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** Even worse, his former colleague [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Jeena Malso/Gina Marceau]].

* MechaShow

* PoweredArmor

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Boomers vs. Voomers vs. Buma, anyone?

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Quincy's surname was never revealed in the OVA, but ''2040'' give it as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "Rosenkroitz/Rosenkreuz"]].

* HackerDuel: In the eighth and final episode of the original series, Nene, the {{Hackette}} of the Knight Sabers, is caught in the middle of a DieHardOnAnX situation at A.D. Police headquarters caused by a disgruntled scientist and the hero hunter [[KillerRobot boomers]] he created -- one of which physically merges with the ADP's main server and takes control of the building. Once Nene's teammates come to the rescue, Nene has to battle the hacker boomer in order to [[LiveActionEscortMission escort the police chief's daughter to safety]], opening locked doors and overriding building defenses all the while. After the other boomers are defeated, Nene has to prevent the hacker boomer from self-destructing the headquarters building.

* EightiesHair: So very much, from the boomer trio in the second episode to Priss' scene wig that looks like it's burrowed from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''.

* EightiesHair: So very much.

->''"Or: 'What if Music/JoanJett and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel Coco Chanel]] became New Wave terrorists?'"''

* ImGoingForACloserLook: A frequent way Priss gets into trouble.
** This is the code phrase for A.D. Police helicopter troopers to indicate that they're about to die. You're in a helicopter with a minigun on it. [[TooStupidToLive Why would you ever go in closer?]]

** Exception: Sylia's [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] high-collared sleeveless blouse worn under a business suit has never been fashionable in the past, but as the years pass it's starting to look increasingly common for women to dress like this in the future.

* OffModel: The character art in the first OVA episode is distinctly cruder than in the rest of the series.
** Subverted in OVA 7: director Satoshi Urushihara draws the characters in his own SignatureStyle instead of following Sonoda's model sheets, but that episode has some of the best draftsmanship in the entire franchise.

* IntrepidReporter: Lisa Vanette, a young would-be photographer introduced in the last OVA episode. She talked her father, DaChief of the AD Police, into letting her visit in the hopes of getting her first scoop, and risks her life to get a very news-worthy photo of one of the Knight Sabers. [[spoiler:Lisa's photo of the ArcVillian for the episode being arrested gets published. She returns the incriminating photo and camera memory card to Nene at the end of the episode.]]

%%* GunshipRescue: Mackie in the "Knight Wing" during OVA episode 6.

%%* IntrepidReporter: Lisa Vanette, a young photographer introduced in the last OVA episode.

[[caption-width-right:300:Left to right: [[PluckyGirl Linna Yamazaki]], [[TheCaptain Sylia Stingray]], Priss Asagiri, [[PlayfulHacker Nene Romanova]].]]

** The AD Police's Roadblock "truck" in ''Revenge Road'' is named Lulu Belle. [[spoiler: That's Bogart's tank in ''Film/Sahara1943''.]]

* ChekhovsGun: In ep. 2 of the OVA, [[spoiler: Linna takes Irene's engagement ring after Boomers kill the young woman, as a memento to remember her friend.]] This comes into play later, in ep. 7, [[spoiler: when Linna gives this ring to Irene's sister, Reika, aka Vision, to convince her not to take up the leadership of the Hou Bang group and pursue further vengeance against GENOM]].

* HoneyTrap: Used on Dr. [=MacLaren=] [[spoiler: by Vision as part of her revenge for her parents and sister.]] Includes RoomDisservice by multiple parties.

** The eighth OVA also refreshingly bucks the trend of [[spoiler: having important one-shot characters be killed off.]]

* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler: The OVA had numerous hints at Sylia being this]].
** [[spoiler: Becomes a plot point in Adam Warren's comic book adaptation where we find out that Sylia's brain has been augmented by {{Nanomachines}}. [[WordOfGod Toshimichi Suzuki of Artmic]] has confirmed this to be the true, making this a case of AllThereInTheManual]].

** The Sylia of the [=OVAs=] is calm and collected, whereas the ''2040'' incarnation was more volatile and prone to outbursts. [[spoiler: Being a test subject from her father may be the cause of the ''2040'' Sylia's instability.]]

* EarthquakeMachine: [[spoiler: What caused the earthquake that destroyed Tokyo in ''2040''[='=]s backstory. GENOM tried to keep runaway boomer technology are getting loose, deciding to employ the device to bury the lab, and causing the city to be rebuilt. However, this didn't destroy the technology as it later got loose.]]

* IdolSinger: Vision [[spoiler:(AKA Reika Chang)]] in OAV 7.
* IntrepidReporter, combined with DarkSkinnedBlond: Lisa Vanette, a young photographer introduced in the last OVA episode.

* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Linna, implied.

* MysteriousInformant: Fargo.

* ShesGotLegs: WordOfGod (in this case, Creator/KenichiSonoda) says that the stripes on the legs of the hardsuits is specifically meant to invoke this.

* MythologyGag: Linna is seen at certain times, such as when exercising or hanging out with Nene, wearing a sweatband on her head just like she did (but much more often then not) in the original series.

[[caption-width-right:300:Left to right: [[PluckyGirl Linna Yamazaki]], [[TheCaptain Sylia Stingray]], [[BikerBabe Priss Asagiri]], [[PlayfulHacker Nene Romanova]].]]

* BikerBabe and BadassBiker: Priss; Sylvie is only a little less badass.
** Technically, Linna and Sylia also count as both are pretty handy on a [[CoolBike Moto]][[TransformingMecha slave]] of which both have their own [[ColorCodedCharacters colour coded]] ones (in addition to Priss' red one). Linna often rides hers in tandem with Priss on missions. Nene, on the other hand, is only seen riding her pink Motoslave once, and she never transforms it. She rides around on a scooter in civilian life.

* SuperHeroOrigin: Given the above, the OVA is oddly notable for '''''avoiding''''' this; we never actually get around to seeing how the team got together, and the first episode is practically InMediasRes. At best we get some vague hints about Sylia's reasons for wanting to ''assemble'' the team in the first place, but how in the world [[BikerBabe Priss]], [[PluckyGirl Linna]], [[PlayfulHacker Nene]] and [[TheCaptain Sylia]] all fell in together (when it seems highly improbable that they'd all meet by chance) is never even remotely explained. It seems like they were building toward addressing this in the original series (it would've been a logical segue from the team-building of OVA ep8), but, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork well...]]

* {{Expy}}: The AI newscaster that appears in ''Crash!'' bears more than a passing resemblance to Series/MaxHeadroom.

* {{Expy}}: Sylia, Galatea, Mackie and Kain Smith (Linna's boss) in ''2040'' look almost exactly like Ifurita (OVA version), Ifurita (TV version), Makoto and Jinnai, respectively, from ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''.

* MidseasonUpgrade: To the hardsuits in both the original series and ''2040''. Especially [[FunnyAneurysmMoment "funny"]] in the original - they spend all of Nene's DayInTheLimelight getting their suit upgrades and clearly preparing for a major confrontation narratively... and then the show ends!

* FingerlessGloves: The ''2040'' version of Priss.

->''"[[InTheNameOfTheMoon Knight Sabers, sanjo!]]"''