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* UltimateEvil: Throughout the whole game, you constantly hear about this great evil known as "Giygas" that is supposedly behind everything. However, this is a very rare case where the reveal is actually [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm FAR scarier than what you could have anticipated!]]
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* YouAreAlreadyDead: Due to the scrolling health meter, it is possible to take lethal damage but still stay alive until the health meter has finished scrolling to zero. Therefore, it is possible to survive if you get off a heal or finish the battle quickly enough.
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deleted two guys and a girl as it was shoehorning and also uncanny villiage because it does not seem lkike correct usage to me and there was no context to make that judgement. as well as units not to scale which also has no context and does not seem to fit very well either.
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* ThemeNaming: The towns are named by numbers, for their climate, or for musical references. Also, in the Japanese version, the "Don't Care" preset names for the main characters were grouped by the following themes: The Beatles, SuperMarioBros, primates, the Japanese band SMAP, the character's signature head ornament, and dog commands, in addition the starting "Ness, Paula, Jeff, etc." Of course, those sets, like some other things, got LostInTranslation.
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* ThemeNaming: ThemeNaming:
** The towns are named by numbers, for their climate, or for musicalreferences. references.
** Also, in the Japanese version, the "Don't Care" preset names for the main characters were grouped by the following themes: The Beatles,SuperMarioBros, Videogame/SuperMarioBros, primates, the Japanese band SMAP, the character's signature head ornament, and dog commands, in addition the starting "Ness, Paula, Jeff, etc." Of course, those sets, like some other things, got LostInTranslation.
** The towns are named by numbers, for their climate, or for musical
** Also, in the Japanese version, the "Don't Care" preset names for the main characters were grouped by the following themes: The Beatles,
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* TimeIsDangerous: the Phase Distorter 3 destroys living things when it travels, requiring the party to have their minds uploaded into robotic bodies before they can use it.
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* TimeIsDangerous: the TimeIsDangerous:
** The Phase Distorter 3 destroys living things when it travels, requiring the party to have their minds uploaded into robotic bodies before they can use it.
** The Phase Distorter 3 destroys living things when it travels, requiring the party to have their minds uploaded into robotic bodies before they can use it.
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* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: The massive powerup Ness gets at the end of Magicant.
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* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential:
** The massive powerup Ness gets at the end of Magicant.
** The massive powerup Ness gets at the end of Magicant.
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* TooAwesomeToUse: Bags of Dragonite, of which there are only 6 in the game.
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* TooAwesomeToUse: Bags of Dragonite, which do massive damage to all enemies and of which there are only 6 in the game.
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* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Although in fact it would be ''three'' guys and a girl, for a long part of the game this is the basic formation.
** It even goes back to TwoGuysAndAGirl later in the game, as Poo leaves temporarily in order to learn PK Starstorm and re-joins them later.
** It even goes back to TwoGuysAndAGirl later in the game, as Poo leaves temporarily in order to learn PK Starstorm and re-joins them later.
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* UncannyVillage: Some towns are this.
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* WakeUpCallBoss: Frank Fly and his robot, Frankystein Mk II.
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* WhenTreesAttack: '''Exploding''' trees, as a matter of fact...
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* WidgetSeries: Man does this game hold this title. There is no other series quite like it.
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* YouBastard: Mocked with the food stand in Happy Happy Village. 'Forget' to pay, and the salesman will hover over you and claim that you'll never know righteousness again.
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** Mocked with the food stand in Happy Happy Village. 'Forget' to pay, and the salesman will hover over you and claim that you'll never know righteousness again.
** Mocked with the food stand in Happy Happy Village. 'Forget' to pay, and the salesman will hover over you and claim that you'll never know righteousness again.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Frank Fly is said to be about 20 years old in some of the literature based off the games.
** Frank pegs himself as being younger than the legal drinking age if you talk to him during the endgame.
** Frank pegs himself as being younger than the legal drinking age if you talk to him during the endgame.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Frank Fly is said to be about 20 years old in some of the literature based off the games.
** Frankgames. (Frank pegs himself as being younger than the legal drinking age if you talk to him during the endgame.)
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** At least they return the favor during a HopelessBossFight. [[ThatOneBoss IF you didn't get killed during the fight...]]
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Buzz Buzz is a competent PSI user, and he can shield everyone in the party completely during the first boss. However, physically being [[spoiler:not]] a bee, he dies when he gets swatted by Pokey's mom.
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* TimeIsDangerous: the Phase Distorter 3 destroys living things when it travels, requiring the party to have their minds uploaded into robotic bodies before they can use it.
** It also turns out that the original Phase Distorter prototype wasn't exactly safe, either, as ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' shows that [[spoiler: Porky Minch]] was eventually given AgeWithoutYouth from abusing it.
** It also turns out that the original Phase Distorter prototype wasn't exactly safe, either, as ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' shows that [[spoiler: Porky Minch]] was eventually given AgeWithoutYouth from abusing it.
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* UselessItem: The Suporma is a parody of the concept, and the Bicycle is a more standard version, given your party has to be completely empty (aside from Ness) in order to ride it.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: The eight guardians aren't exactly villainous; they're mostly just challenges for Ness & co. to overcome.
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Changing all references to \"Porky\" that does not explicitly refer to the Japanese version of the game to \"Pokey\".
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* ThisLoserIsYou: Porky and to a lesser extent, [[SmallNameBigEgo Orange Kid]].
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* ThisLoserIsYou: Porky Pokey and to a lesser extent, [[SmallNameBigEgo Orange Kid]].
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* YouALLLookFamiliar: A few NPC sprites, including what some gamers call "Creator/MrT". But overall, for a SNES game, is done uniquely and has a variety of different NPCs.
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* YouALLLookFamiliar: A few NPC sprites, including what some gamers call "Creator/MrT". But overall, for a SNES game, is done uniquely and has a variety of different NPCs.[=NPCs=].
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* ThisLoserIsYou: Pokey and to a lesser extent, [[SmallNameBigEgo Orange Kid]].
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* WidgetSeries: Man does this game hold this title.
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* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: TropeNamer is Giygas' attacks, and Giygas itself probably qualifies as well. Mr. Saturn's speech is implied to be this, by virtue of the extremely weird font in which it's written.
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* WidgetSeries
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* WombLevel: The final dungeon of Giygas is like this. [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory As some people actually like to think, it ''is'' inside a womb.]]
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* VillainOpeningScene: ''"The War Against Giygas!"''
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* YouWakeUpInARoom: After [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption following a suspicious looking woman further into the hotel in Threed]], your party gets [[TapOnTheHead knocked unconscious]] and is trapped in a tomb deep underground. The only possible way to get out is to [[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]] call out to your next party member, Jeff, for him to help you out.
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* YouWakeUpInARoom: [[YouWakeUpInARoom You Wake Up In A Cave]]: After [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption following a suspicious looking woman further into the hotel in Threed]], your party gets [[TapOnTheHead knocked unconscious]] and is trapped in a tomb deep underground. The only possible way to get out is to [[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]] call out to your next party member, Jeff, for him to help you out.
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* YouWakeUpInARoom: After [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption following a suspicious looking woman further into the hotel in Threed]], your party gets [[TapOnTheHead knocked unconscious]] and is trapped in a tomb deep underground. The only possible way to get out is to [[Telepathy telepathically]] call out to your next party member, Jeff, for him to help you out.
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* YouWakeUpInARoom: After [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption following a suspicious looking woman further into the hotel in Threed]], your party gets [[TapOnTheHead knocked unconscious]] and is trapped in a tomb deep underground. The only possible way to get out is to [[Telepathy [[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]] call out to your next party member, Jeff, for him to help you out.
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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie, Destroyer of Universes]]: See Tear Jerker in the YMMV tab. If you've played the first game, Giygas' lines come off very differently. This doesn't make him any [[EldritchAbomination less]] [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm terrifying]].
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* TheWonderland: Magicant is this.
* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie, Destroyer of Universes]]: See Tear Jerker in the YMMV tab. If you've played the first game, Giygas' lines come off very differently. This doesn't make him any [[EldritchAbomination less]] [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueFormterrifying]].terrifying.]]
* WorldOfChaos: Moonside and Magicant. ''Especially Moonside''.
* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie, Destroyer of Universes]]: See Tear Jerker in the YMMV tab. If you've played the first game, Giygas' lines come off very differently. This doesn't make him any [[EldritchAbomination less]] [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm
* WorldOfChaos: Moonside and Magicant. ''Especially Moonside''.
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* WorldOfSnark
* WorldOfWeirdness: Where to begin?
* YouALLLookFamiliar:a A few NPC sprites, including what some gamers call "Creator/MrT".
* WorldOfWeirdness: Where to begin?
* YouALLLookFamiliar:
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---> TropesAToG [[EarthBound/TropesAToG HERE!]]
---> TropesHToM [[EarthBound/TropesHToM HERE!]]
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* TacticalSuicideBoss: Mr. Carpainter, although it's still possible to damage him without reflecting his lightning.
* TagLine: The Japanese tagline stated this was a game that adults, children and ladies could enjoy. The American ads instead warned that the game stinks.
* TerminatorTwosome: Giygas apparently destroys the universe, forcing Buzz Buzz to go back in time to find someone who can stop him, and Starman Junior goes back in time to stop Buzz Buzz. Starman Junior fails although Buzz Buzz ends up dying anyway.
* ThemeNaming: The towns are named by numbers, for their climate, or for musical references. Also, in the Japanese version, the "Don't Care" preset names for the main characters were grouped by the following themes: The Beatles, SuperMarioBros, primates, the Japanese band SMAP, the character's signature head ornament, and dog commands, in addition the starting "Ness, Paula, Jeff, etc." Of course, those sets, like some other things, got LostInTranslation.
** Parodied with Slot Machine Brothers -- Pincho, Pancho, and Tomás Jefferson.
** Some fans have noticed the following in the town names: '''One'''[-tt-] + '''Two'''[-son-] + '''Three'''[-d-] + '''Four'''[-side-] '''Sum'''[-mers-]/= '''Ten'''[-da Village-]. It probably wasn't intentional given that the Tenda were originally called "Gumi" in Japanese.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Pokey and to a lesser extent, [[SmallNameBigEgo Orange Kid]].
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: The massive powerup Ness gets at the end of Magicant.
** Or the one Poo gets in the form of a 'Message that has stat gains written on it.'
* ToiletHumor: While there's a bit in the game itself, with its talking piles of vomit and the ability to root through trash cans, the game's infamous American ad campaign made it seem like this was all there was to the game.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Bags of Dragonite, of which there are only 6 in the game.
* TooDumbToLive: Exactly ''why'' does Buzz Buzz hover over to Lardna after Pokey and Picky are sent to their room?
* TorturedMonster: Giygas. "...It hurts, ...it hurts... Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness... I'm... h... a... p... p... y..." It's even worse if you've played [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 the game before this]], because you'll understand why.
* TraumaInn: Averted; hotels restore HP and MP, but don't heal status effects -- you have to go to a hospital for that.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Although it takes place in [[TheNineties "199X"]], pay phones are still widely used, there are no household computers (but they do appear to have [[EasterEgg Nintendo games]]), and a lot of the slang is TotallyRadical.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Although in fact it would be ''three'' guys and a girl, for a long part of the game this is the basic formation.
** It even goes back to TwoGuysAndAGirl later in the game, as Poo leaves temporarily in order to learn PK Starstorm and re-joins them later.
* UndergroundMonkey: Many later enemies are palette swaps of earlier ones, like the Manly Fish and the Manly Fish's Brother. Most notable with the Starmen.
* UndisclosedFunds: Played straight in ''MOTHER 2'', but not in ''[=EarthBound=]''. During localization, for some reason a couple of vague references meaning roughly "a bajillion dollars" were changed to real numbers (Ness' family's debt to Pokey's family is "a hundred thousand dollars or more" and the Diamond "could pay off a million dollar debt easily").
* UnitsNotToScale
* {{Unobtanium}}: The Phase Converter runs on this -- it's called Zexonyte and you get it [[spoiler:backtracking to the meteorite]].
* UpdatedRerelease[=/=]CompilationRerelease: This game and [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 its predecessor]] have been compiled into a single cartridge and rereleased for the GameBoyAdvance under the title ''MOTHER 1+2'' ([[NoExportForYou only in Japan, of course]]).
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Take care of those Flying Men. [[YouBastard You don't really want to use them all up.]]
* VideogameSettings:
** AbsurdlySpaciousSewer[=/=]SewerLevel: The sewers under Fourside.
** BossCorridor[=/=]WombLevel: The tubing of the Devil's Machine leading to Giygas.
** BubblegloopSwamp: Deep Darkness.
** BubblyClouds[=/=]FloatingContinent[=/=]{{Wutai}}: Dalaam.
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The pyramid in Scaraba.
** DugTooDeep: The mole tunnel in the Dusty Dunes Desert.
** ElaborateUndergroundBase: Giygas's army has one at Stonehenge. The second half of it counts as a BlackoutBasement.
** FirstTown: [[MeaningfulName One]]tt.
** HiddenElfVillage: Saturn Valley.
** LethalLavaLand: The Fire Spring dungeon.
** TheMaze: Talah Rama's monkey tunnels and the mole maze in the Dusty Dunes Desert, Brick Road's dunegon (and his insides as Dungeon Man), Moonside's teleportation [=NPCs=], and the inside of the Stonehenge Base, just to name a few.
** MirrorWorld: Moonside is one to Fourside.
** PortTown: Summers, and its sub-town Toto.
** {{Prehistoria}}: The Lost Underworld. Doubles as a MacroZone.
** ShiftingSandLand: The Dusty Dunes Desert and Scaraba.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: Winters.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ness and Pokey. [[spoiler: Until the latter's [[StartOfDarkness road]] [[FaceHeelTurn to]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare villainy]].]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: Frank Fly and his robot, Frankystein Mk II.
* WebcomicOfTheGame: ''Webcomic/TheChosenFour''.
* WhatTheHellHero: When you first take control of Jeff at the boarding school, opening all the presents a fellow student has recently wrapped will elicit a similar response.
* WhenAllElseFailsGoRight: A sign in the Dungeon Man points this trope out. In this case, there's an inn to the left just out of sight.
* WhenTreesAttack: '''Exploding''' trees, as a matter of fact...
* WhereItAllBegan: In order to enter the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, you need to get a piece of the meteorite that started everything in Onett. Of course, it has been [[DoomedHometown taken over by aliens]] at that point.
* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie, Destroyer of Universes]]: See Tear Jerker in the YMMV tab. If you've played the first game, Giygas' lines come off very differently. This doesn't make him any [[EldritchAbomination less]] [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm terrifying]].
* YouALLLookFamiliar: a few NPC sprites, including what some gamers call "Creator/MrT".
* YouBastard: Mocked with the food stand in Happy Happy Village. 'Forget' to pay, and the salesman will hover over you and claim that you'll never know righteousness again.
** The sign asking people not to trample the flowers -- that can only be read when Ness is standing ''right'' in the flowerbed.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Frank Fly is said to be about 20 years old in some of the literature based off the games.
** Frank pegs himself as being younger than the legal drinking age if you talk to him during the endgame.
* ZillionDollarBill: You are at one point given ten thousand dollars in cash and later an extremely valuable diamond, both of which you must use shortly afterwards to get the Runaway Five out of a bum contract. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson the first time.
** At least they return the favor during a HopelessBossFight. [[ThatOneBoss IF you didn't get killed during the fight...]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Happens in the town of Threed. Sort of.
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* TacticalSuicideBoss: Mr. Carpainter, although it's still possible to damage him without reflecting his lightning.
* TagLine: The Japanese tagline stated this was a game that adults, children and ladies could enjoy. The American ads instead warned that the game stinks.
* TerminatorTwosome: Giygas apparently destroys the universe, forcing Buzz Buzz to go back in time to find someone who can stop him, and Starman Junior goes back in time to stop Buzz Buzz. Starman Junior fails although Buzz Buzz ends up dying anyway.
* ThemeNaming: The towns are named by numbers, for their climate, or for musical references. Also, in the Japanese version, the "Don't Care" preset names for the main characters were grouped by the following themes: The Beatles, SuperMarioBros, primates, the Japanese band SMAP, the character's signature head ornament, and dog commands, in addition the starting "Ness, Paula, Jeff, etc." Of course, those sets, like some other things, got LostInTranslation.
** Parodied with Slot Machine Brothers -- Pincho, Pancho, and Tomás Jefferson.
** Some fans have noticed the following in the town names: '''One'''[-tt-] + '''Two'''[-son-] + '''Three'''[-d-] + '''Four'''[-side-] '''Sum'''[-mers-]/= '''Ten'''[-da Village-]. It probably wasn't intentional given that the Tenda were originally called "Gumi" in Japanese.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Pokey and to a lesser extent, [[SmallNameBigEgo Orange Kid]].
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: The massive powerup Ness gets at the end of Magicant.
** Or the one Poo gets in the form of a 'Message that has stat gains written on it.'
* ToiletHumor: While there's a bit in the game itself, with its talking piles of vomit and the ability to root through trash cans, the game's infamous American ad campaign made it seem like this was all there was to the game.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Bags of Dragonite, of which there are only 6 in the game.
* TooDumbToLive: Exactly ''why'' does Buzz Buzz hover over to Lardna after Pokey and Picky are sent to their room?
* TorturedMonster: Giygas. "...It hurts, ...it hurts... Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness... I'm... h... a... p... p... y..." It's even worse if you've played [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 the game before this]], because you'll understand why.
* TraumaInn: Averted; hotels restore HP and MP, but don't heal status effects -- you have to go to a hospital for that.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Although it takes place in [[TheNineties "199X"]], pay phones are still widely used, there are no household computers (but they do appear to have [[EasterEgg Nintendo games]]), and a lot of the slang is TotallyRadical.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Although in fact it would be ''three'' guys and a girl, for a long part of the game this is the basic formation.
** It even goes back to TwoGuysAndAGirl later in the game, as Poo leaves temporarily in order to learn PK Starstorm and re-joins them later.
* UndergroundMonkey: Many later enemies are palette swaps of earlier ones, like the Manly Fish and the Manly Fish's Brother. Most notable with the Starmen.
* UndisclosedFunds: Played straight in ''MOTHER 2'', but not in ''[=EarthBound=]''. During localization, for some reason a couple of vague references meaning roughly "a bajillion dollars" were changed to real numbers (Ness' family's debt to Pokey's family is "a hundred thousand dollars or more" and the Diamond "could pay off a million dollar debt easily").
* UnitsNotToScale
* {{Unobtanium}}: The Phase Converter runs on this -- it's called Zexonyte and you get it [[spoiler:backtracking to the meteorite]].
* UpdatedRerelease[=/=]CompilationRerelease: This game and [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 its predecessor]] have been compiled into a single cartridge and rereleased for the GameBoyAdvance under the title ''MOTHER 1+2'' ([[NoExportForYou only in Japan, of course]]).
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Take care of those Flying Men. [[YouBastard You don't really want to use them all up.]]
* VideogameSettings:
** AbsurdlySpaciousSewer[=/=]SewerLevel: The sewers under Fourside.
** BossCorridor[=/=]WombLevel: The tubing of the Devil's Machine leading to Giygas.
** BubblegloopSwamp: Deep Darkness.
** BubblyClouds[=/=]FloatingContinent[=/=]{{Wutai}}: Dalaam.
** BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The pyramid in Scaraba.
** DugTooDeep: The mole tunnel in the Dusty Dunes Desert.
** ElaborateUndergroundBase: Giygas's army has one at Stonehenge. The second half of it counts as a BlackoutBasement.
** FirstTown: [[MeaningfulName One]]tt.
** HiddenElfVillage: Saturn Valley.
** LethalLavaLand: The Fire Spring dungeon.
** TheMaze: Talah Rama's monkey tunnels and the mole maze in the Dusty Dunes Desert, Brick Road's dunegon (and his insides as Dungeon Man), Moonside's teleportation [=NPCs=], and the inside of the Stonehenge Base, just to name a few.
** MirrorWorld: Moonside is one to Fourside.
** PortTown: Summers, and its sub-town Toto.
** {{Prehistoria}}: The Lost Underworld. Doubles as a MacroZone.
** ShiftingSandLand: The Dusty Dunes Desert and Scaraba.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: Winters.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ness and Pokey. [[spoiler: Until the latter's [[StartOfDarkness road]] [[FaceHeelTurn to]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare villainy]].]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: Frank Fly and his robot, Frankystein Mk II.
* WebcomicOfTheGame: ''Webcomic/TheChosenFour''.
* WhatTheHellHero: When you first take control of Jeff at the boarding school, opening all the presents a fellow student has recently wrapped will elicit a similar response.
* WhenAllElseFailsGoRight: A sign in the Dungeon Man points this trope out. In this case, there's an inn to the left just out of sight.
* WhenTreesAttack: '''Exploding''' trees, as a matter of fact...
* WhereItAllBegan: In order to enter the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, you need to get a piece of the meteorite that started everything in Onett. Of course, it has been [[DoomedHometown taken over by aliens]] at that point.
* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie, Destroyer of Universes]]: See Tear Jerker in the YMMV tab. If you've played the first game, Giygas' lines come off very differently. This doesn't make him any [[EldritchAbomination less]] [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm terrifying]].
* YouALLLookFamiliar: a few NPC sprites, including what some gamers call "Creator/MrT".
* YouBastard: Mocked with the food stand in Happy Happy Village. 'Forget' to pay, and the salesman will hover over you and claim that you'll never know righteousness again.
** The sign asking people not to trample the flowers -- that can only be read when Ness is standing ''right'' in the flowerbed.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Frank Fly is said to be about 20 years old in some of the literature based off the games.
** Frank pegs himself as being younger than the legal drinking age if you talk to him during the endgame.
* ZillionDollarBill: You are at one point given ten thousand dollars in cash and later an extremely valuable diamond, both of which you must use shortly afterwards to get the Runaway Five out of a bum contract. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson the first time.
** At least they return the favor during a HopelessBossFight. [[ThatOneBoss IF you didn't get killed during the fight...]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Happens in the town of Threed. Sort of.
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