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* HeroicBSOD: Morte has one after [[spoiler:Kyrie is killed]]. She refuses to eat anything for three days, apparently just sitting on her bed and staring off into space. She finally snaps out of it when [[spoiler:the Front sends new orders suggesting a way to resurrect Kyrie]].
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Meet the ''World Annihilation Front'' (''World Destruction Committee'' in Japan and in Funimation's subtitled version). A human member of the Front is the main 'heroine', Morte Asherah, who has a nasty attitude, a massive sword and a goal of (what else) to destroy the world with the powers of something known as the "Destruct". Along the way, she picks up Kyrie Illunis, a mild-mannered human with the power to destroy the world, but has no desire to do so, and Taupy Toplan, a small bear creature on the scale of a teddy. (Just don't call him "bear.") Kyrie and Taupy, unlike Morte, have no desire to destroy the world, but they are guilty by association and hunted as part of the collective "World Annihilation Front."
The World Salvation Committee consists of one highly intellectual (but not necessarily intelligent) wolfman with an intense sense of [[HonorBeforeReason honor]] and one dragon girl who is [[{{Tsundere}} prone to spouting wings, horns, and a nasty-looking tail when she becomes enraged]]. Finally there is the guy in an awesome green longcoat.
The World Salvation Committee consists of one highly intellectual (but not necessarily intelligent) wolfman with an intense sense of [[HonorBeforeReason honor]] and one dragon girl who is [[{{Tsundere}} prone to spouting wings, horns, and a nasty-looking tail when she becomes enraged]]. Finally there is the guy in an awesome green longcoat.
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Meet the ''World Annihilation Front'' (''World Destruction Committee'' in Japan and in Funimation's subtitled version). A human member of the Front is the main 'heroine', Morte Asherah, who has a nasty attitude, a massive sword and a goal of (what else) to destroy the world with the powers of something known as the "Destruct". Along the way, she picks up Kyrie Illunis, a mild-mannered human with the power to destroy the world, but has no desire to do so, and Taupy Toplan, a small bear creature on the scale of a teddy. (Just don't call him "bear.") Kyrie and Taupy, unlike Morte, have no desire to destroy the world, but they are guilty by association and hunted as part of the collective "World Annihilation Front."
" Latecomers include a dragonkin who can see the future and a guy in an awesome green longcoat who grew up with Morte.
The World Salvation Committee consists of one highly intellectual (but not necessarily intelligent) wolfman with an intense sense of [[HonorBeforeReasonhonor]] honor]], his fellow wolfman rival who looks down on him for being a half-breed, an eagle-man with an ego, and one dragon girl who is [[{{Tsundere}} prone to spouting wings, horns, and a nasty-looking tail when she becomes enraged]]. Finally there is the guy in an awesome green longcoat.
several hundred FacelessGoons.
The World Salvation Committee consists of one highly intellectual (but not necessarily intelligent) wolfman with an intense sense of [[HonorBeforeReason
* AntiAntiChrist: Kyrie was ''supposed'' to be the one to end the world. Unfortunately, he's really not into the whole doom-and-death thing.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Kyrie can't control his powers of destruction; when that pesky voice starts talking, his body acts of its own accord and obliterates everything around him. [[spoiler:When he decides he's too much of a danger to continue living, he asks Naja to kill him.]]
* BombThrowingAnarchists: The introduction makes Morte and the World Annihilation Front seem like this, but as their name implies, they're not just interested in toppling evil governments; they want to end the world. That doesn't stop various characters from ''calling'' them anarchists, though.
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* CantDropTheHero: For most of the game, though Kyrie is later dropped from the party [[spoiler:after he asks Naja to kill him to save the world]].
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* CantDropTheHero: For most of the game, though Kyrie is later dropped from the party [[spoiler:after he asks Naja to kill him to save the world]]. At this point, Morte becomes undroppable, whereas previously she could be switched out at will.
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* OffModel: A couple of characters have inconsistent coloring between their sprites and {{Character Portrait}}s:
** Kyrie wears a complete pair of gloves in sprites, but only one glove in portraits and art; his other hand is bare.
** Morte's hair is either a light reddish-chestnut or a medium dull brown.
** Muffy is either pink with a brown bow or brown with a red bow.
** Kyrie wears a complete pair of gloves in sprites, but only one glove in portraits and art; his other hand is bare.
** Morte's hair is either a light reddish-chestnut or a medium dull brown.
** Muffy is either pink with a brown bow or brown with a red bow.
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* PersonOfMassDestructionPersonOfMassDestruction: Kyrie's status as one is what catches Morte's attention and kickstarts the plot.
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** However, it's implied that they do have a transformation form. (not ''just'' the beastlords, mind you)
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As far as Beastlords go, Ursa Rex was evidently a fair and just ruler, who had [[FantasticRacism no problem with humans.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As far as Beastlords go, Ursa Rex was evidently a fair and just ruler, who had [[FantasticRacism no problem with humans.]]humans]], and Elephas Rex treats both humans and ferals equally at his hospital. Felis Rex may be a blackmailer, but he's overall fairly reasonable as well.
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* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Kyrie eventually decides]] his death would mean the world would be saved. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:the Destruct has numerous backups in place to ensure the system works, including a method of resurrection in case of premature death.]]
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The [[http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/4/0/4/96404_front.jpg Japanese boxart]] shows all the main characters lined up, facing the same direction as if they are a team, despite two of them being antagonistic. [[spoiler:Naturally, Rhi'a and Naja make a HeelFaceTurn - or, given the VillainProtagonist nature of the game, perhaps that'd be a FaceHeelTurn.]]
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The [[http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/4/0/4/96404_front.jpg Japanese boxart]] shows all the main characters lined up, facing the same direction as if they are a team, despite two of them Naja being antagonistic. [[spoiler:Naturally, Rhi'a and Naja make he makes a HeelFaceTurn - or, given the VillainProtagonist nature of the game, perhaps that'd be a FaceHeelTurn.]]
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* WhatWouldXDo: After [[spoiler:killing Kyrie at his request and learning of plans to resurrect him, Naja]] asks to join the Front. Everyone bickers about it until Morte decides to do what she knows Kyrie would do, even though he isn't there at the moment.
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* AmbidextrousSprite: Anyone with FashionableAsymmetry is fully flippable, such as Kyrie's single glove and Taupy's eyepatch.
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* CantDropTheHero: For most of the game, though Kyrie is later dropped from the party [[spoiler:after he asks Naja to kill him to save the world]].
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* VisualInitiativeQueueVictoryPose: [[BloodKnight Morte]] [[GenkiGirl jumps up and down]] [[MilkingTheGiantCow while punching the air]]. Most other characters simply stand in place, satisfied that they've won, though Taupy does [[BadassBack turn his back to the camera]].
* VisualInitiativeQueue: It's constantly changing its order, though, so you probably won't be looking at it very much.
* VisualInitiativeQueue: It's constantly changing its order, though, so you probably won't be looking at it very much.
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* [[spoiler:RedHeadedHero]]: [[spoiler:This is Kyrie's battle form after he is resurrected.]]
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* [[spoiler:RedHeadedHero]]: RedHeadedHero: Agan, the RedheadInGreen. [[spoiler:This is also Kyrie's battle form after he is resurrected.]]]]
* RightBehindMe: A couple of prison guards comment on Morte and how scarily psychotic she is as she's walking up behind them. In an InvertedTrope, she ''loves'' the things they're saying about her.
* RightBehindMe: A couple of prison guards comment on Morte and how scarily psychotic she is as she's walking up behind them. In an InvertedTrope, she ''loves'' the things they're saying about her.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the]] [[VisualNovel/RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross series]], VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
** To paraphrase a forum poster from GameFAQs, if it weren't for the meddling, "The developers could have made ''Xenogears'' but instead gave us ''WildArms''."
** To paraphrase a forum poster from GameFAQs, if it weren't for the meddling, "The developers could have made ''Xenogears'' but instead gave us ''WildArms''."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As mentioned above, the original draft was much more darker, with possible depictions of ferals eating humans. Alas, {{executive meddling}} made the game's finalised story as it is. Well, there's hints like the time where Porco Rex threatens to eat that human child, but it's not quite the same. [[spoiler: There is also Lacertus Rex's plan to use humans as base material for his ascension to godhood.]]
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The [[http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/4/0/4/96404_front.jpg Japanese boxart]] shows all the main characters lined up, facing the same direction as if they are a team, despite two of them being antagonistic. [[spoiler:Naturally, Rhi'a and Naja make a HeelFaceTurn - or, given the VillainProtagonist nature of the game, perhaps that'd be a FaceHeelTurn.]]
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* MagikarpPower: Flurry attacks are rather weak (though accurate) at the beginning of the game when compared to blow attacks (more damage and less accurate, but this can easily be compensated for) however, once you reach lvl 20 (which isn't very further into the game, even without grinding, which is also fairly easy to do) you get the option of further improving all your attacks, giving them certain bonuses when doing so. Blow attacks can get some decent powerups from this, but flurry attacks get the option to chain which is more or less a GameBreaker.
* MeaningfulName: Kyrie means 'Lord' in Greek, Morte means 'Death' in Portugese.
* MeaningfulName: Kyrie means 'Lord' in Greek, Morte means 'Death' in Portugese.
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* MagikarpPower: Flurry attacks are rather weak (though accurate) at the beginning of the game when compared to blow attacks (more damage and less accurate, but this can easily be compensated for) however, for). However, once you reach lvl 20 (which isn't very further far into the game, even without grinding, which is also fairly easy to do) you get the option of further improving all your attacks, giving them certain bonuses when doing so. Blow attacks can get some decent powerups from this, but flurry attacks get the option to chain which is more or less a GameBreaker.
* MeaningfulName: Kyrie means 'Lord' in Greek, Morte means 'Death' inPortugese.many Latin-derived languages.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Morte Asherah, in account that "Morte" is the Portuguese word for "Death".
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Morte Asherah, in account that "Morte" is the Portuguese word for "Death". Her nicknames "Scarlet Plague", "Beastslayer", and "Lady Death" also count. Kyrie ends up nicknamed "Destruct", but anyone who meets him immediately decides that it doesn't suit him at all.
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* TheSavageSouth: Summer Continent appears to be an {{expy}} of Africa, complete with deserts and savannah. The biggest sign of civilization is the complex operated by Elephas Rex, and travellers who fail to take precautions usually collapse from heat exhaustion before they reach it.
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* TheSavageSouth: Summer Continent appears to be an {{expy}} of Africa, complete with deserts and savannah. The biggest sign of civilization is the complex operated by Elephas Rex, and travellers travelers who fail to take precautions usually collapse from heat exhaustion before they reach it.
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[[caption-width-right:270:Clockwise from top left: [[DraconicHumanoid Rhi'a]], [[OneWomanArmy Morte]], [[ManInWhite Naja]], [[BearsAreBadNews Toppy]], [[TheHero Kyrie]], [[RedheadInGreen Agan]].]]
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover makes it seem like [[TheMenInBlack Kyrie]] is the one out to destroy the world and Morte is some sort of pensive MacguffinGirl or ApocalypseMaiden. The reality is quite the opposite.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/nintendo/images/6/63/Sands_of_Destruction_%28NA%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100917072754&path-prefix=en American box art]] makes it seem like [[TheMenInBlack Kyrie]] is the one out to destroy the world and Morte is some sort of pensive MacguffinGirl or ApocalypseMaiden. The reality is quite the opposite.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover makes it seem like [[TheMenInBlack Kyrie]] is the one out to destroy the world and Morte is some sort of pensive MacguffinGirl or ApocalypseMaiden. The reality is quite the opposite.
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''Sands of Destruction'' is a Nintendo DS game developed by Creator/{{Imageepoch}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}}. It was released in Japan in 2008 as ''World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi'', with a North American release in January 12th, 2010. It was also [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted into an anime]] which aired in 2008 and similarly had a North American release in early 2010.
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* TheArk: [[spoiler: The very last setting houses the DNA of all creatures and plant life. It was stored so that in the event of the world being destroyed or suffering some other cataclysmal event, it could be recreated again.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: See all that stuff in AngstWhatAngst? Don't let it happen to you, or you might wipe all your friends off the map.
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* GratuitousLatin: It's everywhere in this game. The ArcWords are Latin for "the play is over." Nearly all of the Beastlords' titles combine the latin words for their species followed by Rex (King). Even the last boss spouts several lines in latin before finally dying.
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* GratuitousLatin: It's everywhere in this game. The ArcWords are Latin for "the play is over." Nearly all of the Beastlords' titles combine the latin Latin words for their species followed by Rex (King). Even the last boss spouts several lines in latin Latin before finally dying.dying.
* TheGunslinger: Rhi'a.
* TheGunslinger: Rhi'a.
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* TheArk: [[spoiler: The very last setting houses the DNA of all creatures and plant life. It was stored so that in the event of the world being destroyed or suffering some other cataclysmal event, it could be recreated again.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: See all that stuff in AngstWhatAngst? Don't let it happen to you, or you might wipe all your friends off the map.
* TheGunslinger: Rhi'a.
* TheDulcineaEffect: See all that stuff in AngstWhatAngst? Don't let it happen to you, or you might wipe all your friends off the map.
* TheGunslinger: Rhi'a.
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''Sands of Destruction'' (known as ''World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi'' in Japan) is a Nintendo DS game developed by Creator/{{Imageepoch}}. It was released in 2008 with a North American release in January 12th, 2010. It was also [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted into an anime]] which aired in 2008 and similarly had a North American release in early 2010.
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''Sands of Destruction'' (known is a Nintendo DS game developed by Creator/{{Imageepoch}} and published by Creator/{{Sega}}. It was released in Japan in 2008 as ''World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi'' in Japan) is a Nintendo DS game developed by Creator/{{Imageepoch}}. It was released in 2008 Ishi'', with a North American release in January 12th, 2010. It was also [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted into an anime]] which aired in 2008 and similarly had a North American release in early 2010.
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''Sands of Destruction'' (known as ''World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi'' in Japan) is a Nintendo DS game released in 2008 with a North American release in January 12th, 2010. It was also [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted into an anime]] which aired in 2008 and similarly had a North American release in early 2010.
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''Sands of Destruction'' (known as ''World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi'' in Japan) is a Nintendo DS game developed by Creator/{{Imageepoch}}. It was released in 2008 with a North American release in January 12th, 2010. It was also [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted into an anime]] which aired in 2008 and similarly had a North American release in early 2010.
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\"Everything\'s Worse With Bears\" clean-up
* BearsAreBadNews: Subverted. Taupy is one of the strongest characters... Which, really, just means that the trope applies to your opponents.
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Subverted. Taupy is one of the strongest characters.
** Which, really, just means that the trope applies to your opponents.
** Which, really, just means that the trope applies to your opponents.
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex, despite being a CompleteMonster.]]
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex, despite being a CompleteMonster.Rex.]]
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* ArtShift: The anime can get weird in some episodes, such as when Morte decides to throw Toppy at the warden in the third episode, it's shown in extremely minimalistic line art. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome And it is awesome]].
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* ArtShift: The anime can get weird in some episodes, such as when Morte decides to throw Toppy at the warden in the third episode, it's shown in extremely minimalistic line art. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome And it is awesome]].
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* AxCrazy: The first lines out of Morte's mouth are about killing people and blowing up the world...so naturally, [[IdiotHero the protagonist]] [[HotAmazon finds this really hot]]. [[spoiler: Of course, Kyrie actually has a reason for agreeing with her, even if he doesn't know it.]]
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* AxCrazy: The first lines out of Morte's mouth are about killing people and blowing up the world...so naturally, [[IdiotHero the protagonist]] [[HotAmazon [[AmazonChaser finds this really hot]]. [[spoiler: Of course, Kyrie actually has a reason for agreeing with her, even if he doesn't know it.]]
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* XanatosGambit: Looking closely at the events that lead to Kyrie's joining the Front, which began with the Front leader ''announcing this to the world'', when [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex reveals himself as the one in charge of the World Destruction Front, having done so jus to get his followers to bring him the Destruct and to use its power for the sake of creating a new world in his image]], [[FridgeHorror iyou realize that even if Morte hadn't managed to bust Kyrie out of Beastmen custody, he would have been ''more'' than capable of getting to Kyrie himself.]]
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* XanatosGambit: Looking closely at the events that lead to Kyrie's joining the Front, which began with the Front leader ''announcing this to the world'', when [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex reveals himself as the one in charge of the World Destruction Front, having done so jus to get his followers to bring him the Destruct and to use its power for the sake of creating a new world in his image]], [[FridgeHorror iyou realize that even if Morte hadn't managed to bust Kyrie out of Beastmen custody, he would have been ''more'' than capable of getting to Kyrie himself.]]
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** It's even worse in the manga. In the game, she's ''never'' shown touching an innocent, and it can be inferred that all of the rumors about her are just Beastmen propaganda. In the manga, she blows up an entire city without batting an eye. This is enough to drive ''Kyrie'' away.
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*AndIMustScream: possibly the people turned into sand
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* XanatosGambit: Looking closely at the events that lead to Kyrie's joining the Front, which began with the Front leader ''announcing this to the world'', when [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex reveals himself as the one in charge of the World Destruction Front, having done so jus to get his followers to bring him the Destruct and to use its power for the sake of creating a new world in his image]], [[FridgeHorror iyou realize that even if Morte hadn't managed to bust Kyrie out of Beastmen custody, he would have been ''more'' than capable of getting to Kyrie himself.]]
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''SandsOfDestruction'' (known as ''World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi'' in Japan) is a Nintendo DS game released in 2008 with a North American release in January 12th, 2010. It was also [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted into an anime]] which aired in 2008 and is similarly scheduled for had a North American release in early 2010.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the]] [[VisualNovel/RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the]] [[VisualNovel/RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''{{Xenogears}}''. Shares numerous staff members and some story and gameplay elements in common.
* SpritePolygonMix: Intentionally invoked to make the game resemble ''{{Xenogears}}'', as it was developed by the same people.
* SpritePolygonMix: Intentionally invoked to make the game resemble ''{{Xenogears}}'', as it was developed by the same people.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''{{Xenogears}}''.''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''. Shares numerous staff members and some story and gameplay elements in common.
* SpritePolygonMix: Intentionally invoked to make the game resemble''{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', as it was developed by the same people.
* SpritePolygonMix: Intentionally invoked to make the game resemble
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the]] [[VideoGame/RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the]] [[VideoGame/RadicalDreamers [[VisualNovel/RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[ChronoTrigger the]] [[RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[ChronoTrigger [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the]] [[RadicalDreamers [[VideoGame/RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[ChronoCross [[VideoGame/ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
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If it has specific conditions and only one preferable outcome its not a xantos gambit. This guy is affably evil.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Up to and including [[spoiler: Kyrie. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]]]
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* AxCrazy: The first lines out of Morte's mouth are about killing people and blowing up the world...so naturally, [[IdiotHero the protagonist]] finds this really hot. [[spoiler: Of course, Kyrie actually has a reason for agreeing with her, even if he doesn't know it.]]
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* AxCrazy: The first lines out of Morte's mouth are about killing people and blowing up the world...so naturally, [[IdiotHero the protagonist]] [[HotAmazon finds this really hot.hot]]. [[spoiler: Of course, Kyrie actually has a reason for agreeing with her, even if he doesn't know it.]]
*BloodKnight: Morte is the only member of the Front who seems to ''enjoy'' fighting.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex has one going. He runs the World Annihilation Front so he can gain power over the Destruct and [[AGodAmI become the creator of a new world.]]]]
** [[spoiler: This backfire spectacularly when Morte pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.]]
** [[spoiler: This backfire spectacularly when Morte pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.]]
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* FantasticRacism: [[{{Deconstruction}} Ridiculously straight]] with ferals to humans. Unfortunately, it's the a kind of {{Narm}}y, cartoon-characterish racism instead of something a little more subtle. Probably a definite sign that the game you're playing wasn't intended for adults.
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* FantasticRacism: [[{{Deconstruction}} Ridiculously straight]] with ferals to humans. Unfortunately, it's the a kind of {{Narm}}y, cartoon-characterish racism instead of something a little more subtle. Probably a definite sign that the game you're playing wasn't intended for adults.
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* MeaningfulName: Kyrie means 'Lord' in Greek, Morte means 'Death'.
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* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex has one going. He runs the World Annihilation Front so he can gain power over the Destruct and [[AGodAmI become the creator of a new world.]]]]
** [[spoiler: This backfire spectacularly when Morte pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.]]
** [[spoiler: This backfire spectacularly when Morte pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.]]
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''SandsOfDestruction'' (known as ''World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi'' in Japan) is a Nintendo DS game released in 2008 with a North American release in January 12th, 2010. It was also [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted into an anime]] which aired in 2008 and is similarly scheduled for North American release in early 2010.
The setting is a fictional world, where animals and human-animal hybrids reign supreme, and humans are considered second-class citizens.
Meet the ''World Annihilation Front'' (''World Destruction Committee'' in Japan and in Funimation's subtitled version). A human member of the Front is the main 'heroine', Morte Asherah, who has a nasty attitude, a massive sword and a goal of (what else) to destroy the world with the powers of something known as the "Destruct". Along the way, she picks up Kyrie Illunis, a mild-mannered human with the power to destroy the world, but has no desire to do so, and Taupy Toplan, a small bear creature on the scale of a teddy. (Just don't call him "bear.") Kyrie and Taupy, unlike Morte, have no desire to destroy the world, but they are guilty by association and hunted as part of the collective "World Annihilation Front."
The World Salvation Committee consists of one highly intellectual (but not necessarily intelligent) wolfman with an intense sense of [[HonorBeforeReason honor]] and one dragon girl who is [[{{Tsundere}} prone to spouting wings, horns, and a nasty-looking tail when she becomes enraged]]. Finally there is the guy in an awesome green longcoat.
This series has a [[Characters/SandsofDestruction Character Sheet]] right here. Read at your own risk for spoilers for those who haven't watch the anime, read the manga or played the game.
(Now has its own [[AbridgedSeries Abridged Series]]! Brought to you by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldParodyCommittee The World Parody Committee]].)
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!!This game provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Morte is the only member of the Front who seems to ''enjoy'' fighting.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex, despite being a CompleteMonster.]]
* AlternateTimeline: As Kyrie began researching the Destruct Code's history, he noted how it extends to the beginning of creation, when the gods were given a choice: either to allow humans to rule over beasts, or vice versa. The gods for that world gave that power to beasts, which gives [[HumansAreBastards an interesting perspective flip]] [[FridgeHorror when you think about it]].
* AmbitionIsEvil: Subverted. Despite Pictis Rex's motive to hold the peace talks, he was actually very reasonable, and he would have helped end the conflicts between Beastmen and humans peacefully. Unfortunately, someone else had other ideas...
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: A weird case where the hardcore ''was too much'' for the demographic. If they kept the hardcore, it would have kept the general theme of the game. Why they didn't keep the hardcore for the ''American'' release is anyone's guess. See ExecutiveMeddling for details.
* AnyoneCanDie: Up to and including [[spoiler: Kyrie. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]]]
* ArcWords: ''Acta est fabula''
* ArtShift: The anime can get weird in some episodes, such as when Morte decides to throw Toppy at the warden in the third episode, it's shown in extremely minimalistic line art. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome And it is awesome]].
* AxCrazy: The first lines out of Morte's mouth are about killing people and blowing up the world...so naturally, [[IdiotHero the protagonist]] finds this really hot. [[spoiler: Of course, Kyrie actually has a reason for agreeing with her, even if he doesn't know it.]]
* BadassAdorable: Taupy. He can (and will, if the price is right) kick your ass up and down the street with his [[IncrediblyLamePun bear hands]], but just try resisting the urge to hug him.
* BadassLongcoat: Agan WISHES he was one of these. Well, at least he's got a NiceHat.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Sure, some of the beastlords (Keyword some. Felis and Ursa Rex are all nice. Elephas Rex is also shown not to be that crazy, Pistris Rex just wants a better spot on the council) are downright evil, but the party is trying to ''destroy the world.'' [[spoiler: They even wind up fighting ''God.'' Granted, said god is trying to get Kyrie to destroy the world, while Kyrie just wants to make a new one, but still.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Kyrie has the power to turn everything (yes, ''everything'') in a large area into sand.
* BoyMeetsGirl: Kyrie and Morte, of sorts, when he first meets her in the Sky Gaol. She doesn't feel the same way he does for her at first... [[spoiler: until he dies. Then he got better.]] In the ending, [[spoiler: when they remake the world into a better place, the two share a kiss, and recite the words that creates the new world. The last scene shows the two of them side-by-side looking out at the blue ocean, with the delightful heart emotes over both their heads.]]
* CatchPhrase: These are an actual gameplay feature. As you progress through the game, each playable character gains "Quips", which they can equip up to four of at a time. When a Quip is triggered (by things like taking damage, killing an enemy, or even just starting a battle), they provide a bonus of some sort to your characters.
* CloudCuckooLander: Rhi'a, at times.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: The World Annihilation Front members are actually pretty affable folks for the most part, and apart from a few alarmists, most of the folks they encounter along the way don't have any problem with helping them even knowing who they are.
* DeathWorld: The game goes to great lengths to show just how fucked up everything is, and why the World Annihilation Front feels so justified in their goals.
* DeusExMachina [[spoiler: When exactly did Kyrie get that SuperMode? It's implied that Crimson Sun merged with him when he was resurrected but isn't said outright and it only when a player goes to customize his moves or enters battle to an awesome new battle theme.]]
** [[spoiler: He got it when you resurrected him and he accepted his identity as the Destruct. Notice that in his profile, his race changes from 'Human' to 'Destruct' to reflect this.]]
** [[spoiler: Also quite literal with The Creator, which appears to be a machine.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Porcus Rex attempts to eat a child just because he ran into him.
* DoomedHometown: A variation of it happened to Barni, Kyrie's home village. The awakening of his Destruct power turned almost everything, including people, to sand.
* ElementalEmbodiment: The four Primals.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Subverted. Taupy is one of the strongest characters.
** Which, really, just means that the trope applies to your opponents.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[ChronoTrigger the]] [[RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
** To paraphrase a forum poster from GameFAQs, if it weren't for the meddling, "The developers could have made ''Xenogears'' but instead gave us ''WildArms''."
* FacialCompositeFailure: The bounty posters of your group are naturally exaggerated caricatures, and seemingly can't even decide on what they want to caricature.
* FantasticRacism: [[{{Deconstruction}} Ridiculously straight]] with ferals to humans. Unfortunately, it's the a kind of {{Narm}}y, cartoon-characterish racism instead of something a little more subtle. Probably a definite sign that the game you're playing wasn't intended for adults.
** Exceptions going to Rana Rex right? Working children to death then using them as fertilizer is not cool.
** And even though it's Morte's primary motivation for wanting to destroy the world, for every city where humans are openly bullied, it seems like there's another where they live more or less as equals. Morte's hometown even has a human chief with a laid-back feral population.
*** In the anime, at least. In the game, Morte just seems to want to destroy the world for the sake of it. The crappiness of it is just her best argument.
* FastballSpecial: Taupy's special finishing move was summoning Muffy, being picked up, spin for momentum and ''thrown'' at the enemies.
* FlatCharacter: There's a reason she's called Morte. [[spoiler: Lampshaded near the end. All the other characters are forced to undergo a flashback which tells their reason to go against the world, and she complains that nothing is happening to her.]]
* FiringOneHanded: Rhi'a in the opening movie.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Kyrie
** TheLancer: Morte/Taupy
** TheSmartGuy: Agan (or at least the rational guy)
** TheBigGuy: Taupy, despite being an adorable teddy bear-like feral.
** TheChick: Rhi'a
** TheSixthRanger: Naja
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Serpens Rex. She pops up in the middle of the [[strike: desert]] sandsea, traps you in a literal MirrorUniverse, scatters the party, [[spoiler: then hypnotizes Morte into fighting you.]]
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex tries to pull this off.]]
* GoingThroughTheMotions: Every time a character speaks, he/she display one gesture specific to him/herself, such as Agan fixing his hat or Rhi'a rocking back and forth on her heels. Every. Single. Time.
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: When Morte kills Rajiv, the camera follows the rest of the party while they leave the room. It's implied that she took her time.]]
** Semi-averted when [[spoiler: Naja kills Kyrie. We see the silhouette, but Naja's claw is quite clearly going through Kyrie's chest.]]
* GratuitousLatin: It's everywhere in this game. The ArcWords are Latin for "the play is over." Nearly all of the Beastlords' titles combine the latin words for their species followed by Rex (King). Even the last boss spouts several lines in latin before finally dying.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Naja from the Salvation Committee. Despite being a reasonable person, some of his colleagues doesn't exactly refrain from showing their racism in regards to his parentage.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Naja. ''After'' he kills TheHero.]]
* HonorableElephant: Hospital administrator Elephas Rex refuses to turn away patients. [[spoiler:It's because he's TheAtoner.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender inverted]] by Taupy and Muffy.
** Taupy's a gruff, one-eyed, no-nonsense bounty hunter who looks like [[BadassAdorable an adorable teddy bear less than half as tall as most of the rest of the cast.]] Muffy also looks like an adorable teddy bear, albeit one that is at least twenty feet tall.
* ImAHumanitarian: In the original version, before the [[ExecutiveMeddling executives told the writers to tone it down]], the beastmen didn't just rule over humans, they ''ate'' them.
* KnifeNut: Kyrie
* LarynxDissonance: Taupy, as mentioned above, is an adorable teddy bear-like feral...with a gruff, badass voice.
* LethalChef: Kyrie's special skills involve the use of food to attack. But also to heal.
* LuckBasedMission: What battles inevitably turn into, thanks to the combat system's method of giving you or your enemies another attack based on getting a critical hit. You can steamroll a boss in one playthrough, or just never get a turn in another.
** This isn't the case if you activate the GameBreaker [[MagikarpPower powers]] from flurry attacks though.
* MagikarpPower: Flurry attacks are rather weak (though accurate) at the beginning of the game when compared to blow attacks (more damage and less accurate, but this can easily be compensated for) however, once you reach lvl 20 (which isn't very further into the game, even without grinding, which is also fairly easy to do) you get the option of further improving all your attacks, giving them certain bonuses when doing so. Blow attacks can get some decent powerups from this, but flurry attacks get the option to chain which is more or less a GameBreaker.
* MeaningfulName: Kyrie means 'Lord' in Greek, Morte means 'Death'.
* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: [[spoiler: Muffy knew all along.]]
* MirrorUniverse: Literally, in the case of Serpens Rex's crazy mirror dimension.
* MoodWhiplash: On paper, the story looks like pretty serious stuff, and the original draft by writer Masato Kato was apparently even darker and more violent. As it turns out, [[ExecutiveMeddling the higher-ups]] insisted on marketing the game to a [[LighterAndSofter younger demographic]], and so they settled on the worst solution possible: keep the same basic story points, but pack each and every scene with lame, anime-cliche humor and have the game's position on the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness go haywire.
* MoreDakka: Rhi'a if you chain her Flurry attacks, and Agan's Special Attack.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Morte Asherah, in account that "Morte" is the Portuguese word for "Death".
* NinjaZombiePirateRobot: Taupy is a teddybear-sized bear with a gruff voice, a bandanna and an eyepatch who fights enemies with martial arts.
* OneWingedAngel: All the beastlords pull this (the ones you fight, anyway).
** [[spoiler: [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere The Creator]] does this after you defeat her human form.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction
* PettingZooPeople: Subverted in that most ferals look human. Played straight with the beastlords, as well as Crimson Sun (who is technically the [[ElementalEmbodiment embodiment]] of Light/Fire, but come on, he's a giant lion-man.)
** However, it's implied that they do have a transformation form. (not ''just'' the beastlords, mind you)
* RandomEncounters
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As far as Beastlords go, Ursa Rex was evidently a fair and just ruler, who had [[FantasticRacism no problem with humans.]]
* [[spoiler:RedHeadedHero]]: [[spoiler:This is Kyrie's battle form after he is resurrected.]]
* TheSavageSouth: Summer Continent appears to be an {{expy}} of Africa, complete with deserts and savannah. The biggest sign of civilization is the complex operated by Elephas Rex, and travellers who fail to take precautions usually collapse from heat exhaustion before they reach it.
* SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness: The beastlords. We have [[HeroAntagonist Elephas Rex]] on one end, who will treat any and all patients who come to him, including [[spoiler: Morte]], down through Felis Rex, who is a nice guy, but still blackmails you into running errands for him, to Noctua Rex, [[spoiler: who traps you in your memories and tries to kill you, but is trying to save the world]], to the {{Jerkass}} Aqulia Rex down to Porcus Rex and Rana Rex, who eat random humans and use humans for fertilizer, respectively, and finally we have [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex, who wants to use all of humanity as raw material for a new world where he is God.]]
* ScrewDestiny: Kyrie does not want to destroy the world. [[spoiler: Just remake it into a better one.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''{{Xenogears}}''. Shares numerous staff members and some story and gameplay elements in common.
* SpritePolygonMix: Intentionally invoked to make the game resemble ''{{Xenogears}}'', as it was developed by the same people.
* StandardStatusEffects: Namely, Poison and Paralyze (Stun).
* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Any healing points found inside the dungeon, after the party has traveled deep enough. Suspicious enough, due to the game allowing you to save anywhere.
* TheDulcineaEffect: See all that stuff in AngstWhatAngst? Don't let it happen to you, or you might wipe all your friends off the map.
* TheGunslinger: Rhi'a.
* TookALevelInBadass: Kyrie, [[spoiler:after being [[IGotBetter resurrected]], in combat anyways. He's still a whiny bitch otherwise.]]
** [[CharacterDevelopment A more confident somewhat less whiny bitch]], [[spoiler: whose (rather hilarious) reaction to an order to destroy the world is a flat "No" which leaves The Creator speechless.]]
* TransformationSequence: All the beastlords before battle, as well as Rajiv's, Naja's, and Rhi'a's Special Attacks. [[spoiler: And Kyrie at the start of each fight, after his awakening as the Destruct.]]
* VerbalTic: Taupy puts "bear-o" at the end of his sentences in the anime. When asked by Kyrie and Morte to stop, he says that he can't do it because it's an important part of his tribe's culture.
** In the FUNimation English dub of the anime "Toppy" (as they spelled it in the credits) ends nearly all of his sentences with "kuma" which is the Japanese for "bear." At one point in the anime, you meet a friend of his (also a dwarf-bear) who ends all of his sentences with simply "bear."
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Morte, a member of the World Annihilation Front, intends to "destroy this meaningless world."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As mentioned above, the original draft was much more darker, with possible depictions of ferals eating humans. Alas, {{executive meddling}} made the game's finalised story as it is. Well, there's hints like the time where Porco Rex threatens to eat that human child, but it's not quite the same. [[spoiler: There is also Lacertus Rex's plan to use humans as base material for his ascension to godhood.]]
* WhipItGood: Agan
* {{Wide Eyed Extremist}}: Kyrie would fit it the most since.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex has one going. He runs the World Annihilation Front so he can gain power over the Destruct and [[AGodAmI become the creator of a new world.]]]]
** [[spoiler: This backfire spectacularly when Morte pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.]]
The setting is a fictional world, where animals and human-animal hybrids reign supreme, and humans are considered second-class citizens.
Meet the ''World Annihilation Front'' (''World Destruction Committee'' in Japan and in Funimation's subtitled version). A human member of the Front is the main 'heroine', Morte Asherah, who has a nasty attitude, a massive sword and a goal of (what else) to destroy the world with the powers of something known as the "Destruct". Along the way, she picks up Kyrie Illunis, a mild-mannered human with the power to destroy the world, but has no desire to do so, and Taupy Toplan, a small bear creature on the scale of a teddy. (Just don't call him "bear.") Kyrie and Taupy, unlike Morte, have no desire to destroy the world, but they are guilty by association and hunted as part of the collective "World Annihilation Front."
The World Salvation Committee consists of one highly intellectual (but not necessarily intelligent) wolfman with an intense sense of [[HonorBeforeReason honor]] and one dragon girl who is [[{{Tsundere}} prone to spouting wings, horns, and a nasty-looking tail when she becomes enraged]]. Finally there is the guy in an awesome green longcoat.
This series has a [[Characters/SandsofDestruction Character Sheet]] right here. Read at your own risk for spoilers for those who haven't watch the anime, read the manga or played the game.
(Now has its own [[AbridgedSeries Abridged Series]]! Brought to you by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldParodyCommittee The World Parody Committee]].)
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!!This game provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Morte is the only member of the Front who seems to ''enjoy'' fighting.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex, despite being a CompleteMonster.]]
* AlternateTimeline: As Kyrie began researching the Destruct Code's history, he noted how it extends to the beginning of creation, when the gods were given a choice: either to allow humans to rule over beasts, or vice versa. The gods for that world gave that power to beasts, which gives [[HumansAreBastards an interesting perspective flip]] [[FridgeHorror when you think about it]].
* AmbitionIsEvil: Subverted. Despite Pictis Rex's motive to hold the peace talks, he was actually very reasonable, and he would have helped end the conflicts between Beastmen and humans peacefully. Unfortunately, someone else had other ideas...
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: A weird case where the hardcore ''was too much'' for the demographic. If they kept the hardcore, it would have kept the general theme of the game. Why they didn't keep the hardcore for the ''American'' release is anyone's guess. See ExecutiveMeddling for details.
* AnyoneCanDie: Up to and including [[spoiler: Kyrie. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]]]
* ArcWords: ''Acta est fabula''
* ArtShift: The anime can get weird in some episodes, such as when Morte decides to throw Toppy at the warden in the third episode, it's shown in extremely minimalistic line art. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome And it is awesome]].
* AxCrazy: The first lines out of Morte's mouth are about killing people and blowing up the world...so naturally, [[IdiotHero the protagonist]] finds this really hot. [[spoiler: Of course, Kyrie actually has a reason for agreeing with her, even if he doesn't know it.]]
* BadassAdorable: Taupy. He can (and will, if the price is right) kick your ass up and down the street with his [[IncrediblyLamePun bear hands]], but just try resisting the urge to hug him.
* BadassLongcoat: Agan WISHES he was one of these. Well, at least he's got a NiceHat.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Sure, some of the beastlords (Keyword some. Felis and Ursa Rex are all nice. Elephas Rex is also shown not to be that crazy, Pistris Rex just wants a better spot on the council) are downright evil, but the party is trying to ''destroy the world.'' [[spoiler: They even wind up fighting ''God.'' Granted, said god is trying to get Kyrie to destroy the world, while Kyrie just wants to make a new one, but still.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Kyrie has the power to turn everything (yes, ''everything'') in a large area into sand.
* BoyMeetsGirl: Kyrie and Morte, of sorts, when he first meets her in the Sky Gaol. She doesn't feel the same way he does for her at first... [[spoiler: until he dies. Then he got better.]] In the ending, [[spoiler: when they remake the world into a better place, the two share a kiss, and recite the words that creates the new world. The last scene shows the two of them side-by-side looking out at the blue ocean, with the delightful heart emotes over both their heads.]]
* CatchPhrase: These are an actual gameplay feature. As you progress through the game, each playable character gains "Quips", which they can equip up to four of at a time. When a Quip is triggered (by things like taking damage, killing an enemy, or even just starting a battle), they provide a bonus of some sort to your characters.
* CloudCuckooLander: Rhi'a, at times.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: The World Annihilation Front members are actually pretty affable folks for the most part, and apart from a few alarmists, most of the folks they encounter along the way don't have any problem with helping them even knowing who they are.
* DeathWorld: The game goes to great lengths to show just how fucked up everything is, and why the World Annihilation Front feels so justified in their goals.
* DeusExMachina [[spoiler: When exactly did Kyrie get that SuperMode? It's implied that Crimson Sun merged with him when he was resurrected but isn't said outright and it only when a player goes to customize his moves or enters battle to an awesome new battle theme.]]
** [[spoiler: He got it when you resurrected him and he accepted his identity as the Destruct. Notice that in his profile, his race changes from 'Human' to 'Destruct' to reflect this.]]
** [[spoiler: Also quite literal with The Creator, which appears to be a machine.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Porcus Rex attempts to eat a child just because he ran into him.
* DoomedHometown: A variation of it happened to Barni, Kyrie's home village. The awakening of his Destruct power turned almost everything, including people, to sand.
* ElementalEmbodiment: The four Primals.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Subverted. Taupy is one of the strongest characters.
** Which, really, just means that the trope applies to your opponents.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original story draft by writer MasatoKato (also responsible for [[ChronoTrigger the]] [[RadicalDreamers Chrono]] [[ChronoCross series]], {{Xenogears}} and BatenKaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of MoodWhiplash.
** To paraphrase a forum poster from GameFAQs, if it weren't for the meddling, "The developers could have made ''Xenogears'' but instead gave us ''WildArms''."
* FacialCompositeFailure: The bounty posters of your group are naturally exaggerated caricatures, and seemingly can't even decide on what they want to caricature.
* FantasticRacism: [[{{Deconstruction}} Ridiculously straight]] with ferals to humans. Unfortunately, it's the a kind of {{Narm}}y, cartoon-characterish racism instead of something a little more subtle. Probably a definite sign that the game you're playing wasn't intended for adults.
** Exceptions going to Rana Rex right? Working children to death then using them as fertilizer is not cool.
** And even though it's Morte's primary motivation for wanting to destroy the world, for every city where humans are openly bullied, it seems like there's another where they live more or less as equals. Morte's hometown even has a human chief with a laid-back feral population.
*** In the anime, at least. In the game, Morte just seems to want to destroy the world for the sake of it. The crappiness of it is just her best argument.
* FastballSpecial: Taupy's special finishing move was summoning Muffy, being picked up, spin for momentum and ''thrown'' at the enemies.
* FlatCharacter: There's a reason she's called Morte. [[spoiler: Lampshaded near the end. All the other characters are forced to undergo a flashback which tells their reason to go against the world, and she complains that nothing is happening to her.]]
* FiringOneHanded: Rhi'a in the opening movie.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Kyrie
** TheLancer: Morte/Taupy
** TheSmartGuy: Agan (or at least the rational guy)
** TheBigGuy: Taupy, despite being an adorable teddy bear-like feral.
** TheChick: Rhi'a
** TheSixthRanger: Naja
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Serpens Rex. She pops up in the middle of the [[strike: desert]] sandsea, traps you in a literal MirrorUniverse, scatters the party, [[spoiler: then hypnotizes Morte into fighting you.]]
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex tries to pull this off.]]
* GoingThroughTheMotions: Every time a character speaks, he/she display one gesture specific to him/herself, such as Agan fixing his hat or Rhi'a rocking back and forth on her heels. Every. Single. Time.
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: When Morte kills Rajiv, the camera follows the rest of the party while they leave the room. It's implied that she took her time.]]
** Semi-averted when [[spoiler: Naja kills Kyrie. We see the silhouette, but Naja's claw is quite clearly going through Kyrie's chest.]]
* GratuitousLatin: It's everywhere in this game. The ArcWords are Latin for "the play is over." Nearly all of the Beastlords' titles combine the latin words for their species followed by Rex (King). Even the last boss spouts several lines in latin before finally dying.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Naja from the Salvation Committee. Despite being a reasonable person, some of his colleagues doesn't exactly refrain from showing their racism in regards to his parentage.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Naja. ''After'' he kills TheHero.]]
* HonorableElephant: Hospital administrator Elephas Rex refuses to turn away patients. [[spoiler:It's because he's TheAtoner.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender inverted]] by Taupy and Muffy.
** Taupy's a gruff, one-eyed, no-nonsense bounty hunter who looks like [[BadassAdorable an adorable teddy bear less than half as tall as most of the rest of the cast.]] Muffy also looks like an adorable teddy bear, albeit one that is at least twenty feet tall.
* ImAHumanitarian: In the original version, before the [[ExecutiveMeddling executives told the writers to tone it down]], the beastmen didn't just rule over humans, they ''ate'' them.
* KnifeNut: Kyrie
* LarynxDissonance: Taupy, as mentioned above, is an adorable teddy bear-like feral...with a gruff, badass voice.
* LethalChef: Kyrie's special skills involve the use of food to attack. But also to heal.
* LuckBasedMission: What battles inevitably turn into, thanks to the combat system's method of giving you or your enemies another attack based on getting a critical hit. You can steamroll a boss in one playthrough, or just never get a turn in another.
** This isn't the case if you activate the GameBreaker [[MagikarpPower powers]] from flurry attacks though.
* MagikarpPower: Flurry attacks are rather weak (though accurate) at the beginning of the game when compared to blow attacks (more damage and less accurate, but this can easily be compensated for) however, once you reach lvl 20 (which isn't very further into the game, even without grinding, which is also fairly easy to do) you get the option of further improving all your attacks, giving them certain bonuses when doing so. Blow attacks can get some decent powerups from this, but flurry attacks get the option to chain which is more or less a GameBreaker.
* MeaningfulName: Kyrie means 'Lord' in Greek, Morte means 'Death'.
* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: [[spoiler: Muffy knew all along.]]
* MirrorUniverse: Literally, in the case of Serpens Rex's crazy mirror dimension.
* MoodWhiplash: On paper, the story looks like pretty serious stuff, and the original draft by writer Masato Kato was apparently even darker and more violent. As it turns out, [[ExecutiveMeddling the higher-ups]] insisted on marketing the game to a [[LighterAndSofter younger demographic]], and so they settled on the worst solution possible: keep the same basic story points, but pack each and every scene with lame, anime-cliche humor and have the game's position on the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness go haywire.
* MoreDakka: Rhi'a if you chain her Flurry attacks, and Agan's Special Attack.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Morte Asherah, in account that "Morte" is the Portuguese word for "Death".
* NinjaZombiePirateRobot: Taupy is a teddybear-sized bear with a gruff voice, a bandanna and an eyepatch who fights enemies with martial arts.
* OneWingedAngel: All the beastlords pull this (the ones you fight, anyway).
** [[spoiler: [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere The Creator]] does this after you defeat her human form.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction
* PettingZooPeople: Subverted in that most ferals look human. Played straight with the beastlords, as well as Crimson Sun (who is technically the [[ElementalEmbodiment embodiment]] of Light/Fire, but come on, he's a giant lion-man.)
** However, it's implied that they do have a transformation form. (not ''just'' the beastlords, mind you)
* RandomEncounters
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As far as Beastlords go, Ursa Rex was evidently a fair and just ruler, who had [[FantasticRacism no problem with humans.]]
* [[spoiler:RedHeadedHero]]: [[spoiler:This is Kyrie's battle form after he is resurrected.]]
* TheSavageSouth: Summer Continent appears to be an {{expy}} of Africa, complete with deserts and savannah. The biggest sign of civilization is the complex operated by Elephas Rex, and travellers who fail to take precautions usually collapse from heat exhaustion before they reach it.
* SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness: The beastlords. We have [[HeroAntagonist Elephas Rex]] on one end, who will treat any and all patients who come to him, including [[spoiler: Morte]], down through Felis Rex, who is a nice guy, but still blackmails you into running errands for him, to Noctua Rex, [[spoiler: who traps you in your memories and tries to kill you, but is trying to save the world]], to the {{Jerkass}} Aqulia Rex down to Porcus Rex and Rana Rex, who eat random humans and use humans for fertilizer, respectively, and finally we have [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex, who wants to use all of humanity as raw material for a new world where he is God.]]
* ScrewDestiny: Kyrie does not want to destroy the world. [[spoiler: Just remake it into a better one.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''{{Xenogears}}''. Shares numerous staff members and some story and gameplay elements in common.
* SpritePolygonMix: Intentionally invoked to make the game resemble ''{{Xenogears}}'', as it was developed by the same people.
* StandardStatusEffects: Namely, Poison and Paralyze (Stun).
* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Any healing points found inside the dungeon, after the party has traveled deep enough. Suspicious enough, due to the game allowing you to save anywhere.
* TheDulcineaEffect: See all that stuff in AngstWhatAngst? Don't let it happen to you, or you might wipe all your friends off the map.
* TheGunslinger: Rhi'a.
* TookALevelInBadass: Kyrie, [[spoiler:after being [[IGotBetter resurrected]], in combat anyways. He's still a whiny bitch otherwise.]]
** [[CharacterDevelopment A more confident somewhat less whiny bitch]], [[spoiler: whose (rather hilarious) reaction to an order to destroy the world is a flat "No" which leaves The Creator speechless.]]
* TransformationSequence: All the beastlords before battle, as well as Rajiv's, Naja's, and Rhi'a's Special Attacks. [[spoiler: And Kyrie at the start of each fight, after his awakening as the Destruct.]]
* VerbalTic: Taupy puts "bear-o" at the end of his sentences in the anime. When asked by Kyrie and Morte to stop, he says that he can't do it because it's an important part of his tribe's culture.
** In the FUNimation English dub of the anime "Toppy" (as they spelled it in the credits) ends nearly all of his sentences with "kuma" which is the Japanese for "bear." At one point in the anime, you meet a friend of his (also a dwarf-bear) who ends all of his sentences with simply "bear."
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Morte, a member of the World Annihilation Front, intends to "destroy this meaningless world."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As mentioned above, the original draft was much more darker, with possible depictions of ferals eating humans. Alas, {{executive meddling}} made the game's finalised story as it is. Well, there's hints like the time where Porco Rex threatens to eat that human child, but it's not quite the same. [[spoiler: There is also Lacertus Rex's plan to use humans as base material for his ascension to godhood.]]
* WhipItGood: Agan
* {{Wide Eyed Extremist}}: Kyrie would fit it the most since.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Lacertus Rex has one going. He runs the World Annihilation Front so he can gain power over the Destruct and [[AGodAmI become the creator of a new world.]]]]
** [[spoiler: This backfire spectacularly when Morte pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.]]
