Anti-Climax Boss: The Mutant Buster in Through Time. Despite the build up it gets as Scumlabs' ultimate weapon, it’s almost pathetically easy to avoid all the things it attacks you with and it only needs nine hits to be destroyed.
Base-Breaking Character: Rhett from Total Destruction. Some fans like him because he can jump high, is quite agile and speedy, and just looks pretty cool like several of the monsters. Others think he's a Replacement Scrappy for Curtis from Through Time and Universal Tour.
Critical Dissonance: All of the games receive mostly mixed to unfavorable critic reviews, however players who like it and become fans found it fun and memorable.
World Tour has the small robots called Fryborgs. They look like Goddamned Bats, but they take quite a few hits to destroy, and if you ignore them for too long, they'll easily chew through your health with their machine gun attack. It doesn't help that they launch their flamethrower attack at you the second after you hit them, which is very hard to dodge.
The same game also has Beelzeborgs. They're gigantic walking robots that will slowly approach you and promptly bash you in the face. They're hard to kill, it's hard to dodge their attacks, and even if you do destroy one, they devolve into the regular sized robot mentioned above. It is however, possible to deal with them easily be using repeated jump kicks, and their slow speed means they're easy to avoid.
Flying Toasters, which are Scumlabs mercenaries with jetpacks and flamethrowers, are much harder to hit than the helicopters, much more durable and do more damage, and they can knock you off of a building.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Dr. Veronica only appears in World Tour, but her beauty and nature of being the only Scumlabs employee who isn't bad has made her very popular.
Even Better Sequel: World Tour took the gameplay of its predecessor and polished it, added way more content, and gave it a fresh coat of paint. Many still consider it the best game in the series to this day.
TANKS. They go down after three hits, but a single shot from a tank will knock you down or knock you off a building. And they rarely ever stop firing; chances are, the second you get up, you'll get knocked right back down...
Bombers are the flying version of tanks. They go down after one punch/kick, but they fly really fast and their bombs will instantly knock you off a building.
Flamer Dudes from World Tour. They're soldiers flying on jetpacks and carrying a huge flamethrower. They die after only three hits, but their attacks tend to set the monsters on fire, which leads to them falling off a building.
Super Flyers from World Tour are a cross between this and Demonic Spiders. They're weak, but their laser can drain your health if you ignore them for too long.
Harsher in Hindsight: In Universal Tour, you can destroy the Twin Towers in the New York level.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The posters (and giant balloons) used in Total Destruction to advertise a fake Rampage movie become this after the actualRampage movie.
Overly Long Gag: The SPECIAL REPORT scene in the intro of Through Time.
Polished Port: The Wii version of Total Destruction upped the multiplayer cap to four players, and has ten exclusive monsters.
Porting Disaster: The NES version of the original game, and the Playstation versions of World Tour and Universal Tour reduced the multiplayer cap to two players, though strangely only the NES game removed Ralph.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Total Destruction has thirty playable monsters, hell, forty on the Wii, including old favorites Vern, Ruby and Boris! It's a shame that there is close to no distinction between the different them outside of appearance and a few small attributes. A borderline example of why we have Quality over Quantity.
Viewer Gender Confusion: To this day there are still some fans who think Lizzie and Ruby are guys. Doesn't help that they sound gruff and were designed to look masculine...
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