History VideoGame / AliceInSpacelandSeries

* EmpathicWeapon: Zio. He's a big, neon light sword. Makes you think he's a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere when you first see him until you look at ''Cirno's Vengance'' and figure out that he's the [[spoiler: fake]] BigBad. He sure fills the bill for a sentient sword, though.
* ExcusePlot: Unless you look at ''Cirno's Vengance'' first, you won't realize why Alice is trying to fight Zio in the first Alice in Spaceland. Alice Xi seems to play this more straight. There's barely any dialogue from any of the characters, except for the Nonoba Admins and Mission. Other than that, it is simply Alice dimension hopping to find Zio and Mission.

* {{Leitmotif}}: All of Zio's pre-battle appearances save the first Alice in Spaceland and Alice Xi were backed by [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Marx's theme]] from [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]. Likewise, [[spoiler: Mission's]] appearances and battles are always backed up by part of [[Manga/ShugoChara Lulu's (unreleased) Theme]] and Nick Perrin's Transcend (from the Newgrounds Audio Portal).

* {{Leitmotif}}: All of Zio's appeances save the first Alice in Spaceland and Alice Xi were backed by [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Marx's theme]] from [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]

* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler: The Quantum Zone. The only zone in the game that has a constantly changing background, has inhuman warping outlines, has ambient music

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?: Did you just defeat [[spoiler: '''[[BreakingTheFourthWall the freaking creator of the series himself?!''']]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?: Did you just defeat [[spoiler: '''[[BreakingTheFourthWall the freaking creator of the series himself?!''']]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?: Did you just defeat [[spoiler:'''[[BreakingTheFourthWall the freaking creator of the series himself?!''']]]

* BulletHell: The game can certainly verge on this with little to no problem.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoilers: King of Games, in his Asteroids fighter mode, rescues Cirno from a unwinnable battle with Master F.O.E once her life count dips low enough in Cirno Xi.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoilers: King of Games, in his Asteroids fighter mode, rescues Cirno from a unwinnable battle with Master F.O.E once her life count dips low enough in ''Cirno Xi''.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoilers: [=KoG=] in his Asteroids fighter mode rescues Cirno from a unwinnable battle with Master F.O.E once her life count dips low enough in ''Cirno Xi''.]]

* WhyWontYouDie?: [[spoiler: Mission says this word for word when trying to kill Mr. W just before the final battle. Zio takes care of that quickly, however.]]

* WhyWon'tYouDie?: [[spoiler: Mission says this word for word when trying to kill Mr. W just before the final battle. Zio takes care of that quickly, however.]]

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:The Quantum Zone]] in Alice Xi.

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: [=McGillicutty=] is seen smoldering and falling from the sky, uttering "So...STRONG!", presumably having his ass handed to him on a silver platter by Mission and Zio just before the beginning of the last wave. And then he suddenly gets frozen. [[CatharsisFactor Some may find it enlightening to see him get plastered]], considering he was probably one of the most challenging bosses in Alice in Spaceland 3]].

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: McGillicutty is seen smoldering and falling from the sky, uttering "So...STRONG!", presumably having his ass handed to him on a silver platter by Mission and Zio just before the beginning of the last wave. And then he suddenly gets frozen. [[CatharsisFactor Some may find it enlightening to see him get plastered]], considering he was probably one of the most challenging bosses in Alice in Spaceland 3]].

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:Dimension 11]] in Alice Xi.

** [[spoiler: Renko and Maribel in the last six seconds of the Extra Mode fight in Spaceland Adventure 2 send out a huge bullet pattern that would probably give [[DonPachi Hibachi]] a run for his money. Thankfully, before it can totally wreck your life count due to Cirno being a total dumbass, time runs out.]]

Eventually, [[BigBad Zio]] is destroyed by Alice, but there is still the objective of finding Cirno. Alice in Spaceland 2 begins, as Alice searches for her. At the end of the final stage, Cirno is freed from her prison of, ironically enough, ice, [[TooDumbToLive since she shot a bottle of anti-freeze until it spilled all over her and froze her.]] Then, after Cirno is freed, Shikieiki, the Judge of the Dead herself, appears and challenges the two. The thing is, [[OhCrap Cirno has forgotten how to fire her bullets, so you will have to do double duty to ensure that she doesn't die along with you.]] Mercifully, Cirno has at least as many lives as you do.

Once Shikieiki is defeated, she performs a HeelFaceTurn and joins the group. However, between games, [[WildMassGuessing they must have stumbled across a new dimension, got a new ship somehow,]] and thus they need to escape from it. This kicks off the third, [[SequelDifficultySpike and by far the hardest]], game in the series, Alice in Spaceland 3. New boss enemies are introduced, and old ones make a return. The trio finally faces Zio [[spoiler: who apparently duplicated himself during the events of ''2''.]] The three manage to take him down...only for him to resurface a little later in a different version of level 5. This time, they don't fight the [[spoiler: two Zios.]] [[spoiler: Instead, they fight his disciple, a ship called Mission. It's a hard and long battle, but they prevail yet again.]]

** Shikieiki at the end of Alice in Spaceland 2, since she appears right after the last stage for seemingly no reason at all, other than to prevent Alice from leaving with Cirno alive.

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Renko Usami, the other world version of Reimu. She is the one who brainwashed Cirno, created Zio, and piloted Mission. She has been leading the group through a wild goose chase, and only after the end of Cirno Xi does she finally reveal herself. At the end of Spaceland Adventure 2, she teams up with Maribel Han to fight Cirno and Shikieiki. She is the cause of all of the events happening in the series so far...[[EvenEvilHasStandards yet she is visibly upset when she sees Maribel die after the fight with the two.]]]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: All three of the main characters in both Alice Xi (Cirno and Shikieiki) and Cirno Xi (Alice and Shikieiki), but mostly Shikieiki. Cirno is [[SpotlightStealingSquad mostly in the spotlight]] post Alice Xi, but lately, that is being remedied. Reimu's the most guilty of this however, as she has only made an appearance in Cirno's Vengance, and hasn't appeared since then.

** Alice in Spaceland 2: Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, though why she appeared as the last enemy you fight in Alice in Spaceland 2 is yet to be explained.

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* {{Leitmotif}}: All of Zio's appeances save the first Alice in Spaceland and Alice Xi were backed by [[{{Kirby}} Marx's theme]] from [[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?: Did you just defeat [[spoiler:[[BeyondTheImpossible '''the freaking creator of the series himself?!''']]]]

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere:

* RecurringBoss: Kind of like {{Parodius}} in a sense, bosses seen in previous installments always seem to find some way into another game. The [[ThoseWackyNazis F.O.E Nazi]] seems to be the most prominent of these, appearing in almost every game since Alice in Spaceland 3.

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