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* AmbiguousGender: Trico's gender hasn't been clarified, so fans are stuck on whether to refer to the character as him/her.

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* AmbiguousGender: Trico's gender hasn't been clarified, so fans are stuck on whether to refer to the character as him/her. [[spoiler: the ending implies it is female]]

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* FantasticRobots: Though they're called knights, they act much more like robots in practice.


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* {{Magitek}}: They're magitek robots.

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: He's barefooted the entire game, save for the ending cutscene after he's returned home [[spoiler: and grown up]]. It doesn't slow him down, even in cold weather, rocks and metal. Justified in that he was actually stolen while asleep in his home with no other supplies available in the game's locations.



* PowerTattoo: Subverted. He has tattoos all over him when the story starts, but [[spoiler:they're not designed to give him abilities. They're designed to incapacitate him, as the "spells" the armored knights cast at him seem to indicate]].

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* PowerTattoo: Subverted. He has tattoos all over him when the story starts, but [[spoiler:they're not designed to give him abilities. They're designed to incapacitate him, as the "spells" the armored knights cast at him seem to indicate]].[[spoiler: They're also permanent, as his grown up self still retains them at the end of the game. Presumably they no longer can incapacitate him at this point with the AI's destruction.]]
* ShooTheDog: [[spoiler: At the end, after Trico brings him home, in order to prevent his villager's people from killing Trico.]]


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* ScaryImpracticalArmor: The guards' armor is very elaborately engraved and quite menacing, if a bit oxidized. It's a wonder though, that they have any peripheral vision while wearing it, or that they're even able to stay balanced.
** Then again; there's nothing inside the armor beyond some black smoke. They probably don't need eyes.

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* ScaryImpracticalArmor: The guards' armor is very elaborately engraved and quite menacing, if a bit oxidized. It's a wonder though, that they CrownOfHorns: Their helmets have any peripheral vision while wearing it, or that they're even able to stay balanced.
** Then again; there's nothing inside
small horns on them. Considering [[ArcSymbol the armor beyond some black smoke. They probably don't need eyes.significance]] of horns in the last two games, it's an important detail.



* HornedHelmet: Their helmets have small horns on them. Considering the [[ArcSymbol significance]] of horns elsewhere in the series, it's a fairly major detail.

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* HornedHelmet: Their helmets have small horns on them. Considering the [[ArcSymbol significance]] of horns elsewhere FantasticRobots: Though they're called knights, they act much more like robots in the series, it's a fairly major detail. practice.



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* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMeLuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Some of them carry shields.


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* ScaryImpracticalArmor: The guards' armor is very elaborately engraved and quite menacing, if a bit oxidized. It's a wonder though, that they have any peripheral vision while wearing it, or that they're even able to stay balanced.
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* FacelessMooks

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* FacelessMooksFacelessMooks: Their helmets basically ''are'' their faces.
* HornedHelmet: Their helmets have small horns on them. Considering the [[ArcSymbol significance]] of horns elsewhere in the series, it's a fairly major detail.
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* IdleAnimation: He has several, including him scratching behind his ears and grooming himself. Also, if there's a puddle of water he'll happily roll around in it.

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* IdleAnimation: He has several, including him scratching behind his ears and grooming himself. Also, Others vary based on scenery. For instance, if there's a puddle of water he'll happily roll around in it.it, and if there's a dangling chain he'll bat at it with his claws.

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* BadassAdorable: He acts like a cute puppy around the boy, but in battle he's a force to be reckoned with. He can smash the guards to pieces with his claws and blow up walls with lightning blasts from his tail. The boy is lucky that Trico likes him.



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* InASingleBoundIdleAnimation: He has several, including him scratching behind his ears and grooming himself. Also, if there's a puddle of water he'll happily roll around in it.
* InASingleBound: Justified, because he has wings helping him. He also spends a fair amount of time warming up before he jumps.
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* AmbiguousGender: Trico's gender hasn't been clarified, so fans are stuck on whether to refer to the character as him/her/another gender completely.

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* AmbiguousGender: Trico's gender hasn't been clarified, so fans are stuck on whether to refer to the character as him/her/another gender completely.him/her.
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* HumanNotepad: Gets many strange markings covering him all over his body after his first sojourn inside Trico's belly.


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* StomachOfHolding: Carries the boy in his several times, sometimes unintentionally, and intentionally.
* SuperToughness: Combined with GoodThingYouCanHeal, the griffin is verging on the indestructible. Survived lightning strikes, impaled by spears, crash-landings from hundreds of feet in the air, mauled by its own hypnotized brethren, ''Trico has been through a lot''.

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* ActionSurvivor
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* ActionSurvivor
ActionSurvivor: Braves the valley alongside his unlikely companion, encountering dangers along the way.
* ClaimedByTheSupernaturalAdorablyPrecociousChild: His interactions with Trico and critical-thinking skills seem to place him as this.
* BadassAdorable: He's a cute kid that pulls off some impressive feats for someone his age, such as taming a [[ImAHumanitarian giant man-eating flying creature]].
* ClaimedByTheSupernatural: How his story begins.



* PowerTattoo: Subverted. He has tattoos all over him when the story starts, but [[spoiler:they're not designed to give him abilities. They're designed to incapacitate him, as the "spells" the armored knights cast at him seem to indicate]].



* DeathByNewberyMedal: From simply looking at the trailers, some just get the impression that's it's hardly likely that both the kid and the baby griffin are going to survive the game. [[spoiler: Averted, however, for they DO]].

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* DeathByNewberyMedal: From simply looking at the trailers, some just get the impression that's it's hardly likely that both the kid and the baby griffin trico are going to survive the game. [[spoiler: Averted, however, for they DO]].DO]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Trico is the name of the creature's species. The boy doesn't call him anything else.



* WingPull: At one point, Trico is running with the boy on his back as a the walkway underneath them collapses. Finally, with nowhere else to go and beginning to fall as the structure crumbles completely, Trico busts out his wings, which up until this point had been stunted and missing most of their feathers. Sharp-eyed players may notice that at the beginning of this section, Trico's wings look a bit fuller and longer than they did previously.

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* WingPull: At one point, Trico is running with the boy on his back as a the walkway underneath them collapses. Finally, with [[spoiler:with nowhere else to go and beginning to fall as the structure crumbles completely, Trico busts out his wings, which up until this point had been stunted and missing most of their feathers. Sharp-eyed players may notice that at the beginning of this section, Trico's wings look a bit fuller and longer than they did previously.previously]].



* JavelinThrower

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* JavelinThrowerJavelinThrower: Their primary weapons consist of swords and javelins.



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* TheParalyzerTheParalyzer: Some armored knights cast spells at the boy with the full intention of doing this.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Trico forms a bond with the Boy because he helps it get food and he pulls out spears/arrows from its body.

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* NarratorAllAlong: He narrates the story as an older man.



* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy / YourTomcatIsPregnant]]: One interpretation of the final shot in the game (the other being that [[spoiler: Trico made friends with the other surviving beast, though judging by the higher-pitched squeak...]]).

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* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy / YourTomcatIsPregnant]]: YourTomcatIsPregnant: One interpretation of the final shot in the game (the other being that [[spoiler: Trico made friends with the other surviving beast, though judging by the higher-pitched squeak...]]).
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* AnimalsLackAttributes: Surprisingly averted -- many players have gotten a bit of a shock when Trico's cloaca suddenly fills the screen due to an unfortunate camera angle.

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[[folder:Main characters]]
!!'''The Boy'''

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!!'''Trico'''

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* DeathByNewberyMedal - From simply looking at the trailers, some just get the impression that's it's hardly likely that both the kid and the baby griffin are going to survive the game. [[spoiler: Averted, however, for they DO]].

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* DeathByNewberyMedal - DeathByNewberyMedal: From simply looking at the trailers, some just get the impression that's it's hardly likely that both the kid and the baby griffin are going to survive the game. [[spoiler: Averted, however, for they DO]].
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* AmbiguousGender: Trico's gender hasn't been clarified, so fans are stuck on whether to refer to the character as him/her/another gender completely.
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* BilingualBonus: It's can be taken to mean "prisoner" (虜 toriko), "baby bird" (鳥の子 tori no ko), or a portmanteau of "bird" (鳥 tori) and "cat" (猫 neko).

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* BilingualBonus: It's name can be taken to mean "prisoner" (虜 toriko), "baby bird" (鳥の子 tori no ko), or a portmanteau of "bird" (鳥 tori) and "cat" (猫 neko).

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* SwallowedWhole: If Trico gets hypnotized by ancient relics, he will catch and swallow the boy up alive.



* AndroclesLion: The boy first finds Trico chained up with numerous spears and arrows sticking out from its body. After the boy removes the weapons from him, Trico is still hostile towards the boy but this act of kindness sows the seeds of friendship between the two.
* AnnoyingArrows: Although Trico has bunch of them sticking out of his back, he doesn't seem to be hindered by them at all.
** Possibly subverted, as pulling arrows from his body is apparently one of the ways the boy takes care of him.
* ArtificialBrilliance / ArtificialStupidity: Depends on how you look at it, but in the latter case it's definitely intentional. Trico's AI is absolutely astonishing, in that he behaves like many real animals do: he can be slow to respond to your call, often narrowly misses hurting the boy in his jumps, is easily distracted by food and smells, has difficulty moving past things that frighten him, and remains agitated after fights are over and needs to be calmed down. This may be a little frustrating to players wanting to move things along, but for those familiar with animal behavior and/or who don't mind a slower pace, watching Trico in action is nothing short of breathtaking.
** It's also notable that, when compared to many real-life animals, Trico shows a fairly high degree of intelligence. He might take a little while to figure out what you want, but he certainly does it faster than most dogs would, and learning to follow commands by example is a skill many species simply cannot master, let alone with the same speed Trico does. He also demonstrates some problem-solving skills, follows you quite faithfully, and from a technical standpoint his pathfinding skills are quite good.
* BilingualBonus: It's can be taken to mean "prisoner" (虜 toriko), "baby bird" (鳥の子 tori no ko), or a portmanteau of "bird" (鳥 tori) and "cat" (猫 neko).
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Certain mystical devices in the ruins will resonate with Trico's horns, driving it into an uncontrollable frenzy. The big creature's [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes will glow]]. That's your cue ''[[ExplainExplainOhCrap to run]]''.
* CallAPegasusAHippogriff: In English, Trico's frequently referred to as a griffin, but he doesn't really resemble a traditional griffin at all - his front feet and beak are somewhat birdlike, but they're quite oddly-shaped (and the latter appears to actually be a somewhat beak-shaped muzzle).
* CallASmeerpARabbit: In the Japanese materials, Trico is referred to as an erne - another word for the white-tailed sea eagle.



* DeathByNewberyMedal - From simply looking at the trailers, some just get the impression that's it's hardly likely that both the kid and the baby griffin are going to survive the game. [[spoiler: Averted, however, for they DO]].



* LightningBruiser



* MixAndMatchCritters: Trico has features of a bird, rat, dog, cat, hyena, and even what look like giraffe horns.



* RedEyesTakeWarning: Certain symbols seem to set Trico off. Upon encountering one, his eyes will glow red and he'll start hissing at it, refusing to move from that spot. In order to get him past it, you need to figure out how to destroy or remove the symbol from the area.
* ShockAndAwe: Trico can fire lightning from his tail.
* ThisIsMyHuman: Trico gives off vibes of this trope whenever he happily carries the boy around with his mouth.
* UncannyValley: Invoked in concept by the creators as the reason why Trico is a made-up creature, rather than a dog or something; if he was based on a real animal, people who owned that animal would only notice the pieces that didn't look right.
* WingPull: At one point, Trico is running with the boy on his back as a the walkway underneath them collapses. Finally, with nowhere else to go and beginning to fall as the structure crumbles completely, Trico busts out his wings, which up until this point had been stunted and missing most of their feathers. Sharp-eyed players may notice that at the beginning of this section, Trico's wings look a bit fuller and longer than they did previously.



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AnimatedArmor: There's nothing inside the guards' armor, except for some black smoke.
* CoolHelmetScaryImpracticalArmor: The guards' armor is very elaborately engraved and quite menacing, if a bit oxidized. It's a wonder though, that they have any peripheral vision while wearing it, or that they're even able to stay balanced.
** Then again; there's nothing inside the armor beyond some black smoke. They probably don't need eyes.
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* SlaveMooks: Possibly. An interview with Team Ico states that the guards are "not acting fully out of their own intentions".

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* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy / YourTomcatIsPregnant]]: One interpretation of the final shot in the game (the other being that [[spoiler: Trico made friends with the other surviving beast]]).

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%%* EatenAlive* EatenAlive: Apparently an ability of the beast is to harmlessly swallow smaller creatures. This happens to the boy several times.



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%%* WingsDoNothing: Based on his behavior, they're supposed to work, but are too damaged. [[spoiler: This is because they lost most of their flight feathers after Trico was struck by lightning. They heal over the course of the game, resulting in a WingPull.]]

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%%* * WingsDoNothing: Based on his behavior, they're supposed to work, but are too damaged. [[spoiler: This is because they lost most of their flight feathers after Trico was struck by lightning. They heal over the course of the game, resulting in a WingPull.]]



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* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy / YourTomcatIs Pregnant]]: One interpretation of the final shot in the game (the other being that [[spoiler: Trico made friends with the other surviving beast]]).

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A Griffin trapped deep within the castle ruins.

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A Griffin giant beast trapped deep within the castle ruins.



* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy / YourTomcatIs Pregnant]]: One interpretation of the final shot in the game (the other being that [[spoiler: Trico made friends with the other surviving beast]]).



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* NotHimself: If it gets close to an Ancient Relic, it will be hypnotized and attempt to eat the Boy.

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The Boy is the main playable character. He wakes up in the castle ruins with strange markings on his body.
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* NarratorAllAlong: He narrates the story as an older man.
* NoNameGiven: We never learn what his name is.



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[[folder:Main characters]]
!!'''The Boy'''
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!!'''Trico'''
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