History VideoGame / DoomEternal

* MercyMode: Dying repeatedly on a single combat encounter will prompt the game to add to the option of "Sentinel Armor", which drastically cuts incoming damage until the next checkpoint. Much like cheats, it doesn't prevent progression at all, but can never activate on or be carried into Slayer Gates.

* NotTheIntendedUse: [[spoiler:According to the codex entries, the Maykrs gave the Sentinels the "Divinity Machine" so that they could find and kill someone foretold to destroy the Maykrs. Samur used it to empower the Doom Slayer in order to fight against the demons (and, by extension, the Maykrs), eventually resulting in the destruction of the Maykrs.]] Of course, as with everything else, there's quite a lot of ambiguity going on. [[spoiler:There are some implications that the Divinity Machine ''was'' originally intended to empower someone like the Doom Slayer to fight evil for all eternity, and the Maykrs perverted its purpose, meaning that Samur was using it for its intended use after everyone else was using it wrong]].

** You can immediately remove an Arch-Vile's fire barrier with a Blood Punch.

* DenserAndWackier: Compared to the more serious ''2016'', the developers have explicitly stated in interviews that they want Doom Eternal to have a similar tone to a [[SaturdayMorningCartoon Saturday Morning Cartoon]] or a [[ComicBooks comic book]]. This can be seen in expanded lore, cutscenes and dialogue with fantasy themes instead of the minimal story and optional FlavorText, map design emphasizing jumping puzzles and collecting [[OneUp 1-ups]] instead of more realistic environments, enemies and pickups with throwback designs reminiscent to past Doom games, and more vibrantly colorful glowing pickups and HUD, as opposed to the predominant red palette of ''2016''.

* DevilButNoGod: [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted. The main game implies that, while there is a Dark Lord ruling over the demons, there is no genuine God that led the Maykrs before [[HaveYouSeenMyGod disappearing on them]], with it simply being a highly advanced A.I., potentially VEGA, that had the capacity for creating angel-like beings. However, ''The Ancient Gods'' reveals that there genuinely ''was'' a bonafide all-powerful God, and that it was VEGA. The reason for the various hints about God simply being VEGA as a highly advanced A.I. gets revealed to be because he deliberately split his soul and mind apart, with his soul becoming a life sphere and his mind becoming VEGA. And even then, it turns out that ''the Dark Lord'' was the Father, but he was usurped by the Maykrs, with one of them taking on his title. So while the hints from the main game are still technically true in that there is ''currently'' a Devil but God, the truth is more complicated: that Devil ''used to be'' God.]]

* EvilIsVisceral: Unsurprisingly, the invasion of Earth by Hell results in a lot of fleshy environments to traverse full of squishy walls and gore everywhere.

** [[spoiler:The chip Slayer carries VEGA in when going to Urdak looks a lot more like Maykr tech than anything else on the Fortress of Doom (barring perhaps the Unmaykr), foreshadowing both VEGA remaining in Urdak and his mysterious connection to the Maykrs.]]

* AscendedFanfic: As with ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', lore implies that every Doom .wad is canon, in a sense - after being picked up by the Argenta military, the Slayer helped them destroy demons infesting countless dimensions and lands, [[spoiler:along with the Maykrs secretly plotting to invade several dimensions for the production of Argent energy.]]

* AirDashing: The Doom Slayer's Dash ability propels him a short distance through the air and can be used twice before recharging. Perfect for extending jumps, quickly dodging incoming atta ks, or simply closing the distance to any demon ripe for a glory kill.

** The demons landing on Earth bring with them a ApocalypseHow/Class2, with most of humanity dead, cities everywhere reduced to ruin, and what remains of humanity struggling to fight back. It would've become a ApocalypseHow/{{Class 3a}} had the Slayer not showed up.
** [[spoiler:The presence of the Icon of Sin is said to warp and twist reality, and if left unchecked would give rise to a ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 by spawning a black hole to drag the entire universe down into Hell.]]
** From the demons' point of view, [[spoiler:the Doom Slayer defeating and killing Davoth hits them with a ApocalypseHow/ClassX5. Every demon outside of Hell immediately dies, and with Hell and Argent Energies both out of production, the remaining demons of Hell can no longer reproduce, and are thus doomed to an agonizingly slow extinction.]]

* GuideDangIt: [[spoiler: During the FinalBoss against the Icon of Sin you’re encouraged to make liberal use of the [[OneHitKill Crucible]] in order to fend off the hordes of Heavy and Super Heavy demons that constantly spawn so you focus your attention on the boss itself and Crucible ammo pickups respawn in order accommodate this. The problem? The game never tells you that the pickups respawn and, since the Crucible is generally TooAwesomeToUse due to it’s extremely rare ammo everywhere else, you will likely still conserve Crucible charges, making the FinalBoss much more frustrating than intended.]]

* ProudWarriorRace: The Argenta, with an intensely strict and unyielding warrior code that emphasized AsskickingEqualsAuthority. As expected, this made them highly effective at resisting the corrupting powers of Hell and also made them incredibly disciplined and effective warriors. It ''also'' made them completely inflexible and their laws and oaths cannot be broken, even when they are being perverted by those who have fallen to Hellish corruption.

* SuperheroPackingHeat: The Doom Slayer in addition to his guns has super strength, invulnerability, super speed and travels across space and time to give Hell, Hell. In other words, he is (almost) like a demonic Captain America.
* SuperSoldier: After years spent as a BadassNormal, ''Doom Eternal'' finally makes [[spoiler:Doomguy]] one, as revealed in flashbacks that show [[spoiler:Samur Maykr imparting the power of the Maykrs upon him via the Divinity Machine and transforming him into the agile, brutal Doom Slayer]].

* SuperheroPackingHeat: The Doom Slayer in addition to his guns has super strength, invulnerability, super speed and travels across space and time to give Hell, Hell.

''DOOM Eternal'' is the {{Sequel}} to ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', developed by Creator/IdSoftware for PC, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/{{Stadia}} as the sixth main installment in the ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' video game franchise. Officially released on March 20, 2020[[note]]Video game retailer [=GameStop=] in the United States began selling it a day earlier due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic in an effort to separate crowds buying this game from crowds buying ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons''[[/note]], the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version was released on December 8 as digital only. UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS versions were release June 29, 2021, with free upgrades made available to owners of the [=PS4=] and Xbox One versions.

* SequelHook: While the overarching plot concerning [[spoiler:Argent Energy and the Maykrs]] has been [[KillEmAll rather finally dealt with]] at the end of the main campaign, several important mysteries are left for the DLC to answer, primarily the ones revolving around [[spoiler:where Vega came from, the whereabouts of the Father, how to finally stop the demons, and what Hayden's connection to the Maykrs is]]. Although still leaving plenty of loose ends for a third game, ''The Ancient Gods'' [[spoiler:more or less answers all of the above-mentioned mysteries.]]

* SpeedRun: The '''A Bat Out of Hell''' milestone requires the player to beat the first mission of the game, Hell on Earth, in less than 11 minutes.

* DemotedToExtra: Arguably the BFG-9000, as the extremely limited ammo (can only be obtained through sparsely-placed pickups) and immunity tricks for many of the super-heavy demon discourages using it, relegating it to a TooAwesomeToUse SmartBomb.

** Surprisingly, the Unmaykr. Granted, its firepower is rather obscene for such a rapid-firing weapon, but using it means you're trading the BFG's wide-spread [=AoE=] nuking damage for MoreDakka, in which case it becomes a glorified late-game Plasma Rifle with no mods that consumes the same (''rare!'') Argent Cell ammunition as the BFG, that you can no longer get back with the right Rune. It becomes sort of a SituationalSword if you mostly use it on bosses, but there's never an actual moment where using it is necessary, and you can clear the game without it perfectly fine. Good thing is, it's slightly more ammo-efficient than the BFG as it consumes only one Argent cell per shot compared to the BFG's 30, and operates better in more cramped, claustrophobic arenas where a fired BFG ball would be unable to travel far enough to properly clear it out. Also, it is a better option for disposing of super heavy enemies if you can't or don't want to use the Crucible; a Tyrant is able to survive a BFG ball to the face (which costs 30 ammo), but the Unmaykr needs only around 20 ammo to kill it.

** If you count them as such, ''The Ancient Gods'' [=DLC=] would certainly qualify. They are excruciatingly unforgiving compared to the main game story, often throwing multiple high-level demons (such as multiple Marauders or Doom Hunters, sometimes even empowered even further by Spirits) in one arena together at the same time in a row, resulting in severe CheckpointStarvation, along with more enemies period.

* ContinuitySnarl: Most of the records and characters in the game say it's happening in 2151... except for Dr. Elena Richardson's logs, which for some reason are all dated 12 years later in 2163. The implication is that the invasion started in 2151 and has been ongoing for ''twelve years''. Clearly, the forces of Hell like to make humans suffer.

* NoFairCheating: Averted for the most part. Cheats, when activated, do not disable achievements or trophies, and in fact, are encouraged to be abused to a degree by the loading screen tips. The only caveats are that they can only be used when replaying a level, so one can't just toggle them on and cheese through harder difficulties like Ultra-Nightmare, and they disable Slayer Gates when toggled, so if the player hasn't unlocked the Unmaykr already they won't be able to use cheats to get it.

** The presence of the Icon of Sin is said to warp and twist reality, and if left unchecked would give rise to a ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 by spawning a black hole to drag the entire universe down into Hell.

** The demons landing on Earth bring with them a ApocalypseHow/Class2, with most of humanity dead, cities everywhere reduced to ruin, and what remains of humanity struggling to fight back. It would've become a ApocalypseHow/Class3a had the Slayer not showed up.

Now it's up to you to protect the few surviving pockets of mankind scattered across the solar system from Heaven ''and'' Hell, [[ItsWhatIDo the only way you know how]]: with [[ShootEverythingThatMoves guns]], [[ChainsawGood chainsaws]], {{powered armor}}, and your [[FinishingMove bare hands]], [[PayEvilUntoEvil slaughtering everything that stands between you and saving humanity]]. [[HealThyself Never resting]]. [[MoreDakka Never stopping]]. Ravenous. Everlasting. '''Eternal.''' ''[[MythologyGag Rip and tear]], until it is done.''

* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Not one that's specific to Doom (or was ever in Doom until now), but one that's present in other games: ''Eternal's'' 1-up system makes an appearance here as a means of continuing ''immediately'' from death upon the moment the Doom Slayer's health is depleted, complete with MercyInvincibility, given the game's SequelDifficultySpike. It makes a ''huge'' distinction from the "restart from checkpoint" method other games with limited lives use. Suffice to say, MeaninglessLives is ''absolutely'' defied here.

Unlike ''2016'', ''Doom Eternal'' has single-player campaign DLC taking place after its main story, the two-part ''The Ancient Gods''. ''Part One'' was released on October 20, 2020, while ''Part Two'' launched on March 18, 2021.