Victory Pose: Difference between revisions

** ''358/2 Days'' manages to give every playable character a victory pose upon winning a round in the Colosseum.

** Ditto for ''Birth by Sleep'' and the Mirage Arena.

* Manabi and friends do a [[Victory Pose]] for the sake of doing one in ''[[Manabi Straight!]]''.

** At one point in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'', another Sony second party game, the titular characters do the same dance as a nod/in-joke.

* A rather unusual example: Zappa in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' is possessed by spirits, and as such is [[Not Himself]] during battle. His "victory pose" is the spirits letting go of him, at which point he passes out.

** In the ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]'' games, every Ranger has his or her special pose. In fact, one of the things you learn in Ranger school is to develop your own pose for yourself.

* In ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3'', the first thing Priece does after {{spoiler|killing Markarov}} is to sit up, pull out a cigar, and light it.

** Previous games of the series had victory/defeat cutscenes. If you won, the logo of your faction kicks the ass of the logo of the other faction, for instance. If you lost, it was the other way around. This is a lot cooler (and more depressing if you lost) than it sounds.

** In ''Tiberium Wars'', whenever infantry units win a battle, they will begin cheering and jumping up and down. The Forgotten mercenaries will even fire their miniguns into the air.

* In ''[[One Must Fall]]'', the competitors didn't have individual celebrations--but the robots did. The Jaguar, the Ryu/Ken of the game, raised an arm; the Flail gave a thumbs up and mimicked the motion with one of its chains; the Pyros fired its jets and floated majestically over its fallen opponent; the [[Secret Character|boss robot]] let out a ''big belly laugh'' ([[Rule of Cool|yes, a robot having a belly laugh]]), and so on. It was also explained as their turning to the camera and mugging for the crowd--the game would cut to a newscast (using black and white screen caps due to color limitations) describing your victory.

* In the ''[[Naruto Clash of Ninja]]'' (Gekitou Ninja Taisen) games, each character has a collection of victory poses and lines they use after fights (some are opponent specific). However not all of them are 'dramatic', Choji falls over with an upset stomach in some of his, when Lee loses to Tenten sometimes Tenten will be seen shaking Lee by the collar to see if he's okay, Guy vs. Lee ends with a hug if Lee wins. Shikamaru looks bored. Naturally, the characters that are more badass (Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, etc) do proper victory poses.

* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'', Raz has a unique victory dance that consists of him "walking like an Egyptian" while "singing" a strange victory song. It's hard to describe, but hilarious. (He apparently stole the dance from a bully. In fact the first time he uses it was when he knocks the bully off from a grind rail.)

* Characters in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' and ''[[City of Villains]]'' have access to the ''Victory'' and ''Winner'' emotes. There is also the ''You Bow Down'' emote to use against defeated heroes while playing a villain.

* In ''[[Wild Arms 2]]'', Lilka celebrates solving her Millennium puzzle by throwing up the V-sign.

* ''[[Tomica Hero Rescue Force]]'' has Kyosuke and Hikaru deciding that they need a new victory pose because their new [[Combining Mecha]] is just that awesome.

* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', Snake will punch the air upon completing a VR mission. After completing the final mission in a bracket, he'll jump up and punch the air enthusiastically, yelling "''yeah!''" He does the same pose in all the later games (with minor variations, like putting his other hand on his hip in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''), and his father does the same in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'' after completing a Duel. In ''Brawl'', he sneaks it in after scoring a successful hit with the NIKITA.

* In ''[[Total War|Rome: Total War]]]'', your units will have a brief celebration if they manage to completely annihilate an enemy unit. Note that the game is wise enough to ensure that they don't do this if there are other enemy units close enough to pose a serious threat.

* Every character does this when he/she makes a touchdown in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Football]]''.

* Every character in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' has their own [[Victory Pose]]: Frog [[Bicep-Polishing Gesture|polishes his biceps]], Marle leaps in the air, etc.

** The best score, AAA, the character is obviously very triumphant. The girls gesture to the audience around them, then throw their arms out proudly; the guys do an "ooh yes yes yes" pose before punching the sky.

** AA, they're not as triumphant, but they're certainly proud. The girls blow kisses and wave to the audience; the guys spin on the spot, then fist-bump the screen with both hands.

** On C-D, the girls act surprised that the audience is giving them polite applause and wave politely back; while the guys flair their arms for a second or two before calming down to smile at the audience.

** On the failure score, E, their defeat poses are even complete with gloomy lighting and rain! The girls clutch at their head for a second before falling to their knees in despair; the guys do a "this can't be" kind of despaired shrug, before waving an arm dismissively at the audience and turning around, slouching sadly.

** There's also the "Cheer" emote that you can activate at will and depending on your selected class your character will perform one of three animations: Fighter classes get the dramatic and hammy striking of a pose while lifting their weapon in the air (unless holding a two-handed weapon,) support classes like Rogues and Rangers get the fist pump, and casters hold their arms out in a manner similar to pro-wrestler Raven's pose.

* ''[[RPG World]]'', of course, spoofed this. [[The Hero|Hero]] throws his fist in the air, [[Bishonen|Eikre]] folds his arms all cool-like, [[Ms. Fanservice|Diane]] bends over and makes the victory sign with her hands, and [[Genre Savvy|Cherry]] raises one finger while looking annoyed and bored.

* Whoever lands the killing blow in ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4]]'' will pull a victory pose. In ''3'', if the final blow was an All-Out Attack, the game treats it as the main character landing the kill; in ''4'', the party will instead perform a [[Team Shot]] of their victory poses.

* The Tank from ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', a super muscular zombie, will raise its fists in the air and slam them down to the ground if it manages to incapacitate or kill all the survivors.