History VideoGame / MotherRussiaBleeds

* DryCrusader: Vlad is heavily disdainful of Nekro (and dialogue would imply all forms of drugs too), seeking to wipe it out from the Soviet Union. Considering what you see on the game, he's not wrong.

** With it's level of violence, Eastern-European setting and the (intentionally) crude graphics, this game can be also considered such to ''VideoGame/FrankoTheCrazyRevenge''

*** "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory The Claw!]]"

* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Natasha rips out her enemy's throat in her fatality, ''Film/RoadHouse'' style.

* BaldOfAwesome: The two strength-oriented player characters, Ivan and Boris, respectively sport a shaved head and a balding scalp.

Taking place an alternate universe version of Soviet Russia, the game stars four Gypsy pit-fighters: Sergei, Boris, Ivan and Natasha as their encampment is besieged by [[TheMafiya the Bratva]] while they are taken to become guinea pigs for the new street drug Nekro. Waking up, they find that they are now addicted to said drug and must fight their way across the Motherland in hope of seeking out an answer to what happened and vengeance to who did this to them, all the while trying to keep the drug from completely consuming them.

* AddictionPowered: Nekro is supposedly just a street drug, but in the hands of the protagonists it makes them even more dangerous than they already were. There are different strains of it and must be unlocked through Arena Mode (except Kremlin Colonel):

* AmazonBrigade: In level 3, the main enemies are a gang of drug-dealing women who are now occupying the Gypsy camp. Halfway through the level they are joined by a bunch of washed out prostitutes.

* BittersweetEnding: The bad ending is more along these lines. [[spoiler: The Premier is dead and the Bratva has been cast asunder, but your character overdoses on Nekro, dying screaming. Vlad is there to witness your final moments and comforts you. The game ends with a saddened Vlad declaring he'll continue the communist struggle in your name and won't forget your sacrifice.]]

* ClandestineChemist: You fight a few chemists manufacturing Nekro in The Lab, although given the insane level of control the Bratva seems to have on society the "clandestine" part is up in the air.

* DemBones: [[spoiler:The manifestation of Nekro, in its fully grown form, appears as a skeleton with a mohawk, leather jacket, jeans and boots.]]
* DescentIntoAddiction: Your character is spiraling into Nekro addiction, with its grisly side-effects becoming worse and worse as the game progresses. [[spoiler: This culimates in the final boss of the game being Nekro addiction ''itself''.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Mikhail basically rolls over as soon as the Bratva approach him with their plan to abduct people from the Roma camp, and after his FaceHeelTurn reveal, he spends the rest of the game pleading with the party to stop their rampage, before finally shooting himself just before the final confrontation. The Premier likewise simply runs from you, hides, tries to make deals and ultimately begs for mercy.]]

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: The characters who do not partake in the drug Nekro (which carries heavy hallucinations and mood swings) can be counted in one hand and still have fingers remaining.

* GoingColdTurkey: The FinalBoss of the game involves your character confronting his addiction and trying to quit it. [[spoiler: In fact, one can only get the good ending if one doesn't consume Nekro at all during it.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Boris' fatality consists in lifting the enemy above his head with both hands and breaking them in two with a backbreaker.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: If the Premier is indeed meant to be [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev. Gorbachev had his flaws as a Premier, but he was a far cry from the whoremongering genocidal lunatic this game portrays.]]

* OneHitKill: Knives, syringes and guns can usually dispatch of mooks in one hit (though the former two are balanced out by being single-use only.) Certain weapons, like the katana and the shotgun, can even [[OneHitPolykill kill multiple foes in one hit.]] Grabbing an enemy while in a berserk state also triggers a unique fatality.

* BittersweetEnding: The bad ending is more along these lins. [[spoiler: The Premier is dead and the Bratva has been cast asunder, but your character overdoses on Nekro, dying screaming. Vlad is there to witness your final moments and comforts you. The game ends with a saddened Vlad declaring he'll continue the communist struggle in your name and won't forget your sacrifice.]]

* BigGood: Vlad, a militant communist leading the resistance that the heroes occasionally end up helping out. Although he is not wthout his ruthless traits: Vlad seem too bothered about killing a lot of people to achieve change and even adopts dubious tactics like using children as runners. Even the Nekro-enslaved player characters find this behaviour unpleasant.

->''You think you have power and control. You think you're better without me. You fool. You think you can do it without me. You can't, you need me. TAKE ME! Ha-ha-ha!

* BigGood: Vlad, a militant communist leading the resistance that the heroes occasionally end up helping out.
** Arguably subverted, as Vlad himself is content to let others die for his revolution without dirtying his hands himself. He also doesn't seem too bothered about killing a lot of people to achieve change and even adopts dubious tactics like using children as runners. Even the Nekro-enslaved player characters find this behaviour unpleasant.

* BondageIsBad: Level 5 takes place in a BDSM nightclub where the bondage acts are played for all the FanDisservice they're worth.

* ChummyCommies: Vlad, see BigGood.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Mikhail basically rolls over as soon as the Bratva approach him with their plan to abduct people from the Roma camp, and after his FaceHeelTurn reveal, he spends the rest of the game pleading with the party to stop their rampage, before finally shooting himself just before the final confrontation.]]

* BaldWomen: The skinhead lady enemies.

* BadassBeard: Boris sports a huge and messy black beard. Ivan's beard is thick, short, and trimmed.

''Mother Russia Bleeds'' is a side-scrolling BeatEmUp developed by Le Cartel released in 2016 and published by Devolver Digital. It is a deliberate throwback to old games of said genre such as ''Videogame/StreetsOfRage'' or ''Videogame/FinalFight'', mixing it with the ultra-violence and 1980's aesthetics of Devolver's own ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', in which you must beat up waves of junkies, gangsters and other dangers with your fists and any weapon you can get your grubby mitts on.

''Mother Russia Bleeds'' is a side-scrolling BeatEmUp developed by Le Cartel released in 2016 and published by Devolver Digital. It's a deliberate throwback to old games of said genre such as ''Videogame/StreetsOfRage'' or ''Videogame/FinalFight'', mixing it with the ultra-violence and 1980's aesthetics of Devolver's own ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', in which you must beat up waves of junkies, gangsters and other dangers with your fists and any weapon you can get your grubby mitts on.

* BreakableWeapons: Each weapon can take a certain amount of hits before it breaks. Some weapons, like the [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl Chair]] or [[GrievousBottleyHarm the bottle]], will break and become a [[SinisterShiv Shiv]] instead.
** Also, dropping your weapons can damage them, though you can choose to gently put them on the floor.

* ChekhovsGunman: In level 1, when you escape the secret laboratory, the corridor background includes a room with a masked bear bound and wired to machines full of Nekro. [[spoiler:It reappears much later, as the level 7 boss.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Exploited by Vlad. He knows that, while corrupt, the soldiers would never shoot on a kid, so he sends a small boy to give you a message. Even your characters, who aren't exactly nice people, find this gamble in poor taste.

** Chapter 6's Boss is pretty much just an Eggman copy and paste, complete with elaborate Death Machine.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Sort of. [[spoiler:Whatever the hell the party did to the Premiere during their final hallucination isn't shown, but when they finally come back to reality, the poor bastard is crucified to his desk with knives while the entire room is painted from ceiling-to-floor with blood and gore.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Boris's fatality consists in lifting the enemy above his head with both hands and breaking them in two with a backbreaker.

* HuskyRusskie: Expected, for a game set in Russia.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: In the final Chapter, before you confront [[spoiler:The Soviet Premier]], you first have to worry about a room filled to the brim with his bodyguards. Thankfully, he was nice enough to display his favorite swords there. And to top it all off, it's one of the best melee weapons in the game, it can [[OffWithHIsHead decapitate]] or [[SlashedThroat slash the throats]] of all enemies in one slice.

* NoNameGiven: The penultimate boss is [[spoiler:the Soviet Premier]]. He's never named in-game, but according to his appearance, he's probably supposed to be [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev]].

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Shotguns are flat-out the most powerful weapons in the game, capable of killing massive groups of enemies at once.

** Also seen in the [[http://steamcommunity.com/stats/361300/achievements Steam Achievments:]]

* StressVomit: The player characters do this whenever a Nekro hallucination happens.

* AmazonBrigade: In level 3, the main enemies are a gang of drug-dealing women who are now occupying the Gypsy camp.

* ChekhovsGunman: In level 1, when you escape the secret laboratory, the corridor background includes a room with a masked bear bound and wired to machines full of Nekro. [[spoiler:It reappears much later, as the level 7 boss.]]

** [[OneHitKill Bloody Mary]]: Instantly kills an enemy. [[CaptainObvious Does not work on bosses.]] 2 charges.

** The boss of the same level strongly resembles [[SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Robotnik]].

*** "[[Film/ToyStory The Claw!]]"