History VideoGame / Broforce

* FriendlyFireProof: None of the Bros' primary attacks, including the explosive ones, will harm allies. {{Subverted|Trope}} with certain explosive specials, which tend to blow anyone and anything up. Normally played straight with the enemies, as well. Enemies who have been blinded, however, will fire projectiles that miss the Bros and damage enemies. Throwing an enemy also temporarily renders them vulnerable to friendly fire until they get back on their feet.

%%* BareYourMidriff: [[Film/PlanetTerror Cherry Broling.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: In the Hard difficulty ending [[spoiler: you are voted Emperor of The World and Jesus takes you to live peacefully in the heavenly realm that is Texas.]]

* CrosshairAware: {{Inverted|Trope}}. By using [[Franchise/{{Robocop}} Brobocop]]'s or [[Film/TheProfessional The Brofessional]]'s special attacks, it is the player who marks the enemies with crosshairs.
** Played straight with enemy airstrikes and alien sandworms' acid spit.

* [[Film/TheFly Seth Brondle]]

* BoringButPractical: Rambro is basically this. Rather than a flaming shotgun or exploding punches, he simply has a standard machine gun and hand grenades. As a result, he has a practical, if simple, solution to almost every problem.
** In a game where a standard ability is using a gatling gun to fly, the combat knife is obviously this. It's really short range, but it does good damage (strong enough to one-shot standard mooks, a feat comparable to the rocket launcher, shotgun, and sword), can hitstun the giant mooks and is quite useful against tanks and the first boss, considering you'll be too close for the tank to shoot you easily. The Freedom Update gave most of the characters more fitting melee attacks, making many of them less boring, but still practical.

* GatlingGood: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} The Brominator]] can blast off with a powerful chaingun, but much like regular chainguns, it has a bit of spin-up time and the recoil drives you back. His special weapon is a transformation to his Endoskeleton form, which cancels out the recoil effect (and also makes him invincible). One trick is to use the recoil to move around faster than you walk.

* DisasterDominoes: Easily possible, via the liberal use of [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]].

* {{Teleportation}}: The Brofessional has a short-range teleport incorporated into his melee attack that homes towards enemies and auto-shanks them once you reappear. You can also guide the direction of the teleport yourself to about two tiles away, making The Brofessional the only Bro that can bypass the indestructible metal blocks (provided they're two tiles thick at most).

* CrateExpectations: The levels are full of crates. The most common are small wooden ones. Marked crates contain supplies.

* FightingWithChucks: [[Film/EnterTheDragon Bro Lee]] has a pair of nunchucks he uses as one of his primary attacks.

** There are multiple demons that fit this role. The first, Engorged Mooks, behave similarly to Suicidal Mooks but can throw themselves in the air. [[FlamingSkulls Lost Souls]] are similar to Screechers, but can track the player mid-fight and accelerate very quickly. [[DeadWeight Soul Catchers]] are large zombies that explode upon nearing the player, but the catch is that they explode into five Lost Souls. [[UpToEleven Yeah]].

** If Macbrover or Bronnar stick an enemy with an explosive, said enemy will run away, often into groups of their own allies. Taken UpToEleven with the kamikaze mooks, who will still run away, despite being covered in lit dynamite to begin with.

* BoomHeadshot: Yes, even with the game's small pixelated sprites, this is possible. If a bullet (or [[UpToEleven a particularly powerful punch]]) manages to hit square on a mook's head, [[OffWithHisHead it'll pop off gloriously]] while the body flails about shortly before perishing. However, this will only work on normal and big mooks.

** [[Film/TheRocketeer The Brocketeer]] also has a similar jetpack, but he activates it [[UpToEleven every single time he jumps]].

* PaperThinDisguise: One of Double Bro Seven's specials has him temporarily don a ski mask. Doing so renders him completely unnoticeable by all enemies, even Kamikaze Mooks and dogs charging straight at him. Even conspicuously murdering a Mook's fellow terrorists right in front of him will leave him none the wiser. Taken UpToEleven when the disguise works against the aliens, who normally attack terrorists on sight.

** Taken UpToEleven with Bro Heart, whose special is literally screaming the word "Freedom!" at the top of his lungs. He's not only faster while screaming, but enemies that hear him will run away in fear.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Bro Heart's melee attack has him throw his sword. It deals massive damage and decapitates anyone in a line, and sticks into whatever terrain it hits ([[TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn assuming the sword landed blade-first, that is]]). Of course, he's left unarmed as a result, and has to resort to using his fists until he picks his sword up. An update gave his sword the ability to reflect projectiles when thrown, [[UpToEleven even after it's landed in the ground]].

* TopHeavyGuy: Most of the male characters are portrayed this way in the art, though the playable sprites feature slightly more realistic proportions. Taken UpToEleven with the Bruisers, who are hulking monstrosities that dwarf even the biggest bros.

* NiceHat: [[Series/WalkerTexasRanger Brodell Walker]] wears his characteristic cowboy hat, [[Film/TheProfessional The Brofessional]] wears his knit cap and [[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana Brones]] wears his iconic fedora. Also, [[Franchise/MortalKombat Broden's]] trademark straw coolie hat, which his in-game sprite wears. His avatar portrait, however, is hatless, probably because the hat would cover more than half of his face.

* MultinationalTeam: Ironically, alongside the American majority, Broforce contains Bros from [[Film/MadMax Aus]][[Film/TankGirl tralia]], [[Film/TheBoondockSaints Ireland]], [[Film/{{Braveheart}} Scot]][[Film/{{Highlander}} land]], [[Franchise/JamesBond Great Britain]], [[Film/{{Machete}} Mexico]], [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Cimmeria]], [[Film/TheProfessional Italy]], [[Film/EnterTheDragon China]], Sweden (if counting The Expendabros), [[Franchise/{{Alien}} outer]] [[Franchise/{{Predator}} space]], and even [[Film/{{Mortal Kombat}} Heaven]].

Broforce is an indie platformer game that received its full launch on October 15th 2015. Despite its self-parodying [[Main/{{Eagleland}} Brogleland]] PatrioticFervor, it is in fact created by South African indie game developer Free Lives and published by Creator/DevolverDigital.

The destructible levels may be reminiscent of games such as ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'', however, unlike a typical [[Main/{{Metroidvania}} Metroidvania]] which encourages caution and conservation of resources, this is a homage to classic shooters in the vein of ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra]]'' or ''VideoGame/MetalSlug''. As such, the obvious solution to any and all problems and obstacles is [[Main/MoreDakka Bro Dakka]] and [[Main/StuffBlowingUp Stuff Broing Up]].

The characters are all [[Main/LawyerFriendlyCameo Lawyer Friendly Camebros]] of classic action movie and television heroes, mostly from the 80-90s era, (although a couple come from the 70s, and some come from the 2000's) and with their names featuring various puns on "bro". The website can be found [[http://freelives.net/?games=broforce here.]]

* [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Brolliams]]. '''Main Weapon:''' Double-barreled Shotgun. '''Secondary:''' Chainsaw rush. '''Melee:''' [[ChainsawGood Chainsaw]].

* [[Film/{{TheProfessional}} The Brofessional]]. '''Main Weapon:''' Silenced Beretta. '''Secondary:''' Brotilda's Sniper '''Melee:''' Teleport stab.

* AdaptationalCurves: Every Bro is portrayed as being obscenely muscular, regardless of the build of the original character. [[Film/MenInBlack Bro in Black]] and [[Film/PlanetTerror Cherry Broling]] can flex with the same intensity as [[Franchise/{{ConanTheBarbarian}} Bronan]], for example.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: This game takes this to [[UpToEleven ludicrous levels]]. Every time you start a level, rescue a prisoner, or lose a life, you'll play as any character you have currently unlocked, chosen randomly by the game.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Indiana Brones, Cherry Broling, Macbrover and James Broddock are often seen as this due to their unwieldy attacks. Subverted in that they all also qualify as [[DifficultButAwesome Difficult, But Awesome]].

* BackToBackBadasses: Up to four players can kick ass at one time. Actually [[{{InvokedTrope}} invoked]], as the game can provide an AI partner if no one else will play.

* {{BFS}}: [[Film/{{Braveheart}} Bro Heart]]'s Claymore qualifies. Any other melee weapon has only a range of 1 block, said Claymore has a range of 2. And can hit both above and in front of Bro Heart. Bronan's sword is also pretty big, and swings hard enough to cause [[{{RazorWind}} Razor Wind]], effectively increasing it's range.

* BossSubtitles: The Freedom Update added these, probably as a ShoutOut to [[Videogame/{{Borderlands}} Borderlands]].

** [[Franchise/{{Predator}}The Brodator's]] throwing spears can be rapidly thrown. Charging one for a second, however, increases its damage, range, speed, and lets it impale up to four enemies at once.

* ChestBurster: Well, with enemies that are basically an {{Expy}} of the Xenomorphs from Franchise/{{Alien}} this is to be expected. If a Bro or a [[{{Mooks}} terrorist]] is grabbed by a facehugger, they'll die and a full grown alien will burst from the body in a matter of seconds. Fortunately, facehuggers can be shot off their victim's heads, saving them from this fate (though they'll usually just be killed anyway by whatever's shooting at them). Certain Bros also have abilities that will kill facehuggers trying to mate with them, such as the lightning from Broden's primary attack and the Brocketeer's headfirst GroundPound secondary.

* CrosshairAware: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. By using [[Franchise/{{Robocop}} Brobocop]]'s or [[Film/TheProfessional The Brofessional]]'s special attacks, it is the player who marks the enemies with crosshairs.

* DeathFromAbove: Airstrikes randomly appear in several levels, first visible as a series of [[{{CrosshairAware}} red crosses and lines]] to let you know to get out of the way fast.

* HollywoodSilencer: [[Franchise/{{JamesBond}} Double Bro Seven]] and [[Film/{{TheProfessional}} The Brofessional]] both have silenced handguns as their primaries. [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Snake Broskin]] carries silenced sub-machineguns as his main attack.

* KaizoTrap: One of the xenomorph-themed stages has the player running away from a giant sandworm-like xenomorph. Once the player reaches the end of the stage, the sandworm emerges one last time, likely taking out the rescue chopper... which ''will'' kill any player it lands on. Of course, if the player boards the chopper ''before'' the sandworm demolishes it, [[FissionMailed the victory theme plays as the chopper falls off-screen and explodes]]. [[TakeAThirdOption Or you could simply]] [[DeathIsASlaponTheWrist wait for another chopper to show up]].

* ShockAndAwe: The speciality of the bros based on [[Film/MortalKombat Christopher]] [[Film/{{Highlander}} Lambert]] characters.

** Broden's looks and avatar portrait are taken from the first ''Film/MortalKombat'' movie, but his special and melee attacks are a reference to the [[Franchise/MortalKombat games]] (his special is Raiden's SignatureMove and his melee is Johnny Cage's [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 MKI]] [[https://youtu.be/MKsL-q6mhjw fatality]])

** [[spoiler:The Normal Ending has Broforce being brought out for a grand parade before eventually going back home]].
** [[spoiler:If you kill the President, you're treated to the BadEnding, which has Rambro solemnly carrying the President's body out to the formerly happy crowds, and being thrown in jail for murdering him]].