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** Cragger had Rock magic in the third game.
** Dark Adder had Darkness magic in the [[Fan Remake]]
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* [[Evil Overlord]]: More than one.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Zoma in the Golden Axe: The Duel.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Death Adder, in the prequel, after he got his hand on the Golden Axe. The cause is unknown. The ending hints [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] / [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]}}
* [[
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Death Adder gets an awesomely over-the-top one in ''Revenge of Death Adder;'' he gets an axe planted in his head, falls screaming off the dragon and then for no reason EXPLODES in mid-air.
* [[Fake Ultimate Mook]]: The Corvettes in the third Mega Drive game have full armor in a game where just about everyone else wears a loincloth and possibly a bikini top, are twice the size of the player and the first one is treated like a boss. They are rather easy to defeat once you notice their huge crippling weaknesses, namely their lack of any ability to hit an airborne character, being easily grappled as soon as they (slowly) stand up.
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** Tyris Flare = [[The Smart Guy]] / [[Action Girl]]
** Gilius Thunderhead = [[The Big Guy]]
** Death Adder = [[The Lancer]] / [[Anti
* [[Gaiden Game]]: ''Ax Battler: A Golden Axe Legend''
* [[Genre Shift]]: The third arcade game was a competitive fighting game, while ''Golden Axe Warrior'' and ''Ax Battler'' were action RPGs.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Death Adder and Death Bringer
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The original arcade game ends with {{spoiler|the mooks ''leaping out of an arcade cabinet'' and invading the real world, with the heroes in hot pursuit}}.
* [[Non
* [[Our Centaurs Are Different]]: Dora (No, not [[Dora the Explorer|that one]]), as a playable character in ''The Revenge of Death Adder''.
* [[Our Giants Are Bigger]]: Many of the bosses in the first game are giants, including Death Adder himself. Also, playables include Goah the giant in ''Revenge of Death Adder'' and Proud Cragger in ''3''.
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* [[Taken for Granite]]: The bodies of the dead enemies would turn into rock, in the arcade version.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The names of the enemy characters in the first game are mostly alcoholic references.
** The names of Longmoan and Heninger are [[Spell My Name With an "S"|mangled references]] to "Longmorn" (a brand of whiskey) and "Henninger" (a German brewery).
** The Zuburoka amazons are named after a brand of Vodka (Żubrówka). Two of its members, Storchinaya and Strobaya, are named after other brands (Stolichnaya and Stolovaya) and while Lemanaya and Guruziya don't fit into the Vodka theme, they have Russian names like the rest.
** For the bosses, we have the Bad Brothers (a misspelling of "Bud", as in "Budweiser"), Sgt. Malt & Sgt. Hop, General Heartland (named after a Japanese brand of beer) and the Bitter knights. The PC Engine version has its own names for the bosses in the form of "Biyadaru" (beer barrel) for the hammer-swinging giants and "Heineken" for the armored knights.
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* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: In ''Beast Rider'', Tyris can be reduced to various hunks of meat upon reaching [[Critical Existence Failure]].
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Forward-back-forward-Attack+jump for Barns.
* [[Unwilling Suspension]]: The King and [[
* [[We Are As Mayflies]]: {{spoiler|By the time of both, ''Revenge of Death Adder'' and ''Golden Axe III'', Ax and Tyris have already passed away, leaving a very old dwarven Gillius to guide the next generation of heroes}}
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: In ''Golden Axe III'', certain paths takes you against a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] player character that you didn't select. If you fight them, they're freed and appear in the ending greeting you for return. If not... nothing's known about them.
* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Mother, Both Parents, or Twin Brother]]
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