Yo-Jin-Bo: Difference between revisions

* [[Anticlimax]]: If you are paired up with them, Jin and Muneshige will get in a fight. Then Kasumimaru will show up and interrupt them before a real victor is decided. (Presumably, this is to keep the player's subsequent decisions from being influenced by knowing who is the better fighter.) The Bad endings also involve a certain amount of anticlimax since {{spoiler|there's no final confrontation with Harumoto}}.

* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Nobody seems to be wearing any. {{spoiler|Mon-Mon subverts it by wearing chain mail under his clothes, which saves him from a kunai in the back.}}

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Hatsuhime was going to be married off to a ''ten-year-old'' by her retainer.

{{quote| '''Harumoto:''' "And then, demanding '''MANGO PUDDING!''' Where are we supposed to get the mangos?! Does she think this is a tropical island? Do we live in ''Jakarta?''"}}

* [[Badass Cape]]: Yo and Bo wear capes "because they are cool".

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Sayori trips and falls as she and Muneshige are running to first escape the castle. The ninjas have her surrounded and are about to kill her. Enter five [[Casual Danger Dialog|wise-cracking heroes]]. Those poor ninjas never regain their competence.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|The Bad and Forgotten Dream endings. Hatsuhime is home safe, but Sayori doesn't get her guy.}}

* [[Blood Knight]]: Ittosai. He ''really'' loves killing.

* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Averted oh-so-much, but somehow without going ''completely'' overboard.

* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: The guys slip into these often, with roles changing hands frequently.

* [[Bottomless Bladder]]: While hiding under the floor of the enemy castle for several days, Sayori notes that Muneshige snuck out to bring back food and water...and curiously doesn't mention what they did with the waste products of said food and water.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The guys like to tease Mon-Mon about "not being one of the characters you can get at the end of the game".

* [[Bridal Carry]]: Bo does it in one scene. Muneshige and Mon-Mon give piggyback rides.

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: {{spoiler|The Bad endings, usually thanks to the pendant taking Sayori back to her own time in spite of her wishes. In Jin's Bad ending, he beats it to the jump, taking off without even waiting around to get paid.}}

* [[But Thou Must]]: Quite a few decisions seem to have no influence on events. All of them ultimately affect the ending, however.

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Happens a couple times, but especially with Jin.

* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]: The only girl who appears onscreen besides yourself is Hatsuhime (who kinda is still you, in a way). A couple of maids may speak during the endings, but they never get to be in the picture.

* [[CPR Clean Pretty Reliable]]: {{spoiler|1=In Mon-Mon's ending, Hatsuhime is choked by Nobumasa. Mon-Mon uses CPR to revive her with little to no problems, despite the fact that she had neither breath nor heartbeat. It does result in Sayori and Hatsuhime's minds switching back, though.}}

* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Hatsuhime literally runs into Jin at the festival. Nearly pulls his haori off, too.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: The guys all have some little secret to discover. How dark and troubled it is varies.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Brother, actually. {{spoiler|Mon-Mon's younger brother was killed in retaliation for Mon-Mon defeating a street thug. Worse, it was set up to look like he did it.}}

* [[David Versus Goliath]]: Nobumasa is bigger than anyone else in the game, but this is especially noticeable if he's facing Yo.

* [[The Drifter]]: Ittosai, the loner.

* [[Drop the Cow]]: Sometimes, the silliness just gets ''random''.

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Bo claims he should be allowed to guard the Princess during her bath because he "looks androgynous" with his long hair and wouldn't disturb her as much as the other guys. (Nobody else is buying it.)

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Aside from money, the reason Yo, Jin, Bo, and Mon-Mon take on the assignment of rescuing Hatsuhime is that she's a ''princess'' and they might get a [[Smooch of Victory|reward kiss]].

* [[Eating the Eye Candy]]: The Forgotten Dream endings have Sayori able to remember only some small detail of the guy - his hair, his eyes, etc. - and her feelings for him.

* [[Economy Cast]]

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Ittosai was a former adversary to Yo, Jin, and Bo. ''Especially'' Jin.

* [[Epunymous Title]]: "Yojinbo" (more commonly romanized as "yojimbo") is a Japanese word meaning "bodyguard." The three main characters are called Yo, Jin, and Bo. The official English title is "Yo-Jin-Bo: [[Department of Redundancy Department|the Bodyguards]]," making it a combination of this and [[You Are the Translated Foreign Word]].

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Bo laments a crossdresser hitting on him in the opening at the festival.

* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: Hatsuhime has a big red bow in her hair.

* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: The English subtitles convert most of Bo's [[Gratuitous English]] into [[Gratuitous French]]; this is presumably why.

* [[Evil Eye]]: Kasumimaru's artificial left eye, which is key to the spell he uses to blind his opponents.

* [[Face Palm]]: Ittosai has not one, but ''two'' facepalming sprites, due to the fact that he feels he's [[Surrounded By Idiots]].

* [[Fake Out Make Out]]: In Bo and Muneshige's paths, this nearly happens when Nobumasa demands proof that Sayori is her chosen bodyguard's wife and not Hatsuhime. Nobumasa always interrupts before they can actually kiss, however.

* [[Fan Service]]: Six guys + hot spring. You do the math.

** There is also a [[Panty Shot|shot up Sayori's skirt]] in the opening chapter.

* [[Fantastic Romance]]: Sayori would never have met any of them if it weren't for that [[MacGuffin|time-traveling pendant]].

* [[Festival Episode]]: The opening of the game.

* [[First Kiss]]: Sayori's a bit of a quiet sort, so she's never kissed a guy before. It's uncertain if any of the guys have any experience.

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Subverted, mostly thanks to the [[Purely Aesthetic Era]]: Sayori has no trouble fitting in since everyone else is constantly making modern pop culture references and such anyhow.

* [[A Glass of Chianti]]: Harumoto usually has a glass on his desk.

* [[Goldfish Scooping Game]]: Hatsuhime plays one... by scooping the fish up in the bowl, instead of with the paper net.

* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: The game has several CGI scenes and clips of music for you to collect (view/hear them once and they're in your collection for forever).

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Sprinkled here and there.

* [[Gratuitous French]]: Bo in the English localization.

* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: A photographer in Mon-Mon's Good ending in the subtitles.

* [[Green Eyes]]

** Hatsuhime, who is always sneaking out of the castle and can be a sharp-tongued spitfire.

* [[Hazel Eyes]]: Yo, and maybe Muneshige.

* [[Headbutt Thermometer]]: Sayori does this to Yo as he's sleeping.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]:

** Jin around girls. {{spoiler|Both Jin and Muneshige in Ittosai's good end, when Hatsuhime/Sayori says she's dating him.}}

* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Happens occasionally towards the end of the game, but ''especially'' in the guys' Good endings.

** [[Heroic Second Wind]]: Often part of the above.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: And she. Any of Sayori's modern-day history club members and any servant girls or vasals in the castle will not have any face at all. Sayori herself is never shown in a full-body shot (outside of special painterly images), but only as a small face beside her speech. She's also unvoiced.

* [[Her Heart Will Go On]]: {{spoiler|The Bad endings. Sayori arrives home in the future, with her beau long dead. But she gets to make a little speech to herself about how she'll remember him.}}

* [[Hime Cut]]: Hatsuhime, of course.

* [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]: Though we don't know how they met, Yo, Jin, Bo, and Mon-Mon are a wandering band.

* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: And you can spy on the guys.

* [[Human Shield]]: Harumoto uses Hatsuhime as one.

* [[Humble Hero]]: Most of the guys.

* [[Hurricane Kick]]: Yo's special attack, Whirlwind Revolution Kick. So fast it can remove body parts.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Muneshige likes to make these. The other guys join in, too.

* [[Ineffectual Death Threats]]: Jin gets very angry at Yo and Bo, particularly when it comes to women, parties, and his popularity. {{spoiler|Hatsuhime threatens everyone in Yo's Good ending.}}

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Yo does not wear ''gym shorts'', he wears ''capris'' (or, in the voiceover, ''haafu pantsu'').

* [[It Meant Something to Me]]: The Bad and Forgotten Dream endings generally have some flavor of this.

* [[I Uh You Too]]: In the endings, {{spoiler|Sayori often asks the guys what they think of her. Their general response is usually something along the lines of, "Er, well...I, uh..."}}

* [[Magical Incantation]]: He also requires one of these. {{spoiler|Mon-Mon uses ''the same sequence'' to bring Sayori back to the past in his Good ending.}}

* [[Martial Pacifist]]: Bo dislikes "pointless bloodshed", but is just as capable of killing as any of the other guys. Actually, most of the guys except Ittosai dislike killing without reason to a fair degree.

* [[Medium Awareness]]: Mon-Mon's response to the previously-mentioned ribbing about not being "one of the guys you can get at the end of the game" is that he has an [[Image Song]] and has spent too much time reading his lines to ''not'' be a "captureable character".

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Kasumimaru. His right eye is naturally [[Eyes of Gold|gold]]; the left is a bright yellow artificial eye which he uses to cast a spell which blinds his opponents while allowing him to function normally.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Several times, both visual and auditory. For example, spy on Muneshige and Mon-Mon in the hot spring and you'll get a scene where Sayori thinks they're doing something and is highly disturbed. Follow Jin and Muneshige's path, and Muneshige will think Jin is doing something when he treats Hatsuhime's snakebite. Etc., etc., etc..

* [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]]

* [[One Head Taller]]: Most of the guys are.

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Yo says this when {{spoiler|he's shot in the stomach.}}

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Sayori is highly convinced that all the guys are completely nuts.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Sayori

* [[Outdoor Bath Peeping]]: You have the option of either spying on the guys, or just quietly hanging out in the bath all by yourself. (To get the good endings, peeking is the correct choice.)

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Muneshige is normally a nice guy. Do not threaten Hatsuhime and all will be well.

* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Sayori's reaction to the guys undressing before getting in the hot spring. Then she spies on them.

* [[Pose of Supplication]]: In Mon-Mon's Good Ending, {{spoiler|Hatsuhime does this as she pretends to be his disciple monk.}} Jin also mentions it if you speak to him outside the cave.

* [[The Power of Love]]: is capable of bending the puny space-time continuum to its will!

* [[Power of Trust]]: Key to [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosting]] Ittosai.

* [[Rain of Arrows]]: {{spoiler|Kills Nobumasa in Ittosai's endings.}}

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Yo, Jin, Bo, and Mon-Mon are a bunch of ronin. They were the only ones Yahei could hire on short notice, in addition to Ittosai.

* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Ittosai {{spoiler|made so by his father.}}

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Hatsuhime

* [[Say My Name]]: Ittosai's Bad ending is called "Call My Name" for this exact reason.

* [[Scenery Censor]]: During the hot springs scene, the four guys who ''don't'' wear [[Modesty Towel|Modesty Towels]] have their naughty bits hidden from camera view by bowls, stray not-so-naughty body parts, or convenient camera angles.

* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: Thanks to [[Economy Cast|economy art]], Sayori's sprites show her in her school uniform even when she's taking a shower.

* [[Security Cling]]: Happens a couple times.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Arguably all the endings, but especially Ittosai's Good ending. {{spoiler|He rips through the side of the watchtower with his sword, and Sayori recalls seeing a battered sword in a history exhibit with the story of a split tower. However, in the original time line, Hatsuhime died long before, and so the watchtower would not have been blown up with Ittosai standing on top of it.}}

* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: Considering that the Good endings have {{spoiler|Sayori, usually still stuck in Hatsuhime's body, marrying or at least getting together with the guy}}, yeah. In Muneshige's Good ending, {{spoiler|Hatsuhime's spirit must haunt Yahei for a week or two in order to convince him that it would be alright for the princess to marry a vasal.}}

* [[Stern Chase]]: Ninjas chase you through the forest and only occasionally catch up to fight.

* [[The Stoic]]: Ittosai and Harumoto both play at this one.

* [[Tender Tears]]: Sayori occasionally gets a little weepy.

* [[Thanks for The Mammary]]: In Yo's Good ending, {{spoiler|Yo mistakenly attacks Sayori, thinking she is a stray ninja. Guess where his hands end up?}}

* [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs]]: "Call me...MON-MON!"

* [[Think Nothing of It]]: The guys' general response when Sayori/Hatsuhime thanks them for saving her life.

* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Ittosai.

* [[True Companions]]: At the start of the game, Yo, Jin, Bo, and Mon-Mon. By the end of the game, all six guys plus you.

* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]: Kasumimaru. The guys call him a coward for not facing them head-on; he says that's just how a ninja fights.

* [[Try Not to Die]]: Sayori's general reaction to splitting the party, though she's usually a little bit wordier in her pleas for them to stay alive. The guys occasionally get in on it, though in a more curt manner.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Harumoto {{spoiler|in Yo and Muneshige's Good endings, to Yo and Sayori respectively.}}

* [[We Need a Distraction]]: When everyone [[Let's Split Up Gang|splits into teams of two]], one group's job is to function as a distraction and lead the ninja away.

* [[Whip It Good]]: Kasumimaru uses a whip against Jin.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Harumoto.

* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Hatsuhime jokes that if she can't find a suitable husband herself, she'll marry Muneshige, who took care of her since she was a little girl. And, of course, following Muneshige's path ends up this way, though it's Sayori's mind that falls for him. {{spoiler|Mon-Mon's Bad ending has the ''real'' Hatsuhime marrying Muneshige.}}