History VideoGame / BrutalLegend

** SwampsAreEvil: Central are of the eastern continent.

* [[FrickinLaserBeams Frickin Laser Panthers!]]: And they have a surprisingly-good range to.

* CensoredForComedy: Optionally, the game lets you censor swearing with bleeps. Just before the first curse in the game, it prompts you to choose - the button for turning on the censor says "It's funnier if it's bleeped out."

* TerminatorTwosome: Inverted in every aspect with [[spoiler: Succoria going to the future and Riggnarok stealthily tagging along.]]

* TwentyBearAsses: There is a set of secondary missions in which a hunter boasts that he'd managed to kill X of a certain type of wild animal, prompting Eddie to go and kill X+1 in the name of one-upsmanship.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ormagöden at the Kabbage Boy concert.

* TheSeventies: Ironheade.
** No man. Earlier. Like...The Early Seventies.
* TheEighties: Lionwhyte and some Ironheade.
* ActionGirl: Every single female character in the game. See [[Characters/BrutalLegend characters page.]]
* AerithAndBob: What would you call the son of the hero Riggnarök and the demon empress Succoria? That's right, [[spoiler:''Edward'']]. Justified in that that name was chosen for the modern era, but the Age of Metal itself has spawned names like Ophelia, Aetulia, Doviculus, Lionwhyte and... Lars.

* AllBeerIsAle: Subverted, where Eddie expects mead and ale, all the Age of Metal has is generic beer that comes from a sacred tree covered in breasts.
* AllPartOfTheShow: Trope picture: when Ormagöden is summoned in the game's opening scene, no-one seems to realize his suddenly appearing and killing the entire band isn't part of the show. The crowd goes absolutely wild with joy, jumping, screaming, and throwing up horns.

* DarkFantasy: Mildly, since there is magic, demons, extraordinary beasts, and various landscapes. Most of this game goes to Metal Fantasy instead.

** An example more in line with the trope is the furniture in Lionwhyte's Pleasure Dome.

* DivideAndConquer: Inverted for beginners and played straight for advanced. WordOfGod says new players should start out by disregarding the RTS parts and focus completely on clumping your whole army together and [[ThePowerOfFriendship fighting alongside them on the ground, supporting them with buffs and using Double Team attacks.]] As players become more advanced, they must learn to spread their army around and bounce around supporting them as needed.

* [[spoiler:FirstGirlWins: Near the end of the game it's implied that Lita has developed feelings for Eddie. However, Eddie only has eyes for Ophelia, and she's the one he ends up with.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Eddie going all demonic and spawning wings isn't because of poison]]

** Best example: bass solos played on sufficiently thick strings can heal people.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: '''Totally''' averted. Everything in the game has an in-story explanation, like why Eddie is so good with a battle axe, why you are only gradually given units for Ironheade's army, the basis for the CommandAndConquerEconomy, why Eddie can fly around the battlefield to give orders, even why your car has a radio in it. Everything.
** Hilariously followed once and Lampshaded during the first fight Eddie can fly and set a beacon.
-->'''Eddie (setting beacon):''' Right there!
-->'''Lita:''' How did you do that?
-->'''Eddie:'''Light itself bends to my will!
** Played straight once. [[spoiler: In gameplay, Eddie has SuperDrowningSkills, but in the finale cutscene he swims like a champion in the Sea of Black Tears.]]
** Twice. In the "It's Raining Death" mission Doviculus summons a gang of Bleeding Death, the most fearsome creatures at his command. If you try to play as him, you're limited to one at a time like any faction's top-tier unit.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: A variant. Eddie tells Lita that it's okay for her to cry over [[spoiler:Lars' death]], and we get this exchange.

* GothGirlsKnowMagic: Ophelia. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the setting: [[spoiler:goths seem to be a separate ethnicity descended from the members of the ill-fated Black Tear Rebellion, who drank from the Sea of Black Tears and were granted ancient powers]].

-->'''Eddie:''' It's smells like a whale...ate a bunch of cabbage...and died in your mouth...like a year ago!"

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler: Riggnarok, Eddie's dad]]

* IWorkAlone: Inverted. Try it and things will be difficult, if not impossible.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The MacGuffin was meant for a demonic god, not for a ''roadie!'' [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed said demon was the roadies' mother, and you've inherited some of her demonic power.]]

* SpikesOfVillainy: Used straight and inverted. Good, evil, or even just part of the landscape; the game is ''loaded'' with spikes. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not]] [[SpikesOfDoom that kind.]]

* SubtitlesAreSuperfluous: Completely averted. Every minor line of dialog is covered in the subtitles, including the grunts of exertion eddie makes when he swings his axe, and the squeal of pain he makes when he tries to play his guitar when it's red-hot...

* TimeTravel: Eddie is transported [[spoiler: back in time, to a Fallen Age of Metal. His parents were sent forward first]]

* [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In A World Based on Metal Album Covers]]: Subverted. [[spoiler: Eddie doesn't really want to leave.]]

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: A bit of an odd case, as it seems to be played straight but is actually a double subversion. Marketed primarily as a HackAndSlash game, subverted that it's truly an [[RealTimeStrategy RTS]], and subverted again with the final battle in the campaign.

* VSign: Both the Kill Master and the Guardian of Metal flip people off in-game using these. Justified since so do the actors.

** Fairly logical, when you remember the setting lore says that seas are Ormagöden's blood!

* LukeIAmYourFather: Peculiarly averted, as [[spoiler:Doviculus]] is explicitly stated to ''not'' be Eddie's parent. (We do find out his parentage, but neither parent is ever met.)

** [[spoiler: So, [[{{Hamlet}} Ophelia died after drowning, huh?]] sad way to go.]]

** In contrast, the game was specifically designed to punish players who try to act like [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] or [[Franchise/DevilMayCry Dante]]. Getting killed gives your opponent a free 50 Fans. A common mistake by players is to fly into a group of enemies and start slashing.

-->'''Eddie:''' Bingo! I mean, [[Franchise/DevilMayCry Jackpot!]]

* NPCRoadblock: In a moment of WrongGenreSavvy, Eddie thinks a Thunderhog Bassist is doing this.

* ContinuityNod: One can speculate on whether or not multiplayer is canon. In it, [[spoiler: Drowned Ophelia and Doviculus are alive, the Headbangers and Eddie talk as if Lars is still alive, and Doviculus does not understand that cars are machines and not living things. He [[CrowningMomentOfFunny tries to command them to surrender and obey him.]]]]

-->'''Eddie''': "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Bet you wished you wore a bib cause now you've got face all over your shirt!]]"

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to [[http://www.destructoid.com/execs-wanted-brutal-legend-to-be-hip-hop-or-country-flavored-131164.phtml this article,]] when Tim Schafer was pitching the game, the execs wanted to make it a hip-hop or country music game.
** Also, they originally wanted Music/RonnieJamesDio to voice Doviculus (probably a good pick given his performance as Dr. X in Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ''Operation: Mindcrime II''), but at a certain point in development, the team thought Creator/TimCurry's voice suited him better.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: after killing Drowned Ophelia, Doviculus makes sure Eddie knows it's his own fault Ophelia became that way.]]

* TheSeventies: Ironheade.
** No man. Earlier. Like...The Early Seventies.

* [[FrickinLaserBeams Frickin Laser Panthers!]]

* LoudOfWar

* EasyLogistics
* TheEighties: Lionwhyte and some Ironheade.

* DarkFantasy: mildly.

* FollowTheLeader: ''VideoGame/GuitarHero: Warriors of Rock''.
--> 'Creator/TimSchafer on Twitter': "Holy Crap! They even stole our intro music!"
** Oddly enough, ''Brutal Legend'' itself was originally set to be distributed as a ''GuitarHero'' GaidenGame. Double Fine's resistance to this was what caused Activision to drop the game.

* CameraLockOn

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: The main resource of the Stage Battle segments are "Fans", which spout from a geyser and are used to build additional units. You control them by playing the Fan Tribute solo in order to build a Fan Geyser.

* YouFailHistoryForever: Lampshaded hard in the Tour Book.
-->'''Tour Book on Landmark Viewers''': What's that? You thought these devices were invented in the twentieth century to take coins from tourists? You thought wrong. You could't be more wrong.

-->'''Fleetus''': That's the blood skink! The most cowardly of all skinks!

** Also happens in the cannonier side missions when the cannon is fired. The game wants to make sure you see every badass explosion.
* CarFu: Your default attack for the Deuce is to ram people with it. [[spoiler: Used prior the final fight]]

** The overcategorization of songs in the Mouth of Metal borders on this: Racer X's "Technical Difficulties" and "YRO" are listed under "Progressive Shred Metal", while Skeletonwitch's "Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery" is placed under the header "[[BlackMetal Blackened]] [[DeathMetal Deathly]] ThrashMetal".

Compare ''{{WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse}}'', another AffectionateParody of all things '''METAL''' (and yeah, Dethklok ''is'' in the soundtrack of this one. Heck they even had a short crossover).

* SpikesOfVillainy: Used straight and inverted. Good, evil, or even just part of the landscape; the game is ''loaded'' with spikes. [[IThoughtItMeant No, not]] [[SpikesOfDoom that kind.]]

The story is pretty simple. Your average/The Ultimate roadie for your average [[NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Second Wave of American Tween Melodic Rap Metalcore]] band is transported to [[MedievalStasis the Land of Metal]], where he must teach humanity the ways of true metal to free us from enslavement by the demons of the Tainted Coil. For literally all intents and purposes, it's a story that is neoclassical metal wish fulfillment, backed up by one hell of a soundtrack that encompasses pretty much all forms of metal.