History Characters / Wargroove

* {{Expy}}: Of the Mechs from Advance Wars.

* {{Expy}}: A kind of amalgamation of the Advance Wars Artillery unit, as the simplest indirect attacker with the same range, and the Anti-Tank from DoR, with its vulnerability to foot soldiers, and being able to both fire on adjacent units and counterattack.

* ArcherArchetype: They're pretty useful in range combat. If they don't move at all, they even get a critical hit.

* {{Expy}}: Of Advance Wars Artillery/Mech Gun. It diverges somewhat significantly when examined closely, however; the Archer can attack air units, can move and fire, and can attack/counterattack at point blank. So it's probably more of an Expy to the Anti-Tank.

* DropTheHammer: His weapon of choice, which can helpfully double as a golf club.
* FastballSpecial: ''Tee Off'' can be used this way, launching a friendly unit towards an advantageous position.
** GrievousHarmWithABody: Wulfar's groove can also be used on enemy units, launching them towards their fellows to deal deal area-of-effect damage.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Ryota likes people with a sense of honour, duty, skill... [[HasAType and blue hair and green eyes.]]

* EyePatchOfPower: Crossed with ElectronicEyes. Her left eye appears to have a mechanical replacement strapped over it. Whether she lost the eye in some manner of accident or simply replaced the eye herself is not clear.

* AchillesHeel: They can't move and shoot on the same turn, or aim diagonally, making them easy to flank on their own.

* VillainousLegacy: According to the codex of ''Wargroove 2'', Sedge has left a bit of a mark on the Floran Tribes after his passing. The Floran [[GreekFire riverboat design]] is attributed to him -- Greenfinger Zawan forbid their construction on the grounds that a FireBreathingWeapon was too dangerous for florans to use, but his followers built a couple of them during Sedge's rebellion, and they ended up in the Tribes' armory anyway after his downfall. Speaking of followers, an early lore entry has a Floran scout express concern that Sedge's RenegadeSplinterFaction didn't disband with his death, but simply took everything they could from their camp and retreated somewhere out of sight...

%% Is frustrated that ALL of her inventions are merely ''on par'' with the other nations' weaponry.

* AdultsAreUseless: While their parents went to war, Harmon and Sordino conspired to steal Cacophony's superweapons and flee into the icy wastes, in the hope it would stop the conflict. Thousands of years later, Harmon invokes the trope when he sees Koji, Errol and Orla chasing him, assuming that they're trying to save the day because "the adults have failed" and bemoaning how times haven't changed.

* DemonicPossession: Hijacks Ragna's body when she dons the Fell Gauntlet, setting the plot of "Darkened Skies" into motion.

* PartsUnknown: Nuru is noted to be a visiting foreigner, rather than a native of the Gloomwoods, and is secretive about her past even to Greenfinger Zawan - He knows only that she arrived on a "ship" that had "travelled a massively, ridiculously long way".

* SecretAIMoves: [[spoiler:When faced as an enemy in the campaign in ''VideoGame/Wargroove2'', she can do things like teleport in units without using her groove, teleport multiple units and even teleport herself! Though this is limited to CutscenePoweToTheMax scripted events.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: Only used generic floran grunts during dialogue in ''Starbound'', much like other characters. Here, she has [[VoiceGrunting unique voice clips.]]

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: In ''Wargroove 2'', [[spoiler:after Greenfinger is killed by the Faahri, a heartbroken Nuru declares that she's fed up with adhering to the AlienNonInterferenceClause, and starts tearing apart the Cacophonic ruins with energy weapons]].

Ryota's Groove is ''Blade Dash''. When used, Ryota performs a number of linear dashes through lines of enemies, dealing 45% of his regular damage (increasing by 5% for each line he makes) to any enemy units caught underneath. It can also pass through allied and neutral units, which will not deal any damage to them. It can make as many dashes as possible, but cannot dash through the same unit twice. In ''Wargroove 2'', Ryota's groove can be charged twice to double the maximum range of each dash, increase the damage, and cause affected units lose 1 movement range for their next turn.

* {{Irony}}: There's something to be said about just how much Pistil's own arrogance sabotages her pursuit of knowledge. [[spoiler:There's ''no one'' on the entire planet who could impart more knowledge to her than Nuru, show her technology ''way'' more advanced than anything she's ever seen, show her whole other ''worlds''… But her treatment of the Florans (such as burning part of their forest) ensured that she will never know any of that]].

* ApologeticAttacker: Takes no joy in killing anyone who can be corrupted by Requiem. One of her lines when attacking is "forgive me!".

* HatOfAuthority: Or hat of prestigious ranking, at least. Faahri Riflemen not only have these, it makes them feel self-important despite their impracticality.

* NGOSuperpower: Have no problem deploying an army's worth of knights, mages, harpies and giants to get rid of a dog.

* {{Expy}}: Of the Transport Copters from Advance Wars. However, they can carry other units - not just strictly Infantry.

* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Cherrystone Harpies are actually goodhearted creatures. They'll even aid miners and voluntarily join the battles of their adopted homeland.

* TheUnintelligible: Merfolk and Deepfolk only speak in frog-like ribbiting. Kappa zig-zag this trope, as they can speak perfectly fine through their diving helmets... except for one whose helmet happens to be damaged, resulting in muffled grunting. Faahri Aquanauts and Floran Splashers avert this entirely, as they're not separate races from the armies they serve.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: An assortment of giant octopi and squid.
* MechaMooks: The Faahri Kephalos is another of Pistil's robots. Apparently, the giant cats the Faahri use as mounts kept breaking ranks to attack living giant octopi the Faahri were attempting to train, and Pistil was tasked with finding a solution.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Caesar is stated to be Mercia's pet, and doesn't even have Battlepup training, just a pair of powerful guards to defend him. According to the campaign Horatio and Beatrice get actual tactical advice from his barks, though for all we know they're just using Caesar as the figurehead of the army.

* ShockAndAwe: They attack by calling down bolts of lightning. Heavensong Mages are explicitly called Thunderbearers.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: These dragons are very devastating units that will unleash destruction among Ground units.

* TheUnintelligible: Merfolk and Deepfolk only speak in frog-like ribbiting. Kappa zig-zag this trope, as they can speak perfectly fine through their diving helmets... except for one whose helmet happens to be damaged, resulting in muffled grunting.

* CripplingOverspecialization: A great counter against air units and turtles, but only serve that purpose. Their movement range is also very poor - they have the same movement range as a Soldier (4) - compared to other sea units which are 5 (Amphibian), 8 (Warship), and 12 (Turtle).

* {{Expy}}: Of Advance Wars Cruisers, countering Turtles (submarines) and air units while being themselves countered by Warships. They are a ranged unit as opposed to a melee-only one, however, and cannot carry Aeronauts.

* OrganicTechnology: Floran riverboats use the same solar-energy-absorbing seeds that allow Bloom Dragons to breathe fire. It's mentioned in the codex that Sedge's early prototypes subverted the trope by instead using whale oil as a crude incindiary, since the rebels obviously couldn't acquire the necessary enchanted seeds from Greenfinger.

* NecessaryDrawback: After ransacking a building, they have to return to an allied structure with slower movement to drop off the loot. Logical enough, and it stops a single thief crippling the entire enemy economy.

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** In ''Wargroove 2'', [[spoiler:his loyalty takes a severe beating over the course of the game, especially when he sees the very poor conditions for the prisoners on the Saffron Isles. At the end of the game, he's seen sneaking out of the castle at night, dressed as an Outlaw, though it's ambiguous as to whether he's abandoning Heavensong altogether or merely deciding to take matters into his own hands under a different identity]].

* ChildSoldiers: While her exact age isn't given, Greenfinger is taken aback when he sees Lytra for the first time, lamenting that someone as young as her shouldn't be forced to fight on the battlefield.

* OneHitKill: Similarly to Wulfar's "Tee-Off", Song Cyclone can instantly destroy units if it repositions them in an illegal space, such as by dropping ground units into the ocean, bringing naval units onto dry land, or throwing wheeled vehicles into mountains and forests. Units can also be killed if their new position would interfere with a unit that can't be moved by the groove, like commanders or Greenfinger's vine barriers.

* SpectacularSpinning: Whether using her groove or just her standard attack, Lytra tends to spin like a top while doing it for no reason than just because.

* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Her official rank in the Faahri military is "CF (cannon fodder)", but she ends up becoming a commander and capable leader.

** This is more averted in ''Wargroove 2'', making the groove slightly less powerful, but far easier to use and not quite so reliant enemy positioning.

-->'''Ryota:''' [[VideoGame/Persona5 You'll never see me coming]].
* SingleStrokeBattle: While it can strike multiple lines of enemies and doesn't necessarily finish them in one strike, his groove nonetheless has this vibe about it.

** In ''Wargroove 2'', [[spoiler:his loyalty takes a severe beating over the course of the game, especially when he sees the very poor conditions for the prisoners on the Saffron Isles. At the end of the game, he's seen sneaking out of the castle at night, dressed as an Outlaw]].

* FailedASpotCheck: Despite receiving reports from Saffron Isles about a new Pirate Captain named Tealbeard and one soldier suggesting "Big Buff Hammer Man", he doesn't immediately guess that it might be Wulfar (whom he has technically fought alongside during the last mission of ''Double Trouble'') until they meet face-to-face at the end of the Saffron Isles campaign [[spoiler:where he is captured]].

* {{Foil}}: As much as she would deny it, she and Valder are actually this. [[spoiler:Both lost their loved ones at very young ages because of Felheim (her due to Kaspar's invasion, him due to the Fallow after Major Shōsa killed Kaspar). While Tenri became driven to use domination by force as a way to attain peace, Valder seeks a nonviolent way to stop any more Fallow from plaguing Aurania and prevent this tragedy from ever repeating. For Tenri, the scars run too deep for her to learn from her mistakes, whereas Valder finally admits to his shortcomings thanks to Harmon-in-Ragna projecting his grievances over his own mother Maestra.]]

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: [[spoiler:''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''-style. When she sinks her own barge during a cutscene, she walks all the way from the middle of the ocean to Requiem's tomb, just to find Mercia and Sigrid. Amusingly, even in the heat of the volcano, she's still dripping with saltwater when she shows up.]]