History Headscratchers / NoMoreHeroes

* So what do Shinobu, Kimmy, and Sylvia actually see in Travis? The guy swallowed his own gargle water, never appears to wipe, nor wash his hands. Plus, he decided to [[spoiler: [[ADateWithRosiePalms take Rosie on a date]] with his brother was in the other room that lacked a door. Speaking of which, why was Henry shirtless when he woke up but earlier had a shirt on after the Letz Shake?]]

** Do they ever explain why [[spoiler: Dark Star knows all this stuff about Travis?]]
*** Personally, it seemed as though Dark Star was genuinely mistaken about [[spoiler:Travis being his son]], and was nebulously referring to past events in some other twenty-something loser's life.

** He's not actually a doctor. He's a corrupt detective, as revealed after paying the fee. He's just decided to use "doctor" as part of his alias for whatever reason.

* How in the hell can a LaserSword be blocked by a freaking baseball bat?

*** Funnily enough, this troper has and prefers the European/Japanese version, since not all of us like ridiculous amounts of violence. Having corpses turn to piles of ash makes the cutscenes rather {{Narm}}ful... which probably doubles as another take on satirizing violence and censorship! Maybe. Half the problem with Suda51 is that you have no idea what's intentional and what's not... which he probably loves.

*** Maybe it's just the writer not having perspective, but I'd be surprised if Suda51 didn't slip some jabs at Japanese culture into there as well. The SeriousBusiness weirdness surrounding each day job almost comes off as a parody of what I hear of the stereotypical Japanese work ethic. And it's kind of interesting that some people enjoy the minigames- Suda51 might just be getting the hang of making a game that is fun to play as well as sending a message...

** That's probably a slight cultural slip-up on Suda51's part. A fax machine in the USA (or pretty much any Western nation) is a rare sight, but Japanese use faxes almost constantly.

** A friend of mine who knew some ancient slang suggested it referred to [[FreudWasRight cunnilingus.]]

* Note that I have mostly secondhand knowledge, but people say that this is a satire of the "gamer". Only that doesn't make much sense, to me. Satire's intent is to condemn, but Travis Touchdown ([[StealthPun "Travis T."]]) manages to become the ''best assassin in the United States'' via an ''eBay beam sword'' and sheer willpower. In the end of [[NoMoreHeroes NMH1]], doesn't he [[spoiler: get the girl?]]. He's never really shown to fail in anything he sets out to do, as far as I know. I could buy AffectionateParody or caricature, but the games seem far too sympathetic and condoning of him for them to be actual satire.

* At the end of the cutscene before Margaret's fight, she shoots directly into the camera. If the camera is Travis' POV, [[BoomHeadshot his brains should be splattered on the roof]]. We didn't see him dodge, so what happened?

**** That article is massively pretentious. Even if right about no more heroes, it is massively pretentious.

* Your second ranked match is against one Dr. Peace. What is his doctorate in?

** The game calls them clones in a side mission.

* Doesn't really have anything to do with the games, but why did they split the original NMH and Desperate Struggle into two separate TVTropes articles?
** Probably because both games are big enough to do that. Having both games in folders on one page has worked for other series, but this way probably works just as well. Besides, both games are different enough to probably warrant an individual page for each.

* So about that "Forbidden View" mode in the PS3 version of the sequel. Why oh why {{Suda51}}, can't [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Travis]] be in it as well? NoMoreHeroes, VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw, full of fanservicey ladies...why can't we even the playing field?
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* This may come off as fan whining, but why didn't the rerelease of No More Heroes come to the wii as well? It would have been easy to modify the existing game and sell it for cheap. I guess I'm just bitter that every great third party game for the wii seems to get a better release on other systems.
** "Better" is subjective. I would say the main reason why it didn't come to the Wii was because of the high definition graphical enhancement that would have been impossible on the Wii. Then again, Heroes' Paradise has been shown to screen tear and drop in frame rate more frequently than the Wii original, and in my experience, the Wii game just feels faster in terms of being able to immediately kill an opponent when entering death blow mode (HP adds a bit of a delay). Still, it does look nicer and have the ability to select bosses to fight whenever you want, but in the end, it feels like there's not much that has changed between versions. So pick your poison, really.

** Up until that fight, a lot of advanced technology has been seen. Speed Buster's Rooster Nuclear Laser Cannon, Destoryman's Voice Converter weapon and hell even the Blood Berry. So it isn't entirely in-plausible that the techno would be around. As to answer your question more directly, it doesn't seem like Bad Girl would go out regularly to find men to kidnap and use as her gimps.

** Before each ranking fight, the lowdregs of society, wannabe assassins and hired thugs are, well hired and put as a warm up to the stage. Also, Holy's {{mooks}} could have worked for her, seeing as they were low-level military grunts.

* Bad Girl's gimps: Whoever said they were clones?

* Why did Henry [[spoiler: kill Letz Shake]] for you? Did he just want to troll Travis? Or the Association? Both?

** Sylvia said she'd sleep with him if he got to #1. Plus, he'd just bought an awesome beam katana off the internet and is exactly the kind of person who would look for any available excuse to use it.