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* The battle with FinalBoss Tageri, especially its third form: quite possibly one of the best, most awesome use of TennisBoss ever for video games.
* The ending: this only makes sense if one considers ''Ikaruga'' a distant sequel to ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun'': Shinra and Kagari ''destroy [[ArtifactOfDoom the Stone-Like]]'' once and for all. Additional FridgeBrilliance if one take this as the crashing of the EternalRecurrence StableTimeLoop from ''Radiant Silvergun'', which essentially means Shinra and Kagari more or less ''broke time apart''.
* It is entirely possible to [[PacifistRun beat each chapter without firing a single shot or even getting hit]], thanks to the polarity system allowing you to absorb otherwise-unsurvivable attacks. Doing a chapter without firing earns you the rank of ''Dot Eater''.