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* {{Expy}}: She's a girl who spent most of her life hospitalized, and has become nihilistic because she can't find meaning in it. The world that the game takes place in was created from her wishes. The version of her that joins the party is a happy idealization that's unaware of who she really is, who eventually must disappear when the story reaches its conclusion. Rei has a lot in common with [[spoiler:Maki Sonomura]], from the original ''VideoGame/Persona1''.

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* {{Expy}}: She's a girl who spent most of her life hospitalized, and has become nihilistic because she can't find meaning in it. The world that the game takes place in was created from her wishes. The version of her that joins the party is a happy idealization that's unaware of who she really is, who eventually must disappear when the story reaches its conclusion. Rei has a lot in common with [[spoiler:Maki Sonomura]], Maki Sonomura, from the original ''VideoGame/Persona1''.



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* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: She is deeply afraid of ghosts and spends most of the Evil Spirit Club dungeon screaming in terror. Ironically, she is a ghost herself.
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* {{Psychopomp}: This is what his role as Chronos ultimately amounts to with him being supposed to guide recently deceased souls to the sea of souls with the events of the game only happening because he abandoned those duties.

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* {{Psychopomp}: {{Psychopomp}}: This is what his role as Chronos ultimately amounts to with him being supposed to guide recently deceased souls to the sea of souls with the events of the game only happening because he abandoned those duties.
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* Psychopomp: This is what his role as Chronos ultimately amounts to with him being supposed to guide recently deceased souls to the sea of souls with the events of the game only happening because he abandoned those duties.

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* Psychopomp: {{Psychopomp}: This is what his role as Chronos ultimately amounts to with him being supposed to guide recently deceased souls to the sea of souls with the events of the game only happening because he abandoned those duties.
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* Psychopomp: This is what his role as Chronos ultimately amounts to with him being supposed to guide recently deceased souls to the sea of souls with the events of the game only happening because he abandoned those duties.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the idea of Shadows in general. Shadows are physical manifestations of a person's repressed emotions and desires, and the Investigation Team all gained their Personas by acknowledging and accepting theirs, but Best Friend isn't just teenage desires and confusion — it's death. Accepting your flaws is one thing, but accepting that your life has ended (and in Rei's specific case, also amounted to nothing) is quite another. Like Mitsuo in ''Persona 4'', Rei rejects her shadow even after it's defeated and it just fades away, and Rei after getting her memories back is every bit an emotional wreck as when she first met Chronos.

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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the idea concept of Shadows in general. as a whole. Shadows are physical manifestations of a person's repressed emotions and desires, and the Investigation Team all gained their Personas by acknowledging and accepting theirs, but Best Friend isn't just teenage desires and confusion — it's death.'''it's death'''. Accepting your flaws is one thing, but accepting that your life has ended (and in Rei's specific case, also amounted to nothing) is quite another. Like Mitsuo in ''Persona 4'', Rei rejects her shadow Shadow even after it's defeated and it just fades away, and Rei after getting her memories back is every bit an emotional wreck as when she first met Chronos.



* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of Shadow Mitsuo from ''Persona 4'', as the Shadow Self of a person so filled with despair, they reject this part of them even after the fight is over with.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of Shadow Mitsuo from ''Persona 4'', as the Shadow Self of a person an individual so filled with despair, they reject this part of them even after the fight is over with.



** Reversed Death; resistance to change, depression and fear of moving on. Shadow Rei is meant to represent that Rei is already dead and her cheerful self is nothing but an image she put on in order to hide her sadness. She even rejected her Shadow, representing her rejecting the notion that she is dead even further, showing how deep her despair is.

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** Reversed Death; resistance to change, depression and fear of moving on. Shadow Rei is meant to represent that Rei is already dead and her cheerful self is nothing but an image she put on in order to hide her sadness.sadness and maintain her sanity. She even rejected her Shadow, representing her rejecting the notion that she is dead even further, showing how deep her despair is.
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'''This entry contains severe spoilers for the game's plot. All spoilers are unmarked, Decide for yourself if you want to read it or not.'''

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* ComicallySerious: Most of the humor from scenes he's involved with come from how utterly ''stunted'' his emotional output is, as well as his difficulty with social cues.

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* ComicallySerious: TheComicallySerious: Most of the humor from scenes he's involved with come from how utterly ''stunted'' his emotional output is, as well as his difficulty with social cues.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the request event where Rei wishes to know what to give him as thanks for the tug 'o war Shadow event, the first correct question to indirectly find out what he wants is about seasonal changes during the fall. Zen then proceeds to give a rather long description of said subject, unlike how he is usually LiteralMinded. The point he brings up, life and death, stands out the most from that answer.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foil}}: Come the fourth Labyrinth, he becomes this to Ryoji Mochizuki from ''Persona 3''. Both are connected to deities of Death and hold a deep, sorrowful hesitation when it comes to the living Persona users they befriend. But while Ryoji was an emotional boy and a flirtatious sort until things got serious, Zen is fully dedicated to only one lady and is TheComicallySerious from the word "go". Furthermore, Ryoji is a part of Nyx as her avatar and his tragedy comes from his unwillingness to carry out his duty and kill his own friends after creating genuine bonds with them, while Zen's dilemma comes from how he learned to feel empathy for Niko/Rei and wants to protect her, even to the point of separating himself from his cold, emotionless original form and opposing it for her sake, not unwilling to perform his role but wanting to do it under a new light.
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During the request event where Rei wishes to know what to give him as thanks for the tug 'o war Shadow event, the first correct question to indirectly find out what he wants is about seasonal changes during the fall. Zen then proceeds to give a rather long description of said subject, unlike how he is usually LiteralMinded. The point he brings up, life and death, stands out the most from that answer. As the God of Time, he'd have great knowledge of these subjects.
** His LiteralMinded attitude and seeming lack of knowledge of [[NoSocialSkills social interaction]] stands out among the cast, particularly because he seems confused by very basic, day-to-day concepts (like some foods and social behaviors), which even the equally-amnesiac Rei has a better understanding of. The only other characters in the game who show/have shown the same level of detachment from human behavior are Teddie (a resident from the TV World and a sentient Shadow) and the Velvet Room attendants (all of which are AmbiguouslyHuman themselves), meaning Zen must fit the same criteria they're a part of (in other words, being not quite human himself).
** He sometimes uses Greek words in his dialogue and acts as if they're commonplace, even in a Japanese-oriented setting, already indicating he's an outlier in Yasogami.
** The twin crossbows he wields look like the ends of a clock's hands. He also tends to hold one further ahead of the other when firing, mimicking the position of said hands.



* EveryoneHasStandards: She may be a borderline ExtremeOmnivore, but even she has her occasional limits.

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* {{Expy}}: She's a girl who spent most of her life hospitalized, and has become nihilistic because she can't find meaning in it. The world that the game takes place in was created from her wishes. The version of her that joins the party is a happy idealization that's unaware of who she really is, who eventually must disappear when the story reaches its conclusion. Rei has a lot in common with [[spoiler:Maki Sonomura]], from ''VideoGame/Persona1''.

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* {{Expy}}: She's a girl who spent most of her life hospitalized, and has become nihilistic because she can't find meaning in it. The world that the game takes place in was created from her wishes. The version of her that joins the party is a happy idealization that's unaware of who she really is, who eventually must disappear when the story reaches its conclusion. Rei has a lot in common with [[spoiler:Maki Sonomura]], from the original ''VideoGame/Persona1''.



* {{Foil}}: After the Pride Exhibit, she becomes this to Mitsuo Kubo from ''Persona 4''. In a manner of speaking, both characters are plagued by what they perceive to be a lack of contribution to society and an emptiness of their very selves, to the point of being some of the very few characters in the franchise to refuse their own Shadows despite their defeat. The biggest differences between the two lie in the circumstances and their respective mentalities; Mitsuo was a creep with NoSocialSkills whose idea of being "remembered" was to become a murderous copycat of the Inaba serial killer, and his emptiness of self came from his belief that this was the only way he could possibly leave his mark on society, forfeiting his very identity in the process. Rei, on the other hand, didn't even get the ''opportunity'' to live that long and her sense of emptiness comes from her induced amnesia at Chronos' hands, as well as the despair of dying at such a young age, being a much kinder person than Mitsuo but still refusing to see the truth because it's just too much for her. Unlike Mitsuo, at least, Rei does eventually overcome her fear and finds peace of mind.



** Right at the opening animation, we see an image of a girl holding clumps of hair on her hands, which are stained with blood. Said girl is also crying TearsOfBlood. These are two moments of Rei's pained existence, referencing the loss of her hair during treatment for her disease, and her trying to gouge her eyes out as a spirit after learning she was dead.
** She gets progressively more panicked and desperate the more the party explores the Labyrinths. Unlike the Investigation Team's own journeys of self-discovery, at no point does it seem like Rei's will end well, and whatever the Labyrinths might mean to her, it's not just simple teenage confusion.
** If Rei ends up selected as the "destined partner" for the protagonist at the end of the Group Date Café, her reaction to the marriage "photo" of herself and the player character is to wistfully lament how she "wishes [she] could have worn a dress like this", the phrasing implying something happened to her that made it impossible for her to ever do so.
** The Kind Doctor's BossBanter is that of a surgeon trying and failing to save a patient, and the boss is guarding a lock of blond hair. The lock belonged to Rei, and she was the patient the real doctor couldn't save in time.



* BonusBoss: All those orbs Elizabeth has you collect in her quests lead up to her using them to summon Zeus, who promptly overtakes her and fights the party with her body. The battle can only be fought once the Clockwork God is dealt with, but before starting a New Cycle.


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* OptionalBoss: All those orbs Elizabeth has you collect in her quests lead up to her using them to summon Zeus, who promptly overtakes her and fights the party with her body. The battle can only be fought once the Clockwork God is dealt with, but before starting a New Cycle.
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* BadassBaritone: Not really in the Japanese version, but the English dub is noticeable thanks to [[Creator/KeithSilverstein the voice actor involved]].

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* CombatTentacles: Her arms are long rubber extensions that she can launch out to whip at the party in her attack animation.



* HighClassFan: She carries around a fancy hand-fan, to complement her "royal" status.



* WhipItGood: Her arms are long rubber extensions that she can launch out to whip at the party in her attack animation.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the Evil Spirit Club portion, without missing a beat, she doesn't fumble up her words when talking about key cards being needed to open up a door. Other times in the game, she is always asking about stuff or turning things she mishears into something related to food, but this one comes across as odd for her. The reason why is due to her covered memories of her hospital days casually resurfacing without making her break down.
** After a Stroll where Junpei tells one of his ghost stories, Rei starts showing interest on how the girl in the story died. The group tells Junpei to stop scaring her and he quickly makes up a half-baked happy ending instead, which Rei ''quickly'' accepts.

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** After a Stroll where Junpei tells one of his ghost stories, Rei starts showing interest on in how the girl in the story died. The group tells Junpei to stop scaring her and he quickly makes up a half-baked happy ending instead, which Rei ''quickly'' accepts.
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* IllGirl: In real life, she was a terminally ill young girl.

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A young man who seems to have no motivations other than Rei's well-being. He's a skilled warrior.

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A blonde girl with amnesia and an insatiable appetite.
appetite, just as easy to cheer up as she is to despair. Rei seems to be unwilling to find out what lies inside the labyrinth but still tags along to learn the truth.
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** After a Stroll where Junpei tells one of his ghost stories, Rei starts showing interest on how the girl in the story died. The group tells Junpei to stop scaring her and he quickly makes up a half-baked happy ending instead, which Rei ''quickly'' accepts.



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** The moment she sees the horror that is Mystery Food X: The Final Edition, [[AllYourPowersCombined a mixture of Fuuka, Chie, Rise and Yukiko's horrible cooking]] [[UpToEleven in one brutally lethal package]], her eyes burn from that insult to existence.

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** The moment she sees the horror that is Mystery Food X: The Final Edition, [[AllYourPowersCombined a mixture of Fuuka, Chie, Rise and Yukiko's horrible cooking]] [[UpToEleven in one brutally lethal package]], package, her eyes burn from that insult to existence.

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* InnocentlyInsensitive: His attempts to cheer Niko up after her death backfire horribly, only serving to rub salt in her wounds by waving what she could never have in her face.



* TokenGoodTeammate: PlayedWith. As a godlike being in the Persona series, he comes across as one of the very small number of "good" gods. Considering how many (outside of Philemon and perhaps Igor) are {{Big Bad}}s, it says a lot.

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* TokenGoodTeammate: PlayedWith. As a godlike being in the Persona ''Persona'' series, he comes across as one of the very small number of "good" gods. Considering how many (outside of Philemon and perhaps Igor) are {{Big Bad}}s, it says a lot.



* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Her spirit appears to be a high school girl, but she's actually in her mid to late twenties.



* TragicDream: All she ever wanted was to do ordinary things like go to high school. Sadly, illness claimed her life before it could happen.
* TraumaticHaircut: When she was alive, her hair was shaved as part of her treatments. She wasn't happy with it, even when they helped preserve her original hair. It did grow back eventually, but with a slightly different color hue.



* TraumaticHaircut: When she was alive, her hair was shaved as part of her treatments. She wasn't happy with it, even when they helped preserve her original hair. It did grow back eventually, but with a slightly different color hue.
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* {{Foil}}: To ''Persona 4'''s Mitsuo Kubo, as another young person so desperate to turn away from themselves that they reject their own Shadows even after their defeat, as well as being associated with some form of emptiness of being. The key difference is that Mitsuo did so out of a misguided wish for attention, rejecting his Shadow because of his selfishness and inability to admit he's empty inside and even being willing to ''kill'' to be noticed, while Rei is an otherwise gentle soul who only received attention due to her disease, ''is'' the one who died, and refuses her Shadow due to not wanting to relieve the pain of thinking her whole life was meaningless.
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* AllForNothing: Considers her entire life to have been pointless suffering leading only to an ignoble death.

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* [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Boy]]: Compared to the emotional girl, Rei. It's because he used to be Chronos, a PhysicalGod who was wholly devoted to its duty and had no need to feel or even understand emotion. A large part of his CharacterDevelopment is to gain emotions for himself.

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* [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Boy]]: EmotionlessBoy: Compared to the emotional girl, Rei. It's because he used to be Chronos, a PhysicalGod who was wholly devoted to its duty and had no need to feel or even understand emotion. A large part of his CharacterDevelopment is to gain emotions for himself.



* NonstandardCharacterDesign: He looks like he's from a completely different series with his cape and choker. [[VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey Considering the game's roots]], that might be the idea.

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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: NiceJobBreakingItHero: He created the false Yasogami in an attempt to help Rei overcome her nihilism, but this only drove her deeper into despair and caused the birth of the Clockwork God.
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He looks like he's from a completely different series with his cape and choker. [[VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey Considering the game's roots]], that might be the idea.



* DespairEventHorizon: Flew headfirst over it when Chronos originally came to take her away. When he tells her she's dead, the girl previously called Niko pretty much [[AngstComa shuts down]]. His attempts to fix this end up making things worse.

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* DespairEventHorizon: DeathOfAChild: In reality, she died before ever becoming old enough to attend high school.
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Flew headfirst over it when Chronos originally came to take her away. When he tells her she's dead, the girl previously called Niko pretty much [[AngstComa shuts down]]. His attempts to fix this end up making things worse.



* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: She is clearly ill, and the implication is that her poor health was because of cancer from a young age, hence the hair being lost and a lock being able to be cut before she lost it for chemo. This would make her sadness and anger even more understandable, as she was basically a ticking time bomb who had no choice in the matter, and never even knowing what she was sick from certainly didn't help.



* EveryoneHasStandards: She may be a borderline ExtremeOmnivore, but even she can't handle [[LethalChef Yukiko's cooking]]. Said cooking knocks her out cold and makes her dream that she was being held down while someone poured sand in her mouth.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: She may be a borderline ExtremeOmnivore, but even she has her occasional limits.
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can't handle [[LethalChef Yukiko's cooking]]. Said cooking knocks her out cold and makes her dream that she was being held down while someone poured sand in her mouth.



* IllGirl: In real life, she was a terminally ill young girl.



* MeaningfulName: Rei means Zero, as well as being a part of the word "yuurei", meaning "ghost", a telling nature of her origins of being dead. Her real name is Niko, but she hates it because it only means "second child", which has some dark implications, since she doesn't mention having siblings. In addition, after he erased her memories, Zen gave her a new name that he believed she would like more. The name was Philei, which in Greek means "to love", but she shortened it to Rei because it was easier to pronounce.

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Rei means Zero, as well as being a part of the word "yuurei", meaning "ghost", a telling nature of her origins of being dead. Her real name is Niko, but she hates it because it only means "second child", which has some dark implications, since she doesn't mention having siblings. In addition, after he erased her memories, Zen gave her a new name that he believed she would like more. The name was Philei, which in Greek means "to love", but she shortened it to Rei because it was easier to pronounce.



* MythologyGag: In the truest form of mythlogical sense, Rei is a Preta. And in most of the games that they are featured in, Preta are weak to Hama and resistant (And often immune) to Mudo.

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* MythologyGag: In the truest form of mythlogical the mythological sense, Rei is a Preta. And in most of the games that they are featured in, Preta are weak to Hama and resistant (And (and often immune) to Mudo.



* ThePollyanna: She's very cheerful and tries to see the best in everything, at least until she's forced to come to terms with her short and (seemingly) meaningless life.



* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: She is clearly ill, and the implication is that her poor health was because of cancer from a young age, hence the hair being lost and a lock being able to be cut before she lost it for chemo. This would make her sadness and anger even more understandable, as she was basically a ticking time bomb who had no choice in the matter, and never even knowing what she was sick from certainly didn't help.
* ThePollyanna: She's very cheerful and tries to see the best in everything, at least until she's forced to come to terms with her short and (seemingly) meaningless life.



* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She shares a number of similarities with Maki Sonomura from the [[VideoGame/{{Persona1}} first Persona game]].

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She shares a number of similarities with Maki Sonomura from the [[VideoGame/{{Persona1}} first Persona game]].original ''VideoGame/Persona1'', being sickly girls who turn out to have been unwittingly involved in the creation of a false paradise in order to cope with their nihilism.



The second guardian, a [[LargeHam histrionic]] Shadow mimicking the priest of a chapel, waiting at the end of the Group Date Cafe. He appears as the pastor meant to "wed" whoever solves his level's dating questionnaire, although obviously he's actually a boss. His gimmick is various "vows" against certain tactics in combat, with violators invoking [[ThatOneAttack Holy Wrath]] in retaliation. He guards a toy wedding ring Rei got from her mother.

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The second guardian, a [[LargeHam histrionic]] Shadow mimicking the priest of a chapel, waiting at the end of the Group Date Cafe. He appears as the pastor meant to "wed" whoever solves his level's dating questionnaire, although obviously he's actually a boss. His gimmick is various "vows" against certain tactics in combat, with violators invoking [[ThatOneAttack Holy Wrath]] Wrath in retaliation. He guards a toy wedding ring Rei got from her mother.



* CallingYourAttack: He'll announce what option is blocked to you when using Vow. Averted if he makes you Vow that you won't do "all manner of things", which doesn't specify which options he's blocking, only that it's more than one.

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* CallingYourAttack: CallingYourAttacks: He'll announce what option is blocked to you when using Vow. Averted if he makes you Vow that you won't do "all manner of things", which doesn't specify which options he's blocking, only that it's more than one.



* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: His vows are color-coded to match the colors of the menu options they block off, helping to avoid them.



* CreepyDoll: It's a tortured-looking version of Rei/Niko's rabbit doll.
** We even see the Shadow holding the original doll while it's still in its base form. Said doll inexplicably snapping its own neck is what prompts the actual boss fight.

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doll. We even see the Shadow holding the original doll while it's still in its base form. Said doll inexplicably snapping its own neck is what prompts the actual boss fight.



* MoodWhiplash: The Inaba Pride Exhibit itself, going from a brightly-lit campfire festival, to a CampStraight sauna, and finally to the somber final night of the festival at the shrine.
** The story reflects this with a lot of humor on the first two halves (especially on the P4 side), which all comes crashing down '''immediately''' when they get to the Final Night area and Shadow Rei appears. From that point on, it's seriously not funny anymore.

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The Inaba Pride Exhibit itself, going from a brightly-lit campfire festival, to a CampStraight sauna, and finally to the somber final night of the festival at the shrine.
** The story reflects this with a lot of humor on in the first two halves (especially on the P4 side), which all comes crashing down '''immediately''' when they get to the Final Night area and Shadow Rei appears. From that point on, it's seriously not funny anymore.



* RuleOfSymbolism: The Inaba Pride Exhibit is a traditional Japanese festival that ends with a somber night with a burnt-out campfire by a shrine. Margaret points out at one point that festivals like the culture exhibit occurring at the fake Yasogami High are usually held in memory of the departed, as a celebration of death as a passage to the afterlife. Rei's Shadow, the revelation of her death and suffering, is faced at the end of the festival, likely at the moment reserved for the final prayers and farewells to the deceased.

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The Inaba Pride Exhibit is a traditional Japanese festival that ends with a somber night with a burnt-out campfire by a shrine. Margaret points out at one point that festivals like the culture exhibit occurring at the fake Yasogami High are usually held in memory of the departed, as a celebration of death as a passage to the afterlife. Rei's Shadow, the revelation of her death and suffering, is faced at the end of the festival, likely at the moment reserved for the final prayers and farewells to the deceased.



* FinalBoss: Of Persona Q, in both routes.
* GracefulLoser: It seems more than happy when its ''own'' time comes and he is claimed by his own life-and-death cycle.

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* FinalBoss: Of Persona Q, ''Persona Q'', in both routes.
* GracefulLoser: It seems more than happy when its ''own'' time comes and he it is claimed by his its own life-and-death cycle.

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