Hero Smash

""Underpants on the outside... for JUSTICE!""

- HeroSmash tagline

HeroSmash is a multiplayer superhero game, and the third MMORPG by Artix Entertainment, and the second made by them.

Originally called SuperHeroQuest until the folks at Marvel Comics complained, the game has only just been released and, as such, has relatively little story to speak of. However, a more detailed plot is likely to appear after further releases. The game is arguably even more bizarre than most of Artix Entertainment's other games, since it's set in an ultra-modern city...

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 * Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Found below the subway at Brickstreet. It's also where you find Momma Chuds.
 * After the End: The third Super Death trial takes you to a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
 * Alien Invasion: The current arc with King Zong and the alien bugs seems to be leading up to one of these.
 * Amazing Technicolor Population: Yergen who has yellow skin for some unknown reason
 * Ambiguously Brown: Electina, as well as one of the color system's skin color choices.
 * An Ice Person: Arctikiller.
 * Blank White Eyes: Everyone has this except for Yergen and some Super Heroes and Super Villains, due to the art style of the game.
 * The nameless Damsel in Distress in the Corporal building and the Tutorial averts this trope, even though she has almond-shaped eyes.
 * The little girl in the Yercom building averts this as well.
 * The Pleasanton citizens appear to avert this, having Sphere Eyes instead.
 * And now some Heroes and Some Villains have The Option to Advert this trope by having eyes with pupils
 * Captain Ersatz: Since its a Superhero game it has some
 * Players can choose to make their characters this
 * Arctikiller is a Captain Ersatz of Iceman
 * The Shock Bloopers are based on The Stormtroopers
 * Galanor is based on RoboCop
 * King Zong is a Captain Ersatz of King Kong
 * The Plummer Brothers are based on Mario and Luigi.
 * Harriet Popper is a female version of Harry Potter.
 * Demolicious wears a costume similar to Psylocke's.
 * The Cape (trope)
 * Chest Insignia
 * The Cowl
 * Dark Is Not Evil: The Good Character wearing the Darkness Armor (in Black) or Echo Assault Armor.
 * There is also Super Death.
 * Does Not Like Shoes: Martial Artix
 * Dumb Struck: After Luigi talks down to Demolicious, she is at a loss for words. She was snarling at him before that, even telling him to shut his mouth.
 * Epic Flail: Demolicious' weapon of choice. Considering what her name is based on, though, it makes sense.
 * Expy: There are Expies of some of the characters from Lore. Martial Artix is a Karate version of Artix Von Krieger. Galanor is Galanoth mixed with Robocop.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: If you were to say the Clock Blocker's name wrong...
 * Global Currency Exception: The denizens of the post-apocalyptic locale of Tradertown don't deal in Fame. Instead, they're interested in gum.
 * Good Is Not Nice: Demolicious when you choose to fight for her during the cutscene at the end of the first half of the Resurrection storyline.
 * She knocks your character away with her wrecking ball just to get you away from her fight with DaVinci!
 * She actually made her point when she told you to leave just because she didn't want any more people getting hurt because of her.
 * The Grim Reaper: Super Death.
 * Hello, Insert Name Here: You can choose your character's name.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Demolicious.
 * Jet Pack: There are some examples
 * Some players have Jetpacks even though they can fly without Jetpacks
 * Rocker from Skull Deep
 * Mr Purple in the trailer.
 * Just Like Robin Hood: If what Demo says about trying to sell the malachite to help her sick dad is even true in the first place.
 * Part of her reply to the player, "I'll not resort to stealing anymore. We will find a more honorable way to work through his sickness."
 * Leotard of Power: A handful of armors ingame look like this on female characters. Also, Demolicious has this.
 * Lizard Folk: The Alligator Man of Alldinguo.
 * Mass Super-Empowering Event Pandora's ultimate sacrifice caused a lot of people to develop powers.
 * Monochromatic Eyes: Some NPCs have colored eyes with no irises, and players can also color their eyes in one color because of the game's simplified art style.
 * Meaningful Name: Several NPCs are named in this manner, and players can choose to name their characters like this.
 * Hottica's name is clearly related to fire.
 * Ditto for Electina, replace fire with lightning.
 * Demolicious is a portmanteau of "demolish" and "delicious."
 * Multiple Endings In the Resurrection storyline, the player can choose to support Demolicious or Luigi Davinci.
 * If the player supports Demo,
 * If the player supports Luigi,
 * Regardless of your choice,
 * My Greatest Failure: Demolicious'
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: King Zong from the latest release is basically an alien King Kong.
 * Not Wearing Tights: Enforced due to a complaint from Marvel and DC about the use of the term "super hero." The enhanced humans are referred to as Smashers ingame.
 * Oh Crap: The Beetle Basher gets two of these moments, the first time when the player and Llussion team up against it, and the second time when the hero is about to either destroy or chain up and apprehend it. On both times it says "Oh Uh!"
 * Our Mermaids Are Different: The people of Aquatia.
 * Peek-a-Bangs: The Emo Haircuts
 * Playing with Fire: Hottica.
 * Posthumous Character: Pandora.
 * Shock and Awe: Electina.
 * Shout-Out: The Darkness Armor is similar to The Punisher
 * The Echo Assault Armor is based on Batman
 * As mentioned on Captain Ersatz, the Shock Bloopers.
 * The whole Friday the 13th event is a reference to The Saga of Darren Shan.
 * The Sky God Armor and Sky Hammer are a reference to The Mighty Thor.
 * The Mega Movie Plex so far has shout outs of Pirates of the Caribbean, Kung Fu Panda (with a Street Fighter Shout-Out with the Female Lotus Armor and Hair being based on Chun-Li), X-Men, Green Lantern, Transformers, Harry Potter, Captain America: The First Avenger, ThunderCats (2011), Conan the Barbarian, Doctor Who and Assassin's Creed.
 * The Plummer Brothers from the latest release are shout-outs to Mario and Luigi.
 * Some of the costumes also fit this trope: Red Trooper is based on Superman, Last Fantasy is based on Cloud, Iron Eagle is based on The Falcon, Rocky Armor is based on The Thing, the Horrible Doctor armor is based on Dr. Horrible, and Midnight Phantom is based on The Phantom.
 * Skulldeep looks similar to The Legion of Doom's Hall of Doom
 * Standard Female Grab Area: The killbots that grab Demolicious in the park aim for her arms. She's unable to move as a result, but snarls at Luigi instead. Until Luigi laughs at her and points out her failure.
 * Standard Snippet: At the beginning of the Corporal Saga, a remix of "The Girl from Ipanema" plays.
 * Starter Villain: Mr Purple.
 * Super-Deformed: Lampshaded by Night Wraith in a recent mini-release. To paraphrase, he said his head is too big and he's going to fall over his pointy feet.
 * Superhero: A player that chooses good.
 * Super Villain: A player that chooses evil.
 * Terms of Endangerment: Just before Luigi's speech to Demolicious, he calls her "mia bella," Italian for "my beautiful."
 * The Bad Guy Wins: Luigi, and no thanks to the majority of players supporting him. The rest of the wars in the game are heavily biased towards evil players as well. No wonder this game's going down the drain.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Luigi Da Vinci declares that Demolicious wanted to sell the heart for her own selfish desires, while she is hanging from a pair of Luigi's robots that grabbed her arms.
 * Trickster Mentor: Hottica.
 * Underwater City / Underwater Ruins: The underwater kingdom of Aquatia.
 * Underwear of Power The base armor of the players. It's even lampshaded in the tagline.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: Yergen who is shirtless all the time
 * Whole Costume Reference
 * Written Sound Effect: Seen in the War cutscene.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Just like in Adventure Quest Worlds you can customize your character's hair color, which can lead to instances of this.
 * The Hero (who has yet to be named) from the trailer has blue hair.
 * Demolicious has a purple ponytail.