No More Heroes (Nintendo Cinematic Universe)

No More Heroes is a Japanese graphic novel series.

Heroes' Paradise
Travis Touchdown, a stereotypical otaku, must defend himself from the United Assassins Association with his own beam katana he won in an auction.

Desperate Struggle
Now the top assassin of the UAA, Travis has to defend himself from MORE assassins out to kill him.

Travis Strikes Again
Bad Girl's father, Badman, seeks revenge against Travis.

Volume 4
Returning to Santa Destroy, Travis must defend the world from an alien invasion of an incredibly powerful army led by a galactic overlord prince and his nine assassins.

Heroes' Paradise

 * The story follows Travis Touchdown, who is a stereotypical otaku – his motel room decorated with professional wrestling and anime collectibles – living in near poverty in the No More Heroes motel of the fictional town of Santa Destroy, California. After winning a beam katana in an internet auction, he runs out of money to buy video games and wrestling videos. After meeting with Sylvia Christel, he accepts a job to kill Helter-Skelter, also known as "the Drifter," which earns him rank 11 by the United Assassins Association, a governing body of assassins. Realizing that he has the opportunity to make it to the top, he sets out to secure himself the coveted position of number one assassin in the UAA. After killing the tenth ranked assassin, Sylvia reveals that if Travis stops killing, he'll eventually be targeted by other aspiring assassins.
 * Travis, now convinced there's no way out, goes on to kill every other assassin except for number eight, Shinobu, whom he spares because he wants her to get stronger. During the 5th ranked battle he meets Henry, a mysterious Irish man who wields a beam katana similar to Travis' own.
 * Before meeting the top-ranked assassin, Travis is told that the UAA was just an elaborate con set up by Sylvia, who overheard his drunken ramblings and organized his entry so that he could finally have revenge on his half-sister, Jeane, who murdered his parents.
 * Jeane reveals that their father had sexually abused her all her life, thus forcing her to become a prostitute to survive and become a killer.
 * Travis is eventually saved by Shinobu and kills Jeane.
 * Travis is later attacked by another assassin before Henry saves him, and challenges him to one last fight.
 * It is during this fight that Henry reveals two twists: first, that he is Travis's twin brother, and second, that Sylvia is his wife, and has a habit of disappearing before returning with lots of money.
 * Still locked in combat, the brothers discuss the nature of these revelations and their situation while they run down a long street. Finally, as the two leap towards each other for the final clash, it is revealed to be a painting hanging in an art gallery, where a little girl, Jeane, and her mother, Sylvia, are observing it.

Desperate Struggle

 * The story is told by a woman at a peep show dictating the story's events to an unknown observer.
 * Three years have passed since Travis Touchdown became the top assassin in the United Assassins Association and walked away. He has returned to Santa Destroy and fights Skelter Helter, who seeks revenge on Travis for killing his older brother Helter-Skelter. After winning the battle, he meets Sylvia Christel, who informs him he is ranked as the 51st best assassin. The nearly-dead Skelter Helter interrupts them and warns Travis that he and his co-conspirators will still have their revenge.
 * The same night, a group of criminals kill Travis's best friend, Bishop, and throw his head through Travis's window in a paper bag.
 * Travis, seeking revenge, asks Sylvia to set up the next fight. Sylvia tells him that the one who ordered the killing was Jasper Batt, Jr., the CEO of Pizza Bat and first-ranked assassin.
 * Flashback: Travis stopped three different attempts by Pizza Bat to expand into Santa Destroy by assassinating the CEOs. In the three years since, with Travis out of the picture, Pizza Bat successfully opened a headquarters in Santa Destroy and bought out practically every business in town. Travis resolves to climb to the ranks to get a chance for revenge on Jasper.
 * Travis fights and defeats rap star Nathan Copeland. He meets football star Charlie MacDonald and his cheerleaders, who transform into a giant mech called the Santa Death Parade.
 * Travis defeats them in his own mech, the Glastonbury, built by Dr. Naomi and based on a mech from his favorite anime. He feels remorse for the cheerleaders, explaining that they were harmless, but backpedals after Sylvia offers to nullify his victory. He also spares the optional challenger Kimmy Howell, commenting that he "can't kill a co-ed". He also begins to fight the supernatural, facing Matt Helms and Cloe Walsh.
 * Sylvia organizes a battle royale with twelve assassins, including Travis.
 * Dr. Letz Shake kills all of the other assassins and when Travis enters the arena, Letz Shake reveals to him that he has frozen Henry in carbonite.
 * After Travis rescues Henry, he meets Shinobu, who now idolizes him and calls him "Master".
 * At Sylvia's request, she fought and defeated Million Gunman and New Destroy Man for Travis.
 * Shinobu advances on Travis, but he turns her away because he feels "like the pervy teacher in a porno". Rejected, she steps out and does not return afterwards.
 * Travis fights a grueling battle against Ryuji.
 * Travis crows triumphantly after Ryuji concedes, but Sylvia kills him in cold blood, criticizing Travis for showing mercy.
 * Henry, suffering from hibernation sickness, fights Mimmy in a nightmare before awakening. He reconciles with Travis and kills the next three assassins for him.
 * Travis fights Margaret Moonlight, a gothic Lolita, and Captain Vladimir, a cosmonaut, and convinces Sylvia not to destroy the latter's body. After defeating ascetic Alice Twilight, the penultimate assassin, he decides he is fed up with the ranked battles and the UAA. He berates Sylvia, insisting that assassins are human and that they should not have to die for entertainment like its some kind of video game. He promises to tear down the UAA after defeating Jasper.
 * Sylvia arrives at Travis's motel room and sleeps with him, finally fulfilling her promise to have sex with him.
 * Travis fights his way through the Pizza Bat headquarters to meet Jasper in his office.
 * Jasper reveals that he was seeking revenge for his father and two brothers, the previous Pizza Bat CEOs Travis killed.
 * Henry enters and helps Travis defeat him. After defeating his second form, Jasper becomes a giant parade balloon, which Henry refuses to fight and destroys the roof with one swipe. This final form is destroyed after Travis leaps out the office and slices it in half.
 * Sylvia, riding Travis's motorcycle, catches him and drops him off at his motel.
 * The woman at the peep show is Sylvia, who took the job after the UAA's collapse, and that Travis himself has been listening to Sylvia's story about his exploits. The two have a tearful reunion as Travis informs her that they need to return to Santa Destroy for an unknown purpose.

Travis Strikes Again

 * A former professional baseball player turned assassin named Badman is on the run from the Smith Syndicate. He is tracked down by one of the syndicate's assassins, Dan Smith, who is seeking retribution for being double crossed.
 * Badman justifies his actions as being for the sake of his own survival, as he wishes to get revenge on Travis Touchdown, who had murdered his daughter, Bad Girl.
 * Dan successfully tracks down Travis' location, granting Badman a Death Ball and allowing Badman to live, under the condition that he kill Travis, and use the ball to resurrect his daughter.
 * Travis - now 37 years old - has isolated himself and lives in a camper in a forest in Texas, where he spends his time playing video games.
 * When Badman attempts to ambush Travis, the two accidentally awake a dormant video game console in Travis' possession - the "Death Drive MK-II". The console reacts to Badman's Death Ball, and the two get transported into the video game that's contained in it.
 * Travis and Badman learn from the console's AI construct, Death & Drive, that the unreleased console was created by Dr. Juvenile, and completing the six Death Balls that contain the only games developed for the console will grant its player one wish. The two form a truce, opting to team up to locate every Death Ball, and defeat all of the games, in order to resurrect Bad Girl.
 * The game explores Travis' current circumstances and Badman's backstory in visual novel portions that are set between each Death Drive game.
 * Falshback: In the last seven years, Travis had married former UAA confidant Sylvia Christel, and had two children, though he abandoned his family for their safety, as assassins kept showing up to battle Travis.
 * In his search for the Death Balls, Travis ends up traversing the planet and meeting other characters, such as Kamui Uehara and Mondo Zappa.
 * Travis also receives information about Dr. Juvenile and her past through fax messages from her purported husband, learning that Juvenile is a war orphan with genius intellect and an affinity for video games, who was hired by the US government to develop advanced technology. She also implemented elements of her history and upbringing into the Death Drive's games, such as basing the murderous Doppelganger on her adoptive father.
 * Travis learns that the "Death Drive MK-II" was designed as a machine that would create clones of its users, and that while it was initially intended for space travel, the government had re-purposed it to be a super soldier program - a prospect which caused Juvenile to sabotage the project in an act of defiance, and go into hiding. Despite this, the mother machine responsible for its protocols still lays dormant within the CIA, and Travis is warned that completing all six Death Ball games will cause it to reboot, allowing the government to continue developing super soldiers. He is also alerted that should it be reactivated, Juvenile would destroy the United States in retaliation for everything she had been put through during her service to the government.
 * Despite warnings, Travis and Badman successfully complete every Death Ball; however one of the games - Killer Marathon - turns out to be an incomplete version of the game. As such, when they wish for Bad Girl's resurrection, she ends up being resurrected in the form of a dog.
 * Travis later ends up locating a prototype for a Death Ball which, rather than transporting him into a video game, transports him directly into the CIA. Massacring his way through the facility he locates the Death Drive mother machine which is being guarded by Dr. Juvenile, who has infiltrated the facility and taken the form of "White Sheepman". Travis, expressing respect for her talents and sympathy for her suffering, reluctantly battles and ultimately defeats her. He interacts with the mother machine and is transported to Mars, where he meets John Winter; the creator of the very original Death Drive and Juvenile's mentor.
 * Winter explains that he retired to Mars to escape Earth's problems, and safeguards the planet, opposing the government's plans to emigrate there. He offers Travis the opportunity to stay on Mars and live a "perfect life". Travis declines, realizing that he can't abandon his past, and deciding to face his problems head on. Winter responds by decapitating Travis, as the only way for him to return is to "die".
 * Back on Earth, Travis is approached by his self-proclaimed pupil, Shinobu Jacobs, who asks him to return from hiding, as the assassins await. Travis concurs, desiring bloodshed.
 * Travis is controlled from a third person perspective similar to the previous No More Heroes games, set in a default Unreal Engine level. While attempting to approach a dummy, Travis berates the player for treating the area like a game, saying that they're currently "in development".

Volume 4

 * Eight years before the start of the first volume, a young boy named Damon Ricotello goes to the woods at night to launch a makeshift rocket when he encounters an injured small alien larva named FU.
 * Damon decides to take care of FU while hiding him from government agents, two becoming friends while searching for a way to return FU to his planet.
 * After discovering a piece of alien technology at FU's crash site, Damon is imbued with alien powers and assists FU in building a space ship. They say goodbye to each other and FU departs, promising to return in 20 years.
 * Twenty years later (two years after the events of Travis Strikes Again), an adult Damon is now the CEO of Utopinia — an urban renewal company — utilizing FU's alien abilities and technology to become a powerful business magnate.
 * A huge space ship appears above Damon's headquarters, with an adult FU and a group of aliens descending from above.
 * FU reveals to Damon that he became a prince after returning to his home world, earning the royal title of Jess Baptiste VI, only to be exiled to an intergalactic prison for destroying a neighboring planet out of boredom, where he would eventually meet his accompanying entourage. He announces their intention to team up with Damon and take over Earth by employing the popular trend of superheroism.
 * Travis Touchdown, the formerly top ranked assassin who had returned to Santa Destroy following years of self-imposed exile, awakens to his city being invaded and fends off waves of aliens together with fellow assassins Shinobu and Bad Girl. He successfully stops the invasion by killing its commander Mr. Blackhole; the first of FU's companions.
 * After executing the President of the United States on live television, FU announces the establishment of the Galactic Superhero Rankings; a ranked ladder with himself at the top, serving as an open invitation to the strongest fighters to determine the fate of the planet.
 * Still aggrieved by Blackhole's death, FU accosts Travis and his friends at the No More Heroes motel. In the ensuing skirmish, FU incapacitates Travis before dismembering Shinobu and killing Badman when he arrived to her aid. The battle leaves Shinobu in a critical coma and Bad Girl traumatized over her father's death, compelling Travis to enter the rankings to fight his way to number one and stop FU.
 * Sylvia Christel, Travis' wife and Damon's secretary, assists him in setting up the ranked battles.
 * During Travis' ascent, he encounters an assassin named Native Dancer, who infiltrates the ranks and claims to be Travis' grandson. Travis instinctually spares him during their battle. He then fights a grown-up Kimmy Howell (whom Travis spared in the second volume) when she kills the seventh ranked alien; Travis reluctantly killing her.
 * Travis also spares the life of the fifth ranked fighter Midori Midorikawa after they are intercepted by Travis' friend Kamui Uehara, who reveals that she joined the rankings after a misunderstanding and that the two are in a relationship.
 * During a battle with mass produced versions of Destroyman, Travis befriends the superhero and wrestling champion "Notorious", who assists Travis in training.
 * While Travis climbs the ranks, Damon acts on his violation to kill the assassin by hiring a contracted killer who ends up getting killed and later receives a device for him to kill someone. Eventually, FU decides to deal with Travis and kills off his two remaining companions so Travis can face him.
 * After making his way to the second rank, Travis is ambushed at the motel by his brother, Henry Cooldown, revealing that he resents Travis for the events that followed their shared traumatic upbringing.
 * Henry kills Travis, upon which he is sent to the world of "Deathman", a video game that Travis grew up with. Its protagonist brings Travis back to life, joined by the recovered Shinobu and Bad Girl alongside Kamui, Notorious and Native Dancer. He heads to Damon Tower to fight FU with his allies, forcing FU back to his larval form.
 * FU decides to flee back to his planet, only for Damon to detonate an explosive placed on the ship.
 * Damon, revealing to have wore a mask to conceal his disfigured face, explains that he masterminded the alien attack as part of his plan to kill Travis for punching him.
 * Damon transforms Damon Tower into a planet destroying mecha, though Travis successfully defeats it after summoning an Arsenal from Daemon X Machina. Travis and Damon finish their fight on a derelict battlefield, leaving Travis victorious.
 * Sometime later, Travis and his friends give Badman a burial at sea when they get accosted by an alien armada led by FU's father Jess Baptiste V. But they are saved by future versions of Travis and Sylvia's children; Jeane and Hunter, who also confirm their relation to Native Dancer. They explain that that Henry kills Travis in future and teams up with an alien force to destroy the planet, asking Travis to help them change the future.

Heroes' Paradise

 * Based on No More Heroes, but also borrows elements from its port, Heroes' Paradise.

Desperate Struggle

 * Based on No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.

Travis Strikes Again

 * Based on Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes.

Volume 4

 * Based on No More Heroes III.