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- Best Known for the Fanservice: A lesser example but it seems whenever people talk about the game they always seem to bring up Morrigan’s EXTREMELY suggestive ending from the American version
which has some strong Straight Shotacon vibes, which is rare to see in a Capcom game, let alone an American release. Of course this turned out to just be an ordinary match at an arcade tournament between the two of them, but still. - Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Most endings in Cross Generation of Heroes do not mention the final boss fight at all. Those falling outside the "most" are Roll, Yatterman-1, Volnutt, Karas, Jun, and Viewtiful Joe's. In Ultimate All-Stars however, everyone refers to Yami directly or indirectly — either they contemplate on them defeating the final boss, or recovering from the reality warp that took place during the game (which apparently is the "real" plot).
- Fan Nickname: In order to differentiate them, "VJoe" for Viewtiful Joe, and "Joe" or "JoeC" for Joe the Condor.
- High-Tier Scrappy:
- Karas in Cross Generation of Heroes is disliked by many people due to his insane pressure game and decent range with solid gimmicks (only hindered by his average movement speed, low HP and subpar one-shot damage). Karas was nerfed in the international release, which caused him to take the lower ends due to his tighter execution.
- Tekkaman Blade gets this kind of ire for his powerful well-rounded pressure from anywhere in the screen and his free crossups. Though this is softened a bit from him being hindered by his awkward movement and unsafe attacks on block, thus requiring careful usage.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The game's intro song is called "Across the Border." The Ultimate All-Stars version effectively made a jump across the border overseas.
- After defeating Yatterman-2, Doronjo makes a comment about how she and her gang are the stars of Yatterman now that they've defeated both Yattermen. Come 2014, Tatsunoko truly does make them the stars of a Yatterman series: Yatterman Night.
- Low-Tier Letdown: Gold Lightan was essentially tournament-banned... for being so bad nobody seemed to be able to win with him.
- Memetic Badass:
- Hurricane Polymar. He's the guy who beats up people while wearing spandex with a thong (not an underwear!) outside of his suit and a white crest that has an arrow pointing down to his crotch—all while yelling out like Bruce Lee.
- Roll, thanks to how different she is from her Marvel vs. Capcom self.
- Hurricane Polymar. He's the guy
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Roll. She's no longer a weaker clone of Mega Man, and has attacks that actually prove quite useful if you know your way around. In-universe, her opponents' win quotes are rather respectful towards her.
- So Bad, It's Good: The Japanese version of Ultimate All-Stars has rapping lyrics in the Training Stage, which are filtered in the English and US versions. I'M SHORYUCAN'T TOUCH THIS SKILL!
- Squick: PTX-40A and Gold Lightan are giant characters whereas Roll and Viewtiful Joe are tiny characters. This can lead to animation errors during cinematic attacks, particularly Alex's Stun Gun Headbutt when performed on Gold Lightan.
- Tear Jerker: The ending for Viewtiful Joe. It has him beating Yami, then getting sucked back to his dimension. The other heroes talked about how big of a chatterbox he is, but overall, really liked him and knows that this isn't the last time they would see him. The ending picture of Joe on the brink of tears as he looks in the store window seeing the heroes he met in the other world really makes you think, especially if you are an otaku like Joe.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Quite a few for the game's Updated Re-release, Ultimate All-Stars:
- The removal of character-specific themes, mini-games, and animated endings were not received well.
- Neither was the change to this game's opening move and Anime Theme Song, especially the former since it was seen as lazy and only mildly different from the trailers.
- Character changes, especially Karas, who was a powerful character in Cross Generation of Heroes before being nerfed for balance reasons.
- Unexpected Character:
- Nobody expected that Tatsunoko would be the next company Capcom would pick a fight with, so their entire roster counts as this.
- As for the Capcom side, though, most of their roster was also quite unexpected:
- MegaMan Volnutt getting in over the original Mega Man or even X, as well as Tron (and the Servbots) from his own series, who has been frequently in crossovers since Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
- Soki as an Onimusha representative, over the series' main protagonist Samonuske Akechi.
- Saki, at least for overseas players, as her origin game was a Japan-only arcade quiz game. Her only other appearance prior to TvC was a Helper in the first Marvel vs. Capcom.
- Frank West, maybe to give American players something to relate to.
- Alex being the third Street Fighter rep came as a surprise to many. It was incredibly uncommon for Street Fighter III characters to get featured in cross-over games note The fact that Alex was also added during a time where Street Fighter II nostalgia was at its peak in Capcom made it all the more impressive.
- PTX-40A, a gigantic mecha originating from a third-person shooter chosen to represent Capcom as their giant fighter.
- Batsu's inclusion was also another pleasant surprise. Due to coming from a 3D Fighting game, it wasn't common for Rival Schools characters to be included in the Capcom vs., the one exception being Kyousuke in Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium. Batsu's inclusion here was even more surprising given that by this point, there had not been a new Rival Schools game in 8 years.
- The final boss is Yami, the main villain of Ōkami, being surprising due to being from a well-received game that failed to turn a profit.
- Vindicated by History: Wii exclusivity doomed it to being a middling release at best, due to the platform's reputation for not being particularly fighter-friendly compared to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. But the announcement of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite in December 2016 and multiple perceived similarities to Tatsunoko vs. Capcom have given it renewed attention in the competitive scene. TvC got even greater vindication when Infinite released with numerous flaws note , which allowed fans to look back at TvC in a more favorable light and appreciate its strengths.
