History VideoGame / RumbleRoses

** The "limbo" penalties medium and hard can have the loser fall on their rear end while trying to get past. They hold their hurt bottoms afterwards. Interestingly the loser noticeably tends to her hurt butt more when they fail the medium version compared to the hard version.

* HumiliatingWager: In ''Rumble Roses XX'', the Queen's Match matchtype is essentially this; the loser must do whatever task the winner tells them to do, which in the game, usually means the loser doing a menial/embarrassing task in their wrestling gear or a bikini.

** Many Roses have access to the dreaded atomic drop where the attacker drops the opponent on their knee in a seated position. The victim visibly shows discomfort in the area after the landing with a PainPoweredLeap following the victim holding their rear end. In one double X move sequence the victim is atomic dropped by one of her attackers before the followup and again they visibly sell their rump pain.

** Aigle and Great Khan both have a judo attack with two variations each where the opponent is tripped and turned and they fall on their rear end. The victim gets on her side and holds her backside momentarily. One variation includes the attacker holding on their her victim's leg but this variation also shows her victim aching to their aching bottom.

* ProWrestlingIsReal: Real enough that an evil overlord wannabe is using the DNA of pro wrestlers to create an unstoppable robot army.

* {{SNK Boss}}: Lady X. She has a ridiculously overpowered unblockable move for a ''taunt'', but even without the taunt, most of her regular moves are other wrestlers' finishing moves, and her humiliation meter fills at about a tenth of the speed of anyone else's. ''Rumble Roses XX'' has Lady X "Subsistance", who is even stronger than Substance in terms of offense and defense, and even has an attack stronger than the "Human" girls Killer/Lethal attacks where she places her robotic fingers on her opponent's ears and uses her [[https://www.deviantart.com/allthestawf/art/Rumble-Roses-XX-Lady-X-Cleans-Becky-s-Ears-808825763|rotating parts]] to rotate her fingers while they are in the ears of her opponent that can leave lower defense characters like Becky unable to kick out in two cycles.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Reiko's competency in the ring tends to vary wildly in story modes. In her own she is a more than capable wrestler who despite her inexperience can defend herself, but in Evil Rose's story Reiko is helpless and has to be saved even from lower tier enemies than Anesthesia to justify Evil Rose's Big Sister Instinct.

* TooDumbToLive: This can apply to anyone in the roster, some of the grapples from characters such as Becky and Yasha require the opponent to actually fight back. In one of Becky's turnbuckle grapples her opponent literally locks her in a full nelson and Becky proceeds to counter and drop her opponent on her head. In Yasha's case Yasha needs her opponent to German Suplex her after Yasha purposely whiffs a high kick. In both of these cases the opponents never wise up to the slippery escapes and will fall for the exact same moves the same way every time.

* CrossCulturalKerfluffle: Queens Mode in ''RRXX''. The idea was that the girl who lost the match would suffer a penalty, like having to sweep around a pool with a push broom, and then she'd react to it by getting angry, sad or embarrassed. This was supposed to be a selling point of the game. In Japan, it was. Western audiences, however, found it to incredibly weird and creepy.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: ''RR'' has the same control scheme as the contemporary games in the ''WWE'' series, but the actual buttons aren't mapped exactly alike, so get ready to run headlong into your opponent a few times when you meant to grapple them.

** The effect can be somewhat applied against human opponents. It is possible to "reverse" the humiliation move when the opponent initially connects with it. To further add to the humiliation instead of performing their own humiliation move on the aggressor the would be victim instead performs the humiliation move of her opponent on THEM (IE if Becky reverses Lady X Subsistance's Humiliation move Becky puts Lady X Subsistance on her own Muscle Buster), which can be embarrassing to lose to your own finisher.
** Some H-Moves avert this by actually being practical. Becky's Chicken Wing Cheer Lock for example isn't near as humiliating as Miss Spencer's Teacher Lock for example but instead it combines the effects of a real life Chicken Wing submission with the hamstring stretching effect of a stump puller.
* DenserAndWackier: ''RRXX'' is a mild example, having added such things as the playable bear, the Street Fight mode where getting hit can the girls flying 20 feet in the air, and "moves" like Bloody Shadow's opponent-inhaling giant frog and Lady X Subsistence's robo-noogie and turn-into-a-fighter-jet.

* {{Face}} & {{Heel}}: Gets a little weird. See, each character has a face and a heel persona. For some though, it is not as simple. For example, Bloody Shadow is a good, if not nice person. However, because Bloody Shadow's dressed darker than her alter ego Judgment, she is labeled the heel persona. Same thing goes for Candy Cane to Becky. Likewise, Anesthesia, the face persona, is lighter than Dr. Cutter despite also being presented as evil. This aspect is actually more accurate than most wrestling games since heel and face doesn't mean "good" and "evil", but who is "cheered" and "booed". Everybody else plays this straight, though.
** EvilCostumeSwitch / GoodCostumeSwitch: Goes with the face to heel / heel to face switches.
** StartOfDarkness: Conveniently provided in the introduction to the heel storylines of normally face characters.
** [[ThatManIsDead That Girl Is Dead]]: The essence of some of the Roses' responses to their former friends' [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan attempts to get through to them]] [[FaceHeelTurn post heel turn]].

* GorgeousGaijin: Provided most blatantly by Dixie Clements with her height, blonde hair and having the largest bustline of the cast, although Miss Spencer could be argued to provide it as well.
* GuiltyPleasure: The series was, and still is, seen as this overall. Despite the obvious [[{{Fanservice}} fanservice]], the game does sport some fun arcade-style wrestling like the early ''[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE Smackdown]]'' games.
* HumiliatingWager: In Rumble Roses XX, the Queen's Match matchtype is essentially this; the loser must do whatever task the winner tells them to do, which in the game, usually means the loser doing a menial/embarrassing task in their wrestling gear or a bikini.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Evil Rose is actually Reiko's BrainwashedAndCrazy older sister while Lady X is a cyborg made from Kamikaze Rose's DNA (Kamikaze Rose is Reiko and Evil Rose's mother).]]

* MaleGaze: Everything but the one that really stands out is when a character is ready to be finished off with a "humiliation move".

* MsFanservice: Literally every female in the game, to varying degrees (Reiko is a bikini model who strikes poses for the cameras during her entrance, Makoto is a judoka who doesn't wear pants).
* MyHeroZero: Reiko as a face is nicknamed "Zero Fighter" (having the word stamped on the outfit helps).

** Also there's Becky, Candy Cane's face gimmick, who looks like a cross between Spears at the start of her career and [[Music/SpiceGirls Emma Bunton]].
*** Candy Cane is a teenage punk rocker from Canada. Although she is a lot "meaner" than Music/AvrilLavigne, thus making her personality more akin to American female punk rockers like [[Music/BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna]] or Brody Dalle, the similarity is obvious.
*** Candy Cane plays in a band called "The Killer Bambies", an obvious nod towards Spanish punk band The Killer Barbies, who provide her theme song "Have Some Fun" in the original ''Rumble Roses''.
** Much like [[VideoGame/WorldHeroes Ryoko Izumo]] and [[VideoGame/FightersHistory Ryoko Kano]], Makoto Aihara was almost certainly based on real-life judoka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryoko_Tani Ryoko Tani]].

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: A rather loose example, but with both incarnations of Becky and Miss Spencer in XX. In their original incarnations Candy wears make up and all of her official clothes (including her swimsuits) have skirts. Candy also has a girly heart shaped pendant she keeps even when she is wearing someone else's clothes, Miss Spencer is more stern and serious than Candy in terms of responsibility. While face Miss Spencer has some feminine traits her clothes are more mature and professional. In their Alter Ego's Becky doesn't wear nearly as much makeup (she does have painted nails however), while she did become more bubbly than Candy was, she doesn't tend to have many feminine quirks other characters tend to have such as Makoto when climbing the rope and getting in the ring and has a more unisex high flying moveset. Her alternates, while female clothes and more vibrant, are less feminine in nature than Candy's. Mistress Spencer on the otherhand wears more feminine oriented clothing (dominatrix)and her Superstar outfit is even a wedding dress. Mistress also speaks in a more seductive tone and has more feminine walking patterns.
* ProWrestlingIsReal: Real enough that an evil overlord wannabe is using the DNA of pro wrestlers to create an unstoppable robot army.
** Lady X Subsistance especially has some attacks that would require immediate medical attention afterwards, The RR Girls are just softened for the pinfall loss though.
* RecycledPremise: In ''Rumble Roses XX'''s Queen's Match mode, the loser of each match is subjected to public humiliation, which is similar to another [[Anime/VariableGeo all-girl fighting series that came years before it]] involving combat waitresses.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Lady X/Lady X [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Substance]]/Lady X [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Subsistence]].
* {{SNK Boss}}: Lady X Substance. She has a ridiculously overpowered unblockable move for a ''taunt'', but even without the taunt, most of her regular moves are other wrestlers' finishing moves, and her humiliation meter fills at about a tenth of the speed of anyone else's. XX has Lady X "Subsistance", who is even stronger than Substance in terms of offense and defense, and even has an attack stronger than the "Human" girls Killer/Lethal attacks where she places her robotic fingers on her opponent's ears and uses her [[https://www.deviantart.com/allthestawf/art/Rumble-Roses-XX-Lady-X-Cleans-Becky-s-Ears-808825763|rotating parts]] to rotate her fingers while they are in the ears of her opponent that can leave lower defense characters like Becky unable to kick out in 2 cycles.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Everybody except Lady X. Lady X wears a full suit and tie ensemble. Other than that, Makoto and Noble Rose have the least skimpy outfits in the game. They wear a judogi and short-shorts and a backless leotard with thigh boots, respectively. However both are not without their quirks in this area as Noble Rose's leotard rides up her backside to the point nothing is left to the imagination and Makoto, while she wears shorts in her Judo outfit, her panties are visible to a degree.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Aigle/Killer Khan.

* DefeatByModesty: Sort of. Using a hold that presents your opponent to the audience in a suggestive way fills up the humiliation meter. If it fills up all the way, it triggers humiliation mode, a temporary stun that opens up special finishing moves, and a special victory type. Some maneuvers add to the attacker's meter, or to both, if it puts them in a compromising position. There's a special match type that only allows victory by humiliation.

* DenserAndWackier: ''RRXX'' is a mild example, having added such things as the playable bear, the Street Fight mode where getting hit can the girls flying 20 feet in the air, and "moves" like Bloody Shadow's opponent-inhaling giant frog and Lady X Subsistence turning into a fighter jet.

** Aisha is sort of a portmanteau of a few different pop starlets, including Music/BritneySpears, Music/BeyonceKnowles and Music/JenniferLopez.

* DenserAndWackier: ''RRXX'' is a mild example, having added such things as the playable bear, the Street Fight mode with its CartoonPhysics, and "moves" like Bloody Shadow's opponent-inhaling giant frog and Lady X Subsistence turning into a fighter jet.

* Tomboy and Girly Girl: A rather loose example, but with both incarnations of Becky and Miss Spencer in XX. In their original incarnations Candy wears make up and all of her official clothes (including her swimsuits) have skirts. Candy also has a girly heart shaped pendant she keeps even when she is wearing someone else's clothes, Miss Spencer is more stern and serious than Candy in terms of responsibility. While face Miss Spencer has some feminine traits her clothes are more mature and professional. In their Alter Ego's Becky doesn't wear nearly as much makeup (she does have painted nails however), while she did become more bubbly than Candy was, she doesn't tend to have many feminine quirks other characters tend to have such as Makoto when climbing the rope and getting in the ring and has a more unisex high flying moveset. Her alternates, while female clothes and more vibrant, are less feminine in nature than Candy's. Mistress Spencer on the otherhand wears more feminine oriented clothing (dominatrix)and her Superstar outfit is even a wedding dress. Mistress also speaks in a more seductive tone and has more feminine walking patterns.

In 2004, Creator/{{Konami}} decided to put a foot in a genre that is rarely touched by video game companies, the wrestling genre (well, at least outside Japan) which in the last years was in the hands of Creator/{{THQ}}, the holder of the Wrestling/{{WWE}} license. However, to the surprise of many, Konami announced that this game would feature an all female cast (this may have been related to the announcement of ''[[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball]]'' around that time). The end result was a big {{fanservice}} extravaganza, with 10 ladies (each with her own {{face}} and a {{heel}} persona) wearing quite [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing]] outfits, appealing to various fetishes. Aside from these regular in-ring costumes, they would also wear swimsuits for beach-side mud wrestling matches. Fanservice aside, ''Rumble Roses'' actually has good gameplay and nice graphics.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Everybody except Lady X. Lady X wears a full suit and tie ensemble. Other than that, Makoto and Noble Rose have the least skimpy outfits in the game. They wear a judogi and short-shorts and a backless leotard with thigh boots, respectively.

* {{SNK Boss}}: Lady X Substance. She has a ridiculously overpowered unblockable move for a ''taunt'', but even without the taunt, most of her regular moves are other wrestlers' finishing moves, and her humiliation meter fills at about a tenth of the speed of anyone else's.

As right now there is one {{sequel}}, ''Rumble Roses XX'' for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360. It introduced three new modes (Tag Team, Queens Match and Street Fight) as well as a very unelaborate create-a-wrestler feature. It also introduced "[[SuperMode Superstar]]" personas for each character's face and heel modes. Unfortunately, it featured no storyline mode at all, and an incredibly labyrinthine and time-consuming method of unlocking characters and rewards. Additionally, the extras like Queens Mode, Street Fight, the shoddy create-a-wrestler system and the playable bear proved very unpopular overseas. While ''Rumble Roses'' is generally considered to be a decent game, ''Rumble Roses XX'' was enough of a flop that it seems to have [[FranchiseKiller brought the series to an end]]. The series fell into obscurity with the closest to a revival being Reiko making a playable cameo in ''Super VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} R''. There's also a Japan-only slot machine game titled ''Rumble Roses 3D''.

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** Aisha is sort of a portmanteau of a few different pop starlets, including Music/BritneySpears, Music/BeyonceKnowles and Creator/JenniferLopez.