Line #0 Trivia/FireEmblemAwakening


1	* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: A joke in the Avatar's supports with Frederick has them trick him into eating bear meat ([[RunningGag again]]) by claiming it's "venison". While the word is nigh-exclusively used to refer to deer meat nowadays (and this was clearly the intention of the statement), technically, ''any'' meat from a hunt can be called venison.
2	* ActingForTwo: In the Japanese version, [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro the same lady]] does ''all'' the female Avatar voice options (which range from mature LadyOfWar to TokenMiniMoe) as well as [[CrossdressingVoices one of the male ones.]]
3	* CrossDressingVoices:
4	** Ricken, only in [[Creator/YukiMasuda Japanese]] version.
5	** [[DudeLooksLikeALady Libra]], in [[Creator/CindyRobinson English]] and Japanese.
6	** Henry, in only the [[Creator/AkemiOkamura Japanese]] version.
7	* DummiedOut: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Bartre, Ninian,]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Male Kris]] have unused placeholder portraits in the game.
8	* FakeAmerican: Creator/GideonEmery, who voices Gaius, is actually British — for comparison, his other two most famous roles are [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Balthier]] and [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Fenris]], and for those, he keeps his natural accent.
9	* FakeBrit: Creator/MelaLee, who voices Tiki is actually American.
10	* FranchiseKiller: ''Awakening'' was actually intended to kill off the franchise for good after having suffered years of sales decline. However, due to the game's success, this ultimately never happened and the franchise continued to live on.
11	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
12	** Despite this game being significant for the franchise, notably saving it from being shelved for good, it has yet to be ported to another console. As a result, it has become rarer as the years have gone by, with used copies of the game raking up to at least $55 on sites like Amazon. Those without access to a 3DS or emulation, or were too young to play it when it was released at the time are in miserable luck when it comes to getting the game into their hands. Hurting it even further is that the 3DS eShop was closed by March 27th, 2023, meaning that digital copies can no longer be bought there.
13	** All of the DLC xenologues (including the DLC einherjar units) are no longer purchasable due to the shuttering of the 3DS eShop, and the only way to access any of them without pirating/hacking the game is through used copies that already had them installed or purchased (in which case they can be redownloaded) long before the 3DS eShop's closure.
14	* KillerApp: It was reported in the UK that the bundle of ''Awakening'' and a limited edition 3DS XL made up about 30% of all 3DS XL sales the week it was released, and helped boost sales of the system ''50%'' compared to the previous weeks.
15	* MarthDebutedInSmashBros:
16	** Thanks to the [=SpotPass=] optional battles and paid DLC, '''50''' characters from past games are appearing in English for the first time ever in this game.
17	** In PAL versions of the game, this is the first time [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Lilina]] showed up in any form beyond a cameo in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. This is due to the fact that the PAL version of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' omitted the extended epilogue that was retained in all other versions of that game.
18	* MilestoneCelebration: To commemorate Awakening's 10th anniversary, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGquVYopGw an episode]] of the Japanese Fire Emblem Roundtable webseries revolving around the game itself was broadcast on August 27th, 2022, featuring Tomokazu Sugita and Yū Kobayashi, the Japanese voice actors of Chrom and Lucina respectively, as guests. Months prior, Kozaki Yusuke also made [[https://twitter.com/kymg/status/1516367163963043840?s=46&t=io9x_wjAyXORJi6XpcBazg celebratory artwork]] and posted it on his Twitter account on the exact same day it was released.
19	* NewbieBoom: ''Awakening'' got more marketing in the West than previous ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' titles, giving it much better mainstream exposure than its predecessors. It went on to become the best-selling ''Fire Emblem'' up to that point, which in turn drew in many new players to the fandom. Robin, Lucina and Chrom's inclusion as playable characters in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' a few years later sparked another small surge of new fans due to the ''Smash'' series' popularity.
20	* NoDubForYou: While the various European localizations are very creative and heavily [[{{Woolseyism}} Woolseyized]], only English and Japanese voiceovers exist for the game, unlike ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]''[='s=] multiple European voices. However, all Western versions of the game contain both voice tracks, unlike in previous ''Fire Emblem'' games and the follow-up ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', which contain only the English audio.
21	* PigeonholedVoiceActor: Creator/YuriLowenthal voicing a KidHero, Creator/BrycePapenbrook voicing an [[{{Keet}} energetic, creepily cheerful]] KidHero, Creator/StephanieSheh voicing a {{Yandere}}, Creator/KateHiggins voicing a {{Tomboy}}; and Creator/TaraPlatt voicing stern, serious mage, and a LadyOfWar, Creator/SamRiegel as a RidiculouslyAverageGuy BadassNormal villager, Creator/RichardEpcar voicing a [[EvilIsHammy hammy villain]].
22	* PlayingAgainstType:
23	** Creator/SpikeSpencer as a [[SissyVillain Sissy]] SmugSnake [[DudeLooksLikeALady that looks like a lady]], Creator/LiamOBrien voicing a ''heroic'' ChivalrousPervert, and Creator/StephanieSheh playing a confident, training-loving knight.
24	** In terms of L.A-based roles, Creator/ToddHaberkorn went on to typically play {{Smug Snake}}s or {{Villains}} (like [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Sugou/Oberon]] and [[Manga/SailorMoon Jadeite]]). Male Morgan is neither of these, and is a bit of a dork, and is also a NiceGuy.
25	** Creator/JamiesonPrice has a recognizable deep and smooth voice that's pretty constantly used throughout all of his roles, meaning he usually doesn't get much of an opportunity to show off his vocal range. Those who played this game after some of the newer Fire Emblem entries recognize him as the original TinTyrant Red Emperor [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Rudolf]], or the murderous warlord [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Nemesis]]. So his role as Virion, who uses a lighter voice with a French accent, still comes as a shocker to many people; nobody thought he was capable of pulling something like that off. In fact, many people thought that Virion was voiced by Creator/DanWoren for years before news came out that it was Price. To steal a quote from the comment section of Virion's Behind The Voice Actors page:
26	--->'''NCZ:''' Anyone who thinks Jamieson Price doesn't get to show off his range enough needs to let it sink in that it took 4 years for anyone to even consider that it was him voicing Virion.
27	* RealitySubtext:
28	** It's possible to pair Miriel and Ricken. Their voice actors, Creator/TaraPlatt and Creator/YuriLowenthal, are married in real life. Doubles as HilariousInHindsight, as the two were a fairly popular pairing even before their English voice actors were announced.
29	** Same goes for Lucina and Brady, who are voiced by Creator/LauraBailey and Creator/TravisWillingham respectively. (Willingham also voices Lon'qu, who can't be paired with Lucina.)
30	* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Why Morgan has amnesia, as, depending on [[spoiler:whether the Avatar marries a first or second generation unit]], Morgan would have wildly different backgrounds and would require numerous script changes to their Supports. Amnesia easily circumvents this problem.
31	* SwanSong: The series was about to be cancelled due to low sales, so Intelligent Systems made this as one last hurrah. As with the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', it instead went on to sell like gangbusters, becoming the KillerApp for the 3DS and inducing a NewbieBoom to the franchise as a whole, securing its fate for the foreseeable future.
32	* TranslationCorrection:
33	** Panne's generic barracks dialog in Japanese translates to "''Humans'' are somewhat strong creatures too. [Name], how about we fight together next time?" It's possible to have her say that to one of the army's Manaketes, who obviously aren't human. So the English version changed it to "It seems the Taguel aren't the only strong beings out there."
34	** In the original Japanese version, when Robin calls Chrom by name at the beginning despite never meeting him, Chrom confusedly asks Robin "How do you know my name?". This eventually stops making any sense whatsoever once it's revealed in-story a chapter or two later that Chrom is the prince of Ylisse, meaning there would be several hundred plausible reasons why Robin would know Chrom's name. The English localization fixes this by changing his line to "Ah, then you know who I am?", which is much more in line with what a famous figure would say upon being addressed by name by a stranger.
35	** The weapon "Thor Hammer", which had shown up in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar previous games]] [[NoExportForYou but never in English]], was properly renamed Mjölnir in the English localization. Likewise the ultimate wind spell, which was generally romanized as Holsety before, was changed to Forseti, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forseti which gets the mythological reference right.]]
36	** If you earn Robin and Lissa's C support conversation in the Prologue, then they will mention the Risen before their first appearance in Chapter 1. The European version corrects this by changing the Risen into bandits.
37	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
38	** Early trailers indicate Sumia was planned to have Cavalier as a reclass option.
39	** In an early trailer for the English translation, Garrick (the Barbarian boss of the prologue) was named Grendel, but this was changed for unknown reasons.
40	** [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/5/51/Cordelia_Concept_Art_Blue_Hair.png/revision/latest?cb=20160420030618 Certain concept art]] suggests Cordelia early on was planned to have blue hair.
41	** Several unused sprites for characters exist showing that Sully, Stahl, Lon'qu, Olivia, and Say'ri were able to promote into the Hero class at some point. Since all of those characters can become Myrmidons, this implies that the Hero used to be the promoted form of the Myrmidon.
42	** Another sprite shows [[http://fireemblemwiki.org/w/images/5/5a/FE13_cut-in_maskless_Gerome.png a critical hit animation for an unmasked Gerome]], which indicates that he was to remove his mask during combat at some point.
43	** A critical/skill portrait was discovered for Phila as well; unfortunately, she never has the chance to use it, because [[spoiler:she's killed off]].
44	** The game's files list the names Andrea, Leopold[[note]]which could be an early name for Libra[[/note]], Bella, and Tracie among the game's characters. Although their names are all that is left of them in the game, these were apparently characters of some kind that were DummiedOut.
45	** During the game's development, there were plans for the game's setting not to occur in the usual medieval setting. One concept originally had a modern-day setting while another concept took place on the planet Mars. It was changed back to a medieval setting due to fear of alienating players.
46	* WorkingTitle: ''Fire Emblem Fin: The Children from the Brink''

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