You can get an item drop off Box Flies, creatures with red appendages they whack you with, called "Boxing Glove." The description explains those aren't arms on the Box Flies, but a much lower part of their... anatomy.
Turtle racing. You bet on the turtle you think is going to win, which you can learn by talking to them to reveal the clear winner: it's the most excited turtle. The music fades out... and then punk butt-rock starts playing as the singer screams bloody murder as the turtles peel out and slowly make their way over to the other side of the track.
At the end of Victor's Wild ARMs-inspired intro section introducing him to the player, he's able to turn in festival tokens for incredibly powerful Final Fantasy-style endgame equipment, with some items even labeled under the classic "Genji" classification. Any and all excitement on obtaining these goods is lost when Victor brings the items up to the counter to confirm with the stall attendant that the items he brought with him are what he's choosing, only for it to turn out that he was conned out of every last token by Sienna, who was posing as a festival employee who would collect tokens the players were using and used the totals to determine what the player could grab - the players were supposed to bring the tokens to the counter proper. Victor himself has a good laugh over how easily he was duped.
As the party first officially forms outside the sewer system, Sienna is all set to leave and not look back... and then the thugs that kidnapped her the day before show up, and she instantly returns to the party bringing up how great an idea it would be to travel with them.
For as powerful, capable, and cunning as she is, Sienna has the worst luck. When she finally has a chance to break from the party without debt collectors or scoundrels around after the group is separated outside a Taryn campsite, she overhears Taryn soldiers talking about how anyone who escaped will hang eventually, only to remark about how they can't remember at all what the rest of the party looked like, meaning they can't even put up wanted posters. They then make an exception for Sienna, who they describe in perfect, almost obsessive, detail, to the point of overkill.
Soldier A: She carred a sword of the Suna and wore a red dress, right? Soldier B: True. Also, her eyes were green and she had a birthmark under her left eye. Soldier A: If I had to guess, I would say she was 1.80m tall and weighed about 55kg. Sienna: No wonder they don't remember what the others looked like-they were staring only at me...
A woman has... interesting things to say if you enter her house and talk to her in Tormund.
Townfolk: Can I help you? Would you like some tea? Or maybe some coffee? Perhaps you would like to use the toilet? Or maybe you want to sleep in my bed? Huh? No? Then why did you barge into my house uninvited, huh? Get lost, you impudent vermin!
Amalia's attempts to endear herself to the rest of the party, look mature, and make friends with everyone hits a snag - unlike Lenne, who had a year to learn how to 'act' like a commoner, Amalia has only ever been a princess. Not helping matters is that she sounds like she got all her advice on how to make friends from a slice-of-life harem anime.
Amalia's inner thoughts:[Oh, they are looking over. Probably interested in me! I shouldn't mess up with my poor wording.] Amalia: Hey, what are you staring at? Oh, I know you can't take your eyes off my lovely appearance. Glenn:W-What!? Amalia: But don't forget, I'm only 14. ...pervert. Amalia's inner thoughts:[Oh no, what am I saying? Why can't I talk normally in front of others!?] Glenn: I imagined her personality to be completely different... Sienna:A great new member we've gotten ourselves. Robb: I don't understand your sarcasm. She seems very nice.
Recruiting Bernd into your clan starts as a domestic dispute between husband and wife before swiftly escalating into black comedy when Bernd wants a divorce only for his "wife" to reveal she never actually signed their marriage license! Which Bernd knew about the whole time! The text box titles even change to say "Never his wife to begin with" before Bernd leaves to join your clan. The cherry on top? Much later in the game his not-wife asks to join your clan for a "vacation" and totally not because she's worried about him.
The loot menu is full of fun little running gags. Starting from Rohland, every time Lenne finds a flower, she falls in love with it only to realize she's allergic. She ends up being allergic to so many flowers that by the time she finds a bellflower she develops a fear for them - her nose itches just looking at flowers!
Crocus: A crocodile-shaped flower. Lenne is scared.
Another little Running Gag from the loot menu is that Robb apparently enjoys collecting insects, which goes counter to the stern, serious young man he presents himself as. Once you start collecting tarantulas, he begins calling them Becky!
A lot of the loot items are a bit more literal than they appear, or are not what you'd think they'd be, like the root from the Fiorwoods. When examined, it turns out to be a square root one of the scientists from the Fiorwoods was working on. The game even calls the player out for expecting it to be any other sort of root in a forest.
You can literally obtain an armor set from the Empyrean Ruins called Plot Armor.
During a section where you play as Amalia, you can talk to Victor...who's in the middle of penning a play. Almost half a year into a rebellion against the entire country of Valandis. At first Victor admits to having trouble writing a tale about a chef and admits he'd need to do research, before questioning why he's working on his stories in the middle of a rebellion - only to remember his agent is having him put out stories. Somehow Victor is still getting work!
Egyl's falling animation. He's the only Sova that can't fly, but that won't stop him from flapping his wings as much as he can in an attempt to do so anyway!
When the party enters Marylea, Sienna has everyone gather together so she can tell them a huge secret that, according to her, will change everything - she used to work with the church. Literally nobody except Egyl is surprised. They proceed to list off all the massive bits of foreshadowing that made the situation obvious to Sienna, who effectively decides 'well, screw you guys, you can all buzz off for all I care.'
There's a merchant with a mohawk who seems to show up wherever the party goes, even into areas that make no sense - he somehow was clinging to the underside of a mining platform while Robb, Kylian, and Victor were battling on it! What takes the cake is that he admits on Shambala that at some point it stopped being coincidence and he really did start following the party - even into the sky! - because their funds helped feed his family. He even goes into Glenn's mind, and when he thinks the party doesn't believe that he can actually sell products in a person's head, he reacts with contempt and tells the party they can pay for 'imaginary goods' with their 'imaginary arc.'
The Expensive Door Knob loot item pretty much calls you out for being a kleptomaniac who takes even concepts and honest junk.
Expensive Door Knob Description: Finally, an item that makes sense to take. Congratulations. How does it feel after carrying asd, bowler, wet wood, and other garbage with you?
Everything about Boutrous, a famous Warrior Poet, and his trusty steed, Al Ra'ad. The entire fight with him is Robb and Sienna critiquing the fact that he can only really rhyme - the rest of his poetry makes weird allusions to food and music and doesn't fit with his gimmick as a poet, and he's only a threat when he mounts Al Ra'ad - without his mount, he struggles to lift his sword! His only real attack when not on Al Ra'ad is even called 'bad poetry.' When he's nearly beaten, he even takes a moment to reflect on his Catchphrase where he promises his foes 'RESPLENDENT RHYMES and a side of EXTREME VIOLENCE' and questions what a 'side of extreme violence' even is. Even as he's beaten and Al Ra'ad slowly carts his bruised body away, he can only lament his loss was a result of his rhymes being 'too epic.'
Randomage is a Lovable Coward who cheats and tries to run whenever the fight isn't going in their favor. Hilariously, however, their second attempt to flee has them run into the sky over a bottomless pit. Parroting something out of a Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner sketch, Randomage takes a few seconds to realize they're suspended above mid-air before panicking and falling to their doom. The best part? They're an otter withwings. Poor guy doesn't even realize he could have saved himself...
