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** Sylvans as a whole lean towards this due to all of them (sans Cleo and Francesca) employing BareYourMidriff. Gala Luca goes even further with his open shirt and unzipped pants.

* EliteMook:
** Regular quests have Menaces, which are stronger enemies that offer up extra bonuses. Exaggerated in the Kaleidoscape, which gives the Menaces a huge boost in stats, but greater rewards (namely more EXP and, in the higher levels, Dusk Amber) for defeating them.

* FriendlyLocalChinatown: Peng Lai (the place, [[NamesTheSame not the dragon]]) is an Alberian town established by Taiwu immigrants and modeled after Taiwu cities.

** Svenitla, the country Victor, Noelle, Kirsty, and Joachim come from, is strongly evocative of [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Russia]].

* DifficultySpike:
** The game gets progressively harder with each Quest cleared. However, the last boss of Chapter 5 recommends an staggering 5200 Might, 500 more than the previous Quest and 150 more than the last boss of the next Chapter. This trend repeats in Chapter 10, where quests requiring 8000-ish Might end with a boss requiring over 10,000. The subsequent Chapters get even higher spikes for boss encounters. Chapters 12 onward start bringing in the various bosses you fight elsewhere, such as the Void Dragons and Agito.
** The Advanced Dragon Trials are significantly harder than the Imperial Onslaught and Dragon Trials on Master difficulty as the Dragon bosses have much more HP and stronger attacks, some of which can kill your Adventurer even if they have full health. Cygames introduced Void Battles to help fill the difficulty gap between Advanced Dragon Trials and Imperial Onslaught[=/=]Dragon Trials, with some weapons craftable that help newer players to easily transition into High Dragon Trials (such as 5-Star Weapons that deals bonus damage to High Dragons and a Flame Dracolith Facility to help players start off in High Midgardsormr).
** The "Dream Big Under the Big Top" Facility Event introduced a new difficulty level for Challenge Battles, Master difficulty. This is almost the same as other Facility Events' Challenge Battles where the player needs to face five waves of enemies, except the difficulty is jacked up, as normal {{Mooks}} are capable of dealing ''200-300 damage per attack'' while all of the bosses' attacks can instantly kill your Adventurer.
** In the "''Fire Emblem'': Lost Heroes" Event, the normal and hard versions of The Alberian Front are manageable, even if some errors occur. The Lunatic version, on the other hand, requires your team to be agile and coordinate well, as the enemies are far more hardy and strong. One wrong move and you'll find yourself failing the level in short order.
** In the "Resplendent Refrain" re-run, Sabnock fell easily on all returning fights, even the EX one. The Nightmare version, however, has loads more HP and is ''very'' hard to take out within the time limit.
** Thanks to PowerCreepPowerSeep, even the Nightmare difficulty is easy for veteran players. Thus, Cygames introduced the Omega difficulty, which now comes in THREE different levels. And you can't challenge the relatively easier Co-op versions until you defeat the much harder Solo version first.
** There are two points when the Mercurial Gauntlet becomes much harder all at once. Starting from Level 41, the time limit is doubled, and Fafnir Roy III gains a massive boost in HP to match. Then, starting from Level 51, his attacks can no longer be blocked by using Skills, so a healer must be brought along. This massively reduces DPS, all while Roy III continues to gain HP each level, even faster than he did between Levels 41 and 50.
** The Agito Uprising boss fights are ''harder'' than Advanced Dragon Trials at ''Master'' difficulty, as the bosses can inflict ''two'' StatusEffects, meaning a well balanced team able to resist both statuses or Gala Adventurers are required for this fight.
** As if the regular Master Agito fights weren't hard enough, Cygames introduced the Legend Difficulty, which requires a top tier team to even challenge.
** A special version of the Morsayati raid battle from the "Forgotten Truths" Event was added as its own battle... with the same Legend difficulty as the above Agito fights.
** The Sinister Dominion bosses are extremely difficult due to being able to negate any buffs your Adventurers have, buffing their own strength often, and inflicting a DamageOverTime effect far worse than regular Poison or Burn. And then they got a Legend difficulty, making them even harder.

** The "Dream Big Under the Big Top" Facility Event introduced a new difficulty level for Challenge Battles, Master difficulty. This is almost the same as other Facility Events' Challenge Battles where the player needs to face five waves of enemies, except the difficulty is jacked UpToEleven, as normal {{Mooks}} are capable of dealing ''200-300 damage per attack'' while all of the bosses' attacks can instantly kill your Adventurer.

** As if the regular Master Agito fights weren't hard enough, Cygames introduced the [[UpToEleven Legend Difficulty]], which requires a top tier team to even challenge.

** Regular quests have Menaces, which are stronger enemies that offer up extra bonuses. UpToEleven in the Kaleidoscape, which gives the Menaces a huge boost in stats, but greater rewards (namely more EXP and, in the higher levels, Dusk Amber) for defeating them.

** Goes UpToEleven with the Summer variants, which features all of the cast in swimsuits.

* FiveManBand: The Apostles and Archangels of the Goddess.
** TheLeader: Regina and Sandalphon
** TheLancer: Nevin and Ramiel
** TheBigGuy: Ryszarda and Raphael
** TheSmartGuy: Faris and Uriel
** TheChick: Pinon and Gabriel
** [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor: Basileus and Michael]]

* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Agito include a human (Volk), a Qilin (Kai Yan), a Sylvan (Ciella), Fairies (Ayaha & Otoha), and a Dragon (Tartarus).

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The strongest Weapons available are currently those that can be obtained by fighting the Agito bosses, which are stronger than the High Dragon bosses. They are the only Weapons so far that start at 6-Star, and when fully unbound, their maximum level is 200, and then that becomes even stronger by unbinding once into their Master form.

*** Chelle, Leonidas, and Valyx have their own dragonpacts with Cat Sith, Mars, and Thor respectively. Lathna has a similar relationship with Nyarlathotep.

*** Some Adventurers instead get "Dragondrive," where they get a massive stat boost but don't shapeshift. These include Aldred, Bellina, and Farren (who were Syndicate test subjects), Yurius (presumably due to messing with shapeshifting that went bad), Nino (who has faerie magic), the Summer versions of Mym and Leonidas, Izumo (emissary of Amaterasu), and Emile (who had a pact that had been broken) and Phares ([[spoiler:whose pactwyrm is dead]]).
*** Instead of turning into dragons themselves, the ''Persona 5'' Adventurers summon their Personas as separate entities, making them sort of a cross between standard shapeshifters and the Dragondrive Adventurers. Zethia does the same thing with Bahamut and summons a copy of him instead of shapeshifting, as story-wise it's too dangerous to let the real thing loose.

** Eventually, the beast versions of the Agito started being released as "Dragons" that the player can shapeshift into. In terms of the story, they're not the real thing, but just residual mana manifesting as nearly-mindless copies.

** Some dragons are actually antagonistic to the party and thus not their allies at all, such as Fatalis or Chronos Nyx. In spite of this, even the antagonistic dragons can be playable and used.

*** Mym and the Humanoid versions of Midgardsormr, Mercury, and Jupiter are Dragons who shapeshift into humans. Thus, when transforming, they turn into their true selves. Similarly, Ayaha and Otoha (and presumably any other future playable Agito) always turn into their beast forms.

*** Some Adventurers instead get "Dragondrive," where they get a massive stat boost but don't shapeshift. These include Aldred, Bellina, and Farren (who were Syndicate test subjects), Yurius (presumably due to messing with shapeshifting that went bad), Nino (who has faerie magic), the Summer versions of Mym and Leonidas, Izumo (emissary of Amaterasu), and Emile and Phares (who had pacts that have been broken).

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: While doing pulls for Adventurers or Dragons, there's a visual cue to let you know if you got a bum pull (no cue), an okay pull (doves flying), a 5-Star Adventurer or Dragon whether they’re new or a dupe, (two Gold Fafnirs), and one to show you got multiple 5-Stars (a rainbow).

* HitboxDissonance: Notte's hitbox in "Notte's Slumber Shot" is only the size of the dot centered in her. This is necessary because the higher difficulties are {{Bullet Hell}}s where the gaps in the enemies' attacks are smaller than Notte herself.

** Some dragons are actually antagonistic to the party and thus not their allies at all, such as Bahamut or Chronos Nyx. In spite of this, even the antagonistic dragons can be playable and used.