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[[File:EBA.jpg|frame|''"Agents are... '''GO!'''"'']]
''Elite Beat Agents'' (an Americanized sequel to the Japanese game ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'') is a [[Rhythm Game]] for the Nintendo DS that makes extensive and exclusive use of the stylus. It stars the EBA, [[The Men in Black|Men In Black]] who solve the world's problems through music and dance, as opposed to the uniquely-Japanese male cheerleaders from its Japanese progenitor.▼
▲{{quote| "'''''ARE YOU READY?'' THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!'''"}}
Known primarily for its [[Widget Series|weird Japanese charm]] and unique control scheme, ''Ouendan'' became a hit among [[Import Gaming|import gamers]], prompting Nintendo and its developer to bring the game to North America under its alternate name, retaining most of the visual charm of the original, but ([[Pragmatic Adaptation|understandably]]) replacing the J-Pop music with various popular American songs to create a uniquely "[[Eagle Land|American]]" atmosphere. ''
▲''Elite Beat Agents'' (an Americanized sequel to the Japanese game ''[[Osu Tatakae Ouendan]]'') is a [[Rhythm Game]] for the Nintendo DS that makes extensive and exclusive use of the stylus. It stars the EBA, [[The Men in Black|Men In Black]] who solve the world's problems through music and dance, as opposed to the uniquely-Japanese male cheerleaders from its Japanese progenitor.
The game sold reasonably well, though despite ''Ouendan'' receiving a Japanese sequel, a sequel to ''
▲Known primarily for its [[Widget Series|weird Japanese charm]] and unique control scheme, ''Ouendan'' became a hit among [[Import Gaming|import gamers]], prompting Nintendo and its developer to bring the game to North America under its alternate name, retaining most of the visual charm of the original, but ([[Pragmatic Adaptation|understandably]]) replacing the J-Pop music with various popular American songs to create a uniquely "[[Eagle Land|American]]" atmosphere. ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' was also treated as a genuine sequel to ''Ouendan'' and featured many gameplay upgrades over its Japanese predecessor and even a few cameos from ''Ouendan'' characters as an [[Easter Egg]] for the import fanbase.
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▲The game sold reasonably well, though despite ''Ouendan'' receiving a Japanese sequel, a sequel to ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' hasn't been forthcoming. Many of the mechanics upgrades from ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' found their way into ''Ouendan 2'' anyway, and a special promotion in Japan allowed players to download a special "EBA Mode" that replaced the Japanese Ouendan with the Elite Beat Agents.
** Inverted, if you fail "La La", the viruses (males) stomp, punch, prick with a fork and, in general, beat the crap out of the (female) white blood cell. [[Slapstick Knows No Gender|It´s totally hilarious to watch.]]▼
▲* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]:
▲** Inverted, if you fail "La La", the viruses (males) stomp, punch, prick with a fork and, in general, beat the crap out of the (female) white blood cell. It´s totally hilarious to watch.
** Played straight with Angelina in a classic [[Tsundere]] manner.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: The mother from ''ABC''. She entrusts her 1-year-old baby with $10,000 china, then leaves it alone with a cat. So, she's either [[The Ditz|a total idiot]], or is aware the cat is smarter than it looks. Either way, though...
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* [[Badass Beard]]: Agent Chieftain.
* [[Badass Driver]]: The taxi driver from the Sk8tr Boi stage, the guy drove up the side of a building for crying out loud.
* [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]]:
** One of the bonus levels, where a cat tries to save a baby from a dangerous construction site.
** Could also describe Jane from the first level, depending on how poorly you perform.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Several, including Leo's "Si!" and Hulk's ''"You bet, kid!"''
** ''AGENTS ARE GO!!''
** '''''ARE YOU READY?''' THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!''
** ''VULCAAANNOOOOOOO!!!!!''
** ''Hey guys! [[Gainaxing|* boing*]] HI GUYZ!''
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* [[Couch Gag]]: The way Kahn sends the agents out, and how the agents enter the situations.
* [[Crowd Chant]]: "E! B! A!" in the last level.
* [[Culture Police]]: The Rhombulan aliens, who hate music (which is also their [[Achilles' Heel]]).▼
▲* [[Culture Police]]: The Rhombulan aliens, who hate music (which is also their [[Achilles Heel]]).
▲* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]:
** The version of "Rock This Town" used in the game is a cover of the ''swing'' version by Brian Setzer, not the ''rock'' version done when he was with the Stray Cats. The changed tempo can wreck your pattern if you're more familiar with the rock version.
** More commonly, (nearly every stage, in fact) during the chorus of most songs the pattern repeats. If you aren't careful (or fail the same stage often enough to get the first pattern ingrained) when you reach the finale of the song and the pattern changes, this will cause you to miss notes.
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* [[Dancing Is Serious Business]]: In some levels, people can '''die''' if the agents do not dance well.
* [[Defeat by Modesty]]: Mr. Virus to Cap White.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]:
** Try closing your DS during the tutorial.
** In a strange story example, you can see a small cameo by what looks like Tsuyoshi Hanada from the first ''[[Ouendan]]'' game in the New-York themed "Sk8er Boi" level. The dev team then decided to make ''an entire scenario'' in the sequel that explained how he could have gotten there. It would be [[The Producer Thinks of Everything]] if 1. it wasn't a game, and 2. the developers were even expecting a sequel to ''Ouendan'' at all.
* [[Digging to China]]: During the last pass/fail cutscene in "Let's Dance." If you fail, you get arrested by [[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan|Dan and Joe]].
* [[The Ditz]]: Missy fits this criteria, though she's a class A genius compared to the Carrington sisters.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: The Divas
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* [[Faceless Goons]]: The guards in "Canned Heat", whose [[Hidden Eyes|eyes are all hidden by the shadows of their caps]].
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: Unlike other difficulty levels, which, among other differences, scale the difficulty by varying how complicated and intricate the note layouts are, Hard Rock difficulty simply takes the note layout of Sweatin' and flips them over into a "mirrored" version of the Sweatin' layouts, on top of smaller notes (requiring more precision to hit) and a much smaller window of time to hit them.
* [[Fan Service]]:
** Could there be any other reason the Divas' butts feature so prominently in their dancing? Then there's their [[Stripperific]] outfits.
** The [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Carrington Sisters]] in the ''Material Girl'' scenario display [[Gainaxing]] to woo over the wildlife.
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* [[Funny Background Event]]: If the markers are the foreground, the agents' dancing in some levels would count.
* [[Gainaxing]]: The Carrington sisters. And the Elite Beat Divas during certain dances.
* [[The Gambler]]: The Full House Bandits in "Rock This Town" use a playing card motif, being [[Captain Ersatz
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: See the previous entry. Also some of the songs used, if you pay attention to the lyrics. Also if you fail the first part of "La La", Cap White gets the top part of her dress ripped off!
* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Lucy's stuffed bear, Freddie.
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* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Leonardo Da Vinci is some [[Bishonen]] lady killer, but when he finds Lisa del Giocondo, the woman of his dreams, the agents help him woo her, and when she smiles, he models her for the Mona Lisa. Not historically accurate (Lisa was married already), but that's clearly not the point.
* [[Hit Flash]]: Sure, they could have shown the Agents' horse-drawn carriage flying through the air dramatically... but why do that when they can enter with speed lines and the written sound effect "Clappity-SWOOSH!"?
* [[
* [[Hot Pursuit]]: Jack the cab driver partakes in a few while driving a woman in labor to the hospital.
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: "Breezin'", "Cruisin'", "Sweatin'", and "Hard Rock!". Clearing every song on the last one and reaching the highest point rank allows you to [[Bragging Rights Reward|use Commander Kahn in Versus Mode]].
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* [[Informed Ability]]: The profiles you see before you enter a level have a small tidbit of information about the target. These have no impact on the plot, though some are related to the mission.
* [[It's a Wonderful Failure]]: You ran out of life? Now you get to watch the person you're helping be reduced to a sobbing wreck if they aren't dead. Failed to keep the minimum life for the good cutscenes? You get to watch failure and keep playing and if you fail them all you get to see just how much you screwed up. {{spoiler|Fail completely on either part of the two parter end mission and you get to watch the destruction of the entire human race.}}
* [[Isn't It Ironic?]]:
** A retired baseball player saves an amusement park from a giant golem and earns the adoration of one of his biggest fans, leading to a successful comeback. Set to an upbeat cover of "The Anthem", a song about how the singer doesn't want success or role models.
** "Material Girl", if you take it as a satire of what the Carrington sisters play straight.
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* [[Lazy Artist]]: In the last stage, when everybody is doing the arm waving thing, sure they bothered to update Colonel Bob and Bill's sprites (so that they are in their formal wear and tracksuit, respectively), but for some reason, not Captain Brooke and Ken. Also, in several cutscenes, the people in the background are mirrored. The car show scene in "Canned Heat" and the beginning of the last section in "Sk8er Boi", for example.
* [[Life Meter]]
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The Elite Beat Agents are a shadowy organization with worldwide surveillance that dispatches teams of well-equipped, trained operatives on missions around the globe. Their principal weapon? The power of dance. Their goal? Inspire people into overcoming their own problems.
* [[Mars Needs Women]]: The Carrington sisters. List of things they've won over via Gainaxing: raccoons, a gorilla, a lion, a bear, an elephant, a parrot, a crab, and an ''airplane'' (although it may have been more attracted to their credit card), in ''Material Girl'', Sam the pug in "Highway Star", and {{spoiler|a team of Rhombulan alien soldiers sent ''specifically'' to destroy anyone singing, dancing, or enjoying the music in ''Jumpin' Jack Flash''}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** The virus that athlete Bill Mitchell receives is named... Mr. Virus.
** The equally subtle name of the aliens. They're called [[Star Trek|the Rhombulans]]... and their leader happens to be a giant eye inside a rhombus. Also, a rhombus is a skewed square, and "square" is/was a slang word for uncool. Probably why they dislike - and die from exposure to - good music.
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* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: {{spoiler|The ending of "Without a Fight", to go with the Agents being [[Taken for Granite]].}}
* [[Must Make Her Laugh]]: Leo's goal is to get Lisa to smile.
* [[Nice Hat]]:
** Agent Morris and Agent Chieftan.
** The Divas also have sweet hats, as seen at the end of ''Jumpin' Jack Flash''.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Chris Silverscreen is more or less a lawyer friendly version of [[George Lucas]].
* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Chieftain's and the divas' hair never move while they dance.
* [[Non
* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|The [[Faceless Eye]] leader of the Rhombulans upon seeing the massive [[Combined Energy Attack]] about to blow it up, and getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger...}}
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: One bonus level has giggling zombies, controlled by some kind of mushroom spider thing, that can only be defeated by bad tasting peanuts (and dance). You heard me.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Nearly everyone knows that Mr. X is really Commander Kahn. And according to [[Fanon]], he's a ''drunken'' Kahn at that.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]:
** The guy from the aforementioned "giggling zombie" level has a permanent angry scowl on his face, except in the Good Ending where he [[The Un-Smile|sort-of smiles]] in an advertisement for peanuts, {{spoiler|or when you lose and he gets turned into a zombie}}.
** Agent Derek. The reason why his afro is [[Funny Afro]]. He does smile if you do well in Jumpin' Jack Flash, though.
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* [[Pose of Supplication]]: Seen whenever a mission is failed.
* [[The Power of Rock]]
* [[Punctuated!
* [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]]: Sam the pug [[Fist of the North Star|channels Kenshiro]] to defeat a group of gangster dogs.
* [[Rebus Bubble]]: Star high school wide receiver Don Tanner views all problems as (diaper/hot dog/skateboard) = Football. (Except Jane in the Good ending, who = a goal post.)
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The game couldn't get away with half its stuff otherwise.
* [[Required Spinoff Crossover]]: Inverted; the Elite Beat Agents are playable in Ouendan 2, rather than the other way around.
* [[Rich Bitch]]:
** Colonel Bob (the oil tycoon from the "Let's Dance" level) is married to one.
** The Carringtons may come across as this, but they're more vapid than shrill, in any case.
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* [[Secret Level]]: There are bonus levels unlocked as you go up in high score rank.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: The scenarios start off ridiculous and ramp it up from there.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The top screen during "Survivor" is quite reminiscent of survival-horror [[Light Gun Game
** Said level is also a glorified [[Shout-Out]] to [[Duke Nukem|another blond-haired-buzzcut hero,]] complete with freakish "end boss" looking similar to an Octobrain.
** Also, one of the agents is named [[Men in Black (film)|Agent J]].
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** One of the game's titular [[The Men in Black|Men In Black]] wears a [[Blues Brothers|fedora and sunglasses.]]
** What about [[Star Trek|Khan and the R(h)om(b)ulans?]]
** An alien invasion thwarted by music? [[Mars Attacks
** [[Thunderbirds|Agents are GO!]]<ref>It's also a NASA reference. Betcha didn't see that one coming.</ref>
** ''[[A Bug's Life|A Pug's Life]]''.
** The "Sk8er Boi" level is actually a reference to ''[[The Tuxedo]]''. Especially noticeable when Linda asks Jack "Hey, is your name James?"
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* [[Stacy's Mom]]: Sofie, if the ending of "September" is any indication.
* [[Sucking-In Lines]]: The Rhombulan mothership, {{spoiler|when powering up its petrification ray.}}
* [[Sunglasses
* [[Surreal Theme Tune]]: Basically, the game involves helping people do stuff while playing [[
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: All the songs are covers, likely to save development costs and help prolong the licenses to use them. It also allowed for changes to the songs for gameplay purposes. For one example, if they had used the original version of ''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' for the final story mission, it would have been easier to complete as its tempo is slower than the cover used in the game.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: {{spoiler|The Agents (or Divas)}} at the beginning of Jumpin' Jack Flash.
* [[Tetris Effect]]: Take care around polka-dots after playing this game.
▲* [[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]]: The "Canned Heat" level, which is about the son of a Japanese auto dealer having to retrieve stolen car plans... by becoming a [[Ninja]].
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Part of the [[Power Trio]] in each difficulty play, following up from ''Ouendan''. Their names are Morris and Derek, by the way.
** The Divas have Those Two Girls, Missy and Foxx.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The Carrington Sisters. If it weren't for their sex appeal they'd be long dead by now (literally).
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* [[Tropey Come Home]]: The ''Highway Star'' level, where Sam the pug falls asleep in a truck bed and wakes up 400 miles from home.
* [[Truth in Television]]: For the most part, the game is ridiculously stupid; how does having a group of people cheer you on improve your Ninjutsu or allow you to discover Atlantis? Even the heartwarming "You're The Inspiration" episode doesn't make a great deal of sense. However, in the case of "Believe," the primary problems that dancer Amanda faces are ones of perseverance (working a menial job to pay the bills, learning to sing) and self-confidence (performing in front of others, facing rejection at auditions), the first and biggest problems that a young [[Starving Artist]] has to face, while also being the same problems cheerleaders are supposed to fight. Notice that during this level, the Agents ''don't dance''. They don't want to outshine her. They're just there to be an inspiration.
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* [[Unsound Effect]]: The beams that the Rombulans send out go "FLASH".
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: That's right; don't mind the dancing FBI agents...
* [[
* [[Up to Eleven]]: The powers of dance and pop music are able to inspire people to feats of great prowess and skill
* [[Verbal Tic]]: I believe Thomas the magician has one!
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* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Foxx.
* [[Widget Series]]: Toned down from ''Ouendan'', but not by much. All they really changed were the cultural cues.
* [[World of Ham]]: Let's just put it this way: by the end of the game, the only people who ''aren't'' [[Large Ham
* [[Wolverine Publicity]]:
** Agent J is only playable on one difficulty (Cruisin'), but he's on all of the game's advertising, the box, the title screen, and a trophy in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'', most of which have him front and center as if to imply he's the leader.
** Also, "Cruisin'" is the game's "normal" difficulty, so it was probably expected people would recognize the character they play as the most.
* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]]: Arguably what the
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