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Inazuma Eleven GO is the second series in the Inazuma Eleven franchise, acting as a Sequel Series to the original trilogy, with each game in the series being released exclusively on Nintendo 3DS. The series also received an anime adaptation, with each season adapting the plot of each game.

The series is set ten years after the events of Inazuma Eleven 3 and stars Arion Sherwind, a freshman student who has recently enrolled at Raimon Jr High, hoping to join the school's renowned football club. However, an organization known as Fifth Sector has begun heavily regulating the sport, giving matches fixed score-lines and sending their own highly trained players, known as Imperials, to infiltrate football clubs across the country and keep them in check. On his first day at Raimon, Arion finds the football club's reserve team being attacked by fellow freshman, Victor Blade, an Imperial sent by Fifth Sector to take control of Raimon's football club, with the intention of replacing its current members with his own team, the Black Templars. It is only with the help of Raimon's main team, led by Riccardo Di Rigo, that Arion is able to fend of the Black Templars. Even then, Fifth Sector dictates that Victor is to stay a member of the football club. After properly joining himself, Arion and the club go on to ignite a rebellion in an effort to restore football to its former glory.

The first game, simply titled Inazuma Eleven GO, was sold in two versions, Light and Shadow, which were released on December 15th 2011 in Japan and on June 13th 2014 in Europe, with its anime adaptation airing in Japan from May 4th 2011 to April 11th 2012, spanning 47 episodes.

The second game, Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stones, was sold in two versions, Wildfire and Thunderflash, which were released on December 13th 2012 in Japan and on March 27th 2015 in Europe, with its anime adaptation airing in Japan from April 18th 2012 to May 1st 2013, spanning 51 episodes.

The third and final game, Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy, was sold in two versions, Big Bang and Supernova, which were released on December 5th 2013 exclusively in Japan, with its anime adaptation airing in Japan from May 8th 2013 to March 19th 2014, spanning 43 episodes. It is so far the only mainline game in the entire franchise to not receive a western release.

This series features examples of:

• Aliens Speaking English: No one seems to have any trouble communicating it the aliens of Galaxy.
• All Your Powers Combined: As is series tradition, it becomes a running theme to have the winning goal scored by a special move which combines the energy of all players. In order, they are:
  • In GO, the concept of Spirit Linking is very much this; by taking energy from the entire team, a Fighting Spirit that had previously been exhausted can be re-summoned.
  • Ultimate Eleven Assault from the end of Chrono Stones. Also, the Grand Plan tactic, which involves passing the ball between all the team's players to gather energy and massively power up the next shot.
  • The Earth ∞ in the end of Galaxy.
• Ambiguously Brown: Frank from Galaxy is an aversion, for being the son of a fisherman and spending a lot of time in the sun, but Wanli or Kaiser are never disclosed.
• Anachronism Stew: Chrono Stones. People play football in Sengoku Japan and Medieval France. Joan of Arc wears glasses. And so on.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: Roleia Orbes kidnaps Victor. She doesn't outright say on why she did so, claiming it's just to serve her. After she shows her leadership skills as Queen, Victor half-heartedly agrees to serve her to which she states this trope.
• Anime Hair: Reaches new heights for the series in Chrono Stones when they introduce the Mixi Max mechanic.
• Animorphism: Galaxy introduces the power of Totems, which allow the user to transform into their spirit animal.
• Artificial Limbs: Among the inhabitants of planet Magmavia, the pro-machine faction have traded their wings for mechanical arms. This allows them to create tools at the cost of their flying ability.
• Avenging the Villain: Five members of Protocol Omega in Chrono Stones attempt to avenge their imprisoned leader Alpha.
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: Mount Olympus in the first GO game are billed as the Final Boss. The real Big Bad ends up subbing out the entire team at half time, and you face Dragonlink instead.
• Bait-and-Switch Credits: The anime version of Chrono Stones does this too with its first opening, Jounetsu de Mune Atsu, but not in the way you would expect. It starts out with a poster of Raimon winning the Football Frontier being burnt, and it follows similarly to the beginning of GO's third opening, Ohayou Shining Day, except Arion's friends and teammates are disappearing around him. Then after Nobunaga's arc, it goes through a Reverse Cerebus Syndrome.
• Battle in the Rain: The final match of the first GO game. Complete with the clouds parting revealing a rainbow once you win.
• Big Bad: Alex Zabel/Axel Blaze in GO though he is actually The Dragon to the Man Behind the Man, Gyan Cinquedea.
• Blow You Away: Arion both has wind-based special moves which also incorporate his high speed.
• Chess Motifs:
  • The first game's Final Boss Dragonlink has one. All of the members of the team have Fighting Spirits that are based on white chess pieces, with their captain, Quentin Cinquedea, having Wise Monarch White King. They also operate like a game of chess.
  • Some members of Ancient Darkness also have a chess motif with Fighting Spirits that are based on black chess pieces.
• Crossover: Inazuma Eleven GO vs LBX: Little Battlers eXperience W. Characters from Professor Layton, LBX and Yo-kai Watch also appear as secret characters in some games.
• Custom Uniform: Victor raises the collars of his football uniform.
• Cutting Off the Branches:
  • The anime and manga adaptations depict Nelly as Mark's canonical wife.
  • The identity of the third member of the Ultimate Eleven in Chrono Stones, like with the two game versions, differs depending on the adaptation, with the anime adaptation choosing Sol, and the manga adaptation choosing Bailong.
• Darker and Edgier:
  • The start of the series deals with the main protagonists entering Raimon while the youth football world is under a strict regime where matches are rigged, the players have no say in the matter, and any team that slightly shows reluctance to comply with the rules has their coach replaced, Imperial players are sent to organize and corrupt teams, or in Raimon's case, attempt to break their legs. With Victor's change of heart, it gets better.
  • Chrono Stones has this at first, and the first opening of the anime clearly tries to get that across. After Riccardo manages to Mixi Max with Nobunaga Oda, the series goes through a Reverse Cerebus Syndrome. It resurfaces by the Ragnarok Tournament against N-Gen.
  • A more literal example with Falco, where he unleashes his dark side after Naiadi Eleven's plan backfires spectacularly. To add to that, his new form's Azul is so dark and wretched that the Naiads become paralyzed with fear just by looking at it.
• Deal with the Devil: Soji Okita makes one with with Zanark to become strong enough to defeat Ryoma Sakamoto in Chrono Stones.
• Department of Redundancy Department: In the Galaxy game, a new evolutionary level is introduced. For the +2 line, its new final level is called God (神)^note Kami. This for the most part is fine; unless the name of your special move's name starts with God, such as God Hand, God Wind, or God Knows.
• The Dragon: Alpha to El Dorado. Replaced by Beta after he fails, who is then replaced by Gamma, who is then replaced by Zanark, and he gets replaced by Ar Ecks. El Dorado goes through a lot of these.
• Duels Decide Everything: Justified in the first game, where football is an actual symbol of power as a consequence of the original series.
• Elemental Powers: Every Fighting Spirit is associated with an element in the FuRinKaZan^note  Air, Wood, Fire, and Earth (except for the select few powerful techniques that possess the Void element). Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors is in full effect, and moves that are the same element as the user are significantly more powerful.
• Empty Piles of Clothing: All that appears to be left of Fire Dragon after losing to Inazuma National in Galaxy. Along with some green slime.
• Enemy Mine: In Chrono Stones, El Dorado's representative teams in the Ragnarok Tournament are a mix of Raimon, Protocol Omega, and Perfect Cascade players.
• Eternal English: In Chrono Stones, all of the characters that Raimon meet when they travel to various time periods speak whatever language the game/anime is in.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Victor is perfectly willing to hurt players to teach them a lesson but he draws the line at sending them to the hospital. Considering that's where his brother is, it makes sense he would be above such methods. That's the root of his Heel–Face Turn.
• Evil Duo:
  • Bailong and Tezcat in Team Zero.
  • Ghiris and Mehr in Gihl and Ragnah.
  • Ruger and Gandares in Fertilia Eleven and Falam Medius.
• Evil Old Folks: The council of El Dorado is made up of old men.
• Evolutionary Levels: The Hyper-Evolved Children are the next step in humans evolution. Though El Dorado made a cure to it that made the HEC be Brought Down to Normal.
• Expy:
  • Arion is a kind-hearted, determined, motivating, cares about others more than himself and a football-loving freak, which makes him extremely similar to Mark. This is also lampshaded by some characters in the series.
  • Victor has a cool, calm and quiet personality, and he is hostile towards football at first because his sibling is involved in an accident just like Axel, and he also raises up his collar just like Axel (justified in that he's an Axel fanboy). Taken even further in the game, where even their stats are similar.
  • Riccardo is a playmaker from a rich family and thinks that Arion is better suited to being the captain than him, just like Jude, who is also a playmaker from a rich family even though he's adopted and he thinks that Mark is better suited to being the captain than him.
  • Hell just about half of Raimon's team, if not all GO characters are pretty much this when you think about it.
• Fake Crossover: With Happy Feet Two as a promotion for the Japanese version of the movie.
• Fantastic Racism: In Chrono Stones normal humans fearing and rejecting the Hyper-Evolved Children lead them to trying to Take Over the World in retaliation and start being prejudice against normal humans in return. El Dorado's solution is basically to erase them from history because of their fear of Hyper-Evolved Children.
• Fighting Spirit: Fighting Spirits appear from the spiritual energy of their user once it is mastered, it also severely drains the stamina of their user after usage. While it is rare for normal players to have one, it is the opposite for Imperials. Fighting Spirits can be fused, such as Tezcat and Bailong creating Holy Sword Paladin Arthur
  • Later in Chrono Stones, Fighting Spirits are capable of becoming one with the users. This technique is called Armourfying, where the Fighting Spirit is worn like a suit of armour. In the games, this allows the player to reduce their TP consumption.
• For Great Justice: The plot of the first game, with Raimon fighting so that people can play football freely, without being confined by Fifth Sector's regulations.
• Fusion Dance:
  • Bailong and Tezcat combine to their Fighting Spirits to create Holy Sword Paladin Arthur while Arion, Victor, and Riccardo combine their own to create Lord of Birds and Beasts Griffin.
  • Mixi Max causes a type of fusion that gives the target to gain certain physical traits of the person they are Power Copying from. One example is Gabi turning blonde and gaining glasses when Mixi-Maxing with Joan of Arc.
• Gainax Ending: Galaxy ends with Astero Black teleporting to an unknown spaceship. The scene is never explained.
• Gratuitous Spanish: The second opening of the anime has the phrase "Que sera, sera", translating to "Whatever will be, will be".
• Grouped for Your Convenience: We have the (academic) nerd team, Prodigy Grammar, a sci-fi team, Milky Way Charter, an occult team, Almighty Faith, the famous universities team, Royal Academy, the pirate team, Pirates Cove... and that's just the regionals.
• Hand Blast: Victor's first special move Doomsword Slash ends with him firing the shot with his right hand. At least there's some kicking involved...
• Heel–Face Turn: Victor starts off as Raimon's Token Evil Teammate, but he fully defects from Fifth Sector before the match against Royal Academy after his brother finds out that he's involved with them in order to help him walk again and he wants Raimon to lose so he can receive the money for Vladimir's surgery, but his brother convinces not to worry about him and help his teammates win.
• Heroic RRoD: Fighting Spirits can cause this to their users as Arion realizes a bit too late in the Saints' Way Final.
• Historical Gender Flip: Zhuge Liang from Chrono Stones is portrayed as a woman instead of a man like the real historical figure.
• Japanese Delinquents: Victor is implied to be one, what with him never wearing the school uniform and being found alone in an arcade in the alternate timeline at the start of Chrono Stones.
• Jerkass: Riccardo acts this way at the start of Galaxy towards the inexperienced members of Inazuma National. Even though they gradually get better, he's especially hostile towards the team's goalkeeper, Terry, even when he busts out a new special move on the spot and stops Big Waves' Megadolon he says something along the lines of "that's what goalkeepers supposed to do". It's eventually revealed that the reason why Riccardo doesn't respect Terry is because Terry believes himself to be enough. After Terry learns his lesson, Riccardo opens up more to him.
• Kamaitachi: The Chrono Stones game introduces the Fighting Spirit, Thin Air Slasher Sickle Weasel. As its name implies, it manifests into a weasel with giant claws. When using its special move, Air Cut, it turns into a really fast wind energy that allows the user to dribble past the opponent.
• Keet: Mark's successor, Arion, is very cheerful boy just like him.
• La Résistance: Hillman leads one against The Holy Emperor and Fifth Sector, to get back true football in GO.
• Legendary in the Sequel: The members of Raimon and Inazuma National from the original trilogy are shown to have gained such status by the start of this series.
• Lethal Joke Character: In the games, Willy's Luck is above-average, but it's still useless since his overall stats are pathetic. With the Mixi Max mechanic in Chrono Stones, you can give a portion (which is still a lot compared to the average Luck most players can get) of Willy's Luck to somebody with a better kick stat. As an added bonus, you can give him skills such as Jinx!^note Reduces chances of critical hits, but makes them stronger when you do get them, Critical!^note Increases your chance of getting a critical hit, or Lucky Plus for added effects. If even that doesn't satisfy you, the Fighting Spirit he comes with when you recruit him gives everyone 30 Luck.
  • The trend that began in Inazuma Eleven 2 of Willy learning some of the strongest moves in the game by the time he gets to level 99 continues in this series.
    • In GO, he learns Elemental Destroyer.
    • In Chrono Stones, he learns Ultimate Eleven Assault.
    • Lastly, in Galaxy, young Willy learns Ultimate Eleven Assault, and adult Willy learns The Earth ∞. Consider this as well when you're planning to do the Mixi Max mentioned before.
  • Wonderbot in Galaxy is also this. Despite how pathetic his stats look (even Willy had a stat above 150), his real perk comes from the fact that he gets 400 points to use for training. With this, Wonderbot can be good in any position; at the cost of sucking at everything else. In fact, that isn't even that big of a flaw; as you can just rely on everyone else to cover for his flaws.
• Light Is Not Good: The main antagonists of the first game, Fifth Sector, consider themselves a holy order.
  • One of Fifth Sector's strongest teams is called Eternal Light, led by Bailong.
• Lighter and Softer:
  • The tone of the first game progresses in this manner after all of Raimon fully agrees to fight for the rebellion while retaining their love for football.
  • Galaxy is also lighter (despite Falco's dark side) than the drama-heavy, football warfare, time-traveling, and Social Darwinist plot in Chrono Stones.
• Long Song, Short Scene: The map theme in GO. It's got an epic guitar riff you'll probably never hear because you're unlikely to spend more than a few seconds there.
• Mood Whiplash: All of the trailers for the GO series video games.
• Morality Pet: At the start of series, Victor is hostile towards the other members of Raimon and only plays football in order to earn enough money for his older brother Vladimir's operation. His concern about his brother and the fact that Fifth Sector will only give him the money he needs if he makes Raimon lose causes him to intentionally score an own goal, but after Vladimir convinces him that he doesn't need to do that, he has a full change of heart.
• My Future Self and Me: You can recruit characters from the original series in both their adult forms and and their child forms in the GO games, thus causing this.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Arion says this word by word (without the my god part) when his plan against Dragonlink backfires horribly and causes all of his teammates to fall to the ground because of their injuries.
• Nerf: Galaxy nerfed a large number of moves from Chrono Stones as well as the Armourfy mechanic, which now only reduces TP costs instead of nullifying them completely.
• Numerological Motif:Most of Dragonlink's players have go, meaning "five", somewhere in their apanese names. Their dub names likewise include various languages' words for the number five. In either case, this refers to their status as Fifth Sector's ultimate team.
• Official Couple:
  • The Light version of the first game, the anime and manga adaptations, and supplementary material reveal that Mark ended up marrying Nelly during the ten year timeskip between series.
  • Alternatively, the Shadow version of the first game has Mark married to Cammy instead.
  • From Chrono Stones we have Ghiris and Mehr. While not as major as the former example, it's still the only other official couple in the franchise thus far.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: El Dorado in Chrono Stones, who order Protocol Omega to erase football from existence.
• One Game for the Price of Two: Every main series game released in between the first game and Victory Road has two (or three in the third game's case), versions.
  • Inazuma Eleven GO has Light and Shadow.
  • Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stones has Wildfire and Thunderflash
  • Inazuma Eleven GO: Galaxy has Big Bang and Supernova
• Order vs. Chaos: In the first game, the main conflict is between Fifth Sector's regulated football and Raimon's free football.
• Our Dragons Are Different: The Queen of Dragons in the medieval western-inspired parallel world of King Arthur is based on an eastern dragon.
• Outside-Context Problem: Even for a series where soccer is Serious Business.
  • In Chrono Stones, Protocol Omega and El Dorado is this. The sport of Football has mysteriously vanished after Saints' Way, because El Dorado has ordered Protocol Omega to remove Football from history.
  • Fei is this to El Dorado, as he saves Arion, and not even El Dorado know who he is.
• Parental Abandonment: Aitor has such a backstory and Freudian Excuse, because he was left at the Sunshine Academy orphanage at 11 years old and doesn't trust anyone there.
• Patchwork Map: The Roulette stadiums in the first game are found in a desert area, an icy tundra area and a beach/water area, areas which are in close proximity to each other. Considering they're artificial and separated by walls, this is not really unusual.
• Player-Exclusive Mechanic: In Galaxy, players can evolve moves using the Ultimate Evolution Manual, reaching a level that greatly surpasses their previous level^note As an example, Hyper-Swiper ∞ (which was the weakest wind block in the game) will be stronger than Stealth Walk GX (which is the strongest wind block in the game). Of course, the computer finds ways to get through this.
• Pointless Band-Aid: Rusty wears one on his nose.
• Power Copying: The function of the Mixi Max gun in Chrono Stones allows one user to gain the powers of another person or player such as Nobunaga's intellect & power for Riccardo or strength and speed of a T-Rex for Fei.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Most of the Mixi Max's shown in the show fall under this.
• Power Trio: Like the original trilogy, GO tends to mix it up per instalment. Though only one member of the trio usually gets replaced per instalment.
  • Arion, Riccardo, and Victor in GO. They even have consecutive uniform numbers to boot (8, 9, and 10 respectively). They are sometimes known as the Griffin Trio as they combine their Fighting Spirits to create Lord of Birds and Beasts Griffin.
  • Arion, Victor, and Fei in Chrono Stones. A downplayed example, as they are far less obvious compared to previous trios.
  • Galaxy returns to the Griffin Trio as they are the only members from Raimon's football club to play for Inazuma National, until JP joins as a reserve Goalkeeper after the team is rebranded as the Earth Eleven, though Falco ends up taking Victor's spot in the trio for a large portion of the story, after Victor gets kidnapped by Roleia Orbes and replaced with an alien doppelganger who contributes very little to the team in the real Victor's absence.
• Psychological Thriller: Some of the character arcs can fall under this, to name a few example.
  • Fei Rune in Chrono Stones, who by the last moments of the story, shows just how serious his parental issues are.
  • Falco Flashman in Galaxy is unexpectedly cynical about people because of how materialistic the people around him are when his family is struggling to live, and his mother is hospitalized.
• Raptor Attack: Chrono Stones features scaly and oversized Troodon who seem to have an enlarged toe rather than an enlarged sickle-claw.
• Running Gag:
  • In the anime version of GO, Aitor's bad ideas for special move names, and Victor dodging Arion's (sometimes with JP) attempts to glomp him.
  • In Chrono Stones, Gammon Checker repeatedly getting kidnapped from his job to serve as the commentator in all of the matches.
  • Also in Chrono Stones, Wonderbot always getting his coach position stolen by someone else (human or not, mind you).
• Scenery Porn: Like everything else Level-5 does, backgrounds are intricately detailed and quite colorful. The Galaxy's planets have even more lively backgrounds than most of the previous series'.
• Science Is Useless: Averted in Galaxy: the Black Room ends up being the key to train the borderline terrible Inazuma National.
• Serial Escalation: The plot of the GO games follow a similar premise to the original trilogy, but to an even greater extreme:
  • In the first game, Raimon has to rebel to take back football and preventing it from becoming uniformed and controlled by Fifth Sector who have specialized players in the form of Imperials in every team.
  • In Chrono Stones, Raimon travel through time and space to create the Ultimate Eleven to defeat El Dorado and later, N-Gen.
  • In Galaxy, Inazuma National participates in a galaxy-wide football tournament to save their planet if not the whole galaxy.
• Serious Business:
  • How ten years later as a result of the first series, Football became the determinate factor of a school's worth; resulting in Fifth Sector's controlled football.
  • In the first movie and Chrono Stones, what is essentially time police is ordered to erase the existence of football from the universe or at least undermine its importance, and the heroes have to protect it.
  • In Chrono Stones, after an international incident involving football, the game is banned in Japan. What takes the Serious Business to new levels is that the authority isn't content with just the ban. They order that all balls, uniforms and football equipment in general has to be burned.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: A substantial part of Chrono Stones. The protagonists have to restore the "true" timeline from all of the changes caused by Protocol Omega.
• Shapes of Disappearance: Doctor Crossword Cryptix from Chrono Stones has the habit of disappearing suddenly when the kids want explanations from him, leaving behind an afterimage or his outline.
• Shown Their Work:
  • The Mesozoic Era visited in Chrono Stones mostly avoids Anachronism Stew and Misplaced Wildlife by showing only Late Cretaceous creatures from the Hell Creek Formation. Besides famous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, the only Sauropod shown is Alamosaurus instead of a more famous Jurassic Sauropod like Apatosaurus.
  • For a fictional pterosaur, Pa is a very accurate Quetzalcoatlus, having the right size and proportions, a long wing finger, a pteroid bone, plantigrade feet, a head crest, and being mostly quadrupedal on the ground (although he is also able to stand on two legs).
• Significant Anagram: The dub of GO has the leader of Fifth Sector: Alex Zabel -> Axel Blaze.
• Significant Name Shift:
  • Arion is one of the few characters largely addressed by his given name in the Japanese dub, but only his closest peers and the managers call him like that at first. As his Character Development changes him from a Naïve Newcomer to a key part in the team, all his teammates begin to call him by his given name.
  • Arion and Victor in particular don't start the series on the best terms since Victor is an Imperial from Fifth Sector who is supposed to tear the team apart. After his motives are clear and he stops serving Fifth Sector for his brother's sake, their relationship improves significantly. By the time of the Saints' Way finals, they are close enough that Victor starts addressing Tenma by his given name.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Dodge took the fandom by surprise because he wasn't in any of the promotional work or even the website, presumably because he leaves Raimon shortly after the match against Milky Way Charter.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: The Snowland Stadium in the first game has a pitch made entirely out of ice, with matches that are played on said pitch incorporating the appropriate physics accordingly.
• So Bad, It's Good: In-universe in the anime, this is what most of the other characters seem to think of Aitor's suggestions for special move names.
• Speed, Smarts and Strength: The main Power Trio in GO, consisting of: Arion, whose speed is incorporated in most of his special techniques, Victor, the hard-hitting Ace Striker, and Riccardo, the strategic game maker.
• Spoiler Title: The fact that the last entry in the GO trilogy is called Galaxy should've clued you in that aliens are involved.
• Sportsmanship Aesop: In the first game, football was made "fair" under the control of Fifth Sector, led by Gyan Cinquedea. This is done by having a predetermined outcomes for every single match. After the Resistance defeats the Fifth Sector, Hillman becomes the new Holy Emperor, abolishing Fifth Sector and stating that equality is not a part of football and that there are unfair aspects. However, some can gain virtue in persevering despite such obstacles, which can help them win in the game and even through life.
• Super Ringer: Subverted with Roma when he joins (or rather, re-joins from an in-universe perspective) Raimon in the first game. During the Alpine match he's set up to be the key forward that'll complete Twin Wings, only to reveal that his skills are a bit rusty due to playing in a completely different position overseas.
• Teen Genius: A lot of the middle schoolers are proficient intellectually, athletically, in some case: both, or has a skill that can benefit their team in a football match.
  • GO has Riccardo (music, like Soundtown). He also plays as a midfielder.
  • Galaxy has two of them: Zippy is very proficient at mathematical problem solving and calculations, while Keenan is a prodigy detective (in-game he even solves Astero Black's secret identity without being caught).
• Temporal Paradox: The reason why El Dorado doesn't have Protocol Omega 2.0 just use brute force to destroy Raimon in the past. Instead they attempt to manipulate or influence things without altering history to crush Raimon.
• Theme Naming:
  • The Raimon managers are named after colors: Skie Blue, Rosie Redd and Jade Greene.
  • Protocol Omega's members (except for Beta and Gamma) take their dubbed names from the letters of the NATO Military Alphabet.
• There Are No Therapists: Many of the characters go through traumatic events, and while some characters have been diagnosed for the physical problems such as Vladimir and Sol in GO, others are forced to overcome their tragedies in mentally painful fashion. Thankfully, many of them are able to recover for the better.
• Time Police: Protocol Omega of Chrono Stones essentially are route agents authorized to intervene with time.
• Time Travel: The plots of the Team Ogre Attacks version of the third game and Chrono Stones revolve around this.
• Tournament Arc: Makes up most of the first game, the climax of Chrono Stones, and all of Galaxy.
• Training from Hell:
  • Jude as coach in the first game, to the point that three (... or two with one dragged along) rebel and don't come to practice the next day. Turns out Jude did it so he could run diagnostics on their limitations, then adjusts their individual training menus to their maximum capabilities.
  • Also in the first game, Fifth Sector's training menu on Sanctum. In Chrono Stones, the Spirit Summoners of Raimon, who are unaffected by the Protocol Omega's mind control, go there to learn how to Armourfy their Fighting Spirits.
• Wham Episode: In the first GO game:
  • Chapter 10: Arion finds out that the one who saved his life when he was younger is the current Holy Emperor of Fifth Sector... but he also may be more sympathetic than he seems.
  • Chapter 11, oh boy... Arion finding out the friend he made in hospital is his next opponent is just the start. Arion gets an evolved Fighting Spirit, and he, Riccardo, and Victor fuse their Fighting Spirits together into a combined Fighting Spirit, and Riccardo gets heavily injured to the point of being hospitalised and Arion is chosen to replace him as captain.
  • Chapter 1 of the Chrono Stones game is a Wham Episode in itself, somehow it seems that football has wiped clean from the face of the earth, with Arion himself being the only one who actually remembers football. Then Alpha shows himself to Arion and reveals that he has travelled through time and erased football, he later deflects the football that Axel used to save Arion ten years prior; which injures him and removes his passion for football. Since it doesn't work, Alpha and Protocol Omega beat up Arion until Fei shows up and saves him.
  • Chapter 2 of the Chrono Stones game has this one instance where you see Vladimir standing up, and he's joining The Sherwinds to play with Mark from before the Raimon football club was ever formed, against Protocol Omega, later it's revealed that Vladimir came from a different timeline where he never broke his legs, and went to become a famous football player, and thus hunted by Protocol Omega only saved by Benefactor X who gave him his Time Bracelet.
  • Lastly in the final chapter of the Chrono Stones game, where it's revealed that El Dorado are not the villains, shifting the antagonist role to N-Gen, the Hyper-Evolved Children terrorist group. It goes even further when the Ragnarok Tournament begins, Fei was a mind-wiped N-Gen agent sent by Simeon to prevent El Dorado from eliminating football, Benefactor X is revealed to be Fei's father and Goldie is his mother, and the final member of the Ultimate Eleven turns out to be none other than Zanark Avalonic.
• Whateversaurus: Big and his mother, Boss, are an unidentified species of giant Theropod dinosaurs.
• The Worf Effect: Sidewinder^note which is a very good shot in the video games and just about all of Samguk's special moves get this.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Several special moves are made by users with opposite powers, usually light combined with darkness. This includes:
  • Zero Magnum, going with the first game's theme of black and white.
  • Holy Sword Paladin Arthur, which is a Fighting Spirit created by fusing Sacred Serpent White Wyvern and Dark Demigod Black Butcher.
  • Brimston Rain, which is more downplayed compared to the other examples here.
  • Great Blaster, another Yin-Yang Bomb move with Bailong, this time with Victor as his partner instead of Tezcat.
• You Have Failed Me: In Chrono Stones, any member of Protocol Omega that fails to meet El Dorado's expectations are sent to the CONTRA facility.