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* {{Wedgie}}: Meifon gives the Valkyrie Drive an obligatory PantyShot when she almost leaps out of the helicopter to grab her [[NiceHat hat]] when it's blown off her head. Claire scrambles to grab her and manages to drag her in by her undies. [[SkewedPriorities Despite the pain, to Meifon's immense relief her hat is perfectly fine.]]
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* {{Wedgie}}: Meifon gives the Valkyrie Drive an obligatory PantyShot when she almost leaps out of the helicopter to grab her [[NiceHat hat]] hat when it's blown off her head. Claire scrambles to grab her and manages to drag her in by her undies. [[SkewedPriorities Despite the pain, to Meifon's immense relief her hat is perfectly fine.]]
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* {{Wedgie}}: Meifon gives the Valkyrie Drive an obligatory panty shot PantyShot when she almost leaps out of the helicopter to grab her [[NiceHat hat]] when it's blown off her head. Claire scrambles to grab her and manages to drag her in by her undies. [[SkewedPriorities Despite the pain, to Meifon's immense relief her hat is perfectly fine.]]
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* {{Wedgie}}: Meifon gives the Valkyrie Drive an obligatory PantyShot panty shot when she almost leaps out of the helicopter to grab her [[NiceHat hat]] when it's blown off her head. Claire scrambles to grab her and manages to drag her in by her undies. [[SkewedPriorities Despite the pain, to Meifon's immense relief her hat is perfectly fine.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In spite of what his VillainousBreakdown at the end would imply, Wesker wins. Even though T-Valkyrie's E-Strain has a few [[OurZombiesAreDifferent quirks to iron out]] before it can consistently be used to create viable Extars, Draugr function perfectly well as [=B.O.Ws=], and the L-Strain works just fine. While the failed launch of the T-Valkyrie missiles was expensive, Wesker stands to make it all back marketing the virus itself, especially with a buyer like Lucifer willing to pay top dollar in preparation to aid Apollyon's [[Fanfic/PantheonRagnarok planned war.]] The entire second part of the story turns out just to have been a field test of the aforementioned Liberator strain, and a shot at getting [[ItsPersonal Chris]], Mamori and Mirei out of the way. Even destroying his stockpile is a minor inconvenience, as [[RealityEnsues Wesker has the virus's genome map saved, backed up and backed-backed up.]]]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In spite of what his VillainousBreakdown at the end would imply, Wesker wins. Even though T-Valkyrie's E-Strain has a few [[OurZombiesAreDifferent quirks to iron out]] before it can consistently be used to create viable Extars, Draugr function perfectly well as [=B.O.Ws=], and the L-Strain works just fine. While the failed launch of the T-Valkyrie missiles was expensive, Wesker stands to make it all back marketing the virus itself, especially with a buyer like Lucifer willing to pay top dollar in preparation to aid Apollyon's [[Fanfic/PantheonRagnarok planned war.]] The entire second part of the story turns out just to have been a field test of the aforementioned Liberator strain, and a shot at getting [[ItsPersonal Chris]], Mamori and Mirei out of the way. Even destroying his stockpile is a minor inconvenience, as [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Wesker has the virus's genome map saved, backed up and backed-backed up.]]]]
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* PervertRevengeMode: When Wesker tosses Rain into Chris, she turns human again in mid-flight and ends up giving Chris MarshmallowHell when she slams into him, and it only gets worse as they try to untangle themselves. But this ends up averted from both Jill and Rain: [[RealityEnsues they're not about to hold it against Chris when he obviously had no say in the matter and immediately tried to get Rain off of him when he recovered from getting the wind knocked out of him.]]
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* PervertRevengeMode: When Wesker tosses Rain into Chris, she turns human again in mid-flight and ends up giving Chris MarshmallowHell when she slams into him, and it only gets worse as they try to untangle themselves. But this ends up averted from both Jill and Rain: [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they're not about to hold it against Chris when he obviously had no say in the matter and immediately tried to get Rain off of him when he recovered from getting the wind knocked out of him.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Anyone who's watched ''Manga/FoodWars'' knows what a badass Soma is, so his reaction to nearly getting killed by Draugr!Erina is completely understandable: [[HeroicBSOD he goes into shock]]. ''Soma is a chef, not a warrior.''
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* RealityEnsues: Anyone who's watched ''Anime/ShokugekiNoSoma'' knows what a badass Soma is, so his reaction to nearly getting killed by Draugr!Erina is completely understandable: [[HeroicBSOD he goes into shock]]. ''Soma is a chef, not a warrior.''
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* StrictlyFormula: The story basically follows the modern Resident Evil formula: the beginning is slow-paced with a focus on horror (Totsuki Academy), the endgame is fast-paced action (Wesker's compound), the final battle is against a Tyrant-esque monster (Nemesis Drive Wesker), and it ends with an escape from a self-destructing facility and Lady J firing a final shot with Rain to finish Wesker off.
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* StrictlyFormula: The story basically follows the modern Resident Evil formula: the beginning is slow-paced with a focus on horror (Totsuki Academy), the endgame is fast-paced action (Wesker's compound), the final battle is against a Tyrant-esque monster (Nemesis Drive Wesker), and it ends with an escape from a self-destructing facility and Lady J Mirei firing a final shot with Rain to finish Wesker off.off.
** In relation to the above, Lady J ends up injured and unconscious after the battle with Fafnir. When Wesker is giving one final charge at the helicopter as the good guys are trying to escape, Rain turns to Mirei and gives the classic ''Resident Evil'' "take this [[InfinityPlusOneSword super powerful weapon]] and finish the bastard off" line.
-->'''Rain:''' Use me! (Drives)
** In relation to the above, Lady J ends up injured and unconscious after the battle with Fafnir. When Wesker is giving one final charge at the helicopter as the good guys are trying to escape, Rain turns to Mirei and gives the classic ''Resident Evil'' "take this [[InfinityPlusOneSword super powerful weapon]] and finish the bastard off" line.
-->'''Rain:''' Use me! (Drives)
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* {{Wedgie}}: Meifon gives the Valkyrie Drive obligatory PantyShot when she almost leaps out of the helicopter to grab her [[NiceHat hat]] when it's blown off her head. Claire scrambles to grab her and manages to drag her in by her undies. [[SkewedPriorities Despite the pain, too Meifon's immense relief her hat is perfectly fine.]]
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** Leon inadvertently reveals what happens when a non-Liberator touches an Arm when he grabs Mamori in her sword form to drag her into the escape chopper: the hilt glows red hot, and when he tosses her safely into the chopper, his hand is horrifically burned.
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* DarkReprise: ''Alive'' by Meatloaf changes to this mid-song, no less. At first, it's a triumphant ballad to the protagonists escaping the horror of T-Valkyrie with their lives. [[spoiler: But then it shows Wesker, none the worse for wear, [[SequelHook handing a case of T-Valkyrie canisters to Apollyon]]...]]
-->''[[KarmaHoudini That's right, I got away with it all, and I'm still alive...]]''
-->''[[KarmaHoudini That's right, I got away with it all, and I'm still alive...]]''
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* ShooOutTheClowns: The cheeky, goofy Meifon isn't simply shooed out at the midpoint: [[spoiler: she's ''[[FateWorseThanDeath Draugrized.]]'']]
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Rain is trying to keep a two-handed grip on Mirei, who's hanging off of the side of the escape chopper.
-->'''Mirei:''' (holds up sword!Mamori) Take her!
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-->'''Mirei:''' '''''TAKE! HER!'''''
-->'''Mirei:''' (holds up sword!Mamori) Take her!
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-->'''Mirei:''' '''''TAKE! HER!'''''
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The T-Virus: a manmade bioweapon with [[ZombieApocalypse with horrifying effects]] on those it infects.
The Arms Virus: a pathogen of mysterious origin that grants fantastic powers to the women who contract it.
A man who fancies himself a god has combined these two diseases to form T-Valkyrie, and the only hope in stopping it may rest on the shoulders of two mysterious mortal girls...
This is the first of the "Valkyrie Drive Girls" series of stories. Albeit incomplete, the story can be read [[https://tropepantheon.wordpress.com/rise-of-the-valkyrie/ here]].
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!!''Rise of the Valkyrie'' provides examples of:
* ActualPacifist: Mamori, as usual. She's even uncomfortable being used to harm B.O.Ws, who are mindless killing machines across the board.
* BackToBackBadasses: Chris and Lady J with a helicopter's minigun and Rain respectively, laying waste to a huge mob of B.O.Ws.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In spite of what his VillainousBreakdown at the end would imply, Wesker wins. Even though T-Valkyrie's E-Strain has a few [[OurZombiesAreDifferent quirks to iron out]] before it can consistently be used to create viable Extars, Draugr function perfectly well as [=B.O.Ws=], and the L-Strain works just fine. While the failed launch of the T-Valkyrie missiles was expensive, Wesker stands to make it all back marketing the virus itself, especially with a buyer like Lucifer willing to pay top dollar in preparation to aid Apollyon's [[Fanfic/PantheonRagnarok planned war.]] The entire second part of the story turns out just to have been a field test of the aforementioned Liberator strain, and a shot at getting [[ItsPersonal Chris]], Mamori and Mirei out of the way. Even destroying his stockpile is a minor inconvenience, as [[RealityEnsues Wesker has the virus's genome map saved, backed up and backed-backed up.]]]]
* BigBad: Albert Wesker.
* BigEntrance: Mirei and Mamori make their appearance on Wesker's stronghold via missile crash-landing as they had on Mermaid. They're surrounded by [[PuppeteerParasite Einherjar]] (the story's answer to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Ganados]]/[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Majini]]). Cue a blazing light from the missile, [[SignatureSoundEffect the mechanical, warbling 'AAAAAAAH!' of Mamori Driving]], and Mirei comes barreling out of the missile, sword in hand as she slices and dices her way through Wesker's army.
* BigWhy: This is all Chris can manage when, in the middle of the first encounter with Draugr, Mamori and Mirei start making out (he doesn't know how the Arms Virus works). Also counts as {{Angrish}}.
* BittersweetEnding: Despite Mirei having stopped Wesker's planned missile launch of T-Valkyrie, Wesker ultimately gets most of what he wants. T-Valkyrie itself, despite the Extar strain being somewhat temperamental, has proven its worth as a bioweapon, and money is flooding in to the GUAE from people interested in the virus, with the promise that it will cause tons of problems for the Valkyrie-verse in the future...
* BlackComedy: From Chris after the group's [[CurbStompBattle epic beatdown at the hands of Wesker.]] Lady J describes the fight as having [[SarcasmMode "gone well"]]. And Chris responds:
-->'''Chris:''' As far as fighting [[LightningBruiser Wesker]] goes, that wasn't too bad. At least no one [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 went out a window]] this time...
* BodyHorror: The Draugr are individuals whose bodies reject T-Valkyrie, leaving them stuck halfway between Arm and human form and in blinding pain. They serve as the 'zombies' of the outbreak, frantically attacking anything they see in an agonized rage.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: When Wesker shows up at Totsuki academy, true to form Chris [[SayMyName shouts his name]]...[[SpeakInUnison and so does Rain.]] [[{{Beat}} The two take a second to glance at each other.]]
* CharacterRerailment: Wesker is far less of the raving lunatic he was in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'': while he's certainly the egomaniac he always was, he's far more in control of the situation, with a number of backup schemes in case something goes wrong, as opposed to just assuming everything will go as he plans and [[VillainousBreakdown freaking out]] when it does. [[spoiler: It's these qualities that [[TheBadGuyWins secures his ultimate victory]]]].
* ClippedWingAngel: Wesker [[spoiler: equipping Tyrant Arms. They're fearsome weapons, but his synch rating with them is in the toilet, so he he can't use them properly and Mirei turns the tables on him. Justified in the nature of the Arms Virus: it's laughable to think [[ItsAllAboutMe Wesker]] could use weapons that primarily run on [[ThePowerOfLove love and trust between Liberator and Exter]], especially after the efforts he took to reduce it down to mechanical efficiency.]]
* CurbStompBattle:
** The first fight between Mirei and Wesker goes...very badly for the aforementioned Liberator. Wesker gave her no chance to turn Mamori into an arm, and without her she is quickly overwhelmed by his speed and power, even with her own enhanced abilities.
** Mirei later returns the favor when she masters her Valkyrie Drive mode.
* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: A decidedly-unfunny version when Mamori and Mirei are separated from the group in Totsuki. Mirei is trying to comfort her girlfriend, and Mamori ''starts'' thanking her...but then she sees [[DemonicSpiders something pink and hideous with a long tongue]] crawling on the ceiling behind Mirei.
-->'''Mamori:''' Thanks Miiiirah-aaaah-jah-ga-bhuh-gu-MIREIIIIII!
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Wesker grabs Rain in her gun form out of J's hands at one point and uses her as a [[PistolWhipping club against the heroes]] before tossing her into Chris. She describes the act of some stranger grabbing her in her Arms form as leaving her feeling 'violated', and considering [[DeusSexMachina the nature of her powers as an Exter]], one can understand where she's coming from.
* TheDragon: Nemesis to Wesker.
* EurekaMoment: Rain is expositing about how Wesker has essentially reduced T-Valkyrie and by extension the Arms Virus down to mechanical efficiency, bypassing the need for sexual arousal through use of an 'inducer' chemical that instantly places the Extar in the trance that causes them to Drive. Suddenly she stops, and then busts out laughing as she realizes the huge mistake Wesker made in doing so:
-->'''Rain:''' Idiot. Oh my god, Wesker, you ''idiot''...no wonder he can barely use that Arm! How could he: the Arms Virus runs on arousal! You bypass that, your Arm is practically useless! All those Arms he's equipping, he's making himself weaker! He's the worst Liberator ''ever''!
* FromBadToWorse:
** The T-Valkyrie Virus is this to any familiar with how the Arms Virus operates. The T-Virus that Wesker merged with the Arms Virus caused it to break the gender barrier: it can infect men as well as women. To make matters worse, a good percentage of infected individuals turn out to be incompatible with the virus and transform into Draugr.
** Draugr are annoying and unnerving, but [[{{Mooks}} entirely manageable]] to Liberator/Exter duos and hardened BSAA agents. [[OneWingedAngel Whatever Rain's Disarmament Beam turns them into]] is another story...
** [[spoiler: Tyrants are bad news on their own merit: Wesker managed to turn them into Exters, and all they need to Drive is a quick press of a dial on their gloves.]]
* FryingPanOfDoom: Soma uses one to defend himself from [[spoiler: Draugr!Erina Nakiri.]]
* GunshipRescue: Once Mirei brings down Wesker's AA system, Chris and the others give her air support in an Apache as she charges Wesker's base. Later, they use that same Apache to extract her and Mamori as the base begins self-destructing.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Lady J gets a harsh lesson in Newton's Third Law when Wesker strikes the barrel of Rain's cannon form, burying it in the ground as Lady J pulls the trigger: the recoil of the cannon going off ''downward'' sends Lady J rocketing into the ceiling, knocking her clean out.
* HypocriticalHumor: Lady J's reaction to Leon engaging in fancy, close-range GunFu against a group of Draugr.
-->'''Lady J:''' ''[scoffs]'' Showoff... (starts making out with Rain to Drive her and join the fight)
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: A terrifying scene has Meifon hiding in a nearby closet in Wesker's lab. He doesn't seem to notice her as he drinks coffee, writes down notes on a clipboard, then opens up a laptop in view of Meifon, typing something before wandering away. Meifon squints to see that it's a Word document with one sentence on it: "[[OhCrap There's no point in hiding.]]" [[JumpScare Cue Wesker]] {{Flash Step}}ping in front of the closet, eyes glowing and a [[SlasherSmile huge smile on his face]].
* ImplacableMan: Nemesis is never truly beaten onscreen: he dies when Wesker's lab blows up, [[spoiler: taking the blast in his Arm form and saving Wesker's life.]]
* KickTheDog: Wesker forcefully using Rain to smack the others around. Rain describes the act of grabbing an Exter in her Arms form without her say-so as the rough equivalent of molesting her. Played with in that Wesker probably didn't know that, and thus wasn't going out of his way to be pointlessly cruel.
* KilledMidSentence: Wesker is blown out of the air mid-jump back into the flames of his self-destructing laboratory [[SayMyName screaming Chris's name]]. [[spoiler: Subverted in that he survives.]]
* MadeOfIron: Mirei's superhuman enough to survive Wesker stabbing his hand through her chest. She's out for the rest of the fight, but she's back on her feet [[HealingFactor after an hour or so of rest]].
* MythologyGag: Jill's ringtone turns out to be Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lady J tries using Rain's Disarmament Beam ability on a Draugr to see if it would cure him: the Draugr mutates horribly and becomes a huge half-chainsaw monster. Oops.
* NonSequiturThud: Mirei after taking a haymaker from Wesker and sent flying into a wall mumbles "Two sugars for me, please..." and then keels over. Any humor in the situation dies when Wesker closes the distance and [[RazorSharpHand shoves his fingers through her sternum]].
* Myth/NorseMythology: Most of the monsters in the story take their names from Norse Mythology. [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Draugr]], [[SmashMook Jotun]], [[SavageWolves Fenrir]], [[ChainsawGood Farbauti]]...Meifon's berserk form, where she transforms into a giant dragon, fits even more: a [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame short]], {{Greed}}y little girl who turns into a giant dragon is basically the myth of Fafnir.
* OhCrap:
** Mamori points out a button that she thinks will open a blast door. It activates a LaserHallway and nearly gets Chris and the others killed.
--->'''Mamori:''' Is this the button? (...) [[MotorMouth Not the button]]-''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck WRONG BUTTON]]''-'''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck BAD BUTTON!]]'''
** Lady J's expression when she realizes she accidentally mutated a Draugr into a hulking beast with a chainsaw for an arm pretty much sums up her thoughts on the matter.
** Another from J when Wesker knocks her aim off: she realizes that she's about to fire Rain straight down.
--->'''J''': ''[[CurseCutShort FU-!]]''
** [[NotSoStoic Mirei]] when she witnesses [[spoiler: a Tyrant Driving and becoming a huge warhammer]].
** Wesker when he realizes Mirei completely outmatches him in her Valkyrie Drive form.
* OneWingedAngel: Draugr!Meifon takes to absorbing the T-Valkyrie Virus from the corpses of Draugr around her, mutating her into the [[TheBerserker frenzied]], [[TheJuggernaut implacable]] Fafnir.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Mamori thoughtlessly likening Mirei to a [[LivingWeapon B.O.W]]. There was zero malice in it, as she was simply drawing a parallel based on what Chris was telling her, and she [[OhCrap immediately claps her hands over her mouth in abject horror]] and apologizes profusely as she realizes her mistake.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Draugr, of the rage variety: [[TechnicallyLivingZombie individuals whose bodies are stuck between Arm and human form]], leaving them in excruciating pain that causes them to lash out at anything they see.
* PervertRevengeMode: When Wesker tosses Rain into Chris, she turns human again in mid-flight and ends up giving Chris MarshmallowHell when she slams into him, and it only gets worse as they try to untangle themselves. But this ends up averted from both Jill and Rain: [[RealityEnsues they're not about to hold it against Chris when he obviously had no say in the matter and immediately tried to get Rain off of him when he recovered from getting the wind knocked out of him.]]
* PowerArmor: [[spoiler: Nemesis' Arm form,]] complete with twin shoulder-mounted rocket launchers and twin miniguns. While he in no way becomes sluggish, Wesker is understandably slowed considerably whilst wearing it.
* PrecisionFStrike: Meifon's crass, sure, but her reaction to a Hunter barreling at her and the others takes the cake.
-->'''Meifon:''' [=OooaaAAAH=] THE '''FUCK''' IS THAT THING?!?
* RealityEnsues: Anyone who's watched ''Anime/ShokugekiNoSoma'' knows what a badass Soma is, so his reaction to nearly getting killed by Draugr!Erina is completely understandable: [[HeroicBSOD he goes into shock]]. ''Soma is a chef, not a warrior.''
* RunningGag: The 'Virgin' gag from Valkyrie Drive makes a triumphant return: Leon stifles a laugh when he sees what Mamori wrote on her name badge for the Pantheon, causing Mamori to whine [[CatchPhrase that her name is "Tokonome"]].
* SmashMook: The obligatory giant BOW the team faces: the Jotun. Functionally identical to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 El Gigante]].
* StrictlyFormula: The story basically follows the modern Resident Evil formula: the beginning is slow-paced with a focus on horror (Totsuki Academy), the endgame is fast-paced action (Wesker's compound), the final battle is against a Tyrant-esque monster (Nemesis Drive Wesker), and it ends with an escape from a self-destructing facility and Lady J firing a final shot with Rain to finish Wesker off.
* TakeThat:
** Leon describes the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 C-Virus incident]] as a 'total disaster', which is true in both senses.
** In the battle of Totsuka, Mamori is forced to grab a frying pan to defend herself. By sheer luck she manages to score a hit on Wesker [[NoSell (for as little good it does her)]], and the sound it makes is fitting, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEiNkCJHs7Q yet familiar...]]
* TheDayTheMusicLied: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsYxpqPRrI0 Valkyrie Drive]] cues up as Mirei and Mamori go to kiss each other so they can fight Wesker...and the music abruptly cuts off as they realize Wesker has shoved his hand between their mouths. Then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJzrkFUot0 MVC3 theme]] cues up as he tosses Mamori across the room and punches Mirei into a wall, then proceeds to beat the living daylights out of them, Lady Lady and Chris and co.
* TragicMonster: The Draugr, since unlike most Resi monsters they are not beyond saving. They become violent due to how much pain they're in. Erina at one point is loaded up with as much painkillers as she can handle without it being lethal, and she's ''still'' in so much agony she can barely think straight: the paramedics have to medically induce a coma after Chris and the others interview her.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[IShallTauntYou Actively exploited]] against Wesker when he realizes the Arms he's equipping are making him weaker. To keep him from throwing them away and going back to basics, Mirei taunts him by suggesting that T-Valkyrie has rejected him and that he's not worthy. Wesker doubles down on his use of the Arms in a narcissistic rage, trying to prove her wrong. Then when he's completely been defeated, he screams Chris' name in impotent fury as his plans (and laboratory) explode around him and his aforementioned Archenemy flies away in a helicopter.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Wesker:''' [[spoiler: Fusion Trans: Liberate Arm!]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Draugr!Meifon, leading to the realization that compatibility with the Armed Virus does not guarantee compatibility with T-Valkyrie.]]
* TheWorfEffect:
** Rain's WaveMotionGun form tears through Hunters and other lesser [=BOWs=] with ease, but it can only knock Tyrants down for a moment and Nemesis completely {{No Sell}}s it.
** Wesker's frankly terrifying set of [[spoiler: Nemesis]] armor is absolutely no match for Mirei and Mamori's Valkyrie Drive form.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Mirei and Mamori quickly find out that they're in a Resident Evil story, not a Valkyrie Drive one, when Mirei takes it as a given that Wesker will just stand there and let her Drive Mamori without complaint. After all, [[TransformationIsAFreeAction that's how it was on Mermaid]]. [[CurbStompBattle She ends up getting the taste slapped out of her mouth]] by Wesker for that blunder, who gives them no time to Drive. The next time the two face off against him they make sure to Drive ''well before'' kicking the door down and confronting him.
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The Arms Virus: a pathogen of mysterious origin that grants fantastic powers to the women who contract it.
A man who fancies himself a god has combined these two diseases to form T-Valkyrie, and the only hope in stopping it may rest on the shoulders of two mysterious mortal girls...
This is the first of the "Valkyrie Drive Girls" series of stories. Albeit incomplete, the story can be read [[https://tropepantheon.wordpress.com/rise-of-the-valkyrie/ here]].
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!!''Rise of the Valkyrie'' provides examples of:
* ActualPacifist: Mamori, as usual. She's even uncomfortable being used to harm B.O.Ws, who are mindless killing machines across the board.
* BackToBackBadasses: Chris and Lady J with a helicopter's minigun and Rain respectively, laying waste to a huge mob of B.O.Ws.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In spite of what his VillainousBreakdown at the end would imply, Wesker wins. Even though T-Valkyrie's E-Strain has a few [[OurZombiesAreDifferent quirks to iron out]] before it can consistently be used to create viable Extars, Draugr function perfectly well as [=B.O.Ws=], and the L-Strain works just fine. While the failed launch of the T-Valkyrie missiles was expensive, Wesker stands to make it all back marketing the virus itself, especially with a buyer like Lucifer willing to pay top dollar in preparation to aid Apollyon's [[Fanfic/PantheonRagnarok planned war.]] The entire second part of the story turns out just to have been a field test of the aforementioned Liberator strain, and a shot at getting [[ItsPersonal Chris]], Mamori and Mirei out of the way. Even destroying his stockpile is a minor inconvenience, as [[RealityEnsues Wesker has the virus's genome map saved, backed up and backed-backed up.]]]]
* BigBad: Albert Wesker.
* BigEntrance: Mirei and Mamori make their appearance on Wesker's stronghold via missile crash-landing as they had on Mermaid. They're surrounded by [[PuppeteerParasite Einherjar]] (the story's answer to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Ganados]]/[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Majini]]). Cue a blazing light from the missile, [[SignatureSoundEffect the mechanical, warbling 'AAAAAAAH!' of Mamori Driving]], and Mirei comes barreling out of the missile, sword in hand as she slices and dices her way through Wesker's army.
* BigWhy: This is all Chris can manage when, in the middle of the first encounter with Draugr, Mamori and Mirei start making out (he doesn't know how the Arms Virus works). Also counts as {{Angrish}}.
* BittersweetEnding: Despite Mirei having stopped Wesker's planned missile launch of T-Valkyrie, Wesker ultimately gets most of what he wants. T-Valkyrie itself, despite the Extar strain being somewhat temperamental, has proven its worth as a bioweapon, and money is flooding in to the GUAE from people interested in the virus, with the promise that it will cause tons of problems for the Valkyrie-verse in the future...
* BlackComedy: From Chris after the group's [[CurbStompBattle epic beatdown at the hands of Wesker.]] Lady J describes the fight as having [[SarcasmMode "gone well"]]. And Chris responds:
-->'''Chris:''' As far as fighting [[LightningBruiser Wesker]] goes, that wasn't too bad. At least no one [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 went out a window]] this time...
* BodyHorror: The Draugr are individuals whose bodies reject T-Valkyrie, leaving them stuck halfway between Arm and human form and in blinding pain. They serve as the 'zombies' of the outbreak, frantically attacking anything they see in an agonized rage.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: When Wesker shows up at Totsuki academy, true to form Chris [[SayMyName shouts his name]]...[[SpeakInUnison and so does Rain.]] [[{{Beat}} The two take a second to glance at each other.]]
* CharacterRerailment: Wesker is far less of the raving lunatic he was in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'': while he's certainly the egomaniac he always was, he's far more in control of the situation, with a number of backup schemes in case something goes wrong, as opposed to just assuming everything will go as he plans and [[VillainousBreakdown freaking out]] when it does. [[spoiler: It's these qualities that [[TheBadGuyWins secures his ultimate victory]]]].
* ClippedWingAngel: Wesker [[spoiler: equipping Tyrant Arms. They're fearsome weapons, but his synch rating with them is in the toilet, so he he can't use them properly and Mirei turns the tables on him. Justified in the nature of the Arms Virus: it's laughable to think [[ItsAllAboutMe Wesker]] could use weapons that primarily run on [[ThePowerOfLove love and trust between Liberator and Exter]], especially after the efforts he took to reduce it down to mechanical efficiency.]]
* CurbStompBattle:
** The first fight between Mirei and Wesker goes...very badly for the aforementioned Liberator. Wesker gave her no chance to turn Mamori into an arm, and without her she is quickly overwhelmed by his speed and power, even with her own enhanced abilities.
** Mirei later returns the favor when she masters her Valkyrie Drive mode.
* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: A decidedly-unfunny version when Mamori and Mirei are separated from the group in Totsuki. Mirei is trying to comfort her girlfriend, and Mamori ''starts'' thanking her...but then she sees [[DemonicSpiders something pink and hideous with a long tongue]] crawling on the ceiling behind Mirei.
-->'''Mamori:''' Thanks Miiiirah-aaaah-jah-ga-bhuh-gu-MIREIIIIII!
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Wesker grabs Rain in her gun form out of J's hands at one point and uses her as a [[PistolWhipping club against the heroes]] before tossing her into Chris. She describes the act of some stranger grabbing her in her Arms form as leaving her feeling 'violated', and considering [[DeusSexMachina the nature of her powers as an Exter]], one can understand where she's coming from.
* TheDragon: Nemesis to Wesker.
* EurekaMoment: Rain is expositing about how Wesker has essentially reduced T-Valkyrie and by extension the Arms Virus down to mechanical efficiency, bypassing the need for sexual arousal through use of an 'inducer' chemical that instantly places the Extar in the trance that causes them to Drive. Suddenly she stops, and then busts out laughing as she realizes the huge mistake Wesker made in doing so:
-->'''Rain:''' Idiot. Oh my god, Wesker, you ''idiot''...no wonder he can barely use that Arm! How could he: the Arms Virus runs on arousal! You bypass that, your Arm is practically useless! All those Arms he's equipping, he's making himself weaker! He's the worst Liberator ''ever''!
* FromBadToWorse:
** The T-Valkyrie Virus is this to any familiar with how the Arms Virus operates. The T-Virus that Wesker merged with the Arms Virus caused it to break the gender barrier: it can infect men as well as women. To make matters worse, a good percentage of infected individuals turn out to be incompatible with the virus and transform into Draugr.
** Draugr are annoying and unnerving, but [[{{Mooks}} entirely manageable]] to Liberator/Exter duos and hardened BSAA agents. [[OneWingedAngel Whatever Rain's Disarmament Beam turns them into]] is another story...
** [[spoiler: Tyrants are bad news on their own merit: Wesker managed to turn them into Exters, and all they need to Drive is a quick press of a dial on their gloves.]]
* FryingPanOfDoom: Soma uses one to defend himself from [[spoiler: Draugr!Erina Nakiri.]]
* GunshipRescue: Once Mirei brings down Wesker's AA system, Chris and the others give her air support in an Apache as she charges Wesker's base. Later, they use that same Apache to extract her and Mamori as the base begins self-destructing.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Lady J gets a harsh lesson in Newton's Third Law when Wesker strikes the barrel of Rain's cannon form, burying it in the ground as Lady J pulls the trigger: the recoil of the cannon going off ''downward'' sends Lady J rocketing into the ceiling, knocking her clean out.
* HypocriticalHumor: Lady J's reaction to Leon engaging in fancy, close-range GunFu against a group of Draugr.
-->'''Lady J:''' ''[scoffs]'' Showoff... (starts making out with Rain to Drive her and join the fight)
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: A terrifying scene has Meifon hiding in a nearby closet in Wesker's lab. He doesn't seem to notice her as he drinks coffee, writes down notes on a clipboard, then opens up a laptop in view of Meifon, typing something before wandering away. Meifon squints to see that it's a Word document with one sentence on it: "[[OhCrap There's no point in hiding.]]" [[JumpScare Cue Wesker]] {{Flash Step}}ping in front of the closet, eyes glowing and a [[SlasherSmile huge smile on his face]].
* ImplacableMan: Nemesis is never truly beaten onscreen: he dies when Wesker's lab blows up, [[spoiler: taking the blast in his Arm form and saving Wesker's life.]]
* KickTheDog: Wesker forcefully using Rain to smack the others around. Rain describes the act of grabbing an Exter in her Arms form without her say-so as the rough equivalent of molesting her. Played with in that Wesker probably didn't know that, and thus wasn't going out of his way to be pointlessly cruel.
* KilledMidSentence: Wesker is blown out of the air mid-jump back into the flames of his self-destructing laboratory [[SayMyName screaming Chris's name]]. [[spoiler: Subverted in that he survives.]]
* MadeOfIron: Mirei's superhuman enough to survive Wesker stabbing his hand through her chest. She's out for the rest of the fight, but she's back on her feet [[HealingFactor after an hour or so of rest]].
* MythologyGag: Jill's ringtone turns out to be Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lady J tries using Rain's Disarmament Beam ability on a Draugr to see if it would cure him: the Draugr mutates horribly and becomes a huge half-chainsaw monster. Oops.
* NonSequiturThud: Mirei after taking a haymaker from Wesker and sent flying into a wall mumbles "Two sugars for me, please..." and then keels over. Any humor in the situation dies when Wesker closes the distance and [[RazorSharpHand shoves his fingers through her sternum]].
* Myth/NorseMythology: Most of the monsters in the story take their names from Norse Mythology. [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Draugr]], [[SmashMook Jotun]], [[SavageWolves Fenrir]], [[ChainsawGood Farbauti]]...Meifon's berserk form, where she transforms into a giant dragon, fits even more: a [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame short]], {{Greed}}y little girl who turns into a giant dragon is basically the myth of Fafnir.
* OhCrap:
** Mamori points out a button that she thinks will open a blast door. It activates a LaserHallway and nearly gets Chris and the others killed.
--->'''Mamori:''' Is this the button? (...) [[MotorMouth Not the button]]-''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck WRONG BUTTON]]''-'''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck BAD BUTTON!]]'''
** Lady J's expression when she realizes she accidentally mutated a Draugr into a hulking beast with a chainsaw for an arm pretty much sums up her thoughts on the matter.
** Another from J when Wesker knocks her aim off: she realizes that she's about to fire Rain straight down.
--->'''J''': ''[[CurseCutShort FU-!]]''
** [[NotSoStoic Mirei]] when she witnesses [[spoiler: a Tyrant Driving and becoming a huge warhammer]].
** Wesker when he realizes Mirei completely outmatches him in her Valkyrie Drive form.
* OneWingedAngel: Draugr!Meifon takes to absorbing the T-Valkyrie Virus from the corpses of Draugr around her, mutating her into the [[TheBerserker frenzied]], [[TheJuggernaut implacable]] Fafnir.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Mamori thoughtlessly likening Mirei to a [[LivingWeapon B.O.W]]. There was zero malice in it, as she was simply drawing a parallel based on what Chris was telling her, and she [[OhCrap immediately claps her hands over her mouth in abject horror]] and apologizes profusely as she realizes her mistake.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Draugr, of the rage variety: [[TechnicallyLivingZombie individuals whose bodies are stuck between Arm and human form]], leaving them in excruciating pain that causes them to lash out at anything they see.
* PervertRevengeMode: When Wesker tosses Rain into Chris, she turns human again in mid-flight and ends up giving Chris MarshmallowHell when she slams into him, and it only gets worse as they try to untangle themselves. But this ends up averted from both Jill and Rain: [[RealityEnsues they're not about to hold it against Chris when he obviously had no say in the matter and immediately tried to get Rain off of him when he recovered from getting the wind knocked out of him.]]
* PowerArmor: [[spoiler: Nemesis' Arm form,]] complete with twin shoulder-mounted rocket launchers and twin miniguns. While he in no way becomes sluggish, Wesker is understandably slowed considerably whilst wearing it.
* PrecisionFStrike: Meifon's crass, sure, but her reaction to a Hunter barreling at her and the others takes the cake.
-->'''Meifon:''' [=OooaaAAAH=] THE '''FUCK''' IS THAT THING?!?
* RealityEnsues: Anyone who's watched ''Anime/ShokugekiNoSoma'' knows what a badass Soma is, so his reaction to nearly getting killed by Draugr!Erina is completely understandable: [[HeroicBSOD he goes into shock]]. ''Soma is a chef, not a warrior.''
* RunningGag: The 'Virgin' gag from Valkyrie Drive makes a triumphant return: Leon stifles a laugh when he sees what Mamori wrote on her name badge for the Pantheon, causing Mamori to whine [[CatchPhrase that her name is "Tokonome"]].
* SmashMook: The obligatory giant BOW the team faces: the Jotun. Functionally identical to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 El Gigante]].
* StrictlyFormula: The story basically follows the modern Resident Evil formula: the beginning is slow-paced with a focus on horror (Totsuki Academy), the endgame is fast-paced action (Wesker's compound), the final battle is against a Tyrant-esque monster (Nemesis Drive Wesker), and it ends with an escape from a self-destructing facility and Lady J firing a final shot with Rain to finish Wesker off.
* TakeThat:
** Leon describes the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 C-Virus incident]] as a 'total disaster', which is true in both senses.
** In the battle of Totsuka, Mamori is forced to grab a frying pan to defend herself. By sheer luck she manages to score a hit on Wesker [[NoSell (for as little good it does her)]], and the sound it makes is fitting, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEiNkCJHs7Q yet familiar...]]
* TheDayTheMusicLied: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsYxpqPRrI0 Valkyrie Drive]] cues up as Mirei and Mamori go to kiss each other so they can fight Wesker...and the music abruptly cuts off as they realize Wesker has shoved his hand between their mouths. Then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJzrkFUot0 MVC3 theme]] cues up as he tosses Mamori across the room and punches Mirei into a wall, then proceeds to beat the living daylights out of them, Lady Lady and Chris and co.
* TragicMonster: The Draugr, since unlike most Resi monsters they are not beyond saving. They become violent due to how much pain they're in. Erina at one point is loaded up with as much painkillers as she can handle without it being lethal, and she's ''still'' in so much agony she can barely think straight: the paramedics have to medically induce a coma after Chris and the others interview her.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[IShallTauntYou Actively exploited]] against Wesker when he realizes the Arms he's equipping are making him weaker. To keep him from throwing them away and going back to basics, Mirei taunts him by suggesting that T-Valkyrie has rejected him and that he's not worthy. Wesker doubles down on his use of the Arms in a narcissistic rage, trying to prove her wrong. Then when he's completely been defeated, he screams Chris' name in impotent fury as his plans (and laboratory) explode around him and his aforementioned Archenemy flies away in a helicopter.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Wesker:''' [[spoiler: Fusion Trans: Liberate Arm!]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Draugr!Meifon, leading to the realization that compatibility with the Armed Virus does not guarantee compatibility with T-Valkyrie.]]
* TheWorfEffect:
** Rain's WaveMotionGun form tears through Hunters and other lesser [=BOWs=] with ease, but it can only knock Tyrants down for a moment and Nemesis completely {{No Sell}}s it.
** Wesker's frankly terrifying set of [[spoiler: Nemesis]] armor is absolutely no match for Mirei and Mamori's Valkyrie Drive form.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Mirei and Mamori quickly find out that they're in a Resident Evil story, not a Valkyrie Drive one, when Mirei takes it as a given that Wesker will just stand there and let her Drive Mamori without complaint. After all, [[TransformationIsAFreeAction that's how it was on Mermaid]]. [[CurbStompBattle She ends up getting the taste slapped out of her mouth]] by Wesker for that blunder, who gives them no time to Drive. The next time the two face off against him they make sure to Drive ''well before'' kicking the door down and confronting him.
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