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Michael: Jodie, how's my schedule look for today?
Jodie: You've got a conference and dinner party at the Japanese Embassy regarding wildlife protection.
Michael: Oh, yeah...sorry, but I'll have to cancel that. I'm heading out to save America!

Remember Air Force One, that movie where Harrison Ford was like, the kickass President of the United States? That movie did so badly in foreign markets 'cuz every time they released it, they were like "Look at these fuckin' Americans, making a movie about their president punchin' dudes out in an airplane!" Japan saw that and they were like "We can do better than that!"
—Seanbaby, Broken Pixels #24: Metal Wolf Chaos

Michael Wilson, veteran of the Arizona Conflict and 47th President of the United States has been deposed in a military coup by his running mate, RICHAAAAAAARD! Hawk. Now, he must take up the guise of Metal Wolf and take back America city by city, armed only with his Humongous Mecha and the power of BURNING AMERICAN FREEDOM.

This game could only have been made in Japan.

Metal Wolf Chaos is an original Xbox game made by From Software, unfortunately never released in America. The game is a Humongous Mecha title focused around the highly American pursuit of blowing stuff up, with a plot and dialog that would be the epitome of Hot Blooded American Patriotic Fervor (or the most over-the-top satire of it ever made) were it not coming from a different country altogether. Weaponry includes machine guns, rocket launchers, and a shark gun - Yes, a shark gun - while the plot takes you to shootouts in the southwest, bomb threats in Beverly Hills, battles against giant robots in Manhattan, redecorating the White House with missiles, a showdown with Richard in Vegas, and space, assisted along the way by a resistance force skilled only in blocking tank cannons with their helicopters and the President's slightly psychotic secretary, Jodie Crawford.

Troper General's Warning: Prolonged exposure to this article or its tropes may cause you to develop the delusion that Metal Wolf Chaos is not a real game. The Troper General's Office recommends treatment through proportional use of videos of the game in action.

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This game provides (hilarious) examples of:

• Abnormal Ammo
• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Beyond The Impossible: Just...everything. For God's sake, at one point Michael destroys an orbiting space station and then rides a piece of debris back down to Earth like a surfboard
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Jodie
• Broken Pedestal: Twice, no less.
• Catch Phrase: No less than five - "Believe in your own justice," for the game as a whole, "Because, yes! The pen is still mightier than the sword!" for Peter MacDonald, "I, Richard Hawk," for, well, Richard Hawk, "Because I am the President of the United States!" for Michael and "The password is ______" for the Government Policy Promotion Department. No, really.
  • Believe in your own justice, who believes in you!
• Card Carrying Villain: We never hear any of Richard's motivations beyond some incomprehensible propaganda near the beginning. He just hates freedom for some reason.
• Chest Blaster: Richard Hawk gets one as his answer to Michael's Macross Missile Massacre.
• Crazy Awesome: Is an explanation really needed?
• Crosses The Line Twice: As if Richard's atrocities in the Zero Percent Approval Rating entry weren't enough, he enacts a law that calls for the immediate public execution (by guillotine) of any Metal Wolf sympathizers who don't confess by a previously set timeline. Along with their family members within four separations. And their old classmates. AND their friends and coworkers.
  • The whole game is this. Foreign game has the US President saving the US by killing lots of people? Offensive. US President saving the US by staging a one-man war on his Vice President in a mecha suit while blowing lots of shit up and spitting out cheesy one-liners in the most hot-blooded fashion ever? Awesomesauce.
• Crowning Music Of Awesome: "Metal Fighter". One Woman Wailing Ominous Japanese Chanting over an Epic Riff? Hell yes.
• Curse Cut Short: Michael's commentary on Richard's Spider Tank
• Deflector Shields: Equipped on the giant spider-bot in New York.
• Eagleland: This game is drowning in it.
  • And it shows: 1up has labeled this as the Number 1 Most Insanely Patriotic Game.
• Everything Breaks: And unlocking a couple of secret weapons demands that you S-Rank the amount of property damage you do throughout the course of the game.
• The Evil Army: Though they are always referred to as the "coup de'tat forces", pretty much the entire United States Military seems to be in on the coup.
• Evil Chancellor: Richard, prior to his coup.
• Evil Laugh: Richard lets one loose almost every time he and Michael run into each other.
• Fictional Counterpart: DNN
• Foe Yay: Richard and Michael's relationship is very... charged to say the least. Richard even points this out during one battle. Later that same battle, he sounds like he confirms this with his line "I'll...hug you to death!" However, his delivery of this line might suggest that he's just running out of effective taunts to begin the fight with, especially because he delivers this line late in the game. But then again, that theory gets thrown out of the window later in that same fight...
• For The Evulz: Richard pretty much does all his evil crap just to show us he's evil.
• Good Hair Evil Hair
• Gratuitous English: While most of the English is quite good, the song titles on the soundtrack are just strange. "The President Spirit"? "Moduration City"? "Assign Monk"? "Dept Blue"? Yeah...
• Heel Face Turn: Peter MacDonald
• Heroic Sociopath: Jodie seems to enjoy watching her boss wreak havoc across the country a little too much.
• Holy Shit Quotient: Rivaling Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• Hot Blooded
• I Got Better: Characters regularly survive helicopter explosions, hand waving it by saying "we have thorough knowledge of how to escape", or even just "I have somehow managed to escape!".
  • Note that the latter is probably a mistranslation. The Japanese phrase usually translated as "somehow" doesn't necessarily imply a lack of knowledge of the manner, but only a lack of intuitive understanding of the manner, and thus is the most common translation of "I managed to..."
• Incoming Ham: Every single time Richard shows up.
• Intrepid Reporter: Peter MacDonald, an antagonist releasing propaganda for Richard.
• Large Ham: Michael and Richard.
• Lighter And Softer: Considerably, compared to practically every Armored Core title barring Formula Front. (And if we're counting From Software's collaborative works, a couple notches softer than Another Century's Episode too.)
• Limit Break: Obviously complete with Hot Blooded Shouting and More Dakka. LOTS MORE DAKKA.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Great for crowd clearing.
• Made Of Explodium
• Meaningful Name: Richard Hawk and film star Money-Money Gold. No, seriously.
• Mini Mecha: Metal Wolf and other mobile armors are only double the size of human infantry.
• Mirror Boss: Richard Hawk, in the penultimate level.
• Mirrored Confrontation Shot
• Moral Dissonance: Who knows who many perfectly innocent Americans, not to mention soldiers just doing their jobs, Michael blows up in his fight for freedom? More importantly, who cares? Go blow more of it up!
  • And don't worry about killing innocents. Only the really evil people die. Barring Richard himself, presumably.
• More Dakka: No one can EVER have enuff dakka, but between this and all his Macross Missile Massacre goodness, Metal Wolf sure does make a mighty effort towards having almost enuff.
• Narm: Dripping with it, on account of Richard's various atrocities are there just to let us know he's evil, rather than to prove some sort of point about needless conflict, as they would in Armored Core.
• Narm Charm: The voice acting and writing as a whole.
• No Export For You: Why. Just... why.
  • The American world is not ready for such a light and soft game by From Software.
  • This game sounds so awesome, I'd have trouble choosing between this and Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram.
• Noodle Incident: While it's hinted at that Michael's presidency, Richard's evilness, and nearly every involved party's past is connected to a conflict called the Arizona Conflict or the Arizona Insurrection, we are never shown or told about what exactly happened there. All we are told (as an aside, no less) is that Richard won a Congressional Medal of Honor during that conflict.
• One Liner: Too many to count. Too ludicrous to replicate here.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Michael is President Action distilled to his raw form and equipped with a Humongous Mecha, while Richard is a straight-up President Evil.
• Patriotic Fervor: Only because it's a Japanese video game, it's more like Hot Blooded translated into the world of politics.
• Psycho Supporter: While Jodie doesn't really do anything outside her support role, her Ax Crazy tendencies reach a new high when shooting down and capturing all of the game's Easter Egg UFOs nets you her alien-themed rendition of "Ten Little Indians." Which begs the question: How did Jodie know the aliens were boys?
• Redshirt Army
• Refuge In Audacity: And how!
  • It's so over the top that it's the more sublime moments that really jump out at you.
• Rocket Punch: "YEEEEAH! Suck. On my... Missile Punch!"
• Rule Of Cool: Oh. My. Fucking. GOD.
• Say My Name: "RICHAAARDDDD!!!" Also: MICHAELLLLL!!!"
• See You In Heaven
• Sky Surfing
• Spiritual Successor: It's basically Armored Core with more BURNING AMERICAN JUSTICE!
• Spider Tank
• So Bad Its Good: This game embodies this.
• Stealth Parody(?)
• Super Drowning Skills: A real pain in the ass when dealing with a battleship off the coast of Miami requires you to take aim from perfectly destructible gunboats parked just outside the shallow water Metal Wolf can safely navigate.
• Surprisingly Good English: While the writing may be horrific Engrish, the actual voice actors are native English speakers.
• They Fight Crime: He's the President of the Great United States of America. She's his secretary with an appetite for random destruction.
• This Is SPARTA: ...actually, this overlaps a whole lot with the catch phrases, which are delivered at the top of some characters' lungs at points at some point or another if repeated.
  • "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?"
    • Which was actually a sparta famous phrase for 6 years before Metal Wolf Chaos was released as a video game.
• Villain With Good Publicity: Richard blames Metal Wolf for every atrocity he commits, calling it more evil meaner than Satan.
• Wave Motion Gun: The Alcatraz Cannon, an anti-terrorism weapon. As the narrator on the Let's Play video above comments on it:
  "I just love the idea of building a massive particle cannon to fight terrorism. I can just picture some poor sap with a dirty bomb in a shopping mall, blown to smithereens by giant laser artillery. Wouldn't be out of place in this game."
• Weaponized Landmark: Building a giant electromagnetic cannon inside Alcatraz, 'nuff said.
• Zero Percent Approval Rating: In his brief reign as President, Richard has re-established slave labor, flooded the city of Chicago with poison gas, and terrorized New York with a giant mechanical spider.

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