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* [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, [[~~Sturgeons~~ 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.

* 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.

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* [[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 [[Earthbound|Giygas]], then... well, you have done this. IF you can beat him....

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: If you can beat [[Earthbound|Giygas]], then... well, you have done this. IF you can beat him....

* [[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.]

** 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 [[Pacman]] 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.

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** 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).

** [[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Iggy's]] throw has his Stand grabbing the opponent and Iggy jumping up to said victim and farting on his face.

** [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Iggy's]] throw has his Stand grabbing the opponent and Iggy jumping up to said victim and farting on his face.

* [[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]]

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]

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* [[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]].

* [[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]].

* [[Green Thumb]]: [[Original Generation|Hashi]]

** [[Man Eating Plant]]: Hashi, technically, is one. Samurai Shodown [[Arcana Heart (Video Game)|Konoha]] uses one in her Zetsumei Ougi.

** [[Man-Eating Plant]]: Hashi, technically, is one. Samurai Shodown [[Arcana Heart (Video Game)|Konoha]] uses one in her Zetsumei Ougi.

* [[~~Godwins~~ 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''.

* [[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]]

* [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Voice]]: Segalow, as a result of using voice clips from Seth, is voiced by [[Michael McConnohie]]. And Gelato is [[Persona 3 FES|Minato Arisato.]] This also happens in a number of other releases, since creators will reuse voice clips when appropriate.

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: Segalow, as a result of using voice clips from Seth, is voiced by [[Michael McConnohie]]. And Gelato is [[Persona 3 FES|Minato Arisato.]] This also happens in a number of other releases, since creators will reuse voice clips when appropriate.

* [[High Pressure Blood]]: With [[Mortal Kombat]] and [[Samurai Shodown]] characters converted to the engine, this was bound to happen.

* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: With [[Mortal Kombat]] and [[Samurai Shodown]] characters converted to the engine, this was bound to happen.

* [[Hit Points]]

** [[Cast From Hit Points]]

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* [[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.

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

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** 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 (Web Video)|The Nerd]] was right...

** 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 (Web Video)|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 [[Earthbound|Giygas]]/Ozma, created by fhqwhgads7 and supposedly inspired by Primeus, which is an April-Fools'-joke-character-turned-boss. It's basically a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|gigantic floating jawbreaker]] that starts off with Giygas' attacks... and then imitates various [[Youtube Poop]] characters as it loses health and layers.

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** 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...]]

** 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 (Video Game)|Mega Man]]. It had half the attack and defence of a regular character (and died twice as fast), but it was short, making it hard to hit, could spam a [[Spread Shot]] from afar, and it could use its signature [[Made of Indestructium|helmet guard]]. Oh, and that giant metool that [[One Hit Kill|instantly squished his enemy]].

** One of the characters used as a "cheapie-buster" in earlier times was the [[Invincible Minor Minion|Metool]], the [[Mascot Mook]] from [[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]]. It had half the attack and defence of a regular character (and died twice as fast), but it was short, making it hard to hit, could spam a [[Spread Shot]] from afar, and it could use its signature [[Made of Indestructium|helmet guard]]. Oh, and that giant metool that [[One-Hit Kill|instantly squished his enemy]].

** 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 (Video Game)|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].

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* [[Kill It With Fire]]

* [[Kill It With Water]]

* [[Kiai]]: Being a fighting game engine, there are many examples. The most particularly notable one is the ''[[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" (Used when anybody uses the [[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Steamroller]] or when Chuck Norris drops the sun on his enemy.)

* [[Kiai]]: Being a fighting game engine, there are many examples. The most particularly notable one is the ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" (Used when anybody uses the [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|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|Shotoclones]] are involved. However, this is sometimes [[Justified Trope|justified]], when creators use characters as bases for their distinctive creations (e.g. the majority of the [[Marvel vs. Capcom (Video Game)|MvC]]-styled [[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]] characters, which use [[Department of Redundancy Department|Mega Man]] as a base).

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* [[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|efore the match even starts]].

* [[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, [[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Dio]] lays you out with some crazy tandems and abuses his teleport while defending, [[Fatal Fury|Geese]] will counter all of your moves and force feed you a Deadly Rave, and [[Street Fighter|Shin Akuma]] is as insane as you would expect. There is also Hutano, who basically unlocks the true power within 9's [[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]] characters and shows you some of the most nightmarishly evil combos ever seen.

* [[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, [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Dio]] lays you out with some crazy tandems and abuses his teleport while defending, [[Fatal Fury|Geese]] will counter all of your moves and force feed you a Deadly Rave, and [[Street Fighter|Shin Akuma]] is as insane as you would expect. There is also Hutano, who basically unlocks the true power within 9's [[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]] characters and shows you some of the most nightmarishly evil combos ever seen.

** 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.

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* [[Non Standard Character Design]]: If your roster contains characters from games with wildly different art styles, this is bound to happen.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|The Zeeky words and the Random H-Bomb in Zeeky H. Bomb's arsenal]],

* [[Old Shame]]: Arpa slaughters such characters in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAusW_zuwls this video].

** Baby Bonnie Hood has a deep intense hatred for his very first creation, namely [[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|the same character]] as his online namesake. Understandable after you see the above video.

** Additionally, Most Mysterious' Alex (who was also featured in the video above), the only redeeming factor of which has the first appearence of the Omega Tiger Woods gag that is common in his chars. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9aDvOpmW1U&feature=channel_page See it here.]

* [[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:

* [[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 ~~Its~~ Not Awesome|Rare]] [[Street Fighter|Akuma's]] Shun Goku Satsu.

** [[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.

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** [[Super Mario Bros Z|Master]] [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Mecha Sonic]] has "Hyper [[Kamehame Hadouken|Kamehameha]]", which, while truly being 1 hit, actually does over [[No Kill Like Overkill|999]] hits as far as the counter is concerned. Considering Mecha Sonic's [[Curb Stomp Battle|record]] in [[Super Mario Bros Z]], this isn't exactly a surprise that he gets a move like this in [[Super Mode|Master form]].

** The [[Space Invaders|Space Invader]] has this both ways. If his laser gets you, you're instantly vaporized. If you hit him once, ''he's'' instantly vaporized.

* [[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.'''

* [[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]] - Not just Sephiroth's final form, either; there's a [http://onewingedangel.6te.net/home.html MUGEN creator] who's called just that!

* [[One-Winged Angel]] - Not just Sephiroth's final form, either; there's a [http://onewingedangel.6te.net/home.html MUGEN creator] who's called just that!

* [[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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== P-R ==

* [[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...

* [[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.

* [[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.

** [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] calls [[K-On!|Hokago Tea Time]] as one of her special abilities.

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* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: While most characters are either labelled as accurate but aren't, there are a number of characters that are deliberately not meant to be accurate, such as CCI Ironmugen's Ryo or The_None's Shaq. In some cases, accuracy may NOT be a good thing.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Since it's easy to customize the colors of the character palettes, it's just as easy in most cases to make pink clothes for even the manliest of men.

* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: Anything involving Arpa/Chainsawdentist will inevitably have him as the Red Oni, except for his videos with Ashram VII, which has more of a Crimson Oni Scarlet Oni dynamic.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Anything involving Arpa/Chainsawdentist will inevitably have him as the Red Oni, except for his videos with Ashram VII, which has more of a Crimson Oni Scarlet Oni dynamic.

* [[Rule of Fun]]: The only explanation for the many, many offbeat characters out there. Considering you can pit [[Family Guy|Peter Griffin]] against [[Fat Albert]] against [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] against [[Michael Jackson]] against [[Chuck Norris]] if you want to, no other explanation is really needed.

* [[Rule ~~Thirty Four~~]]: There is a whole sub-culture of hentai related MUGEN creations, including characters, stages and the like.

* [[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 Sixty Three]]: [[King of Fighters|Kyoko, Goeniko and Zeroko (both original and clone)]]. Gelato is a rare female-to-male genderflip of [[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|Kula Diamond]], and there is a [[Melty Blood (Video Game)|"Shikiko"]] and a [[Guilty Gear|"Kyko"]].

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== S-U ==

* [[Self Deprecation]]: When not doing the below, Rikard, the Italian creator who made several characters heavily edited from KOF and ''Slightly Pissed Off Ryu'' (for more details on the latter, see [[Take That]] entry below).

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: When not doing the below, Rikard, the Italian creator who made several characters heavily edited from KOF and ''Slightly Pissed Off Ryu'' (for more details on the latter, see [[Take That]] entry below).

* [[Serious Business]]: Despite appearing to be the go-to answer to questions like "Who'd win in a fight between Optimus Prime and Bill Clinton", a vast majority of the community can take certain matters ''way too seriously'', such as the "cheapness" of certain system features.

* [[Shape Shifter]]: [[Tropers/Seventh And Ninth|The_None]] released a version of [[Tsukihime|Kishima Kouma]] dubbed "Shadow Kouma" that at first appears to be a perfectly innocent custom take on the character. Then you actually see him in action {{spoiler|1=and he turns out to be a [[Mortal Kombat|Shang Tsung]] type fighter who transforms into every character The_None has created for his attacks. He does have a handful of unique moves, including a team up with [[King of Fighters|Ralf Jones]] and JoJo style tandem attacks.}}

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** 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.

* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]: [[Original Generation|Ella and Noroko.]]

* [[~~Sturgeons~~ Law]]

* [[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]...

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** [[Street Fighter|Dhalsim]] with a [[World Heroes (Video Game)|Brocken]] groove.

** [[Samurai Shodown|Sieger]] with a [[Cyberbots (Video Game)|Blodia]] groove.

** [[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]].

** [[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).

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* [[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 (Web Video)|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.]]

** 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 (Web Video)|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.]]

** 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?

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* [[Talking to Himself]]

* [[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]].

* [[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 In Badass]]: [[Pingu]], [[Garfield]], [[The Simpsons|Homer Simpson]], [[Super Mario Brothers|Princess Peach]]... The list goes on.

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** 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.

** There's also the "Strength Training" minigame, which pits your character against a swarm of [[Beat Em Up]]-style [[Mooks]], and is sometimes used by series creators for mook fights.

** There's also the "Strength Training" minigame, which pits your character against a swarm of [[Beat'Em Up]]-style [[Mooks]], and is sometimes used by series creators for mook fights.

** With some luck, you can hack stages like Super Mario as an opponent, resulting in an odd variant of this.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: MUGEN allows color/palette customization, so this trope is there in spades, especially for characters based on [[Anime]].

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