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According to the story, a race known as the [[Precursors|Crogenitors]] were a space-faring race that was really good at altering DNA. To that end, they created a bunch of 'Genetic Heroes'. Eventually, they discovered ''E-DNA'' (E being short for '''Exponential'''-DNA) , an amino acid that could bring about evolutionary changes in hours that had previously taken millennia.

 

 

* [[Abusive Precursors]]: Crogenitor Ingto, the creator of Necrogenesis and overseer of Nocturna was a very nasty piece of work if the results of his manipulation are any indication. For starters, he somehow managed to shatter the membrane separating the world of the living and the world of the dead, which caused horrible mutations in the various species of Nocturna. Mutations that included most Nocturni children being born agonizingly crippled and dying shortly after birth. Then, of course, is the fact he created people like Arakna, who's almost as pleasant as he is.

* [[As You Know]]: The game starts out with one. Justifiable, since the player's character has been in cryosleep forever.

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: While you never are directly rewarded with cosmetic rewards, every item that drops can be turned into a Detail Item (items without stats) that can be added to characters.

* [[After the End]]: The Crogenitor civilization is gone, overrun by the Darkspore. The best you can do is get even.

* [[Boss Battle]]: At the end of every stage. It's usually a [[Giant Mook]] and a small army of Darkspore...unless you're on the X-4 levels, in which case your opponent is a Darkspore known as a Destructor, with their own attacks and patterns.

* [[Combination Attack]]: Each member of your squad lends one of their four abilities to the other two, for a total of six. Half the fun is finding the best combinations.

** Like in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', loot is also color-coded by quality. In ascending order of potency, White items are standard, Green are uncommon, Blue are "rarified" and Purple are "purified". There's also Yellow, Orange and Red, which are the uncommon, rarified and purified versions of special reward loot found only at the end of a mission.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Necrogenetic creatures are damned dark, with soul-sucking abilities. However, they aren't really evil, compared to the Darkspore.

** In fact, this is true for most of the first few heroes that you have access to. Blitz becomes somewhat outclassed by Krel, Arakna has better attacks than Wraith, and Maldri is mostly superior to Vex.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: All five genetic types, to an extent:

** '''Biogenesis-''' [[Green Thumb]], [[Petal Power]], [[Dishing Out Dirt]] and [[Poisonous Person]]

** '''Cybergenesis-''' [[Extra Ore Dinary]]

** '''Necrogenesis-''' [[Casting a Shadow]], [[Black Magic]]

** '''Quantumgenesis-''' [[Time Master]], [[Reality Warper]]

* [[Elite Mook]]: "Elite" Darkspore, which can randomly appear throughout the stages or be mutated from a standard Darkspore by a Mutation Agent. They're bigger and stronger variations of normal Darkspore that have their names written in red; below the health bar, they have a few words of descriptive text that modifies their attributes (for example, an Elite with the "tough" modifier has double the health). To a lesser extent, the "Lieutenant" Darkspore are also this, being larger, more powerful, and rarer than the standard "minion" Darkspore. Both Lieutenants and Minions can become Elites.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Many of the Necrogenetic heroes fought on opposite sides of the same war before the Darkspore showed up.

** Maldri was nothing more than a common burglar who happened to break into Zelem's laboratory after he was killed and zap himself with a device that gave him his powers.

** Zrin was rotting in jail for some undisclosed crime (though he is described as having been a gangster) when the Darkspore showed up and one of the Crogenitors gave him his powers out of sheer desperation.

* [[Lego Genetics]]: Given that it's based on Spore, this should be obvious. Works with non-organic weapons and armor, too.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Heroes in the "Ravager" class. They're low-health and go down quickly, but they're quick as the wind and hit like a truck. Maldri is perhaps the best example, because he has an amazing attack that involves rapidly jumping between enemies 6 times, at lightning speed, dealing impressive amounts of damage.

** Blitz is a literal example of a [[Lightning Bruiser]]. He's of the Plasma genesis type, which involves manipulation of hot elements like fire and ''electricity''. And one of his attacks, called "Ride the Lightning", involves shooting across the screen to hit a cursor-targeted enemy.

* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Killing an enemy with a critical hit causes them to explode into an impressive shower of gore, unless they're Cybergenetic in which case they burst into a huge spray of oil or something else vaguely olive-colored. This can get flat out silly when dealing with large hordes - it can result in your triumphant heroes walking away from a newly created gigantic pool of blood. If the blood is turned off, however, the enemies explode in a cloud of E-DNA.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Heroes in the "Sentinel" class. They have high health and can take a lot of hits, but they're no pushovers when it comes to dealing damage, either. The best example is probably Titan, who has a forcefield that absorbs a certain amount of damage depending on his resist rating. He has a nice short-ranged machine gun that hits all enemies around him, dealing a nice amount of damage, and all of his attacks involve clearing away large amounts of enemies. [[Game Breaker|In fact, he's so well-equipped that he can even face up against enemies of his own Genesis type.]] Sentinels are generally able to muscle their way through stages using their sheer bulk and persistent attacking power, whereas Ravagers get struck down pretty quickly and Tempests get worn out eventually. This probably explains why there are only seven Sentinel heroes.

* [[Random Effect Spell]]: Maldri's squad ability, Probability Assault, which inflicts random Quantum debuffs every time he damages or is damaged by an enemy. Effects include slows, time stops, banishes, knockbacks, and a special [[Ao E]] attack. His basic attack is similar; it has the absolute largest damage range in the game, meaning it can alternate from dealing vast amounts of damage to ridiculously pitiful Critical Hits in the blink of an eye.

* [[Red Baron]]: Almost every named character, usually pertaining to what their powers are (For example, Blitz the Storm Striker attacks with lightning).

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Overlaps with [[Scenery Gorn]]. The environments in all of the stages are very visually stunning, to the point that players get lost easily if they don't use the minimap. Especially in forest stages, what with all the (beautiful) leaves, fronds and vines obstructing the camera and whatnot.

* [[Schrodinger Fu]]: A specialty of Quantum Genesis heroes, but especially Maldri: one of his skills abuses quantum physics to attack every enemy he ''could'' be attacking at the same time.

* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Verdanth is a lush jungle planet, Cryos is an ice world. {{spoiler|If Scaldron wasn't a desert planet before the Corruptor ruined it, it is now.}}

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