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  • Acting for Two:
    • With over 1000 unique characters, but only over 360 voice actors for the Japanese voices, and over 290 voice actors for the English dub, it would be easier to list those who didn't voice two (or more!) different characters in this game.
    • A special mention must go to Harmonized Winter Cordelia & Selena and Harmonized Bridal Adult Tiki & Young Tiki, as Julie Ann Taylor voices both of them for the former and Mela Lee for both of them for the latter in the English dub. Each Harmonized Hero has a conversation to listen to, so in this case, both of them literally have conversations with themselves.
  • Alan Smithee: The artist for the Mythic Hero Elimine and Valentine Hana are credited as "Alan Smithee" in English, with the same name transliterated into kanji in Japanese.
  • All-Star Cast:
  • Ascended Fanon: Many, many pieces of Awakening fanart have depicted Inigo in a Stripperific dancer outfit to match his mother's, since he is stated to be a dancer (despite the Dancer class being female-only in that game). The "Performing Arts" banner finally lets him be a fully fledged Dancer unit, complete with the aforementioned outfit.
  • Author's Saving Throw: Because Fire Emblem Heroes receives regular updates and patches, the developers are receptive to feedback and often make changes based on it. Whether it's new units or game modes, buffs to older units, and quality-of-life changes, it's generally received favorably. Notable examples include the reducing or outright removal of stamina costs in certain areas, the creation of Skill Inheritance and Weapon Refinement as gameplay features, the purging of outdated 5* units from the regular summoning summoning pool, and the ability to promote units without having to reach level 20 are some of the most welcomed changes in the games release so far.
  • Banned in China: The Belgium servers for the game closed on August 27th, 2019, due to the uncertain political landscape created by the debate over microtransactions in gaming (loot boxes, gacha, etc).
  • Cash-Cow Franchise:
    • This is pretty much the game that solidified Fire Emblem's transformation into a moneymaker for Nintendo. During really major events in 2017 (like the Brave Heroes banner), Heroes routinely charted in the top 5 grossing apps even in America, and the game performed so well that Nintendo felt compelled to discuss it at length in investor reports and the title contributed significantly to their 2017 profits. It also appears to have had a significant positive knock-on effect for Shadows of Valentia and Warriors, too.
    • In its first year of operation, Heroes is estimated to have generated three hundred million dollars in sales. This is well over three times the projected sales of Awakening and Fates each, and quite possibly as much as the first ten games made, combined.
    • It did slow down a little bit in 2018. Although "a little bit" really means that it "merely" earned an additional $230 million in that year in total. It did, however, fall in the earnings rankings, especially in the unbelievably competitive American market. This was the point at which Heroes had earned more than the rest of the entire combined franchise.
    • As of the end of June 2022, Heroes has earned one billion dollars in revenue, showing that even after five years of its life, it's still going strong.
  • Cast as a Mask:
    • From Book III, "Líf" is voiced by Tomoaki Maeno in Japanese and Edward Bosco in English, while "Thrasir" is voiced by Yui Ogura in Japanese and Lizzie Freeman in English, hiding the fact that both are actually Alfonse and Veronica from a Bad Future.
    • From the "Nihility & Dream" Tempest Trials+ series, Eitr is voiced by Misaki Watada in Japanese and Caitlyn Elizabeth in English, hiding the fact that Eitr is actually a younger Freyja with Identity Amnesia.
  • Character Outlives Actor:
    • Philece Sampler, who would've served as The Other Darrin to Lani Minella for the role of Mia in 2020, died from a heart attack on July 1st, 2021. Anne Yatco would eventually replace her as the voice for Mia when she got a young variant in 2022, despite Minella being alive and well. However, Sampler's other role (and her posthumous one), Niime, needs to be recast in the event she gets a variant.
    • Billy Kametz, the English voice actor for Ferdinand Von Aegir, succumbed to colon cancer on June 9th, 2022. His character Ferdinand was recast in August 2023, with Ricco Fajardo voicing his Tea Party variant.
    • Rokurō Naya, the voice of Gunter and Anankos, passed away before Fates was released or even revealed. However, instead of having Gunter recasted, archived voice clips from that game recorded by Naya himself were used for his appearance here. On the other hand, Anankos was instead voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki for his appearance in this game.
  • Colbert Bump: Before Heroes, the games that predated the 3DS were more obscure, with half of them never even leaving Japan, compared to the smash hits that were Awakening and Fates. If anyone knew about them, it was due to the series' representation in Super Smash Bros. or some of the bonus content from Awakening. However, exposure to other characters from older games has increased interest and demand for said games, especially when the heroes in question are extremely good in the meta. The most apparent beneficiaries have been The Blazing Blade, The Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, and Genealogy of the Holy War, with the latter now really getting calls for an Echoes-style remake so that it can finally see release outside of Japan after twenty-four years.
  • Cross-Dressing Voices:
    • Masked Marth is a subversion; "he" is identified as male, and is voiced by actresses Alexis Tipton and Yuu Kobayashi. Those familiar with Awakening will note that this Marth is actually Lucina.
    • Lucius plays it straight in Japanese, where he's voiced by actress Toa Yukinari. In English, he's voiced by a man, Michael Sinterniklaas, instead.
    • Male Kana is once again voiced by a woman in English, namely Sandy Fox. It's not the first time either, as he was originally voiced by Laura Faye Smith.
    • Libra, a male War Monk, has female voice actors in both languages, namely Cindy Robinson and Megumi Yamato.
    • Youthful wind mages Asbel and Lugh are voiced in Japanese by Rie Kugimiya and Junko Takeuchi, respectively.
  • Directed by Cast Member:
    • In addition to voicing many characters such as Hector and Draug, Patrick Seitz is also one of the voice directors of the English dub.
    • Wendee Lee, the voice of Lyn, Sophia, Maria, and Veronica, is one of the game's voice directors.
    • Katelyn Gault, who voices Tanith, also serves as one of the voice directors.
  • Dummied Out:
    • Artwork for Christmas-themed Tharja and Male Robin were found in the internal files upon the game's release in February, indicating the game might have been intended to come out before Christmas with the intent for a seasonal event, but was pushed back. They were released for real during the 2017 Christmas season, however.
    • The staff units all have four Special activation quotes like the other characters, but they can't use any offensive Specials, even through Skill Inheritance. Thus, the only ways a player can hear these quotes is through data mining or once at random when the player starts a level. It later became legitimately accessible through the Catalogue of Heroes, as well as Tap battle, and then become available during normal gameplay with the addition of the skill "Holy Pressure" on Valentine's Elise in February 2023.
    • Unplayable characters who don't have offensive in-battle Specials have activation quotes that cannot be heard without datamining. As of the Mythic Freyr update, base Bruno is the only character affected by this since he only ever wields out-of-battle area-of-effect Specials that never trigger a Special quote.
    • Dragon units have animation and textures for being damaged outside of their transformed state, but as they are always transformed in battle and in the Catalogue of Heroes, it cannot be viewed outside of datamining or hacking. The animations were eventually used for Tap Battle, where they do not transform. The Summoner was in a similar situation, having an animation for taking damage, despite never appearing as a unit outside of Summoner Support, until they were eventually made playable in the Mjölnir's Strike game mode.
    • Presently non-playable units Bruno and Veronica have voice lines for being selected at the start of the player's turn, as well as a laugh file for being tapped on in the Home castle.
    • For some reason, the Askran trio, Emblian royals, and several significant Heroes have voice lines reciting the titles of the Fire Emblem series. These lines appear nowhere in-game and can only be heard via datamining.
    • Wings of Fate Hinoka has a unique animation where she does a loop-the-loop and then fires off an arrow. This is meant to be triggered if Hinoka attacks twice in a row, however it remains unseen in gameplay, and can be legitimately viewed in the Catalogue of Heroes. This turned out to be a bug, and was patched in version 2.5.0.
    • Alfonse has texture and model data for carrying his shield, similar to Sharena, but it is unloaded and cannot be seen in-game without modding.
    • Líf has a portrait that depicts him with glowing red eyes, breathing out a blue vapor as he does in his sprite animation, but this has never been used in any of his in-game appearances.
    • Files for the colorless tome Atlas+ exist in the game, but no character (player or enemy) can wield it, not even in Aether Resort's Armory. When colorless tomes were introduced with Bramimond in 2020, Atlas+ was skipped over entirely. It would finally be made available in normal gameplay in the June 2023 Hall of Forms, where Tine wields it by default.
  • Fake Brit: Mick Wingert, Ben Diskin and Mela Lee (who are all American) respectively gave British accents to Laslow/Inigo, Jakob and Tiki.
  • Fandom Nod: Lysithea in Three Houses was commonly recruited by players because of her Game-Breaker status, as well as having easy access to Dark Spikes T, which was effective against Cavalry units, including the Death Knight. In the Mid-August 2020 Feh Channel, her brave variant shows her having powerful skills and is seen using Dark Spikes T on Death Knight, which is also shown to be effective against cavalry units.
  • God Never Said That: When the 2018 spring banner was revealed, a few people reached out to the artists for some of the characters, in particular artist Cuboon who did spring Kagero, and asked about the process for which the artists draw the characters. The initial discussion implied Executive Meddling on the part of IS for the artists, causing many to run around blaming IS for forcing the artists to draw the characters in sexual manners. In actuality, this is not the case, and was people misunderstanding Cuboon's statements, wherein he was talking about how hard it was to draw Kagero because of her initial design, with Cuboon even joking about how he likes that kind of art.
  • Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.":
    • Because a number of Fire Emblem titles have never been released outside of Japan and Heroes pulls from every game in the franchise, the game is the first exposure international fans have to characters from Mystery of the Emblem (and its remake), Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, and The Binding Blade.
    • Faye from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia made her debut in Heroes one week prior to Echoes' Japanese release and a month prior to its international release.
    • Edelgard, Dimitri, Claude, and Female Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses made their debut in Heroes 4 days prior to their home game's worldwide release.
    • Elimine's first appearance was on a pre-order bonus disc for Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, of all things. While the games Elimine's lore features in were released before/alongside Double Dash!!, Elimine herself made no official appearance in either of them, and the bonus disc cameo (insofar as a debut can be called a "cameo") was her only official artwork until her reveal in Heroes.
    • Alfred, Céline, Chloé, Female Alear, Etie and Lumera from Fire Emblem Engage made their debut in Heroes 3 days prior to their home game's worldwide release.
  • Meme Acknowledgement:
  • Milestone Celebration:
    • To celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary, Heroes released special maps and missions. Later, the day of the anniversary introduced an event featuring younger versions of Marth, Caeda, Merric, Minerva, and the Whitewings.
    • A celebration for 1000 total released heroes was held during September 2023's New Hero banner. Among the events include quests to obtain Patty at 5 stars, 10 free 5-star summons from the special pool, and an accessory.
  • New Work, Recycled Graphics: A number of Skill icons are reused from Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates, with some being reassigned to new Skills. For example, the icon for "Defender" is now used for "Wings of Mercy".
  • Newbie Boom: Mobile games are easy to access, and Heroes itself uses a simplistic version of typical Fire Emblem gameplay. This gives the game a wide appeal, which has led to increased interest and exposure in the franchise. This is especially helpful for older games like Genealogy of the Holy War, which had previously been very obscure due to age and being Japan-exclusive.
  • No Export for You:
    • Currently, the US English version of the game on the Google Play Store is unavailable in a number of non-American English countries.
    • Despite having an American Spanish translation, the game has only been released in Mexico, being unavailable in the rest of Latin America.
    • The game was shut down in Belgium on August 27th 2019 since a Belgian law bans loot boxes in video games as a form of illegal gambling and Nintendo doesn't want to risk the gacha system falling under the same law and getting them fined.
  • Non-Singing Voice: In English, Fjorm is voiced by Heather Hogan-Watson, but for Fjorm Sings "Flower of Ice" she is voiced by Cristina Valenzuela, whereas in the Japanese version Rie Takahashi both voices Fjorm and sings "Flower of Ice".

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  • The Original Darrin: Mist is once again played in Japanese by Atsuko Enomoto like in Path of Radiance, after being voiced by Miho Miyagawa in Radiant Dawn.
  • The Other Marty: Male Byleth's English version was voiced by Chris Niosi and his lines were included in the mid-July 2019 Three Houses Banner release for Heroes, but after admissions of abuse and a breach of NDA, he was replaced by Zach Aguilar, and Male Byleth's voiced lines were replaced in update 3.7.1, just before his official release in Heroes alongside Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
  • Playing Against Type:
    • Ray Chase normally voices characters with incredibly sarcastic personalities. Here he voices Roy, a Nice Guy lord who is so nice that he's one of the few lords that doesn't make any sarcastic comments. Ray's take on the character has him use a slightly deeper register than Jun Fukuyama to highlight the more insightful aspects of Roy's character.
    • Bryce Papenbrook, who normally voices Kid Heroes in anime and video games, voices The Blazing Blade Karel. That's right, not the Karel from The Binding Blade, where he was known as the Sword Saint, but The Blazing Blade's incarnation of Karel, where he was known as the Sword Demon instead. It's also one of the few roles where Bryce uses a deeper voice register for the character instead of his Tenor Boy vocal range for his kid hero characters. And beforehand, he was also Raven, who's not the usual optimistic character Bryce does, but a very grumpy and edgy guy.
    • While it's no surprise that Jamieson Price plays Zephiel, the main antagonist of The Binding Blade and a character that is a usual typecast of his, the most surprising part is him also playing his younger variant seen in The Blazing Blade, where he was the young nice prince of Bern, a significant far, far cry from Price's typical Large Ham and/or Manly Man roles.
    • Megan Taylor Harvey is known for playing cutesy young girls who are normally shy yet kindhearted. However, among her roles in Heroes are Sue, who is an Emotionless Girl, and Kiria, who is confident, mature, and a Ms. Fanservice.
    • In Japan, Mai Kadowaki is usually pigeonholed in Token Mini-Moe roles. While Myrrh continues the trend, Ishtar, a Lady of Black Magic, is a significant departure from Kadowaki's usual typecast. It is also a role where she uses a deeper register rather than her generally high-pitched register for her other characters, demonstrating her ability to pull off the 'young teenage girl' role pretty well while highlighting Ishtar's Broken Bird aspects.
    • Junko Takeuchi's forte is usually precocious (or rambunctious) young boys, and if she does voice a girl, said girl is usually a Tomboy. Her role as Lugh is the former kind of typecast. And then she gets to voice Louise, who's a refined, feminine lady (despite her commoner background).
    • Misaki Kuno is usually the go-to voice for cute little girls or young children, but Safy is not only an adult woman, but a pious Proper Lady, with Kuno giving her a refined voice that is a far cry from the high pitched voice Kuno is known for.
    • Likewise with Yuko Sanpei. She's usually voicing either young boys or energetic young girls (as seen with Marcia). Then she gets casted as the definitely older and practically devil-incarnate Hilda of Friege and she totally nailed the sound of a bitchy evil queen.
  • Posthumous Credit:
  • Promoted Fanboy:
  • Production Posse: In the Japanese dub, several voice actorsnote  were all surviving cast members from the short-lived OVAs. However, Hiyama, Ishida, and Tange didn't reprise their roles as Cain, Gordin, and Caeda respectively, as they were replaced by different people. In addition, Ohtsuka reprised his roles as Garon and Jeralt here instead, as his original role (Cornelius) has not made any playable appearance yet.
  • Queer Character, Queer Actor: Casey Mongillo, the English voice actor of Limstella, is nonbinary, as is Limstella themselves.
  • Role Reprise:
    • The voice actors of most of the Fire Emblem characters who debuted in the 3DS, Wii U, and Switch games (and in Japanese, the Tellius duology) reprise their roles here. In the case of female Robin's English voice instead of having the original one, Michelle Ruff, the one who reprised her is Lauren Landa, who provided her voice in Super Smash Bros. WiiU/3DS. Similarly, Iago is voiced by Kirk Thornton, who previously voiced him in Fire Emblem Warriors.
    • Jurota Kosugi, Takehito Koyasu, and Sumi Shimamoto reprise their roles as Ogma, Navarre, and Elice, respectively, from the Fire Emblem OVA.
    • Notably, despite not reprising Lyndis from Super Smash Bros., Lani Minella still came back to reprise Mia (at least her regular and Halloween versions) when the other Path of Radiance characters that were previously voiced got new English VAs.
    • Lookalikes of Ilyana and Cath in Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE, voiced by Saori Goto and Sayuri Yahagi respectively, came back to reprise their roles when Ilyana and Cath themselves became playable.
    • Perhaps most impressively, Rei Sakuma voices Nyna in Heroes many years after voicing her in the Dengeki CD, even with most of the Dengeki CD voice actors having been replaced.
  • Same Voice Their Entire Life: In the English version, all of the characters who appear at different stages of their lives retain their voice actors in both childhood and adulthood (or in Zephiel's case, teenagehood and middle age). In the Japanese version, this only applies to the females other than Tiki and to Lucius.
  • Schedule Slip:
    • Around August of 2017, the developers talked about how Xander and Camus had not yet had their Grand Hero Battles make a return despite other ones after them making a return and fans requesting their return. Both were confirmed to return soon along with several new features that were eventually added. Despite this, Xander didn't return until February 2018, while Camus didn't return until April 2018.
    • When Say'ri was added to the game in June 2020, she was added without an English voice due to her VA being unable to properly record due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. This means her voiced lines were in Japanese until August 2020's update added her English voice lines into the game.
  • Trailers Always Spoil:
    • Nine times out of ten, trailers showcasing new units will show a unit that is not part of the soon to be released banner, but eventually appears obtainable somewhere else, like Ayra in the World of Holy War trailer.
    • At the end of the story segment of the "Beyond Darkness" reveal trailer, rather than showing a hero on the enemy side that can be gained either through a GHB or the Tempest Trials, Alfonse and Sharena's father Gustav, who was killed at the end of Book III Chapter 4, shows up as an enemy for Book III Chapter 5.
    • At the end of the story segment of "Goddess's Servants" reveal trailer, like the above "Beyond Darkness" trailer, the Summoner shows up as an enemy, notably wielding Fólkvangr, Regular Alfonse's exclusive weapon for Book IV Chapter 12.
    • In the story segment of "Princess of Bern" reveal trailer, the mention of Alfonse's death in Book IV was revealed in the dialogue, which was originally revealed at the end of Book IV Chapter 12.
  • Two Voices, One Character:
  • Typecasting: In Japan, this could occur:
  • Uncredited Role:
    • Laura Bailey voices the regular variants of Palla and Lucina, but she is uncredited.
    • Wendee Lee voices Lyn and all of her variants. However, she is uncredited for Lyn's Brave variant.
    • Kirk Thornton voices Dorcas and his Halloween variant, Surtr and his variants, Iago, and Yen'fay. He uses an alias for Iago, is uncredited for regular Dorcas, regular Surtr, and Pirate Surtr, and is properly credited for Halloween Dorcas, Resplendent Surtr, and Yen'fay.
    • Eden Riegel voices Genny, female Kana, Sumia, and Nah, but uses an alias for Genny and Kana, and is uncredited for Sumia and Nah.
    • Antony del Rio is uncredited for his role as Silas.
    • Minae Noji voices Say'ri, Idunn, and Cynthia, but is uncredited for her role as regular and Spring Idunn and Cynthia. Ascended Idunn is properly credited though.
    • Chris Niosi was originally credited for Male Byleth in early datamines, but due to the previously mentioned issues that led to his recasting, his credit was scrubbed from the game as a temporary measure before his voice lines were replaced by Zach Aguilar's in the 3.7.1 update.
    • The Death Knight's voice actor in both languages is simply listed as ???, likely because revealing it would constitute a spoiler for a game released a mere two and a half weeks beforehand. For those who are curious, Death Knight's voice actors are Atsushi Imaruoka for Japanese and Patrick Seitz for English.
    • The Flame Emperor's voice actor in both languages is also listed as ??? for similar reasons, as the Flame Emperor's identity is a crucial spoiler to Three Houses. It's Ai Kakuma in Japanese and Tara Platt in English.
  • Voiced Differently in the Dub:
  • What Could Have Been: The game was originally going to make the Asset and Flaw system much more defined for players by having the character's Asset stat highlighted green when viewing them, but the feature was ultimately scrapped. Despite this, several players have reported receiving their units Asset stat highlighted as green at maxed level, though this occurs rarely, and seems to be for specific characters and Assets, such as a HP Asset Tharja. It was rare enough that a small Urban Legend of Zelda began around it, with people claiming that it occurred when a stat was fully maxed out, though this was quickly debunked. The game eventually gave players the option to see their character's Asset and Flaw, with the Asset in blue text and the Flaw in red text.
  • Word of God: The stat variations a unit could have were unofficially referred to as IVs (based on a similar stat variation mechanic in Pokémon) or Boons and Banes (after an analogous system from Awakening and Fates). An announcement made in December 2018 officially referred to the stat variations as Assets and Flaws, as well as in the Mid-August 2020 Feh Channel referring to those the combination of those stat variations Traits.
  • Word of Saint Paul: Brave Veronica is 1.5 years older than regular Veronica, according to her artist Yusuke Kozaki. Fire Emblem Heroes also happened to be about 1.5 years old when Brave Veronica was introduced.

Hero Release Order (with corresponding 'events')

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