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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 ''[[
▲''DC Universe Online'' is a [[Superhero]] [[MMORPG]], following on the heels of ''[[Champions Online (Video Game)|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 ''[[
** 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.
* [[
* [[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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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: In the Cape Carmine Lighthouse Duo instance, Bane's thugs think they hear a noise. One of them suggests that it's just rats. Another responds, "Ain't rats. Ain't never rats!" and warns the others to tell their boss.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: [[Mission Control|Calculator]] knows how to speak like a good villainous contact.
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So, Luthor wants you to make more Parasites? [[Genre Savvy|The Parasite who devours every energy source he sees?]] ... Yeah... can't see this [[Gone Horribly Wrong|going wrong]]. }}
* [[
* [[Everything's Better
** Interestingly, Grodd is made out to be a credible threat, due to his ''[[Ax Crazy|psychotic hatred]]'' of humanity and missions and cut-scenes showing that being forcibly transformed into an ape is, you know, ''[[Body Horror]]''.
*** Also there's the entire Brain Control thing, so not only are you turned into a ape, you're turned into a Faceless Mook Ape. [[Body Horror]] AND [[Mind Rape]]!
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** [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Braniac wants to destroy/digitize the world. Many of the villains would rather rule it, or declare [[Enemy Mine]]!
* [[Exposition Fairy]]: Booster Gold and his kiosks.
* [[False Reassurance]]: After {{spoiler|Future!Luthor's [[Hijacked
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* [[Fan Nickname]]: Some have called the game (specifically, if you play as a superhero) "The best Superman Game Ever Made"
* [[The Farmer and
* [[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]].}}
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Can be averted or subverted depending on the power sets you choose, but if you don't get a handle on controlling your speedster properly, you will end up dead pretty quick.
* [[Fun
** The hero equivalent is a similarly contrived bit of [[Techno Babble]] that comes out as "RAD".
* [[The Good,
* [[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:
** [[Lex Luthor]], [[Superman]] and [[Wonder Woman]] are voiced by [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Spike]], [[Firefly|Jayne]], and [[Serenity
*** Or, by their voice actors from ''[[
** [[The Flash]] and the [[Martian Manhunter]] are [[Star Trek:
** Circe is [[Star Trek:
** [[Batman|Robin]] (Tim Drake) is <s>[[Creator's Pet|Wesley Crusher]]</s> [[The Guild|Fawkes]].
* [[Hijacked
* [[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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* [[Kill Sat]]: You get to fight Brother Eye.
* [[Large Ham]] / [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Bane takes the cake.
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'''Bane:''' Nothing can stand against Bane! '''NOOOOTHIIIIING!!!''' }}
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Those who take Aquaman for his ''[[
** Thanks in no small part to being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] by a goddess.
** On the other hand, if you're used to ''[[Justice League]]'' or ''[[Smallville]]'', or even ''[[Batman:
* [[Liquid Assets]]: In the Kahndaq raid, {{spoiler|Felix Faust}} drains {{spoiler|Dr. Fate, Zatanna, Giganta, and Brother Blood}} of their life force one by one and transfers their powers into {{spoiler|Black Adam}}.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: A huge number of major and minor characters from [[DC Comics]] appear in the game in one form or another.
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* [[Mass Super-Empowering Event]]: Where all the Player Characters come from.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: [[Ambush Bug]]
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* [[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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*** Players' villains can be guilty of this as well when they {{spoiler|help Brother Blood defeat the Titans and raise Trigon}}. Calculator's response is priceless: {{spoiler|"So that's the demon Trigon. I'm filled with terror. No, really! What did you just do?!"}}
* [[Noob Cave]]: The Brainiac Harvester Ship. Does get a little old since you have to go through it on ''every'' new character before you get to your mentor's "arc", but at least you get to test out your new powers beforehand.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]
* [[Oh Crap]]: Luthor, when he sees Brainiac's fleet arrive after he succeeded in eliminating the Trinity.
** Also expect this reaction from any players who haven't been spoiled upon seeing some of the more unusual bosses. Of note: Jokerized [[Metal Men]], Wonder Giganta, and {{spoiler|OMAC Bat-family.}}
** Calculator had an epic one during the Hall of Doom Armory instance:
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* [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Combo finishers gained from Skill Point is this. Most of the combo finishers hit for a lot, but they are classified as Interrupt, and thus vulnerable to Block; performing said Interrupt against a Block would cause you to take damage and get stunned for a short while. Against Blocks, we have Block Breakers which are [[Unblockable Attack|unblockable]], but vulnerable to Interrupts. In short, Interrupt > Block Breaker > Block > Interrupt. You can avoid the [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]] by only using weapon combos with no finisher, but good luck actually killing anyone in [[PvP]] with only that.
** Also applies to roles in [[PvP]]. Tank > Controller > Healer > Tank. DPS role is [[Jack of All Trades]], with no advantage or disadvantage against any other roles.
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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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** "Let's see if those Venom injectors [[Up to Eleven|go to]] [[This Is Spinal Tap|eleven!]]"
** Parasite to [[Power Girl]]: "Your power is ours now! [[There Will Be Blood|I drink it up!"]]
** A hairstyle that makes you look like Mr. T is called [[The A-Team
** 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:
** In the final battle with Brother Blood in one instance, the wave of cultists he sends after you yell [[Charlie the Unicorn|"Shun the non-believers! SHUUUNNNN!"]]
** There also seem to be quite a few [[Dirty Harry]] fans among the [[Mooks]]. [[Ambush Bug]] also seems to be a fan.
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** Mxyzptlk tells you to "[[Star Fox 64|Do a barrel roll.]]"
* [[Squee]] : Calculator, of all people.
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* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: This seems to be Circe and the Legion of Doom's policy when it comes to Trigon; if ol' four eyes shows up on their plane of existence then he'll probably be able to knobble the likes of Brainiac without much difficulty then confer power onto his cultists with which to [[Take Over the World]]. [[Genre Blindness|In theory...]]
* [[Superhero Packing Heat]]: Entirely possible to create one of these characters.
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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; ''[[
** 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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