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''[[Battle Clash]]'', known in Japan as ''Space Bazooka'', is a [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha-themed]] [[Light Gun Game]] released for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] in 1992 which supported the Super Scope, a [[Light Gun]] peripheral for the SNES. It was developed by Intelligent Systems of ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' and ''[[Nintendo Wars|Advance Wars]]'' fame. The player assumes the role of the gunner of a mecha ([[A Mech by Any Other Name|"Standing Tank", the game's preferred terminology]]) known as the "Falcon", as he helps the pilot
The sequel ''[[Revenge of the Sequel|Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge]]'', released in 1993, took a [[Sequel Escalation]] approach to the original game's premise. The "Battle Game" tournament in the previous game is revealed to be a front for an incoming alien invasion, which now took Mike and the player to other planets around the solar system to defeat the invaders. The sequel further refined the gameplay by adding a training stage to the beginning and a second playable Standing Tank in the form of the "Tornado", piloted by a mysterious young girl named Carol Eugene.
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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: Certain
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Typhon.▼
▲* [[Achilles Heel]]: Certain STs have weak points that, when hit by a charged shot, will deal lots of damage (or, in ''Metal Combat'', destroy them completely). They don't [[Attack Its Weak Point|glow]] unless you hit them with a high-powered charge shot. In some cases (such as with ST Arachnus), you want to ''avoid'' hitting the enemy's weak spot, as it [[Turns Red|only makes them more powerful]].
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: Any battle against any of Anubis' incarnations.
▲* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Typhon.
* [[Berserk Button]]: When Mike mentions to Carlos that the
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Eddie and the
* [[BFG]]: The
** The
* [[Cherry Tapping]]: Basic turbo shots. These do negligible damage and don't even scratch most
* [[Cognizant Limbs]]: Every mech has bits and pieces of armor that can be damaged and/or destroyed in battle. In the first game,
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: ST Groken, although they're used more for shooting than strangling.▼
* [[The Collector]]: Carlos collects the heads of his defeated opponents'
▲* [[Combat Tentacles]]:
** The Neutron Beam is this as well, as it deals massive amounts of damage if it hits, but using it also puts your Standing Tank in critical.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: See [[Heel Face Turn]] below for the first game
* [[Demoted to Dragon]]: Anubis in ''Metal Combat''.
* [[Doppleganger Attack]]:
* [[The Dragon]]: Carlos to Anubis in the first game, and Anubis {{spoiler|(second form)}} to {{spoiler|Giga-Desp}} in the second.
* [[Energy Absorption]]:
* [[Evil Is Visceral]]: The design of the
* [[Fake Weakness]]: Go ahead, shoot the
* [[Forced Tutorial]]: Before you can start out in ''Metal Combat'', you have to go through a training course with Rola. It's only slightly justified in that the
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Typhon and his
* [[Giant Spider]]:
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: {{spoiler|The player's coach in the second game, Rola, is revealed to be an alien who wants to protect the Earth from an incoming invasion. Her actual skin is more of a teal
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In the first game, Tasha, Eddie and Antonov, pilots of the
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Eddie and the
* [[Mama Bear]]: Pamela in ''Metal Combat'', in regards to her husband Zephyr. When you defeat him, she gets ''very'' angry.
* [[Market-Based Title]]: ''Battle Clash'' is known as ''Space Bazooka'' in Japan.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Antonov and the
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]:
* [[New Neo City]]: New York is re-christened Neo New York in ''Metal Combat'', even though the city is still pretty much the same as it was in the previous game
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: Why is the sequel called ''Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge'' instead of ''Metal Combat: Battle Clash 2'' or ''Battle Clash 2: Falcon's Revenge''?
** Could have been playing off of the name ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', which was rather popular at the time.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Whenever your
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: If you fail to find a way to defeat Giga-Desp's first form when the music changes and it powers up its ultimate attack, you will lose, regardless of how much energy your
** To clue you in to this, once Giga-Desp starts charging its attack, the music takes a turn for the dramatic and the background [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtSPXPbv9w looks like it's having a seizure (6:14)]. [[Oh Crap]] indeed.
** This works in your favor, as well: under the right conditions, a fully-charged shot from the
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Thanatos in the first game, and Virvius and Giga-Desp in the second.
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: Everyone can usually be taken down with enough shots to vulnerable areas, but if you know the correct areas to shoot at (and in what order), you can take down a good portion of bosses in an ''extremely'' short amount of time.
** Some bosses actually fit the strict description of the trope, such as the
* [[Rank Inflation]]: ''Metal Combat'' gives out military ranks based on how fast you complete the game.
* [[Rocket Punch]]: Garam and Thanatos use them. Thanatos will even use a Rocket Kick by launching his
* [[Shoot the Hostage]]: In ''Metal Combat'''s [[Final Boss]] battle, Typhon has captured Rola and uses her to guard his newly-upgraded mech's weak spot. She begs you to shoot her to help bring him down, but you can avoid doing so to get a better ending.
**
* [[Shout-Out]]: The theme that plays after completing a practice level is the same music as the level-up theme from ''[[Fire Emblem]]''. After all, the composer of both games was Yuka Tsujiyoko, the woman behind the music composition of most of the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games.
** The name and effects of the V-System are similliar to V-MAX in ''[[Blue Comet SPT Layzner]]''.
* [[Spider Tank]]: The
* [[Throwing Your Shield Always Works]]: Carlos in
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Zephyr and his wife Pamela.
* [[Turns Red]]: Inverted. Whenever a part of the enemy
* [[Warmup Boss]]: Guido, pilot of Garam and Garam Mk II, is your first opponent in both games.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: The Neutron Beam.
* [[You Have No Chance to Survive]]:
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