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[[File:blazblue calamitytrigger 6824.jpg|thumb|350px| ''The Wheel of Fate is Turning...'']]

 

 

 

A [[DSiWare]] side game named ''BlazBlue: Battle X Battle'' has also been released in Japan featuring [[Super-Deformed]] characters and gameplay similar to ''[[Power Stone]]''. A North American version was released under the title ''BlayzeBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale''.

 

 

 

An official monthly webcomic entitled ''BlazBlue 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.

 

This series has [[BlazBlue/Characters|character sheets for each sub-series]]. '''Please place all character-specific tropes there.'''

{{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 ''BlazBlue 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.

* [[Anime Theme Song]]: "ao-iconoclast" by KOTOKO.

** Continuum Shift continues this by bringing back KOTOKO with the song "Hekira no Sora e Izanaedo"

{{quote|'''Taokaka:''' ''[To Litchi]'' Hey Booby Lady!

'''Taokaka:''' ''[To Noel]'' Are you sure you're a lady? }}

{{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.

* [[The Cameo]]: The Bururaji Radio ('''BlazBlue''' radio show) features a cameo by of all people... [[Guilty Gear|SOL BADGUY]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GXfQkHvfM&feature=related Drawn in chibi like other BlazBlue chibi characters.]

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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 ''BlazBlue; there's only so much in a given area for anyone to use.

* [[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.

* [[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}}.

* [[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.

{{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.

* [[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.

** 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 '''BlazBlue''' movie had Litchi end up turning evil. Guess what happened in Continuum Shift..

{{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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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>

* [[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.}}

* [[Idle Animation]]: And your character will likely spout a unique line for each opponent.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

** {{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.}}

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Silliness Switch]]: The joke ending for each character's story mode.

* [[Simultaneous Arcs]]: Continuum Shift's canon paths.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.}}

** 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]].}}

** 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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