The psychic master with the kitty familiar that keep showing up in random scenes and places throughout the game as though it's following you around.

The one you have to battle, and when you beat him, he becomes your ally.

The annoy chick at the beginning of the game who seems to know everything but always giving you cryptic clues and a trail of crumbs to follow. Later on you're stronger than her and she has very useless information to give but still act likes there's something she's not telling.

User of Earth magicks and that one character that uses lots of high-level healing items for a 10%HP loss in battle

A Fire summon.

Secret character you have to beat the optional but most difficult boss in the game to get!

One of the earlier bosses that shouts things like "My master will avenge me!!!" and other such rot.

An early gotten water summon, one4 that is able to be used in a variaty of sitations, and is most likely to end up being one of the players most favorite summons to use.

A traitor to the oppressive empire the players are fighting against, giving them key information about strategies and key weaknesses. Joins the party for one super-important mission, but is too awesome to keep, except maybe in the postgame as a special recruit.

Final Boss! Too Smexy to be anything other

You're that one dreary drifter the hero's team picks up about halfway through the game. You cast extremely high-level dark magicks and tend to make half-hearted death threats to anyone in the party whom invades your personal space. Just before the final dungeon, the team discovers that you're actually some sort of divine being and that, while you were originally unleashed upon the world to destroy it, being with the hero and his posse for so long has made you want to save the world instead!

An Artificial Intelligence that was driven insane by a computer virus and now want to take over the world, but it's up to a team of hackers to go into the internet and cyberspace to defeat you, learning an important lesson about love and teamwork along the way.

The mad scientist o3o

The super-hacker whom the party rescues early in the game and needs later on to infiltrate the Big Bad's not-so-secret lair

Joins party for a character specific plot line, then leaves the party, leaveing the main character with a magical item as payment.

In futuristic fantasy setting video game, a punker ish girl who happens to have some magical powers and is whisked away on adventure when her friends get in trouble.

Scurvy pirate who captures the main party, and acts as a boss, before having her crew destroyed by the big bad, and joins the party using long ranged weapons and a roulette based special attack.

The slightly crazy but very cute bomb expert for the team :3

Fancy character met at a party who defeats the boss at his own game.

The strange tanker character who joins your party halfway through the game.

a secret ninja that arrives at just the right moment to deal with an enemy that the party cannot deal with yet, and then vanishes afterwords.

The party tinkerer that specializes in personally tweeked ranged artillery. :D

The evil mastermind that tricks everyone to think that she's on the good side whilst she's actually plotting to kill them all.

A evil fisherman who comes and attacks you out of the blue for touching his fishies.

The ghost of a beautiful maiden whose now a crazy bitch popping in and out of the story line until near the end of the game where you fight her. She's actually a good soul but is under control of the main antagonist. The whole time, in her own insane evil way, she has been leading you to the very moment of her death and that of her "master".

He plays the part of the bard.

The final secret character that's easily missed because you forgot to talk to that one innocuous character in the first town.

EDIT Chasm beat me to it xD ..But it fits too ;p

The damsel in distress.

@Serra: Well I like that one :D

@Chasm: The somewhat rough around the edges personality kind of girl who joins your party for her own ambition realzing you really do need some help. Though because she is hard to use at first players tend to not use her and her unique abilities.

The blue mage who is the main focus of the story, but decided half way through to go wandering off on his own and gets captured making the damsel in distress and the rough aroung the edges personality person to go save his ass. =P

I like that, but I am not rought around the edge's I just have meany personalitys.

A weak looking summoner character who specializes in summoning bats, but pays off at the end with a mighty vampire summon at high levels :3

A girl whose soul changed places with a cat, due to curse. She must regain it before darkness consumes all of her human body.
(Sorry, it's cause of the mouth. xD)

Sadrain would be the person who lurks in the darkness, waiting for you to come, then attacks. 8D

Leader of the mini-boss squad that you fight half a dozen times throughout the game.

A mage who controls your dreams, and leads you further in the game.

A mysterious woman who will read your dark, miserable fortune for a very unreasonable fee...but you must do it to progress the storyline.

Warrior-mage from a mysterious winged race thought extinct who joins you near the end of the game.

A NINJA, SEEING HOW YOU SNIPPED MY POST.
lol, jk. xD

A major boss that after you beat, it says defeated you,
and sends you off somewhere to continue the game.
You fight them again later.

The main female character who is captured by the evil side, but just about defeats them when the hero shows up to save her.

A Queen's Seer who helps to find the hero and guide them in the adventure, but in the end, ends up the one behind Masterplan, even though Seers are bleived to be only shells that speak the words of Gods.