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[[File:Mugen0.png|frame|It's so simple, yet so complex. It's the perfect [[Fighting Game]] formula! [[Maniacal Laugh|HUEHEHEHEHEHEHE!]]]]▼
{{quote| If you're looking for the character called "Mugen", look here: ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''}}▼
"Mugen" is Japanese for "infinity". '''''[[Fun
▲[[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.▼
▲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.
=== DOS and Linux versions ===▼
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{{examples|Versions}}
First released on July 17, 1999, ''M.U.G.E.N'' was initially created for MS-DOS. Development of the DOS version ceased when Elecbyte switched to the Linux platform in November 2001. For a time, Elecbyte had posted a request for donations on their site to legally obtain a Windows compiler to make a Windows version of ''M.U.G.E.N''. However, the development group discontinued the project in 2003 and shut down their site. Later speculation pointed at leaks made public of a private Windows-based ''M.U.G.E.N'' beta that was provided to donators.
The private WinM.U.G.E.N beta contained a two-character roster limit, locked game modes, and nag screens. With the beta leaked and Elecbyte gone, a "no limit" hack that removed most of these limitations was made available in 2004 by Rou Hei, followed by subsequent updates to deal with bugs and other issues. This version of ''M.U.G.E.N''. is functionally the same as the last Linux release, though with subtle differences and unique issues, mostly revolving around proper music and music plugin support. Because of the changes between the DOS and Linux versions of ''M.U.G.E.N'' however, many older characters required at least the SFF files to be modified to show palettes correctly (notably on portraits) as well as some changes in how certain CNS script controllers functioned, causing some minor upset and those that could still run the DOS version in some form sticking to that, as well as DOS patches to downgrade characters to be compatible with the older version of the engine.
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In mid 2007, Elecbyte's site returned, though not without some controversy as to the legitimacy of it, as it only showed a single logo with Google ads on the side. On July 26, though, a FAQ was added to the site. This FAQ went on to claim that they would release a fixed version of ''WinM.U.G.E.N'' before major format changes in the next version, and noted the formatting changes would remove compatibility in regards to older works: "Do not expect old characters to work. At all."
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Despite some widespread agreement that the new site was a fake, things changed roughly two years later, when a new release candidate, ''MUGEN 1.0'', was added to the site, with [[Open GL]] support as well as proper HD display options, victory quotes, improved (and growing) stability as a whole. The claim of widespread incompatibility of old works with this engine turned out to be false, as Elecbyte took steps to ensure that at the very least properly coded characters would not malfunction in the new engine (or would require minimal updates), though screenpacks are not necessarily subject to the same rule. As of January 2011, ''MUGEN 1.0'' is no longer in the "Release Candidate" stage, and ''MUGEN 1.1'' is currently in the alpha testing stage.
When development of the ''WinM.U.G.E.N '' engine stopped, [[Follow the Leader|several clone projects started to try and duplicate the functionality of the engine from scratch]], such as ShugenDo, InfinityCat, xnaMugen and Open Source Mugen. Some of them presented online gameplay capabilities, a feature many users have sought after. Some clones currently in development are [http://code.google.com/p/ikemen/ IKEMEN], its cousin [http://code.google.com/p/random-tac/ BIJIN], and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/paintown/ Paintown].
* [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.)
* http://mugencharacters.ucoz.com/ - One of the larger databases of MUGEN characters available today, it has just about every character ever made, including some that are otherwise all but impossible to find at all (other websites just list them as being "offline," or worse, they're only hosted on Phantom Gs). Unfortunately, as a corollary, [[Sturgeon's Law|it has just about every character ever made.]] Additionally, it hosts its own copies of everything, which annoys no small part of the community; CTRL+F "Warehousing" below.
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For the sake of not turning this article into another list of [[Characters|character tropes]], please avoid adding entries for characters which aren't [[Original Generation|exclusive to Mugen]], as tropes associated with characters from existing series can have theirs listed in their series' page.
== 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.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: When you have a crossover between many games, this was going to happen.
* [[A God Am I]]: Any "God" version of a character. Happens literally with the [[Primal Rage]] trio of Diablo, Talon, and Vertigo, who, uh, are gods.▼
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: When you have characters from fighting games that take place during different time eras, [[Rock Beats Laser|this happens.]]
* [[Assist Character]]: Some characters have built-in assist characters (usually referred as Strikers like in [[King of Fighters]]), some of them like [[Fist of the North Star|Juza]] who had them in source game, but the majority of characters with built-in assist characters have them because of the engine's limitations.
* [[Attack of the
* [[Attention Whore]]: Very common in the community.▼
* [[Author Filibuster]]: Some of the MUGEN videos have this problem, as do people creating custom characters - especially from scratch. There is also the popular practice of coding a character to crash against opponent characters the author does not like, or making videos solely about beating up a character.
▲* [[Attention Whore]]: Very common in the community.
* [[Bloody Murder]]: Any Mugen video which at the end include [[Finishing Move|Fatality, Zetsumei Ougi, Any Finisher Move with the original characters of Andr?s Borghi, etc.]]
** Giygas' fatalities, which are jacked from EternalChampion's Overkills - but are somehow much more scary, even though they're relatively untouched straight rips.
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* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Sadako look-alike and general horror movie tribute character, Ella. [[Duke Nukem]] has a special palette that gives him the [[Doom|Doomguy's]] chainsaw. After [[Take That|he blows up Doomguy]] and steals it.
* [[Cherry Tapping]]
* [[Chuck Norris]]
* [[Cloning Blues]]: There are many, many edited [[The King of Fighters
* [[Combo
* [[Combos]]
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Prevalent in some characters to an uncomfortable extreme. The good news is that some of the more diplomatic creators will include multiple levels of AI for their characters, and for the rest, MUGEN's customizability lets you curb the more insane AI yourself IF you know what you're doing.
* [[Counter Attack]]
* [[Crossover]]: Very often used for this, although gameplay styles won't necessarily mix well, particularly when [[Guilty Gear]] is involved.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]
== D-F ==
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: The possibility of a MUGEN build having characters coming from different source games (complete with distinctive control schemes of such) tends to get some players mixed up when getting to know or use new characters.
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: There are ''many'' characters who's attacks will hit the 999 combo meter. It's mainly overpowered characters.
** What's a little funny is that in [[Original Generation|Daniel's]] readme, his goal is "to achieve 1,000 hits in MUGEN."
* [[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
** 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
* [[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.
** The second one, much more subject to ridicule, is known as "[[Dolled-Up Installment|spriteswapping]]". The "creator" takes another character, and replaces the original character's sprites with his own sprites. In particularly bad cases, the spriteswap will retain the base creation's gameplay elements even if it doesn't match the spriteswap's playing style. Many spriteswaps also tend to have jacked-up stats, making them cheap and over-powered, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmgpL-ItiE like so.]
** One creator attempted to copy-protect one of his characters against spriteswapping by, at the start of the match, checking to see if the creator and/or name had been modified in the fighter's .def file. If it detected a change, then it would halt the match and throw up a short [[Refuge in Audacity]] skit featuring [[
** Subverted in the case of sprite-ripping characters from games (such as [[Street Fighter|Ryu]]) and using them in MUGEN. [[Capcom]] was asked about this early in MUGEN's existence, and the company stated that they consider it a form of fan art (so long as no one sells the characters, of course). Pretty much every other company has followed Capcom's attitude.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Early
* [[The End of the World
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Bebum Ryo.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: [[
*
* [[Cute Kitten|Everything's More Injurious With Kittens]]: One of White Len's attacks.
* [[Evil Counterpart|Evil Super Hyper Orochi SSJ9 God Rare Bimmy and Jimmy Devil Satsui No Hadou Mecha Counterpart]]: There are many examples of these kinds of characters in MUGEN. Let it be left at that.
** [[Playing
** Rikard attempted to [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] this trope with ''Slightly Pissed Off Ryu''. Not only did it fail, but Rikard became pigeonholed as the creator of this character rather than his original characters, much to his displeasure.
* [[Exactly What It Says
** Don Drago's Zangief With Missiles edit. It's Minmei's KOF Zangief...[[Mnogo Nukes|with missiles falling from the sky.]]
** Big Glitchy Retarded Tiger Woods. The fact that it's an overpowered spriteswap of Claymizer's [[Pokémon|Chansey]] doesn't help one bit.
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* [[Fan Disservice]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9rta0oplRc THIS.]
* [[Fartillery]]: Peter Griffin uses farts as a flamethrower (known as the Anal Torch) and also uses farts like a hadouken.
** The goblin character Menelikke does the same in his super. There's also the giantess Delilah who, in one of her alternate versions, has a full screen gas attack.
** And there's also Gustavo, whose only attacks are... well, farts, when attacked.
** Most_Mysterious [[Playing
** [[
* [[Finishing Move]]: It's not uncommon for a character's super to be used as this. And that's not counting characters from games that explicitly have finishing moves, such as [[Mortal Kombat]], the [[Hokuto no Ken]] fighting games, and [[Sengoku Basara]].
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
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* [[Gainaxing]]: Despite not bouncing at all in the actual ''[[Street Fighter]]'' games, Warusaki3's Rainbow Mika does this.
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Certain matchups can lead to one character being unable to land a single point of damage on the opponent, both characters being unable to damage each other at all, or outright malfunctions in the engine, due to the different codes used with each character and/or sloppy coding.
* [[Gender Flip]]: See [[Rule
* [[Giftedly Bad]]: That seems to describe GooGoo64 pretty well.
** It's also pretty safe (Lickspittles aside) to assume Alexlexus being this.
* [[Glass Cannon]]: The [[Lethal Joke Character|Space Invader]] from [[Space Invaders]]. It has only one attack, a laser that [[One-Hit Kill|instantly vaporizes the enemy if unblocked]]. However, it will [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|go down in one hit]].
▲* [[A God Am I]]: Any "God" version of a character. Happens literally with the [[Primal Rage]] trio of Diablo, Talon, and Vertigo, who, uh, are gods.
* [[Gorn]]: Several characters in the MUGEN roster, such as those from [[Mortal Kombat]], are fond of gory ways of finishing off opponents.
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: Several people have even created the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Green Thumb]]: [[Original Generation|Hashi]]
** [[Man-Eating Plant]]: Hashi, technically, is one. Samurai Shodown [[Arcana Heart
* [[Godwin's Law]]: The "X-Form" of [[Tropers/Seventh And Ninth|The_None's]] Skullman has a counter move in which he hits you while being shaped like a ''swastika''.
** And yes, an Omega [[Adolf Hitler]] character exists.
** MC2 as EvilSlayerX5 epically Godwin'd himself by changing his background into a ''swastika''.
* [[Hailfire Peaks]]
* [[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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** [[Marvel Comics|Deadpool]] has a sheep with a cannon to its back in his special.
** [[Garfield]] uses hot dogs as projectiles.
** [[Pingu]] and [[Adventure Time
** [[Melty Blood|White Len]] has been known to attack with ''kittens''.
** [[Dancing Banana]] uses oversized bananas as projectiles.
** POCKET SAND
** [[
** [[Adventure Time
** [[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
* [[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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== J-L ==
* [[Jerkass]]: A prominent character trait of certain community individuals.
* [[Joke Character]]:
** [[Original Generation|Gustavo]]
** The Kid from ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''. He [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|plays]] [[Double Jump|exactly]] [[With This Herring|like]] [[Ludicrous Gibs|he]] [[Have a Nice Death|does]] in his original game, so he's not going to be killing Chuck Norris anytime soon. Though he can [[Defeat Means Friendship|get help from his former enemies]], including [[Colony Drop|The Moon]], [[Spikes of Doom|Spikes]], and of course those giant anti-gravity cherries, they are all just as capable of killing him as they are his opponent.
** [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Kyubey]]. He doesn't attack, defend, or even move after starting the match. Justified in that, considering what he actually does in the series, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhWYzSU7-M he deserves every living second of pain.]
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: [[Commander Keen
** There's also Rolento's [[
** A certain take on Jam from Guilty Gear knocks the opposing character onto a bed and humps until their energy is drained, resulting in either a DKO or a victory.
** The [[Metal Slug|Killer Whale]].
** 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
** 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?
** Someone made a version of [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] for MUGEN called "NES Mario". He can only attack by jumping on enemies and he dies in two hits (if you don't press the button to turn into Super Mario again at the expense of some of the lifebar). However, there's something that makes him lethal: Fighting game characters flinch win hit, Mario does not. If you get a window of opportunity, you can just keep on stomping your foe and finish them off in less than a minute.
** Someone also made the classic version of Pac-Man. All he can do is move across the stage and munch on whatever gets in his way, but that's all he needs to do. [[Oh Crap|God help you if he gets hold of a]] [[One-Hit Kill|power pellet...]]
** One of the characters used as a "cheapie-buster" in earlier times was the [[Invincible Minor Minion|Metool]], the [[Mascot Mook]] from [[Mega Man (
** Saggot, aka Bootleg Sagat. An edited Sagat that plays like the infamous Street Fighter II bootlegs. What this means is a whole new level of Tiger Shot spam, ridiculous comboability, and he even ''crashes MUGEN on a regular basis.'' To further rub salt in the wound, his theme from Street Fighter 1 perpetually plays during his fights, overriding your music, and his victory pose references the famous Cornflakes line from the Street Fighter cartoon.
** [[Mega Man X
** Zeori and [[NM Ori]], two entries in [[Trinity MUGEN]]'s "Iori contest".
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: What's a fighter without it?
* [[Ki Attacks]]
* [[Kill It
* [[Kill It
* [[Kiai]]: Being a fighting game engine, there are many examples. The most particularly notable one is the ''[[
* [[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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* [[Musical Assassin]]: Yoma Komatsu.
** [[Vocaloid|Hatsune Miku]] uses her voice as her weapon.
* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|My Overkill Is Better Than Yours]]: This is the basic premise of the [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|EXTREME]][[Person of Mass Destruction|LY]] cheap characters. (e.g. [[Chuck Norris]]) "taking part" in the [[Lensman Arms Race|Nuclear War]], [[Adaptive Ability|constantly being updated to beat each other]]. If any one of them is defeated, expect their update to have [[It Only Works Once|immunity to the move that killed it]]. It got to the point where they became capable of winning matches against regular characters [[Instant Win Condition|
* [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie]]: (oh yeah)
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: A lot of AI patches go here. For a specific example, the work of Misobin_ISM. He turns mild mannered, but still challenging, characters into absolute monsters. His patch for [[Devil May Cry|Vergil]] basically pits you against an encyclopedia of his combos, [[
** Muteki's [[Guilty Gear]] characters are built with aggressive AI that takes full advantage of the computer's natural advantage against human players. It blocks most attacks without a second thought and links together very long strings of attacks to make sure that the human player can't fight back for more than a second.
** For a non-fighting example, pitting fhqwhgads7's [[I Wanna Be the Guy|The Kid]] and [[Touhou|Yukari Yakumo]] together will start the match with The Kid in a scrolling obstacle course. Keep in mind that like in the game, The Kid dies with one attack, and you can't fight Yukari unless you get through the course. Even then, the match simply becomes a boss fight against Yukari.
*** Well, if you don't count her pulling out ''Primeus''.
* [[No Ending]]: Most characters do not have ending storyboards for completing arcade mode.
* [[Non
* [[Norio Wakamoto]]: There's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H7NbMBB7yk CV-Wakamoto], some... thing with Wakamoto's voice and moves taken from characters Wakamoto has voiced. A edit of Kung Fu Man was released with, you guessed it, Wakamoto's voice. It had most of the moves of Wakamoto's characters, and is incredibly broken.
* [[Nuke'Em]]: The [[Exactly What It Says
** [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|The Zeeky words and the Random H-Bomb in Zeeky H. Bomb's arsenal]]
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Any character that possesses an extremely convenient one to use is almost always considered to be extremely cheap and/or a [[Lethal Joke Character]]. Examples include:
** [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Rare]] [[Street Fighter|Akuma's]] Shun Goku Satsu.
** Many of the attacks that [[Chuck Norris]] uses, not just his Roundhouse Kick.
** Each of Gulthor's ovepowered characters have at least TWO of these.
** [[Metal Slug|Killer Whale]], [[Super Mario Bros.|Cheep Chomp]], and [[Commander Keen
** Oni-Miko-Zero does this to her opponent [[Instant Death Radius|BEFORE THE BATTLE BEGINS]].
*** Similar to her, Debugger does this to its opponent. Except that his works on pretty much everything (Oni-Miko-Z included).
** ''[[
** [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|Zeeky H. Bomb]] has two of these. One (Random H-Bomb) only works as a counter, and the other ({{spoiler|Zeeky Boogy Doog}}) severely damages Zeeky himself.
** Pingu's most devastating attack has him sink into the ground as the lights go out and he calls to his opponent. Then, the lights turn on and he reappears in front of his opponent, wings upraised. Instant KO! His Shun Goku Satsu is usually a KO, too.
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* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktJ7HBLR04 The Kid] from ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''. Complete with blood spatter and '''GAME OVER. PRESS "R" TO TRY AGAIN.'''
** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in later versions where he gains super armor while facing himself.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]
* [[Original Generation]]: While a popular use of the engine is adapting characters from existing games, many people have created original characters using the MUGEN engine - SeanAltly is a prime example, as well as [[The Black Heart|Andres Borghi]], Reuben Kee, Kung Fu Man, Aiduzzi and Rikard.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Renowned MUGEN creator aokmaniac13 is guilty of this in his 'Mind Games' video series. Generally, they focus on a major flaw in the character's AI, such as never guarding low or behaving awkwardly when he does something simple, like crouching. As you might've guessed, they run for all 99 seconds on the timer, and for two rounds to boot.
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* [[Panty Shot]]: Potentially any girl wearing a skirt; whether they play this straight or wear a [[Magic Skirt]] depends on the game they're ripped from, the franchise they come from, and/or the character maker's personal preference.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: EvilSlayerX5 as SilverJeric. Not surprisingly, everybody saw through it...
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Izuko Chrysoberyl and many other characters.
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: Tends to happen when creators don't strictly adhere to the idea of converting characters exactly as they were in the source game. Seravy (the "creator", not [[Akazukin Chacha|the character]]) actually tries to avert the creeping trend, but is often ridiculed for the results.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: Yoma Komatsu rocks out on her guitar and calls on the rest of her band to beat the crap out of people.
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* [[Rule 34]]: There is a whole sub-culture of hentai related MUGEN creations, including characters, stages and the like.
** Similarly, there are nude versions of many fighting game gals out there.
* [[Rule
** 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
* [[Silliness Switch]]: [[The Simpsons (
** In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S7pU96_msY AWESOME FASHION.)0:28]
* [[SNK Boss]]: Depending on the creator, the AI can be written in such a way that SNK bosses or any normal character can turn this trope [[Up to Eleven]].
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: The readme claims that inspiration for the engine was taken from the PC homebrew ''[[Street Fighter|Street Fighter II]]'' clone [http://www.scary-crayon.com/games/sf2pc/ SFIBM] (at least in part). It also had a modular engine that facilitated editable characters to the point that some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfzVzOtQ8f0 gained new moves] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NErgvGwXsC0 others were completely broken]. Not unlike many MUGEN characters.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: {{spoiler|1=MC2 did this to EvilSlayerX5 (when he returned as SilverJeric) by [[Latex Perfection|impersonating him]].}}
* [[Strong Flesh, Weak Steel]]
* [[Sturgeon's Law]]▼
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Kung Fu Man's intro and ending storyboards that come with the engine by default qualify, looking like a kid's crayon drawings. Most_Mysterious's (of '''Omega Tiger Woods''' (in)fame) entire creationhood can be basically summed up as this.
** The [[Dancing Banana]] also counts in a way, what with being a rather [[MS Paint|pixelized]] character, but the reason for this is because his graphics are based off the original emoticon.
* [[Summon Magic]]: Some characters do this as a super attack by calling in a reinforcement to perform an assist (see Kamek in the [[Shout
▲* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]: [[Original Generation|Ella and Noroko.]]
▲* [[Sturgeon's Law]]
▲* [[Summon Magic]]: Some characters do this as a super attack by calling in a reinforcement to perform an assist (see Kamek in the [[Shout Out]] entry above).
** [[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
* [[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
** [[Street Fighter|Dhalsim]] with a [[World Heroes
** [[Samurai Shodown|Sieger]] with a [[Cyberbots:
** [[X-Men|A Sentinel]] with [[Metal Slug|Fio]] piloting it. Fio can actually eject from it so she then plays exactly like in ''[[Metal Slug]]'' series, complete with her being a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]].
** Zangyura, a bastard child of [[Street Fighter|Zangief]] and ''[[Godzilla]]'' of all people has a "Gorbachev" mode.
** And his latest (so far) creation, [[Street Fighter|Zan]][[Fatal Fury|geese]] (who also comes with an optional [[King of Fighters|Athena]] movelist....with the voice of M. Bison).
** [[The King of Fighters|He has a Heavy D!]] there, which seems normal....until you hold start and he gains K's moveset.
** 3ha's [[Samurai Shodown|Genjuro Kibagami]] uses a mixture of the Slash/Bust system of ''IV'' with the gameplay of ''V Special'', complete with [[Finishing Move|Zetsumei Ougi]]. Holding start while selecting him, however, lets you control his frog, which has [[Street Fighter|M. Bison's]] moveset and [[Norio Wakamoto|voice]].
** A non-3ha example: the aforementioned [[Tropers/Seventh And Ninth|The_None's]] [[Not Himself|Possessed]] [[Big Bang Beat|Heita]], who comes with a [[F
** "[[Evil Counterpart|EVIL]] [[An Ice Person|Sub]]. [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Rep]]. [[Playing
* [[Take That]]:
** Rare Akuma is the mother of all Take Thats to badly done "Shin", "Orochi" and "Evil" edits of many characters. He has an abundance of special effects, is effectively immortal, and can kill most characters in the space of a few seconds.
** Some guy named thelordanon created an edit of Rare Akuma and dubbed it [http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=80163.0;all Giji Ultima Gouki Oddity] (aka. Giji Rare Akuma, aka., in his own words, "[[Disc One Final Boss|Giji]] [[Penultimate Weapon|Penultimate]] [[Light Is Not Good|Light]] Flawed [[Orochi|Ouroboros]] [[Nightmare Retardant|Daydream]] [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid|Disorderly]] [[A God Am I|Demigod Ascended]] [[Final Fantasy|Ultima]] Gouki [[Commonplace Rare|Oddity]] [[Power Levels|8999]] [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
** 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
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywOQa4Tfp7Y C. Evil Ryu] is one to the [[Mv C]]: EOH collab project by Arpa.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis|That Wacky Nazi]]: EvilSlayerX5 revealed himself as that after he changed the background of his youtube profile into a ''swastika''. {{spoiler|1=Or MC2 just made people believe that.}}
* [[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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* [[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
** 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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