History Trivia / ARMS

* MemeAcknowledgment: Picking up on the frequent comparisons to ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', [[https://twitter.com/nintendovs/status/875137133190684672 one of Nintendo's official Twitter accounts joined in]].

* IKnewIt: A small camp of the fandom proposed the idea that the fighters could switch between ARMS and regular arms when off the ring, which was [[https://twitter.com/ARMS_Cobutter/status/866987596127191040 confirmed in official art on Biff's twitter.]] Technically, those are just very compressed versions of the fighters' extendable ARMS power, but it's functionally identical.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Earlier concepts had the characters with [[Franchise/MegaMan Robot Master]]-like names. [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--G_yBRTtt--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/pozqj0ct11bzd8pfk8u0.png Ninjara's concept]], for example, calls him Ninja Man. It appears only Spring Man, Ribbon Girl, and Helix (in his Japanese incarnation) got to the final product with their working names unscathed.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Kid Cobra could easily be summed up as this. He's an internet celebrity who does livestreams and his ending shows him taking a selfie with fans.

* NamesTheSame: One of the bosses in ''Videogame/MegaMan7'' is named Spring Man, who even sports elastic, spring-like arms. [[https://twitter.com/MegaMan/status/868210141610508289 This hasn't gone unnoticed by Capcom]].

* ColbertBump: Previously-skeptical consumers became excited for the game after some Website/{{YouTube}}rs (like, for example, ''WebVideo/ProJared'') sang their praises during a hands-on preview.
* DuelingWorks: In a sense, ARMS can be compared to ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'' in that ''ARMS'' appear to be (as of writing), a fighting game that takes out the usual complexity involved with controls (Most fighting games generally have a steep learning curve that prevents most people from picking them up). Also, the main characters in both games tend to focus on a single technique to fight (Divekicking in ''Divekick'', Punching in ''ARMS''). The comparisons became more pronounced after it was learned that players can configure ''ARMS'' to play with [[RocketTagGameplay one-punch knockouts.]]
* IKnewIt: A minor case, but a small camp of the fandom proposed the idea that the fighters could switch between ARMS and regular arms when off the ring, which was [[https://twitter.com/ARMS_Cobutter/status/866987596127191040 confirmed in official art on Biff's twitter.]] Technically, those are just very compressed versions of the fighters' extendable ARMS power, but it's functionally identical.
* {{Jossed}}: From soon after the game's announcement, people speculated on what exactly the fighters were. Were they amputees with combat prosthetics? ArtificialHumans? RidiculouslyHumanRobots? It turned out to be an explanation nobody considered: they're normal people who JustWokeUpThatWay for reasons nobody knows.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Earlier concepts had the characters with [[Franchise/MegaMan Robot Master]]-like names. [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--G_yBRTtt--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/pozqj0ct11bzd8pfk8u0.png Ninjara's concept]], for example, calls him Ninja Man. It appears only Spring Man, Ribbon Girl, and Helix got to the final product with their working names unscathed.

* NamesTheSame: One of the bosses in ''Videogame/MegaMan7'' is named Spring Man, who even sports elastic, spring-like arms.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Unfortunately, there are no different endings for each character after completing Grand Prix mode.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Unfortunately, there are no different endings for each character after completing Grand Prix mode.

* IKnewIt: A minor case, but a small camp of the fandom proposed the idea that the fighters could switch between ARMS and regular arms when off the ring, which was [[https://twitter.com/ARMS_Cobutter/status/866987596127191040 confirmed in official art on Biff's twitter.]]

* DuelingWorks: In a sense, ARMS can be compared to ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'' in that ''ARMS'' appear to be (as of writing), a fighting game that takes out the usual complexity involved with controls (Most fighting games generally have a steep learning curve that prevents most people from picking them up). Also, the main characters in both games tend to focus on a single technique to fight (Divekicking in ''Divekick'', Punching in ''ARMS'').

* ColbertBump: Previously-skeptical consumers became excited for the game after some Youtubers (like, for example, ''WebVideo/ProJared'') sang their praises during a hands-on preview.

* NamesTheSame: One of the bosses in ''Videogame/MegaMan7'' is named Spring Man, who even sports elastic, spring-like arms.

* DuelingWorks: In a sense, ARMS can be compared to ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'' in that ''ARMS'' appear to be (as of writing), a fighting game that takes out the usual complexity involved with controls (Most fighting games generally have a steep learning curve that prevents most people from picking them up). Also the main characters in both games tend to focus on a single technique to fight (Divekicking in ''Divekick'', Punching in ''ARMS'').
* NamesTheSame: ''Videogame/MegaMan7'' also has a character named Spring Man who even sports elastic spring-like arms.

* NamesTheSame: ''Videogame/MegaMan7'' also has a character named Spring Man.

* DuelingWorks: In a sense, ARMS can be compared to ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'' in that ''ARMS'' appear to be (as of writing), a fighting game that takes out the usual complexity involved with controls (Most fighting games generally have a steep learning curve that prevents most people from picking them up). Also the main characters in both games tend to focus on a single technique to fight (Divekicking in ''Divekick'', Punching in ''ARMS''

* DuelingWorks: In a sense, ARMS can be compared to ''VideoGame/Divekick'' in that ''ARMS'' appear to be (as of writing), a fighting game that takes out the usual complexity involved with controls (Most fighting games generally have a steep learning curve that prevents most people from picking them up). Also the main characters in both games tend to focus on a single technique to fight (Divekicking in ''Divekick'', Punching in ''ARMS''