History VideoGame / AzurLane

** [=USS=] ''St. Louis'', and [=MN=] ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarships Saint-Louis]]''. In the Chinese version, in order to prevent a name conflict, the French paper ship is, as her name in Chinese, named after the in-game ship's namesake historical figure, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX Louis IX]] (路易九世), the real Saint Louis.[[note]]Indirectly, this is also the namesake of the American ship; the city of St. Louis, Missouri was founded by Frenchmen and named after King Louis IX.[[/note]] This is of course will not be necessary in the upcoming English version (You can clearly see a different spelling), and is unnecessary in the Japanese version due to different pronunciations of the same historical figure for each ship. Notably, the French ship uses the ''French'' pronunciation of her namesake's title (Sant-Luis).

* EvilKnockoff: In "Ashen Simulacrum", the Sirens deploy copies of Eagle Union shipgirls against the originals.

** [[spoiler:Later events show this to largely be happening in-universe as well, as several characters thought to be sunk have been reappearing. Hood was shown in Operation Siren, and Bismarck was confirmed to be alive in “Rondo at Rainbow’s End”.

** The ''Capitani Romani''-class scout cruiser ''Pompeo Magno'' is incorrectly depicted as a [[https://twitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1504880311464833035 destroyer]]. While two of the 4 ships of this class (''Pompeo Magno'' and ''Giulio Germanico'') would be refitted after [=WWII=] and redesignated as destroyers (Germanico was in fact completed in DD form, never entering service in her original form, due to the Italians completing her post-war after the ship had been scuttled by the Germans during the war while still under construction), the redesignation has a seperate name (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio-class_destroyer San Giorgio]]''-class destroyer), with Pompeo herself being rechristened as the nameship of this new class. The decision to incorrectly depict her original scout cruiser guise as a destroyer may have been inspired by the appearance of two of the incomplete ships, ''Paulo Emilio'' (Premium) and ''Attilio Regolo'' (Tech Tree), as Tier 10 destroyers in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''.

** This can lead to some hilariously peculiar moments, depending on how your drops or gacha rolls go. For example, the final boss of Chapter 3 is Hiryuu (the chapter being Midway). The previous mission (3-3), however, features Hiryuu as a drop. It is, therefore, entirely possible to obtain Hiryuu as a drop, put her in a fleet, and then have her kill "herself".

** The Pallada-class cruiser ''Aurora'' is listed in English as ''Avrora'', directly from the Cyrillic for her name, to avoid a name conflict with the Arethusa-class light cruiser HMS ''Aurora''. This is carried over for [[http://puu.sh/DBmjr.jpg her entry]] for the Azur Lane collection in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships'', even though [[http://puu.sh/DBmkc.jpg the ship itself]] is listed in-game as ''Aurora'', and while HMS ''Aurora'' is also in that game, she appears in her PLAN ''[[http://puu.sh/DBmkS.jpg Huang He]]'' guise.

** The ''Capitani Romani''-class scout cruiser ''Pompeo Magno'' is incorrectly depicted as a [[https://twitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1504880311464833035 destroyer]]. While two of the 4 ships of this class (''Pompeo Magno'' and ''Giulio Germanico'') would be refitted after [=WWII=] and redesignated as destroyers (Germanico was in fact completed in DD form, never entering service in her original form, due to the Italians completing her post-war after the ship had been scuttled by the Germans during the war while still under construction), the redesignation has a seperate name (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio-class_destroyer San Giorgio]]''-class destroyer), with Pompeo herself being rechristened as the nameship of this new class. The decision to incorrectly depict her original scout cruiser guise as a destroyer may have been inspired by the appearance of one of the incomplete ships, ''Paulo Emilio'', as a Tier 10 destroyer in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''.

* DoubleUnlock: Priority ships require the players to meet certain milestones in ship collection or faction tech in order to begin research, then a large investment in accumulated EXP and consumables to actually construct.

* WhamEpisode: ''Khorovod of Dawn's Rime'' is really the first true breakthrough in the overarching plot of Azur Lane. It's the first episode to treat the commander as an actual character that is actively participating in conversations. It also sees them and an the North Union [[spoiler:access a long forgotten facility with ties to the Sirens, but more importantly the faction that the Ashes seem to have once been affiliated with. It establishes the commander as someone [[TheChosenOne genuinely special]] not only as the person with the single highest affinity for Wisdom Cubes and all associated technology on Earth, but as someone who the Sirens cannot figure out even with all their overwhelming knowledge. technology, and continuous testing. It even ends on an ominous note revealing that even after all of that the North Union still has one massive secret they've kept from the commander and few of the North Union members furious that Soyuz approved their return to New York with Azur Lane.]]

* AmericanEagle: A few of the Eagle Union aircraft carriers, particularly Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet, have bald eagles as pets, and these are often featured alongside their owners in official art, merchandise, and related material.

** VichyaDominion: Similar to above, but DarkIsNotEvil and BlackKnight.
* Sardegna Empire: The AristocratTeam, TheFashionista, IneffectualSympatheticVillain, and BadassCape (with DramaticWind).

** The ''Capitani Romani''-class scout cruiser ''Pompeo Magno'' is incorrectly depicted as a [[https://twitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1504880311464833035 destroyer]]. While two of the 4 ships of this class (''Pompeo Mago'' and ''Giulio Germanico'') would be refitted after [=WWII=] and redesignated as destroyers (Germanico was in fact completed in DD form, never entering service in her original form, due to the Italians completing her post-war after the ship had been scuttled by the Germans during the war while still under construction), the redesignation has a seperate name (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio-class_destroyer San Giorgio]]''-class destroyer), with Pompeo herself being rechristened as the nameship of this new class. The decision to incorrectly depict her original scout cruiser guise as a destroyer may have been inspired by the appearance of one of the incomplete ships, ''Paulo Emilio'', as a Tier 10 destroyer in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''.

** The ''Capitani Romani''-class scout cruiser ''Pompeo Magno'' is incorrectly depicted as a [[https://twitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1504880311464833035 destroyer]]. While two of the 4 ships of this class (''Pompeo Mago'' and ''Giulio Germanico'') would be refitted after [=WWII=] and redesignated as destroyers (Germanico was in fact completed in DD form, never entering service in her original form, due to the Italians completing her post-war after the ship had been scuttled by the Germans during the war while still under construction), the redesignation has a seperate name (''San Girgio''-class destroyer), with Pompeo herself being rechristened as the nameship of this new class. The decision to incorrectly depict her original scout cruiser guise as a destroyer may have been inspired by the appearance of one of the incomplete ships, ''Paulo Emilio'', as a Tier 10 destroyer in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''.

** The ''Capitani Romani''-class scout cruiser ''Pompeo Magno'' is incorrectly depicted as a [[https://twitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1504880311464833035 destroyer]]. While two of the 4 ships of this class (''Pompeo Mago'' and ''Giulio Germanico'') would be refitted after [=WWII=] and redesignated as destroyers (Germanico was in fact completed in DD form, never entering service in her original form, due to the Italians completing her post-war after the ship had been scuttled by the Germans during the war while still under construction), the redesignation has a seperate name (''San Girgio''-class destroyer), with Pompeo herself being rechristened as the nameship of this new class.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The ranks in [[PlayerVersusPlayer Exercise Mode]] are a weird mix and match between between proper naval ranks (Ensign, Commander, X Admiral) and army ranks (Private, Sergeant, Major) thrown in together.
* ArtisticLicenseShips:

** Some equipment in-game also takes some differences from their real life performance. An example would be [=SB2C=] Helldiver bomber. Its maximum takeoff weight is around 2,000 lbs, yet it carries a 2,000 lbs bomb and two 500 lbs bombs, which far outweight its capacity by almost 1,000 lbs.

** Even outside of the newer Ultra Rare category, generally ships have gotten more powerful and have greater numbers of more sophisticated skills

** There's a marked difference between the Neptunia collaboration event (the ships are collectable at best, the developers at the time didn't want them overshadowing regular ships) and the SSSS Gridman/Dynazenon event (the ships are quite strong so fans of those who start playing during the event have a decent base to start with).

** Anshan and Chang Chun received retrofits in time for Chinese New Year of 2022 reflecting their steel hull counterparts' being equipped with missile launchers armed with anti-ship missiles. In-game, however, they are listed as ''guided''-missile destroyers with the requisite DDG hull code, even though, as per UsefulNotes/TypesOfNavalShips, their lack of any sort of surface-to-air missile, much less one with a max range of ten or more nautical miles, should actually disqualify them from having a G on their hull code.

* OnlySaneMan: While plenty of ships in can count as this for their faction, the Commander in general is the biggest contender for this trope. As the story progresses, the ship girls note the Commander's competence and being adjusted enough for them to confide in him in their questlines. Justified out of universe given the Commander needs to be a blank slate for the player and thus can't have any major quirks and in-universe given that commanding a variety of powerful ship girls with a wild variety of personality traits requires someone to keep them cohesive. Also a pretty a literal example with both uses of the word "man", given the Commander is implied to be the only regular human around, with the incidental use of male pronouns and depiction in the Comic Anthology making him ThatOneGuy, and a rather tired normal guy surrounded by powerful ship girls at that.

* ThatOneGuy: While the Commander is supposed to be a blank slate due to being a representation of the Player, multiple instances of in game dialogue refer to said Commander with male pronouns, inadvertently making him this even the person playing is a woman. Played more straight in the Anthology Comics where he's the only male to show up, albeit has generally blank features aside from black hair that's long enough to cover his eyes.