History VideoGame / GuiltyGearStrive

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXX''''': [[DarkActionGirl I-No]], ''[[TheCutie Bridget]]'', ''[[BadassInANiceSuit Slayer]]''

** Slayer: May 2024

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearTheMissingLink''''': [[Characters/GuiltyGearSolBadguy Sol Badguy]], [[Characters/GuiltyGearKyKiske Ky Kiske]], [[PirateGirl May]], [[TimeMaster Axl Low]], [[McNinja Chipp Zanuff]], [[PatrioticFervor Potemkin]], [[BewareTheSillyOnes Faust]], [[LadyOfWar Millia Rage]], [[CastingAShadow Zato-1]], ''[[HandicappedBadass Baiken]]'', ''[[CreepyGood Testament]]''

* New to '''''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-''''': [[ForcedIntoEvil Nagoriyuki]], [[KickChick Giovanna]], ''[[LargeAndInCharge Goldlewis Dickinson]]'', ''[[TheManBehindTheMan Happy Chaos]]'', ''[[AGirlAndHerX Bedman?]]'', ''[[VaguenessIsComing Asuka R. Kreutz]]''

* ImageSong: Creator/DaisukeIshiwatari composed lyrical themes for every playable character, unlike previous games. Often they provide a musical adaptation of their known backstory and/or mindset, such as ''Let Me Carve your Way'' for Zato-1. Others shine a character in a new light by ''revealing'' new backstory that contrasts with their appearances in Story Mode or gameplay, such as ''Hellfire'' for Leo Whitefang.

* SpoilerOpening: Almost the '''''entirety''''' of ''STRIVE''[='=]s opening animation is a spoiler for important key elements of Story Mode. In order of occurrence: [[spoiler:Nagoriyuki fighting Happy Chaos' mind control, Sol battling Nagoriyuki before Giovanna joins in, Happy Chaos with his glass of separating Milpico, the hijacked nukes during the G4 summit, Goldlewis fighting in front of the White House, Gabriel and Potemkin's involvement, the brainwashed US Secret Service agents, the Spiritas changing from its amber color to its unreleased green, Asuka NeckLifting Sol, the computer code Sol as Frederick once worked on years ago, Jack-O's own self-doubts as Aria, the brief interaction between I-No and Axl, Ky (activating his own Dragon Install) and Nagoriyuki ready to fight I-No, a BroughtDowntoBadass Sol lacking his headband limiter, and Asuka fighting the White House's security system and Happy Chaos' hacking.]]

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXX''''': [[DarkActionGirl I-No]], ''[[TheCutie Bridget]]''

** Character #28: May 2024

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[BigFreakingSword Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[TheLostLenore Jack-O']]'', ''[[LoveFreak Elphelt Valentine]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearTheMissingLink''''': [[Characters/GuiltyGearSolBadguy Sol Badguy]], [[Characters/GuiltyGearKyKiske Ky Kiske]], [[PirateGirl May]], [[TimeMaster Axl Low]], [[McNinja Chipp Zanuff]], [[PatrioticFervor Potemkin]], [[BewareTheSillyOnes Faust]], [[LadyOfWar Millia Rage]], [[CastingAShadow Zato-1]], ''[[HandicappedBadass Baiken]]'', ''[[TheGrimReaper Testament]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearTheMissingLink''''': [[Characters/GuiltyGearSolBadguy Sol Badguy]], [[Characters/GuiltyGearKyKiske Ky Kiske]], [[PirateGirl May]], [[TimeMaster Axl Low]], [[McNinja Chipp Zanuff]], [[PatrioticFervor Potemkin]], [[Characters/GuiltyGearFaust Faust]], [[LadyOfWar Millia Rage]], [[CastingAShadow Zato-1]], ''[[HandicappedBadass Baiken]]'', ''[[TheGrimReaper Testament]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearTheMissingLink''''': [[Characters/GuiltyGearSolBadguy Sol Badguy]], [[Characters/GuiltyGearKyKiske Ky Kiske]], [[PirateGirl May]], [[TimeMaster Axl Low]], [[McNinja Chipp Zanuff]], [[OneManArmy Potemkin]], [[Characters/GuiltyGearFaust Faust]], [[LadyOfWar Millia Rage]], [[CastingAShadow Zato-1]], ''[[HandicappedBadass Baiken]]'', ''[[TheGrimReaper Testament]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[BigFreakingSword Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[TheLostLenore Jack-O']]'', ''[[PerkyGoth Elphelt Valentine]]''

** Character #28: 2024

* New to '''''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-''''': [[ForcedIntoEvil Nagoriyuki]], [[KickChick Giovanna]], ''[[LargeAndInCharge Goldlewis Dickinson]]'', ''[[TheGunslinger Happy ]][[BigBad Chaos]]'', ''[[AGirlAndHerX Bedman?]]'', ''[[VaguenessIsComing Asuka R. Kreutz]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[BFG Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[TheLostLenore Jack-O']]'', ''[[PerkyGoth Elphelt Valentine]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[BFS Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[TheLostLenore Jack-O']]'', ''[[PerkyGoth Elphelt Valentine]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[DualWielding Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[TheLostLenore Jack-O']]'', ''[[PerkyGoth Elphelt Valentine]]''
* New to '''''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-''''': [[TheBerserker Nagoriyuki]], [[KickChick Giovanna]], ''[[LargeAndInCharge Goldlewis Dickinson]]'', ''[[TheGunslinger Happy ]][[BigBad Chaos]]'', ''[[AGirlAndHerX Bedman?]]'', ''[[VaguenessIsComing Asuka R. Kreutz]]''

* New to '''''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-''''': [[TheBerserker Nagoriyuki]], [[KickChick Giovanna]], ''[[LargeAndInCharge Goldlewis Dickinson]]'', ''[[TheGunslinger Happy Chaos]]'', ''[[AGirlAndHerX Bedman?]]'', ''[[VaguenessIsComing Asuka R. Kreutz]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[DualWielding Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[TheLostLenore Jack-O']]''', ''[[PerkyGoth Elphelt Valentine]]''

* DarkerAndEdgier: While still ''beautifully'' animated, ''-STRIVE-'' lacks the vibrant colours, exaggerated facial expressions and stylistic wackiness that defined VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd. It's also much darker from a story perspective: [[TheHeroDies Sol Badguy's death]] is alluded to several times, the perpetually cheerful Axl Low is now a SadClown stranded in the ''GG'' timeline and [[YouCantGoHomeAgain unable to ever return home]], Faust has cast aside his funny persona and become some kind of HumanoidAbomination who speaks in CreepyMonotone, "Bedman?"... well, there's no ''Man'' part anymore and what's left is just a [[HauntedTechnology malfunctioning, violently protective haunted Bed]] fighting in his place, and [[spoiler:I-no [[AGodAmI becomes "God"]] with truly terrifying metaphysically apocalyptic consequences. Ironically though, the story gives most of the cast {{Surprisingly Happy Ending}}s.]]

** Sol Badguy [[spoiler:''[[TheHeroDies dies]]''. [[ThatManIsDead That is]], the identity that Frederick Bulsara built up as an unstoppable BountyHunter dies. Asuka strips him of his Gear powers in order to stop I-no from destroying the world and he is [[DeathFakedForYou declared KIA]] with the help of Ky and the US government, but this lets him retire and settle down into a new life working in a little machine shop with Jack'O.]]

* POVSequel: ''-STRIVE-'''s DLC scenario "Another Story" takes place during the main game's Story Mode, focusing on May, Ramlethal, Faust, Sin (all who only cameo'd in the Story Mode), and Baiken as they deal with [[spoiler:Delilah, Bedman's sister, as she hunts down Happy Chaos to avenge her brother.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:It turns out that Axl and I-no are in fact time-displaced AlternateTimeline versions of a pair of lovers, William and Megumi, hopping through time while being unaware of each others' real identities... until the end, when a last PetTheDog moment from I-no [[EarnYourHappyEnding lets Megumi come forward in time to Axl, finally reuniting the couple]].]]

* From '''''Guilty Gear Isuka''''': ''[[TheOphelia A.B.A.]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[DualWielding Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[TheLostLenore Jack-O]]''', ''[[PerkyGoth Elphelt Valentine]]''

** A.B.A.: March 26th, 2024

* From '''''Guilty Gear Isuka''''': ''[[ArtificialHuman A.B.A.]]''

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': [[DualWielding Ramlethal Valentine]], [[ManlyMan Leo Whitefang]], ''[[Characters/GuiltyGearJackO Jack-O]]''', ''[[PerkyGoth Elphelt Valentine]]''
* New to '''''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-''''': [[TheBerserker Nagoriyuki]], [[KickChick Giovanna]], ''[[LargeAndInCharge Goldlewis Dickinson]]'', ''[[TheGunslinger Happy Chaos]]'', ''[[AGirlAndHerX Bedman?]]'', ''[[Characters/GuiltyGearAsukaRKreutz Asuka R. Kreutz]]''

%%* From '''''Guilty Gear Isuka''''': ''[[ArtificialHuman A.B.A.]]''

** Character #27: 2024

* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearTheMissingLink''''': Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, May, Axl Low, Chipp Zanuff, Potemkin, Faust, Millia Rage, Zato-1, ''Baiken'', ''Testament''
* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearX''''': Anji Mito, ''Johnny''
* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXX''''': I-No, ''Bridget''
* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGear2Overture''''': ''Sin Kiske''
* From '''''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''''': Ramlethal Valentine, Leo Whitefang, ''Jack-O''', ''Elphelt Valentine''
* New to '''''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-''''': Nagoriyuki, Giovanna, ''Goldlewis Dickinson'', ''Happy Chaos'', ''Bedman?'', ''Asuka R. Kreutz''

* GameMod: ''STRIVE'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaBrGETVAu0 a surprisingly robust modding scene]] for a fighting game, and one at the beginning of its days. Mods range from alternate color palettes, intros, new particle effects, and even one that turns May's Totsugeki in to PokemonSpeak.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While still ''beautifully'' animated, ''-STRIVE-'' lacks the vibrant colours, exaggerated facial expressions and stylistic wackiness that defined VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd. It's also much darker from a story perspective: [[TheHeroDies Sol Badguy's death]] is alluded to several times, the perpetually cheerful Axl Low is now a SadClown stranded in the ''GG'' timeline and [[YouCantGoHomeAgain unable to ever return home]], Faust has cast aside his funny persona and become some kind of HumanoidAbomination who speaks in CreepyMonotone, "Bedman?"... well, there's no ''Man'' part anymore and what's left is just a [[HauntedTechnology malfunctioning, violently protective haunted Bed]] fighting on his place, and [[spoiler:I-no [[AGodAmI becomes "God"]] with truly terrifying metaphysically apocalyptic consequences. Ironically though, the story gives most of the cast {{Surprisingly Happy Ending}}s.]]

** ''Another Story'' reveals what became of Faust: [[spoiler:Forced to use the maximum extent of his RealityWarper powers to save Delilah, [[HeroicSacrifice he ends up tapping into too much energy from the Backyard and causing his death and his soul to depart to the afterlife]]. What is left is an EmptyShell[=/=]TechnicallyLivingZombie driven solely by an [[{{Determinator}} unyielding desire to help the sick and injured that defeats even death]]. While certainly bittersweet, it's a very noble sendoff to one of the most recognized and beloved characters in the series.]]

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