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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!]]]]

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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."

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].

 

* [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://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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]]

* [[Cloning Blues]]: There are many, many edited [[The King of Fighters|Kula]] and [[Melty Blood|Len]] clones out there.

* [[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.

 

 

* [[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.

* [[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.

** "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 [[Pac-Man]] before displaying "Quit trying to steal my shit!"

** 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-Bird Cameo]]: Andres Borghi's horror-themed creations (in addition to two new characters) became stars of [[The Black Heart|their own MUGEN-engine full game.]]

* [[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.

* [[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 with a Trope|Played with]] in Rare Akuma's name and in [http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=80163.msg693076#msg693076 Giji Ultima Gouki Oddity's full name.]

** 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.

** 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.

* [[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.

** And there's also Gustavo, whose only attacks are... well, farts, when attacked.

** Most_Mysterious [[Playing with a Trope|played with this]]. Some of his characters have moves that have farts as a hitsounds (notable examples include Dink Smallwood's ([[In Name Only|who doesn't seem to even look like]] [[Dink Smallwood|the character he's supposed to be]].) [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate|Big Mother Ducker]] (also appearing as [[Bio Menace|Skullman's]] striker) and ''Omega Tiger Woods's'' Shrimp Bus supers).

* [[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]]

** 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]].

* [[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]].

** 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]]

* [[Hurricane Kick]]

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]

** [[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.

** [[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.

** [[Looney Tunes|Taz]] uses [[Gasshole|burps]].

* [[Improvised Weapon]]

* [[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".

* [[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.

 

== J-L ==

* [[Jerkass]]: A prominent character trait of certain community individuals.

** [[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|The Dopefish]], [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|Zeeky H. Bomb]], [[Star Fox (series)|Slot Machine]], The_None's [[Cave Story|Sue Sakamoto]] (aided by {{spoiler|[[Rainbow Six|Logan Keller]] providing blind fire}}), [[Melty Blood|Neco-Arc]]

** 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|The Nerd]] was right...

** Gay Bahamut/Primeus, The God Of Retarded Characters by RicePigeon, most of whose attacks involve notoriously "retarded" characters.

** 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 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...]]

** 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|Flame Hyenard]]. Just... [[Most Annoying Sound|Flame Hyenard]]. You '''WILL''' BURN! BURN! BURN TO THE GROUND! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCgGoK7S5nY if you fight him].

* [[Kill It with Fire]]

* [[Kill It with Water]]

* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: As a MUGEN character. Yes. So are [[God]] and [[Satan]], courtesy of Adult Swim's ''Bible Fight''.

* [[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.

* [[Musical Assassin]]: Yoma Komatsu.

** [[Vocaloid|Hatsune Miku]] uses her voice as her weapon.

* [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie]]: (oh yeah)

** 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.

* [[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 on the Tin|A-Bomb]], a [[Lethal Joke Character]] who can [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|completely OBLITERATE]] pretty much any other character that isn't as overpowered. It can, however, be defeated by a [[Chuck Norris|certain character]], as well as a few others that surpass it in cheapness.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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...

* [[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.

** 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.

 

 

** 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.

* [[Silliness Switch]]: [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer]]'s Drunk Homer mode combines this with [[Turns Red]].

** In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S7pU96_msY AWESOME FASHION.)0:28]

* [[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]].}}

* [[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-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|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''}}.

** His [[Darkstalkers|Bishamon]] with [[Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness|Jin Saotome]] AND [[Samurai Shodown|Galford]] grooves.

** [[Street Fighter|Dhalsim]] with a [[World Heroes|Brocken]] groove.

** 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.

** "[[Evil Counterpart|EVIL]] [[An Ice Person|Sub]]. [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Rep]]. [[Playing with Fire|Scorp]]." It's a failed attempt to mash [[Mortal Kombat|Sub-Zero, Reptile and Scorpion]] into one character. Although it [[Fragile Speedster|does weak damage, it's too damn fast]], [[Teleport Spam|spams a damaging teleport]], takes advantage of projectile spamming to freeze the opponent, and many, many more bugs.

** 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|AD Mark VI Beta]] [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|(BITCH)]]"). Supposedly he created it as an experiment to see how far people could tolerate [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Rare Akuma's]]... [[Shaped Like Itself|Rare Akumaness]] [[Up to Eleven|set to some number above 11.]]

** MUGEN Gangbang/Gankbank/Tennis, anyone?

** 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.]]

* [[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.}}

** 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.

* [[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).

 

== V-Z ==

* [[Widget Series]]: The Characters from the Nijikaku fighting game by the 2Chan [[Image Board]].

** 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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