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A '''Third Game''', subtitled ''Double Trouble'', was released on the Nintendo DS. It has similar gameplay, but new moves which take advantage of the double screen.
There is also a [[Mascot Fighter]], ''Red Hot Rumble,'' featuring characters from the Anime series, as well as a few from ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' in the PSP version of the game. This game is not connected to the main series, and its gameplay is similar to that of the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]].'' games.
These games are [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/07/07/ quite hard], but also very good fun. Gameplay is reminiscent of old ''[[Streets of Rage]]'' or ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' games, and should appeal to young and old alike. Thankfully, none of the games take themselves very seriously.
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As well as those, there has been an [[The Anime of the Game|anime adaptation]], which maintains much of the feel of the original, but [[Too Good to Last|only lasted one season in the U.S.]]
Unfortunately, [[Clover Studios]], the makers of ''Viewtiful Joe'', shut down, and [[Real Life Writes the Plot|the lead designer is now with another company]]. Though he's expressed interest in completing his console trilogy, [[Cut Short|the outlook is grim]].
Capcom has not left Joe out to dry, however. After Clover's demise, Joe appeared as a playable character in ''[[Tatsunokovs Capcom|Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'', the latest entry in the ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever]]'' franchise. He then appeared in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]: Fate of Two Worlds''. Regardless of what happens to his home series, Joe has found acceptance in Capcom's stable, ensuring he at least stays visible for the foreseeable future.
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** {{color|purple|'''Alaster'''}} - [[Lightning Bruiser]] (VFX bar has to be activated manually a la [[Devil May Cry|Devil Trigger]], has a longer jump, can fly briefly, stronger than other three characters, but not as fast as Silvia ).
** {{color|blue|'''Captain Blue'''}} - [[Mighty Glacier]] (Cannot see skull marks regardless of difficulty, has the ability to hover across the screen indefinitely, and is stronger than Joe and Silvia).
** {{color|red|'''Dante'''}} ([[PlayStation 2]] version only) - [[Lightning Bruiser]] (He's not as fast as Silvia, but still stronger than everyone else in the entire game)
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Just about every female character.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Statues of Gran Bruce, a boss from the first game, appear in Alastor's boss stage in ''2''.
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* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Averted. Drill Sergeant Big John makes ''several'' appearances throughout ''2'', to the point that he's little more than a nuisance.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Several moves invoke this trope.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: Gran Bruce in ''1''.
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: See "[[Laser Hallway]]" below.
* [[Fallen Hero]]: {{spoiler|Captain Blue.}}
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** It's [[Wild Mass Guessing|possible]] that {{spoiler|being part of Movieland as the [[Big Bad]]}} binds him to the associated tropes [[But Thou Must!|whether he wants to play them straight or not]], the way the other characters act according to their own [[Troperiffic]] roles as [[The Hero]], [[The Rival]], [[Femme Fatale]], [[Goldfish Poop Gang]], etc.
* [[Genre Shift]]: In the very last level of the first game, when you find out the main villain is none other than {{spoiler|Captain Blue}}, Joe makes very few jokes, and the end of the game is a little more serious than the others.
* [[Glasses Girl]]: Silvia and Sprocket.
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Captain Blue.}}
** {{spoiler|Jet Black}} also works.
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* [[Guide Dang It]]: Most of the bosses.
* [[Hearts Are Health]]
* [[Hellish Copter]]: The second mini-boss you face in the 1st level is a Black Thunder Helicopter. Upon being killed, it flies out of control, crashes, and explodes into large V points (this game's currency).
* [[Henshin Hero|Henshin A Go-Go Hero]]: Not just the heroes, but the villains, too.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Only in the anime adaption, {{spoiler|when Joe finds out that Captain Blue is the Big Bad. It takes Blue Jr., Silvia, and people Joe met through Movie Land to get him out of it.}}
** {{spoiler|He had a minor BSOD at the same moment in the game, too ("How? ''Why?''"), but quickly snapped out of it himself.}}
* [[Homage]]: The entire final level of the first game is a homage to ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** Joe's father, Jet, shares near-exactly the same hairstyle, outfit, and color scheme as the father of a little girl in an episode of the Ruby-Spears [[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]] cartoon. That character's name? Jet. The characters are otherwise unrelated, as the Jet from the cartoon lives in the future with his daughter under evil totalitarian rule. Joe's father, however...
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** Sprocket from the anime.
* [[Mega Manning]]: Joker, a recurring [[King Mook]] [[Mini Boss]] from the first game. In your first encounter with him, his combat skills are limited to the standard Bianky punches and kicks, but in subsequent encounters, he adds additional abilities used by other Mooks to his repertoire, up until your last encounter with him, where he has [[Final Exam Boss|learned most of them]].
* [[Mercy Invincibility]]
* [[Mirror Boss]]: Another Joe, complete with a [[Boss Remix]] of Joe's theme from the first stage.
* [[Money Spider]]: You knock the V points out of enemies, which become coins. Larger enemies and bosses give you bigger coins, and sometimes points are hidden in boxes.
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* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Fire Leo. Also, the Rainbow V challenge to unlock "super" versions of each character with unlimited VFX is quite possibly one of the most masochistic things one could do for a video game.
** Ultra V-Rated Mode is ''sadistic''; even if you know how to predict their blows without the indicators, it's still kinda hard.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Alastor plugs the first game before his fight in the second.
{{quote|'''Alastor:''' ''(addressing the player)'' I'm not about to introduce myself. If you wanna know who I am, go to your nearest discount store and get a copy of ''Viewtiful Joe''. Go! Now!
'''Alastor:''' ''(to Joe, reading from a script)'' "For many years we have fought against Captain Blue for control of the world of movies. However-"
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* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: How many video game series are ''based'' around this?
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Fire Leo. Also, when Joe uses his mach speed power, it can send him into Red Hot mode, where he does added fire damage and is immune to fire.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Jasmine, and Silvia to a ''much'' lesser extent.
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: While the anime is largely faithful to the games, they do change a few things up. The second season changes ''a lot'' of the story from the second game... And yet, somehow, it works.
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: Present in the anime, made up of the weaker bosses from the first game.
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* [[Recurring Boss]]: Big John shows up in every level of the second game.
** Originates in the first with Joker and his slot machine.
** Also Captain Blue in the first game.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: The main character himself. {{spoiler|At the end of ''Double Trouble'', his sister Jasmine gets in on the action too.}}
* [[Red Herring]]: At the end of ''2'', a new villain shows up in the real world to wreak havoc. Jet Black says that the newest adventure will reveal {{spoiler|how he found the Black V-Watch and Black Film}}. Yet in ''Double Trouble'' the story picks up with Joe, Blue, Silvia, and Jasmine filming a movie. The two plots are almost completely unrelated, {{spoiler|besides some possible insight on Jet's [[Start of Darkness]]}}.
** Perhaps not. ''Double Trouble'' is more of a spin-off. Also, the first game ''did'' mention the Earth would have to be saved {{spoiler|three}} times.
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** To ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', which is made by the same studio.
*** To go in-depth, Alastor himself. Not only does he possess the attacks (Stinger, Air Raid, Round Trip, Vortex, etc.) and [[Shock and Awe|purple lightning powers]] of his sword namesake, but when fought in Dante's story, Alastor reveals that he's [[Anthropomorphic Personification|the spirit of the sword]] and fumes that Dante didn't take him along during ''Devil May Cry 2''. Alastor also possesses a version of Joe's Red Hot Kick called Ultraviolet Kick; this is a nod to the [[Leitmotif]] of Nelo Angelo in ''DMC1''. In ''2'', his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] (Underworld Emperor Alastor) physically resembles Dante's Alastor [[Super Mode|Devil Trigger]] and speaks the same line to Joe ("I am Alastor. The weak shall give their heart and swear their eternal loyalty to me.") that he said to Dante before [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|impaling him]] (Joe is much luckier, due to his VFX powers).
** Some standout and somewhat obscure to US players examples: Joe's visor going down during boss battles and the overall design of his costume are homages to the 1977 [[Toku]] ''[[Kaiketsu Zubat]]'', and Joe's scarf is a homage to the ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series.
*** The reference goes further: in the ''Viewtiful Escape'' level, Joe makes a bet with Another Joe that whoever loses the fight has to wear a yellow scarf. This is a reference to the original [[Kamen Rider]]: Kamen Rider 2's most obvious difference from his predecessor's appearance was his yellow scarf (as opposed to 1's red scarf).
** Six Machine being similar in sound to the famous [[James Brown]] song "Sex Machine", anyone? Also, if Joe's [[Only One Name|last name]] is indeed the same as Jet's, it might be a reference to the movie ''[[Meet Joe Black]]''.
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*** Speaking of the Red Hot Kick, it's yet another way that Joe homages ''[[Kamen Rider]]'': It's basically a Rider Kick. In ''Double Trouble'', the Meta Rangers, who are basically Kamen Riders in all but name, have the same move as name "Meta Kick".
*** Heck, the Meta Rangers' boss theme is a [[Kamen Rider]] shout out: It sounds remarkably similar to "Let's Go Rider Kick", the theme of the first two Kamen Riders.
** Ultimately subverted due to the fact it came four years beforehand, but [[Humongous Mecha]] Six Machine [[Gurren Lagann|has a red design, with one helmeted face on top and one face on the torso with a V-Shaped decal in front of it.]]
** Each level has a movie (or game) poster for it, based off of several real-world posters, as well as the name being similar to a movie title. In order for the first game, they are: ''[[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]]'' (Joe The Hero), ''[[King Kong]]'' ([[Some Like It Hot|Some Like It Red Hot]]), ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' ([[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|2,000,000 Under The Sea]]), ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' ([[The Great Escape|The Viewtiful Escape]]), ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' ([[Midnight Cowboy|Midnight Thunder Boy]]), ''[[Gladiator]]'' ([[The Magnificent Seven|The Magnificent Five]]), ''[[Star Wars]]'' (Joe & Silvia).
** For the second game, we get: [[Jurassic Park|Ten-Million Years B.C.]], [[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom|Viewtiful Heroes and the Statue of Doom]], Memoir of an Invincible Monster, [[James Bond|Thunder Boy Lives Twice]], [[Ice Age|Ice Edge]], [[Blade Runner|Do Androids Dream of Romantic Scene?]], and [[Starship Troopers|Starship Viewties]].
** Also, the powers (except for replay) are shout outs to film techniques. Slow Mo is obvious, taken from slowing down parts for dramatic effect. Mach Speed is used in television mostly, used most of the time for clean-the-room montages in sitcoms. Zoom In is from the old school horror flicks, in which the camera would quickly zoom close to the face of some frightening person with a menacing gaze.
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