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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Haqua is cold and confident the first time she attacks Marco for the Lizard Stone, but when Arco reveals her true Galaxy Dragon form, that confidence evaporates and she beats a hasty retreat. She doesn’t try to steal the Stone again until a situation arises where Arco is out of commission and can’t come to Marco’s aid.
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* BlandNameProduct: Marco is shown playing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinway_%26_Sons Staingway]] piano in the very first scene.
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-->Tera: Look! It’s cute right! And well shot!
-->Marco: Was this commercial well received?
-->Tera: Look! It’s cute right! And well shot!
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* PigInAPoke: Tera once spent five million yen on something from Galaxy Auction that turned out to be a worthless pebble. The deliveryman held her at gunpoint to make sure she paid up, mocking Earthlings for being so easy to fool.
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* AcademyOfAdventure: Isezaki Academy teaches students to protect the town from mutants and alien invaders with lethal force, in addition to more mundane subjects.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: The sapient cancer cell that Marco and Arco encounter inside the Nudo is basically a small orange ball with arms and legs.
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* FakinMacGuffin: Marco hands Dosgoro the capsule containing the Lizard Stone as part of a HostageForMacGuffin situation. When Dosgoro later opens the capsule aboard his spaceship, he’s amused to find a croquette inside.
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* FakinMacGuffin: Marco hands Dosgoro the capsule containing the Lizard Stone as part of a HostageForMacGuffin situation. When Dosgoro later opens the capsule aboard his spaceship, he’s amused to find a half-eaten croquette inside.inside.
* FatBastard: Dosgoro is an overweight alien alligator man, and is also a ruthless criminal who thinks nothing of decapitating his own henchmen and threatening teenagers to get what he wants.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Mayor’s actual name is never revealed, and everyone just calls her the Mayor.
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* PokemonSpeak: Parodied with the cutesy unicorns that show up at one point. They start out saying "Unicorn", but quickly switch to punny variations like "You need corn" and "Unicorn soup". The same scene features a phoenix and a tiger: they ''also'' say “Unicorn”, much to Tera’s bewilderment.
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* PokemonSpeak: Parodied with the cutesy unicorns that show up at one point. They start out saying "Unicorn", but quickly switch to punny variations like "You need corn" and "Unicorn soup". The same scene features a phoenix and a tiger: they ''also'' say “Unicorn”, "Unicorn", much to Tera’s bewilderment.
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* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Arco, the titular Galaxy Dragon, is the only one of her kind in the Milky Way.
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* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler:When Marco defeats Astaroth, his body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.]]
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Marco travels to Earth to learn more about her mother, whom she barely remembers due to being kidnapped and sold into slavery at a young age. [[spoiler:She eventually learns that her mother is Mitsuko, the kind lady she met during her first day on the planet.]]
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* InsistentTerminology: Marco prefers the term "treasure hunter" to "thief", though she readily admits that she steals things for a living.
-->'''Marco:''' If there’s anything you’d like me to swipe, give me a call. That’s the kinda job I do.
-->'''Ruri:''' You’re a thief?
-->'''Marco:''' No, no, no. I’m a treasure hunter.
-->'''Ruri:''' [[DistinctionWithoutADifference You mean like… an amazing thief]]?
-->'''Marco:''' If there’s anything you’d like me to swipe, give me a call. That’s the kinda job I do.
-->'''Ruri:''' You’re a thief?
-->'''Marco:''' No, no, no. I’m a treasure hunter.
-->'''Ruri:''' [[DistinctionWithoutADifference You mean like… an amazing thief]]?
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* DynamicEntry: Sakurako enters the plot by smashing through the front door of the soba restaurant where Ruri works [[NonGivingUpSchoolGuy and dragging her off to school]].
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* TheEiffelTowerEffect: Marco’s team visits France, Guiana, and Egypt when they first arrive on Earth. All we see of these locations are the Arc de Triomphe, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepui tepui,]] and the Great Sphinx of Giza, respectively.
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* TheEiffelTowerEffect: EiffelTowerEffect: Marco’s team visits France, Guiana, and Egypt when they first arrive on Earth. All we see of these locations are the Arc de Triomphe, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepui tepui,]] and the Great Sphinx of Giza, respectively.
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* TheEiffelTowerEffect: Marco’s team visits France, Guiana, and Egypt when they first arrive on Earth. All we see of these locations are the Arc de Triomphe, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepui tepui,]] and the Great Sphinx of Giza, respectively.
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* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Emergency Rations communicates exclusively through oinks. Marco and Arco have no trouble understanding Emergency Rations despite this.
-->'''Marco:''' How long before we arrive?\\
'''Emergency Rations:''' (''piloting the ship'') Oink, oink.\\
'''Marco:''' I see. Sooner than I thought.
-->'''Marco:''' How long before we arrive?\\
'''Emergency Rations:''' (''piloting the ship'') Oink, oink.\\
'''Marco:''' I see. Sooner than I thought.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: An alien resembling a stereotypical vampire tries to invade Earth during a montage. He’s quickly driven off when the heroines brandish a cross, garlic, and silver at him.
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* ArtShift: The animated sequences are drawn in a much simpler, more cartoonish style than the rest of the game’s artwork.
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* AnthropomorphizedAnatomy: At one point Marco and Arco go inside of a Nudo to stop it from swallowing the Earth. They encounter many sentient cells and germs as they travel through the creature’s body, most of which sport ID tags. The one exception, a white blood cell, turns out to be a parasite that was controlling the Nudo from within.
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** Dosgoro falls for the same FakinMacGuffin trick that Peter Quill pulled on Yondu in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
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* BigBallOfViolence: PlayedForLaughs in one of the animated segments, where a swordfight between Haqua and Gargouille quickly devolves into one of these. Then Haqua notices that Marco is escaping, and promptly ''detaches her own head'', which flies after Marco while her body continues to fight Gargouille. When Gargouille realizes what happened, ''she'' detaches her head as well, and the two disembodied heads proceed to chase each other around while their headless bodies keep fighting in the background.
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* DemBones: El Skeleton, as his name implies, is a skeleton.
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* BlandNameProduct: Marco is shown playing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinway_%26_Sons Staingway]] piano in the very first scene.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Astaroth has blue eyes with black sclera, and he’s a remorseless GalacticConqueror who regularly slaughters the populations of entire worlds when he isn’t destroying those worlds outright.
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** When Gargouille first meets Dosgoro, she slices off his left arm at the elbow to show him she means business. He’s had the arm replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic by the next time he appears.
** Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips Marco’s right arm off at the shoulder, nearly killing her. Fortunately, Pandagraph is able to reattach the arm with a risky surgical procedure]].
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** Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips Marco’s right armoff at the shoulder, nearly killing her. off. Fortunately, Pandagraph is able to reattach the arm and save her life with a risky surgical procedure]].
** Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips Marco’s right arm
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** When Gargouille first meets Dosgoro, she slices off his left arm at the elbow to show him she means business. He’s had the arm replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic by the next time he appears.
** Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips Marco’s right arm off at the shoulder, nearly killing her. Fortunately, Pandagraph is able to reattach the arm with a risky surgical procedure]].
** When Gargouille first meets Dosgoro, she slices off his left arm at the elbow to show him she means business. He’s had the arm replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic by the next time he appears.
** Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips Marco’s right arm off at the shoulder, nearly killing her. Fortunately, Pandagraph is able to reattach the arm with a risky surgical procedure]].
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* SleepModeSize: Arco can’t stay in her true form for long. She spends most of her time as either a tiny dragon the size of a house cat, or as a humanoid girl with limited shapeshifting abilities, switching between the two forms based on her hunger level.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Arco may look like a typical western dragon in her true form, but she was born from the heart of a black hole. She’s [[AKindOfOne unique]], unfathomably old, constantly hungry and capable of ''literally'' eating people’s memories much like how black holes are thought to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox destroy information.]] Arco can’t stay in her true form for long, and spends most of her time as either a tiny dragon or a humanoid girl, depending on how hungry she is.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Arco may look like a typical western dragon in her true form, but she was born from the heart of a black hole. She’s [[AKindOfOne [[SingleSpecimenSpecies unique]], unfathomably old, constantly hungry and capable of ''literally'' eating people’s memories much like how black holes are thought to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox destroy information.]] Arco can’t stay in her true form for long, and spends most of her time as either a tiny dragon or a humanoid girl, depending on how hungry she is.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Arco may look like a typical western dragon in her true form, but she was born from the heart of a black hole. She’s [[AKindOfOne unique]], unfathomably old, constantly hungry and capable of ''literally'' eating people’s memories much like how black holes are thought to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox destroy information.]] Arco can’t stay in her true form for long, and spends most of her time as either a tiny dragon or a humanoid girl, depending on how hungry she is.
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* WholePlotReference: The plot borrows a lot from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. The main character was kidnapped by aliens shortly after witnessing the death of their mother and raised to be a thief. The story begins with them stealing a MacGuffin from a temple on an alien world and narrowly evading agents of an evil overlord who needs that MacGuffin to subjugate the galaxy. Said evil overlord sends his daughter, a skilled assassin who secretly hates him, to recover the MacGuffin. The thief is thrown in prison along with the overlord’s daughter and the last survivor of a race the overlord exterminated, where they team up to keep the stone out of the overlord’s hands. The thief’s boss is also after them because he wants the MacGuffin for himself. And so on.
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* ReiAyanamiExpy: Haqua is a soft-spoken, pale-skinned waif with short white hair and golden eyes. She rarely raises her voice and rarely shows any emotion beyond a mild frown, though she is ''not'' an EmotionlessGirl and her stoicism begins to crack toward the end of the game. Her behaviour has less to do with being an alien and more to do with the fact that her father, Astaroth, is a cruel despot who thinks emotions are a weakness and is grooming her to rule the galaxy one day.
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* MileLongShip: Astaroth’s planet crusher is a starship so enormous that it can quite literally crush a planet in its grip.
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* SpaceWhales: Nudos are gigantic spacefaring creatures that look like whales and travel in pods. They’re normally peaceful, but if they get agitated they can swallow an Earth-sized planet in one gulp. Marco and Arco have to stop a stray Nudo from doing just that at one point.
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* KineticNovel: There is exactly one point where players can make a choice, and all that choice affects is whether the next scene—which plays out the same either way—takes place at the beach or in a public bath.
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* PokemonSpeak: Parodied with the cutesy unicorns that show up at one point. They start out saying “Unicorn”, but quickly switch to punny variations like “You need corn” and “Unicorn soup”. The same scene features a phoenix and a tiger: they _also_ say “Unicorn”, much to Tera’s bewilderment.
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** In one scene, Marco recalls several bad memories that reference famous scenes from Creator/StanleyKubrick films, such as being subjected to TheLudovicoTechnique from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' or strung up on one of the monoliths from ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Emergency Rations can transform itself into whatever item Marco might need at any given moment, at least in the animated segments. In the first animation alone it becomes a music player, a pair of headphones, a head-mounted spotlight, a propeller, and a hoverboard.
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''Marco & the Galaxy Dragon'' is a comedic VisualNovel developed by TOKYOTOON and published by [=ShiraVN=] and HOBIBOX. It was released on February 28 2020.
Young piano prodigy Maruko Onda rushes back to her dressing room after a successful recital, eager to celebrate with her mother. But when she arrives, she finds the room in shambles and a pair of strange clowns holding guns to her mother’s head. They’ve come to take Maruko away, and the last thing she remembers is one of them firing at her mother.
Ten years later, Marco—the galaxy’s greatest treasure-hunter—steals the legendary Lizard Stone from under the nose of El Skeleton, a minion of the evil [[BigBad Astaroth]]. But rather than bring the Stone to her boss, Dosgoro, she decides to sell it for herself. She heads to Earth, accompanied by Arco the shapeshifting Galaxy Dragon and their pet Emergency Rations.
Selling the Stone isn’t the only reason they’re going to Earth, however. Marco wants to seek out a new treasure: the identity of the mother she no longer remembers.
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!! Marco & The Galaxy Dragon contains examples of:
* AlienBlood: Many alien characters bleed green or purple blood. Averted with Gargouille’s people and Astaroth’s clan, who have red blood.
* ArtShift: The animated sequences are drawn in a much simpler, more cartoonish style than the rest of the game’s artwork.
* ArtificialLimbs: Dosgoro gets a cybernetic arm to replace the one that Gargouille sliced off. He later upgrades to a gold-plated model, courtesy of Pandagraph.
* AChildShallLeadThem: The Mayor of Gold Cord is a young girl.
* BadGuyBar: Dosgoro runs his operations out of Club [=DoSGoRo=], a nightclub on the Machine Planet.
* BigBad: Astaroth is a GalacticConqueror and OmnicidalManiac who needs the Lizard Stone to realize his ambitions, and he is responsible, directly or otherwise, for every bad thing that happens in the plot. [[spoiler:Even Marco’s kidnapping was done at his orders.]]
* DemBones: El Skeleton, as his name implies, is a skeleton.
* TheDreaded: Astaroth is known and feared throughout the galaxy. Collection Joe backs out of a deal to buy the Lizard Stone from Marco after learning that Astaroth’s minions were also after the Stone.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Astaroth has a ship called the planet crusher. It does exactly what its name implies, closing around a planet like a giant hand and squeezing until it breaks apart.
* EyelessFace: Arco has no (visible) eyes in her mini-dragon form.
* FakinMacGuffin: Marco hands Dosgoro the capsule containing the Lizard Stone as part of a HostageForMacGuffin situation. When Dosgoro later opens the capsule aboard his spaceship, he’s amused to find a croquette inside.
* GalacticConqueror: Astaroth is an alien tyrant out to conquer the Milky Way. He regularly destroys planets and commits genocide in pursuit of this goal.
* HostageForMacGuffin: At one point, Dosgoro plants bombs throughout Gold Cord and takes Ruri hostage to coerce Marco into giving him the Lizard Stone. When Marco complies, he lets Ruri go, deactivates the bombs, and leaves without further violence. Only later does he learn that Marco [[FakinMacGuffin tricked him]].
* HumanAliens: Haqua, Gargouille and Pandagraph are aliens from three different species, and all three of them look like humans apart from their exotic eye colours.
* KineticNovel: There is exactly one point where players can make a choice, and all that choice affects is whether the next scene—which plays out the same either way—takes place at the beach or in a public bath.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When Astaroth deigns to kill his victims personally, he does so by making spikes erupt from the floor to impale them.
* InsectoidAliens: One of Pandagraph’s clients is an alien that looks like a giant purple mantis.
* IntelligentGerbil: Several aliens resemble anthropomorphic animals. Dosgoro, who resembles an alligator, and Collection Joe, who resembles a mouse, are the most obvious examples.
* LastOfHisKind: Astaroth exterminates the inhabitants of Gal near the start of the game. Gargouille is the only survivor, and she lives only because Haqua went behind her father’s back to spare her.
* LizardFolk: Dosgoro looks like an anthropomorphic alligator.
* MadeASlave: Marco, along with many other children from Earth, was kidnapped by aliens and sold into slavery. [[spoiler:It’s later revealed that Astaroth orchestrated the kidnappings, with the intention of having Marco become Haqua’s personal slave.]]
* MediumAwareness: One of the animated segments has Arco go up against El Skeleton and his goons in the style of a BeatEmUp game. Arco exploits this to OneHitKO several {{Mooks}} by breaking their health bars in half, and pausing the “game” so she can whale on a mini-boss with impunity.
* MileLongShip: Astaroth’s planet crusher is a starship so enormous that it can quite literally crush a planet in its grip.
* MiniMecha: Diminutive aliens like Collection Joe sometimes ride around in heavily-armed exoskeletons that are taller than humans.
* MonsterClown: Marco is kidnapped by a pair of aliens disguised as clowns during the prologue.
* OffWithHisHead:
** Dosgoro regularly decapitates his henchmen for telling him things that he doesn’t want to hear. It’s the same two henchmen each time.
** The Galaxy Auction salesman intends to execute Tera via guillotine for defaulting on her payments. Fortunately for her, Marco manages to talk him out of it.
* PokemonSpeak: Parodied with the cutesy unicorns that show up at one point. They start out saying “Unicorn”, but quickly switch to punny variations like “You need corn” and “Unicorn soup”. The same scene features a phoenix and a tiger: they _also_ say “Unicorn”, much to Tera’s bewilderment.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Astaroth resembles a bald, extremely muscular man with chalk-white skin, black sclera, and snake-like appendages that sprout from the base of his skull.
* ShapeshifterWeapon:
** In the animated segments, El Skeleton can extrude cartoon bombs from his muscles and shoot bullets out of his nipples.
** Arco can morph her hands into draconic claws while in her human form. [[spoiler:Marco gains this ability after Arco’s tooth is used to reattach her severed arm.]]
* ShoutOut:
** In one scene, Marco recalls several bad memories that reference famous scenes from Creator/StanleyKubrick films, such as being subjected to TheLudovicoTechnique from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' or strung up on one of the monoliths from ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''.
* SingleBiomePlanet: Gargouille’s homeworld, Gal, is a desert planet.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Two occur near the end of the game. The first one is a MiniGame where you have to quickly click the mouse in order to win a duel, while the second is an UnexpectedShmupLevel where [[spoiler:Marco has to shoot down the planet crusher]]. Both of these can be skipped without penalty.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Emergency Rations can transform itself into whatever item Marco might need at any given moment, at least in the animated segments. In the first animation alone it becomes a music player, a pair of headphones, a head-mounted spotlight, a propeller, and a hoverboard.
Young piano prodigy Maruko Onda rushes back to her dressing room after a successful recital, eager to celebrate with her mother. But when she arrives, she finds the room in shambles and a pair of strange clowns holding guns to her mother’s head. They’ve come to take Maruko away, and the last thing she remembers is one of them firing at her mother.
Ten years later, Marco—the galaxy’s greatest treasure-hunter—steals the legendary Lizard Stone from under the nose of El Skeleton, a minion of the evil [[BigBad Astaroth]]. But rather than bring the Stone to her boss, Dosgoro, she decides to sell it for herself. She heads to Earth, accompanied by Arco the shapeshifting Galaxy Dragon and their pet Emergency Rations.
Selling the Stone isn’t the only reason they’re going to Earth, however. Marco wants to seek out a new treasure: the identity of the mother she no longer remembers.
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!! Marco & The Galaxy Dragon contains examples of:
* AlienBlood: Many alien characters bleed green or purple blood. Averted with Gargouille’s people and Astaroth’s clan, who have red blood.
* ArtShift: The animated sequences are drawn in a much simpler, more cartoonish style than the rest of the game’s artwork.
* ArtificialLimbs: Dosgoro gets a cybernetic arm to replace the one that Gargouille sliced off. He later upgrades to a gold-plated model, courtesy of Pandagraph.
* AChildShallLeadThem: The Mayor of Gold Cord is a young girl.
* BadGuyBar: Dosgoro runs his operations out of Club [=DoSGoRo=], a nightclub on the Machine Planet.
* BigBad: Astaroth is a GalacticConqueror and OmnicidalManiac who needs the Lizard Stone to realize his ambitions, and he is responsible, directly or otherwise, for every bad thing that happens in the plot. [[spoiler:Even Marco’s kidnapping was done at his orders.]]
* DemBones: El Skeleton, as his name implies, is a skeleton.
* TheDreaded: Astaroth is known and feared throughout the galaxy. Collection Joe backs out of a deal to buy the Lizard Stone from Marco after learning that Astaroth’s minions were also after the Stone.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Astaroth has a ship called the planet crusher. It does exactly what its name implies, closing around a planet like a giant hand and squeezing until it breaks apart.
* EyelessFace: Arco has no (visible) eyes in her mini-dragon form.
* FakinMacGuffin: Marco hands Dosgoro the capsule containing the Lizard Stone as part of a HostageForMacGuffin situation. When Dosgoro later opens the capsule aboard his spaceship, he’s amused to find a croquette inside.
* GalacticConqueror: Astaroth is an alien tyrant out to conquer the Milky Way. He regularly destroys planets and commits genocide in pursuit of this goal.
* HostageForMacGuffin: At one point, Dosgoro plants bombs throughout Gold Cord and takes Ruri hostage to coerce Marco into giving him the Lizard Stone. When Marco complies, he lets Ruri go, deactivates the bombs, and leaves without further violence. Only later does he learn that Marco [[FakinMacGuffin tricked him]].
* HumanAliens: Haqua, Gargouille and Pandagraph are aliens from three different species, and all three of them look like humans apart from their exotic eye colours.
* KineticNovel: There is exactly one point where players can make a choice, and all that choice affects is whether the next scene—which plays out the same either way—takes place at the beach or in a public bath.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When Astaroth deigns to kill his victims personally, he does so by making spikes erupt from the floor to impale them.
* InsectoidAliens: One of Pandagraph’s clients is an alien that looks like a giant purple mantis.
* IntelligentGerbil: Several aliens resemble anthropomorphic animals. Dosgoro, who resembles an alligator, and Collection Joe, who resembles a mouse, are the most obvious examples.
* LastOfHisKind: Astaroth exterminates the inhabitants of Gal near the start of the game. Gargouille is the only survivor, and she lives only because Haqua went behind her father’s back to spare her.
* LizardFolk: Dosgoro looks like an anthropomorphic alligator.
* MadeASlave: Marco, along with many other children from Earth, was kidnapped by aliens and sold into slavery. [[spoiler:It’s later revealed that Astaroth orchestrated the kidnappings, with the intention of having Marco become Haqua’s personal slave.]]
* MediumAwareness: One of the animated segments has Arco go up against El Skeleton and his goons in the style of a BeatEmUp game. Arco exploits this to OneHitKO several {{Mooks}} by breaking their health bars in half, and pausing the “game” so she can whale on a mini-boss with impunity.
* MileLongShip: Astaroth’s planet crusher is a starship so enormous that it can quite literally crush a planet in its grip.
* MiniMecha: Diminutive aliens like Collection Joe sometimes ride around in heavily-armed exoskeletons that are taller than humans.
* MonsterClown: Marco is kidnapped by a pair of aliens disguised as clowns during the prologue.
* OffWithHisHead:
** Dosgoro regularly decapitates his henchmen for telling him things that he doesn’t want to hear. It’s the same two henchmen each time.
** The Galaxy Auction salesman intends to execute Tera via guillotine for defaulting on her payments. Fortunately for her, Marco manages to talk him out of it.
* PokemonSpeak: Parodied with the cutesy unicorns that show up at one point. They start out saying “Unicorn”, but quickly switch to punny variations like “You need corn” and “Unicorn soup”. The same scene features a phoenix and a tiger: they _also_ say “Unicorn”, much to Tera’s bewilderment.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Astaroth resembles a bald, extremely muscular man with chalk-white skin, black sclera, and snake-like appendages that sprout from the base of his skull.
* ShapeshifterWeapon:
** In the animated segments, El Skeleton can extrude cartoon bombs from his muscles and shoot bullets out of his nipples.
** Arco can morph her hands into draconic claws while in her human form. [[spoiler:Marco gains this ability after Arco’s tooth is used to reattach her severed arm.]]
* ShoutOut:
** In one scene, Marco recalls several bad memories that reference famous scenes from Creator/StanleyKubrick films, such as being subjected to TheLudovicoTechnique from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' or strung up on one of the monoliths from ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''.
* SingleBiomePlanet: Gargouille’s homeworld, Gal, is a desert planet.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Two occur near the end of the game. The first one is a MiniGame where you have to quickly click the mouse in order to win a duel, while the second is an UnexpectedShmupLevel where [[spoiler:Marco has to shoot down the planet crusher]]. Both of these can be skipped without penalty.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Emergency Rations can transform itself into whatever item Marco might need at any given moment, at least in the animated segments. In the first animation alone it becomes a music player, a pair of headphones, a head-mounted spotlight, a propeller, and a hoverboard.
