Trivia / Disney Heroes: Battle Mode

• Author's Saving Throw:
  • Backlash against the differing Arena rewards at launch was so fierce that the developers gave everyone the same tier, at 500, and reimbursed the missing gems in installments.
  • After complaints that the developers were not sufficiently addressing player feedback reached a fever pitch toward the end of 2019, the developers started the new year by promising to interact with the players more and listen to their feedback.
  • Over time, the Friendship Campaign/Disk system began to garner complaints that unlocking and advancing Friendship Disks had become entirely too difficult and time-consuming and required too much grinding in order to even unlock them in the first place. In response, the v2.3 update gave the system a massive overhaul to make unlocking and maxing out Friendship Disks much quicker and less cumbersome:
    • Friendship levels and XP were jettisoned completely, with the campaigns and disks now being accessible as soon as you have unlocked both of the characters involved in a friendship rather than both characters having to be at a specific level or rarity and then having to grind Friendship XP to be able to progress through their campaign on top of that.
    • Friendship disks could now be unlocked as early as completing the first episode of their respective Friendship Campaigns and then be usable for the rest of them, alleviating the often frustrating difficulty of the campaigns. Completing campaign episodes now unlocks their star levels and extra memories.
    • Friendship missions to gain memories no longer required up to five heroes in order to run, only the two involved in the friendship (meaning no longer having to wait for other missions to complete in order to run another because one character is already busy with one). Missions also automatically restart (so long as you can stay on top of claiming the rewards from them), no longer require valuable badge bits to run, and will always be successful regardless of your characters' levels (though they will take a significantly shorter amount of time to complete the further leveled up they are).
    • A later patch introduced missions to gain special power-ups to give characters on Friendship Missions, further bringing down the often frustrating difficulty of the missions.
    • And even later on, they reduced the enemy strength to orange level after every new friend campaign kept increasing the level cap which was annoying since the new character would most likely be too underleveled to actually complete even the first fight.
  • Three and two star hero chips were removed after a certain point, now allowing all new characters to be unlocked more quickly.
  • After they found many players were becoming soft-locked on character promotion due to reinfected areas that were too strong to beat and took too long to become beatable, they removed this feature entirely.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!:
  • The beginning of Calhoun's "kitten whispers" quote on her profile is incorrectly written in game as "This is it, ladies". In Wreck-It Ralph, it goes "All right, ladies...".
  • In a bizarre variant of this trope, Stitch's quote on his profile ("Nobody gets left behind.") was written without quotation marks, which made him the only character in the game whose quote lacked them. This made it seem like that he never spoke those exact four words from the ʻohana motto in his film — which he actually did^note He says the phrase in the film when he frees Lilo from the container on Gantu's ship. — and that developer PerBlue only included it for the obvious reference to said motto. A later patch eventually added quotation marks around Stitch's quote, suggesting that the developers did eventually catch on to the discrepancy.
  • Not once in Zootopia did Finnick say, "Small mammal, big heart, baby."^note This quote actually comes from a talking Finnick plush toy.
  • Shank's profile quote, "Well, well, well... who are you?" is a combination of two separate lines as presented in a trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet.^note The first line is from when Shank confronts two player characters and the second is from when she answers the door and sees Ralph for the first time.
• Content Leak:
  • Server 24 was launched with two unannounced characters accidentally included (specifically Clawhauser and Honey Lemon).
  • Update 3.5.10 accidentally revealed that King Triton, Anna, and Sisu would be added in the game later on thanks to them being visible by looking into the Collections section of the game. While they were removed quickly, plenty of players found out about them before their official debut in the game.
• Development Hell:
  • Kim Possible had been in development since June 2019, but the character was held back due to undisclosed complications. When asked about Kim's progress in a developer chat in February 2020, the developers could only say that she was still being worked on but could not promise a release date. The character's data disappeared from the game entirely shortly afterward and a Dummied Out Friendship disk that Duke Caboom had with them was reworked to be with Goofy instead, casting doubt on whether the character was even actually still planned to be added to the game at all until October 2020, when she was finally confirmed to be coming to the game after all in patch 2.3.
  • Comments from game representatives on the game's official forums implied that Eda was a very difficult character to add to the game due in part to approvals from Disney to include her in the roster taking much longer than expected, explaining why it took two weeks after her official announcement to actually be added to the game. Given the controversy that The Owl House had with the higher-ups at Disney Television Animation (which lead to it being Screwed by the Network despite its popularity with viewers), few were surprised.
• Milestone Celebration:
  • Mickey Mouse was added into this game in November 2018 for his 90th anniversary month.
  • The two lead characters of The Nightmare Before Christmas happened to be added during the 25th anniversary of their movie.
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • In Ralph Breaks the Internet, Ralph and Vanellope originally went to the defunct website of Disney Infinity rather than Oh My Disney!, which is where the crossover idea originated from. Due to the cancellation of the Disney Infinity franchise, it was replaced with Oh My Disney! in the film, but this is presumably where the idea for Disney Heroes: Battle Mode came from.
  • Played with. In the original plot for Wreck-It Ralph, there were plans to include a fourth game called Extreme EZ Livin' 2. In the game, Ralph and Vanellope have a friendship mission titled Extreme EZ Livin’.
• Screwed by the Lawyers:
  • In general, franchises that aren't part of the core Disney brand; such as Lucasfilm, Marvel Comics, Kingdom Hearts, and former Fox properties (such as The Simpsons or movies made by Blue Sky Studios like Rio or Ice Age); aren't in the game. The devs said that they could in theory get access to them, but there are extra legal hurdles that aren't worth the effort to pursue.^* That being said, Blue Sky would end up shuttering in 2021 after a string of financially unsuccessful films and its IPs were absorbed into Disney as a result, which, for better or worse, got rid of most of the hoops to jump through with them (with the obvious exceptions of the 2008 Horton Hears a Who! movie, which would involve dealing with Theodore Geisel's estate, and Peanuts, whose rights have moved elsewhere since the release of The Peanuts Movie). It's yet to be seen if this would lead to the developers giving them another shot at being represented in the game. Other acquired franchises, such as Pixar and The Muppets, are exempt from this, however.
  • The game lacks any Tarzan characters, as there have been issues in the past with the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. The only references to the movie in-game are a few badges, none of which feature Tarzan himself, Jane, nor any other characters who weren't created for the movie (and even then, those who do appear on the badges aren't namedropped at all).
  • Until patch 2.1, there was a badge depicting the Yip-Yips/Martians, Sesame Street characters who were mistaken by the developers to be normal Muppet characters. Their badge was replaced by one depicting the sunken ship from the beginning of The Little Mermaid.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Duke Caboom's Friendship Campaign/Disk with Goofy was originally planned to be with Kim Possible, but Kim's continuously delayed release lead to it being reworked to be with Goofy instead. When Kim did get added to the game in patch 2.3, neither of her friendships were with Caboom, so the intended story was never used. Word of God states that the campaign would have involved Caboom teaming up with Kim to infiltrate a lair built by Dr. Drakken on the rooftops of the City and riding across the rooftops on Caboom's motorcycle to get there.
  • Concept art reveals that Vanellope was originally meant to have her princess dress as an alternate costume and Kristoff had an alternate stance of him riding Sven, implying his moveset wouldn't have involved summoning Sven as a separate character.
  • Early Dummied Out data suggested that Lumiere was originally planned to be a single character, but when he eventually debuted in the game in May 2023, he was paired up with Cogsworth as a single unit.

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