Granblue Fantasy / Tropes R to Z

This page covers tropes in Granblue Fantasy.

Tropes A to C | Tropes D to H | Tropes I to L | Tropes M To Q | Tropes R To Z |

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• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: From the story alone, you have your Player Character, a Mysterious Waif, a dragon who's constantly mistaken for a lizard, a former knight of The Empire, a renowned airship pilot, an apprentice magician, a veteran mercenary, a mysterious woman with many secrets including the fact that she's a Primal Beast, an officer from a skywide police force, a general who'd rather avoid bloodshed, and a former soldier-turned-dictator who was sentenced to assist the crew as community service. And it's possible to recruit tons more people from all different races, careers and social standings, owing to the fact that the Captain pretty much accepts anyone who wants to tag along.
• Random Drop Booster:
  • A buff in the Journey Drop Shop allows players to increase the drop rate of items in battles.
  • A similar buff in the Crew Skills page allows the entire crew to have their battle's drop rates increased.
  • Certain summons such as Kaguya, White Rabbit, and Black Rabbit also have this as their passive effects and/or calls.
  • The "Bounty Hunter" debuff on enemies increases the chances of getting additional treasure chests depending on the number of stacks.
  • Certain weapons can increase the drop rates, experience points, or honors gained by wielding it as the main hand weapon. There are also other weapons that increase drop rates by simply being in the grid and not necessarily the main hand weapon, but are much rarer.
  • Tien can increase drop rates by simply being in the party, even if she's in the backlines or dead.
• Random Encounters: The Arcarum Expeditions have "Do or Die" scenarios - surprise attacks by a group of mobs that force the player to fight them in order to proceed. These are random in a sense that they may pop up upon visiting a node for the first time, and the enemies are not included in the initial list of enemies in a given node.
• Randomized Title Screen: The login screen randomly changes its background art every time it's refreshed.
• Randomly Generated Levels: The Arcarum expeditions (barring the 3rd, 6th, and 9th boss stages) are all randomly generated, and vary from the positioning of the nodes and their contents, such as objectives, enemies, and treasures.
• Random Number God:
  • Being a gacha game, the draws you make using either the Premium or Rupie draws are entirely based on luck. There are however, ways to guarantee a specific drop from the gacha, and it involves buying with real-life money as stated in the Bribing Your Way to Victory entry above.
  • Certain character's skills have a damage-range that causes the damage of the skill to vary depending on luck, such as Barawa's Bluff, or Pengy's Oh My Bahamut!
• Rare Candy: Some items allow you to instantly uncap any item of certain rarities: Sunlight Stones can be used to uncap nearly any summon in the game, while Damascus Ingots and Gold Bricks can be used to uncap almost any weapon. The Codices are the equivalent for uncapping characters.
• Rare Random Drop: Raid bosses have a small chance of dropping SSR weapons, summons and other valuable materials in the form of a chest flipping in the air, with a harp sound accompanying it. Red chests also have a chance of containing this kind of loot, but there's no way to know until you go to the results screen.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: The ending of "Ranger Sign: Bravo". Jade's body was destroyed in order to stop her rampage; however, Walder manages to rescue a fragment of her core. The heroes have no idea where to find a working Astral laboratory that could recontruct Jade's body, let alone how to operate such a place even if they could find one, but Walder and the heroes remain optimistic, clinging to the hope that perhaps one day Walder and Jade can be reunited.
• Reality Bleed: According to Fraux, this could be the "worst possible outcome" should the Arcarum Primal Beasts succeed in creating a new world.
• Recurring Extra: A downplayed case in the "L.E.T.S. H.A.N.G." event that deals with the Lowain bros' Imagine Spot of presenting a minor character in their made-up fantasies. This is more like a "Recurring Name" as every chapter of the event includes an NPC named "Potato-Punk" but with varying physical features and professions to match the theme of each fantasy - from a street thug, a waiter, an Albion soldier, an Erste commander, a shopkeeper up to a mercenary. The Potato-Punk naming returns in "A Walk on the Wild Side", now with "Eggplant-Punk".
• Recurring Riff:
  • An instrumental medley of Rose Queen's BGM is also sometimes heard as Quest BGM and also heard on Europa's theme minus the vocals.
  • An electric guitar riff from Yggdrasil Omega's BGM becomes a lonely piano piece serving as the theme of the Lumacie Archipelago. It is later reused as the BGM of the menu in Hero's Return, and a Boss Battle BGM in Piña Hazard.
  • Some intrumentals or tunes of "Paradise Lost" are re-used in the other tracks introduced in the "000" event, likely making "Paradise Lost" the common Leitmotif for the whole "What Makes The Sky Blue" trilogy:
    • Near the end of "Zero", the instrumental part of "Paradise Lost"'s chorus can be heard.
    • The intro and outro of "Parade's Lust" use the same rhythm heard in the intro and chorus of "Paradise Lost".
• Recycled Title: The 13th episode of the anime is titled "Another Sky". It was later used as the title for Vira's Image Song single... and then the name of the weapon that unlocks Vira's Wind version from the game's gacha.
• Reference Overdosed: The game has almost a hundred pop culture references enough to warrant its own Shout-Out subpage. Most of them are from individual characters and dialogue, with some being exclusive to the English localization, memes included! The writers also have a habit of using the same reference across multiple instances or events.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: All over the place, whether they may be playable characters, weapons, summons, or enemies. A lot of names and terms (some of which came from Rage of Bahamut) are based on mythological concepts and entities:
  • Playable characters like Yggdrasil, Tiamat, Leviathan, Fenrir, Sandalphon (who also act as summons and bosses), Azazel...
  • Non-playable characters like Lucifer, Loki, Belial, Beelzebub, and the four Primarch Angels Gabriel, Michael, Raphael and Uriel...
  • Summons like Odin, Zeus, Thor, Baal, Athena, Tsukuyomi...
  • Raid bosses like the Four Beasts Zhuque, Xuanwu, Baihu, Qinglong...
  • Weapon names such as Fimbul^note Fimbulwinter is the three-years long winter which comes before the Ragnarok.
• The Remnant: The third arc reveals that there is still a sizable army of the old Erste Empire's faction that sticks to its plan of territory domination through force, under the new name of "The Holy Erste Empire" led by a completely new Furias. This is in contrast to the La Résistance side of the "Erste Kingdom" led by Queen Orchis to whom you are allied with.
• Required Party Member: Certain story chapters will require some of the story characters to be in your party until you complete the chapter. This is also applied during event scenarios wherein the player needs to use the event character for the event chapters until they are completed. Lastly, this is played straight in 99% of all characters' Fate Episodes (only a handful Fate episodes will require you not to use the character for story-telling purposes, such as in Jamil's Dark version where he gets captured and must be rescued by the crew.).
• Restaurant-Owning Episode: The "Bistro Feendrache" event is this, though the restaurant already exists; the Dragon Knights just temporarily take over to make the failing restaurant a success.
• Ret-Gone: Thanks to Llewig altering the timeline during Raclitus' trial, Zarazustra and Guillota are erased from existence — instead of the two of them arguing for Raclitus' innocence, it is instead Katalina and the Captain doing so, with them none the wiser to Zarazustra and Guillota having ever existed.
• Reused Character Design: Plenty of characters and summons like Albert, Goblin Mage, Medusa, Forte, Lucifer, Bahamut, Twin Elements and Poseidon are reusing their designs from Rage of Bahamut with the same sort of role they served in the world of RoB and different backstories to fit the world of Granblue Fantasy. Taken even further with Lucio and Lucilius, as they’ve essentially joined Lucifer in becoming decomposite characters for the original Lucifer from Rage of Bahamut with each of them covering some role from his original lore. Even Lucilius’ design evokes the design of the fallen Lucifer.
• Revenge of the Sequel: In the "Balmy Breeze and Foamy Deep" Side Story, the boss (and its raid quest) succeeding the first Bonito fight is labeled as "Revenge of Bonito".
• Rewatch Bonus: Some Fate Episodes of specific characters have minor changes in dialogue if you manage to view them again after unlocking another version of that same character, or any version of another supporting character. Certain story events also have this feature, and you can toggle the settings to read the story as if you have the characters or if you don't. (This only applies to characters you already own, however.)
• Ridiculously Difficult Route: The Celestial Strait, featured in "What Makes the Sky Blue II: Paradise Lost". According to Rackam and Eugen, nobody who ever dared to challenge it ever returned, and the name is rumored to either come from the idea of what lies beyond it or the fate of whoever tries to brave it. Rackam outright claims that it's impossible with the Grandcypher as it is, and sure enough, the path is filled with falling rocks, heavy turbulence, tornadoes, monsters, magnetic interference and space-time distortions. The Grandcypher only barely manages to make the trip.
• Ring of Power: There are two categories of rings that further increase the stats of individual characters, mostly from their Extended Master Perks.
  • You can equip your characters with "Over The Limit" Rings (Coronation / Lineage / Intricacy) which boost their base ATK and HP by flat amounts, as well as provide percentage increases for up to two secondary stats such as Defense, Critical Hit Rate, Dodge, Skill Damage, Charge Attack Damage, and the like. The stats are determined via RNG and you can equip another ring on the same character to replace or upgrade the previous stats.
  • The September 2018 "Rise of the Beasts" event introduced Perpetuity Rings that provide permanent percentage increases to ATK, HP, Damage Cap, as well as increasing the star limit for Extended Mastery Perks by 10. Another thing to note is that Perpetuity Ring bonuses stack with the ones provided by the three aforementioned rings, and also add a blue ring icon to the character's menu portraits.
• Rotating Arcs: This is how certain arcs are handled through events, with each event showing part of what a Cast Herd is currently up to. This is most often seen with events focusing on the Society and the Dragon Knights.
• Rule of Funny: Applies to April Fools' Day events and those that star the game's upbeat and lively characters like Lowain, and Lunalu.

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• Score Multiplier: Performing certain feats (i.e. Finishing the battle by yourself, gaining MVP status) in score-based (Honor/Rise of the Beasts) events battles multiplies your score depending on the feat and your overall performance on the raid.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Defied in "The Other Side of the Sky", the Tandem CEO thinks that he can silence Tsubasa from calling the SBI to investigate simply just by giving him money. He even quotes "No one hates money! Money is the lifeblood of the skies!"
• Sdrawkcab Name: The Weapons that the entity send to the heroes in the event "Right Behind You" speak and are named like this.
• Sealed Evil in a Can:
  • Several Primal Beasts have been sealed away a long time ago in several islands. Some events revolve around them being unsealed, whether intentionally or purely by accident.
  • The Astral prison, Pandemonium, is host to some of the most vile Primal Beasts that they created and thus were subsequently sealed away in the prison. Though it is later revealed that their creator Lucilius intentionally makes them this way so he has test subjects for his experiements after he has them rebel. Making them victims of their own creator.
  • Ninetails is this, having been sealed away by the nine Sovereigns to wait for the day their descendants would destroy it.
• Secret-Keeper: One of Zinkenstill's villagers knows everything about the Captain's family but was sworn to secrecy. The only reason she tells them about it is because they've met the True King and passed the threshold for being in the know.
• Sequel Escalation: The Anniversary / Birthday Milestones annually introduce or tease plenty of gameplay mechanics and additions, as well as quality-of-life improvements, and changes based on community feedback. Such content like the Eternals, and Seraphic Weapons were released during these anniversary events.
  • Lore-wise, "What Makes the Sky Blue: Paradise Lost", the 2018 sequel to the 3rd Birthday event turns things up to eleven by starting with Lucifer's defeat at the hands of Beelzebub, and his head severed. Gameplay-wise, the 2018 event is also evident of the changes made since the game's state on March 2017 - The free event character is an SSR, compared to the 3rd Birthday's SR. "Paradise Lost" also introduced free and gacha SSRs that have Sub-Auras (something that only the Arcarum Summons introduced in Late 2017 have), the Honor / Badge rewards now give Arcarum-related items, as well as the inclusion of Impossible-difficulty raid battles.
  • The Robomi events have been going through an increasingly elaborate series of threats for her and Nicholas to fight against, going from just beating up a Godzilla homage on an unstoppable rampage in the first one to beating up the personification of entropy controlling the island of Agastia as its own personal mech out to destroy human prosperity in the fourth event.
• Sequel Hook:
  • At the end of the "Piece of the Pie" event, Grueler informs the player and Vyrn that the ones responsible for his father's assassination is the organization known as the Foe, a group of fanatics that worship the Astrals and are dedicated to sowing the seeds of war everywhere. Along with mentioning the Society as one of the forces behind the scenes, the same group that Beatrix, Zeta, Vaseraga and Eustace are a part of, stating that the Society aims to gain control over the whole world by ensnaring primal beasts and using their powers.
  • In Lucio/Lucifer's fate episode, the mention of the otherworldly being is brought up. The being in question being the same one that taunted Jeanne D'arc (or broke her in her dark version), and also makes an appearance in the "Four Knights of a fallen land" event as a demon that was summoned by Isabella who tried to usurp the throne from King Carl. For whatever reason, the being wants Lyria and Vyrn for their own purpose. One of his kind later shows up in the higher tiers of the Extra Co-op quests to warn the protagonist and Lyria of the dangers.
  • The Society members (Vaseraga, Zeta, Beatrix, and Eustace) have a lore about their involvement in the organization and fight against an entity called "The Foe". Said entity made an appearance to be involved with the war that took Ezecrain's hometown and mostly confirmed in the event, "Right Behind You", where "The Foe" is an entity that sows discord among the sky realm to test their unity and if that unity breaks, the foe can recruit people to their cause forcefully and attack unopposed without anyone capable of defending themselves against such attack.
    • Additionally, the "Right Behind You" event ends with the warning that the battle with the foe, now identified as people that live in the moon, is not over, and Neutronon's last words is that they plan to go after the creator.
  • During "Auld Lang Syne 2017", the Joya ends up rocketing off into the cosmos. Rather than wait a year to address it, the February story event "Auld Lanxiety" focuses on Zooey and the Divine Generals dealing with this.
  • The "What Makes The Sky Blue" event which commemorates Granblue Fantasy's anniversary of running its service speaks of the game lore about the astrals and their creations and their connection with the Crimson Horizon mentioned often. Its sequel, Paradise Lost, ends with Beelzebub gaining the dark half of the abomination that was once sealed by Lucifer himself and that Belial now has Lucifer's headless body. Consequently, this means that the fight against Belial and Beelzebub isn't over.
  • A huge one with the Dawning Sky arc's end for the next arc of the main story. The Grandcypher suffers heavy damage from the falling debris of the Great Wall's destruction and ends up falling to the bottoms of the sky, the Crimson Horizon. Noa, through his bond with the Grandcypher, assures the player that their travels are not over yet.
  • The Love Live Sunshine! collab revealed that their predecessors had previously visited the Sky World and secondly has a poll which allows players to vote who among the 3 SSR characters would receive a 5★ in the future. This mechanic alone implies that there will be more Love Live! collaborations to come, and that the Aqours will return in the skydom.
  • While Geo was defeated by the combined efforts of the party and the primals at the end of "Primal Resonance", he managed to bail out to space as soon as he sensed Zooey's presence coming closer. But just before that, he shouts "Cosmos" in a panicked state, to which Lyria notices. When Zooey arrives, Lyria takes the time to explain how they find Geo similar to Zooey, and brings up "Cosmos" hoping Zooey also relates to it. Zooey claims she doesn't while in fact her Inner Monologue explicitly states that she is aware of "Cosmos" but can't explain to them just yet.
  • "Dancing Avengers: Flames of the Heart" doesn't have yet a concrete conclusion to the Stan and Aliza Story Arc. Instead, Stan still fails to confess his feelings properly. Even then, the romantic subplot between Attiyah and Tabina was put on hold due to The Reveal that Attiyah's father is still alive, forcing him to go on a quest of his own. A distraught Tabina then sends a message wanting to join the Grandcypher so that she could meet him again someday.
  • SIEGFRIED ends with Gunther mentioning about being gifted with power to help his means from the magician Merlin, hinting that he will appear in Dragon Knights related events in the future.
  • "Spaghetti Syndrome" ends with the Foe taking control of the Society in the wake of Central Command's death, the seal weapon holders placed under bounty as a result, Cassius's brain extracted by his people so that they can probe it for information, and Issac stuck on the moon begging for anyone back in the Sky World to pick up his distress signal and save Cassius.
• The Seven Mysteries: Mentioned in the "Table For Six" event. The mysteries involve the strangeness of the main crew, or called as The Grancypher's Seven Mysteries. One of them is what species Vyrn is and why there seems to be four Lamrettas (which is just her talking to herself while drunk). There's also the question of the vast number of characters who were high-ranking officers/knights in other islands and/or those who had been of royalty or noble blood in general.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Seems to be an Erune tradition. The vast majority of them wear very little on their back, both guys and girls. Including outfits that should really have backs, like wetsuits and in a particularly hilarious case, backless full plate armor.
• Ship Tease: Being the protagonist to a large cast, it is inevitable for Gran and Djeeta to be paired with female and male crew members respectively. There are those who are willing to take care of their captain, like Narmaya and Percival. Meanwhile almost all of the younger cast noticeably blush when they exchange Valentine's Day chocolates and White Day gifts with the captain, implying this trope. Lich even plays with this by acting all bashful and blushing when given a White Day gift, only to then laugh and ask if the captain thinks she's fallen for them.
  • Funny enough, a few characters cling to the protagonist regardless of whether they are playing as Gran or Djeeta. Lyria is the resident Clingy Jealous Girl, Dorothy loves chasing her newfound "master", Anthuria becomes infatuated towards them, and there's Metera.
  • Fate Episodes and Events with a central character can also provide a romantic option among its dialogue trees, such as an outright "Marry me!" option to Korwa in her Summer version, or trying a date with Sutera. In Carren's final loyalty dialogue on "Poacher's Day", the best option is actually the most romantic one.
  • Several members of the crew have Ship Tease amongst themselves as well. For example, Almeida has a very obvious crush on Vaseraga, it's easy to see a Belligerent Sexual Tension bent to Vaseraga and Zeta's Vitriolic Best Buds interactions, and Juri and Farrah are so completely comfortable with each other some of the other crew members assume they're a couple (despite Farrah's adoration of Katalina).
  • After being rescued by Kou, Societte and Yuel, You absolutely adores her "big brother" Kou, with her SSR Fate epsiodes revolving around her desire to make him happy. Kou for his part dotes on her, and the two are inseparable.
• Shout-Out: Has its own page.
• Shout-Out to Shakespeare: The "So Close and Yet So Far" and "By Any Other Name" events are both references to Romeo and Juliet, with several characters from the play being transplanted into Granblue Fantasy. Romeo, Juliet and Paris are also playable characters. An expy of the man himself appears in one of the events, called "Bill the Bard".
• Show Within a Show:
  • "Pretty Princess Solider Pure" which is a comic about a princess and her all-female order of knights.
  • "Popol Saga", the book series Lunalu obsesses over. Notably, it remains incomplete as the final volume manuscript went missing, allowing for fans like Lunalu to write whatever ending they want.
• Significant Double Casting:
  • Minori Chihara voices Queen Orchis, Orchid, and Zwei. The second is a look-alike golem for the first, while the third is another golem wants to claim the identity of the second.
  • Lucilius, Lucifer and Lucio are all voiced by Takahiro Sakurai. They even have a Theme Naming of "Luci-" and are also lookalikes. And as revealed in the "What Makes The Sky Blue" events, they are related to each other. Lucifer is a Primal Beast created by Lucilius, who is in turn, a clone of Lucio, the servant or "Speaker" of The Omnipotent.
• Significant Name Overlap: There are two Zeyens in the story. One is a religious order in Phantagrande of which Sophia and Redluck are members, while the other is a revered title of a high priest in Nalhegrande, yet the two are very distinct and different from each other. The Zeyen in Nalhegrande, however, surmises that the two branched out from a single, original Zeyen.
• Simple Solution Won't Work: During the crossover with Doraemon, it's suggested to use the Anywhere Door to simply head to Estalucia, the island of the Astrals that is the goal of the Player Character's quest. They actually do attempt it, but the Door opens over a wide empty span of water instead, leading everyone to conclude they'll have to make their way there the hard way. ^note  Naturally, having the driving quest of the game easily achieved during a crossover event would likely be unsatisfying. In-universe, the Astrals were so absurdly advanced they were able to create artificial lifeforms with control over natural forces like the weather, time and even death. Presumably foiling Doraemon's technology would've been child's play for them.
• Silver Bullet: Turns out vampires are weak to these, as shown in Veight's second Fate Episode. Even touching any object made of silver can physically weaken a vampire temporarily.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Most event antagonists will not appear in an event's voice trailer, or preview banners.
• Situational Damage Attack: Many damaging spells deal greater damage against enemies in Overdrive, or in Break mode. Should the attack be cast on the wrong mode, or the enemy falls into neither category (such as a having a Normal or non-existent Charge Attack bar), the damage dealt will be minimal. The Defiance and Salted Wound buffs also grant these multipliers to some characters.
• Situational Sword: In general, the weapon skills and summon auras would only take effect if their conditions are fulfilled, but some weapons groups below share similar conditions unique than the majority:
  • Seraphic Weapons provide bonus damage only to the characters whose element it is strong against.
  • Bahamut Weapons raise a percentage of HP, Attack, and/or Multiattack Rate but only to the characters of a specific race.
  • Atma/Ultima Weapons and Hollowsky Weapons provide bonuses to characters based off of their weapon specialty.
• Skill Point Reset: There is an option to remove stars from a character's Extended Mastery Perks. But unlike the trope's usual method of refunding skills, this game's system simply functions like a "Skill Point Removal" as the Extended Master Points are not refunded for every perk star removed. One will have to accumulate EMP points again to add new stars. This process won't also cost any currency.
• Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke: Like what is mentioned in the Death from Above entry, Almost all Summon call animations are flashy enough that you may expect them to deal a tremendous amount of damage. But no, they can only do at most 5 digits of damage (does not even get close to 100,000). Averted with Arcarum Summons, as their call damage can scale with the Captain's skill damage buffs and enemy debuffs, reaching up to 800,000 or a million.
• Slap Yourself Awake: In the prologue chapter of "Seeds of Redemption", an Enforcer stabs himself to stay awake from Niyon's sleep-inducing music.
• Sleep Deprivation: Discussed. In "What Makes The Sky Blue III: 000", Gabriel explains that archangels have the ability to completely hide their presence/aura. But the process would be taxing and only a selected few were able to master this ability. Elaborating further on the "process", she compares it to a normal skydweller living without sleeping.
• Slice of Life: While most non-action-oriented story events focus on comedy, they still tend to have threats and/or hijinks mixed in. However, the "No Rain, No Rainbow" event plays the Slice of Life genre in the closest way than the rest. It tells of how the crewmembers spend time on Ladiva's Raduga galley when they need advice. There is no real threat, and the cast spends the latter parts of the event trying to cheer up the protagonist who is secretly depressed over their Disappeared Dad. Even the Challenge Battles themselves are simple Training Dummy variants that Ladiva built to help the crew train at their leisure.
• Smashing Watermelons: In "A Slice of Summer", the crew members participate in this typical beach ritual. The twist is, most of the watermelons are actually sentient Primal Beasts in disguse. Custos Citrullus, the Last of His Kind wants Revenge for his fallen brothers, and serves as the raid boss of the event.
• Snake Oil Salesman: In Shao's Fate Episode, there exists frauds even in this setting. It turns out an elderly woman's condition only got worse because she was actually taking poisonous "medicines" for a long time. As explained by Shao, they wanted to make her ill so that she would keep on giving them money for something that she expects to cure her condition.
  Shao: "Frankly, you could take this medicine as long as you wanted and you'd never get any better."
• Socialization Bonus:
  • Communicating in any way during raids (such as chatting or using stickers) grants the player one blue potion. Calling for reinforcements does the same.
  • You can also set "Support Summons" that can be temporarily used by other players in battles, allowing them to gain the benefits provided by that Summon's Aura. When other players borrow your support summon, you gain Rupies in return. There is also a Friends System which makes it easier for you to select a support summon as the game would prioritize the Support Summons of your friends in a given list.
• Socketed Equipment: Some specially-crafted weapons from the shop have a wildcard slot for an additional weapon skilll. They can be further enhanced using mutually-exclusive consumable items depending on the weapon's classification.
• Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Lampshaded in the "Make Up and Go!" event where Cucouroux thinks that the cause of the fire on the foundry's wall is a "bottle acting like a lens, concentrating sunlight".
• Song Parody: In-universe, the background music for the boss fight against Vyrn? is titled "Black Vyrn Wings", a parody of Bahamut's theme "Black Silver Wings".
• Spell Levels: Most of the skills than can be assigned to the protagonist are based on tiers, with a Roman numeral indicating the level of the skill (i.e. Rage IV, Bounty Hunter III, Phalanx II).
• Spell My Name With An S:
  • With the advent of the English translation, a few characters have gained new names that differ from the former consensus (Narumeia/Narmaya, Arurumeiya/Arulumaya, Anchira/Andira, etc) for better or worse.
  • The game's translation has a few inconsistencies like Vaseraga's scythe being named Grynoth or Groanus and Eustace's rifle being named either Phlamek or Flamek. Most of the game's text point to the latter as the official translation, but the few inconsistencies haven't been addressed yet. Even some named NPCs unluckily get this treatment, with Seruel's father being inconsistently named "Connor" or "Conner" in his 5★ Fate Episode.
  • Ever since the 2017 "Poacher's Day" event, the species of underwater creatures have their names deliberately misspelled. The aforementioned 2017 event features sea urchins named "Urkins" while the 2018 "Bzzt! Amped Up Summer" event features electric eels called "Eals". For 2019, "The Maydays" averts this with the sharks.
• Sphere of Destruction: The Bonito's Summon Call animation has the primal beast jumping out of sea, falling vertically to the ground like a nuclear warhead, and producing a spherical explosion that covers the screen.
• Spin-Off: Some story arcs are being adapted into various manga and light novels such as the "Granblue Fantasy: Souken no Kizuna" as mentioned above.
  • Pommern is given a backstory in the "Grand Blue Fantasy: Gaiden Memory of Ashibuel" manga.
• Sssssnake Talk: One event trophy is titled "Ssseeker of the Serpent Princess".
• Status Effects: Several of them are in this game like Sleep, Paralysis, Burn and Poison. Each one has their own time limit for how long they last and being in the superior element to the enemy increases the chances of landing the debuff on them.
• Starter Mon: Katalina is the starting Story character, while Walder is the tutorial R character who everyone gets. An update in 2017 included the rigged SSR tutorial draw which gives out a free SSR character of a specific element. They are Carmelina, Melleau, Charlotta, Zeta, Lady Grey, and De La Fille.
• Stat Sticks: In a party setup, the player can equip up to 10 weapons and 5 summons in their respective grids. Only one weapon can be set as a mainhand which determines the Player Character's element. Aside from this, weapons also have skills that passively increase the stats of matching-element characters, such as their damage output, critical, or multiattack rates. This is also the case with summons, as there can only be one Main summon that passively boosts stats and skills from the weapon grid, with the added benefit of being able to call that summon as early as the first turn. Lastly, Weapons and Summons also have ATK and HP values which cumulatively contribute to each individual character's base ATK and HP.
• Status-Buff Dispel: Abilities with Dispel can remove buffs from the enemy... And oh, the enemies, particularly some raid bosses, can also do this to all of the status buffs of the entire party. Dispelled buffs are visually indicated by a fading white text above the affected member.
• Stealth Pun: Several events (particularly the humor-induced ones) will come up with these in several aspects in the trophy rewards:
  • The event trophy in "Forgiveness and Gratitude" has "E I E I Yuel" referencing a nursery rhyme.
  • A Slice of Summer has the "Melondramatic" trophy.
  • A Gold Trophy in the "Bzzt! Amped Up Summer event" is named "Watt a Shock!"
  • The four Gold Trophies for hosting and defeating Primarch Raids make wordplay jokes about the angels' elements such as "Wind Primarch Got Blasted" and "Fire Primarch Got Burned".
• Stealth Sequel: to Rage of Bahamut, since the original Bahamut created the world in the image of the Rage of Bahamut world
• Stock Weapon Names: Several weapons named after these appear can be equipped, mostly Class Champion Weapons such as Masamune, and Muramasa as well as gacha weapons like Gram and Claiomh Solais.
• Story-Breaker Power: The "Paradise Lost" Signature Move of the Supreme Primarch is like a rain of laser beams. Although a Scripted Battle in the sequel of "What Makes The Sky Blue" requires Sandalphon to use this and defeat the Avatar in one hit, the catch is that he gets to use this ability only once in the story and the Avatar also has a strong Healing Factor that allows it to regenerate from even the tiny bits. If Sandalphon could have used Paradise Lost ad infinitum, the Avatar's regeneration wouldn't keep up. So the best course of action taken by Sandalphon and the Grandcypher crew is to escape, after he immobilized a still-regenerating Avatar.
• Sudden Name Change: A Halloween-themed Grand Blues! Radio quest is named "It's a Trap!", yet when completed, it gets recorded in Lyria's Journal as "Jack's Candle".
• Summon Magic: Another source of your fighting powers beside your weapons are monsters and spirits that Lyria helps you summon into battle.
• Superboss:
  • Proto Bahamut, the same dragon that the player was able to summon at the beginning, was the game's first attempt at a superboss. For a long time, it was the strongest boss in the game, with the highest level, at 100, and an extremely high amount of HP compared to other bosses at that level, with 240 million HP. At 50% HP, Proto Bahamut then breaks off its restraints, dealing more damage with all of its attacks. Its most iconic attack,Skyfall (Great Catastrophe in the JP version), is cast when left at 25% HP, deals 999,999 Dark damage, the highest amount in the game, and requires players having 100% damage resist in order to survive it.
  • Grand Order, with 449 million HP, is accompanied by 2 small dragons that attack alongside with her. As the second superboss, she is more difficult than Proto Bahamut by sheer virtue of having more abilities including damage shields, inflicting random status effects, and a 999,999 Light damage Area of Effect attack at 50% HP. It cycles through three forms, the human half, the dragon half, and both halves combined together into the true form of the Primal Beast, with the battlefield moved to outer space for the last phase.
  • Proto Bahamut (Impossible), was the most difficult boss in the game until Ultimate Bahamut's release, sitting at Level 150, and backed by 1.4 billion HP. This version takes everything Proto Bahamut has and amps it up to eleven. Proto Bahamut starts off by cycling through different elements except for Light, switching to a different one each time it loses 10% of its HP. However, when it reaches 50% of its HP, Proto Bahamut will break out from its chains like its normal version, but now with the ability to give itself random buffs along with attacks that can KO individual party members if not prepared. At 25%, Proto Bahamut shows its true power, using its most dangerous abilities almost consecutively, including the aforementioned Skyfall and Supernova, which reduce party members' HP by 95% and is unblockable. The kicker on top of this is that Full Elixirs cannot be used to revive giving the raid a very real chance to fail.
  • Ultimate Bahamut beats out Impossible Proto Bahamut as the most difficult boss in the game. It comes in two varieties: a level 150 version for players above Rank 80, and an Impossible version for players above Rank 130. Both versions are non-elemental, trigger a special field effect that allows crits regardless of element, can randomly apply a status effect which causes the boss to trigger an charge attack, and can use HP-triggered attacks even if it's paralyzed.
    The regular Ultimate Bahamut has 1 billion HP and it's charge attacks can: deal defense-bypassing plain damage, give itself a buff that charges its charge diamonds faster, apply random status ailments, shuffle your party lineup, and remove all your buffs. At 20%, it changes the field effect to nullify regular attack and defense debuffs and immediately KO anyone with less than 5% HP. And at 5% HP, it uses Skyfall Ultimus, which is Skyfall, except it also gives the boss a buff which deals damage to random party members at the end of each turn.
    The Impossible version has only 420 million HP. However, you get no elixirs and you can only have six participants. It has even more HP-triggered attacks, including some of the more annoying attacks that weren't triggered in the normal version. At 50%, it starts a "damage check" where it stops attacking normally and extends it's charge diamonds to a large amount. If at any point someone triggers a charge attack before it's HP drops it 30%, then the boss immediately triggers a Total Party Kill on the entire raid. And even if the raid somehow manages to get past that point, the boss executes the aforementioned field effect change from it's normal version and starts using all of it's most powerful attacks, including Skyfall Ultimus, which now disables your summons for the rest of the battle.
  • The raid version of Akasha is balanced to be about the same diffculty as Proto Bahamut (Impossible) with 1.2 billion HP, but requires an entirely different strategy. Akasha likes to throw out powerful, uninteruptable charge attacks. A third of the way through, it starts ignoring non-elemental damage cuts, and halfway through it starts always hitting for whatever element you're weakest to. Also, the "Time Warp" field effect is applied throughout the whole fight, which causes more than one turn to advance at a time, which affects both buffs and cooldowns. Thus, the raid relies on being able to tank and heal through most of the damage instead of mitigating it with damage cuts like most other raids.
  • The Lucilius raid only has 600 million HP, but makes up for it by having his wings count as another enemy with 200 million HP also attack you, and hitting hard. The Hard version of the raid, however, is an insanely difficult 6-man raid that has even more mechanics than Impossible Ulitmate Bahamut. First, as soon as the raid starts, Lucilius immediately opens with Paradise Lost, necesitating that the party at least has more than 30 thousand HP to survive. Second, every time he uses a charge attack, it gives him a stacking special buff that give Lucilius benefical effects the more stacks it has, which necesitates a source of constant Dispel to prevent it from stacking too high. Second, like his normal version, his wings count as a separate enemy with 200 million HP and its own charge attacks, but unlike the normal diffculty, it gives Lucilius a very powerful buff and makes him use more powerful charge attacks so long as it's alive, requiring that it goes down first, and as it dies, it starts adding more mechanics to the fight. First, it imposes a death limit, which triggers a Total Party Kill on the entire raid if it hits zero. Then, it applies twelve "labors", powerful buffs that can only be dispelled by fulfilling specific requirements (such as dealing a large ammount of plain damage or intentionally triggering Paradise Lost), that requires that the raid prepare specific parties containing the most powerful characters in the game beforehand in preparation the clear these buffs. And even assuming you get through all that, you still have to contend with a very powerful boss that deals loads of damage.
  • The "Pride of the Ascendant" mode features story bosses in a solo battles meant to test players without being able to draw upon the resources a raid battle provides. The first one released is Gilbert. He has several checks in order to ensure players going in blind will have a tough time. He 1.) requires to have five debuffs active at all times otherwise he casts Theater of Pain every turn to drain all party HP and dispel a buff, 2.) gains random long-term buffs every few turns on top of the buffs that special attacks grant him, 3.) randomly inflicts a Target debuff, which triggers a high damage Water attack the next turn and inflicts Glaciate on a random party member, 4.) no longer inflicts Target after passing 50%, but now gains two buffs every time a party member is buffed through a yellow-bordered skill, and 5.) casts the multi-element attack Divergent Holy when he has two or more buffs on the party member with lowest HP. And this is the lower-difficulty version.
• Super Move Portrait Attack: Just before executing their Charge Attack animations, characters will have their own static portraits flash horizontally on the screen, along with a sound effect. This is taken up to eleven with some characters introduced in 2017 onwards, such as Attack on Titan characters Mikasa and Levi, who have animated portraits zooming in and with a different background color.
• Supernatural Fear Inducer: Few characters have access to skills that inflict the Fear status to enemies - a debuff that prevents them from accumulating Charge Diamonds for the duration of the debuff.
• Super Prototype: The Nightcypher, the speedship the crew uses in "Platinum Sky", is ancient according to Sierokarte and lacks the fancy weapons that modern speedships have, but it has a powerful speed boost and it uses lost technology from the War, making it actually superior to its modern contemporaries.
• Super-Powered Shrimp: The SHRIMP Spreader is a shotgun attached to a fried shrimp that shoots fried shrimp bullets.
• Supreme Chef: A surprising number of the cast are these. Some are even Chefs of Iron. Special mention goes to the entire Lumiel Order where everyone (except Charlotta whom we have yet to see cook) is really good at cooking, with one of them who can even stop wars with his dishes.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Lecia heads off on her own in order to confront the heroes personally in order to understand where their strength comes from. However, while she was gone, Ghandarva lead an attack that devastated Amalthea. While Lecia is vital in defeating Ghandarva, she's still punished for abandoning her post and is strongly recomended by Monika to resign her position as Captain. However, Monika is a Reasonable Authority Figure and immediately assigns Lecia to travel with the Grancypher, so that she can directly help them against the Erste Empire.
  • The Grand Blues! Channel quest Bittersweet Symphony has the captain set up a band of different musicians in the crew with different styles and places the meek member in the leader role. The outcome? He's unable to get any of them to cooperate or compromise after days of practice, and the thing ends up a failure.
  • When they were about to depart from the Edgelands, the Grandcypher crew forgot that the explosion caused by Ebisu will send them flying upwards with a great force, even after they discussed no risks in this strategy with Shitori and Mika moments ago. Granted, they were trying to catch up just in time for the volcanic explosion that they didn't have the time for other minor preparations. When the volcano actually erupted, the Grandcypher is being bombarded by the flying rocks and debris, and they all had to react fast to protect the ship. Io even calls the rest out for this crazy tactic. However, Rosetta claims that staying outside was for the best, so that they can protect the ship by destroying the incoming rocks.
    Why didn't we do the smart thing and wait inside the airship?
  • "Kappa Summer Chronicles" shows that no matter how highly skilled you are at one field doesn't mean that you can easily master professions at your first try. When the Grandcypher cast all undergo a quick training session on making sushi and serving customers, they were still unprepared when it comes to uncontrolled factors. There was a sudden large influx of customers the next morning, and Lyria forgot which customer ordered what dish, that the kappas are still faster tham the trainee crewmembers in preparing ingredients, and that a kitchen accident was unprecedented that the protagonist even had to start a casual conversation just to hide the fact that the food orders are being delayed.
  • "Elegy for Auld Lang Syne" reveals that the reason for the Joya's recent rampages was wear and tear over the ages (exacerbated by lack of proper maintenance), as well as being unable to keep up with the increasing demands of it's duties, just like any piece of technology. While the previous year was fine, this year it gets stolen and modified into a weapon, and when it goes on another rampage, it's too damaged to continue functioning and completely breaks down shortly after it stops its rampage, only sticking around long enough to confirm that Joy can take up its duties in its place.
  • "Auguste of the Dead" opens up revealing that Auguste's tourism has taken a nose dive due to people being driven away from the yearly threats plaguing the island for the past seven years, and it is made even worse thanks to competition from the resort Alohas, which has yet to suffer from attacks. Additionally, its later revealed that quite a few people had jobs in Auguste left for Alohas due to not only being more popular, but also being much safer.
• Swap Fighter: Unlike other "duo" units like Stan/Aliza or Lancelot/Vane or Arthur/Mordred who are both present on-screen at all times, battle maid duo Claudia and Dorothy can switch who is on-screen. Claudia relies on Good Old Fisticuffs and focuses damage on single targets, while Dorothy is armed with a flamethrower and attacks all enemies. They can trigger their charge attack at 100%, whereby the on-screen character unleashes her charge attack, or the player can wait till it's fully charged at 200%, where the charge attack instead becomes a Combination Attack.

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• Take Our Word for It: The game renders scenes in a manner not unlike a Visual Novel, which means that most of its "action" can only be displayed to the player as static character images moving around, trembling or crashing into one another. Specific images for particular scenes do exist, but are very rare, so anything that features a fight or performance of any kind is bound to be mostly described and reacted to, not shown.
• Talking Animal: In the "Many Lives of Cats" event and in Young Cat's episode, the felines speak human language when they are talking to each other.
• Talking Is a Free Action: When Pholia takes on the energy orb that Gilbert fires at his sister, the siblings exchange dialogues while Gilbert does absolutely nothing else but watch. This allows the Grandcypher crew to catch up on Gilbert and fight him head-on.
• Tarot Motifs: The Arcarum events, which feature bosses based on the Major Arcana that can be recruited as summons.
• A Taste of Power: Chapter 62 has Katalina, Rackam, Io, Eugen and Rosetta use their SSR skills for that chapter.
• Tech Points: Once you've reached the level cap, or 5★ uncap of your characters (or reached Level 20 for a class of the captain), your experience points will count towards the Extended Mastery bar. Filling this up will provide you with Extended Master Points (or Zenith in the Japanese version), which can then be spent on character-specific perks like stat increases to ATK, HP, Def, Critical Hit Rate, Elemental Attack, Dodge, or unique EMP Skills.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The Luminary Knights and Gilbert mutually despise each other with the only thing keeping them from descending into fighting being their loyalty to the True King.
• Temporary Online Content: Events and Collaborations will only be available for a limited time. Likewise, averted if the event later gets a re-run or archived into the Side Stories, allowing players to replay them.
• Temporary Party Member:
  • Event characters are only in your party for the duration of the event unless you increase their Loyalty Points to a certain number, which makes them a permanent part of your crew.
  • Certain quest battles (usually challenge quests from events) have an even more direct version with a specific party with fixed abilities and stats only usuable for that battle.
• Theme Music Powerup: An actual mechanic of the Drum Master class. Upon getting a full chain burst with this class, the party has their attack and defense boosted for five turns and whatever music is playing is immediately overridden by the song "Sanbagarasu Otoko Uta" for as long as the boost lasts.
• Theme Song Reveal: The first hint of Necesaria's true affiliation is that the song that plays after he poisons an entire restaurant to get at the Violet Knight is Lunar God, the theme of the Society events involving the greater organization.
• Threshold Guardian: One of the reasons why a few of the named characters or creatures such as Bai Ze will suddenly provoke the party into a fight is to test if the crew is strong enough to face oncoming challenges.
• Tiered by Name: Weapon Skills follow a two-word naming convention like "Gaia's Might" or "Gaia's Aegis". The first keyword is based on a mythological deity's name, which represents both the weapon skill's element and damage type (Normal or Omega). The second keyword represents the effects of the skill (i.e. Might for attack-boosting skills and Aegis for HP-boosting skills). For attack-boosting skills, they can be followed by numeral letters to denote their initial amount, like Might I, Might III, and Might III, depending on the damage type.
• Timed Mission: Some story quests require you to finish the battle under a specific number or turns. Going past it means an instant quest failure.
• Time-Limit Boss: All multi-player raid boss battles are timed, with each raid lasting up to a maximum of 90 minutes. Failure to defeat the primary target in a raid will result to a lose, leading to no rewards earned.
• Time to Unlock More True Potential: All characters have Fate Episodes which unlock their third (or fourth) skills when completed. There are also those who have their 5★ uncaps unlocked after completing one post max-level. Finally, Cross-Fate Episodes permanently increase the Attack and HP stats of the two involved characters (or unlock another skill, depending on the individual).
• Title Drop: While a majority of the story events either serve as spotlights for some characters, or collaborations, only a few would explicitly serve as examples for this trope:
  • In some cases, the event's title is taken from plot-related examples, such as the Robomi event featuring a titular character, and the Platinum Sky event being the name of a tournament. Oftentimes, a trophy reward is named after its event, like in "Fall of the Dragon".
  • The "What Makes The Sky Blue" events serve as notable examples, by being the anniversary events that expand the main quest. In the second part, the event drops its title twice (the second mention also counts as a Finale Title Drop since it is mentioned in the final chapter), and the subtitle "Paradise Lost" once as Sandalphon uses Lucifer's Signature Move in the seventh chapter.
    Remains of Lucifer: What... What makes the sky blue? For thousands of years, people have wondered... And even once they grasped the science, they continued to ask... It struck me... Perhaps a question is really just a wish.
    Sandalphon: What makes the sky blue? You were so captivated by the question that grew into a wish... Perhaps beasts like us simply envy the ability to harbor such illogical thoughts. The Astrals who gave us birth didn't grant us that faculty. Nor the potential to dream of an independent future... You wanted to see where evolution would lead. So I'll follow that path in your stead.
  • Like the above example, a Title Drop is spoken in "The Other Side of the Sky".
    Tsubasa: I got this feeling... Someday I'll reach a whole new place. The other side of the sky.
• Trailers Always Spoil:
  • The Promotional Video for the main story's 3rd Arc reveals what would be that arc's essential details such as the return of Loki, Noa and Ferry in the main story, a new version of Furias, a character resembling Zwei from Rage of Bahamut, Lyria channeling a Deflector Shields ability, and a fully-armored knight resembling Katalina.
  • The trailer for "What Makes The Sky Blue Part 3" uses lines that are actually said in the teased event. One notable part of Belial's dialogue has "The struggle against the four Primarchs, Bubs' betrayal and Sandy's hidden potential were all part of the plan." A savvy player may notice that "Bubs' (Beelzebub's) betrayal" was never mentioned nor was a plot point of the prequel where he was introduced. This statement actually refers to the climax of Part 3, where Beelzebub betrays Belial. The speaker says the line in Chapter 6 of the event.
• Training Dummy:
  • The Trial Battles Mode allow you to fight against a stationary target that restores the damage you did to it in the previous turn.
  • In "No Rain, No Rainbow", Ladiva built several Lignoids to assist the crew in their personal training.
• Translation Convention: During The Many Lives of Cats, all the cats meows are translated for the players, with Sen and all the other "furless" (except for Dante) completely unaware of what they're saying. It's mostly Played for Laughs with Sen comically misinterpreting the situation and what the cats want from her. It's Played for Drama at the end when Torajiro's owner assumes that his defiantly trying to fight despite his injuries actually means that he wants to leave, and thus is provoked into sicing MEOW-TRON on everyone present in a desperate attempt to keep all her cats.
• Trapped in Another World: Granblue's crossover events with non-Cygames third-party franchises are basically invoking the "parallel world"/isekai genre. Although there are some few twists here and there with some events, such as the Attack on Titan setting and characters being on a separate floating island called Estioss, and a reverse situation in a chapter of the Code Geass crossover when the Primal Beast Magnesia teleports into the modern-day world of Lelouch and his friends.
• To Be Continued: As the Main Story Quests get periodical updates, the game will display a message saying "new chapters will be added" if the player has managed to catch up with the latest Main Story Chapter.
• Too Awesome to Use:
  • Sunlight Stones, Damascus Ingots and Gold Bars. The former can uncap summons regardless of rarity and is a vital crafting component for the Arcarum summons, while the latter two can uncap any weapon type and are also used for certain rare weapons. All of them are extremely scarce and hard to obtain, so many players recommend only using them for select priority items.
  • Certain summons like Shiva, Grimnir, Typhon, and Thor have summon calls that can only be used once per battle so most players tend to reserve them for critical moments like removing all charge diamonds of a boss with Typhon or using Grimnir's 10,000 HP shield to protect the party against a powerful charge attack.
  • The Perpetuity Ring permanently increases a character's stats by 10%, damage cap by 5% and EMP Cap by 10. However, getting one requires trading 20 Gold Nuggets by grinding Rise of the Beasts, which makes this item as valuable as a Gold Bar. The catch? One ring can only be used on one version of a character (unlike the EMP Points being shared across all versions), barring the others which requires more grinding if a player owns multiple variants of the same character and wants to ring them all. As a result of their rarity and limitation, the player would only use them on their fan-favorites or on game-breaking characters who only have a single version, like the Eternals.
• Took a Level in Badass: Some characters have a stronger version of themselves in the form of a rarer version (R/SR becoming an SR/SSR) or an event only character. Some SR and SSR characters have also been upgraded with a final uncap which adds another 20 levels and a number of significant upgrades, in some cases including a new ability; this is often used as a Balance Buff to power up an older character.
• Total Party Kill:
  • A few raids have ougis will will deal 999,999 damage to the entire party, including Proto Bahamut's Skyfall, Grand Order's Gamma Ray, Ultimate Bahamut's Skyfall Ultimus and Avatar's Archenemy. However, these are usually only triggered at a certain low health percentage, and therefore with enough preparation can be survived.
  • Ultimate Bahamut HL has Reason's Transcendence, activated if all seven of its charge crystals are allowed to fill while its between 50-30% health, which hits every ally of every raid member for 100% of their HP in plain damage (meaning it can't be blocked), and ignoring autorevive. If any raid member triggers Reason's Transcendence, the raid immediately ends.
  • Death, when fought in the last stage of Arcarum, will instantly kill the entire party on the thirteenth turn.
  • Akasha HL will gain the Karma buff when it reaches 25% HP, which will cause its Purification (which it's guaranteed to do at 10% HP) to also deal 999,999 plain damage to your party. The only way to avoid this is to remove its Karma buff, which can only be done by dealing 30 instances of damage in a single turn.
  • During the final battle of the "Guider to the Eternal Edge" quest, Siete will gain a Swordshine stack every turn, which can only be removed if your party deals 30 instances of damage in one turn (similar to Akasha above). If Siete reaches five Swordshine stacks, he'll deal 999,999 plain damage to your entire party and backrow, ending the fight and forcing you to start the gauntlet over again.
• Tournament Arc: The "A Thousand Reasons" event focuses on the melee-oriented tournament set in Albion.
• The Triple: The three official dakimakura merchandise of the game features two popular characters – Vira and Narmaya. The third one is Gisla, a popular weapon.
• Turn-Based Combat: The main gameplay mechanic. The players will have the first turn for most of the battles, though some unique enemies can act even before the starting turn.
• Turns Red: Several bosses gain/trigger new attacks whenever they pass a certain threshold. Of particular note is Bahamut. The battle starts with Bahamut restrained like in his SR Summon. Once he reaches 50%, he breaks those restraints, transforming into its SSR Summon form, and the orchestral boss music suddenly turns into an epic power metal ballad.
• Two-Part Trilogy: As revealed in an interview, "What Makes The Sky Blue" wasn't originally planned to kick off a sprawling three year epic. Only after positive fan reception did they decide to make a sequel with its corresponding third part written consecutively to conclusively wrap things up to the new storyline set up by the second part. To be specific:
  • WMTSB1 was intended for Lyria's own character development, with Sandalphon serving as the event's antagonist.
  • But Sandalphon grew to be a Breakout Character that he became the protagonist of WMTSB2 and WMTSB3, with the story now focusing on him and his Character Development of joining the good guys.

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• Underboobs: Carmelina rocks this style. While Izmir's swimsuit version sports this style, her artwork was inexplicably changed to remove it in the English language version in 2017, despite the aforementioned Carmelina retaining it in the English version. An update in 2018 later removed the censorship for Izmir's swimsuit version, retaining this trope.
• Underwater Boss Battle: The boss fight against the Queen Sea Urkin takes place underwater.
• The Underworld: Due to the main setting being in the sky, the surface world, known as the Crimson Horizon, serves as this. Nobody knows what it's actually like down there since flight technology stops working after a certain altitude, and some say that it's the land of the dead. What is known however is that there are demons down there, who occasionally attempt to invade the sky world.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change:
  • The 2018 "Bzzt! Amped Up Summer" event features two gameplay changes that break the norm of the usual trends of Story Scenarios: The first is the inclusion of a point-and-click map expedition similar to the Arcarum where you visit a node and complete random objectives like defeating a monster or clearing out an obstacle. The second is a fishing minigame. While the game is a Final Fantasy-esque RPG with complex mechanics, this event has you properly timing your clicks in order to catch sea creatures known as "eals".
  • The various Mini Games integrated in side story events from 2018 onwards. Aside from the fishing mini-game as mentioned above, there is a clicker game ("The Maydays" and "Primal Resonance"), a restaurant simulator ("Kappa Summer Chronicles"), a racing/obstacle course game ("Platinum Sky II"), etc...
• Unique Items: The story-locked special items required for the 5★ uncap of some characters like Sandalphon, Zeta, and Aoidos. There's only one instance of each, and they're also tied to their respective characters' story events.
• Uniqueness Rule: Quite a few characters have skills that can only be used once per battle. Most notably, each one of the ten Eternal characters has an incredibly powerfull skill with an extremely long 10 turn cooldown before it can be used. In addition, some other characters have skills that grant them massive buffs but knock themselves out after a few turns, meaning anything you do with them until then will only have one chance to work in each battle.
• Units Not to Scale: While in-battle, your playable characters are depicted as having small chibi-like proportions while the large monsters or raid bosses will take up the whole left side of the screen. Humanoid Primal Beasts are a victim of this, as they are supposed to be giants in-lore, but have their artworks zoomed-out in-game. This makes them visually small in contrast to the characters - so much that raid boss Tiamat's head is smaller than Djeeta's!
• Unlockable Content: Most of which are gated behind the player's Rank, others have some requirements to fulfill.
  • Main story characters automatically join your party after completing specific chapters.
  • Jewel Resort Casino becomes accessible after clearing Chapter 8 of the Main Story
  • Omega Showdown Raids can only be hosted and joined once the player reaches Rank 30, while the Impossible-difficulty versions are only available to players above Rank 100.
  • Primarch Raids become available after completing element-specific high-level quests.
  • Eternals can only be recruited after fully-upgrading Revenant Weapons.
  • Tier 4 Classes can only be unlocked by element-changing a Class Champion Weapon.
  • EX Classes can only be unlocked by completing specific requirements and trophies.
  • Arcarum becomes available once the player clears The World boss battle.
  • The raid boss battles for Grimnir, Shiva, Europa, Alexiel, Metatron, and Avatar are available for players whose Rank is 120 or higher.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee:
  • Played almost perfectly straight in "Poacher's Day". The unspoken parts of Carren's plan, like having Lunalu draw a giant lifelike picture of the Urkin Queen using Korwa's canvas to distract the Odajumoki ships, or Tweyen and Izmir firing ice-imbued arrows from over the horizon to stop the leader from dropping their giant crab's remains and setting the queen off to lay her eggs early, goes almost completely without a hitch. Afterwards comes actually removing the shell from the Urkin Queen, which was described in great detail, so naturally the Duskbringer gets stuck in the Urkin Queen's shell. Fortunately, Seofon's sword duplication saves the day.
  • Similar to the anime series, this trope gets applied during the Code Geass crossover event to demonstrate Lelouch's sharp thinking. The middle chapters have Lelouch making "final touches" that are never explained at that time, and his plan goes straight against Delfina (who taught she had won). While he claims victory, Lelouch gloats Delfina to read his mind and watch at how his plan came into fruition. To elaborate, Lelouch Geass'd the captain to act as Zero in front of the imposter Zero Delfina in order to trick her mind reading Geass and convnce her that he has no plans left. Then when Delfina shoots at the "real Zero", C.C. has to take the bullet since she is immortal and immune to any Geass. Delfina is already cornered at this point. Lelouch used his Geass to induce hallucinations so that she will mistake him as Nunnally and casually take him to Carmen's hideout. Before the hallucination wears off from Delfina, Lelouch has already Geass'd Carmen into suicide. Delfina's last trump cards are to immobilize the Knightmares using Magnesia (but was countered with Yggdrasil's powers) and to convince Lelouch and his friends to return to their original world, which they simply reject.
  • In Chapter 3 of "The Maydays" event, Sandalphon wrote down his suggestion to the committee on how to deal with Old Bruce. The next scenes are played from Lyria and Vyrn's perspectives who are not aware of his plans, until they get detailed step-by-step when Sandalphon initiates the fight against Old Bruce.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: During the "Santa's Nice List" subquest of the Christmas 2018 event "Mission Merrymaking", none of the kids seem to notice Santa Claus Anre magically levitating the Christmas presents in his hands. As it is during a role play performance, they may also think that it's All Part of the Show.
• Updated Re Release: The "Side Stories" are older limited-time story events that are now permanently accessible within the game. Said events either include story arcs which had been re-run multiple times already, while a majority of them were events launched before the game's English localization was implemented. All Side Stories are English-translated, and contain new items available for trading, such as Draw Tickets or 4★ weapons. A half-AP / half-trade cost event was held during the game's 4th Anniversary. Lastly, the Side Stories allow players to obtain trophies from the available story events they have missed before. Reruns also get improved reward lists when they occur.
  • The Side Story re-release of the "Gripping Freedom" event has a minor example in its Challenge Quest, by having updated Beatrix's reworked skill set which was released around the fourth quarter of 2018.
  • The 2019 rerun of "A Piece of the Pie" event (from 2016) includes Lyria in a Scripted Battle. Lyria's playable version was added during the game's 2017 anniversary event.
  • The Side Story version of the Princess Connect crossover event also added Karyl as an unlockable unit, as well as in a Scripted Battle.
• Urban Legends: Estalucia, the Island of the Astrals is noted by the skyfarers to be nothing more than a product of a fairy tale. However, the protagonist's Disappeared Dad claims to have reached it and awaits for their child's arrival on said island.
• Useless Useful Spell: Aside from the gimmicky and situational spells that specific characters have, this trope is easily noticeable on three Arcarum summons. Whether they be in the summon's call effect, main aura, or sub aura:
  • Temperance's Call Effect casts a debuff on both the enemy and your team which prevents the affected unit from using charge attacks.
  • Death's Aura reduces your HP by 30%, and its call effect kills one of your party members. However, its 5★ Upgrade fortunately removes the HP penalty.
  • Justice's Call Effect forces your individual members' HP equal to the average HP of the team, either by healing or damaging them. It may be very beneficial on Stamina or Enmity grids for keeping your entire party alive, or for helping characters who don't have Stamina/Enmity boosting skills. But for other grids and weapons not utilizing these two mechanics, a self-damaging ability can put your team in a bad position.
• Valentine's Day Episodes: Involve giving and receiving chocolates to and from the crew.
• Vampire Episode: The "Fall of the Dragon" event where the player is introduced to Medvecia, a hidden island of vampires.
• Variable Mix: Most battle music tracks change as you progress through the stage/deplete the boss's health.
• Verbal Tic:
  • During the "Auld Lanxiety" event, anyone who gets infected with the Klesha released by Joya will occasionally end his / her sentences with "Bong" (translated to "Gong" in the English language). Additionally, some characters have their own natural verbal tics.
  • Kappas end their setences with "pa". Or when they are surprised, they shout "Kappa!".
• Victory Pose: Any characters who are in the front row when a quest or a raid has been completed will strike their own pose. Their pose may vary depending on the equipped outfit or sprite of the character.
• Virtual Paper Doll: There are character-specific outfits purchasable with real-life currency that change the appearance of that character's in-game sprites and artwork.
• Void Between the Worlds: "What Makes The Sky Blue: 000" reveals that something like this exists in the world of Granblue as Belial and Lucilius got "trapped in between dimensions".

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• Walkie-Talkie Static: Used for ominous effect in the "Right Behind You" preview as Zeta calls to inform the Captain of her situation, only for enemy fire against her troops to interrupt, Zeta then attempting to use Arvess, something crashes and the communicator is dropped with only static remaining as the call ends.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: It is very common for the male characters to go topless on the beach in their summer-themed versions.
• Wake-Up Call Boss:
  • Unlike the earlier bosses who can be easily defeated by raw damage output, Yggdrasil Malice is the first real challenge of the Story Mode. Players are likely expected to have developed their grids, worked on weapon skill levels, or levelled-up their characters to have a chance of beating her.
  • The inclusion of the high Elemental Resistance mechanic for some bosses like the Xeno, Primarchs, and Arcarum bosses encouraged players to develop grids for all elements and not just focus on a single one.
• The War to End All Wars: Lucilius's grand scheme of destroying creation reaches its climax in "What Makes The Sky Blue III: 000" as Belial and Beelzebub bring forth the fallen angels trapped inside the Avatar, with most of the Skydom's military factions teaming-up with the primarchs to prevent it from happening. The war is situated near Pandemonium, where the rest of the fallen angels / origin beasts are imprisoned.
• Watch the World Die: Throughout the "What Makes The Sky Blue" trilogy, all of Lucilius's and Belial's plans were orchestrated so that they could watch the world end together. You get to foil them in the final event.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: There's an in-game "Weapon Specialty" mechanic that categorizes characters based on the type of weapon that they wield, giving them a boost to stats when the party they're placed in is equipped with a matching weapon type.
  • There are ten weapon specialties - Sabre, Dagger, Spear, Axe, Staff, Gun, Melee, Bow, Harp, Katana.
  • Weapon mastery has a special bearing to the Eternal characters because each of them has mastered their own weapon-based fighting styles. Their 5★ uncaps also feature their respective awakened Revenant Weapons into pushing their weapon masteries even further.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: Became a mechanic in some quests from 2017 onwards, such as the Attack On Titan Collab or Yaia's 5★ Fate Episode. Losing a specific party member will trigger an instant game over.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The "Right Behind You" event introduces a new NPC named Lester (with a unique artwork, to boot) in its prologue... only to be killed by a monster a few seconds later.
• We Have Ways of Making You Talk: Of the Oddball variant – As the tourist skyfarers managed to round and tie up the Sea Urkin Poachers, they had a hard time getting information out of them, even after implying threats. That is until they hear the growling from the poachers' stomachs, to which Carren immediately brings out exotic fish lunch as the "bait". It works.
• Weapon Specialization: With few exceptions, each class, has two types of weapons they can equip as their main weapon. The primary exception is the Grappler line, who can only equip melee weapons. The Harpist line also greatly favors Harps over their secondary Daggers, because Harps are able to boost their abilities.
• Weapon of X-Slaying: Lore-wise, the weapons given to the members of The Society are specially made for hunting Primal Beasts. However, this trope becomes averted as the weapons do not deal any "bonus damage" to Primal Beasts in-game.
• Weather Manipulation: In the Fate Episode of Eso's SR version, it is revealed that his tribal village was ravaged by a man-made storm.
• Wedding Smashers: In Ilsa's Fate Episode, monsters suddenly attack a wedding ceremony and you jump in to save the couple and drive away the intruders.
• Wham Episode:
  • You'd think the story would end on a happy note in "What Makes The Sky Blue"? Nope. Sandalphon took a moment to whisper to Gran/Djeeta about how the world revolves around them and then push them off the cliffs. Chapter 6 ends with the Grandcypher crew going down to save them as they are likely falling down further away from the skies. The final chapter, which came out a few days after Chapter 6, has them saved by Lucifer.
  • The "Right Behind You" event that kicked off 2018 was also an enormous wham, as it brought the long-simmering Society arc to a new climax and turned the setting of Granblue on its head. It turns out the "Foe" the Society fights is based on the goddamn Moon and are implied to be a race of machine intelligences, and are definitely the original threat the Astrals created the Primals and whatnot to fight. Events of the past few years have motivated them to finally begin acting in earnest after a long period of dormancy. It also implies very heavily that the Astrals were capable of space travel and may not even be from the Skydoms at all. Oh, and the powerful, special weapons the Society uses? Moon-dweller tech, all of them. With the potential to transform back into the form of an Automagod.
  • "What Makes The Sky Blue II: Paradise Lost" has Lucifer attacked in the prologue and when the crew finally reaches Canaan, it turns out that Lucifer lost and all that is left of him when Sandalphon finds him is his head, which leads to Sandalphon taking the lead to be the new Supreme Primarch in light of Lucifer's death. The end of the Light's Reverie quest reveals that the Avatar released from the seal is the dark half of Lucilius' legacy, and Belial, with his partner Beelzebub, got hold of the dark half after the crew defeats it. Belial is shown in the final scene holding Lucifer's now headless body as he wanted from the beginning and has plans involving it.
  • Starke Island in the main story. The True King reveals just how evil he is by revealing that he was the one who destroyed the Torhid Kingdom with the Great Wall and that the Nahlegrande portion of the Dawning Sky arc was his plan to turn Gilbert into a power supply so that he could use the weapon without limit. However, Baragona hijacks the Great Wall and destroys it with the help of the crew before anything else can be done with. With the Great Wall crumbling and threatening to bury the entire island in its rubble though, everyone makes a mad dash for the airships only for the Grandcypher to get damaged by the falling rubble sending it and the crew plummeting to the bottom of the sky, for real this time. And to top it all off, Loki reveals that he let everything happen because the Astral that created the Great Wall was sealed within it, and with the Great Wall destroyed, the Astral is also unsealed and falls to the bottom of the sky, with Loki and Fenrir following.
  • Chapter 118, more specifically its fourth section. Walfrid, Rosetta, and Noa take turns to reveal that the Captain's father is a disciple of the Sky Realm's God and had a mission to collect Primal essence to return incarnated gods and legends back to the higher plane of belief where they originated. Vyrn was specifically dispatched by a certain maiden to help him with this mission. He hid Lyria specifically to stop the creation of the Singularity but failed by leaving Vyrn in Zinkenstill and Lyria eventually finding her way there. Walfrid explains very clearly that the Captain may have to battle their dad if he's still against the Singularity's existence.
  • Just like its previous two parts, "What Makes the Sky Blue III: 000" contains some major reveals about the world's lore. The reason Lucio looks like Lucifer and Lucilius is not because he's a clone, but because he's the original. Lucio's true identity is actually Helel ben Sahar, The Speaker of The Omnipotent. Lucilius is actually a clone created by the God of the Astrals to act as its counterpart for the Astrals, and Lucifer was created by Lucilius because he subconsciously realized that he was imperfect and thus created Lucifer in the image of the form he perceived he should have had. Oh, and the Astral God? It's the missing half of The Omnipotent from the Creation Myth, and it's been at war with its other half in order to fuse back together, with the Astrals and Skydwellers as their proxies and the War only being one iteration of their conflict.
  • Chapters 129 and 130 brings quite a few important revelations and game-changers:
    • The truth behind Lyria and Vyrn is finally explicitly spelled out to both the audience and the cast. The Primal Beasts are explained to be created by using the power of the Astrals to give a "Core" to the Sky World form. When a Primal is created, the Astral God is able to siphon off some of the Sky God's power. When it's returned to its original state, the reverse happens. Lyria and Vyrn are both vessels created in order to contain the siphoned power, and will eventually be consumed once their respective creators decide to harvest that power. And both of them are nearly full, which means that soon, if our heroes want to stay with Lyria and Vyrn, that they might have to go against the Gods themselves.
    • An envoy of the Otherworldly Beings decides to negotiate with the heroes. They introduce themselves as the Precursors and explain the above to the Captain (which puts alot of doubt on much of it is true, and how much is being withheld)). They offer to work together with the Singularity in order to overthrow the Gods (though they're not above fighting once that offer is rejected). They also reveal that they weren't responsible for Echnida being suddenly sent to the Otherworld (they just took advantage of it) and that they have another plan in the works that's still far from completion. For now, they're forced to retreat, but they still extend an offer for the Singularity to join them should they change their mind.
    • Despite the Violet Knight trying to make off with Lloyd immediately after the Otherworld invasion is dealt with, the crew manage to catch up (albeit due to the Violet Knight's whim) and successfully retrieve Lloyd and revert Akasha back to pre-primal state. However, while the Violet Knight is at a diner after having snuck away while the crew was retrieving Lloyd, Necesaria comes and poisons the entire diner in order to kill him. The cleanup afterwards reveals that a very major faction is finally making its move in the Main Story: Necesaria is actually a Society agent and Echidna ending up in the Otherworld was the result of a plot by one of the Society's leaders.
  • Chapter 155 provides one of the biggest shocks of the Oarlyegrande Skydom thus far. At Raclitus' trial, Zarazustra and Guillota are both erased from existence with nobody else in attendance remembering they ever existed thanks to Llewig, who turns out to be an Otherworlder. Immediately after that, the True King enters the courtroom to reveal his true name, Tau'luk, and announce his abdication, naming the Captain as his successor.
  • And hot on the previous chapter's heels comes Chapter 156. After the Captain is coronated as the new True King, we see that the Violet Knight has somehow come back to life and is now traveling with Tau'luk and the Captain's aunt towards Estalucia, and the trio seem to be the only ones who remember Zarazustra and Guillota. After that, Ruby Pop Irotis appears from a wormhole to kidnap the Captain, whereupon it's revealed that Irotis is actually Shitori and that Lyria, or someone or something resembling her, is inside the star coffer.
  • "Spaghetti Syndrome" finally reveals what exactly the Foe is after. They're the descendants of moondwellers trapped in the Sky World who decided to deliberately engineer conflict as a twisted means of repaying their debt to people who helped them settle after being stranded by ensuring that advancement of warfare and technology protects them from being immediately shredded to pieces if the Moon ever invades. Meanwhile, the head of the entire Society, Central Command, is an Automagod fused with a Moondweller, who has been scheming to figure out a way to return to the Moon this whole time. And with her defeat, the Foe has secretly assumed control of the Society and declared Society members in the Captain's crew to be criminals with bounties on their head. Furthermore, Cassius has to be sent back to the moon with moondweller descendent Issac, as well as Issac's robot companion Raybury, AKA Alandus rebuilt from the scrap of Versatile, due to taking a hit for the Captain and Lyria. However, instead of focusing on repairing him, they instead extract his brain to probe it for information about Lyria and how living in the sky affects moondwellers. The last scene of the event is Issac desperately sending a distress signal back to the Sky World, pleading for anyone to help save Cassius.
  • Created by the Stars, Loved by the Skies, the 8th anniversary event, opens with Zooey in her true Primal form attacking the crew, claiming that the Captain must be killed because as the singularity, they are destroying the balance of the world and hence, becomes the world's enemy and must be killed. While everyone else completely refuse to comply as Zooey refused to explain anything about why she must kill the Captain beyond the fact that they are the singularity, regardless of the choice picked, the Captain willingly performed a Heroic Sacrifice to ensure the safety of the crew. Soon after, the Captain and Lyria are transported to a dimension that is neither the afterlife, the skies, or the crimson realm, meeting a girl named Yuni who eventually tells the duo about the history of the sky realm, starting from the war between the Astrals and the skydwellers.
    • We finally learn about who Cosmos was and how Cosmos is connected to Zooey and Geo. Cosmos is a Primal Beast created to be an arbitrator of all life in the Sky Realm, mortals and Primal Beast included. However, after many years passed, Cosmos eventually retreated to the Astral's realm so she could judge without bias for one or the other, and had since been using surrogates to watch over the skies. Zooey and Geo turned out to be one of these surrogates, making them clones of Cosmos in an essence. The Grand Order that attacked the Captain at the start of the event? She's also one of the surrogates that Cosmos created to watch over the skies.
    • Part 3 reveals that the Captain is Not Quite Dead after all due to Cosmos eventually sending both Captain and Lyria to a dimension with Yuni, who are actually Cosmos's two dragons, guiding them and telling them of the history of the Sky Realm, but the Captain and Lyria can only come back should the Captain wills it. However, this is revealed to be going against the law of causality as the world assumes that the Captain is dead during the start of the event, and Geo wanted to make sure that the Singularity, the Captain, stays dead, no longer caring if the world gets destroyed because of the Captain dying as long as the Primal Beasts can thrive. And by going against the law of causality, Cosmos can potentially disappear for going against her judgement. As both Zooey and Geo are created and linked with Cosmos, should something happen to Cosmos, then they both will disappear along with her.
• Wham Line:
  • Occurs in "Seeds of Redemption" where Lecia unwittingly revealed that Seox's savior is Gran/Djeeta's father in front of Seox and the captain themselves.
    Lecia: I ask that you please make a decision that would not shame Captain's father, the skyfarer who saved your life.
  • The Stinger of "The Savior of Dalmore" event involves Lusor hiding in a faraway place, talking about the events that transpired in Dalmore after he eavesdropped on Aglovale and Tor's conversation through a bird via mind linking magic... and then said this line, giving players a hint to who Lusor actually was.
    Lusor: If brother Aggy and Percy joined the investigation, that puts me in a real tight spot.
• Wham Shot:
  • The third arc reveals the return of Furias who has undergone a drastic change in appearance and personality. Many of his old friends and foes alike are surprised by this revelation because the original Furias of the first act is known to be at death's door, fatally injured, some even go as far as to doubting his identity. At one point, even Loki calls this new Furias an impostor, who simply shrugs and insists that he is the Furias everyone knew. In Chapter 120, he experiences a painful spasm at which the player is then treated to his first-person perspective - that this new Furias is haunted by the image of the original, who also calls him an impostor.
  • The bonus story in "Old Bond" has most of the Six Dragons discussing that there was originally another Dragon, one who governed life and death, but he was cast out. While they cannot seem to agree on what his name was and the scene cuts away before Fediel can say what it is, the scene then cutting to Nectar all but says he is the missing Dragon.
  • The ending of "Heart of the Sun" has the Phoenix flying by Estalucia, with the narration making it very clear that the saga of the captain traveling to the fabled island will come to an end soon and a new journey will begin.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Chapter 63 and the restoration of Orchis to the throne of Erste, the Black Knight pretty much disappears from the plot even with events like Freesia escaping jail and kidnapping Orchis which would seem pretty relevant to her character. It happens once again with Erste entering a second civil war with the Holy Erste Empire and Orchis putting herself directly in the line of fire on the battlefront, yet no indication that Apollo has heard about this.In Chapter 121, The Bus Came Back, as Apollonia shows up at the last second along with Freesia to save Orchis and Orchid from Zwei's killing blow.
• When Trees Attack: A unique enemy which can also be frequently encountered in Arcarum is a monster named "Cursed Treant" - a large leafless tree which has a face, and emits flames on its branches!
• Why Won't You Die?: In the "Attack on Titan: Titanic Yaeger" collaboration, the first batch of Titans you encounter will keep on regenerating. It takes the assistance of Levi and Mikasa for the crew to know their weakness and take them down.
• Will-o'-the-Wisp: One of the lesser types of enemies in Granblue, which can be encountered as one of the game's easiest raid bosses, or as regular mobs in the Albion Citadel or Light-element Rotating Showdowns.
• Wizarding School: The "Lonesome Dragoness" event takes place in the Mysteria School of Magic.
• Wolverine Claws: Some of the Titan Suits introduced in the third arc are equipped with three metallic claws.
• Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Subverted. The wooden katana weapon is inferior to a large number of other katana, even being SR rank. However, it's one of the few weapons that can inflict paralysis...which would be useful if not for the fact that by the time a class that can use the weapon is unlocked, you likely have better options.
• Worldbuilding: Typical in an MMORPG title. The first arc focuses so much on this that by its conclusion, the player is already introduced to the subtle Creation Myth, the current state of the Skydom, its geography, form of government, a skyfaring lifestyle, creatures and races. Although there's still much to be covered.
  • The second arc expands on the geography as the main cast travels to Nalhegrande, focusing more on a monarchy government and royal bloods. The third arc aims to resolve some missing plot points from the first and second as the main cast learns more about the history of the protagonist's Disappeared Dad being a servant of a god.
  • "What Makes the Sky Blue" events clarify the existence of Angels/Primarchs and their Fallen counterparts, as well as acknowledge the followers of said Primarchs and their connection to a creator.
  • The events of the Society members focus more on the moon, its dwellers, as well as sentient weapons that were given to the Society's members.
  • The Divine General events establish one of the systems of worship found throughout Phantagrande .
  • Not even the Crossover events are excluded from this trope, as their storylines try to establish a definite time and place for the occurrence of said events in the main story, with one such example being the "Persona 5: Thievery in Blue" event taking place after the Port Breeze area of the first arc. It also foreshadows Vyrn's probable identity.
• World in the Sky: The world consists of floating islands in the sky and airships are needed to travel. Nobody really knows what happens if someone/something fell over the edge and under the clouds. The event "What Makes The Sky Blue" gives a glimpse as to what happened when someone/something does fall over the edge, mentioning that the protagonist fell for what seems like hours without anything visible down there.
• Wrong Context Magic: The Clow Cards run on a different system of magic and as such, disrupt the balance of Fairy's Gorge as the spirits attempt to take them and use their power.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Electricity does not have a consistent coloring in this game:
  • Characters with Lightning-based abilities such as Albert, Alec, and Feather emit a bluish electricity in their weapons, while others have a yellow lightning accompanying their attacks, such as Threo's Astro Destruction.
  • Additionally, the Paralyze status debuff is visually represented by a white spark while in effect.
  • The Arcarum-only Sephira Guardian emits Red electric sparks when in low HP.
  • Zeus sends a barrage of bluish-white lightning strikes in his Summon Call.
  • The background skies will randomly produce Red lightning when Proto Bahamut breaks its chains in its raid boss battle.
• Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: In the 5★ uncap episodes of the ten Eternals, it is revealed that the Revenant Weapons speak in this manner (at least in the English language setting). Threo in her limited vocabulary even lampshades them as "hard words".
• Yin-Yang Bomb:
  • Notably Vira and Amira, who can both acquire the ability to wield light and darkness at once (Amira through her half-demon half-angel heritage, Vira with her natural dark attribute and her ability to channel the power of the primal beast Luminiera).
  • Oxymoron, a major boss, is probably the most shining example, with its name, half-and-half color scheme, and concept (being two opposite forces sealed together) but is fire/water instead.
  • Twin Elements (known as Flame=Glass in Japanese) is the fusion born from a pair of draconic beings wielding Fire and Water, and is capable of delivering this through its Signature Move, Frigid Blaze. The meteor is depicted to have multi-color flames of orange, yellow and blue.
• You All Look Familiar: As typical with any RPG involving towns, this game recycles the artworks and sprites for every non-important NPC. Notably evident in the earlier batch of thugs, who come in only limited variations. But as new events come in, this trope gets subverted as the "generic" thugs would later wear accessories and clothes that match the occasion, but still use the same base artwork pose from the first thug variants. Notably Versus hand waves one particular NPC in its Journal by explaining that they're just all going for the exact same trendy haircut.
• You Will Not Evade Me: Super Ultimate Bahamut has a special attack that, if he isn't interrupted from casting it, grants him a buff called Godsight which makes all of his attacks and debuffs guaranteed to land regardless of any buffs or debuffs that would affect his chance to hit.