Trivia / No More Heroes

• Fake American: The British Robin Atkin Downes as American protagonist Travis Touchdown.
• Fake Irish: The American Quinton Flynn as the Irish Henry.
• God Never Said That: The Fan Nickname for Ermen Palmer is frequently reported as official as evidence for him being Garcian or Emir from killer7, but in reality that character has never been named.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: A limited edition collectors edition of No More Heroes 1 & 2 (Created by LimitedRun) includes a physical Switch game, a physical cd of the game’s soundtrack, a steel-book case, a reversible poster, and a behind-the-scenes/artbook. Buying both versions will also give you a physical flag of Santa Destroy.
• Newbie Boom: The ports of the first two games to the Nintendo Switch increased interest in the franchise to the point where the first two games were in the Top 5 on the Nintendo eShop.
• No Dub for You: This game and the sequel retained the English voice acting across all regions, including its home market Japan. A Japanese voice track was made when Heroes' Paradise was released in Japan.
• No Export for You:
  • Heroes Paradise was released on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, though only the PS3 version released outside Japan (and the 360 version is region-locked as well).
  • No More Heroes World Ranker is a mobile game in which you play a customizable character. Suda 51 hoped that if it sold well, it could see a Western release, but it never happened. As of now, the game is delisted and its website is offline.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Josh Keaton as Destroyman.
  • Quinton Flynn and Robin Atkin Downes play one of the others' common character archetypes, as mentioned under Fake Irish and Fake American.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: The song "Heavenly Star" (the one that plays in the shops and Naomi's lab) is not present in Heroes Paradise and the Switch rerelease due to licensing issues.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Matt McMuscles of Two Best Friends Play, who worked on the game as a tester, confirmed during his own LP of the game that Grasshopper once put in the ability to send pedestrians flying and then explode into a fountain of blood for the North American version. Matt, concerned that this would cause the ESRB to up the age rating to a possible AO (due to violence against pedestrians in any non-Grand Theft Auto game being more heavily scrutinized by the ESRB, and AO games are not permitted to be sold on any consoles), asked Grasshopper to remove this detail, to which they did comply.
  • Early reports from Electronic Gaming Monthly stated that Travis would need to investigate the identities of the UAA's assassins by himself (through missions) before challenging them to a fight, instead of just paying a fee, which would explain the empty sandbox that is Santa Destroy. This idea was somewhat reused in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes for Travis and Bad Man doing investigations to find the Death Balls.
  • There would also be common Mooks around the city outside of ranking fights and side-missions. The fridge in Travis' apartment, which uselessly refills your HP, is an artifact of that.
  • The game (originally just titled Heroes) was going to be developed for the Xbox 360, until Yasuhiro Wada, of Marvelous Entertainment, convinced Suda51 to make it for the Wii. The similar shapes of the Wii Remote and Beam Katana also helped convince him.
• Word of God: Travis' appearance was largely based on Johnny Knoxville.

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