History VideoGame / OneMustFall

* FinishingMove: Called "Scrap" and "Destruction" moves, as you are beating up on robots, not people. The former is a simple post-match extra hit, the latter is a follow-up that completely destroys the loser's bot. These allow you to fight {{Secret Character}}s at certain points, and you can actually reach {{Bonus Boss}}es in by doing special versions of these already-secret moves on a certain stage, most of them involving making large holes in the floor.

* BonusBoss: On [[HarderThanHard the hidden skill levels]], you can reach hidden arenas in the story mode where you fight the hidden opponents Fire (an orange Katana with the fireball special move) and Ice (a translucent blue Shadow with the ground freeze move). As stated below, you can fight similar versions of them in Tournament mode and also get the ground freeze move for yourself, but unfortunately Katana's fireball is normally unattainable, most likely because it's pretty damn strong, fast and easily spammable.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* EasyModeMockery: You have to have the difficulty set to at least Veteran (or Rookie against the shareware boss). Setting it lower (e.g. to Punching Bag) causes the boss to mock you when you reach him, before ending the tournament.

* SharpenedToASingleAtom: Katana's blades and Thorn's spikes.

Two old but great fansites are [[http://www.omfuniverse.tk/ OMF Universe]] and [[http://www.omf2097.com/ OMF2097.com]]. If you want to know why you should care, be sure to check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWOWS4lNc8 a review]].

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: The Katana bot spins a lot in his Rising Blade and Razor Spin special moves. The Flail's Swinging Chains and Spinning Throw also contribute, while the Pyros has the Fire Spin, where it spins in place and bashes the enemy with flames and claws (in fact, its FinishingMove consists of nothing but spinning and bashing and burning, repeated until the opponent's top half explodes).

A bug-plagued ContestedSequel, ''One Must Fall: Battlegrounds'', which attempted to move the series online and into the third dimension, was released in 2003. It hit the PolygonCeiling pretty hard.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There's a total of 40 characters between Story Mode and Tournament Mode, if you include the four choices of PlayerCharacter, the three secret characters from ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', Rob Elam's in-game avatar Iceman, and the BigBad Kreissack himself. And this is without going into the characters in the sequel, ''Battlegrounds'', which has over 50 characters (including a few returning faces from ''2097'').

* {{Abandonware}}: Creator/EpicGames officially declared it Freeware and put the full version up for grabs in 1999.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Angel has white hair despite looking relatively young, [[spoiler: which is possibly justified as she's not human]], while Jaqouline--the boss of the Katushai Challenge in Tournament Mode--has dark purple hair. Everyone else has relatively believable hair colors, including Jean-Paul and the Tournament Mode character [[MeaningfulName Scarlet]], both of whom have red hair, and Eva O'Ryan, who has a thick whit streak in the top of her brown hairdo.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Angel has white hair despite looking relatively young, [[spoiler: which is possibly justified as she's not human]], while Jaqouline--the boss of the Katushai Challenge in Tournament Mode--has dark purple hair. Everyone else has relatively believable hair colors, including Jean-Paul and the Tournament Mode character [[MeaningfulName Scarlet]], both of whom have red hair, and Eva O'Ryan, who has a thick SkunkStripe in the top of her brown hairdo.

* CreatorCameo: The hidden tournament opponent Iceman is ''One Must Fall'' creator Rob Elam (giving his line "Prepare to meet your maker" a double meaning); the tournament opponent James is Digital Extremes founder and future ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' series' developer James Schmalz.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tournament Mode character Scarlet's pre-fight quote in the WAR Invitational: "Don't be scared, honey. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything I'll]] [[ParentalBonus be]] [[DoubleEntendre gentle]]."

* BadassGrandpa: Shirro is 73. Major Kreissack is 103. This does not stop either of them from kicking your ass.

* AMechByAnyOtherName: [=HAR=] ('''H'''uman '''A'''ssissted '''R'''obot)