History VideoGame / DragonQuestV

** The fact that the original cut back the limit from 4 (as in the previous two games of the series) to 3, while ''vastly'' increasing the number of potential party members via the addition of {{Mons}} to the series, was quite frustrating. The only other ''Dragon Quest'' game to restrict you to 3 active party members was ''DragonQuestII''...which only ''has'' 3 playable characters.

* [[PregnantBadass Badass Pregnant]]:Your spouse can be this if she's in your battle party in the mountain passage on the way to Gotha.

* LostForever: in the SNES version, you can never return to the Ice Mansion of Dward Cave in the Fairy Realm after Powan uses the Flute of Spring, so any treasures left behind are LostForever. Averted in the PS2 and DS remakes, [[spoiler: where you can explore the realm again after going through the Lost Forest in the third generation]].

* OfficialCouple: The main character/Bianca since all official deceptions of Parry and Madchen have them with blonde hair. In the game, they have blonde hair only if their mother is Bianca. Also all versions of the game ({{SNES}}/{{PS2}}/[[NintendoDS NDS]]) features just the Hero and Bianca in the cover, some variations only add their kids and Pankraz/Papas.

** And the characters in the game [[GuiltBasedGaming nudges you like crazy]] to [[spoiler: pick Bianca as your wife. The crazy thing is the ShipTease continues, '''''even after you marry''''' Nera or Debora.]]

* SilentProtagonist: [[spoiler: Well...yes...and no.]]

* EvilChancellor: [[spoiler:Chancellor Jeeves of Gotha. When he finds out that you're the kingdom's missing prince and about to claim the throne, he arranges for monsters to kidnap your wife and lure you away so he can take the throne himself.]] [[EvilIsNotAToy He does get what's coming to him, though]].

** The daughter play this straight.

** It's worse than that; Flora has gated level cap of Lv10 (normally Lv99 for human [[PlayerCharacter PCs]]) for the rest of the second generation (The hero's level would usually be around that high ''no more than an hour into the game'', and the marriage is about 8~10 hours into the game), and would often disregard commands in battles unless another party member attacks her. Flora's in-battle behavior [[FridgeLogic would also imply]] that ''she might not have loved the Hero at all'', which would make the whole thing even more of a PlayerPunch.

* HeroicMime: The protagonist is silent like nearly all other ''Dragon Quest'' games. However, ''Dragon Quest V'' subverts this trope by later revealing that the SilentProtagonist is in fact [[spoiler: not the supposed Legendary Hero,]] but that it is his [[spoiler: rather talkative son.]]

* ItGotWorse: Not the game. [[spoiler: YOUR LIFE.]]

** One plot-based item is dubbed the [[TheLionKing 'Circle of Life']]. When the psychic in Fortuna mentions it, she calls it "that toe-tapping number, the Cir-cle of Li-i-ife" despite it being a ring- not a song.

** At the beginning of the game, Pankraz will suggest naming the main character Madason. If you actually choose that as your name, he will instead suggest [[VideoGame/DragonQuestI Er]][[VideoGame/DragonQuestII dri]][[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII ck]].

* TheUnchosenOne: The unnamed Hero of Dragon Quest V is obviously not ''"The Chosen One"'' but the actual ''Prophesied Hero'' still looks up to him for guidance and support because while Parry is a clever kid he's still just a kid and every kid needs [[spoiler: help from his father from time to time.]]

** TheDragon: Bishop Ladja, Nimzo's apparently Russian right hand who is [[CompleteMonster more evil than his boss]].

* BadassSpaniard: Sancho, though he's more goofy than badass at times.

* AdaptationExpansion: Bishop Ladja gets considerably more screentime and involvement in the plot in TheRemake than in the original.
** To elaborate, in TheRemake [[spoiler:he's the one who petrifies you and your wife instead of Kon. Also, instead of being killed in Talon Tower as in the original, he survives to personally execute King Korol for his failure to defeat the party and ends up being fought at the entrance to TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.]]

* AndIMustScream [[spoiler:The player character]] is stuck as a [[TakenForGranite statue]] for eight years in ''[=DQV=]'', as is [[spoiler:his wife. And to make thing even more horrible, you get to watch a kid grow up, and then get kidnapped.]] It is explicitly stated they were aware of everything that was occurring during that time. [[spoiler:Though, Debora in the in-game chat comments that the 10 years as a statue just flew by for her, but whether or not she was acting tough due to her personality or telling the truth is not clear.]]

* CutsceneIncompetent: Averted with [[spoiler:the death of Pankraz]]. He doesn't get oneshotted by an attack that would normally be no problem. It plays out in the actual battle engine, with [[spoiler:Pankraz]] "silently enduring" as he gets attacked repeatedly, and it takes ''forever'' for them to work through his massive HP total. It's much more epic and [[TearJerker sadder]] this way, too.

* DiscOneNuke: The Metal King Sword you can get at the Casino in Fortuna really IS [[InfinityPlusOneSword the most powerful sword in the game]]. And you can get as many of them as you want if you don't mind a bit of slot machine grinding. Plus, alot of people can equip the sword, even the Slime! It's stronger than the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Zenithian Blade]] and every casino carries a unlimited number of them. With some SaveScumming, you can get the 50K tokens needed to buy one.
** Not only that, but get the Caravan and recruit a Golem, equip it on him and you already got a damned tank which can more or less just replace your hero.
*** Those two examples border on GameBreaker, and the Golem is gotten a fair bit too late to be considered a DON. For some straighter examples that also fall under CrutchCharacter, two monsters recruitable near the beginning are the Rotten Apple, which has amazing stats for that point in the game, but caps at level 20 (though is still fairly good for a while longer), and the Slime Knight, which is pretty much a second Hero for the party, though its stats tend to falter later on (when the Son fills the same role anyways, and is much better at it).

* DubNameChange: A lot.

* FourthDateMarriage: At one point in the plot, you're required to marry one of three women, two of which the hero barely knows, and the third is someone that he never had much opportunity to date (though at least he'd known her when they were children.)

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In perhaps the oddest example of this trope and a complete inversion of the usual TakeYourTime present in this game, a series of events that can take the player roughly a couple hours to get through is implied to take two YEARS[[hottip:*: especially the process of meeting your prospective wives, adventuring to get their hand in marriage, getting married, and the birth of the twins. Going by plot? A year or two. Going by the game mechanic days, about three weeks at most]]. This happens at least twice in the game, in addition to normal story time skips. (The last era of the game is explicitly mentioned to have taken two years.)

** Extremely minor example: Why can't the hero's sprite ever show him wearing the red-and-gold cape after [[spoiler: his coronation]]? It would look significantly cooler than that old purple one.
*** Would you wear a royal cape to battle?
**** [[RuleOfCool Yes!]]
** GameplayAndStoryIntegration: However, there's a neat instance of the other side of the coin. Think about all the bad fortune that befalls our hero... [[spoiler:ambushed by Ladja, watches his dad get ''murdered'', enslaved for ten years, has to go through trials to get married, gets turned into a statue and misses the early years of his children's lives and then has to go rescue his mother from the underworld]]... and then, during gameplay, when he levels up? You'll notice his luck stat just about ''never'' goes up. His luck stat is the lowest in the game.
*** In the childhood section of the game, when Pankraz is with you, you can't control your movement at all, you can't choose to initiate dialogue, you can't do anything but [[AllInARow follow right behind him on autopilot]]. Well, of course you can't do anything; he's your dad, ''he's the party leader, not you''. You're a secondary party member when he's around!
**** In one of the most meta moments in the series, Pankraz [[LikeFatherLikeSon makes the mistake every player has]] in a 2-d RPG: accidentally stepping back onto a stairs icon and ending up in the previous screen. Jarring for him as one step sent him down an entire underground stairway and hilariously awkward for you as the party member who follows without a word. This was sadly not as funny for the remake where there is [[TechnologyMarchesOn no longer a 2D icon]] to fumble with on the way to Coburg.
*** The game actually does {{lampshade|Hanging}} the fact that resurrection can happen in this setting. So, if characters get KilledOffForReal, the narrative makes sure they're either DeaderThanDead or otherwise indisposed. [[spoiler:Specifically, Pankraz is hit with a fireball so powerful it blasts him to ''ashes'', and while the Hero and his wife aren't ''killed'', they're turned into stone statues with a spell that only a specific staff can reverse.]]
**** When you get married, instead of 'death til you part', it's 'until resurrection in the church.'

* HopeSpot: Hey, Hero! Your mother's alive and waiting to be saved! [[spoiler: Oh wait, you just meet her and she just got Kafrizzled by Ladja... But she survived! Only to get zapped by Nimzo... Ow.]]

* MagikarpPower: A few of the monsters that can hit level 99 have extremely high stat growth and/or learn incredibly powerful abilities at the highest levels. To little surprise, [[MascotMook slimes]] are one of them.
** The three selectable girls count as well. Each one starts out filling a niche party role, but at the highest levels, their stat growths in other areas catch up and they wind up being differentiated only by what equipment they can use. For example, Debora can use stronger weapons, like the Hera Hammer.

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: Dr Agon is actually the Zenithian Dragon.]] With a name like that, who saw it coming?

** They will join you...if you fight them a certain number of times.

* ProperLady: Flora/Nera.
** An unusual case in that for once her type is significantly ''less'' popular among the Japanese fanbase than her romantic rival. Largely due to the GuiltBasedGaming of the original version.

* RichBitch: Debora, who may or may not have [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a golden heart]] under all that jewelry.
** Debora spends about 90% of the marriage being an ungrateful, insane slave-driver not unlike those that imprisoned the Hero earlier, but by the time she witnesses for herself the final major tragedy in his in-game life, her tune changes and she vows to make Nimzo pay for what he did to her husband. It's worth putting up her attitude all the way to the end just to see it.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Nimzo/Mirudraas/Mildrath. Ladja/Gema.

* SquishyWizard: Nera, the most magically skilled of the brides.
** As well as your daughter.
* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler: Sancho]] ends up with a huge case of it, although how bad it is only becomes clear if you add him to your party then talk to him a lot in different cities.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Add [[spoiler: Sancho]] to your party, then take him back to the first few cities of the game and talk to him constantly. [[spoiler: How cruel you're being varies from city to city: in Roundbeck he occasionally gets depressed but also has untainted happy memories, in the ruins of Whealbrook and at Coburg your kids make it clear to you that Sancho refused to ever go to either place again until the Hero forces him to but at least in Whealbrook after you talk to everyone he eventually seems to come to terms with what happened there. But in Coburg it's obvious that you're basically emotionally torturing him every second you stay there because it's so hard for him to be in the place and speak with the people that he blames for Pankraz's death.]]
** Marrying Nera in the SNES version. Less cruel in the DS remake.

** He has green hair in the original, too. It's just not quite so... shiny.

* ModernMinstrelsy: The official English translation portrays Sancho as a dreadful Mexican stereotype (who apparently [[DidNotDoTheResearch cooks a mean paella]]).

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: 3 in the original, 4 in the remake.

** The commercials for all three releases prove this. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2PIO7MSUI4&feature=related]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jkQ-KfV6_E]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7wes33VMnE&feature=related]]

* HoYay: Sancho ''really'' admires Pankraz.

* AWorldwidePunomenon: ''They're everywhere.'' And they're not unique to the localization, either.

A deeply moving and great story following a boy through his life, with the addition of {{Mon}}s (for the better, and this game [[OlderThanTheyThink preceded]] {{Pokemon}}) an element not seen in other ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' games. [[MagnumOpus It is the favorite of Yuji Horii]], the creator of the series, and stands as very nearly the [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/dragon-quest-v-hand-of-the-heavenly-bride best-reviewed]] and critically-respected game of the entire franchise.

** The ghostly Count Uptaten seems to enjoy imitating ''SesameStreet''[='=]s Count von Count. Of course, [[DontExplainTheJoke with a name like]] [[JustForPun Count Up-To-Ten]], it's probably expected.

* WouldHarmAChild: Bishop Ladja.

* OneSizeFitsAll: As is the norm for the ''Dragon Quest'' series and [=RPGs=] in general, but it's funny to give Bianca back the same clothes & armor that she wore as an 8 year old when you next meet her again as an adult or to swap armor with your own son.

* MonsterProtectionRacket: The player is accused of this.

* OneSizeFitsAll: As is the norm for the ''Dragon Quest'' series and RPGs in general, but it's funny to give Bianca back the same clothes & armor that she wore as an 8 year old when you next meet her again as an adult or to swap armor with your own son.

* BonusBoss: Not including the later {{Video Game Remake}}s of earlier games this was the first DragonQuest to have one of these; as well as an accompanying BonusDungeon. [[spoiler: Estark, the original form of the final boss of DragonQuestIV, is the boss. He would become the recurring BonusBoss for the series.]]

* FanTranslation: Prior to the NintendoDS {{Remake}} this was the only way to play ''Dragon Quest V'' in English, in 2002 the final {{SNES}} translation patch was released and received with much joy, and in 2010 what many thought to be impossible happened, the {{PS2}} version got a ''complete'' translation patch, an achievement to be proud and thankful of, due how ungodly hard and time consuming is to translate and patch a {{PS2}} game, no wonder DragonQuestV for {{PS2}} remains as one of the very few, and well known, originally [[NoExportForYou Japan Only]] {{PS2}} game to ever be graced with a translation patch.

** At the beginning of the game, Pankraz will suggest naming the main character Madason. If you actually choose that as your name, he will instead suggest [[DragonQuestI Er]][[DragonQuestII dri]][[DragonQuestIII ck]].

** The NintendoDS release, it got all extras from the {{PS2}} version minus the complete 3D graphics engine, but the most valuable addition was the promotion of Debora to a possible bride for the hero.

* SpritePolygonMix: In the VideoGameRemake(s).

** Then there's the enemies that are actually called [[DefinedTrope Gasshole]]!

* BlackMagicianGirl: Subverted. Nera has a [[ProperLady personality type]] more closely associated with that of a StaffChick, but her stat growth and equipment selection, coupled with the fact that most of her spells are offensive in nature, lands her squarely in this role.