Tales Series / Mythology Gag

The Tales Series features many references to previous games, usually in the form of one-off skits or character, place, and accessory names.

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There's always a coliseum where you'll run into characters from previous games.
Starting with Tales of Vesperia on Playstation 3, the main party can don costumes of characters from the previous.
There's a secret island in most games, starting from Tales of Eternia, usually run by Katz, containing Mythology Gags for the series as well as references to Namco-Bandai's other work. In the version in Tales of the Abyss - Nam Cobanda Isle - you can find Lloyd Irving's clothes in a storeroom.
The name "Tokunaga" recurs as the butler/caretaker for Seles (Zelos's sister) in both Tales of Symphonia games, Anise's puppet doll in Tales of the Abyss, and captain of the ship the Fiertia in Tales of Vesperia.
The Spirits — Gnome, Undine, Luna, etc. — from Tales of Phantasia recur in almost every game in some form, such as "Summon Spirits" in Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Legendia, "aggregate sentiences" in Tales of the Abyss, or simply "spirits" in in Tales of Xillia and other games.
Badly-drawn wanted posters have cropped up as a Running Gag throughout the series. So far Lloyd, Yuri, the Xillia protagonists, Ludger and Julius, and the entire Berseria party have been subject to this. In Vesperia, there's also a poster advertising a contest for "who can draw the best Lloyd."
The Legendary Pirate Aifread is referenced in numerous entries of the series, and his treasure is sometimes available to find. Sometimes, but not always, there will be a party member related to Aifread, like Patty and Eizen.
Dhaos and his aversion to the classic lightning spell, Indignation. Get him to half health and it's an instant kill in all his cameos. He also makes it a note to recite his classic line of "Sonna...Sonna baka na!" right before he gets owned by it. Made more then a mythology gag in the PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia, where Rita will suddenly learn and use the spell out of the blue if she casts Thunder Blade on him under the right conditions, just so she can nuke him out of existence. She can use it on anything after that.
A group commonly known as "The Dark Wings" will also show up throughout the games. They are a band of quirky bandits comprised of two males and a female, and mostly serve as comedy relief. Tales of Rebirth and Tales of the Abyss are subversions however, as the Dark Wings play very important roles in the games' plots.

Tales of the Abyss

One oddly dark one is a random replica in the Daath cathedral that says "Ze....los....died...." in reference to Tales of Symphonia, despite the fact that that's technically the non-canon ending.

There's also Natalia's real name; Meryl. It references Meryl Adenade, who taught her daughter Mint everything she knew about healing.
In Tales of Symphonia, one of the after-battle conversations was "Our weapons are love!" "Justice! And-" "...Hope." In this game, one after-battle conversation is a decidedly less moral version of that:
Luke: Our weapons are status!
Jade: Scheming!
Anise: ~Playing dirty...~

Tales of Vesperia

There are enemies based on the characters Luke, Tear, and Mieu from the preceding game, Tales of the Abyss. In the PS3 version, new character Patty Fleur can summon Mieu and Quicky with her Mystic Arte.
There are also several bits of graffiti in Vesperia left around from the Tales of the Abyss cast. Cecille <3 Frings is scratched into a wall in Yormgen, you can find descriptions of each of the playable characters carved into the back of a sign in Nordopolica, and there's a note that says "To Asch, From Natalia <3" in a pair of shoes.
Tons of them, mostly in the form of cosplay outfits and accessories.
The Pop Quiz in Nam Cobanda tests your knowledge of the franchise. In a nice touch, the American and European releases removed questions on games that had not been released in their respective regions.
The "Gentlemieu", "Gentlereplica", and "Gentlesinger" monsters are clear references to Tales of the Abyss. They are also the only monsters that drop Cheagle Fur, Fragments of Hyper-Resonance and Fonstones, respectively.
There's also Judassey, a large frog-type enemy...with the color scheme and mask of, you guessed it, Judas.
Yeager uses extremely subtle Title Drops of previous games. Pay close attention to the conversations at the beginning of the two halves of the fight. It's taken directly from the Japanese version, where he pronounces the words in English, so it's most likely done intentionally. Also to be noted is that he also throws in "Rebirth" there, which the English dialogue skipped out on because it was never localized.
Just as subtle is Tison's attack, Rising Dragon: Ratatosk. It's hard to catch, since it only flicks up on screen for half a second.
Alexei talks about destiny and rebirth during his battle and the scene preceding it.
A particularly memorable callback, especially to Tales of Eternia and Tales of Phantasia, in the Updated Re-release: Rita unlocks her second Mystic Arte (Indignation) by re-enacting the opening to Tales of Phantasia in the 200-Man Melee against Dhaos. If she gets Dhaos to under half his HP and casts Thunder Blade^note in Overlimit 4 or higher, she'll cast Indignation instead. Dhaos will utter the classic "This Cannot Be!", and the spell will instantly kill him.
The Updated Re-release adds a ton of bonus cosplay outfits. Not only do Yuri, Flynn and Estelle get to cosplay from Tales of the Abyss as a pre-order bonus, but every party member gets a cosplay outfit (and associated skill) from a previous Tales Series character as a reward for completing the 200-Man Melee. If every party member puts on their cosplay outfit, there's even a skit where they start acting like their "characters" against their will.
Two of the Fell Arms, Abyssion and Nebilim, are named after the equivalent Optional Bosses in Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss, respectively.
One victory skit with Yuri, Karol, and Estelle recreates one from Tales of the Abyss with Luke, Guy, and Jade, respectively:
Yuri: You're weak!
Karol: You're a hack!
Estelle: You're wack!

Tales of Hearts

One of the Gentleman bosses, himself a walking Shout-Out to Katamari Damacy, will attack you with "Tales of Rollup", where he rolls a katamari of Tales references over you, including Swordians, several common Tales items, Tokunaga, and Mieu.
Beryl's Meteoric Rise, its extensions and requirements are taken from an earlier eccentric spellcaster with a high-pitched voice and a strange selection of clothing.

Tales of Graces

A series of weapons available in Graces f are named after past Tales games, and also have designs based on things from the associated game. Hubert's Brave Vesperia is perhaps the most recognizable, essentially being a much smaller, dual-bladed version of the feather sword Yuri used in the finale to cleave the Adephagos in half.
And then there's the absurdly hilarious statue of Kratos outside the Barona Knight Academy.
This is obviously the entire point of the Magic Carta minigame, in which you collect cards depicting "legendary heroes" (previous protagonists) and try to identify them by familiar quotes. You know, "Intend to? I already have" or "Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality." They even added Luke's "Shut up!" to the recording although the text doesn't appear on the card. Comes complete with the voice actors for Asbel and Pascal imitating the other VAs. When Bryce Papenbrook - undoubtedly Playing Against Type as Asbel - imitates Zelos Wilder, he almost sounds like himself again.
In the post game Asbel is getting marriage proposals from women all around the world. Two of the proposal letters are from Anise Tatlin and Nanaly Fletcher.
In Strahta, one NPC talks about monsters, and mentions a "Quickie". Pascal even says that one of those things would come in handy while using Artes. In Tales of Eternia, Meredy's "weapons" are whistles, which are used to control Quickie, and later on Quickie can attack while she's casting.
One of Hubert's first weapons has this description: "Short wooden swords used for practice. Two times the sword equals two times the power, right?"
All new weapons in Lineage and Legacies are references to other Tales Series games.
- If you closely observe the Mythology Bearer, a weapon for Pascal which is only available in Lineage and Legacies, you can see Kanonno Earhart.
- Not to mention that Richard's Symphonian Scepter has little Seraphim wings. Actually, a lot of the weapons have neat little visual gags. The Brave Vesperia looks like Yuri's giant feather sword from the ending sequence (and it's named after his guild) and the Phact Phantasia looks like a tree - more specifically the world tree. Then there's Cheria's Innocent Shiners, which not only reference Tales of Innocence, but also Innocent Shine, Tear's Mystic Arte.
An early skit in Lineage and Legacies has Asbel looking over prospective candidates for marriage. Two profiles he read are "Anise Tatlin" and "Nanaly Fletcher". He also butchers pronouncing their names.
Six of the fiends in the Ghardia Shaft count as well. They're known as the Destineon, Abysseon, Symphonion, Eterneon, Rebirtheon and Vespereon, all of them famous in a story of their respective namesakes.
Outside the Knight Academy in Barona, there's a rather epic statue of the Academy's founder. It appears to be Kratos Aurion.
One item found in the main quest bears the description: "made of fomicry."
In Gralesyde, if you bring an old woman sitting on a bench some beef and pork, she'll make you minced meat "filled with love." You can then dualize this meat with potatoes to make croquettes. Eat them with care, okay?
It's probably a coincidence, but whenever Pascal falls unconscious in battle, she says "the rest is...up to you!" with the exact same inflections that Asch uses during his death scene in Tales of the Abyss.
The mission to Bathus Citadel is to retrieve a componant made of Derris Ore. A potential reference to Derris Kharlon.

Tales of Xillia

Subtle, but the Lord's Manor in Sharilton shares a design with the Lhant Manor from Tales of Graces.
Near the end of the opening narration, the old man narrating (who is the real Maxwell) says something along the lines of "Evil is born in the hearts of men."
Two worlds vying for existence with one supposedly having to be destroyed to save the other and the heroes ultimately deciding they want to save both? And one world is more technologically advanced that the other? Why hello there, plot of Tales of Symphonia. However, that side that is supposed to be destroyed is overly dependent on its resources — so much that this over-dependence will eventually destroy said world. So we're combining Symphonia and Tales of Vesperia now?
- It's a bit of a shaky comparison, really. Even though Elympios is the more technologically-advanced nation, it's in a period of sharp decline because of its critical mana shortages. And while Gaius certainly believes that one world should be destroyed to save the other, the heroes are actually presented with a viable third option from the very start. If anything, Xillia features the plot elements of previous Tales Series games but approaches them in new ways.
- Spyrixes are essentially Blastia in terms the danger they possess to the world but are used in the same manner as Exspheres.
- The game's plot mixes a lot of Vesperia and Symphonia together, as mentioned above. It also has elements of [1] with its dying original world that was destroyed by its absue of nature and sealed paradise that gets infected by a remenant of the old world. Milla and Muzet can be seen as Sophie and the Little Queen respectively in that regard, as the former is a living weapon created to destroy the corruption (spyrix here), and the latter is an immune-system like program that destroys any incursions.
- The first 3 chapters are also reminiscent of Tales of the Abyss. The major two countries have a shaky peace that is moving closer to war all the time, and it turns out that the countries are being manipulated into the war by a third organization for their own ends: in Abyss it's the Corrupt Church, here it's Exodus.
- The game was originally meant to be a homage to the other tales games for the 15th anniversary of the franchise.
Lilium Orbs are special spheres that humans use to awaken their inner potential and allow them to be able to fight monsters, but where they come from is a dark secret. They're basically Exspheres, except they don't really factor into the plot outside of a sidequest or two, and their dark side (the Superboss made them and distributed them so humans could grow powerful and he could copy their strength and add it to his own) is easy enough for the party to take care of.
Many of this game's main characters are references to other characters in the series.
- Jude is a fist fighter who likes older women and is pretty dense. He also strongly resembles Leon Magnus, and when wearing his outfit as DLC looks almost identical.
- Elize takes the token moe loli with a stuffed animal that fights in combat but uses Dark Artes and is also a healer.
- Alvin is basically Kratos, by being a mercenary who constantly back stabs people and is connected to the game's villains; and Yuri, by being a older Anti-Hero who is sarcastic — the two even have Dragon Swarm. He even gets Kratos' 'Traitor' costume as a DLC outfit, complete with some of his memorable lines as victory quotes. "Blame your fate!" He also has a lot in common with Leon Magnus. He's related to a socially prominent villain, obeys said villain because of an (indirect) hostage, is a traitor from the start who grows to like the people he's supposed to betray because of their constant trust in him and has Dragon Swarm.
- Rowen is a combination of Jade, being a much older spellcaster who is famously known in-universe; and Malik, by playing a supportive role to the main character as a teacher.
Leia combines elements of Arche, by being a Genki Girl; and Amber, by being a Combat Medic who uses a staff in battle. She also looks a lot like Natalia. Furthermore, she's also very similar to Farah (another Genki Girl Combat Medic who's also the childhood friend of The Hero), and even gets her dress as a DLC costume.
- Leia's backstory also has a lot in common to Cheria's. Both are childhood friends of the male protagonist, and are in love with him. They both used to be Delicate and Sickly but got better and want to prove that they can keep up with everyone else. Both get teased a lot by the rest of the party, try to look after a younger girl, and are a Combat Medic.
- Milla is a Determinator on a mission to destroy the Lance of Kresnik, and has blonde hair as well as a laser-like arte, a tetra-spell-looking linked arte, and a Mystic Arte that uses Instant Runes to attack the enemy with a elemental beam. She's basically Dhaos, only not evil or male. Howevever, her endgame status is more like Luke, being a artificial life form made by a major villain. Van and Maxwell even share a voice actor in the English dub.
- As mentioned on the characters page, Agria is basically the bastard child of Emeraude and Zagi.
- Gaius is interesting in that some of his aspects are from more than one villain. He has Dhaos's motivation to save his world at the possible cost of another, Mithos's Necessary Evil in regards to the two worlds, Richter's Good All Along, but Anti-Hero status, and Van's in-universe Memetic Badass levels as well as having a personal group of powerful generals by his side. He also gets to wield The Eternal Sword, which puts him in the company of Cress and Lloyd.
The globe Gnome sits on is a map of Terca Lumereis.
An optional side quest has you visit a location called the Tatalian Abyss, where you have to solve glyph puzzles and there's miasma.
- After you defeat the Superboss at the end of the Tatalian Abyss, Jude wonders if it might have sought the miasma out on purpose in order to die, since it was constructed to be an immortal fighting machine. Milla replies that "the idea of a being created for an unwanted purpose, desperately battling with its own destiny...doesn't sound too far-fetched." This conversation is a reference to Tales Of The Abyss's Luke, who is a clone created to avert a prophecy about the end of the world, and who eventually sacrifices himself to destroy the miasma.
Some of the attachments are references to older Tales games. The stuffed dragon is Ba'ul from Tales of Vesperia, and the half-frame glasses look a lot like Hubert's from Tales of Graces.
The game is set in the year 4304, the same year that Tales of Phantasia takes place.
The world of Rieze Maxia and Elympios features two moons, which are unnamed and largely unmentioned, but serve as a visual reference to the twin moons of Phantasia and Symphonia.
Long Dau, Wingul's native language that he speaks after activating his booster, is the exact same as Melnics spoken in Tales of Eternia.

Tales of Xillia 2

The poorly drawn wanted posters return, this time featuring Ludger and Julius after the latter is framed for the Oscore attack.
The art for the cooking items is lifted directly from Tales of Graces. You can also find the ice pop win sticks.
One of Elle's victory poses matches Pascal's almost completely, random confetti and all. She also references the Strahtan Beach Brigade by name.
Having save files for Tales of Xillia and Tales of Graces will net you attachments of Sophie and Yuri plushies and plushies of Jude and Milla in their Xillia clothes.
Some of the job requests are also obvious references. For completing these, you'll get an item named after the game they're referencing:
- A mysterious Richard asks for a sample of Gaius dumplings and calls them "competition".
- One girl asks for some Torbalan Jade from the Highroad specifically because the "necromancers" don't believe it can be found there.
- Zelos asks for five pieces of Torbalan Jade....for his hunnies.
- A man named Dhaos asks for his signature item (an Earth Cape)
- Veigue asks you to bring him a diamond for his childhood friend. Awww.
- Caius asks for five salmon and mentions he's from a place called Ramorn.
- Kannono requests Fruit Yakisoba
- Meredy wants an aqua ribbon
- A person listed as "Champion" asks for a model windmill and offers to help Ludger "get pumped up like never before" as a reward. It's obviously Kongman.
- ...and then the game just shatters all pretense of the fourth wall by having Tales producer Hideo Baba request a sword to trim his beard with.
The fact that Elle, Ludger and Julius all have very strong opinions on tomatoes might be a sneaky reference to Tales of Symphonia, where the fact that both Kratos and Lloyd hate tomatoes is a sneaky hint they're related.
A whole bunch of the cats are references as well, as a good chunk of them are named after previous characters, including Malik, Suzu, Zagi and Lithia. Some are also coloured to look like the characters they're based on, including Woodrow, Keele, and Emil. There's also Tartaros, which may be a mistranslated reference to Jade's Cool Ship, and Natalina, which is likely a mistranslation of Natalia (given that the cat shares her colour palette right down to her hairband.) Some even go the extra mile and put references in their requests; the request to find Luke mentions that he's kind of slow and that his hair needs a trim.
Ludger's ringtone of all things is one. Sound familiar? Yep, it's the return of Eternal Mind.
- On that note, Leia's ringtone is also a Call-Back to a previous Tales song. In this case, Pascal's theme. How fitting...
The glowing pillars in Epsilla Ruins' red passage play music from previous Tales games when you inspect them. Including the Grand Chokmah town music, Chance for a Big Reversal (The Tales of Vesperia "things are about to get awesome" music), Sophie's Theme, and the Tales of Xillia title screen music.
The Epsilla ruins also look a lot like Welgaia, which is made doubly hilarious in the English version because Odin is voiced by Cam Clarke...who also voiced Kratos.
The Epsilla ruins are flat out referred to as Thor at times, which was an ancient civilization beneath the ocean in Tales of Phantasia.
The poker minigame uses the casino tune from Tales of the Abyss.
Characters earn titles for spending a certain amount of time linked together, and several of them reference the titles of other games: Ludger and Gaius are Ultimate Abyss, Ludger and Muzet are Human and Spirit Phantasia, Milla and Elize get Champions of Graces, Milla and Rowen are Amazing Symphonia, Milla and Leia are Shining Vesperia, the Warriors of Rebirth are Alvin and Rowen, the Allies of Eternia are Alvin and Leia, the Heroines of Innocence are Leia and Elize, Jude and Gaius make the Fighters of Destiny, Gaius and Milla are the Kings of Legendia, and Leia and Muzet are the Tempest Twins. Phew!
The English localization of Xillia 2 gives Elle the last name of Marta. With their similar eye and hair colors, this ends up making Elle resemble a younger version of Dawn's Marta, at least appearance wise.^note
One pair of pistols for Ludger are the Spirius Model-4304, referring to the year that Xillia took place in, itself a reference to the year Tales of Phantasia occurred.

Tales of Zestiria

The inns throughout the game are named after the sacred beasts from Tales of Rebirth.
Dark Turtlez from Tales of Graces is back as a bonus boss, and the fight with him parodies two scenes wholesale from Tales of Xillia 2. The first involves him riffing Julius' explanation of the Hymn of Proof, and the ensuing fight scene re-enacts the duel between Ludger and Julius (complete with Chromatus special effects!), against one of his fellow Turtlez, right down to the battle theme. He also seems to have gotten combat lessons from the aforementioned two... Though his Mystic Arte itself is a reference to Kohaku, because the two characters share the same voice actor.
Sorey and Mikleo find a book titled "Mad Screams of Love" in a skit, which fans will know was written by a young Rowen from Tales of Xillia.
A DLC skit called "Inside the toilet" has Sorey, Mikleo and Dezel find an Apple Gel in the toilet and discuss what to do with it disgusted. This is a reference to earlier games where you could find items and gels by examining toilets like it was natural.
Another DLC skit "Zesty Zestiria" has the characters take on traits and lines from the characters from whom their Cameo costume originated from. This kind of skit first originated from the PS3 release of Tales of Vesperia.
The bust in the Dumnonia Museum that had Mikleo and Sorey debate on who it was of? They were both wrong, because it was Gaius.
Sorey and Alisha hunting for prickleboars early in the game is an allusion to the beginning of Tales of Phantasia, where Cress and Chester hunt for boars.
A girl in Marlind wants her father to buy her a Quickie doll.
When war breaks out between Hyland and Rolance a second time, the party has to run to both kingdom's and try to stop the war on both angles. In Tales of the Abyss the party does the exact same thing.
To defeat the final boss of Alisha's DLC, both Rose and Alisha perform a attack that heavily resembles the Impact Cross arte.

Tales of Berseria

One of Zestiria's bonus bosses, Dark Turtlez, returns in this game and brings the spirit of Xillia 2 with him, only this time things are a bit different. Instead of reenacting the fight against Julius as he did in Zestiria, he instead reenacts the fight with Victor, complete with this playing in the background.
- He also carries two Mystic Artes, each a reference. The first is if you use an item, triggering the certain reaction of an ax-wielding brute with a hate for item usage. The other is an Actor Allusion: since he's voiced by Kohaku Hearts' actress, he has a parody of her version of Final Fury, just like he did in Zestiria.
Zestiria's other bonus boss, Phoenix the Normin, also appears in this game.
One skit has Laphicet and Eizen talking about a battle of Ragnarok from the Age of Myths between Demon King Dhaos and Goddess Martel in the land of Kharlan. They are also said to be the faces on Eizen's coin.
Another skit talks about the recurring portrayal of the lead characters in wanted posters. With his infamous status as Aifread's first mate, Eizen already has been portrayed in wanted posters multiple times...as both an evil guy and a Bishounen, and he loves the attention (he's a pirate, after all).
There's a certain drink in the game called the sale'tohma.
The whole Expedition mechanic is technically this, as the seas and islands discovered are named after characters or objects from previous Tales games and Radiant Mythology, and you can recover rare treasures from them that are either important or iconic items from the referenced game or pieces of artwork depicting its characters or setting. The recipes you get from each also often reference the game in some way, such as the Symphonia location's recipe being "Dwarven Sailsbury Surprise."
The name of Aifread's ship, the Van Eltia, shares its name with the Van Eltia of Tales of Eternia. Furthermore, there is a shop run by one of the pirates called "Chat and Patty's Student Store", a reference to Pirate Girls Chat and Patty from Tales of Eternia and Tales of Vesperia, respectively.
Several of the Mystic Artes are callbacks to other ones from previous games: Velvet borrows Kyle Dunamis's Annihilating Crash. Laphicet's third mystic arte is the series staple Indignation, Eleanor's second Mystic Arte is named for Luke fon Fabre's "Lost Fon Drive" ("Lostfon Drive" in Berseria) and she also participates in the conversation about the Key of Lorelei in the Treasures section of Expeditions. Magilou's first Mystic Arte "Ascending Angel" parodies Yuri Lowell's "Heavenly Bladewing". This is made much more apparent in their Japanese names: "Heavenly Bladewing/Tenshou Kouyokuken" and "Ascending Angel/Kouyokutenshou-kun". Rokurou's "Rangetsu Heron" is actually a CallForward to Rose's Jade Luminescence or "Rangetsuryuu Kawasemi" in the original Japanese. Artorius uses Yuri's Savage Wolf Fury and when Armatized, Melchior gains Rowen's Grand Finale from Tales of Xillia, though this time under the name Absolute Prison.
When Artorius Armatizes with Innominat, his clothing resembles Mithos Yggdrasil's white suit from Tales of Symphonia.
The whole plot bares some resemblance to the backstory of Tales of Symphonia except in reverse. That is, the younger brother dies instead of the elder sister, but both act as a turning point that turn the once kind other sibling into a villain who causes grief and tragedy across the world in search of their goal. The difference is that Velvet is the protagonist while Mithos is the true villain of Tales of Symphonia.
Magilou claims that the True Name she gave Bienfu (Fuschie Cass) means "Thing" (though it actually means "Cute Hat"), which is what Luke unkindly called Mieu throughout his Jerkass phase in Tales of the Abyss.
Shops are named after previous Tales party members.
Laphicet's bag is made of a rare material called Maurits silk, which is woven from threads produced by a type of spider called a dandarantula. Later, referencing the same game, the party finds an antique pot that Eizen deduces was made by a legendary artisan named Grune using a long-lost technique called Oresoren glaze.
The leader of the Bloodwing Butterflies gang often offers the party a nice peach pie when they visit her tavern.
The first ingredient needed for the Omega Elixir is Long Dau Dust. The second is a Unicorn Horn.
The royal family of Midgand traditionally wears perfume made from a fragrant tree called a Phandaria Pine.
Eizen owns a fishing pole made by an artisan named Fuji bayashi, and Eleanor talks about holding her hometown's record for catching Treit Loaches.
A winemaker in Stonebury talks about a rare wine called Sleeping Princess that changes color as it ages and is finished aging when it turns a deep emerald green. In the Stonebury inn, Zaveid is drinking another emerald green wine called Thorny Forest. Both are references to the poem from Tales of Hearts, and the bottle of Thorny Forest has a simple illustration of Lithia Spodumene on the label. Another reference can be found during Eizen's confession with the priest, where he mentioned having a run-in (and getting scammed by) with an artist named Beryl Benito.
After becoming demons, Velvet and Rokurou lost their sensitivity to temperatures, and Velvet lost her sense of taste, two things Colette lost due to her angel transformations.
While attempting to translate the book on Innominat with Grimoirh, Laphicet comes across a phrase that he says if read as "lonikyle" it means "midriff" and if read as "muzetmilla" it means "poranges are nummy." The two agree that both readings are probably wrong.
Shigure's arte list in Japanese is a reference to Tremorous Celestial Sundering Shredding Light of Cyclonic Butchery/Shinten Rekkuu Zankou Senpuu Messai Shinbatsu Kougeki. His second Break Soul, Rangetsu Owl, has him perform his normal artes in the same order as the Mystic Arte name that they're referencing.
While attempting to translate the Avarost book, Grimoirh is confused by a line that translates literally to "The parent hates tomatoes, the child eggplants", referencing Bisley Bakur and his son Julius from Tales of Xillia 2.

Tales of Arise

When casting spells, Rinwell will sometimes say "Blah blah blah magic!" and "Magikazam".
A number of equipment and items, especially the returning Devil's Arms, are named after or make reference to previous games in the franchise;
- A late-game shield for Kisara mentions the goddess Martel.
- There's a Mieu lure that makes reference to his mistreatment, a Repede Lure, a Bienfu lure, and a Teepo lure that's even noted as being 'bazonga-shaped.'
- Each of the keys used to access the Devil's Arms and the Arm they lead to are named after other games in the series;
  - The Scarlet Night key is named after the actual event from Tales of Berseria that starts the story, and the gun you get is named the Damonisch Core, representing Velvet, the hero, and the various other Daemons that make up the majority of enemies in the game.
  - Alphen's Devil Arm, the Nebilim, takes its name from the recurring Superboss seen throughout the series, and requires the Vesper key.
  - The Records of the Fallen are a reference to the Score Yulia Jue recorded in Tales of the Abyss. Fittingly, the key needed to get it is called the Abyss key, and the boss it's attached to is fought on the Oracle Snowcap Summit, which is a reference to the Oracle Knights from Tales of the Abyss.
  - Law's final gauntlets are the Demon's Cry, another reference to Daemons, though this time from Tales of Zestiria, as made clear by requiring the Zest key to reach.
  - Kisara's Os Rex displays an angelic figure out of Tales of Symphonia and likewise requires the Symphony key.
  - Dohalim's weapon bears no strong reference to the rest of the series, but needs the Destiny key to reach.
Ganabelt's mystic arte is the series staple Indignation, while having a chant similar to the one used by Heldalf.
Vholron's second Mystic Arte, Finis Aeternam, bears a striking resemblence to Shizel's Eternal Fatality. Finis Aeternam translated means Eternal End, driving the point further.
Law's second Mystic Arte, Crimson Skies, comes from Tales of Rebirth where it was performed between Tytree and Mao.
Kisara's second Mystic Arte is Loni Dunamis' Final Player.
The magic Shionne uses to call and dismiss her gun is taken from Jade's own ability in Tales of the Abyss.
Rappigs once again feature in this game, just like in Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Xillia.

Escort Titles

Tales of the World

Radiant Mythology 3 has a puzzle in the Almanac Ruins that involves tracing out a word on a series of panels (RADIANT), in direct homage to Tales of Destiny 2. The original solution from that game can also be spelled out.

Tales Of The Rays

There is a shout-out during its tutorial, where it explains how to get help from other players by choosing a character from them. It says 'choose help from a player-created character', and the character's name in the example is Descender.

Tales of Crestoria

Count Senegal manipulating Luke into causing the destruction of Southvein calls back to Luke being manipulated by Van into destroying Akzeriuth, complete with the guilt trip that follows.

Mythology Gag / Tales Series