Line #5 DarthWiki/AlternateRealm


1	This fictional FightingGame is what happened when @/{{Wax}} played with the MayanDoomsday theories and [[ExaggeratedTrope ran with them]].
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3	After a meteor crashed on Wall Street the 21st December of 2012, Earth was covered under a giant dust cloud. The USA immediately fell into disarray, and soon war. All nations were quickly broken by private military contractors, and the Earth is now at the hands of six tyrannical corporations, known as the Six Independent Consortiums. The New United Nations rise after years to rebuild the old world, but even they are not much better than the Six...
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5	!Alternate Realm's story provides examples of:
6	* AfterTheEnd: A meteor wiped out most of humanity. Five years later, the world is still recovering.
7	* CorporateWarfare: Each of the Six Independent Consortiums has its own military. They are now the only noticeable military powers in the world.
8	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: And lots of them. Any leading figure of the Six Independent Consortiums or the New United Nations is one. Roland's backstory outright states that he quit the U.N. bureaucracy because it was full of corruption.
9	* {{Expy}}: More or less everyone, with varying degrees of subtlety.
10	* FightingClown: Subverted. While the Thundergate Club are a trio of soccer players, not only one of them is a strong ArtificialHuman, but the three are serious contenders.
11	* ForWantOfANail: [[WhatIf What if]] the MayanDoomsday came in the form of a meteor dropping on Wall Street on December 21st, 2012...
12	* TheHero: There's a team labelled as "Hero Team", lead by Hiro Yazuchi, except he's not the sole heroic character. He's also not personally involved in the grand scheme of things and is just another pawn for Yi-An.
13	* IWantMyJetpack: No discovery of magic, no war robots, and this happens in 2017.
14	* LawEnforcementInc: The Six Independent Consortiums all have this going within their domain.
15	* TheMafia: Zodiac and its twelve branches are a new world-wide equivalent. Stereotypes wanted that the three members of the "Zodiac Team" are Capricorn, Aries and Taurus, who are respectively Italian, [[{{Yakuza}} Japanese]] and Columbian.
16	* {{Magitek}}: What triggered the lead the Six Independent Consortiums took over their concurrence is that they equipped their private militias with this.
17	* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Every single team has their own mechanic no other character has access to.
18	* NGOSuperpower: Once again, the Six Independent Consortiums. In fact, they even subjugated all world governments.
19	** OneNationUnderCopyright: Each country in the world is now ruled by one of the Six Independent Consortiums. Even the New U.N. haven't managed to establish a government in a single state.
20	* NoNameGiven: The leader of the Future Team is known as "No Name". Even his teammates have to call him by way of HeyYou.
21	* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Each of the Six Independent Consortiums, but especially Yi-An, who minimizes contact with the rest of the world.
22	* SeriousBusiness: The New Age Tournament, organized by the New United Nations, is NotJustATournament. It is a symbol of power for whichever corporation wins it. [[spoiler:And in all alternate timelines the "Future Team" has travelled through, Zodiac wins, but the rest of the branches are betrayed by Capricorn who takes over the world.]]
23	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Several teams represent the Independent Consortium that they hate.
24	** The Hero Team is sponsored by Yi-An, even though Hiro hates them.
25	** Both the Future Team and the Thundergate Club are sponsored by Zodiac.
26	*** The Future Team is a case of InNameOnly, as they paid their entrance with money stolen from another timeline.
27	*** But the Thundergate Club is blackmailed by Zodiac into entering.
28	** The New Order Team are sent on TheUriahGambit by the New United Nations.
29	** The [[ShoutOut Bad Guys]] [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear of Sol]] are sponsored by Bluecoal, once again InNameOnly, as they hacked into Bluecoal's bank account.
30	** On a more personal level, Youshi and Sho on the Hero Team are bitter rivals, Mimiko is a slave of Crimson, the Sandao Team's three members don't get along, and the Kamiya must tolerate Koji, their black-hearted serial killer of a cousin.
31	* TimeMaster: The "Future Team".
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33	!Alternate Realm's gameplay provides examples of:
34	* DesperationAttack: Being under a certain amount of life gives a unique super that can be used repeatedly, but becomes the most powerful move in your arsenal if you use it with a super gauge.
35	* ImmuneToFlinching: Super Armor is this, and your only form of defense except from evasive dodges.
36	* LagCancel: It's possible to use special cancels, but the cake is taken by the Dodge Cancel, where you can cancel attacks on hit into a dodge that you can cancel into a dash or an attack.
37	* OptionalBoss: The Zodiac Team can only be fought with specific requirements. Finding them gives you a TrueFinalBoss fight against Capricorn alone.
38	* SNKBoss:
39	** FinalBoss [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Housei]]. The fastest character in the game, who can backdash moves on reaction and get right back in with his extendable dash, during which he is constantly ImmuneToFlinching. Plus, once he combos you he deals very high damage.
40	** TrueFinalBoss Malone. He's a king of traps since his static fireballs stay almost indefinitely, allowing him to easily hit you out of any attempt to [[SuperArmor go through his pokes]]. While not as fast as Housei, he is another league of difficult.
41	** If you met the [[OptionalBoss Zodiac Team]], you will get Capricorn solo as a TrueFinalBoss. As the pre-battle cinematic where he appears with his victims [[AuthorAvatar Max]] [[NonPlayerCharacter Callahan]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder and his teammates Aries and Taurus]] at his feet tells you, he is very dangerous. His specials are always the fully-charged version, though he can still delay them. The ability to dispense of charging makes his damage rise through the ceiling.
42	* UnblockableAttack: Everything. There is no guard in this game. However, there are attacks that can bypass the other forms of defense.
43	** SuperArmor loses to throws, but also the universal Wall Breaker attack.

Context DarthWiki / AlternateRealm