ah man.
Battle Angel Alita, aka Gally, was a cyborg found in the junkyard without a body, likely tossed from Tiphares, the city in the sky. The cyborg engineer who found her gave her a small body and raised her as a child. At this time the great age of technological development had passed and robotics was more a salvage job than anything developmental. In fact, salvaged robots and robot bodies were in demand mostly for sports, and in particular for motorball, a violent combination of roller and demolition derbies. In that sport, size and power matter most. Alita, through a combination of events, is discovered to possess knowledge of a long lost art of robot combat called panzer kunst, meaning that although small, she is considerably superior as a fighter than almost all other motorball competitors.
And I wrote all that because I just saw a movie still in which the Damascus Blade is a goddamn freakin sword.. IT IS NOT A SWORD, PEOPLE.
I will still watch the movie anyway