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"Mugen" is Japanese for "infinity". ''[[Fun
The engine was originally released in July 17, 1999. Beta versions of it were made to work on DOS, Linux and Windows platforms, distributed through their website. The engine allows users to insert created characters, background stages, and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilations to create a functioning fighting game similar to commercial games. While the engine is set up primarily for fighting game development, several other game types have been developed using it, including shooter and platform style games. Officially, Elecbyte claims to have forgotten what the acronym M.U.G.E.N stood for, but the readme documentation states that its meaning referred to the days when the engine was meant to emulate shooting games as opposed to fighting games.
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: When you have characters from fighting games that take place during different time eras, [[Rock Beats Laser|this happens.]]
* [[Assist Character]]: Some characters have built-in assist characters (usually referred as Strikers like in [[King of Fighters]]), some of them like [[Fist of the North Star|Juza]] who had them in source game, but the majority of characters with built-in assist characters have them because of the engine's limitations.
* [[Attack of the
* [[Author Filibuster]]: Some of the MUGEN videos have this problem, as do people creating custom characters - especially from scratch. There is also the popular practice of coding a character to crash against opponent characters the author does not like, or making videos solely about beating up a character.
* [[Attention Whore]]: Very common in the community.
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* [[Cherry Tapping]]
* [[Chuck Norris]] - Comes with no hitbox for extra-invulnerable goodness! As the [[Defeating the Undefeatable]] entry demonstrates, though, he's not entirely invincible.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: There are many, many edited [[The King of Fighters
* [[Combo-Platter Powers]]
* [[Combos]]
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** Both [[Chuck Norris]] and Oni-Miko-Z have fallen to the Debugger character, two floating strings of numbers that "delete" the opponent's root file, causing them to be read as nonexistent and dead.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The [[Blaz Blue]] characters remain almost entirely unaccounted for here. So far, there's a version of Jin known as Ares who plays like a bad [[Guilty Gear|Ky Kiske]] cover band and a recurring meme in which Rugal slaughters Ragna in the prefight intro. Recently Hakumen, Tsubaki, Hazama and the original Jin (with ice) have been ported in. The lack of Blazblue conversions is caused by the large size of the sprites (though there are ways around that) and that adapting the sprites to the proper size does not necessarily make it possible to translate all of the physics and mechanics properly.
* [[Depending
** Few makers also are quite ''creative'' in their takes on certain characters. A good example would be The_None's ''[[Not Himself|Possessed]] [[Big Bang Beat|Heita]]'', who has a mode that comes with [[F
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: If you can beat [[Earthbound|Giygas]], then... well, you have done this. IF you can beat him....
* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Two forms of it.
** "Warehousing" is the practice of hosting a character on a website without the creator's permission. In some MUGEN circles this is regarded as a disrespectful and dishonest practice, while others simply aren't concerned about it.
** The second one, much more subject to ridicule, is known as "[[Dolled-Up Installment|spriteswapping]]". The "creator" takes another character, and replaces the original character's sprites with his own sprites. In particularly bad cases, the spriteswap will retain the base creation's gameplay elements even if it doesn't match the spriteswap's playing style. Many spriteswaps also tend to have jacked-up stats, making them cheap and over-powered, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmgpL-ItiE like so.]
** One creator attempted to copy-protect one of his characters against spriteswapping by, at the start of the match, checking to see if the creator and/or name had been modified in the fighter's .def file. If it detected a change, then it would halt the match and throw up a short [[Refuge in Audacity]] skit featuring [[
** Subverted in the case of sprite-ripping characters from games (such as [[Street Fighter|Ryu]]) and using them in MUGEN. [[Capcom]] was asked about this early in MUGEN's existence, and the company stated that they consider it a form of fan art (so long as no one sells the characters, of course). Pretty much every other company has followed Capcom's attitude.
* [[Doing It for
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Andres Borghi's horror-themed creations (in addition to two new characters) became stars of [[The Black Heart|their own MUGEN-engine full game.]]
* [[The End of the World
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Bebum Ryo.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: [[Earthbound|Giygas]].
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* [[Cute Kitten|Everything's More Injurious With Kittens]]: One of White Len's attacks.
* [[Evil Counterpart|Evil Super Hyper Orochi SSJ9 God Rare Bimmy and Jimmy Devil Satsui No Hadou Mecha Counterpart]]: There are many examples of these kinds of characters in MUGEN. Let it be left at that.
** [[Playing
** Rikard attempted to [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] this trope with ''Slightly Pissed Off Ryu''. Not only did it fail, but Rikard became pigeonholed as the creator of this character rather than his original characters, much to his displeasure.
* [[Exactly What It Says
** Don Drago's Zangief With Missiles edit. It's Minmei's KOF Zangief...[[Mnogo Nukes|with missiles falling from the sky.]]
** Big Glitchy Retarded Tiger Woods. The fact that it's an overpowered spriteswap of Claymizer's [[Pokémon|Chansey]] doesn't help one bit.
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** The goblin character Menelikke does the same in his super. There's also the giantess Delilah who, in one of her alternate versions, has a full screen gas attack.
** And there's also Gustavo, whose only attacks are... well, farts, when attacked.
** Most_Mysterious [[Playing
** [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
* [[Finishing Move]]: It's not uncommon for a character's super to be used as this. And that's not counting characters from games that explicitly have finishing moves, such as [[Mortal Kombat]], the [[Hokuto no Ken]] fighting games, and [[Sengoku Basara]].
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
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* [[Gainaxing]]: Despite not bouncing at all in the actual ''[[Street Fighter]]'' games, Warusaki3's Rainbow Mika does this.
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Certain matchups can lead to one character being unable to land a single point of damage on the opponent, both characters being unable to damage each other at all, or outright malfunctions in the engine, due to the different codes used with each character and/or sloppy coding.
* [[Gender Flip]]: See [[Rule 63]] below. There's also the infamous [[Darkstalkers
* [[Giftedly Bad]]: That seems to describe GooGoo64 pretty well.
** It's also pretty safe (Lickspittles aside) to assume Alexlexus being this.
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* [[Green Hill Zone]]: Several people have even created the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Green Thumb]]: [[Original Generation|Hashi]]
** [[Man-Eating Plant]]: Hashi, technically, is one. Samurai Shodown [[Arcana Heart
* [[Godwin's Law]]: The "X-Form" of [[Tropers/Seventh And Ninth|The_None's]] Skullman has a counter move in which he hits you while being shaped like a ''swastika''.
** And yes, an Omega [[Adolf Hitler]] character exists.
** MC2 as EvilSlayerX5 epically Godwin'd himself by changing his background into a ''swastika''.
* [[Hailfire Peaks]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Segalow, as a result of using voice clips from Seth, is voiced by [[Michael McConnohie]]. And Gelato is [[Persona 3
* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: With [[Mortal Kombat]] and [[Samurai Shodown]] characters converted to the engine, this was bound to happen.
* [[Hit Points]]
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** [[Marvel Comics|Deadpool]] has a sheep with a cannon to its back in his special.
** [[Garfield]] uses hot dogs as projectiles.
** [[Pingu]] and [[Adventure Time
** [[Melty Blood|White Len]] has been known to attack with ''kittens''.
** [[Dancing Banana]] uses oversized bananas as projectiles.
** POCKET SAND
** [[
** [[Adventure Time
** [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] uses rings as projectiles.
** [[The Simpsons|Homer]] uses doughnuts as projectiles.
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** The Kid from ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''. He [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|plays]] [[Double Jump|exactly]] [[With This Herring|like]] [[Ludicrous Gibs|he]] [[Have a Nice Death|does]] in his original game, so he's not going to be killing Chuck Norris anytime soon. Though he can [[Defeat Means Friendship|get help from his former enemies]], including [[Colony Drop|The Moon]], [[Spikes of Doom|Spikes]], and of course those giant anti-gravity cherries, they are all just as capable of killing him as they are his opponent.
** [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Kyubey]]. He doesn't attack, defend, or even move after starting the match. Justified in that, considering what he actually does in the series, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhWYzSU7-M he deserves every living second of pain.]
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: [[Commander Keen
** There's also Rolento's [[Yoshis Island
** A certain take on Jam from Guilty Gear knocks the opposing character onto a bed and humps until their energy is drained, resulting in either a DKO or a victory.
** The [[Metal Slug|Killer Whale]].
** One of [[Tropers/Seventh And Ninth|The_None's]] [[April Fools' Day|April Fools' Day releases]], [[The Bible|Noah]], whose basic attacks - [[Desperation Attack|when low on health]] - would {{spoiler|stamp you into the scene of ''[[Bruce Lee|Enter The Dragon]]'' to get [[One Hit KO|promptly roundhouse kicked]] by [[Bruce Lee]] himself.}} No wonder [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
** Gay Bahamut/Primeus, The God Of Retarded Characters by RicePigeon, most of whose attacks involve notoriously "retarded" characters.
** There's also [[Earthbound|Giygas]]/Ozma, created by fhqwhgads7 and supposedly inspired by Primeus, which is an April-Fools'-joke-character-turned-boss. It's basically a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|gigantic floating jawbreaker]] that starts off with Giygas' attacks... and then imitates various [[Youtube Poop]] characters as it loses health and layers.
** Vans' Rock Howard, who has the voice of Urien and whose MAX2 super move destroys the universe, crashing your program in the process.
** Omega Tiger Woods, who can and will soundly pummel almost any character he comes across as long as that character isn't another Omega Tiger Woods. Where does he get that Shrimp Bus from, anyway?
** Someone made a version of [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] for MUGEN called "NES Mario". He can only attack by jumping on enemies and he dies in two hits (if you don't press the button to turn into Super Mario again at the expense of some of the lifebar). However, there's something that makes him lethal: Fighting game characters flinch win hit, Mario does not. If you get a window of opportunity, you can just keep on stomping your foe and finish them off in less than a minute.
** Someone also made the classic version of Pac-Man. All he can do is move across the stage and munch on whatever gets in his way, but that's all he needs to do. [[Oh Crap|God help you if he gets hold of a]] [[One-Hit Kill|power pellet...]]
** One of the characters used as a "cheapie-buster" in earlier times was the [[Invincible Minor Minion|Metool]], the [[Mascot Mook]] from [[Mega Man (
** Saggot, aka Bootleg Sagat. An edited Sagat that plays like the infamous Street Fighter II bootlegs. What this means is a whole new level of Tiger Shot spam, ridiculous comboability, and he even ''crashes MUGEN on a regular basis.'' To further rub salt in the wound, his theme from Street Fighter 1 perpetually plays during his fights, overriding your music, and his victory pose references the famous Cornflakes line from the Street Fighter cartoon.
** [[Mega Man X
** Zeori and [[NM Ori]], two entries in [[Trinity MUGEN]]'s "Iori contest".
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: What's a fighter without it?
* [[Ki Attacks]]
* [[Kill It
* [[Kill It
* [[Kiai]]: Being a fighting game engine, there are many examples. The most particularly notable one is the ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: As a MUGEN character. Yes. So are [[God]] and [[Satan]], courtesy of Adult Swim's ''Bible Fight''.
* [[Lazy Artist]]: Rather common, especially when new [[Shotoclone|Shotoclones]] are involved. However, this is sometimes [[Justified Trope|justified]], when creators use characters as bases for their distinctive creations (e.g. the majority of the [[Marvel vs. Capcom
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: [[Primal Rage|Diablo's stage]], among others.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: There are so many characters out there to download and play with.
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* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|My Overkill Is Better Than Yours]]: This is the basic premise of the [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|EXTREME]][[Person of Mass Destruction|LY]] cheap characters. (e.g. [[Chuck Norris]]) "taking part" in the [[Lensman Arms Race|Nuclear War]], [[Adaptive Ability|constantly being updated to beat each other]]. If any one of them is defeated, expect their update to have [[It Only Works Once|immunity to the move that killed it]]. It got to the point where they became capable of winning matches against regular characters [[Instant Win Condition|efore the match even starts]].
* [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie]]: (oh yeah)
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: A lot of AI patches go here. For a specific example, the work of Misobin_ISM. He turns mild mannered, but still challenging, characters into absolute monsters. His patch for [[Devil May Cry|Vergil]] basically pits you against an encyclopedia of his combos, [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
** Muteki's [[Guilty Gear]] characters are built with aggressive AI that takes full advantage of the computer's natural advantage against human players. It blocks most attacks without a second thought and links together very long strings of attacks to make sure that the human player can't fight back for more than a second.
** For a non-fighting example, pitting fhqwhgads7's [[I Wanna Be the Guy|The Kid]] and [[Touhou|Yukari Yakumo]] together will start the match with The Kid in a scrolling obstacle course. Keep in mind that like in the game, The Kid dies with one attack, and you can't fight Yukari unless you get through the course. Even then, the match simply becomes a boss fight against Yukari.
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* [[Non Standard Character Design]]: If your roster contains characters from games with wildly different art styles, this is bound to happen.
* [[Norio Wakamoto]]: There's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H7NbMBB7yk CV-Wakamoto], some... thing with Wakamoto's voice and moves taken from characters Wakamoto has voiced. A edit of Kung Fu Man was released with, you guessed it, Wakamoto's voice. It had most of the moves of Wakamoto's characters, and is incredibly broken.
* [[Nuke'Em]]: The [[Exactly What It Says
** [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|The Zeeky words and the Random H-Bomb in Zeeky H. Bomb's arsenal]],
* [[Old Shame]]: Arpa slaughters such characters in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAusW_zuwls this video].
** Baby Bonnie Hood has a deep intense hatred for his very first creation, namely [[Darkstalkers
** Additionally, Most Mysterious' Alex (who was also featured in the video above), the only redeeming factor of which has the first appearence of the Omega Tiger Woods gag that is common in his chars. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9aDvOpmW1U&feature=channel_page See it here.]
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Any character that possesses an extremely convenient one to use is almost always considered to be extremely cheap and/or a [[Lethal Joke Character]]. Examples include:
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** Many of the attacks that [[Chuck Norris]] uses, not just his Roundhouse Kick.
** Each of Gulthor's ovepowered characters have at least TWO of these.
** [[Metal Slug|Killer Whale]], [[Super Mario Bros.|Cheep Chomp]], and [[Commander Keen
** Oni-Miko-Zero does this to her opponent [[Instant Death Radius|BEFORE THE BATTLE BEGINS]].
*** Similar to her, Debugger does this to its opponent. Except that his works on pretty much everything (Oni-Miko-Z included).
** ''[[
** [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|Zeeky H. Bomb]] has two of these. One (Random H-Bomb) only works as a counter, and the other ({{spoiler|Zeeky Boogy Doog}}) severely damages Zeeky himself.
** Pingu's most devastating attack has him sink into the ground as the lights go out and he calls to his opponent. Then, the lights turn on and he reappears in front of his opponent, wings upraised. Instant KO! His Shun Goku Satsu is usually a KO, too.
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* [[Rule 34]]: There is a whole sub-culture of hentai related MUGEN creations, including characters, stages and the like.
** Similarly, there are nude versions of many fighting game gals out there.
* [[Rule 63]]: [[King of Fighters|Kyoko, Goeniko and Zeroko (both original and clone)]]. Gelato is a rare female-to-male genderflip of [[The King of Fighters
** Ryuuoutan happens to be the Dragonlord from the [[Dragon Quest]] series if he/it was a cute girl.
* [[Ryona]]: Some MUGEN vids put out by creators explicitly cater to this fetish, with characters doing goretastic [[Finishing Move|fatalities]] on their female opponents being particularly popular.
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** [[Mortal Kombat|Shang Tsung]] himself as well. OMEGAPSYCHO's version deserves special mention, as he managed to make him able to transform into nearly every MK1 character but Goro. Juano's Shang Tsung goes this way too, having every [[MK 2]] character, including Jade, Noob Saibot and Smoke, but excluding all bosses.
* [[Shotoclone|Shotoclones]]: A lot.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Yoshis Island
* [[Silliness Switch]]: [[The Simpsons (
** In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S7pU96_msY AWESOME FASHION.)0:28]
* [[SNK Boss]]: Depending on the creator, the AI can be written in such a way that SNK bosses or any normal character can turn this trope [[Up to Eleven]].
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* [[Summon Magic]]: Some characters do this as a super attack by calling in a reinforcement to perform an assist (see Kamek in the [[Shout-Out]] entry above).
** [[Vocaloid|Hatsune Miku]] takes this [[Up to Eleven]] with her super singing attacks - if she sings a soundtrack from a well known franchise, a character from the franchise comes in to perform the assist. And given [[Loads and Loads of Characters|how many]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzLcX55xAM there are]...
* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]: The_None's {{spoiler|[[Melty Blood
* [[Swiss Army Weapon|Swiss Army Character]]: Most of [http://page.freett.com/3ha/ 3ha's] characters have custom modes based of completely unrelated characters. Among examples:
** His [[Darkstalkers
** [[Street Fighter|Dhalsim]] with a [[World Heroes
** [[Samurai Shodown|Sieger]] with a [[Cyberbots:
** [[X-Men|A Sentinel]] with [[Metal Slug|Fio]] piloting it. Fio can actually eject from it so she then plays exactly like in ''[[Metal Slug]]'' series, complete with her being a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]].
** Zangyura, a bastard child of [[Street Fighter|Zangief]] and ''[[Godzilla]]'' of all people has a "Gorbachev" mode.
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** [[The King of Fighters|He has a Heavy D!]] there, which seems normal....until you hold start and he gains K's moveset.
** 3ha's [[Samurai Shodown|Genjuro Kibagami]] uses a mixture of the Slash/Bust system of ''IV'' with the gameplay of ''V Special'', complete with [[Finishing Move|Zetsumei Ougi]]. Holding start while selecting him, however, lets you control his frog, which has [[Street Fighter|M. Bison's]] moveset and [[Norio Wakamoto|voice]].
** A non-3ha example: the aforementioned [[Tropers/Seventh And Ninth|The_None's]] [[Not Himself|Possessed]] [[Big Bang Beat|Heita]], who comes with a [[F
** "[[Evil Counterpart|EVIL]] [[An Ice Person|Sub]]. [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Rep]]. [[Playing
* [[Take That]]:
** Rare Akuma is the mother of all Take Thats to badly done "Shin", "Orochi" and "Evil" edits of many characters. He has an abundance of special effects, is effectively immortal, and can kill most characters in the space of a few seconds.
** Some guy named thelordanon created an edit of Rare Akuma and dubbed it [http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=80163.0;all Giji Ultima Gouki Oddity] (aka. Giji Rare Akuma, aka., in his own words, "[[Disc One Final Boss|Giji]] [[Penultimate Weapon|Penultimate]] [[Light Is Not Good|Light]] Flawed [[Orochi|Ouroboros]] [[Nightmare Retardant|Daydream]] [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid|Disorderly]] [[A God Am I|Demigod Ascended]] [[Final Fantasy|Ultima]] Gouki [[Commonplace Rare|Oddity]] [[Power Levels|8999]] [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
** There's an entire ''full game'' being made with nothing but Akumas with completely different movesets. The creator of the project, Basara, admitted he's doing it because he's sick of all the Akumas going around.
** MUGEN Gangbang/Gankbank/Tennis, anyone?
** Rikard's most prolific creation is [http://rikard.isthehero.net/SPOryuEN.htm Slightly Pissed Off Ryu], a parody of the various Shin, Evil, Orochi, Violent and Holy Ryu edits on the internet. Rikard's "story" basically sets Ryu as a McDonald's bum, depressed and physically out of shape after finding his wife Sakura cheating on him with Akuma (he has appropriate, and hilarious, victory and winquotes against both of them). His Hadokens are usually a pathetic short range burst, his Shinku Hadoken may u-turn RIGHT BACK INTO RYU'S FACE, he falls flat on his back after a Shoryuken, he sometimes breaks his ankle when he does his trademark Hurricane Kick, and one of his other attacks has him lobbing either a McDonald's meal or ''M. Bison's corpse'' at them. Most Ryus run on graphics over gameplay. This Ryu? Runs on pure [[Rule of Funny]].
** P.o.t.S released [[Street Fighter|Bison]]...''[[Refuge in Audacity|literally]]''. [[Exactly What It Says
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywOQa4Tfp7Y C. Evil Ryu] is one to the [[Mv C]]: EOH collab project by Arpa.
* [[Talking to Himself]]
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** Reu was in the starting stages of making a [[Super Metroid|Samus]] for MUGEN before his untimely death.
* [[Widget Series]]: The Characters from the Nijikaku fighting game by the 2Chan [[Image Board]].
** The game itself. We're talking about [[Primal Rage|Velociraptor Gods]] taking on a mutant cyborg Tiger Woods that utilizes a robot claw and airstrikes. [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] [[Guilty Gear|nuns]] teamed with [[Umineko|evil witches with truth-based magic systems]] that beat up [[X
** The game's still popular in Japan for this reason, and loads of Pixiv fanart based on bizarre matchups (and even pairings) have occurred, spawning things like a cross between [[Touhou|Alice Margatroid]] and [[Marvel vs. Capcom|Cable]] due to their reliance on lasers.
* [[Wolfpack Boss]]: There is an AI-only character called "[[Resident Evil|Biohazard]]" that is basically a huge swarm of zombies, crows and dogs that all share one life bar, and killing enough of them eventually summons a Tyrant. The [[Aliens vs. Predator|Alien Queen]]'s default palette is also this; she does not appear at all in this mode, but instead sends a swarm of Alien drones to attack you, and the match only ends when you've taken them all out. The [[Final Fight|Mad Gear Gang]] are also available as an opponent.
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