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Just a boatload of ability additions and some stat upgrades prompted by my replaying of the series.
No More Heroes
A stats upgrade and a lot of P&A, some of it born from me replaying through bits of TSA as the DLC characters.- Thanks to this calculation, the NMH1 High 8-C rating is replaced by 8-B, which scales to... a lot of people, even TSA people will have an "higher" rating alongside the 8-B one and so will everyone who scales to that Travis like Kamui. Note that while this feat might seem a little outlierish at a glance Letz Shake was going to use a similar-sized shockwave to attack Travis considering they were that far apart, and obviously the concept of using Earthquakes in a combat setting would probably imply a similar level of AP. Also the Speed Buster 9-A feat is done with the very end of the beam, while like 90% of it was deflected, so it's likely it would be way higher especially considering Speed Buster completely destroyed the city she's fought in with those beams, although it was done overtime, the damage done to singular buildings is still quite impressive.
- Some really weird limited Technological Manipulation???
- Addition to Travis' NPI and Attack Reflection - He can also reflect energy projectiles without using his sword.
- Dr. Peace kinda hints that he sensed Travis' bloodlust here so likely ESP
- Travis's Extrasensory Perception/Bloodlust stuff is moved to the first game as he could sense Shinobu's bloodlust.
- The context of this is that Shinobu's bloodlust would have made it so he could never have attacked her from behind so she gets ESP too.
- Shinobu addition to Stealth Mastery, could successfully hide her identity as an assassin from her classmates until Travis showed up, and seemingly planned to continue her life as a student after killing them, and passing as innocent in that regard would have been pretty difficult in itself. This does count as Stealth Mastery now btw
- Acrobatics for Holly Summers. She can run over the large pits she digs without breaking her stride and always lands on her feet after blowing herself up with a landmine.
- Minor Preparation for Speed Buster, who seemingly hired a squad of thugs to attack Travis during her boss battle. You could argue this applies to almost everyone but on the other hand, IDK if I can see someone like Shinobu hiring thugs to attack Travis so I think those might just be randos that jumped him. Fighting him while there's a laser apocalypse going on, in a city that's otherwise completely abandoned, though? I think it's fairly safe to say they work for her lmao.
- Attack Reflection for Bad Girl who can bat her goons back if you reflect them
NMH 2
- Martial Arts for Shinobu, she pulls off some Hurricanranas in 2 and TSA. She also teaches martial arts in TSA
- Also Instinctive Reaction for her, just like Travis she can block attacks from behind, including ones that would require extreme precision such as lasers that last several seconds or automatic gunfire (Couldn't find any footage of the latter for Shinobu unfortunately but rest assured it can happen)
- Henry operates under the same gameplay mechanics but due to the fact that he only ever fights one boss he doesn't have any actual showings of this sort which is unfortunate, so he gets nothing which honestly is just fitting considering his character arc in NMH2/3
- Energy Manipulation for New Destroyman, since they can join together their Destroy Buster beams to create a ball of energy that they can redirect. This attack also sucks you in so Gravity Manip as well
- Likely Immortality Type 2 also for ND, since not only did the left half scream after being beheaded, but its body was running around after the head was destroyed. Right half was also screaming after being impaled through the skull.
TSA
- Characters get "likely far higher combat speed" regarding their DD speed based off Shinobu stating that her sword is faster than ETS' electricity. Unfortunately cannot be given a solid rating.
- Resurrection for Travis Touchdown, as well as Low-Godly overtime and Dimensional Travel??????? I mean it sounds wild but it does explain what's going on in the section late into NMH3 where Travis is killed and comes back after a weird trippy section. So, uh, yep! I guess he has that now, and Deathman was some semi-symbolic hallucination, which does make sense when you think about it! Kinda! It also happens in TSA, I interpreted that cutscene as symbolic, not literal, but I guess it was! I don't even think he's aware of it, but he does have it! And I don't know if it even helps with matches considering he was already in a coffin and that probably took a few days, although it is faster in TSA so maybe it does! But, boy, does he have it!
- Also, this means the Self-Sustenance Type 1 is moved to Travis' TSA key since he could breathe just fine on Mars
- The Resistance to Death Manipulation the TSA PCs get becomes Resistance to Life Manipulation. Cause like, that's what it is. Also applies to Garcia Hotspur and Johnson.
- Bad Girl has a huge iron ball in her equipment
- Every PC gets several meters of range and Vibration Manipulation since they all do shockwaves with their heavy air attack, and their Rush Mode attacks or whatever they're called have even more range than that.
- Shinobu has Darkness Manipulation with Isamiashi-Shinobu
- Bad Girl has minor Air Manipulation with Prospect
- All bosses get Superhuman Stamina by virtue of being able to have a short conversation after having their head stabbedby Shinobu.
- Smoking King and Eight Hearts survive their battle with whatever PC they're fighting so Mid Regeneration for them.
- Electro Triple Star gets Resistance to Electricity Manipulation, the dude is immune to the effects of his own chip if you go back and fight him with it. I don't have any showings of this cause I encountered it in my own playthrough and I haven't found any footage of it on YT but like, c'mon is it so hard to believe
- Possibly Cyborgization for Mr. Doppelganger, who could have done that if the game had the budget. He also could have made 100 copies of himself, but no budget, again.
- Data Manipulation and Reality Warping for Bugs who can make things "bugged" and prevent them from working properly.
- 4th Wall Awareness for Akari Tsukiyono
- Extrasensory Perception for Smoking King who sensed Travis' bloodlust
- 4th Wall Awareness too since he's aware he's in a videogame, even that Travis' world is one.
- Water Walking for Kosuke Kurumizawa
- Travis' Aura should get removed as it's just something Badman sees cause of his ESP.
- Stealth Mastery for NMH3 Henry, who could follow Shinobu all the way to Travis' hideout without her noticing- This is despite her being a ninja and all that.
- Notorious has a Villain Autosearch System which tells him where bad guys pop up at any time. Precognition?
- 4th Wall Awareness for Shinobu
- Silver Face gets minor Air Manipulation since his punches leave air swirling around it
- I'm not... sure if this counts but Social Influencing for Silver Face who manages to almost convince Shinobu that she's a videogame character. Now obviously she is, and the way he does this is really weird and meta, so... idk, but he still almost convinced her of something that was not real, within the story of TSA. I did not screenshot the full conversation mind you, I missed a few sentences, but that's the gist of it.
NMH 3
- I found out a huge mistake in a calc of mine, and fixing it gives us Large Planet level No More Heroes III. Replaces our "At least High 6-A, likely 5-B" rating since there's a solid number on it now, obviously the many planetary statements serve as backup.
- Here's an actual calculation for FTL stuff, more importantly due to the Blast Attack one Travis gets up to FTL+ attack speed, and so does Henry since he can use a version of that attack. This does not scale to their reactions since the attack is noted to be particularly fast.
- Class P LS for FU, probably doesn't normally scale to Travis since FU kinda ***** him up in LS, but in Throw Crazy Mode you can grab him so it scales to thatl.
- Resistance to Electricity Manipulation for MP Destroyman, since they take no damage from their own shockwaves, which can hurt an otherwise much more durable Travis.
- Considering Destroyman True Face is just a stronger MP Destroyman he also gets this.
- Also for True Face, Energy Manipulation for making small blades out of energy.
- True Face ALSO gets Resistance to Temperature Manipulation (heat) as he has the honor of being the only non-TSA boss in the franchise to actually put up some resistance against Travis' beam katana instead of being cleanly sliced through.
- A slightly better justification for Notorious' AP: Wrestlers at his level (maybe even slightly lower) are said to surpass mankind and transcend human strength which puts him far above the 9-B feats. Still fodder tho lmao
- Precognition for Bad Girl, who while in a comatose, unresponsive state due to trauma, she can sense danger that's to come.
- Shinobu gets some really weird Instinctive Reaction and Extrasensory Perception where, while she (also) was in a coma, she could hold a conversation with Travis and train in her dreams, even learning new techniques from ghosts.
- Resistance to Temperature Manipulation (Cold) for... just about everyone really. The Fullface enemy would freeze its own face off if it were to swing at light speed without its protective gear, and basically all named characters in this game as well as minibosses are considered faster than Fullface, so yeah, they all resist the cold.
