History VideoGame / BlazBlueChronophantasma

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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The announcer. When compared to [[GratuitousEnglish most who came before]], ''this is significant''.
** That said, she can't pronounce Bullet properly. But it's still better than all previous announcers, simply because ''she can properly pronounce more than one character's name''.

* TheTeam: Kagura assembles this to finally take the fight directly to the villains.
** BigGood: Rachel (As well as for the Six Heroes in their route to help kill Terumi directly.)
** TheLeader: Kagura (SupportingLeader version)
** NumberTwo: Hibiki
** TheLancer: Ragna, Jin
** TheSmartGuy: Kokonoe
** TheBigGuy: Tager, Makoto
** TheChick: Celica (also TheMedic), Noel
** SixthRanger: [[spoiler: Tsubaki]] after her HeelFaceTurn

* InformedFlaw: Kokonoe likes to say that Sector Seven are "total idiots" by releasing [[TheBerserker Azrael]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:they put a limiter on Azrael basically preventing him from hurting ANYONE unless they desire to fight him in first place. The only exceptions seems to be Ragna, Tager and Kokonoe, but they're exactly his targets]]. To be fair to Kokonoe, even if she knew about the limiter in advance, it doesn't take a genius to figure out ways to circumvent it; Azrael nearly cripples a Sector Seven soldier with a "light pat on the back". If he put the energy into it, he probably could have demolished Sector Seven on his own, restraints or otherwise.

* UnexpectedCharacter: ''Continuum Shift''[='s=] new player characters were both [=NPCs=] in ''Calamity Trigger''. ''Continuum Shift II'' and ''Extend'' continued the tradition by making 4 more [=NPCs=] playable. But then Bullet, Azrael and Amane hadn't appeared in any previous ''[=BlazBlue=]'' games.
** Terumi becoming a separate character from Hazama came completely out of left field, especially after [[spoiler:it was thought that Izayoi would be the last "alternate form of an existing character" archetype.]]

** That said, she can't pronounce Bullet properly. But it's still better than all previous announcers, simply due to the fact that ''she can properly pronounce more than one character's name''.

* FiveBadBand: As of this game, the antagonist side (NOL mainly) eventually forms this.
** BigBad: Imperator [[spoiler:Saya/Hades Izanami]]
** TheDragon: Hazama/Yuuki Terumi, [[spoiler:later Take-Mikazuchi]]
** TheBrute: Arakune, Nu
** EvilGenius: Relius Clover, Phantom
** DarkChick: Tsubaki Yayoi
** TokenGoodTeammate: Litchi Faye-Ling

* ShoutOut: In Steam, the achievement for unlocking all Unlimited characters is named "[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Unlimited Blazblue Works]]".

* GodzillaThreshold: Kushinada's Lynchpin is a device that disrupts seithr on a global scale, and Houyoku: Rettenjou is the Nox Nyctores designed to activate it. Lord Tenjou refused to activate the Lynchpin during the Ikaruga Civil War, however, because the world had become dependent on seithr-fueled ars magus to function. By the end of the story, [[spoiler:Relius had rigged every cauldron in the world to vomit ridiculous concentrations of seithr, which resulted in casualties the world over with every lost soul being dragged into the Ibukido monolith as a means to summon Master Unit: Amaterasu, which made activating the Lynchpin mandatory, and in some ways preferable to allowing this Doomsday to continue.]]

* BechdelTest: It passes due to a scene in the Sector Seven storyline that involves Makoto and Celica discussing their academic history while visiting a pastry shop.

Ragna the Bloodedge approaches the city of Ikaruga, once the focal point of a civil war that cemented the NOL's tyrannical rule over the world. Accompanied by vigilante catgirl Taokaka, he hopes to find the answers to the dark conspiracy revealed at the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', connected to the actions of his arch-nemesis Terumi and his missing sister Saya. Meanwhile, Jin Kisaragi, Noel Vermillion and Makoto Nanaya seek to rescue their friend Tsubaki Yayoi, who has [[MoreThanMindControl fallen under the control]] of Terumi and become a KnightTemplar.

* '''Izayoi''': The form that Tsubaki Yayoi takes after awakening the true power of her weapon, [[spoiler:which was originally a prototype for the Murukumo Units.]] It is referred to as "Tsubaki's true form" and is very much to Tsubaki what Mu is to Noel. She uses a StanceSystem, building up her "Zero Weave" gauge in her long-range stance to power up her moves in her short-range stance.

'''''VideoGame/BlazBlue: Chronophantasma''''' is the third installment of the series by Creator/ArcSystemWorks, fresh off from [[VideoGame/Persona4Arena their fighting game collaboration with Atlus.]]

* AbortedArc: The finale of the Sector Seven storyline before the three paths converge has [[spoiler:a bunch of characters, both heroes and villains, meeting up and preparing for battle, only to announce that the villains plan on using a bunch of souls from the seithr killing everyone to power Arakune to Black Beast levels.]] Once the paths converge, however, none of this ends up having actually happened, [[spoiler:Litchi goes back to the villains' side again despite Kokonoe agreeing to help her]], and [[spoiler:Arakune]] doesn't even appear again. The reason was because it was another world that got reset.

* AbortedArc: The finale of the Sector Seven storyline before the three paths converge has [[spoiler:a bunch of characters, both heroes and villains, meeting up and preparing for battle, only to announce that the villains plan on using a bunch of souls from the seithr killing everyone to power Arakune to Black Beast levels.]] Once the paths converge, however, none of this ends up having actually happened, [[spoiler:Litchi goes back to the villains' side again despite Kokonoe agreeing to help her]], and [[spoiler:Arakune]] doesn't even appear again.

* DarkestHour: Let's just say this game ends at the series` lowest point, see BittersweetEnding above for why.