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A [[Shoot'Em Up]] series by Technosoft, which started with an obscure Japanese computer title in 1983 as a multi-direction overhead view shooter. It eventually become a side-scrolling shooter in the third installment, famous for its loads of [[Thunder Force ~~(Video Game)~~/Awesome Music|Awesome Music]].

A [[Shoot'Em Up]] series by Technosoft, which started with an obscure Japanese computer title in 1983 as a multi-direction overhead view shooter. It eventually become a side-scrolling shooter in the third installment, famous for its loads of [[Thunder Force/Awesome Music|Awesome Music]].

The [[Excuse Plot]] puts player in shoes of the [[Human Alien|Galaxy]] [[The Federation|Federation]]'s [[One-Man Army|pilot]] in the ''[[Super Prototype|Fire Leo]]'' starfighter against the overwhelming cybernetic [[The Empire|ORN Empire]]. ''Thunder Force V'' [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|changes the focus to Earth]] when Earthmen discover the wreck of ''Thunder Force IV'''s Fire Leo (Rynex) and reverse engineer it. The Guardian, an AI designed to study Vasteel (as Rynex comes to be known), however, goes haywire on humanity, but not before they create their ''own'' Vasteel starfighter. ''Thunder Force V'' is also known for having more story than the previous games, which ties together the events of ''IV.'' The sixth installment was trapped in [[Development Hell]] for a decade, but eventually released.

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* [[Cool Starship]]: The Fire-Leo series for the Galactic Federation and the RVR series for Earth.

* [[Crosshair Aware]]: The Sky Raid stage in ''IV''

* [[Death Is a Slap On The Wrist]]: The default ship in ''VI'' doesn't lose its weapons when you die.

* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]: The default ship in ''VI'' doesn't lose its weapons when you die.

* [[Every Ten Thousand Points]]: The series is known for cranking out tons of extends.

* [[Evil Counterpart]] : {{spoiler|The Vasteel Original (the Rynex) in ''V'' and Vasteel Nocht in ''VI''.}}

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* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: ''Two'' in ''Thunder Force VI''--an obscure and obsolete offshoot of Chinese called Tangut, and Mongolian.

* [[Harder Than Hard]]: "Very Hard" in ''[[Thunder Force]] II'' for the Sharp X68000, "Mania" in ''III'', and "Maniac" in ''IV'' and ''VI''.

* [[Homage]]: Some of the boss names in ''Thunder Force V'': [[Deep Purple]], [[~~Iron Maiden (Music)|~~Iron Maiden]], and A3 (for Alabama 3).

* [[Homage]]: Some of the boss names in ''Thunder Force V'': [[Deep Purple]], [[Iron Maiden]], and A3 (for Alabama 3).

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: The boss for stage 5 in ''Thunder Force IV''

* [[I Let You Win]]: {{spoiler|The Guardian}} in ''Thunder Force V.'' Cenes Crawford {{spoiler|in her last message}} even lampshades this by stating that had it not done so, the odds of ''just surviving'' those battles wasn't even in single digits.

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* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: All the English in ''V'' was there in the Japanese version as well. It kinda explains why the Guardian sounds slightly "off" compared to a native speaker.

* [[Theme Naming]]: The ship names: Styx, Rynex, Syrinx as well as the Gauntlet, Vambrace and Brigandine

* [[Transforming Mecha]] : A3 ([[Fun ~~With~~ Acronyms|Armament Armed Arm]]) and Guardian's Knight from ''V'' and B3 (Barbaric Berserk Beast) from ''VI''

* [[Transforming Mecha]] : A3 ([[Fun with Acronyms|Armament Armed Arm]]) and Guardian's Knight from ''V'' and B3 (Barbaric Berserk Beast) from ''VI''

* [[Unstable Equilibrium]]: From ''III'' onwards, dying takes away your current weapon. This can lead to situations in which you [[Too Awesome to Use|avoid using the most effective weapon for the situation, lest you die and lose it]].

* [[Video Game 3D Leap]]: As a presentation upgrade starting with ''V''