Tropes

These are tropes that apply to *Friendship is Legendary*.

These tropes have their own pages:

* Berserk Buttons
* Trauma Buttons
* Lampshade Hanging
* Tempting Fate
* Running Gag
* Heartwarming
* Funny
* Irony
* Shout-Out
* Breaking the 4th Wall
* Tear Jerker
* What an Idiot!
* Awesome
* Ship Tease
* Out of Character
* Wham Moments
* Bowdlerize
* Oh, Crap!
* Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
* Memetic Mutation
* Ascended Meme
* The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
* Pre-\*Bleep\*kicking One-Liner
* Surprisingly Realistic Outcome

## Tropes that don't require subpages

* **Big Damn Reunion**: Parallel!Elizabeth and Parallel!Natalie have this after the latter is freed, and have a very heartwarming hug while crying happily.
* **Big Fancy House**: To house all the kids, Parallel!Elizabeth rents a giant expensive luxury villa in Jubilife. And it sure *is* luxurious, with over 30 bedrooms (each Magi gets their own room), over 15 full bathrooms, three floors, a spacious yard behind a gate, a large spacious living room, kitchen, and dining room (with an enormous table), *two* fridges and dishwashers, and a ginormous couch. From a Japanese perspective (since Japan is so crowded, standalone houses are *outrageously* expensive), this is mind-blowing and shows just how wealthy the Chosen Ones and their close allies are.
* **Calling Parents By Their Name**: While brainwashed, Parallel!Natalie refers to her mother by her first name rather than "Mommy" like usual since she doesn't recognize her. She obviously goes back to saying "Mommy" after being freed, however.
* **Darkest Hour**: This happens when Great Darkest Pandora absorbs Parallel!Elizabeth into her body, feeding off the power of her Miracle Light to increase her power tremendously and spread her evil across the entire Multiverse.
* **Deadpan Snarker**: Ena is this usually thanks to her teacher being one as well.
* **Driven to Suicide**: This almost happens when Parallel!Natalie's birthday comes, and her mother is forced to endure it without her, resulting in her becoming extremely depressed and later buying a knife at the store, presumably to end her own life. However, the others luckily manage to convince her not to.
* **Dude, Not Funny!**: Some people took issue with the *Love Live!* crossover event trivializing depression by making it happen unnaturally and being "cured" by idols singing. There's also the matter of the "heroic" idols simulating a natural disaster to trick people to come to their shows.
* **Gratuitous French**: Being from Kalos (a region based on France), Megan sometimes does this.
* **Gratuitous Spanish**: Nemona does this occassionally.
* **In The End, You're On Our Own**: Following the kidnapping of the Law of Cycles, the amnesic protagonist, Eva, and Nigel are recruited, although they, Ena, Cindy, Elisa, Megan and Radiant (the first three having become Magis a year before *despite being stuck at Stage 0 during that time* and the last two being important allies) are forced to get around on their own.
* **Mentor Occupational Hazard**: The Law of Cycles (which includes all the experienced Magis) died via fading away after they had their souls stolen. Luckily, however, they are brought back when each one is retrieved. On the other hand, the Parallel Magis (other than Parallel!Elizabeth) were either brainwashed or *also* had their souls stolen.
* **Not Evil, Just Misunderstood**: Selene, an Umbra Pony who betrayed her master in order to live with her new life with her new friends, has mistook her as a dangerous Unicorn due to how she has still with her powers that can draining magic. However, with the help of parallel Starlight, she gained her trust of how to using magic completely without losing control so she can help the other fighters and Magis to fight back Team Storm.
* **Parents in Distress**: When Kyubey reveals that the Law of Cycles has had their souls stolen and faded away as a result, Eva is *devastated* and refuses to believe it since that includes her parents, insisting they went on a vacation. She also runs away from Kyubey and refuses to make the contract. However, after thinking it over, she does finally decide to make the contract so that she can save them, and when Julia and Nova are each respectively saved, she immediately hugs them happily.
	+ **In the Dreaming Stage of Grief**: In the above scene, Eva (who's devastated and in denial) also claims that she's just having a bad dream and slaps herself to wake up, and claims that Luea is just part of the dream she's having, saying that once she wakes up, she'll be back in her nice warm bed at home with her parents to comfort her.
* **Power Incontinence**: Attempting to use your Harmonic Flash for the first time results in Bella becoming fat, turning bright pink, and floating like an inflated balloon.
* **Required Party Member**: Unlike the main series *Pokémon* games, players of the game who chose to be Trainers have to keep their starter in their party at all times due to their plot relevance. This is averted after the Last Story, but remains played straight for Partner Pokémon owned by Orrian Trainers despite this.
* **Safety Freak**:
	+ In the collaboration event *The Door to Harmony*, Team Clover (MORE MORE JUMP!), ILUNA, and the Magis who are talented singers/idols become this due to the villains going after the μ's members in order to force them to bring the despair so the big bad can turn them into her slaves, because of the way their sparkles (*not* their souls) shine when they sing, making the user shine brighter. A lot of the characters won't let the μ's members perform concerts without at least one protector if the Despair monsters (disguised as normal creatures) were to easily get them.
	+ After Arven is saved, Ena sets up a lot of rules for him and Megan to make sure one of the two won't get their souls stolen under the other's watch again. Among those rules include...
		- No going anywhere without being accompanied by at least one protector unless going on a date.
		- Responding to any calls or texts from a Magi or ally is *absolutely mandatory* and must be done promptly.
* **Sweet Tooth**: Elisa ***ABSOLUTELY LOVES*** honey, just like her adoptive father.
* **The Voiceless/Speechless**: A temporary example. After the fight against the Storm King, the player somehow lost their voice, and it is obvious that since sanging doesn't exist in the rewritten timeline, something might have caused it. A few made-up fans predicted that it's because they shouted too loudly. This remains in effect for the duration of the freetime at the very end of the Main Story.
* **Thought They Knew Already**: In the TOH Collab event *Witches of the Boiling Isles*, Bella intended to learn about the Owl Beast, a curse that only appears in another world. However, Silverlay overhears it as the white monster attacks the Stardrop Trio... because the Dream Animal said too much about the curse.
* **What Do You Mean, It's For Kids?**: Don't let the game fool you. As this game is intended to have E 10+ rating, there are some Nightmare Fuel techniques that try to scare you...