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Despite the vast quantities of [[Jiggle Physics]], the game actually has a great deal of independent merit of its own, being much more fast-paced and kinetic than the 3D fighters that it competes with while remaining technical and reasonably well-balanced. It's generally considered in the top-tier of 3D [[Fighting Game|Fighting Games]], along with [[Tekken]] and the [[Soul Edge]] series.
After the fights, they tend to [[Go-Karting with Bowser|get together and play beach volleyball
[[Dead or Alive/Characters|The character sheet]] is under construction.
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** The same goes for Kasumi, Kokoro and Elliot.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Zack in {{spoiler|1=Helena's ''Dead or Alive 4'' ending}}.
** Ryu in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' during {{spoiler|Kasumi vs Kasumi Alpha, and Ayane and Hayate vs Omega}}.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Characters give and take some pretty severe beatings with nothing to show for it. [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished|Unsurprising]], [[Fan Service|given the aim]].
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Every singly female character.
* [[Boss Rush]]: Arcade course 6 in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' plays like one of these, culminating with a battle against a [[Secret Character]] on a [[Secret Stage]].
* [[Brainwashed]]: Ein, who after being dumped by the villains is revealed to be {{spoiler|Hayate, Kasumi's brother and Ayane's half-brother}}.
** Genra in ''Dead or Alive 3''. {{spoiler|Though ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' revealed he was just evil}}.
** Ayane in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions''.
* [[Brawn Hilda]]: Spartan-458.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Ryu Hayabusa, who at the time of the first ''Dead or Alive'', was but a mere classic character that hadn't been seen for years; simply put a exotic [[Guest Fighter]] for old timers. Comes the [[Revival]] for the ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' series in 2004, and Ryu's popularity rises to the limit, many modern gamers came to know and adore him; success that would pass (or give it back) to ''Dead or Alive'' itself, now Ryu is heavily integrated to the plot, thus not being a guest anymore, to the point of arguably being a main character himself. The ninja reached a place where he makes [[The Protagonist]] Kasumi ''share'' a cover with him, as seen in ''Dead or Alive Dimensions''.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: For a given value of victory. ''Dead or Alive Xtreme 2'' has you unlock clothing for the girls while you play it which serves no other function in order to make the already fanservicy sandbox-game more fanservicy. Too lazy to work for your fap? You can buy a girl's complete set using real-world money. Oh, and all of this only lasts until you reset the game's save slot - of which it only has one. So restarting the game on that particular account meant having blown your cash for nothing.
* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: Jann Lee.
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* [[Canon Immigrant]]: [[Halo|Spartan-458]], who was somehow allowed into the ''Dead or Alive'' '''and''' ''Halo'' canon via [[Applied Phlebotinum]] [[Time Travel]]. Also notable as she was not only the first female Spartan to be depicted in a video game, but the first Spartan ever seen on the [[Xbox 360]] (''[[Halo 3]]'' was released a year later).
** Rio of ''[[Rio -Rainbow Gate!-]]'' was added to the PSP version of ''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' as both a dealer in the casino and a unlockable character. She originated as the mascot of the ''[[Super Blackjack]]'' series of Pachi-slo games (a slot machine designed to bypass Japanese laws against gambling). Also, Tecmo co-developed the ''[[Super Blackjack]]'' series with pachi-slo maker Net.
** Irene Lew from ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' finally made her long awaited, but sadly non-playable, appearance in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions''.
* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: Kasumi's motif.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Zack, who buys an island that sets the tone for the ''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' side-series. Why does he do it? Because he ''[[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|can]]''.
* [[Combos]]
* [[Contract on the Hitman]]: Kasumi; from the third game onward, Bayman.
* [[Counter Attack]]: If it's not the copious fanservice, this is what the series is most well known for. The game places heavy emphasis in attack interception and reversing an opponent's offense.
* [[Dating Sim]]: The ''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' games are easily the best-known [[Dating Sim]] to the non-Japanese gaming market (and most people don't even know that's what they are).
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Many characters in [[The Movie]]. Isn't it sad, Lei-Fang?
** The "Chronicle" mode in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' manages to include every major fighter from the entire series, but many characters only appear in one or two scenes. Some of the females have even been demoted to little more than [[Ms. Fanservice]].
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: The Player. Putting the player's age up to the maximum increases the [[Jiggle Physics]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Lei-Fang to an unlucky(?) old man in her ''Dead or Alive 4'' ending.
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* [[Eagle Land]]: Tina and Bass. <s> Possibly</s> Probably Zack too.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Girls Love Their Adopted Fathers]]: Ayane; see [[Manly Tears]] below.
** She also shows a more tender and emotional side around her mother in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions''.
* [[Excuse Plot]]: ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball''.
* [[Expy]]: Bass and Zach are clearly based on [[Hulk Hogan]] and Dennis Rodman, respectively. Why a baseketball player is the basis for a character in a fighting is a good question, [[Fridge Brilliance|until you remember that Rodman wrestled professionally for a brief period
** As Hogan's tag partner, no less!
* [[The Faceless]]: Miyako, Kokoro's mother.
* [[Fan Service]]: "She kicks high", indeed. The only female character who avoids this is Nicole, the [[Distaff Counterpart]] of ''[[Halo]]'''s Master Chief. She probably still has a smoking hot body under the power armor.
* [[Fan Service Pack]]: Irene Lew {{spoiler|(confirmed to be Sonia from ''[[Ninja Gaiden|Ninja Gaiden 2]]'' for the [[Xbox 360|360]])}} in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' sure has changed compared to her rather plain original design; now she's a Miss Universe like every other woman Team Ninja has ever modeled in 3D.
* [[Foot Focus]]: Hitomi in her Karate Gi in ''Dead or Alive 3'' and ''Dead or Alive Ultimate''.
* [[Free-Floor Fighting]]
* [[Friendly Playful Dolphin]]: Helena swims with a dolphin in her ending cinematic from the third game.
* [[Gaiden Game]]: The two ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' games dispense entirely with the male combatants and put the women on an island with volleyball nets and the skimpiest bikinis known to man. The ''Dead or Alive'' series itself qualifies as this for the newer ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' series.
* [[Gainaxing]]: ''Dead or Alive'''s shtick since the first game, but in ''Dead or Alive Xtreme 2'', each breast has its own physics, meaning both can jiggle independently. It look as ridiculous as it sounds.
* [[Genre Shift]]: In ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball''; guess what they do instead of fighting...
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Ryu impersonates [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Mr. Noah]] in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' and delivers a backhand slap to Kasumi in an attempt to stop her from searching for Hayate.
** Also Hayate while being offended by some of Ayane's accusations toward Kasumi.
* [[Giant Waist Ribbon]]: Ayane
* [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]: Again, ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'': they love playing with their enemies. It's even possible for you to play as Christie and get Helena to be your volleyball partner if you give her enough dolphin-related merchandise, completely ignoring the fact that {{spoiler|''you killed her mother''}} (although to be fair, ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' was before ''Dead or Alive 4'', which is where Helena learned that information).
** Though ''Dead or Alive Xtreme 2'' takes place after the reveal in ''Dead or Alive 4''.
* [[Good Is Not Soft]]: Kasumi. Nicest character in the series? Check. Lethal fighting skills? Check. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Seeks to kill Raidou after he attacked her brother?]] Oh check.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Fairly mild variation: {{spoiler|if the player, as Ayane, beats Kasumi in ''Dead or Alive 2'''s story mode, she either leaves Kasumi for dead in the snow (the camera just focusing on Ayane as she glares down before muttering "...traitor") or finishes her off with a jutsu of some description, cutting away just as Ayane finishes "casting" it}}. Either way, you never see a corpse.
** This is non-canon, mind - for obvious reasons, {{spoiler|Ayane}} loses that one.
*** Zigzaged by Hayate's ending in ''Dead or Alive 4''. It opens with him violently slicing a [[Mook]] in half, however for the rest of the scene the [[Jittercam]] is so intense that you can't really see much more than a few splashes of blood.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: In the first ''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' game, Japanese is the only language available. Most of the time, the girls speak in Japanese (despite their nationality), but during matches, you can hear them say random English phrases like "Nice spike!", "Nice serve!", and "Nice block!".
* [[Guest Fighter]]: Nicole, a female [[Halo|Spartan]] soldier, is playable in ''Dead or Alive 4'' and ''[[Virtua Fighter|Virtua Fighters]]'' Akira Yuki and Sarah Bryant will join the fray in ''Dead or Alive 5''.
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Ayane eventually fits this trope, as she's {{spoiler|the product of the first game's [[Big Bad|Raidou]] raping the mother of Hayate and Kasumi}}. She's a female bastard
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: All four of them.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Good lord Kasumi and {{spoiler|Ayane's}} mom looks young, heres a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WkLnrVsFs&feature=channel_video_title link], she's the brown haired one.
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* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: Nicole's story in ''Dead or Alive 4'' suggests that the ''[[Halo]]'' series (or at least the ilovebees [[Alternate Universe]] thereof) occurs in ''Dead or Alive'''s far future.
** Ryu Hayabusa, the star of ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'', exists in the ''Dead or Alive'' world. Ayane, a ninja who first appeared in the original ''Dead or Alive'', returns the favor by appearing in Team Ninja's ''Ninja Gaiden'' games.
** And now, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpQRuIoL4Hs this trailer] for ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' seems to suggest that the ''[[Metroid]]'' games possibly take place in the same universe as well, thus making [[Haloid]]'s existence [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].
** And now, ''Dead or Alive 5'' carries on the tradition with the inclusion of [[Virtua Fighter|Akira Yuki.]]
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Ayane appears ready to commit suicide, preparing to [[Impromptu Tracheotomy|plunge a kunai into her throat]] while believing that Hayate hates her until her mother walks in on her.
* [[I Read It for the Articles|I Play It For The Combat]]: A good portion of the fandom. That said, there are indeed fans of the series (this includes the ''Volleyball'' spin-offs) who enjoy the games beyond the [[Panty Fighter]] appeal, believe it or not.<ref>Quite a few of these fans were pleased to learn that ''Dimensions'' was going to attempt to flesh out the characters ''and'' the storyline more so than in the past.</ref>
** Apparently, ''Dead or Alive 5'' is being geared more towards this crowd with Team Ninja toning down the fanservice aspect of the game and taking player suggestions and impressions to heart.
** The first ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' game got decent reviews as a volleyball game (if anything, some reviewers took points ''off'' for the gratuitous [[Fan Service]]).
* [[Jiggle Physics]]: Not only is the series sold on it, but the series takes the ball, runs with it, and spikes it in the end zone... to cause even more jiggling. While the fighting genre has plenty of examples of large breasts, this series is often deemed the Queen of [[Hotter and Sexier]] in [[Fighting Game|FightingGames]]. The ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' series helps.
** Not to mention the fact that ''Dead or Alive 1'' was [[Trope Maker|the first 3D game ever]] to have jiggle physics.
* [[Juggle Fu]]: Christie [[In Name Only]] from [[The Movie]], with her bra.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: In ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'', Irene Lew, Ryu's [[Love Interest]] from the original [[Ninja Gaiden|NES trilogy]], appears as his CIA contact during the story mode cut scenes. Hayate and Ayane both wonder if something is going on between them.
* [[Ninja]]: A lot of the cast.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Zack = Dennis Rodman. Which became funnier when Rodman himself played Zack in ''Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball''.
* [[Notable Commercial Campaigns]]: The beloved/infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jfzh2s3jlE "She kicks high."] commercial for ''Dead or Alive 3''.
{{quote|(''Scene: [[Two Gamers on a Couch]].'')
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* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Christie is psychotically devoted to protecting Helena, so she can kill her herself.
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Despite being the focus of the cast, the female characters have very identical facial and body structures. If it weren't for their varied hairstyles and eye colors, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
** This part might get some attention from what we've seen of ''Dead or Alive 5'' so far. Ayane, Kasumi, Hitomi and Christie, while as well endowed as ever, have distinct enough facial features.
* [[Ornamental Weapon]]: None of the ninjas use their swords except in cutscenes. Averted with {{spoiler|Omega}} and once you've fought him, you'll understand why [[SNK Boss Syndrome|other characters can't]].
** Bayman doesn't use his gun, knife, grenades or who knows what hidden weapons he keeps on him.
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* [[Ruthless Modern Pirates]]: A group of modern day pirates run afoul of Tina in her introduction in [[The Movie]]. And the same pirates have the misfortune to encounter the heroines when they're stranded at sea at the end.
* [[Ryu and Ken]]: Bayman and Leon.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Dimensions has one at the end of the
* [[Smoke Out]]: Kasumi can do this with cherry blossom petals, Ayane with iris petals. Ryu smokes out with leaves, Hayate with raven feathers.
* [[SNK Boss]]: All of the final bosses appear to varying degrees, the worst being Kasumi Alpha-152 from ''Dead or Alive 4''.
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* [[World of Buxom]]: Duh!
** Not so much in ''Dead or Alive 5''.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: The ''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' side-series.
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Kasumi, as a result of her quest for revenge.
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