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** Most bosses aren't particularly difficult if you have [[ForcedLevelGrinding enough levels]] and remember to guard and heal as needed. The two bosses that stand out are the Berserker and Xain.

** Gaza [[spoiler: the second time]] is right up there with Berserker. He has three attacks. A melee sword attack and fire attack, both of which take 70-80 percent of you life. But his strongest attack is Astral Sword Slash, a no charge up mega strong all hit attack that he doesn't mind spamming.
** Xain requires that you've learned the Orb spell (a heal spell for all allies) and that you guard when he charges up his Terio Punch. Proper battle tactics will take them both down.

** If you just go plowing the enemies without strategy, Zeto, Dohati, Neo Saryu, Gaza, and the Delilas family will DESTROY you without much trouble.

* ThatOneBoss: Bubba. To be more specific; Bubba in the Arena. Bubba is armed with arts that can Charm (Violet 7), Stun (Final Bullet), hit really hard multiple times (Dancing Revolver), or worse, regain all of his HP (Golden Memory, though he only does this if you put the ring on Elfin's Grave), he can prematurely end a streak if the player isn't prepared to deal with him.

* CompleteMonster: Most of the villains probably count but [[spoiler:Songi's]] actions with Juggernaut at the end of the game would have inflected an AndIMustScream fate on the entire planet so he could become God and put himself in the running for most monstrous character in a game ever.[[spoiler:Or Possibly Jedo.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Due to the nature of seru pretty much every single villain gets this to some extent, especially [[spoiler:Cort]].
** [[spoiler:Jedo, Songi's seru, is a ra-sim-seru and we never hear it speak. Has it corrupted Songi's mind or is Songi the one in control]]?
** Both Zeto and Dohati are patriotic politicians and go along with [[spoiler:Cort's]] plan but did the sim-seru they have affect their minds and take them further down [[spoiler:Cort]] path than they would have?
** The Delilas siblings. Do they posses UndyingLoyalty to [[spoiler:Zora/Cort]] or did their sim-seru corrupt them.
** Did Zora follow [[spoiler:Cort]] because she loves him, because shes vain and wants to rule, or once again her seru. It should be noted that Zora is the only one of the villains who does not refer to the Mist as "Salvation" or "Perfect Harmony" in the Dogmatic chant the others use.
** Was Jette corrupted by the research on the mist like [[spoiler:Cort]] was? His pre-battle dialogue indicates that he's TheSocialDarwinist. Is that how he feels or how the sim-seru feels.
** The sim-seru themselves. Are they sentient, programmed like robots to serve [[spoiler:Cort's]] will, do they Dogmatically worship the mist, if so is it because they where made to, are they partners with the person they are attached to, are they controlling/corrupting them?

** You ''will'' run into numerous ones in every ''single'' town. Jeremi and Sol have bars full of people who lost their entire families to the Mist, Ratayu sports a long list of families whose young female relatives were taken as [[FateWorseThanDeath Seru brides]], Vidna has several children who resolutely believe their parents are wandering in the Mist, Octam lost much of its population to Xain's earthquakes, and the list just goes on and on.

** Did Zora follow [[spoiler:Cort]] because she loves him, she, vain and wants to rule, or once again her seru. It should be noted that Zora is the only one of the villains who does not refer to the Mist as "Salvation" or "Perfect Harmony" in the Dogmatic chant the others use.

** Was Jette corrupted by the research on the mist like [[spoiler:Cort]] was? His pre-battle dialouge indicates that he is a socialdarwinist

* CompleteMonster: Most of the villains probably count but Songi's actions with Juggernaut at the end of the game would have inflected an AndIMustScream fate on the entire planet so he could become God and put himself in the running for most monstrous character in a game ever.[[spoiler:Or Possibly Jedo.]]

* CompleteMonster: Most of the villains probably count but Songi's actions with Juggernaut at the end of the game would have inflected an AndIMustScream fate on the entire planet so he could become God and put himself in the running for most monstrous character in a game ever.

* CompleteMonster: Most of the villains probably count but Songi's actions with Juggernaut at the end of the game would have inflected an And I Must Scream fate on the entire planet so he could become God and put him in the running for most monstrous character in a game ever.

* Complete Monster: Most of the villains probably count but Songi's actions with Juggernaut at the end of the game would have inflected an And I Must Scream fate on the entire planet so he could become God and put him in the running for most monstrous character in a game ever.

Complete Monster: Most of the villains probably count but Songi's actions with Juggernaut at the end of the game would have inflected an And I Must Scream fate on the entire planet so he could become God and put him in the running for most monstrous character in a game ever.

** Xain requires that you've learned the Orb spell (a heal spell for all allies) and that you guard when he charges up his Terio Punch. Proper battle tactics will take them both down without too much trouble.

** You ''will'' run into numerous ones in every ''single'' town. Jeremi and Sol have entire bars full of people who lost their entire families to the Mist, Ratayu sports a long list of families whose young female relatives were taken as [[FateWorseThanDeath Seru brides]], Vidna has several children who resolutely believe their parents are wandering in the Mist, Octam lost much of its population to Xain's earthquakes, and the list just goes on and on.

** Vera seru. They hurt-a-plenty (they do MORE damage with their special attack if you Spirit unlike most other enemies), are somewhat fast and they heal themselves. Not particularly hard, but they can be ''annoying'', especially if they nail Noa with Bloodsucker while she's Spiriting. Oh, and they look somewhat like bats too.

* ThatOneBoss - Oh so many.

** If you just go plwing the enemies without strategy, Zeto, Dohati, Neo Saryu, Gaza and the Delillas family will DESTROY you without much trouble.
* TheWoobie - All three main characters have depressing events in their backstories, but Noa, who, among other things, [[spoiler: finds her real parents only to help cause their deaths ''very'' shortly after (they knew what they were telling her to do, she didn't), finds her brother only to discover he's the BigBad, and loses the closest thing she's got to a parent at the very end of the game]], takes the cake.

* {{Moe}} - Maya

* ClicheStorm - [[RuleOfFun And it's not a bad thing!]]

* GoddamnedBats - Pueras.

** The Berserker has extremely high attack at this point in the game and uses the Rot status effect, which makes it very difficult to attack and use Arts. Berserker also is the second boss in the game with a very hard hitting spell without requiring a turn-up to charge for the spell.

** The Berserker has extremely high attack at this point in the game and uses the Rot status effect, which makes it very difficult to attack and use Arts. He can be easily beaten with the Nighto spell and a bit of luck.

''Legend of Legaia:''

* TheWoobie - All three main characters have depressing events in their backstories, but Noa, who, among other things, [[spoiler: finds her real parents only to help cause their deaths ''very'' shortly after (they knew what they were telling her to do, she didn't), finds her brother only to discover he's the BigBad, and loses the closest thing she's got to a parent at the very end of the game]], takes the cake.

* WallBanger - The people of Drake Kingdom, realizing that they were about to be overwhelmed by the Mist, locked themselves in cages with a limitless supply of magically-nourishing water and let themselves be turned into Seru-zombies (which halts the aging process). This way, they could wait indefinitely for someone to save them without risking harming innocents while under Seru control. When you revive the nearby Genesis Tree and everyone returns to normal, they simply ''let themselves out'', and are waiting to greet you when you return. Granted they were mindless zombies, but in 10 years inside those small cages, not one of them figured out ''how to open a door''.
** I think that they were banking on being inable to retain rational thought when crazed, and thus be incapable of opening a door while drowned in Mist. I doubt King Drake would have authorized it if the magisters believed a possessed individual would be capable of unlocking the doors so easily. You'd need a Sim-Seru to retain any degree of human thought while so exposed; a Ra-Seru works, too, but you're essentially Mistproof with one of those, and since the only Sim-Seru in the Drake Kingdom was in use by Zeto...
** Also, Songi. Everyone in the game who knows him (Gala, Maya, Zopu) talks about how he used to be such a nice person and that the Seru must have made him evil. Yet every time in the game you see him, even before he got the Seru (and even in ''flashbacks''), he's a complete JerkAss.
** In Songi's defense, it's outright stated by Maya that he was vain and competitive, two traits that mainly are shown, but more to him then just that which was more virtuous. Plus there is only a single flashback shown of him before so we don't know how he'd be under circumstances outside of competition. That and he wasn't too bad when first met. While clearly willing to use Ra-Seru to get ahead, he wasn't outright rude as he was later. Still, throughout the entire storyline itself, he was the biggest jerkass, no doubt.