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[[File:mega-man-star-force-3-20080825020155564_640w.jpg|frame|Geo Stelar, On The Air!]]

 

''Ride On!'' }}

 

 

Taking place years after the events of ''Battle Network'', it stars a young boy named Geo Stelar (Subaru Hoshikawa in the original Japanese), who lost his father after a journey to space. Before he disappeared, Geo's dad left him a device called a Visualizer, which allows him to see electromagnetic waves. He meets a blue alien named Omega-Xis (War-rock in the original Japanese), who is on the run from Planet FM, with other rogue aliens hot on his tail. While his power is weak on Earth, Omega states that he needs to fuse with a human in order to unlock his full power. Geo [[Henshin Hero|reluctantly agrees]], and is thrown into a battle against the other FM-ians for the fate of the galaxy.

Finally, the series had a small [[Crossover]] with the ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' series in the form of an [[Updated Rerelease]] of the first ''Battle Network'' game with a crossover scenario added.

 

* [[The Abridged Series]]: Based on the [http://www.youtube.com/user/PlantFMEnterprise?feature=watch anime]. Has 3 episodes and a ''Christmas Special''.

* [[Academy of Adventure]]: Echo Ridge Elementary, oh, yes. {{spoiler|What with 6 students: [[The Hero|Geo]], [[A Load of Bull|Bud]], [[Snakes Are Sexy|Luna]], [[Psycho Electro|Pat]], [[Giant Enemy Crab|Claude]], and later [[Ravens and Crows|Jack]]; a pair of teachers: [[Red Mage|Mitch]] and [[Making a Splash|Tia]]; and the Gardner: [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Damian]]}} all capable of [[Touched by Vorlons|Wave Change]] it certainly qualifies.

* [[Ace Custom]]: With few exceptions, every Wizard on the planet is man-made. {{spoiler|Acid is the only one that can engage in Wave Change.}}

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: Geo in the first game.

* [[After the End]]: The Apollo Flame "second quest" in ''Star Force 2''. Holy crap. Needs to be seen to be believed.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: ''Plenty''. Loads of backstory is stuffed into the [[No Export for You|Japanese-only]] [[Universe Compendium]] collection, including tidbits such as {{spoiler|Dread Joker originally being designated [[Face Heel Turn|Transcode-000]]}}.

* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: Many of the bosses take this form, and some may even be mythical at that. A [[A Load of Bull|minotaur]], a [[Swans-a-Swimming|swan]], a [[Giant Enemy Crab|crab]], a [[Snakes Are Sexy|snake]], a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|wolf]], a [[Pegasus]], a [[King of Beasts|lion]], a [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]], a [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|yeti]], a [[Stock Ness Monster|plesiosaur]], a [[Giant Flyer|condor]], a [[Extreme Omni Goat|goat]], and a [[Ravens and Crows|crow]].

* [[Anime of the Game]]: Was adapted into an anime that may or may not follow the [[Canon]] of [[Mega Man NT Warrior]]. Notable for giving unique personalities to the FM-ians. And [[Adaptational Badass|Hyde]].

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]

** The "White Card" system basically allows you to have free access to a selection of specified cards established pre-battle; in the first two games you could "register" six different cards, including up to two Mega or Giga cards, which would recast their color as white. In ''Black'' and ''Red'', this was [[Nerf|Nerfed]] so that White Cards, while still free, came in predetermined sets of four. In-game, they were mostly distributed by Wave Stations, though these never exceeded a certain level. However, in keeping with the [[No Export for You|rest of the Noise Kaizou Gear]], you could also [[Symbol-Drawing Interface|input a password]] to gain a set, which was highly likely to contain a selection of very ''good'' Cards (this was the one feature of the NKG retained, and the official website has had the codes up for a while). Also, the set of White Cards was added on after considering a folder's initial 30.

** See "Game Breaker" in the [[Mega Man Star Force/YMMV|Your Mileage May Very section]].

** First, to Finalize at all, MegaMan must have a 200% Noise rating; to raise Noise levels in battle requires the use of non-elemental Cards, so right there a choice needs to be made whether or not you will exploit any potential elemental weaknesses. (Luckily for you, most bosses near the end are non-elemental). In virus battles, Noise rises by an [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|overkill factor]], basically the difference between the virus' leftover HP and the Attack Power of a Battle Card. Late in the game, with exceedingly powerful cards at your comand (Spin Blade comes to mind), Finalization becomes very easy against viruses. However, in Boss Battles, the rise in Noise Level is based on the damage done to a boss by a factor of 50% -- in order to hit the minimum 200% cap, you need to do ''400 non-elemental damage'' to a Boss. This is hard to pull off in the early game, where most strategies rely on elemental weaknesses, nevermind the fact that MegaMan is constantly ''losing'' Noise.

** Having successfully achieved Finalization grants you three turns in the form ''a la'' the Tribe King and a folder stuffed to the brim with some pretty powerful cards randomly chosen from a selection of 35 unique to the "level" of the Meteor Server you accessed (the 200% cap grants you access to Level 1, but to reach Level 11 you must have 999%... a tall order without a hacking device). These randomly chosen cards may not work very well in the situation or even with each other, which is another issue.

** By the time MegaMan can consistently hit usefully powerful levels of the Meteor Server, you've probably already successfully brought together a number of powerful, complementary cards that work well, and you will also probably have discovered that high levels of Noise in and of themselves are useful for several reasons, most notably allowing you to bypass your enemies' [[Mercy Invincibility]]. Since Finalization resets your Noise gauge, you may have to worry about interrupting combos. Also, banking on a ''good'' Finalization is likely less useful than setting up a powerful Merge Noise (see [[Combining Mecha]]).

** Similar to the above, Finalization offers little to no unique weaponry that makes it all that worthwhile, except at the highest levels. Most of the cards you can use in the Meteor Server you can actually gain with enough overkill virus busting.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Rey and occasionally Acid}}.

* [[Badass]]: Geo certainly qualifies in the third game. Ace too.

** How are Solo, {{spoiler|Heartless, who basically kills [[Big Bad|King]] and gives him a epic [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|speech]] while doing it}}, and {{spoiler|Kelvin, who fought and held back Meteor G with just [[Heroic Willpower|sheer willpower]], ''[[Heroic Resolve|by himself]]''}} not mentioned?

* [[Badass Boast]]: Geo gets a few ''epic'' ones in ''3'' that seem [[Out-of-Character Moment|a bit out of place for a guy like him]].

'''Mega Man''': "{{spoiler|Crimson Dragon!!}} [[Heroic Spirit|For the people that I love... I]] ''[[Heroic Spirit|will]]'' [[Heroic Spirit|defeat you!]] [[Shut UP, Hannibal|You won't see the light of tomorrow!]]" }}

* [[Bad Future]]: The [[Bonus Dungeon]] in the second game.

* [[Big Bad]]: In series tradition, they come with massive [[Kaiju]] for MegaMan to fight. 3 offers a meta-subversion, where the [[Big Bad]] fuses with the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] and fights you, becoming the first [[Big Bad]] in the timeline (not counting [[Gaiden Game|Gaiden Games]]) to be fought directly.

* [[Big Eater]]: Bud Bison, unsurprisingly. Depending on the direction you take the [[Dating Sim]] [[Beach Episode|minigame]] in ''3'', [[Woman Scorned|Luna or Sonia or both]] will be seen scarfing tons of food. On her own, Sonia claims to be able to eat as much as she wants without gaining any weight. {{spoiler|Lets not forget about What Omega-Xis manages to choke down in Star Force 2.}}

* [[Bilingual Dialogue]]: Laplace can communicate only through a type of buzzing noise, but Solo can apparently understand him just fine, and even tells him to shut up at one point.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Almost every optional boss in the first two games enjoys battle.

** Claude, the rude and friendless eight-year-old [[Delinquent]] that hangs out at [[Making a Splash|Big Wave]].

** {{spoiler|Pat}} is the exception, here. He mostly takes to sparring {{spoiler|so he can exercise his ability to control Rey.}}

* [[Bond Creatures]]: EM beings, with the exception of {{spoiler|most}} Wizards, who can also work on their own.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: "Touch the screen... [[Lampshade Hanging|er, train!]]"

* [[Bullfight Boss]]: [[Playing with Fire|Taurus Fire]] and Queen Ophiuca have attacks where they charge you. They are, however, mostly out of your range, unless you have a Card that attacks your sides.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Acid and Joker. Notably for being a rare example of non-human brothers}}.

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: In ''Star Force 3'', {{spoiler|Strong, Luna, and Ace all get destroyed in the same fashion. Guess [[Mauve Shirt|which one]] is revived as a [[Empty Shell|soulless shell of their former self]].}}

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Literal example in the third game: the evil organization is called Dealer, and each of their members are themed after a different suit or face of playing cards.

** Omega-Xis laughingly calls Dr. Vega a comic-book villain after she announces her plot to [[Take Over the World]]. In the anime, Vega goes so far as to ''self-identify'' as a villain.

* [[Character Development]]: In a refreshing change from ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'', whose characters remained largely static throughout the series, Geo goes from being [[Wangst|mopey and introverted]] in the first game to having a chipper and outgoing personality (bar a [[Heroic BSOD|slight setback]]) in the second one due to his experiences. In the third game, he has matured to the point where he is able to function as the team's pillar of strength after {{spoiler|Luna gets blown up}}.

** In the first game, Geo acted like asking someone to be his Brother was like proposing to someone, since he was timid back then. His first person that he asked to be Brothers with was Sonia. The first boy, incidentally, [[Ho Yay|Pat]]. But in the third game, he went around getting Brothers everywhere.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: The 3rd game has a scene at the beach discussing the art of "boxers-off" from the [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerised]] beach scene in the 5th ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' (originally about peeking on the girls) that has been passed down though the ages. The strangest part? It is almost the same in the Japanese version.

** A few quiz intros were kept between series. "Hey, hey! Ho, ho!"

** Harp Note's level in ''PegLeoDra'' has MegaMan trying to fend off Shock Note attacks from all sides, remarkably similarly to how [[Mega Man Battle Network|Lan]] had to fend off dummy soldiers in ''Battle Network 5''.<ref>Notably, 5, was the only game to be [[Updated Rerelease|DS-ified.]]</ref>

** The third game in particular draws heavily from the Regal saga in Battle Network. The bad guy is named King, his plan involves an [[Colony Drop|Impending Meteor]] and [[The Corruption]], the heroes form a team to take him down, and the Noise Change system heavily mimics Soul Unisons.

** Also in the anime, when Akane tags along for the art class in Tribe, she's carrying a bag with the [[Mega Man Battle Network|Hikari Insignia]] on it.

** In some classroom scenes (anime yet again), there's a kid running around in Net's clothes sans the bandanna and messy hair.

* [[Creepy Twins]]: Gemini Spark.

* [[Crossover]]: With ''Battle Network''.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Geo's father, Kelvin Stelar, vanished while on a [[First Contact]] mission, though later we find out that he's been turned into a wave and is somewhere in space. In the anime he briefly speaks with Geo at the end of the first season before apparently going off to explore the universe, while in the games {{spoiler|He comes back home alive and well after the menace of Meteor G is taken care of.}}

* [[Discard and Draw]]: Each installment of the series has a different, more developed power-up system.

** In the third game, Mega Man can, through either the Ace or Joker program, command into the power of Noise, which, short term, gives him the power of the FM aliens who invaded in the first game, and at its higher levels, can tap him into the power of the Meteor currently on a collision course with the planet.

** Notably, the [[Finishing Move|Big Bangs]] of the various powers tend to mimic each other. The Wood and Heat Big Bangs are always a tornado and a single massive blast, for example (even if he can wave the Extinction Blazer around a little bit) - and the Noise Force Big Bang for the Elec element deliberately reproduces Thunder Zerker's Thunderbolt Blade. On the other hand, the Aqua NFBB produces three large waves of water, in equally deliberate contrast to the Star Force Big Bang Magician's Freeze.

** Also in the third game, {{spoiler|Ace sacrifices himself to stop Joker from blowing everyone up. Every character present, and some that weren't, act like and state that he's dead... until he's shown bandaged up in the hospital during the credits with no apparent explanation other than it makes for a happier resolution.}}

** Presumably, {{spoiler|he was brought back the same way Luna was.}}

** The first game offered you the [[Final Boss|Andromeda]] Giga Card and Legendary Master Shin's Brother Data (which net you a Giga +1 Bonus).

** The second game offered the King Grandeur and [[Physical God|Le Mu]] Cards, plus BrotherBand data for both L.M. Shin and the original [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] himself.

* [[The Dragon]]: Hollow is this to Vega, and he's notable as such since the Bermuda Maze chapter is essentially his fault, down to convincing Harp Note to work for the Neo Mu Empire. He has a famous [[I Lied]] moment, but he does keep himself from "permanently" damaging MegaMan.

** Gemini and Heartless both count as both [[The Starscream]], and Heartless may arguably be a case of [[Enigmatic Minion]].

** Omega-Xis does something similar: Namely hijacking Geo's family's lawnmower and going on a joyride on it. Let's just say that after wrecking a particularly treasured item of Geo's during the joyride, Geo forces Omega-Xis to participate in a dog show in order for him to compensate for the damages.

** [[Artifact Title]]: The original Japanese gives MegaMan Geo-Omega a unique title in "Shooting Star Rockman" (a [[Gratuitous English|deliberately English]] translation of ''Ryuusei no Rockman''), but each of the localized versions use "Star Force", which ceases to be accurate after MegaMan [[Discard and Draw|loses the power]] of the Satellite Admins.

** [[Title Drop]]: This reference is the primary loss in the games' localization. References to shooting stars abound, especially in 3; and some of the Murian Hertzes at the end of the 2nd game address Geo as the Warrior of the Fallen Star. Also, there was a [[Mythology Gag]] in which Geo and Omega exclaim "Let's Rock!" (And later "Let's Blues!"), which you might've missed if you weren't aware of one of the most basic translation issues effecting the original [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] games.

** In the second installment, Solo is granted equipment called the "kamikakushi", which is the Japanese name for the phenomenon of being spirited away. He puts it to good use during a museum heist.

* [[Dub Name Change]]: In the first game at least, a number of the name changes actually make ''[[Pragmatic Adaptation|more sense]]'' than the original names. With the aliens in the first game being named after [[Stellar Name|constellations]], Taurus and Lyra made for better names than the original ''Ox'' and ''Harp''. However, the localization team apparently forgot to carry Lyra's [[Dub Name Change]] over to [[The Lancer|Harp Note]].

** [[Inconsistent Dub]]: That particular issue is fixed in the anime, although Lyra Note's human name also becomes Sonia ''Sky'' (perhaps because Sonia ''Strumm'' was too much of a [[Punny Name]] for the localization's tastes). Other attempts to deal with the conventions of the translation include restoring Ophiuchus Queen's original name (in the game, she refers to herself as "Queen Ophiuca"), and changing Mr. Shepar's name to "''Shepard''". One episode, however, contains an outright mistake - it's not the "Rock Buster", it's the "Mega Buster".

** Played straight in the third game, though, as most of WAZA refuses to take Mega Man seriously.

* [[Dummied Out]]: The localization of the third game removed the input screen for [[Game Breaker|Noise and Purpose Cards]], as well as the Secret Satellite Server. Thankfully, there are working Action Replay codes to access them.

** [[Shock and Awe]]

*** [[Psycho Electro|Gemini Spark]], whose attacks are generally designed to [[Standard Status Effects|keep you from moving]] which grants him -- ah, ''[[Dual Boss|them]]'' -- the opportunity to whale on MegaMan. Beware the [[Rocket Punch]].

*** [[Brainwashed and Crazy|Spade Magnes]] technically borrows more thematically from [[Selective Magnetism|magnetism]]. His attacks are either bombarding you with rocketry or taking massive swipes out of you. If he hits MegaMan with certain attacks, expect [[Selective Gravity|to be rooted to the floor]].

** [[Green Thumb]]

*** [[Musical Assassin|Harp Note]], who will either try to hurt you with her music, or entrap you in her [[Razor Floss|guitar strings]] and THEN hurt you with her music.

*** [[Red Mage|Libra Balance]], who in addition to trying to smash you ([[Running Gag|common problem solving ability, that]]), can try to Kill you with [[Kill It with Fire|Fire]] or [[Kill It with Water|Water]].

*** [[The Dragon|General Auriga]], whose most [[Signature Move|notable attack]] is a spiked [[Advancing Wall of Doom|steamroller]]. Another attack is to sic his [[Elemental Powers|elementally-aligned]] [[Flunky Boss|soldiers]] on you.

*** [[The Ace|Acid Ace]], who favors a [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|Ray Gun with a built-in Laser Blade]]. [[Swiss Army Weapon|The gun can fire or use a variety of stock elemental attacks]], and Acid Ace also has a [[Finishing Move]] where he uses the [[Speed Blitz|jet verniers]] built into his armor to [[Ramming Always Works|ram you]]; the edges of the verniers also give it a [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|sword attribute]]. Expect him to [[Spam Attack|cycle through these quickly]].

* [[Everything Is Online]]: Including sunken galleons, lost medieval treasure, ''rocks'' and '''rotisserie chicken''', and that's just in ''2''.

* [[Evil Duo]]: Queen Tia and her younger brother Jack in the third game. Their FM-ian partners, Virgo and Corvus, were an [[Evil Duo]] themselves back on the FM planet.

* [[Fan Service]]: One of the final episodes of the anime evokes the [[Hot Mom]] trope in '''extremely''' unsubtle ways.

** Sonia, in her transformation sequence, gets a blatant ass shot.

** Similarly, the anime never made it past the second season, which seems to have been canceled early going by the plot progression and odd number of episodes.

* [[From the Ashes]]: With some mild notation about how it being 200 years in the future (and none of the original cast are left), Star Force was a rather transparent attempt to keep up the flagging ''Battle Network'' series.

*** And his friends sacrificed themselves sealing Mu, thus giving him no reason to hate friendship!

** Removed the backstories of the [[Big Bad]] and Hollow, the epic final fight with Bly, and the backstory about what happened to Mu.

** Also, the final boss was defeated in one attack before it got to do anything.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: ''Star Force 3''. {{spoiler|So, let's get this straight: King is working to control Meteor G, Heartless is working to overthrow him and contact Kelvin, Joker is trying to fulfill his base purpose, Queen Tia and Jack are plotting to overthrow those three and destroy Earth's EM technology, Corvus and Virgo are ready to kill them if needed to take over Earth, and Ace betrayed them all to join WAZA. Never mind Solo's personal tirade against all of them to destroy their Mu technology and his use/abuse of WAZA to that end.}} Poor Geo's just about the only one without some sort of ulterior motive.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Geo seems to need at least two of these per game whenever he slips back into angst mode. Ironically he's doing these for everyone else in ''3''. Go go [[Character Development]]!

* [[Geo Effects]]: Burning, Freezing, Paralysis, Gravity, Attack Boost, Assist Drone, and Broken are all panel effects - and let's not even get started on when War-Rock starts taking swipes at the territory.

** Star Force 3 carries this on with the Noise Kaizou ("Modification") Gear and its relatives.

** In the anime, Burai's transformation does this with Instant Runes, instead.

* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]/[[See-Thru Specs]]: The goggles given to Geo by Aaron Boreal (that belonged to Geo's dad) allow him to see EM waves.

** Well, not at first. The Visualizer only starts seeing EM waves after Omega-Xis crashes into (and from the looks of the animation, bombards with EM radiation) Geo.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Just try and use the third game's [[No Export for You|Secret Satellite Server]] without a guide.

** In general, nowhere near as bad as its predecessor, but still irksome. Case in point, just try and use the third game's ''anything'' without a guide. Or a hack device.

* [[Heart Container]]: HP Memory again.

* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: The third game explicitly says not to make your nickname naughty.

* [[Hot Dad]]: Kelvin Stelar. Don't deny it.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Hope Stelar. Taken to ridiculous angles in the anime.

* [[Idol Singer]]: Sonia Strumm, who has to work with a corrupt manager who exploits her songs to get himself out of debt.

** She quits at the end of her chapter in the first game, but gets back into the business with a vengeance before the second starts.

* [[The Inspector]]: Bob Copper (Heiji Goyouda), who generally finds himself involved in cases that deal with superhuman activities. He doesn't succeed, but he gets pretty darn close. Yes, yes [[Expy|he does remind you]] of [[Lupin III|Zenigata]].

** [[Secret-Chaser]]: Geo and Mega work hard to keep ahead of Copper. They manage to turn him into a [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]] when they try to slow his investigation, an effort which involves knocking him out with a [[Improvised Weapon|baseball]] [[Played for Laughs|to the forehead]], and cracking his computer to delete his entire report. Mega, who dragged Geo into it, apparently [[Idiot Ball|never hit on the idea]] that explaining the situation to a potential ally was an all around better option than behaving like a criminal and ratcheting up the policeman's suspicion.

* [[Joke Item]]: Equipping certain upgrades on Omega-Xis is Star Force 3 can change the Mega Busters sound effects, as well as changing the L buttons help/talk messages to more humorous dialogue.

* [[Justified Tutorial]]: Luna teaches Geo all about setting up a Player Page in the beginning of the first game, because Geo really doesn't know how to do it.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Joker blowing up Luna. It's purely this, regardless of his rationale, especially since at least part of the reason was to get Mega Man to react.}}

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Most of the humans possessed in the first game/anime series suffer from this after being released. {{spoiler|Omega-Xis}} has it too in the anime, with no memory of {{spoiler|1=his past as an AMian.}}

* [[Love Hurts]]: {{spoiler|In the second game, the death of Vega's lover first inspired her to create Matter Waves and then (after she found Mu relics) [[Love Makes You Evil|decide to rule the world]].}}

* [[Loves My Alter Ego]]: To the point that even when Luna discovers Geo ''is'' Mega Man, she insists that her attraction is solely to Mega Man and not Geo, refusing to consider them one and the same.

* [[Marked Change]]: Inverted with [[The Rival|Solo]], who ''loses'' his [[Facial Markings]] when he [[Transformation Sequence|transforms]].

* [[Masquerade]]: Geo and Sonia do their best to hide Omega and Lyra from the public eye. This is made somewhat more difficult by the fact that the remaining aliens don't seem to care about exposing themselves to the world.

** [[Subverted Trope|Surprisingly]], she refers to Ace by his given name of "Arthur".

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: In the second game, if you have at least one brother from the another version, you can mix tribes to create some awesome results. Ninja Dinosaurs anyone?

*** Incidentally, there were also plans for a non-elemental Angel tribe.

* [[No Export for You]]: It looks like this is going to be the fate for the Star Force/Battle Network crossover. No real loss though.

*** The anime circumvents this small plot implosion by having Crown fuse with the ''dead remains'' of the human, which unfortunately binds him to [[Closed Circle|the land the man died on]]. Luckily for Crown, Jean ''[[Loophole Abuse|died on a ship]]'', which agitates RockMan and Harp Note to no end.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: These ones become <s>Cyberspace</s> Wave Road entities when they transform!

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: The one [[Just for Pun|hole]] in MegaMan's outfit is the one through which his hair protrudes. This would be less notable if he ''weren't'' the [[Clark Kenting|only one]] sporting the comet-do in town.

* [[Party Scattering]]: Early in ''BerShiDin'', Solo tosses Luna, Zack, Bud, and Sonia into the Un-Dimension. Geo successfully retrieves Luna, but is unable to stop the last three from being sucked in, though we later find they've been cast around the world. {{spoiler|And in one case, into the hands of the enemy.}}

* [[Punny Name]]: OH GOD, SO MUCH.

* [[Randomly Drops]]: Illegal Data cards in the third game. Wouldn't be nearly as annoying if you could still trade cards over Wi-Fi as in the first two games.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Subverted/averted. Mega, one of the main heroes, has red eyes, and Geo's eye color changes to red when he transforms into Mega Man.

** Played straight with Solo.

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: Hollow was originally created by Vega in an attempt to bring her lover back to life. It didn't quite work, hence the [[Meaningful Name]].

* [[Resigned to the Call]]: Geo's not much for heroism in the first game, but goes along anyway due to feeling [[With Great Power]] instinctively. He later accepts his role more wholeheartedly.

* [[Rivals Team Up]]: The basis of a four-stage minigame in ''Black'' and ''Red'', in which Geo and Solo attempt to take down a series of massive monsters of Noise that may remind you of the [[Call Back|Dark Soul Monsters]] from ''Battle Network 5'' and the [[Mega Man NT Warrior|Anime]].

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: In the anime, emotional humans who spend time under the influence of FM-ians may suffer from blending personalities with their FM-ian. {{spoiler|Shinsuke and Tsukasa, in particular}}.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: Joker certainly fits the bill. It doesn't hurt that he {{spoiler|blows Luna up. [[Disney Death|Temporarily.]]}}

* [[School Play]]: [[Class Representative|Luna]] first successfully got Geo onto the school's very grounds by telling him he was the only one who could fulfill a very important, nigh essential, part for the play Class 5-A was putting on. As it turns out...

** Notably, the play ends up being about the Taurus Fire scenario from earlier in the game - complete with homemade MegaMan and Taurus Fire costumes. Unfortunately, Luna happens to be a [[Dreadful Musician]] when it comes to the Creative Arts [[Epic Fail|in general]]<ref>She named Zack's dog "Catnip", for example.</ref>, so even when [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Pat]] can't make it and Geo ends up wearing the Hero's costume, Luna ''still'' fails to recognize him. (She also fails to draw the connection from having Bud wear the fearsome "Cow Man" costume -- but, then again, she spent that particular fight more or less passed out).

** And when he appears on stage, we're treated to a brief chunk of the ''Moving Scene'' score (normally reserved for [[Theme Music Power-Up|moments of heroism]]), with MegaMan appearing in his full and proper costume... until Zack accidentally knocks out the lights. When he gets them back on, Geo's back in the miserable costume -- both Luna and the audience are left unsure whether he was actually in the costume or whether Luna was [[Ship Tease|imagining things]].

** Alex Trebek. One sidequest even has Mega suggesting the guy "might be in ''[[Jeopardy!]]''" when they hear the name.

** Not to mention the fact that in the third game there is a generic satella male police officer named after [[Those Two Guys]] from ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Dark Phantom is just not as good as getting people to match his "script" as he wants to be. Also, {{spoiler|King}}.

** And both [[Villainous Breakdown|go totally bonkers]] when you ''finally'' crush their plans into dust.

* [[Socialization Bonus]]: The Brother Band manifests these, both for the players and for the characters [[The Power of Friendship|in-universe]].

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: In the second game, Plesio Surf ({{spoiler|AKA Gerry Romero}}) calls himself Plesio Wave, possibly because his Japanese name is Brachio Wave.

* [[Stay Frosty]]: Practically becomes Mega's [[Catch Phrase]] in the third game.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: [[Tanabata|Vega and Altair]].

** {{spoiler|Ace and Queen Tia are this in ''3'', but thanks to Geo, [[Earn Your Happy Ending|they finally get a happy ending]].}}

* [[Stellar Name]]: Not just a play on the main character's name, but every FM-ian is named after a constellation (Taurus, Cygnus, Gemini, Lyra, etc.).

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The translation of ''BerShiDin'' more or less deliberately plays up the offbeat source material. Among the Saurian Tribe, we have the Chompsrealhardasaur vs. the Neckistoolongadon, and then there's the town of Whazzap.

* [[Super Registration Act]]: In ''Black'' and ''Red'', the use of Wave Change with the Hunter-VG automatically registers the EM Human in question with a designation called a Trans-Code (MegaMan is [[Foreshadowing|Number 003]]), which must be [[By the Power of Grayskull|deliberately accessed]] (which nicely [[Justified Trope|justifies]] the until now [[Invocation]]).

** Again, this registration occurs the first time the Hunter-VG is used. Until the registration is completed, while it is a very brief process, the character is barred from Wave Change. Remarkably, nobody ever seems to have a problem with this. The last installment is either sitting pretty on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|Ideal Side]] or sitting pretty on a [[Government Conspiracy|Sequel Hook]].

* [[Terrible Trio]]: They aren't exactly villainous, but Luna, Bud, and Zack have this dynamic.

** This changes into [[Five-Man Band]] when Geo and Sonia join up.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Tying in with the above, most of the characters' names are associated with a theme, especially the boss characters. The first game is constellations, the second cryptids, and the third the different suits in a deck of cards.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The third game's Noise system is based around this. If you overkill an enemy with a card, your Noise rate will arise according to how much you overkilled them (e.g if the enemy has 80 HP and you killed it with a card with 150 damage, you'll get 70% increase in Noise rate).

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Zack Temple and Bud Bison, Luna's closest friends/fanboys.

** Until the third game where Bud's compatible alien (Taurus) returns.

* [[Title Drop]]: By the third game, Subaru signs into the EM network as "Shooting Star Rockman".

** Also in game three the name of the final storyline team, dedicated to stopping Meteor G, is called "Star Force".

* [[Touched by Vorlons]]

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: One of the English trailers for the third game spoils the ''goddamn [[Final Boss]]''!!

* [[Triang Relations]]: Oh boy, where to begin? Luna has a massive fangirl crush on Mega Man, eventually turning into a [[Two-Person Love Triangle|more subdued one for Geo]], which he sort of reciprocates in the form of a desire to protect her. At the same time, he and Sonia come together due to both of them having shared similar tragic life experiences, and Geo exhibits such behavior as pining away underneath an advertisement billboard featuring her when he thinks she's become his enemy. The third game muddies the water even further by throwing in a dating-sim inspired sequence where you have to retrieve one character's belongings, and doing so nets the player a cute little scene between Geo and the girl of your choice (or [[Squick|Bud]]).

* [[Tsundere]]: Luna.

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|How in the blue hell did Ace go from "dead via [[Heroic Sacrifice]]" to "perfectly healthy in the hospital during the end credits"?}}

* [[Universe Compendium]]: The various official strategy guides, plus things like databooks on Wave Command Cards<ref>Punch these in to Star Force 2 for various bonuses.</ref>, the Secret Satellite Server<ref>Information on a secondary folder system you could access in battle, possibly with more powerful cards, with over 30 levels to the Sattellite Server and the 24 Levels of the Meteor Server.</ref>, and the Battle Black Box<ref>Tournament-class strategies, cards, Merge Noises, suggested folders for particular Noises, background information on [[Scary Black Man|Joker]], all sorts of fun stuff</ref>. These are all in Japan, though you can buy them (or ask your parents [[Crack is Cheaper|really nicely]] for your only Christmas present this year) either on Amazon (the Official Complete Works for Star Force and [[Battle Network]] were translated into English not too long ago by [[Mega Man Megamix|UDON]], but there should still be Japanese editions listed) or from E-Capcom, the company's all-Japanese shop site. [[No Export for You|Good luck.]]

** In the post-game of ''Black'' and ''Red'', Planet FM is under attack by Sirius, the lord of a zone called the "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Black Hole Server]]", where he stores and preserves planets and their peoples for his own uses; however, unlike [[DCAU|Brainiac]], he does this not for knowledge but so he can [[Mundane Utility|essentially play]] ''[[Psychopathic Manchild|toy soldiers]]''. It would seem that it's not meant to be an actual Black Hole, however, as the fact that it only appeared recently suggests Sirius can pilot it about as he pleases, and it seemed to be a good idea to Cepheus ''and'' Omega-Xis to fire a series of interplanetary missiles at it; also, while normal Hertzes seem to be drawn irrevocably toward the center, MegaMan can walk about easily as he pleases. Considering that MegaMan has Noise control capabilities, [[Fridge Brilliance|suddenly]], it would seem that the Black Hole Server is in fact a massive Noise Cluster, writ large to a galactic scale.

* [[Unwinnable By Mistake]]: The sidequest to adding Zack to your [[Brother Band]] in Star Force 1 can become this if you're not carefull. You see, you have to go to a particular wave world after looking at Zack's Transer-message and talking to him afterwards and fight 10 consectutive battles, without any healing inbetween. The problem is, the viruses you fight there are mostly G-versions, not to mention the strongest versions of their usual virus-line. The first battles are very hard, but doable, but then comes one battle where a magician-type Virus is on the field, either healing himself or the other viruses, summoning 'Holy'-Panels, which cut the damage you or any enemy suffer on these by half, or summoning a yellow barrier which absorbs much damage. Combine that with the fact that you WILL run out of battle cards if you just blindly try to fire your attacks anywhere in hopes of damaging the pretty fast-moving viruses, you will have to restart this several times. [[Up to Eleven|And may god help you if the magician-virus has transformed all panels into holy-type, is protected by the yellow barrier AND is the last one on the field OR the other viruses are in top-form with you having no battle-cards ...]]

** And a noise form based off of [[Musical Assassin|Harp Note]] in the third game, also some of the noise forms were to have the old Megabuster from the first two games.

** According to earlier statements by Xebec, the Tribe anime was meant to have 55 episodes, same as the first season. Given the ration of [[Filler]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Solo, complete with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]], [[Dark-Skinned Blond|tan skin]], and [[Facial Markings]].

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Almost]]. In the anime, [[Ineffectual Loner|Wolf]] [[A Day in the Limelight|takes off from the FM Cluster]] and spends the next two episodes as the Denpa-Pet of [[Morality Pet|Mayu]], who is ecstatic to have a D-Pet of her own (and she ends up names him [[Embarrassing Nickname|"Ricky"]]). They become close, and things go relatively well until Wolf catches sight of the full moon, which forces him into his wild, uncontrollable [[Super Mode]]. Rockman shows up and they fight, despite Mayu's pleas for him to return to normal; she even gives him a [[Cooldown Hug]]. Sadly, while crazy Wolf Forest doesn't want to hurt her, he has no such compunction against Rockman, though is thwarted in his attempt by ending up on the receiving end of an [[Stuff Blowing Up|Atomic Blazer]], which leaves Mayu with the impression that he's just died. [[Disney Death|He's not]], but he refuses to return to Mayu, because, ultimately, he's an FM-ian. In his place he leaves a small D-Pet that looks like a cub version of him ([[Wild Mass Guessing|perhaps a cub of one of his wolf viruses]]), which she takes in as Ricky's child. ({{spoiler|The description doesn't do it justice, but there's quite a strong element of [[Old Yeller]] here}}).

* [[The Worf Effect]]: If you find yourself in range of Hollow's leash, the only thing [[Curb Stomp Battle|that will save you]] is the power of the [[Grand Finale]].

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Gender is no object when it comes to MegaMan's opposition, especially remarkable in that the original two cases were both [[Darker and Edgier|Geo's]] [[Love Interest|Love Interests]]. In the anime when Burai, RockMan, and Harp Note fight, Burai makes a point of not just taking out Harp Note, but taking her out ''early'', so she can't distract him.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: As far as actual blue hair, Ace and Queen have matching shades of blue hair. Sonia's hair is purple, Pat's is green, and Heartless's is pink.

 

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