History Fanfic / ErikaTheRadical

--->"You know, I guess one person can make a difference. [[CatchPhrase Nuff said.]]"

* TheInfiltration: Partially inspired by Yukari, the Kuromorimine gang lead by Erika decides to spy on St. Gloriana's schoolship before their match in Season 2. [[HilarityEnsues It goes as well as you'd expect]].

* LoveDodecahedron: Erika finds herself in one. Chief of her affections would be Maho Nishizumi, who is willing to return her feelings, albeit in very awkward baby steps and gets visibly jealous when other girls make moves on Erika. Erika also yearns to make amends to Miho, who had saved her life before, only to realize some hidden romantic feelings for her as well. Karen Nakahashi's charisma also attracts Erika's attention and in turn also realizes her own infatuation with Erika. Koume Akaboshi and Leila Rou both figure out their feelings for Erika, who were all former crewmates in that fateful Panzer III. Not to mention both Erika and Koume's respective [[UnwantedHarem fan clubs]]. Being the type of fic that it is, HilarityEnsues and it is all PlayedForLaughs.

* BizarroEpisode: Invoked in Season 1 Chapter 10. It is a series of troll MultipleEndings and WhatIf variations of events akin to an episode of ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded''. Highlights include an alternate opening where Oorai loses, closes down and [[CerebusSyndrome Miho disappearing forever]], Maho [[HappilyEverAfter accepting]] Erika's confession and practically [[UpToEleven marrying on the spot]], Erika confessing to Miho instead and the last one being of ''extremely'' questionable taste. [[spoiler: Erika confessing to ''[[StacysMom Shiho Nishizumi]]'' and them getting married after the end through InsaneTrollLogic. Maho, being so done with her mom's shit goes and joins Miho in Oorai.]]

* CastFullOfGay: Almost all the named characters from Kuromorimine seem to have some [[SchoolgirlLesbians preference for the fairer sex]], with the exception of first-year student Lotte Siskin who offhandedly mentions that she has a boyfriend. Alisa from Saunders is also aggressively hetero for her canon love interest, an unseen boy named Takeshi.

* EveryoneIsGay: Almost all the named characters from Kuromorimine seem to have some [[SchoolgirlLesbians preference for the fairer sex]], with the exception of first-year student Lotte Siskin who offhandedly mentions that she has a boyfriend.
** Alisa from Saunders is also aggressively hetero for her canon love interest, an unseen boy named Takeshi.

* OneMarioLimit: There is a sailor student in Kuromorimine's naval division named Obama Kobayakawa, and everyone who meets her for the first time brings up the more [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama popular one]] in comparison, to the latter's annoyance.
--> "[[MemeticMutation Thanks Obama]]"

* GreenEyedMonster: Erika gets ''very'' jealous to anyone that shows any kind of affection to Maho Nishizumi.

** Season 2 - Episode 11: Several Kuromorimine students (, ''especially Elena'') are excited to wear the tournament-sponsored, Wehrmacht-inspired costumes for their match against Saunders - St. Gloriana's, even complementing on the otherwise historically accurate markings ([[NoSwastikas sans Swastikas]], of course).

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In Season 2 - Episode 11, we have '''Frau Black''' - a dark, sadistic, twisted parody of what was once the sweet, mild-mannered, soft-spoken girl called [[spoiler:''Orange Pekoe'']] after [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Elena]] was done with her "[[BreakTheCutie re-conditioning]]". Despite the horrifying implications of the previous sentence, ''this event is still played for laughs''.

* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Alisa was having an idyllic dream imagining her love interest Takeshi as her prince, with her finally asking him out..... which is abruptly ruined by Kay rudely kicking her room's door open.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Karen gives one to Erika regarding the failings of the Nishizumi-style and why she organized the coup. Mainly about how the school insists on enforcing their rigid, strict style onto their practitioners resulting in blindly obedient soldiers with no sense of initiative or individuality. She credits Miho for opening her eyes ''twice'' about how more important it is to have fun in sensha-do instead of doing it for a emotionless name.

* StartsStealthilyEndsLoudly: In Season 2, Kuromorimine's spy mission into St. Gloriana starts with a quiet infiltration via swamp (somehow) and ends guns blazing with a vehicular chase via a stolen Churchill Mk VII and double-decker-bus.

* ThanksForTheMammary: Erika accidentally (''of course,'') does this to [[spoiler:Darjeeling]] when she falls atop of her after trying to escape.

** Kuromorimine stea- *ahem*, ''acquires'' a Churchill Mk VII from St. Gloriana's, designating it as the ''"Kampfpanzer Churchill"'', repainting it with Kuromorimine markings, then assigns it to Erika and her crew, joined by the newly minted Frau Black, [[spoiler:a post-{{Brainwashing}} Orange Pekoe]].
* WallPinOfLove: Anchovy, who at the time [[MakesSenseInContext thinks is the real Benito Mussolini]] tries to aggressively hit on Cadenza using this technique.

** In Season 2 - Chapter 10, Elena inspects a recently-kidnapped Orange Pekoe and compliments her on her "Aryan" features (blue eyes, blonde hair, facial structure, etc) before bring her elsehere to do.... ''something''....

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:It was Miho who '''begged''' Karen to sit out the fateful 61st Nationals when the latter was down with the flu but wanted to go anyway. It was this act of genuine concern and care that led Karen to ''listen'' to her commander rather than blindly ''obeying'', which motivates Karen's actions in Season 1.]]

* CacophonyCoverUp: As seen in BattleInTheRain above, the rebel forces uses the downpour to cover the sounds of their movement. Erika loses this advantage when the rain conveniently stops before her turn at fighting Karen, but she improvises by using a Hanomag armored half-track loaded with [[LoudOfWar loudspeakers]] to cover up the sounds [[spoiler:of her scout vehicles moving through enemy positions as well as her Elefant tank destroyers being pushed by heavy-duty moving trucks onto a elevated position]]. The music in question? Music/RideOfTheValkyries of course.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Leila Rou, a former member of Erika's Panzer III crew who is overjoyed at the opportunity to fight alongside her again, even forgiving the latter for the rude words that caused them to drift apart in the first place.

!This fan work contains examples of:

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Parodied. White Boar is an actual Native American transfer student in the Saunders Airlift Division who [[TontoTalk speaks]] and behaves like a very stereotypical caricature of her people.

* MomentKiller: A passionate confession between Leila and Sheska is broken and lampshaded by an oblivious Cadenza and Kai.

* OldShame: In-universe version. Miho's old Tiger I had been repaired and ready for action since the end of the 62nd Sensha-do tournament, but the team superstitiously refuse to use it for anything due to the events and person associated with it.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Huguette Steiglitz, a former Kuromorimine ''super''-delinquent who transferred to Saunders thanks to the actions of the previous "Bastards" from Saunders. [[CaptainErsatz Sound]] [[Film/IngloriousBasterds familiar?]]

** Some of the engineers talk about how Tsuneo Nishizumi was the engineering prodigy who created a guide on how to successfully convert Panzer 38(t) light tanks into the Hetzer tank destroyer configuration despite being historically inaccurate and impossible.

* TournamentArc: Season 2 is framed like this. In a twist, the participants of the Round Table are not officially fighting for any trophies as they are really only there to test the island's facilities and their own off-season performance (akin to players beta testing a video game). Everyone still wants to give their best against each another though and with the added twist of there being no enforcement of official Sensha-do rules and some incentive rewards, the participants quickly show the world how [[SerialEscalation wacky and insane their matches could escalate into]].

'''Girls und Panzer - Erika the Radical''' is a ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' fanfiction written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/10702608/zaochron333 zaochron333]] that focuses on supporting character Erika Itsumi and the girls of Kuromorimine Women's Academy after the canon events of the 63rd National Sensha-do Championships.

After witnessing yet another loss at the hands of Miho Nishizumi and her unique style during the 63rd Sensha-do Nationals, Head of Kuromorimine Shino Nishizumi comes to the conclusion that her famed Nishizumi-style has fallen behind the times and with her daughter Maho due for graduation, chooses Erika Itsumi to be the new Commander to the Kuromorimine Sensha-do team. Not only that, she is also given the daunting task of [[TitleDrop radically]] altering the very principles of the Nishizumi-ryu in order to bring Kuromorimine back to the victory lap. Enlisting the help of both old and new friends, Erika will make a startling discovery of what her own Sensha-do is, and what it really means to follow her heart, be it in tankery or her personal love life.

** It comes to a head in the end of chapter 8 in S2, where she starts LaughingMad upon hearing the [[HistoryRepeats Saunders - St. Gloriana's]] challenge, and declaring that, "Finally... we have returned."
* AscendedExtra: Many background characters from Kuromorimine get names, characterization and a bigger spotlight than the main series. Aside from original characters, Komue Akaboshi is appointed Vice-Commander of the team after Erika's ascension to Commander.

* BizarroEpisode: Season 1 Chapter 10. It is a series of troll MultipleEndings and WhatIf variations of events akin to an episode of ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded''. Highlights include an alternate opening where Oorai loses, closes down and [[CerebusSyndrome Miho disappearing forever]], Maho [[HappilyEverAfter accepting]] Erika's confession and practically [[UpToEleven marrying on the spot]], Erika confessing to Miho instead and the last one being of ''extremely'' questionable taste. [[spoiler: Erika confessing to ''[[StacysMom Shiho Nishizumi]]'' and them getting married after the end through InsaneTrollLogic. Maho, being so done with her mom's shit goes and joins Miho in Oorai.]]

** The author gives a heartfelt tribute to the late Creator/StanLee when Erika bumps into him disguised as a janitor after the battle with Bellwall Academy. Erika thanks him for the all the work he has done anyway.

** When BC Freedom – Maginot challenges Kuromorimine, the German engineers relentlessly joke about every stereotype of the trope, about how the French tanks might reverse faster than their own, the need to go around them and more. It is even invoked when several BC Freedom–Maginot elements do defect to Kuromorimine before the match, essentially recreating the Vichy–Free French split from WWII.

** [[spoiler:Later, Marie, Oshida and Andou's tanks defect to Kuromorimine when the Ribbion Warrior herself appears, the former being insulted by Shizuka Tsuruki's tankathalon style. Also, she just wanted to spite the French Alliance leaders for even hiring Shizuka, an outsider for the match.]]
* CityOnTheWater: Aside from the school ships, the Round Table introduced in Season 2 is a high-tech, purpose-built ''massive'' artificial island for grand-scale tankery matches, that also has luxurious living quarters, several hotels and mega malls built around the arena itself. Not to mention the ports that can dock ''several'' of the already huge school ships side-by-side. According to the author, the whole island is impossibly the size of 1/3 of the '''''[[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Australian continent]]'''''.

* {{Delinquents}}: Similar to Oorai, Kuromorimine's Naval Studies Department is apparently filled with these at the lower decks, in contrast to the highly disciplined nature of Kuromorimine and the practitioners of the Nishizumi-style.

* DrunkOnMilk: Erika's first trip to the Garden of Eden ends with her apparently going up on stage drunkenly leaking out her own ascension to the rank of commander, a LoveConfession to Maho Nishizumi and then ends with her karaoke singing (badly). As no alcohol was served at the bar, Karen suggests that she simply [[FakeHigh got high]] off the ''atmosphere'' then partied hard.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Erika's well-earned title, "the Radical" is this to her. Especially when given the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics "-sama"]] suffix.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Karen Nakahashi is apparently this among the Kuromorimine campus, to the point where Erika often compares her to a succubus with how easily the latter found the former attractive. Erika Itsumi and even Komue Akaboshi get fan clubs of their own once they are thrust into the leadership spotlight.

* GetOut: Erika says this as a final hit to the mob of Bellwall Academy hooligans that were trying to harass the Kuromorimine team, but had quickly found the tables turning on themselves instead.

* HumiliationConga: Inverted. Karen deals blow after blow to the Morals Disciplinary Committee during the attempted coup. First, she lures the ''Feldgendarmerie'' tanks into a series of [[DefensiveFeintTrap Defensive Feint Traps]] that are outside the realm of Sensha-do rules. The girls are tricked or forced out of their tanks by various means and their tanks are then hijacked and [[VehicularTurnabout turned on their former teammates]]. Their leader's tank falls into a pitfall and then swarmed by Karen's forces before being taken out. Abe and many of her many of her tankers are then stripped to their underwear in the cold freezing rainstorm and just simply left there.

* InsultBackfire: In Season 2 Chapter 5, Bellwall comes over to Kuromorimine's hanger to rile them up before the scheduled match. Unfortunately for them, every criticism they mentioned had already transpired and had been resolved during Karen's earlier coup, and the now-united Kuromorimine students rebuff every single one of their insults, to Bellwall's surprise.

* {{Irony}}: Haruna, like Yukari is a tank enthusiast, but unfortunately for her she also has severe claustrophobia.

** Karen kisses Erika in the epilogue of Season 1 and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness timidly declares]] that her heterosexuality was broken by her, to varying degrees of reactions among the witnesses. Maho is ''not'' amused in the slightest.
** [[spoiler:Komue also does one with a quick and chaste kiss on Erika's lips after the match against [=BC Freedom/Maginot=].]]
* LoveDodecahedron: Erika finds herself in one. Chief of her affections would be Maho Nishizumi, who is willing to return her feelings, albeit in very awkward baby steps and gets visibly jealous when other girls make moves on Erika. Erika also yearns to make amends to Miho, who had saved her life before, only to realize some hidden romantic feelings for her as well. Karen Nakahashi's charisma also attracts Erika's attention and in turn also realizes her own infatuation with Erika. Komue Akaboshi and Leila Rou both figure out their feelings for Erika, who were all former crewmates in that fateful Panzer III. Not to mention both Erika and Komue's respective [[UnwantedHarem fan clubs]]. Being the type of fic that it is, HilarityEnsues and it is all PlayedForLaughs.
* MeaningfulName: Karen's coup is code-named, "''Operation Film/{{Valkyrie}}''".

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Maho uncharacteristically shouts in pure rage when she discovers the full extent of Karen's actions during the coup. This clues in to Erika and her crew that something ''really'' went down between Karen and the school.

* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: A non-videogame variant. The Round Table in Season two is a super high tech arena built on a massive artificial island that has the ability to restructure terrain, generate realistic obstacles such as buildings, functional vehicles, scenery and even simulate weather and temperature conditions.

* TheOneGuy: Chief Keni, as well as the rest of the guys-only Kuromorimine engineering team are the only male characters to have decent pagetime in the story.

* ATruceWhileWeGawk: The sight of Erika and Komue riding a bike while being chased by a tankette that is ''actively firing'' on them is apparently a sight worth dropping whatever the hell everyone else was doing. Even the announcer and the crowd were going nuts at the spectacle.

* UnconventionalVehicleChase: Erika and Komue on a German WWII motorbike are chased through a simulated French town by a ''very'' excited [[BloodKnight Shizuka]] in her Type 97 Te-ke.

* YouShallNotPass: In Chapter 7 of Season 2, [[spoiler:Komue's]] tank does this to buy time for the retreating Kuromorimine team to regroup when the French Alliance begins their vicious push. It turns into a LastStand when the tank's tracks are immobilized by artillery.

** Tankathalon is mentioned multiple times, [[spoiler:with Shizuka herself making her debut in Season 2, chapter 8.]]

* NamesTheSame: There is a sailor student in Kuromorimine's naval division named Obama Kobayakawa, and everyone who meets her for the first time brings up the more [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama popular one]] in comparison, to the latter's annoyance.
--> "[[MemeticMutation Thanks Obama]]"

* PutTheirHeadsTogether: An annoyed Shiko tries to do this to a bickering Oshida and Andou, but end up making them accidentally [[FirstKiss lock lips]] instead.

* Ashface: Olga gets one when a Stielhandgranate (with severely reduced load, thankfully) thrown by Yukari explodes in her hand.

* CacophonyCoverUp: As seen in BattleInTheRain above, the rebel forces uses the downpour to cover the sounds of their movement. Erika loses this advantage when the rain conveniently stops before her turn at fighting Karen, but she improvises by using a Hanomag armored half-track loaded with [[LoudOfWar loudspeakers]] to cover up [[spoiler:the sounds of her scout vehicles moving through enemy positions as well as her Elefant tank destroyers being pushed by moving trucks onto a elevated position.]] The music in question? Music/RideOfTheValkyries of course.

** When BC Freedom – Maginot challenges Kuromorimine, the German engineers relentlessly joke about how the French tanks might reverse faster than their own. It is even invoked when several BC Freedom – Maginot elements defect to Kuromorimine before the match essentially recreating the Vichy – Free French split.

* CityOnTheWater: Aside from the school ships, the Round Table introduced in Season 2 is a high-tech, purpose-built ''massive'' artificial island for grand-scale tankery matches, that also has luxurious living quarters, several hotels and mega malls built around the arena itself. Not to mention the ports that can dock ''several'' school ships side-by-side. According to the author, the whole island is impossibly the size of 1/3 of the '''''[[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Australian continent]]'''''.

* DenOfIniquity: A non-explicit variant. The Garden of Eden below the decks of [[GermanicDepressives Kuromorimine]] serves as an escape for the repressed students and sailors of Kuromorimine to relax and let loose from the monotony and rigid discipline of their high school life. The arcade machines, questionably legal drinks and other forms of entertainment apparently came from the founding member's own pockets, as well as donations from like-minded students and former alumni.

* IsThisThingStillOn: Karen's intentional self-SpannerInTheWorks conversation with Erika over the phone during the coup was apparently heard by every member of the resistance when she left the comms on. They [[NiceJobFixingItVillain call her out]] on it when a ''very'' motivated Erika comes in later, hard and fast.

* OldShame: Miho's old Tiger I had been repaired and ready for action since the end of the 62nd Sensha-do tournament, but the team had superstitiously refused to use it for anything due to the events and person associated with it.

* PutTheirHeadsTogether: Shiko tries to do this to a bickering Oshida and Andou, but end up making them accidentally [[FirstKiss lock lips]] instead.

* Music/RideOfTheValkyries: What Erika uses for the CacophonyCoverup as seen above.