Madou Monogatari is known for being subversive with your typical RPG tropes, which rolls into Mood Whiplash when the same goofiness is applied to the edgier PC-98 version.
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- Using Braindumbed on any enemy that speaks causes their words to sound incredibly sloshed in the text boxes. For example, Areiado Special turns into "Harehihado Fupehial."
- The instruction manual of the MSX version mentions in the control section that since you can play the game with one hand, you can eat a sandwich with the other.
- The Ruipanko spell in the Mega Drive version of Madou Monogatari I has a smorgasbord of random results, with plenty of hilarious effects that may or may not help you. Aside from randomly summoning Carbuncle, you may also get (but not limited to)...
- Santa Claus, for a free item.
- An elephant that falls on your enemy.
- A adult elephant that stomps your enemy flat.
- Schezo. Yes, a simulacrum of the Dark Mage himself, and he scares the enemy away. Arle doesn't even know him at this time!
- A black cat that passes by, and causes an avalanche of Puyo on your enemy and Arle.
- Jugem in the Mega Drive version of Madou Monogatari I is a One-Hit KO spell here, and it causes an excessive amount of damage both in-battle and out. When Arle successfully casts it, the battle cuts to an outside view of the tower, with the Jugem spell blasting through one of the windows. Arle's teacher is understandably concerned. Alternatively, if you cast that spell to scare the hiccups out of a Miss Eve, it's instead a gigantic Pillar of Light from a distance.
- In the PC-98 version of Episode 2, there's a Dark Dragon that serves as the Beef Gate of the first dungeon. Looks big and intimidating, but if you cast Fire on it, Dark Dragon is burned into a cartoonish charred lizard of what it once was, complete with slow-blinking bugged out eyes.
- When Arle meets Milu, she has the bright idea of eating him and promptly takes out some salt to get started. After striking a deal to find the Rubelcrack gemstone for the powerful Uranus Staff, she eventually gets annoyed with Milu's nonsense and punts him across the hallway before moving on.
- Schezo's decapitation? Infamous Nightmare Fuel. Arle's reaction?Arle: AAH! Ew ew...
- Even funnier is when Test Body suddenly busts its way in after Schezo. She's exasperated she has to fight again, likely mirroring the player's sentiment.Arle: Oh, come on!
- Between Schezo's appearances in the original release and the Game Gear version, he is "promoted" into Recurring Boss. And by that, we mean he continues to chase Arle and gets his ass handed each time, getting more exhausted with each encounter. Arle is understandably exasperated at his persistence. The penultimate encounter doesn't even immediately initiate a boss fight because he's too damn tired to even engage in combat!
- When Arle finds the Ruins of Lyla, she either traverses a corridor or descends into it with a rope. The Game Gear version follows the latter, except as Arle descends down, the rope snaps, causing poor Arle to fall flat on her bum.
- Somewhere in the Ruins of Lyla is a box that looks like any ordinary item box, but when you open it it contains another box. Which contains another box. Which contains another box. Which contains another box. Which contains another box. Which contains another box. And it has boxes upon boxes you have to mash through, with increasingly longer flavor text until you find something shiny at the very end of it. What do you get for your trouble? 1 gold.
- In ARS, the S Story contains a hallway with a slippery flooring, which will inevitably make Schezo slip and slide and bowling himself into a set of pillars shaped like bowling pins. And in order to proceed, he has to find a "3-holed Magic Orb" to clear them away. Once he does, "Strike!" echoes into the halls, and it's cause for celebration, despite not quite knowing what it means. In short, the blockade is a bowling alley.
- In the novel New Madou Monogatari: Schezo and the Flower of Evil, Schezo finds himself with his sword swallowed by Carbuncle, not unlike the DiscStation short "Schezo's Long Day". This doesn't stop him from wielding Carbuncle and casting magic like he normally does, and succeeds.
- The credits sequence
for Madou Monogatari: Nonsensical Final Exam has Arle is cooking curry at home when she discovers she's completely out of Rakkyonote , going off on another one of her misadventures with Carbuncle just to find some. None of the usual merchants have any in stock, and a frustrated Arle is racing literally around the world just to get her shopping done, until she finally finds one store with them in stock. Just as she tries to enter, Carbuncle swallows the store whole. - Madou Monogatari Saturn has Green Puyo as one of the first Random Encounters. One of its "attacks" involves summoning three more Green Puyo that drop on top of it in a stack. It promptly dies, because we all know what happens when four Puyo of similar color touch each other.
