History VideoGame / TheWonderful101

* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Collectibles]]: GEATHJERK Files and Wonderful Files have quite a bit of information on almost everything you encounter.

-->"''The alien invasion of earth will be met by a group of fearless warriors that number just 100 souls. One hundred wonderful defenders of our world. Their faces are forever masked. Their tombs are forever unknown. They are...''"

On February 3rd, 2020, [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/platinumgames/the-wonderful-101-remastered a Kickstarter]] was launched to allow [=PlatinumGames=] to self-publish an UpdatedRerelease of the game; the crowdfunding campaign was an overwhelming success, and ''The Wonderful 101: Remastered'' would release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/{{PS4}}, and Windows PC (UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) in May 2020.

* SecretCharacter: Several. [[spoiler:Some of them are characters that are temporarily playable during the story mode, such as Cmdr. Nelson as Wonder-Red (Emeritus), Immorta, Chewgi, Vorkken, and Wonder-Goggles. Others are characters that appear during the story mode, but are not normally playable, such as Alice MacGregor (as Wonder-Scarf), Professor Shirogane (as Wonder-Gramps), Arthur Wedgewood (as Wonder-Daddy), and Young Will (as Wonder-Future, who is pretty much a JokeCharacter due to only being able to use a small Unite Hand). Others are Poseman, a Viewtiful Joe {{Expy}}, Wonder-Director, who is a OneHitPointWonder CreatorCameo of Creator/HidekiKamiya, and [[{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}} Bayonetta, Rodin, and Jeanne]].]] In ''Remastered'', all of them can be accessed earlier thanks to free codes given out by Platinum Games.

* VideoGameSettings:
** Operation 001 - Blossom City Outskirts: FirstTown + AthleticArenaLevel
** Operation 002 - Blossom City Center: AmusementPark
** Operation 003 - Strato Port: RemilitarizedZone + HighAltitudeBattle
** Operation 004 - Neo Mu, Ocean Metropolis: UnderTheSea + SharkTunnel (with a pinch of PipeMaze added in)
** Operation 005 - Mt. Ogretoll, Lost City of Lowrule: TempleOfDoom + LethalLavaLand (with JungleJapes briefly at the beginning too)
** Operation 006 - Gocken Island, Lost City of Kowrule: TempleOfDoom + SlippySlideyIceWorld
** Operation 007 - [[spoiler:The Alien Vorkken Ohgee's Internal Organs:]] [[spoiler:WombLevel]]
** Operation 008 - [[spoiler:Blossom City, State of Emergency:]] BleakLevel + [[spoiler:DoomedHometown]]
** Operation 009 - [[spoiler:Exoatmosphere: SpaceZone]]
** [[spoiler:Operation 101]] - SecretLevel

* AlreadyDoneForYou: [[spoiler:Heyourgah is killed before you have a chance to fight him, or even see what he looks like.]]

* DevelopmentGag: [[spoiler:SecretCharacter Poseman was the starting point for the character who would become VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe. Here in ''The Wonderful 101'', he's turned into an {{Expy}}.]]

* SecretCharacter: Several. [[spoiler:Some of them are characters that are temporarily playable during the story mode, such as Cmdr. Nelson as Wonder-Red (Emeritus), Immorta, Chewgi, Vorkken, and Wonder-Goggles. Others are characters that appear during the story mode, but are not normally playable, such as Alice MacGregor (as Wonder-Scarf), Professor Shirogane (as Wonder-Gramps), Arthur Wedgewood (as Wonder-Daddy), and Young Will (as Wonder-Future, who is pretty much a JokeCharacter due to only being able to use a small Unite Hand). Others are Poseman, a Viewtiful Joe {{Expy}}, Wonder-Director, who is a OneHitPointWonder CreatorCameo of Creator/HidekiKamiya, and [[{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}} Bayonetta, Rodin, and Jeanne]].]]

* UpdatedRerelease: A remastered version with remixed tracks and new DLC was later released on the Switch, PlayStation 4, and Steam.

In February 2020, [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/platinumgames/the-wonderful-101-remastered a Kickstarter]] was launched to allow [=PlatinumGames=] to self-publish an UpdatedRerelease of the game; the crowdfunding campaign was an overwhelming success, and ''The Wonderful 101: Remastered'' would release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/{{PS4}}, and Windows PC (UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) in May 2020.

''The Wonderful 101'' (formerly known as ''Project P-100'') is a StylishAction game published by Creator/{{Nintendo}} and developed by Creator/PlatinumGames exclusively for the UsefulNotes/WiiU. It stars a team of one hundred superheroes ([[PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration plus you, the player]]) from the global defense force CENTINEL, named the Wonderful 1-Double-Oh, or the Wonderful 100 fighting an AlienInvasion.

On February 3rd, 2020, [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/platinumgames/the-wonderful-101-remastered a Kickstarter]] was launched to bring ''[[UpdatedRerelease The Wonderful 101: Remastered]]'' to UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/{{PS4}}, and Windows PC (UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}).

* GogglesDoNothing: Luka by principle[[spoiler:, until he becomes Wonder Goggles by the end of the game, in which case his [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual goggles can fire]] FrickinLaserBeams]].

** FrickinLaserBeams: [[spoiler:The Unite Goggles power. Wielded by Luka when he becomes Wonder-Goggles in the epilogue.]]

* CatchPhrase: Wonder-Blue seems to say "Feel the sting of my Valiantium Blade!" quite often. Invoked for humor out of the {{Adorkable}} Wonder-Yellow, who claims his country doesn't have catchphrases, embarrassing himself.

* FasterThanLightTravel: The Virgin Victory is capable of traveling at ''150'' times light speed.

* [[AvoidTheDreadedGRating Avoid The Dreaded E10+ Rating]]: A penis innuendo, many boob/butt/crotch close-ups, and (bleeped) swearing were put in the game in order to keep it from being rated Everyone 10+, since no Platinum game has ever had a rating less than a Teen (and even then, only two of their games, this and ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace'', have received the T rating).

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: The main theme often sets in when you're about to finish a boss battle.

* FunWithAcronyms: [=GEATHJERK=] is short for Guild of [[CardCarryingVillain Evil]] Aliens Terrorizing Humans with [[Film/BackToTheFuture Jiggawatt]] bombs, Energy beams, Rayguns, and Killer lasers.

''The Wonderful 101'' (formerly known as ''Project P-100'') is a StylishAction game developed by Creator/PlatinumGames exclusively for the UsefulNotes/WiiU. It stars a team of one hundred superheroes ([[PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration plus you, the player]]) from the global defense force CENTINEL, named the Wonderful 1-Double-Oh, or the Wonderful 100 fighting an AlienInvasion.

%%* ToiletHumor: The Wonderful Toilet's explanation. Bonus for it being marked with W.C. -- the initials for the British term for the bathroom, water closet.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Not unexpected, but given the rest of the game the complete lack of any momentum transfer between vehicles and their occupants is occasionally a little ridiculous and unexpected, and yet somehow manages to be inconsistent, showing up at the end of the boss fight for the second reactor and, weirdly, when you're [[spoiler:inside Vorkken's body]] but not when you're throwing around enemy robots or being tossed around yourself.

* CentralTheme: Vengeance vs justice, and how the former corrupts. Blue was obsessed with revenge for his brother to the point of endangering the team, Luka [[spoiler:sought vengeance for his mother to the point of letting the Earth be destroyed]], Vorkken [[spoiler:had wanted to form the Guyzoch for the purpose of one day taking his revenge on GEATHJERK before that power went to his head and he became just as cruel, and finally GEATHJERK themselves [[spoiler:who wanted to wipe out humanity out of revenge for the Greater Galactic Coalition for invading their world in the future]]. Conversely, Wonder-Red defies this and is firmly rooted in justice. [[spoiler:Though he lands the killing blow on Laambo, Red prioritized the team and stopping his plans before all else. Even then, he blamed himself far more than Laambo for his father's death]]. All but GEATHJERK soon learn how vengeance was destroying them and put an end to it.

** All members of the team lose their CENTINEL-suits when out of health or temporarly knocked out, leaving them flying through the air in their underwear before the GameOver screen if out of life or just lying down, dazed.

* CombiningMecha: [[spoiler:Unite Ultra Platinum, where Platnum Robo and the hijacked Gah-Goojins morph a ''bigger'' version of Platinum Robo]].

''The Wonderful 101'' does not take itself seriously at all. It's a roller coaster ride from the get-go, playing every trope seen in your average Saturday morning cartoon to the extreme. From beginning to end, this game makes no apologies for being wonderfully stupid and wonderfully over the top. But what else would anyone expect from the makers of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'', and ''VideoGame/MadWorld''? Oh, and it's also [[NintendoHard really freaking hard.]]

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->"''The alien invasion of earth will be met by a group of fearless warriors that number just 100 souls. One hundred wonderful defenders of our world. Their faces are forever masked. Their tombs are forever unknown. They are...''"

''The Wonderful 101'' (formerly known as ''Project P-100'') is a StylisshAction game developed by Creator/PlatinumGames exclusively for the UsefulNotes/WiiU. It stars a team of one hundred superheroes ([[PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration plus you, the player]]) from the global defense force CENTINEL, named the Wonderful 1-Double-Oh, or the Wonderful 100 fighting an AlienInvasion.