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[[File:blazblue calamitytrigger 6824.jpg|thumb|350px| ''The Wheel of Fate is Turning...'']]
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The main games of the series are the following:
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma]]'' (including ''BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend'')
* ''[[BlazBlue: Central Fiction]]''
* ''[[BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle]]''
A [[DSiWare]] side game named ''
A spin-off [[Visual Novel]] named ''[[XBlaze Code: Embryo]]'' was released in 2014, telling a story set 150 years before ''Calamity Trigger''. The game was followed by ''[[XBlaze Lost: Memories]]'' in 2015.
A light novel entitled '''''Blaz Blue''' Phase 0'' written by Komao Mako, illustrated by '''''Blaz Blue''''''s lead artist Katou Yuuki and based on a story from '''''Blaz Blue''''' creator Mori Tochimichi was published by Fujimi Shobo on August 20, 2010 [http://www.arcsystemworks.jp/official/blog/index.cgi?eid=43\]. The story begins when Ragna has a chance encounter with Caelica, a young lady harboring a mysterious power, and involves the mysteries of the '''''Blaz Blue''''' world.▼
▲A light novel entitled ''
A sequel, entitled '''''Blaz Blue''' Phase Shift 1'', was released in April 2011. This time the focus shifts to Yuuki Terumi, while also elaborating more on Nine and Trinity before she became Platinum.▼
▲A sequel, entitled ''
An official monthly webcomic entitled '''''Blaz Blue''' Chimelical Complex'' by Haruyoshi Kob began on August 6 on Famitsu's Comic Clear website. It can be viewed [http://www.famitsu.com/comic_clear/se_blazblue/ here]. [[No Export for You|Too bad]] it's written in Japanese.▼
▲An official monthly webcomic entitled ''
This series has [[
{{tropelist|Rebel 1! ACTION!}}
* [[The Abridged Series]]: It can be found [http://www.youtube.com/user/goteamazuredrive here].
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: This game can't decide whether it wants to be Japanese or not. The NOL would certainly appear to be, if it weren't for all the [[Gratuitous Latin]] thrown in. While most RPGs have a decent amount of mixing, it still makes no sense why Jin is meant to be English but has a completely Japanese name, or why he and Saya have Japanese names while their brother Ragna doesn't. Bang comes from the so-far most traditionally Japanese part of the world, even referring to himself in eastern order, but has a western first name. Konoe A. Mercury is the other way around. Also, normal names like Noel, Carl and Rachel are joined by completely made up ones like Litchi, Tager and Valkenhayn. For the DLCs, we also have Makoto Nanaya right next to Platinum the Trinity, who has personalities that go by "Sena" and "Luna". And let's not forget: Hazama/Terumi Yuuki is working next to a man named Relius Clover. ''Then'' everything goes to hell once it's implied that the ''
* [[Alliteration]]: You ''did'' read the title, right?▼
▲* [[Aerith and Bob]]: This game can't decide whether it wants to be Japanese or not. The NOL would certainly appear to be, if it weren't for all the [[Gratuitous Latin]] thrown in. While most RPGs have a decent amount of mixing, it still makes no sense why Jin is meant to be English but has a completely Japanese name, or why he and Saya have Japanese names while their brother Ragna doesn't. Bang comes from the so-far most traditionally Japanese part of the world, even referring to himself in eastern order, but has a western first name. Konoe A. Mercury is the other way around. Also, normal names like Noel, Carl and Rachel are joined by completely made up ones like Litchi, Tager and Valkenhayn. For the DLCs, we also have Makoto Nanaya right next to Platinum the Trinity, who has personalities that go by "Sena" and "Luna". And let's not forget: Hazama/Terumi Yuuki is working next to a man named Relius Clover. ''Then'' everything goes to hell once it's implied that the '''''Blaz Blue''''' world is actually supposed to be modeled after this one.
** The English dub makes things a little more confusing. The NOL uses Latin, Jin and Hakumen use Japanese words, Bang uses English words but keeps translated prefixes (Ninja Style Art:) for his distortions, Carl and Relius use Latin as well, and it just becomes one big mess of [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]] mixed with translation issues.
* [[After the End]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]: There is so much of the background information available in the side materials that you can somewhat predict what will happen in the next game if you are up to date with the side materials. Unfortunately none of them are officially translated.
▲* [[Alliteration]]: You ''did'' read the title, right?
* [[Anime Theme Song]]: "ao-iconoclast" by KOTOKO.
** Continuum Shift continues this by bringing back KOTOKO with the song "Hekira no Sora e Izanaedo"
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* [[Arc Words]]: "The Wheel Of Fate Is Turning" hints at the [[Groundhog Day Loop]].
** "[[Title Drop|Continuum Shift]]" in the sequel.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The titular '''
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Apparently, [[Tomokazu Sugita]] and [[Yuuichi Nakamura]] also play '''
* [[Ascended Meme]] / [[Sure Why Not]]: The vocalist for [[Ear Worm|Okkusenman]] posted a vocal version of Bang's theme on Nico Nico Douga. It was recently revealed that on the ''Continuum Shift'' OST, Bang's voice actor is singing a vocal version of the theme with ''the very same lyrics as the original version''.
** ''Continuum Shift'''s English translation has an achievement called [[Bee-Bee Gun|BEES]], referencing the "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEES" meme.
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* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: Ragna, Jin and Saya lived in an orphanage. Jin's neediness led to depraved insanity, Ragna turned into a half vampire [[Heroic Sociopath]] and Saya was kidnapped to be used as a template for androids of mass destruction. Eventually we find out that {{spoiler|Ragna is the reincarnation of a beast that once went unto destroying the world labeling him as the destroyer of worlds, Jin being the world's "antibody" and Saya being the Imperator of the NOL.}}
** As of ''Continuum Shift'', the Clover family can also be put in this category. There's the father, Relius Clover, who {{spoiler|is obsessed with creating the perfect puppet, going as far as turning his daughter Ada and his wife to puppets, along with being one of the series' two [[Big Bad]]s}}. Carl, Ada's younger brother, {{spoiler|gets tempted and self-manipulated into performing acts of violence for his sister and does some pretty fucked up things at times, all to turn his sister back and to find his father to get revenge}}.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: There is very little good in the ''
** There are some genuinely good characters who aren't affiliated with both sides though. Litchi is a very nice and compassionate woman... {{spoiler|except [[Token Good Teammate|she's now on the NOL side]]. Though, to be fair, she could probably just count as yet another victim of [[Flaw Exploitation|manipulation]] and [[Forced Into Evil|coercion]] by the above [[Complete Monster]] [[Troll]], being told that the NOL has the cure for her abominized boyfriend (which, for all intents and purposes, they could destroy easily if she does anything they don't want)}}. Taokaka does have good intentions, but she's [[The Ditz|a ditz]]. Bang fights [[For Great Justice|for frigging justice]] and protecting the people! He's the series [[Joke Character]] story-wise and is never treated seriously, but he's got nothing but good intentions in mind for protecting others. Makoto is pretty much an all-rounder and generally cheery nice girl, with the only thing that could possibly piss her off is the notion of [[Berserk Button|any harm coming to Noel]]. Which might look nice on paper, but also mitigated that she can betray ANYONE for her, so there comes the possibility of her letting the world get destroyed just so long as Noel is well protected... Not to mention that thanks to her Bad End by Relius, we do know she's hiding ''severe'' racism issues that can be unleashed when certain buttons are pressed... yeah. It's that kind of world.
** Iron Tager is mostly a nice guy as long as you have nothing to do with his mission, (as in, it doesn't require him to pummel you to death,) his biggest problem being that he is loyal to a fault to Kokonoe, the earlier mentioned vengeanceful scientist with plans to [[Nuke Em All]] if things don't go as she wants them to, who apparently keep Sector Seven's dirty laundry from being known by him. He does have a justification that Kokonoe programmed him to be all loyal to the tee, he can argue with her amoral decisions, but he always would obey, and no plans for fixing that no matter how called out he is.
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{{quote|'''Taokaka:''' ''[To Litchi]'' Hey Booby Lady!
'''Taokaka:''' ''[To Noel]'' Are you sure you're a lady? }}
** Lampshaded to a hilarious, gut-busting degree in ''[[
{{quote|'''Litchi:''' Tao! Are you alright?!
'''Taokaka:''' ''[After being electrocuted in front of Litchi, Makoto, Tsubaki, and Noel]'' Uh... I see three sets of boobies and... one cutting board.
'''Noel:''' ''[Utterly embarrassed, sobbing]'' A ... A cutting board? She compared me to a... a cutting board!? }}
** Makoto's section of "Help Me! Professor Kokonoe!" confirms this trope to be in play. Kokonoe is, let's just say, very pissed off and jealous at Makoto's boob size... and she's number two.
* [[Call Back]]: In Tager's Story Mode, when you go to meet the NOL [[Reverse Mole]], you're given a password to initiate the meeting. The password is "Gnu", but you're given a second password, "Baa", {{spoiler|that initiate the [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Gag]] [[
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: [[Justified Trope]]. Terumi's presence in the world is maintained by the protagonist's (mainly [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|Ragna's]]) hatred of him, so [[Kick the Dog|keeping a puppy just for kicking]] is actually a ''survival tactic'' for him.▼
* [[The Cameo]]: The Bururaji Radio ('''
** In a later one, Ishiwatari one-ups Sugita's recurring segment with "Scold Me More, Badguy! ([[Heart Symbol]])"
** And later there's also cameos of [[Arcana Heart|Heart Aino]] and [[Persona 4|Yosuke Hanamura]]. Usually when to promote an ASW collab.
▲* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: [[Justified Trope]]. Terumi's presence in the world is maintained by the protagonist's (mainly [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|Ragna's]]) hatred of him, so [[Kick the Dog|keeping a puppy just for kicking]] is actually a ''survival tactic'' for him.
▲* [[Call Back]]: In Tager's Story Mode, when you go to meet the NOL [[Reverse Mole]], you're given a password to initiate the meeting. The password is "Gnu", but you're given a second password, "Baa", {{spoiler|that initiate the [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Gag]] [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|Reel]]}}. In {{spoiler|Makoto's Story Mode, where she falls into the alternate timeline, she bumps into Tager, who's looking for her}}. Guess what the real password is? <ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|It's Baa]].</ref>
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: Not just in terms of the characters themselves, but also in gameplay: every character has a unique game mechanic that no other character has access to.
* [[Catgirl]]: People from the Kaka Clan are generally composed of these, with males being a rarity. Kokonoe, on the other hand, is a {{spoiler|half-}}''nekomata''.
* [[Character Development]]: Quite a bit of it too, particularly in Continuum Shift.
* [[Chekhov's Armoury]]: Shows up in the fifth episode of ''Teach Me Miss Litchi Reloaded'' in ''Continuum Shift''. The missing Nox Nyctores will undoubtedly show up in the sequel.
* [[
* [[Crapsack World]]: Go read the [[Black and Gray Morality]] entry, come back and see if you want to say otherwise...▼
▲* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: [[Word of God]] states that red represents rebellion, while blue represents order.
* [[Combo Breaker]]: Barrier/Break Burst. Every character also has a counter command usable while blocking, but it uses up 50 Heat.
* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: The explanation of how seithr works means this is literally a fundamental law of the universe in ''
▲* [[Crapsack World]]: Go read the [[Black and Gray Morality]] entry, come back and see if you want to say otherwise...
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: If you came here from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'', pressing all four face buttons sets up an Instant Kill. Try that here and you get the defense-lowering (at least in ''Calamity Trigger'') Barrier Burst instead.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Many arenas have mirrors in the background, with the combatants' reflections in them as appropriate. But if Rachel is one of the combatants in such a stage, she has ''no'' reflection, seeing as she's a vampire. Good catch, dev team!
* [[Devil but No God]]: Terumi is the closest you can get for a [[Satan]] [[Expy]] who's pretty active in ruining everyone's lives. A benevolent God? Don't even think about it (Takamagahara is quite the [[Jerkass God]]).
* [[Divine Chessboard]]: Everyone seems controlled by Jubei, and Rachel on the protagonists' side. Just about everything else in the story is being controlled by {{spoiler|Hazama and Relius}}.
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* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Goes a lot, especially in Continuum Shift. For instance, {{spoiler|Carl gets calmed down and regained his trust on adults thanks to Litchi... not knowing that Litchi is on NOL's side and sided with Relius... WITHOUT knowing the reasons of her doing so. And on the other hand, Litchi didn't know there's a certain Boundary-rending Nox Nyctores called "Phoenix Rettenjou" which may be the key to her problems... and it's in Bang's possession, and he wasn't even aware at first. Bang was at least told about its function by Platinum eventually... and then he doesn't even know Litchi's problems.}} All these information were known by the audience, leading to things from speculations, assumptions, etc.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Easily one of the most screwed up casts of fighters ever.
** Let's see... Jin's either a sociopath or a [[
{{quote|'''Ragna:''' Dear god, why me? Why do I always seem to attract the who's who of mental illness...?}}
* [[Engrish]]: For whatever reason, none of the announcers, default or DLC, were dubbed into English. This gives us gems such as "LOOK AT TIME",<ref>When the timer reaches 10 seconds</ref> "Caruru Crowbar",<ref>Carl Clover</ref> "Air-a-koo-nay",<ref>Arakune</ref> "REEBOO"<ref>Rebel</ref> and many, many more.
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*** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Bloodedge and Clavis weren't part of the main team, but they greatly contributed before and during the Dark War (i.e. Bloodedge held off the Black Beast ''for a year'', while Clavis sealed Terumi in the Boundary).
*** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] and [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Yuuki Terumi.
* [[Fixed-Floor Fighting]]
* [[Flawless Victory]]: "Perfect!"
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: The prequel novel Blazblue Phase 0. {{spoiler|If you've played the games you already know whats going to happen. The Black Beast will be unleashed and nearly cause the end of the world. A group of people whom will be known as the Six Heroes will rise up and lead the remnants of humanity to challenge and eventually slay the beast. Hakumen is Jin. Bloodedge will sacrifice himself to save Jubei. Caelica will watch over the Black Beast's remains, but while we know what will happen, we don't know how it happened, which the novel will explain.}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Hakumen's Shipuu (Squall) [[Limit Break|Distortion Drive]] is a slower, stronger version of Jin's Touga Hyojin (Arctic Dagger) Distortion Drive.
** Amazingly, the two different Japanese covers for the [[
** Lambda plays her "Nox Nyctores detected..." intro against [[Badass Normal]] Bang. That can't be right?
** A fake (but still made by AKSYS) trailer for A '''
* [[Forgotten First Meeting]]: The second game reveals that as a student [[The Hero|Ragna]] met [[Catgirl|Taokaka]] while she was still a kitten (although he ''might'' remember, she doesn't). In this case their relationship is strictly platonic, however.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Makoto is Sanguine, Jin is Choleric, Tsubaki is Melancholic, and Noel is Supine.
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{{quote|''"If you're one of those players who are like "I don't need help", or "I just want to unlock hidden stuff", or "[[Guide Dang It|I'll just look up a Flowchart online]]", then you can '''PISS OFF!'''"''}}
** There's also the ''"Teach Me, Miss Litchi!"'' segments that help explain the story to the player by elaborating some of the backstory of the characters, and what certain things are like seithr, the Boundary, Ars Magus, Nox Nyctorus, etc.
** Id: {{spoiler|Makoto}}.▼
** Ego: Iron Tager.▼
** Super Ego: Kokonoe.▼
* [[Gainaxing]] [[Jiggle Physics]]: Any girl with above-average breasts, namely <s>[http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/6722/litchistand.gif Boobie Lady]</s> [http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/532/litchiwalk.gif Litchi] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106180906/http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/draconicmage/blazblue/jacket-1.gif Squirrel Girl Makoto].▼
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In game, it's possible for anyone to beat anyone else, and the chance of you winning (theoretically) has more to do with your skill than with a character you're playing.
** [[Power-Up Letdown]]: Subverted in Story Mode during some fights: Ragna can't use any of his D attacks against {{spoiler|Unlimited Hazama}} when he claims his Soul Eater doesn't work on him and pressing the button just stuns him briefly, Jin can only use A and B attacks normally, no special attacks and his D attacks have a much shorter range and obviously don't freeze when [[Living Weapon|Yukianesa]] refuses to activate but fights the next battle in Unlimited mode when his willpower causes it to reactivate, wounded characters start the match with only half health, some fights end when you reduce your opponent's life to 20% or less instead of depleting it completely to emphasize their strength and so on.
▲* [[Gainaxing]] [[Jiggle Physics]]: Any girl with above-average breasts, namely <s>[http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/6722/litchistand.gif Boobie Lady]</s> [http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/532/litchiwalk.gif Litchi] and [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/draconicmage/blazblue/jacket-1.gif Squirrel Girl Makoto].
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Yes, Makoto likes doing things like [[Big Eater|eating way too much food]] and [[Adult Child|climbing trees for exercise.]] She also went to the Military Academy ''on scholarship'' and joined the Intelligence Bureau at the Librarium{{spoiler|, not to mention playing as a double agent for Sector Seven}}.
* [[Genre Relaunch]]: Along with ''[[Video Game/Street Fighter 4|Street Fighter 4]]'', it's responsible for reviving the 2D [[Fighting Game]] genre.
* [[Go Mad
* [[Gratuitous English]]: The declaration at the start of every battle: ''The Wheel of Fate is turning. Rebel 1: '''Action!'''''
{{quote|''"Fainaru Ansaa?"''<ref>"Final answer?" Sadly, this line was not brought over, being replaced with "Are you sure?"</ref>
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* [[High School AU]]: {{spoiler|Carl's Gag Reel in ''Continuum Shift''. It doesn't just feature the cast who were former students of the NOL Academy (i.e. Carl, Jin, Noel, Makoto, and Tsubaki), but also Valkenhayn as a Music Teacher, Bang as a Special Ed PE Teacher, Litchi as the School Nurse, Taokaka as a stray cat, Rachel as the vice principal, and Ragna as the principal.}}
* [[Hoist Hero Over Head]]: Nu, Lambda, and Mu's throws and Tager's [[One-Hit Kill|Astral Heat]].
* [[Homage]]: [[Word of God]] states that the general setting of '''
* [[Hypnotize the Princess]]: Litchi. To Noel. With a chibi-panda. Noel's blissed out "I'm so happy~" lines only add to the [[Fetish Fuel]].
** {{spoiler|What Hazama does to her in ''Continuum Shift'' is a much more sinister version.}}
* [[I Read That As]]: Similarly to the confusion around the title of Jam's theme from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' ("Babel Nose" vs. "Babel Noise"), Taokaka's theme is spelled as "[[Altum Videtur|Catus]] Carnival" in the soundtrack, but often mistakenly referred to as "Cactus Carnival" by fans.▼
* [[Idle Animation]]: And your character will likely spout a unique line for each opponent.
* [[In the Hood]]: Taokaka and the Kaka Clan's method of being [[The Faceless]].{{spoiler|in Teach Me Mrs. Litchi during the discussion of the "Wings of Justice"; Tsubaki brings up the masks of the order. Jin makes a reference to Taokaka's face why she wears a mask}}▼
** Also in ''Continuum Shift'' the new story mode Character Platinum the Trinity is always shown almost completely obscured by a hooded cloak.▼
* [[Inconsistent Dub]]: At several points in ''Continuum Shift'' story mode, the English dub track switches from using "Azure Grimoire" to its original name, "Blaz Blue," particularly with scenes with Terumi. The written script still uses "Azure Grimoire" during these instances. There are several other scenes in ''Continuum Shift'' where the spoken dialogue doesn't match the subtitles. Annoying especially because this was not a problem in ''Calamity Trigger''.
** One of the biggest examples would be one scene in Arakune's Story Mode when he {{spoiler|meets Nu-13 in a sort of [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]] and she speaks in her yandere voice but the text is written as she's speaking in the usual emotionless-robot-voice.}} This is a subversion, as this was intentional.
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* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|The true ending for Bang's story mode is told from the perspective of the Kaka villagers, who revere Bang as a hero for "bringing the sky back" to their underground city. What's touched upon only briefly is the fact that ''his actions caused the destruction of most of Kagutsuchi.''}}
** {{spoiler|Though Continuum Shift took it into a canonical route and Bang SURVIVES the ordeal.}}
▲* [[In the Hood]]: Taokaka and the Kaka Clan's method of being [[The Faceless]].{{spoiler|in Teach Me Mrs. Litchi during the discussion of the "Wings of Justice"; Tsubaki brings up the masks of the order. Jin makes a reference to Taokaka's face why she wears a mask}}
▲** Also in ''Continuum Shift'' the new story mode Character Platinum the Trinity is always shown almost completely obscured by a hooded cloak.
▲* [[I Read That As]]: Similarly to the confusion around the title of Jam's theme from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' ("Babel Nose" vs. "Babel Noise"), Taokaka's theme is spelled as "[[Altum Videtur|Catus]] Carnival" in the soundtrack, but often mistakenly referred to as "Cactus Carnival" by fans.
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|It Is Pronounced BLAZE Blue]]: And while we're at it, it's Nu-13, not Vee-13.
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The first game asks a ''lot'' of questions, and leaves most of them hanging. While CS and other material does reveal a great deal, enough to help make sense of past events and the time-skips (along with solidifying the overarching plot of the series), it also creates even ''more'' unanswered questions.
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** {{spoiler|Mu-12's formerly green eyes glow bright blue.}}
** {{spoiler|Worth noting that ''Imperator Saya'' seems to have these. Last time anyone saw her, she was Ragna and Jin's nice little sister. Then Terumi kidnaps her. Flash forward to today, she shows up as the Imperator, red-eyed and sans pupils (unless you zoom in really, really close. Then they're tiny dots).}} {{spoiler|In Calamity trigger, Terumi took over Jin's mind and tried to kill Ragna. Which is what has happened with Saya and Tsubaki. But at the end Tsubaki quietly says "....Noel" when she was at Kagatsuchi port. Which suggests that she is fighting Terumi's influence.}}
* [[Mirror Match]]. ''BlazBlue'' has a dedicated theme for these called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z81D4zzaEmA "Blood Pain"].
** ''BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle'' features characters from ''[[RWBY]]'', leading to the [[Fan Nickname]] of "Bluby" for Ruby Rose's [[Palette Swap]]ped mirror opponent.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: In ''Continuum Shift'', after the bad ending, there're some comedic hijinks with Professor Kokonoe!
* [[My Future Self and Me]]: Depending on the friends you have and how much they like spoilers, a strangely unsurprising or [[Mind Screw]] when you find out that {{spoiler|Hakumen is the future Jin Kisaragi, but he's renounced his [[Jerkass]] past to become a different kind of [[Lawful Stupid|jerk ass.]] In Hakumen's story, it is revealed that the original Jin, the one that was kind to Saya, was in love with Tsubaki. Tsubaki, however, ended up sacrificing herself to save Jin.}} However, despite the two showing up ''in the same timeline and even meeting one another'', this DOES NOT create a paradox of any kind.
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** Relius' puppet Detonator: Ignis. Same deal with Carl, except ''he'' isn't screwed up by it.
* [[Names to Know in Anime]]: The game has quite a stellar voice cast which includes [[Tomokazu Sugita]] ([[Haruhi Suzumiya|Kyon]]), [[Tetsuya Kakihara]] ([[Gurren Lagann|Simon]]), Kenji Nomura ([[Bleach|Yammy]]), [[Kana Ueda]] ([[Fate/stay night|Rin Tohsaka]]) and many more.
** And thanks to certain videos which show clips of the English dub, we can now hear [[Bleach|Patrick]] [[Hellsing|Seitz]], [[Lyrical Nanoha|Cristina]] [[
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: Whether it's the truth or just Hazama messing with her head, it's implied that {{spoiler|[[Temporal Paradox|Noel does not, and is not suppose to exist in the world.]]}} In Lamda-11's story, V-11 briefly makes physical contact with her, who starts remembering everything that has happened to her in the past. That's a very bad thing.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: SCORE ATTACK MODE. To elaborate, you must face 10 opponents on a single continue, with the last 4 being [[Deadly Upgrade|"Unlimited"]] characters. Oh, and did I mention that the [[Up to Eleven|difficulty is even higher than the hardest selectable difficulty in the game?]] Even if you have a 2P controller to buzz in when you're low on health and save you from certain death, you might not survive this without having an aneurysm.
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* [[Pinball Scoring]]: A typical one-round score will ''start'' in the low billions of points.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: {{spoiler|The Nox Nytores were each made from thousands of human souls used in Nine's human transmutation technique.}}
▲* [[Power Trio]]: In Sector Seven
▲** Id: {{spoiler|Makoto}}.
▲** Ego: Iron Tager.
▲** Super Ego: Kokonoe.
* [[Practical Taunt]]: Taunting in story or arcade mode completely fills your heat meter (useful in story mode if you have to end a fight with a special move to unlock a given ending).
* [[Rage Quit]]: In online multiplayer, the game tries to alleviate this behavior by slapping a "Disconnected" counter on anyone who quits in the middle of a ranked match. However, the counter goes up for both the quitter and the non-quitter of the match, no matter the reason.
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** Arguably the whole playable cast could count as this.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: A lot. Litchi keeps hers up in a bun, and occasionally {{spoiler|while Platinum keeps hers hidden in that cloak}} but a quick glance reveals that every woman has hair that goes ''at least'' down to the middle of their backs, with most extending past their waists or beyond. Hell, you see those enormous rope-like things hanging off of Tao? ''Those are '''braids.'''''
* [[Razor Wings]]: The Murakumo units from the '''
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: In case you didn't catch on before, the game will even kindly poetically refer to a clash between Ragna and Jin as a fight of "red against blue" in Story Mode.
** The series' dual [[Big Bad]]s {{spoiler|Terumi and Relius}} act as a Red Oni and Blue Oni to each other.
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* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: The Kaka kittens. So. ''Cute''.
* [[Rivals Team Up]]: {{spoiler|The second game's true ending, which has Ragna, Jin, and Hakumen all attempting to work together. Hakumen holds his own until Jin shows up, interrupts the fight, and proceeds to fail miserably. The story was phrased as such that Hakumen wasn't beaten when Jin initially arrived and before he had a chance to resume Ragna showed up and defeated Mu, keeping Terumi's [[Xanatos Gambit]] alive.}}
* [[Rotoscoping]]: '''''
* [[Saved for the Sequel]]: The series runs on this. ''Calamity Trigger'' does not explain what exactly happened to Arakune, why Litchi is so bent on rescuing him, what Hazama is up to, who he works for, why Carl is looking for his father, what "Amaterasu" is, who the other five of the Six Heroes are, among many other plot details, creating a Mind Screw in general. ''Continuum Shift'' answers these questions, but brings up more. For instance, now that we know Carl is looking for his father because he's an absolute scumbag, we learn that he is a Chessmaster villain but nothing about what he wants or what he intends to do. Arakune is regaining sentience, but Litchi is about to do to herself what Arakune did before. Bang has the power to close portals to The Edge but has yet to have an opportunity to use it. And so forth.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The Black Beast. {{spoiler|Ragna is the can. Nu-13 is the can opener.}}
* [[Sealed Evil in a Duel]]: The reason the Black Beast goes dormant, allowing the Six Heroes to slay him is because {{spoiler|Ragna is trapped, fighting him endlessly for a year, until his death.}}
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The true ending, and by extension the rest of story mode, is almost nothing but a sequel hook, up to including obvious picks for future playable characters. And little more than a year later, a sequel was indeed announced. The sequel itself also ends in one, with {{spoiler|everyone going to Ikaruga as the next stage of the eventual battle}}.▼
* [[Serial Escalation]]:
** Calamity Trigger, the first game, starts with being a rather standard fighting game, except for its overly absurd [[Pinball Scoring]]: You pick a character, go through 10 fights and have to beat an Unlimited character (essentially an [[SNK Boss]]) to win the game. But the game has a bonus boss, which is absurd even for Unlimited standard.
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** Then Continuum Shift II adds even more characters, but surprisingly its Score Attack mode is reduced to fighting 10 normal characters. The reason for this is (unfortunately) simple: CS II has a second Score Attack mode named Unlimited Mars mode, where every enemy you fight is in Unlimited mode. To rephrase: that's almost a dozen characters, all of which are [[SNK Boss]]es.
** Continuum Shift II Extend downsizes the escalation by merely adding one additional character as well as adding more moves to the already-broken Unlimited characters.
▲* [[Sequel Hook]]: The true ending, and by extension the rest of story mode, is almost nothing but a sequel hook, up to including obvious picks for future playable characters. And little more than a year later, a sequel was indeed announced. The sequel itself also ends in one, with {{spoiler|everyone going to Ikaruga as the next stage of the eventual battle}}.
▲* [[Shout-Out]]: Has its [[Blaz Blue/Shout Out|own page]].
* [[Significant Birth Date]]: ''Noel'''s birthday is on Dec 25 (Christmas). [[Irony|Ragna's birthday is Mar 3 (Girl's Day)]]. [[Official Couple|Jin's birthday is Feb 14 (Valentine's Day), coupled with Tsubaki being born on March 14 (White Day)]]. Rachel the ''vampire'' is Oct 31 (Halloween). [[Idiot Hero]] Taokaka is Feb 22 (World Thinking Day and Cat's day in Japan). [[Anime Chinese Girl]] Litchi is [[Tanabata|Jul 7 (Chinese Valentine's Day)]]. Cute little boy Carl is May 5 (Children's Day). Kokonoe the ''scientist'' is Apr 18 (Invention Day). Hazama is Apr 29 (International Dance Day). Nu was born on ''New'' Year's Eve. Finally, Bang was born on New Year's Day, though whether or not this is symbolic is debatable.
** Makoto's birthday is The International Children Book Day. See the [[
* [[Silliness Switch]]: The joke ending for each character's story mode.
* [[Simultaneous Arcs]]: Continuum Shift's canon paths.
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* [[Stealth Parody]]: An [[Rule of Cool|over-the-top]] [[Shout-Out|reference-laden]] fighting game with copious [[Engrish]] and a byzantine plot through which we discover {{spoiler|most every character is [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia|an amnesiac]], [[Cloning Blues|a clone]], [[My Future Self and Me|a time-displaced version of another character]] or [[Big Screwed-Up Family|in the same family]]}}? [[Sarcasm Mode|Which one?]]
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Many characters have broken powers that never show up in their gameplay. Terumi can [[Mind Rape]] anyone hit by his chain. Mu can create anything (including time and space) out of thin air. Hakumen and Jin can erase anything they want. Be glad they limit themselves most of the time.
* [[Stripperific]]: First, we had Litchi, who always took the time to move the upper half of half of her dress out of the way so we could see her [[Buxom Is Better|ample chest]] and legs better, as well as Noel (they're both [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]). Then we got Mu-12, [http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/106/1068285/blazblue-continuum-shift-20100210115844717.jpg whose outfit] consists of a metal thong, some shoulder pads, and a sort of [[Breast Plate]] that still allows for a [[Bare Your Midriff|bare midriff]]. Then there's Makoto, whose outfit is... well, just [https://web.archive.org/web/20130708094105/http://www.videogamer.com/videos/blazblue_continuum_shift_makoto_dlc_trailer.html take a look.] Really, if you're going to go that far, why bother putting clothes on the girl? And dear lord, let's not start on fighting, miniskirts, and lolicons...
* [[Super Mode]]: Unlimited Mode for everyone.▼
* [[Super-Deformed]]: ''Teach Me, Ms. Litchi!'' and ''Help Me, Professor Kokonoe!''
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: {{spoiler|Mu-12, the console exclusive character for ''Continuum Shift'' is Noel after being turned back into her original Murakamo form by Terumi.}}
▲* [[Super Mode]]: Unlimited Mode for everyone.
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: Bloodedge (Ragna's namesake, not the protagonist) was such a badass, that he was the only person in the world who went to fight the Black Beast when it first awakened. He fought it for an ''entire year'' and bought enough time for the Six Heroes to mount a counterattack. Unfortunately, Jubei is the only source of this information, mentioning him once very briefly, and the game doesn't provide with any kind of visual imagery for this inspiring event.
** {{spoiler|The Prequel Manga, Phase 0, reveals that Ragna WAS Bloodedge. Just without the Azure Grimoire.}}
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** Everyone has a bit of this in their attacks: Litchi has attacks named after mahjongg hands (Thirteen Orphans, Four Winds, All Green), Carl's attacks are musically-themed (Cantata and Crescendo), Rachel has quite a few flowers (Baden Baden Lily and Sword Iris come to mind), Bang has his "Secret" and "Forbidden" techniques, etc.
** The Murakumo Units are all named with one Greek letter and a number, with the number being the letter's position in the Greek alphabet.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: The world of '''
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]:
{{quote|''"'''[[Cosmetic Award|It's The Only Way To Be Sure]]''': Complete a 20-hit combo after already winning the round."''}}
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** That last one is something you should never have the oppurtunity to say.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Tsubaki. {{spoiler|Hazama's {partial} revelation that she wouldn't have been so unlucky had Noel never existed was the deciding factor in her [[Face Heel Turn]].}}
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: It's safe to say that, if the Narrator's talking, things have stopped being canon and a possible [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moment]] is about to ensue. For example, {{spoiler|In one Taokaka ending, she ends up as the apprentice of Bang. That part is canon. What isn't, is when he says she'll become a great ninja, and then descriptions for an epic ninja movie starring Taokaka, complete with Jin as a mysterious man and <s>boobie lady</s> Litchi as the villain behind the entire plot. After this long description? "... Okay, that was a lie-nya."}}
** Rachel gives an accurate, but [[Lemony Narrator|Extremely Lemony]] account of Hakumen's history in his Arcade mode ending. She also teaches the Tutorial of Continuum Shift, never being afraid to mock you as a player or Ragna or Bang... Especially Bang, since he's used as the training dummy.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|Poor, poor Tsubaki. And Litchi.}}
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