I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that the KQ1, KQ2 and QFG2 remakes are, quite frankly, spectacular, and have really raised the bar for adventure game remakes (KQ3 remake? What's that? Kidding...). So my question is, now that the epic project of QFG2 is complete, what's next for the An...

Click the mouth on yourself to initiate your own dialogue box.

You're not incorrect in that the hero does have a kind-of pose during that section. You're just casting the wrong spell. Use Trigger instead of Calm, and the hero will do the standard Trigger pose (throwing the spell at an enemy). Kapow.