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A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
Retcon, as it is more commonly known, is a change in an existing storyline to accommodate future games in the same fiction.
The concept of reviving somebody who is dead or down.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is a crime fighting organization in the Marvel universe.
Many games feature a story which involves saving the world and its inhabitants, often single handedly.
Peter Parker
Men too tough to cover up their chest.
A fighting game archetype where characters with a significant similarity in fighting style to Street Fighter's Ryu & Ken.
Side-scrolling games present the world as viewed perpendicular to the direction the characters are facing on screen. With a heavy focus on lateral movement, objectives are often met by moving from one end of a stage to the other.
Featured mainly in fighting games, special attacks usually require more than just pressing a button to activate. They are usually unique or at least varied between characters.
A team of Spider themed characters from across the Multiverse that came together to fight Morlun and the Inheritors.
When the player character can execute a jump that is higher or farther than their normal jump. This can require holding the jump button or performing some different control input, and can be limited by energy or a cooldown.
Super Speed is the ability for a character to travel at speeds normally unattainable by regular humans. Super speed can be a stock super power by characters such as the Flash & Sonic the Hedgehog, or a technologically enhanced ability like Nomad in Crysis.
Strength beyond normal human bounds, i.e. lifting cars, bending metals, shattering a street with one's fist.
Metroid, Mega Man, Earthworm Jim, Metal Gear, Halo, Crysis, Iron Man, and many more. Ordinary men and women who become extra-ordinary with the right suit on.
A superhero is a fictional character of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest.
Spider-Man fought on both sides of the Marvel Civil War once the Superhuman Registration Act was passed, starting on Iron Man's side but then rejecting the Act and joining Captain America.
Games featuring characters which posses superhuman abilities and powers.
The act of traversing space while attached to a piece game geometry. Sometimes via a rope, or other grapple like object.
Spider-Man was the original person to get the Venom symbiote. He got rid of it after finding out how mad it made him.
Spider-Man was offered Avengers membership several times, once becoming a reserve member, but didn't fully join the team until the New Avengers formed.
Video games that, for better or for worse, are based on an existing non-video game franchise. Usually drawn from movies, tie-in games have also been made about TV shows, novels, and even one-hit wonder pop bands.
Games whose main character is so egotistical that the whole game just HAS to be named after them.
You're halfway through the game or more, everything's going great. You've got tons of weapons and crap and BAM! Flash grenade! You wake up later captured, off to either be executed, interrogated, etc. Often, you've lost all of your weapons as well. You sir, have just woken up captured.
Also known as a triangle jump, this is the ability to hit a wall and propel yourself off of it like you were some kind of crazy ninja or parkour fiend.
War is a series of organized conflicts carried on by force of arms between two or more nations or groups. Whether it never changes or has already changed is up for debate.
While piledrivers, clotheslines, and suplexes might seem at home in wrestling games, many professional wrestling moves have found their way into other video game genres. Brawlers and fighting games are commonly home to these moves, with Mike Haggar's piledriver being a classic example.
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