Video Game / StreetPass Mii Plaza

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StreetPass Mii Plaza is a program that came preloaded on the Nintendo 3DS since 2011, and serves to demonstrate the system's StreetPass function. When a player passes by another 3DS owner (who uses the program), that user's Mii will be collected in the main plaza along with some information about them. Miis can also be gathered in the plaza through some other methods, including invitations in certain games and by transferring special golden-pants Miis obtained online.

The program also contains several game modes, and is occasionally updated to add more. One of the original games is Puzzle Swap, in which your goal is to collect pieces of pictures from 3DS owners you pass by. The other is Find Mii (StreetPass Quest in British English), a light RPG where your personal Mii has been captured and others' Miis must be recruited through StreetPass to rescue them. A later update to the Mii Plaza that added new functions also featured additional Puzzle Swap puzzles (and the ability to add more puzzles without a full update) and a new kind of puzzle piece that can only be received through StreetPassing, along with a Find Mii sequel.

An update in June 2013 added four more games for purchase, including

• Mii Force / StreetPass Squad (developed by Good-Feel): a space shooting game in which collected Miis improve your ship's durability and firepower.
• Flower Town / StreetPass Garden (developed by Grezzo): a gardening game in which StreetPass hits help your plants grow.
• Warrior's Way / StreetPass Battle (developed by Spike Chunsoft): a war game in which your army grows based on the plaza populations of people you StreetPass.
• Monster Manor / StreetPass Mansion (developed by Prope): a dungeon-exploration game which lets you build the map as you collect StreetPasses.

Another update was released in April 2015, which adds a Premium VIP area for purchase and two more paid games:

• Ultimate Angler / StreetPass Fishing (developed by Prope): a fishing game where StreetPasses provide bait.
• Battleground Z / StreetPass Zombies (developed by Good-Feel): an action game where weapons come from StreetPassed people.

Another update was released in September 2016, which increases StreetPass hits to 100 by a "queue" feature (Premium only), adds SwiftPlay Plaza for quicker gameplay in the Plaza and five more paid games (Players were allowed to choose between the first two and get one for free.):

• Slot Car Rivals / StreetPass Slot Racer (developed by Good-Feel): a slot racing game which you race your slot car against other slot cars from StreetPassed people.
• Market Crashers / StreetPass Trader (developed by Good-Feel): a stock-trading game where Miis will give you advice on when to buy or sell.
• Feed Mii / StreetPass Chef (developed by Prope): set in the world of Find Mii, you collect ingredients from Passed Miis and use them to cook food they request.
• Ninja Launcher / StreetPass Ninja (developed by Prope): an launcher game of sorts where you fight demons by being shot out of a cannon; StreetPasses provide equipment that you have to set up so you can grab them mid-flight.
• Mii Trek / StreetPass Explorers (developed by Arzest): an exploration game where the pedometer steps of StreetPasses determine how far you can explore.

Find Mii was featured as a stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, which later returned in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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Tropes used in StreetPass Mii Plaza:

Mii Plaza as a whole

• Achievement System: Present in multiple areas. The plaza itself has an accomplishments system with goals like getting a certain number of streetpasses for you to work towards, and the downloadable games and birthday collection have a list of goals which award you with plaza tickets for completing them.
• And Your Reward Is Clothes: You earn Plaza tickets for doing specific tasks, which are exchangeable for a variety of hats, entire outfits, and even speech bubbles. You also earn hats directly from the Find Mii games, plus specific hats and speech bubbles for accomplishments regarding the downloadable games (the Pixel Mario hat just for downloading the 2013 update, plus each game gives one hat and bubble at purchase and one hat and bubble for completing it).
• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • Don't have Miis for the games? No problem! You can hire generic dog or cat characters (depending on which one you stated to prefer in your Mii info) or get Puzzle Swap pieces for a few Play Coins each. However, in Puzzle Swap, you can get blue pieces with Play Coins, but pink pieces cannot be obtained via Play Coins; you must StreetPass other players for pink pieces.
  • Special Miis obtained via SpotPass are fully equipped and will make life easier for every game where possible: They have every single panel in Puzzle Swap including the pink pieces, are at Level 5 in Find Mii and Monster Manor, come with a small second weapon in Mii Force, always carry a Rare Breed in Flower Town, will provide 10,000 soldiers in Warrior's Way without a fight, always announce a Mystery fish sighting in Ultimate Angler, have more powerful versions of the regular weapons in Battleground Z, give especially large boosts in Slot Car Rivals, and have 30,000 steps in Mii Trek.
  • Introduced in September 2016 was the ability to queue Miis after you've already accumulated ten (if you have the premium upgrade); you no longer need to use up your current Miis in order to empty out the ones next in line, instead being able to put them in storage for later use (up to 100).
• Anti Poop-Socking: You can only earn 10 Play Coins per day; you earn 1 Play Coin per 100 steps counted, so you'll hit the limit at 1,000 steps. Furthermore, you can only have up to 300 Play Coins at any one time.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: Appear when a brown character uses magic in Find Mii, and one called "Salesbunny" sells the extra games. The Salesbunny can also sell you potions in Find Mii II. The 2015 update also adds "Helper Hare" to the Find Mii games.
• Cap: If you can StreetPass one person more than 999 times, they will still say that you have met 999 times. Without the 2013 update, it instead goes up to 99.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: A Mii's shirt color affects the powers they provide in Find Mii and Mii Force, and Monster Manor notes a weapon's elemental affinity by color. (Colors also play a gameplay role in Flower Town's flowers, Monster Manor's map pieces, and Ultimate Angler's bait, but don't represent unique traits.) Also, in Feed Mii, which raw ingredient a Mii brings you corresponds to the Mii's shirt color.
• Character Customization: There's quite a bit of it. Miis by default have customized faces, names, birthdays, and clothing colors, and Mii Plaza adds onto that a hat, greeting, favorite hobby, dream, and preference of dogs or cats. The updates then expand it further with a choice of expressions during greetings in 2013 and custom speech bubbles in 2015.
• Console Cameo: Several hats take the form of past and present Nintendo consoles and portables, as do three of the speech bubbles (Famicom Cartridge, 3DS Game Card, and Wii U Game Pad).
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: After playing around in StreetPass Mii Plaza you might find yourself pressing and holding R in an attempt to speed up other games.
• Fake Longevity:
  • Especially apparent in Mii Force, Warrior's Way, and Battleground Z; as all of those only let you attempt one level each for every batch of StreetPasses you collect (you get three attempts at the level in Mii Force and Battleground Z, but you're still limited to just the one level). The Arcade mode in Mii Force lets you play through the levels until you run out of Miis, thankfully. The same applies to Ultimate Angler, as you only get to go to one fishing spot per session and lose all your unused bait if you leave.
  • Many of the Plaza Tickets come across as this, especially "Earn all of the titles" in Mii Force. There are 120 of them, and you can only earn one each time you finish a stage. Expect to do some major grinding on Platinum Beach again and again long after you've obtained all of the other Plaza Tickets for that game. Other major contenders are the ones for battling 300 other players in Warrior's Way (downright impossible for late-comers and for people in low-population areas), completing all 50 Puzzle Boxes in Monster Manor, and landing all 160 species of fish (twelve of which, the Mystery Species, only appear under certain conditions and are impossible to reel in at the first attempt even with the game's most powerful rod with full upgrades and a full set of ten anglers) in Ultimate Angler. Some of Battleground Z's Rare Zombies can come off this way too, due to how rare some of the hobbies are, such as Cleaning or Fashion.
  • Flower Town is not completely innocent of this either: While it contains no Plaza Tickets whatsoever that encourage repetitive work, the Rare Breeds are exactly what their name implies. Getting them is a Luck-Based Mission where your odds are pretty low, to where some of the most devoted players still don't have all 21 of them. In a similar vein is getting gold medals at every fishing spot in Ultimate Angler, which requires landing A+ specimens of every fish in the game (including the twelve Mystery Species).
• Final Boss: Present in every game except Puzzle Swap, Flower Town, and Ultimate Angler. Beating them will unlock either their hat or a hat version of them.
  • Find Mii: Ultimate Ghost
  • Find Mii II: Dark Lord/Emperor
  • Mii Force: Gold Bone
  • Warrior's Way: The Emperor
  • Monster Manor: The rematch with Arzodius
  • Battleground Z: Dr. Psymad/Prof. Scimad
  • Slot Car Rivals: Iceman
  • Market Crashers: Billy O'Naire
• Floating Limbs: The Miis here have floating ball hands and no legs.
• Heroic Mime: Your Mii doesn't talk in any of the downloadable games except Squad and Battle.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: In British English, all of the games except for Puzzle Swap are titled "StreetPass [X]".
• Luck-Based Mission: Results in any and all games depend on what kind of people you StreetPass with (or depending on where you live, whether you can find anyone to StreetPass with at all). There are ways around this, but they all make you cough up Play Coins in exchange, and you're probably still at the mercy of whatever Miis the game decides to give you.
  • Nintendo's slowly been making it easier to rack up StreetPasses, however, such as getting the last 6 people to visit a Nintendo Zone in your plaza when you visit said Nintendo Zone. There are ways to turn most wireless routers into a Nintendo Zone of your own that can mimic any other already-existing Nintendo Zone (presumably one in a heavily-populated location or a collective one used only in this manner) and thus essentially get an infinite amount of hits, but you might consider this to be cheating and it requires non-trivial amount of effort to accomplish that has a risk of ruining your router. However, simply setting a router's SSID to "attwifi" during a "National StreetPass Weekend" event will net faraway StreetPasses without the need for modification.
  • The StreetPass Birthdays are probably the worst. It's basically Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as you fill in a calendar with the birthdays of other Miis you meet. There are plaza tickets awarded for completely filling in each month, reaching certain totals, and even one for getting February 29th. However, you can cheat a bit if you have an extra 3DS lying around...
  • Market Crashers is a big example of this; either you earn more money to reach your goal, or you'll end up losing it.
• Missing Secret: Even if you buy all the available games in the 2013 update, you're going to have one empty square next to the Find Mii I & II option. Subverted since it's reserved for "go back to the Plaza gate", used when you receive a StreetPass while already in the Plaza. Fully averted as of the 2015 update: The "go back to the Plaza gate" square is now permanently there, but still only selectable if you have StreetPasses on standby.
• Munchkin: Many players will change their Mii color to simply provide the most benefits throughout the games as opposed to their genuine favorite color. Unlike typical Munchkins, these guys are people who you want to encounter, seeing as how they can help you get past difficult levels with ease. The same will likely go for hobbies for Battleground Z.
• No Fair Cheating: The games will deter you from Save Scumming in their own ways. For example, in Find Mii, if you close the game while you're in the middle of a session, all the unused Miis will be discarded and you'll have to wait for a new batch of StreetPasses to continue. In Warrior's Way, if you close the game in the middle of a session, the game will admonish you the next time you start it up. Do it again, and it'll start removing soldiers from your army. There's a way around this though: the game will only punish you if you quit twice in a row in the middle of a battle, so starting up the game and quitting right away before trying again will remove the penalty.
• Non-Standard Character Design: The friendly NPCs have more detailed faces and hairstyles that can't be fully replicated in the Mii Maker.
• Old Save Bonus:
  • You can set it up so that Miis join your plaza from other sources, such as race opponents in Mario Kart 7. They don't give you any benefit in most games, but they do count towards the accomplishments for collecting a certain number of Miis, and they can add to the armies of you and people you encounter in Warrior's Way.
  • Miis from prior passes can also be repurchased with Play Coins to be used again in Find Mii, Find Mii II, and Mii Force. They cost more than getting a Mii at random, but they're helpful if they're a high level or have a shirt color needed to pass a specific obstacle.
  • If you own one of the 2013 DLC games, you'll get a small discount when buying the 2015 game bundle.
  • Miis whose last-played game is either Super Mario 3D Land or Mario Kart 7 will allow you to catch a Blooper or a Cheep Cheep in Ultimate Angler for that session.
• Play Every Day: The ticket exchange center changes its stock daily, encouraging you to check in to see what it has.
• Product Placement: As of the 2013 update, if you get three or more Miis at once who all played the same game last, you'll be asked if you want to see more information about that game in the eShop.
• Renaissance Man:
  • Your Mii is a monarch, a space fighter pilot, a gardener, a warrior, a detective, a fisherman, an Improbable Weapon User, a slot car racer, a stock trader, a chef, a ninja, and an archaeologist.
  • Likewise, the Miis that you encounter share the same occupations, as well being swordsmen, mages, and stock market analysts.
• Scoring Points: Mii Force, Ultimate Angler, and Battleground Z all record your best score per level (or in Ultimate Angler's case, the biggest size fish you've caught of each breed); and they keep high score lists of you and anyone you StreetPassed. The same goes for Slot Car Rivals and the 5 fastest times; and Ninja Launcher and your personal winning streaks and points accumulated before failing.
• Socialization Bonus: Most games have this, of course. You can get through them using Play Coins, but getting StreetPasses from others gets you more benefits and allows you to get through the games much more quickly. Details for each specific game are below.
• Speech Bubbles: While the greetings always used these, the 2015 update added the ability to customize them with something other than a plain white bubble. For instance, the Find Mii bubble is a fantasy-style map.
• Take Your Time: Your Mii is locked in a cage? Space pirates are ravaging the galaxy? You haven't watered your flowers in days? You've got an army at your borders? You're trapped in a giant haunted mansion without food or water? Zombies are overrunning your hometown? The neighborhood fat cat tycoon is getting richer by the day? Your nation's heroes are starving? Demons are razing villages left and right? No problem! You can put off playing any of the games for any amount of time without anything happening.
• Tech-Demo Game: For StreetPass.
• Temporary Online Content: Miis deleted from the plaza can't be returned, unless you StreetPass that person again. Also, invited Miis moved to the Mii Maker will be deleted as well, and also can't be brought back. But the most important thing to remember is that the special Miis given out by Nintendo, while they act like normal StreetPassed Miis in that they give you a Puzzle Swap piece and can be used in Find Mii, act like invited Miis (that is, are deleted from the Plaza) if you try to copy them to the Mii Maker. Unlike invited Miis, there is no warning for this. And if you return the Mii from Mii Maker to the plaza, it will just count as an invited Mii and can no longer be rehired in the Find Mii games. So if you get one of those rare Miis, leave it in the plaza. Tomodachi Life makes this very very difficult to resist. Though one could always just copy the rare Mii from memory. Or google QR codes.
  
  And even this won't help if you streetpass others a lot - if you meet over 1000-something Miis, the game will automatically start deleting old Miis in your plaza (presumably to save space) whenever you streetpass anyone new, starting with the oldest ones. This also goes for Special Miis and any other Miis you'd like to keep on to for whatever reason. Luckily, as of early 2015, the VIP Room from Streetpass Premium lets you save any Mii to keep them forever.
• Variable Mix: As more Miis enter the plaza, the main theme gains more instrumentation.

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Puzzle Swap

• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • If a StreetPassed Mii doesn't have any new pieces that you don't, the game will spare you from searching their collection and just tell you. As for buying pieces with Play Coins, you may get duplicates but only for panels that are unfinished (not counting pink pieces).
  • The September 2016 update adds a "Bonus Chance" feature. If you're lagging behind on pieces, the Bonus Chance notification will appear when you look at a Mii's Panels. If you choose a puzzle piece, you will receive a ton of pieces from the same Panel at once.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Blue pieces are available by paying Play Coins, while pink ones must be received from StreetPasses.
• Easter Egg:
  • In the Animal Crossing: New Leaf puzzle, K.K. is hidden off the left side, Saharah is off the bottom-left, Resetti is off the bottom-right, Pete is off the top-left, and Porter and Rover are off the right side, riding the train.
  • Turning the camera on the Kirby: Triple Deluxe puzzle reveals multiple hidden Keychains:
    • Meta Knight (the Super Star Ultra one) before the Bronto Burt on the bridge.
    • Bandana Waddle Dee below the genuine article.
    • Inhaling Kirby from Adventure on the upper portion of the rotating tree.
    • King Dedede mid-jump from Adventure behind the falling wall.
    • Magolor below the pushing hand bridge section.
    • The HAL Laboratory block/"Golden Egg Statue" on the bottom right corner, just past the Miracle Fruit.
  • The Kirby Fighters Deluxe/Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe puzzle has a few too.
    • In the Drum Dash section, there's a cutout of a Waddle Dee on a stick waving back and forth below the final trampoline, as well as a Kirby keychain (from Adventure) on the rope holding the cloud above the final trampoline.
    • Meanwhile, turning the camera to the right in the Fighters section reveal King Dedede watching the four Kirbys fight (and subsequently watching all four Kirbys splat against the screen).
  • The Kirby: Planet Robobot puzzle has Susie start flying off-camera on the bottom-right after a few seconds. Hidden off of the top-left corner is a planet with Bandana Waddle Dee, waving.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Mario & Luigi: Dream Team puzzle ends with a crowd of characters, good and evil, noticing a Sneeze Wind Luiginary Work in the background and having "!" bubbles pop up, right before the Work sneezes and blows them all away.
• Product Placement: Puzzle panels feature Nintendo characters and are used to promote recent games. This can even extend beyond Nintendo products: one of the Japan-exclusive panels is a Big Mac, most likely to promote them as one of the main locations for a StreetPass relay.
• Scooby-Dooby Doors: The Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon panel features Luigi, a Greenie, and E. Gadd's Polterpup running through a series of them.
• Socialization Bonus: Being able to choose what puzzle pieces you want that the other person already has, as opposed to being subject to the whims of probability and being given the same piece multiple times when buying them with Play Coins. Pink pieces are also only available when trading with other people and can't be gotten randomly with Play Coins.
• Trap Door: In the Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon puzzle, Luigi falls into one, before re-entering from the front door.

Find Mii / StreetPass Quest

• Achievement Mockery: There's an accomplishment for missing with sword attacks three times in a row. You're congratulated for this.
• Anti-Frustration Feature:
  • The option to rehire specific old allies in Find Mii II. The color-specific shields are bad enough, but some rooms are impassible without at least two miis of the same color. Fortunately, if you have two appropriately colored miis in your plaza and six play coins, no problem.
  • Helper Hare and the improved map as part of the April 2015 update. The former warns you of upcoming barricades such as flaming rooms or dark rooms, and for two Play Coins, you can tell him to send someone to clear it for you. However, this only works when you've been to that room before. The latter allows you to check what rooms have chests by pressing X during the cutscene of your Miis walking across the screen backed by the map.
• Ascended Glitch: You could use rehired old heroes in Find Mii I by rehiring them in II, then leaving and starting I instead. After the DLC update, the rehire option was just added to the Find Mii I menu so you could do it directly.
• Big Bad: The Ultimate Ghost in the first game, and the Dark Lord/Emperor in the second.
• Cap: Level 7. This also influences the magic from Dark Green Miis.
• Color-Coded Characters: The Miis will have a certain Elemental Power depending on their shirt color.
  • Black Miis darken rooms, which also nullifies enemies' armour ratings.
  • Yellow Miis create sandstorms, which absorbs poisonous clouds when used by a team.
  • Light-blue Miis freeze enemies.
  • Light green Miis put enemies to sleep.
  • White Miis illuminate dark rooms, and also deal damage to reaper enemies .
  • Blue Miis cast water spells.
  • Red Miis cast fire spells.
  • Purple Miis poison enemies.
  • Brown Miis summon a random-colored hero to fight in their place.
  • Pink Miis make all Miis' attacks turn into Critical Hits, at the cost of reduced accuracy.
  • Green Miis increase the next hero's level.
  • Orange Miis give all following Miis extra attacks against the enemy.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The color of the enemy's shield will tell you exactly what shirt color of hero (or heroes, in the case of the shadowlight shield) would shatter it.
• Combination Attack: An addition in the sequel. They generally do more damage than the characters would separately (equalling that of the combined levels of the two Miis plus one) and generally don't miss. If they also have the same colored shirt, they get an additional hit and they will be able to use an enhanced version of their spell. A combination of one black and one white shirt will also grant an additional hit. The only drawback is team attacks can't get critical hits.
• Contractual Boss Immunity: Any player who has been using potions or magic to defeat the enemy will be in shock when they find out that Ultimate Ghost reborn can debuff the player's buff magic, and Dark Lord/Emperor is immune to sleep, freezing or poisoning.
• Damage-Sponge Boss: All of the final bosses: since you rarely have many high-leveled Miis available, they'll usually take a large number of Miis to take down. Ultimate Ghost has 150 HP, Dark Lord has 200 HP, and Dark Emperor has 250 HP. These are the only enemies whose HP gets into the triple digits. In Find Mii II, they also start every round by using "level-down gas" to weaken your heroes, which drags the fight out even more.^note The gas lowers every Mii's level by 1, except Miis already at level 1. You can buy a potion to disperse the gas, but the boss will immediately cast it again.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Armored Fiend in the first game and the Ultimate Ghost in the sequel.
• Distressed Damsel / Distressed Dude: Your Mii. In the sequel, his/her son and daughter get this treatment as well.
• Evil Smells Bad: The Ultimate Ghost is described as being fetid by your Mii.
• Excuse Plot: Your Mii (and his/her children in the sequel) has been kidnapped by monsters. Go recruit warriors using StreetPass and rescue them.
• Extended Gameplay: The Secret Quest has more areas, new enemies and a different Final Boss.
• Final Boss: The easiest way to know who's the Final Boss in this game is to see if it is holding your Mii. Not with a cage either, but physically grabbing your Mii.
• Fragile Speedster: Green Slimes only have 3 HP, but make up for it by being so evasive that 50% of physical attacks will miss it. That said, it has incredible magic defense, being immune to all types of magic except for Light Blue and Light Green.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: In Find Mii II, your Mii remarks on this regarding the Dark Lord/Emperor.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Ultimate Ghost in the 1st game and the Dark Lord/Emperor in the 2nd game.
• I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Plenty of examples in II. Hm, a fork in the road. Let's take... Mount Malice? Nevermind, how about the... Forest of Sorrow. Huh. Well, at least there's a third way that leads to... Diabolical Altar.
• Moon Logic Puzzle: How do you get rid of overwhelming poison in a room? By dispelling it with a sandstorm, of course!
• Mutually Exclusive Power-Ups: Pink and Orange magic overwrite each other.
• New Game Plus: You have to complete the game more than once to get all the hats.
• Not Completely Useless: It is normally inadvisable to use a pink Mii's "daring" spell due to turning all subsequent hits into Critical Hits but also reducing their accuracy. However, if you're up against an armored enemy and you know that most or everyone behind the pink Mii is a level 1 Mii, it may be your only hope for doing damage. "Actual damage or miss" sounds a lot better than "near-guaranteed to hit and do 0 damage".
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: A single enemy attack will cause a Mii to flee. A Mii will also leave if he/she casts a spell or uses a potion (in Find Mii II). Quite annoyingly, mummies attack before your Miis do, possibly scaring off Miis before they can do anything (thankfully this preemptive attack has low accuracy for weaker mummies, though they often appear in pairs, and Rampaging Mummies appear alone but are guaranteed to scare off a Mii).
• Palette Swap: Some of the enemies you can fight in the 2nd game are this trope; the Dark Emperor, who you can fight in the Secret Quest is a dark green, red-eyed version of the Dark Lord.
• Powerful, but Inaccurate: Pink Miis' magic fills all subsequent Miis in the current line with "daring"; that is, every hit that connects will be a Critical Hit, but the likelihood of missing attacks increases significantly. Probably useful if you have nothing but level 1 Miis up against a high-defense enemy, but impractical otherwise.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Just before the monsters broke in and kidnapped them, the Prince was going to help the peasants work the fields, while the Princess was going to tutor local children. Unfortunately this only applies to the Excuse Plot, as during the actual game the most they can do from inside those cages is shout hints at the player.
• Smash Mook: Golems and larger Ghosts give this impression.
• Socialization Bonus: Being able to level any StreetPassed character up to 7 if you meet them multiple times, when the wanderers you can hire with Play Coins can only be level 1 or 2.
• Status Buff: Dark Green Miis' spells double the next hero's level, Orange Miis give others an extra attack, and Pink Miis guarantee the remaining Miis do only critical hits for the rest of the battle but greatly reduce their accuracy.
• Status Effects: Light Green Miis and Light Blue Miis put enemies to sleep or freeze them respectively. The Dark Lord/Emperor is immune to these.
• Strong Family Resemblance: In the second game, the prince and princess look identical to your Mii aside from their hair. This gets lampshaded. It's especially amusing to see the princess if your Mii has facial hair. You can choose to make the resemblance even stronger if you earn and then wear the Prince or Princess wig.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman:
  • Miis with black or white shirts are extremely useful in dim or brightly lit rooms, against certain enemies weak to their magic (only about 3 enemies each), and against enemies armed with Shadowlight Shields, but their magic is completely useless, or even hindering, in all other situations. The latter two were introduced in Find Mii II, as well as brightly lit rooms, making magic from heroes in white specialized for one dark room and heroes in black completely useless in Find Mii I.
  • Pink-shirt Miis' magic is generally to be avoided due to guaranteeing Critical Hits on attacks that connect but also dramatically reducing accuracy. However, if you have a line full of Level 1 Miis, especially in Find Mii I where there's no combo attacks available, they can at least get all of your non-red, non-blue Miis to deal damage to high-defense targets, unlike dark green shirts whose magic lasts only for the next Mii in line.
• Unintentionally Unwinnable: If you use Pink magic against a Green Slime, every single physical attack you make will miss. Since Green Slimes can only be harmed by physical attacks, failure will be your only option unless you know that Orange magic can overpower Pink magic.
• Useless Useful Spell:
  • Thankfully averted when it comes to status spells. Since every Mii is a One-Hit-Point Wonder and casting a spell tires them out instantly, poison, freeze and sleep work on everything 100% of the time, with the latter 2 giving you at least 1 extra attack for whoever attacks the sleeping/frozen enemy. The stronger the Mii magic, the longer it's likely to last.
  • Played straight with Green Miis in a party of level 7s; if the other players' levels are at maximum, Green magic has no effect whatever.
  • Brown Miis summon a Wandering Hero. Heroes summoned this way can be one level stronger than the Brown Mii... but are just as likely to be a level lower, and even more likely to just be the same level. So it's typically useless except for shooting the moon against colored shields or if the Brown Mii is level 1 anyway.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Can be said for a Combination Attack from Black and White Miis, which is the only way to break Shadowlight shields.

Mii Force / StreetPass Squad

• Adorable Evil Minions: The standard mooks of the Gold Bone Gang look the least threatening.
• Character Select Forcing: Some levels are specifically designed to have a particular color take advantage of them.
  • Level 2-1 contains many stone blocks that take a while to be destroyed unless hit with the Brown Miis' spike shield, which destroys them instantly. The boss of the level, Skully, is vulnerable to the spike shield as well, with his modified ship's block-summoning ability being near-useless against it.
  • Level 2-3 favors Black Miis, being filled with enemies that are very durable unless fed a bomb, which deals heavy damage to them.
  • Levels 3-1, 4-1, and 4-3 require the use of Light Green Miis if the player wants all the gems; since their Ensnaring Plasma ability has magnetic properties and can pierce through solid ground at Level 3, they are the only Miis that can get the gems stuck in the ground, and are the best choice to destroy the twin submarines in 4-3 simultaneously due to how far apart they are from each other.
  • Planet Aquatis, being entirely underwater, gives Blue Miis an advantage and puts Red Miis at a disadvantage, giving the former's Hunting Sharks a boost in speed and tracking ability while reducing the range and power of the latter's Blazing Flame ability.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The favorite colors of the Miis and mercenaries you hire reflect the weapons you get when docking with their Mii pods.
  • Red: Blazing Flame
  • Orange: Piercing Laser
  • Yellow: Lightning Launcher
  • Light Green: Ensnaring Plasma
  • Green: Bouncing Ball
  • Blue: Hunting Shark
  • Light Blue: Rippling Wave
  • Pink: Sticky Shot
  • Purple: Annihilating Charge
  • Brown: Harpoon Gun
  • White: Cosmic Cutter
  • Black: Bomb Blaster
• Comically Missing the Point: The Gold Bone Gang lure you to the planet Amyuzia under the pretense of winning a prize. It instead turns out to be an ambush, which you have to fight off. At the end of the level, the chief asks you what the prize was, unaware there was no prize.
• Continuing is Painful: In Arcade Mode, continue pain varies between Normal and Hard difficulty. In normal, you can restart the stage if you have any pods left over that haven't been destroyed, but your score is reset. In hard mode, you start all over (with a different squad member from your current batch, rather than having to get more StreetPasses for a new set like you would if you just quit).
• Dem Bones: The Gold Bone Gang.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The chief of the Mii Force is never given a name in the game, unlike Mr. Mendel or Coraline. His trophy in Super Smash Bros for 3DS just calls him "Mii Force Captain."
• Feed It a Bomb: Three enemies in Level 2-3 take heavy damage if you shoot the Bomb Blaster into their gullet. These are the stone dragons, the small plants, and Queen Jasmine, the big plant.
• Ferris Wheel Date Moment: Referenced in Level 3-3, the Ferris Wheel-themed level of the amusement park planet.
• Giant Hands of Doom: The Goldie VII has them. Fortunately, they're destroyable.
• Invincibility Power-Up: Grab a turbo/carnival gem and all the Mii pods you've collected so far will temporarily form a ring around you, making you invincible and letting you fire all of them simultaneously: if you have less than 8 pods when you collect one, any missing cardinal directions will be filled in by a generic Attack Drone much like the one golden Miis give you.
• Letting the Air out of the Band: Happens during the Game Over sequence. Gold Bone would taunt the Mii Force for failing to do the mission, and as the Game Over text appears, the backing music ominously slows down.
• Matryoshka Object: The Battling Blowfish is a giant robot that contains two smaller and deadlier versions of it inside, in a matryoshka fashion.
• Nonindicative Name: Only the leader of the Gold Bone Gang is actually gold.
• No-Damage Run:
  • One of the three goals on each level (besides just completing it) is to finish the level without being hit.
  • The Hard difficulty on the unlockable Arcade Mode limits you to one squad member, essentially making it a No-Damage Run of the entire game.
• Painful Pointy Pufferfish: The Battling Blowfish boss is modeled after a globefish and can ram into the player with all it's retractable prongs out to deal damage.
• Pinball Scoring: In the second sense—all scoring is done in multiples of 10 during play, and then you receive 1 point for each squadmate you keep by the end.^note Technically, it's 201, but the purpose of that one point there serves this purpose. Thus, the ones digit in the score indicates how many people you've held onto, with a 0 indicating finishing with all 10.
• Quirky Bard: Dark Green Miis, again. Few areas require a bouncing projectile, and the ones that do can also be bypassed by Light Green Miis.
• Single-Biome Planet: The planets the Mii Force chase the Gold Bone Gang through veer towards this. Some of them have classical biomes (Leisura is a beach planet and Aquatis an water planet), but the others are more... peculiar: Roohin is covered with ruins and Amyuzia is a carnival planet.
• Socialization Bonus: Averted; passing other players gives no benefit over hiring Miis with Play Coins. However, Passed Miis will contribute to your high score list.
• The Something Force
• Space Pirates: The Gold Bone Gang.
• The Starscream: After the final battle against him, Skully will suggest you and him team up to overthrow Gold Bone and take over the gang. You automatically refuse, however.

Flower Town / StreetPass Garden

• Glowing Flora: Several legendary flowers the Miis can groom emit glistening lights, namely the Jack-O'Luna, the Neonara, the Goldenglow, the Feisty Fireworks, and the Sparklestar. After all they are legendary, so it makes them all the more beautiful. All of them are based on light sources: a Jack-O'Lantern, neons, a lantern, fireworks and a starry sky respectively.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: There are 80 plant breeds that can be cultivated, with the majority of them being available in several different colors.
• Happy Dance: Your character does this in the Progress Report screen whenever you grow a new breed for the first time.
• Luck-Based Mission: You'll never know what kind of seed you'll get from crossbreeding your flower with others' until it happens, and even then there are up to three flowers it can become with different percentages of probability. However, observant players can narrow down the possibilities of this second part:
  • The shape of the seed correlates directly to the flower that will grow; if one of the parent plants has a different seed shape then you can rule that possibility out.
  • Watch your flower as the seed is being formed; the lights that surround it will be the the same color as the flower that will come from the seed. The color wheel only indicates what colors the seeds will inherit.
• Money for Nothing: You start off with having very little money to having too much money to ever possibly spend.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Mr. Mendel is named after Gregor Mendel, a monk known for gardening.
• No Antagonist: Unlike most of the other games introduced by Salesbunny, there are no bad guys, or fighting, for that matter.
• Oblivious to Love: Ms. Blossom. After completing Buddy's job, The Dude's Wish (he wants to give a short, Gloria family plant, preferably one romantic), with a perfect rating, Ms. Blossom mentions that he gave the plant to her later, but can't seem to figure out why he did.
• Punny Name: Poppy, who runs the seed shop, as spelled out by the shop name "Poppy's Seeds".
• Scrapbook Story: By paying attention to requests that come in, you can see some storylines emerge. Following just one person's requests in order will give you the basics, but the game leaves it up to the player to connect the dots between different people - for instance, one requester is a doctor, another is a food critic, and a third is a chef; but by reading between the lines you realize one of the doctor's patients being treated for overeating is actually the critic, and the critic also visited the chef's restaurant.
• Serious Business: Watering plants. Unlike most examples, it's a lot friendlier, as no one is actually competing for anything; they just like helping out other gardeners.
• Shout-Out: The Evening Puff (called the Evening Tuft in British English), a plant that can only be grown with blue blossoms, is described as looking as "prickly as a hedgehog".
• Socialization Bonus: People you've StreetPassed with multiple times have a better chance of producing a seed that might be able to grow into a rare plant. (Though they'll still have this quality even if rehired with Play Coins.) Anyone passed will also have the ability to help grow a plant in their favorite color - if a plant can grow in the color of that person's Mii, it'll come up that color; otherwise, it will come up in a possible color closest to said color.
• To Be a Master: Your goal is to be named a Master Gardener by growing 20 different types of flowers.

Warrior's Way / StreetPass Battle

• Anti-Frustration Features: Spying. Otherwise the game would be more of a Luck-Based Mission every single fight.
• Blood Knight: The advisor/butler Wentworth. He's the one who constantly encourages your Mii to conquer the world right from the get-go.
• Cap: 9,999,999 soldiers.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The only game to avert this completely, as a Mii's color means nothing.
• Critical Hit: If you have 1 win and 1 loss and at least half as many troops remaining as your enemy, you have a chance of performing a Critical Strike that's guaranteed to defeat the last enemy group.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Many of the warlords you defeat are surprisingly OK with you taking over, and trust you to run their country well. A portion of troops from defeated armies will also eagerly join you.
• Developer's Foresight: If you StreetPass someone who has nobody in their Plaza, and thus their troop includes only themselves, their dialogue will be different when joining you.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Emperor's name, Fynalle, is only mentioned before deciding to fight him. He is referred to elsewhere in-game and in the soundtrack as the Emperor. His Smash Bros trophy is also titled The Emperor, but does make mention of his actual name.
• Exclusive Enemy Equipment:
  • Some generals have exclusive types of units. Naturally they are better than normal units. Ninjas always have the advantage and Berserkers will take out 2/3 of units of their type and 4/5 of enemies they are superior to.
  • Only the AI warlords can have, for example, two Cavalry units at a time. You and other players are limited to having one of each type of troops.
• Final Boss: The Emperor.
• Frontline General: No matter which type of unit is picked to go into battle, you or your opponent will be right there at the head of it.
• Level Scaling: When you first prepare to invade, the size of the opposing army will be proportional to your army's size. This is especially annoying with the final fight—his army will be at least eight times the size of your army!
• Luck-Based Mission:
  • Somewhat on the subject of mercenaries. You are alerted that mercenaries will usually have more units than advertised but on occasion you will be alerted that many more units than expected are coming in which case you could be getting about ten times your expected amount.
  • The final battle is entirely luck-based, courtesy of being unable to spy on the enemy and the battle itself is 5 rounds of straight Rock-Paper-Scissors.
• Punny Name: Almost every single enemy general/warlord (mostly homonyms of words meaning "angry", such as Fyurios, Krankey, or Raejin), climaxing with Emperor Fynalle.
• Random Event: Sometimes, battlefield conditions would be unfavorable to a certain unit type, giving that type a guaranteed matchup disadvantage for that battle.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Once you beat the game, should you choose to continue, you lose control of all the territories you conquered. Here We Go Again!.
• Socialization Bonus: Zigzagged; the number of soldiers you get from StreetPasses may or may not be more than the amounts you can hire with Play Coins; it all depends on who you pass. There's also the catch that if the StreetPass is from someone else with Warrior's Way, you have to win against them in order to claim soldiers from them (though if you just greet them, they might give you some soldiers randomly, but far less than what you could win).
• Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Cavalry beat Archers beat Infantry beat Cavalry. It's made even more noticeable in that they even have the hand symbols for rock, paper, and scissors.
• Take Over the World: Your eventual goal.
• This Is the Final Battle: When you go to conquer the final country, the usual "To battle!" text is replaced with "Final Battle!".
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: A mild example. Rather than organize three groups to duke out against the Emperor's forces you use one giant group and select which type of unit the armor should switch to in order to cut down the Emperor's army and hopefully end with more units than him after five rounds.
• Villainous Breakdown: The Emperor is furious when you beat him and swears revenge.
• Young Conqueror: You begin the game living in a small castle as leader of a tiny band and finish it as the world ruler of a million-strong army.

Monster Manor / StreetPass Mansion

• Big Bad: Arzodius, the demon king, who is responsible for kidnapping everyone inside of the haunted manor, and who rules over the ghosts inside.
• Big Boo's Haunt: The game's setting is a haunted mansion filled with ghosts and other undead nasties.
• Cap: 255 HP
• Charged Attack: All of the weapons have them, with two of the variables for each weapon being charge speed (which can be improved by badges) and maximum potential charge. All charged attacks, regardless of level or type, can potentially negate enemy attacks if timed correctly.
• Chest Monster: Treasurelings are a literal example.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: There are 5 weapon types (white, red, yellow, blue, and green). Monsters have similar types, and you do more damage if you hit one with the same weapon color of its type (i.e. using a white blaster on a white enemy.) There's also Arzodius' unique black icon, which shows that he's not weak to any of the elements.
  • White: Light
  • Red: Fire
  • Yellow: Thunder
  • Green: Wind
  • Blue: Ice
• Combination Attack: Should you find someone with a weapon you can have them help you in combat if you meet up with them after laying their piece.
• Critical Annoyance: At low health, though you will only get the beeping in battles.
• Deal with the Devil: The researcher wanted Arzodius to save his sick daughter; Arzodius asked for a gateway between worlds in exchange, resulting in...
• Dem Bones: Skeleterrors, Skeleterriers, Beelzebosses, and Spectral Knights.
• Demonic Possession: Arzodius to the researcher who once owned the manor.
• Disc-One Final Dungeon: The twenty-fifth to thirtieth floors, which have different music and overall seem to be the finale of the game. Once you've beaten the Disc-One Final Boss/Climax Boss, you are treated to a Left Hanging ending and the credits roll. Continue, however, and it's revealed that the manor actually has fifty floors and your escape from the manor was all an illusion by Arzodius.
• Fighting from the Inside: Iris quotes the trope by name in the True Final Boss battle, noting that it's a possibility that the researcher is still there somewhere. It probably explains the distressed phone call which led you and Iris to the manor in the first place.
• Golden Ending: If you slog through all fifty floors and beat the True Final Boss; Cue the Sun, and you escape the manor for real. And the place is surprisingly neat and beautiful when it's daytime. Also, you get clues as to the identity of the researcher and his daughter...
• Item Crafting: A simple version, where weapons can be powered up by using up other weapons.
• Meaningful Name: Iris in the 3 main languages: her US name is Iris Archwell, which is a pun on "I research well", her UK name is Ella Mentree, which is a pun on "elementary" and her Japanese name is Sheila Bell, which is a pun on the Japanese verb for "shiraberu" or "investigate".
• Ms. Exposition: Iris tells you everything you need to know about the haunted manor and its backstory.
• New Game Plus: Once you beat the game, you can restart with your last equipped weapon, a Master Badge +2 to increase experience gains, and your current HP total.
• No Cure for Evil: Averted; Beelzebosses can heal themselves, and Vampire Bats, Vampires and Harmlequins can drain your HP to restore theirs.
• Overly-Long Tongue: Smiling Spectres, Snarling Spectres, and Treasurelings have very long tongues.
• Palette Swap: You can find different-colored versions of some enemies on the higher floors. Naturally, they're stronger than the normal variants.
• Pre Existing Encounters: Represented by the red dots on the grid, triggered by placing a block over them. As you reach the higher floors, invisible versions start appearing.
• Random Encounters: Some encounters are pre-determined by spots on the map, but sometimes when you open a door and enter a new room or corridor for the first time, an enemy will be waiting behind the door to ambush you.
• Real Men Wear Pink: The palette-swapped Smiling Spectres, Poochergeists, and Snarling Spectres are pink.
• Reckless Sidekick: Iris goes off exploring the haunted manor by herself. And when you come in to investigate (and get trapped in the manor as well), she insists on going off exploring herself (after explaining the basics to you in the tutorial, of course).
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Arzodius is this when you first fight him.
• Seeks Another's Resurrection: The paranormal researcher who Arzodius used as a host made a Deal with the Devil to resurrect his Delicate and Sickly daughter, all but stated to be Iris.
• Socialization Bonus: StreetPassed Miis offer a more varied selection of rooms depending on how many times you've passed them (1-5, as opposed to a static 3 from hired investigators) as well as the possibility to appear in one of the newly-created rooms after you take their piece: regular Miis will give you a small number of gems and possibly a puzzle box; other Monster Manor owners will let you choose either teaming up for stat boosts or items (a random item and any puzzle box out of the ones they've solved so far).
• Vampiric Draining: Vampire Bats, Vampires, and Harmlequins can drain your HP to restore theirs.
• Wham Line: After the Final Boss, Iris reads the last page of the journal she found, which is a message addressed to her. Iris also comments on how the voice behind the phone call that brought her and your Mii here sounded familiar.

Ultimate Angler / StreetPass Fishing

• And I Must Scream: The alien found in Enigma Cave was stranded there for ten whole years with no way of getting out. Fortunately, you save him, and the entire world as well (his kind was planning on destroying the human race after seeing just how horrible humankind can be, but he cancels the plan as thanks for helping him.)

• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: A Mii's color determines what kind of bait you get from them.
• Damage-Sponge Boss: The Mystery Species have a ton of stamina, making it rather easy to run out of time. If the angler who mentions them to you says they nearly caught it, then its health may already be partially depleted. But if they say that they "heard a rumor" about it, then it'll have full stamina, and you will not catch them in less than two tries, even if you have a fully upgraded three-star rod and 10 anglers backing you up.
• Disc-One Final Boss: You thought Kronosaurus was the final Legendary Monster you needed to catch? Turns out there's three more of them. There's also a UFO in Enigma Cave that's been creating strange sound waves...
• Fishing for Sole: Yep, the classic old boot shows up, along with a few other "junk" catches.
• Fishing Minigame: The entire game is based on the act of fishing.
• Flying Saucer: You find one in Enigma Cave. Turns out that it was the object that was causing all those sound waves.
• Foreshadowing: The shape of the islands indicate what Legendary Monster lives in them. For instance, Mermaid Island, the island that contains Nessie, is shaped like a plesiosaur.
• Giant Squid: You can catch North Pacific giant octopi in this game, and one of the Mystery Species is a giant squid.
• Glass Cannon: The Demon Rod has high Gauge Span, Pulling Power, and Resistance, making it great at reeling in catches, but has poor Durability, which increases the risk of overloading the gauge meter and breaking the line by accident.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: 160 fish to collect.
• Humans Are Flawed: The alien you rescue from Enigma Cave believed that humans were all wicked creatures, having witnessed nothing but war and destruction until he came to the Streetpass Islands. After witnessing just how nice the people on the islands are, he decides that humans aren't all bad and that the good ones outnumber the bad ones, and gets his fellow aliens to call off the eradication of the human race they were planning.
• Humanoid Alien: The alien you save in Enigma Cave.
• Infinity +1 Sword: The UFO Rod is perfect in every stat, but can only be gotten after rescuing the alien from Enigma Cave, and takes a lot of money and rods to fully upgrade.
• Item Crafting:
  • You can combine bait types together to attract bigger and more specific types of fish.
  • You can also combine two different fishing rods together to make a third type. The resulting rod gains increased bonus abilities, and its stats can be upgraded further by one point in any category.
• Jack of All Stats: The Angel Rod has balanced stats.
• Kraken and Leviathan: Two of the three Legendary Monsters you can catch after completing the first five islands are the Kraken and the Leviathan.
• Letting the Air out of the Band: The background music quickly slows to a halt if you fail to hook a fish.
• Lighthouse Point: The main menu shows that the main island has a lighthouse. It is more noticeable at night.
• Magikarp Power: The UFO Rod. Despite being a three-star rod, it starts off with the bare minimum in each ranking, and upgrading it to even have its maximum number of upgrades can be extremely expensive, not to mention consume a massive number of rods. Even then, bringing it to its maximum level requires well north of 1 million credits.^note $1,015,000 to upgrade all of the stats, plus the roughly $200,000+ for mixing rods to get it to +25, even if it's done in the most efficient way possible. That said, there's a reason it's also the Infinity+1 Rod - it's the only rod that can be maxed out in every category simultaneously.
• Master of All: The UFO can be maxed out in every category simultaneously. It starts off with the bare minimum in each category and requires a large sum of money and rods to reach the maximum number of upgrades in exchange for this.
• Meaningful Name: Coraline, combining "coral" and "line" (as in a fishing line).
  • Coralline algae are a type of marine red algae, and Coraline's dad is a marine biologist.
• Metal Slime: The Mystery Species can't be caught unless you StreetPass other people, and are the most difficult things to catch in the game. However, they are also some of the most profitable, granting you large amounts of money and points if you catch them. Some of them, such as the Blooper, are worth more than the UFO.
• Musical Nod: Two of the Mystery Species are a Cheep Cheep and a Blooper. If you succeed in reeling one in, the Underwater theme from Super Mario Bros. plays instead of the usual "super big catch" theme.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: Turns out all of the Legendary Monsters aren't real; they were just the alien's experiments. Coraline even lampshades this.
• No Antagonist: Unless you consider the fish as your animal nemeses, that is.
• No Cartoon Fish: In contrast to the animals in other Mii games, all the fish are portrayed realistically (with two exceptions that are Shout Outs to another game series).
• Noob Cave: Prelude Island is the first island you go to, and it's by far the easiest one to clear.
• Not-Actually-Cosmetic Award: There's a bonus above and beyond plaza tickets for clearing the islands requiring the special or premium tickets. If you clear all three special islands, you no longer have to get a permit or a ticket to visit them. Similarly, once you catch the UFO, you no longer need tickets to access any of the islands.
• The Power of Friendship: More so than the other games; if you hook something big, everyone you've StreetPassed that session will grab on to you and help you reel it in.
• "Save the World" Climax: You accidentally save the world by fishing out the final thing, a UFO containing an alien, stranded on the ocean floor, who was about to wipe out humanity until you rescue him.
• Shout-Out: The two most valuable Mystery Species (as well as the two most difficult to reel in) are Cheep Cheep and Blooper, the two most frequently recurring underwater enemies in the Super Mario Bros. series.
• Snowy Sleigh Bells: The Atlantis Deep-Sea Cruise is a polar fishing spot, and its music features discrete jingle bells in the background.
• Socialization Bonus: StreetPassing is a necessity to unlock the twelve Mystery Species; other 3DS owners will unlock a mystery fish (for that session only) if either they have recently tried to land one (whether successfully or not), the number of times you have StreetPassed them is a multiple of 10, or they have certain games (such as Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7) as their most recently played. Other Ultimate Angler players will also populate the game's leaderboards.
• Songs in the Key of Panic: The music speeds up when the fish you're reeling in starts escaping. Ends with Letting the Air out of the Band if you either don't reel in the fish in time, or you miss the first strike.
• Stock Ness Monster: Nessie is one of the Legendary Monsters you can catch.
• Underground Monkey: Some of the Mystery Species are golden versions of certain fish, such as the golden swordfish and the golden tuna.
• Unnamed Parent: Coraline's Dad.
• The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Mysteria Island. It can only be completed after catching all the Legendary Monsters, and it isn't easy to go there since you can only get Premium Tickets by spending 50 Play Coins or by tagging foreign or Special Miis.
• Warm-Up Boss: Leedsichthys. It's the first Legendary Monster you meet, and as a result, has the least amount of stamina out of all of them. That said, capturing it can be a challenge due to the time meter and the fact your options for rods aren't very good at this point.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The aliens were planning on destroying the human race because they were tired of all the war and destruction people caused. They change their mind after you save one of their kind who was trapped in Enigma Cave.
• Wintry Auroral Sky: The Oceanora Deep-Sea Cruise lies in frosty waters filled with various iceberg, near the coasts of the Oceanora Island (which features various biomes including a tropical beach). This fishing spot takes place during nighttime and auroras shimmer in the dark skies, completing the polar atmosphere
• Zonk: The five "Miss" items, which give you only the barest of rewards for catching (presumably for cleaning up the nearby waters). They're guaranteed to appear if nothing in the local waters likes the bait used, but they can potentially show up even if every fish nearby likes your current bait.

Battleground Z / StreetPass Zombies

• Abnormal Ammo: The Piggy Bank granted by the Earning Money hobby is fueled by coins shot out of the piggy's nose. However, its special, Piggy's Revenge, is something else entirely.
• Acrofatic: Belinda Munch, Munchers and Mushy Moshers can leap around with ease despite their weight.
• Action Bomb: Dynamikes and Dynamutts (and their mega varieties) carry explosives. Sometimes they are already lit when they spawn, while sometimes attacking them causes the explosives to ignite, after which the player has a limited time window in which to finish them off (or get out of range) before the explosives detonate.
• Advancing Wall of Doom: At the Hydroelectric Dam, an invincible wall of zombies will slowly advance on you from the bottom of the screen. If you or any unclaimed keys make contact with them, they will instantly destroy any weapon you currently wield or the keys respectively.
• Art Attacker: The giant Paintbrush and palette granted by the Drawing hobby. Your Mii fights with it by literally thwacking the undead life out of zombies, and for its special attack, Artistic License, your Mii paints a hole in the ground which, as a result of zombies reportedly being too knuckleheaded to tell the difference, behaves like an actual Bottomless Pit.
• Asteroids Monster: Gloopers. Attack them once with a Slash-type attack, they split in two. Attack the two halves once, they also split in two. The mini-Gloopers give 300 points each upon death, which actually makes it more beneficial to split Gloopers as opposed to offing them directly if you're score attacking, especially since the Wii Remote takes care of the mini-Gloopers very quickly.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: If Belinda Munch sees a donut, she'll stop whatever she's doing to eat it. This is the only proper opening you can use to attack her directly.
• Background Music Override: Anytime you pick up an M Potion, the standard creepy music is replaced in favor of the M Potion's hyperactive theme tune.
• Badass Teacher: The Pencil's special attack, Cram Lesson, turns you into this. When used, it traps nearby zombies, then displays a short cutscene of your Mii teaching the dazed zombies simple math. Eventually, your Mii gets angry at the zombies, and calls a Bolt of Divine Retribution to kill everyone in the classroom.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Dr. Psymad uses an M Potion against you during the first part of the battle with him.
• BFS: The tutorial weapon and the weapon granted by the Playing Video Games hobby, a Wiimote. It turns into a sword when swung, and it's as big as you are. You can even do Link's spin attack, the Heroic Spin, and your Mii charges it the same way Link does.
• Bonus Level: The Showdown stages, which pit you against a never-ending horde of zombies and tasks you with defeating as many as possible before time runs out. Each area has one, and they are unlocked once the local boss is cleared and the player possesses enough Medals.
• Boring, but Practical: The Wii Remote may possibly be one of the least zany weapons in the game. However, there's no questioning its effectiveness, as it's useful in practically any combat situation due to its quick attack speed and respectable power. And given that so many people have video games chosen as their hobby, you'll more than likely always have one at the ready.
• Breakable Weapons: Your health bar actually gauges your weapon's integrity. If it runs out of HP, your weapon breaks, and you'll have to switch to a different one. Break all your weapons, and you'll fail the stage. Naturally, the more Miis you StreetPass at once, the more weapons you'll get, and the lower your odds of failing.
• Bullfight Boss: Slimebackers, the Mega Slimebacker, and the Star Quartersmack. Each of them will charge at you after spending a few seconds revving up, and will be dazed for a few seconds if they miss, leaving you an opening to attack.
• Button Mashing: The whole game, but the Sheep Pillow's charged attack, Furious Flock, is fueled by this. When activated, you Mii puts the pillow on the ground and falls asleep on it. A bubble representing your Mii dreaming appears, and by repeatedly hitting the A button, you can summon a Zerg Rush of dream sheep that exit your Mii's dreams into the real world and stampede over enemy zombies. The faster you mash A, the more sheep you can summon.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Mostly averted, as the weapons you receive are based on a Mii's hobby, not their shirt color. However, each weapon does take the color of its Mii, and the game tracks which colors you've gotten for each weapon, so if you're going for 100% Completion, it becomes important.
• Console Cameo: The weapon for the "playing video games" hobby is a Wii Remote. The Wii Remote also appears on a web page as the Tablet's combo finisher.
• Critical Hit: There's a low chance to deal massive damage to a zombie with a single strike. However, for every 10 Hits you increase your combo count by, your critical chance increases by 5%, up to a +50% critical hit ratio boost.
• Dance Battler: The Disco Ball granted by the Dancing hobby turns you into this. You use footwork to attack zombies, and its special attack, Dance-Off, traps any zombies caught in it, then displays a short cutscene of you and the zombies having a dance-off. It ends with the zombies being killed with a Bolt of Divine Retribution for losing the dance-off.
• Dance Party Ending: The credits are backed by your Mii, Dr. Scarlet, Dr. Psymad, and a variety of zombies dancing to the background music.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts:
  • The Pencil granted by the Studying hobby is, for all intents and purposes, a polearm. Its attacks consist of rapid jabs and twirls, finished off with a checkmark attack.
  • The Tablet is the king of this, bar none. It's far weaker than most brute damage weapons like the Wii Remote or the Bowling Ball, but all of its attacks are multi-hit, and they hit a lot.
• Die, Chair, Die!: There's some breakable scenery around levels, such as postboxes and trash cans. Breaking them releases recovery items you can pick up to restore the HP of your equipped weapon.
• Dragged Off to Hell: The Suitcase's Special Attack, Dream Vacation, is Put on a Bus to Hell in the most literal sense possible: when cast, your Mii captures nearby zombies, then the game displays a cutscene of the zombies boarding a tour bus, which promptly drives itself into a void to kill its passengers.
• Dual Boss: Bubba and Cleetus Rotts, the Cornfield bosses, are fought simultaneously.
• Energy Weapon: The Superhero Costume's special, Light of Justice, involves your Mii flying into the sky and shooting heat beams from its eyes at the ground around it.
• Escort Mission: Some levels are this, along with giving you a bonus if the NPC isn't harmed once.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Super Psymad has eyes on his arms.
• Fat Bastard: Munchers, Mushy Moshers, and Belinda Munch are all defined by their gluttony. Munchers are never seen without glazed donuts in their mouths, while Belinda Munch can be distracted with boxes of donuts.
• Fighting Your Friend: If another player who owns the game activates the option to turn into a zombie, they will turn into one if they die when they are allied with you. You will then have to defeat your zombified teammate.
• Flunky Boss:
  • The Star Quartersmack has a group of Slimebackers to assist him.
  • Bubba and Cleetus Rotts can attack you by producing Combustocorns and throwing them at you. They can also summon Rotties to stall you.
• Frying Pan of Doom: The Cooking hobby gives you one. You can smack some zombies upside the head with it, and its special attack is Pandemonium, where your Mii sends a zombie flying with a slap of the pan, then he/she jumps after it and slams it into the ground.
• Giant Mook: Some enemies have larger versions of themselves, such as the Shamblers and the Blockheads.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Not Dr. Psymad himself, but rather the alien taking his form.
• Glass Cannon: Dr. Psymad can kill you in a single hit while invincible, but goes down in a single hit when his M Potion wears out.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: When using the Superhero costume granted by the Helping Others hobby, its standard attack, Caped Karate, is quite simply your Mii punching the lights out of zombies while accompanied by Written Sound Effects.
• Guide Dang It!: Finding Rare Zombies. The Z-Wiki is kind enough to tell you hints as to what weapons you need in what stages in order to make Rare Zombies appear. What it doesn't tell you is that you also need to use the weapon's special attack at a particular time or place in said stage in order to get the Rare Zombie to appear. Some hints are more obvious, like using Surprise Attack on a stack of books in the Supermarket, or using Heroic Spin on a computer in the Laboratory, but anything that involves wave-based progression usually isn't as lucky.
• Hand Wave: The weapon for the drawing hobby is a paintbrush and palette, which are not used for drawing. If your first Mii gives you the painting tools, they'll explain that since they love drawing, they thought they'd try out painting as well.
• Helpful Mook: In some occasions, you may come across the Creepy Courier Zombie, who looks like a postman and is always carrying a useful item. Not only is he non-hostile, you can kill him to get his item, which can range from Plaza Tickets to M Potions.
• I Know Madden Kombat: While the Bowling Ball granted by the Sports hobby doesn't appear to be this, its special attack plays this completely straight. The Mii rolls the ball forward, which suddenly grows to an enormous size to bowl over any zombies in its path.
• Improbable Weapon User: This game takes this trope and cranks it up to eleven. The most mundane weapons start from things like a Frying Pan of Doom and a BFS Wii Remote. Then there's painted-on holes in the ground, a superhero costume, an army of stampeding sheep, The Internet, dance battles, and cram school, all of which can be used to kill zombies.
• The Internet: Yes, this is a weapon. The Tablet granted by the Using the Internet hobby allows you to attack zombies by swiping holographic projections of web pages. Its special attack, Special Delivery, allows your Mii to buy something off the net, upon which a giant package falls out of the sky and crushes zombies.
• Invincibility Power-Up: The M Potions that you may find the Creepy Courier Zombies carrying. Picking it up gives you a rainbow Battle Aura and the ability to run at full speed, as well as being able to One-Hit Kill zombies on contact for triple the standard point value. If you have teammates, they'll also gain the same effects, but it's less useful in their case because they will still follow behind you instead of picking their own targets.
• Jack of All Stats: The Art Supplies and the Tote Bag have 3 out of 5 stars in all of their stats.
• Jerk Jock: The Star Quartersmack and the Slimebackers are football players. Undead football players who want to kill you, to be exact.
• Kill It with Fire: The Pop-Up Book's special, Surprise Ending, involves using a paper cutout of a dragon that spews fire at enemies. Surviving zombies will catch fire and take continuous damage, making it especially effective against bosses.
• Lightning Bruiser: The Wii Remote has quick attack speed coupled with respectable attack power, area of effect,and range, making it a viable option for most situations.
• Limit Break: Special Attacks. Every weapon has one, and how many stocks are available depend on the weapon. Weaker ones like Heroic Spin generally get more uses, while stronger ones like Dream Vacation usually get one or two uses. If you run out of stocks, you can no longer use your Special Attack, but you can recover one stock by killing a Rare Zombie.
• Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Dr. Scarlet has several pairs of glasses that she can wear, and some of them are rather silly-looking.
• Meaningful Name: Hobby Town/Hobbiville is named as such because Hobbies are integral to the game's mechanics.
• Metal Slime: Rare Zombies. They're more durable than normal zombies and use Hobby Weapons like you do, but they drop Special Attack stocks upon death and grant a Medal and a score bonus at the end of the stage.
• Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody: A weaponized example of this trope, the Disco Ball's ultimate attack, Dance-Off, forces all of the zombies onscreen into a dance sequence with the player character where Michael would be.
• Mirror Boss: The Rare Zombies count, as they fight you by using the exact same weapons needed to summon them. They can't use charged attacks, however.
• Monster Compendium: The game catalogs the various zombies you defeat.
• Musical Assassin: The Boom Box granted by the Listening to Music hobby. It fires powerful music notes that damage zombies, and its special summons an amp that blasts explosive music notes that deal massive damage and Stun to zombies near the blast radius.
• Off with His Head!: Zombies will occasionally get decapitated when killed instead of exploding into a pile of bones. Any attack is capable of beheading them, even ones you wouldn't expect such as playing music, smacking them with a pillow, or simply punching them. Sometimes, the decapitated body will crawl around for a few seconds (although it can no longer deal damage).
• One-Hit Kill:
  • On the off chance that you behead a zombie, it will die instantly regardless of how much HP it had remaining. Of course, the zombie needs to have a head to begin with for this to work.
  • M Potions instantly kill any zombie you ram into. Dr. Psymad knows this and chugs one at the beginning of his boss battle. If he touches you, your weapon breaks instantly.
  • Super Psymad can grab your Mii. If it does, it'll lift you up and grip tightly enough to destroy your weapon in two ticks.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: Dr. Psymad during the first phase of the battle with him.
• Palette Swap: You can get different colors of weapons depending on the Mii's shirt color when he/she gives you the weapon.
• Paper Master: The Pop-Up Book granted by the Reading hobby puts an interesting spin on this. Your Mii fights with it by opening to different pages in the book, which makes pop-out cutouts appear that hurt zombies. For its special attack, Surprise Ending, your Mii calls upon the powers of a paper cutout fire-breathing dragon.
• Power-Up Food: Voltoad's electric powers will intensify if it eats a battery.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Dr. Scarlet changes glasses every time you go in and out of the Zombinav/Z-Wiki. If you stay on the entry screen for a few seconds, she will smile and raise her glasses as if making sure the player notices them.
• Raising the Steaks: Zombie dogs are a fairly common enemy, and one of the bosses is a zombie toad.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: If you attack Belinda Munch before she's finished eating her doughnut, she'll get angry, her eyes will turn red, she'll grow to double size, and her Death from Above attack will cover the entire area.
• Serious Business: Hobbies are treated seriously enough that everyone always has hobby-related gear on them at all times. This has relevance with the storyline, with Dr. Psymad claiming that zombifying the entire planet would create world peace since zombies don't bicker over hobbies, citing his wife leaving him over fights regarding which hobbies are better as an example as to why they should be quashed.
• Shield Bash: The Paintbrush's combo finisher involves thrusting the accompanying Palette forward in this fashion.
• Shock and Awe: Killawatts, Voltoad and Super Psymad all have electricity attacks during which hitting them with melee weapons will damage you (ranged weapons do not have this drawback).
• Shout-Out:
  • In some regions, the pencil's charged attack is called Educating Rotter, a nod to the Willy Russell play/film Educating Rita.
  • Super Psymad has eyes on his arms.
  • The Dancing Zombie is in the graveyard? Sounds Thrilling!
• Socialization Bonus: Played straight to a certain point. StreetPassed Miis don't appear to be any different than hired Miis, and other Battleground Z players will give the option to team up as a Non-Player Companion instead of giving you their weapon. Their level scores will also appear on your high score lists. However, if you hire a lot of Miis, you may notice that the odds are higher that their weapons are "Found", which means that the weapon has only a third of the HP than a normal weapon of the same type.
• Spikes of Villainy: Putrid Punks, Mushy Moshers and the Star Quartersmack have these.
• Starter Equipment: In the case that you meet a Mii whose user has not yet set a favorite hobby, the weapon you will receive will always be a Boom Box.
• Stationary Boss: Super Psymad will always stay in one place.
• Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: As far as fighting the zombies goes, anyway. There's three types of damage: Slash, Smash, and Power. Slash works great against squishy things like Rotties, but is resisted by armored enemies and the Spiky Trash Can. Smash works great against anything armored or the Trash Cans, but not so much against squishy things. Power is unaffected by armor or squishy and is resisted by neither, which is why most special attacks are of this type.
• Timed Mission: Each of the five areas of the game has one level where you need to find a certain number of items or solve a certain number of puzzles in a fixed time frame. Each also has a second, shorter time limit for the bonus medals.
• Turns Red: Bosses will begin flashing red when they're low on health.
• Villainous Glutton: Belinda Munch and the Munchers do not let being undead stop them from eating everything they can get their hands on. In Belinda Munch's case, her appetite can be used against her for distraction purposes.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: The Star Quartersmack will teach you to take the boss battles seriously. How? By way of its touchdown attack.
• Warm-Up Boss: The Mega Slimebacker that appears in the subway station needs more hits to kill than the zombies you face earlier in the level, but can still be killed much more quickly than the five main bosses.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Final Boss intends to create world peace... by zombifying the entire planet.
  Prof. Scimad/Dr. Psymad: Just imagine... a wonderful world where nobody fights with each other because they have different hobbies... Zombies don't have hobbies, aside from going "urgh" and biting people!
• Westminster Chimes: Cram Session/Educating Rotter, the pencil's charged attack, cuts to a classroom scene in which the player is trying to teach simple arithmetic to a group of dazed zombies while the Westminster chimes play in the background (due to their association with school in Japan).
• Wholesome Crossdresser: A Mii whose hobby is Fashion will provide you with clothes pertaining to that Mii's gender, not your Mii. Your Mii won't care and put it on anyway, regardless of if it's a female Mii in a tuxedo, or especially if it's a male Mii in a poofy frilly ballroom dress.
• "With Our Swords" Scene: Each session will begin with one, with each of the survivors handing you (or at least asking if you want) an item you can use to fight the zombies with.
• Zerg Rush: Every so often, a whole pack of zombies appears to wreak havoc on the surrounding area. When this happens, a Creepy Courier with an M Potion tends to show up so you can knock them all down.
• Zero-Effort Boss: Dr. Psymad pops an M Potion in the first phase of his boss battle. It's a One-Hit Kill if he touches you, but he can never catch you as long as you run in circles. Once it wears off, one hit will finish him.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Hobbiville is suffering from one.

Slot Car Rivals / StreetPass Slot Racer

• A.I. Breaker: The AI is not very good at dealing with those ramps with the boost pads, namely the recovery after landing. They spend quite a while with the accelerator relaxed, meaning they slow down a great deal upon landing. This makes courses with lots of such jumps pathetically easy to beat the AI, such as Stop-and-Go Island and Soaring Skyway. Even Iceman has problems with this and is the most reliable way to edge ahead of him.
• Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: Zero-G Crash Course.
• Anti-Rage Quitting: If you quit a race, your next booster will have no upgrades at all.
• Astral Finale: You'll challenge Iceman in Outer Space.
• Character Customization: You can customize the look of your slot car; almost as much as you can your Mii.
• Death Mountain: Mountain Climber and Mountain Coaster.
• Final Boss: Iceman, Nico's brother who challenges you to a race after unlocking the final course and completing its missions.
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition: The Mii assisting you is Nico Fire, and the champion you're supposed to beat is his brother Iceman.
• Floating Continent: A group of floating islands make up Soaring Skyway.
• Gravity Screw: In Zero-G Crash Course, gravity always pulls perpendicular to the track regardless of its orientation.
• Green Hill Zone: Simple Circuit and Circuit Simple.
• Hot-Blooded: Nico Fire in a nutshell, complete with Meaningful Name and eyes that occasionally turn into fireballs.
• Land of Faerie: Fairy-Tale Forest and Falltime Fairy Tale.
• Level Ate: Full-Course Course and Carbo-load Road. Possibly combined with Macro Zone, but equally likely that the miniature racetrack is inside a restaurant.
• Level in Reverse: Most of the courses are later driven in the other direction, and where needed, with a few modifications to make them possible. Normal versions are most often set in the day, while the the reverse versions are set in the evening, nighttime, or turbulent weather:
  • Simple Circuit is driven backwards as Circuit Simple.
  • Fairy-Tale Forest is driven backwards as Falltime Fairy Tale.
  • Mountain Climber is driven backwards as Mountain Coaster. Notable for being the biggest gap between the regular version and the reverse version, with Mountain Climber in the first set and Mountain Coaster in the final set.
  • Start 'n' Stop Island is driven backwards as Island Sunset.
  • City Corners is driven backwards as City Nightlife.
  • Desert Swirl is driven backwards as Starry Swirl.
  • Full-Course Course is driven backwards as Carbo-load Road.
  • Soaring Skyway is driven backwards as Stormy Skyway.
  • Treetop Twist is driven backwards as Canopy Catastrophe.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The names of the brothers running the slot car track are most likely a reference to Nico Rosberg and Kimi "The Iceman" Räikkönen, 2 Finnish Formula 1 drivers.
• Palmtree Panic: Start 'n' Stop Island and Island Sunset.
• Rapid-Fire Typing: When you recruit rivals with Play Coins, Nico Fire calls them in by sending a message with his computer. Despite Miis having spherical hands with no digits, Nico's message takes only two seconds tops for him to type and send regardless of how many Miis you hire.
• Shifting Sand Land: Desert Swirl and Starry Swirl.
• Shout-Out: The final racetrack, where you race against Iceman, is set in outer space with planets surrounding the track.
• Skyscraper City: City Corners and City Nightlife.
• Socialization Bonus: StreetPassing other players will add their lap times to your leaderboards. Also, if you come in first in a race against another player's customized car, Nico will give you the chance to copy its customizations for yourself.
• Tree Top Town: Treetop Twist and Canopy Catastrophe.
• Trippy Finale Syndrome: Zero-G Crash Course is the last course in the game, and it is by far the most surreal.

Market Crashers / StreetPass Trader

• Fog of War: Certain companies will have fuzzy question marks on the prediction board making it harder to read the predicted values, the justification being that there is no prediction as your analysts refuse to be wrong.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Each company has a golden piece of merchandise that can be obtained.
• Graceful Loser: In the ending, O'Naire applauds you for becoming the new wealthiest person in the world. Probably because he's still fabulously rich, you're just slightly richer.
• Hollywood Density: Averted. All transactions are digital, and the Golden Model Castle Set's description points out how it's only one foot tall but weighs over 60 pounds.
• Luck-Based Mission: The whole game is this. While it is possible to earn money, you can also lose it, depending on your performance.
• Luck Manipulation Mechanic: Buying items from the companies and having multiple Miis of the same color increases the chances of good events happening. Conversely, selling the items back will make bad outcomes more likely. This isn't affecting the players luck, but the companies'. The player is fully capable of making money off of a company's stock tanking since that's the ideal time to buy shares.
• Mythology Gag: The companies being traded are nods to the first eight Mii Plaza games; for instance, "Piece-by-Piece Deliveries" is based on Puzzle Swap and "Kingfinder Studios" on Find Mii. The other ones are Leisura Aerospace (Mii Force), Sparkleseed Landscaping (Flower Town), Conquest Construction (Warrior's Way), Arzodius Research Labs (Monster Manor), Poseidon Island Fisheries (Ultimate Angler), and Hobbiville Pharma (Battleground Z).
• Only in It for the Money: The only reason why you're in the stock market is to become the wealthiest person in the world.
• Punny Name: Wallace "Wally" Street, William "Billy" O'Naire and Cher Priess.
• Recurring Element: Each company's set of products contains at least one figurine of a character from the game the company's based on, and the last product to be released for each company is a golden version of one of its previous products (but never the figurine).
• Stock Market Game: The entire game mode functions as one of these. The player buys or sells stocks as they randomly rise or fall. By utilizing the StreetPass functionality, one can obtain Miis to help in predicting whether the value will rise or fall.
• Wealth's in a Name: The richest man in the world the playable Mii wants to dethrone is named William "Billy" O'Naire.

Feed Mii / StreetPass Chef

• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • When using Play Coins to purchase new ingredients, rather than being completely random from the 12 possible color-coded options like most of the other games, it'll give you an ingredient you don't currently have, which gives you better chances for making new recipes. If you have at least one incomplete recipe, you max out your capacity for ingredients, and you have four or more empty slots, you are very likely to receive every necessary ingredient in the process. Knowing about this mechanic helps you narrow down what sort of ingredients you need to complete the recipe.
  • Should the customers ask for a meal you don't have all the ingredients for (or, for that matter, don't have any ingredients for), you always have the choice to change it to something simpler (and always to a meal that you have ingredients for). The simpler recipe will never score more than 3 stars, but that's the best you could get from an incomplete recipe anyway.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each Mii color corresponds to a specific ingredient.
  • Red: Beef
  • Orange: Egg
  • Yellow: Chicken
  • Green: Tomato
  • Light Green: Salmon
  • Light Blue: Tuna
  • Blue: Onion
  • Pink: Pork
  • Purple: Mushroom
  • Brown: Potato
  • Black: Flour
  • White: Rice
• Awesome, but Impractical: The Epic Banquet in Feed Mii is the only food that can reach a 7 star rating but requires one of each item to make. The only way to feed it to your customers is to have 5 ingredients in the fridge and StreetPass at least 10 people and hope you don't get many duplicates. You're barely ever going to need anything over 5 stars with a full team anyway.
• Big Eater: The Miis you feed seem to have no trouble worfing down Jumbo-sized portions of food that are as big as themselves. And apparently they have a good enough circulatory system that they can eat Jumbo egg-based dishes without dying from all the cholesterol.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Mixing the wrong ingredients together will create a possibly-edible, but likely not, mess of a meal.
• Failure Is the Only Option: If you don't have all the ingredients available for whatever the Miis want, you'll always make a Failed Experiment. It doesn't matter if you have the ingredients to make a jumbo artisan entree; if it's not what they want, it will always end up a Failed Experiment.
• Food Porn: All the food you can cook is styled realistically as opposed to cartoony, as most Mii material is.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: A major goal is to fill up your recipe book. There are 150 recipes to collect, but you start with 80 of the most basic ones already filled in.
• Hero of Another Story: Your customers are the warriors going out to save the King in Find Mii. It's your job to make sure they're well-fed, and you'll receive status reports on their progress.
• Lethal Chef: Downplayed. If you create a "Failed Experiment," the heroes will be severely weakened by the food, but still able to fight.
• Power-Up Food: The whole point of the game is to power up adventurers with delicious meals, as the party's level is based on both number of StreetPassed Miis and the quality of the meal (example: 10 adventurers x 5★ meal = level 50 party).
• Simultaneous Arcs: The game is set in the same universe as Find Mii.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Any food you don't use and can't store in the fridge will be thrown out. Fortunately, after closing, you can experiment with leftover food to see if you can create other recipes.
• Violation of Common Sense: As long as you're attempting to make the recipe the adventurers desire, you can complete the order as long as you have only one of the ingredients. Chilled Potato Potage can be made from onions alone, and Egg Tarts can be made just from flour, with no eggs. You might only get a So-So (2-star) meal (to compare, substituting the recipe will give you a generic dish that will only be 3 stars), but better than a Failed Experiment and the recipe is filed into your list.

Ninja Launcher / StreetPass Ninja

• Epic Fail: If you don't get at least some Miis that provide armor and/or helmets, the enemy may defeat you without you scoring so much as a single point of damage, even if you managed to collect lots of weapon scrolls.
• The Goomba: The Skeleton Scout, who serves as the tutorial on how to use the cannon.
• Gratuitous Ninja: Why shoot ninja out of cannons? Why not?
• Henohenomoheji: If you're not strong enough to defeat an enemy, you pull out a scarecrow with this on its face as you retreat.
• Laser Blade: With enough weapon upgrades, you may get a "Sword of the Future", which is totally not a Lightsaber in any way, shape or form, no sir.
  • The Mechanical Shogun also has two of these.
• Luck-Based Mission: Some enemies strike specifically at your body or head, and if you haven't tagged any Miis that give armor or helmets to counter their attacks, you'll be defeated before you can do any damage to them. Likewise, a weapon can prevent some enemies from attacking in the first place.
• Magic Pants: The excuse for having to grab equipment in midair is that everything else gets blown off by the cannon blast, but undergarments remain intact.
• MST3K Mantra: The salesbunny advises you not to think too hard about how cavemen aren't ninjas.
• New Game Plus: Master difficulty.
• Oh, Crap!: Your Mii's reaction to learning they'll have to be launched from a cannon in order to attack enemies.
• Tsundere: Shinobu shows only her tsun-tsun side at the beginning and then keep emotionally distant for most of the game, but she lets her dere-dere side out later on as she gains more respect for you.
• Yōkai: Most of the enemies are these, following the ninja theme.

Mii Trek / StreetPass Explorers

• Anti-Frustration Features: To prevent irritatingly short walks, tagged Miis get a minimum of 500 steps. In other words, if you tag a Mii with less than 500 steps or has no step count data, it will default to 500 steps.
• Art Shift: The wildlife photos you collect are actual photos, not Mii versions of animals. The same goes for threatening animals that you encounter and have to tranquilize.
• Crystal Skull: The first artifact you assemble.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Pressing the A button during an incomplete dialogue box, in most other games (or a confirm button if otherwise), will fill in the remaining text. In Mii Trek, and none of the other StreetPass Mii Plaza games, pressing the A button will skip to the next dialogue box, regardless of if it's complete or not. Doing this can accidentally cause you to miss some of the things Beakley or other characters say.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Lampshaded by Beaksley, who is disturbed by the abundance of eyes on one of the idols.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: The main goal is to hunt down artifacts, and you can also collect wildlife photos.
• Not of This Earth: Turns out Beaksley is an alien who has amnesia about his previous activities on Earth.
• Polly Wants a Microphone: The guide character in this game is a talking toucan.
• Shout-Out:
  • Beaksley says the reason why you need people to assist you on your journey is because, "As You Know", it's dangerous to go alone.
  • Based on his vocabulary, Beaksley seems to be a British toucan, similar to Toucan Sam from Froot Loops advertising.
• Toothy Bird: After finding the third piece of the crystal skull, Beaksley says that his great aunt had a pair of crystal dentures just like the ones on the skull. No explanation why a bird would need dentures.

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