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[[File:blazblue_calamitytrigger_6824blazblue calamitytrigger 6824.jpg|thumb|350px| ''The Wheel of Fate is Turning...'']]
 
''[['''Blaz Blue]]''''', [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|pronounced "blaze-blue", or "blay-blue" in Japanese]], is a [[Fighting Game]] series by [[Arc System Works]], and a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Guilty Gear]]''. This series has about as large a fandom, if not more, as its technical daddy.
 
The games of the series are the following:
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* ''[[Blaz Blue: Continuum Shift]]'' (including its expansions, ''Continuum Shift II'' and ''Extend'')
 
A [[DSiWare]] side game named ''[['''Blaz Blue]]''': 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 ''Blayze Bloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale''.
 
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 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.
 
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.
 
Mori has stated that work on a third sequel to the main fighting series has started in 2012.
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* [[The Abridged Series]]: It can be found [http://www.youtube.com/user/goteamazuredrive here].
* [[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]]
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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 [['''Blaz Blue]]''', aka Azure Grimoire and various Nox Nyctores and Armagus. {{spoiler|The only characters who aren't confirmed to possess one or be an [[Eldritch Abomination]] are [[Catgirl|Taokaka]], and [[Squirrel Girl|Makoto]].}}
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Apparently, [[Tomokazu Sugita]] and [[Yuuichi Nakamura]] also play [['''Blaz Blue]]''' on their free time.
* [[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 Bad Duumvirate]]: Everything bad that's happened within this series can be traced back to Yuuki Terumi and Relius Clover.
* [[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|Big Bads]]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 ''[['''Blaz Blue]]''''' world. The NOL is an oppressive organization ruled by a menacing, unseen Imperator, which is not such much 'black' as it is an extreme case of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremism]] that prevents the world from plunging into an age of utter chaos where war can erupt anywhere if the wrong maniac gets a hold of the wrong [[Artifact of Doom]]. Unfortunately, the 'oppressive' regime looks like it does because it has such wonderful enforcers as a [[Troll]] who caused much of the destruction seen thus far in the game strictly [[For the Evulz]]; a [[Puppet Master]] who transformed his own wife and daughter into weapons with his insane experiments, and a [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|colossal]] [[Jerkass|jack-off]] with a murderous hard-on towards his older brother. And it's supposedly the former two who could be manipulating NOL into the oppressive organization everyone else believes it to be; ({{spoiler|The Imperator herself could very well be a [[Puppet King]] for them}}). On the heroes' side, we have a [[One-Man Army]] who will stop at nothing to destroy the NOL, even if this means slaughtering every government worker he comes across, this includes innocent [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Villains]]s who're just getting their paycheck. Then there's Sector Seven, a clandestine organization opposed to the NOL, but with so much dirty laundry they'd need to rent out a whole damn laundromat to clean it out. Of note is the fact that one of their top-ranking scientists is so hellbent on revenge towards one of NOL's enforcers that she is fully prepared to [[Nuke'Em|launch a nuclear strike against a whole city]] should her plan of using a reformatted clone as a weapon for her vengeance go awry. Yep, this is one hell of a [[Crapsack World]].
** 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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** 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.
* [[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 ([['''Blaz Blue]]''' 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.
* [[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''.
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* [[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 ''[['''Blaz Blue]]'''''; 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}}.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Both game's true routes and the arcade endings for both games - every single one ends with the character in question ultimately failing to make a difference, except for [[Karma Houdini|Hazama]].
** Although they aren't [[Canon]], the [[Bad End|Bad Endings]]ings for most characters are called that for good [[Tear Jerker|reason]]. A lot of them involve the character [[Family-Unfriendly Death|dying horribly]] ('''[[Fate Worse Than Death|or worse]]'''), [[The Bad Guy Wins|the villains achieving their goals]] or the character otherwise being put in a hopeless situation.
* [[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 [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere (disambiguation)]]. Carl's walking around with the living corpse of his sister and is scarred for life; his father ''murdered'' his wife and daughter. Tao's hyperactive and is, well, an idiot. Litchi's got a ''severe'' case of [[Guilt Complex]]. Arakune lost his mind. Kokonoe comes off as mad at the world. Hazama's a [[Complete Monster]]. Platinum has [[wikipedia:Dissociative identity disorder|DID.]] Hakumen's an entirely '''different''' level of sociopath. ''And this is just the top of the barrel!''
{{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.
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: Just looking at the playable characters, we have [[Badass Normal|normal humans]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]], a [[cyborg]], [[Functional Magic|magic-wielding]] [[Robot Girl|robot girls]], an insect-filled [[Eldritch Abomination]], a [[Catgirl|cat girl]], a [[Petting Zoo People|squirrel girl]], a [[Highly-Visible Ninja]], a [[Magical Girl]] with 3 personalities inhabiting one body, a [[samurai]] who's sword is [[BFS|longer than is physically possible to unsheathe]], and a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf butler]].
* [[Finishing Move]]: Known as Astral Heats, these moves can only be used during the final round, when the opponent has less than 25% life remaining. In the arcade version of ''Calamity Trigger'', only Ragna, Rachel and Nu -13- have Astral Heats, a fact which, according to [[Word of God]], was related to the game's plot. {{spoiler|This is, Astral Heats are only unlocked in the console versions when a character completes their Arcade Mode; with each Arcade Mode being one iteration of the [[Groundhog Day Loop]]. At the time of the arcade game, only Ragna, Rachel and Nu -13- have completed their "loops" and gained the Astral Heat power}}. ''Continuum Shift'' has raised the maximum health to 35% and allowed their usage in the match point round, but in return you need to burn a Burst.
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** Amazingly, the two different Japanese covers for the [[PlayStation 3]]/360 ver of CT. [[PlayStation 3]] = Ragna/Jin/Noel 360 = Ragna/Hakumen/Nu-13. {{spoiler|Its technically the same three people on the cover.}}
** 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 [['''Blaz Blue]]''' movie had Litchi end up turning evil. Guess what happened in Continuum Shift..
* [[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|''"Please Slect Yer Kawactur. Laycha Alucrd! Jean Kisooragee! Lambda Leben!"''}}
** Jin's ''"EKUSAITINGU"''<ref>Exciting!</ref> and ''"DANJERUSU"''<ref>Dangerous!</ref> pursuit of his brother.
* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: Only the Six Heroes seem to know that the only reason the Black Beast didn't make any moves against the world for a year (which bought the Six Heroes the time they needed to teach people the Ars Magus that would eventually defeat the Black Beast) was because it was too busy fighting against the original Bloodedge. The rest of the world has probably never even heard of the name "Bloodedge" -- until—until Ragna started using it of course. This story is eventually told in ''Phase 0'', which also reveals that {{spoiler|Ragna and the original Bloodedge are one and the same.}}
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Done a ''lot'' in story mode, most notoriously in fights against Hazama.
** Nu has a bad habit of performing her Astral Heat in cutscenes after losing a story mode match.
* [[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 [['''Blaz Blue]]''' draws inspiration from [[Trigun]].
* [[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.
** No one can seem to agree on how Arakune's name is pronounced. The English track seems to use "arak-nee" (like the Greek monster Arachne) and the announcer uses "ara-KOO-nay".
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* [[McNinja]]: Bang, to some extent.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: ''Calamity Trigger'' refers to Ragna merging with Nu, causing the creation of the Black Beast.
** ''Continuum Shift'' it refers to how {{spoiler|the time loop has been broken as a result of the True Ending, thus changing the time-space continuum of the [[Blaz Blue]] universe.}}
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Subtle, but visible in Story Mode when a character is under the influence of {{spoiler|a Nox Nyctores}}. How much they're [[Not Himself|Not Themselves]] at the time varies.
** {{spoiler|Jin, when under the control of Yukianesa, sports a [[Slasher Smile]] and gets extremely wide-eyed.}}
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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 [['''Blaz Blue]]''' series have "wings" made of blades that are used for their heavy attacks.
* [[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|Big Bads]]s {{spoiler|Terumi and Relius}} act as a Red Oni and Blue Oni to each other.
* [[Reincarnation]]: {{spoiler|Ragna is believed to be the reincarnation of the Black Beast}}.
* [[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]]: ''[['''Blaz Blue]]''''s'' sprites are drawn over 3D models. Not to the same extent as ''[[King of Fighters]]'' XII & XIII though, Arc only uses the un-textured 3D models for the outlines unlike SNK which uses the 3D models for colour and shadowing.
* [[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.}}
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** 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 you can try going through the Score Attack mode, which pits you against all 12 playable characters in the game, all at the highest AI difficulty, with the last four bosses being Unlimited characters.
** Then Continuum Shift, the sequel, adds two more characters to the roster, one of which comes with an Unlimited mode as a final boss, and thus adding them to the Score Attack mode. That means 14 characters in a row, with the last five being [[SNK Boss|SNK Bosses]]es.
** 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|SNK Bosses]]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}}.
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* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Ragna's sword, Blood-Scythe, lives up to its name during his Astral Heat by turning into a scythe with red energy for its blade.
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: Kokonoe's preferred method of instruction in the "Help me, Professor Kokonoe!" segments. She borders on not helping at all. Due to the nature of the advice room these take place in, this comes to haunt her with a few characters that she *HAS* to give advice to or they cannot leave. {{spoiler|She ends up having a ''very'' odd session with Jin, argues with Hakumen, has to yell at Hazama, and only seemed to like about four or five of all of them total.}}
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Pretty damn cynical. The characters all live in a [[Crapsack World]] ruled by an oppressive government, the only person who can actually get any shit done about it accomplishes this by slaughtering almost all of the government employees he sees (And yes, he's the good guy. Did we mention this is a [[Crapsack World]]?), and the most idealistic characters either exist for mockery or have [[Break the Cutie|so much shit piled on them]] [[The Woobie|that they can barely function]] [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]s are abound and always get the upper hand (for now). Bits of idealism occasionally shimmer through here and there via the characters' true/joke endings.
* [[Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness]]: '''{{color|red|High.}}''' Terumi and Relius are borderline Infinite levels with the amount of victories they've achieved. And it is ''not going down anytime soon.''
* [[Spontaneous Weapon Creation]]: It's implied that the Kaka Clan's claws are of this nature; that is, they have the ability to produce them, rather than them being retractable. Taokaka (the only playable example of the species so far) seems to be able to produce them in a number of shapes.
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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 [['''Blaz Blue]]''' could benefit some therapists, really. Even Litchi, who would look like the closest to be the therapists ''also needs one''. Either NOL put a ban on therapist or there's just none...
* [[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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