History VideoGame / YggdraUnion

%%* AncestralWeapon: Yggdra's {{BFS}}, Gran Centurio.

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Yggdra is a lot more powerful after her AwesomeMomentOfCrowning.

%% * BreakableWeapons

%% * ChainedByFashion: Nessiah.

%% * CloudCuckooLander: Pamela.

%%* CurbStompBattle: Of the extremely depressing variety, upon [[spoiler: commencing the invasion of Bronquia]].

* CutsceneBoss: Despite all the misery she gives you, you can't kill Eudy with your own hands, and the battlefield where she presumably dies in is scripted.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: In one chapter. Said character cannot participate in unions, and going next to them counts as an auto failure for the map.

%%* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Elena makes Aegina do this in Map 28.]]
* FantasticNuke: The Ankh Cannon. The Ankhs themselves could possible render an area uninhabitable for many years, as lampshaded by some of the cast.

** Fantasinia [[StealthInsult is representative]] [[TakeThat of western Europe and America.]]

** The Vanir [[StealthInsult are reminiscent of Native Americans,]] [[TakeThat particularly considering their relation to Fantasinia]] (and the [[Myth/NorseMythology name of their race]]). Most of them are dark-skinned ([[spoiler:Milanor]] being an exception) to make it even more obvious.
** Lombardia [[TakeThat strongly resembles the historical role of the Holy Roman Empire.]]

* {{Fetish}}: Rosary is the only character to get a Morale boost from being given such items as shackles and blindfolds.

%%[[spoiler:Kylier, because she's [[TooCoolToLive Too Tactically Useful To Live]]]]
%%** [[spoiler:And, late in the game, almost EVERYONE in the Imperial Army--starting with Baldus.]]

%% * LethalJokeCharacter: Mizer becomes this in the PSP version.
** Mistel. She's an airheaded "housewife" that has lacking stat gains, leaving her with terrible stats at level 20...unless you give her a few stat boosting items early on, allowing her to reach a full six stars in all stats with no trouble. Combined with her weapon being the scythe, which beats all melee weapons.
%%* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Aegina and Luciana to Yggdra.]]

* OldMaid: Mistel. Lampshaded--she gets ''furious'' when Milanor calls her "Obasan" (she technically won't qualify for two more years!), and she flirts heavily with Durant and Roswell. (Though, the last is likely due to [[spoiler:the fact that her husband left her, and she's looking for a new one]].)

** Not to mention this line from the PSP version when he is about to unleash Genocide.

* PuniPlush: Every single character looks like they're in their teens, but most of them (in the PSP remake) have clearly adult voices.
%% * RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:Nessiah.]]
%% ** [[spoiler:Or Yggdra, in [[MultipleEndings endings C and D]].]]

%% * SanitySlippage: Poor [[spoiler:Nessiah]]...
%%* SaveThePrincess: [[spoiler:The plotline of Chapter 4.]]

%% * ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Battlefield 46.]]

** Gulcasa wearing you down? Rosary is essentially a huge cockblock - Gulcasa can't do much against her. Of course, she can't do much back.

%%* ThirdPersonPerson: Nietzsche.
%% ** Also Pamela, in the PSP UpdatedRerelease.
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Kylier, especially when Yggdra's around. [[spoiler:Eventually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]].]]

%%* UnholyHolySword: [[spoiler:The Gran Centurino.]]

* UselessUsefulSpell: Item Break. Finding a time where you ''want'' to break a foe's item is incredibly rare, since the two ways to get them are very consistent and reliable. Having ''your'' items broken, on the other hand...

* UnusualEars: [[spoiler:Gulcasa has ''jigokumimi'', revealed in Battlefield 44 when he loses his helmet. Not surprisingly, we learn shortly after that [[LastOfHisKind he's the last living descendant of the dragon Brongaa]].]] Made infinitely creepier because [[spoiler:Brongaa is possessing him at the time]].

** Medusa's Eye. You get no bonuses or experience and the units just get in your way.
** Every ailment except curse is this, albeit to a lesser extent than petrification. Anything they provide is mediocre at best and doesn't provide any noteworthy battle bonuses. Curse, on the other hand, neuters even Gulcasa.
* WaifFu: As compared to stronger-''looking'' magicians with accurately low attack value, tiny, apparently frail Nessiah has a disproportionately high set of statistics and a overpowered weapon type and Skill, making him a rare male example. [[spoiler:Of course, his excuse is that he's a fallen ''Grim Angel''...]]
%%* WarIsHell

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:#367 and her camera-shy fellow test subjects. At least according to the High Servant.]]

%% ** The scary part? [[spoiler:The High Servant mentions that ''this is the sanest any test subject '''has ever been''' after having their synchronization rate forced above 100%.'']]

* {{Bokukko}}: Emilia. Though, since she's the Princess of Bronquia, who's going to tell her not to?

* BerserkButton: Gulcasa's is [[spoiler:losing his allies and loved ones. After having said button hit enough times, he tries to [[HeroicSacrifice use his own life]] to summon Brongaa and wipe the Royal Army out. Depending on the ending, he either comes dangerously close to succeeding or [[NonstandardGameOver does, with tragic consequences for the entire world]].]]
** And if you don't believe us, have his (furiously shouted) response to Yggdra's request for a cease-fire [[spoiler:directly after he learns of Emilia's death]]:
---> '''Gulcasa:''' Is that all you came here to say? What an arduous journey, for such a ridiculous request. Even were I to believe you, we would never accept your terms...We razed your Kingdom, [[spoiler:and you have responded in kind]]. How are we to extinguish our flames of hatred now? This fighting cannot end until one of us can fight no more!
** Kylier's is Yggdra. Or, well... [[ObliviousToLove Milanor acting friendly with Yggdra, to be precise]]. [[spoiler:And Milanor never figures out why it makes Kylier go mental.]]
*** Her attitude is justified later on, since it turns out that [[spoiler:Yggdra's ancestors were responsible for forcing Kylier's race to eke out a miserable living in Lost Aries.]]

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Gulcasa. See BerserkButton above.
** This has actually been spoofed in a few of the gag 4koma and one-page comics in the ''Yggdra Union Comic Anthology'' book.

An updated port of the PSP version was released in 2019 for [=iOS=] and Android devices and 2020 for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch with the Switch version getting an English release in 2023. The port would later be released worldwide on PC via Steam on February 6, 2023 in Early Access.

* ActiveRoyalty: Played straight for both sides with Yggdra and Gulcasa.

* AerithAndBob: Mostly on the Aerith side of the spectrum, with only a few "normal" names like Russell, and Monica
* AesopAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yggdra]] suffers this towards the end of the game; it's also prominent in two of the possible endings.

* AmazonBrigade: Any unit led by a female.
** Or certain Imperial divisions in general, like the Special Forces and Scarlet Riders.
* AncestralWeapon: Yggdra's {{BFS}}, Gran Centurio.

* CelestialBureaucracy: [[spoiler:Battlefield 49 shows Asgard to have this situation.]]

* CurbStompBattle: Of the extremely depressing variety, upon [[spoiler: commencing the invasion of Bronquia]].

* ExtremeDoormat: #367. [[spoiler:Until she gets her DeadlyUpgrade, at least...]]

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Elena makes Aegina do this in Map 28.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Kylier, because she's [[TooCoolToLive Too Tactically Useful To Live]]]]
** [[spoiler:And, late in the game, almost EVERYONE in the Imperial Army--starting with Baldus.]]
*** [[spoiler:Gulcasa might also be considered to have one, as his actions from Battlefield 18 are geared towards ensuring that he'll be able to call down Brongaa on the Royal Army's heads (BY KILLING HIMSELF) if the situation gets desperate enough. And ''boy does he try to.'']]

* IdiotHair: Yggdra and Nessiah each have one, though neither is a particularly silly character.

* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Aegina and Luciana to Yggdra.]]

* MermaidProblem:
** Solved. The Undines live forever until killed and do not reproduce. How they came to be is a mystery.
** What actually happens is that they are immortal due to a magic gem that revives them whenever they are killed for real.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent, OurDragonsAreDifferent, OurMermaidsAreDifferent, oh my!

* PlugNPlayFriends: Two, [[spoiler:Elena]] and [[spoiler:Russell]]. The latter has an excuse, though.

* SaveThePrincess: [[spoiler:The plotline of Chapter 4.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: Kylier, especially when Yggdra's around. [[spoiler:Eventually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]].]]

* YouAreNumberSix: #367, naturally.

* {{Ahoge}}: Averted--Yggdra and Nessiah each have one, though neither is a particularly silly character.

* [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Heroine]]: Kylier

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ending A, the canon one.]]

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Wielded by [[spoiler:Marietta.]]
* [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerization]]: [[StealthInsult Yggdra's "Crusade" attack]] [[TakeThat was originally called "Jihad."]]
* [[BreakableWeapons Breakable Items]]

* ChainedByFashion: Nessiah.

* CloudCuckooLander: Pamela.

* CostumePorn

* CuteBruiser: Emilia
* CuteWitch: Pamela. Rosary too, maybe.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of TheEmpire, {{Tsundere}}, OmniscientMoralityLicense, and LaResistance.
* ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Draconic]]'' [[DemonicPossession Possession]]

* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Gulcasa and Kylier]].
* ElegantGothicLolita: Emilia.

* EyeObscuringHat: The Servants wear these.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Elena makes Aegina do this in Map 28]]

* [[GigglingVillain Giggling (anti?)Villain]]: This is the sound of [[spoiler:Nessiah's]] sanity being strained beyond its bounds. It manages to be both creepy as ''hell'' and pity-inspiring.
* GodivaHair

* HeroAntagonist: ''The Imperial Army. So much.''

* {{Honorifics}}: Yggdra and Elena ''always'' use them. Nessiah uses them for ''everyone'' but Gulcasa.
** When Kylier calls Yggdra "Oujo-sama", the ''-sama'' is often written in katakana to show that she's being sarcastic.
** The fact that Nessiah is the ''only'' character on good terms with Gulcasa who ''doesn't'' use some kind of suffix with him caused quite a few raised eyebrows, since FirstNameBasis is a way of showing that two characters are very close. [[HoYay Certain fans likely had a field day with it.]] [[spoiler:And according to ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'', they were right.]]
*** Matters are not helped ''at all'' by the fact that Gulcasa doesn't use suffixes with Nessiah, either. Though Gulcasa hardly uses them with anyone.
** After her AwesomeMomentOfCrowning, Yggdra insists that her troops keep calling her Princess (Yggdra-oujou) instead of Queen (Yggdra-ou). She'll only accept the title when the war is over, she says.
*** Gulcasa continues calling her ''-oujou'' to be rude. [[spoiler: Well, she ''did'' just murder his fourteen-year-old little sister.]]
*** And, of course, Nessiah still calls her "Yggdra-ou".

* KickTheDog:[[spoiler:Its Heavily implied Nessiah was the one who seduced Nietzsche's sister, stole the Transmigragem and drove her to suicide. Its also implied he gave the ankhs to Roswell and Rosary starting their war.]]

* LaResistance
* LadyOfWar: Quite a few.
* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: Princess Yggdra

* LethalJokeCharacter: Mizer becomes this in the PSP version.

* LoveableRogue: Milanor

* ProudWarriorRace: Bronquia.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:Nessiah.]]
** [[spoiler:Or Yggdra, in [[MultipleEndings endings C and D]].]]

* SanitySlippage: Poor [[spoiler:Nessiah]]...

* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Battlefield 46.]]
* ShortTank: Kylier.

* SocialDarwinist: Gulcasa is a mix of this and [[BloodKnight blood knight]].

** Also Pamela, in the PSP UpdatedRerelease.

* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler:Nessiah]] is crazy good at it.
* [[{{Yandere}} Yangire]]: [[spoiler:#367]], so ''very very much.''
** The scary part? [[spoiler:The High Servant mentions that ''this is the sanest any test subject '''has ever been''' after having their synchronization rate forced above 100%.'']]

An updated port of the PSP version was released in 2019 for [=iOS=] and Android devices and 2020 for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, but only in Japan. The port would later be released worldwide on PC via Steam on February 6, 2023 in Early Access.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Kylier actually has a fairly thick Kansai accent in the Japanese script.
* {{Keigo}}: Elena uses it. Lampshaded in that Milanor recognizes this as abnormal and tries (but fails) to get her to be less formal.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler:Gulcasa]]. This is played for all the tragedy it's worth when [[spoiler:due to the HeroicRROD incident at the end of chapter 5, he winds up too sick to take to the field even when the Royal Army starts to invade his country--everyone in the country willing to bear arms stands up to protect him, and is swiftly cut down]]. Although it's nowhere near to the same degree, Yggdra is also very popular with her people, which is remarked upon a few times early in the game.

* ChristmasCake: Mistel. Lampshaded--she gets ''furious'' when Milanor calls her "Obasan" (she technically won't qualify for two more years!), and she flirts heavily with Durant and Roswell. (Though, the last is likely due to [[spoiler:the fact that her husband left her, and she's looking for a new one]].)
** And then she turns around and calls ''Eudy'' ChristmasCake ''to her face''.

* Myth/NorseMythology: The original translation of the game had several references to it, like the names of certain items and the name of Kylier's race; the updated translation added a lot more of them, since by then Creator/{{Atlus}} had realized that ''Yggdra Union'' and ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' were part of one series. The story itself also contains a reference--the side materials explain that one of the antagonists once sacrificed an eye in exchange for knowledge, similar to Odin.

** Then there're scythes, which are strong against the sword-axe-lance triangle, ''and have no weakness''. Guess what is Gulcasa's WeaponOfChoice?

%%* WeaponOfChoice

** Also, where'd [[VideoGame/BlazeUnion Eater]] go? Does her status as OptionalPartyMember have something to do with it?
*** All the new characters in ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'' leave the continent after that game, which is explicitly discussed in its epilogue. Eater in particular [[VideoGame/GloriaUnion goes worldhopping.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: You start off playing as Milanor, who is set up as the hero with Yggdra in a traditional DistressedDamsel role. Two and a half battlefields later, Yggdra becomes the player character, and Milanor is firmly established as her {{sidekick}}, losing nearly all plot significance except the ability to attract [[BigDamnHeroes Kylier]] [[DeusExMachina when the Royal Army has dug itself into a hole]] and the default commander seat when Yggdra is somewhere else. The game is explicitly about Yggdra's CharacterDevelopment and [[TheHighQueen growth as a ruler]] as she learns to balance hot-blooded idealism with compassion and an understanding of how the world works. Then the universe of episode II [[VideoGame/YggdraUnison started]] [[VideoGame/BlazeUnion expanding]], a certain antagonist's backstory and true motivations got lots more attention, and [[spoiler:Gulcasa]] made off with Yggdra's hero seat. On top of all this, the character in the episode II games who is the most important to [[VideoGame/DeptHeaven the 'verse]] is ''none of the above''--it's actually [[spoiler:Nessiah]], the ''antagonist,'' about which WordOfGod and [[AllThereInTheManual the side materials]] are very clear. UpToEleven, indeed.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: The ankhs. Also the crosses seen at Lost Aries.

* MermaidProblem: Solved. The Undines live forever until killed and do not reproduce. How they came to be is a mystery.

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Yggdra and Gulcasa.]] Or [[spoiler:Yggdra and Nessiah, for endings C and D]]. This becomes clearer when [[spoiler: the heroes end up slaughtering an untrained civilian militia or [[RageAgainstTheHeavens raging against the heavens]]]].
** Also, [[spoiler: Nessiah and the Magi from Asgard. In his attempt to gain vengeance, Nessiah becomes a lot like the Magi, manipulating countless people's lives for his own perception of justice.]]
** Lampshaded in Battlefield 49. A ''lot,'' with irony, by multiple people.
---> '''Milanor:''' Lowly humans!? I don't think I like your attitude. What makes you so different from us?

* {{Leitmotif}}: Every character in the Royal Army has his or her own battle theme, as do Gulcasa, Nessiah, Aegina [[spoiler:and Luciana]], and Nana-chan. Other enemies just have generic music according to their rank. As of VideoGame/BlazeUnion, pretty much everyone in the ''Imperial'' Army has their own battle theme as well, leaving Inzaghi as pretty much the only recurring character without his own theme.

* SummonMagic: Of the Western variety.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: A rather complex one. There's the ''Franchise/FireEmblem''-standard sword-axe-lance triangle, and those weapons beat bows, which beat magic, which beat the sword-axe-lance triangle again.
** Then there're scythes, which are strong against the sword-axe-lance triangle, ''and have no weakness''. Guess what is [[ThatOneBoss Gulcasa's]] WeaponOfChoice?
*** And even worse, you have to get the PSP version to get a scythe-user on your side.
*** Not entirely. If you pick up the Stray Dragon item (which WAS in the GBA version), you can equip it to Durant, which changes him to Scythe user. Only lasts 3 maps, though. Too bad.
*** Gulcasa wearing you down? Rosary is essentially a huge cockblock - Gulcasa can't do much against her. Of course, she can't do much back.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Nietzsche.

* UnholyHolySword: [[spoiler:The Gran Centurino.]]

** Technically Kylier IS the VictoriousChildhoodFriend in a way, because Milanor never shows interest in any female but her.

* UnwittingPawn: The Royal Army.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Medusa's Eye. You get no bonuses or experience and the units just get in your way.

* WarIsHell
* WeaponOfChoice

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Yggdra is a lot more powerful after her AwesomeMomentOfCrowning. On the other side, Gulcasa is ThatOneBoss.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: [[spoiler: Nessiah gets one in Battlefield 47. Yggdra, [[HeroicResolve who's in no mood to listen to him]], actually counters with a simpler one of her own.]]

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The opening of the PSP version reveals a lot of scenes that happen in the game like [[spoiler:Yggdra's coronation and Aegina getting her eye shot]].