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** It's revealed in chapter 2 that Rothcall is his last name and Phobos is a code name he prefers to go by. Black★Rock Shooter is also a code name, B★RS's true name is later revealed to be Stella

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** It's revealed in chapter Chapter 2 that Rothcall is his last name and Phobos is a code name he prefers to go by. Black★Rock Shooter is also a code name, B★RS's true name is later revealed to be Stella
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* EscortMission: One of [[spoiler: Nana EX missions.]] If an enemy, ANY enemy touches the escortee, [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou it's instant Game Over]]. Also made more aggravating by the fact that [[spoiler: Nana is faking insanity and [[TooDumbToLive walks straight into enemies while weaponless]].]]

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* EscortMission: One of [[spoiler: Nana [[spoiler:Nana EX missions.]] If an enemy, ANY enemy touches the escortee, [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou it's instant Game Over]]. Also made more aggravating by the fact that [[spoiler: Nana [[spoiler:Nana is faking insanity and [[TooDumbToLive walks straight into enemies while weaponless]].]]



* NewGamePlus: [[spoiler: It's also required to get the better ending.]]

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* NewGamePlus: [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's also required to get the better ending.]]



* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Pretty much ''everyone''! AllAccordingToPlan by White★Rock Shooter herself.]]

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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Pretty [[spoiler:Pretty much ''everyone''! AllAccordingToPlan by White★Rock Shooter herself.]]
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* AdaptationExpansion: In the extra story at the end of the second volume, MEFE's backstory is revealed. Back on her home planet, MEFE and some other female aliens were being gathered up for means of auction; to the aliens around them, the girls were nothing more than material to be nebladed. As one girl is brutally tested by one alien, MEFE loses her patience and kills the alien. She is immediately subdued... until White★Rock Shooter rescued her.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: MEFE and LLWO appear to be engaged. This is only shown for certain in the manga; in the game, it is not mentioned directly.
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* TwoKeyedLock: One mission in San Francisco requires a gate which must be opened simultaneously from both sides using two terminals. Rothcall is on standby on one side and you get to unlock the other.
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* GodzillaThreshold: Before the events of the game, humanity was still able to repel the first two waves of the alien invasion. However in 2051, the aliens began their 3rd wave of invasion with numbers of Armaments greater than the first two. On the 25th of September, the remaining 12 UEF members, who were also the last men on Earth, woke Stella 3 years earlier than planned due to the urgency of the situation.
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* AdaptationDeviation: Rothcall never wears his helmet in the manga, unlike in the game.
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* BrainUploading: In relation to the TransferrableMemory of the clones as mentioned above, the manga also shows [[spoiler:Nana Gray attempting to delete parts of Stella's memories that have no relation to combat. It fails, as Stella resists the command]].

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* BrainUploading: In relation to the TransferrableMemory TransferableMemory of the clones as mentioned above, the manga also shows [[spoiler:Nana Gray attempting to delete parts of Stella's memories that have no relation to combat. It fails, as Stella resists the command]].
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: The PSS members Jon, Koichi and Tohio are all dead before Stella woke up. They are still shown in the opening cutscene of the first stage but were [[TooDumbTooLive dumb enough]] to separate from the trailer where most of there team are.

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* WeHardlyKnewYe: The PSS members Jon, Koichi and Tohio are all dead before Stella woke up. They are still shown in the opening cutscene of the first stage but were [[TooDumbTooLive [[TooDumbToLive dumb enough]] to separate from the trailer where most of there team are.
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* FiveBadBand: The five characters shown fighting B★RS in the trailer. Dead Master is nowhere to be seen. They are actually called the ''Seven'' Apostles.
** MEFE, MZMA, SZZU and CKRY, XNFE, LLWO, SAHA - Seven in total. But still, if there were 15 with the invasion, not sure why only these Seven were important enough to be named like that.
*** If we put it this way, [[spoiler: along with White Rock Shooter]]:
** TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:White Rock Shooter]]
** BigBad: SAHA, he was said to be the leader.
** TheDragon: XNFE, she carried out at least some of the major attacks during the invasion.
** TheEvilGenius: SZZU, she is apparently the only one who's smart enough to understand humans and their emotions.
** TheBrute: CKRY, all that he says are grunts and roars. Which SZZU ''somehow'' can understand. And MZMA, who likes to boast and fight recklessly.
** TheDarkChick: MEFE and LLWO
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* EvolvingTitleScreen: Once you've unlocked the True Ending, the game's title screen background changes into a view of the blue sky. The background music also changes with it.
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** BiggerBad and TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:White Rock Shooter]]

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** BiggerBad and TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:White Rock Shooter]]
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* RedHerring: When Nana goes to fight [[spoiler:Sing Love alone, the next chapters imply that she has been nebladed by the latter (as seen when Sing Love has Nana's hair pin in her tongue). But after the final battle, SAHA sends Stella back to Earth, and the girl is crying tears of joy after seeing Nana just fine. True enough, it was only the hair pin that was taken by Sing Love from Nana, just so that she can intimidate Stella.]]
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* SingleStrokeBattle: Stella only uses a single slash when surrounded by XNFE's drones, destroying them all with the shockwave. It is implied that SZZU was the one who taught her this technique.
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* TransferableMemory: As a result of the clone's degraded memory capacity, Professor Gibson managed to research and accomplish a device called a Memory Unit that would store and copy someone's memory, and that the subject may be able to retrieve the information by sleeping inside the Memory Unit naked until the process is complete.


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* BrainUploading: In relation to the TransferrableMemory of the clones as mentioned above, the manga also shows [[spoiler:Nana Gray attempting to delete parts of Stella's memories that have no relation to combat. It fails, as Stella resists the command]].
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* BreakThemByTalking: White★Rock Shooter does this to Nana by telling her as nothing but an ExpendableClone.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Stella introduces herself as a TransferStudent in "Black★Rock School", she explains how the franchise came to be an that she is an incarnation of Black★Rock Shooter.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Stella introduces herself as a TransferStudent NewTransferStudent in "Black★Rock School", she explains how the franchise came to be an that she is an incarnation of Black★Rock Shooter.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Stella introduces herself as a TransferStudent in "Black★Rock School", she explains how the franchise came to be an that she is an incarnation of Black★Rock Shooter.


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* HighSchoolAU: The 4-koma "Black★Rock School" is set in a classroom with the Apostles and Stella as the students and Rothcall as their teacher.


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* {{Yonkoma}}: Chapter 6.5 titled "Black★Rock School" is drawn in this format.
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* AnswerCut: When a confused SSZU theorizes who is the alien leading the surprise attack on Antarctica when the remaining Apostles should be at their posts, the next panel shows White★Rock Shooter's empty table, and she appears right behind SZZU on the succeeding panel.
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* DistressCall: The PSS and Stella travel to Antarctica after receiving a distress call from there, hoping that they discover human survivors. It is implied to be coming from SZZU and CKRY whom the Draco picked up on the way. After explaining their plans of a coup d'etat, the siblings [[EnemyMine sided]] with the PSS, but strangely enough, they all "continue" with the search for the one who sent the signal and remained in Antarctica for 2 months.
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* EnemyMine: XNFE, SZZU and CKRY incite a coup d'etat against White Rock Shooter under the former's orders, with fear that WRS will still kill them no matter how loyal they are to her. The siblings successfully sided with the PSS in order to train Stella's combat abilities.
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* InTheBack: SZZU slashes MZMA from behind just before he can fire his sniper towards Stella.


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* MythologyGag: When asked if she is hungry, Stella mentions that all she needs is a Repairer, which are healing items found in the game.


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** MZMA copies Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's last words by saying "Friends applaud, the comedy is..." just before he dies at the hands of SZZU.
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** "Hell's Vengeance Boils in my Heart" - ''[[Theatre/TheMagicFlute]]''

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** "Hell's Vengeance Boils in my Heart" - ''[[Theatre/TheMagicFlute]]''''Theatre/TheMagicFlute''
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* ShoutOut: Being a [[TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson fan]] of Western pop culture, MZMA occasionally slips in some quotes from anything he watched.
** "What is Life without the Radiance of Love" - ''[[Theatre/{{Wallenstein}} Wallenstein's Death]]''
** "Hell's Vengeance Boils in my Heart" - ''[[Theatre/TheMagicFlute]]''
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* GoryDiscretionShot: MEFE gets impaled by Stella's long blade by the neck. And blood spurts around a pitch black shadow.
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* IronicEcho: This exchange between Stella and MEFE, when the former counters with a surprise attack against the latter's surprise attack.
-->'''MEFE''':You tricked me!\\
'''Stella''':You tricked me first.
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* BloodlessCarnage: Justified for the Armaments since they are purely made out metal and act like machines. But for the humanoid characters like the PSS, Apostles, and the Grays, there are no rendered blood regardless of how they get badly damaged, even in cutscenes.


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* BloodierAndGorier: In contrast to the game's BloodlessCarnage, there are scenes with showering blood, impalement, dismemberment, twisted limbs, etc...
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!!Tropes found in the manga adaptation of this game:

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Separating Game and Manga tropes, just like the anime


* AllThereInTheManual:
** A booklet from the limited edition of the game details several events and plot that happened before the start of the game, mostly on the alien invasion, and the cloning timeline project of Professor Gibson and the UEF.
** The manga adaptation also expands parts of the story, most of which come from the perspectives of the Seven Apostles, as well as background events from the aliens that occur while Stella is fighting somewhere else.

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* AllThereInTheManual:
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AllThereInTheManual: A booklet from the limited edition of the game details several events and plot that happened before the start of the game, mostly on the alien invasion, and the cloning timeline project of Professor Gibson and the UEF.
** The manga adaptation also expands parts of the story, most of which come from the perspectives of the Seven Apostles, as well as background events from the aliens that occur while Stella is fighting somewhere else.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The manga of this game. A 12+ hour of campaign into 13 manga chapters? While it manages to [[AdaptationExpansion expand some dialogue and change scenes]] for new character backstories and relationships, the manga trims down the fat of exposition speak from the game, as well as eliminating a lot of story-related encounters with Armaments.


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!!Tropes found in the manga adaptation of this game:
* AllThereInTheManual: The manga adaptation also expands parts of the game's side story, most of which come from the perspectives of the Seven Apostles, as well as background events from the aliens that occur while Stella is fighting somewhere else.
* CompressedAdaptation: The manga of this game. A 12+ hour of campaign into 13 manga chapters? While it manages to [[AdaptationExpansion expand some dialogue and change scenes]] for new character backstories and relationships, the manga trims down the fat of exposition speak from the game, as well as eliminating a lot of story-related encounters with Armaments.
* EpisodeZeroTheBeginning: The first chapter is a prologue titled "Record#00" detailing MEFE's perspective and backstory from the alien planet.
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* ChargedAttack: Of the "Collect" type. The Striker guns on the Black Trike require you to fill up a [[ChargeMeter meter]] by defeating Armaments before the guns can be used.

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