Cult Classic: While having just one game and a short lived toyline to its name, with the rest of the releases being an extremely hard to find book, a nixed comic miniseries, and an only recently released—and extremely rare— sequel, many 1990s and early 2000s arcade goers have fond memories of this title.
Designated Hero: Sauron of the Virtuous Beasts, who is more akin to a force of nature than a conscious being. To a lesser extent, Talon and Armadon (who suffer from a case of Blue-and-Orange Morality where humans are concerned).
Designated Villain: Chaos is less evil than most of the Virtuous Beasts and him winning is one of the more benign outcomes for humanity.
Game-Breaker: Amusingly averted. Overusing any special attack causes a "No Cheese" symbol to appear on screen, and stops that move from working for a little while. This is a basically a tongue-in-cheek version of the Spirit meter from Art of Fighting.
Sauron. Yes, he wants to eat everyone, but he doesn't really have a choice as he's beset by a Horror Hunger and has to keep eating people to avoid starving.
Chaos. He was once a normal human shaman who accidentally turned himself into a disgusting ape-like monster wallowing in his own filth. As foul as he is, it's hard not to feel bad for him given he didn't choose to be this way. He manages to turn himself back into a human if he wins.
Misaimed Merchandising: Despite being very violent game filled with copious amounts of blood and gore, Playmates released a toyline for it that was geared entirely toward kids. While they didBowdlerise the backstory content written on the boxes to make it more child-friendly, the fact they did proves they knew this IP was never made with a younger audience in mind but still went through with it anyway.
Porting Disaster: The game cannot be ported correctly, short of recreating it from scratch. The Copy Protection on the arcade machine is rather arcane and the people who helped devise it can either no longer be reached or be bothered to help decrypt it. As a result, every port of the game is based on tainted code, resulting in things like no red blood. One of the only times that this could be considered an Enforced Trope.
Memetic Mutation: Go to any youtube video and count the comments of people either mistaking the title as related to the video game above or joking that the Omah is Chaos or Blizzard.
Moral Event Horizon: The Omah crosses it when he kidnaps Ashley with the intention of making her a sex slave and rapes her.
from Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water'