Line #7 VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: [[VideoGame/SaintsRow A street gang?]] Hardly.]]
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4	->''"In 2017, Persephone Brimstone gathered an unruly band of misfits to take on the evil Morningstar and his criminal L.E.G.I.O.N. [...] If you want Bad vs Evil, if you want more fun per square mile, maybe you should play... Agents of Mayhem!"''
5	-->'''-- The A-Team style [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnti-wNh10 trailer]]'''
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7	''Agents of Mayhem'' is a single-player open world action game by Creator/{{Volition}}, and an indirect sequel/reboot to the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series. It was released on August 15, 2017 on PC, Xbox One, and [=PlayStation=] 4.
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9	In an alternate universe TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, the evil super-secret organization L.E.G.I.O.N.[[note]]The League of Evil Gentlemen Intent on Obliterating Nations[[/note]] has stomped out of the shadows and conquered the world with a series of multinational genocidal terrorist assaults using alien and unprecedented technology. But instead of a new world order, L.E.G.I.O.N. is planning something even ''worse''. The only ones who can stop them are the Agents of M.A.Y.H.E.M.[[note]]The Multinational [=AgencY=] for Hunting Evil Masterminds - they're still looking for a word to fit the 'Y'[[/note]] and their leader, Persephone Brimstone. The player selects teams of three agents and controls a single agent, who can use teleportation to swap with other team members in the middle of a gunfight and make the best use of their individual weapons, abilities, powers, and skillsets. Most of the game takes place in a futuristic version of UsefulNotes/{{Seoul}}, [[UsefulNotes/{{SouthKorea}} South Korea]], against L.E.G.I.O.N.'s Ministry of Pride, headed by MadScientist Doctor Babylon and his douchebag lieutenants.
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11	The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVKn4QqSzog debut trailer]] was released on June 6, 2016.
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14	!!This game contains examples of:
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16	* AbsentMindedProfessor: Joule's father, Umberto Bellini, is this. Aside from having valuable research carelessly falling from his clipboard during a hasty escape from their mansion before L.E.G.I.O.N. gets there, in Joule's introductory mission, she [[LampshadeHanging points out the fact]] that he had pre-recorded all of his secret messages to her in English, in a L.E.G.I.O.N. lair, which all of them could understand, rather than in their native Italian which most of the soldiers wouldn't understand. His response?
17	-->'''Umberto Bellini''': Only after I had recorded 150 responses did that occur to me. ''Perdonami, bella.''
18	* AbsurdlyLowLevelCap: Upgrading Mayhem's Agency level to 20 will probably happen around the point you've completed 25-30% of the game. Unless you're actively trying to reach level 20 with all your agents, your favorite team will probably hit level 20 about the same time, at which point you'll probably have enough Upgrade Cores to advance all three of them to level 40 right away.[[note]]Once an agent reaches level 20, they can no longer gain experience points but they can use up to 20 upgrade cores to reach the level cap of 40.[[/note]]
19	* ActionGenreHeroGuy: Hollywood is a subversion. He might look like one at first glance, as a white dude with requisite short brown hair and an assault rifle - but he's also a [[AwesomeEgo vain, bombastic TV personality]] and former porn star with a pansexual orientation, so he's definitely more than just another "action genre hero guy". The developers specifically said on pre-release streams that they wanted a [[SkillGateCharacters pick-up-and-play character]] [[InvokedTrope familiar to shooter fans]], but that [[PlayingWithATrope did not preclude him being interesting]].
20	* ActorAllusion: Hollywood says "See you on the flipside" when you start the first mission, a reference to Trevor Devall's dormant podcast show ''Voiceprint''.
21	* AllForNothing: [[invoked]] The Franchise Force team mission has the agents recover Hollywood's [[OldShame shameful early films]] from Legion. At the end of the mission, Fortune livestreams the films to an audience of millions, [[spoiler:revealing to the world that Hollywood is a retired porn star.]]
22	* AlternateUniverse: The Agents of Mayhem universe is an alternate timeline of the Saints Row universe caused by a CosmicRetcon, meaning that not only is history slightly different, but the characters from that series exist in this setting but in different roles.
23	* AndThatsTerrible: When the Dark Matter Fracking drill is introduced, most active agents will immediately comment on how awful fracking is.
24	* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Rather than just disappointingly falling, agents will bounce a bit back onto an elevated ledge or roof if they barely missed landing solidly on it.
25	* AssholeVictim: M.A.Y.H.E.M. repeatedly performs multiple war crimes on the mooks, including excessive force, bio-warfare, kill-sats, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and lame hypno-dancing]]. Seeing as they willingly chose to follow a terrorist dictatorship that gleefully slaughtered civilians in the millions, nuked entire cities, and continue to terrorize the world months after they successfully took over, this isn't exactly DisproportionateRetribution.
26	* AttackDrone: Fortune's drone Glory, which flies around and attacks nearby enemies and is capable of stunning everyone around her as a LimitBreak.
27	* BaldOfEvil: [[MadScientist Doctor Babylon]], the villainous leader of the Ministry of Pride division of L.E.G.I.O.N., is bald.
28	* BigBad: Morningstar, the leader of L.E.G.I.O.N..
29	* BlackAndGrayMorality: L.E.G.I.O.N. is definitely evil, but the eponymous Agents of M.A.Y.H.E.M. cause so much collateral damage that they are only really heroes in comparison to their enemies. Likely an InvokedTrope, as one of the taglines to the game is "Bad vs. Evil".
30	* BlatantLies: The Firing Squad get up into this in their special mission, [[RashomonStyle along with completely different accounts]]. [[spoiler:Which distracts Persephone from the fact that the box in fact held no weapon at all, just an adorable chinchilla that the Firing Squad held onto as a pet.]]
31	* BlingBlingBang: Each agent has an unlockable gold skin for their main weapon. They even sparkle!
32	* BodyHorror: Lazarus, a DLC character, she used to be a normal human, but after an explosion killed her, she was injected with Nanites, that brought her back, in a way, she still looks human, but her body has silvery plates running across her body, that open like Gills to release her nanite swarms, she attacks by reaching into her the ones on her back and pulling swarms out to throw at enemies.
33	* BossRush: [[spoiler:During the final battle, Babylon has you fight through alternate universe versions of Hammersmith, Gaunt, Red AISHA and Steeltoe before you face off against him and Ariadne]].
34	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Persephone's description of Hollywood:
35	-->'''Persephone''': "This... is Hollywood. Ostentatious showboat. Reality TV star. And... former adult film actor."
36	* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Kingpin used a couple of these to win over his Stilwater rivals and fortify his gang.
37	* BrutalBonusLevel: The Legion lair at the end of the Moscow Global Offensive is longer than most and the difficulty is automatically set to ten.
38	* CallBack: Safeword's intro video shows that she once hacked all of the FBI's password to be 'teacup', Kinzie's safeword from VideoGame/SaintsRow.
39	* CoolAirship: [[spoiler:Steeltoe and AISHA bring one of these in for their big wedding ceremony. Unfortunately, it self-destructs after Steeltoe's defeat.]]
40	** The ARK itself as well. It comes equipped with a teleporter, virtual training area, personal quarters, an armory, a garage, a research station and much more. Quite fitting for MAYHEM's main HQ.
41	* CoolCar: Quartermile's garage is well stocked with various vehicles that the player can summon anywhere in Seoul. Each car comes with an onboard A.I. unit and can be outfitted with custom paintjobs.
42	* CoolShades: Hollywood loves to put these on.
43	--> '''Hollywood:''' [[StuffBlowingUp Cue the action music!]]
44	** Johnny Gat, even in an alternate universe, still has his iconic shades that he [[SunglassesAtNight never takes off]].
45	* ConfusionFu: Switch characters in half a second with no additional drawbacks for extra unpredictability. You can start a combo by rushing into the enemy party, swap to a heavy for short-range overkill, and top it off with a Michael Jackson dance party. Or, fire some virus-tipped arrows into an unsuspecting army, then whip out a freeze ray to prevent healing, and shatter the icicles with a poorly-disarmed hollywood prop grenade. Or just switch whenever the fuck you want and use anything you can find at your disposal.
46	* CutAndPasteEnvironments: One of the biggest complaints about the game is how each L.E.G.I.O.N. lair looks the same save for minor changes in the layout. Seeing as these lairs make up about 50% of the gameplay it has drawn a lot of criticism.
47	* CuttingOffTheBranches: Averted. While Volition has confirmed the CosmicRetcon ending to ''Gat Out Of Hell'' is being followed, it's not necessarily the "canon" ending to the ''Saints Row'' franchise as a whole, leaving the possibility for more entries in the main series.
48	* DeadlyDoctor: Rama was an epidemiologist before joining M.A.Y.H.E.M. and she uses plague viruses in her {{Trick Arrow}}s.
49	* DestructiveSavior: The titular agents tend to cause tons of collateral damage.
50	* DoomedHometown: Half the reason M.A.Y.H.E.M. has so many powerful agents is because Devil's Night destroyed a lot of hometowns and pissed off a massive amount of people who now want revenge. [[spoiler:The destruction of Paris in particular is what inspired its formation in the first place.]]
51	* DoubleJump: ''Triple'' Jump! Every agent can do that. Many can even dash in a cardinal direction while in the air as well.
52	* TheDreaded: NOBODY in M.A.Y.H.E.M. wants to be on the bad side of "Carol from HR". Or worse, Persephone herself if something goes wrong (like when Mixer's attempted hacking into AISHA went sideways, though "Purple AISHA" did leave once "Red AISHA" could not get over losing Steeltoe).
53	* EasyModeMockery: The easiest difficulty level (New Recruit) gives you a 25% ''penalty'' to earned cash and XP.
54	** HardModePerks: In contrast, the higher the difficulty, the higher the cash and XP bonus.
55	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: L.E.G.I.O.N. has multiple bases located beneath Seoul.
56	* EnemyChatter: L.E.G.I.O.N. soldiers have several taunts they use during combat. Their dialogue and insults even change to reflect the agent they're currently fighting.
57	* EqualOpportunityEvil: Like its counterpart, L.E.G.I.O.N. also recruits from around the world. Dr. Babylon is Turkish, Hammersmith is Swedish, Steeltoe is from Barbados and [[spoiler:AISHA is a Korean AI]].
58	* EvilVsEvil: Or as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ55Q9Tk9N4 Persephone said,]] [[InsistentTerminology "Bad versus Evil."]] She adds "They have their own reasons for saving the world."
59	* EvilOverlord: Morningstar is definitely this, being the leader of a NebulousEvilOrganization that killed many people, wants to conquer the entire world, and eliminate all free will.
60	* EyepatchOfPower: If a FreezeFrameBonus in the trailer is to be believed, Hardtack wears a "tactical eyepatch".
61	* ForWantOfANail: Part of the AlternateUniverse aspect of the game is that the events of VideoGame/SaintsRow1 happened a lot differently. For one, the person who would become the Boss either never existed or simply never got involved, the Saints seemingly never existed either, and Benjamin King was killed. Pierce Washington then became the boss of the Vice Kings and managed to form an alliance with the Westside Rollerz and Los Carnales, uniting all three gangs under one banner. Also, Johnny Gat never became a criminal and instead became a police officer. ''The Third'''s Oleg Kirlov, never left Russia and volunteered for a super soldier program that transformed him into AnIcePerson known as Yeti.
62	* FootballHooligans: Red Card is a German football fan, and [[TheBerserker his playstyle is a hooligan through and through]].
63	* FunWithAcronyms: Both M.A.Y.H.E.M. and L.E.G.I.O.N. play this straight.
64	* GangBangers: Kingpin and his Vice Kings. After buying off their rivals their combined power was enough to defend Stilwater from a direct L.E.G.I.O.N. attack.
65	* GunsAkimbo: Fortune uses two guns as her weapons, Gat uses two pistols for his Mayhem ability.
66	* HeelFaceTurn: Persephone Brimstone used to be a L.E.G.I.O.N. lieutenant. [[spoiler: More specifically, the "Minister of Gluttony," who was in charge of logistics and deployment during Devil's Night. Then she learned that L.E.G.I.O.N. was planning to literally destroy the entire world instead of taking over, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and she fled with their flagship]]. After L.E.G.I.O.N. retaliated on Paris, [[ItsPersonal she created M.A.Y.H.E.M. to destroy them]].]]
67	* HeroInsurance: Subverted in the debut trailer, where representatives of Ultor give Miss Brimstone grief over how much damage the Agents did to Seoul during the battle against Doctor Babylon. Hollywood's introduction also implies he does a bit of work publicly speaking to get people to cut them some slack over it.
68	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Rama's plague arrows are based on a plague L.E.G.I.O.N. unleashed in her homeland of India.
69	* AnIcePerson: Yeti's skin is a freezing blue color and he has an ice ray.
70	* KillSat: Braddock has one which she uses for her mayhem ability. [[spoiler:Near the end of the game the player also gains access to a permanent laser cannon barrage that can be activated once a short cooldown timer wears off.]]
71	* LaserGuidedKarma:
72	** Hollywood trolling Fortune on her "Thick as Thieves" sidequest comes back to bite him during the "Operation: Franchise Force" mission. Since they're Live-streaming a raid on a L.E.G.I.O.N. base to get something that could hurt Hollywood personally [[spoiler:Fortune finds out it's a adult film from Hollywood's early days taking whatever he could get. She then puts the movie on the livestream - which was what Hollywood hoped would ''not'' happen; his early mission dealt with a LooneyFan threatening to do the same thing, only for her to sell it to L.E.G.I.O.N. for use as a PR weapon against Hollywood]].
73	** Combined with TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Dr. Babylon grafted a mind-control implant into his lieutenant, Ariadne, which drove her insane. Eventually, she managed to remove the chip with self-surgery, and then grafted a modified version into the control system of the Damocles robot. When Dr. Babylon is forced to pilot Damocles, she triggers the chip and drives ''him'' insane; combined with the rush of power from a giant Dark Matter crystal, this fuels his ambition and turns him into TheStarscream, and he tries to rewrite reality with himself as the center. MAYHEM is able to foil this, and Morningstar sends Marcus Longinus to punish Dr. Babylon for his ''treasonous'' failure.]]
74	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The debut trailer ends with Brimstone remarking "A 'street gang'? Hardly." This alludes to ''Saints Row''[==]'s roots as a grounded street crime drama and its evolution into over-the-top wackiness (which continues with ''Agents of Mayhem'').
75	** The Firing Squad's special mission has each member [[RashomonStyle tell a significantly different account of what happened]], and enemies directly match the current speaker's statements. Like when Kingpin says they fought ten big robots which the player sees in front of them (probably thinking OhCrap), but backtracks to "Maybe just two robots?" which causes the other eight to disappear.
76	* LimitBreak: Every character has a special Mayhem ability that's charged up by killing enemies as well as picking up special pickups.
77	* LiterallyShatteredLives: Yeti's specialty. Almost all of his attacks and abilities revolve around freezing opponents solid and then breaking them apart.
78	* LoonyFan: Hollywood has to deal with one of these during his personal mission.
79	* MonkeyMoralityPose: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rXFFAUkYX8 Oni's Introduction video]] a more ''brutal'' per se, version is shown. Where three corpses are shown to have killed in this order. One was killed by having his hands stabbed into his head with two knives representing "Hear No Evil", next appears to have been killed by having chopsticks shoved into his eyes "See No Evil" and the last one was killed by having a newspaper shoved into his mouth "Speak No Evil".
80	* MonumentalDamage: This seems to be L.E.G.I.O.N.'s favorite pastime. Just watch the cinematic for Devil's Night to see how much chaos and destruction they can get up to in a single day.
81	** Hammersmith decides to blow up a 1200-year old temple to kill M.A.Y.H.E.M. personnel inside. For the rest of the game, various lieutenants pin the blame on M.A.Y.H.E.M..
82	* MultinationalTeam: The Agents are mostly from different countries.
83	** Hollywood is from Canada, though he lies and claims he's actually from Los Angeles to help his acting career.
84	** Hardtack, Braddock, Daisy, Safeword and Kingpin are from America.
85	** Fortune is from Columbia.
86	** Yeti is from Russia.
87	** Scheherazade is (allegedly) from Iran.
88	** Joule is from Italy.
89	** Red Card is from Germany.
90	** Oni is from Japan.
91	** Rama is from India.
92	** Lazarus is from Morocco.
93	** Gat is the only native hailing from South Korea, and was actually born in Seoul.
94	* MythologyGag:
95	** This is the third IP Volition has worked on that features the Ultor Corporation.
96	** In the trailer, an Ultor contact accuses the Agents of acting like a street gang -- an obvious reference to ''Saints Row''... right in front of a more angular version of the Third Street Saints fleur-de-lis.
97	** When Pierce first debuted in ''Saints Row 2'', the Boss put him in charge of operations against the Ronin, the yellow-wearing gang of that game ([[ButtMonkey not that s/he actually listened to any of his suggestions]]). In this universe, Pierce became the leader of the Vice Kings, the yellow-wearing gang of the ''first'' game.
98	** Kingpin has a conversation with Oni in which he says he had a dream about a Yakuza gang called the Ronin moving to Stilwater, which he took down via a carefully orchestrated robbery of their casino, which was his plan in ''Saints Row 2'': the reason the gang gave the Saints so much trouble was because the Boss and Gat decided to simply shoot the place up instead.
99	** Kingpin and Yeti play chess together, much like they did in ''Saints Row: The Third''.
100	** [[RunningGag Kingpin]] also asks Yeti if he's ever been to Stilwater, saying that he feels like they've met before.
101	** Legion traffics in Loa Dust, which was the superdrug made by the Sons of Samedi in ''Saints Row 2''
102	** One of the dossiers shown at the end of the final "Persephone's Encrypted Files" video is of Agent Safeword, aka Kinzie Kenzington.
103	** In a random conversation, Scheherazade will ask Kingpin if he remembers being a White House aide, going to space, and fighting a giant energy drink.
104	** Asha Odekar's name is upon the memorial wall in the Ark.
105	** During the Steeltoe and AISHA Wedding mission, Gat mentions remembering [[Characters/SaintsRowTheThirdStreetSaints a different Aisha,]] dismissing it as a [[PastLifeMemories past-life memory]].
106	** One of Hollywood's Agent skins is named "Stillwatter Original" not only an obvious reference to where most of the first 2 games take place but also colors his hair partially blond very similar to Gat's old hair style and color.
107	* NGOSuperpower: L.E.G.I.O.N. is effectively this, especially in the wake of Devil's Night. After the collapse of the world's governments, many people have [[IFightForTheStrongestSide secretly aligned themselves with the strongest world power remaining - L.E.G.I.O.N.]]. In addition to its massive armies, cutting-edge weapons and unique technology, L.E.G.I.O.N. controls a number of [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront front companies]] and is allied with [[ArmsDealer armament manufacturers]] and [[TheSyndicate crime syndicates]], including the {{Yakuza}}. [[CorruptPolitician Corrupt government officials]] and other traitors have also secretly aided L.E.G.I.O.N..
108	** Braddock was [[CourtMartialed dishonorably discharged]] from the U.S.M.C. because she learned that [[CorruptPolitician someone in the American government]] was sending [[{{Mooks}} trained recruits]] to work for LEGION's Ministry of Pride.
109	** Oni killed his former Yakuza clan because he learned that they allied themselves with L.E.G.I.O.N.'s Ministry of Greed.
110	** Yeti and the New Revolutionary Council were betrayed by [[TheRival a rival Cold Warrior]] who believed that allegiance to L.E.G.I.O.N. was the best solution to restore Russia to greatness.
111	** After Devil's Night, defense contracts mostly went to armament manufacturing companies aligned with L.E.G.I.O.N.. Claymore's own business went bankrupt as a result, forcing him to accept an exclusive partnership with Persephone and M.A.Y.H.E.M..
112	** Quartermile's rival Bianchi supplies L.E.G.I.O.N. with high-speed vehicles, much like how Quartermile himself does for M.A.Y.H.E.M..
113	* PeripheryDemographic: An in-universe example. In a shout out to the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Brony phenomenon]], many of the agents are obsessed with a children's TV show called ''Butterfly Princess'', which is about puppies with butterfly wings.
114	* PornNames: In addition to Hollywood's being Gregory Prickinton in his OldShame pornographic film, his co-stars have the doubtfully-real names of "[[PunnyName Ivana Bangya]]" and "Marcus Thunderpump".
115	* PowerTrio: You can create your own trio from the game's many playable Agents. The twelve default agents all fit into four trios who get a unique squad mission after their own personal missions are complete.
116	** [[ActionGenreHeroGuy Hollywood,]] [[SkyPirate Fortune]] and [[BoisterousBruiser Hardtack]] are the Franchise Force.
117	** Kingpin, Sheherazade and Oni are the Firing Squad.
118	** Red Card, Joule and Rama are the Bombshells.
119	** Braddock, Daisy and Yeti are the Carnage a Trois.
120	* PromotedToPlayable: Pierce Washington, known by his codename "Kingpin" in this universe, is now a playable character. Oleg Kirrlov is also playable, under the codename "Yeti". Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington ("Safeword") are also playable once again via DLC.
121	* RashomonStyle: The Firing Squad's operation is a flashback to an attack on a Legion base, told three different ways to Persephone by Oni, Kingpin, and Scheherazade (and each story being played one after another by the player). In the end, it's revealed that the "weapon" they retrieved was [[spoiler:a cute chinchilla, which the team lied about due to Mayhem's strict "no pets" policy]].
122	* RegeneratingHealth: Unlike other shooters, ''Agents of Mayhem''s version happens very slowly and '''only''' kicks in while characters are switched out, making it kinda close to, but not quite exactly, RegeneratingShieldsStaticHealth.
123	* RunningGag:
124	** Just the mention of Carol from HR strikes terror into all the agents.
125	** There are many, many jokes made about the fact that the planetarium has a current exhibit about [[UranusIsShowing Uranus]].
126	* SeadogBeard: Ishmael "Hardtack" Funderburke, the M.A.Y.H.E.M.'s [[FreezeFrameBonus badass sailor]], has one.
127	* SequelHook: Doctor Babylon and the Ministry of Pride are predictably defeated. [[spoiler:but then get dragged off by one of the remaining 5 ministers, Marcus Longinus.]] In addition, many other plot threads such as Scherezade's true identity and [[spoiler:Oni's quest to rescue his family from Legion]] are left unresolved.
128	* SevenDeadlySins: L.E.G.I.O.N. has its operations delegated to Ministries that each have a name of a Sin. We've only seen Pride (Dr. Babylon, whose Ministry is the main body against M.A.Y.H.E.M. in the game), Wrath (Marcus Longinus), Envy (Persephone's ex-husband after Paris was destroyed on Morningstar's orders) and Gluttony (Persephone before the destruction of Paris and the formation of M.A.Y.H.E.M.) have known or mentioned ministers. The Ministry of Greed corrupted Oni's yakuza group, so he was forced to GottaKillEmAll. We don't know if there were Ministries of Sloth or Lust.
129	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The main weapons for [[FatherNeptune Hardtack]], Gat and [[FootballHooligans Red Card]].
130	* ShoutOut:
131	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnti-wNh10 Bad vs. Evil trailer]] parodies the ''Series/TheATeam'' opening narration and features a remix of that series's theme.
132	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4LrxZ6vro Ride For Mayhem trailer]] is one big shout-out to ''Series/KnightRider'', right down to a remixed version of the theme, and the fact that it reveals that your car is fitted with a wise-cracking A.I. program.
133	** The "Legal Action Pending" DLC and certain in game skins give certain agents costumes based off of popular characters from other franchises.
134	*** Hollywood's costumes are ''ComicBook/IronMan'' and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
135	*** Daisy's are ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' and ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}.''
136	*** Yeti's are Panthro from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'', ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'', and [[ComicBook/XMen Colossus]].
137	*** Oni's is ComicBook/TheJoker.
138	*** Kingpin's is [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]].
139	*** Rama's are ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'', ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} and ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}}.
140	*** Joule's is the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse version of ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], and ''Barbie''.
141	*** Fortune's is ComicBook/StarLord.
142	*** May or may not be a deliberate one, but her ''Franchise Force'' costume is more than a little reminiscent of a certain [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Merc with a Mouth]]...
143	*** Braddock's are ComicBook/{{Cable}}, Dutch from ''Film/{{Predator}}'', [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the Winter Soldier]], and Vasquez from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
144	*** Scheherazade's are a ''[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle]]'', [[Franchise/MortalKombat Sub-Zero]] and [[Franchise/GIJoe Snake Eyes]].
145	*** Hardtack's are Creator/BruceLee's iconic costume from ''Film/GameOfDeath'' and Zack Mayo from ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman''.
146	*** As seen in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yweujd2UsqY Magnum Sized Action trailer]] Gat can get a ''Series/MagnumPI'' costume, complete with PornStache. Gat also has an outfit based on Sonny Crockett from ''Series/MiamiVice''.
147	*** Lazarus's are ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, ComicBook/TheVision, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, and [[Manga/AttackOnTitan a Titan]].
148	*** Safeword's are ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, ComicBook/{{Robin}}, [[Franchise/TheMatrix Trinity]], and WesternAnimation/KimPossible.
149	** The robotic police force in Seoul is called the Civil {{VideoGame/Overwatch}} Patrol.
150	** While gathering intel on Babylon's plans, Rama sarcastically asks if she's found [[Film/CitizenKane the name of his childhood sled]].
151	** Another one to Overwatch is in the "Bombshells" trailer, where Joule takes a selfie in front of an explosion.
152	** This version of Gat is basically a walking Creator/JohnWoo hero, being an Asian cop with dual pistols and doves.
153	** Braddock will occasionally shout "Never Give Up, Never Surrender!", Captain Taggert's catchphrase in ''Film/GalaxyQuest''
154	** The cracks in reality caused by dark matter look identical to the cracks in the universe in ''Franchise/DoctorWho''
155	** During a late game mission, Claymore responds to Persephone's complaints about technical issues on the Ark with "I'm giving her all she's got," the catch phrase of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the also Scottish Montgomery Scott.]]
156	** Some of the Gremlin Tech players can get include [[Webcomic/OnePunchMan One-Punch Agent]] and [[Film/MaximumOverdrive Maximum Over-Go.]]
157	* SkyPirate: Fortune, along with being a PirateGirl. She even has her own airship.
158	* StealthSequel: This game takes place after the CosmicRetcon ending of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell''.
159	* SuperMode: Several characters' Mayhem abilities put them in a powered-up state. Examples include Hollywood, who activates an "Action Hero Mode" in which he puts on CoolShades and explosions happen randomly around him while he temporarily gains BottomlessMagazines while Daisy's gun gets a massive power boost.
160	* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Rama fights with a bow and arrow, though she can use {{Trick Arrow}}s.
161	* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Subverted in Joule's introduction mission. Her father Umberto sends Joule a series of pre-recorded messages that can also respond to predetermined responses. Unfortunately, almost all of these messages are useless tangents. It doesn't help that Umberto is seemingly unaware that his daughter is capable of holding her own in a fight.
162	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Using a Mayhem ability causes that agent's theme music to play.
163	* ThrowTheDogABone: In this universe, the Boss is nowhere in sight and ''[[ButtMonkey Pierce]]'' is apparently the biggest badass of crime around.
164	* VirtualCelebrity: AISHA in this universe is a K-Pop group consisting of AI hologram idols in the vein of Hatsune Miku.
165	* WeHaveReserves: In the debut trailer, Hollywood has his stunt double suicide bomb a monster.
166	* WhamShot: The shot of the [[VideoGame/SaintsRow Saints logo]] at the end of the debut trailer.
167	* WhatIf: The game takes place after ''Gat Out of Hell'''s CosmicRetcon ending, but that does not mean that that ending is the canon one(to SR anyway); this game represents one potential future of the ''Saints Row'' universe.
168	* WhoWritesThisCrap: One of the random things that the L.E.G.I.O.N. PA will say while you're in a L.E.G.I.O.N. Lair is "The planetarium in Seoul is having a special presentation on the size of Uranus... I realize what I just said. Who's writing these announcements?".
169	* YouGetMeCoffee: After a disastrous attempt to trap AISHA nearly crashes the ARK Mixer is bumped down to coffee duty for a week by Persephone. You can even hear the other base agents demanding coffee from his over the SIN.
170	* YouWillNotEvadeMe: The default setting for Hardtack's special ability is a harpoon that automatically teleports any enemy it hits in front of him. The other two teleport enemies away from him before it explodes, or cripples them.

Context VideoGame / AgentsOfMayhem