Line #13 VideoGame/Panzermadels


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Panzer Vor!]]
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4	'''Panzermadels''' is a DatingSim game by DEVGRU-P. In the game, you play as [[UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel Erwin]] [[SdrawkcabName Lemmor]], an aspiring military officer who discovers the "Tank School" he enrolled in is not a school that will teach him how to operate a tank, but rather a school ''for'' tanks, all of which take the form of teenage girls.
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6	Not to be confused with ComicBook/TankGirl.
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8	!!The game provides examples of:
9	* TwentyFourHourArmor: Heartmann is never seen outside of uniform, not even at a ''hot spring''. He justifies himself claiming that after a while, your uniform becomes a second skin in an [=NCO's=] mind.
10	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Parodied: [[spoiler:Erwin is repeatedly flabbergasted and disbelieving of the concept of Tank Girls... despite his country currently being at war with ''Plane'' Girls who even claimed his father's life.]]
11	* BuxomBeautyStandard: The girls' height is based upon the relative height of their real-life counterparts, but their armor+armament is reflected in the size of their assets.
12	* DatingSim: The gameplay.
13	* DevelopersForesight: The phone numbers the girls give out have pre-recorded messages, as Creator/TeamFourStar [[https://youtu.be/d60BvpsfkSk?t=6m17s found out]].
14	* DisproportionateRetribution: Lemmor makes fun of Heartmann in class by asking him how he likes to penetrate tanks. [[spoiler: He retaliates by making Lemmor practice 'angling his armor' to deflect a live 75-76mm HE artillery shell fired at point blank range.]]
15	* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Lemmor is an ordinary human man surrounded by anthropomorphic tanks. T-34 is the lightest tank girl, and even she accidentally hurts him by squeezing his hand when startled "with the force of a medium tank". When they first meet, Tiger ''knocks Lemmor unconscious'' by running into him in the hallway. [[spoiler: The 'good' ending, in which Lemmor dies "riding tanks", implies that he fell afoul of this trope.]]
16	* DoubleEntendre: In the DownerEnding below, [[spoiler:it is mentioned that Erwin died doing what he loved: ''riding'' tanks]].
17	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Regardless of which girl Erwin picks, he is later court-martialed for his relationship, sentenced to a penal battalion and eventually dies in combat. Unless he picks IS-2, in which case she either ends up blowing him and herself up with a grenade or her not showing up to cadet court and he ends up being executed.]]
18	* DrillSergeantNasty: Gunny Sergeant Heartmann serve as such to poor Erwin.
19	* EmbarrassingNickname: T-34 seems to hate the name "Tee-Chan".
20	* FourthWallPsych: If you tell IS-2 that you've never been inside a tank, she responds with "Then why are you playing this game?" When Erwin acts confused, she adds "This game where you wait to ask me if I want to get a drink with you."
21	* GeniusBonus: Many, starting with one of Tiger's (many) gearboxes seizing up.
22	* {{Ghostapo}}: Parodied with the Occult Club managed by the German tanks.
23	* HiddenDepths: Gunny [[spoiler: knows French. Because 'it's the language of love'.]]
24	* HistoricalInJoke: In spades, starting with the opening quote by "Benito Putin, Prime Minister of Crimea."
25	* HugeSchoolgirl: Tiger, of course, and ISU-152.
26	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Lemmor only survives [[spoiler: Sherman genuinely trying to hit him with an HE shell because 'she couldn't hit the broad side of a barn'.]]
27	* MeetCute: Tiger and Lemmor meet in the infirmary, after she knocked him unconscious by running into him.
28	* ProneToTears: Tiger I, since she's been known to "break down a lot."
29	* PropagandaMachine: The Russian tanks have turned the school paper into the literal second coming of ''Pravda''. Headlines include "Heroic Defender of the Motherland Drives Back Entire German Armored Division with Bayonet and Flag", "[[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin Putin]] Voted Best Religious Leader of the Past 3000 Years" and "136% of Crimeans Agree: Ukraine a Failed State, Secession Is the Answer".
30	* ProperlyParanoid: T-34 voices suspicions that her phone is tapped. [[spoiler: Given her background as a Soviet tank, and IS-2's friendliness with her Uncle Stalin and enthusiasm for Lemmor, she could be right.]]
31	* SdrawkcabName: Lemmor is [[UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel Rommel]] backwards.
32	* ShoutOut:
33	** T-34 might be a reference to [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} another Russian female "Tank" with pink hair]]...though probably not, considering that Zarya was revealed only a few days before Panzermadel's release.
34	** When Erwin crosses paths with the Sergeant at the surplus store, the latter paraphrases a line from ''WebVideo/AttackOnTitanAbridged'' by Creator/TeamFourStar. [=Takahata101=] of TFS was delightfully surprised to come across this during a Let's Play of ''Panzermadels''.
35	** Polish tank 7TP at one point laments [[Webcomic/{{Polandball}} "Poland can not into relevant" and later lists one of her exam answers as "into space".]]
36	** As shown in the page picture and its caption, the game's title uses a similar format, text colors, and tank silhouette as ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''.
37	* StalkerWithACrush: IS-2. [[spoiler: But 'only' for six city blocks.]]
38	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The food at [[BlandNameProduct King Donalds]] seems to be the thing for M4 Sherman.
39	* {{Yandere}}: IS-2.

Context VideoGame / Panzermadels