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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/battle_girl.png]]
2	->''"No one can stop me from destroying the Great Machine and paving the way for the armies of Chaos. [[TemptingFate No one, not even]] [[SmallGirlBigGun skinny, loud-mouthed girls with big guns.]]"''
3	-->-- '''Terminus'''
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5	A ShootEmUp released in 1997 on [[Platform/AppleMacintosh Mac]] and in 1998 on [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer Windows]], ''battle-girl'' is a [[GenreThrowback loving homage]] to arcade classics like ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Sinistar}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Robotron\|2084}}''. Players pilot [[ActionGirl battle-girl]]'s Soyuz 1183-A Attack Craft against the forces of [[HumongousMecha Terminus]], [[ChaosIsEvil Weapon of Chaos]].
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7	James "Creator/{{Kibo}}" Parry [[http://web.archive.org/web/19981206180619/http://www.ultra-united.com/highscore.html once held the game's world high score]].
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9	It is now {{Abandonware}}, and can be found [[https://www.myabandonware.com/game/battle-girl-3gs here]].
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11	!! :: battle-girl's tropes ::
12	* AllLowercaseLetters: The title is always written this way, as is the character's name.
13	* AncientOrderOfProtectors: For millennia prior to the game, priests have guarded the hibernating battle-girl.
14	* {{Animesque}}: Done as a stylistic choice to give it a very cyberpunk feel.
15	* AttackItsWeakPoint: If Terminus manages to reprogram four function pods, he'll enter the program to fight you directly. Kicking him out requires shooting him five times in the face.
16	* CosmicKeystone: The Great Machine, "source of cosmic order and enforcer of natural law," which sits at the center of the universe.
17	* CyberpunkIsTechno: Your struggles inside the Machine are set to a sampling of classic Platform/{{MOD}} beats.
18	* EnemyDetectingRadar: Arrows point to pods under attack, while less prominent indicators point to programmers lurking offscreen.
19	* Every10000Points: ExtraLives are bestowed at 50,000, 150,000, 300,000, 600,000, 1,000,000, 1,500,000, and every million points thereafter.
20	* FieryRedhead: battle-girl.
21	* ForeignLookingFont: The title lettering looks like English filtered through Japanese.
22	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Terminus wants to [[OrderVersusChaos replace order with chaos]]. That's all there is to him.
23	* HackYourEnemy: Your objective is to stop Terminus' programmers from hacking function pods. You yourself have no ability to hack, only blast.
24	* IdleAnimation: battle-girl taps her foot on the level select screen.
25	* IShallTauntYou
26	-->'''Terminus:''' ''You can't save them all!''
27	* LifeMeter: It starts out red at 100%, and shades toward yellow as you lose health.
28	* MercyInvincibility
29	* PersonalityBloodTypes: battle-girl's is unsurprisingly B: strong, wild, and unforgiving.
30	* PowerUp: Weapons, [[EssenceDrop energy orbs]], and [[PhlebotinumPills "power capsules"]].
31	* ScreenShake: The camera bucks when you collide with an agent of Terminus.

Context VideoGame / BattleGirl