* TheAbridgedSeries: ''[[http://whatdoesgodneedwithastarship.com/ A Rope of Robots]]'' is a text based one. As expected, it somehow manages to turn a very serious narrative into a side-splitting mockery.
* {{Expy}}: Elly has an uncanny resemblance to Elle from {{Terranigma}}, both in name and appearance
** Rico is a dead ringer for [[StreetFighter Blanka]]. No one is quite sure why.
** Emeralda is a green-haired orphan [[spoiler:sort of]] child that grows up within the game. Just like [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Rydia]].
** "I am [[strike:[[StarWars Darth Vader]]]] [[strike:[[GGundam Master Asia]]]] [[strike:[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Graf]]]] Grahf, the seeker of power. Doth thou desire the power?"
** Krelian shares his name (in Japanese, they're even spelled the same) and a few personality traits [[spoiler:but not appearance]] with [[ChildhoodsEnd Karellen]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: So very many in the Japanese version.
** Fei is HikaruMidorikawa. Ironically, he also plays Ramsus, but goes uncredited for that.
** Elly is Yumi Touma, the only seiyuu more prolific than MegumiHayashibara. Seriously, just [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=658 check out her credits]].
*** The English voice of Elly is Moira Quirk, best known as the referee from NickelodeonGuts.
** Citan is Hideyuki Tanaka, whose roles include [[Franchise/MetalGear Hal "Otacon" Emmerich]].
** Bart is TomokazuSeki, AKA [[GGundam Domon Kasshu]] and [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Sousuke Sagara]] (among many others).
** Billy is Yuji Ueda, who played [[MartianSuccessorNadesico Akito Tenkawa]].
** Krellian is RyotaroOkiayu.
*** Interesting to note is that he's never played the game up until TomokazuSugita and YuuichiNakamura presented it to him in [[LetsPlay Tokyo Encounter.]]
* MemeticMutation: "Remember, kids...Chu-Chu died for your sins!"
** "Did you just see my MAD SKILLZ?"
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There seems to be a rumor of a planned Xenogears OVA that takes place during the Zeboim era. So far, there's no evidence that such a thing was even planned.
* YouFailBiologyForever: The game writers seem to have some... interesting... ideas about how DNA works. Fan translations of [[AllThereInTheManual Perfect Works]] have revealed that the weird backstory justifications for some of the technology in the game takes this UpToEleven.
** [[AWizardDidIt The Wave Existence did it]].

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