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{{quote|If you're looking for the character called "Mugen", look here: ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''}}▼
[[File:Mugen0.png|frame|It's so simple, yet so complex. It's the perfect [[Fighting Game]] formula! [[Maniacal Laugh|HUEHEHEHEHEHEHE!]]]]
"Mugen" is Japanese for "infinity". '''''[[Fun with Acronyms|M.U.G.E.N]]''''', however, is a [[Game Mod|freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte]], written in C with the Allegro library.
The engine was originally released in July 17, 1999. Beta versions of it were made to work on DOS, Linux and Windows platforms, distributed through their website. The engine allows users to insert created characters, background stages, and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilations to create a functioning fighting game similar to commercial games. While the engine is set up primarily for fighting game development, several other game types have been developed using it, including shooter and platform style games. Officially, Elecbyte claims to have forgotten what the acronym M.U.G.E.N stood for, but the readme documentation states that its meaning referred to the days when the engine was meant to emulate shooting games as opposed to fighting games.
The engine allows anyone to create characters, background stages and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilations. It supports various types of audio formats such as [[
Since characters can be created by anyone, ''M.U.G.E.N'' is effectively a [[Mega Crossover]] between various fighting games.
Nowadays, though, almost all of the M.U.G.E.N sites have either not been updated since 2010, or have been shut down. Because of this, finding certain characters is almost impossible. That said, the M.U.G.E.N scene itself is still alive and well as of 2021, and there are dedicated sites to archiving and exchanging characters.▼
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▲Nowadays, though, almost all of the M.U.G.E.N sites have either not been updated since 2010, or have been shut down. Because of this, finding certain characters is almost impossible.
{{examples|Versions}}
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For more information, check out these websites:
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091203104853/http://www.elecbyte.com/ Elecbyte's website.]
* [http://www.mugenguild.com/ The Mugen Fighters Guild] (The basic start point for many MUGEN players. Highly recommended if this is your first time using the engine.)
* [http://www.mugen-infantry.net/ Mugen-Infantry] (A branch forum from the Guild, started around 2004 by DJ-Van, the guy who created the [[All That Glitters|EVE Battle screenpack]], and [[My Friends and Zoidberg|some other guy named Aztec Soldier]] who has since abandoned his admin duties due to a massive addiction to ''[[Halo]]''. Most notable for its constant server downtime and maintenance throughout the years. Has figuratively gone through hell and back, as the entire site was shut down due to Aztec not paying the bills, but it was eventually revived on Blogspot. In 2009 a revolution broke out when the Random Insanity section was removed, which caused the formation of Genesis, as shown below. It has since been brought back, but with roughly half of its supporting members gone. The forum is currently back up and running.
* [http://www.trinitymugen.net/ Trinity Mugen] (Created by Vans, Jesuszilla, and Fusion around 2005, it is as its name suggests. Home of many a worthwhile character and will provide hosting services if necessary). Forum is not much active, most of the action is at the IRC chat.
* [http://randomselect.piiym.net/ Random Select] (A large database for characters and stages. Currently home to the BIJIN engine, an offshoot of the MUGEN clone IKEMEN.)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150523173155/http://mugengenesis.freeforums.org/search.php?search_id=active_topics MUGEN Genesis] (Created by Gamefreak202020. No longer very active.)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160623020210/http://s1.zetaboards.com/Stupid_Dope_Mugen/index/ Stupid Dope Mugen] (Product of Crazy Koopa and MC2. Sadly not quite as active as the other places.)
* [http://www.mugenmotherland.smfnew.com/index.php MUGEN Motherland] (PrinzJanus' Forum, formerly known as PrinzMugen). Built initially as an alternative to more serious forums, Motherland presents a more <s>casual</s> tongue-in-cheek approach to the engine, focusing more on the playing aspect than actual serious creation and testing. It reformed itself due to complications with the old hosting.
* [http://phantomgs.forumotion.net/ Phantom Gs] (MOTVN and Hank Venture's community. Formerly welcome to the public; registration is now closed.)
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{{tropelist|This engine, its community and sometimes games made with it (including itself) provide examples of:}}
== A-C ==
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: The defunct Doki Doki MUGEN review site. Other creators have been known to indulge in this at times when they give feedback.
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* [[Defeating the Undefeatable]]: [[Serial Escalation|Over and over again]]. [[Chuck Norris]], a literally invincible [[Lethal Joke Character]] based on [[Chuck Norris Facts]]. He actually has been [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFSsoLfCHU defeated before]. Before that? He [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|maimed]] several undefeatable characters with the same hitbox-less advantage, such as the previous Oni-Miko. And people have been trying to one-up Oni-Miko and ''everyone else'' since.
** Both [[Chuck Norris]] and Oni-Miko-Z have fallen to the Debugger character, two floating strings of numbers that "delete" the opponent's root file, causing them to be read as nonexistent and dead.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The [[
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: If about two or more makers share the characters they've converted, don't expect them to be both exactly the same.
** Few makers also are quite ''creative'' in their takes on certain characters. A good example would be The_None's ''[[Not Himself|Possessed]] [[Big Bang Beat|Heita]]'', who has a mode that comes with [[F-Zero|Captain Falcon's]] [[Super Smash Bros.|moves and voice]]. ([[Follow the Leader|Influenced heavily]] with the works of 3ha, which are almost 2 in 1.)
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: If you can beat [[
* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Two forms of it.
** "Warehousing" is the practice of hosting a character on a website without the creator's permission. In some MUGEN circles this is regarded as a disrespectful and dishonest practice, while others simply aren't concerned about it.
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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: This is what the [[Star Wars|Death Star]] uses as its [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|strongest attack]].
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Bebum Ryo.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: [[
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: The [[MUGEN China]] penguins.
* [[Cute Kitten|Everything's More Injurious With Kittens]]: One of White Len's attacks.
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* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: With [[Mortal Kombat]] and [[Samurai Shodown]] characters converted to the engine, this was bound to happen.
* [[Hit Points]]
** [[Cast
* [[Hurricane Kick]]
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]
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** [[Adventure Time|Princess Bubblegum]] uses beakers as projectiles that explode on impact when it hits the ground.
** [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] uses rings as projectiles.
** [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer]] uses doughnuts as projectiles.
** [[Family Guy|Peter]] uses beer bottles and his lit farts as projectiles.
** [[Original Generation|Adam Admuson]] can use a [[Game Boy]], a spiked ball, and a raygun as projectiles.
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** [[Looney Tunes|Taz]] uses [[Gasshole|burps]].
* [[Improvised Weapon]]
** [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]]. Hairspray. Cooking Fat. Grappling Gun. Toilet. Numerous Others. Hurm. [[Deconstruction]]. Lethal and Gruesome Results.
* [[Inevitable Tournament]]: it had to happen. Some MUGEN forums hold tourneys for fun. While most follow a standard format (usually 1 vs 1 or 4 vs 4), some have fun twists on the genre.
* [[Instant Death Radius]]: Oni-Miko-Zero. Literally. Put her up against any character (save for a few) and that character is DEAD even before the battle starts...
** The "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyIowXFG9_U Debugger]" character uses a code that somehow ''deletes the opponent's'' root state, causing them to be read as nonexistent and thus KO'ed before the round starts. So far, it can [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2NYXAK2CM beat Oni-Miko Zero] and [[Chuck Norris]] with no effort, and is possibly the cheapest character ever.
** Did somebody say "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRWS88Rpey8 Salvation Orochi]"? Because I think somebody said "Salvation Orochi".
* [[Internet Mimic]]: Back in the day when Judgespear was still active, since the main characters he used were [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] and [[Family Guy|Peter Griffin]], he made most newcomers to grab Homer and Peter (a practice now frowned upon by more experienced players).
* [[Invulnerable Attack]]: Known as "Infinite Priority" here. A favorite of [[SNK Boss
* [[It Got Worse]]: EvilSlayerX5. First, he used to be some loner who disliked accuracy. Then, after he created his less than stellar Rugal_E which multiple people criticized as a game-breaking and buggy character, it all went downhill from there. He actually believed at one point believed that there was a secret government controlling the masses to hate him and his characters.
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** One of [[Tropers/Seventh And Ninth|The_None's]] [[April Fools' Day|April Fools' Day releases]], [[The Bible|Noah]], whose basic attacks - [[Desperation Attack|when low on health]] - would {{spoiler|stamp you into the scene of ''[[Bruce Lee|Enter The Dragon]]'' to get [[One Hit KO|promptly roundhouse kicked]] by [[Bruce Lee]] himself.}} No wonder [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|The Nerd]] was right...
** Gay Bahamut/Primeus, The God Of Retarded Characters by RicePigeon, most of whose attacks involve notoriously "retarded" characters.
** There's also [[
** Vans' Rock Howard, who has the voice of Urien and whose MAX2 super move destroys the universe, crashing your program in the process.
** Omega Tiger Woods, who can and will soundly pummel almost any character he comes across as long as that character isn't another Omega Tiger Woods. Where does he get that Shrimp Bus from, anyway?
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* [[Kiai]]: Being a fighting game engine, there are many examples. The most particularly notable one is the ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" (Used when anybody uses the [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Steamroller]] or when Chuck Norris drops the sun on his enemy.)
* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: As a MUGEN character. Yes. So are [[God]] and [[Satan]], courtesy of Adult Swim's ''Bible Fight''.
* [[Lazy Artist]]: Rather common, especially when new [[Shotoclone
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: [[Primal Rage|Diablo's stage]], among others.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: There are so many characters out there to download and play with.
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** Ryuuoutan happens to be the Dragonlord from the [[Dragon Quest]] series if he/it was a cute girl.
* [[Ryona]]: Some MUGEN vids put out by creators explicitly cater to this fetish, with characters doing goretastic [[Finishing Move|fatalities]] on their female opponents being particularly popular.
* [[Ryu and Ken]]: [[Street Fighter|Ryu & Ken]], the [[Trope Namers]] are there (of course), along with their [[Alternate Company Equivalent
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** And before that, there was Cerenas's Sihon (who transforms into various ''[[Samurai Shodown]]'' characters) and the collaboration between Andre Lopes and Ryan Kerns in the form of Mugena (who mainly transforms into various female characters).
** [[Mortal Kombat|Shang Tsung]] himself as well. OMEGAPSYCHO's version deserves special mention, as he managed to make him able to transform into nearly every MK1 character but Goro. Juano's Shang Tsung goes this way too, having every [[MK 2]] character, including Jade, Noob Saibot and Smoke, but excluding all bosses.
* [[Shotoclone
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Yoshi's Island|Kamek]] is ''loaded'' with them. He can summon one of three [[Pokémon]] at will and can use [[Mortal Kombat|fatalities]], one of which is directly based on one of Smoke's. His Troopa Rush super is admitted in his readme to be a takeoff of [[Mega Man Legends|Tron Bonne]]'s Lunch Rush special. Some of the objects that can fall from the sky in his Switchblock Drop super are [[Sonic the Hedgehog|the Egg-o-matic, the Master Emerald,]] [[Earthworm Jim (video game)|a cow]], and [[Chrono Trigger|Lavos]]. ''And'' he can use [[Final Fantasy VI|Ultima]].
* [[Silliness Switch]]: [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer]]'s Drunk Homer mode combines this with [[Turns Red]].
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** [[Vocaloid|Hatsune Miku]] takes this [[Up to Eleven]] with her super singing attacks - if she sings a soundtrack from a well known franchise, a character from the franchise comes in to perform the assist. And given [[Loads and Loads of Characters|how many]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzLcX55xAM there are]...
* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]: The_None's {{spoiler|[[Melty Blood|Shadow Kouma]]}} deserves special mention, for that he has a super move that {{spoiler|takes this trope ''literally''. Yup, the said move involves ''the portrait itself hitting the opponent''}}.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon|Swiss Army Character]]: Most of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131201042951/http://page.freett.com/3ha/ 3ha's] characters have custom modes based of completely unrelated characters. Among examples:
** His [[Darkstalkers|Bishamon]] with [[Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness|Jin Saotome]] AND [[Samurai Shodown|Galford]] grooves.
** [[Street Fighter|Dhalsim]] with a [[World Heroes|Brocken]] groove.
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** There's an entire ''full game'' being made with nothing but Akumas with completely different movesets. The creator of the project, Basara, admitted he's doing it because he's sick of all the Akumas going around.
** MUGEN Gangbang/Gankbank/Tennis, anyone?
** Rikard's most prolific creation is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120818172109/http://rikard.isthehero.net/SPOryuEN.htm Slightly Pissed Off Ryu], a parody of the various Shin, Evil, Orochi, Violent and Holy Ryu edits on the internet. Rikard's "story" basically sets Ryu as a McDonald's bum, depressed and physically out of shape after finding his wife Sakura cheating on him with Akuma (he has appropriate, and hilarious, victory and winquotes against both of them). His Hadokens are usually a pathetic short range burst, his Shinku Hadoken may u-turn RIGHT BACK INTO RYU'S FACE, he falls flat on his back after a Shoryuken, he sometimes breaks his ankle when he does his trademark Hurricane Kick, and one of his other attacks has him lobbing either a McDonald's meal or ''M. Bison's corpse'' at them. Most Ryus run on graphics over gameplay. This Ryu? Runs on pure [[Rule of Funny]].
** P.o.t.S released [[Street Fighter|Bison]]...''[[Refuge in Audacity|literally]]''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|It's an actual bison with M. Bison's cap on its head.]] It uses distorted versions of [[Norio Wakamoto]]'s voice clips from [[Capcom vs. Whatever|Capcom VS. SNK 2]] as well as clips from the [[Animated Adaptation]]. And it's actually balanced to be fought as a boss character, having high stamina, infinite prevention measures, and a very good AI that takes advantage of the character's high power. Instead of being a [[Take That]] to cheap characters as Rare Akuma was, it's a [[Take That]] to [[Joke Character|joke characters]] and serious characters, simply by ''existing''. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity did indeed ensue.]]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywOQa4Tfp7Y C. Evil Ryu] is one to the [[Mv C]]: EOH collab project by Arpa.
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Anything involving [[High-Pressure Blood|lots and lots of blood]], characters with lots of flashy effects, and any attacks that reach the [[Cap|999 combo limit]].
** Ironcommando is pretty much a top contender if not outright the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Overkill Overlord]]. Once he became much less egotistical and willing to listen to feedback, he stopped adhering so strictly to the trope.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trope Overdosed]]: Since it is a crossover of every fighting game in existence, this was bound to happen eventually.
* [[Unwinnable]]: Any fight against [[Instant Death Radius|Oni-Miko-Zero]]. Or Debugger (if he is on P1's side).
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== V-Z ==
* [[Widget Series]]: The Characters from the Nijikaku fighting game by the 2Chan [[Image Board]].
** The game itself. We're talking about [[Primal Rage|Velociraptor Gods]] taking on a mutant cyborg Tiger Woods that utilizes a robot claw and airstrikes. [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] [[Guilty Gear|nuns]] teamed with [[Umineko|evil witches with truth-based magic systems]] that beat up [[X-Men|UNSTOPPABLE!]] God-powered roid ragers [[My Way Entertainment|that spew]] [[Uncle Tomfoolery]]. Inside the womb of a birthing God. [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Reality Warpers]] fighting against [[Watchmen (comics)|sadistic vigilantes]]. [[My Friends and Zoidberg|And Chuck Norris.]]
** The game's still popular in Japan for this reason, and loads of Pixiv fanart based on bizarre matchups (and even pairings) have occurred, spawning things like a cross between [[Touhou|Alice Margatroid]] and [[Marvel vs. Capcom|Cable]] due to their reliance on lasers.
* [[Wolfpack Boss]]: There is an AI-only character called "[[Resident Evil|Biohazard]]" that is basically a huge swarm of zombies, crows and dogs that all share one life bar, and killing enough of them eventually summons a Tyrant. The [[Aliens vs. Predator|Alien Queen]]'s default palette is also this; she does not appear at all in this mode, but instead sends a swarm of Alien drones to attack you, and the match only ends when you've taken them all out. The [[Final Fight|Mad Gear Gang]] are also available as an opponent.
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