History VideoGame / NoStraightRoads

** Tatiana angrily [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech puts down]] Mayday in the end of the tutorial after Mayday accuses her of not knowing anything about rock. Notably, it's Mayday accusing her of never holding a guitar in her life that prompts said speech. [[spoiler:Tatiana is later revealed to know quite a bit about rock, due to being Kul Fyra.]]

** When discussing Kul Fyra, Kliff makes a comment how she didn't need to change. [[spoiler:Hinting that Kul Fyra is still around as a different person. It's also hints at his inability to accept what Kul Fyra became.]]

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* FullCircleRevolution: [[spoiler:No matter how you slice it, Mayday's impulsive crusade against NSR by pushing out its megastars mirrors how NSR rejected Bunk Bed Junction's performance in the first place. [[HeelRealization She realizes]] how dangerously close Bunk Bed Junction was to becoming the new NSR when [[LoonyFan Kliff]] has NSR's satellite [[ColonyDrop fall on NSR's tower]] in order to establish rock's dominance over Vinyl City.]]

->'''Mayday:''' Red light!
->'''Zuke:''' Green light!
-->-- Before the [[FinishingMove Showstopper]]

* ShipTease: When confronting Sayu and stating she isn't real, Sayu claims to be as real "as [their] love for each other" to Bunk Bed Junction's shock. When Sayu insists she can tell their feelings and encourages Zuke to embrace his, Zuke starts rambling about "many factors to consider" before Mayday changes the subject. While it should be noted Sayu's a self-admitted LoveFreak, Zuke doesn't outright deny Sayu's claim either.

** The tune that plays before the battle with 1010 begins is called [[Music/BackstreetBoys "Backstreet Sync"]].

* RuleOfCool: In the finale, [[spoiler:Ellie, [=B2J=]'s pet alligator, is revealed to fly a helicopter to carry the two around to the various districts. The megastars all turn giant for some reason, and [=NSR=] tower turns into a giant metronome and robot hand to swat away the falling satellite]]. None of this has any explanation, but it's just ''freakin' cool''.

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Sayu, the virtual idol.

* FriendlyEnemy: [[spoiler:Mayday becomes a fan of Sayu in the process of fighting her. Mayday tells her creators, a bunch of teens, that they can bring her back after the power struggle is over...except her final form]]. She later goes utterly gaga for 1010...until their chassis are blown apart [[RoboticReveal revealing their metal skeletons]]. [[spoiler:She's still very reluctant to use the Showstopper on them]].

* MadeOfIron: Everyone. The aftermath cutscenes of the various bosses tends to show them as well as the player characters beat up, bruised, and even cut all over, and DJ Subatomic Supernova is hit so hard that he's launched into orbit while at one point Mayday and Zuke crash onto the ground after what seems like a 300-foot fall. Yet all that damage just leaves them annoyed or frustrated more than anything if that much, no hospital visits or even rest stops needed afterwards. This includes Yinu, a nine-year old, who's just distressed about her broken piano instead of the bruises on her face. The closest thing to a lasting injury that the victim actually cares about is Kliff getting a broken nose which persists later on, and even that's all he got after landing on his head from a hit that sent him flying. Physical damage seems to be only a minor annoyance in the game's world [[spoiler:although an orbital satellite crashing down on everyone probably exceeds that tolerance]].

* MadeOfIron: Everyone. Or at least, the megastars and the player characters (Kliff, not so much as he easily gets a broken nose). The aftermath cutscenes of the various bosses tends to show them as well as the player characters beat up, bruised, and even cut all over, and DJ Subatomic Supernova is hit so hard that he's launched into orbit while at one point Mayday and Zuke crash onto the ground after what seems like a 300-foot fall. Yet all that damage just leaves them annoyed or frustrated more than anything if that much, no hospital visits or even rest stops needed afterwards. This includes Yinu, a nine-year old, who's just distressed about her broken piano instead of the bruises on her face. Physical damage seems to be only a minor annoyance in the game's world [[spoiler:although an orbital satellite crashing down on everyone probably exceeds that tolerance]].

** The cutscene that plays after Bunk Bed Junction's first encounter with DK West ends with a ToBeContinued screen nearly identical to that of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''.

** When Kliff briefs Bunk Bed Junction about Tatiana, he tells them that her weakness is [[spoiler:her past.]] Considering that Kiff ''had'' met [[spoiler:Tatiana (or more accurately, Kul Fyra) personally before unlike Mayday and Zuke, it can't be any more accurate.]]

* BothOrderAndChaosAreDangerous: Absolute Order corrupts absolutely, as NSR has cracked down on freedom of individuality (especially Rock music) in favor of mass-produced crap, [[FascistButInefficient it has had constant infrastructure problems that have lasted for years]], and its leaders vomit out content while [[TroubledProduction ignoring their growing mental baggage and how it negatively affects their fans]]. But at the end of the game, Bunk Bed Junction's unrestricted chaos [[spoiler:allows the {{LooneyFan}}s to riot en-masse and nearly tear down the city by destroying its infrastructure because it happens to be made by a megacorporation - in this case, one angry Kliff decides to take his revenge with a ''ColonyDrop'', [[DidNotThinkThisThrough ignoring the collateral damage that ''[[DidNotThinkThisThrough is]]'' [[DidNotThinkThisThrough Vinyl City]]]].

* CrosshairAware: Red crosshairs appear on the ground whenever an airborne attack is about to land.

* BothOrderAndChaosAreDangerous: Absolute Order corrupts absolutely, as NSR has cracked down on freedom of individuality (especially Rock music) in favor of mass-produced crap, [[FascistButInefficient it has had constant infrastructure problems that have lasted for years]], and its leaders vomit out content while [[TroubledProduction ignoring their growing mental baggage and how it negatively affects their fans]]. But at the end of the game, Bunk Bed Junction's unrestricted chaos [[spoiler:allows the {{LooneyFan}}s to riot en-masse and nearly tear down the city by destroying its infrastructure because it happens to be made by a megacorporation - in this case, one angry Kliff decides to take his revenge with a ''ColonyDrop'', [[DidNotThinkThisThrough ignoring the collateral damage that ''is'' Vinyl City]]]].

* BothOrderAndChaosAreDangerous: Absolute Order corrupts absolutely, as NSR has cracked down on freedom of individuality (especially Rock music) in favor of mass-produced crap, [[FascistButInefficent it has had constant infrastructure problems that have lasted for years]], and its leaders vomit out content while [[TroubledProduction ignoring their growing mental baggage and how it negatively affects their fans]]. But at the end of the game, Bunk Bed Junction's unrestricted chaos [[spoiler:allows the {{LooneyFan}}s to riot en-masse and nearly tear down the city by destroying its infrastructure because it happens to be made by a megacorporation - in this case, one angry Kliff decides to take his revenge with a ''ColonyDrop'', [[DidNotThinkThisThrough ignoring the collateral damage that ''is'' Vinyl City]]]].

* MemeticHandGesture: InUniverse. After defeating DJ Subatomic Supernova, Mayday tells Tatiana that Bunk Bed Junction now fights "for the little guy!", symbolized by holding her fist up with her pinkie finger extended. As B2J takes back more and more of the city, graffiti of the hand gesture starts appearing all over from fans of the band.

** The scene in which [[spoiler:The NSR megastars assist Bunk Bed Junction in halting the falling satellite]] is visually similar to the sequence in VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask, in which the four Giants stop the moon from crashing into the planet.