Editing User:Aidanzapunk/Character concepts/Universes

With the exception of Shadow and Tails (who are from the {{uv|Sonic the Hedgehog}} universe) and Chun-Li (who is from the {{uv|Street Fighter}} universe), each character on my character concepts page hails from a new (coincidentally, non-Nintendo) universe; ''Shovel Knight'' and ''Cuphead'', despite being [[Shovel Knight (universe)|existing]] [[List of minor universes#Cuphead|universes]], are also listed here as their symbols are unique to the userspace. This page acts as a parallel to our own [[universe]] pages, for those curious about each franchise listed on my page; however, it's more of a brief summary from me rather than anything in depth, and if you want to read more, I provide links to Wikipedia.

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==''Fairy Tail'' ({{ja|フェアリーテイル|Fearī Teiru}}, ''Fairy Tail'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Fairy Tail (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkFairyTailLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkFairyTailSymbol.png|50px]]
|publisher = Kodansha
|designer = Hiro Mashima
|genres = Action, Adventure, Fantasy
|originconsole = Manga
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Fairy Tail}}'' (manga, 2006)
|latestinstallment = ''Fairy Tail: Guild Masters'' (2021) {{flag|Japan}}
|interwiki = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Fairy Tail
}}

The story of ''Fairy Tail'' follows Lucy Heartfilia, a Celestial Spirit wizard who wants to join the titular Fairy Tail guild. In the port town of Hargeon, Lucy has a run in with a wizard named Bora, who claims to be the famous "Salamander" wizard, and attempts to use the forbidden Charm magic on several females, including Lucy; an incoming Natsu Dragneel and Happy, looking for a dragon, similarly run into Bora after hearing about "Salamander", inadvertently snapping Lucy out of her trance, but are disappointed. As thanks, Lucy treats the two to lunch, where they discuss their two goals: Lucy wanting to join the Fairy Tail guild, and Natsu looking for Igneel, the Fire Dragon. After the two part ways, Lucy is invited by Bora to his yacht for a party later that evening, with the promise of joining the Fairy Tail guild, while Natsu overhears two women who were also invited talk about the party being hosted by "Salamander of Fairy Tail". They investigate the party, running into Lucy again, and inadvertently saving her once again, as she was nearly drugged. The three join forces, attacking Bora and his men, where Natsu reveals himself as the true Salamander, the Fire Dragon Slayer. Bora is defeated, though the victory is cut short when the Magic Council shows up in response to the damage being caused; Natsu drags Lucy along with him, reconfirming that she wanted to join the Fairy Tail guild, to which Lucy excitedly joins him. The three return to the guild, where Lucy is introduced to all of its members, who would form timeless bonds with Lucy and other future members of the guild.
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==''Ace Attorney'' ({{ja|逆転裁判|Gyakuten Saiban}}, ''Turnabout Trial'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Ace Attorney (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkAceAttorneyLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkAceAttorneySymbol.png|50px]]
|publisher = Capcom
|developer = [[Capcom]]
|genres = Adventure, visual novel
|originconsole = Game Boy Advance
|firstinstallment = ''[[wikipedia:Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Gyakuten Saiban]]'' (2001)
|latestinstallment = ''The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles'' (2021)
|interwiki = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Ace Attorney
}}

Phoenix Wright, an up and coming defense attorney, is given a simplistic, yet hefty task for his first case: defend his best friend from elementary school in a murder trial. While he asked his boss, Mia Fey, to be put on the case due to the connection to the client, it would no doubt prove to be a difficult case for the first timer, due to the alibi given from the witness to the crime. Phoenix, however, confidently pointed out a major contradiction in the case, eventually leading to the witness being revealed as the true culprit. Things, however, would only escalade further in his career, as his very next case involved the murder of Mia, with her younger sister, Maya Fey, being placed as the defendant. What ensued was an uphill battle between Phoenix and the corrupt business owner Redd White, but Maya, using her family's spirit medium powers, channeled Mia, who threatened to blackmail Redd if he didn't confess to murdering her. Phoenix and Maya would afterwards form an unbreakable bond, working together on future cases, changing the Fey and Co. Law Office to the Wright and Co. Law Office.
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==''Shovel Knight'' ({{ja|ショべルナイト|Shoberu Naito}}, ''Shovel Knight'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Shovel Knight (universe)
|image = [[File:ShovelKnightLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkShovelKnightSymbol.png|50px]]
|developer = [[Yacht Club Games]]<br>Nitrome<br>VINE
|publisher = Yacht Club Games<br>Nintendo (''Treasure Trove'', JP)
|designer = Sean Velasco
|genres = Action, platform
|originconsole = Microsoft Windows, [[Nintendo 3DS]], [[Wii U]]
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Shovel Knight}}'' (2014)
|latestinstallment = ''Shovel Knight: King of Cards/Shovel Knight Showdown'' (2019)
|interwiki = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Shovel Knight
}}

Shovel Knight and Shield Knight were a pair of adventurers who lived a happy life together. One day, they ventured to the Tower of Fate, where a terrible curse caused Shield Knight to disappear, and only Shovel Knight escaped the tower, with the disappearance of Shield Knight sending him into a deep depression. This, however, allowed the Enchantress and her army of Knights in the Order of No Quarter to take over the land, causing Shovel Knight to come out of retirement to save the land and defeat the Enchantress.

The series later expanded to include multiple side stories, including a "what if" scenario in the form of Plague Knight's campaign, two prequels focusing on Specter Knight and King Knight, and a fighting game with all of the Knights as playable characters.
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==''Skullgirls'' ({{ja|スカルガールズ|Sukarugāruzu}}, ''Skullgirls'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Skullgirls (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkSkullgirlsLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkSkullgirlsSymbol.png|50px]]
|developer = Reverge Labs, Lab Zero Games
|publisher = Autumn Games, [[Konami]]
|distributors = Konami
|designer = Mike Zaimont
|genres = Fighting
|originconsole = PlayStation 3
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Skullgirls}}'' (2012)
|latestinstallment = ''Skullgirls Mobile'' (2018)
}}

The Skull Heart is a powerful object, allowing any one woman a wish should they not destroy it, and reappearing after seven years should they do so. Wishes, however, are selfish by nature, so anyone who uses the Skull Heart for a wish is destined to become the next Skullgirl. ''Skullgirls'' follows a cast of characters—Filia, Cerebella, Peacock, Parasoul, Ms. Fortune, Painwheel, Valentine, Double, Squigly, Big Band, Fukua, Eliza, Beowulf, Robo-Fortune, Annie, Umbrella, Black Dahlia, and the current Skullgirl, Marie—on their own path to either utilize or destroy the Skull Heart, with their different paths often intertwining with one another.

Also, fuck you, Mike Z.
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==''Professor Layton'' ({{ja|レイトン教授|Reiton-kyōju}}, ''Professor Layton'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Professor Layton (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkProfessorLaytonLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkProfessorLaytonSymbol.png|50px]]
|publisher = Level-5, [[Nintendo]]
|developer = Level-5
|designer = {{iw|wikipedia|Akihiro Hino}}
|genres = Puzzle, Adventure
|originconsole = Nintendo DS
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Professor Layton and the Curious Village}}'' (2007)
|latestinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Layton's Mystery Journey}}'' (2017)
|interwiki = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Professor Layton
}}

Hershel Layton is an archaeology professor at Gressenheller University in London, England, who frequently gets wrapped up in mysteries that are full of twists and turns that make for a really compelling story in every game. Each game is unique in terms of story (with occasional returning characters as well), and honestly, even trying to summarize ''one'' game would take a while.
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==''Ninja Sex Party'' ({{ja|ニンジャー・セックス・パーティー|Ninjā Sekkusu Pātī}}, ''Ninja Sex Party'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Ninja Sex Party (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkNinjaSexPartyLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkNinjaSexPartySymbol.png|50px]]
|genres = Comedy rock, synthpop, electronic
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|NSFW|album}}'' (2011)
|latestinstallment = ''Level Up'' (2021)
|interwiki = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Ninja Sex Party
}}

Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht write songs about sexual things (occasionally they don't, but it's 90% of their stuff), and they're ''hilarious''.
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==''Celeste'' ({{ja|セレステ|Seresute}}, ''Celeste'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Celeste (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkCelesteLogo.png|200px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkCelesteSymbol.png|50px]]
|developer = Matt Makes Games (now Extremely OK Games)
|publisher = Matt Makes Games (now Extremely OK Games)
|designer = Maddy Thorson
|genres = Platform
|originconsole = Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Celeste|video game}}'' (2018)
|latestinstallment = ''Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain'' (2024)
}}

''Celeste'' started out as a small project made for a game jam on the {{iw|wikipedia|Pico-8}} game engine, featuring the player character traveling up a mountain and gathering strawberries. In a similar vein to the original ''Donkey Kong'', there was no real "story", just a goal of getting as high up the mountain as possible. Enough people liked the game that its creators, Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry, decided to evolve it into a fully-fledged game, eventually becoming ''Celeste''. You climb up a mountain while dealing with depression. Fun stuff.
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==''Cuphead'' ({{ja|カップヘッド|Kappuheddo}}, ''Cuphead'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Cuphead (universe)
|image = [[File:Cuphead Logo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkCupheadSymbol.png|50px]]
|developer = StudioMDHR
|publisher = StudioMDHR
|genres = Run-and-gun platformer
|originconsole = Xbox One<br>Microsoft Windows
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Cuphead}}'' (2017)
|latestinstallment = ''Cuphead: Tesla Edition'' (2019)
}}

I mean, it's like the song says.

:"''Well, Cuphead and his pal Mugman, they liked to roll the dice!<br>By chance they came 'pon Devil's Game, and gosh, they paid the price! (Paid the price...)<br>And now they're fighting for their lives, on a mission fraught with dread,<br>And if they proceed but don't succeed...well...<br>the Devil will take their heads!''"
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==''Kingdom Hearts'' ({{ja|キングダム ハーツ|Kingudamu Hātsu}}, ''Kingdom Hearts'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Kingdom Hearts (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkKingdomHeartsLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkKingdomHeartsSymbol.png|50px]]
|publisher = Square Enix (formerly Squaresoft)<br>Disney Interactive Studios
|developer = Square Enix (formerly Squaresoft)<br>Jupiter<br>h.a.n.d.<br>BitGroove Inc.<br>Success
|genres = Action role-playing, hack and slash
|originconsole = PlayStation 2
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Kingdom Hearts|video game}}'' (2002)
|latestinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory}}'' (2020)
|interwiki = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Kingdom Hearts
}}

I'm not even going to ''try'' to summarize the plot, because if you do, it takes a while. It's not difficult to understand (despite what others may insinuate), it just has a lot of unmissable details that are important to the overall story. If you do want a summary of the story (up to ''Kingdom Hearts III''), however, I recommend [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjiHufVEc7g this video]. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml5lDpJ5CgE This video] covers ''III''.)

In terms of how the game came to be, ''Super Mario 64'' had come out during development of ''Final Fantasy VII'', and Tetsuya Nomura wanted to make a game like it, but Square didn't think the idea could do well enough on its own without characters as iconic as Mario's, with the closest being anyone from Disney. Years later, when Shinji Hashimoto and Hironobu Sakaguchi were discussing a potential project that would have included Mickey Mouse, Nomura jumped at the chance to direct whatever it would have been. By sheer coincidence, Hashimoto happened to step into an elevator with a Disney executive (at the time, Square and Disney worked in the same building in Japan), and he was able to pitch the idea directly to Disney. They chose a crossover as a basic idea, eventually fleshing it out as a crossover between the cast of {{uv|Final Fantasy}} and various Disney films. Disney wanted Donald Duck to be the protagonist, while Square wanted Mickey Mouse, though Nomura shot both suggestions down in favor of creating the original character of Sora.
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==''Sega Ages'' ({{ja|セガエイジス|Sega Eijisu}}, ''Sega Ages'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Sega Ages (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkSegaAgesLogo.svg|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkSegaAgesSymbol.png|50px]]
|developer = Sega, M2, 3D Ages, Sims
|publisher = Sega
|genres = Various
|originconsole = Sega Saturn
|firstinstallment = ''Sega Ages: Vol. 1 Syukudai ga Tant-R'' (1996)
|latestinstallment = ''Sega Ages: {{iw|wikipedia|Herzog Zwei}}'' (2020)
|interwiki = wikipedia
|interwikiname = Wikipedia
|interwikipage = Sega Ages
}}

The ''Sega Ages'' series is technically not a game series, instead encompassing a collection of ports and remakes of arcade and Genesis games. Sega started out releasing these types of games on the Saturn from 1996-1998, then continued on with the PlayStation 2 from 2003-2008, where they formed a new subsidiary called 3D Ages to revamp old Sega titles in 3D, then continued with the Xbox 360 only in 2012 to release previous collections of titles (rather than new stuff per se), and finally, most recently, releasing a bunch of arcade and Genesis titles on the Switch from 2018-2020. Notably, AGES isn't a character created for it, but rather used in ''{{iw|wikipedia|Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed}}''. I just chose to give it this universe to make things simpler; AGES as a character represents the whole of Sega, and while I was originally just gonna call it the "''AGES'' universe", it didn't feel right to me.
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==''Ori'' ({{ja|オリ|Ori}}, ''Ori'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title = Ori (universe)
|image = [[File:AidanzapunkOriLogo.png|250px]]
|caption = [[File:AidanzapunkOriSymbol.png|50px]]
|developer = Moon Studios
|publisher = Microsoft Studios
|genres = Platform-adventure, Metroidvania
|originconsole = Xbox One, PC
|firstinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Ori and the Blind Forest}}'' (2015)
|latestinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Ori and the Will of the Wisps}}'' (2020)
}}

Ori was created when they were ripped from the Spirit Tree during the Great Storm, birthing them. They were taken away to Naru, who lived in the forest, and raised by Naru as if they were her own. When the Spirit Tree tried to call out to Ori, the entire forest died, so Ori set out to find the three Elements of Light—Waters, Winds, and Warmth—to restore the forest to normal. You just have to do so while dealing with a giant pissed off owl who hates the light (and was the reason the forest died, since she stole the Spirit Tree's light) because her babies got blinded to death. Like, actually.
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==''Ōkami'' ({{ja|大神|Ōkami}}, ''Great God'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title             = Ōkami (universe)
|image             = [[File:AidanzapunkOkamiLogo.png|250px]]
|caption           = [[File:AidanzapunkOkamiSymbol.png|50px]]
|developer         = {{iw|wikipedia|Clover Studio}}
|publisher         = [[Capcom]]
|genres            = Action-adventure
|originconsole     = PlayStation 2
|firstinstallment  = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Ōkami}}'' (2006)
|latestinstallment = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Ōkamiden}}'' (2010)
|interwiki         = wikipedia
|interwikiname     = Wikipedia
|interwikipage     = Ōkami
}}

You play as a dog who's actually a goddess, and you get to paint the world with your tail. Life doesn't really get any better than this.
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==''My Life as a Teenage Robot'' ({{ja|ジェニーはティーン☆ロボット|Jenī wa Tīn Robotto}}, ''Jenny is a Teen Robot'')==
{{Infobox Series
|title             = My Life as a Teenage Robot (universe)
|image             = [[File:AidanzapunkTeenageRobotLogo.svg|250px]]
|caption           = [[File:AidanzapunkTeenageRobotSymbol.png|50px]]
|publisher         = Nickelodeon
|designer          = Rob Renzetti
|genres            = Comedy, action-adventure, comic science fiction, science fantasy, superhero, science fiction, animated sitcom
|originconsole     = Television
|firstinstallment  = ''{{iw|wikipedia|My Life as a Teenage Robot}}'' (season 1, 2003)
|latestinstallment = ''My Life as a Teenage Robot'' (season 3, 2008)
|interwiki         = wikipedia
|interwikiname     = Wikipedia
|interwikipage     = My Life as a Teenage Robot
}}

Jenny Wakeman was created to defend the city of Tremorton (and the rest of the Earth) from the alien race of the Cluster, who are also a bunch of robots for some reason, but all she really wants to do is go to high school and make friends, like a normal teenager. Kinda sucks that the show only lasted for three seasons.
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