History VideoGame / KidIcarusUprising

** The Chaos Kin made a brief appearance at the end of Chapter 13. It's not until much later that we learn how much damage that creature is capable of commiting.

* WesternZodiac: There are 9 weapon and 3 powers based on it. It also appears on your file when selecting your birthday.

* WidgetSeries: Kid Icarus was already weird, despite being based in one of the most well documented and commonly adapted mythologies, but it managed to top itself when chapter 8 of this game saw the angel take a detour from the expected fight with Medusa to chase down armored {{energy being|s}} space pirates sailing in an almost literal space ocean on a ship full of compressed constellations.

* WingedHumanoid: Pit, centurions, syrens and Dark Pit.

* XanatosGambit: The Wish Seed episode. Palutena figures out halfway through that the titular item is a fake planted ([[IncrediblyLamePun ahem]]) by Hades. If they go after it, they are forced to kill the Phoenix, which will send up a beacon visible to the rest of the world, implying that the seed has been stolen — so everyone will go to war after it. However, the Phoenix is ticked that everyone's going after it, so it's rampaging, and a lot of people are going to die anyway. Kill the Phoenix or not, Hades wins.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The two animated shorts centering on Palutena feature a surprising amount of physical comedy at her expense.

* WeaponOfChoice: Pit (and yourself, in multiplayer) can wield nine different kinds of weapons: [[CoolSword Blades]], [[EnergyBow Bows]], [[{{BFG}} Cannons]], [[CarryABigStick Clubs]], [[WolverineClaws Claws]], [[PowerPalms Palms]], [[MagicStaff Staffs]], [[ArmCannon Arms]], and [[AttackDrone Orbitars]].

* ShesGotLegs: Mimicuties have these, except [[KickChick they're the kind of legs]] you'd WISH to stay away from ASAP.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Like in the first game, Pit can be turned into an eggplant, but now he can be turned into tempura as well. Unlike Eggplant Wizards, Tempura Wizards actually try to eat Pit if he gets too close before it wears off.
** When Pit turns into a Ring in the Chaos Kin Saga, he "transforms" into a dog, a little girl, and Magnus. Pit's still a ring, though, so he can't move on his own.

** There are also Tempura Wizards, an upgraded version of the Eggplant wizards. While Eggplant Wizards "just" turn Pit into an [[BalefulPolymorph eggplant]] and render him helpless to attack, Tempura Wizards turn pit into tempura shrimp, and then [[FromBadToWorse try to eat him]]. If they catch him, you lose. However, they only appear in a few chapters and only have to be defeated in one.

** The Chaos Vortex takes this UpToEleven, including but not limited to: replicas of creatures from all the previous factions, from Palutena's Centurions to the Aurum, AlienGeometries, screwy portals in the form of eyes everywhere, shadows of Pit everywhere, enemies appearing suddenly to ''cover'' the screen, etc. It can get ''really'' confusing at some points.

** Hades takes this UpToEleven when he introduces himself by quite literally tearing a hole in the fourth wall

* DifficultySpike
** Chapter 4 introduces three of the most dangerous Underworld enemies in the game; Reapers, Clubberskulls, and Ornes, plus one of the most annoying in Eggplant Wizards, not to mention painful stage hazards and minimal healing.
** Also, the standard difficulty is 2.0, but the hardest difficulty is 9.0.

Gracious goddess of light, watches from up above!\\

Twenty-five years after her original defeat, Medusa has returned to wreak havoc on the world. Pit, now very high up in the hierarchy of Palutena's army, must battle the forces of the Underworld in order to save the entire world! But soon, the battle begins to spin wildly out of control, and it becomes obvious that the war between heaven and hell isn't going to be over as soon as everyone thinks it will be…

->''"Sweep the heavens, Scourge the earth!"''

* FantasticRacism: Viridi looks down on humanity for their disregard for nature and ceaseless violence. Come Chapter 11, she debuts by dropping a Reset Bomb in the middle of a war, vowing to KillThemAll and restore nature.

* RapunzelHair: Not only does Palutena keep her very long hair from previous appearances (especially her ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' design), but Viridi has even longer hair in relation to her body.

* EnergyBeing: The Space Pirates, as mentioned on the standard Space Pirate idol.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Palutena (green; also a case of CurtainsMatchTheWindow).
** Amazon Pandora (blue).

* AffectionateParody: Of Myth/GreekMythology, as well as video games and all related conventions.

** Many of the weapons in ''Uprising'' look like futuristic firearms, in a universe clearly based on Myth/GreekMythology.

* TheThemeParkVersion: Of Myth/GreekMythology, even more so than before.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: As TheHero of the story, Pit is a cute {{Bishonen}} with InnocentBlueEyes, [[LightIsGood a literal angel]], is [[NiceGuy polite and well-mannered to everyone]], and his appearance is exceptionally [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine beautiful and bright]]. Unsurprisingly, he is in stark contrast to the ugly [[HumanoidAbomination monstrosities]] of the Underworld, who are AlwaysChaoticEvil and the villains of the game.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: As TheHero of the story, Pit is a cute {{Bishonen}} with InnocentBlueEyes, [[LightIsGood a literal angel]], is [[NiceGuy polite and well-mannered to everyone]], and his appearance is exceptionally [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine beautiful and bright]]. Unsurprisingly, he is in stark contrast to the [[EldritchAbomination demonic monstrosities]] of the Underworld, who are the villains of the game.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: As TheHero of the story, Pit is one of the best examples a video game has given us in recent memory: he is a cute {{Bishonen}} with InnocentBlueEyes, [[LightIsGood a literal angel]], is [[NiceGuy polite and well-mannered to everyone]], and his appearance is exceptionally [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine beautiful and bright]]. Unsurprisingly, he is in stark contrast to the [[EldritchAbomination demonic monstrosities]] of the Underworld, who are the villains of the game.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: As TheHero of the story, Pit is one of the best examples a video game has given us in recent memory: he is a cute PrettyBoy with InnocentBlueEyes, [[LightIsGood a literal angel]], is [[NiceGuy polite and well-mannered to everyone]], and his appearance is exceptionally [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine beautiful and bright]]. Unsurprisingly, he is in stark contrast to the [[EldritchAbomination demonic monstrosities]] of the Underworld, who are the villains of the game.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Pit is one of the best examples a video game has given us in recent memory. As TheHero of the story, Pit fits this trope to a tee: he is a cute PrettyBoy with InnocentBlueEyes, [[LightIsGood a literal angel]], is [[NiceGuy polite and well-mannered to everyone]], and his appearance is exceptionally [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine beautiful and bright]]. Unsurprisingly, he is in stark contrast to the [[EldritchAbomination demonic monstrosities]] of the Underworld, who are the villains of the game.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Pit is one of the best examples a video game has given us in recent memory. As TheHero of the story, Pit fits this trope to a tee: he is a cute PrettyBoy with InnocentBlueEyes, a literal angel, a NiceGuy, is [[invoked]] LawfulGood incarnate, and his appearance is exceptionally [[LightIsGood beautiful and bright]]. Unsurprisingly, he is in stark contrast to the [[EldritchAbomination demonic monstrosities]] of the Underworld, who are the villains of the game.

* {{Magitek}}: The sleek, [[CoolHelmet visor-wearing]], LaserBlade-equipped [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110622122856/kidicarus/images/thumb/2/25/997768_20110607_screen023.jpg/327px-997768_20110607_screen023.jpg fighters]] in together mode, especially when compared to the [[http://images.wikia.com/nintendo/en/images/5/5d/Centurion.png Centurions]].

In addition to the singleplayer campaign, there is a mode for collected AR (Augmented Reality) cards to battle each other, and, of course, since it's by the designer of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', there's a multiplayer mode. Players who preordered the game in the US got a code for a free download of [[UpdatedRerelease a 3D-remastered version]] of the original ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'', and the Nintendo Video application on the 3DS featured three short ''Kid Icarus: Uprising'' anime videos called ''Thanatos Rising'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUYyjgXTNGI part 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckvDYoYJ2c part 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPdavlmvS8Q part 3]] by Creator/ProductionIG), ''Medusa's Revenge'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76vhiHnFiyk link]] by Creator/Studio4C), and ''Palutena's Revolting Dinner'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSfIHWl-7U part 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAA9vL5bgC0 part 2]] by Creator/StudioShaft) (also available for download for My Nintendo users).

** Even "[[http://kidicarus.wikia.com/wiki/Divinipedia Divinipedia]]" was mentioned by Pyrrhon, with Pit asking for the site's link.

* {{BFS}}: Magnus [[http://images.wikia.com/nintendo/en/images/5/58/Magnus.png has one]]. It's so huge that if Pit manages to fuse a copy of it, it's treated as a ''Club'' instead of a Blade.

* BrickJoke: Early in the game, it's mentioned that the last time Pit faced Medusa was [[VideoGame/KidIcarus 25 years prior]] to the events of ''Uprising'', a nod to the SequelGap preceding the game[[note]]Technically, this ignores ''Of Myths and Monsters'', but that was only ever released in America, anyway[[/note]]. At the end of the game, Hades figures he'll have another 25 years' worth of Sequel Gap to come up with a new plan.

'''Hades''': What? Don't you like presents, Pitty Pat? \\