Trivia / No More Heroes III

• Acting for Two:
  • Jennifer Hale pulls double-duty as Dr. Juvenile and Kimmy Love.
  • Max Mittelman plays both Damon and Kamui.
  • Mark Allen Stewart plays Henry and Vanishing Point.
  • Kathryn Fiore plays Bad Girl and Ohma
  • Paul Mercier plays Black Night Direction and Paradox Bandit.
  • Stephen Oyoung plays Gold Joe, Sniping Lee, and Takashi Miike
  • Scott Whyte plays Mr. Black Hole, Native Dancer, and the president.
  • Ike Amadi plays Jeane and Notorious.
  • Matthew Mercer plays the narrator and Hunter Touchdown.
  • Christian Lanz plays Sonic Juice and King Jess Baptise V
  • Paula Tiso plays Sylvia and grown up Jeane Touchdown.
• Approval of God: Or rather, pre-approval. When Suda made the final boss sequence into a Super Smash Bros. parody, he asked Nintendo and Sakurai if it was okay with them. They encouraged Suda to go for it. This actually inspired him to make the parody even more blatant than what he originally came up with.
• The Danza: Scott Whyte voices Native Dancer, whose real name is Scott Touchdown.
• God Does Not Own This World: Invoked; In an interview after the game's release, Goichi Suda explained how the No More Heroes license basically belongs to Marvelous, so with this game he intended to finish the series on his own terms and move on to make new indie properties that he and Grasshopper Manufacture can call his own. Nevertheless, he did tease the possibility of possibly using Travis again in some way at some point in the foreseeable future.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Of all the Kamen Rider seasons to be namedropped, Kamen Rider Zi-O was, presumably due to the fact that production started around the time Zi-O aired.^note Production for the game started around the time Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes was nearly finished, which was released in January 2019. Under the logical assumption that it was nearing completion the previous year, 2018, it would line up with Zi-O's air dates.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Mark Allen Stewart takes over the role of Henry, replacing Quinton Flynn in light of the controversies surrounding him.
  • Takashi Miike appears As Himself just like in Desperate Struggle, but he's voiced by Stephen Oyoung this time.
• Renamed to Avoid Association: Damon's surname in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes was originally Riccitiello; an explicit reference to the former Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello. He was renamed to Ricotello in No More Heroes III. Given people had been quick to observe that the character's backstory was meant to be analogous to the development of Shadows of the Damned, and that he would go on to be made even more amoral by the character turning out to be petty, self-centered, and an abuser, this was most likely done to maintain creative freedom while avoiding legal disputes.
• Schedule Slip: Originally planned for release in 2020, then delayed to August 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Then again, the second trailer ended with Travis dismissing the possibility of a 2020 release with a "Hah! Good luck!", with is oddly prophetic in hindsight.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The title was originally supposed to be No More Heroes III: Final Bout – All-Out Galactic War, but got shortened to No More Heroes III.
  • Despite appearing in an Early-Bird Cameo alongside Mr. Blackhole to foreshadow the next game in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Mr. Wormhole is nowhere to be seen here, possibly for redundancy reasons.
  • Suda had bigger plans for the part after Travis gets killed by Henry, which he wasn't able to make due to time and budget constraints. The original idea was that Travis gets sent to Blackhole Prison (where FU met his posse) and meets Fleming from Shadows of the Damned for a boss battle. Afterwards it would be revealed he is Midori Midorikawa's father. It would've also included some more details on how the game is also connected to The Silver Case.
  • In this interview with Nintendo Life, Goichi Suda mentions how he initially wanted Travis to deal with assassins on an international scale, before eventually deciding to scale things up to cosmic levels with the Galactic Superhero invaders instead.
  • In an interview with Siliconera, Suda reveals that all of the Galactic Superheroes were planned to be full boss fights but that they had to cut the fights with Black Night Direction, Vanishing Point, Sniping Lee, and Paradox Bandit out for various reasons. Shinobu, Bad Girl, Notorious, Kamui, Midori, and Native Dancer were all also planned to be playable characters, but they couldn't get them all working, so Travis ended up being the only playable character in the end. Additionally, the restricted areas of each map were actually fully-modelled and originally explorable, but the hardware couldn't handle them, so they were blocked off in the final game. However, Suda did express interest in potentially implementing these scrapped elements as DLC if he's given the greenlight.
• Word of God: According to Goichi Suda, this has been planned to be the final game in the series and the conclusion to Travis Touchdown's story.