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* SoCoolItsAwesome: Pretty much everyone agrees this is the best game in the franchise and one of the best 3D space shooters ever.
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*** That can be (somewhat) remedied by constantly barrel-rolling while spamming your lasers and unlimited (for this mission) seeker missiles/bombs. With a little skillful steering, you can breeze past this mission.

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*** That can be (somewhat) remedied by constantly barrel-rolling while spamming your lasers and unlimited (for this mission) seeker missiles/bombs. With a little skillful steering, you can breeze past this mission. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT2QeSebbCM Can't guarantee that it won't hurt, though.]]
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* CompleteMonster: While we don't much about him, from what we can tell, Andross. He's started a war over getting exiled to planet after conducting experiments that menaced a whole planet, and if Zoness is any judge, he heavily pollutes any planets he gets a chance for make a foothold on.
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** Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and due to how the Blue-Marine's missile work (locking on to the first target your crosshairs hits, and you can only fire one missile at a time), it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage. On the other hand, it's significantly easier to get a high score than Katina or Fichina, both of which are all-range missions.
*** That can be (somewhat) remedied by constantly barrel-rolling while spamming your lasers and unlimited (for this mission) seeker missiles/bombs. With a little skillful flying, you can breeze past this mission.

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** Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and due to how the Blue-Marine's missile missiles work (locking on to the first target your crosshairs hits, and you can only fire one missile at a time), it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage. On the other hand, it's significantly easier to get a high score than Katina or Fichina, both of which are all-range missions.
*** That can be (somewhat) remedied by constantly barrel-rolling while spamming your lasers and unlimited (for this mission) seeker missiles/bombs. With a little skillful flying, steering, you can breeze past this mission.
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* ScrappyLevel: Titania is a Scrappy Level in every way possible. The stage itself isn't too bad, even though for some odd reason several dangerous machines are trying to attack you ''in the middle of the desert''. What makes this stage annoying is that you have to use the [[ScrappyMechanic Landmaster]], which all players hate. The only reason why you even go to this god-forsaken planet is to save [[TheScrappy Slippy]]. And unlike Macbeth, Titania's boss doesn't give you the option to earn fifty hitpoints, [[ThatOneSidequest so getting the medal is frustrating]].

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* ScrappyLevel: Titania is a Scrappy Level in every way possible. The stage itself isn't too bad, even though for some odd reason several dangerous machines are trying to attack you ''in the middle of the desert''. What makes this stage annoying is that you have to use the [[ScrappyMechanic Landmaster]], which all some players hate. The only reason why you even go to this god-forsaken planet is to save [[TheScrappy Slippy]]. And unlike Macbeth, Titania's boss doesn't give you the option to earn fifty hitpoints, [[ThatOneSidequest so getting the medal is frustrating]].



** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2, generally regarded as the hardest fight in the game. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you. The AI for the whole team is much better than before, they're all faster, and bombs and charges won't hurt them. The encounter is also much more difficult if you're missing team members, since Star Wolf members go after you if your corresponding wingman is down.

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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2, generally regarded as the hardest fight in the game. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you. The AI for the whole team is much better than before, they're all faster, and bombs and charges won't hurt them. The encounter is also much more difficult if you're missing team members, since Star Wolf members go after you if your their corresponding wingman is down.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: Slippy's whining.
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* MemeticMutation: "Do a barrel roll!" and "Can't let you do that Star Fox."

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* MemeticMutation: "Do a barrel roll!" and "Can't let you do that Star Fox."Fox," might be the most famous, but as the YMMV for the whole series points, the whole game is a FountainOfMemes.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Star Wolf due to their memorable PsychoRanger setup, banter, and having a fan favorite battle theme.


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* MemeticMutation: "Do a barrel roll!" and "Can't let you do that Star Fox."

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* AntiClimaxBoss: Andross, his attacks hurt, but are easy to avoid, and a hyper laser, which a player can get from corridors along the way to the fight, can kill him in seconds. The robot head you fight at the end on the easy path is downright pathetic, it's charge attack is a joke to avoid, and that's it's only attack, and most bosses you fought before this thing take longer to kill. The only challenge a player might have is with Andross' brain.



* CompleteMonster: While we don't much about him, from what we can tell, Andross. He's started a war over getting exiled to planet after conducting experiments that menaced a whole planet, and if Zoness is any judge, he heavily pollutes any planets he gets a chance for make a foothold on.



** Andross can be quite the scare given how he suddenly pops up, he's a freaking giant head floating in the air, and one of his attacks consists of inhaling you, chewing up, and spitting you out. The music and the grunts and laughs he makes don't help either.



** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you. The encounter is also much more difficult if you're missing team members, since Star Wolf members go after you if your corresponding wingman is down.

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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2.2, generally regarded as the hardest fight in the game. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you. The AI for the whole team is much better than before, they're all faster, and bombs and charges won't hurt them. The encounter is also much more difficult if you're missing team members, since Star Wolf members go after you if your corresponding wingman is down.
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* CompleteMonster: Pigma Dengar, who sells out his friends on the Star Fox team for money and has a fairly sadistic personality, as evidenced by the quote below. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even his fellow Star Wolf members can't stand him]].
--> '''Pigma:''' Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!
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that goddamn scream gave ME nightmares when I was 7 at least.

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* NightmareFuel: When you die and your teammates are still there, they'll give a [[BigNo big NO!!!!!!]]. If you die ''alone'', though, you're treated to Fox's grisly last moments where he '''[[HellIsThatNoise screams]]'''. Pretty horrifying for young first-time players, to say the least.
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* ScrappyLevel: Titania is a Scrappy Level in every way possible. The stage itself isn't too bad, even though for some odd reason several dangerous machines are trying to attack you ''in the middle of the desert''. What makes this stage annoying is that you have to use the [[ScrappyMechanic Landmaster]], which all players hate. The only reason why you even go to this god-forsaken planet is to save [[TheScrappy Slippy]]. And unlike Macbeth, Titania's boss doesn't give you the option to earn fifty hitpoints, [[ThatOneSidequest so getting the medal is frustrating]].

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* BestLevelEver: Fichina, Katina, Bolse, Area 6, Venom, Zoness, the list goes on.

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* BestLevelEver: Fichina, Katina, Bolse, Area 6, Venom, Zoness, the list goes on. Most notably, Macbeth turns a ScrappyMechanic into a BestLevelEver - that's how much fun it is.


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* ScrappyMechanic: The non-Arwing levels can be frustrating as all buggery.
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*** This is lessened somewhat by the fact that he constantly spews bombs for you to scoop up and use against him.
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* BestLevelEver: Fichina, Katina, Bolse, Area 6, Venom, Zoness, the list goes on.

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* BestLevelEver: Fichina, Katina, Bolse, Area 6, Venom, Zoness, the list goes on.



* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Redirecting the train on Macbeth so that it blows up the factory.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Redirecting the train on Macbeth so that it blows up the factory.



* SerialNumbersFiledOff: The Sauceror boss of Katina is almost exactly like the flying saucers of IndependenceDay, right down to the base-destroying laser that requires the core to be exposed.

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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: The Sauceror boss of Katina is almost exactly like the flying saucers of IndependenceDay, Film/IndependenceDay, right down to the base-destroying laser that requires the core to be exposed.



*** That can be (somewhat) remedied by constantly barrel-rolling while spamming your lasers and unlimited (for this mission) seeker missiles/bombs. With a little skillful flying, you can breeze past this mission.

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*** That can be (somewhat) remedied by constantly barrel-rolling while spamming your lasers and unlimited (for this mission) seeker missiles/bombs. With a little skillful flying, you can breeze past this mission.
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*** That can be (somewhat) remedied by constantly barrel-rolling while spamming your lasers and unlimited (for this mission) seeker missiles/bombs. With a little skillful flying, you can breeze past this mission.
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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you. The encounter is also much more difficult if you're missing team members, since Star Wolf tends to go after you if their .

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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you. The encounter is also much more difficult if you're missing team members, since Star Wolf tends to members go after you if their .your corresponding wingman is down.
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* NarmCharm: "Ohhhhhh ''[[{{Bowdlerise}} shoot!]]''"
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* AudioErotica: The racoon who trains you in Star Fox 64 3D. People commented they want to tap that touch screen.
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* AudioErotica: The racoon who trains you in Star Fox 64 3D. People commented they want to tap that touch screen.
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* CompleteMonster: Pigma Dengar, who sells out his friends on the Star Fox team for money and has a fairly sadistic peronality, as evidenced by the quote below. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even his fellow Star Wolf members can't stand him]].

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* CompleteMonster: Pigma Dengar, who sells out his friends on the Star Fox team for money and has a fairly sadistic peronality, personality, as evidenced by the quote below. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even his fellow Star Wolf members can't stand him]].
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** Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and due to how the Blue-Marine's missile work (locking on to the first target your crosshairs hits, and you can only fire one missile at a time), it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage. On the other hand, it's norably easier to get a high score than Katina or Fichina, both of which are all-range missions.

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** Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and due to how the Blue-Marine's missile work (locking on to the first target your crosshairs hits, and you can only fire one missile at a time), it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage. On the other hand, it's norably significantly easier to get a high score than Katina or Fichina, both of which are all-range missions.

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* CompleteMonster: Pigma Dengar.
--> '''Pigma:''' Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!

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* CompleteMonster: Pigma Dengar.
Dengar, who sells out his friends on the Star Fox team for money and has a fairly sadistic peronality, as evidenced by the quote below. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even his fellow Star Wolf members can't stand him]].
--> '''Pigma:''' Daddy screamed REAL good before he died! died!
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Redirecting the train on Macbeth so that it blows up the factory.



* SerialNumbersFiledOff: The Sauceror boss of Katina is almost exactly like the flying saucers of IndependenceDay, right down to the base-destroying laser that requires the core to be exposed.



** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you.

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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you. The encounter is also much more difficult if you're missing team members, since Star Wolf tends to go after you if their .



** Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and due to how the Blue-Marine's missile work (locking on to the first target your crosshairs hits, and you can only fire one missile at a time), it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage.

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** Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and due to how the Blue-Marine's missile work (locking on to the first target your crosshairs hits, and you can only fire one missile at a time), it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage. On the other hand, it's norably easier to get a high score than Katina or Fichina, both of which are all-range missions.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Quite a few. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZBu3nHJkM Star Wolf's theme]] is probably the most famous. For another, see NostalgiaLevel below.
* NostalgiaLevel: Or Nostalgic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G0iatK3No music in this case...]]

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Quite a few. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZBu3nHJkM Star Wolf's theme]] is probably the most famous. For another, see NostalgiaLevel below. \n* NostalgiaLevel: Or Nostalgic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G0iatK3No music in this case...]]
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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse.

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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse. ContinuingIsPainful, indeed, as your hyper lasers can quickly down two of the fighters before Wolf starts annoying you.
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--> Pigma: '''Pigma:''' Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!

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* NostalgicLevel: Or Nostalgic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G0iatK3No music in this case...]]

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* NostalgicLevel: BestLevelEver: Fichina, Katina, Bolse, Area 6, Venom, Zoness, the list goes on.
* CompleteMonster: Pigma Dengar.
--> Pigma: Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Quite a few. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZBu3nHJkM Star Wolf's theme]] is probably the most famous. For another, see NostalgiaLevel below.
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Or Nostalgic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G0iatK3No music in this case...]]]]
* TearJerker: The good ending.


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** The battle with Star Wolf on Venom 2. Much harder than on Fichina/Bolse.
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* NostalgicLevel: Or Nostalgic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G0iatK3No music in this case...]]

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* NostalgicLevel: Or Nostalgic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G0iatK3No music in this case...]]]]
* ThatOneBoss
** The Golemmech, the penultimate boss on Venom's easy route. The pillars that come out of the wall can be incredibly hard to dodge, and it gets even harder if only one part of him is left to attack.
** Sarumarine, the boss of Zoness. He can only be damaged by bombs until all his parts are off, it's easy to attack the parts in the wrong order, and his morning star can easily clip your wings.
* ThatOneLevel: Sector Z: it's an EscortMission of sorts, where you have to protect the Great Fox from incoming missiles. It's swarming with Invader-III fighters (''which have the best AI of all the enemies in the game bar Star Wolf or the Bolse Fighters'') which means you'll constantly be listening to your wingmen calling you for help and it has just enough junk on the outskirts to ensure that you'll almost certainly crash into something and rip off your wings. Worst still is that if you're going for the medal, your wingmen can actually steal your points if they're the one to land the last hit on the missile: and if you come from Zoness you'll have to contend with Katt kill-stealing from you as well.
** Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and due to how the Blue-Marine's missile work (locking on to the first target your crosshairs hits, and you can only fire one missile at a time), it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage.
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* NostalgicLevel: Or Nostalgic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G0iatK3No music in this case...]]
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* ScrappyLevel: Aquas. There's only one way to get to it, the level is slow (and underwater) and it's difficult to get the required 150 hits to earn the medal for the stage.

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