![]() After the Recurring Boss is defeated at the end of the stage, its head falls from the sky and bonks it, resulting in its disintegration. Brick Joke: Area 2 of Contra ReBirth begins with the Contra(s) blowing the head off a Humongous Mecha, sending it flying and the mecha retreating.Contra: Hard Corps has "Big Magnum", a brainish alien being used to power a giant planet destroying laser.As it's connected to Emperor Devil Gava, it reappears among Gava's dissected remains in Neo Contra, and Gava look-alike Black Viper has a similar counterpart in Contra 4.Brain In a Jar: The penultimate boss in Contra III, whose official Japanese name is "Brain Organism Searle", is a sentient brain with one eye.He was redrawn to look just like an actual salamander in the overseas versions. Contra ReBirth was changed when brought overseas - when a photograph of Chief Salamander is shown at the beginning of Stage 3, he looks strikingly like Adolf Hitler in the Japanese version.Most of the dialogue and some scenes were cut, which made several events such as Bahamut turning into an alien monster completely unexplained. As few Contra games had dialogue or a focus on plot, the change to robots typically didn't affect much with the exception of Contra: Hard Corps (which actually had a storyline).The German "indexing" of the original Contra still holds until today and will only be reconsidered in 2014. The Probotector robot later appeared as an easter egg in Contra 4. The first console game in the series that was released in Europe intact was ironically Contra: Legacy of War and later Contra: Shattered Soldier. This was due to a censorship law in Germany that prohibited selling games to children that depicted human characters killing each other with guns. Bowdlerize: When the console versions of the Contra games were released in PAL territories, the main characters and some of the enemies were replaced by robotic counterparts and the series was renamed Probotector.The ones who weren't? The final bosses from the previous games and the Stage 4 boss from the Arcade version of Super Contra. Boss Rush: The final stage of Contra III has six bosses in a row ( seven if you're playing Hard mode), though the last two bosses were new to the series.Boss Game: Contra: Hard Corps and Contra: Shattered Soldier.Bait and Switch Boss: The Stage 2 boss in Contra 4, and Slave Beast Taka (the Stage 1 boss) in Contra: Shattered Soldier. ![]()
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