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''Golden Axe'' was ported to various platforms and inspired a series of sequels and spin-offs on various Sega platforms. The full list of games in the series are as followed.
* ''Golden Axe'' - 1989 (Arcade, [[Master System]], [[Mega Drive|Mega Drive/Genesis]], [[
* ''Golden Axe Warrior'' - 1991 (Master System) . A ''Zelda''-style action RPG with a few innovations not present in its inspiration.
* ''Ax Battler: A Golden Axe Legend'' - 1991 ([[Game Gear]]) . Another action RPG, but this one uses a side-view battle format similar to ''[[Zelda II:
* ''Golden Axe II'' - 1991 (Mega Drive/Genesis)
* ''Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder'' - 1992 (Arcade)
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* [[Captain Ersatz]]
** Ax Battler and Tyris Flare couldn't be more obviously based on [[Conan the Barbarian]] and [[Red Sonja]] without being outright copyright infringement.
** Chronos (the panther-man in ''Golden Axe III'') is basically [[Guin Saga
* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: The club-wielding Longmoans and the mace-wielding Heningers.
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: In ''[[Sonic the Comic]]''.
* [[Composite Character]]: Tarik, the main character in the Master System version, who is a renamed Ax Battler, but with the ability to use the magic powers from all three of the arcade version's characters.
* [[Sequel First|Compilation First]]: The third Genesis game received only a limited US release on the Sega Channel (same as ''[[Pulseman]])''. The first widespread release was the Sega Genesis Collection for the [[
* [[Dem Bones]]: From skeletons to ridable dragon skeletons.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Gillius goes from playable into NPC mentor that appears only in the 1st stage and ending of ''Golden Axe III''. The manual justifies this that he's grown REALLY old.
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** Cragger had Rock magic in the third game.
** Dark Adder had Darkness magic in the [[Fan Remake]]
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Overlord]]: More than one.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Zoma in the Golden Axe: The Duel.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Death Adder, in the prequel, after he got his hand on the Golden Axe. The cause is unknown. The ending hints [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] / [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]}}
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Death Adder gets an awesomely over-the-top one in ''Revenge of Death Adder;'' he gets an axe planted in his head, falls screaming off the dragon and then for no reason EXPLODES in mid-air.
* [[Fake Ultimate Mook]]: The Corvettes in the third Mega Drive game have full armor in a game where just about everyone else wears a loincloth and possibly a bikini top, are twice the size of the player and the first one is treated like a boss. They are rather easy to defeat once you notice their huge crippling weaknesses, namely their lack of any ability to hit an airborne character, being easily grappled as soon as they (slowly) stand up.
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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]
** The [[Big Bad|main villains]] in the Mega Drive sequels (Dark Guld and Damned Hellstrike) are obvious stand-ins for Death Adder.
** Kain Grinder and Sarah Barn from ''Golden Axe III'' are so similar to Ax and Tyris that (thanks to the game's lack of an overseas version until the [[
** Zuckal and Greenness, the [[Mook|mooks]] from ''Golden Axe II'', are often mistaken for Heninger and Longmoan from the original game.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: The bodies of the dead enemies would turn into rock, in the arcade version.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The names of the enemy characters in the first game are mostly alcoholic references.
** The names of Longmoan and Heninger are [[Spell My Name
** The Zuburoka amazons are named after a brand of Vodka (Żubrówka). Two of its members, Storchinaya and Strobaya, are named after other brands (Stolichnaya and Stolovaya) and while Lemanaya and Guruziya don't fit into the Vodka theme, they have Russian names like the rest.
** For the bosses, we have the Bad Brothers (a misspelling of "Bud", as in "Budweiser"), Sgt. Malt & Sgt. Hop, General Heartland (named after a Japanese brand of beer) and the Bitter knights. The PC Engine version has its own names for the bosses in the form of "Biyadaru" (beer barrel) for the hammer-swinging giants and "Heineken" for the armored knights.
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* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: In ''Beast Rider'', Tyris can be reduced to various hunks of meat upon reaching [[Critical Existence Failure]].
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Forward-back-forward-Attack+jump for Barns.
* [[Unwilling Suspension]]: The King and [[Everything's Better
* [[We Are
* [[What Happened to
* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Mother, Both Parents, or Twin Brother]]
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