- Angst? What Angst?: Remember all those Flunkies he had following him around? Ever wonder what happened to them? According to Word of God, they were slaughtered to a man over the course of Chapter 1. And Milanor doesn't bat an eyelid.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: While Nessiah had been manipulating Gulcasa for his own goals, there are some hints in the game that he may be experiencing some Conflicting Loyalty due to growing fond of the emperor after spending so much time with him, which is further expanded on in Blaze Union, leading to the ultimately unresolved question of how treacherous he truly was, or at least if he was remorseful of it with regards to Gulcasa (there's little room for interpretation that he has no remorse for what he subjects the rest of the world to).
- Die for Our Ship: Every now and then the Ship-to-Ship Combat between Milanor/Yggdra fans and Milanor/Kylier ones gets ugly. With Milanor/Elena also being fairly popular, Kylier seems to get this treatment the most often.
- Draco in Leather Pants: Nessiah occasionally gets this treatment from fans who focus on the (largely unexplained) mistreatment he received in the past over the fact that his explicitly stated goal and mission statement is to create chaos in the world and kill an untold amount of innocents in the name of his quest for revenge, which is itself redundant at best. This occasionally manifests as Ron the Death Eater-type interpretations for characters who oppose Nessiah, which is more prominent with regards to Blaze Union.
- Game-Breaker:
- Gulcasa and Nessiah, who by themselves can slaughter the player's full Union and do it with ease.
- Yggdra becomes one after her Awesome Moment of Crowning, which allows her to use the incredibly busted Crusade and maxes out both her Gen and Attack. Her Luck is still awful, but it's hardly important as long as you don't let her deal the killing blow to someone with an item you want.
- Milanor's statisticsnote ensure that if he's leveled up diligently enough, he can become one as well.
- Provided you use a few stat boosting items on her to maximize her early small star gain, Mistel absolutely murders everything. The primary reason being that her weapon is a scythe.
- For cards, four of them stand out. Gravity Chaos for inflicting the insanely powerful curse, Shield Barrier for complete immunity to all card attacks not named Genocide, Bloody Claw for assassinating the enemy leader (and providing a bonus to morale damage if they're saved for last), and Crusade for instantly killing anything it's used on.
- Heartwarming Moments:
- The beginning of Battlefield 42.
- When Eudy says goodbye to Baldus in Battlefield 39.
- Ho Yay: Zilva and Elena, as well as Gulcasa and Nessiah, have a portion of fans who like seeing them paired up, though the games offer no direct confirmation in this direction.
- Inferred Holocaust: The best (A) ending, though this is only apparent if you've played the other games and realize exactly who Nessiah was trying to kill with his atrocities.
- Iron Woobie: Gulcasa.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Roswell, thanks mostly to the Unwanted Harem.
- Jerkass Woobie: Leon. Big emphasis on jerkass, since you only learn about him thanks to his much nicer sister.
- Memetic Badass: For whatever reason, Monica is this in the Japanese fandom. As in Monica, the character you encounter in chapter five that has stats that are weak for chapter one.
- Memetic Mutation: Yggdra's Ascended Meme of a catchphrase, "Come near me and I shall strike you down!".
- "The phrase 'come near me and I'll kill you' is a little misleading. You might think that as long as you don't come near me you won't get killed, but even if you stay away, I'll still kill you!"
—Mai Nakahara, ad-libbing in character about 寄らば、斬ります! in the radio segment of the same name
- Moe: Yggdra, Nietzsche, Pamela, Emilia, Nessiah, and #367. Just to name a few.
- Player Punch: Battlefield 33 exists solely for the purpose of rubbing the player's nose in the events of Battlefield 10. And then there's Battlefield 46.
- Scrappy Mechanic: Cutscenes "eating" cards by removing your turn after you choose a card, forcing you to choose a new card.
- The amount of time it takes to unlock core concepts like unions and skills. Instead of one per map to ease you into it, there are multiple maps between unlocking new mechanics.
- You're unable to control allied units in combat. This means no card skills and no passive/aggressive modes, which means they will lose easy fights.
- That One Boss: Gulcasa, who practically requires you either use Gravity Chaos (which is thankfully obtained before fighting him the first time) to curse him, a sufficiently leveled Rosary who can take advantage of the brief period his attacks are fire element, Mistel, or Crusade. Nothing else is consistently viable.
- That One Sidequest: Mjollnir. Also, the Glittering Ash and Good Luck Charm.
- Viewer Gender Confusion: Nessiah and the generic Necromancer units were widely (and now infamously) mistaken for women on one of the boards. This led to much amusement and Stupid Sexy Flanders, although none of the in-game characters have trouble telling that the characters in question are male.
- Woolseyism: Atlus' localization of the game strays from the original script in a number of places, mostly in tone and amount of snark in the characters' dialogue, but also a few renames, some of which are a mild case of Dub-Induced Plot Hole (such as the term "Ragnarok" being reused from the localization of Riviera: The Promised Land despite referring to two different events (Yggdra's war against Asgard vs. the Underworld's war against Asgard), as well as doing away with Gulcasa's fire-centric Theme Naming by calling him the "Carnage Emperor" rather than "Blazing Emperor".
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