Super Move Portrait Attack: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever|Marvel vs. Capcom]]''

** Its predecessor, ''Marvel Super Heroes'', had a Super Move ''Sound Effect'', which was a deep "''X!''" for X-Men (a holdover from ''X-Men: Children of the Atom''), or "''Infinity!''" for other characters (which also carried over into the first [[Mv C]] for the returning cast from MSH).

* [[The King of Fighters|The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match]] did this with the character's [[MAX 2]] supers.

 

* The ''[[Dynasty Warriors: Gundam]]'' games LOVE this trope. You get it when you do a combination attack, when you get into a weapons deadlock, and a BIG one when you launch a special attack near death.

** You mean '''Koei''' loves this trope. The same company which made that game presents us with ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'', where playable characters can also do combined attacks and character-specific super abilities.

** If it's been a Koei hack and slash franchise, it's used this trope. They seem to favor extreme close ups over still portraits, but that's mostly dependent on the franchise. Almost all of the ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' and ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'' games have used extreme close ups of the character model, often from multiple dramatic angles.

 

* ''[[Gotcha Force]]''

 

* When a [[Dungeon Fighter Online|Dungeon Fighter]] uses their classes "Awakening" skill (or certain high level normal skills), a portrait of their subclass appears on screen

* [[Grand Chase]] does this during special attacks.

 

* ''[[Mario Party]] 3'' does this on the duel boards when one player's partner attacks the opposition.

** ''Mario Tennis'' uses a "VS" version of this.

 

* ''[[Ape Escape]] 3'' has the bosses do this. Usually before doing a hard to dodge or powerful move.

 

* Even ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' started doing this in SuperNOVA 2, flashing a portrait of the dancer in the background whenever the player gets high [[Combos]]. (20 or higher, with another portrait flash for every 50 combo)

** Hottest Party 3 took this up another notch and made it more awesome. Starting from 50 combos the character will make a move on screen, and from 100 to 200 combos, so on, they'll continue to make a fancy celebrating move for it. And better yet, if you end off with a full combo, they'll have a finishing move while "Full Combo Finish!!" flashes on screen. Distracting for easily distracted players, but it's still very [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|awesome]].

* ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' and ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'' have the portrait of the lead member appear whenever the player completes a particularly good string of beats or hits a specific number of combos.

 

* The ''[[Tales (series)]]'' uses this for its strongest attacks, known as Mystic Artes (Hi-Ougis) or Blast Calibers, depending on the game.

** ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' has two grades of Mystic Arte, one which gets a little portrait of the character and the strongest ones, which {{spoiler|you can't get in the first playthrough and}} show a full pic of the character in dramatic combat pose.

* ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' with its Trinity Acts and Excel Trinity Acts.

 

* Spell card declarations in ''[[Touhou]]''

** Taken [[Up to Eleven|up a few notches]] with Utsuho's, wherein the portrait is accompanied by large, yellow, radiation-symbol-spammed "CAUTION!" text scrolling across the screen as well as a blaring klaxon. Reason for this being that she is a ''[[Person of Mass Destruction|living thermonuclear weapon.]]''

* Characters in ''[[Otomedius]]'' flash their portraits when using a P-Burst or D-Burst attack. The portrait is different depending on which Burst is used.

 

* [[Combination Attack|Team attacks]] in ''[[Disgaea]]''.

** In the newer games, the Magichange ability also does this (As shown in the trope picture).

* If the preview videos thus far are anything to go by, ''[[Fire Emblem]] [[Fire Emblem: Awakening|13]]'' will be doing this when Skills and critical hits activate.

 

* Even the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series does it, a close up of the Attorney/Prosecutor appears in the screen, generally when doing an Objection!

** Don't forget at the beginning of the cross-examination, when the ''samurai eye shots'' of the prosecutor and the defense attorney are shown glaring at each other ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|with gusto]]!''

 

* This happened in the ''[[Negima Second Season|Negima!?]]'' second series during the [[Omake]] involving Chao's super glove and her 2-D fighting game-esque battle with Ku Fei.

* [[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha]] does this sometimes. Especially in the movie, when she calls out her [[Wave Motion Gun]] attack.

* ''[[Carnival Phantasm]]'' contains a callback to the [[Melty Blood]] games in which Akiha's portrait appears during a very violent volleyball game.

 

* ''[[Bunny Kill]] 4'' has the battle in the Dragon Shrine, where both main characters and the [[Big Bad]] get one such attack each.

* ''[[Banana-nana-Ninja!]]'' uses these extensively, usually to add emphasis to Baninja's fits of overly dramatic dialogue, but also in action and fight scenes.

 

* As a parody of various video game tropes, ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' made [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000993 liberal] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001072 use] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001133 of] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001137 these] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001736 shots.]

 

* [http://l.j-factor.com/misc/anime.gif That animated GIF] where a stick figure tries to {{spoiler|[[Door Judo|open a door.]]}}

* [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zidanecombo.gif One take] on [[World Cup|Zidane's]] [[Use Your Head]] moment.