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** Alvis stands out among the otherwise comparatively subdued cast of ''1'' due to being an [[{{Bishounen}} androgynously beautiful]] young man with flamboyant, CampGay mannerisms, while nonetheless being one of the [[AgentPeacock most powerful]] supporting characters in the game, before the ending reveals [[spoiler:that he is in fact the BigGood and the world's equivalent of the Gnostic God]]. ''Future Redeemed'' would build upon that fanbase by confirming that [[spoiler:Alvis is genderqueer as a result of the Ontos core being designed to be nonbinary, and gaining a female body with the name A while not explicitly identifying with any gender terms, neutral or otherwise, the previous male appearance is retained by their other half, the amoral, emotionless Alpha (who is still referred to as male by everyone except N who refers to Alpha as an "it" at times). Shulk and Rex are both shown to be accepting of A's new form as well]].
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** Alvis stands out among the otherwise comparatively subdued cast of ''1'' due to being an [[{{Bishounen}} androgynously beautiful]] young man with flamboyant, CampGay mannerisms, and whom [[AllThereInTheManual post-release materials]] for ''1'' implied to be something other than strictly male-gendered, while nonetheless being one of the [[AgentPeacock most powerful]] supporting characters in the game, before the ending reveals [[spoiler:that he is in fact the BigGood and the world's equivalent of the Gnostic God]]. ''Future Redeemed'' would build upon that fanbase by confirming that [[spoiler:Alvis is genderqueer as a result of the Ontos core being designed to be nonbinary, and gaining a female feminine-looking androgynous body with the name A while not explicitly identifying with or being regarded by others as conforming to any defined gender terms, terminology, neutral or otherwise, the previous male appearance is retained by their other half, the amoral, emotionless Alpha (who is still referred to as male by everyone except N who refers to Alpha as an "it" at times). otherwise. Shulk and Rex are both shown to be accepting and supportive of A's new form as well]].well. Meanwhile, the previous male appearance is retained by A's other half in the form of the amoral, emotionless Alpha, who is still referred to as male by most characters but is hinted at to also have genderqueer aspects, such as being referred to by N as "it" at times[[note]]Although this could be a case of ItIsDehumanizing, some nonbinary individuals do identify positively with "it/its" pronouns[[/note]] and as the singular "they" in prerelease statements]].
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* LGBTFanbase: The game has a rather vibrate queer fanbase despite the lack of unambiguously and explicitly LGBTQ+ protagonists due to the games' highly [[{{Applicability}} applicable]] messages about accepting others' differences, challenging oppressive social norms, and overthrowing the tyrants responsible for them. Alvis, the Aegises Pyra and Mythra, and Malos [[spoiler:who are revealed to be the same kind of being]] in particular all enjoy an especially significant queer fanbase:
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* LGBTFanbase: The game has a rather vibrate vibrant queer fanbase despite the lack of unambiguously and explicitly LGBTQ+ protagonists due to the games' highly [[{{Applicability}} applicable]] messages about accepting others' differences, challenging oppressive social norms, and overthrowing the tyrants responsible for them. Alvis, the Aegises Pyra and Mythra, and Malos [[spoiler:who are revealed to be the same kind of being]] in particular all enjoy an especially significant queer fanbase:
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* CommonKnowledge:
** ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' are NOT the same franchise. They are three separate [=IPs=], owned by three separate companies, with three separate narratives and continuities. While it's true that they share many elements out of the fact that they were [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor created by the same group of people]], the connections are supposed to be only spiritual (a bit like the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchises, for instance). This is not helped by the fact that fans of Monolith's work like to lump them together anyway, even those who are 100% aware of this fact. Thus, they are called "the Xeno series" for the sake of brevity, which can be misleading for casual observers and newcomers (some fans have suggested to use "the Xeno games" or "the Xeno metaseries" instead, but with little avail). The ending of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'' [[spoiler:has significant shout-outs to the other ''Xeno'' games, though only time will tell if they result in a true CanonWelding]].
** ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' are NOT the same franchise. They are three separate [=IPs=], owned by three separate companies, with three separate narratives and continuities. While it's true that they share many elements out of the fact that they were [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor created by the same group of people]], the connections are supposed to be only spiritual (a bit like the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchises, for instance). This is not helped by the fact that fans of Monolith's work like to lump them together anyway, even those who are 100% aware of this fact. Thus, they are called "the Xeno series" for the sake of brevity, which can be misleading for casual observers and newcomers (some fans have suggested to use "the Xeno games" or "the Xeno metaseries" instead, but with little avail). The ending of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'' [[spoiler:has significant shout-outs to the other ''Xeno'' games, though only time will tell if they result in a true CanonWelding]].
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* CommonKnowledge:
**CommonKnowledge: ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' are NOT the same franchise. They are three separate [=IPs=], owned by three separate companies, with three separate narratives and continuities. While it's true that they share many elements out of the fact that they were [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor created by the same group of people]], the connections are supposed to be only spiritual (a bit like the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchises, for instance). This is not helped by the fact that fans of Monolith's work like to lump them together anyway, even those who are 100% aware of this fact. Thus, they are called "the Xeno series" for the sake of brevity, which can be misleading for casual observers and newcomers (some fans have suggested to use "the Xeno games" or "the Xeno metaseries" instead, but with little avail). The ending of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'' [[spoiler:has significant shout-outs to the other ''Xeno'' games, though only time will tell if they result in a true CanonWelding]].
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That's not really all that common of a statement. The more common claim is that he already finished the plot of Xenoblade 3 in his head while making 2 and that the whole of 2 was written as a Call Forward, which is similarly dubious. Takahashi has gone on record in a post-1 interview asking him about the possibility of a sequel when the first game was so self-contained, and he told them that he deliberately left the ending of 1 open-ended to leave room for a sequel of some kind.
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* BrokenBase: How to abbreviate the series is a surprisingly contentious subject. Fans who use "XC" ('''X'''enoblade '''C'''hronicles) regard it as the most obviously intuitive abbreviation from just looking at the title. But those use "XB" ('''X'''eno'''B'''lade) tend to consider the ''Chronicles'' part of the title clunky and [[SubbingVersusDubbing a gratuitous localizer intrusion]], and also believe the "Blade" part of the title is the important differentiator based on the nomenclature for ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} XG/Gears]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} XS/Saga]]''. A third camp goes with XBC ('''X'''eno'''B'''lade '''C'''hronicles) to split the difference but this is also contentious as the extra letter is seen as something of defeating the point while still remaining clunky and less harmonious with the ''Gears'' and ''Saga'' namescheme.
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* BrokenBase: How to abbreviate the series in English is a surprisingly contentious subject. Fans who use "XC" ('''X'''enoblade '''C'''hronicles) regard it as the most obviously intuitive abbreviation from just looking at the title. But those use "XB" ('''X'''eno'''B'''lade) just as many tend to consider the ''Chronicles'' part of the title clunky and [[SubbingVersusDubbing a gratuitous localizer intrusion]], intrusion]] and also prefer to use "XB" ('''X'''eno'''B'''lade), or believe the "Blade" part of the title is the most important differentiator based on the existing nomenclature for ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} XG/Gears]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} XS/Saga]]''. A third camp goes with XBC ('''X'''eno'''B'''lade '''C'''hronicles) to split the difference difference, but this is also contentious as the extra letter is still seen as something of defeating the point while still remaining clunky and less harmonious with the ''Gears'' and ''Saga'' namescheme.naming schemes.
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** Takahashi is commonly stated by people to have planned out the ''Xenoblade'' series from day 1. However, Takahashi has outright stated the first game was originally mostly stand alone, and it was only because of its success that he would actual plot out some of the overarching elements, but even then he did not have a grand vision for the series at first like he did with past ''Xeno'' games. Playing the non-Definitive Edition versions of the first game makes it clear that it was never planned to be more than a single game when first made.
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Nobody gets angry about that. That's literally just a US/UK difference. The British ads for 1 literally said it with the short E
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* FandomEnragingMisconception: For your convenience, pronounce the first "e" in ''Xenoblade'' with a long "e." [[note]] "Zeeno", not "Zeno".[[/note]]
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* BrokenBase: How to abbreviate the series is a surprisingly contentious subject. Fans who use "XC" ('''X'''enoblade '''C'''hronicles) regard it as the most obviously intuitive abbreviation from just looking at the title. But those use "XB" ('''X'''eno'''B'''lade) tend to consider the ''Chronicles'' part of the title clunky and [[SubbingVersusDubbing a gratuitous localizer intrusion]], and also believe the "Blade" part of the title is the important differentiator based on the nomenclature for ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} XG/Gears]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} XS/Saga]]''. A third camp goes with XBC ('''X'''eno'''B'''lade '''C'''hronicles) to split the difference but this is also contentious as the extra letter is seen as something of defeating the point while still remaining clunky and less harmonious with the ''Gears'' and ''Saga'' namescheme.
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* CommonKnowledge: ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' are NOT the same franchise. They are three separate [=IPs=], owned by three separate companies, with three separate narratives and continuities. While it's true that they share many elements out of the fact that they were [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor created by the same group of people]], the connections are supposed to be only spiritual (a bit like the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchises, for instance). This is not helped by the fact that fans of Monolith's work like to lump them together anyway, even those who are 100% aware of this fact. Thus, they are called "the Xeno series" for the sake of brevity, which can be misleading for casual observers and newcomers (some fans have suggested to use "the Xeno games" or "the Xeno metaseries" instead, but with little avail). The ending of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'' [[spoiler:has significant shout-outs to the other ''Xeno'' games, though only time will tell if they result in a true CanonWelding]].
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* CommonKnowledge: CommonKnowledge:
** ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' are NOT the same franchise. They are three separate [=IPs=], owned by three separate companies, with three separate narratives and continuities. While it's true that they share many elements out of the fact that they were [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor created by the same group of people]], the connections are supposed to be only spiritual (a bit like the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchises, for instance). This is not helped by the fact that fans of Monolith's work like to lump them together anyway, even those who are 100% aware of this fact. Thus, they are called "the Xeno series" for the sake of brevity, which can be misleading for casual observers and newcomers (some fans have suggested to use "the Xeno games" or "the Xeno metaseries" instead, but with little avail). The ending of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'' [[spoiler:has significant shout-outs to the other ''Xeno'' games, though only time will tell if they result in a trueCanonWelding]].CanonWelding]].
** Takahashi is commonly stated by people to have planned out the ''Xenoblade'' series from day 1. However, Takahashi has outright stated the first game was originally mostly stand alone, and it was only because of its success that he would actual plot out some of the overarching elements, but even then he did not have a grand vision for the series at first like he did with past ''Xeno'' games. Playing the non-Definitive Edition versions of the first game makes it clear that it was never planned to be more than a single game when first made.
** ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' are NOT the same franchise. They are three separate [=IPs=], owned by three separate companies, with three separate narratives and continuities. While it's true that they share many elements out of the fact that they were [[CreatorDrivenSuccessor created by the same group of people]], the connections are supposed to be only spiritual (a bit like the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchises, for instance). This is not helped by the fact that fans of Monolith's work like to lump them together anyway, even those who are 100% aware of this fact. Thus, they are called "the Xeno series" for the sake of brevity, which can be misleading for casual observers and newcomers (some fans have suggested to use "the Xeno games" or "the Xeno metaseries" instead, but with little avail). The ending of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'' [[spoiler:has significant shout-outs to the other ''Xeno'' games, though only time will tell if they result in a true
** Takahashi is commonly stated by people to have planned out the ''Xenoblade'' series from day 1. However, Takahashi has outright stated the first game was originally mostly stand alone, and it was only because of its success that he would actual plot out some of the overarching elements, but even then he did not have a grand vision for the series at first like he did with past ''Xeno'' games. Playing the non-Definitive Edition versions of the first game makes it clear that it was never planned to be more than a single game when first made.
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I don't know if the video now just has a spoiler on it now, but I think the video might have just had a weird time where I couldn't seem to find it back when this incident happened.
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** Ever since LetsPlay/{{Videogamedunkey}} made a video on the second game, a large number of ''Xenoblade'' fans have not only given the video flak, but also haven't gotten along with Dunkey's fans either. Even some ''Xenoblade'' fans themselves are split on the video. Generally, those who have no negative opinion of it say that Dunkey was only joking while also talking about common criticisms about the game. Detractors of his video say that the presentation of his jokes single-handedly misrepresented the game to outsiders, with some outright blaming Dunkey himself for why the game's [[FandomEnragingMisconception Fandom-Enraging Misconceptions]] are still hotly debated. Even if he isn't necessarily the problem, the rivalry itself comes from how his more aggressive fans [[ReviewsAreTheGospel use Dunkey's jokes as their opinion]] and harass ''Xenoblade'' fans with it. It only got worse when just a month after the third game's release, Dunkey casually tweeted a ''massive'' spoiler from it as a joke with no warning after he uploaded a video on the third game, which also contained lategame footage with no spoiler warnings. He has since deleted both, but prior to him pulling his video, he made a tweet pretending people were mad at the video and not the spoiler.
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** Ever since LetsPlay/{{Videogamedunkey}} made a video on the second game, a large number of ''Xenoblade'' fans have not only given the video flak, but also haven't gotten along with Dunkey's fans either. Even some ''Xenoblade'' fans themselves are split on the video. Generally, those who have no negative opinion of it say that Dunkey was only joking while also talking about common criticisms about the game. Detractors of his video say that the presentation of his jokes single-handedly misrepresented the game to outsiders, with some outright blaming Dunkey himself for why the game's [[FandomEnragingMisconception Fandom-Enraging Misconceptions]] are still hotly debated. Even if he isn't necessarily the problem, the rivalry itself comes from how his more aggressive fans [[ReviewsAreTheGospel use Dunkey's jokes as their opinion]] and harass ''Xenoblade'' fans with it. It only got worse when just a month after the third game's release, Dunkey casually tweeted a ''massive'' spoiler from it as a joke with no warning after he uploaded a video on the third game, which also contained lategame footage with no spoiler warnings. He has since deleted both, the tweet, but prior to him pulling his video, he made a tweet pretending people were mad at the video and not the spoiler.
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* LGBTFanbase: Alvis, the Aegises Pyra and Mythra, and Malos [[spoiler:who are revealed to be the same kind of being]] all enjoy a healthy queer fanbase for various reasons:
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* LGBTFanbase: The game has a rather vibrate queer fanbase despite the lack of unambiguously and explicitly LGBTQ+ protagonists due to the games' highly [[{{Applicability}} applicable]] messages about accepting others' differences, challenging oppressive social norms, and overthrowing the tyrants responsible for them. Alvis, the Aegises Pyra and Mythra, and Malos [[spoiler:who are revealed to be the same kind of being]] in particular all enjoy a healthy an especially significant queer fanbase for various reasons: fanbase:
