History VideoGame / BloodStorm

* ElementalPowers:

** PlayingWithFire: Hellhound. He can shoot a burst of flame, he can transform into a similar-looking burst of flame and charge at the opponent, his passable power is turning into a swirling fireball, and his gauntlet shoots a short-range burst of flame. His fatality involves turning into a flaming skeleton to tear off the opponent's limbs.

** The eight Agents of Nekron lack character-specific Fatalities, only having a Decapitation and Sunder each, which are identical in animation to their normally-playable counterparts. Their Decapitation and Sunder also lack special names.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Two of the stage fatalities work this way. One sticks the opponent to a spiked wall, the other dumps them onto a massive stalagmite.

* PowerCopying: Possibly one of the first fighting games to use this - defeating an enemy allows you to [[VictorGainsLosersPowers take a bit of their weaponry]].
* PowerFist: Each character comes with their own gauntlets, which basically work in this way. They all used the same control inputs to use(to different effects), and could be stolen or swapped in mid-battle.

* VictorGainsLosersPowers: In single-player mode, the player receives additional skills from every enemy that they kill.
* VillainProtagonist: Almost every single character in this game is a megalomaniacal, power-hungry [[TheCaligula Caligula]] in the making. [[spoiler:Except for [[BigGood Tremor]], [[AntiHero Razor]], and [[NominalHero Fallout]]. And Fallout isn't much better.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The very minute [[spoiler:Razor]] wins, [[spoiler:he launches a full-on offensive on Cyberia. Turns out nobody else liked them, and the planetwide genocidal rage unites humanity more than ever, though it leaves the entire planet without any technology at all.]]

* HeadSwap: The seven [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] plus mandatory sub-boss Sin are just the main cast with different colors and heads. Furthermore, Hellhound and Freon are actually just head swaps of each other, but with slightly different standing poses. Blood and Shadow take it one step further by not only being head swaps of Hellhound and Freon (and so head swaps of each other), they even have the exact same moveset. Finally, the various "big head" codes let you play as versions of the normal characters with a different name and a comical oversized head.

* PowerCopying / VictorGainsLosersPowers: Possibly one of the first fighting games to use this.

* VillainProtagonist: Almost every single character in this game is a megalomaniacal, power-hungry [[TheCaligula Caligula]] in the making. [[spoiler:Except for [[BigGood Tremor]], [[AntiHero Razor]], and Fallout. And Fallout isn't much better.]]

%%* BonusBoss: Quite a lot. (zero context example)
%%* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Tempest]]. (zero context example)

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves:
** [[spoiler:The High Emperor's daughter, Tempest, was his assassin. When she wins, she accidentally reveals this fact, and the rest of the planet unites to hunt her down and execute her.]]
* RingOut: Possible on the Subterra stage. Both sides are wide open, and falling in leads to an ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice moment.

%%* StrawFeminist: Mirage. (zero context example)

** ILoveNuclearPower: Fallout. He shoots radioactive slime from his hands, his passable power is an E.R. Cannon, and his gauntlet shoots toxic quills.

* {{Expy}}: Hellhound and Freon share similarities to [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion and Sub-Zero]], respectively, with Scorpion and Hellhound sharing [[PlayingWithFire fire-based powers]], in contrast to their respective rivals' [[AnIcePerson ice-based powers]].

* {{Expy}}: Hellhound and Freon share similarities to Scorpion and Sub-Zero, respectively, with Scorpion and Hellhound sharing [[PlayingWithFire fire-based powers]], in contrast to their respective rivals' [[AnIcePerson ice-based powers]].

* Expy: Hellhound and Freon share similarities to Scorpion and Sub-Zero, respectively, with Scorpion and Hellhound sharing [[PlayingWithFire fire-based powers]], in contrast to their respective rivals' [[AnIcePerson ice-based powers]].

* RedheadInGreen: A PalletteSwap of Tempest features her with red hair and green attire.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Fallout.

* BonusBoss: Quite a lot.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Tempest]].

* StrawFeminist: Mirage.

* ShoutOut[=/=]TakeThat: A lot of the Trash Talk codes throw in references, flattering and unflattering, to various targets. '[[Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly Sushi-X rules this game!]]', '[[Franchise/MortalKombat Who cares where Goro is?]]', '[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Dont wizz on the electric fence]]', '[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Eat my shorts]]' and '[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail I fart in your general direction]]' are just a few of the references in the game. [[ReferenceOverdosed Seeing them all might take some effort.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tempest, initially, ''seems'' like one of the less morally-warped fighters, concerned mostly with avenging her father's death and ensuring his peace stays in place. [[spoiler: Then it turns out that [[{{Patricide ''she'' is her father's killer}}]] and the mastermind who unleashed Nekron. Ironically, this ensures that her ending is one of the few "good" ones, as the whole planet unites ''against'' her, leading to her defeat and execution.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tempest, initially, ''seems'' like one of the less morally-warped fighters, concerned mostly with avenging her father's death and ensuring his peace stays in place. [[spoiler: Then it turns out that [[Main/Patricide ''she'' is her father's killer]] and the mastermind who unleashed Nekron. Ironically, this ensures that her ending is one of the few "good" ones, as the whole planet unites ''against'' her, leading to her defeat and execution.]]