Yeah, yeah, this useless silly topic is back, but I'm bored and want to kill time and don't feel like playing anything...ok, you get the point.
The original topic stated that Fire and Holy are the most common elements, followed by Darkness, blah blah blah. Frankly, no one cares about that, lets just get to the meat of things! I'm only covering main characters from games I've played, naturally; feel free to add in things I forgot, dispute points I made, what have you.
Also, this is going by the "If a character has an element, its one of these" so being Non Elemental doesn't really count as an element, just puts you in the N/A Category. Also trying to keep it as much to main 8 (Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Water, Earth, Dark, and Holy, and anything that can be considered equivalent, ie Chrono Cross White = Holy)
Anyway...WE'RE OFF!
NOTE: A lot of these were just C+Ped from my ratings topic, and then put in alphabetical order, hence why some are so...specific on their names, going into great detail with subtitles and everything...yeah. I did try to shorten things by condensing some games that could be used collectively (See Pokemon), but...<_<
Oh, furthermore, deleting games that don't really fit and are just obscure (See Legend of Ghost Lion), mostly cause if they don't have an element, and no one has played the game, who cares?
If someone wants to tally these up, feel free!
7th Saga: Start off with a game where you choose your own main! Anyway, while some characters have obvious elemental alignments, like Wilme = Fire or Esuna = Ice, some are...less so...someone who knows more about this game can cover this.
Anachronox: Boots was Ice, no real arguing this, at least as far as I remember people mentioning this.
Arc the Lad: Arc is...not...really...aligned. He gets like all elements and...yeah. Well, he starts with Burn Ground! But don't think that counts as making him fire.
Arc the Lad 2: Meanwhile, Elc was explicitly Fire Elemental, so no real arguing this.
Arc the Lad 3: Alec had no elemental alignment, so yeah.
Arc the Lad: Twilight of Spirits: Both Kharg and Darc were wind aligned, if only obvious through their skill sets and how Drakyr were the Wind Race of Deimos.
Bahamut Lagoon: Byuu's main Dragon, Salamando, is the Fire one, and its his main dragon in plot. Probably makes him Fire aligned.
Beyond the Beyond: I think Finn is like the only person with Lightning so he's that element? I could be wrong, and I don't remember. I know he gets Fire too, but several other people get...oh screw it, its BtB, I'm sure most people just don't care.
Breath of Fire: Probably Fire. Dragon thing, best equipment resists it, etc. Light might work based on the whole Light Dragon thing though!
Breath of Fire 2[/b]: See above, really. Worth noting though that it was the Fire Shaman that awakened his powers. Also, Light Dragon vs. Dark Dragon kind of doesn't exist in BoF2.
Breath of Fire 3: Holy elemental. The fact that he is your best Healer, and how his best Dragon form requires the Radiance Gene hints this. ON THE OTHERHAND, Fire is one of his personal genes, so there's room for argument.
Breath of Fire 4: Ok, clearly Fire. He resists it (and more so than standard resistance), and he's weak to Water. FURTHERMORE, he's suppose to be Fou-lu's opposite, and Fou-lu has a strong affinity to Water.
Breath of Fire 5: Ryu's probably Darkness, based on the whole Destroyer thing.
Brigandine: Multiple main character time! Ok, Lance is Fire since he has Flame as one of his spells and gains 1 Red upon promotion to King, Cai is effectively Non Elemental (1 of each element cancels out and such.) Vaynard is Ice, due to the whole Blue elemental thing, Lyonese is Holy due to White, Zemeckis is Fire, I believe, though I could be mistaking, and Dryst is Darkness (with some Fire on the side, but clearly more attuned to Darkness.)
Chrono Cross: Serge = White Aligned = Holy. No real arguments. Ok, fine, for half the game, he's Black, thus Darkness, but that's for weird plot reasons.
Chrono Trigger: Crono is Lightning elemental...unless we start going into the whole translation of his element being Heaven but...umm...doesn't change the fact that most of his magic is in fact Lightning <_<
Digital Devil Sagas: Putting the games together for obvious reasons. Anyway, Serph is Ice, kind of hard to argue this.
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: Laharl is probably fire, since Demon tends to imply Fire or Darkness, and Laharl does have a Fire elemental attack, Fire type personality (like he's short tempered, for example), and his Non Fire Moves are clearly very...explosive <_<
Dragon Ball Z Collective: No.
Dragon Quest: Also no.
Dragon Quest 2: More No.
Dragon Quest 3: Hero learns Lightning magic and is the only one who does so (not even Sage gets them), so yeah, Lightning.
Dragon Quest 4: Solofia are pretty much in the same boat as the DQ3 Hero, so Lightning.
Dragon Quest 5: You'd THINK the Hero is Lightning based on the DQ Main logic, right? Well he's not, as its his Son who is the legendary hero; the main in this game actually uses primarily Wind magic, hence Wind elemental.
Dragon Quest 6: Gets Zap from a plot sequence, enough to make him Lightning elemental.
Dragon Quest 7: Game play wise, Aluse has nothing (and he doesn't even have Short Cut To Hero Class like the DQ6 Main does). Plot wise, however, he's probably Water elemental. Whole Raised as a Fisherman thing combined with his likely parents and how his big legendary sword is called the Aquagoon Sword or whatever...yeah...Water works <_<
Dragon Quest 8: Guv's unique magic is Lightning and such, feels pretty obvious what his element is!
Dragon View: Was going to skip this, but the forces of Tonfa hype are strong...but Alex really doesn't have anything that'd fit, unless someone wants to prove me wrong.
Drakkhen: See above, and this game doesn't really even HAVE a main.
Earthbound: Ness is kind of lacking in elemental affinities too. Despite how SSB games give him Fire and Lightning attacks <.<
Final Fantasy: I don't have to explain why they lack elements.
Final Fantasy 2: Same here for Frionel/Firion!
Final Fantasy 3: Ok, so the original Onion Kid Quartet lacked elements. Now, FF3DS Luneth? He has a very...shakey...argument for Fire. See, in one scene, Doga/Unei are saying how they each hold a spirit of something or other, and Luneth's is Courage, and that is often represented by Fire (see FF5!), and...yeah, you can ignore this if you want <_<;
Final Fantasy 4: Ok, Cecil now is easy! Obviously starts off Dark, becomes Light/Holy/White. Probably counts as the latter mostly, granted!
Final Fantasy 5: Assuming Bartz is the main, if based only on the whole "In your party more than the other characters" combined with the "He is the first character you play as and the ONLY ONE YOU NAME" thing (not to mention the character scene riding a chocobo in the title screen)? He's Wind. Pretty clear if you've played the game, further proven in FF5a where his element on Elemental Attack is Wind from a Gladiator! FF5 has some debate as to Bartz being the main hence the little paranoia defensive measures, mind <_<;
Final Fantasy 6: Ignoring the "FF6 has no Main character!" argument? I...want to avoid starting an argument, but frankly, no matter what I say here will start one. Though, really, if you had to choose one character, it'd probably be Terra based on...a crap load of factors (and thus I smell an argument starting ;_;) and based on her innate skillset and the fact that Red Dragon in Dragon's Den drops her new weapon, she's pretty clearly Fire.
Final Fantasy 7: I wanna kneejerk Darkness for Cloud based on the general messed up of his plot, plus how his whole past was deceiving him and Deception feels darkness and...oh screw it, this is one is up in the air.
Final Fantasy 8: Squall, meanwhile, I wanna kneejerk as Ice. Mostly just fits his personality if little else (the whole apothetic, hates socializing thing feels Ice), but...yeah, again, up in the air.
Final Fantasy 9: Zidane...is also up in the air. One hand, Thief, which often associates with Wind. On the otherhand, Angel of Death nonsense, which would imply Dark...frankly, this one is also up in the air.
Final Fantasy 10: Tidus, now, is a lot easier. See, his trademark weapon, Brotherhood, is Water elemental. Combine that and the whole Blitz Ball thing (a sport in the Water), Water seems to fit him well enough.
Final Fantasy 10-2: Ok, first off, if you think Yuna is the main of FF10, apply what I say here up above in a logical fashion. THAT said, Yuna lacks an element in this game, despite being so obviously Holy aligned in the previous one.
Final Fantasy 12: I...wind, I guess? Adventurous Attitude with "I wanna be a Sky Pirate!" thing, and...ah hell, its another hard to cover elemental alignment nonsense.
Final Fantasy Adventure: I think his only attack spell offhand is Fire? Could be wrong! Also probably should be ignored and skip straight to Sword of Mana.
Final Fantasy Legends Collective: These games are the epitomy of Build Your Own Characters However Damn Well You Please, and in FF1/2, they don't even have canon genders or race! Yeah, best ignore these <_<
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest: Holy. Yes, I have reasons for this. First off, Ultimate weapon is Excalibur. Now, that's a silly reason, so we'll ignore that. The MAIN reason? Every character has an obvious element aligned to them, as you use each PC for one of the elemental bosses (Like Phoebe = Water/Ice), and you meet a Crystal with each. Benjamin is constantly guided by the Old Man, and at the end of the game, a 5th Crystal, the Crystal of Light, appears. Seems like it fits rather well.
Final Fantasy Tactics: Kneejerk Light for Ramza, I have no real justification for this.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced: Nothing fits for Marche...like, at all.
Fire Emblem 4: Geneology of the Holy War: Nothing really fits Sigurd off hand. For Celice? Umm...his mother was a druid and she was Light aligned, so I guess he's Light too? Anybody who knows more about FE4, please help out here!
Fire Emblem 6: The Sword of Seals: Ok, here's an easy one. If you check Roy's stats, he's explicitly labeled as Fire.
Fire Emblem 7: The Blazing Sword: Despite the whole "Blazing Sword" thing, Eliwood's element is Nature (same symbol as Anima, but I seem to recall the game calls it Nature), which...yeah, not touching what THAT means. Hector is Lightning, meanwhile, and Lyn is Wind, both clearly labeled as such.
Fire Emblem 8: The Sacred Stones: Eirika is Light and Ephraim is Fire, both labeled!
Fire Emblem 9: Path of Radiance: Yet again, labeled! Only this time, Ike is Earth.
Fire Emblem 10: Radiant Dawn: Ike's still Earth, and is still one of the many mains of this game (This game is all over the place in that regard.) Micaiah is...weird. Her Element is labeled as Dark...yet she clearly uses Light Magic. I guess Dark wins for plot reasons though <_<;. Elincia, whose kind of the 3rd Main, is Heaven...which apparently is *NOT* Light as there's an element labeled that too, so DAH!
Front Mission Collective: From what I've played and the little I know of the ones I haven't played, this game lacks tradition elements, so...yeah, no.
Great Greed: Want to skip this one, but I know a certain group of people would lynch me for it, so...umm...yeah, there's nothing that'd fit Sierra Sam (that was his name, right?)
Golden Sun: Isaac is the Earth Adept, so take a guess what his element is.
Golden Sun 2: The Lost Age: Felix is the OTHER Earth Adept, so...yeah...
Grandia: There is nothing that really fits Justin; he uses like every element in some fashion in his attacks, and his personality just translates to "Idiot" which can fit in for just about every element <_< >_>
Grandia 2: Ryudo is Lightning. I base this on how his one unique Elemental Attack is Purple Lightning. Worth noting that every character gets a different element (or something that has a symbol implying an element when it really isn't, mainly for Millenia and Elena) so this does actually fit.
Grandia 3: Yuki is wind. If the fact that he's a Pilot, thus sky, thus often associated with Wind didn't give it away, the fact that a lot of his Moves are wind elemental (Whirlwind and Blade Storm come to mind), or easily associated with Wind should give it away (yes, even Flash fits; remember this game treats Lightning as Wind, so...<_<)
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth: Fazz starts the game off under Amu, which is the Fire Deity, so...yeah.
Kingdom Hearts Collective: Sora is Light. Pretty clear given his foil, Riku, is pretty clearly Darkness, and the whole holding onto Light thing...or something...
Koudelka: Dark seems to be my kneejerk for Koudelka, given the Shadow Hearts plot behind her as well...but I'm open for arguments as well!
Legaia 2: Duel Saga: Lang's Origin is Fire elemental, so yeah.
Legend of Dragoon: Everything about Dart is Fire elemental...outside of his Dragoon Form in the final battle.
Legend of Mana: Not touching this one with a 50 mile pole.
Legend of Legaia: Vahn's Ra-Seru is very distinctly Fire Elemental. Now if only I could remember its name.
Live a Live: I would go over this but there's not only a crap load of mains, I don't feel confident about ANY of them...barring Cube, who just kind of doesn't work.
Lufia: Dual Blade plot thing would make peg him as Holy.
Lufia 2: Maxim too for that matter!
Lufia 3: Wain is...odd. His Color is Red, so originally knee jerking Fire...yet, that's the exact kind of Magic he doesn't get. So I think he's Holy as well, based on how big evil IP of Doom is Holy Elemental, and I wanna say he gets Dual Blade as well? Again, NOT CONFIDENT ON THIS AT ALL.
Lufia: Ruins of Lore: No.
Lunar Eternal Blue Complete: Hiro is Wind. Pretty clear given all his Magic is that way.
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete: Despite what most people claiming him as Holy, I still think he's Fire. Considering he has Several Fire type attacks (Red Dragon Anger and Explosion Staff come to mind), and how its the only element he resists consistently throughout each game (and Hiro's Dragon Armor which is a clear reference to it resists Fire to boot), then the whole usual association of Dragons w/ Fire...yeah, really think Fire fits better than Holy for him.
Mega Man Battle Network Collective: Knowing how these games work, I can safely say "NO" to Elements here for Megaman.exe or Lan.
Mega Man Starforce: Geo's Element is basically dependent on which version of the game...IOWs, lets ignore this.
Mega Man X: Command Mission: X is Fire Elemental. His first Hyper Mode is X-Fire, which is Fire elemental and such.
Mother (aka Earthbound 0): I think Ninten was similar to Ness, so...avoiding this one for now.
Naruto RPG: Uketsugareshi Hi no Ishi: Based on the Manga and time jump, he's Wind. Now I won't go into Details.
Ogre Battle: Element depends on which form you get, SUPPOSEDLY his/her canon is the Ianuki form which is...Wind I guess? According to a semireliable source, Destin is Fire Elemental in OB64.
Okage: Shadow King: Despite being Non Elemental gameplay wise, there's only 3 elements in this game, so I don't think I take that COMPLETELY seriously. I'd sooner label him as Darkness due to the whole Stahn aspect.
Paladin's Quest: Chezni starts off with Fire Magic only, and that's the only magic he gets that the only other permanent character who joins him doesn't get! Yeah, I guess Fire works.
Persona: Naoya's first Persona is Wind Elemental, I believe. His Ultimate is...uhh...closest thing is Fire according to some people? Um, yeah, head ache!
Persona 2: Maya seems to be Ice/Water aligned for the most part, based on her unique Personae. For the OTHER Persona 2, sounds like Tatsuya is Fire.
Phantasy Star: I...guess...Fire for Alis since that's the only Attack spell she learns <_<? Oh give me a break, its Phantasy Star 1.
Phantasy Star 2: Holy. Based on Megid and Tsu-series elements in PS4, and Rolf was the only one to get this.
Phantasy Star 3: I think its best we just back away from this one...for a variety of reasons.
Phantasy Star 4: Given the argument I used for Rolf is a lot more straight forward and clear for Chaz given they ARE that element? Yeah...
Pokemon Collective: No. For the love of god, *NO*. Well, ok, I guess I COULD say that Pokemon Colosseum's is Dark and Light aligned based on the forced Umbreon + Espeon Combo <_<? Or you know, not.
Radiata Stories: Jack is basically whatever you damn want him to be! So no, no real element.
Ranma 1/2 RPG: The Treasure of the Red Cat Gang: Ranma's Moves were wind if anything, I think? Yeah, Hiryuu Shoten Ha comes to mind mainly.
Rudra no Hihou: Don't think anyone had any real elemental associations in this game, despite there being *4 MAINS*
SaGa Frontier: Multiple main times! OK, Red feels like Fire given his big moves are all Firey and such (even if they are technically multi elemental.) T260G is...umm...something, I dunno, she's a freaking Robot. Asellus feels as though Dark would fit well given the mood of her story and the mysteriousness aspect (plus one of her endings <_< >_>.) Emelia doesn't really work with anything, Blue feels Dark based on his presence, I guess? Lute...no. Riki doesn't really fit with anything...and yes, argue this all you want, I'm really reaching here!
Sailor Moon: Another Story: Light feels right for Moon in this, but feel free to argue otherwise!
Secret of Mana: If you had to give Randi an element, it'd be Dryad's due to the whole Mana Tree connection thing, I guess?
Secret of the Stars: Ray is Fire Elemental. Pretty obvious all things considered.
Seiken Densetsu 3: Based on their home towns, Hawk = Fire, Duran = Earth, Lise = Wind, Carlie = Holy, Angela = Ice, and Kevin is...uhh...MOON! <_<;
Shadow Hearts: Yuri is Dark Elemental. Kind of hard to argue this one!
Shadow Hearts Convenant: Yuri still is Dark Elemental! The only argument you can make here, and it'd have to be one hell of an argument too given how shakey it is, is that Karin is the FRUE MAIN and she's Fire...yeah, good luck with that though.
Shadow Hearts: From the New World: Johnny's Void. And unlike Ari from Okage, he's in a game with a variety of elements and none really fit him, SO...
Shining Force: I wanna say Holy based on the Chaos Breaker...until I remembered its a combination of Light and Darkness. Then again, I think the Sword of Light was Max unique while Sword of Darkness was not? Eh, Holy works.
Shining Force 2: Lightning. Yes, based entirely on how he learns Bolt spells.
Skies of Arcadia: Legends: Default Element is Red, so Fire works for him.
Slayers: Darkness works for Lina, I guess, given most of her big awesome scary spells require channeling Dark energy and...yeah...though her personality does imply more of a Fire character.
Star Ocean: Don't remember seeing anything that'd give Ratix an element.
Star Ocean: 2nd Story: Hard to say; don't want to give Claude an element though lest I shoot myself, someone else can field this one!
Star Ocean: Til the End of Time: Fire offhand, given the whole Destruction thing and what not. Also, his best spell is Explosion and the first element he gains is Fire...yeah, its a reach, what are you going to do about it???
Suikoden: Tir is Darkness. Seems pretty clear cut.
Suikoden 2: Riou is Holy. Also pretty obvious.
Suikoden 3: 2 ways to look at it! First is your ultimate main you choose in the end always gets the True Fire Rune, thus is Fire Aligned regardless. The other way is that the 3 have their canon elements with their runes, so Hugo is still Fire, but Geddoe is Lightning and Chris is Water.
Suikoden 4: While Lazlo is Wind in Suiko Tactics, the game also lacks a Darkness Element...which is very much more fitting of him in this game (Punishment Rune's element is even the same as the Soul Eater's IIRC)
Suikoden 5: I guess...oh god, how the hell do you translate Freyjadour's Dawn Rune exactly? Maybe just give the obscure SUN element to counter Kevin from SD3's MOON Element <_<?
Suikoden Tactics: Kyril's base element is Fire, and that's that.
Super Mario RPG: Mario has Jump, which isn't a real element, and Fire, which is one. Yeah, Fire works for Mario, especially since he gets it in a lot of his other games <.<
Sword of Mana: Ok, the girl, whatever the hell her name is, is clearly Holy; she starts with Wisp, can use it while being an Ally for the Boy's side, and some plot reasons. The Boy...umm...think his first is Salamando offhand? Could be horribly wrong, and I have no real direction to go with him!
Tactics Ogre: Denim's element is determined on your own choices, which is to say, doesn't really count for him <_<
Tales of Destiny: Dymlos is the Fire Swordian, its Stahn's Swordian, so Stahn is Fire. Plus all his big moves are Fire too.
Tales of Eternia: Aurora Arts being the opposite of Dark Artes (I think that's what they were called), and the name as well, kind of give Reid a nice claim to Holy.
Tales of Phantasia: Eternal Sword means Cress is Light, I guess? No, I can't really back this up. I guess those Sacred Skills fit too or something? ...yeah, I'm just gonna back away slowly...
Tales of Symphonia: Lloyd is kind of...all over the place and...yeah, no to him having an element.
Terranigma: Ark is Darkness. Game kind of explicitly states this on several occasions.
Thousand Arms: No clue what Meis would work with, someone who remembers this game better, feel free to analyze/give info/etc.
Vandal Hearts: Ash is...umm...umm...yeah...
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth is Holy. Kind of hard to argue with that given the game's status screen.
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria: Alicia is Ice. A few things make this clear, like her innate 20% Ice resistance, and "Gather Crushing Ice" and how Photons freeze things.
Wild ARMs (Alter Code F): I'll let someone else deal with this; don't feel like figuring out Rudy.
Wild ARMs 2: Ashley is Fire based on Knight Blazer and such.
Wild ARMs 3: Virginia's holding the Fire Medium + her first tool being Fire elemental I guess were hinting at her being Fire? Said logic works with Jet and Gallows at least, I guess (not completely convinced that Bombs are Earth though <_<)
Wild ARMs 4: Jude is Wind. Its his innate element he resists, so yeah.
Wild ARMs 5: Talked about it a bit in chat, people were trying to convince me that "Idiot" is an element and should be applied to Dean <_< >_>
Xenogears: Believe that it was generally agreed that Darkness fits Fei well enough.
Xenosaga Collective: Cause its easier this way than saying "Shion" three times. Anyway, she's either Fire or Lightning. I know in XS2, pretty much all but one of her attacks is Lightning and in XS1, she uses both...can't remember XS3 though. Leaning Lightning for now though.
