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• Canon Sue / Purity Sue: Calista, for quite a lot of people. Which is kinda the point because she's a deconstruction of these tropes.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome - When Zael is finally about to be knighted, he gets up and refuses to be knighted after seeing how rotten the system is, storms off and goes in search of Calista
  • Calista, who gets slapped around by her uncle Count Arganan, finally gets fed up with it and slaps him back.
    • She slaps him so hard that he actually falls over.
• Crowning Music of Awesome - The track is composed by Nobuo Uematsu after all.
  • The music that plays when Calista and Zael escape Zael's knighting ceremony/Calista's wedding to Zael is way epic.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - When the party escapes the Last World, Syrenne tells the others to go on ahead so that she can bring Lowell (who took a sword through the chest for her) back with her. Dagran's spirit uses the last of its power to bring Lowell back to life and Syrenne bursts into tears when he gets back up, wondering what the hell just happened.
  • Dagran's last words to the party before he passes away.
• Crowning Moment of Funny - When one of the knight captains Baron Huge, (with his goons) is getting his ass kicked by a giant ogre, he starts shrieking for help from the party. Syrenne just looks at him funny and ignores him, until he (while in the middle of a fight no less) prostrates himself and starts BEGGING for her to help him. After you kill the ogre, it then falls on him, pinning him to the ground. Syrenne takes advantage of this and lectures the guy before leaving him there under the big stinky ogre.
  • During the Epilogue in the final Arena Season, the 3rd round reunites Zael with the Gurg Captain. Both Syrenne and Lowell weren't present during this chapter so they ask Zael who the hell is this guy, and Zael kind of stares blankly and says that he has no idea. The Captain is a million kinds of pissed as he calls out his new pet, Ghoul to take out the party. Ghoul instead squashes the Captain flat, which makes Zael recall him. Vaguely.
  Gurg Captain: Now then, let me introduce you to my new pet! (He then gets flattened)
  Zael: Ah! The guy from the ship!
  Lowell: So you do know him?
  Zael: Kind of.
  • For being purely a sight gag with no dialogue, Zael's reaction to the Fortune Teller is priceless. She spouts her usual generic info about frogs or cats, and he throws up his arms in glee, shakes her hand excitedly, and then jumps up and performs a little cheer like he's won the frickin' lottery.
  • When Mirania declares, "Let's kick some arse!" when she and the others arrive to help against Mitra. Funny first in the fact that it is a very Out of Character moment for her, but moreso for the looks on Lowell's, Syrenne's, and Yurick's faces—especially Syrenne.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Yurick obviously. Let's see...White-Haired Pretty Boy. Check. Youngest member of the group? Check. The fire wielder. Check. Needed in party to break the barrier of the final boss? Check. After fighting the replicas during Yurick's sidequest mission and at the end, he gets the Character Development that sets him apart from the typical angsty teen standard and ''smiles''. Double check.
  • Lowell is far more popular with the male fanbase, on account of being manly enough to make lilac seem like the manliest colour ever and being a Badass playboy with a surprising amount of Hidden Depths. Also? He wields frickin' ice as his main element! Yes, that's right. Lowell is so badass that he makes the stereotypical "healer" element into an awesome offensive force.
• Game Breaker: Summon Circles. Activate, get into relatively straightforward fight, recieve a redonkulus amount of XP and goodies, repeat. Level Grinding has NEVER been this easy!
• God Damned Bats - Literally, there are damned bats in the haunted mansion area, which if you don't react quick enough, will drain your life to zero in 10 seconds or less. You can't even kill them, which makes it worse.
• Hell Is That Noise: The final boss' theme. Skip to 3:30 and listen to the song. What is that?
• Les Yay: Syrenne starts to molest Lisa/ Calista in the bath. It is something wonderful to imagine. She also mentions later how she wants a piece of Mirania 's silky smooth skin later.
• Strangled by the Red String: Zael and Calista's relationship. The fact that the Beta Couple of the game is fleshed out waaaay better doesn't help, either.
• Tear Jerker: A few of note:
  • When Lowell jumps in the way to save Syrenne from being stabbed by a sword of light.
  • When General Asthar dies.
  • When Dagran dies, and the party goes to the grave they made for him at the end of the game.
  "Now get the hell out of here. That's my final order... sorry to be so demanding right up 'til the end."
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: For incomprehensible reasons, Zael doesn't keep the Zanlance.
  • Not entirely correct. You have to still be holding it at the end of the fight, and it might delete your existing weapon.
• Woolseyism: As if it needs to be said a few more times.