History Manga / ProjectARMS

* AGodAmI: Keith [[spoiler: White's]] true intention is to use ARMS to merge with the earth itself to turn into a god.

* BodyHorror: Just look at what happens when Ryo turns into the Jabberwock. His face is absorbed into Jabberwock's ''chest''.

** Earlier on, Hayato temporarily lost his ability to summon Knight, but it was exactly this and a bit of TraingFromHell which allows him to realize that he has sealed his true potential by being too reliant on his ARMS.

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Ryo's ARMS, the Jabberwock, is a hulking demonic humanoid capable of massive amounts of destruction. It takes all of Ryo's normal abilities UpToEleven, and in addition can blast '''[[KillItWithFire fire]]'''. Not to mention it's said at it's peak it can generate '''antimatter'''. Simply put, don't tick Ryo off.

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Ryo's ARMS, the Jabberwock, is a hulking demonic humanoid capable of massive amounts of destruction. It takes all of Ryo's normal abilities UpToEleven, and in addition can blast '''[[KillItWithFire fire]]'''. Simply put, don't tick Ryo off.

Unrelated to the ''Franchise/WildArms'' series or the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch game ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}''.

Unrelated to the ''Franchise/WildArms'' series.

* BadAss: The 4 ARMS users, naturally. In their fully evolved form, nothing can stop them.

* MuggleFosterParents: Subverted. While Ryo's parents aren't his biological mother and father, they ''are'' [[spoiler: two of the most hardcore, BadAss spies the world has ever known. And they ''still'' love him like a real son with all their heart, despite his heritage.]]

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Three of the four ARMS teens ''seem'' this way, but it turns out [[spoiler: all of the ARMS were [[NightmareFuel ''grown'']] for the sole purpose of implanting ARMS in them]]. And then the three "normal" teens families turn out to not be so normal, Hayato's dad is a ninja, Takeshi {{Wangst}}s about how he has had his ARMS since he was little, and they've been nothing but trouble, and Ryo's parents are [[spoiler: a BadAss Spy Couple.]]

Unrelated to the {{Wild ARMs}} series.

Ryo and friends appear in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover game, VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen.

* BareFistedMonk: Kou Carnegie again. Hayato also briefly becomes this when the group's ARMS went to sleep.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Because the scientists at Egrigori screwed up when implanting ARMS in Keith Blue, he can only use his ARMS once in his lifetime. Unfortunately when he does he is subjected to TheWorfEffect.

** In a subversion, the Keiths ''don't''

* GunsAkimbo: Ryo's mom is ''infamous'' for her mastery of this, allowing her to snipe targets with dual pistols while ''falling four stories and landing without a scratch in an apron!''

* JerkassWoobie: ''All'' of the Keith series can be seen as one. [[spoiler: They were all clones of Keith White, a CompleteMonster MadScientist who see them as nothing more than tools. Keith Red died in despair after trying to kill Jabberwock, lamenting the Keith series' the-strongest-is-king mentality. Keith Green died helping Ryo reunite with Katsumi, who he [[LoveRedeems was in love with]]. Keith Black/Cyril seemed like a true villain until you learn of his childhood, where he UsedToBeASweetKid until Edwow was sent away to form the [[LaResistance Bluemen]] and became Keith Blue. Those not mentioned here were all killed by Cyril/Black.]]

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Three of the four ARMS teens ''seem'' this way, but it turns out [[spoiler: all of the ARMS were [[NightmareFuel ''grown'']] for the sole purpose of implanting ARMS in them]]. And then the three "normal" teens families turn out to not be so normal, Hayato's dad is a ninja, Takeshi {{Wangst}}s about how he has had his ARMS since he was little, and they've been nothing but trouble, and Ryo's parents are [[spoiler: a BadAss SpyCouple.]]

* AdultFear: Even though the ARMS teens are all actually raised by foster parents, they still are treated like the parents' own children. These parents then get to watch their children be attacked, nearly killed, and then get told "Hey, we have to leave for awhile and may not live, but we love you!"

* EvilEye: Kei Kuruma's nanomachine implant "Queen of Hearts" is a sensor array in her eyes that allows her to see in Bullet Time.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Takeshi, Hayato, and Ryo's ARMS are all excellent for unleashing massive cans of whup-ass on [[{{Mooks}} Egrigori cyborgs]]. Kei's, not so much. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded by Kei herself]].
** At least until [[spoiler: Kei's Queen of Hearts gets the [[StoneWall Shield of Aegis]] ability, capable of nullifying nigh any attack]]

* XanatosRoulette: The main bad guys plan is this and then some.

* DeadLittleSister: Ryo Takatsuki goes on a brief downward spiral after believing he caused the death of his childhood friend (and girl he loved) Katsumi. [[spoiler:When it turns out she was really alive]], he spends most of the series traveling from Japan to America with his friends to rescue her, only to [[spoiler:watch her be killed again by his own hands by accident (the bad guy threw her in front of himself as Ryo attacked)]], which causes Ryo to nearly bring about the end of the world out of his guilt and sadness. ''Then'', when it turns out [[spoiler:she's not dead again but is implanted with ARMS of her own and kidnapped by the evil organization Ryo's been fighting]] he must again battle his sadness while setting off to rescue her.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The Egrigori are shown to have no problem offing large groups of witnesses and using their many government and police connections to hush it up. When two agents attempt to blow up a high school (simply because they themselves had been picked on in school), one points out that they could do whatever they liked and get it all passed off as a gas leak. One of the ARMS teens tells how, to get to him, the Egrigori blew up, burned down, and gunned his entire town (the same town was blown up, burned down, and gunned again when the protagonists return for answers). Later, the Red Caps basically cut off all possible escape routes from a town so the ARMS can't escape and holds the entire town hostage ([[spoiler:thankfully it more or less turns out well]]). A flashback shows that Keith White had no problem having his soldiers machine gun a ''group of children''. Oh, and the big climactic battle involved [[spoiler:Black Alice seizing control of nuclear missiles and lobbing them at America while the Jabberwock goes on rampage, blowing everything up.]] Baked Apple indeed...

!!Project ARMS provides examples of:

* MuggleFosterParents: Subverted ''hard''. While Ryo's parents aren't his biological mother and father, they ''are'' [[spoiler: two of the most hardcore, BadAss spies the world has ever known. And they ''still'' love him like a real son with all their heart, despite his heritage.]]

* AliceInWonderland: Almost '''everything''' in this series is named after Alice in wonderland, from the names of the four character's ARMS (Jabberwock, White Knight, White Rabbit, Queen of Hearts) to an appearance by Alice herself.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Three of the four ARMS teens ''seem'' this way, but it turns out [[spoiler: all of the ARMS were [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel ''grown'']] for the sole purpose of implanting ARMS in them]]. And then the three "normal" teens families turn out to not be so normal, Hayato's dad is a ninja, Takeshi {{Wangst}}s about how he has had his ARMS since he was little, and they've been nothing but trouble, and Ryo's parents are [[spoiler: a BadAss SpyCouple.]]

* {{Nakama}}: The protagonists of course. At one point, they are described by an enemy as parts of a whole body (Yugo as the "ears", Kei as the "eyes", Takashi as the "legs", and Ryo and Hayato as the "arms"). In the anime, they jokingly refer to each other as "comrades in ARMS".

Unrelated to the WildARMs series.

* LargeHam: Al Bowen is really turning into one, [[YourMileageMayVary probably]] an improvement over CreepyChild.