History VideoGame / XMenLegendsII

* UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}: The PC port makes use the Safedisk DRM. Years after the release, a Windows patch has made it impossible to play the game. This force players to either play the game on Windows XP or use a CD crack.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: A lot of bosses, which the game feels no real need to explain who they are.

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EnemyMine: The X-Men and the Brotherhood team up to take down Apocalypse.

UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}: The PC port makes use the Safedisk DRM. Years after the release, a Windows patch has made it impossible to play the game. This force players to either play the game on Windows XP or use a CD crack.
* EleventhHourRanger: Collecting all the homing beacons in each chapter will let you save and unlock [[spoiler:Iron Man]] in the final chapter. At that point, they are pretty much only available for the final few bosses. Thankfully you can use them more by doing a NewGamePlus.
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%%* BigBad: Apocalypse.

* UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}: The PC port makes use the Safedisk DRM. Years after the release, a Windows patch has made it impossible to play the game. This force players to either play the game on Windows XP or use a CD crack.
* EnemyMine: The X-Men and the Brotherhood team up to take down Apocalypse.

** Inverted with Nightcrawler. In the first game, his greatest asset to the party is as a CPU-controlled character who can Leap of Faith members out of danger as his actual offense is really weak, based entirely around teleportation. In the second game, he has an incredibly useful dash attack, can use teleporting as a double jump, and his Master of Chaos super is very handy in boss fights with a lot of mooks. Master of Chaos is also THE single most effective boss killing Extreme in the game. Whereas other Extreme attacks are AoE blasts (or wide Cones in the case of Cyclops) Master of Chaos has Nightcrawler zapping around the field, attacking enemies. But if there is only one enemy on the screen....each and every single attack homes in on that enemy for HUGE damage.

Followed by the ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' games, the first of which was also developed by Raven Software.

* LargeHam: Apocalypse hams it up by just [[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable his inflections]] and [[GutturalGrowler growly voice]], especially thanks to his long-winded speeches. He also apparently has NoIndoorVoice.

* BonusBoss: Lady Deathstrike: if your main character is an X-Man or if you have Wolverine in your party, she will attack you. If your main character is a member of the Brotherhood, he can just bribe her with money and let her go.

* BladeOnAStick: Several enemies are armed with polearms of various types.

* BareYourMidriff: Almost every female outfit.
* BigBad: Apocalypse.

* BonusBoss: Lady Deathstrike: if your main character is an X Man or if you have Wolverine in your party, she will attack you. If your main character is a member of the Brotherhood, he can just bribe her with money and let her go.

* CurseCutShort: Forge is introduced yelling at a machine of his, gets as far as calling it a "piece of -" before noticing Magma's entered the room.

* DreamLand: In the first game, the team has to enter Professor X's mind on the Astral Plane.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before he takes Xavier prisoner, Shadow King mentions that someone told him how to lure Xavier to his realm, but doesn't elaborate. It doesn't come up against, but the ending implies that person was [[spoiler:Apocalypse.]]

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: A lot of bosses, which feels no real need to explain who they are.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter:
** Havok trusts Magneto.
** Blink is unable to recognize Sabretooth is a demented murder-maniac, even though he's not really making any attempt to hide it.
* HubLevel: The game had the characters relocating their base of operations from one section of the game to the next, with locations like Genosha, Muir Island, and the Savage Land.

* InstantArmor: Iceman and Magma can make instant armor based on their elemental abilities after getting the armor upgrade. Storm and Jean Grey get elemental/psychic shields that can be shared with the party.

* TheManBehindTheMan: The one who set Shadow King up to trap Xavier in his realm by kidnapping Illyana/Magik? Apocalypse.

* NoSell: Cyclops and Havok zap one another with their powers, but their powers don't effect one another.

* SecretCharacter: In the second game, [[spoiler:ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}]].

* SmurfettePrinciple: Scarlet Witch is the only woman in the Brotherhood's side. Mystique and Destiny are also women in the Brotherhood, but they are not playable.

* {{DRM}}: The PC port makes use the Safedisk DRM. Years after the release, a Windows patch has made it impossible to play the game. This force players to either play the game on Windows XP or use a CD crack.

* Brotherhood of Mutants: {{ComicBook/Magneto}}, Toad, ComicBook/ScarletWitch, Juggernaut. Sabretooth and Pyro were PC exclusive.
* Unlockable characters: Professor X, [[spoiler: ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}]]. ComicBook/XMan, {{ComicBook/Cable}}, Cannonball, and Dark Phoenix were PSP exclusives.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: In the Infinite Factory, you're told that Sinister's super computer is in charge, and is implied that it will create a copy of Sinister to fight you. [[spoiler: Instead you're forced to fight four holographic generators that constantly spawn evil copies of Storm, Ice Man, Wolverine and Cyclops.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Beast and Angel are captured by Apocalypse and brainwashed into helping him, resulting in the game's versions of Dark Beast (Beast's ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' counterpart) and Archangel. However, defeating them also undoes the brainwashing.]]

** Pyro and Sabretooth are playable characters in the PC version. They appear as [=NPCs=], and are captured in the game by Apocalypse's forces. The problem is that the characters are still playable while they've been captured. In Pyro's case, the party breaks him out of prison during Act 1, though he is available before that, allowing the player to have Pyro rescue himself. More serious is Sabretooth's case, [[spoiler: since he is the fourth and final mutant with Harmonic DNA that Apocalypse captures for his evil plan.]]
** It's also possible to do this with [[spoiler: Deadpool]] once he has been unlocked, though it gets lampshaded this time given the kind of character he is. The two [[spoiler: Deadpools]] argue over which is the real one.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During the final part of the boss battle against [[HumanoidAbomination Abyss]] he absorbs the characters inside his body... [[spoiler: where you can detonate the bombs left inside himself and defeat him for good.]]

* LargeHam: Apocalypse hams it up by just [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle his inflections]] and [[GutturalGrowler growly voice]], especially thanks to his long-winded speeches. He also apparently has NoIndoorVoice. ("YOU FOOLS. YOU SHOULD BE ''THANKING'' ME, NOT ''PURSUING'' ME. I'M THE ONE WHO SHOWED YOU THE X-MEN AND BROTHERHOOD COULD WORK TOGETHAH! YOU'RE STRONGER FOR-IT!")

* PragmaticAdaptation: The game is a loose adaptation of the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse mixed with ''The Twelve'', forgoing time travel and the death of Charles Xavier, basing some characters strictly on their A o A selves (Abyss and Colossus' brother, Mikhail Rasputin are lackeys of Apocalypse like in [=AoA=], as opposed to--respectively--a hero and a threat in his own right in the traditional Marvel Universe), basing others on their classic selves (Sebastian Shaw, Selene, Bastion) and [[spoiler: making Dark Beast a brainwashed Beast]].
* PurposelyOverpowered: The [[SecretCharacter Secret Characters]] [[spoiler:Deadpool and Iron Man]], unlocked after beating the game (or right before the final boss, in the case of the latter). The former is a OneManArmy for most of the game, and the latter can clear whole rooms on his own with his bolts or repulsors when his Boost is activated.
* RedHerring:[[spoiler:Destiny foresees that someone within the X-Men or Brotherhood will betray the alliance. We are led to believe it's Angel, since he's captured and a cutscene shows him being turned into Archangel, the last Horseman of Apocalypse. In reality, there were ''two'' traitors, Destiny only foresaw one. The other traitor was Beast, who's been captured and rescued by your party, as part of Apocalypse's plan since he was brainwashed to be TheMole]].

* SecretCharacter: In the second game, [[spoiler: ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}]].

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