Line #80 Narm/TalesSeries


1	Feel free to make your own ''Tales of [[{{Narm}} Silliness]]'' jokes now. Namco made it easy with a few of these scenes:
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8	* In the game version of Leon's Side in the remake, we hear Marian tried to [[spoiler: kill herself]] after being held prisoner by Hugo's generals. In the manga, we get treated to the scene of Marian ''loudly proclaiming'' she will [[spoiler: kill herself]] when all of them are standing mere meters from her while she holds a ''butter knife'' of all things. It's completely ridiculous and blows any serious weight the scene might have had out the window.
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11	[[folder:Tales of Eternia]]
12	* Pretty much everything in the English ''Tales of Eternia'' is entirely free of drama. Meredy's enraged declaration that [[spoiler:Shizel is dead]] at the end of the game, after dubbing, mostly sounds like she's about to gag.
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16	* Judas breaking his mask off in his "Infernal Suffering" Mystic Arte to reveal that [[spoiler:he's Leon Magnus?]] Awesome. Him doing it multiple times in a single battle, breaking off multiple ghost masks all the while? A bit too silly.
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20	%%* From ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', [[spoiler: Zelos's death on Kratos's ending]] is hilarious.
21	%%* When [[spoiler: Colette loses her soul]] you get this famous scene-killer:
22	%%-->''Colette learned Judgment''
23	%%* [[spoiler:After Presea regains her true self and discovers what has become of her father, you can't help but laugh at the scream]].
24	* The scene after the first dungeon, when Lloyd manages to figure out that Colette has lost her sense of touch...by giving her possibly hot possibly cold coffee. Even if you could stand that, the fact that Colette dramatically drops the coffee cup at the end of the scene just pushes it into Narm. It also helped cement Lloyd amongst the fandom as a guy who's really good at mindscrewing people with a cup of coffee.
25	* The scene where Magnius's forces attack Palmacosta. There's one part where a Desian mage, taking a page from the infamous [[Narm/TheLastAirbender Pebble Dance]], does an interperative dance around his staff for about ''five seconds'' in order to produce ''one'' fireball; one-third of the game's weakest black magic spell. Then Genis just blocks it with Force Field, so it was ''completely'' useless. The best part of this is how Genis struts offscreen after blocking the fireball with the smuggest look on his face, like he's just done something amazing.
26	-->"Amateurs."
27	* "It's Magnius from the eastern ranch!" "That's ''LORD'' Magnius, vermin!" If you look at Magnius as he says it and crushes the poor guy's neck, he finishes the line by making an extremely goofy face.
28	%%* Right after some of Zelos's best character development in his Flanoir scene, we get this gem:
29	%%--> Zelos: [[spoiler: Did I piss you off?]]
30	%%--> Lloyd: [[spoiler: Hell yes! Of course! It'd be a huge problem for me if everything were destroyed!]]
31	%%* After dodging a punch from Dirk, Lloyd gives us this:
32	%%-->'''Lloyd''': Ugh...! You don't have to hit me!
33	%%* Lloyd's exclamation "Don't even start spewing the word, "justice"! I hate that word!" was more than a little mood-ruining. Taken out of context it can easily be used to portray Lloyd as a super criminal.
34	* One of the lines Zelos can say at finishing a battle is, "Man, I rule! I'm soooo cool!" You can also choose to have someone cook at the end of a battle. So having Zelos say this, and then getting the message "Zelos failed to make a sandwich!" is incredibly funny.
35	* More wonderful battle Narm. The characters all take their battles - including their opening battle quotes - very seriously...but apparently the artists who designed the monsters didn't get that memo. So you'll have Kratos commanding, "Don't let up!" or "Give them no quarter!" while facing ''a pair of ladybugs.''
36	%%* One of Zelos' lines when choosing a battle plan mid battle: "We're goin' with mah pimp plan."
37	* In the final battle of ''Tales of Symphonia'', the boss will teleport next to you and then yell "get away from me!" Geez, if you don't want me near you, why'd you teleport next to me?
38	* ''Tales of Symphonia'' has a scene where there are a bunch of guards holding their spears up who are then ordered not to attack. In the English language version, the order is, "lower your weapons!" Lowering a weapon is actually an ''aggressive'' stance when the weapon in question is a spear.
39	* Right after you defeat the monster in Iselia at the beginning of ''Symphonia'', you find out that [[spoiler: said monster [[BodyHorror used to be Marble]]]]. It's just as disturbing as it sounds, but the effect is quickly lost because of how Genis chooses to handle the situation: He says [[spoiler:[[SayMyName Marble's name]]]] twice, [[SkywardScream looks toward the sky]] [[MilkingTheGiantCow and spreads his arms out]], then [[BigNo screams "NOOOO!"]] from his place on the ground. All while the camera dramatically zooms out from him. All these details combined made the scene come across as so cliched that it's hard not to laugh at him.
40	* The overseas version of the game removed the voices from the skits, but failed to alter the lip flaps just in case. As a result, on one skit which was just fine in the Japanese version, for the overseas version you instead get the infamous moment where a despondent Sheena takes a strangely long time and a large amount of syllables to say "I..." (She was saying "Watashi..." a few times in the JP version with voices on and matching lip flaps. No voices and unaltered lip flaps result in her sounding rather slow.)
41	* Regal's original concept art (used in the first game's manual as page number artwork) and appearance on the cover of the [=PS3=] compilation ''Tales of Symphonia Chronicles'' both display a ridiculously over-the-top frown, even for him.
42	* One particular GoodBadBug introduced in either the [=PS2=] version or the ''Chronicles'' version is Sheena's character model remaining in its dirty state after recruiting her in Luin. It's easily fixed but not doing so leads to otherwise serious moments becoming quite silly when Sheena looks like she hasn't had a bath in forever.
43	* Mithos delivers a line that sounds like he's about to say the B-word, and was told to tone down his language. What's even better is what he chooses to replace it with.
44	--> '''Mithos:''' You... son of [[spoiler: Kratos!]]
45	* "Goodbye... (8 seconds later) [[spoiler: Mithos.]]" It's even funnier in the ''Chronicles'' version if the subtitles are turned on.
46	* Early in the game, when trying to get the summons, one of them mentions Mithos. The characters all question if it was the same Mithos from the stories they've heard regarding the Church of Martel, only for Raine to randomly claim that Mithos is a common boys' name. Not only do you not encounter any characters named Mithos, but the one character who is named Mithos is so obviously the same Mithos being talked about makes the comment silly, as if the game was trying to deflect a CaptainObviousReveal.
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50	* The main character, Senel, sees his long-lost girlfriend, Stella, fly into the sky and sacrifice her life to stop the beam of the Nerifes Cannon from reaching its target. The cutscene ends with Stella's limp body falling to the floor, a short pause, and then Senel leaning down and yelling "STELLAAAAAAAA!". Due in large part to the apparent reference to Marlon Brando's famous line in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', many fans reported bursting out laughing at the end of this otherwise tragic scene.
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54	* Early on, Luke, Tear and Ion are about to be attacked by the Liger Queen. The scene is supposed to be really intense, but given that the characters have DullSurprise expressions, all sense of danger is gone.
55	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' has a very dramatic and mostly well voice-acted cutscene near the end. And then, at the very end...
56	--> '''[[spoiler:Asch]]:''' ''[in a deadly calm voice]'' Well said. I will make those words your last, replicaaaaaaaaAAAAAA''AAAAAAAA!''
57	** From the same scene, a line that explains pretty much ''everything'' about [[spoiler: Asch]]:
58	--->'''[[spoiler:Asch]]:''' Shut up! This isn't about logic!
59	* Similar to the "get away from me!" example from ''Symphonia'', one of Jade's in-battle quotes is "looks like we're still okay!" It tends to trigger when Jade survives a strong attack with a shred of health. Problem is, he'll say it even if the attack ''kills everyone else on the field.'' Looks like ''you're'' still okay, Colonel, but what about everyone else? The best part of this is that it's [[NarmCharm actually perfectly in character.]]
60	** Luke can get the "Dragon Buster?" title on a NewGamePlus, which is nearly identical to the "Dragon Buster" title you can get in an ordinary playthrough, except the "?" variant has a hilarious mask that covers all of Luke's face and most of his hair. So a scene like [[spoiler: Tear confronting Luke about the fact that he's dying]] can be ruined if you accidentally left Luke in it. Even the "Dragon Buster" title itself can be ruinous to a scene, because Luke's clothes are a blue and a green that manage to be brighter than his hair.
61	* In the original [=PS2=] version of the game, after [[spoiler:Grand Maestro Mohs]] goes OneWingedAngel, his voice is distorted, with a VoiceOfTheLegion effect. The 3DS version, though, removed that effect. The perfectly ordinary voice coming from a giant demon sounds ''really'' silly.
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65	* The scene where Chitose kisses Luca, in the NDS version. Iria is supposed to be a {{Tsundere}}, yet even ''without'' the compression artifacts, it comes off as absolutely hilarious.
66	* [[spoiler: Chitose's death]] in the [=PSVita=] remake. As opposed to the original wherein she [[spoiler:stabs herself to commit suicide]], here she [[spoiler:explodes into a [[SpecialEffectFailure million pieces - and her model literally just flies to pieces]] - before her soul is collected by Kongwai]].
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70	* The game's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDRq4zPIg78 comical theme]] is so ridiculous (sounding like circus music) it somehow kills the mood of scenes meant to be funny by making them ''less'' funny, since it's like the song is [[ShowDontTell screaming at the player that what's happening should be funny]]. (And in many cases, the player may not find the moment as funny as the game wants them to.) It typically starts playing the moment anything remotely non-serious happens, even in the middle of formerly serious scenes.
71	* Yuri Lowell has a really awesome animation in which he shucks his sword from his scabbard and catches the sword in midair. The problem is that it sends the scabbard ''flying offscreen''. It's especially incongruous in long shots or outdoors, when it flies absolutely ridiculous distances. It's hilarious to imagine him digging through the sand to unearth his scabbard after the fights are over.
72	* Much like ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', the FinalBoss will actually speak directly to the character the player is controlling, and they will speak back. Unfortunately, if the player is playing as Repede, it becomes unintentionally funny because they are speaking to a ''dog''.
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76	* [[spoiler:Punching God in the face and knocking him out of his flying throne should be dramatic]], but the slow-motion effect applied to the punch ends up making it look hilarious.
77	* During the second visit to the Laforte Research Center, the party finds [[spoiler: Hamil's mayor]] who dies in front of them. The Narm comes from the voice actress making the end of her sentences sound like she's gargling water in the back of her throat.
78	* [[spoiler:Muzet's]] freak out moments are really over the top at times and can be really funny. They are meant to show her struggling with her sanity, but the scenes make it hard to not look at as comical due to the framing.
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82	* A cutscene during the FinalBoss battle involves Elle running towards Ludger, holding the pocketwatch towards him and yelling each other's name. Overall, a very dramatic scene, as Elle is being attacked during this, and the scene had Ludger being thrown onto his ass by the boss. But the overly long way Ludger is yelling Elle's name makes it hilarious. Especially weird since Elle's yell isn't that long.
83	--> '''Elle:''' LUDGER!
84	--> '''Ludger:''' [[LargeHam EEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEE!!]]
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88	* The event to restore Lastonbell's Lord of the Land ends with a little girl and her dog pitifully dying after you manage to purify them. It was supposed to be a very sad scene, and is scripted in a very dramatic way, but for some reason the song chosen to play was "[[https://youtu.be/LSelxAjeymQ The Exciting First Journey]]". It's pretty jarring to hear a whimsical song playing during arguably ''the darkest'' moment in game.
89	* [[spoiler:Dezel's death]] in the dub. It was supposed to be a touching moment, and for the most part it is. That is until Rose speaks and all she responds with is "Kay" to [[spoiler:his final words]]. It's really distracting and funny because it demeans what is supposed to be a tragic moment and makes Rose come across as uncaring that [[spoiler:someone close to her just died.]]
90	* The way [[spoiler:Mayvin]]'s death is handled is unintentionally funny due to how abruptly he dies. Towards the end of the fight, Sorey is about to shoot him with Siegfried in a flashy battle cutscene, when it just cuts to a normal cutscene of [[spoiler:Mayvin]] just falling over. The timing is so quick and off-putting that it's too hard to take seriously, and without a natural segue into it, it almost looks like he just gave up and died.
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