History VideoGame / TheWorldEndsWithYou

** Shooter and Yammer are two recurring NPCs who enjoy playing Tin Pin Slammer together.
** Ai and Mina are a pair of recurring NPCs involved in a subplot with Makoto.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Everyone. Pins are most Players' WeaponOfChoice, but they can also be used to control other items as weapons, such as Shiki's plushie, playing cards, or [=SUVs=].

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Nao and Sota follow the ganguro fashion trend, meaning they bleach their hair and tan their skin.

* DifficultySpike: Regarding the first Tin Pin Stride challenge in [[spoiler:Beat]]'s week. It's devilishly difficult in comparison to the previous one, being the first one with full player roster (four, including Neku) and enemies having superhuman reflexes.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Shibuya River. Easily big enough for the characters to walk and fight in. TruthInTelevision, as it really does exist. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the Shibuya River was adapted from a city street.

'''Note:''' ''It's A Wonderful World'' [[SimilarlyNamedWorks is a dangerously similar title to that]] of a 1939 live-action ScrewballComedy, ''Film/ItsAWonderfulWorld'', starring Jimmy Stewart and Claudette Colbert.

* GetBackHereBoss: Several of the bosses, particularly ones who like to teleport, such as Uzuki and [[spoiler:Reaper Beat]], as well as [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto]]. Cornix Canor also has a tendency to stay offscreen for 90% of the battle, only flying by every once in a while.

* GoodWithNumbers: Minamimoto cranks this one [[UpToEleven up to root 121]].
* GottaCatchThemAll: In the original DS version, there are 96 types of Noise to fight, 304 Pins to find and master, and [[UpToEleven 472 items in general to collect]]. Good luck getting OneHundredPercentCompletion.

* KingMook: Cornix Canor is a Boss Noise that resembles a large Decadraven and can spawn them during its fight. Ditto for Vespertilio Canor and Pteropus Canor, which are golden bats and command smaller Bat Noise that matches the color of their wing (Gabba Bat and Happycore Bat, respectively).

* OneWingedAngel: Every Game Master and [[spoiler:Hanekoma]] start their boss battles by morphing into their Cantus forms. The FinalBoss takes it UpToEleven. [[spoiler: You beat Kitaniji and he comes back and goes One Winged Angel like every other officer... only for Joshua to arrive after he's beaten, giving Kitaniji the idea to use Joshua to give his One Winged Angel form its own One Winged Angel: Draco Cantus.]]

* UpToEleven: Minamimoto's final attack (which he never uses in battle) is called "Level ''i'' Flare", a play on the names of attacks in ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' such as Level 3 Flare and Level 5 Death, which affect characters whose levels are divisible by those numbers. Except that ''i'' is the square root of negative one, making it a possible factor in ''every'' number, ''both real and imaginary''.
** Also a moment of FridgeBrilliance, as [[spoiler:the Secret Reports]] state that the psychic attacks used by Reapers and Players are powered by the user's Imagination. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Sho's most powerful attack would utilize an ''imaginary number''.

%%* LuminescentBlush: Shiki has this reaction when Neku tells her that [[spoiler: she was his entry fee for Week 2.]]
%%* MadMathematician: Sho Minamimoto takes this UpToEleven. %%Zero-context, please elaborate

* LuminescentBlush: Shiki has this reaction when Neku tells her that [[spoiler: she was his entry fee for Week 2.]]

* {{Kawaiiko}}: Nao doesn't dress like a little kid, but she's a cutesy kogal through and through, giving everyone [[TastesLikeDiabetes unbearably sweet]] nicknames. In fact, you can call her "Nao-Nao". For ''short''. [[http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Atarashi_Koko Coco]] from ''Solo Remix'' plays this straight, though.

* NiceHat: You eventually get Minamimoto's hat as an item, and StatisticallySpeaking, it would best be described as an [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Hat]].

* {{Meganekko}}: Konishi is the "cold, untouchable" variety, rather than cute. [[spoiler:The real Shiki]] plays it more straight, with a shy, mousy appearance.

* {{Qipao}}: The most expensive item sold by Dragon Couture is a dress in this style known as the Dragon Lady. Interestingly, it comes with an effect that only applies [[{{Crossdresser}} when Neku is wearing it]].

* {{Tsundere}}: One female clerk for an upscale clothing store is rather dismissive of Neku at first, with her thoughts doubtfing that he can afford anything. If Neku spends enough money there, she'll initially be surprised, then start greeting Neku with polite professionalism but her thoughts indicating she's rather bashful and possibly has a crush on Neku

%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Shooter and Yammer (except in Another Day), Ai and Mina.

* TooDumbToFool: When [[AlmostDeadGuy Konishi]] attempts to emotionally cripple him by revealing that [[spoiler:Rhyme doesn't love Beat as much as he loves her]], Beat hesitates only long enough to give her satisfaction, and then promptly ignores it.

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: The [[DemonicSpider hated elephant Noise]] and both forms of the final boss can be defeated easily in a matter of seconds with [[spoiler:the Time Bomb psych.]].

* ShopFodder: The various Yen pins have no uses other than being sold to the trash can in exchange for money.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: The Irregular Notes are a postgame pin set that is very unorthodox in its use, as the pins float around the screen and using them causes the projectile to pass from one pin to another, making them the only time the ability to move around pins on your screen is relevant. They're also one of the few [[NonElemental neutral Psychs]] that Neku can equip, and the only ones that do not rely on obstacles - making them a perfect counter against the dreaded Fifenfrog, which absorb both positive and negative Psychs and spawn only in areaas that never spawn obstacles.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Some of the [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed renamed locations]]--Tower Records becoming "Towa Records" ''leaps'' to mind.
** Food being consumed in "bytes".
** Neku says one, worried about the nature of the "piggy".
-->"What if it's possessed--waiting to pork chop us in the back of the head?"

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Nearly every store encountered in Shibuya is given a thinly-veiled rename and bears ridiculous visual similarity to the location it's based on. For example, the [[SmallReferencePools Tower Records]] (slogan "It's a World Thing") becomes [[IncrediblyLamePun Towa Records]] (slogan "It's a Wild Thing").

* CriticalStatusBuff: Various clothing items (primarily from the "Lapin Angelique" brand) provide status buffs when the wearer is low on HP. Combine these with pins that place Neku in critical HP at the start of battle and you have the "[[FanNickname Lapin Angelique]] [[FunWithAcronyms Suicidal Special]]" and can strike for massive damage.

* PowerFloats: Joshua, when using his [[FanNickname Jesus Beams]].

* SlapOnTheWristNuke: Joshua's level 3 Fusion, "[[FanNickname Jesus Meteor]]", wherein Neku and Joshua [[ColonyDrop drop the freakin' moon]] on Earth.

* FlunkyBoss: In addition to most of the minor, required Noise bosses you fight early on, there's also Verspetilio Canor, Cornix Canor, Sho Minimimoto/Leo Cantus, Pteroptus Canor, and Tigris Cantus (especially her first phase.) Also, Pig Mazurka, the king of the Pig Noise.

* FlunkyBoss: In addition to most of the minor, required Noise bosses you fight early on, there's also Verspetilio Canor, Cornix Canor, Sho Minimimoto/Leo Cantus, Pteroptus Canor, and Tigris Cantus (especialy her first phase.) Also, Pig Mazurka, the king of the Pig Noise.
* {{Foil}}: Beat to Neku; [[AllThereInTheManual the game manual even tells you]] that they're opposites. Also Rhyme to Beat, though in a different way.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: CAT's graffiti in the Japanese version incorporate lots of inverted crosses. [[spoiler:Appropriate, since CAT is a fallen angel]].

* FiveManBand: Neku's group in Another Day -- [[{{The Hero}} Shuto]], [[{{The Lancer}} Neku]], [[{{The Smart Guy}} Joshua]], [[{{The Big Guy}} Beat]], and [[{{The Chick}} Shiki]]. Of course, they also have a SixthRangerTraitor as well.

* VisualPun: Another Day features the [[BossInMooksClothing Fifenfrog]], which absorbs almost every attack the player can throw at it.[[note]]Partners, neutral psychs, and (in the Solo Remix) Cross Combos can still affect it.[[/note]] [[spoiler:It's a (mostly) white Noise.]]