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The following sets, ''I Chomp NY'' and ''All Your Base'', introduced new monsters, new units, and new buildings. The fourth set, ''Monsterpocalypse Now'', introduced six further factions:

* ''Elemental Champions'' (Protectors), heroic samurai monks who channel the power of the elements to conjure giant warriors in order to combat the various threats to world peace.

* ''Subterran Uprising'' (Fiends), underground-dwelling humanoids who, at the behest of their tyrannical new Underlord, seek to take over the surface world and enslave humanity.

* ''Savage Swarm'' (Destroyers), voracious mutated insects who have emerged from the American Midwest and started devouring everything in their path.

** That was until Blastik-Rukivall showed up.

*** A preview of the Empire of the Apes Morpher has been posted on the official website. It's only got one [[Arm Cannon]], but it puts Blastik's to shame.

* [[Big Eater]] - The Terrasaurs, the Planet Eaters, and the Savage Swarm.

* [[Biological Mashup]] / [[Combining Mecha]]: some of the Morpher monsters. Zor-Macros and Vorgax are the former, while Legionnaire, Galaxius-4 and of course Voltron are the latter. Being a [[Robeast]], Lo-Tron is ''both'' of these.

** Krakenoctus = the Kraken

*** And then Ubercorp build [[Captain Ersatz]] versions of everyone else's monsters!

* [[Character Alignment]] - Each faction falls into one of 6 "agendas" which fill the role of alignments.

** ''Protectors'' (G.U.A.R.D. and the Elemental Champions) are the good guys. They want to protect humanity and civilization as a whole, even if it means demolishing a few priceless monuments by throwing monsters into them.

* [[Destructive Savior]] - G.U.A.R.D.

* [[Drill Mole]]- Most of the ''Subterran Uprising'' units are these, most notable is Drillcon-Vorionnik.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - The Lords of Cthul.

** Sometimes followed by [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Rocket-Punch Cthuluhu]].

* [[Elemental Powers]] - If you couldn't guess, this is how the Elemental Champions kill things. Every monster and unit corresponds to the 4 classical elements which leads to:

** [[Making a Splash]] - Aquosia and the Water Kamis.

** [[Blow You Away]] - Hurricanus has this power set, complete with flight.

** [[Dishing Out Dirt]] - Tectomoc's Earth powers form the final part of the [[Elemental Powers]] quartet.

* [[Enemy Mine]] - Every faction can be played along side one of two other factions in the game according to an "Agenda Wheel" provided by the game's manual. A faction may ally with whomever comes before and after them in the following list: GUARD and Elemental Champions (Defenders), Terrasaurs and the Empire of the Apes (Radicals), Lords of Cthul and Subterran Uprising (Fiends), Planet Eaters and Savage Swarm (Destroyers), Martian Menace and Tritons (Invaders), Shadow Sun Syndicate and Ubercorp International (Collaborators), and back to GUARD and Elemental Champions.

* [[Extreme Omnivore]] - Though the Terrasaurs do enjoy a human-sandwich now and again, what they ''really'' enjoy eating is ''industrial waste''. See also the Destroyers Agenda.

* [[Extra Eyes]] - Mogroth has two enormous ones on stalks that come out of his back.

* [[Fastball Special]] - Oh yes, the rules make this possible.

* [[FemBot]] - Nova ESR.

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] - All over the place.

* [[Gaia's Vengeance]] - Subverted. Though members of Green Fury claim that the Terrasaurs have awoken to punish man-kind for its rampant pollution of the earth, the ancient dinos actually seem more interested in eating industrial waste than extracting any kind of revenge.

** The Empire of the Apes plays it more straight, though.

* [[Geodesic Cast]] - Isn't it funny how all of the factions have the same numbers of units and monsters?

** Considering the subject matter, it's hardly surprising.

* [[Giant Enemy Crab]] - The Tritons, naturally, have these.

* [[Giant Flyer]] - Several of the monsters are capable of flying through various means.

* [[Gravity Master]] - Xaxor.

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] - Both subverted and played straight. The Shadow Sun Syndicate features giant ninjas called Zors as their monsters. These Zors are as tall as a building and are normally impossible to miss. Some, however, like to employ a special form of cloaking technology which makes it impossible to see them (and thus, hit them with ranged attacks) unless you get right up in their face.

* [[Horde of Alien Locusts]] - The Planet Eaters.

* [[Humongous Mecha]] - GUARD's monsters, along with everything Ubercorp creates.

* [[Jet Pack]] - The GUARD monsters Sky Sentinel, Defender X and Nova ESR all have giant jet turbines attached to their backs which act as jet packs. The Airborne Apes use jetpacks as well, although they're cobbled together from the engines of wrecked planes.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]] - Several Empire of the Apes figures. The Frontline Ape carries a security truck and Gakura uses a ''train'' as a flail.

* [[Kaiju]]

* [[Laser Blade]] - Doubles as a [[BFS]] since it's carried by the giant robot Laser Knight.

* [[The Mafia]] - The Shadow Sun Syndicate.

* [[Shout-Out]] - To pretty much every giant monster movie/book/etc. ever made.

** Also, one of the early maps was named [[Green Day|Boulevard Of Broken Dreams]].

* [[Sickly Green Glow]] - Just to add that extra touch of evil to the Martian Menace.

* [[Sizeshifter]] - In the backstory, Zors start out the battle man sized, but then grow to the size of sky scrapers thanks to highly advanced [[Nanomachines|nano machines]] that have been implanted into their bodies.

* [[There Are No Coincidences]] - You might believe that it's really unfortunate timing that all these monsters show up at once, but the Tritons don't. The Zoa Prophecy predicts that the Monsterpocalypse would be heralded by a six-tailed star falling from heaven. The Planet Eaters came to earth on a comet that split into six parts and landed around the globe.

* [[This Is a Drill]] - Subterran's weapon of choice.

** On the other end of the scale, Mega Zorog has developed something of a reputation for uselessness.

* [[Tractor Beam]] - The Abduct action either represents this, or [[Weapons That Suck]].

* [[Turns Red]] - Defeating a monster requires you to defeat both the Alpha and Hyper forms. Those with a low hyper cost may be able to switch between forms almost at will with a good resource flow, but those with a higher cost may want to use this as a strategy, where they just use their power dice for attacks and only go Hyper if their Alpha form is defeated.

* [[Ultraterrestrials]] - The Subterrans and the Tritons.

** Considering the Shadow Sun Syndicate have world domination (after the monsters are cleaned up) as a goal, while Ubercorp is out to escalate the conflict to sell more Mecha-Monsters, the fact that at the moment they beat up on [[Mole Person|Mole People]] and [[Eldritch Abomination|EldritchAbominations]] means they're pretty much [[Evil Versus Evil|"bad guys who happen to fight other bad guys."]]

* [[Weaponized Car]] - One of the Terrasaur units introduced in the All Your Base expansion is the Green Fury Van, a heavily-armed van full of heavily-armed eco-terrorists.