Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Difference between revisions

* [[Gag Boobs]] (Much has been made of Arado's drawing attention to Seolla's chest [[Insulted Awake|in order to break her brainwashing]], but Endless Frontier is probably king (or, "queen", maybe?) of this trope and lampshading thereof - ''so'' much that [[Image Board|4chan's /m/]] has long known it as "Oppai Saga: Endless Tits" or any of a dozen such variations)

* [[Game Mod]] (A rather notable one under the radar for a while before being discovered by 4chan's /m/ board: it ''heavily'' modifies OG2. Titled "[http://www.mediafire.com/?57rci82r1116rno Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2 Ver. A]", the game explores [[For Want of a Nail|what would have happened if Axel]] [[Amnesiac Dissonance|had gotten amnesia]] and joined the good guys. Notable deviations from canon include:)

* [[Genre Savvy]] (Kirk Hamill installs a special system in the Huckebein MK III that can output ''immense'' amounts of power when desperately needed. If that isn't [[Genre Savvy]]...)

** {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Which allows Ryoto to restart the already hindered MK III (they were forced to power down the T-Link System to make it work), even after Inspector Mekibos cripples it and renders it - or so he thought - incapable of fighting. Ryoto goes on to link the MK III with the AM Gunner and fire the Gunner's Ballistic Cannon, which had never been tried before, and was suspected to have a low chance of actually working. Mekibos is forced to retreat, unsurprisingly]], complete with [[Theme Music Power-Up]], as "Ace Pilot" kicks in while the MK III starts responding again}}

* [[Got Me Doing It]] (Kyosuke has a tendency to use gambling metaphors before and during battles. It catches on with other members of the ATX Team and their allies, a phenomenon Excellen lampshades as "Kyosuke disease")

** It's gotten to a point the developers decided nearly every allied character's required to do this when performing the Gespenst Kick in the Gespenst Type-S. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQIKZTr5d4 See] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-EmFkf-jUk for] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zJCj0l5lk yourself][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Whnv2KS2o here]

* [[Guide Dang It]] (You can earn some major bonuses, including a couple of [[Disc One Nuke|Disc One Nukes]], by completing certain levels in certain ways. It's not so bad when the condition is "Get X kills with a certain character", but there are others: finishing the intro level for Sanger's Dygenguard without scoring any kills with the machine results in a bonus, for example. The worst, though, is probably found in OG2: in one scenario, the Hiryu Custom and three allied units are attacked by the Inspectors, complete with their endgame-boss stats. The objective is to simply escape, but if players stick around and start abusing the White Star's insane terrain bonuses to defeat them, it results in getting some of the best weapons and parts in the game fifteen scenarios in)

* [[Half-Identical Twins]] (Raul/Fiona Gureden of Reversal gets turned into this rather than [[Road Cone]]-ing either choice)

* [[Harder Than Hard]] (Aside from earning "Battle Masteries" to increase the overall game difficulty, an additional EX-Hard mode upon completion lets players face tougher enemies on a second run, with restricted or outright locked options for upgrading units and pilots)

* [[The Hero's Journey]] (Ryusei's storyline conforms fairly well with the Campbellian archetype)

* [[Hot-Blooded]] (Overloaded, especially when a character's inside [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FBYA4P7NDw&fmt=18 the Gespenst MK II Type-S])

* [[Humans Are Bastards]] (The Inspectors describe the Earthlings as this, as well as the [[Cosmic Horror|Einst]])

* [[Humans Are Special]] ("Earthlings are a combative species that can master alien technology in a short time"...huh)

** To elaborate, all it takes to beat thousands of mooks and a moon-sized [[Big Bad]] from destroying the world are [[Cool Ship|two battleships]], some [[Falling Into the Cockpit|field-forged teenagers/young adults]], [[Humongous Mecha|PTs, AMs, super robots]] and the [[Heroic Willpower|will of people]]

** Though plenty justified: half of the cast aren't "normal" to begin with, per se

*** Neither are their [[Super Prototype|mecha]], except...see [[Badass Normal]] entry

* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]] (Ryusei and Tenzan are recruited through a video game like the protagonist of ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''. While Ryusei's just a bit of a newbie at piloting real robots for a while, Tenzan continues to think war is a game, even babbling about "Continuing" and "[[Level Grinding]]" to conquer the world when shot down)

* [[Jerkass]] (Lee, also Axel, before his [[Noble Demon]] rewrite in OGs. The Machinery Children are also a bunch of unrepetant [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]])

* [[Lethal Chef]] (Primarily Leona: aside from porridge, everything else she makes is a level five biohazard. Kusuha's "health drinks" are more of a [[Gargle Blaster]], though: they taste terrible and can knock out a charging rhino, but they ''work''...when you regain consciousness. It even subdues {{spoiler|Ingram}})

* [[Love Redeems]] (How they [[Retcon]] Folka's [[Heel Face Turn]]: what the hell is this "[[There Can Be Only One|Holy Deathmatch]]" again?)

* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] (The game is basically Super Robot Wars crossed over with ''itself'')

* [[Me Love You Long Time]] (Evidenced in the American Bullet and the Japanese Kusuha, as well the German Elzam and his late wife Cattleya Fujiwara (though according to his backstory, Elzam's around a quarter Japanese). Interestingly, this trope's also inversed, with the very Japanese Kyosuke, Masaki and Tasuku Shinguji paired up with the American Excellen, Norwegian Lune and German Leona, respectively ([[Mukokuseki|not that you can really tell...]])

* [[Ms. Fanservice]] (Undoubtedly Excellen, although Garnet could very well be the other, until she's [[Put on a Bus]]. Ricarla "Carla" Borgnine tries to invoke this in OG2, but is vastly overshadowed by Seolla)

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] (Katina's bull-seeing-red nature nearly causes this a few times in OG1. A <s>bright</s> bitchslap from Russel late-game seems to cure her of most of it)

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] (SEVERAL times in OG1, but sometimes justified: many of things the villains do to further their own ends end up being HUGELY beneficial to the Hagane and Hiryu Custom crews more then the perpetrators of said plots)

* [[No Fourth Wall]] (At least in the localization, the Inspectors are prone to [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]. When you beat them in a supposedly unbeatable scenario, one of the Inspectors stays silent at the predicament, then asks the gamer, "What, you want me to say anything? OK, OK. Good job". OGs adds this further in one of the "Save-Quit" dialogues, where Gilliam asks the same thing and ends up promoting ''Hero Senki'', the game where he made his first debut. In fact, the whole Save-Quit dialogues are full of [[Fourth Wall]] breaking dialogues (including Shu lying about "saving more times will make the game more difficult!"))

** In OG2, when you get the {{spoiler|[[Spell My Name with an "S"|DyGenGuar/Daizengar]]}} and the Chapter 30 title pops up

* [[Original Generation]] ([[Trope Namer]] and possibly the [[Trope Codifier|codifying example in fiction]], due to its sheer numbers)

* [[Pettanko]] ([[Department of Redundancy Department|Poor Ibis]])

* [[Playboy Bunny]] (Excellen and Garnet dress up once for the male crew's viewing pleasure. Hell, it even becomes a ''plot point'' in OG2)

* [[The Power of Love]] (And what a power! Event-driven scenarios with [[Battle Couple|Battle Couples]] arguably uses this to extremes)

* [[Psycho for Hire]] (Archibald, though the Machinery Children act like this, as they're "hired out" at one point for the Neo DC and the Shadow-Mirror to use, yet are STILL [[Ax Crazy]] [[Tyke Bomb]] [[Jerkass]] kids)

** Can you really blame them? They ''are'' {{spoiler|clones of Arado, and fit the [[Evil Counterpart]] motif}}

* [[Ramming Always Works]] (The Kurogane battleship, justified as it has a DRILL attached to its bow, not only making it a viable attack, it gives Tetsuya his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in OG2)

* [[Relationship Values]] (Played straight with the gameplay: characters placed adjacent to characters they are [[The Power of Friendship|friends with]], [[Rivals Team Up|rivals]] or [[The Power of Love|show a degree of affection]] (even if it's ''not'' reciprocated) get accuracy, evasion and damage bonuses during battles)

* [[Retcon]] (OGs, being in and of itself a [[Video Game Remake]] of the GBA games, [[Canon Discontinuity|naturally does this]]. To wit:)

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] (The latest batch of W-Series androids, but Lamia's undisputed ruler of this trope)

* [[Rule of Cool]] (The games practically run on this)

* [[Self-Deprecation]] ({{spoiler|Tetsuya, by counter-ramming the Shirogane, whilst commanding the Kurogane. Lee basically claims his army, etc. etc. was better and is wondering why he lost. Tetsuya cuts in with ''"And you lost to ME!"'' - Lee always treated Tetsuya as "second best", and for Lee, "second best" isn't good enough}})

* [[Shipper on Deck]] (Excellen can detect the signs of love in the atmosphere, even at [[Ship Tease|one part per million]]. Irmgard Kazahara gets a few chances to play with this trope, too)

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] (Pretty much {{spoiler|Lamia's}} part in 2.5 Unified Wisdom (which is all you get if you only play OGs), before getting into the proper story told in OG Gaiden)

* [[Shout-Out]] (TONS)

* [[Smug Snake]] (Though one would expect the villains to play this trope straight (Siebel Mistel comes to mind), Original Generation throws in a few from the heroes' [[The Federation|Federation]], namely Kenneth Garret and Graien Grassman)

* [[Spoiler Opening]] (The opening credits for ''The Inspectors'' introduce numerous new characters before their actual appearance and spoil some stuff that could easily have been saved for surprises, namely Arado, Seolla, Mai Kobayashi and Alfimi. Plus, the fact that [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Ratsel is Elzam]] and "[[Memetic Mutation|Real Men Ride Each Other]]". Perhaps justified, as people most likely to watch the show are the ones who've already played the game)

* [[Stealth Mentor]] (Man, does OG love this trope; {{spoiler|practically every villain}} in OG1 follows this, most notably {{spoiler|Sanger, Elzam, Ingram and ''the entire DC'' (though most of them don't know it)}}

* [[Stepford Smiler]] (Mitsuko Isurugi from OG2 is the queen of this. Pretty much every time she's seen, she's wearing an expression that is only [[Technically a Smile]] which doesn't move or waver in the slightest, even in the anime. Plus, she speaks in a quiet, gentle manner while making deals to sell weapons to every single faction involved in a given conflict, caring about nothing but her "business chances".

* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]] (Banpresto claimed the number of pilot cut-ins in OGs before release was one of the largest ever assembled...and they delivered, since even the most basic attacks necessitated cut-ins)

* [[This Is a Drill]] (The Kurogane is about ninety percent drill. The remainder? ''Pure awesome'')

* [[Title Drop]] (In the first game, Ryusei claims that Operation SRW stands for Super Robot War)

* [[Troperiffic]] (Not unique to this sub-series, but unlike the rest of the franchise, it doesn't have the excuse of being a crossover between the [[Trope Makers]] themselves. Still, is that any reason ''not'' to use as many as humanly possible?)

* [[Ubermensch]] (Vindel sure sounds like one, what with the [[War for Fun and Profit|endless war and peace breeds complacency thing]])

* [[Ultimate Universe]] (It's mostly a distillation of previous SRW continuities, without all the crossover elements)

* [[Verbal Tic]] ([[Ridiculously Human Robot|Lamia Loveless]] starts out with one when she first appears as a result of damage to her speech equipment. This is rendered as either a stutter in OG2 or [[Blind Idiot Translation]].)

* [[Weapon of Choice]] ([[Real Robot|Reals]] can be mounted with a limited number of extra weapons used all around by other reals)

* [[You Bastard]] Light example: in the first game, all the things that Tenzan says he'll do are examples of what the Player can do within the games mechanics. Including the use of deliberatly dieing so as to start a mission over, with your levels gained up to the point you died carried over, thus 'grinding'.

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]] (What the Aerogaters intended to do in OG1)

* [[Zerg Rush]] (Mostly averted, as the enemy ratio's fairly reasonable, but at least one level in OG2 is pretty much this trope incarnate)