History VideoGame / Sdorica

!! Sdorica provides examples of the following tropes:

* {{Bishonen}} Nigel and Elio, even in universe.

* JustForPun: There are many, many puns in character titles and skill names ranging from wordplay to pop culture references.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Character deaths are often hidden with a blacked-out screen and sound effect or similar, until chapter 16 where clashing soldiers start dying with [[HighPressureBlood gratuitous blood splatters.]]
* GoKartingWithBowser: Teams are assembled without regard to in-universe allegiances or philosophies. Mortal enemies in the same team? No problem.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Sometimes, the game tells you that an enemy deals OneHitKill by making them deal 8-9 '''digits''' worth of damage. For comparison, even your tankiest tanks are unlikely to have even 50K HP.

* ChekhovsGunman: Sometimes the story mentions in passing a character who becomes more important much later, often overlapping with PromotedToPlayable.
** In season 1, Pang speaks of his friend Yao the tiger prince who was executed following a failed rebellion. Turns out [[DeathFakedForYou death faked for him]], and he becomes playable and a major character in season 3.
** During the Sun Kingdom civil war, Sione speaks of her supportive brother. Said brother, Ace, appears as an NPC late into season 2 before becoming playable in season 3.
** Early in Season 2, Sophie's circus partner Hanbei mentions about an incident involving a foreign prince. In season 3, Tindoiimu's character storyline elaborates on it, with the foreign prince being Tindoiimu herself [[SweetPollyOliver in a masculine disguise]].

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The creed of the Desert Kingdom is taken straight from Plato: "Justice is nothing more than the interest of the stronger". In Eclipse, we see that the East Alliance follows a similar concept. They have their own royalty but the Arbiter who essentially functions as the middle man for disputes between the various tribes has the final word for the decision everyone goes for. The arbiter is selected via Martial Arts Tournament.

* BeachEpisode: Sdorica has annual summer events where select characters have fun in the waters. Each year, four characters receive MZ variants, and one or two characters receive cosmetic beach skins.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Angelia, Sione and Naya have this dynamic in Sunset. Angelia has the charm and royal bearing, Sione has the discipline and education, and Naya is called a gorilla for her strength (despite wielding bows). Diana in Mirage embodies these three qualities and in Eclipse, the main trio has the role of beauty going to Tindoiimu the princess of the insect tribe, the brains being Juan Yun whose quick thinking and smooth talking sometimes hints that he's much more perceptive than he lets on, and lastly the brawn being Maeok since she is the current Arbiter

* CoolPet: An update in Mirage features the addition of monsters that you can keep in the exploration mode. More monsters are caught using a special fruit and you also have a monster stable where you can upgrade or release the monsters you found!

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Season 3 Wonderland Trial update introduces a new scoring system called "Achievement", where you get a flat 500 for every wave you manage to clear regardless of your performance. However, the waves are often very extremely hard; just surviving them at all will literally be an achievement, forget scoring quick kills with no damage.

* PoisonousFriend: Izumi, to Nigel. That's how Yamitsuki sees it at least.

* AllThereInTheManual: Light novel, really, and two of them. "Before Sunset" and "After Sunset". One is about Theodore, and the other is about Atlas and Nigel's grandparents. Both fill in details about the setting and backstory that the game has only just started getting into.
** A third novel called ''Before Mirage'' has begun as a web serialization, and after that there's also "After Mirage".

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: "A Midsummer Night's Scream" is unusual compared to the previous summer events as the story is set at night on a haunted house and thus more of a {{Kimodameshi}}, and two of the featured MZ units, Joan and Miranda, occupy positions they have previously occupied via their other variants (Joan MZ is black like her base form, and Miranda MZ gold like her SP)[[note]]It just so happens that three of the four characters chosen as the MZ for the event, Miranda, Joan and Tindoiimu, already have variants that occupy gold and black slots, and thus without breaking the trend, there would be ''three'' white MZ units[[/note]]

* StellarName: Each season's moniker so far is named after atmospheric and even astral phenomenons:

* LateInstallmentWeirdness: "A Midsummer Night's Scream" is unusual compared to the previous summer events as the story is set at night on a haunted house and thus more of a {{Kimodameshi}}, and two of the featured MZ units, Joan and Miranda, occupy positions they have previously occupied via their other variants (Joan MZ is black like her base form, and Miranda MZ gold like her SP)[[note]]It just so happens that three of the four characters chosen as the MZ for the event, Miranda, Joan and Tindoiimu, already have variants that occupy gold and black slots, and thus without breaking the trend, there would be ''three'' white MZ units[[/note]]