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[[For Want of a Nail|Nine different people]] from different time periods (ranging from the time of cavemen to the far future) suffer unjust deaths which, in their own way, cause disorder in the [[Order Versus Chaos|balance of the universe]]. The Eternal Champion, an entity which oversees this balance, uses its power to temporarily remove all nine from the timeline. The Champion knows any one of the nine can restore balance through the ripple effects of what their full lives will accomplish -- which works out well, since the Champion only has the power to revive one of the nine. Being a sporting entity, the Champion places the nine warriors in a martial arts tournament: the winner will be returned to the timeline, moments prior to their death, with the knowledge of their fate and the power to prevent it -- while the other eight warriors will be condemned to their original grisly fates.

A third and final game -- ''Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter'' -- was in pre-production for the Sega Saturn after ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' became... well, as much of a hit on the Sega CD as [[Damned By Faint Praise|anything really could]]. ''Final Chapter'' would have featured a faction-oriented storyline, with characters supporting either the Eternal Champion or the Dark Champion in an effort to allow good or evil to balance the universe in its favor. Character levels were intended to represent the character's time periods, and victory would lock the opposing faction out of influencing a specific time period forever. The game was canceled, however, when Sega feared it would draw too much attention away from ''[[Virtua Fighter]]''.

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: The Eternal Champion uses dragon, tiger, hawk and shark styles, and temporarily gains the limbs of those creatures when he uses their attacks.

** ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' gave the Champion four more forms (among them unicorn and elephant); despite the fact that each form had its own life bar, it was ''still'' an easier fight than the original.

* [[Atlantis]]: Trident and many other merfolk live here. Had he not been killed during a bout against the Roman empire, his people would not have been banished to the sea.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Every female EXCEPT for Shadow.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: In all {{spoiler|but at least Raven and Xavier's}} endings, the character you played as will be saved while all the others are returned to their deaths. Even though this fact was made clear to the contestants and player beforehand, it's made all the more bitter when the game plays the death cinematics for every other non-hidden playable character, back to back to back after the blurb detailing how your character improved the world.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]

* [[Elemental Powers]]: The Dark Champion utilizes "natural disasters" as part of his fighting style (tornadoes, earthquakes, etc).

* [[Fish People]]: Trident.

* [[Fling a Light Into the Future]]: {{spoiler|Ramses' ending}}.

* [[Pirate Girl]]: Sophia "Riptide" de Medici.

* [[Prehistoria]]: Slash.

* [[Science Hero]]: Xavier, particularly in the original, is the best example, but many characters (such as Trident, Midknight and Slash) also qualify. Slash is a particularly interesting example, since he not only is a [[Science Hero]] in his own right, but {{spoiler|he also brings back knowledge from the future characters to his own time, allowing him to invent fire, agriculture and kung fu, among other things}}.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: The ultimate goal of each of the fighters.

* [[Secret Character]]: ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' has nine of them.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Raven's ending in ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' has her not only avoiding her death, {{spoiler|but also teaming up with the Eternal Champion to find a way to break the time loop}}. Unfortunately, the third game never came to be...

** There is also a direct sequel hook, earned by {{spoiler|completing the game on the hardest difficulty. Additionally, on that difficulty, you actually get to play -as- the Eternal Champion for the final boss fight, regardless of who you had selected}}. Sadly, as detailed above, the third game never came to be.

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: The goal of every single character in the game, as well as the Eternal Champion, even if he DOES demand a brutal fight to see if they deserve it.

* [[They Call Him "Sword"]]: Trident, named for his trident that replaces his arm.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Larcen Tyler to a tee.

* [[Trash Talk]]: Insulting your opponent lowers their Chi meter, which affects how often they can use their special attacks. [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|Using it against the CPU is a waste of your time]].