Line #20 VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon


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2	->''"Have you ever heard of the galaxy dragon?"''
3	-->-- '''Arco'''
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5	''Marco & the Galaxy Dragon'' is a comedic VisualNovel developed by TOKYOTOON and published by [=ShiraVN=] (a branch of Shiravune, the publishing studio that brought the ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' series to Platform/{{Steam}}) and HOBIBOX. It was released on February 28 2020.
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7	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.
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9	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.
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11	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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13	!! Marco & The Galaxy Dragon contains examples of:
14	* TenMinuteRetirement: Toward the end of the game, Gargouille gives up on opposing Astaroth after he defeats her [[spoiler:and maims Marco]]. She’s eventually convinced to come back, but Marco had to wear her down by chasing her across three continents and beating her in a fight first.
15	* AcademyOfAdventure: Isezaki Academy teaches students to protect the town from mutants and alien invaders with lethal force, in addition to more mundane subjects.
16	* AlienBlood: Many alien characters bleed green or purple blood. Averted with Gargouille’s people and Astaroth’s clan, who have red blood.
17	* AncestralWeapon: Gargouille wields [[NamedWeapons Coelacanth]], a golden broadsword that’s been passed down in her family for generations.
18	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The game ends with Marco, having defeated Astaroth and reconnected with her family, returning to the stars to look for new treasures. She also wants to find Arco, who took away Marco’s memory of their time together before disappearing into a black hole.]]
19	* {{Animesque}}: Inverted in the case of the animated segments, as they use the cartoony ThinLineAnimation style, which became more common in most western cartoons from 2010 onward. Averted with the Visual Novel segments themselves though, as they instead use the typical modern Anime artstyle and is also a Japanese work.
20	* 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.
21	* AnArmAndALeg:
22	** When Gargouille first meets Dosgoro, she slices off his left arm to show him she means business. He’s sporting a cybernetic replacement by his next appearance.
23	** Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips Marco’s right arm off. Fortunately, Pandagraph is able to reattach the arm and save her life with a risky surgical procedure]].
24	* ArtShift: The animated sequences are drawn in a much simpler, more cartoonish style than the rest of the game’s artwork. Compare Marco as she appears [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/galaxydragon/images/2/26/Marco_Visual_Novel.png in the VN segments]] to how she appears [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/galaxydragon/images/7/7d/Marco_Anime.png in the animated segments.]]
25	* 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.
26	* AwesomeButImpractical: In one of the animated segments, Hara (Marco’s scooter) gains the ability to fire a powerful laser from his headlight. Unfortunately, firing it even once uses up all the gas in his tank.
27	* AChildShallLeadThem: The Mayor of Gold Cord is a young girl.
28	* BadGuyBar: Dosgoro runs his operations out of Club [=DoSGoRo=], a nightclub on the Machine Planet.
29	* BadassTransplant: [[spoiler:After Marco loses an arm to Astaroth, Pandagraph implants one of Arco’s teeth into the severed limb before surgically reattaching it. This causes Marco to gain some of Arco’s powers, letting her go toe-to-toe with Astaroth in the rematch.]]
30	* BaseballEpisode: At one point, the heroines play a game of baseball for PE. The scene starts out comically with Gargouille’s inability to hit the ball, but it becomes more serious as Marco takes the opportunity to voice her insecurities about approaching her long-lost mother.
31	* {{BFS}}: Gargouille’s sword Coelacanth has a large blade. [[spoiler:Yuuko]] wields a nodachi almost as long as she is tall.
32	* 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.]]
33	* 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.
34	* BigEater:
35	** Arco and Marco both have big appetites and are easily distracted by the thought of food. In Arco’s case, this is because she’s born from a black hole: she’s ''always'' hungry, and can clear out all the food on the ship by herself. Other characters quickly figure out that they can bribe Arco—and to a lesser extent, Marco—into doing whatever they want by offering free food.
36	--->'''Sakurako:''' Do you get the impression these two will listen to anything if we put something in their mouths?
37	** Gargouille is no slouch in this department either. The local news dubs her “Hydration Girl” after she drinks a public fountain dry.
38	--->'''Gargouille:''' As someone born on the planet of sand, I really longed for a planet with tasty water. It’s been my dream to one day drink a bottle filled up completely with water. ''(looking proud of herself)'' And now that dream has been fulfilled.
39	* BigFancyHouse: The obscenely rich Isezaki sisters live in a sprawling castle.
40	* 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.
41	* BlandNameProduct: Marco is shown playing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinway_%26_Sons Staingway]] piano in the very first scene. There’s also Galaxy Auction, which has a cat smile version of the Creator/{{Amazon}} logo.
42	* BoxedCrook: Marco, Haqua, and Gargouille are thrown in prison after their three-way brawl causes a lot of property damage. They escape, at which point Tera offers them a deal: enroll as students at Isezaki Academy and defend Gold Cord from alien threats, or go back to prison.
43	* BreathWeapon: Arco can breathe fire in her dragon form.
44	* CarFu: In one of the animated segments, Marco saves a kid from two of El Skeleton’s minions by ramming the minions with her scooter.
45	* CelestialBody: Arco's true form contains stars and nebulae, and her tiny dragon form's mouth is shown to contain a field of stars at one point. There's also the Lizard Stone, which has a miniature galaxy swirling within its depths.
46	* CensorSteam: Used in an optional scene set in a public bath.
47	* {{Cephalothorax}}: The sapient cancer cell that Marco and Arco encounter inside the Nudo is basically a small orange ball with arms and legs.
48	* ChainsawGood: Some of the loading screens show Rakka with a chainsaw. The Love arc reveals that this is her weapon of choice.
49	* CityPlanet: The Machine Planet is implied to be one. Scenes set on the planet showcase a futuristic urban sprawl that stretches as far as the eye can see.
50	* CombatSadomasochist: Haqua is a downplayed example. She believes the source of her power comes from bullying others or from being bullied herself, and intentionally tries to antagonize people to power up. When the people of Gold Cord prove too nice to do either, she finds herself stumped.
51	* CoolSword: Gargouille’s sword, Coelacanth, is a golden, gem-encrusted {{BFS}} that can project a SwordBeam powerful enough to slice a starship in half.
52	* CutenessProximity: Tera reacts to the herd of chibi unicorns at the zoo with a delighted {{Squee}}.
53	* DadaAd: Tera made (and starred in) a pair of commercials that were supposed to be advertising how her family’s construction company will bring private jets and amusement parks to Gold Cord. What they actually depict is her emerging from a hoard of treasure while boasting about how wealthy she is. Marco is left speechless for a moment after seeing one, leading to this exchange:
54	-->'''Marco:''' Was this commercial well received?
55	-->'''Tera:''' Look! It’s cute right! And well shot!
56	* DemBones: El Skeleton, as his name implies, is an alien who looks like a skeleton. He has flesh and blood, but will quickly heal from even grievous wounds as long as his bones are intact.
57	* DepravedDentist: Pandagraph is an alien war criminal who travels from planet to planet, practicing dentistry as a cover for her illegal medical experiments. She clearly enjoys tormenting her clients, telling them that she’ll break them into smithereens, threatening to kill them if they complain or report her, and sporting a big SlasherSmile as she begins a tooth extraction. Arco is understandably reluctant to let Pandagraph go poking around in her mouth.
58	* DoubleTap: The heroines quickly develop a routine for killing the Love mutants. After Haqua snaps the mutant’s neck and stabs it, Marco administers "gratuitous headshots" to make sure it’s dead.
59	* 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.
60	* 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]].
61	* 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.
62	* 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.
63	* EpicFail: The Mayor attempts to save Tera from the Galaxy Auction aliens with a tank. She didn’t check what was in the barrel, however, so when she gives the order to fire, all that comes out is [[BangFlagGun a flag and some confetti]]. Her approval rating takes an immediate nosedive, and she retreats.
64	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Mayor’s actual name is never revealed, and everyone just calls her the Mayor.
65	* {{Expy}}: Several of the characters also draws parallel to those from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'':
66	** Marco = Peter Quill. They're both BadassNormal GuileHero with a mommy issue. They're both also kidnapped by the alien in their childhood and rescued by the space pirates whose leader ended up becoming their adoptive father.
67	** Dosgoro = Yondu. They're both leader of the space pirate and also the protagonist adoptive father figure.
68	** Gargouille = Gamora. They're both badass ActionGirl with a beef against the BigBad for slaughtering their home planet.
69	** Haqua = Nebula. TheDragon for the BigBad who is secretly planning to stab him in the back.
70	* EyelessFace: Arco has no (visible) eyes in her mini-dragon form.
71	* FacelessMooks: El Skeleton’s minions wear weird, tubular helmets that conceal their faces.
72	* TheFagin: Dosgoro bought Marco from a slave market while she was still a child and taught her to steal for him. She’s since become one of the best thieves[=/=]treasure hunters in the galaxy.
73	* FakeMemories: The Love mutants can insert false memories into a person’s mind, making the person think that the mutant is a dear friend. They only give their victims happy memories, however, meaning that the victim can realize they’re being tricked if they can’t dredge up unhappy memories of whoever the mutant is impersonating.
74	* 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.
75	* 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.
76	* FeedItABomb: Arco’s plan to divert the Nudo away from Earth is to fly inside it with the ship and plant some bombs in its stomach. They’re forced to change plans when a cancer cell knocks the detonator into a pool of stomach acid.
77	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Tera and Rakka, respectively. Tera, the elder sibling, is eccentric, proud, and fond of flaunting her family’s vast wealth. Rakka, the younger sibling, is humble, down-to-earth, and acts as the family’s self-appointed Minister of Finance to keep Tera from blowing their money on questionable purchases from Galaxy Auction.
78	* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the animated segments opens on a random person with a calendar for a head. This person ends up being quite important a few hours later.
79	* FungusHumongous: At one point Arco and Ruri travel to the Energy Planet, where towering mushrooms dominate the landscape.
80	* GalacticConqueror: Astaroth is an alien tyrant out to conquer the Milky Way. He regularly destroys planets and commits genocide in pursuit of this goal.
81	* GratuitousEnglish: Various characters pepper their spoken Japanese lines with the occasional English word or phrase, like Collection Joe’s "Marco is best-o treasure huntah!" or the Galaxy News anchor ending his broadcasts with "Shee you next Sunday."
82	* GuileHero: Marco is an ordinary girl in a galaxy full of superhuman aliens, and while she can hold her own in a fight, she’s more likely to solve her problems through trickery or persuasion.
83	* HellishPupils: [[spoiler:Marco]]’s pupils morph into reptilian slits during her final confrontation with Astaroth.
84	* 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]].
85	* 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.
86	* HumanTraffickers: Large numbers of people were kidnapped by aliens ten years before the start of the game. Some of the victims, like Marco, were sold into slavery, while others were dismembered and sold piece by piece. [[spoiler:Astaroth was behind the kidnappings.]]
87	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler:Arco was lonely and miserable before she met Marco. Everyone feared and avoided her because she was a big, scary dragon who frequently ate the very people she was trying to befriend. Marco was the first person who didn’t run away from her, leading Arco to recognize her as a kindred spirit and begin taking care of her.]]
88	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When Astaroth deigns to kill his victims personally, he does so by making spikes erupt from the floor to impale them.
89	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Gargouille has a little speech that she delivers whenever she’s about to start kicking ass:
90	-->''Passing Dubhe, Merak and Phecda. Until it’s bound to Alkaid… Open a hole in the scoop of the Big Dipper. The overflowing sand bites the blood of sacrifice. It shall not give even a single drop of mercy. ''
91	* InsectoidAliens: One of Pandagraph’s clients is an alien that looks like a giant purple mantis.
92	* InsistentTerminology: Marco prefers the term "treasure hunter" to "thief", though she readily admits that she steals things for a living.
93	-->'''Marco:''' If there’s anything you’d like me to swipe, give me a call. That’s the kinda job I do.
94	-->'''Ruri:''' You’re a thief?
95	-->'''Marco:''' No, no, no. I’m a treasure hunter.
96	-->'''Ruri:''' [[DistinctionWithoutADifference You mean like… an amazing thief]]?
97	* IntelligentGerbil: Several aliens resemble anthropomorphic animals. Dosgoro, who resembles an alligator, and Collection Joe, who resembles a mouse, are the most obvious examples.
98	* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Emergency Rations communicates exclusively through oinks. Marco and Arco have no trouble understanding Emergency Rations despite this.
99	-->'''Marco:''' How long before we arrive?\
100	'''Emergency Rations:''' (''piloting the ship'') Oink, oink.\
101	'''Marco:''' I see. Sooner than I thought.
102	* ItsAllAboutMe: Tera has one hell of an ego. She likens herself to the sun when asked for a self-introduction, made two commercials that exist purely to flaunt her vast wealth, and wants to protect the town of Gold Cord from aliens because an alien once tricked her into buying a worthless rock and called her fat.
103	-->'''Tera:''' I’m not so arrogant to think I can protect all of Earth… But I at least want to protect this city! I want to at least protect my hometown! And also make sure I won’t get made fun of on galactic social media!
104	* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:After getting her arm ripped off by Astaroth, Marco retreats into the depths of her subconscious mind. Kurosaki somehow enters her mind to bring Marco up to speed on what’s happening while she’s unconscious, and on what Marco needs to do to stay alive.]]
105	* 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.
106	* 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.
107	* LackOfEmpathy: By her own admission, [[spoiler:Rakka]] can understand the emotions of others but cannot feel them herself. She expresses jealousy toward Tera for being able to feel such things, and while she clearly cares for her [[spoiler:sister]] on some level she cannot empathize with Tera’s wish to [[spoiler:bring their dead mother back to life with the Lizard Stone]].
108	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Marco’s inability to remember her mother is not simply a case of her being too young when she was kidnapped. [[spoiler:It’s because Arco ate her memories of her mother, and did the same with Mitsuko’s memories of Marco.]]
109	* 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.
110	* LizardFolk: Dosgoro looks like an anthropomorphic alligator.
111	* 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.]]
112	* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Tera defaulted on her payments to Galaxy Auction, so the aliens have her crucified in a public place. They were going to execute her via guillotine as well, but Marco showed up at the last minute to talk them out of it.
113	* MeaningfulName: Marco named Emergency Rations that because she intended to fatten him up and eat him if she ever ran out of food. She occasionally makes jokes about eating him when she’s hungry, much to his dismay.
114	* 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.
115	* MineralMacGuffin: The Lizard Stone is a magical gemstone that gives whoever holds it the power of a dragon. Marco wants to sell it, and all the villains want to get their hands on it.
116	* MiniMecha: Diminutive aliens like Collection Joe sometimes ride around in heavily-armed exoskeletons that are taller than humans.
117	* MonsterClown: Marco is kidnapped by a pair of aliens disguised as clowns during the prologue.
118	* MushroomMan: The Energy Planet is home to a race of mushroom-like creatures. Arco and Ruri slaughter droves of them to make an energy drink from their remains.
119	* NeckLift: Gargouille grabs Haqua by the collar and hoists her into the air while the two of them are languishing in prison. It helps that Haqua is a lot smaller than Gargouille.
120	* NoShirtLongJacket: Dosgoro wears pants and a trenchcoat, but no shirt. This leaves his gut on display at all times.
121	* NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: Sakurako’s first appearance has her bursting into Ruri’s soba restaurant in order to drag her back to school. She also chews Ruri’s guardian out for letting her cut classes while she’s at it.
122	* NonHumanHead: Calen is a girl with a calendar for a head. Or at least, that’s what she ''appears'' to be…
123	* OffWithHisHead:
124	** Dosgoro regularly decapitates his henchmen for telling him things that he doesn’t want to hear. It’s the same two henchmen each time.
125	** 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.
126	* OneProductPlanet: There’s a place literally called the "enslavement planet". Take a wild guess as to what they sell.
127	* 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 [[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.
128	* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Gargouille punches out a trio of inmates that look like stereotypical genies while trying to escape from an underground prison. There’s also a fourth inmate who claims to be a genie, but is clearly a skeleton.
129	* 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.
130	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Spoofed in one of the [[ShowWithinAShow Galaxy TV Dramas]], where a woman is fleeing in panic from the zombie apocalypse that has overrun her town… only to discover that zombie bites are not only harmless, but alleviate cramps and back pain!
131	* PaintItBlack: [[spoiler:El Skeleton’s body and clothes turn black after he is made "heartless" by Ulginos. He reverts back to his original colour scheme when he breaks through his brainwashing.]]
132	* PetalPower: Haqua can appear and disappear in a shower of CherryBlossoms.
133	* PlanetEater: Nudos are giant whale-like creatures that can swallow an entire planet in one gulp. Marco and Arco have to stop one from devouring the Earth at one point.
134	* PlanetSpaceship: Astaroth’s planet crusher is a starship so enormous that it can quite literally crush a planet in its grip.
135	* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: At one point, Haqua invites Gargouille to kill her as RevengeByProxy against Astaroth for exterminating Gargouille’s people. Gargouille nearly accepts that offer before Marco talks them both out of it.
136	* 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.
137	* PoliceAreUseless: A lone Galaxy Police officer joins the protagonists for the final battle. He gets defeated almost instantly, whereas everyone else is holding their own against Astaroth’s forces.
138	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Dosgoro has naturally red eyes and sclera, and he’s a ruthless criminal. Astaroth’s eyes are normally blue, but they turn red in certain situations. Several other characters also have their eyes glow red whenever they’re about to get serious.
139	* 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.
140	* {{Revenge}}: Gargouille wants to kill Astaroth in revenge for him destroying her planet and exterminating her people.
141	* 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.
142	* SexSells: The ad for Pandagraph’s dentistry clinic consists of a swimsuit-clad Pandagraph posing seductively at the beach while talking about the services she offers.
143	* ShapeshifterWeapon:
144	** In the animated segments, El Skeleton can extrude cartoon bombs from his muscles and shoot bullets out of his nipples.
145	** 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.]]
146	* ShoutOut:
147	** Dosgoro falls for the same FakinMacGuffin trick that Peter Quill pulled on Yondu in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''.
148	** 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/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
149	** The four-armed Heartless soldiers that Astaroth sends to attack Gold Cord are a dead ringer for the Outriders from ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.
150	** The Galaxy Police officer that shows up for the final battle is a Franchise/{{Transformer\|s}}.
151	** Astaroth meets his end the exact same way [[spoiler:Thanos]] does in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': [[spoiler:crumbling to dust after having his cosmic MacGuffin taken away from him]].
152	* ShowWithinAShow: Snippets from ''Galaxy TV Drama'' are occasionally shown.
153	* SingleBiomePlanet: Gargouille’s homeworld, Gal, is a desert planet.
154	* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Arco, the titular Galaxy Dragon, is the only one of her kind in the Milky Way.
155	* SkewedPriorities:
156	** The Mayor wants to take down Astaroth because doing so would give her approval ratings a massive boost. Then there’s her (initial) reaction to getting snatched up by a ManEatingPlant:
157	--->"Stooooop!!! I can’t concentrate on my manifestoooooo!!!"
158	** Rakka won’t let anyone fire the giant, anti-orbital cannons that her company built specifically to repel alien invaders, despite the fact that there’s an alien invasion going on. She’s concerned that actually using the damn things will negatively impact her company’s stock, you see.
159	* 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.
160	* SpaceWhale: 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.
161	* SuperStrength: Gargouille is strong enough to smash through the barred door of a prison cell, and can floor hulking aliens with one punch.
162	* SwordBeam: Gargouille can project giant blades of energy from her sword Coelacanth. She uses this to bisect one of Astaroth’s warships when it interrupts a baseball game.
163	* TanksForNothing: The Mayor rolls up in a tank to rescue Tera from being executed by the Galaxy Auction reps. [[EpicFail It doesn’t go well]].
164	* 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.]]
165	* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Arco has the mentality of a small child while in her tiny dragon form: she’s mainly interested in food, parrots people for fun, and is scared of going to the dentist. She’s shown to be much more observant, insightful and intelligent whenever she shapeshifts into her human form.
166	* TheToothHurts: Arco develops a cavity after she and Marco save Gold Cord from the Nudo, forcing Marco to seek out a dentist. Arco isn’t thrilled with the idea, and likes it even less when she meets [[DepravedDentist Pandagraph]].
167	* ThisWasHisTrueForm:
168	** The Love revert to their true forms as worm-like creatures upon being killed.
169	** [[spoiler:When Marco defeats Astaroth, his body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.]]
170	* 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.
171	* {{Unishment}}: Dosgoro once kept Arco locked up in a gumball machine. Being the BigEater that she is, Arco didn’t mind in the slightest.
172	-->'''Arco:''' This is the country of happiness!
173	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: El Skeleton opens an oden restaurant in Gold Cord to gather information about the Lizard Stone. His clientele take the fact that the restaurant is run by a weird skeleton man in stride, having evidently seen stranger things since aliens first came to the planet.
174	** Everyone's reaction upon seeing a giant space whale about to devour planet earth? Continue their daily lives as usual.
175	* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Astaroth. His [[NoNonsenseNemesis no-nonsense attitude]], sheer cruelty, and sadism clashes heavily with the VN cartoony atmosphere. The game becomes completely serious and devoid of humor whenever he's on screen.
176	* VocalDissonance: In one of the animated segments, the Twitter user with the cutesy MagicalGirl avatar [[{{GIRL}} has a man’s voice]].
177	* 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.
178	* WeakWilled: Gargouille may be a brave and strong-willed warrior woman, but she is not good at resisting the Love’s BackstoryInvader powers. She gets tricked by the creatures twice in the span of a few minutes, whereas Marco and Haqua are unaffected.
179	* {{Weredragon}}: Arco spends most of her time in SleepModeSize, but she can take on a human form as long as she’s feeling full. She’ll revert to her tiny dragon form as soon as she gets hungry again.
180	* WholePlotReference: The plot borrows a lot from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''. 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.
181	* WindbagPolitician: The Mayor is introduced giving a speech about how she wants to make Gold Cord into the kind of town where you can feel comfortable eating ice cream even in a crowded city, and starts going off on a tangent about the ice cream parlor where she bought the ice cream cone that she was eating during the speech. The press then interrupt to ask her what the hell she’s talking about.
182	* WingedHumanoid: Astaroth’s henchman Ulginos is a hooded figure with large black wings.
183	* YouAreNumberSix: The inmates of Gold Cord’s underground prison are assigned numbers based on the length of their sentence.
184	-->'''682''': I’m a beast with a 682 year sentence.

Context VisualNovel / MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon