History VideoGame / SlaveZeroX

** After defeating Uriel, Shou contacts Ayesha and regretfully informs her that her beloved drone sacrificed itself to get him crucial information. Ayesha, [[DissonantSerenity eerily chipper]], replies that ''everyone'' who gets close to Shou inevitably dies. This gives Shou [[FiveSecondForeshadowing a few seconds of warning]] that [[spoiler:the Regent has located and captured Ayesha and hijacked his comms, and things are about to get a lot worse for him and X]].

** After defeating Uriel, Shou contacts Ayesha and regretfully informs her that her beloved drone sacrificed itself to get him information. Ayesha, [[DissonantSerenity eerily chipper]], replies that ''everyone'' who gets close to Shou inevitably dies. This gives Shou [[FiveSecondForeshadowing a few seconds of warning]] that [[spoiler:the Regent has located and captured Ayesha and hijacked his comms, and things are about to get a lot worse for him and X]].

* OutOfCharacterAlert: During Shou's final approach to the Regent, the latter imitates Kurikara's voice and pretends that the Guardians are being cut down by the [=SovKhan=]'s forces, lamenting that they trusted Shou and that he let them all down. Shou immediately sees through the ruse, pointing out that Kurikara has ''never'' trusted or had any amount of faith in him and would never say such a thing. ([[{{Irony}} As it happens]], Kurikara ''has'' developed enough faith in Shou to at least capitalize on his actions and send the Guardians into battle behind him, but Shou has no way of knowing that at the time.)

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: {{Inverted|Trope}}. During Shou's final approach to the Regent, the latter imitates Kurikara's voice and pretends that the Guardians are being cut down by the [=SovKhan=]'s forces, lamenting that they trusted Shou and that he let them all down. Shou immediately sees through the ruse, pointing out that Kurikara has ''never'' trusted or had any amount of faith in him and would never say such a thing. ([[{{Irony}} As it happens]], Kurikara ''has'' developed enough faith in Shou to at least capitalize on his actions and send the Guardians into battle behind him, but Shou has no way of knowing that at the time.)

** Flashbacks show that in the past, Shou was the best fighter in the Guardians, and he ''knew'' it. [[spoiler:This attitude is part of the reason Kurikara passed him over in favor of Isamu for the assassination mission four years ago, with disastrous results.]] There's still a bit of this attitude about him in the present day, though it's not as prominent.

* ArtEvolution: If you compare this to the original game, the former's Slave designs have realistic proportions and look downright monstrous (which is what Ken Capelli originally envisioned when designing them).

* TheGoomba: The human security forces armed with a mace, they are the weakest of [=SovKhan's=] ranks and only go down in just a single hit (contrasting with their gun wielding counterparts, where they can survive more hits).

* StraightGay: You likely wouldn't know that Shou was gay if not for the flashbacks of his relationship with Isamu.

* StraightGay: You likely wouldn't know that Shou and Isamu were gay if not for them explicitly being in a relationship.

* TheGoomba: In addition to all the soldiers wearing Slaves, it also feature ordinary human security guards armed with maces (despite the type of enemy they are facing). They are the weakest enemy, going down in just one hit.

** Kurikara has trained the Guardians to stand against and ultimately kill the [=SovKhan=] in order to atone for his past sins. [[spoiler:He gets decidedly pissy at the end of the game when the [=SovKhan=] manages to escape with his life, because that means ''his'' atonement isn't done and ''he'' can't rest yet.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Every word out of the Regent's mouth[[MultipleHeadCase (s)]] is calculated to instill doubt, confusion, and internal conflict in Shou and X, and he does a pretty good job of it, even though the pair know that's ''exactly'' what he's doing. He's also the one who's responsible for shaping the relatively sweet-natured Uriel into a fanatical [=SovKhan=] loyalist.

* PunchClockVillain: Enyo, second of the Five Calamities, is less working for the [=SovKhan=] and more working against Shou. She outright states that she's planning to kill the [=SovKhan=], and the only reason her and Shou aren't working together on this is that Enyo wants to be the one to do the deed, and is trying to kill the competition (RE: Shou and X).

* ArtEvolution: If you compare ''X'' to the original game, the former's Slave designs have realistic proportions and look downright monstrous (which is what Ken Capelli originally envisioned when designing them).

* TheGoomba: In addition to all the soldiers wearing Slaves, ''X'' also features ordinary human security guards armed with maces. They are the weakest enemy, going down in just one hit.

* NotDrawnToScale: In the original game, the Slaves are a 2-story tall beings and the cars and tanks look like toys to them. The Slaves in ''X'' are only larger than humans (just compare the height of an average human security guard to a Slave next to him). [[spoiler: This is because the Slaves in ''X'' are from an earlier, smaller line of Slaves. The [=SovKhan=]'s forces developing the giant Slaves of ''Zero'' is a critical plot point.]]