Line #12 VideoGame/FantasticFour2005


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3	''Fantastic Four'' is a video game based on the [[Film/FantasticFour2005 film of the same name]]. It was released for the Platform/PlayStation2, Platform/{{Xbox}}, Platform/GameboyAdvance and Platform/NintendoGamecube in June 27th, 2005. It has the actors of the film reprise their roles including Creator/JessicaAlba, Creator/ChrisEvans, Michael Chiklis, Ioan Gruffudd and Julian [=McMahon=].
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5	!!The game contains examples of these tropes
6	* AdaptationExpansion: The game includes several additional characters that never made it into the film, allies or villains alike, including Nick Fury, Blastaar, Yancy Street Gang, Mole Man, Diablo, Puppet Master, Dragon Man, and Annihilus.
7	* AdaptationOriginConnection: Most of the villains' powers are derived from the cosmic storm in some ways.
8	* AdaptationalContextChange:
9	** Due to Ben immediately being transformed into the Thing, Reed, Sue and Johnny see his new form at Victor's compound instead of at the bridge.
10	** The fire truck crash was caused by Thing saving a surprised firefighter from getting run over.
11	* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Thing meets Alicia Master early on, before the bridge incident.
12	* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, the Yancy Street Gang is essentially a group of friends and associates who devote most of their time to harmlessly heckling the Thing, and who have shown a willingness to help the Four on occasion. Here, they're a violent gang of street thugs who kidnap Alicia after she refuses to pay their protection money and try to ''kill'' the Thing when he comes to save her.
13	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The final parts of the game involve Victor taking over Baxter Building with his Doombots, while the heroes had to confront him in their home.
14	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The cutscene at the start of the Tikal level shows that it's located somewhere in northern Mexico, but it's actually in Guatemala. Not only that, but northern Mexico doesn't have any jungle ecosystem at all, it's desertic.
15	* BigCreepyCrawlies
16	** GiantSpider: The team encounters these in the southern Mexican jungle. It's the result of the meteorites radiated by the cosmic storm. There's another type of giant spider that appears to be robotic which appear as the chief enemy type in the S.H.I.E.L.D. levels
17	** ThunderBeetle: There are monstrous stag beetle enemies in the Space Station stage. Near the end of the stage, the beetles get further mutated by the simulated cosmic radiation storm to possess electric powers.
18	** WickedWasps: The Space Station stage also features smaller wasps and larger hornets as enemies mutated by the cosmic storm. They continuously emerge from nests attached to the walls until said nests are destroyed.
19	* CombinationAttack: With certain inputs, you can link two of the Four's ultimate abilities to do some heavy AreaOfEffect damage.
20	* CoOpMultiplayer: The game lets up to two players assist each other.
21	* DamselInDistress: Alicia is trapped by the "malfunctioning" security system of the museum (actually, this was Puppet Master's attempt at keeping Alicia ''safe'' from his attack on the rest of the museum), but she gets rescued by the Four. A nameless lady in a red dress later gets captured by the Mummy King and tied down in front of some energy-pulsating pyramid, but Ben saves her too.
22	* EvolvingAttack: The Four's abilities can be upgraded for more damage, status effects, and bigger visual effects.
23	* FacePalmOfDoom: This is one of Blastaar's grabs, which culminates into blasting the victim's heads.
24	* FinalBoss: Dr. Doom.
25	* ForcedTutorial: The tutorial is an entire section of levels where the player has to understand the differences between each member, gameplay-wise. It also gives emphasis on the platforming and puzzle sections that [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman can only be solved by a specific member]].
26	* GangBangers: The Yancy Street Gang. They fight using typical gangster melee weapons such as brass knuckles or steel pipes.
27	* GiantMook: Larger Moloids.
28	* GreatEscape: The team got out of quarantine and must stop Dragon Man and other inmates from breaking out of the Vault.
29	* HowWeGotHere: The game opens with Reed, Johnny and Sue losing a three-on-one fight against Dr. Doom. As Sue calls for Ben's name, the latter recovers from the chamber where his powers got removed, then he recalls how everything led up to that point.
30	* InkSuitActor: The 4 and Doom share the same likeness as their actors.
31	* JumpScare: If you don't know it's coming, it's possible for one of the raptor exhibits in the Museum stage to startle you as it comes to life, since it only happens as you begin to approach it and, even then, only at a certain point in the level.
32	* KarmaHoudini: Diablo just gets away with no consequences after spending the entire Tikal stage trying to murder the FF. The Puppet Master is even worse, as he endangered not just the FF but dozens of museum visitors, and in the end escapes, without the FF even knowing that he was responsible.
33	* KingMook:
34	** Thug Boss, apparent leader of the Yancy Street Gang
35	** Mole Man's giant monster Moleoaf is basically an even more gigantic version of a Moloid.
36	** Ultra Bot, which is a larger version of a Doombot.
37	** The Mummy King, taller than the other mummies and wears a pharaoh's headdress.
38	* LetsYouAndHimFight: In one level, Thing has to fight the Human Torch.
39	* ManEatingPlant: Giant Plant Mutant.
40	* {{Mayincatec}}: The Tikal level.
41	* MechaMook: Doombots
42	* {{Mummy}}: Hordes of them brought to life by the Puppet Master in the museum.
43	* MythologyGag:
44	** Moleoaf resembles Giganto (the [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Giganto_(Deviant_Mutate)_(Earth-616) Deviant Mutate]], not the [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Giganto_(Atlantean_Beast) giant whale creature]]) from the comics. It comes out of a giant hole in the middle of the street where you have to fight it, which is a nod to the cover of the Fantastic Four's [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/1e/Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_1.png first issue]].
45	** In the Latveria levels, the team uses their appearances and outfits from ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour instead of those in the movie.
46	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Or combos, to be specific. As you progress through certain levels, you unlock more abilities at your disposal.
47	* OutsideContextVillain: Annihilus, an alien warlord from another dimension, arrived on Earth due to the cosmic storm affecting the portal.
48	* PragmaticAdaptation: The game is loosely based on the film with additional content never seen in the film.
49	* PreRenderedGraphics: The game uses these for cutscenes.
50	* ProtectionRacket: The Yancy Street Gang.
51	* RaptorAttack: The raptors brought to life by the Puppet Master in the museum.
52	* RecursiveCanon: Marvel Comics exists in this universe, since the logo can be seen on a building in the Heavy Mech boss fight.
53	* SaveTheVillain: In the Vault levels, the (optional) secondary objectives involve trapping escaped convicts back in their cells (even as they try to attack you) in order to keep them safe from the murder-happy, malfunctioning security robots. Not only does letting the robots kill the convicts count as a failure condition, but so does taking them out in self-defense. One of the convicts even has to be grabbed by Reed or Ben before he [[TooDumbToLive runs over to an area of a damaged bridge]] that immediately gives under, killing him.
54	* SecretLevel: You can unlock Latveria stages, complete with their own unique enemy encounters.
55	* SheFu: This essentially describes Sue's style of melee combat.
56	* ShoutOut: Nick Fury's line, "[[ComicBook/SpiderMan With great power]] [[ComesGreatResponsibility comes great...]] [[LastSecondWordSwap collateral damage]]."
57	* ShowsDamage: The console ports (such as the Xbox) have a more powerful engine that adds this effect to the non-human {{Mook}}s. For example, you could easily notice parts of the robots' getting detached whenever you attack them.
58	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''VideoGame/XMenLegends''.
59	* StealthBasedMission: There are a few levels where you get to play not as The Thing, but as Ben, who got his cosmic powers stripped. Combat is still possible, but limited. It also crosses with problem-solving, and puzzle sections.
60	** To a lesser extent, Sue can also sneak up on enemies from behind by turning invisible, and while doing so, unleash a stealth attack on them that knocks them to the ground.
61	* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Only a certain member's powers can be beneficial in solving certain puzzle types. Some puzzles may also require a teamwork of two members.
62	** Mr. Fantastic can stretch his body to reach some previously-unreachable objects. He can also extend himself across a gap to serve as a temporary bridge for his teammates. He's also the only one who can hack into computer terminals.
63	** The Thing's super-strength allows him to carry, or interact with large or heavy objects.
64	** Invisible Woman can freeze stuff, and her invisibility is very useful in sneaking.
65	** Human Torch can easily walk through fire, and certain puzzle elements can only be solved by burning them.
66	* TooYoungToDieLamentation: In the bridge level, a girl trapped inside her burning car scream "I'm too pretty to die!".
67	* UncertainDoom: It's not quite clear whether Annihilus was ''eaten'' by the Plasma Worm or somehow mutated ''into'' the Plasma Worm.
68	* VideoGameCaringPotential: A minor example, but in the level where Reed and Sue are being chased by the Ultra Bot, Reed can go out of his way to save random civilians from falling to their deaths as a result of their balconies being blasted away by Ultra Bot's missiles. Saving them or letting them fall does little beyond grant or deduct points to the player for the level. In the Museum levels, there's also one civilian trapped behind a chunk of debris that it's optional for Ben to save (though doing so also exposes an F4 Secret token). Then there's also the optional objectives in the Vault levels as described above under SaveTheVillain.
69	* VillainExitStageLeft: The Puppet Master, after the team defeated the things he brought to life at the museum.
70	-->'''Puppet Master:''' [[WeWillMeetAgain Next time, fantastic fools, the Puppet Master will not fail.]]
71	* WeCanRuleTogether: Blastaar makes this kind of offer to Reed and Ben to let him out of his cell in the Vault. They do as much, not for Blastaar's sake so much as a byproduct of deactivating the dangerously malfunctioning security systems. The first thing Blastaar does to repay you is [[ILied try to kill you]].

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