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''Super Robot Wars Quest'' is a currently finished [[{{Gamebooks}} Quest Thread]] written on Website/FourChan's /m/ board by Sciencegar Sciencebolt. The threads are archived under the [[http://teamphantomtiger.blogspot.com/2010/02/srw-quest-sciencegar-sciencebolt-joint.html Team Phantom Tiger Blog]] [[note]]Protip: Use your browser's find function and search for "Sciencegar Sciencebolt" to skip over the trolls and most of the commentary[[/note]], with cleaned up version of the first half [[https://www.penflip.com/NHOrus/srwq-compilation/ here]] and are commonly discussed on the Rizon#musouquest IRC channel. For those of you looking to catch up without slogging through the suggestions and trolling, cleaned-up archives are under construction on [[http://s7.invisionfree.com/Super_Robot_Wars_Q/index.php its own message board]] as well.

''Super Robot Wars Quest'' (colloquially, SRWQ) follows the story of the [[MirrorUniverse Shadow Mirror]] version of [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Katina Tarask]] as she attempts to survive the series of events that occur after a failed attempt by the [[WarForFunAndProfit Shadow Mirrors]] to invade the Original Generation universe.

The story is split into two "discs". Disc One opens with the [[CuteAndPsycho psychotically]] {{Tsundere}} [[ElegantGothicLolita frilly-dressed]] Katina Tarask taking part in the attack upon the Tesla-Leicht institute as part of the Shadow Mirror, as seen in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2'', when events diverge and the Original Generation cast instead invades the Shadow Mirror Universe. Events escalate as the Shadow Mirror forces are scattered and under attack from both the [[BodyHorror corrupted]] [[GovernmentConspiracy EFA]] and the Irregulars from the Original Generation universe. Katina's group picks up the SuperRobot [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Raioh]], which becomes Katina's main mech, and its [[TransformingMecha transformable support mech]], the DGG-XAM-04, controlled by an A.I. known as the Dynamic Unlimited Military Intelligence, or Dumi, for short. Eventually, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Dumi is in fact the Shadow Mirror Verse's version of [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsReversal Duminass]], sent to search for the Compatible Kaiser. Together with Katina's help, he plans a way for him to disobey his master [[CosmicHorror Dark Brain's]] orders: to create a new universe out of shards of universes Dark Brain has already destroyed, with the Kaiser at the middle.]]

The currently running Disc 2 opens with Katina waking up in an unfamiliar location, [[spoiler:and follows Katina's attempt to find her allies that have been scattered across the Patchwork, while at the same time attempting to prevent any more pointless wars by uniting the disparate factions from the shards.]]

!!Series Prominently Featured in Disc 2, via either direct importation of elements or [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Grail War]] participants:
* ''Anime/TheBigO''
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''
* ''Anime/{{Dangaioh}}''
* ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'' / ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' (Grail War Participants. Kurou as Master, Al Azif as Archer.)
* ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'' / ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure Adventure 01]]''
* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar''
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' (and the other {{Kaiju}}, as part of an Sciencegar original verse called [[MeaningfulName Toholon]] that he used for an RP elsewhere)
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' (Grail War Participants. Domon as Master, Allenby as Berserker.) [[spoiler:There are in fact at least two separate G verses in the Patchwork, given that Master Asia was from a universe where Domon was female.]]
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' (Grail War Participants. Duo as Master, Hilde as Lancer.) [[spoiler:There are in fact at least two separate Wing verses in the Patchwork, given the Maganac group was not from the same one as Duo or Quatre.]]
* ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]] / Anime/TurnAGundam''
* ''Anime/GunXSword'' (Grail War Participants. Van as Master, Wendy as Saber.)
* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell''
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' (''[[Manga/KamenRiderSpirits Spirits]]'' incarnations of Showa Riders, use of Rider Gears from ''[[Series/KamenRider555 555]]'')
* ''Anime/MacrossII'', ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}'', and ''[[Anime/MacrossPlus Plus]]''
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (Grail War Participants. Shinji as Master, Asuka as Caster.)
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' (actually introduced in Disc 1 as SM!Verse counterparts, and one of the first set of characters introduced not based on Banpresto Originals)
* ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos''
* ''[[Manga/GetterRobo Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo / Getter Robo Armageddon]]''
* Franchise/SuperSentai / Franchise/PowerRangers (multiple homebrewed [[ThePsychoRangers Psycho Ranger]] teams, plus /m/'s ''Tetsujin Sentai [=GunRanger=]'')
** Including a lone Sentai hero known as Fallout. Since his mech is called ''Dogmeat'', it's clear [[Franchise/{{Fallout}} what he's based on]]
* ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' (Grail War participants. D-Boy as Master, Aki as Assassin)
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats''
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''
* ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}''
* [[OriginalGeneration /m/ Originals]] (''Orbit Exceeder Kerkeyion'', ''Project ENIS'', ''Tetsujin Sentai [=GunRanger=]'')
* Banpresto Originals (''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'', ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact3'' (via GenderFlip)), EXCEPTING ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'' because its battle style doesn't jive well with Sciencegar
!!Series Not-so-prominently featured, or tentatively confirmed:

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop''
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}''
* ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners''
* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork''
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX''
* ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamSeedAstray''
* ''Anime/{{Godannar}}''
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''
* ''Film/{{Tron}}''
* ''VideoGame/VirtualOn''
* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''
* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders''
* /m/ Originals (competitor /m/quest's Lydia confirmed as part of the Kerkeyion faction, while IRC has discussed importing Static Gundams from the Roleplay/MusouVerse)
** Also a verse [[OriginalGeneration established just for this Quest Thread]] featuring [[MechanicalLifeforms sentient]] VideoGame/EndlessFrontier-sized versions of all SRW original mecha, not unlike ''Anime/SDGundamForce'', except no human characters.

!!This Quest provides examples of:
* AccidentalTruth: In order to get back into the good graces with the other escaping Shadow Mirrors, SM!Katina asks Dumi to relay to the others that The School literally messed with her head, which is why she broke down while interrogating OG!Arado. [[spoiler:Unknown to her then, The School really did mess with her head in order to make her more docile. It just didn't work.]]
* ApocalypseHow: For many of the shards brought into the Patchwork, Dark Brain used events that would merely devastate planets and amplified the effects to shatter entire universes. (e.g. [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Duo and Hilde's]] universe was destroyed using a [[ColonyDrop giant spaceship crashing into Earth]].) [[spoiler:This doesn't apply to the shard that will feature the Anime/GaoGaiGar cast, as their shard they're from is the replacement universe the 11 Planetary Masters of Sol was constructing in FINAL.]]
* AprilFoolsDay: Instead of the continuing adventures of SM!Katina, readers found themselves choosing the fate of Alt!Katina in the OG verse. This turns out to be SM!Katina's AdventuresInComaland. Sciencegar really got lucky with the timing here.
* AxCrazy: Pre- CharacterDevelopment Katina.
* BackFromTheDead: Arado and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars4 Lenonjayce]] were both brought back using Machine Cells. Also, it seems [[spoiler:Isamu may be less DeaderThanDead than was believed...]].
* BarrierWarrior: As the Grail War's Caster, Asuka/Unit 01 has much more diverse control over her AT Field, allowing her to use it for slicing things apart. Only problem is, it consumes mana now.
* BigBad: Dark Brain. Yukiko Date and Vindel Mauser are probably in the lineup too.
* BloodKnight: Pre-CharacterDevelopment Katina (especially when affected by the LIOH system), most of the Shura.
* BreakTheCutie: Katina's School days basically amount to this. The same goes for Seolla.
* BrainBleach: Upon seeing [[{{Gonk}} Magnaz Ald's]] GenderSwap counterpart, Maraj. [[spoiler:It's just Magnaz with [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson's hairdo]]]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler: It turns out that the Grail War is an experiment by Database, and the Warrior is forced to become the war's moderator.]]
* BrickJoke / HilariousInHindsight: During a early disk one chapter someone says something about Duminass having a retarded hillbilly cousin. cue us finding out that this fic's SRW W universe was destroyed by such.
* ButtMonkey: Irm.
* CameBackWrong: Lenonjayce, after undergoing the W-Number creation process combined with the False Machine Cells, ends up being forced to repeatedly relive his last moments, due to how the False Machine Cells function. SM!Arado avoids this due to his Anti-Psychodriver nature and training.
* CanonImmigrant: The Easter Special variant of competitor [=/m/quest=]'s Lydia...as a nanite-augmented "[[Anime/CuteyHoney Cutie Bunny]]" teaming up with the ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'' versions of the Showa Riders.
* CharacterDevelopment: Katina has gone from a psychotic molester only interested in killing and raping to someone who truly strives for peace...and (mostly) consensual liaisons, if her matchmaking efforts as of late bear fruit.
* ChildSoldier: Latooni, Seolla and Shine.
* [[spoiler: ColonyDrop: Big enough to wipe a country off of the map.]]
* {{Cyberspace}}: One of the shards in the Patchwork consist of this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Latooni and [[VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} Al Azif]].
* DepravedBisexual: Katina, [[CharacterDevelopment at least at the start]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dear god, the Katina/Alfimi fight.
* {{Doujinshi}}: A couple cutaways have been turned into [[{{Lemon}} spinoff fapfic]] by [[Tropers/HakenBrowning a certain project co-conspirator]]. Not so pervy are a few glimpses into other potential Shards of Disc 2's Patchwork, including ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', and an EarlyBirdCameo version of the ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' good guys from another fanfic entirely.
* DreadfulMusician: Whatever you do, do NOT let Katina near a microphone.
* EnemyCivilWar: Between the Anti-Alien SRX Faction and the Einst-corrupted First And Only Faction of the EFA. At the beginning it's merely a EnforcedColdWar, which is why SM!Kai Kitamura joins the Shadow Mirrors, in hopes that the Shadow Mirrors and the OG cast can spark a full blown one.
* EnemyMine: The Shadow Mirrors and the OG verse heroes band together in order to survive the EFA's attack. Later Vindel's faction of Shadow Mirrors ally themselves with SM!SRX in order to counter the First and Only.
* EmotionEater: The False Cells are powered by negative emotions. When used on humans they will inflict mental suffering to ensure a continued flow. On mechs however merely being in combat will allow it to strengthen and evolve. It's been confirmed that the False Cells are essentially [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Zonder Metal]].
* EroticDream: [[CasanovaWannabe Jamie]] dreams of Faruko, SM!Katina, and SM!Kusuha showering together. Due to the Anti-Psychodrivers' limited ability to see each other's thoughts, this ends up being SM!Katina's dream.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A recent Elsewhere finds us face-to-face with an indignant Yukiko Date, disgusted with what she's found out about The School [[spoiler:amidst its integration into the [=SMverse=]'s SRX Project]]. Apparently the SRWQ Agilla Setme being as horrible as the canon version can cheese off someone who can telepathically hijack a CombiningMecha from halfway around the world.
* ExpendableALternateUniverse: In regards to the canon-OG characters prioritizing saving their world. But it turns out that [[YouCantGoHomeAgain they can't return to their universe]], due to the massive TimeParadox they just inflicted.
* EyepatchOfPower: Kai (Who is totally not [[VideoGame/MetalGear Big Boss]]).
* FixFic: [[spoiler:According to the planning for Disc 2, Dumi's gathering of the Shards undoes the BittersweetEnding of [=GaoGaiGar=] FINAL, as the [[LoadBearingBoss collapsing universe]] the [=GutsyGalaxyGuard=] was trapped in becomes one of the shards, making this a literal DeusExMachina rescue for them.]]
* FreudianSlip: Katina comes out with one during her torture session with OG!Arado
* FunWithAcronyms: Dumi, which stands for '''Dynamic Unlimited Military Intelligence'''. [[spoiler:[[BlatantLies It most definitely isn't short for Duminass 7, no siree.]]]]
* GambitPileup: Such a clusterfuck, even the [[http://teamphantomtiger.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-stop-conspiracy-chart-shop.html chart used to map it out]] is impenetrable. The chart for the second disc is slowly getting that way too.
* GargleBlaster: [[TheAlcoholic SM!Kusuha's]] version of the legendary health drink is in fact an incredibly alcoholic cocktail.
* GenderFlip / RuleSixtyThree: The entirety of the [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact3 Shura]]. Folka Albark is instead Faruko Albark, for example. They are also happened to be lead by Queen [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Arcueid]] [[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier Naash]]. Also The Treasure Snipers' [[Anime/MazingerZ Kojiko Kabuto]].
* GroinAttack: After OG!Excellen frees herself from Beowulf's grasp, she vaporizes the Alt Eisen Nacht's crotch.
* GunboatDiplomacy: [[VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos Secretary of State Michael Wilson's]] preferred method of countering the Shura's siege on several [[Anime/TheBigO domed cities]] that sprang up near Washington in the Patchwork.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The SM!Cry Wolves were wiped out after seeing the Einst-upgraded SM!ATX team in action.
* ItsAllMyFault: Akane Ardygun blamed herself for the destruction of her universe until SM!Katina revealed Dark Brain's involvement.
* {{Kaiju}}: The Toholon Shard is based around this trope.
* MadScientist: Shu, and oddly ''[[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR Coop]]'' of all people.
* MageKiller: Katina, Arado and [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR Jamie]] are Anti-Psychodrivers, beings who have an aura which overpowers Psychodriver abilities and causes discomfort to Psychodrivers in their presence. It also acts to help them [[PsychicBlockDefense prevent]] {{Brainwashing}} (demonstrated quite well during [[spoiler:Katina's diversionary strike against a [[Anime/MacrossPlus Sharon Apple-hijacked Macross City]]]]).
* {{Malaproper}}: Katina has become quite infamous for getting the more Japanese names wrong.
* MegaCrossover: The nature of the second arc, as it becomes more like the non-OG ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games, featuring characters from notable HumongousMecha series, other original /m/ creations like Project ENIS, and even a couple Mecha-less series.
* MindRape:
** What Yukiko Date does to Carla when she takes control of the SRX. From halfway around the world.
** Beowulf reacts like this happened to him after he and OG!Excellen link their minds via Einst tentacles. So does Excellen, and she's the one who initiated the link in self-defense.
* MirrorMatch: Averted. OG!Kyosuke and Beowulf do not go one-on-one. Beowulf actually focuses on OG!Excellen instead due to her Einst upgrades. This leads to the above "MindRape" and GroinAttack.
* MirrorUniverse: Many of the Shadow Mirror characters are definitely [[NotAsYouKnowThem different characters]] from their canon OG counterparts. A difference would be Archibald Grimms, who is not a monster of a terrorist.
* MoralityPet: Dumi and Katina are this for each other.
* MoreDakka: Ibis
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Arado is a cyborg zombie super-soldier.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The leaders of the First and Only, a faction of Einst that decided to subvert humanity from within. [[spoiler:Apparently, they're doing this in an attempt to hide from the rest of the Einst.]]
* OhCrap: The crew of the Hagane when they realize MAPW(a missile more powerful than a nuclear bomb) they fired at SM!Katina's group was sent back to them via teleportation.
* OriginalGeneration: The DGG-XAM-04, all the [[MauveShirt Ensign *ickeys]].
* PatrioticFervor: [[Manga/GetterRobo Jack King]] and [[VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos Secretary of State Micheal Wilson]].
* PimpedOutDress: Katina's [[strike:School]] Everywhere uniform.
* PosthumousCharacter: Arado, before he was brought BackFromTheDead.
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic (Wo)manchild]]: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Alt!Katina]] killing dozens of people by casually throwing a PT scale snowball at them.
* ThePsychoRangers: More in the literal sense, with the appearance of ''Psycho Sentai Murderanger''. And they're not the only evil Ranger team among the shards.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: One of SM!Katina's goals in Disc 2, after her teammates [[InvoluntaryGroupSplit end up all over the patchwork]]. [[spoiler:Thanks to [[Anime/TheBigO the Memory of Schwartzwald]]'s dying revelations, she's accounted for all but three out of a dozen]].
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The SM!SRX unit.
* RedBaron: Katina is known as "The Thunderous Fury", Shu is the self proclaimed "Scientific Saviour of Earth".
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The motivations of the OG!verse characters. Some time after the events of ''Original Generation Gaiden'', they learned that Dark Brain was definitely far from defeated, due to the fact he was a multi-dimensional entity. Since Dark Brain could not exist in the OG!verse, he attacked their universe by tossing in pieces of other universes, threatening the stability of the OG verse, via another universe. This turns out to be the Shadow Mirror verse, as it forged a link with the OG!verse when the Shadow Mirrors originally invaded. Therefore the main goal of Gilliam and his allies are to prevent the Shadow Mirrors from making their jump in the first place.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: As well as the one found on the Raioh, Katina gets scarves for both herself and the R-Blade made of [[Manga/GetterRobo G-Eta Alloy]]. Both can turn into a sword.
* ShrinkingViolet: Seolla.
* SpecialEffectFailure: [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW The Database's Arm Arcus Finis's]] somehow are this trope InUniverse.
* SuperSoldier: Katina, Arado, Latooni, Seolla, Ouka and Shine all come from the Shadow Mirror version of The School. Arado contends that his OG counterpart got "the pussy version of The School."
* TakeAThirdOption: Almost the entirety of the first disc was inspired by Sciencegar being presented with a deadlock over whether to go through with the jump to the Original Generations universe or abandon it to further explore the Shadow Mirror world. So he threw the former at the latter instead and blamed it on [[strike:[[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade]]]] [[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier Haken]]. WhatCouldHaveBeen was later seen in an April Fool's special, showing Katina's group arrive in the OG-verse in time for the start of the DC war.
* TheAlcoholic: Kusuha and Nozumi. [[{{Oireland}} Russel]] is joked to be one, but is a lightweight compared to the previous two.
* TheGlomp: Post-CharacterDevelopment Katina tends to use this a lot.
* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: The [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Grail War]] is supposed to go this way. Katina chooses to TakeAThirdOption.
* {{Tsundere}}: Or in Katina's case, [[FanNickname Psychodere]].
->"S-stupid EFA pilot! It's not like I hate you or anything...I JUST LOVE THE SOUND YOUR FLESH MAKES AS IT'S RENT IN BETWEEN THE SCRAP LEFT IN YOUR UNIT!"
* UnexpectedCharacter: There are Shadow Mirror versions of characters whose games will not be featured in the OG series according to [[WordOfGod Banpresto]]. Namely ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars64'' and ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Z}}2''.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Servants in this Grail War are given the ability to transform into mecha, specifically the mecha their Master is known for piloting.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The False Machine Cells will lead to this, which is why Katina wants to form a splinter faction of Shadow Mirrors in order to develop a safe alternative. The Patchwork universe was to be used as a getaway from the SM verse so the Machine Cells can be perfected in peace... in theory.
* WorldSundering: The fusion of universes destroyed by Dark Brain into a complete [[PatchworkMap patchwork universe]].
* WorthyOpponent: Alfimi seems to see Katina as this.
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