History VideoGame / EvilZone

A FightingGame by Yuke's released in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, known as "Eretzvaju" in the original Japanese.

* BoobsOfSteel: Ihadurca plays this straight by being the most powerful character in the game. Slightly subverted with Erel, who's pretty balanced.

* LaserBlade: Danzaiver! Also, Erel Plowse has a mystical version, and Gally 'Vanish' Gregman has a laser-edged BFS.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Gally 'Vanish' Gregman loves this trope, as evidenced by his super move.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: 'Ihadurca', pronounced in-game as 'Ihadulca'. Danzaiver! As well, since it ends up being pronounced as 'Danzai-BAR'.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Midori, naturally.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Midori, Ihadurca, Erel. The first two wear skimpy clothing (allowing for butt shots from Midori and AbsoluteCleavage from Ihadurca) and Erel wears a skin-tight suit that if using the right color scheme looks a bit like her skin, so it looks like she's fighting naked.
** Also, Erel's Japanese design has no leggings on her bikini-style suit. Buttshots better than Midori, in fact.
* TeenGenius: Alty.

* {{Yandere}}: Kakurine.

[[InevitableTournament The standard tournament for no reason]] takes place, as the characters bumble into one another and fight for various reasons. As cliched as that may sound, the Story Mode does have one relatively unique feature: each character's story is presented like a different anime TV series, complete with next episode promos, recaps, and title cards. To tie into this theming, [[ClicheStorm every character represents a different kind of standard anime genre, plot, or protagonist]] - but make no mistake, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools that's the central appeal]].

* AffablyEvil[=/=]WickedCultured: Keiya is dashing, good looking, polite, willing to help people with their problems, and will utterly maim, brutalize, and kill anyone that gets in his way.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game includes an encyclopedia in the main menu, and it explains '''everything'''. Want to know what kind of a throw a character uses, and what style it's from? It's in there. Want to know what the name, range, and accuracy of Danzaiver!'s satellite beam cannon? It's in there. Want to know about a piece of a character's costume, that isn't visible on the model, but provides an in-game function? It's in there, with backstory.

* ComebackMechanic: Ultra attacks require sacrificing crystals to perform, which are themselves gained by holding down the attack button to charge power. How much you need to charge to gain a crystal depends on how much of your health is remaining - full health requires the most charge time, while having a sliver left lets you charge in nearly an instant.

** Ihadurca, who appears as female in the I-Praseru universe, but is more androgynous in a general sense.
** Kakurine also fits this - she looks like a little girl, and usually talks like one, but she is clearly some different being, and at times speaks in a deep male voice.

* FingerPokeOfDoom: One of Kakurine's moves is to bind the enemy up with a ring, float over slowly and then flick them in the forehead, sending them away and doing small to moderate damage. Many of Kakurine's attacks function like this.
* FragileSpeedster: Linedwell, Erel, Al and Danzaiver! are pretty easy to damage and fairly quick on their feet.

* HeroicSacrifice: In Danzaiver!'s route, Midori knocks him away from Kakurine's sneak-attack, nearly biting it in the process.

** Midori too. In Danzaiver!'s storyline his fight with her is titled 'Attacking the challenger, Fiery fist! -Entry of a hot-blooded fighter, Midori-' Weirdly, when the two face off, the hot-bloodedness is toned down quite a bit.

* KillSat: Danzaiver! when he calls for some long range support fire from Seingreed. It's one of the coolest looking moves in the game.

* LaserBlade: Danzaiver! Also, Erel Plowse has a mystical version, and Gally 'Vanish' Gregman has a laser edged BFS.

* SlapOnTheWristNuke: Pretty much every special move ever. For instance, getting [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled]] can do anything from medium-grapple damage, to a finishing move, to a finishing move on your ''opponent'', depending on who does it and how. The worst offender by far is the Seingblaze attack from Danzaiver's personal satellite. Arguably one of the most epic cases of BoomHeadshot in a video game... and they just stand back up again with a little bit of health missing.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: 'Ihadurca', pronounced ingame as 'Ihadulca'. Danzaiver! As well, since it ends up being pronounced as 'Danzai-BAR'.

* PantyShot: Setsuna flashes hers all the time.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Watch the part of the intro with Setsuna and Midori. Now try and pretend this trope isn't kicking at the side of your brain, yelling your name, and demanding you write fanfiction about them.
** For the record, the intro bit being referred to, is the part where Midori flashes a peace sign while hanging off of Setsuna.
** Setsuna outright tells Karin "I love you" before her fight with Ihadurca.

--> "I cannot be stopped. Absolutely, positively, for the sake of the world! Here goes! The power of the Supreme Ruler destroys an evil! The ultimate hero, DANZAIVER!"

'''Ihadulca:''' What? Who's there?\\

[[caption-width-right:350:The Evil Zone awaits you]]

[[InevitableTournament The standard tournament for no reason]] takes place, as the characters bumble into one another and fight for various reasons. As cliched as that may sound, the Story Mode does have one relatively unique feature: each character's story is presented like a different anime TV series, complete with next episode promos, recaps, and title cards. To tie into this theming, [[ClicheStorm every character represents a different kind of standard anime genre, plot, or protagonist]] - but make no mistake, [[TropesAreNotBad that's the central appeal]].

* {{Homage}}: Danzaiver! is a clear homage to the ''Franchise/MetalHeroes''' first three shows, ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan'', ''Series/SpaceSheriffSharivan'' and ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider''.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Linedwell gets killed by Shahal, only for somebody else to pick it up and start the whole thing over again.]]

A FightingGame by Yuke's released in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}, known as "Eretzvaju" in the original Japanese.

!!This series provides examples of:

* AffablyEvil / WickedCultured: Keiya is dashing, good looking, polite, willing to help people with their problems, and will utterly maim, brutalize, and kill anyone that gets in his way.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game includes an encyclopedia in the main menu, and it explains '''everything'''. Want to know what kind of a throw a character uses, and what style it's from? It's in there. Want to know what the name, range, and accuracy of Danzaiver!'s satellite beam cannon? It's in there. Want to know about a piece of a character's costume, that isn't visible on the model, but provides an ingame function? That's in there too! With BACKSTORY FOR IT!
* AssKickingPose: Delivered before every single one of his battles by, you guessed it; Danzaiver!
* ArmorIsUseless: Played both straight and averted at the same time. Really, no one wearing armor is any more protected than anyone else, however, those wearing armor can only keep up with the rest because of their armor. Thankfully, it's PowerArmor, but still...
* BadassNormal: Aside from their PowerArmor, Danzaiver! and Gally really are just normal humans, unlike the rest of the cast, who sport supernatural powers.
** Wouldn't Midori count as well? She has no magical powers or armor and is capable of going toe-to-toe with all the magic users and super-powered beings in the game with only her martial arts.
*** It would have if Martial Arts would let you fire energy discs and make clones of yourself.

* {{BFS}}: Gally, he's surprisingly fast with it too.

* BoobsOfSteel: Ihadurca plays this straight by being the most powerful character in the game. Slightly subverted with Erel who's pretty balanced.

* CallingYourAttacks: Everyone, ALL the time.

* ComebackMechanic: To gain crystals (which are required to perform "strong" moves), you must charge up until your health bar becomes completely yellow. Therefore, if you have low health, you'll need less charging to gain crystals.

* CuteBruiser: Midori, Setsuna, Erel

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: The whole point of the game.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Yes, yes they did. Ihadurca is apparently a fragment of a goddess - dangerous enough to threaten whole dimensions. Nevertheless, every character beats either to submission or death in their story mode. Certain items and even one of the characters are also connected to the original goddess. It's AllThereInTheManual after all.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Al. His third unlockable outfit runs with this by putting him in what is essentially a schoolgirl uniform.

* EmpathicWeapon: Both Erel and Linedwell have one. Though Erel's is her armor and Linedwell is the sword. Ihadurca's Bendis-Meltis are also somewhat sentient.

* EvilLaugh: Linedwell is fond of doing this.

* {{Fanservice}}: Everyone. Just... Everyone. Even those that dress modestly or fully cover up their bodies (Gally, Danzaiver!, Keiya, Kakurine) still manage to come across as fanservice in one form or another.
* FinishingMove: Everyone has one. They come in two variants, a quick version that does a bunch of damage and a longer, flashier and more dramatic version of the same move that shows up when you're guaranteed to finish them off with it. If you see the second one, you know you've won.

* FingerPokeOfDoom: One of Kakurine's moves is to bind the enemy up with a ring, float over slowly and then flick them in the forehead, sending them away and doing small to moderate damage. Many of Kakurine's attacks funciton like this.

* HeroicSacrifice: In Danzaiver!'s route, Midori knocks him away from Kakurine's sneak-attack, nearly biting it in the process. She gets better.
* {{Homage}}: Danzaiver, pretty much as a clear homage to the ''Franchise/MetalHeroes''' first three shows, ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan'', ''Series/SpaceSheriffSharivan'' and ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider''.
* HongKongDub: Try playing as Keiya. Every other match, watch his mouth move for the several seconds between finishing his pre-battle speech and his AssKickingPose as the camera dramatically sweeps and zooms. The game in general is pretty lax about MouthFlaps; Keiya's just the most regular offender.
** This pretty much happens to everybody ''but'' Danzaiver! (who is the only character without a moving mouth sprite), while Danzaiver! himself continues swinging his arms around emphatically long after he's stopped speaking.
* HotBlooded: Danzaiver[[RunningGag !]] So much. SO very, very much PLUS! Bonus points for he is voiced by none other than Creator/TomokazuSeki, the guy who is notoriously known to be one of the most prolific seiyuus who can give these types of characters a [[LargeHam too hot to handle presence]].
** Midori too. Heck, in Danzaiver!'s storyline his fight with her is titled 'Attacking the challenger, Fiery fist! -Entry of a hot-blooded fighter, Midori-'
*** The weird thing is, when Danzaiver! and Midori face off, the HotBlooded-ness is toned down quite a bit.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Nobody impales people like Lindwell.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Gally 'Vanish' Gregman loves this trope, his super invokes this trope.

** [[JackOfAllStats Nobody is really that much faster, slower, stronger, or weaker than any other character.]] The only differences between them are the traits and ranges of their attacks, and where the opponent falls down after getting hit by each of their grapple attacks.
*** Actually, some of them recover slightly faster than others. It's worth noting that if Midori misses with some of her moves, she's vulnerable for more than a couple of seconds, while characters like Al recover almost instantly.

--> Danzaiver!: "Ihadulca!"
--> Ihadulca: "What? Who's there?"
--> Danzaiver!: "Ght! This sensation... Gillaclava, is it?"

* PowerArmor: Danzaiver!'s "Tactical Frame", Gally (more armor than powered), Erel's Nephilm (who has a mystical version).

* RapidFireFisticuffs: Midori

* SomeDexterityRequired: Unusually subverted for a fighting game. There is only one attack button, one guard button, and the directional pad. The direction you press on the directional pad while attacking determines what kind of attack you'll get, thus eliminating the need to memorize an arcane series of button-presses and ensuring that every character will generally play like every other character. Granted, hitting some of the combos does take a bit of getting used to, but once you figure it out, you can basically play as any character you want without having to learn too much.

* BountyHunter: Gally "Vanish" Gregman. [[BlatantLies Nice guy.]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Devoted husband.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Yes, yes they did. Ihadurca is apparently a fragment of a goddess, nevertheless, she's still dangerous enough to threaten whole dimensions. Certain items and even one of the characters are also connected to the original goddess. It's AllThereInTheManual after all.

The entire premise of the game was to defeat the evil super being know as Ihadulca, who was a SealedEvilInACan. She was put there by the same people who summon all the characters of the game to I-Praseru, also called "Happy Island", the world where the game takes place.

The standard tournament for no reason takes place, as the characters bumble into one another and fight for various reasons. As cliched as that may sound, the Story Mode does have one relatively unique feature: it is presented like an anime TV series, complete with animation sequences done by Creator/{{AIC}} (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'').

** Danzaiver: [[spoiler:fighting a remote-controlled spare tactical frame]]