History VideoGame / Starfox

* BattleCouple: Fox and Krystal/Fara, depending on {{continuity}}.
** Falco and Katt, for that.

* BattleCouple: Fox and Krystal.

* BadassFurry: A lot of the cast members can qualify, but perhaps most notable are Fox and Wolf.

The series is also notable for its [[{{Vaporware}} long-rumored but never actually released]] second installment (that has had a late beta version leaked), ''[[StarFox2 Star Fox 2]]''. Elements of that game were recycled into ''Star Fox 64'' and (much more obviously) ''Star Fox Command''. An arcade game was also planned during the development of ''Star Fox Assault'' made by Namco, a la FZero [=AX=], but was canceled some time in the middle of development. The series protagonist Fox has also appeared as a starting character in all three ''SuperSmashBros'' games, and was joined by his teammate Falco in ''Melee'' and his [[TheRival rival]] and [[EnemyMine sometime ally]] Wolf in ''Brawl''.

** Version 2 is less amiable, and claims that while ''Dinosaur Planet'' was in development, Nintendo was working on an in-house ''Star Fox'' title of their own, one that used planetary exploration as a game mechanic, but which was also far behind schedule. Nintendo began searching their third-party dev projects for more complete games that could be modified to suit their needs, and upon noticing the similarities between ''Dinosaur Planet'''s character designs and those of ''Star Fox'', pressured Rare to change the game to use the ''Star Fox'' setting and be ready as a launch title for the GameCube. This caused a split among the Rare leadership, half of whom wanted to obey Nintendo's wishes, and the other half who wanted to continue working on their own original [=IP=]. The debate dragged on so long that the N64 ceased production, which effectively ended development of ''Dinosaur Planet''. Nintendo's strong-arming in this instance, combined with their low-key promotion of Rare's family-unfriendly ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', purportedly caused some bad blood between the two companies, ultimately leading Nintendo to sell their interest in Rare to Microsoft just after ''Adventures'' was released.

** Version 2 is less amiable, and claims that while ''Dinosaur Planet'' was in development, Nintendo was working on an in-house ''Star Fox'' title of their own, one that used planetary exploration as a game mechanic, but which was also far behind schedule. Nintendo began searching their third-party dev projects for more complete games that could be modified to suit their needs, and upon noticing the similarities between ''Dinosaur Planet'''s character designs and those of ''Star Fox'', pressured Rare to change the game to use the ''Star Fox'' setting and be ready as a launch title for the GameCube. This caused a split among the Rare leadership, half of whom wanted to obey Nintendo's wishes, and the other half who wanted to continue working on their own original [=IP=]. The debate dragged on so long that the N64 ceased production, which effectively ended development of ''Dinosaur Planet''. Nintendo's strong-arming in this instance, combined with their low-key promotion of Rare's family-unfriendly ''ConkersBadFurDay'', purportedly caused some bad blood between the two companies, ultimately leading Nintendo to sell their interest in Rare to Microsoft just after ''Adventures'' was released.

* CoolOldGuy: Peppy Hare, also [[spoiler:Fox in one of the endings in ''Command'', in which he's seen sporting sunglasses like his father and a goatee.]] General Pepper tries for this, though he falls short.

** TheRealist - Fox

** TheApathetic - Peppy

** TheHero: Fox
** TheLancer: Falco
** TheBigGuy: Peppy
** TheSmartGuy: Slippy
** TheChick: Krystal (and, true to form, she is also TheEmpath).

** The Cynic: Falco
** The Realist: Fox
** The Optimist: Slippy
** The Apathetic: Peppy

** Sanguine: Falco
** Choleric: Fox
** Melancholic: Slippy
** Phlegmatic: Peppy

* ManlyGay: Wolf. For Westerners, the explanation is culturally complex, but while this particular flavor of ManlyGay tends to be [[SmallReferencePools more obscure]] in the West, it is actually not considered at all subjective in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. See Wolf's entry in the [[Characters/StarFox character sheet]] for more details.

* GameplayRoulette: The series has had 3D RailShooter, ActionAdventure, ThirdPersonShooter, and TurnBasedStrategy elements throughout the various installments..

* TryNotToDie ''"Don't go dying on me!"''

** Also, Andrew Oikonny, ex-Star Wolf, is the first boss in ''Assault'', where he is striving to become a good BigBad like his uncle was. His ship even transforms into a big head with two flying fists as a callback to Andross's boss fight.

* RockBeatsLaser: ''Brutally'' averted in ''Assault''. The high-technology hive-minded Aparoids attack the calm, magical, dinosaur planet Sauria, where the last game took place. The Aparoids just steamroll the dinosaurs. To quote Slippy:

* BadassBookworm: Lucy Hare, she teaches Astrophysics when she's not flying with Fox against evil space fish fish.

-->Peppy Hare: This brings back memories of your dad!\\
Peppy Hare: Your Father helped me like that too!\\
[[RuleOfThree Peppy Hare: Your becoming more like your father!\]]

** Considering the previous games your team is busy fighting for their lives. Small talk about family doesn't really seem like the thing they would be doing.

** Considering the previous games your team is busy fighting for their lives, small talk about family doesn't really seem like the thing they would be doing.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: "This brings back memories of your dad!" (said by Peppy).

* IAmNotShazam:
** The team leader is called Fox [=McCloud=], not Star Fox. Star Fox is the name of the team.
** Ditto for Wolf O'Donnell, not Star Wolf.
** Possibly parodied by one of the endings in ''Command'', where Falco creates his own team and calls it Star Falco.

* HelloNurse: Krystal.

* IfYouKnowWhatIMean:
-->'''Krystal:''' A ''mission together'' at last.\\
'''Fox:''' Oh... Uhhhh... Yeah.
** Even funnier if you pay attention to the conversations throughout the rest of the game. She's been trying to get on a land mission with him since the start of the game.

** A remake has been anounced at E3 2010 for the Nintendo3DS.

** Zoness's entire ocean and atmosphere was polluted horribly by Andross in its first sight in ''64'', but by ''Star Fox Assault'', most of the pollution was cleaned up.

** Although since they travel from planet to planet between most levels, they probably had some time to rest. However, the last two levels in both Starfox 64 and Assault are pretty much back to back.

** And in Assault "If things get dicey, use a barrier".

** Command kinda does this for every level, since you have to protect the Great Fox, especially from missiles that specifically target it.

** Andrew Oikonny could possibly apply, but on this other hand his presumed death in ''Assault'' is retconnable (although no sequels aside from Command have been made since Assault). Yet after the aparoid shoots him down.