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{{quote|'''Stand Tall and Shake the Heavens.'''}}
''Xenogears'' was released by [[Square Enix]] in 1998 for the original Playstation. [[Love It or Hate It|Considered either a flawed masterpiece (by fans) or a steaming pile of shit (by non-fans)]], it is nonetheless a cult classic. It is particularly remembered for a uniquely convoluted plot spanning ten thousand years, themes cooked out of Gnosticism, Jewish mysticism and Jungian psychology, and an atmosphere that was remarkably [[Anime]]-like for its time, leading to the game's infamous hour-long cutscenes.
''Xenogears'' is the story of Fei Fong Wong, a sensitive painter (and spectacular martial artist) with a [[Easy Amnesia|past he's conveniently forgotten]], who [[Genre Blindness|believes himself a normal person]] and wants merely to [[Refusal of the Call|live out his life in the backwater town of Lahan]], up until the moment it gets [[Doomed Hometown|razed down into the ground]] by a [[Humongous Mecha|mechanical fighting machine called a Gear]]. With his [[Because Destiny Says So|fate bound]] to this rather unique Gear, and searched after by the Gebler, the military force of the [[Floating Continent|celestial empire of Solaris]], our reluctant hero has to flee, aided by the town doctor, [[The Obi-Wan|Citan Uzuki]], who is nothing but more than he seems.
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Of course, rather than just [[Dying Like Animals|hide in a hole in the ground]] or something simple like that, Fei instead gets caught up with the struggles between a [[La Résistance|rebel]] prince for his kingdom; a swordfighting [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|bishonen]] villain from the inner circles of the Empire of Solaris; [[Path of Inspiration|the Ethos]], a mysterious church with gunslingin' priests that have a stranglehold on the world's technology; and most notably an officer of Gebler named Elhaym Van Houten, whom he [[Red String of Fate|conveniently calls "Elly" before learning her name]]. Tossed across the globe in search for a place where people don't try to kill him and perhaps some explanation for his [[Mysterious Past]], Fei and his [[True Companions|growing crew of unlikely companions]] start to uncover the forgotten past of the world and learn of its true underlying struggles that go back thousands of years.
All of this, of course, goes right to the heart of the issue of who Fei actually is, which Fei desperately tries to figure out while combating some five fairly well written villains, who on top of everything, have the distinct advantage of being in a game which gives them more screen time than most party members and a surprisingly fair chance of getting what they want. This is about the point where things get [[Mind Screw|really weird]], as the disk changes, and {{spoiler|Fei learns he has a monster living inside his head. ''Himself''
It has been suggested that the primary reason for sudden change in style on
Interestingly enough, the game's creators have [[Word of God|stated]] that in its early development stages, ''Xenogears'' was planned to be ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', and later, ''[[Chrono Cross]]''.
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Followed up a few years later by ''[[Xenosaga]]'' for [[PlayStation 2]], a [[Spiritual Successor]] franchise and [[Continuity Reboot]]. However, it was developed by [[Monolith Soft]], which was formed by ''Xenogears'' team members that left [[Square Enix]] after the completion of the original game. Also, the game was produced and published by Namco. [[Broken Base|Many believe didn't live up to the original game, although many others believe it surpassed it.]]
In 2010, it had yet another [[Spiritual Successor]], although [[In Name Only]]: ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]'' for Wii. Also developed by [[Tetsuya Takahashi]] and [[Monolith Soft]], but this time produced and published by Nintendo. Although this one was arguably more faithful to the spirit of the original ''Xenogears''.
Now up on the Playstation Network.
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* [[Ace Custom]]: The most powerful normal Gears are these. Among the heroes' models, Heimdal, Brigandier, Stier and probably Renmazuo come to mind; the others are mainly [[Lost Technology]].
* [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]]: Shevat and Solaris.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Sophia, Maria, Billy
* [[After the End]]:
** Zeboim was a civilization with technology analogous to our world [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. {{spoiler|Miang and Cain}} engineered its destruction because of lifespan shortening genetic damage of its population. Nearly all the Gears excavated from the ruins of the world originated in the Zeboim era.
** Five hundred years ago,
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]:
** This is a big part of Krelian's backstory: {{spoiler|the man flipped his shit when Sophia sacrificed herself. He loved her, she thought they were [[Just Friends]]. He reasoned that a just God would not let Sophia die while Solaris continued to exist, thus there was no just God in the universe
** Domina also loves Ramsus, but he's so wrapped up in his own issues that he can't see it. Citan and Jessie set him straight by the end of the game, though.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: All there in the Japanese-only "Perfect Works"
* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: Remember terms within -dashes-? Well, in the Japanese version, these dashes were <pointy brackets>. You see, ''Xenogears''{{'}}s text system did not really support Furigana like, for example, ''Xenosaga''{{'}}s did, and so used one term without brackets to show what the character saying this term is meaning, while using the brackets to designate how they were supposed to be spoken. Like so: ''Stand back, Surface Dweller<Lamb>''. In keeping with traditional English syntax, the best way to designate this in the US version could have been something like this: ''Stand back, Lamb (Surface Dweller)''. Unfortunately, the translator either did not know this or, more likely, thought it would look ugly, and thus let the characters use both terms most of the time, putting the furigana term -in dashes-. This leads to some oddities, though, such as Fei not getting what Elly means when using the term lamb, even though he must have gotten from the syntax that she was referring to "surface dwellers" (and thus would have to ask a completely different question). Furthermore, some stuff got lost or confused, such as the term ''Time (Reversal) of the Gospel'', which was rendered ''-time- of the -gospel-'' In the English version. Much subtext is lost or changed this way
* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Averted. Bart and Sigurd both have two separate character portraits to ensure that their [[Eyepatch of Power|eyepatches]] always cover the correct eyes.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|To count them all: firstly [[God of Evil|Deus]] spawned the human race to repair the damage it sustained and Miang is its primary agent across human history to ensure humanity grows the right way. Secondly, [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|Cain and the Dazel Ministry]] create of Solaris, a country founded by Cain to originally take control of surface to better direct its development, and though at first resort to using force eventually use subtler methods to control it. Third, [[Magnificent Bastard|Krelian]] wants to manipulate all of the latter to achieve his own ends and travel [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|the Path of Sephirot]]. Fifth [[Blood Knight|Grahf]], who is badass enough to make a conspiracy all by himself, wants to use Deus' power to rule the universe, or destroy it. Finally, the Zohar itself wants to use the -Contact-, in this case Fei, to destroy Deus and free itself
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: The introduction for the game features a spaceship whose systems, under mysterious circumstances, lead to its destruction and crashing onto the planet. This event, and what it has to do with the main plot, is not explained until near the end, but most of the specific events and characters featured in it are really not important at all.
* [[And Man Grew Proud]]: The rise and fall of Zeboim, or {{spoiler|how Miang fixes her mistakes}}.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|A Class 2 occurs by the end of the game. According to the [[All There in the Manual|backstory]], Miang induces these at regular intervals. Also, before the start of the game, there was the interstellar war that Deus was built for. It is unclear how destructive it was, possibly ranging from Class 0 to almost Class 3
▲* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|A Class 2 occurs by the end of the game. According to the [[All There in the Manual|backstory]], Miang induces these at regular intervals. Also, before the start of the game, there was the interstellar war that Deus was built for. It is unclear how destructive it was, possibly ranging from Class 0 to almost Class 3.}}
* [[Armies Are Evil]]: Although many of the antagonists are members of Gebler, the only truly evil member of the armed forces is {{spoiler|Miang}}.
* [[Artificial Human]]: Emeralda, and also
* [[Artistic License Biology]]: The game writers seem to have some... interesting... ideas about how DNA works. Fan translations of [[All There in the Manual|Perfect Works]] have revealed that the weird backstory justifications for some of the technology in the game takes this [[Up to Eleven]], like [[A Wizard Did It|The Wave Existence did it]].
* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: {{spoiler|Krelian}}, after he ''loses'' no less.
* [[Assist Character]]:
** Margie assists Bart once; she was once meant to be a [[Player Character]], who got demoted [[Non-Player Character|NPC status]].
** Miang assists Ramsus every time he fights the player, until she becomes a boss herself.
* [[Attack Drone]]: The Aerodes on some gears are basically the funnels or bits from the ''Gundam'' series: small remote weapons controlled by special people (elementals in ''Xenogears' case) that mount small beam guns to execute multi-range attacks.
* [[Badass]]:
** ID: Taking on a couple of gears with his bare hands, hurling a warship onto another gear, and utterly devastating [[Floating Continent|Solaris]] during his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
{{quote|'''???:'''That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!}}
** Grahf: Also taking on a party of gears with his bare hands, and his badassness [[Immortality|transcends mortality]], mostly as a response to his snapping out of his {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD]] caused by the death of the current incarnation of Elly, back when he was Lacan}}. He also enjoys giving other characters a [[Took a Level
{{quote|'''Grahf:''' My fist is the divine breath!}}
* [[Bare-Fisted Monk]]: Several party members, but Fei is the best example.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Sigurd is a rare male example.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Played straight, toyed with, explored and subverted. While the main character is a bona fide [[Chosen One]], it could be argued that the entire story of the game is a cosmic, magnificent [[Gambit Roulette]] perpetrated by one of the central villains in an effort to first fulfill the [[Because Destiny Says So|destiny of the universe]] and then [[Screw Destiny|subvert it]] so that he can have his cake and eat it too.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** Elly, who upon seeing
** There's also a sketch in the Perfect Works of Margie showing off a stash of concealed weaponry hidden under her cloak.
** Fei. One on the nicest fellow you will ever meet, he is also
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]:
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Bartweiser.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Actually averted. There are many errors in the translation script, but considering that the translator was all alone on this project (after other translators actually quit or begged to be reassigned to another project), had a VERY tight deadline and even had to do some coding himself, this is forgivable. You certainly cannot say he lacked dedication either - the man took to sleeping in his bureau in order to get the game done!
* [[Blood Knight]]: Id. When he shows up, asses get kicked.
* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|When humans start reverting to their true state: the Wels, a.k.a. body parts for Deus
* [[Body Surf]]: Grahf and
* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: The Bloody Bros., reincarnations of Redrum, who appear as normal enemies in Solaris. And you have to fight ''two at once''! Thankfully, they're rare.
* [[Boss Rush]]: If fighting [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Elly's strike team]] AND [[Goldfish Poop Gang|the Elements]] more than once wasn't bad enough, Disc 2 is literally nothing but boss fights broken up by at least 6 hours worth of text.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Elly, who gets to see {{spoiler|her parents get killed}}, and then watch
* [[Bridge Bunnies]]: In the opening movie.
* [[Broken Bridge]]: A mix of this and [[Dronejam]] is lampshaded to hilarious effect.
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* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]: So, so very much, Fei.
* [[The Cameo]]: Lucca from ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' appears near the beginning to explain part of the game engine.
* [[Capulet Counterpart]]: Elly. She starts the game on the side of the enemy, but soon becomes a vital part of Fei's team.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: The true climax of the game is {{spoiler|Fei and Krelian's debate and what's better, a life free of pain but also bereft of individualism or a life of suffering but with people you love and care about
▲* [[Capulet Counterpart]]: Elly. She starts the game on the side of the enemy, but soon becomes a vital part of Fei's team. {{spoiler|And yes, they do [[Will They or Won't They?|eventually kiss. And have sex.]]}} Then again, {{spoiler|they have been lovers for one hundred effing centuries: Their current incarnations are implied to be the first to live happily instead of, you know, getting murdered by the [[Ancient Conspiracy]].}}
▲* [[Character Filibuster]]: The true climax of the game is {{spoiler|Fei and Krelian's debate and what's better, a life free of pain but also bereft of individualism or a life of suffering but with people you love and care about.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: You think that there might be a badass story about how Bart and Sigurd lost their eye? Nope, turns out it was caused by a mechanical accident on the Yggdrasil. However, their eyes do play a bigger role in a future event.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Krelian and Miang.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Fei Fong Wong is {{spoiler|the slayer of god and the Contact}}.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Big Joe. He was once a famous boxer from Zeboim until he got hit on the head and [[All There in the Manual|started thinking he was Elvis]], yes ''that'' Elvis. He then got locked in a cryogenic chamber and emerged 4,000 years later and began wandering the planet generally making a wonderful ass of himself. Eventually, {{spoiler|once the world goes to shit}}, he ends up back down in the ruins of Zeboim as a merchant selling the best Gear equipment in the game.
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]:
* [[Crutch Character]]: Bart too. He's useful for most of the first disc,
* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: Half of the game's dialogue. [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|The Gazel Ministry]] to the point of hilarity.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:
** Weltall {{spoiler|-ID- dismembers Ramsus's Wyvern then [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|drops the Yggdrasil]] on Bart}}.
** Grahf shows up and beats the shit out the party aboard the Goliath. For emphasis, ''he's on foot'' and your party members are all in Gear, and even then, the only thing keeping him from being [[That One Boss]] is that
** Ramsus {{spoiler|shows up out of fucking nowhere in Vendetta and tears Weltall limb-from-limb at the end of Disc
** Fei {{spoiler|pays him back at the start of Disc
**
** When Grahf ''does'' fight you in his Gear, it's a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]. Although it is possible to win the battle by making use of certain equipment for your gear and spamming the hell out of him with accuracy-lowering status afflictions, for which you are rewarded with a rare item. But nonetheless, his Gear is still standing upon his "defeat" and the scene following the battle is the same as it would be if you were defeated.
** Oh, and that piss-poor [[Post Final Boss|final boss Urobolus]] that pretty much is no challenge at all?
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: Too many instances to count. Usually in the flavor of "spectacular failure right after ''defeating'' a boss".
** There are '''multiple occasions'' in which ''people die'' because Billy conveniently forgets that ''he has a gun''.
** Inverted with Bart. Bad things happen to people {{spoiler|((
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: Gears can fly. FLY. But apparently something happened that rendered their flight systems out of commission when they got to the "Tower of Babel" Arc.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Maria. Useless on foot, but an unstoppable monster in her Gear.
* [[Degraded Boss]]: Redrum, whom you encounter in the sewers of Kislev, is widely considered [[That One Boss]]. Later, a [[Palette Swap]] of him called Bloody is encountered on the Wels ship as a miniboss, and in Solaris, two of them, called Bloody Brothers, can be fought at once in random encounters. All iterations have similar same stats and get progressively easier to fight.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]:
* [[
* [[Defeating the Undefeatable]]:
** The premise of the game is to
** An in-battle example is Alpha Weltall at Mahanon. It is defeatable, but the deck is so stacked against you that the game continues on as if you lost. It is the only winnable scripted battle in the entire game.
** It is also possible to defeat Rico, but probably only with gameshark cheats, whereas it was possible to defeat Alpha Weltall without gameshark cheats. The game still continues as if you had lost though.
* [[Depopulation Bomb]]: A combination of {{spoiler|the Limiter Release, the turning of the Gaetia Key, and Deus's reactivation turns approximately 90% of the populations into -Wels-, then ultimately into either Seraphs or just [[Grey Goo|spare parts for Deus]]. This is the in-game reason why almost all the locations you visited on
* [[Detonation Moon]]: Fei's Big Bang spell.
* [[Deus Est Machina]]: It's even ''named'' Deus. Played a little more straight than usual;
* [[Disaster Democracy]]:
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: Grahf and the "Executioner" ({{spoiler|Miang}}) are the last ''[[Gameplay and Story Segregation|playable]]'' bosses on Disc
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: Elly's Aerods with an Ether Doubler equipped. Mass destruction. Or if you do not want to use fuel, her normal spells with an Ether Doubler can achieve lesser but still broken results.
* [[Doomed Hometown]]:
** Fei's hometown of Lahan gets razed, and almost all of his friends get [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|killed off in horrible fashion]]. "I don't like Gears or fighting
** Happens again mid-way through the game with Elly when {{spoiler|Id tears Solaris a new one}}.
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: ''Twice
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: {{spoiler|Miang's Omnigear Opiomorph is glimpsed in storage in a vat of water (for some reason) deep in the inner workings of Solaris. The ominous music that plays in the background and the fact that Citan gets all creeped out about it instantly tells you that this will not be the last time you're going to be seeing this thing. [[That One Boss|And boy how'dy, you'ld be right about that]].
* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: The game ends on a hopeful note despite its crushing [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynicism]]
* [[Earth Is Young]]: Played with. In an inversion of the norm, the official Ethos church doctrine states that humans evolved from apes. In actuality, {{spoiler|the humans that live on this planet were created by the giant bio-weapon Deus 10,000 years ago in order to act as spare parts to repair its damage. The humans that created Deus presumably evolved from apes on Earth but they are mostly a separate gene pool from Deus' created humans
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Deus. Technically, its an ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Eldridge]]'' Abomination.
* [[The Empire]]: The Sacred Empire of Solaris.
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* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: A few of them, two notable examples are Krelian's blue hair turning beige after he joined Solaris and Emeralda's hair suddenly shortening after she grows up.
* [[Expy]]: Fei Fong Wong is an homage to mythical Chinese hero Wong Fei Hung, previously played by Jet Li in the ''Once Upon A Time in China'' series and Jackie Chan in the ''Drunken Master'' series.
** Elly has an uncanny resemblance to Elle from ''[[Terranigma]]'', both in name and appearance
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Played, but downplayed, by Bart. Bart is something of a [[Badass]] in that he's a pirate captain, prince/king, rebel leader, sailor (man of the sea!), mechanic, and warrior/gear pilot. But he's also shown to have a real soft side and defies most tough guy tropes. Sigurd plays it straight, being essentially a pirate 1st mate and {{spoiler|ex-elite badass from Solaris}}.▼
** Rico is a dead ringer for [[Street Fighter|Blanka]]. No one is quite sure why.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Hammer turns on the party because he cannot stand being a [[Muggle]] in the midst of extraordinary people.}}▼
** Emeralda is a green-haired orphan {{spoiler|sort of}} child that grows up within the game. Just like [[Final Fantasy IV|Rydia]].
** "I am <s>[[Star Wars|Darth Vader]]</s> <s>[[G Gundam|Master Asia]]</s> <s>[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Graf]]</s> Grahf, the seeker of power. Doth thou desire the power?"
▲* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Played, but downplayed, by Bart. Bart is something of a [[Badass]] in that he's a pirate captain, prince/king, rebel leader, sailor (man of the sea!), mechanic, and warrior/gear pilot. But he's also shown to have a real soft side and defies most tough guy tropes. Sigurd plays it straight, being essentially a pirate 1st mate and
▲* [[Face Heel Turn]]:
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The people who live in the city of the sky refer to the surface-dwelling humans as -lambs-. It's also hinted that demihumans don't have it that great. Life's not easy when you look like a llama.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Elly is supposed to be one of the elite in Gebler, and beyond that is also
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Yui. Not only is she [[Lady of War|the greatest swordsman in the world,]] but she's also the greatest cook.
* [[Final Exam Boss]]: Deus is a lot easier if you take out its four "pillars".
* [[Five-Man Band]]: The first five characters to join the party fit this dynamic nicely:
** Fei - [[The Hero]].
** Bart - [[The Lancer]].
** Rico - [[The Big Guy]].
** Citan - [[The Smart Guy]].
** Elly - [[The Chick]].
* [[Flashback Echo]]: Elly speaks to a mob of wels, offering to sacrifice her body to them in order to ease their pain. In the middle of her speech, the game flashes back to Sophia, {{spoiler|
* [[Floating Continent]]: The cities of Shevat and Solaris.
* [[Flowery Elizabethan English]]: Grahf has a tendency to do this, along with a more general tendency to be a ridiculously [[Large Ham]] whenever he makes an appearance. "Dost thou desire the power?"
* [[Forever War]]: The war between Aveh and Kislev has been going on hundreds of years, and none of the participants remember why it started. By the time it ends though, the protagonists have much bigger problems to deal with.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Probably more than half the cast uses this to some degree. Most notably, of course, is the main protagonist and main antagonist,
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The ''entire second disc''. All world map exploration and mini-games were left out of Disc 2 and replaced with cutscenes of the characters [[Exposition Break|sitting on a rocking chair]] and [[How We Got Here|telling the player about their adventure]]. It's been rumored that this was due to a sudden, severe lack of time and funding.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: By the time you reach the second disc, you're probably thoroughly confused as to who's working for whom.
* [[Gnosticism]]: The overall story of ''Xenogears'' is an almost exact re-telling of Gnostic mythology. Surprisingly averts [[Faux Symbolism]] in the sense of how true the game stays to the original Gnostic religion. So many games mindlessly rip names and ideas from ancient religion without grasping the broader context; the creators of ''Xenogears'' obviously [[Shown Their Work|did their research]].
* [[Genetic Memory]]: {{spoiler|Fei and Elly}} can remember each and every one of their past lives this way, but not until close to the end of the game.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Citan does this to Ramsus near the end of the game.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Between the presence of several rather bloody cutscenes, subversive religious messages, and sporadic sexual content including at least one pixelated penis, it's almost a wonder the game got away with a T rating in America.
* [[A God Am I]]: The climax of the game involves a debate between Fei and Krelian {{spoiler|'s giant floating head}}.
* [[God Is Evil]]: The creator of mankind turns out to be a
* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: The Elements. They waffle between this and [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] because they're actually some pretty tough recurring bosses, but while Domina at least is a rather credible threat to the party's wellbeing, the other three... aren't.
* [[Good Bad Translation]]: See [[Better Than Canon]] in the YMMV section. While the line about Yui beating Citan and falling in love with him while he's recovering is actually a mistranslation (according to [[All There in the Manual|Perfect Works]]), it's widely considered an awesome story element and is well-enshrined in the fandom by now.
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: The typical result when someone tries to take on a Gear or Gear-sized enemy on foot. The key word here is ''typical''.
* [[Cataclysm Backstory]]: Zeboim, an ancient civilization that blew itself up through nuclear war. A good deal of its technology was lost.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Billy and Jessie. Shows off some awesome [[Gun Kata]] as Deathblows.
* [[Grey Goo]]: Deus is literally made of the stuff.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]:
** Happens many, many times to Fei.
** Maria
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Id. He is actually a villain, and the "comedic" part is all [[Black Comedy]], but [[Rule of Cool|he's so awesome]] that no one really cares.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Fei wants Elly and eventually gets her.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: A few encounters with Grahf and Id. It ''is'' possible to defeat Grahf in his Weltall, but the odds are so stacked against you that it's nigh-impossible unless you're very lucky. Id is impossible to win against even if you cheat, as he'll start dealing damage much faster than you can heal.
* [[Human Popsicle]]: Big Joe, a celebrity from the Zeboim era who was accidentally cryofrozen for 4000 years. No really, it's [[All There in the Manual]] (Perfect Works, in this case).
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: All over the place.
* [[I Coulda Been a Contender]]: Ramsus {{spoiler|was genetically engineered to be an artificial -Contact-, but was literally thrown in the trash heap as a baby after Fei was discovered}}. To his credit, he survived and crawled his way up to a position of status and made life a living hell for all his detractors simply by ''continuing to exist''.
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Fei and Elly, Maria and Nikolai, Elly and Id, Fei and Grahf.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]:
** Along with [[Lampshade Hanging]] and [[Meaningful Name]]. Who names their factory "[[Soylent Green|Soylent System]]
** The wels, mutated humans, also consume human flesh as a way to ease the pain of their transformation.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Jumping into the well in Lahan will get you a series of horrible well-related puns.
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Kahran Ramsus appears as a primary villain early on, and with his [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|prettyboy features, white hair]] and usage of a sword as his weapon seems destined to be the [[Big Bad]]. By the end of the game
* [[Inevitable Tournament]] Twice. Once with gears, once without.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Essentially the final hours of Disc 1, and most of Disc 2.
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: Try explaining this game's plot and characterization to someone with no knowledge of it. Just try. Even a lot of people that have played the game still have no idea what's going on.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Krelian. After all he did, he still gets to "[[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|[go] to walk with God]]
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Bart and Margie. It's suggested that the Fatimas do a lot of this in order to maintain the purity of the "Fatima Jasper" {{spoiler|the stunning blue eyes possessed by members of the Fatima royal family... and their bastards}}.
* [[Large Ham]]: Big Joe. ''GREAT''... and '''DYNAMIC'''!
** The Captain of the Thames.
{{quote|"I am! * strikes pose* A man! * strikes pose* of the ''SEA!'' * [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosion]]*"}}
* [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]:
* [[Late Character Syndrome]]: Emeralda. She joins the party very late, after the penultimate dungeon in the first disc, and can't be used at all in the very lengthy Solaris chapter, which means she can only have a serious presence in the second disc. While she's by no means a bad fighter, is capable of having high statistics after her [[Plot Relevant Age Up|Plot-Relevant Age-Up]], and is an even better mage than Elly, the fact that she comes in so late and has really no bearing on the plot means a lot of players never bother using her.
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Chu-Chu and Hammer.
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: Alice's Wedding Dress.
* [[Let's Play]]:
** [http://whatdoesgodneedwithastarship.com/ What Does God Need With A Starship]:
{{quote|This may be explained sixty hours from now, but it will never actually make sense without or even with the three hundred page supplementary texts. Welcome to ''Xenogears''.}}
** [[The Dark Id]] also did a Let's Play of the game. Can be found [http://lparchive.org/Xenogears-(by-The-Dark-Id)/ here].
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]:
** Somewhat averted. However, Rico never takes his big orange bomb collar off even though he technically hasn't been a "prisoner" of the Kislev Empire for quite some time.
** Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Fei,
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: In the upper range of the double digits.
* {{spoiler|[[Lost Colony]]: The ''Xenogears'' planet}}.
* [[Lost Forever]]: Lots, not only shop stock changes but within the very first town, where you're presumably just running around getting used to the game, there's a solid handful of items that will later pay off but you cannot get later - including an item you won't get to trade in for a useful item until the very end of the game.
* [[Lost Technology]]: Two layers: the ''Eldridge''-era technology (Babel Tower, Ft. Jasper), and the later Zeboim-era technology (Gears in general). Most all was take from the "Eldridge" though. What is the main reason why you had the remains of a spaceship gunwhale over 40 km in length sticking out of the ground for over 10000 years and chock full of tech not bringing you back up to par?
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Grahf {{spoiler|is Lacan, who despaired after Elly sacrificed herself and told him "[[Code Geass|Live!]]"
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Grahf is Fei's father, Kahn Wong
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler|Emeralda is an [[Artificial Human]] made by Kim, one of Fei's previous incarnations. Emeralda regards Kim, and later, Fei, as her father
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: It's heavily implied that
▲* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: It's heavily implied that {{spoiler|Fei-Fong Wong and Elly}} begin a sexual relationship near the conclusion of disc one.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
**
** Not to mention that Hawwa {{spoiler|, used to designate the first Miang, the original woman
** Krelian is properly "Karellen," named after the leader of the Overlords from [[Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke's]] ''[[Childhood's End]]''.
** Ramsus comes from Ramses, better known as Ozymandias, King of Kings. Ramsus is {{spoiler|a clone of Emperor Cain, the ''de facto'' ruler of all humanity}}.
** Citan's
** This game is plagued by some - iffy Romanization. Gebler should have been Gevurah (גבורה) (...Che!?!), one of the spheres on the Tree of Life. It represents severity and judgement. For more information, [[wikipedia:Gevurah|Wikipedia is your friend!]] The NA audience missed out on a lot of plot cookies because the poor localization team got rushed to hell.
** Gear names usually have connotations. They’re usually either [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Gratuitous Foreign Words]] (
** Jesiah is a portmanteau of
* [[The Messiah]]: The plot kind of revolves around what this actually means.
* [[Meta Mecha]]: -Super Dimensional Gear Yggdrasil IV- was ''an entire district of Nortune City'' before it launched.
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]:
* [[Mind Screw]]:
** The storyline is a bit messy and hard to understand, though [[All There in the Manual|Perfect Works]] clears some of it up.
** "[[Let's Play|Just remember: if you ever have a good idea of what's going on in ''Xenogears'', then ''Xenogears'' isn't doing its job.]]"
* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]: Used for both Miang/Ramsus and
* [[Mouth Flaps]]: In Disc 1, they're relatively well synced. By the time the budget ran out for Disc 2, [[They Just Didn't Care]].
* [[Muggles]]:
** Constantly subverted and explored, among others in Hammer, who ends up
** ...In addition to this, most "ordinary" people are fated to be
** Also, in a world chock full of [[The Chosen One|destined heroes]], [[Sealed Evil in a Can|immortal forces of evil]] and [[Ancient Conspiracy|ancient conspiracies]], most defined by near-magical superpowers and the [[Because Destiny Says So|power of fate]], [[Magnificent Bastard|Krelian]] managed to become the de-facto leader of the world's strongest nation and the nearest thing to a lord over the fate of the universe, with nothing but the [[Mad Scientist|power of science]], his wits and [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulation]].
** And arguably, the entire point of Ramsus' character is that {{spoiler|he was made to be an ''imitation'' of something special, then simply discarded when the real thing turned up}}. That said, perhaps because of his nature as {{spoiler|a clone of Emperor Cain}}, he can interface with all 12 Anima relics
* [[Multilayer Facade]]: The mysterious masked man called "Wiseman" who fights in Fei's style, the mysterious Darth Vader-like guy Graf who hunts him, and Fei's own father are all actually the same person.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Krelian calls Fei {{spoiler|Lacan}}, while Ramsus only acknowledges him as {{spoiler|Id, the Demon of Elru}} for the majority of the game, and Emeralda calls him {{spoiler|Kim}} until she [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|grows up]]. Citan, meanwhile, is always {{spoiler|"Hyuga
* [[Nanomachines]]: ''The'' buzzword of Disc Two and late Disc One. Emeralda, Deus, and Miang's Omnigear Opiomorph are completely comprised of nanomachines. It's even stated in [[Word of God|The Perfect Works]] that in order to defeat Opiomorph, every last namomachine that comprises it needs to be completely obliterated at the subatomic level otherwise it will completely regenerate.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The releases the genetic limiters placed on the surface dwelling population by Solaris that made humanity weak, ignorant, and generally fearful of Solair/Emperor Cain by instinct ultimately ends with a good chunk of people mutating into Wels, and then into spare parts of Deus after the Gaetia Key is turned.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Grahf, ''so very much''. "Even if I go to hell, I will live until the end of the world, and if the world does not end; I will destroy it myself." He's such a bad-ass, though, and he had a rather ''heroic'' reason: He was trying to fulfill a promise.
* [[
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: Hammer, {{spoiler|after he kills Medena}}.
* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: Krelian ends up killing them all before they do anything but provide uselessly vague exposition. He also tells them all to shut up as he's killing them, leading to one of his multitude of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoAs]] over the course of Disc
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]:
** Dr. Citan Uzuki, physician by trade; mechanic, physicist, psychiatrist, historian, biologist, and [[Genius Bruiser]] by hobby.
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* [[One True Faith]]: Averted; there are at least two major world religions. {{spoiler|One of them is evil though, natch}}.
* [[Organic Technology]]: It's a little hard to see given the limited graphics power of the [[PlayStation]], but the artwork in the ''Perfect Works'' book shows that all the Omnigears {{spoiler|and Deus in its final forms}} are all in some way organic. There's a line in the game around the time of Andvari's discovery that says something to this effect, but it's easily missable and it's not that big of a plot point in the game until {{spoiler|Miang drags her [[Grey Goo]]-powered Opiomorph out of storage and whoops your ass with it}}.
* [[Our Gods Are Greater]]: {{spoiler|Deus is very powerful and capable of creating life, but is really just a [[
* [[Out of Focus]]: Pretty much everyone who joins the party after Bart doesn't get much of the spotlight after the plotline where they're introduced. Rico, in particular, is given nothing unique to do after the party leaves Kislev.
* [[Path of Inspiration]]: The Ethos is a church that purports to offer aid and salvation to the unfortunate, and that exterminates the mutant "Reapers" or "Wels" that appear in the world and threaten humanity. {{spoiler|However, it is in fact a front for the nation of Solaris, to keep the humans living on the surface docile and under control, and to furnish Solaris with excavated resources and slave labor. Oh, and they also are involved in deploying and keeping track of the Wels as well as exterminating them
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]:
** Id. Part of the reason he freaks Ramsus out so much is that Ramsus once saw Id destroy an entire squad of Gears. ''On foot and by himself''.
** Grahf also qualifies, given that in one battle, he wastes your characters in Gears while ''he's'' on foot. Of course, this is [[Justified Trope|justified]] considering that {{spoiler|he's basically the same person as Id, just from a past incarnation, and managed to survive as a spirit possessing other bodies. Or something like that, anyway
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Subverted: Alice's wedding dress is absolutely beautiful, but she dies before she gets a chance to wear it. Dan hangs on to it and gives it to Fei out of pure spite to remind him that he's the reason Alice is dead. Joke's on Dan though, as the dress is equipable and has some [[Lethal Joke Item|fairly decent stats to it]].
* [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]: Subverted: obtaining adult Emeralda is entirely superfluous to the plot. {{spoiler|Curiously, she appears as an adult in the ending cinematic regardless of whether or not you did the sidequest}}.
* [[Post Final Boss]]: Urobolus.
* [[Power Dyes Your Hair]]: Fei Wong's hair is dark, but
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]:
** Id's Gear has several energy wings coming out of the spikes on its back.
** Bart also (somewhat nonsensically) gets a pair in one of his Deathblows.
** The Xenogears itself has energy wings when it goes into hyper mode. The explanation is that the wings are the gears' superheated exhaust.
* [[Power Limiter]]: Nanomachines again.
* [[Psycho Serum]]: -Drive-. Which is made all the weirder by the fact that you can ''buy it'' from Big Joe at the end of the game. And it gives you ''permanent'' increases to your stats
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The Elements, Elly's strike team.
* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: Babel Tower, Mahanon, Ft. Jasper, the Zohar, Kadamony
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Oh, where to start. There's {{spoiler|Krelian}}, {{spoiler|Emperor Cain}}, {{spoiler|Queen Zephyr}}... oh, and {{spoiler|Grahf}} and {{spoiler|Miang}}, though they technically maintain their immortality by {{spoiler|body-hopping
* [[Reincarnation]]: {{spoiler|Only Fei and Elly reincarnate. The other characters either had an [[Identical Grandfather]] (Bart, Sigurd), transmigrated into new bodies (Grahf, Miang), or had really long lifespans (Krelian, Zephyr)
* {{spoiler|[[Reincarnation Romance]]: Fei and Elly
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Dominia and Kelvena of the Elements. Not to mention Fei and Bart, Fei and Elly, Fei and Citan, Bart and Sigurd, Tolone and Seraphita, Ramsus and Miang, {{spoiler|Elly and Miang}}...
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Fei. ''So very much
* [[Reverse Shrapnel]]: Elly's Aerods.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]:
** When Miang and Krelian
** And shortly after that, Ramsus hunts Fei and Elly down in his newly-minted Omnigear, Vendetta, and tears Weltall to pieces as vengeance for a lifetime of perceived wrongs that Fei is only tangentially (if at all) responsible for.
* [[Runaway Fiance]]: [[The Scrappy|Dan]] tries to convince Fei to run off with Alice before her wedding, and Fei has the choice of shooting him down or agreeing to his plan. Either way it doesn't work, though not in the expected way.
* [[Sand Is Water]]: You can sail on the desert. And ships can sink in it. [[Fridge Logic|Even though people can walk on it
* [[Save the Villain]]: As part of the deeply poignant ending, [[Big Bad]] Krelian {{spoiler|ascends into Heaven with the Wave Existence to live in a world without death or loss
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: A [[Justified Trope]]: Emperor Cain and his followers (Solaris ''writ large'') have been developing their own technology for close to 10,000 years and actively working to make sure the surface dwellers don't get their hands on it and become too powerful. Cain {{spoiler|and Miang}} obliterate civilizations that becoming too advanced, incite wars between nations to stunt their development, and employ a [[Corrupt Church]] to cover up mankind's true history to keep the populace ignorant.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** [[Macross|Super Dimension]] Gear [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2jzrqfQ-wI&feature=related Yggdrasil IV]. Also, [[Giant Robo]]'s basic design and piloting method are used by Seibzehn.
** Seibzehn and Achtzehn, being the fusion of man and machine, are also a nod to [[Dragonball Z|Number 17 and Number 18.]] It's also a [[Bilingual Bonus]].
** The ancestors of Bartholomew Fatima {{spoiler|and Sigurd Harcourt}} are Roni Fatima and Rene Fatima. This is a Shout Out to royal ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' brothers Edgar '''Roni''' Figaro and Sabin '''Rene''' Figaro. As another [[Shout Out]] to ''Final Fantasy VI'', Sigurd's surname Harcourt is shared by Duncan Harcourt, who was Sabin's martial arts mentor.
** One of Billy's special attacks is clearly a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]''.
** A "Ticketmiester" vendor in Solaris.
** [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro]] called. He wants Magnetic Coating back.
* [[Sinister Minister]]: Bishop Stone/Stein, anyone? '''''* SHUDDER* '''''▼
*** [[G Gundam|Domon]] would also like to have a word regarding Weltall Mk. II and its System Id, as would [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Ramba Ral]] regarding Brigandier/Andvari's weapons. And Aerods? More like [[Zeta Gundam|funnels]]. They're even housed in the skirt armor when not in use.
** At one point we have main hero and his rival use theit [[Humongous Mecha|Gears]] to push away a massive falling object. [[Chars Counterattack|Seems slightly familiar, no?]]
*** Perhaps they would've [[Catch and Return|fared better]] had the Doc been there with [[Xabungle|Heimdall]] to assist them.
** The creature in the sewer is named [[The Shining|Redrum]].
** There's a poster of [[Final Fantasy VII|Tifa]] on the wall in one of the second class district residences in Etrenank. And while we're on the topic, Solaris' foodstuffs are processed by a facility referred to as the [[Soylent Green|Soylent System]]. [[It Was His Sled|No prizes for guessing what the secret ingredient is...]]
** Andvari's origins and introduction: see ''Panzer World Galient''.
** Name any super robot show that features no less than three robots performing a GATTAI sequence and you'll find your reference in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsFvVuChueA&feature=related G-Elements].
** Kahran Ramsus [[Zeta Gundam|has an obsessive grudge against the protagonist and challenges him to battle at every opportunity, only to have his clock cleaned every time]].
** OR-Weltall's posture is remarkably similar to the [[G Gundam|Master Gundam]]. Unsurprising, considering who pilots it. In battle, it also sports a few rather notable aesthetic similarities to [[Gundam Wing|Deathscythe Hell Custom]].
** The meager efforts of you land dwellers are insignificant to the true and only power.
** That's bound to get us into trouble with the makers of Star Trech!
** Shevat contains a few references to [[Chrono Trigger|Zeal]]. A floating city where one can find a Sage's hidden room, strange talking creatures (Chu-chus to ''Chrono Trigger'''s Nus), and Queen '''Z'''ephyr (though she doesn't gain immortality by her own choice, and she's not quite as [[Laughing Mad|batshit]] [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|insane]]). And speaking of ''Chrono Trigger'', be sure to say "hi" to Lucca before you head out from [[Doomed Hometown|Lahan]]...
** Fei gets frozen in [[Star Wars|carbonite]]. He gets better.
** The Gazel Ministry's personality data is housed in a supercomputer called [[2001: A Space Odyssey|SOL-9000]].
*** The Zohar is also a reference to the Monolith from ''2001''. Its technical name in ''Perfect Works'' (Magnetic Abnormal Matter - MAM) also mirrors the Monolith's technical name from the ''2001'' novels (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly - TMA).
** Gaspar, Balthasar and Melchior are in the game as shout-outs to both [[The Bible|biblical]] [[Fanon]] and ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''.
** The planet orbiting floating city/space station Solaris is a shout out to the novel ''[[Solaris]]'' by Stanislav Lem.
* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: Likely one of the biggest offenders against the concept in video game history. Disc 2 in particular, about 80% of which consists of the characters sitting in a black void with a screen of static imagery behind them, narrating about all the things they've been doing.
* [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]]: Big Bang, among other things.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: ''Relentlessly'' cynical. Almost everything good will, at some point, find itself broken. The lead protagonist {{spoiler|harbors a sadistic, amoral [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], and has died, along with his fated love, time after time in invariably tragic ways}}. Every major location is, at some point, considered to be safe, {{spoiler|but most of them are doomed, anyway}}. And it doesn't even matter, since {{spoiler|almost all of humanity is wiped out by the end, just one in a series of near-total apocalypses which have been visited on mankind deliberately throughout the game's history}}. Wicked, inhuman shadow masters rule the planet from their invisible nation of scientifically-advanced fantasy Nazis. Everyone has their lives manipulated by these people so that they can one day {{spoiler|[[Pieces of God|be used as parts to revive the superweapon they all believe is their God]]}}. Almost all of the villains are the villains because their idealism was shattered in some amazingly cruel fashion. Just ask {{spoiler|Lacan}} and {{spoiler|Krelian}}. The only thing you can accomplish by saving the world {{spoiler|is that a handful of people ''don't'' die}}.
* [[Small Annoying Creature]]: the Team Pet Chu-Chu, one of the most reviled examples of this subtype.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Small Girl Big Gear]]: Maria. Her Gear is so big it can't even fit in the [[Cool Ship|Yggdrasil's]] hangar.
* [[So Long and Thanks For All the Gear]]: The game jacks {{spoiler|Elly}} from you half way through Disc
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Too many to count, given the game's near-[[Blind Idiot Translation]].
* [[Split Personality]]: Make a guess.
* [[Split Personality Merge]]: The climax of the "six hours of texts and boss fights" section of Disc Two is an internal battle for control between {{spoiler|Fei, Id
* [[Sprite Polygon Mix]]: The inverse of games like ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. Backgrounds are completely 3D, but virtually all non-gear character models are sprites.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: {{spoiler|Lacan and Elly. Kim and Elly. Abel and Elly. Do you notice a pattern
* [[Stat Grinding]]: Use Drives to max out Chu-Chu and watch her Gear-sized self kick all kinds of ass, and without that pesky fuel gauge to constantly monitor.
* [[Stealth Mentor]]: {{spoiler|Grahf was this to Fei, but only because Grahf planned to possess Fei and needed him to be as strong as possible
* [[Super Prototype]]:
** Both Elly and Miang's Vierges are a straight examples: both Gears sport a lot of new technology, most of which is useless for regular Gears.
** Seibzehn and Achtzehn, though future developments of the technology behind them went in significantly different technological directions instead of just being scaled down for mass-production.
**
* [[Theme Naming]]:
** Nisan, Thames (=Tammuz), Aveh (=Av), Elru (=Elul), Kislev
** The three sages of Shevat are named [[The Bible|Belthasar, Gaspar and Melchior]]. Compare ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''.
** The Four Elements Dominia, Kelvena, Tolone
* [[This Is Sparta]]: I am
* [[Title Drop]]: "Xenogears" is the name of {{spoiler|the ultimate form of Weltall, Fei's gear}}.
* [[Took a Shortcut]]: Big Joe turns up ''everywhere''.
* [[Translation Convention]]: When Fei and Elly first meet, the latter shouts at him in a foreign language, then she switches to his language as she realizes he can't understand a word she's saying. Later you can only communicate with the Solarians if one of the two Solaris natives (Elly or
* [[Turns Red]]: Hammer and the FIS-6 do this when they're near death. Weltall does this when {{spoiler|Fei becomes Id}}.
* [[The Unfought]]: Krelian.
* [[Universe Compendium]]: ''Perfect Works''.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: When used normally, the offensive Ether skills are far less effective than the characters' combination attacks; however, purchasing an Ether Doubler in Nisan before a plot event makes it unavailable turns Elly's damaging Ether spells into a [[Disc One Nuke]]. Congratulations, you now have magic on steroids.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: This is Krelian's justification for {{spoiler|turning 90% of humanity into grey goo}}.
* [[Vanilla Edition]]:
** Despite the fact that only the one version of ''Xenogears'' ever came out (meaning there's no [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]] to contrast), the final product was supposed to have '''much''' more content, including Omnigear forms for Crescens and Seibzehn, among other things to more fully flesh out the second disc. However, time and money weren't in enough abundance to permit this to happen.
** There was a collectors edition in Japan, it came with a figure of one of the main characters (either Fei or Elly). Good luck finding one though, it was extremely limited.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: You wouldn't like Ramsus when he's unstable.
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* [[Wedding Smashers]]: Elly crashlands in Lahan the night before Alice and Timothy's wedding, pursued by a small army of Kislev gears who proceed to trash the town.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Krelian.
* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]]: Fei destroys
* [[Whip It Good]]: Bart ''and'' his Gear. ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Works]]'' explains it:
** With this in mind, [[Fridge Horror|look at how violent many of his deathblows get.]]
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: According to ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Works]]'', {{spoiler|Abel was 7 years old when he crashed on the Xenogears planet and met the first Elly. As shown in an in-game video, this Elly is an adult when they first meet (though technically she is probably less than a month old). Since Abel and Elly are [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]... yeah
** Play ''Xenosaga 3'', and this will explain why Elly is in "adult" form.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Lacan/Grahf's motivation is to live until the end of the world for Sophia. However, since the world won't end, Grahf's madness and grief convinced him to bring about the end of the world itself so he could fulfill his vow. Somewhere along the line he became so far gone that he lost his very soul, allowing it to be reincarnated as Fei}}.
* [[Wutai Theft]]: Almost completely averted. All party members who leave temporarily come back with whatever equipment they left with. Except
* [[You Are Number Six]]: Seibzehn and Achtzehn, German for "seventeen" (though spelled incorrectly) and "eighteen", respectively. Gear shops even prefix Seibzehn's equipment with "#17" instead of following the other Gears' standard of the first four letters capitalized.
* [[You Are What You Hate]]: Kaiser Sigmund's anti-demi-human policies stem from the fact that he's a self-hating (cosmetically passable) demi-human who he fathered a demi-human bastard (Rico).
* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]: {{spoiler|The Wave Existence
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: A few notable exceptions (Miang, Krelian (before joining Solaris), Seraphita, Kelvena, Helmhoz
* [[You Know the One]]: At ''least'' 50% of the game's exposition. On a good day.
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