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* {{spoiler|[[Future Badass]]}}: {{spoiler|''The Protagonist''}} in the conclusion of the {{spoiler|Madness of Yggdrasil}} EX Mission.
* [[Gaia's Vengeance]]: This is what the Schwarzwelt is initially assumed to be: an onslaught of (later-proven-to-be-demonic) antibodies to protect Earth from human corruption. Although, considering how the Schwarzwelt, in the process, absorbs the very Earth as it expands, you get the feeling this Vengeance overshot its purpose somehow...
* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]:
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** Played straight when {{spoiler|you fight Jack's Squad members}}. The game treats {{spoiler|Soldiers}} as separate demons for combat purposes, meaning that you can still talk to their demons. All of the demons {{spoiler|Jack's Squad}} uses are Dark, so you can't negotiate with them, but "friendly demon" reactions still occur...▼
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** {{spoiler|When you fight Zelenin in the Neutral and Chaos routes, one of her attacks is the [[Mind Control]] song that Mastema has [[World of Silence|such big plans for]]. It, naturally, [[Standard Status Effects|inflicts Charm]]}}.
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* [[Gender Bender]]: {{spoiler|Asura/Asherah}}.
** [[Louis Cypher|Louisa Ferre]] (who looks strangely like [[Alice in Wonderland|Alice]])...
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: The Jack Frosts and related enemies are this. Attempting to make one of them your demon will, at times, make them accuse you of trying to make them a [[Mascot Mook|cute company mascot]] or [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|allow the player to point out that he is a mascot]], [[Verbal Tic|Ho!]]
* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: {{spoiler|Horkos flees each time you hit him with the Horkos Buster}}.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Asura can kill you like a traditional ''[[Mega Ten]]'' boss can, but will go down quickly if you can avoid that.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: As a callback to the early Super Famicom games, many demon sprites have these, usually flashing red and black or red and white.
* [[God Is Evil]]:
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** Two [[New Game+]] quests more than imply that {{spoiler|Metatron and Demiurge are [[Pieces of God]] who lost to the Mothers before the story began. The Piece that takes Metatron's form even says that God forgot his love for humans and humans stopped believing him in return. Even after fusing with the Demiurge piece, he implies that he hasn't changed at all. Luckily, you have a chance to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|seal him away for good]] thanks to a mysterious female entity who is not aligned with Law or Chaos}}. This leads to the question of {{spoiler|whether the Angels are actually acting on their own agenda or were following the Piece that took Metatron's form}}.
* [[Golden Ending]]: Arguably, the Neutral ending is the most sane and optimistic of all three endings, with {{spoiler|the Schwarzwelt being obliterated and Earth returning to normal}}. And this is on top of Neutral being the [[Path of Most Resistance]] (and having a [[That One Boss|bullshit]] [[Final Boss]]), as per ''Shin Megami Tensei'' tradition. See [[Nightmare Fuel]] section to see how the Law and Chaos endings fare in comparison.
** The + endings for the three alignments in ''Redux'' which are all much more optimistic than their vanilla counterparts
* [[Gratuitous German]]: The Schwarz (black) welt (world).
** One demon conversation has the demon translate it as its probable intended meaning, "Black Horizon", which the Schwartzwelt certainly is: a zone of blackness enveloping the Earth.
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