It's No More Heroes, so this page was inevitable. There's lots of humor to go around in this entry, so be prepared to laugh your head off while cutting through the hundreds of aliens in your way.
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- One of Travis' shirts is a hoodie with a simple, but powerful phrase: FUCK RACISM. Who knew that a psychopathic otaku would be willing to indulge in political correctness?
- After Travis lands on the UFO in the game's opening, he summons Jeane, who has such a deep voice that Travis is surprised.Jeane: Are you tweaking? I've always sounded like this!
Travis: That's... pretty badass. - In the core of the first UFO, Travis finds several eggs that look a lot like the ones from Alien. The alien that hatches out of this egg doesn't look threatening: Travis even finds it endearing, talking to it like it was a baby and holding it over his head... only to get Swallowed Whole by the hatchling, to which Jeane only says "Oof". This moment is pictured at the top of this page for a good reason.
- For a few of the game's bosses, when Travis defeats them, the game will play the same "DEAD" soundbyte even though the person very clearly isn't dead. It comes to a head with FU himself, where the game declares him "DEAD" after Travis simply punches him. It's quite amusing, yet probably unintentional.
- After Gold Joe shows off his projection mapping light show, Travis is less than impressed with it, since he's familiar with the concept, and correctly guesses that it was done using magnets, flustering Gold Joe. Then Travis proceeds to break down how Gold Joe's fighting strategy is going to work (to the point that he suggests putting N and S letters on his head), flustering the latter further and further. Joe's hilariously corny shouts of "Oh, snap!" and the like are what really make the scene.
- Once Travis has beaten Gold Joe to death with his own smuggled ores after the fight, Sylvia arrives to do her usual thing, then... flies off, somehow. The two goons who follow her around suddenly having names is a great bit of humor, as well.
Sylvia: Weller, Talbot - you guys are up.Travis: Y'know, I never actually knew those dudes' names 'til now.Sylvia: The series is going to keep going, right? So we kind of had to give them names. - Vanishing Point hijacking Kimmy Love's concert is bizarrely hilarious, as he appears out of nowhere as one of her backup dancers, flawlessly following the effeminate choreography. What makes it so funny is that he had no real reason to do this, and yet he just does it anyway! Per series tradition, this rapidly delves into Black Comedy, as he strikes a pose, launching his claws through the skulls of the remaining dancers, and the audience reaction is to cheer.
- Travis and Kimmy spend the first couple of minutes of their reunion Battle Rapping against one another. And it is GLORIOUS. Jeane piping in during some of Travis' sick disses just completes the whole thing.
Travis: That Power Bomb was your christening. Couldn't hear me before, but now you're listening. Something to think about, you got a big mouth. Keep it shut, bitch, or get knocked the fuck out!Kimmy: It's been 10 years to make a sequel. Where've you been? Whackin' your weasel? I used to call you Travis the Great; you said we should meet after I graduate. I'll choke your neck, don't hold your breath. See you in hell, Travis! I'll squash you to death! Yeah, you remember me from way back then. I'll cook your brain noodles to make some ramen! - Before fighting Midori Midorikawa, a cutscene plays of FU and a young man (latter revealed to be Kamui Uehara circa TSA) at a diner, with Midori texting FU over text messages. Midori manages to piss FU off enough to try to kill Kamui (Midori's boyfriend) only for Kamui to use Teleport Spam to get away and for Midori to chide FU for trying to kill the unkillable Kamui, making FU angrier. It's both hilarious, and a nice bit of karma for FU.
- Speaking of Midori: when Travis enters the abandoned school, she gets right in Travis' face (as in, she TELEPORTS up to him) and starts firing off rapid fire exposition about herself. You can just imagine she does not like long introductions, decided "fuck it!" and started listing off information just to skip the formalities. Topped off by Travis backing up making gestures as if to calm her down.
- Midori and Travis enacting the classic trope in tokusatsu of jumping up in one spot and suddenly landing somewhere far away for the fight. Only Midori meant for them to land on the roof of the school. Not a BBC Quarry where said fights usually take place. Travis even recognises said quarry and namedrops Kamen Rider Zi-O.
- Before the Sniping Lee fight, Travis has a feeling of déjà vu as the sniper counts down loudly. It's reminding him of his "fight" with Letz Shake... and then Notorious comes in with his cannon to destroy Sniping Lee, flummoxing Travis.
- Travis manages to still get suckered into shaking a Destroyman robot's hand and getting electrocuted... and he was wise to it from the first time! It seems that even through his robotic puppets, Destroyman's charisma still tends to sway Travis. However, Travis quickly recovers and swiftly slices him in half, as he most likely wanted to get the handshake over with. Following this, several more Destroymen emerge from the ground and, in unison, also ask for the handshake. And then the chief Destroyman in charge of the duplicates ALSO asks for one. Whoever programmed the robots really didn't want the original to live down the cheap tactic he tried twice in a row.
- After the destruction of Destroyman, he and Notorious go through a hilariously gaudy Training Montage, ala Rocky... even though getting some rest would make a lot more sense.
- The cut-scene before Sonic Juice pokes fun at how long it takes for Juice to even arrive at Travis's location, to the point that Jeane falls asleep to it... then Juice himself changes the battle into a turn-based JRPG battle, complete with a command box that serves as your only means of attack. It's as brilliantly ludicrous as it sounds.
- Travis calling out how he's not into a... certain RPG franchise and the character designs which is emphasized with bleeps. In fact, he's able to convince Sonic Juice the same thing. Data files revealed that he was saying that the character designs were stupid.
- This all becomes especially hilarious when you remember that Sylvia Christel's voice actor voices Lulu.
- While Henry's return is utterly terrifying in general, him going into a speech on how battle is essentially a dance once you get the hang of its rules and rhythm (a Call-Back to his line in the first game), and then proceeding to savagely eviscerate a nearby trash can is still funny as hell. Travis' immediate reaction is to say that having a brother like him is "fucking embarrassing", which just makes it even funnier.
- Another rather subtle, yet nonetheless great bit of humor is the fact that part of why he's such an utter maniac now is because he watched Thor. It says a LOT about this game that the sheer hilarity of this Reveal does nothing to ease the horror of Henry's current state.
- Henry practices rhythm with trash cans, like in Stomp, which makes for a very amusing Stealth Pun.
- After Travis is killed by multiple clones of his brother Henry (long story), he's shown waking up Buried Alive. And who saves him? Takashi Miike (actually someone else voicing him this time), who's been visiting Bishop Sidaks's grave. Travis is fanboying over seeing Miike in the flesh, asking if he's going to make his Hollywood debut and even asking to make a live-action No More Heroes movie, which catches Miike off-guard enough that the cutscene ends shortly after.
- Prior to this, Travis wound up in the afterlife, which apparently has the setting of the Deathman video game. After both have a heart-to-heart over glasses of 100 million-year old Demon Emperor wine (which is so strong that Deathman calls beer a kid's drink in comparison), Deathman sends Travis back to the world of the living... by decapitating him, like John Winter did.
Deathman: Return to the piss-smelling world from whence you came.- And even earlier, when you save the game after defeating Henry, it looks like there's a glitch, to which Travis calls out numerous developers of the game to fix it... then Henry and his cronies show up, and the scene quickly descends into horror.
- Damon's meeting with the mysterious figure on the highway ends with the figure offering him the means to take out his enemies when suddenly, out of nowhere, it switches from the retro graphics to the CGI cutscene where, after the man concludes the transaction, he randomly steps into the road and is flattened by the heavy traffic. It's equal parts terrifying and hysterical, and Damon understandably joins the player in confusion after witnessing this.
- The fact that Velvet Chairgirl is the galactic musical chairs champion. In fact, that sums up her boss fight; ACTUAL MUSICAL CHAIRS! Made even better with the cutscene before her fight: Velvet Chairgirl enters in the most overblown grand entrance you can imagine, surrounded by surreal insanity straight out of Pop Team Epic.
- FU mentally and physically regressing into a child, then flying away in a small spaceship after his boss battle. The way he walks to said spaceship is very silly-looking, and it's coupled with his child form's trademark Helium Speech, to boot. If it weren't so funny and well-deserved, it'd make Damon taking off his Mask of Sanity and blowing FU to smithereens as he's flying away almost tragic.
- When Damon transforms his tower into a Humongous Mecha, it looks like it's curtains for Travis and Jeane as they're thrown through the air by the transformation, until Dr. Juvenile pulls out a Deus ex Machina... or rather, a Daemon X Machina.Dr. Juvenile: An Arsenal Rollout Model has arrived.
Travis: What?! The mech from Daemon X Machina, from Japanese developer Marvelous?! An Arsenal?!- When Damon's machine appears, Travis (who is falling to his doom) exclaims about what's happening and basically quoting Akiko Narumi: "Nobody told me about this!"
- Despite how nightmarish he looks, there's something hilariously childish and petty about Damon's pathetic attempt at a Badass Boast right before he activates his tower's transformation:Damon: Now it's my turn to hit YOU, Travis!
- And THAT is preceded by him shouting that not even his dad has ever hit him, while shaking his head like a lunatic. It's so goofy and infantile that it's bound to make you burst out laughing.
- The game and (for now) series goes out with a suitably crazy bang: everyone is depicted as some sort of chibi, Travis and Sylvia's children (Hunter and Jeanne) show up from the future... and Native Dancer, aka their grandson, also drops by. They explain that they've come to ask for Travis's help, as Henry has allied with aliens and wants to destroy the world. Travis is utterly aghast at the reveal, and how his story is ending like this... and it's utterly hilarious.Sylvia: Welcome Travis, to the Garden of Insanity. Next stop, family war!
Travis: Oh snippity snap!!!- Native Dancer happily calls Jeane "Mommy", and gushes at how he was so happy to fight his grandpa, all in his deep and raspy voice. Jeane even gives him a loving headpat, which just makes it that much more silly.
- The entire ending makes the earlier cutscene where Travis asked if Native Dancer's mommy taught him to be a good boy extra funny... he was actually talking about his own daughter.
