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• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Chapter 3x in FEF1.
• Bizarro Episode:
  • Epilogue Chapter D of FEF1
  • The Dream Mission sidestory of FEF2, where most participating players played alternate gender flipped versions of their characters.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Wonderful Blessing: The gargoyles immediately became popular due to their endearing yet stupid dialogue and their general lax personalities, to the point some players actively regretted having to fight them as enemies. Furthermore, Succubi were so popular that their race codex came out before basically every other race in the game was revealed as playable to allow people to plan characters around them. Finally, Orobas, due to taking heavy inspiration from Daisaku Kuze in his character, including his Leit Motif.
• Fanon: While only a scarce few characters are stated to be directly related to the main cast of FEF1, some of the players like to envision the cast of FEF2 as being descended from the former. However the GM, Haspen, has disproved this theory by posting a detailed list of which families' descendants survived to the timeline of FEF2 and which didn't
  • Leo and Fezz from Gregor x Charlotte
  • Grifen from Olison
    • This one was proven false with the revelation that she is a descendant of Imperial family.
  • Alec from Chris x Ami
• Fan Nickname: 'Whyverns' for Wyvern Riders and related units, as they are typically associated with extremely difficult battles such as Chapter 9B of FEF1.
  • Quetz's quetzies and Wynne's twynnes from Magi Wars for....well, her chest.
  • Alissa often gets called something to do with twerking, such as the Reichtwerker, due to the Memetic Mutation mentioned below.
• First Installment Wins: FEF1 and FEF2 tend to get more attention and are generally more well-known than any of the numerous roleplays that have come out since; note that many of the memes on the page are derived from these two games. However, a few games such as Wonderful Blessing, Final Hour and Gates of Rundum have approached these installments in popularity.
• Game-Breaker: Alex, so much so that he was single-handedly responsible for skill nerfs and to the extent that ailments and mages had to brought out to counter him.
• Memetic Badass: The entire cast of Final Hour, primarily due to a mixture of ridiculously lucky growths (Catherine in particular is infamous for triggering her incredibly low Defense growths), being members of one of a very small number of Fire Emblem roleplays to finish and just generally earning their reputation In-Universe.
  • On the Reborn side, Johan Hammerhand from Lost Lands, due to his very character as a Viking Skald who is a Boisterous Bruiser and a wall of muscle and practically oozes manliness, to the point that his beard alone is said to be a dangerous weapon on par with everyone else despite Johan himself being otherwise unarmed. Also, Winston from the same game, owing to his first attack being a crit and proceeding from there.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The Cursa ^Explanation An ailment on which terrible levels are blamed upon, named after a long string of bad level ups made by Ursa in NoH
  • Efa missed again! ^Explanation Efa was originally built with 70% progression in many stats, and 10% in others, including SKL. As a result, she has garnered a reputation for her incredibly low hit rate in the early game.
  • The Curse of Green Hair ^Explanation Spawned from an alarming tendency for almost every PC (and many NPCs) created with green hair having either a tragic backstory or some sort of physical disfigurement.
  • TWERK FOR THE REICH ^Explanation Alissa in FEF6 is generally assumed to be twerking whenever she performs her Magic Dance to provide an Extra Turn, sprouting from a random utterance of one of the other players.
  • Let's stab Theo. ^Explanation Theodore in Death to Traitors is the Butt-Monkey due to his Large Ham and Insufferable Genius traits. As such, a lot of the suggestions for moves in his game are to attack him to knock him down a peg.
  • The entire cast of Liberation of Izzarra. ^Explanation Liberation of Izzarra is not the only game that has Alternative Character Interpretation, but the interpretations of the protagonists have become rather common to the point of sometimes eclipsing the canon characterisations. For instance, Bertholt is portrayed as a Chivalrous Pervert masochist, Martyn is portrayed as one of the Dirty Communists, and Esther is literally incapable of keeping her hands off of Sharne.
  • Kristijan got downed again ^Explanation Kristijan in Rotting Empire is rather famous for getting brought down to 0 HP literally more than every other turn in the prologue and following chapter.
  • Quetz's quetzies. ^Explanation Quetzalxochitl from Magi Wars isn't the only character in all of FEF to have large breasts, but they're memorable for the....unique euphemism players have given them. Wynne is also not far behind with her 'twynnes'.
  • Anything to do with Seaiga being a concussed kitten or requiring a helmet.
  • Wigglers. ^Explanation For the upcoming game Wonderful Blessing, one of the Bay12 players created a sprite based on a Wiggler helmet from Monster Hunter. The sprite quickly gained popularity, with many different variations being created based on different characters.
  • WonBless RNG / Critical Blessing ^Explanation The rolls of characters in Wonderful Blessing have rapidly gained memetic status for being so blatantly in favour of the protagonists, from Asuna constantly landing critical hits, to Keith gaining good levels, to whole teams critting in quick succession. It has since gotten more memetic with enemies also regularly rolling critical hits.
  • Gnome Jenkins. ^Explanation Gnome Jenkins, one of the player characters in Wonderful Blessing, is an....incredibly memetic character due to the combination of his Gonk appearance and his obsession with toenails, causing many jokes ranging from him defeating the goddesses to acquire his beloved toenails to him being the solution to defeating the Demon Lord.
  • BMM Dice / Elf Dice ^Explanation Two particular GMs in the community well-known for their infamously high and low dice respectively, with the former presiding over the infamous Cursa and the latter presiding over Wonderful Blessing and its ridiculous amount of crits..
• Moe: Owing to the number of characters in these games, there are plentiful examples. Some examples include Grifen from FEF2, Seaiga from Magi Wars and Milly from Wonderful Blessing.
• The Scrappy: Owing to the nature of Supports allowing for Character Development and the playerbase, there aren't many completely irredeemable characters (even the likes of Theo and Otto are given time to develop). However, Brock in Liberation of Izzarra fills this trope; he is rarely present during group interactions, only popping in to be a Jerkass to his teammates, especially Sharne, and possesses Fantastic Racism towards the Aneccans for an undefined reason. His player attempted to provide justification for his behaviour, which only turned him Unintentionally Unsympathetic, as Brock has yet to display any sympathetic traits outside of Word of God.
• Shipping: Highly encouraged by the system itself. Supports give PCs a significant edge over enemies, mostly through absurd critical rates. It becomes a very frequent topic in the OOC threads.
• Squick: Cilia and Dora's relationship.
  • Captain Marpa and Aaron's relationship past the Time Skip of FEF1. To be fair, Marpa had no idea until the culprit, Prixima, decided to reveal it to her.
• That One Level: For FEF1, Chapter 9B was this, combined with Wake-Up Call Boss. At its worst, more than half of the party was downed and nearing death, only through sheer planning did the PCs manage to survive with no casualties. From that chapter forward, the difficulty necessitated heavy micromanagement by the players.
• The Woobie: This being a series of roleplays set in Fire Emblem, there tends to be a lot of these:
  • Jerkass Woobie: Shaelynn in FEF6, who comes off as a massive Alpha Bitch. She is a Defrosting Ice Queen who spent a lot of her early time as an Alpha Bitch to the extent that everyone in her social circle hates her and all of her suitors, including Siegfried, ran away from her at the altar. That last one decreased her already low self-esteem to the extent that she became a Broken Bird. To add insult to injury, Iris, the only person she considers to be a friend in the party, is confirmed to have died in the Collapsing Lair shortly before FEF6 was cancelled.
  • Iron Woobie: Many, but Cecil, also from FEF6 is one particular example. Despite being a Nice Guy par excellence, he was still viewed as a massive Cloud Cuckoo Lander during his childhood to the point that he was bullied and avoided with his Only Friend being Alissa, who he's explicitly confirmed to have an unrequited crush on. His own parents don't particularly like him, mainly viewing him as a way of continuing the Ishim line through an alliance with Alissa's family. To add insult to injury, Cecil scarcely gets respect from the group at all bar a few such as Siegfried and Alissa herself, but continues to view the group as the closest thing he has to actual friends (again, except Alissa) and takes it very badly when Iris and Flora (who weren't particularly close to him, mind) are lost in a Collapsing Lair. Despite this, Cecil still remains an incorruptible pollyanna and a Nice Guy who is staunchly loyal to the group.
    • Esther from Liberation of Izzarra also falls under this category. Her mother is killed and her father taken by the Mordoan authorities, the former being killed in a very nasty way by a brutal use of Exact Words. She spends a lot of her time wishing death upon the Mordoan authorities. However, you wouldn't know it from the way that Esther acts.