Palette swapping may be a shortcut, but it does allow designers to create enemies that keep pace with the player's progress while still hinting that the enemies will follow a familiar pattern. Individual characters may also have a choice of several different colors or costumes (or both).Ĭaution: Tropes Are Tools. Such characters are also known as 'clones'.
Some fans of fighting games use the term to refer to characters that use the same animations and move sets, even if the characters look very different.
