History VideoGame / DungeonDefenders

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: The tavern sells items based on the difficulty and dungeon you previously beat. Players may not realize this, beat a higher difficulty level, and then wonder why an item costs 500,000 mana, when you just barely have 12,000 mana. Also, when you sell stuff, you only get about half of what you paid for it. Averted once you figure this out, but many beginning players may be surprised as to why someone 5 levels lower than they are have a pet while they don't.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Upon obtaining achievements you receive various special cosmetic rewards that show when you host games, including little trophies to decorate your tavern walls and different Crystal designs. There are also character avatar costumes for the various holiday events.
** Subverted somewhat with the sequel, in that you now get none of the costumes for free, and both the Crystals and trophies have been retired.
* AwesomeYetImpractical: The Team Fortress pets on Steam. You're not allowed to use them until level 25, and while they are nice, by the time you get that high, you may already have a pet that has more useful bonuses.

* UsefulNotes/BarackObama: Appears as an unlockable skin for the Monk, together with his wife Michelle (Huntress skin), Republican candidate Mitt Romney (Squire skin) and Founding Father George Washington (Apprentice skin) as part of a DLC based on the US presidential elections.

* CrossOver: [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy, The Medic, The Pyro, and The Engineer]] are all available as pets when the game is bought off UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, and the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is a level 30 Huntress weapon. The trailer shows the characters from ''Dungeon Defenders'' using the portal gun to make a portal into a [=TF2=] game and pulling characters through it.

* [[DistaffCounterpart Distaff]]/SpearCounterpart: 4 new heroes were released in a buyable DLC that are basically this for the standard heroes: The Adept (Female Apprentice), The Countess (Female Squire), The Ranger (Male Huntress) and The Initiate (Female Monk). Mission pack DLC later added The Amazon (Female Barbarian), Demoness (Female Summoner), Fool (Male Jester), and Bounty Hunter ([[RobotGirl sort of]] Male Series EV).

* FunnyAnimal: Combine that with CuteLittleFangs and you've got the [[http://dungeondefenders.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/SkyCityCaptain1.png upcoming skin for the initiate.]]

** "A Freudian Slip is when ya say one thing, but meant your mother."

* [[ItsRainingMen Its Raining Goblins]]: One of the challenges where goblins fall down from all over the map. Makes defending the crystal tougher as they may spawn past your defenses. With the introduction of the Eternia shards, you also have spiders on part one and in any map on nightmare, which drop everywhere around the map and can sometimes just bypass your defences or destroy them from behind. The last part also gave us Goblin copters, which are helicopters flown by goblins which drop ogres onto the map on places ogres would normally not spawn. They also shoot rockets.

* {{Meganekko}}: The Adept

** The Series EV's latest costume is the [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Bounty Hunter]] outfit.

** The sequel takes it UpToEleven, with its ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' crossover, which has the Terrarian Dryad as a playable character in Dungeon Defenders 2, plus a map that is effectively a 3D version of one of ''Terraria'''s maps. ''Terraria'' gains enemies and assets from ''Dungeon Defenders II'' in kind.

** The sequel takes it UpToEleven, with its ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' crossover, which has the Terraria Dryad as a playable character in Dungeon Defenders 2, plus a map that is effectively a 3D version of one of Terraria's maps. It also has Terraria gain enemies and assets from Dungeon Defenders.

** The sequel takes it UpToEleven, with it's {{Terraria}} crossover, which has the Terraria Dryad as a playable character in Dungeon Defenders 2, plus a map that is effectively a 3D version of one of Terraria's maps. It also has Terraria gain enemies and assets from Dungeon Defenders.

%%* CompetitiveBalance: Each character fits a few roles.

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: The Squire doesn't wear any pants, for some reason. This may be a reference to Videogame/GhostsNGoblins.

A sequel, ''Dungeon Defenders II'' was released on Steam as a free-to-play Multiplayer game.

** The sequel takes it UpToEleven, with it's VideoGame/Terraria crossover, which has the Terraria Dryad as a playable character in Dungeon Defenders 2, plus a map that is effectively a 3D version of one of Terraria's maps. It also has Terraria gain enemies and assets from Dungeon Defenders.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Literally, The Tavern Keeper.

* GenerationXerox: The Legendary Heroes had... something else to do, so they left their younger kin in charge of the castle.

The game was released on the October 19, 2011, through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, and is available for PC, XBox360 and [[PlayStation3 PlayStation 3]], with support for cross-platform play. Two free-to-play versions (Dubbed ''First Wave'' and ''Second Wave'') have been released for iOS and Android devices, which support microtransactions to quickly obtain extra mana. For those on the PC, Trendy Entertainment has released a source development kit for modders to play with, though mods can only be used on open servers. In addition, Trendy provides special events and items as well as regular updates and patches.

* CompetitiveBalance: Each character fits a few roles.
** LightningBruiser: Squire, monk can be this if spec'd in hero talents. The Barbarian is this but has no towers to compensate.
** GlassCannon: Apprentice, Huntress if not spec'd with some hero talents.
** FragileSpeedster: Huntress, Monk if no/few stats in hero talents.
** JackOfAllStats: Series EV, who has a very wide range of abilities and a few buffs and powers unique to her.
** UnpredictableResults: The Jester; a game breaker but only if you're very lucky.

** Also several characters from PennyArcade are available as DLC skins. Tycho is the squire, Annarchy is the huntress, Jim Darkmagic is the Apprentice and Gabe as Cardboard Tube Samurai is the monk.

* BarackObama: Appears as an unlockable skin for the Monk, together with his wife Michelle (Huntress skin), Republican candidate Mitt Romney (Squire skin) and Founding Father George Washington (Apprentice skin) as part of a DLC based on the US presidential elections.

** Everything from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' to ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland''. [[Franchise/HarryPotter And]] [[FinalFantasy we]] [[StarWars mean]] ''[[UpToEleven everything.]]''

The game was released on the October 19, 2011, through {{Steam}}, and is available for PC, XBox360 and [[PlayStation3 PlayStation 3]], with support for cross-platform play. Two free-to-play versions (Dubbed ''First Wave'' and ''Second Wave'') have been released for iOS and Android devices, which support microtransactions to quickly obtain extra mana. For those on the PC, Trendy Entertainment has released a source development kit for modders to play with, though mods can only be used on open servers. In addition, Trendy provides special events and items as well as regular updates and patches.

* CrossOver: [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy, The Medic, The Pyro, and The Engineer]] are all available as pets when the game is bought off {{Steam}}, and the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is a level 30 Huntress weapon. The trailer shows the characters from ''Dungeon Defenders'' using the portal gun to make a portal into a [=TF2=] game and pulling characters through it.

A four part psuedo-expansion, ''Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards'', is in development. Taking place after the main plot, with the Eternia Crystals secure, our heroes venture out into the world to track down the missing shards of a shattered Crystal. This new campaign consists of four maps that each introduced a new type of enemy. Each one also has a boss at the end of the final wave. As with most bosses, it's generally advised to have good 'action' heroes, with gear with high defenses, health and good personal damage around to deal with them. The first part of the campaign was released on December 14, 2011. At this time, the Eternia Crystals have all been released for pc. A portal towards the final boss is unlocked upon winning all four eternia shards (for that difficulty and lower). The maximum player level has been increased bit by bit with several updates and is now, december 2012, level 100. Updates for consoles seem to be behind quite a bit for various reasons.

** Also several characters from PennyArcade are available as DLC skins. Tycho is the squire, Annarchy is the huntress, Jim Darkmagic is the Apprentice and Gabe as CardboardTubeSamurai is the monk.

* Meganekko: The Adept

* [[DistaffCounterpart Distaff]]/SpearCounterpart: 4 new heroes were released in a buyable DLC that are basically this for the standard heroes: The Adept (Female Apprentice), The Countess (Female Squire), The Ranger (Male Huntress) and The Initiate (Female Monk). Mission pack DLC later added The Amazon (Female Barbarian), Demoness (Female Summoner) and Bounty Hunter ([[RobotGirl sort of]] Male Series EV).