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Cryptic Conversation

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Cryptic Conversation	comment	This is the favorite pastime of the Zen Survivor, Waif Prophet, Eccentric Mentor, and any character with even a smidgen of knowledge on the setting's Back Story, or plots that are happening that the hero knows nothing about. Just like a villain can't resist Evil Gloating, these characters will often hold entire conversations (one sided or not) using only vague, cryptic, ominous, and frequently Double Entendre laden terms and phrases to confuse the player and character. Why don't they spill the beans quickly to help bring down the Evil Overlord? Well, usually the character in question either wants to protect or manipulate the hero, other times they want to hide the truth. Of course, sometimes they do want to spill their guts but can't, due to a geas or binding oath, and even the little they do dish out can get them in trouble. The Author of the character in question might not have mapped out that far ahead into the series, or they want to have a character that's "in the know" who won't spoil the big twist in the end. And of course, there's always doing it just to look cool and mysterious regardless of reasons. Often, these Poor Communication Kills will only frustrate the player/hero's attempts at solving the most recent dilemma, eventually riling them (and us) enough to tell the offending Mentors to shove your vagueness someplace painful. At least, unless a Translator Buddy is there. This is related to how prophecies are never clear or straightforward, full of loopholes and interpretations. Creators might use these dialogues as place holders for SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun, keeping them purposely vague enough to fit any Retcon in they need to. Common set ups for this include but are not limited to: The Waif Prophet, Mad Oracle, or another oracular type uttering a prophecy to the main character. Questioning the oracle on its meaning will never help; they were either in a trance and don't remember what they said, were already as clear as they could be, or "they are just the messenger, not the interpreter". Two or more plot relevant characters (villains or not) will speak in vague terms about the hero, his role, the progress of their schemes, etc, all while staying stylish with light-repelling rouge. A mentor or erstwhile ally (or just a taunting villain) will show up on a roof or unreachable area, and talk literally and figuratively down to the hero about coming events. Common Cryptic Conversations will have: Covert Distress Code Double Meaning Doublespeak Figure It Out Yourself Koan: A paradoxical riddle or anecdote without a solution. Ice-Cream Koan: A koan that doesn't make any sense at all. Life-or-Death Question: The answer means the difference between life or death. Loves Secrecy Lying by Omission Mathematician's Answer: A technically correct answer that still doesn't answer the question. Metaphorically True: Someone appears to be lying, but their choice of words make what they say true to some extent. Non-Answer Prophecy Twist Proverbial Wisdom Public Secret Message: Anyone may overhear it, but only the intended recipient will understand it. Riddle Delighting in Riddles Riddle Me This Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Constantly speaking using big words. Shout Outs Spy Speak Teasing from Behind the Language Barrier Vagueness Is Coming: Doom is upon us! Beware the beast with two backs. He will knock three times! No, not the same he: You Know the One: Pronouns like "it", "them", "he", etc. Usually italicized or quoted. The cryptic conversation will rarely if ever speak using actual nouns, much less proper names. You Will Know What to Do We Would Have Told You, But... Common Cryptic Conversationalists will be: Aloof Big Brother Enigmatic Minion Mad Oracle Magnificent Bastard Riddling Sphinx Trickster Mentor The Omniscient Council of Vagueness Waif Prophet Zen Survivor Compare and contrast: Trouble Entendre, wherein the sinister meaning is transparent, but not to passersby. Talking through Technique, where a concise conversation is held without ever saying a word. Word-Salad Horror, when the dialogue goes from "cryptic, but still capable of being interpreted" to "ominous nonsense". Word-Salad Humor, when the nonsensical conversation becomes Played for Laughs.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_1331990c	comment	Justified in Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Homura refuses to explain herself because she already tried, in many previous timelines. No one believed her, and it mostly made things worse. Her first chat with Madoka is a completely straight example, with Homura implying that some vague disaster will befall Madoka's friends and family if she "changes herself." But it soon becomes clear that she specifically wants her to not become a Magical Girl, and she reveals exactly why this would be bad once Madoka is in a position to believe her.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, Taylor has one with Glaistig Uaine, who uses the metaphor of actors in a play to drop hints about the plot. Tailor gets called out for doing this with a villain by one of her teammates, who doesn't know what she's talking about talking about either.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_14c681d3	comment	Robin Goodfellow from An Elegy for the Still-living loves these.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_17573ac5	comment	Gilgamesh has some of this starting in the second episode. There are several sentences that are mostly composed of ellipses ("Debt collectors...?" "The contract for me... my organs... my sister... ...") At the beginning, since you've seen some of it, you can infer the lines not said, but the same can't necessarily of the characters, and in some cases is frustrating to the viewer.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_18494c61	comment	The Oracle in Voices gives its prophecies in odd, Koan-like fragments: short phrases like "broken mend broken" and "to keep bees from apple blossoms." Naturally, this has historically allowed the people asking the question to interpret the meaning to support the thing they already wanted to do, sometimes with disastrous results.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_1d698aef	comment	Vampire Knight has a lot of this, usually involving Kaname.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_230ec9cf	comment	Skins: In season 2, Cassie exchanges one with her teacher during her final exam. It ends with them dancing on Funkytown.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_233f2f2f	comment	Blind Chance has an extremely puzzling phone conversation between Witek, the protagonist, and his dying father. The film then plays three different versions of events, in which Witek makes different choice based on his reflection on said conversation. The ambiguity is even stronger in the original version, due to difference in grammatical structures between Polish and English (and makes it near-impossible to fully capture in translation the perplexive nature of what the dying man said).
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Cryptic Conversation / int_2675c915	comment	Happens annoyingly in the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., when it's revealed that Agents Mack and Bobbi joined Team Coulson with a secret agenda of their own that they only talk about in vague terms. At one point, Bobbi is unsure about keeping her ex-husband Hunter out of the loop, and Mack gives her a nonsensical speech that ends in "...Maybe in the next world, we can all be friends again." Even if you rewatch the episode knowing Mack and Bobbi are part of secret faction within SHIELD that seeks to unseat Coulson as Director because they distrust him after he was resurrected with alien blood, Mack's speech STILL makes no sense.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_29f80617	comment	A lot of what White Face says in Imscared seemingly does not make a whole lot of sense. It is coherent, but it has little to no context or provocation, such as its excessive apologizing.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_2ba1d958	comment	The second two of The Matrix trilogy are possible subversions. It turns out that The Oracle makes deliberately vague prophecies partially because she only has a limited insight into the future through predicting the choices of others, partially so she has some way to pretend to have predicted any turn of events, and partially in order to cause the other characters to carry out her prophecies. After all, "would [Neo] have really [broken the vase] if [the Oracle] hadn't said anything?"
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Cryptic Conversation / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Almost everything Itachi from Naruto has EVER said.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_318b09a0	comment	Would you believe Eragon had one of these with a bird?
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Cryptic Conversation / int_327f503	comment	Eden of the East is in love with this trope, and makes use of it so often that listing all the examples is simply impossible.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_32c541e6	comment	There are a couple of this in Fullmetal Alchemist, most notably among Father and the homunculi about the so called "promised day". Which was pretty obviously going to be a solar eclipse long before Brosh's younger siblings woke him up wanting to borrow his telescope...
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Cryptic Conversation / int_33dd1d90	comment	The Vortigaunts from Half-Life 2 may qualify here, although it doesn't always take a theoretical physicist the figure out the meaning of their word play.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_34411a6e	comment	Shortly before the main plot of Archipelago gets underway, Dream Weaver Paollo tries to send Credenza a warning about the Big Bad and his plans. When she has no clue who or what he's talking about, he expresses his frustration with the trope:
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Cryptic Conversation / int_36092143	comment	The Little Prince: The conversation with the snake. It starts out straightforward, but as it goes on, the snake starts speaking more cryptically, dressing up words in poetic metaphor. The prince describes it as speaking in riddles.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_36ee2abe	comment	In Paranoia, the GM may narrate this way to help keep the PCs in the dark:
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3831f526	comment	On Darwath, this is master wizard Ingold Inglorion's favorite method of teaching wizardry. His apprentice Rudy Solis gets a full dose of it during their journey to the Wizards' City of Quo in The Walls of Air.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3b08dfc9	comment	In Pillars of Eternity, the gods (when the player speaks with them) are extremely fond of this, hinting and alluding without actually saying. Since the player finds out a secret about them that makes them much less impressive at the end of the game, most of them drop this in the sequel, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. Rymrgand still keeps it up, even to his fellow gods, because he figures out what Eothas is up to well before any of his fellow deities, and supports it for entirely different reasons than Eothas is doing it.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3bd3db2c	comment	During the 1000 Review special of This Bites!, Cross asks his future-self Wyvern if he's caused anything Nine Minutes-ish. Fans of the story know he's asking if he caused a Bad Future.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3d7e04d4	comment	In Chapter 32 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, when Rachel brings Ragna and Ruby to her realm to explain things to them, she does so in an awfully vague manner that irritates the two. When Ragna calls her out on it, she explains that giving them the full story would potentially be costly to both themselves and those around them, as the secrets she keeps are very dangerous. Ruby snarks that she also does it for fun, which Rachel doesn't deny.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in The Order of the Stick, where Tarquin notes that the fact that his team is not speaking cryptically in regards to Malack's vampirism means that it's highly likely that the protagonists already found out about it.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: In ch. 46, Reiner, Bertholt, and Ymir have multiple conversations right over the head of Eren (and the audience), throwing out tantalizing hints while ignoring requests to explain themselves.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3f6c7a68	comment	The Sidhe are also like this, to the extreme. Harry has commented on several occasions that getting information out of them is like pulling teeth. Their tendency to speak in a convoluted, indirect fashion actually becomes a plot point in Cold Days. When Maeve actually gives straight answers, it turns out to be an indication that she has been corrupted by Nemesis... and has become capable of lying.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_3f9dfc77	comment	Subverted in The Way of Kings (2010), where Dalinar thinks he's receiving these kinds of answers from what turns out to be essentially a prerecorded message, asking it questions and taking whatever it says next as a cryptic response. This causes him to mistake with tragic results the advice "Yes, act with honor and honor will aid you." for an answer to the question of whether he should trust Sadeas, to which the correct answer is a resounding no.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_40b716af	comment	Assassin's Creed: Altair is always on the end of these and is clearly shown as being irritated by it. He eventually calls Al-Mualim out on this.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files In Proven Guilty, it is explained that prophecies have to be deliberately vague. If a prophecy is too detailed (e.g., "Your car will be stolen Friday"), and you act on it (move your car so it's not stolen), then that creates the question of how did you know your car would be stolen if it wasn't, which leads to a paradox, which can lead to very bad things. In the RPG book, Harry notes that the Gatekeeper always speaks like he knows more than he's letting on, and if you asked him something as simple as "What do you want on your pizza?", he'd ramble on and give you an answer that didn't make any sense until later. Then he giggles at the idea of the Gatekeeper eating pizza. Harry is also sometimes deliberately cryptic when talking to his allies. Not because he's trying to protect them or anything. It's just that being sneaky and cryptic and mysterious is pretty much heroin for wizards. The Sidhe are also like this, to the extreme. Harry has commented on several occasions that getting information out of them is like pulling teeth. Their tendency to speak in a convoluted, indirect fashion actually becomes a plot point in Cold Days. When Maeve actually gives straight answers, it turns out to be an indication that she has been corrupted by Nemesis... and has become capable of lying.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_43339c8b	comment	From Birds of Prey:
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Cryptic Conversation / int_43e4ba78	comment	Most characters from Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages speak like this by default, usually in metaphors and allusions to history, with many of them outright trying to deceive you. One of the biggest themes of the game is the covering-up of history, which the player must discover the truth behind by digging through every breadcrumb of story the game throws at you. Some characters like Baphomet, The Relic Hunter, and Horus are especially prone to this.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_4464eb9c	comment	Ash & Cinders heavily indulges in this trope. It frequently happens whenever Orym and Thavian share a scene. There's even an entire chapter devoted to one of them.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion is infamous for this, with any plot-related conversation involving Gendo or SEELE being the greatest offenders. Incidentally, it is far from the most Egregious example in anime; unlike, say, Xenogears, these conversations never resort to the cheap trick of vague pronouns or adjectives; the characters involved talk frankly about the subjects at hand... it's just that the viewers won't understand what these things are until they happen, if then.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_468c2a7a	comment	Traditional Chinese courtesy requires indirection and ritual self denigration in conversation allowing for very polite and cryptic threats. A prize example is Judge Dee's various conversations with the Big Bad in The Chinese Bell Murders.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_4c746380	comment	Inuyasha: When Inuyasha fails to master Tessaiga's new absorption power, Sesshoumaru saves him with Tenseiga. Sesshoumaru cryptically tells Inuyasha he's failing to understand the point of a sword. However, despite one-shotting the enemy by following Toutousai's cryptic advice to "grow in strength", Sesshoumaru also fails to master his own new power. Inuyasha needs to learn that swords cut things, no matter what power they possess; Sesshoumaru needs to learn warriors should only fight when motivated by the strength of their compassion.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_4ce5263e	comment	At the ending of XCOM: Enemy Unknown final boss skirts around this; laying out quite simply how all the various factions in the Alien Hierarchy came to exist but being overly vague as to why they exist or why they attacked Earth in the first place. Perhaps it's a Sequel Hook.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_4ceeb750	comment	Done on accident a few times in A Teacher's Glory, such as when Naruto and Sasuke have an entire conversation with sentences that consist only of a couple words like "Iajutsu" and "Eight inches". They're not attempting to be cryptic so much as they simply don't require any syntax.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_4e433e78	comment	Monty Python and the Holy Grail has "Scene 24" (so called in the movie).
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Cryptic Conversation / int_4f7e144d	comment	In Everhood, any encounter with The Voice qualifies, but especially so when it offers to tell you the Absolute Truths, which the voice cautions that learning might help or hurt you.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_58808436	comment	Although not intentionally vague, about half of everything anyone said in the first season of Higurashi: When They Cry was misunderstood by the other person because of their own preconceptions, usually leading to paranoia and literal Poor Communication Kills.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_59215319	comment	Everyone is cryptic in Persona 2. Including your own party members, who will wax introspective in minor conversations. The protagonist only avoids this by never talking.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_59da62aa	comment	Ulysses of Fallout: New Vegas speaks entirely in metaphorical terms with heavy use of symbolism in his language. For example, he tends to refer to NCR and Caesar's Legion as the Bear and the Bull, the animals depicted on their respective flags.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: Sans often implies to the protagonist that he comes from somewhere other than the Underground, in a way that suggests he thinks the child should know what he's going on about. Convincing Sans to give his bedroom's key to the protagonist results in an elaborate prank where the kid walks aimlessly in the dark before Papyrus turns the lights on and the place is revealed to be messy but otherwise normal, with a note reading "the truth is that you got owned, nerd..." A second key left within reach unlocks the back room of Sans' house, which contains yet more mysterious items. This is all heavily implied to be Production Foreshadowing for Deltarune. The hidden scenes regarding Dr. Gaster involve Glitch Entity characters cyptically describing how his consciousness got split across time and space. A report from him to two unknown people about an expanding darkness is only viewable via hacking. A Sound Test screen features melodies titled "Happy Town", "Meat Factory" and "Trouble Dingle" that are all overriden by "Gaster's Theme" before an entity thanks the player for their "feedback". Furthermore, the website for Deltarune was first launched shortly after the release of Undertale in secret with two ominous messages from Gaster to the players. The "River Person" is a hooded person on a boat that serves as Fast Travel. They can randomly warn the protagonist about a "man who came from another world" (possibly Sans, considering his ramblings) and a "man who speaks in hands" (possibly Dr. Gaster, who speaks in uppercase Wingdings symbols that include hands). Sometimes they speak of an "old song coming from the sea", which is later mentioned by Onionsan in the setting of Deltarune. A "Clam Girl" NPC insists that the protagonist should meet their neighbor "Suzy" and that it might be the reason the kid fell into the Underground to begin with. The Nintendo Switch port modifies the scene so that she laments how the protagonist never met Suzy... before adding that they will soon enough and changing into a Glitch Entity before disappearing. The first demo for Deltarune, where Susie is a major character, was released shortly afterwards. One update added a cryptic message from a certain entity to somebody unknown that can only be read by datamining the game's code. Version 1.05A included an additional line reading "HE IS" before version 1.06 immediately removed it. The greeting and mannerisms suggest this is Chara, the Fallen Child talking, but if so, just who is it that they of all people would show such deference to?
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Cryptic Conversation / int_5d7f0a07	comment	Turnabout Storm: Celestia holds a couple of cryptic conversations with Twilight and Phoenix, confusing and irritating the heck out of them. The strongest example though comes from The Stinger in the final episode, where Celestia holds a conversation with someone else, with the viewers only hearing Celestia's words until the very end. That other someone is heavily implied to be the ghost of Mia Fey, Phoenix's deceased mentor.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd plays this trope off of several others in the "Race" story arc.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_6162d560	comment	Kor Icomb of Skies Unbroken tends to have these with a supernatural being known as Lady Luck. Compare and contrast Cosmic Plaything.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_61b1bd67	comment	Used and abused extensively in both Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- and xxxHOLiC, most often delivered by Yuuko, Fai and Fei Wang. It took more than twenty volumes of hearing people referring cryptically to Fei Wang's "wish" before it was revealed what it actually was. Another dragged-out example are the constant allusions to how "Syaoran is the person closest to Watanuki". Even the Exposition is typically given via Cryptic Conversation; you need to wait a while longer (sometimes months) to get more exposition to explain the cryptic parts of the last batch. Even when everything is said outright, its still somewhat hard to comprehend, giving the impression of this trope on occasion even when things are being said outright.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_629cd094	comment	Subverted hilariously in Dragon Age: Origins. The PC is performing contract kills for an assassin guild. She or he corresponds with a messenger from the guild who constantly speaks in cryptic messages. By choosing the correct dialogue options and acting confused as to what the messenger means, the PC can eventually frustrate the messenger enough that he says (and I paraphrase), "Yes, yes, you kill the target, you get the reward!" Whereas before, he only alluded to it. Played straight with Flemeth. Practically every conversation with her has her speaking in riddles and chiding you for acting like you understand what she's truly talking about. She gets no better when dealing with Hawke in Dragon Age II. Similarily, the petrified oracle Eleni Zinovia is incredibly cryptic. In the Mage origin, Jowan dismisses the statue's prophecies as nonsense. Sandal occasionally utters these in Dragon Age II. "One day, the magic will come back, all of it. Everyone will be as they once were. When he rises, all will see." It doesn't appear to foreshadow anything that happens in Dragon Age II, but perhaps someday we'll see...
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Cryptic Conversation / int_656e8d31	comment	Quon from RahXephon speaks like this more often than not... the meaning of the terms she absently throw around in reference to the hero and his Humongous Mecha do not become clear untill the end of the series, but along the way, others 'in the know' makes occasional use of them, creating sinister suggestions of their true importance.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_68198b8c	comment	The Stranger Times: "Flesh. Loves. Enter." Those three words are the only clue a certain ghost can give to her lover. While it may sound like Word-Salad Horror at first, it's actually a set of codewords that work in a geocode app to show her soul remnant's location.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_684610	comment	Used constantly in BlazBlue by Jubei and Rachel. Lampshaded just as much by Ragna:
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Cryptic Conversation / int_70814599	comment	Oma Desala in Stargate SG-1. Pretty much anything to do with the Ancients or other Ascended beings, as evidenced by Daniel when he got ascended for a season, to name one example. This appears, on some level, to be because of the "rules" of being Ascended, which includes not being able to directly interfere, which probably extends to just spitting things out. Lampshaded when he uses one of Oma's particularly confusing statements ("If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago") to test a fake version of Oma taken from his memories: since he never figured out what the hell Oma was talking about, the fake Oma didn't know what it meant either.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh's teachings to Zuko often come in cryptic statements. When trying to figure out what Iroh would say in a situation where he wasn't present, Zuko says something cryptic and vaguely profound... and unfortunately can't understand that either.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_74fb542e	comment	Parodied in That Mitchell and Webb Look where a generic evil genius is giving vague commands to his minions until one of them objects on the basis that it's confusing. And brings up the time they spent months actually hoping a guy would have an accident instead of arranging one.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_755fadab	comment	Yuki and Itsuki have one of these in the first episode of The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya. Predictably, Kyon calls them on it.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_76e539c2	comment	Carim Gracia of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS has the ability to magically create prophecies that turn out to be pretty vague thanks to the fact that they come in poem form, can be interpreted in many ways, and are written in the dead Ancient Belka language, adding even more ambiguities due to translation and mistranslation. Thanks to these factors, she considers them as useful as a fairly accurate horoscope.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_76e7de99	comment	A lot of Forgotten Realms sources used this. The best case may be this Mintiper's tetrastich. It ostensibly speaks about the beauty of the forest, for those in the know hints at a weird magical artifact, and "mantle" as an elven type of personal magical defences in Forgotten Realms. With a straight, but obscure reference to the matter at the end. Also may be misinterpreted as a reference to another artifact and comparison with elven royals who tend to practice High Magic.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_77011132	comment	Especially where Namine erases Sora and his friends' memories of their time together with her, the only remaining evidence being a cryptic line written in Jiminy Cricket's journal "Thank Namine" and "We must return to save them from their torment". The answer to the last line becomes a major focus of Kingdom Hearts coded
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Cryptic Conversation / int_78fc0025	comment	Twin Peaks; The owls are not what they seem. Twin Peaks is Cryptic Conversation: The Show. There have been entire books written about what a large portion of the dialogue actually means. Also this gets ramped up in Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_7c48915b	comment	In Gunnerkrigg Court Annie once asks Coyote what the Court is, and he replies "It is man's attempt to become God." Coyote immediately lampshades this by asking Ysengrim if it's a sufficiently cryptic answer, to which Ysengrim replies "Very cryptic. It barely answers anything at all." and Annie appends that it just raises more questions. Coyote of course, being a Trickster God, was going for this exactly and is delighted that it was so vague.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: Conversations between mortals of various stripes and Elves apparently tend to go like this a lot. After trying unsuccessfully to get useful information out of Gildor near the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, a very annoyed Frodo remarks that, "And it is also said, 'Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.'" Gildor, amused, replies that Elves tend to be cryptic because they believe giving clear advice one way or the other is dangerous, and it's best for people to figure things out for themselves. Gandalf also loves being cryptic. Lampshaded by Aragorn at one point, saying "In one thing, you have not changed, my friend: you still speak in riddles."
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Cryptic Conversation / int_7febe32	comment	At the beginning of Godslave's chapter 2, Heru and Oziris are shown talking briefly in manner just clear enough to let us know that Oziris is aware of what's going on, but not nearly enough for us to figure out why recent events are bad news.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_806cc4c9	comment	Archer in Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged frequently does a less-than-thorough job of explaining things, generally by referencing parts of the wider [[Franchise/Nasuverse Nasuverse]] that nobody else understands and then refusing to elaborate further. Just as often though, he's actually slipping up by accidentally dropping hints about his true identity as an alternate-future Shirou who has already gone through a version of these events already; his flimsy attempts to change the subject or insist that those slips were definitely not important annoys everyone. It even backfires on him once; when Archer genuinely tries to give a less-than-subtle hint about his intentions with Caster, Lancer just assumes he's spouting more cryptic nonsense and ignores it. Afterwards, Archer admits that he slips into being cryptic a bit too easily.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_8273cf00	comment	In Brutal Orchestra, Osman Sinnoks speaks in terms that the player is never given direct connection to in-game. Nowak and Bosch are also just as confused, but when they state that they have no desire to die, the conversation turns threatening and a fight commences.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles had the Weird Sisters, who loved to confuse Humans and Gargoyles by talking like this.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_8d817ccb	comment	Pretty much every line in Lost. Lost is this trope. But no scene in Lost better demonstrates this trope than the opening of the season 5 finale, in which Jacob and a currently unnamed man casually discuss the usage of human beings as pawns in some kind of battle of wills on the island.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_8d81bc90	comment	Father Mulcahy tries this strategy several times on MAS*H in order to give another character vital information without revealing what someone told in in confession. One led to him and Klinger getting shot at while trying to retrieve penicillin stolen by the black market, and worse Klinger ripping his skirt.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_90eb5a2	comment	It's more of a "cryptic monologue", but Tezkhra's thoughts in The Reconstruction often take the form of this, making vague references and trailing off before anything important is revealed.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_916bafd5	comment	In Proven Guilty, it is explained that prophecies have to be deliberately vague. If a prophecy is too detailed (e.g., "Your car will be stolen Friday"), and you act on it (move your car so it's not stolen), then that creates the question of how did you know your car would be stolen if it wasn't, which leads to a paradox, which can lead to very bad things.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_937d368b	comment	Learning How to Be a Princess lampshades this in one chapter, when Emperor Belos is trying to enroll Luz into Hexside. Since he doesn't want the fact he has a family to be public knowledge yet, he cryptically and repeatedly tells a confused Principal Bump that he just wishes to enroll "someone", before his wife Camila straightforwardly reveals that said person is their daughter.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_938e19ec	comment	If youâ€™re ever in Fraggle Rock, ask Cantus the Minstrel for advice. Heâ€™ll freely give it, but youâ€™ll have to Figure It Out Yourself. Lampshaded by frustrated fellow minstrel Murray, and an exasperated Red Fraggle.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena loves obfuscated allusions, and it is part of what makes rewatches of this series so rewarding. The Greek Chorus shadow plays relate to the themes of the episode, but vary in how easy they are to parse. Some of them aren't straightforward in the slightest, and the viewer is always on their own about how to interpret them. Touga, Anthy, and Akio are primary vectors of this trope in the main action of the series, especially when they get together. The framing device of episode 13 is one long cryptic conversation; so cryptic that there is doubt about who he is talking to. Is he talking to the silent prince, or to Anthy? Her figure is silhouetted in the doorway with Akio as he leaves. If the viewer assumes he's talking to Anthy, the scene is more even more sinister than it initially seems.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_988629da	comment	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Kirk and Spock try to have one of these so that Spock can inform him that the ship is much less damaged than Khan had thought without letting their eavesdropping enemy know. However, the code is so ridiculously transparent that one has to assume Khan had an Idiot Ball stuck in both ears not to realize. Kirk and Spock later mention that The Book (Starfleet regulations) specifies that they shouldn't openly discuss their plans when they think their communications were compromised. It was an incredibly obvious code to Kirk and Spock, but then it had to be for Kirk to catch on and go along with it. Khan has only been around either of them for a few hours, years in the past, and couldn't be expected to realize when they are hint-hinting at each other. Also relies on Spock's pointed reference to Lt. Saavik, whom Khan has never met and only seen on the Reliant's viewscreen the one time he visually communicated with Kirk (and given Khan's obsession with revenge on Kirk, it's likely he didn't even notice her.) Saavik's penchant for quoting regulations is what Spock was referring to, something Khan had no possible way of knowing. It's actually a pretty brilliant verbal code, especially given it was entirely made up on the spot.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_99f420	comment	A lot of them in Aeon Natum Engel and Aeon Entelechy Evangelion. The stand-out is the conversation of two creepy girls in the prologue of the latter.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune: Many instances of Production Foreshadowing in Undertale built up to an entity implied to be Dr. Gaster hijacking the official Twitter account and inviting the audience for a "very, very interesting" experiment where they must accept everything that follows from that point on. The player's SOUL is introduced into the game as they help "The Voice" create a vessel in a ominous void of darkness. As soon as they're done, what seems like a second unknown Voice claims the player has no choice in the matter and uncerimoniously discards the vessel to force the SOUL into the role of Kris. When Jevil is defeated, he cryptically speaks about the Knight, Queen and the fountains of darkness. Talking to Seam after this will have him talk about their shared past, and imply it was Dr. Gaster who informed Jevil about the true nature of the world, making his views "darker yet darker". Spamton speaks in a bizarre self-censored language and appears to be constantly watched by someone who keeps him from explaining too much to Kris. At one point he confusingly speaks of somebody named "Mike" to Kris like the man's a villain, but the Spamton Sweepstakes clarifies Mike was a friend and somebody named "Tenna" is their shared enemy. Once you defeat Spamton, you can talk to the Addisons about him and one cryptically mentions Spamton hastily leaving a phone hanging with somebody still speaking on the other side. But when the Addison picked it up, there was nothing but "garbage noise" — the same one Kris can hear on their own phone in the dark worlds. The same one from Dr. Gaster's Entry #17... There are lines of "unused" dialogue in the game's code from somebody trapped in the darkness. In-game, they end up using Spamton as a medium at one point. The salesman pretends nothing happened, but then adds it looked like they were talking to "you". Onionsan tells Kris about investigating a mysterious song that comes from the sea. A strangely familiar song that is "not new", as in, the one mentioned by the River Person back in Undertale. The Spamton Sweepstakes donation event ended with a disembodied voice attempting to convince the audience to kick Spamton out of the spotlight and silence him forever, saying he isn't any better than the rest of them. A 2024 Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including a mysterious "illegible" letter◊ that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read (the file was replaced by a blank card shortly afterwards). It could be from Dr. Gaster due to the letter's nature, the writer's strange remarks and how they acknowledge Deltarune itself but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms — particularly in the Japanese version of the card. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it themself? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with an odd typo: "GOOD BY!"
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Cryptic Conversation / int_a6d106c0	comment	Between levels in Bomb Chicken, you're taken to a room with a giant statue of a bird, and treated to a cryptic quote from an unknown source. They don't really make much more sense once you reach the end of the game. The source of the voice is apparently the final boss — a horribly mutated chicken that also lays bombs.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_b40513b1	comment	In one Foxtrot strip, Peter and his girlfriend have such a conversation over the phone; the last panel shows his brother Jason listening in and musing that his spying may have gotten a bit obvious.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Tia Dalma from Pirates of the Caribbean really loves conversing in this way.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_c19c6efa	comment	The "End Poem" in Minecraft has two disembodied voice saying seemingly meaningless things yet feel meaningful.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Rose": The Doctor explains why he doesn't give out a proper name thusly: "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" had the Mad Oracle Dalek Caan in this role. "The Big Bang": During the Doctor's conversation with River at the end, he's left baffled because she talks in mystery terms to avoid spoilers.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: Doctor Strange, a massively powerful Seer and Time Master (thanks to the fact that the Time Stone transformed him to ensure Thanos' defeat) and therefore immensely knowledgeable, tends towards these. This is partly because he's a Trickster Mentor with a side of eccentricity on the sly, partly because he rather enjoys being cryptic because he knows exactly how infuriating it is. However, he's not shy of giving very detailed and explicit instructions if the situation merits it - this is usually a sign that something serious is going on. 'Nathan' - actually an alternate version of Harry, who's more than a thousand years older than him, tends towards this. This is partly because he enjoys winding up his younger counterpart, partly because he refuses to spoon-feed him, but mostly because he's not entirely sure how different their timelines are (since they diverged long before the story started) and therefore is wary of accidentally sending Harry down the wrong track. The Three Norns are even more cryptic than Strange, most of the time, something not helped by the way they tend to spread one person's words across three people.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_cc79f0e4	comment	Us and Them: Whenever the Cetra speak with the planet, they usually wind up in one of these.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_ce1f7b52	comment	In the RPG book, Harry notes that the Gatekeeper always speaks like he knows more than he's letting on, and if you asked him something as simple as "What do you want on your pizza?", he'd ramble on and give you an answer that didn't make any sense until later. Then he giggles at the idea of the Gatekeeper eating pizza.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_d129fc53	comment	Friendship Is Magic: The Adventures of Spike: Most of Spike's conversations with Dreamy are like this. He lampshades how annoying it is.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_d2d6de50	comment	Ocean's Twelve: Humorously deconstructed in Danny and Rusty meet up with an informant, with Linus insisting on tagging along. Before the meeting, they tell Linus that the informant only discusses business in a certain code and they don't have time to teach him, so he'll just have to play along: It isn't until much later in the movie, after Linus is rescued from prison by his mother that he figures out that all the nonsense phrases he'd heard really were just nonsense; a Lost in Translation con that Danny and Rusty (along with the informant) played on him, partly as a practical joke, and partly because they didn't want him screwing up their negotiations.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_d461f757	comment	The Hybrids in Battlestar Galactica are the CPU of the Cylon Basestars. They all speak in surreal phrases which mix ship status reports, poetry, quasi-biblical verse, and ominous prophecy on current events. Of course, they're insane, so it's not like they have a choice in delivery. However, the eldest Hybrid was scarily lucid, and gave pretty concrete prophecy and warnings.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_dafadc05	comment	The hidden terminals in Superhot. The Player Character uses them to ask the AI controlling superhot.exe questions, but the responses frequently raise more questions than they answer.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: For no discernible reason, StarClan is often cryptic when speaking to or giving prophecies to the Clans. This is lampshaded by Jayfeather in Shattered Sky when their advice for defeating Darktail is "the Clans must remember their names", and he complains about StarClan always being vague.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_dbbf2001	comment	Weber & Ringo's novel We Few has a two-page conversation consisting of mixed allusions, metaphors, indirections, and double meanings. On the surface, it's about a meat supplier trying to get a contract with the Home Fleet. The subtext is that 1) the Prince has returned, 2) he is neither the useless playboy people remember him as nor the villain that the current powers are painting him as, 3) the current powers have turned the Queen into their puppet, 4) he is preparing to overthrow them, 5) he has support among some of the other fleets, 6) part of the plan involves assassinating the admiral of the Fleet, and 7) he is requesting that, once that happens, the Home Fleet support him or, at the least, stand aside.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_dbde69cf	comment	In MARZENA we have Livia and Helena doing a little bit of Spy Speak and making several references to their first conversation making it also a Noodle Incident, and there's also a conversation between Lauren and Helena, where Helena attempts to Spy Speak to Dr. Lauren although the Doctor doesn't have a clue and just answer her questions straight up.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_e05ef82a	comment	In The Darkside Detective, Agent McScream (the protagonist's evil double from the Dark World) speaks almost entirely in vaguely ominous utterances.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_e144ba19	comment	Played straight with Flemeth. Practically every conversation with her has her speaking in riddles and chiding you for acting like you understand what she's truly talking about. She gets no better when dealing with Hawke in Dragon Age II.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angel in the first few episodes. Appears out of the darkness, says something cryptic, then disappears. She lampshades it nicely, with 'you couldn't just say it's a vampire with a fork?' Pretty much all Whistler ever says.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, Taliesin talks to Leon about the Laws of the Andain by using riddles because he feels every Andain must figure out the laws and the true meanings behind the words themselves with no outside help.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_e6405649	comment	In The Dinosaur Lords, the two Grey Angels have this conversation. It's not cryptic to them, and they didn't intend it as such, being alone during the conversation, but the reader knows very little of what they know and the subject of their discussion, so all the conversation conveys to the readers is that matters are getting grim indeed.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_ecd2d797	comment	In Baldur's Gate, you can carry one with a shady individual in one of the eponymous city's inn. The only way to end it is to acknowledge that you have no idea what you are talking about. The rogue expresses surprise, with a hint of respect, that you were able to fake the conversation for so long and then disappears, never to be seen again...
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Cryptic Conversation / int_eef77dd5	comment	Broken Saints can be heavy on this, particularly from the Big Bad.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_ef9cba41	comment	The Powers of Harmony: Prior to the various reveals, most of the conversations between the Guards and/or the Princesses play out like this, if only due to the audience having no idea what they're talking about.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_f3e1f424	comment	In Merlin (2008), Trickster Mentor Kilgarrah loves this trope, always promising Merlin that "you will discover in time, young warlock," or somesuch.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts employs this trope several times over the course of the series, especially in regards to optional bosses and secret endings that hint towards the next sequel. Especially where Namine erases Sora and his friends' memories of their time together with her, the only remaining evidence being a cryptic line written in Jiminy Cricket's journal "Thank Namine" and "We must return to save them from their torment". The answer to the last line becomes a major focus of Kingdom Hearts coded Doubly so in the Final Mix versions. The fact that there's a Optional Boss known by fans as the "Enigmatic Man" should be proof enough of this.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_f74b5f80	comment	Kosh from Babylon 5 exemplifies this trope, except that it's frequently hard to get him into a conversation at all. Here, take a read, it's hilarious. What's scary? Many of them DO make sense in the end. It seems to be a trait of Vorlons in general. After Kosh is killed, another Vorlon (named Ulkesh) arrives to take his place, with no one but the command staff supposed to know that this isn't the same "Kosh".
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Cryptic Conversation / int_f8956ef3	comment	Lampshaded in YuYu Hakusho when Kurama says something akin to "Oh, I see. It must be... that." and Yusuke responds that he is going to start charging him money every time he is vague.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_fa5e90fd	comment	The Praetorian Resistance in City of Heroes communicates entirely in a metaphor- and symbol-ridden argot that is difficult at best to decipher. One Resistance contact with whom players may interact is so deep into their lingo that he is all but incomprehensible — despite the fact that he's handing out mission assignments.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_fad78dec	comment	Rainbow Dash Reads Homestuck parodies this; an asker asked something with a lot of spoilers* so Rainbow replied with spoilers.*
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Cryptic Conversation / int_fe225cd4	comment	The Chronicles of Amber begins with Corwin/Corey having conversations with his sister and brother about things they know all about, and he has no memory of... and yet he still manages to make them think he's fully aware of everything and perhaps knows more than they do, and takes over control of the situation.
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Cryptic Conversation / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Darmok, and Jalad... at Tanagra. Though TNG has many examples of this (The Samaritan Snare and Rascals immediately spring to mind), Darmok might not qualify. The alien species were speaking quite plainly; it is just that they speak a different language, built around a radically different communications phenotype.
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Iron Druid Chronicles / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Judge Dee / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Moshidora / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
So I'm a Spider, So What? / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Sphere / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Symphony Of Shifting Tides / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Belgariad / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Bone Clocks / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Dark is Rising / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Dinosaur Lords / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Hands of the Emperor / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Last Dragonslayer / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Name of the Rose / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Obelisk Gate / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Power of Five / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Stoneheart Trilogy / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Way of Kings (2010) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Way Of Kings (2011) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
This Quest is Bullshit! / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Timeswimmer	seeAlso	Cryptic Conversation
World of the Five Gods / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Worm / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Mythpunk / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
TheSecretsOfDroon	seeAlso	Cryptic Conversation
Attack on Titan: Junior High (Manga) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Golden Kamuy (Manga) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Puella Magi Kazumi Magica (Manga) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Ushio and Tora (Manga) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Vampire Knight (Manga) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
James Ferraro (Music) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Soviet Kitsch (Music) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Stellar Firma (Podcast) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Magnus Archives (Podcast) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Replay Value Universe / Role Play / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Ataraxion (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
BZPB (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
CDT Dream II (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Cape and Cowl (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Doubt Academy (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Dragon Haven (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Persona Requis Aeterna (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Suburban Senshi (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Super Robot Wars G (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Foyle's War / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Fraggle Rock / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Pandora / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Penn & Teller: Fool Us / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Psychoville / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Robin of Sherwood / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Sopranos / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Tomes And Talismans / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Travelers / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Twin Peaks / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Wild Palms / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Alice: Madness Returns (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Arknights (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
B3313 (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Batman: Arkham Knight (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Beneath a Steel Sky (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Bomb Chicken (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Deadly Rooms of Death (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
.hack R1 Games (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Drowned God (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Dungeon Dogs (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Everhood (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Exit Fate (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Fusion Generation II (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Gadget: Past as Future (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Imscared (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Kathy Rain (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Keeper of the Sun and Moon (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Legends of Runeterra (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
no-one has to die. (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Ōkami (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Psychopomp (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Quintessence (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Sally Face (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Seraphic Blue (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Superhot (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Darkest Tales (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Way (RPG Maker) (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Transylvania (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Wanderers of Sorceria (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Xenogears (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Lunacy	seeAlso	Cryptic Conversation
Ancient Domains of Mystery / Videogame / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Reconstruction / Videogame	seeAlso	Cryptic Conversation
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Case 5: Turnabout Substitution (Visual Novel) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Muv-Luv Alternative (Visual Novel) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Sharin no Kuni (Visual Novel) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Soranica Ele (Visual Novel) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Boisvert (Web Animation) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Turnabout Storm (Web Animation) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Hazebent / Web Comic / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Ashens and the Quest for the Game Child (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Boisvert (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Danganronpa Parody (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Kane Pixels' The Backrooms (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Marble Hornets (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Metal Gear Solid The Abridged Snakes (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
There Will Be Brawl (Web Video) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Archipelago (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Damaged Goods (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Ginger's Bread (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Kubera (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
MegaTokyo (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Synodic Reboot (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Meek (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Search for Henry Jekyll (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Trying Human (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
White Noise (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
White Noise (Melinda Timpone) (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Ted (Website) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Class of the Titans / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Dungeons & Dragons / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Dungeons & Dragons (1983) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Heart String Marionette / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Pelswick / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Rango / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Treasure Planet / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
12 oz. Mouse / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Earth Maiden Arjuna / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
NGE Mitigation / Fan Fic / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
crypticconversation	sameAs	Cryptic Conversation
The Reconstruction / Videogame / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation

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