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** Asha is the resident KingKoopaCopy.

* KingKoopaCopy: Asha is a red draconic-looking HornedHumanoid who stands a head above even the tallest protagonist, sports thick limbs and a prominent gut, is fought in a volcanic area, and has an affinity for fire. She also embodies the FriendlyEnemy status and [[ProactiveBoss pre-emptive strikes]] of the trope namer.

** [[TheEveryman Ouroboros]] has a very [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario]]-esque outlook on life, while they share [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]]'s hair style and general aloofness.

** [[TheEveryman Ouroboros]] has a very [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario]]-esque outlook on life, while they share [[Anime/DragonBall Goku]]'s hair style and general aloofness.

* BossRush: Area 8's bonus stage is a boss gauntlet with every sub- and major boss, including the two {{Bonus Boss}}es.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Area 8's BonusBoss, Shader Black Aion, uses the abilities of previous bosses in his attacks, also visually represented by him wearing a costume resembling each boss.

* BonusBoss: Both 4-Bonus and 8-Bonus feature two unique bosses - [[MiniMecha Titan Crusher]] and [[AllYourPowersCombined Shader Black Aion]].

* VideoGameSettings:
** Area 1: MetropolisLevel, and technically HubUnderAttack.
** Area 2: PalmtreePanic.
** Area 3: JungleJapes that transitions into RuinsForRuinsSake.
** Area 4: UnderTheSea and UnderwaterBase. To prevent an international tsunami, the heroes take a ride underwater and fight through a sealab commandeered by [[VillainOfAnotherStory Doc Moonrise]].
** Area 5: A cave system that leads into LethalLavaLand. The heroes head to a geothermal research facility built into a volcano to stop an induced volcanic eruption from taking place.
** Area 6: DeathMountain. Faced with the threat of a massive earthquake and avalanche, the heroes arrive at a freezing mountain range.
** Area 7: AmusementParkOfDoom. Scrambling to buy time for his superweapon to be operational, Lord Frantic takes over an amusement park [[EvilIsPetty that denied him entry once]].
** Area 8: AllTheWorldsAreAStage, ending with an EternalEngine. With little time to stop Lord Frantic's superweapon, the heroes head to his private island base of operations with the hopes of taking him down once and for all.

* StunGun: ''Everyone in the game'' uses these. Even the ''explosions'' that ''clearly damage machines'' are nonlethal!

* AppliedPhlebotinum: HZ-plasma, a rare energy source harvested from the VoidBetweenTheWorlds, is mentioned quite a few times in the ingame codex. It's a major component of Lord Frantic's plan, as he intends to harness it to [[DefaceOfTheMoon pull the Moon out of its orbit]], and when that fails he uses it alongside a suit of PoweredArmor to become a local RealityWarper and try to kill the heroes once and for good.
* AllYourPowersCombined: The BonusBoss, Shader Black Aion, uses the abilities of previous bosses in his attacks, also visually represented by him wearing a costume resembling each boss.

* BossRush: Area 8's bonus stage is a boss gauntlet with every sub- and major boss, with a fight against [[BonusBoss Shader Black Aion]] at the end.

'''!!! PREPARE !!!''' - [[PrepareToDie TO DIE]] BEFORE THE CHAMPION OF CHAOS: OVERLORD FRANTIC (When facing the final boss)

* JustifiedExtraLives: The player characters are equipped with teleporter beacons that warp them back to their outpost and give them adrenaline/stun-gun counteragents to let them continue the fight. One of the characters also has ResurrectiveImmortality and just [[CuttingTheKnot opts to self-destruct to restore themselves instead]].

* OutOfCharacterAlert: After disabling all of Lord Frantic's plans and forcing him to rely on a petty backup plan, Tomahawk notes his usually well-prepared taunts have become more, well, frantic as he scrambles to buy time for his ''real'' superweapon to be prepared, but concedes that neither her team nor she aren't going to stop him since they know next to nothing about what he's stalling for.

*** [[TheDragon Aion]] introduces himself in his final battle as being an "auditor" of time and sends the player character to a hellish warzone under his control.

* SyntheticVoiceActor: The Narrators both have text-to-speech dialogue.

** Area 6: DeathMountain.

** Area 4: UnderTheSea and UnderwaterBase.

** Asha is a KingKoopaCopy.

* KingKoopaCopy: Asha is a red draconic-looking HornedHumanoid who stands a head above even the tallest protagonist, is fought in a volcanic area, and has an affinity for fire. She also embodies the FriendlyEnemy status and [[ProactiveBoss pre-emptive strikes]] of the trope namer.
* {{Mana}}: The three main players have an Aux Gauge that governs different aspects of their abilities:

** Tomahawk: "Coolness" for her [[DualWielding overclocking]] state. Drains when in use and is restored by dealing damage.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: After disabling all of Lord Frantic's plans and forcing him to rely on a petty backup plan, Tomahawk notes his usually well-prepared taunts have become more, well, frantic as he scrambles to buy time for his ''real'' superweapon to be prepared, but concedes that neither her team nor she aren't going to stop him since they know next to nothing about said superweapon.

*** [[TheDragon Aion]] introduces himself in his final battle as being an "auditor" of time and sends the player character to a hellish warzone out of time under his control.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: HZ-plasma, a rare energy source harvested from the VoidBetweenTheWorlds, is mentioned quite a few times in the ingame codex. It's a major component of Lord Frantic's plan, as he intends to harness it to [[DefaceOfTheMoon pull the Moon out of its orbit]], and when that fails he uses it alongside a suit of PoweredArmor to become a RealityWarper, fix his gravity ray, and try and kill the heroes once and for good.

* BossWarningSiren: Two kinds. A small alert klaxon plays before a sub-boss, and a more dramatic alarm accompanied by BossSubtitles appears before a major boss.

* LoneWolfBoss:

* XanatosGambit: Lord Frantic has contingencies. Heroes take out your battlesuit? Drop a giant mechanical eagle on them. Heroes stop all your ways to cause ecological disasters? Good thing those devices they "disabled" double as generators for your gravity ray that can [[DefaceOfTheMoon pull the Moon out of its orbit]]! Heroes destroy your gravity ray, even after all that? Just harness the stored unreality energy and become a RealityWarper, why not?

* AppliedPhlebotinum: HZ-plasma, a rare energy source harvested from the VoidBetweenTheWorlds, is mentioned quite a few times in the ingame codex. It's actually a major component of Lord Frantic's plan, as he intends to harness it to [[DefaceOfTheMoon pull the Moon out of its orbit]], and when that fails he uses it alongside a suit of PoweredArmor to become a RealityWarper, fix his gravity ray, and try and kill the heroes once and for good.

* ColorfulThemeNaming: The Triumvirate are an odd example. Their names are Hubert, Saturn, and Lumine, alluding to '''hu'''e, '''satur'''ation, and '''lumin'''osity respectively.

* MultipleLifeBars: Boss vitality is measured with multiple bars, each bar indicating a major shift in boss tactics. In order, they go yellow->green->cyan->blue->pink->red->[[MarathonBoss rainbow]].