History Characters / MetalSlug

* CanadaEh: Hails from Canada, and has some hobbies that are stereotypical of Canadians like hunting and building log cabins according to his profile.

* EliteMooks: The disguised Amadeus troops use Heavy Machine Guns in the final level.

* WarmUpBoss: All its attacks are relatively easy to avoid.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His design is quite blatantly a parody of [[UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein]].

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: His design is quite blatantly a parody of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein Saddam Hussein.]]

* CreativeSterility: Exaggerated to the point of hilarity, even though they came from the future (which the technological edge expected of this), their military vehicles (apart from the Slug and Rebel Gigant, Big Gate, their Mecha Mooks, and the Kraken) are all identical in appearance and design to their past counterparts. By contrast, the Ptolemaic Di-Cokka and Girida-O at least sport a modernized design that make them distinct (despite being reverse engineered from a stolen Regular Army discs, which also contain data from Rebel vehicles).

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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tarma

* MadeOfIron: When riding the Hairbuster Riberts and the Hi-Do in the first game, he can take an absurd amount of bullets than even Allen O'Neil could withstand. Only upon the destruction of his personal twin bladed helicopter that he goes down, alive but out.

* AliensAreBastards: They just want to conquer and destroy without much backstory.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: They betray Morden twice, for no reason other than because they can.

* OhCrap: Their standard reaction when the Invaders show up.
* PromotedToPlayable: In VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomSVCChaos, Mars People is a mid-boss, but can be played in all versions of the game with a code. VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum makes one of them (called "Marpy") into a standard playable character.

* LargeAndInCharge: The normal Mars People are human-sized, Rootmars takes up most of the screen you fight him on.

* TheUnfought: Was intended to have a boss fight near the end of the game, but it was DummiedOut.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Due to ''5'''s rushed state.

* ButtMonkey: Appearing on screen is usually a sign that he'll suffer a HumiliationConga.

* TheWorfEffect: After establishing themselves as the premier threats of ''2/X'' and ''3'', they're easily taken down, captured and imprisoned, and even ''[[FoodChainOfEvil eaten for breakfast]]'' by the Invaders in ''6''.

* BigDamnHeroes: If the player took the bottom path in Mission 4 in ''Metal Slug 6'', [[spoiler:he appears to save them from a great fall after the invader king dies]].

* EldritchAbomination: He may look like E.T., but also looks like something out from [[Creator/HPLovecraft H.P. Lovecraft's]] work.

* EvilLaugh: Lets a high-pitched crackle as it grabs the player's SV-001. He also does this again when the player take the alternate lower route in mission 4 of ''6''.

* SuperIntelligence: Part of the reason he is the leader of the Mars People.

* HijackingCthulhu: His Abyssal form's special attack is summoning the Evil Spirit Incarnate.

* KaizoTrap: Upon being defeated, the Invader King will spam its attacks all over the screen while trying to drag the player with itself while falling to its death.

* SequentialBoss: The player has to fight his/her kidnapped teammate first. Immediately after that is a climb up to the shaft leading to the Invader King, with no enemies left in between. In the fight against the King itself, it starts as a cocoon-like state before waking up and breaking out of the shell to become a proper boss.

* CreativeSterility: Exaggerated to the point of hilarity, even though they came from the future (which is equals to technological edge), their military vehicles (apart from the Slug and Rebel Gigant, Big Gate, their Mecha Mooks, and the Kraken) are all identical in appearance and design to their past counterparts. By contrast, the Ptolemaic Di-Cokka and Girida-O at least sport a modernized design that make them distinct (despite being reverse engineered from a stolen Regular Army discs, which also contain data from Rebel vehicles).

** The Rebel riflemen display a surprising [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ljVIm3WfY competence]] not seen in other ranks; they regularly hide behind available cover (and will not take action if they are under sustained fire), will switch from cover-to-cover if their opponent jumps to their direction, will immediately duck back to cover if a player takes a shot too early, and swiftly duck from gunfire if they are not firing.

** The Rebel riflemen display a surprising [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ljVIm3WfY competence]] not seen in other ranks; they regularly hide behind available cover, will switch from cover-to-cover if their opponent jumps to their direction, will immediately duck back to cover if a player takes a shot too early, and swiftly duck from gunfire if they are not firing.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: An army of rebels who oppose the government, and they're portrayed as the bad guys.

A pair of medium tanks created by Rebel Army for cooperative missions. They are each armed with one main turret-mounted cannon, two sub-cannon turrets on the front, and a missile launcher on the back. Two side-mounted hatches allow soldiers to help defend the tank as well, usually with bazookas or rocket launchers.

* TankGoodness: Two large Rebel army tanks with fireball cannons and missile launchers.

* {{BFG}}: Once its health gets low enough, it'll open up and reveal a HUGE cannon that fires large exploding bullets. This is incidentally also its weak point.
* MilitaryMashupMachine: It is essentially a land battleship on tank treads.

* TankGoodness: A cross between a battleship and a tank.

* StationaryBoss: All three forms.