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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: After [[David Jaffe]] said he was not working on a new Twisted Metal, fans had begun to declare the series dead and buried. Sony's E3 presentation was almost over and no sign at all of the game. And then?
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: After [[David Jaffe]] said he was not working on a new Twisted Metal, fans had begun to declare the series dead and buried. Sony's E3 presentation was almost over and no sign at all of the game. And then?
* [[Base Breaker]]: The direction the [[PS 3]] [[Revival]] took for the series; giving more engaging and complex storylines to four distinctive drivers, thus relagating the past drivers to oblivion and making their cars free for [[Mook|Mooks]] from the aforementioned quartet to drive; this rubs the wrong way for fans of the old installments where one could see each vehicle (and driver) getting a backstory, while others likes only 4 characters getting better developed stories, instead of many drivers getting [[Excuse Plot|Excuse Plots]] to force their presence in the games.
* [[Base Breaker]]: The direction the [[Play Station 3]] [[Revival]] took for the series; giving more engaging and complex storylines to four distinctive drivers, thus relagating the past drivers to oblivion and making their cars free for [[Mook|Mooks]] from the aforementioned quartet to drive; this rubs the wrong way for fans of the old installments where one could see each vehicle (and driver) getting a backstory, while others likes only 4 characters getting better developed stories, instead of many drivers getting [[Excuse Plot|Excuse Plots]] to force their presence in the games.
* [[Broken Base]]: The people who like 3 and 4 against the people who like the rest of the series.
* [[Broken Base]]: The people who like 3 and 4 against the people who like the rest of the series.
* [[Complete Monster]]:
* [[Complete Monster]]:
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** Cage, driver of Warthog in ''Black'', is a [[Serial Killer]] who feels remorse after each kill...and ''wishes to get rid of said remorse''.
** Cage, driver of Warthog in ''Black'', is a [[Serial Killer]] who feels remorse after each kill...and ''wishes to get rid of said remorse''.
** Dollface in the recent game, she's obsessed with being the best super model, and would go far as to kill any other models she so as competition, and after a car accident, even though a doctor she saw managed to heal her apart from a scar on her face, she [[Minor Injury Overreaction|saw it as a huge deformity and killed him over not being able to remove it.]]
** Dollface in the recent game, she's obsessed with being the best super model, and would go far as to kill any other models she so as competition, and after a car accident, even though a doctor she saw managed to heal her apart from a scar on her face, she [[Minor Injury Overreaction|saw it as a huge deformity and killed him over not being able to remove it.]]
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Dollface in the 2012 [[PS 3]] remake; see [[Hollywood Homely]].
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Dollface in the 2012 [[Play Station 3]] remake; see [[Hollywood Homely]].
* [[Fan Dumb]]: One fan site will ban anyone on the forum if they talk about the third and fourth game, and insist that Twisted Metal is not "just" a game.
* [[Fan Dumb]]: One fan site will ban anyone on the forum if they talk about the third and fourth game, and insist that Twisted Metal is not "just" a game.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: The Antarctica level in ''Twisted Metal 2''. Back in 1996, the imagery of [[Global Warming|collapsing polar glaciers]] wasn't quite so unsettling.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: The Antarctica level in ''Twisted Metal 2''. Back in 1996, the imagery of [[Global Warming|collapsing polar glaciers]] wasn't quite so unsettling.