History VideoGame / BattleClash

** Your standing tank uses lasers to charge up an energy bolt when you're not using any other weapons. These bolts are more powerful than your turbo shots. "Metal Combat" has 'treble' energy bolts, which charge for even longer and are even more powerful. Tornado can store charges for "super turbo shots", which are basically rapid fire energy bolts, up to ten! Alternatively Tornado can unleash all ten at once as a "hyper shot".

* Cyborg: {{Subverted|Trope}} with Carlos in "Metal Combat", as he sports a metal eye suggesting he suffered damage from a previous fight, possibly the last game's, but when you beat him again it gets knocked out to reveal his regular eye is still intact. Played straight with Anubis, who is "revived" as a cyborg [[spoiler:though this is just a clone and the original Anubis was ''always'' a cyborg.]]

* BerserkButton: When Mike mentions to Carlos that the ST Falcon has a separate person for the gunner.

* BoatLights: Anubis has a red eye and a blue eye

* CharClone: Carlos is a dead ringer, with blond hair, an AceCustom ST similar to the player's but "better" (Mike specifically notes that the Falcon and Baron are similar but for the Baron's shield), a CoolMask (albeit only in ''Battle Clash''), and more detailed motivation than most ST pilots (namely, his grudge against Mike and the PlayerCharacter for his defeat in ''Battle Clash'').

* DopplegangerAttack: ST Thanatos and the ST Valius.

* EyePatchOfPower: Arachnus pilot Danpe sports and eye patch and does brag about his 'power'.
* FacialMarkings: Lorca and Tasha appear to have WarPaint. This tournament is apparently serious business. Dayan also has war paint but he actually believes he's going to war.

* SickeningSweethearts: Carol's opinion of Zephyr and Pamela.

* SmugSnake: Danpe is way too cocky for his own good, and his tongue is even sort of snake like in that it is forked.

** Mike pilots a [[Videogame/FZero Blue Falcon]].

* TrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: Performed by the Carlos when piloting the Baron and Viscount after you destroy their energy bazookas.

* SmartBomb: Green Bombs that you detonate in front of the enemy. You can sometimes use them to save you from enemy missiles.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Zephyr and his wife Pamela.

* BlastingTime: Garam and Thanatos 1 do this, and yes, these "baseball pitches" are more powerful than their standard shots. Rola's standing tank has it's own variation in "Metal Combat".

* ChargedAttack: Your standing tank uses lasers to charge up an energy bolt when you're not using any other weapons. These bolts are more powerful than your turbo shots. "Metal Combat" has 'treble' energy bolts, which charge for even longer and are even more powerful.

* CyberCyclops: Lorca, Artemis, Schneider, Baron

* FacialMarkings: Lorca and Tasha appear to have WarPaint. This tournament is apparently serious business...

* FreeFallFight: In the Andes vs Artemis.

* {{Gonk}}: Mike's the only especially pretty person ''Battle Clash'' has but Scarab pilot Ikhnaton is the only especially ugly one, in ways no one else it.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The ST Baron and Viscount both have a shield that protects them from your attacks, the latter also has guns in it, although less powerful ones than it's main weapon. The ST Cobra's shield actually ''absorbs'' your attacks to power up its insanely huge arm cannon.

* MightyGlacier: Antonov and his ST Ivan.

* NonIndicativeName: Standing tanks are roughly tank sized, to be fair, but most of them float above the ground instead of standing. And the one that does stand is much bigger than a tank. Then come the second game, Rola's training ST doesn't even have legs, nor does Wong, and these new standing tanks are all noticeably larger than tanks.

* FlunkyBoss: Groken will release {{segmented serpent}}s if you damage its tentacles.

* AttackDrone: Schneider has three that will quickly tear apart your standing tank. Thanatos 2 has 2.

* CrewOfOne: This apparently common of standing tanks, or at least those of the generals on up, as they're the only ones to comment on yours needing more than one person to operate.

* PuzzleBoss: Everyone can usually be taken down with enough shots to vulnerable areas, but if you know the correct areas to shoot at (and in what order), you can take down a good portion of bosses in an ''extremely'' short amount of time.

* TechnicolorDeath: ''Battle Clash'' has a series of strangely muffled explosions engulf every remaining limb and piece of an enemy ST upon defeat, leaving nothing behind. ''Metal Combat'' rewards every K.O. with an utterly satisfying series of explosions (and a much more appropriate sound effect) that causes pieces of the enemy ST to drop off from damage, leaving the remaining torso/core to bounce and stumble along the ground if it was moving when defeated, followed by a final, larger explosion! ...Except sometimes you only see a portion of the flashier blast, because the game uses a First Person view and the enemy ST's torso just exploded from stumbling as you were still moving along.

** ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: Performed by the Carlos when piloting the Baron and Viscount after you destroy their energy bazookas.

* ChestBlaster: Valvius and Thanatos 1 uses these.

* CrewOfOne: This apparently common of standing tanks, or at least those of the generals on up, as they're the only ones to comment or yours needing more than one person to operate.

* HighSpeedBattle: Most fights have some element of this, with your standing tank hitting at least 100 KPH at least once, meaning Ivan is the one who stands out for being pretty slow paced. It is on a boat, so not much place to speed to.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The ST Viscount and Baron both have a shield that protects them from your attacks. The ST Cobra's shield actually ''absorbs'' your attacks to power up its insanely huge arm cannon.
** ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: Performed by the Viscount and Baron. Oddly enough, they only do this when you destroy the energy bazooka that they carry.

* NonIndicativeName: Standing tanks are roughly tank sized, to be fair, but most of them float above the ground instead of standing. And the one that does stand is much bigger than a tank. Rola's standing tank doesn't even have legs.

* ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: Carlos in ST Baron, and again in ST Viscount.

* PalletteSwap: The training bots, first as mushrooms with eyes, then as overly angler fish.

* AmbiguousGender: Typhon.
** Even Carol is surprised to hear that he's the ''"true king"''.

* BlastingTime: Garam and Thanatos 1 do this, and yes, these "baseball pitches" are more powerful than their standard shots.

* ChargedAttack: Your standing tank uses lasers to charge up an energy bolt when you're not using any other weapons. These bolts are more powerful than your machine gun\turbo shots.

* DestructibleProjectiles: The main purpose of your standard fire is ''not'' to damage the enemy standing tank but to protect your own until you can find an opening to hit it with something stronger. This is complicated in that some enemy attacks can only be stopped with that something stronger, all which is low rate of fire, limited in ammunition or a drain on your own standing tank's life bar.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: [[spoiler:The player's coach in the second game, Rola, is revealed to be an alien who wants to protect the Earth from an incoming invasion. Her actual skin is more of a teal.]]

* NonIndicativeName: Standing tanks are roughly tank sized, to be fair, but most of them float above the ground instead of standing. And the one that does stand is much bigger than a tank.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Why is the sequel called ''Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge'' instead of ''Metal Combat: Battle Clash 2'' or ''Battle Clash 2: Falcon's Revenge''? Could have been playing off of the name [[MortalKombat Mortal Kombat]], which was rather popular at the time.

* EyeBeams: A visual representation of them from Thanatos two's drones, which have eye spots on them.

* HighSpeedBattle: Most fights have some element of this, meaning Ivan is the one who stands out for being pretty slow paced. It is on a boat, so not much place to speed to.

* AttackDrone: Schneider has three that will quickly tear apart your standing tank. Anubis 2 has 2.

* TopHeavy: Garam is built this way.

* ShoutOut: The theme that plays after completing a practice level is the same music as the level-up theme from ''VideoGame/FireEmblem''. After all, the composer of both games was Yuka Tsujiyoko, the woman behind the music composition of most of the ''Fire Emblem'' games.

* VictoryFakeout: ''Metal Combat'' had a rather dastardly one after the player fights [[spoiler: Virvius, the true individual that ''Battle Clash'' has its antagonist copied from]]. This Anubis fight included everything the first game did in having a support character swoop by to restore your Energy gauge before the second battle against Virvius, now in OneWingedAngel form. After defeating Virvius-2, the player is even treated to the villain's last words, and a short celebration from the aforementioned support character, [[spoiler: moments before she's whisked away by TheManBehindTheMan.]]

* CherryTapping: Basic turbo shots. These do negligible damage and don't even scratch most STs' armor, but in ''Metal Combat'', this can actually net you the best ending.

* ShootTheHostage: In ''Metal Combat''[='s=] FinalBoss battle, Typhon has captured Rola and uses her to guard his newly-upgraded mech's weak spot. She begs you to shoot her to help bring him down, but you can avoid doing so to get a better ending.
** [[spoiler: PROTIP: Use TURBO Shots.]]

* TheCollector: Carlos collects the heads of his defeated opponents' [=ST's=] as personal trophies..

* MightyGlacier: Antonov and hisST Ivan.

* OneHitKill: If you fail to find a way to defeat Giga-Desp's first form when the music changes and it powers up its ultimate attack, you will lose, regardless of how much energy your ST has left. To clue you in to this, once Giga-Desp starts charging its attack, the music takes a turn for the dramatic and the background [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtSPXPbv9w looks like it's having a seizure (6:14)]]. OhCrap indeed.

* {{BFG}}: The ST Baron and Viscount carry large cannons, as do the ST Falcon and Tornado.

* DeadlyUpgrade: The V-System. It boosts your attack power, deflects all enemy bullets, and keeps the opponent centered, but continually drains your ST's energy until it reaches critical.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: See HeelFaceTurn for the first game, in the second game you have Dayan (pilot of the ST Wong) who halts your advance because he believes you to be yet another challenger who's trying to contest the control of the Mongolia/Asia area. He then acknowledges that you aren't after the fight and encourages you to reach your goal.

* TheDragon: Carlos to Anubis in the first game, and Anubis [[spoiler:(second form) to Typhon]] in the second.

* TheFightingNarcissist: Typhon: "This way my beauty and youth would last forever."

* HeelFaceTurn: In the first game, Tasha, Eddie and Antonov, pilots of the [=STs=] Artemis, Valius and Ivan, help you out in the final battle against Anubis and his ST Thanatos.

* LightningBruiser: Eddie and the ST Valius. To start things off, he's the 3rd-to-last enemy in the game, which qualifies his skill. His power comes from the sheer variety of attacks he has, from firing volleys of missles to blasting away with his twin shoulder mounted laser cannons. See BeyondTheImpossible for an example of his speed, but also know that he is also able to create illusory doubles and even causes the [[InterfaceScrew screen to bob back and forth from trying to catch up with him.]] He can also easily take hits, as you'll still need to fire several energy bolts at him ''even if you blow off the entire lower half of his mech.''

* MightyGlacier: Antonov and the ST Ivan.

* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Why is the sequel called ''Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge'' instead of ''Metal Combat: Battle Clash 2'' or ''Battle Clash 2: Falcon's Revenge''?
** Could have been playing off of the name [[MortalKombat Mortal Kombat]], which was rather popular at the time.

* BigBad: Anubis.