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* [[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 [[PlayStation 2]].
▲* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.▼
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: The weapon of choice for the Bad Brothers.
* [[Dual Boss]]: The Bad Brothers, the bosses in Round 1.
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** Dark Adder had Darkness magic in the [[Fan Remake]]
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Milan Flare.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: In ''Revenge of Death Adder'', the players may team up on a stunned enemy (bosses included) for a high-powered, multi-player pile-driver. If 3 characters grab the enemy, they do a [[Spinning Piledriver|spinning pile-driver]]. If there are 4 players, then they hit the unfortunate enemy with a ''spinning pile-driver so powerful that the enemy continues to spin into the ground after they've released him/her/it''. Depending on game settings this powerful attack might take off an entire life bar and can be fatal to a mid-boss.▼
* [[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 with Spinning]]: In ''Revenge of Death Adder'', the players may team up on a stunned enemy (bosses included) for a high-powered, multi-player pile-driver. If 3 characters grab the enemy, they do a [[Spinning Piledriver|spinning pile-driver]]. If there are 4 players, then they hit the unfortunate enemy with a ''spinning pile-driver so powerful that the enemy continues to spin into the ground after they've released him/her/it''. Depending on game settings this powerful attack might take off an entire life bar and can be fatal to a mid-boss.
▲* [[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.
* [[Fan Remake]]: Golden Axe Myth, which is actually a prequel. Telling the story of Ax Battler, Tyris Flare, Gilius Thunderhead and Death Adder as they are ordered to retrieve the Golden Axe after it was stolen by a demon.
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* [[Gaiden Game]]: ''Ax Battler: A Golden Axe Legend''
* [[Genre Shift]]: The third arcade game was a competitive fighting game, while ''Golden Axe Warrior'' and ''Ax Battler'' were action RPGs.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Barn's grapple.▼
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: The weapon of choice for Ax Battler and later heroes.
* [[Hitbox Dissonance]]: Barn's scimitar can hit about 1.5 times as far as the sprite suggests.▼
* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: There's several different [[Powerup Mount|Bizzarians]] the player can mount throughout the series.
** In the original game, the player can ride Chickenlegs (bird-lizard creatures with spiked tail) and Dragons (who come in blue and red variants). The fireball-spitting red dragons are pretty much a [[Game Breaker]].
** ''Revenge of Death-Adder'' added giant scorpions and mantises as well. The scorpions and mantises each come in two colors, one color fighting exclusively with its claws, the other using a special attack (breathing fire for the mantis, an electric sting for the scorpion).
▲* [[Hitbox Dissonance]]: Barn's scimitar can hit about 1.5 times as far as the sprite suggests.
▲* [[Groin Attack]]: Barn's grapple.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Ax Battler.
* [[Legacy Character]]: The three leads of ''The Duel'', Kain Blade, Milan Flare, and Gillius Rockhead.
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* [[Our Centaurs Are Different]]: Dora (No, not [[Dora the Explorer|that one]]), as a playable character in ''The Revenge of Death Adder''.
* [[Our Giants Are Bigger]]: Many of the bosses in the first game are giants, including Death Adder himself. Also, playables include Goah the giant in ''Revenge of Death Adder'' and Proud Cragger in ''3''.
* [[Palette Swap]] - The original arcade game featured a set of six enemies (four mooks and two sub-bosses) that are re-used throughout the entire game in different colors. The blue and red dragons, as well as the blue and green thieves, were also palette-swaps of each other.
** The Genesis version added even more palette swapped variants of the enemies, including different versions of the final boss Death Adder.
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