History VideoGame / DragonQuestIX

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Played for drama in the past with [[spoiler:Serena- when the Gittish Empire comes to Wormowood Creek, an officer fully intends to carry her off as a spoil before Corvus intervenes.]]

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Played for drama in the past with [spoiler:Serena- when the Gittish Empire comes to Wormowood Creek, an officer fully intends to carry her off as a spoil before Corvus intervenes.]]

* AnimeHair: One of the possible hairstyles is basically [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]]. (Did we mention the character designer is Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama?)

** And we have a story with [[DragonBall characters illustrated by Akira Toriyama chasing down seven glowing, golden, wish-granting objects that scattered themselves around the world]].

* BonusBoss: ''Every VideoGame/DragonQuest last boss ever'', and quite a few [[TheDragon dragons]], too. Amusingly, they use the same Grotto system (you can even get a few of these maps randomly from higher ranked Grotto bosses, 1 in 20 chance), but they have only one floor, the boss floor. Bosses start at level 1, and upon beating them, you have the opportunity to give up the XP, allowing the boss to gain levels (which increases item and XP drop from the boss, but also increases the boss's stats and occasionally gives him new attacks). Most bosses after level 16 or so drop the next boss in the chain's map (rarely -- 10% chance at first, but rises as you level them up) and start dropping very high level gear. If you can beat them, that is. The first one of these most players will find is [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII Baramos]]'s. Available in the post game via quest 62... [[GuideDangIt if you know where to look.]] Starts a chain of 3 maps, see MythologyGag below.

* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Averted. It was stated that this was going to happen, after the Celestrians RetGone and the main character's HumanityEnsues meant they would forget ''everything''. (Which, given they''were''one, would be nearly everything.) However, there's a PlayableEpilogue quest that lets them bolster his awareness.]]

* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Averted. It was stated that this was going to happen, after the Celestrians RetGone and the main character's HumanityEnsues meant he would forget everything. (Which, given he ''was'' one, would be nearly everything.) However, there's a PlayableEpilogue quest that lets him bolster his awareness.]]

** At the beginning of the game, the hero falls from the sky and lands in the pond in the center of Angel Falls. At the beginning of the final arc of the main game, he falls from the sky again and lands in the waters at Wormwood Creek, except this time, he's on the receiving end of hostility instead of hospitality. [[spoiler: As we learn later, Corvus was also pulled from the waters at Wyrmward after getting injured]].

* HopelessBossFight: Twice the hero must enter battles which he not only can't win, he can't do ''anything''. [[spoiler: Remember how Celestrians aren't physically able to stand against a superior in any fashion? Well, you have to fight two different Celestrians. The final segment of the game centers around finding a way around this law so that you can actually fight and defeat the Big Bad]].

** One of the DLC quests ends with you being congratulated for solving the puzzle like a [[Franchise/ProfessorLayton Professor]], and teaches you the "[[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger Professor's Pose]]" (even though the art style doesn't show fingers).

* CreatorBacklash: [[in-universe]] [[{{God}} Zenus]], towards the humans, which he viewed as an "aberration" and full of sin. Prior to the events of the game, he even tried to destroy his creation, [[spoiler:but his daughter Celestria transformed herself into the form of the World Tree, Yggdrasil, under the condition that she would only revert back to her normal form once the human race had produced enough benevolence to prove themselves worth not killing, in order to convince him to stay his hand.]] Much later, [[spoiler:history would repeat itself, only with [[BigBad Corvus]] and the player character in the place of Zenus and Celestria. The player character does manage to save the human race a second time, again at some personal cost -- due to needing to become "mortal" to defeat Corvus, he or she does not get to retire to the stars along with the rest of the Celestrian race, and instead is left to stay in the "mortal" realm to remain serving as its "Guardian".]]

* BrokenAngel: Celestrians are meant to enter and exit the Observatory through a special gateway in the foundation of the FloatingContinent. It's possible for them to fall over the edge, but it's a ''long'' way down. Though even Celestrian children are sturdy enough to survive the fall, if they walk away, it'll be [[BroughtDownToNormal without their halo and likely even their wings]]. The main character only manages to retain his ability to see ghosts and other "special" folks. At the end of the game, [[spoiler:your character voluntarily gives up these powers to become fully human, in order to fight Corvus.]] In-game, though, Celestrians and humans are not terribly different in terms of ability.

%%"The enemy are defeated" is technically grammatically correct, and is in all of the modern ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' English translations. Don't bother adding it under {{Engrish}}, BlindIdiotTranslation, etc.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Inverted; even with the Wear-with-all medal (which lets you wear the other gender's clothing), the game will not let you wear a dangerous bikini or the dangerous midriff wrap, telling you that even it won't let you get away with that. Also, it won't let females wear the Muscle Belt, which is two belts wrapped around the torso in an X shape. Try and guess why they didn't allow it. (Which is odd, since it's the standard uniform for ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' warriors...)
** In Coffinwell there is an elderly man in a relationship with a very young woman who is obviously using him to buy expensive clothes. (It doesn't help she is dressed in similar fashion to a playboy bunny. But that is a common sprite throughout the series). There's another couple in Dourbridge doing much the same thing.

** '''''S'''entinels of the '''S'''tarry '''S'''kies''
** Not to mention most of the item and monster names and descriptions and quests and... Even the NPC ''dialogue'' gets into it.
** ''[[UpToEleven Even the freaking game booklet applies.]]''

** The green crab enemy is called a [[TheFlintstones Crabber Dabber Doo]].

** On a meta note, Nintendo ended support for WFC (Wi-Fi Connection) for all DS and Wii software on May 20th, 2014. A large number of bonus quest flags, the Inn guests, and DQVC exclusive items will now be unobtainable if they have not already been activated/downloaded or retrieved, making true 100% Completion impossible.

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Late in the game, you find a long-lost and heavily disfigured ally ChainedToARock in the deepest, dankest part of a certain prison, repeating a very ugly MadnessMantra to himself. Some players who are properly GenreSavvy realize bad things will happen because of this, but it's perfectly {{justified}} in universe, since this is simply the last and most extreme case in a chain of rescues. Indeed, the Hero is most likely wondering what ''happened'' to him in the first place.

* DrawAggro: The Forbearance skill in ''DragonQuestIX'' makes one character take all attacks for the next turn. It's possible to spam this move with one character, letting the other three concentrate on damage, [[TotalPartyKill but it can be interrupted by a Disruptive Wave]]. The Paladin's LimitBreak as the same effect, but lasts several turns and can't be dispelled.

** Using the character creation system, you can make expies of other characters designed by Toriyama. Among them, [[BlueDragon Shu]], [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Crono, Marle, and Lucca]], [[Anime/DragonBallZ Androids #17 and 18, and Gohan]], and [[Anime/DragonBallGT Uub]]... just to name a few. It's also possible to [[http://alkaplantestsite.webs.com/dq9/DQcoplayparty.jpg recreate]] virtually every previous ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' hero. In fact, the game even offers their trademark garbs as some of the more useful equips.

* BrokenAngel: You and a few others.
** Dovetails with BroughtDownToNormal, though zig-zagged: after falling from the Observatory, your Celestrian character loses their halo and wings, making them ''look'' human, but they retain their Celestrial powers of being able to see ghosts and talk to animals (sort of). At the end of the game, [[spoiler:your character voluntarily gives up these powers to become fully human, in order to fight Corvus.]] In-game, though, Celestrians and humans are not terribly different in terms of ability.

* GratuitousFrench: Coup de grâce for [[LimitBreak Limit Breaks]] and je ne sais quoi for the Luminary class skill. [[PunnyName Co-Op de grâce]] for double-team Limit Breaks.

* HaveYouSeenMyGod: After everything goes to pot during Fyggbloom, Apus Major repeatedly tries to raise the Almighty on the prayer hotline... except the Grand Architect is suddenly not answering his calls. [[spoiler:Celestria reveals that Zenus still exists, but she does not know where he is. On top of that, he seems to appear when "Spelly Breath" is used and "speaks" if you use Divination, creating a sort of Gameplay And Story Segregation. The 10 bonus bosses in the grottoes and their extended character description imply (and in some cases, outright state) that ''they'' are Zenus, divided into 10 parts. The other two are a resurrected Greygnarl, and a demon named Tyrannosaurus Wrecks who freed the others to screw over the Supreme Sage.]]

* MissedHimByThatMuch: TheParagon Celestrian Corvus went missing 300 years ago (but the Celestrians aren't allowed to talk about it). [[spoiler: He's in the bottom-most floor of TheOubliette, which is the basement of GittinghamPalace, which is dead in the center of the territory of the Gittish Empire, which is the wasteland the Observatory is floating over -- Corvus is directly beneath all of them]].