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* [[Action Commands]]: When "tagging", the larger the tag, the more commands. Totally absent in JSRF (though to be fair, the joystick commands weren't as intuitive to some gamers as with others).
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: And how. Tab/Corn goes from brunet to blond (and so does Piranha/Boogie), Yoyo goes from being a redhead to having lime green hair, and Combo goes from having black hair to [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]]. Not to mention everybody changes outfits, and most of the changes are pretty significant, too.
* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: Graffiti removal is [[Serious Business]]. For first-time offenders, a plainclothes cop blows your head off with a magnum. [[Up to Eleven|Twice, and a SWAT team gets called in.]] [[Serial Escalation|Three times, and the army rolls in with their]] ''[[Serial Escalation|missile-launching Apaches]].''▼
* [[Afro Asskicker]]: The Golden Rhinos.
▲* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: Graffiti removal is [[Serious Business]]. For first-time offenders, a plainclothes cop blows your head off with a magnum. [[Up to Eleven|Twice, and a SWAT team gets called in.]] [[Serial Escalation|Three times, and the army rolls in with their]] ''[[Serial Escalation|missile-launching Apaches]].''
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: The finale of JSRF.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Love Shockers & Rapid 99.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: In JSRF, several hidden characters are often nothing more than reskins; despite having to get a "Jet" rank on several difficult challenges to play as minor characters and antagonists, several of them turn out to be pretty much the same thing. Note that it's not even subtle sometimes with certain combinations: Cube, {{spoiler|the ex-leader of Poison Jam}}, is different only in clothes and color, even retaining the same skills and dances; the same applies for YoYo, Beat and {{spoiler|their robot counterparts, who are identical save for different colors and an altered model respectively.}}▼
* [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag]]: Once unlocked as a playable character, the dog Pots can transform from a quadruped into a rollerblading, spray can-wielding canine of justice.
** This occurs as a result of his dog-napping by the Noise Tanks, who outfit him with a helmet which makes Pots believe he's a cow. During a second playthrough, the Noise Tanks finally agree to fix Pots (but only if you earn a "Jet" ranking in every stage).
▲* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: In JSRF, several hidden characters are often nothing more than reskins; despite having to get a "Jet" rank on several difficult challenges to play as minor characters and antagonists, several of them turn out to be pretty much the same thing. Note that it's not even subtle sometimes with certain combinations: Cube, {{spoiler|the ex-leader of Poison Jam}}, is different only in clothes and color, even retaining the same skills and dances; the same applies for YoYo, Beat and {{spoiler|their robot counterparts, who are identical save for different colors and an altered model respectively.}}
* [[Art Attacker]]: Well, how else would you fight boss battles?
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Hayashi - though considering who he works for, it might not be much of a stretch. Hayashi's been known to ''blow up police cars'' if his yes-man fetches him the wrong flavor of candy.
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* [[Collision Damage]]
* [[Combat Commentator]]: Professor K fills this role in the sequel, providing such useful gems as, "Wow, [[Captain Obvious|you're pretty flammable!]]"
* [[Conveniently Empty Building|Conveniently Empty Streets]]: The moment the military shows up, pedestrians magically vanish from the scene. Needless to say, this removes ([[Moral Dissonance|some]]) of the guilt associated with crashing helicopters into commercial buildings.▼
* [[Cooking Duel]]: The gangs resort to competitions of skating skill to settle their differences directly. All of the 'boss' battles are just tagging people within a set time limit. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Rokkaku Gouji, who bought ''the police department''.▼
▲* [[Conveniently Empty Building|Conveniently Empty Streets]]: The moment the military shows up, pedestrians magically vanish from the scene. Needless to say, this removes ([[Moral Dissonance|some]]) of the guilt associated with crashing helicopters into commercial buildings.
* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: Coin's final instructions to his friends were (fittingly enough) written in graffiti.
▲* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Rokkaku Gouji, who bought ''the police department''.
* [[Crawl]]: Grind Square has a couple of fake news tickers.
* [[Culture Police]]: The uniformed police, military, and later ''trained assassins'' all play this role, trying to suppress a skater counterculture. One wonders why they don't just [[Fridge Logic|ban sales of the self-propelling inline skates]]?
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* [[Defeat Means Playable]]: The rival gangs (and even Gouji!), should you rack up enough points.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The Love Shockers in ''Future''.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Gouji's ultimate fate in ''JGR''.▼
* [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]: The Devil's Contract, a vinyl record rumored to [[Summoning Ritual|summon a demonic entity]]. Somewhere along the line, the record was broken into three shards and scattered between Grind City and Tokyo.
▲* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Gouji's ultimate fate in ''JGR''.
* [[Dramatic Stutter]]: Once he's safe inside his trippy light show, ''JSRF'''s Gouji suddenly goes all [[System Shock|SHODAN]].▼
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: Both games display a message about graffiti being criminal when starting up.
▲* [[Dramatic Stutter]]: Once he's safe inside his trippy light show, ''JSRF'''s Gouji suddenly goes all [[System Shock|SHODAN]].
* [[Egopolis]]: The drive behind Rokkaku's crackdown on the streets is to pave the way for his "Rokkaku Expo", essentially branding everything with his logo.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Golden Rhinos replace the police after you've run through all the levels once.
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* [[Genius' Sweet Tooth]]: The Noise Tanks are noted to have sworn off health food, subsisting entirely on artificial chemicals and sweeteners.
* [[A God Am I]]: Rokkaku, towards the end.
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Fairly ubiquitous amongst the cast, along with [[Cool Shades]].▼
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: In the bonus mission (see "PAL Bonus", below), Combo and Cube are forced to flee Grind City after the Rokkaku kidnap the third member of their gang.
* [[Gonk]]: Soda.
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: Onishima inverts this trope by sporting a two-foot pompadour and a [[Perma-Stubble|stubble]]. Oddly enough, this hairstyle is associated with delinquents in Japan. [[Epileptic Trees|A clue to Onishima's enigmatic, tortured past?]]
▲* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Fairly ubiquitous amongst the cast, along with [[Cool Shades]].
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: Gouji does this in the cutscene before his boss fight in JSRF.
* [[Grind Boots]]
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* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The Golden Rhinos of ''JSRF'' make colorful departures when defeated, such as getting hit by a stray missile fired from a Rokkaku harrier jet. The flamethrower assassin is immolated when her flame tank explodes, and then crushed by a falling billboard sign which she had previously set aflame.
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]]: Professor K's ''JSRF'' incarnation.
* [[Idle Animation]]: All of the Rudies dance if left alone.▼
* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Dog]]
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Against Poison Jam (who would have thought?). In the penultimate level, Rokkaku attaches [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashing helmets]] to the trio and then sics them onto you.
▲* [[Idle Animation]]: All of the Rudies dance if left alone.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Dashing or grinding rails renders you invulnerable to police gunfire.
* [[In a Single Bound]]: Maybe justified because of the rocket-boots.▼
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Graffiti has the ability to blow up skyscrapers, helicopters and mecha on a regular basis.
** AAGH SPRAY PAINT! MY ONLY WEAKNESS!
▲* [[In a Single Bound]]: Maybe justified because of the rocket-boots.
* [[Jet Pack]]: Assasin #2 and his cronies have jetpacks, allowing them to rain gunfire on areas that other mooks can't. By far the most [[Demonic Spiders|irritating enemies]] in the game.
* [[Large Ham]]: Rokakku Gouji is a modest [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnDTerbOGGo example.] He's voiced by [[Super Mario Bros.|Charles Martinet]].
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* [[Locomotive Level]]: Sort of, in the sense that you're ''chasing after'' a locomotive robot.
* [[Lonely at the Top]]: At the conclusion of the game, the unnamed narrator speculates this might have been the case with Gouji Rokkaku.
* [[The Men in Black]]: The Golden Rhinos.▼
* [[Mad Bomber]]: Assassin #4 has bombs strapped to his chest, though curiously he never uses them (His sidekicks, however, are [[Suicide Attack|a different story]]). Instead, he specializes in lobbing [[Molotov Cocktail|molotovs]] and [[External Combustion|rigging cars to explode]].
* [[Made of Phlebotinum]]: According to the opening narration, the Rudies' skates are powered by newly-developed "Netrium" batteries.
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* [[Mecha-Mooks]]: The Noise Tanks in ''JSR:F''
* [[Mega Corp]]: Rokkaku Corporation. The logo is emblazoned on gas stations, satellite dishes, and trucks marked "[[Bland-Name Product|Rokkaku Depot]]" (using the same typeface as Home Depot).
▲* [[The Men in Black]]: The Golden Rhinos.
* [[Mercy Invincibility]]
* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]: That would be Gum.
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* [[Spontaneous Choreography]]: Each gang seemingly has a dance number [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GetSwmueOaw&playnext=1&list=PL5D21278681BAD822 prepared in advance].
** Why not? After all they seem to spend every minute not spent skating or tagging on dancing in place.
* [[Summon Backup Dancers]]: During the final battle with Rokkaku, gyrating cage dancers are suspended from revolving cranes.▼
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: The obvious example is Onishima/Hayashi.▼
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: Causes a deduction in health, after which the player climbs out of the water. Perhaps justified because they are wearing rollerblades.
* [[Super Window Jump]]
▲* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: The obvious example is Onishima/Hayashi.
▲* [[Summon Backup Dancers]]: During the final battle with Rokkaku, gyrating cage dancers are suspended from revolving cranes.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Player characters can use ''spray paint'' to stun police officers, give their rollerblades a crazy boost, disable machinery, cover spotlights, disable bomb timers, operate switches.....
** In JSRF, it just looks like spray paint. In actuality, it's ''the soul of the streets''. Uh-huh.
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* [[Tank Goodness]]
* [[There Was a Door]]: Played for laughs in the first stage of Kogane. One method of crossing the river is to plow through half a dozen plaster-wall apartments.
* [[Thriving Ghost Town]]: Averted. The game's most important character is Tokyo itself, and is designed to overwhelm the player with the sprawl of the urban landscape, populated by endless terrified NPCs.▼
* [[Title Drop]]: Inevitable, as the pirate station the game is based around is called "Jet Set Radio". But in the sequel, Professor K goes out of his way to say "Jet Set Radio '''Future!'''" near the endgame.
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe]]
▲* [[Thriving Ghost Town]]: Averted. The game's most important character is Tokyo itself, and is designed to overwhelm the player with the sprawl of the urban landscape, populated by endless terrified NPCs.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Despite hailing from the states, Combo and Cube have no trouble communicating with the Japanese Rudies. Possibly justified in that ''JSR'''s setting exists somewhere between reality and punk fantasy.
* [[Victory Pose]]
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