {{spoiler|Crimson Nobles}}, but was genocidally depopulated during the past rampage of Lord Blazer. Urartu is an archaic name for [[Armenia]], where a [[Real Life]] genocide in [[World War I]] killed 1.5 million Armenians, including nearly the entire Armenian population in most of the former West Armenia.
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* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]
** Transforming into Knight Blazer is accompanied by an awesome theme song that lets it be known that you're about to kick some serious ass.
** The final boss theme is a remix of the game's main theme, "[[You Are Not Alone|You'll Never Be Alone No Matter Where You Go]]". {{spoiler|Appropriately, Ashley has just transformed into a warrior capable of wielding the Argetlahm and using [[The Power of Friendship]] to kick ass.}}
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: The final dungeon in this game sees the party heading into {{spoiler|the living, mud core of the planet called Glaive Le Gable,}} where {{spoiler|an encroaching parallel universe has been manifested into a physical form.}} Before this dungeon was a huge, inverted Spiral Tower located conveniently on the center of the world map, and on the highest point to boot.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
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