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* NonMammalMammaries: {{Lampshaded}}: [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/699080007829684324/842014266655768606/unknown.png "It's a giant mecha with tits and you have a crush on the pilot! Your opinion is irrelevant!"]]
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* NonMammalMammaries: {{Lampshaded}}: [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/699080007829684324/842014266655768606/unknown.png "It's a giant mecha with tits and you have a crush on the pilot! Your opinion is irrelevant!"]]irrelevant!"
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* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: HumongousMecha in the series have to feel like an extension of the pilot's body in order to work properly, but since they're designed to a masculine form factor, this causes problems for Jane Willis, a trans woman. [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/699080007829684324/842014266655768606/unknown.png In one incident]] her neurostim ran out mid-fight, so she improvised by digging into the old trauma from her TransTribulations, and tricked ''Aphelion''[='s=] self-repair mechanisms into remodeling it into a feminine form. She renames the mecha ''Ophelia''.
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* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: HumongousMecha in the series have to feel like an extension of the pilot's body in order to work properly, but since they're designed to a masculine form factor, this causes problems for Jane Willis, a trans woman. [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/699080007829684324/842014266655768606/unknown.png In one incident]] incident her neurostim ran out mid-fight, so she improvised by digging into the old trauma from her TransTribulations, and tricked ''Aphelion''[='s=] self-repair mechanisms into remodeling it into a feminine form. She renames the mecha ''Ophelia''.
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''Achilles Shieldmaidens'' is an upcoming {{Mecha|Show}} {{webcomic}} by Croatian comic artist Creator/StjepanSejic, slated to begin in 2023. (We hope. It's been through a couple of {{Schedule Slip}}s since announcement.)
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''Achilles Shieldmaidens'' is an upcoming {{Mecha|Show}} {{webcomic}} by Croatian comic artist Creator/StjepanSejic, originally announced in 2021 and slated to begin go into full production in 2023. (We hope. It's been through a couple of {{Schedule Slip}}s since announcement.)
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* NonMammalMammaries: {{Lampshaded}}: [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/699080007829684324/842014266655768606/unknown.png "It's a giant mecha with tits and you have a crush on the pilot! Your opinion is irrelevant!"]]
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* SuperRobotGenre: Blurs the line a bit with RealRobot: much like ''Film/PacificRim'', the Achilles were created by a multinational coalition, the Global Defense Initiative, but the mechs overall pretty much run on RuleOfCool and {{technobabble}}.
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On New Year's Day of the sixth year of the program, they finally learn the reason why: an alien {{mothership}} descends from the sky. The assembled phalanx of mechs they worked so hard to recruit is [[CurbStompBattle wiped out in an instant]] by the Ur, heralding a [[AlienInvasion swift and bloody conquest]].
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On New Year's Day of the sixth year of the program, they finally learn the reason why: why when an alien {{mothership}} descends from the sky. The assembled phalanx of mechs they worked so hard to recruit is [[CurbStompBattle wiped out in an instant]] by the Ur, heralding a [[AlienInvasion swift and bloody conquest]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: ''Berserker'' is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by an Ur mech during the invasion, and Sofia's Sofia Gagarin's left arm is taken off at the shoulder from the weapon passing through her cockpit.
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* DisneyDeath: The narration during the prologue leads us to believe that Sofia died in a LastStand in Neo Manhattan during the AlienInvasion. Badly wounded? Yes. Dead? No: she's the pilot of the Achilles that saves Artemis and Max at the start of chapter 1.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:''Berserker'' ''Berserker'' is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by an Ur mech during the invasion, and Sofia's left arm is taken off at the shoulder from the weapon passing through her cockpit.]]
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* AlienInvasion: Earth is invaded and [[CurbStompBattle swiftly occupied]] by the mysterious Ur during the prologue chapter.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:''Berserker'' is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by an Ur mech during the invasion, and Sofia's left arm is taken off at the shoulder from the weapon passing through her cockpit.]]
* BehemothBattle: It's a mecha comic, so battles between giant robots are pretty much a given.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:''Berserker'' is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by an Ur mech during the invasion, and Sofia's left arm is taken off at the shoulder from the weapon passing through her cockpit.]]
* BehemothBattle: It's a mecha comic, so battles between giant robots are pretty much a given.
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* HumongousMecha: Lying down for transport, an Achilles is the length of a rail car, and the animal-like Ur mechs are no smaller.
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Set on Earth in the early 24th century, the comic revolves around an [[AmazonBrigade all-female cadre]] of HumongousMecha pilots.
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Set on Earth in the early 24th century, the comic revolves around an [[AmazonBrigade all-female cadre]] of HumongousMecha pilots.
pilots. Recruited from all over the world, their job mainly consists of ''marketing'' the Achilles program: finding the 1 in 3,500 people with the ability to link with an Achilles mech through a BrainComputerInterface called the singularity anchor, and trick the brain into accepting the mech as part of their own body.
On New Year's Day of the sixth year of the program, they finally learn the reason why: an alien {{mothership}} descends from the sky. The assembled phalanx of mechs they worked so hard to recruit is [[CurbStompBattle wiped out in an instant]] by the Ur, heralding a [[AlienInvasion swift and bloody conquest]].
Fourteen years later, the Shieldmaidens are the leaders of a [[LaResistance desperate resistance movement]] against the Ur, fighting to take Earth back.
On New Year's Day of the sixth year of the program, they finally learn the reason why: an alien {{mothership}} descends from the sky. The assembled phalanx of mechs they worked so hard to recruit is [[CurbStompBattle wiped out in an instant]] by the Ur, heralding a [[AlienInvasion swift and bloody conquest]].
Fourteen years later, the Shieldmaidens are the leaders of a [[LaResistance desperate resistance movement]] against the Ur, fighting to take Earth back.
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''Achilles Shieldmaidens'' is an upcoming {{Mecha|Show}} {{webcomic}} by Croatian comic artist Creator/StjepanSejic, slated to begin in 2023. (We hope. It's been through a couple of {{Schedule Slip}}s since announcement.)
Set on Earth in the early 24th century, the comic revolves around an [[AmazonBrigade all-female cadre]] of HumongousMecha pilots.
A 52-page preview is [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/103240649 available]] on Šejić's Pixiv account, along with several other preview and promotional images.
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!!''Achilles Shieldmaidens'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Said verbatim by Nia when she and Jane do a midair dance during the New Year's Day celebration at the start of the comic.
-->'''Jane:''' Whoa! You're not kidding about the gusts!\\
'''Nia:''' It's alright. I got you. Now, let's give them a show!\\
'''Jane:''' You got it! May I have this dance then?\\
'''Nia:''' I mean, since you're the only one around...\\
'''Jane:''' Nia, I'm the best one around!\\
'''Nia:''' A distinction without difference!
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: {{Invoked}} by the Shieldmaidens' recruiter, Colonel Max Nichols, who specifically wanted pilot candidates who ''needed'' the job and therefore "wouldn't blow their chance by talking about the program." Emily Doyle grew up poor and the job pays well. Nia Davis says something similar when asked why she wanted to join, though she also says she caught the bug from her father, a mecha test pilot.
* SignedUpForTheDental: {{Invoked}} by the Shieldmaidens' recruiter, Colonel Max Nichols, who specifically wanted pilot candidates who ''needed'' the job and therefore "wouldn't blow their chance by talking about the program." Rosa Ibanez and Jane Willis both cite the "Rank 4 medical coverage": Rosa because she needs genetic surgery before she starts a family due to a gene mutation, and Jane to cover her gender reassignment surgery.
* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: HumongousMecha in the series have to feel like an extension of the pilot's body in order to work properly, but since they're designed to a masculine form factor, this causes problems for Jane Willis, a trans woman. [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/699080007829684324/842014266655768606/unknown.png In one incident]] her neurostim ran out mid-fight, so she improvised by digging into the old trauma from her TransTribulations, and tricked ''Aphelion''[='s=] self-repair mechanisms into remodeling it into a feminine form. She renames the mecha ''Ophelia''.
* TransTribulations: {{Exploited}} by Jane: she used the traumatic memories from her gender dysphoria to force ''Aphelion'' to remodel itself into a feminine form she could pilot more effectively.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Pictured: Sofia Gagarin and ''Berserker'']]
''Achilles Shieldmaidens'' is an upcoming {{Mecha|Show}} {{webcomic}} by Croatian comic artist Creator/StjepanSejic, slated to begin in 2023. (We hope. It's been through a couple of {{Schedule Slip}}s since announcement.)
Set on Earth in the early 24th century, the comic revolves around an [[AmazonBrigade all-female cadre]] of HumongousMecha pilots.
A 52-page preview is [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/103240649 available]] on Šejić's Pixiv account, along with several other preview and promotional images.
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!!''Achilles Shieldmaidens'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Said verbatim by Nia when she and Jane do a midair dance during the New Year's Day celebration at the start of the comic.
-->'''Jane:''' Whoa! You're not kidding about the gusts!\\
'''Nia:''' It's alright. I got you. Now, let's give them a show!\\
'''Jane:''' You got it! May I have this dance then?\\
'''Nia:''' I mean, since you're the only one around...\\
'''Jane:''' Nia, I'm the best one around!\\
'''Nia:''' A distinction without difference!
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: {{Invoked}} by the Shieldmaidens' recruiter, Colonel Max Nichols, who specifically wanted pilot candidates who ''needed'' the job and therefore "wouldn't blow their chance by talking about the program." Emily Doyle grew up poor and the job pays well. Nia Davis says something similar when asked why she wanted to join, though she also says she caught the bug from her father, a mecha test pilot.
* SignedUpForTheDental: {{Invoked}} by the Shieldmaidens' recruiter, Colonel Max Nichols, who specifically wanted pilot candidates who ''needed'' the job and therefore "wouldn't blow their chance by talking about the program." Rosa Ibanez and Jane Willis both cite the "Rank 4 medical coverage": Rosa because she needs genetic surgery before she starts a family due to a gene mutation, and Jane to cover her gender reassignment surgery.
* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: HumongousMecha in the series have to feel like an extension of the pilot's body in order to work properly, but since they're designed to a masculine form factor, this causes problems for Jane Willis, a trans woman. [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/699080007829684324/842014266655768606/unknown.png In one incident]] her neurostim ran out mid-fight, so she improvised by digging into the old trauma from her TransTribulations, and tricked ''Aphelion''[='s=] self-repair mechanisms into remodeling it into a feminine form. She renames the mecha ''Ophelia''.
* TransTribulations: {{Exploited}} by Jane: she used the traumatic memories from her gender dysphoria to force ''Aphelion'' to remodel itself into a feminine form she could pilot more effectively.
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