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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to [[http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=281&title=Interview:%20Scott%20Berfield this interview]] with former Sega of America employee Scott Berfield, ''Eternal Champions'' was originally going to be much more humorous and over the top. Characters would have been [[AffectionateParody affectionate parodies]] of various hero archetypes, while the training mode would have consisted of minigames where you could beat the crap out of knife-wielding dwarves. Berfield left [=SoA=] sometime after the project was greenlit; it was passed down to Michael Latham, who decided to restart the project and turn it into the ''Eternal Champions'' we have today.
** Shadow Yamoto was a character design from the game's original concept that was kept for the final product.
*** A third game, ''The Final Chapter'', was planned for release on the [[SegaSaturn Sega Saturn]]. By the time the game was set to be made, [[VirtuaFighter another big fighting game]] was being made by Sega. Due to worry that [[NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs one fighting game would take away the significance of the other]], ''The Final Chapter'' bit the dust.

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[[ForWantOfANail Nine different people]] from time periods ranging from the time of cavemen to the far future suffer unjust deaths; these deaths each cause disorder in the [[OrderVersusChaos balance of the universe]]. The Eternal Champion, the entity that oversees this balance, uses its power to temporarily remove all nine from the timeline. The Champion knows any one of the nine can restore balance through the ripple effects of what their full lives will accomplish -- which works out well, since The Champion only has the power to revive one of them. The Champion decides to give the warriors a sporting chance to win their life back: he places the nine in a martial arts tournament where the winner will be returned to the timeline, moments prior to their death, with the knowledge of their fate and the power to prevent it (while the other eight warriors will suffer their original fates).

Sega eventually released a sequel -- ''Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side'' -- for the Sega CD. ''Dark Side'' doubled the first game's playable roster and explained their presence by introducing the Dark Champion: he hid the new fighters from Eternal Champion in an attempt to keep the tournament going on a neverending StableTimeLoop and prevent the restoration of balance in the universe. ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' plays better than its predecessor thanks to more responsive controls and a (slightly) easier difficulty curve -- and it also features gorier stage kills on top of special CGI "Cinekills".

Sega had a third and final game -- ''Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter'' -- in pre-production for the Sega Saturn after ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' became...well, [[DamnedByFaintPraise as much of a hit on the Sega CD as anything really could]]. ''Final Chapter'' would have featured a faction-oriented storyline, with characters supporting either the Eternal Champion or the Dark Champion in an effort to allow good or evil to balance the universe in its favor. Character levels were intended to represent the character's time periods, and victory would lock the opposing faction out of influencing a specific time period forever. Sega cancelled the game, however, when Sega feared it would draw too much attention away from ''VirtuaFighter''.

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[[ForWantOfANail Nine different people]] in time periods ranging from the time of cavemen to the far future suffer unjust deaths; these deaths each cause disorder in the [[OrderVersusChaos balance of the universe]]. The Eternal Champion, a supernatural entity that oversees this balance, uses his power to temporarily remove all nine from the timeline. The Champion knows [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong any one of the nine can restore balance through the ripple effects of what their full lives will accomplish]] -- which works out well, since [[ItOnlyWorksOnce The Champion only has the power to revive one of them]]. The Champion decides to give the warriors a sporting chance to win their life back: he pits them against each other in a martial arts tournament where the winner will be returned to the timeline, moments prior to their death, with the knowledge of their fate and the power to prevent it. The other eight warriors will also return to their timeline...to suffer their original fates.

Sega eventually released a sequel -- ''Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side'' -- for the Sega CD. ''Dark Side'' doubled the first game's playable roster and explained their presence by introducing the Dark Champion: he hid those fighters from the Eternal Champion in an attempt to keep the tournament going on a neverending StableTimeLoop and prevent the restoration of balance in the universe. ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' plays better than its predecessor thanks to more responsive controls and a (slightly) easier difficulty curve -- and it also features gorier stage kills in addition to special CGI "Cinekills".

Sega had a third and final game -- ''Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter'' -- in pre-production for the Sega Saturn after ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' became...well, [[DamnedByFaintPraise as much of a hit on the Sega CD as anything really could]]. ''Final Chapter'' would have featured a faction-oriented storyline, with characters supporting either the Eternal Champion or the Dark Champion in an effort to allow good or evil to balance the universe in its favor. Character levels were intended to represent the character's time periods, and victory would lock the opposing faction out of influencing a specific time period forever. Sega cancelled the game, however, when the company feared it would draw too much attention away from ''VirtuaFighter''.

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* BloodierAndGorier: ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' ramps up the carnage exponentially over the Genesis original. There's not as high a volume of red stuff flying around as there is in the classic ''MortalKombat'', but the violence is significantly nastier by way being less stylized and far more anatomically correct. When a character explodes here, for example, you don't get [[LudicrousGibs twelve femurs and three ribcages]]; you get [[{{Gorn}} shredded flesh, shattered bones and piles of bloody viscera]].
* BurnTheWitch: Xavier Pendragon was to be condemned as a warlock for his discovery of a new type of energy, which many in his era mistook for magic. If he was to win the tournament, [[spoiler:he would ''still'' be burned at the stake, but he would have the foresight to ask for his device to be burned with him. The result is an explosion that sends him and his Owl familiar into a time-warp, with enough special effects to convince the crowd that they've destroyed the very last warlock, thus ending the witch hunts.]]
** In ''Challenge,'' Xavier's PaletteSwap [[SecretCharacter Thanatos]] was also burned in 1692 Salem; if he survives, [[spoiler: he becomes the new Kronos.]]

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* BloodierAndGorier: ''Challenge from the Dark Side'' ramps up the carnage exponentially over the Genesis original. There's not as high a volume of red stuff flying around as there is in the classic ''MortalKombat'', but the violence is significantly nastier by way of being less stylized and far more anatomically correct. When a character explodes here, for example, you don't get [[LudicrousGibs twelve femurs and three ribcages]]; you get [[{{Gorn}} shredded flesh, shattered bones, and piles of bloody viscera]].
* BurnTheWitch: Xavier Pendragon was to be condemned as a warlock for his discovery of a new type of energy, which many in his era mistook for magic. If he wins the tournament, [[spoiler:he would ''still'' be burned at the stake, but he would have the foresight to ask for his device to be burned with him. The result is an explosion that sends him and his owl familiar into a time-warp while producing enough special effects to convince the crowd that they've destroyed the very last warlock, which ends the witch hunts.]]
** In ''Challenge,'' Xavier's PaletteSwap [[SecretCharacter Thanatos]] was also burned in 1692 Salem; if he survives, [[spoiler:he becomes the new Kronos.]]

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