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[[File:DCUBoxart_2602.png|frame|At last a DC based MMORPG where you get to play as... some variation of that red guy there.]]
''DC Universe Online'' is a [[Superhero]] [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]], following on the heels of ''[[Champions Online]]'' and ''[[City of Heroes]]''. The game is set in the [[DC Universe]] and allows the players to [[An Adventurer Is You|create any character they want]] without the usual class system of MMO's, as they can mix and match using any combination of powers (e.g. mind attacks), weapons (e.g. dual wielding pistols) and abilities (e.g. super speed), and align themselves with either the famous [[Black and White Morality|heroes or villains]] of the universe, whereupon they are mentored by one of the big three of either side (e.g. [[Batman]] for techonological heroes, or [[The Joker]] for technological villains). The player can explore the fully realised cities of both [[City of Adventure|Gotham and Metropolis]] (as well as the surrounding areas during certain missions) at will as they complete quests and battle against/with other players and iconic characters from the Universe. Compared to other [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] it has a bigger focus on fast paced combat, storytelling and player customisation, as it is optimised for the Playstation3 as well as Pcs. The game was released on January 11, 2011 and became [[Freemium|free to play]] November 1, 2011.
▲''DC Universe Online'' is a [[Superhero]] [[MMORPG]], following on the heels of ''[[Champions Online]]'' and ''[[City of Heroes]]''. The game is set in the [[DC Universe]] and allows the players to [[An Adventurer Is You|create any character they want]] without the usual class system of MMO's, as they can mix and match using any combination of powers (e.g. mind attacks), weapons (e.g. dual wielding pistols) and abilities (e.g. super speed), and align themselves with either the famous [[Black and White Morality|heroes or villains]] of the universe, whereupon they are mentored by one of the big three of either side (e.g. [[Batman]] for techonological heroes, or [[The Joker]] for technological villains). The player can explore the fully realised cities of both [[City of Adventure|Gotham and Metropolis]] (as well as the surrounding areas during certain missions) at will as they complete quests and battle against/with other players and iconic characters from the Universe. Compared to other [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] it has a bigger focus on fast paced combat, storytelling and player customisation, as it is optimised for the Playstation3 as well as Pcs. The game was released on January 11, 2011 and became [[Freemium|free to play]] November 1, 2011.
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* [[After the End]]/[[The Bad Guy Wins]]: The entire set up for the explosion of metahumans is that [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]
▲* [[After the End]]/[[The Bad Guy Wins]]: The entire set up for the explosion of metahumans is that [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] The heroes and villains are having an [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] in the [[Ruins of the Modern Age]] until [[Alien Invasion|Brainiac]] digitizes everything into [[MacGuffin|Exobytes]] so Lex Luthor travels back in time with Brainiac's stolen Exobytes and infects the world to give thousands of people powers. He doesn't care if he creates a ton of Heroes or Villains so long as it means we have a chance against Brainiac, then flees to do "other important things" (and so we won't have 2 Luthors!)
** Though it turns out {{spoiler|Future!Luthor isn't as altruistic as he claims...}}
* [[The Ages of Super Hero Comics]]: The game plays around with this in interesting ways. Metropolis is ''very'' [[Silver Age]]; the first enemies you encounter as magic ([[Wonder Woman]]) or meta ([[Superman]]) heroes are dudes running around in stereotypical Egyptian costumes and ''sentient gorillas with rayguns'', respectively. While the level of "serious" fluctuates as you level across the story, it generally remains fairly silly. Gotham, meanwhile, features pretty much only Batman's rogues gallery, meaning you're fighting street toughs pushing steroids, madmen with fear gas and whatnot as a hero, and as a villain you're just straight-up roughing up cops and paying them off for the mob, and participating in a gang war; the feel is much more "[[The Dark Knight Saga|Nolan]]"/
** Notably, in Metropolis it's always daytime (specifically a late-ish afternoon for [[Scenery Porn|maximum pretty]]); in Gotham, it's always night with [[Weird Moon|a huge moon]].
** Certain [[Modern Age]] elements do leak through into Metropolis, though. For example, while most characters are in their "classic" outfits (Superman and Wonder Woman are in their most famous ''[[Superfriends]]''-esque outfits, even Batman has a more bluish cowl, etc.), Giganta wears her ''One Year Later'' outfit (the [[wikipedia:File:GigantaNewCostume.jpg|form-fitting bodysuit]]) rather than her "classic" [[wikipedia:File:Giganta.jpg|jungle swimsuit]] getup from the ''Superfriends'' era.
** In general, the game seems to use traditional continuity elements, combined with a visual style that leans towards the lighter side. One such example of this is Killer Croc, who in this version, just looks like a big crocodile man, rather than a deformed monstrous human like some versions portray him as.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Another one for the Multiversal Orrery, presumably. Of note is the fact that, while everything up to ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' seems to have happened here (Giganta's suit, Bane broke Batman's back, Doomsday is around, etc) the events of ''[[Final Crisis]]'' and ''[[Blackest Night]]'' don't seem to have happened... yet. Though that said, Barry Allen, who returned in ''Final Crisis'', is the Flash in the game.
* [[Alt-Itis]]: Judging by the fact that the biggest selling item in the in-game store after going [[Free to Play]] was additional character slots, it's safe to say this is a common phenomenon.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: The game is loot based but the
** The coolest examples are the cool armour that the player gets once reaching level 30. Batgirl (if you are Hero Tech) gives you a robotic batsuit, hell, Harley Quinn (Villain Tech) gives you a suit WITH A FREAKIN' ARMED BOMB ON IT.
** In addition, running 'The Vault' gives you the chance to get some costume pieces which are purely fanboy loot, such as hoodies with [[Green Lantern]] or [[Lobo]] logos and baseball caps emblazoned with [[Superman|Bizarro's]] or [[Batman|Robin's]] logos.
* [[Anti-Grinding]]: Averted, ''hard''. By MMO standards, it is ridiculously easy to gain levels. Even grinding low-level missions gives an obscene amount of experience. However, gaining renown to unlock the epic armor (only available after reaching max level) is a more traditional MMO Grindfest...
* [[An Adventurer Is You|A Superhero Is You]]: Naturally. Everyone is capable of fulfilling a damage-dealing role in a group, while certain power groups are capable of filling certain other niches as demanded.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Users choosing Superman as their mentor have to complete a mission which they must defeat Gorilla Grodd and his... devolution device? It turns humans into apes... that's not how evolution works, people.
** Justified though as that is the name in universe, and it's called a "evolution device" by Grodd. It's common to the universe itself. (see JLU, the comics, Batman:BAB, etc)
* [[The Atoner]]: Future!Luthor...to a degree. He doesn't really care that his actions create thousands of new supervillains. He just wants Earth to survive Brainiac.
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* [[Badass in Distress]]: Several missions involve coming to the aid of a prominent superhero/supervillain.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Inverted, although YMMV. There are times when your character will be transformed into something else for a mission, like a gorilla, giant zombie, or demon. You lose your own moves and fighting style, but have infinite power points while in this form, allowing you to use the transformation's (often very powerful) special attacks as much as you want.
* The [[Bat Signal]]: A fixture in Gotham City, and there is a feat for finding it.
* [[Big Bad]]: Brainiac
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Trigon is able to [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomp the entire Brainiac fleet]], but the fact that he has destroyed multiple dimensions may not bode well in the long run.
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* [[False Reassurance]]: After {{spoiler|Future!Luthor's [[Hijacked by Ganon]] moment below:}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Future!Luthor''': Oh yes, my intentions are for the greater good. ''My'' greater good!}}}}
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Some have called the game (specifically, if you play as a superhero) "The best Superman Game Ever Made"
* [[The Farmer and the Viper]]: The Joker uses a variant of this story (replacing the farmer with a bat) to explain the relationship between him and Batman.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: The game can be surprisingly clever about this in a few places. Case in point: During the mission which takes you into the new HIVE complex in the Metropolis Metrodome, the music sounds rather familiar, and at times the "beeping" etude you first heard on the [[Noob Cave|Brainiac Harvester Ship]] plays briefly before fading back into the "HIVE theme". You might think "psh, SOE is being lazy with the music, that must be the music that plays for all "high-tech villain lairs". {{spoiler|As you find out at the end of the mission, Queen Bee Zazzala has thrown HIVE's lot in with Brainiac wholesale and is now part of the larger Brainiac villain group. [[Fridge Brilliance|Thus, they share music]].}}
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* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Giganta attempts to do this to Wonder Girl. Depending on your alignment, she either succeeds (only for you to beat her down and put them back in the right bodies) or screws up and somehow gives Wonder Girl her powers, forcing you to save Giganta from a giant Wonder Girl.
* [[The Grinch]]: Larfleeze steals some presents as one of the Christmas missions.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** [[Superman: The Animated Series|Brainiac]], [[Batman: The Animated Series|Harley Quinn]] , [[The Joker]], and [[Batman|The Goddamn Batman]] are all voiced by their [[DCAU]] voice actors.
** [[Lex Luthor]], [[Superman]] and [[Wonder Woman]] are voiced by [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Spike]], [[Firefly|Jayne]], and [[Serenity|Zoe]], [[Joss Whedon|respectively]].
*** Or, by their voice actors from ''[[Superman: Doomsday]]'', in the case of Superman and Lex Luthor.
** [[The Flash]] and the [[Martian Manhunter]] are [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Reginald Barclay]] and [[The A-Team|Captain H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock]].
** Circe is [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Ensign Ro Laren]] and [[Battlestar Galactica|Admiral Helena Cain]].
** [[Batman|Robin]] (Tim Drake) is <s>[[Creator's Pet|Wesley Crusher]]</s> [[The Guild|Fawkes]].
* [[Hijacked by Ganon]]: {{spoiler|Future!Luthor does this immediately after Brainiac's defeat. Even willing to stab his past self in the back. However [[Big Damn Heroes|Future!Batman shows up just in time to stop him]].}}
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Carried by Giganta during the [[Grand Theft Me]] villain questline due to her impatience. Circe is about ready to strangle her by the time you go in to fix her botched ritual.
** Also carried by Robin, who loans the player his nose breather during Poison Ivy's villain arc. Guess who [[Brainwashed|falls under her pheromones]] and [[Let's You and Him Fight|is forced to fight the player]]? It's even given a lampshade at the end.
* [[Instant Costume Change]]: Implied by the tutorial outtro; the humans infected with the Exobytes suddenly change into their new costumes. It may just be a thematic thing, but still.
** The game also has a neat feature in regards to the equipment, through use of a style tab. Like the way your cape looks, but have found one with better stats? But does the better cape look dumb? You can change its appearance to that of your previous cape! Once the style's been "collected", it stays with you as you upgrade your gear.
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* [[Medium Awareness]]: [[Ambush Bug]]
{{quote|Hey, look who's in your video game!}}
* [[The Mentor]]: Each player is mentored by a major superhero/supervillain, chosen based on your origin and morality. For Meta heroes, Superman and Lex Luthor. For Tech heroes, Batman and the Joker. For magic heroes, Wonder Woman and Circe.
* [[Mission Control]]: Oracle for heroes, Calculator for villains.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: During the Smallville mission, your team transforms into Doomsday clones before you complete the objectives which includes curing the Doom-Infected citizens, destroying lab equipment, and "relieving" (read: slaughtering to a pulp) LexCorp scientists. You do this as both a villain ''and'' a hero.
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: All the heroines and villianesses. Seriously. Just LOOK. Power Girl, Harley Quinn, Huntress, Wonder Woman, Catwoman, and not to mention the countless other user generated ones.
** Even the "short" characters still have rather ample chest sizes, and certain costume pieces (like the "business" vest) actually ''emphasize'' the curves even further. There's a few pieces (like the trenchcoat undershirt) that don't emphasize the chest, but these are few and far between.
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* [[Robot Me]]: {{spoiler|In the Level 30 mission for Tech heroes and villains, robot duplicates of Batman and The Joker invade the Batcave and Arkham Asylum respectively for Brainiac.}}
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]
* [[Shapeshifting]]: One of the branches of the Nature power-set is based around this. You can take the form of a wolfman, a dinosaur, a insect creature, an ape, the list goes on.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many in the [[Enemy Chatter]].
** [[Futurama|"All glory to the hypno-pollen!"]]
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** A hairstyle that makes you look like Mr. T is called [[The A-Team|"Soldier of Fortune"]].
** Raven advises the hero player to never let Cyborg and Beast Boy talk them into a game of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SO-5BJ2vTc&feature=related Stink Ball].
** There's one hairstyle consisting of a small afro and sideburns called [[That '70s Show|"The Hyde"]].
** Another hairstyle consists of a small afro and a smallish beard/mustache. It's called the [[wikipedia:Bob Ross|"Happy Painter"]]
** In addition, many of the feats, especially the Styles section with examples like [[Inspector Gadget|"Go Go Gadgeteer"]], [[James Bond|"Shaken, Not Stirred"]], and [[The Frantics|"Boot to the Head"]].
*** And, referencing Certain Characters' long histories: [[Batman: The Movie|"Some Days You Just Can't Get Rid Of A Bomb"]]
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** As an example, Queen Bee Zazzala was nothing more than a C-list villain, at best, for the Justice League comics in the [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver]] and [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|Bronze Ages]]. Now she's in control of the remnants of the old HIVE organization from ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'', having turned it into a ''real'' hive, {{spoiler|and she's thrown the HIVE's lot in with Brainiac}}. Even ''Superman'' [[Oh Crap|seems a bit perturbed by this one]].
** Circe was probably almost unknown outside of rather hardcore [[Wonder Woman]] fans before now (her biggest previous "moment" was probably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0b7sE57wE4 her famous appearance] on ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''). Now, she's one of the banner villains of the game and one that magic villain PCs interact with a lot; she's essentially been promoted to the third part of the villainous [[Power Trio]].
** Gorilla Grodd was something of a joke during the 60s and 70s and was kind of ''the'' poster-boy(ape?) for the "evil gorilla!" stereotype during the Silver Age; ''[[Superfriends]]'' didn't help. ''[[Justice League]]'' helped rehabilitate him, and now in DCUO, he's got a full-blown ''army'' of sentient gorillas which stands apart from the rest of villain-dom (he hates all humanity equally), he's fought multiple times throughout the game (particularly by heroes), his villain group is the first one you encounter outside the [[Noob Cave]] as a meta hero, and he's generally given big billing as a major threat - and it ''works''.
** Felix Faust was something of a laughingstock, C-List villain whose most memorable moment was having Isis [[Groin Attack|castrate him with her bare hands]]. The game repackages Faust as a powerful necromancer who can go toe-to-toe with Zatanna and hold his own. He raises an army of zombies and very nearly steals the "power of Shazam" from Black Adam.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: There is a concept for a Sinestro Corps-based Iconic Battlesuit "[http://dcuniverseonline.wikia.com/wiki/File:SinestrosMight_WEB.jpg Sinestro's Might].
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