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''Tales of Symphonia'' is set in the land of Sylvarant, whose [[Life Energy]] ([[Mana]]) is being slowly drained away by the evil [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Desians]]. The only way to stop the Desians is the Journey of World Regeneration, a pilgrimage around the world taken by a [[The Chosen One|Chosen One]] that, when completed, will awaken the goddess Martel and save the world.

After a few hours the storyline drops its first [[Wham! Episode]] on you, after which the plot expands exponentially from a single [[Black and White Morality]] tale to a full-on [[Gambit Pileup]], with multiple sides trying to manipulate or eliminate Colette for their own purposes and Lloyd determined to do everything he can to protect her, even from herself.

 

 

The game was adapted into three four-episode [[RPG Anime|anime]] [[OVA|OVAs]], the last of which is still in production, and 6 [[Bonus Material|omakes]]. A manga was published that covered the events of the first game and its ending becomes the first game's canon ending according to the second game (See [[Third Option Adaptation]] below). There are also several [[Audio Adaptation|Drama CDs]]. It's unlikely any of this will ever be officially translated to English, but fansubs of the OVAs are circulating around the Internet if you look. It places more emphasis on the relationship between Lloyd and Colette, and is obviously a [[Compressed Adaptation]].

''Symphonia'' introduced several concepts to the franchise, most notably the 3D incarnation of the ''Tales''' signature battle system; nearly every single ''Tales'' game that followed in its wake (as well as a number of [[JRPG|JRPGs]] in general) owes something to it, and its influence is still felt on the franchise to this day.

 

 

* [[Abandoned Mine]]: Toize Valley Mine in Tethe'alla.

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Meltokio. When Zelos and co. are arrested the party uses this to continue to come and go from Meltokio. It has doors, trash compactors, stairs, and bridges.

** Zelos never had the nicest relationship with his mother, as she was forced into a loveless marriage, even though she "probably loved someone else." {{spoiler|When she's killed in an attack that was intended to kill Zelos, her last words to him were "You should never have been born".}} It's shown in the manga that even before this, she was cold and dismissive of her son, often making the excuse that she's ill or has a headache to get out of having to see him. No wonder he's so messed up...

** Colette has wings and can fly, and will sometimes think to go check out high places that Lloyd can't reach - but never when it would actually be useful, like in most box-pushing puzzles, or a certain quest involving picking a fruit from the high branch of a tree.

** Similarly, Sheena can call upon the Summon Spirits to aid her, and occasionally does so outside of battle to get certain [[Plot Coupons]], but she'll never do so to help you get past those mandatory box puzzles, even when time is of the essence.

* [[Art Evolution]]: The [[OVA]]'s started out great, but it just gets better with each one.

* [[The Atoner]]: Lloyd helps Colette partly to help atone for his part in Iselia's destruction. Later on, the party is joined by Regal, who embodies this trope. Kratos is also revealed to be one.

* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]: When assaulting the {{spoiler|Tower of Salvation in Tethe'alla}}, every single member of your party {{spoiler|(except for Zelos, if you make him evil)}} ends up "dying" one by one... until you make it to the end and spoiler:they all pop up and inform you that they were saved.

* [[Badass]]: Kratos, Presea, and in the [[OVA|OVAs]] at least, Regal.

* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: Niflheim

* [[Bonus Material]]: In addition to the OVA's, there are 6 omakes/bonuses. They all have [[No Fourth Wall]] and are rather absurd.

* [[Boomerang Bigot]]: The Pope is fiercely anti-half-elf even though he has a half-elf daughter. Though to be more accurate, he hates half-elves ''because'' his daughter is a half-elf; he used to support the cause of half-elf equality, and even fell in love with an elf. But when their daughter was born and her mother died, he found himself growing more hateful and terrified of her differences, coming to understand the perspective of the people who hated half-elves, and he started to support them instead.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]:

** Also, the famous Tower of Mana "Quick Jump" skit. To an extent, anyway.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: All of them. Except for {{spoiler|Colette when she loses her voice}}, using a special in combat will result in this trope.

** Maybe, but the similarities between Colette and [[Saikano]]'s Chise are high in number and down right creepy at times.

** Colette and [[Disgaea|Flonne]] are both flat-chested blondes who preach about love {{spoiler|and are angels}}.

* [[Character Development]]: Over the course of the game Lloyd learns not to see the world in [[Black and White Morality]], Colette learns to take the weight of the world on her shoulders, and Regal and Sheena forgive themselves.

* [[Cherry Tapping]]: The player is given a special title for using only wooden swords until halfway through the journey of Regeneration.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: {{spoiler|Yuan, Kratos, Zelos, and Mithos.}} This has led to the rather appropriate observation that {{spoiler|'There is no 'os' in trust.'}}

* [[Color-Coded Elements]]: Red for fire, blue for water, green for wind, brown for earth, light blue for ice, purple for lightning, white for light, black for dark.

* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: The Church of Martel, which has a very Catholic bent to it.

* [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]: In the beach sidequest of the first game, the names of the four girls you're supposed to find easily remind you of a certain book series that is [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|beloved by the Japanese]]. {{spoiler|[[Little Women|Amy, Jo, Beth, and Meg]] make cameo appearances. Seriously. Bonus points to Jo apparently being a [[Bokukko]] here, and having Amy be blonde}}

** In one of the [[OVA|OVAs]], Sheena takes Lloyd down in [[One Hit KO|one hit]] only to get owned by Kratos afterwords. {{spoiler|''You do not mess with that man's son.''}}

** Also in the [[OVA|OVAS]]: Zelos doesn't fare so well in his second battle with Regal, though he does manage to take him down with him via a [[Last Ditch Move]].

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Presea, as well as Colette once she gains more angel abilities. She even lifts an unconscious Regal ''with one arm'' at one point.

** Kratos, in cutscenes, can kill, stun, or block pretty much anything with a dramatic flash of light and a [[Single-Stroke Battle|single attack]]. In battle, he's not so hot. Also, all the characters with wings don't use them very often.

** Not to mention the fact that a single Demon Fang from Lloyd can horribly wound Magnius and Mithos in a cutscene. A Fireball (or three) from Genis yields similar results.

** Going from a later game like ''Abyss'', ''Innocence'', or ''Vesperia'' to ''Symphonia'' can be really frustrating, because Symphonia predated free run.

** In ''Symphonia'', by default, normal attacks are A (the middle/central/somewhat over-sized face button) and special abilities are B (the left face button) on the Gamecube controller. In ''Vesperia'', normal attacks are B (the right face button) and special abilities are A (the bottom face button) on the Xbox 360 controller. It helps though that both games allow you to customize your battle controls.

* [[Dark Is Edgy]]: Shadow, Pronyma.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: Zelos' and Colette's themes.

* [[Dead Character Walking]]: Sheena's revival technique, Purgatory Seal, essentially creates a literal version of this: the game will treat you as "alive", but you have zero [[Hit Points]], and you go down if you take any damage at all. Healing items and spells work on you as they do on any other living character.

** Pretty much every main character, including the [[Big Bad]], is a [[Deconstruction]] of a standard RPG character archetype. It's particularly savage towards the idea of [[The Chosen One]] and just what self-esteem issues a [[Messianic Archetype]] [[Purity Sue]] could potentially end up with. It tears into the [[Determinator]] and [[Idiot Hero]] tropes too.

** Just to clarify a bit, being a stubborn idiot may have been the only thing that kept Lloyd going when a smarter person of the same upbringing would have been done, and his unflinching idealism lead to a major [[Heroic BSOD]] or two when he learned what was actually going on.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Just about anyone you fight without killing.

* [[Determinator]]: Half the damn cast, Lloyd being the primary culprit. It's also [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] with the [[Big Bad]], whose main character flaw is in many ways his inability to [[Know When to Fold'Em]], something Lloyd does know.

** The status page for characters includes both first and last names. {{spoiler|When you reach the event where Presea finds out that her sister was killed by a man called "Master Bryant", Regal's last name ''conveniently'' disappears. Regal is a self-declared murderer. Guess who he killed? }}

** Sure, you ''can'' get to Palmacosta by taking a boat from Izoold... or, you can walk across a bridge in the other direction, and go through around the second continent in reverse order. You'll still end up visiting all of the major destinations and seeing all of the mandatory scenes, and the story will still make a modicum of sense. There's even some scenes that you can only see this way, and once you've [[Level Grinding|Level Grinded]] against the enemies on the "far" end of the continent and bought the good weapons, once you get back around to Palmacosta, every fight is a cakewalk.

* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]: The Dragon Rider and his noble steed, the <s>Velociraptor</s> [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Velocidragon]]. In fairness, it ''does'' breathe fire.

* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: First there's the {{spoiler|first}} visit to the Tower of Salvation in Sylvarant, then it's {{spoiler|the Second trip to the Tower of Salvation in Tethe'alla (the third trip to the tower overall)}}. And then after ''that'', it's {{spoiler|Torent Forest}}.

** The human ranches are ''very'' similar to the Nazi concentration camps. Kvar also deserves special mention, as he draws many similarities with [[Mad Scientist|Josef Mengele]].

** And Regal is {{spoiler|The president of a major company, specializes in martial arts, and has a pretty dark past involving the death of an important person}}. How oddly [[Batman|familiar]]...

** Presea's hometown of Ozette is destroyed rather arbitrarily, Luin also becomes completely wrecked, and so does Heimdall...basically, half the hometowns you go to wind up getting thrashed. To be quite honest, Luin was asking for it. That's what you get when your town's name can be written as Ruin. So was Ozette for being full of racist jerks.

** Palmacosta.

** Zelos also visits the bar later for the same reason.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: Genius or Genis? Refill or Raine?

* [[Deus Ex Machina]] {{spoiler|Lloyd suddenly sprouts wings at a very convenient time.}} Its not entirely implausible, {{spoiler|as Lloyd is Kratos' son, and the Angels get their wings because of their Cruxius Crystals, which are basically Exspheres, and the Desians repeatedly refer to Lloyd's Exsphere as being a super-special, one-of-a-kind, experimental Exsphere known as the ''Angelus'' Crystal. Getting unique angel wings was only to be expected, though it's unlikely the Desian who created it ever intended it to be used that way. Also, let's not forget the fact that Lloyd absorbed Mithos' Cruxis Crystal after killing him. Or that he WAS wielding the [[Sword of Plot Advancement]] at the time.}}

* [[Durable Deathtrap]]

** Sheena: [[Sixth Ranger]]

* [[The Force Is Strong with This One]]: Elves and half-elves are able to distinguish between the different races by reading others mana signature.

** Most of it is only obvious in hindsight. During subsequent playthroughs you'll probably wonder how you missed some of them. There's even some on the western box art. Notice how, of all characters, It's Lloyd/Colette and Sheena/Zelos that appear on the cover? (with Lloyd & Sheena being in front, and Zelos & Colette being in the back?) {{spoiler|Essentially, it's showing two Sylvaranti along with their, for all intents and purposes, alternate-dimension counterparts.}}

** There's a reason why {{spoiler|Mithos and Colette}} look so similar.

* [[For the Cel of It]]

* [[Follow the White Rabbit]]: The party finds their way through the Torent Forest by following a small animal that leads them along the correct path so they don't get lost.

* [[Gainaxing]]: Visible on {{spoiler|Martel}} in the ending cutscene. Also, pick Sheena as your avatar character and run around.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Let's just say there's a lot going on.

** Suffers pretty bad from it, considering how powerful the party becomes.

* [[Glass Cannon]]: Colette, Genis, and Sheena. Especially frustrating with Genis and Sheena, since their most powerful attacks rely on them getting into Overlimit first, which requires them to get hit at least a few times. Especially frustrating with Sheena, considering she has arguably the worst damage output otherwise. Even resident [[White Mage]] Raine can put up better numbers with attack magic. People rag on Sheena for this, but it seems a Justified trope considering that she might be a Guardian User/Magical Ninja, but she wasn't raised to be a fighter, and in fact one thing about making pacts that terrifies her {{spoiler|as well as the Volt incident}} is that they refuse to make a vow with her and attack.

* [[Go Through Me]]: Happens a couple of times with varying results.

** Lots of moments, but the "Hard Path", the [[Relationship Values]], and the [[Awesome but Impractical|Hi-Ougis]] get special notice.

** Let's not forget the teleport maze at Palmacosta ranch, or, even worse with no guide, the specific donations necessary to {{spoiler|rebuild Luin}}.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Half-elves.

* [[Hammerspace]]: Seles's purse. Also: Colette has true [[Hammerspace]], because her Pow Hammer-series spawn hammers out of nowhere.

** {{spoiler|Kratos, Zelos and Yuan.}}

** Also the heroes, from a certain perspective. Their ultimate goal is always "save the world," but pretty much every new piece of information about their situation radically alters what "save the world" even means, and how they plan to accomplish it, and sometimes whose toes are going to get stepped on in the process.

* [[Hero Secret Service]]: Above mentioned [[Five-Man Band]], and eventually also the rest of the party in regards to Lloyd.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Much to [[The Hero|Lloyd's]] dismay, there's quite a few. Some end without people ending up dead. Others... don't.

* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Heimdall. There's also a [[Wutai|hidden Japanese village]], Mizuho.

* [[Human Resources]]: {{spoiler|Exspheres}}.

* [[Implied Love Interest]]: In this game you can make Lloyd to hook up with several girls, but the romance [[No Hugging, No Kissing|is never too explicit]].

** Genis uses a kendama, a ''children's toy''. Sheena uses cards with wards inscribed on them.

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] for Genis. The kendama is explicitly said to help the kid concentrate when he's casting.

* {{spoiler|[[Inferred Holocaust]]: This is the prequel to [[Tales of Phantasia]] after all.}}

* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Presea and Abyssion are the only people out of a population of two whole planets who can hear Nebilim's voice.

[[Double Entendre|"I don't think you'd want to eat one."]] }}

* [[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One]]: A lot. For both Colette and Zelos.

** Each of the Desian Grand Cardinals has at least one of these, from Magnius snapping a bystander's neck for failing to address him as "LORD Magnius!" to Kvar's casual attitude towards the [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|Exsphere "cultivation" process]].

** {{spoiler|Colette}} gets a ''literal'' [[Kick the Dog]] to demonstrate just how far gone her transformation has left her.

** Lloyd, Genis, Colette, as well as Mithos. {{spoiler|Presea is a subversion.}}

** Although being 19, Sheena's still qualifies in Japan, where people are not considered an adult until age 20. A good reference to this is the ending of [[Tales of the Abyss]]

** Corrine, a small, rainbow man-made summon spirit.

** Verius, the summon spirit of heart. It is rainbow like Corrine, but much larger.

** Actually subverted {{spoiler|with Presea}}

'''Lloyd:''' "Do you ever say anything original?" }}

* [[Leaked Experience]]: meaning you don't have to swap characters around if you don't want to.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Every member of the party has one, including a few [[Dark Reprise|Dark Reprises]]. The [[Big Bad]] and {{spoiler|Kratos}} also have their respective themes worked into their fight music.

* [[Lesser of Two Evils]]: In the first quarter of the game, Lloyd discovers that {{spoiler|Colette needs to sacrifice herself in order to fulfill her role as the Chosen}} and save the world. Lloyd must choose between saving the world and saving {{spoiler|Colette}}, and begrudgingly chooses the world, at least until he uncovers a [[Take a Third Option|Third Option]].

** Raine. She has rather... Interesting ideas on cuisine, such as one skit where she wonders about making a spicy cake. Half of her recipes have lemon as an additional ingredient. And a skit in the sequel has her cooking "lemon rice" for the party. She can even fail at making a ''Bread Sandwich!'' Sheena also has weird ideas about food, but she knows ''which weird ideas work'' so she is still a good cook (one of the best three, in fact, along with Genis and Regal).

** One of the funniest moments in the game involves Raine's cooking skills. In a small skit, the stone-faced, humorless stoic Kratos samples some of Raine's cooking to be polite. He even makes a gallant attempt at finding something nice to say about it ("Well, it has an interesting texture") before the aftertaste sets in and Kratos's first reaction is to use one of his healing spells ''on himself.'' It's funnier because [[The Comically Serious|it's Kratos]].

** In an [[OVA]], Raine's cooking is literally used as a weapon to kill Kratos...

* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: {{spoiler|After restoring Luin}}, each character gets the ability to buy one of these; they are among the most powerful weapons you can buy for that character. Lloyd gets a [[Paper Fan of Doom]], Colette a tambourine, Genis a toy kendama, Raine a mop, Sheena a wallet, Zelos/Kratos a [[Batter Up|baseball bat]] or a pink plastic dagger, Presea a squeaky toy hammer, and Regal a pair of silver boots.

* [[Love Martyr]]: Kate takes part in some less than moral experiments and {{spoiler|impersonates the Princess during the exchange for Zelos}}, to earn the love of her father, {{spoiler|the Pope}}.

* [[Love Triangle]]: Lloyd, Colette and Sheena.

* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: Lampshaded at a few points.

* [[Magitek]]: Used by the villains, and the source of quite a few problems as a result.

* [[Medium Awareness]]: One skit has Lloyd complaining about why they have to climb through the Mana Tower again and that they should had just been given the "Quick Jump" option. Everyone else is confused as to what this "Quick Jump" is since Lloyd is apparently the only one who is mildly aware that they are in a video game.

* [[The Messiah]]: Lloyd, after much [[Character Development]]; Colette would also qualify, but is overshadowed by Lloyd.

* [[Mighty Lumberjack]]: Presea Combatir is a female lumberjack. She [[Older Than They Look|looks about twelve years old]] but carries an axe bigger than some of your other party members.

* [[Mind Screw]]: Is that coffee hot or iced, Lloyd? To elaborate: {{spoiler|Lloyd is noticing Colette is acting more distant and odd, so he comes up with a mind screw in order to get her to reveal it. Lloyd offers to make coffee for Colette, and makes it hot. He only TELLS her it's iced, and she notes how cold it is after he says it. He then tells her that he lied to her and they talk about her distancing herself.}} This gets bonus points, of course, for being ''in character'' and intended, since the whole point {{spoiler|is to mind screw Colette into admitting that the angel transformation process is obliterating her humanity one step at a time and she isn't mentioning it to anyone}}.

* [[Motive Decay]]: {{spoiler|After Martel rejects Mithos, he goes from wanting to bring about (an albeit twisted and unnatural) equality to the world to wanting a world where he can live with his sister, at the cost of leaving the world to die}}.

* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: {{spoiler|Presea's father's body.}}

* [[Never My Fault]]: Lloyd is blamed for the destruction of Iselia even though ''it was Genis'' who wanted to go to the forbidden ranch in the first place, and Lloyd was the one who tried to talk him out of it. (Possibly because Lloyd was the main one caught on camera, and the mayor considers him an outsider because Dirk's house is not located in the village.) Genis even has the gall to get indignant with the townspeople for their entirely rational anger towards their homes being burned down because Lloyd and Genis violated their peace treaty. Of course, {{spoiler|at the time everyone thought that}} the Desians had struck first at the temple, so Genis has a point here.

* [[New Game+]]: The GRADE system, which allows you to purchase bonuses and even [[Self-Imposed Challenge|Self Imposed Challenges]] if you choose.

* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Just compare the opening cinematic to actual gameplay footage.

* [[No Hero Discount]]: Zig-Zagged. Shops will charge you, but certain events such as the dragon tours and trips to Thoda Geyser will not cost you anything since the people can't take money from the chosen. Yet, some people like the old man on Hakonesia Peak will still try to rip you off for a gate pass.

* [[Once Is Not Enough]]: {{spoiler|Yggdrasial dies in [[Third Time's the Charm|his third confrontation with the party]], and all that's left is his Cruxis Crystal. Genis picks it up, aware that his subconscious might still be inside (if what happened to Alicia was any indication) but wanted to wait until Lloyd used the Eternal Sword to reunite the worlds until doing so, to show him the new world he strived for. Turns out he manages to survive in the crystal and tries to [[Grand Theft Me|take over Lloyd's body]] right after making the pact with Origin ([[Relationship Values|only for Lloyd's closest party member to take his place]]). Even after getting kicked out of that body during [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], he manages to recover his original body for the final battle(s).}}

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Subverted; the main reason the summoner mentioned by the various Summon Spirits, Mithos, is not thought to be the hero of legend is because it has become a common boy's name. {{spoiler|But then it gets played with later when it's revealed that said Mithos is not only the summoner and legendary hero, but also the game's [[Big Bad]].}}

* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: And they're ''aliens''!

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The skit "For Lazy People".

* [[Prison Episode]]: This game had Lloyd, the main character, tossed into a Desian prison in the middle of the desert. {{spoiler|He busts out on his own, just before the party shows up... too late.}}

* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: Actually punctuated slashing.

** All party members gained through [[Defeat Means Friendship]].

** Arguably, however, Sheena can eventually surpass both her boss incarnations statistics-wise.

* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: Invoked; several Titles exist as rewards for embarking on several common challenges, though most only require you to stick with them until various points on Disc 1, rather than the whole game.

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: The party briefly thinks about doing this, once they get ahold of the {{spoiler|Eternal Sword}}, which has the power to transcend space and time. Lloyd decides against it, realizing that they don't have the right to tamper with time, especially considering the odds of messing this up even worse.

** Done for every member of the party with the Flanoir cutscenes. The ones with Sheena and Colette are decidedly romantic (the creators obviously knew that people were going to ship regardless), and the other ones explore other types of affection.

** Several, such as the the snow statues of Namco characters like Pac-Man in the first game. The Tales developers gave one to themselves with the names of the worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla, which are taken from the moons of ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'''s world.

** Someone in the slums of Meltokio says that he heard there was a [[Final Fantasy 7|cute flower girl somewhere in the slums]], but it turns out to be just a rumor.

* [[Standing in the Hall]]: Lloyd; while ''sleeping at the same time''

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|Zelos. Big time. See: His Flanoir scene, or the cutscene in which you kill him if you chose Kratos in Flanoir. Mithos, as a type C,}} might count, too, at least until [[The Reveal]].

** You mean to say that {{spoiler|the surly angel who refused to explain anything and was interested only in his "daughter's" transformation into a soulless being, practically cackling when she was finally ready to do so,}} ''wasn't such a great guy after all?'' I'm shocked, I tell you.

** Partially subverted by Colette, of all people. She admits that she figured out {{spoiler|Remiel was not truly her father}} pretty early on, but felt she still had no other option besides {{spoiler|completing the world restoration journey (which would still presumably save Sylverant}}.

* [[Theme Naming]]:

*** Kratos and Zelus (Zelos) are the names of two {{spoiler|winged}} Greek god bothers that were in the service of Zeus. The mythological Kratos is the personification of strength and power, whereas Zelus is the personification of dedication, emulation, eager rivalry, envy, jealousy, and zeal.

*** Yggdrasill is the name of a [[World Tree]] from [[Norse Mythology]].

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: It's a [[Tales (series)]] game. Most of the villains, except the Grand Cardinals {{spoiler|except Forcystus, who was a half-elf hero who wanted to help his people}}.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Oh so much use of this. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at one point.

** {{spoiler|Lloyd and Kratos.}}

** {{spoiler|Zelos}} as well, especially since {{spoiler|you only see them in the story path where you fight and kill him.}}

* [[Wutai]]: Mizuho. It's even one of the classical names of Japan.

* [[You Can Barely Stand]]: During your first trip to the Tower of Salvation, {{spoiler|if you lose the fight against Kratos, you face Yggdrasill with 1 HP per character.}} Yggdrasill has 40,000 HP, and your attacks do practically nothing, though, [[Hopeless Boss Fight|the boss fight is hopeless]] either way.

** Used word-for-word by Regal during the endgame [[Battle Royale With Cheese]].

** Also used by Forcystus when {{spoiler|the party assaults the Iselia Human Ranch in order to shut down its Mana Reactor before stopping the berserk Kharlan Tree.}}

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