History VideoGame / ShanghaiEXEGensoNetwork

** The BibitiBats are a reference to mooks from the PC-98 era.

** After a PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure, when Shanghai hears that Alice is in physical trouble, on top of having goons to locate her, Shanghai copied her folder to her memory data, allowing her to use Chips, though SubChips and folder editing will be unavailable as those things require Alice's input, thus making you rely on Happy status multi-kill healing (or Recovery chips).

* NoodleIncident: Shanghai surprisingly understands what it's like to be bullied, not only because ''she'' is a bully to scumbags and her own goons, but one job she had involved destroying dozens of bullying ringleaders' social lives... and that's apparently where the money for the being able to have Link Gates established came from.

* HealThyself: In addition to the usual default, Anxious, and Full Synchro states, Shanghai has the Happy state that she enters after scoring a double or triple kill, which makes the next chip she uses restore one-third of her max HP. This means healing subchips aren't really needed as much - as long as you play well, they should be for emergencies only, or for immediately before boss fights. It also renders Recovery chips '''''completely unnecessary''''' if you're good enough.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: The game adds Earth and Poison to ''Battle Network'''s usual Fire/Aqua/Elec/Wood setup. It goes as follows: Fire over Poison and Wind, Aqua over Earth and Fire, Elec over Aqua and Poison, Wind over Elec and Earth, Poison over Aqua and Wind, and Earth over Fire and Elec. [[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3927949&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#post506148768 Further details here]].

** During Alice's first encounter with Reisen, she mentions that "a terrorist disguised as a student recently shot a government official", hence her overly brutal behavior against a few punks earlier to the point of wanting to ''shoot'' them but not being able to indoors. Combined with her mecha and its optical camouflage, it's all a reference to ''Anime/FullMetalPanic''.

** Reisen is pretty much a whole plot reference to Anime/FullMetalPanic. The [=G7-Curtis=] is a homage to the [[https://fullmetalpanic.fandom.com/wiki/M6_Bushnell M6 Bushnell]] with the M9's camo, Reisen's story takes a lot more from Sousuke Sagara.

* CrazyPrepared: Reisen carries things like a shaped plastic explosive charge, which she uses to blast open an electronically locked door when ROM attacks the cruise liner, and an [[CoolGuns/RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers ATM-78 Personal Rocket Artillery]], for dealing with [[spoiler:Shikigami robots]] that wish to apprehend her and Alice. That said, the latter is one-upped by [[spoiler:Yukari's electromagnetic barrier in her office desk]]. Reisen one-ups ''that'' by having an armor-piercing round ready ([[FridgeLogic despite rockets being armor-piercing by default]]), only for [[spoiler:Yukari to proclaim that she has a lot of Shikigami headed their way, and Reisen surely doesn't have enough ammo to deal with them all, thus requiring Reisen to HoldTheLine against them while Shanghai finds a way to disable the barrier]]. And when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Reisen ''can'' deal with all of Yukari's Shikigami]], turns out [[spoiler:Yukari also has [[VillainTeleportation teleportation technology]]]].

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: It goes as follows: Fire over Poison and Wind, Aqua over Earth and Fire, Elec over Aqua and Poison, Wind over Elec and Earth, Poison over Aqua and Wind, and Earth over Fire and Elec. [[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3927949&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#post506148768 Further details here]].

* IllGirl: On top of being blind, Satori is suffering from Congenital Weakness Factor Disorder, where her body's organs just give up over time. Eventually, by taking a certain sidequest, [[spoiler:Eirin, in the process of remedying Satori's eyesight, cures CWFD entirely, partly in thanks to the sweltering heat as a result of Utsuho rendering the AC haywire]].

* In the sidequest "To Be President", Shanghai has to fight '''''45''''' viruses (in '''15''' 3-virus battles) in order to [[spoiler:retrieve Ran for the new Border Concern CEO]] since the viruses were set up by [[spoiler:Yukari before she had to escape]].

* LostFoodGrievance: When Murasa ends up washing away [[spoiler:all the cyber-food her goons looted from the banquet while she distracted everybody in the Exhibition [=NetBattle=] against [=BeetleMan=]]] during her mission to sink the ship, Shanghai is ''extremely'' pissed, and Murasa ends up being the second ROM Navi to be outright deleted by her. That said, her "remains" haunt Engelles Area 1, so she can have payback on Shanghai in a way, and she's ''monstrously'' hard.

** In the World [=UnderSquare=], there is a hostile [=HeelNavi=] named Buyer that specializes on the Blind Leaf chip that is guaranteed to blind the opponent ([[NoSell unless]] you're on Witch style). Upon defeat, he gets so frustrated he hands out ''five'' of them to Shanghai -- the only ones that can be obtained in the game, in fact.

* NiceHat: Wriggle wears one based on Yamaze Nadu, which Shanghai compliments on.

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Sagume invokes this trope as the reason she's asking Alice for help with finding a way to break into [[spoiler:ROM's HQ]], which is heavily defended with artillery support, radar systems, and air coverage.

** Reisen comes to Alice's and Wriggle's aid after Tarakhan was about to execute the latter via gunshot, and is revealed to have ''climbed the tower from the outside'', thus avoiding the security systems.

* DiscountCard: Completing the early-game side quest "Data Delivery" grants you a discount at [=SubChip=] store you deliver to, particularly the [=CrakTools=] for unlocking Purple Mystery Data.

* OneHitPointWonder: The Dead Body [=AddOn=] reduces Shanghai to 1 HP but boosts the limit on [=GHz=] by 20 and the one on Cores by 5.

** When Medicine is about to drown Shanghai in poison clouds after their bsos battle, Marisa's Magic Missiles blow them up before she arrives herself.

* PlayableEpilogue: In an avoidance of the EndgamePlus paradigm of ''Battle Network'', the postgame of ''Shanghai.EXE'' takes place after defeating ROM.

** The [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon ROM base]], much like the WWW base in ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork3WhiteAndBlue'', features a waterfall of toxic sludge, a skull-shaped decoration at the top, and the enemy navis attacking you with themed tanks.

** A Sprite in the School Library Database COMP mentions "Forbidden Scrollery", "Samurai Slayer", and "A Misfit Student (Me) Is Popular Online". The first is a reference to an official ''Touhou'' manga.

** The [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon ROM base]] endgame sequence, much like the WWW base endgame sequence in ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork3WhiteAndBlue'', features a waterfall of toxic sludge, a skull-shaped decoration at the top, and the enemy navis attacking you with themed tanks.

* AdaptationalRelationshipChange: Besides Shinki being Alice's mother (and thus sharing her surname), Sumireko and Reimu are siblings in this universe (and while the Shrine has the Hakurei name, it's not certain if both or neither of them have the surname Usami instead). Renko Usami, who's supposed to be Sumireko's descendant in the "Music CD" storyline featuring her and Maribel Hearn, is her sister here.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: The [=AddOn=] Manager is the game's equivalent of the Navi Customizer for powering up Shanghai. Each program costs [=GHz=] and a colored Core. Only one of each color can be used at once. And unlike the [=NaviCust=], one cannot break the rules and result in bugs. Interestingly, there are also purple Cores that raise the inventory's limits at the cost of either manageable debuffs such as losing 50 HP on every turn or ridiculous ones such being ''unable to move at all''.

* GradeSkipper: Remilia is supposed to be grade-school, but is in the same class as Alice.