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The year is 2097. In this future, national governments are puppets of the multinational corporations. One such corporation, World Aeronautics and Robotics (WAR), runs the entire show with a silk-covered iron fist. WAR was started as a research institute to provide Human-Assisted Robots for space travel. Their first prototypes were activated in 2009 and were immediately put to use by a conglomeration of companies from Japanamerica to build the first ACTIVE space station. The HAR's were better than conventional robots in that they were completely operated by a single human whose brain controlled the robot's systems via remote. The "pilot" actually "became" the robot for all intents and purposes, but no danger to the pilot was possible.

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* [[Animesque]]: The art style, with the News Anchor being the most prominent.

* [[Arc Words]]: NOVA. {{spoiler|Eventually revealed to be the name of a project dedicated to creating immortality through the use of the HAR.}}

* [[Dynamic Difficulty]]: The Tournament mode does this by scaling the opponents according to your skills and HAR upgrades at the beginning of each tournament. This can get potentially ridiculous if one manages to get to enter World Championship without losing and with maximum possible amount of cash bonuses, at which point almost all of your opponents are maxed out monsters with both wins and loses at triple digits.

* [[Easier Than Easy]]: The "Punching Bag" difficulty.

* [[Everything Fades]]: The parts battered off yours and your opponent's robot during a fight fall to the round and disintegrate a few seconds later.

* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: Nicoli, the boss of the WAR Invitational in Tournament Mode.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Milano.

** Also the Gargoyle mech. Your in-fight stats are a combination of those of your mech and those of the character controlling the mech... so Milano controlling a Gargoyle (which he always does in tournament mode) is right at the top of the list.

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: {{spoiler|Kreissack}} in story mode {{spoiler|(and possibly Cossette in her ending)}}, Steel Claw in tournament mode.

** {{spoiler|Jean-Paul contemplates using the NOVA project to become this in his ending.}}

* [[Humongous Mecha]]

* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: Punching Bag, Rookie, Veteran, World Class, Champion, Deadly and Ultimate. The Tournament Mode has its own separate difficulty levels: Aluminum, Iron, Steel and Heavy Metal.

* [[Motion Capture Mecha]]: Two reasons. First, most of the robots are human-shaped and the fighters actually have their minds chemically transferred to the robot for the duration of the fight. Second, {{spoiler|Kreissack puts his own brain into the Nova, the most human robot--it even has four fingers and a thumb}}.

* [[Multiple Endings]]

* [[Non-Lethal KO]]: You can blow up your opponent real good without actually killing them. How? Everyone is, effectively, remotely-controlled robots. And then the game has a [[Double Subversion]] {{spoiler|at the end of the single player story mode, where [[Big Bad]] General Kreissack is revealed to have actually had his brain transplanted into his robot's body}}.

* [[Perfect Play AI]]: Some of the Bonus Bosses follow this strategy. It works if you're not up to snuff as a fighter because there is no blocking damage, except minimal for special moves (unless you've found the secret menu and tweaked things).

* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: Try sim-fighting the people at the start of a tournament after you've completed the tournament. After your first tournament, the power differential can be shocking. Even after your first World Championship, your skill will likely have grown from the start of the tourney.

* [[The Rival]]: All over the place, both in Story Mode and Tournament Mode.

** For Tournament Mode, many of the competitors are this for your player character. In fact, if you beat the World Championship tournament, the ending narrative outlines that the other competitors tell you the same thing-- "[[Worthy Opponent|See you next year]]." If you want to get specific, special mention goes to Veronica, who you fight in the WAR Invitational and World Championship tournaments ("You really are a great opponent! I enjoy our fights..."), and Nicoli, the boss of the WAR Invitational tournament {{spoiler|who returns to challenge you as a secret opponent moments after you defeat Ian Tavares}}.

* [[Secret Character]]: Aside from fighters from other tournaments making themselves known, there are many from other Epic productions, including three characters from [[Jazz Jackrabbit|Jazz freakin' Jackrabbit]], and game director Rob Elam's in-game avatar.

* [[Weaponized Exhaust]]: The Pyros lacks real legs, being a zero-g construction robot. It makes use of it's directional thrusters instead.

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Prior to each battle. There's quite a bit of it too, since the dialogue between the same two characters is different depending on which the player is controlling.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Crystal and Christian's storyline. In his final battle quote, Christian explicitly makes the [[Shout-Out]].

** If Player 1 is Crystal and Player 2 or the computer is Shirro, the latter says "Get used to disappointment" (another line from ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'') in the pre-battle dialogue.