Twisted Metal: Difference between revisions

The eighth entry into the series, simply titled ''Twisted Metal'', was released on February 14, 2012.

 

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: ''Black'' has a sewer level with tunnels large enough to drive a semi truck in.

* [[All Just a Dream]]: From various in-game hints, ''Black'' seems to occur completely in Needles Kane's head. In ''2'', the driver of Roadkill {{spoiler|wakes up from a coma caused by a massive highway pileup, giving the impression that the competition happened in his head, with the other drivers involved being the other contestants.}}

* [[Anime Hair]]: Dollface in reboot sports bright pink hair.

* [[Ancient Egypt]]: A stage in ''Twisted Metal 3'' and ''Head-On''.

** {{spoiler|It seems that Calypso has the Preacher from the reboot sent to this during the ending. And then the camera scales back, and back... and back.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Calypso.

** And in the reboot, {{spoiler|his son, Charlie, takes over his father's (Needles specifically) place and Calypso resurrects his daughter, Sophie, as a female version of the titular clown.}}

** In a manner of speaking, The Joneses from ''4'' also qualify. Damn tourists. Sweet Tooth was right to drive them all off a cliff at his own expense!

''' {{spoiler|Needles Kane}}:''' "Oooh, good idea! Do that!"<br />

''Calypso is promptly gunned down by his old guards.'' }}

* [[Friend or Idol Decision]]: Dollface in ''Black'' has the chance to obtain the key to unlock her mask, {{spoiler|but at the life of her boss, who put the thing on her in the first place. She takes the key, killing him, but decides that she doesn't want it anyway, saying that the mask will never grow old and ugly, while her normal face will.}} Although in ''Twisted Metal: Lost'', this was revealed to be a bad decision, because as Dollface found out, {{spoiler|while the mask will never age, it will never grow either, and being a fourteen year old girl, her SKULL IS STILL GROWING...}}

** Hold on a second... if she's ''fourteen'', [[Fridge Logic|how'd she get a job?]] You'd think they have child labor laws even in the TM universe.

* [[Name of Cain]]: The Kane family: a madman with a [[Monster Clown]] split personality and his father, the drunkard insane taxi driver (main continuity)/corpse being remote controlled by his other son (''Black'' continuity). The 2012 game {{spoiler|adds in Marcus/Needles two children, both of whom take up the [[Monster Clown]] legacy at the end.}}

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Does anybody else agree that Calypso in ''1'' resembles a burnt-face Gene Wilder?

*** Or Glenn Jacobs, AKA [[Wrestler/Kane|Kane]].

* [[Not Drawn to Scale]]: Scale problems exist like nuts in this series. Axel, a man on a platform stuck between two wheels, is approximately 20 feet tall, judging by the civilian and house sprites on some levels. Even the motorcycle & dune buggy vehicles are house-sized.

** ''Black'' is actually somewhat realistically scaled: buildings do indeed tower above the vehicles, and although Axel is too big again, even the missiles are generally properly sized as opposed to the giant warheads in every other game.

* [[Ominous Chanting]]: Used in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53opJu5Qubs Rooftops] theme in the original, and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqX3sbDsB0U Suburbs] theme and others in ''Black'', complementing the Gothic [[Crapsack World]] setting in the latter.

** Marcus Kane, who most would pass off as a delusional madman after reading his bios, is usually proven to be this in his endings. {{spoiler|[[Monster Clown|His split personality]], however...}}

* [[Orifice Evacuation]]: Goggle Eyes' ending in ''4'' has him wishing to contain all the bugs in the world so he can kill them. He immediately chokes to death as every bug in the world bursts from his body.

* [[Pause Scumming]]: The second game implemented the pause feature in an odd way. Your car and the enemy cars would stop dead as expected, but projectiles would continue as normal, the sole exception being the ricochet bomb. With timely use of the pause button you could land every single Roadkill boomerang, every single Sweet Tooth ice cream cone, every single freeze missile, break out of a Mr. Slam infinite freeze missile loop, blow up opponents with their own mines (because the delay before they arm didn't stop when the game was paused, of course) and avoid running into projectiles fired in front of you. The list goes on. Conversely, you could also die during the pause screen.

* [[Pyramid Power]]: Obviously enough, in the Egypt stages.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: ''Black'' uses "Paint It Black" by [[The Rolling Stones (Music)|The Rolling Stones]] in the credits.

* [[Slippy Slidey Ice World]]: "Antarctica: The Drop Zone" in ''2'', "The North Pole" in ''3'', "Amazonia 3000 BC" in ''4'' and "Snowy Roads" in ''Black''.

* [[Spinoff Babies]]: ''Twisted Metal: Small Brawl''.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: After making ''Twisted Metal 2'', Singletrac was bought by GT Interactive and lost the Twisted Metal license. This lead them to create two stand-alone vehicular combat games: ''[[Video Game/Rogue Trip|Rogue Trip]]: Vacation 2012'' and ''[[Critical Depth]]''. Both games ended up leaving their mark on the series - ''Black'' adopted the visible damage indicator and slightly more involved storytelling of ''Critical Depth'', and ''Rogue Trip'''s faster pace and more interactive arenas.

* [[Stock Scream]]: The death screams, notably in ''Black''.

***** The game they were working on was Twisted Metal: Harbour City, not Apocalypse. The remnants of Harbour City were integrated into Head-On as a bonus.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The fact that Needles and Marcus Kane, despite being split personalities (Needles being a violent, psychotic half and Marcus being his sanity and reason), exist as two separate entities, drive two separate vehicles, and constantly battle each other until the Dark Tooth ending from ''Head On'' where {{spoiler|Needles and Marcus meet in the middle of a field curious about seeing the other but ultimately decide to work together, resulting in an unstoppable force of destruction.}}

* [[Working Title]]: As noted above, ''High Octane''.