Trivia / M.U.G.E.N

• Acting for Two: Given that many characters use voice actors, this is bound to happen sooner or later.
  • While not a complete, but more traditional example, Brergrsart's Shotoclown has a few lines voiced by the author, leading to this if he fights Gweelay, also by Brergrsart, who he fully voices.
• Anonymous Author:
  • After all these years, there seems to be no known members of Elecbyte on the internet, much less anyone that would be active online, more so now that their website has been gone from the internet for a while.
  • To a lesser extent, there are a number of characters who have author fields that either feature the default name of Elecbyte (who only made Kung Fu Man) or nothing at all, along with edits of characters that simply keep the original author's name and don't add anything to it, leaving the person who edited the creation a mystery.
• Colbert Bump: Character and stage conversions made for the engine have given attention to a lot of obscure fighting games that have since garnered cult followings once emulation for those games became more viable. Notable examples being Kakuge Yaro, Daraku Tenshi: The Fallen Angels and the Advanced Variable Geo series.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Baby Bonnie Hood has a deep intense hatred for his very first creation, namely the same character as his online namesake.
  • Most Mysterious' Alex. Which the only redeeming factor of was having the first appearance of the Omega Tiger Woods gag that is common in his chars. See it here.
  • Ironcommando considers his old characters created back in his Attention Whore days as this, thanks to being cheap, unfinished, and made for the sole purpose of vanity^note They have a No Fair Cheating mode against cheap characters, which causes them to turn invincible and deal incredible, often One-Hit Kill damage. The main reason was because back then he did not want to see his characters lose. That said, his newer characters/edits do have a similar Unwinnable Joke A.I. mode but these need to be activated by manually editing the files on the player's part. The one he regrets creating the most is "A-Bomb", due to being heavily responsible for sparking and publicizing the "Cheapie War" that eventually led to the creation of Dragon-Tier cheapies (essentially computer viruses)^note A-Bomb wasn't the first to use a then-unique kill code that could defeat the then-unbeatable Omega Tom Hanks, it was a private creation called 2nd Death Star, whose author gave Ironcommando permission to use this code. Unlike 2nd Death Star, A-Bomb was widely publicized as the "#1 cheapest character", allowing others to take the kill code, modify it, and implement it into other characters which let them destroy and dethrone A-Bomb. This soon become a competition of one-upping the latest "#1 Cheapie" via modifications of the kill code and null exploits, gradually evolving into programs that hacked the game and the computer itself.
  • MegaBrony blew up and took down his old (pre-Princess Luna) characters for the same reasons as Ironcommando's characters above.
  • The creator of Ghetto Warmachine, Melvanainchains, hates the character now, mostly due to a bad fallout with a co-creator involved. She's said that she's considered removing it from her site on a regular basis^note she eventually would in 2018, along with her conversion of Billy Two Moons . Though she's also considered remaking the character to a standard she'd be more proud of.
    • DrKelexo's Ms. Fanservice had been taken down from their website for similar reasons as Ghetto Warmachine, although they host a mirror to the latter character.
  • The_None has come to regret kickstarting the fad of beating down bad conversions of characters in videos. In particular his series of videos where he beats up on Googoo64''s characters which he would go on to admit lead to a lot of unfair backlash towards them. As a way of hopefully burying the hatchet, The_None would recreate one of their characters (Kinyo Roadshow) himself.
• Died During Production: Reuben Kee (best known for his work on Evil Ryu, Evil Ken and Dragon Claw) was working on a black ninja character and his own version of Samus Aran before he died in a boating accident in 2007, leaving both characters unfinished and unreleased to the general public.
• Dummied Out: Plenty of characters have some sprites/animations/attacks/sounds present in their files that are unused:
  • SeanAltly's Sonic the Hedgehog has an unused super move that involves him summoning Tails in the Tornado to ram into opponents. Though it's unused, uncommenting a state controller in the .cmd file can allow it to replace the Blue Tornado super with nothing but a slight graphical bug.
  • Mike S.Densky's Yoshi has four unused attacks, one which is an EX variation of one of his other moves that sees him charging into his opponents while airbone, another one being a Hyper Combo-esque attack, another one being a projectile hyper where Yoshi throws a large egg, and another one being a move where Yoshi would supposedly trap the opponent in an egg. Three of them are actually fully functional and can still be restored in his .cmd file to allow him to use them, though the other one where he supposedly traps the opponent in an egg is apparently unfinished due to Yoshi disappearing when the move is used.
  • NeoKamek's Zeeky H. Bomb features a total of five attacks that are completely unused and are only seen in his .cmd file, one which is a special move and four are hyper moves. While these moves do have their inputs, they don't do anything since the attacks were never implemented.
• Follow the Leader:
  • Despite not having the best reputation right now, Warner has served as this for many authors dedicated to making cartoon chars, often implementing the same compatibilities and even mimicking his cartoony artstyle. Similarly, due to his Rurouni Kenshin being one of the first anime characters to be sprited from scratch, many future authors were inspired to make more anime chars like these.
  • Phantom of the Server's (P.O.T.S) style of creating characters became very popular in the community due to the polished gameplay, variety of mechanics, and love put into the characters, to the point where similarly-styled edits by other authors are often called "P.O.T.S.-styled"/"POTS-styled".
  • OHMSBY's three-button based style also matches POTS in popularity, since as of recent, the style is gaining many other imitations thanks to the simplicity of the layout.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • An unfortunately very large number of characters, stages, and tools made during 2004-2010 have no convenient means of access after Megaupload was shut down.
  • Infoseek Japan shut its free web hosting service down in 2011. While a few creations can still be found via the Internet Wayback Machine, a majority of stuff is completely gone.
  • MUGEN China closed its doors in 2013 and MugenBR in 2015. Both sites have a lot of creators hosted and most of the stuff hosted on them now are history with a few of them being still found on Internet Wayback Machine. The most dramatic case was the old MUGEN China site by Misamu that was hosted on MugenBR, which also is gone.
  • In October 2018, GeoCities Japan (the last version of GeoCities still active after the United States branch shuttered in 2009) announced it would be closing down in March 2019, prompting a massive backup effort from the MUGEN community to keep as many files from being lost as possible.
• No Export for You:
  • Various creators make their creations (mostly characters) private for various reasons (leaked betas, spriteswap, use the code/edits for other creations, the character being an actual computer virus, etc.), and that means get the creation offline forever. And there're creations who were made only for private use, which only can be seen via screenshots or videos, and rarely can be public unless the creator itself decides to publish it (or the creation is leaked by hackers or close people that have the creation already). Not to mention WIP stuff that is unfinished and won't see the light until they were finished.
  • Leaked creations are usually uploaded to warehouses, one of the reasons why these sites are infamous in the community (see Digital Piracy Is Evil in the main article).
  • The most famous case is Calamix, a creator of various Mega Man characters from all videogames to MUGEN (since platform games to Power Battle/Fighters arcade games), that because of various other "creators" who pirated his creations and labeled as made by them (like "Megaman Mugen Team"), Calamix ended to blame the whole community and got offline and private all his stuff, apart of being retired from MUGEN. Actually there're various of his creations available, but only via warehouses or by request in forums, but most of them are still unavailable.
  • Another famous case is V-Nix, a creator who made various awesome lifebars and some characters, which only one or two of them were released and all the other are still private. Not to mention he's betatester of various japanese creators. In both cases, he's not afraid to show screenshots and videos of his own lifebars and betatesting other characters spoiling most of the community with these works. The ones who knows about him always answer with this to the newbies who doesn't know about V-Nix:
    —Who made these lifebars/characters?
    —That's a V-Nix's screenshot/video, that means probably it's private. Sorry.
  • There's also cases where an offline character has been archived, but the version around is severely out of date and could be missing features that were added later on. An example of this is with Karakuyakumi's S-Cirno^note Cirno styled after Dan from Street Fighter and Tiger Chen^note Chen styled after Ryo from Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters. While these characters were archived after the author removed them from his site, the versions around are severely out of date. While S-Cirno's more complete version was recently uncovered, it seems Tiger Chen only exists in its out of date version for now.
• The Other Darrin: The Dragon Ball Z characters created by Team Z2 have completely original voice acting recorded specifically for the fangame Hyper Dragon Ball Z. However, the Japanese and Funimation voices are also available via optional toggles.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: The legendary Mathrus is purported to be a Dragon-Tier cheapie who can literally destroy your hard drive as well as shorting your computer, making it the most powerful MUGEN character that can extend beyond the fourth wall. While Mathrus' existence is extremely questionable at best and is likely a creepypasta/hoax, Dragon-Tier cheapies do exist, and they can indeed render one's OS inoperable, but not cause your computer to combust or short-circuit.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Due to the huge nature of the engine and its huge fanbase, there are many cases of abandoned projects in M.U.G.E.N.
    • After Evil Ryu, Evil Ken, and Dragon Claw, Singaporean creator Reuben Kee (also known as Reu) was working on two projects: a black ninja character and an adaptation of Samus Aran, both of them using the same 3D to 2D sprite method used on Dragon Claw. Then he died in a boating accident in November 2007 with various other people, leaving all his work unfinished. His close friends from MUGEN opted to keep the few sprites he shared from these two projects and never release them to the public. Years later, Portuguese creator and fellow friend of Reu, P.O.T.S., converted his Dragon Claw and the Evil Duo to the standards of MUGEN 1.0 and hosted them on his own website.
    • Warner's Homer Simpson was originally intended to wear Iori Yagami's outfit, as he was designed as a spriteswap before later developers gave him his own unique moveset. This was changed after Warner realized there weren't any standard versions of the character in MUGEN at the time, though Homer does briefly wear the outfit as a Development Gag in both a special intro against Iori and for his light punch attack on his drunken mode.
    • Warner had plans of making a regular version of Bart Simpson and Erradicador, but both were discarded. He also considered doing an SSBB version of his Wario and Waluigi.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things:
  • Mentioned adobe, Calamix ended up quitting M.U.G.E.N and locking all his creations when various other "creators" pirated his creations and stole them, claiming they were made by them.
  • MadOldCrow1105 used to develop a Nickelodeon vs. Cartoon Network M.U.G.E.N fangame, however, due to the constant demands of fans pressuring him to finish the game, he ended up sick of the project and quitting M.U.G.E.N, to the point that he even deleted his former YouTube account and the videos of the project.

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