History Literature / WorldsOfPower

** ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'' adds Eve, a {{Human Alien|s}} from another planet, as the original owner of the SOPHIA III vehicle. These details would later become canon in ''Blasting Again'', and elements of the novel were used in ''Zero''.

** ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'' adds Eve, a HumanAlien from another planet, as the original owner of the SOPHIA III vehicle. These details would later become canon in ''Blasting Again'', and elements of the novel were used in ''Zero''.

* TotallyRadical: Used in a number of these books.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Subverted, as Kilt survives to the end of the ''Bionic Commando'' book past what killed him in the game, with his in-game death being given to his traitorous lackey The Hand. Then he gets blown up when the Albatross explodes and dies anyway.

* HumanoidAbomination: In ''Castlevania II'' Thanatos is described as a humanoid monster, but his innards have galaxies and stars within.

* AdaptationExpansion: Considering how simple the games' plots were, a lot had to be added, and many of the stories added a great deal of backstory, or even additional characters:

* AdaptationExpansion: Considering how simple the games' plots were, a lot had to be added, and many of the stories added a great deal of backstory, or even additional characters.

* TookALevelInBdass: Timothy Bradley goes from generally being TheLoad to using Simon's whip correctly and taking down Death, and helping to destroy Dracula in the finale.

* WeaksauceWeakness: In ''Castlevania II'' Dracula can't stand bad puns or jokes, which are enough to stop him form possessing Simon.

* AdaptationExpansion:
** Considering how simple the games' plots were, a lot had to be added, and many of the stories added a great deal of backstory, or even additional characters. The most notable here is ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'', which adds Eve, a HumanAlien from another planet, as the original owner of the SOPHIA III vehicle. These details would later become canon in ''Blasting Again'', and elements of the novel were used in ''Zero''.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Tim taunts and attacks Thanatos, Master of Death, and working with Simon is able to send him back to his home dimension.

** One of the stranger examples is the ''Simon's Quest'' book, which adds elements such as the heroes needing to rescue a woman named Linda Entwhistle who is apparently Simon's girlfriend, Dracula as a lackey for Thanatos, Master of Death, and an encounter with a friendly troll named Freddie. Strange because the kid who accompanies Simon is [[AscendedFanboy a fan]] of the ''Castlevania'' games and he specifically enters the world of the games, not just a fantasy world based on a video game in the reader's world.

* AndIMustScream: Similarly to many ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books, characters frequently want to scream but can't, usually out of fear.

* CanonForeigner: Several examples, usually to give the heroes love interests or partners.

* CliffhangerCopout: Chapter 4 of the Bionic Commando book ends with Jack suffering a flashback and forgetting how to work the grappling hook on the bionic arm as he leaps down an elevator shaft. Chapter 5 begins with it activating and saving him from the fall.

* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Once Tim hears the plot of Castlevania II from Simon he thinks it'd make a fantastic video game.

* LamePunReaction: Timothy Bradley's jokes are so lame they actually drive off Dracula when he possesses Simon early on.

* LemonyNarrator: ''Castlevania II'''s narrator slips into this at times.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Master-D in Bionic Commando is short for Master Destructo.

** One of the stranger examples is the ''Simon's Quest'' book, which adds elements such as the heroes needing to rescue a woman named Linda Entwhistle who is apparently Simon's girlfriend, Dracula actually being some low-level lackey for a much more evil monster named Thanatos, and an encounter with a friendly troll named Freddie. Strange because the kid who accompanies Simon is [[AscendedFanboy a fan]] of the ''Castlevania'' games and he specifically enters the world of the games, not just a fantasy world based on a video game in the reader's world.

** ''Castlevania II'' keeps in lust as one of the Seven Deadly Sinse.

-->"Arrgh!" cried Dracula's voice. Simon's body jerked back as though physically struck. "A pun! I abhor puns! If there’s anything I can't stand more, it’s stupid, silly jokes!"

* ShownTheirWork: The ''Bionic Commando'' book mentions the Nazz, the prototype name for the Badds in the instruction manual, and the booby-trapped elevator scene mentioned in-game over the enemy communication devices. Master-D is also named accurately, as is Hal, a soldier you talk to near the very end of the game.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: While Master-D's [[StupidJetpackHitler identity]] isn't mentioned in the novel for [[NoSwastikas obvious reasons]], the book does mention him hiding out in Brazil, Columbia, and New York, which is where some actual Nazis went after the war.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Subverted, as Kilt survives to the end of the ''Bionic Commando'' book past what killed him in the game, with his in-game death being given to his traitorous lackey The Hand, but then he gets blown up when the Albatross explodes and dies anyway.

** ''Bionic Commando'' adds Heather Willis, a female spy and fellow agent, and Tiger, a TagalongKid who wants to go to America and draws a map of Stage 5 for Jack.

** ''Bionic Commando'' adds Heather and Tiger, two female agents.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: To placate the parents, rarely did the villains actually die. Enemy soldiers would be taken out with tranq bullets, animals and boss enemies turned out to really be robots, and there's a separate world for monsters that they're sent back to when they're defeated by meddling heroes, to name a couple.

** ''Catlevania II'' adds Linda Entwhistle, a girlfriend for Simon, a monster named Thanatos who Dracula is subservient to, and a friendly monster named Freddie.

* HumanityEnsues: While running Mega Man through a duplicating machine to better his odds against Dr. Wily's more powerful batch of robots, Dr. Light accidentally turns him into a human instead ([[JustEatGilligan instead of just building another Mega Man]]).

* TrappedInTVLand: Happens in the ''Castlevania II'' book, in which the {{kid hero}} gets transported to the world of the video game itself (which is treated as specifically the world of a video game, unlike, say, the ''[[VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors Warriors & Wizards]]'' book, which treats Kuros's homeland as a fantasy world or other time period).

** One of the stranger examples is the ''Simon's Quest'' book, which adds elements such as the heroes needing to rescue some woman named Linda Entwhistle who is apparently Simon's girlfriend, or Dracula actually being some low-level lackey for a much more evil monster named Thanatos, or an encounter with a friendly troll named Freddie. Strange because the kid who accompanies Simon is [[AscendedFanboy a fan]] of the ''Castlevania'' games and that he specifically enters the world of the games, not just a fantasy world based on a video game in the reader's world.

* LighterAndSofter: Yes, they've been bowdlerized from E and E10-equivalent games. Wildlife is non-fatally diverted away in ''Ninja Gaiden'', or turn out to be robots for no real reason. ''Bionic Commando'' does get fairly brutal with deaths on both sides once it hits its home stretch.

* TotallyRadical: Used in a number of these books. For example, this is actually used as a weapon against Dracula, of all people.