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** At the end of the game, [[spoiler:when the characters are discussing how the World Coral could start deteriorating in the future if people don't take care of the environment, Daniel says that perhaps [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} "evolved squid and octopuses" could have replaced humanity by then]].]]
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** At the end of the game, [[spoiler:when the characters are discussing how the World Coral could start deteriorating again in the future if people don't take care of the environment, Daniel says speculates that perhaps [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} "evolved squid and octopuses" could have replaced humanity by then]].]]
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** [[spoiler:At the end of the game, when the characters are discussing how the World Coral could start deteriorating in the future if people don't take care of the environment, Daniel says that perhaps [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} "evolved squid and octopuses" could have replaced humanity by then]].]]
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** [[spoiler:At At the end of the game, when [[spoiler:when the characters are discussing how the World Coral could start deteriorating in the future if people don't take care of the environment, Daniel says that perhaps [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} "evolved squid and octopuses" could have replaced humanity by then]].]]
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** [[spoiler:At the end of the game, when the characters are discussing how the World Coral could start deteriorating in the future if people don't take care of the environment, Daniel says that perhaps [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} "evolved squid and octopuses" could have replaced humanity by then]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Some of the salvage items, such as a claw and a feather, seem to suggest there are LivingDinosaurs on the land surrounded by the Veiled Sea.]]
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** [[spoiler:Some of the salvage items, such as a prehistoric claw and a feather, seem to suggest there are LivingDinosaurs on the land surrounded by the Veiled Sea.]]
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** The megalodon is the traditional portrayal in which it's basically an oversized great white, which the fact file states is its closest relative. Newer studies suggest it's actually more distantly related to great whites and would have had a more different appearance.
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** The megalodon is the traditional portrayal in which it's basically an oversized great white, which the fact file states is its closest relative. Newer studies suggest it's actually more distantly related to great whites and would have had a more different appearance. This is in spite of the fact the game [[ShownTheirWork correctly]] refers to it by its current genus name ''Otodus''.
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** The megalodon is the traditional portrayal in which it's basically an oversized great white, which the fact file states is its closest relative. Newer studies suggest it's actually more distantly related to great whites and would have had a more different appearance.
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** [[spoiler:Some of the salvage items, such as a claw and a feather, seem to suggest there are LivingDinosaurs on the land surrounded by the Veiled Sea.]]
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** Cacao Marharja was large enough to look like a TurtleIsland, but didn't ''quite'' play into the trope due to not actually having anything growing on it. [[spoiler:Rosier Rose/Beryllos, however, has an entire coral reef growing on it and is explicitly used as a mobile habitat]].
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* DemotedToExtra: Thanatos and the Ancient Mother are both given a massively reduced role. Thanatos has gone from being an ArcVillain that haunts an area of the map and serves as an obstacle to the player to being a rare encounter. The Ancient Mother, similarly, has gone from being one of the endgame goals of the previous two games to being a rare encounter.
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** Thanatos and the Ancient Mother are both given a massively reduced role. Thanatos has gone from being an ArcVillain that haunts an area of the map and serves as an obstacle to the player to being a rare encounter. The Ancient Mother, similarly, has gone from being one of the endgame goals of the previous two games to being a rareencounter. encounter.
** This also applies to the other ''Blue World'' legendaries in general, becoming normal rare encounters with their stories decoupled from gameplay. The sole exception is [[spoiler:Lady Dorothea, who is guaranteed to appear together with Rosier Beryllos]].
** Thanatos and the Ancient Mother are both given a massively reduced role. Thanatos has gone from being an ArcVillain that haunts an area of the map and serves as an obstacle to the player to being a rare encounter. The Ancient Mother, similarly, has gone from being one of the endgame goals of the previous two games to being a rare
** This also applies to the other ''Blue World'' legendaries in general, becoming normal rare encounters with their stories decoupled from gameplay. The sole exception is [[spoiler:Lady Dorothea, who is guaranteed to appear together with Rosier Beryllos]].
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** ''Atopodentatus'' has a wide, horizontal mouth, with its fact file stating that its originally-depicted split mouth is not outdated (it was actually a result of the fossil being broken).
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** ''Atopodentatus'' has a wide, horizontal mouth, with its fact file stating that its originally-depicted split mouth is not now outdated (it was actually a result of the fossil being broken).
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** The placodont ''Henodus'' is classified as a plesiosaur, which is a bit of a stretch as the two groups were merely closely related (something that is pointed out with ''Psephoderma'').
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** The fact files take great care into avoiding classifying plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and mosasaurs as each their own group and not dinosaurs.
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** Ammonites are depicted lacking beaks like modern-day cephalopods, alluding to the fact they were filter-feeders.
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** ''Tanystropheus'' is greatly misproportioned, with its trademark LongNeck being too short and its head too long and pointed.
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** ''Tanystropheus'' is greatly misproportioned, with its trademark LongNeck being too short and its head too long and pointed. It is also apparently toothless.
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** The ''Plesiosaurus'' and ''Elasmosaurus'' have heads that are too long and thin.
** ''Tanystropheus'' is greatly misproportioned, with its trademark LongNeck being too short and its head too long and pointed.
** ''Tanystropheus'' is greatly misproportioned, with its trademark LongNeck being too short and its head too long and pointed.
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** The most jarring example is when Sera refers to a basilosaurid (an early cetacean), [[spoiler:the Grand Ancestor]], as an ichthyosaur (a fish-like reptile).
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** The most jarring example is when Sera refers to a basilosaurid (an early cetacean), [[spoiler:the Grand Ancestor]], as an ichthyosaur (a fish-like reptile). And yet, the fact files get this right.
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** The first Event Dive used the Singing Dragon as its focus creature, playing off of its original role in ''Blue World'' as a critical element of the game's climax.
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* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: The [=UMLs=] take the roles of ''Blue World'''s legendaries, who have since been demoted to cameos. The ones that share a species contrast their predecessors.
** The Living Fossil was an ancient silver coelacanth whose mottled appearance and slow movement [[FeelingTheirAge reflected how impossibly old it was]]. Raja Emas, however, is gold with a youthful appearance and outpaces the player the instant it shows up.
** Gungnir is a LongLived red marlin implied to have some form of hypertrophy that gave it SuperSpeed, is extremely aggressive, and is also suggested to be a solo act that has traveled the world. [[spoiler:Lancia Presto is a blue marlin that, while also bulkier than its regular brethren, has a more subdued personality and HatesBeingAlone]].
** Leo was respected as an authority figure above regular leopard seals and [[DentedIron was also visibly shown to have fought countless battles]]. [[spoiler:Jawhira Tajir, while also possessing some manner of superiority above seals, only uses it to showboat by stealing treasure and has evidently never been in a real fight]].
** The Living Fossil was an ancient silver coelacanth whose mottled appearance and slow movement [[FeelingTheirAge reflected how impossibly old it was]]. Raja Emas, however, is gold with a youthful appearance and outpaces the player the instant it shows up.
** Gungnir is a LongLived red marlin implied to have some form of hypertrophy that gave it SuperSpeed, is extremely aggressive, and is also suggested to be a solo act that has traveled the world. [[spoiler:Lancia Presto is a blue marlin that, while also bulkier than its regular brethren, has a more subdued personality and HatesBeingAlone]].
** Leo was respected as an authority figure above regular leopard seals and [[DentedIron was also visibly shown to have fought countless battles]]. [[spoiler:Jawhira Tajir, while also possessing some manner of superiority above seals, only uses it to showboat by stealing treasure and has evidently never been in a real fight]].
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* ShoutOut: The inclusion of ''Sacabambaspis'' references a Japanese and Chinese internet meme featuring the creature from 2023, popular enough that plushies were of it to capitalize on the trend. While most of them come in red in-game, you can find the silver coloration used for the meme as a rare encounter.
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** The inclusion of ''Sacabambaspis'' references a Japanese and Chinese internet meme featuring the creature from 2023, popular enough that plushies were of it to capitalize on the trend. While most of them come in red in-game, you can find the silver coloration used for the meme as a rareencounter.encounter.
** Because Arika also hosted an ''Endless Ocean'' event in ''VideoGame/Tetris99'' the same weekend, the "Song of the Sea Dragons" dive event contained a little alcove filled with dumbo octopuses arranged such that their bodies formed letters spelling "TETRIS".
** The inclusion of ''Sacabambaspis'' references a Japanese and Chinese internet meme featuring the creature from 2023, popular enough that plushies were of it to capitalize on the trend. While most of them come in red in-game, you can find the silver coloration used for the meme as a rare
** Because Arika also hosted an ''Endless Ocean'' event in ''VideoGame/Tetris99'' the same weekend, the "Song of the Sea Dragons" dive event contained a little alcove filled with dumbo octopuses arranged such that their bodies formed letters spelling "TETRIS".
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* UpliftedAnimal: Downplayed with [[spoiler:Jawhara Tajir; while not sapient, it's implied to be a descendant of a breed of seals selected for heightened intelligence. At the very least, [[StickyFingers it knows what "treasure" is out of instinct and likes hoarding it to showboat]]]].
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* RentAZilla: Several of the [=UMLs=] are regular creatures with anomalous gigantism, such as the Raja Emas from chapter 1 (a coelacanth), [[spoiler:the Lamba Apsara (a ''Careproctus shigemii'' snailfish), and Amamotsumi (a ''Costasiella kuroshimae'' sea slug.)]] None of them mean any harm, but Raja Emas and [[spoiler:Lamba Apsara]] are both [[{{Acrofatic}} swift enough]] to cause violent disruptions from the sheer momentum of their weight.
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* StickyFingers: [[spoiler:Jawhara Tajir, the sixth UML, is an intelligent seal who frequently steals the leftover treasures in the Veiled Sea to wear for themselves]].
