History Anime / GEARFighterDendoh

* CharClone: Altair

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Altea/Althea/Altair, Galfa is also sometimes spelled Gulfer.

* HumanAlien: [[spoiler: Altair and Vega]].

* WhipItGood: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Viper Whip]] Data Weapon and Vega.

''GEAR Fighter Dendoh'' is a 38-episode SuperRobot {{anime}} directed and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa, [[CreatorCouple a husband and wife team]] more (in)famous in America for ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', along with Yasuko Kobayashi, a {{Tokusatsu}} writer known as a head writer for ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'' and ''Series/KamenRiderDenO''

* BigBad: Emperor Galfa who intends to slay all human life [[spoiler: to preserve environments as he was originally programmed to do such]]
* BrainwashedandCrazy: Altair who is revealed to be [[spoiler: Vega's brother who was being used by the villains.]] A more prominent victim of this trope though is [[spoiler:Hokuto]].
** Altair actually has two layers of this: [[spoiler:At first he only knows his life working for the villains, then his memory and personality is somewhat restored and he remembers Vega and bits of his past life but still believes in serving Galfa because his memories have also been altered. He becomes a more respectful opponent, especially since he learned his rival is actually his nephew but is still an antagonist. It's only after this second layer is broken that he truly returns to his senses. Altair implies Hokuto too will forget himself entirely if they don't rescue him soon enough when he's also taken and given false memories.]]

* ContinuityNod: Three of the [[{{Robeast}} Professional Machines]] that appear in episodes 9, 10 and 11 also appear in the flashback of the fall of Alktos, destroying many combat robots and defeating and capturing [[spoiler: ''Altair and Ogre'']].
* TheDragon: Altair, later Zero

** It also does it when not wounded and just hungry (as it's a cyborg), and has been used on screen as a threat toward incompetent officers.

* KillItWithFire: The Dragon Flare data weapon.

* {{Mons}}: The data weapons behave like this.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by Dendoh being alien technology that is not fully understood yet... And then subverted by the original builders having created not just Dendoh, but also Ogre and at least four other similar mechas (appearing only in a flashback due having been destroyed in battle by the Galfas).

* PostEpisodeTrailer: (featuring Hokuto and Ginga arguing about something pointless instead of telling you what's going to happen).

* SecretKeeper: Ginga's parents and Hokuto's mother find out that they're Dendoh's pilots pretty fast [[spoiler: (actually Hokuto's mother knew since the start, being Vega and all...)]], but don't tell. Most notable is Ginga's father, who is an IntrepidReporter and, after finding out, ''destroys the memory card with the pictures proving it'', deciding that the world doesn't need to know ''yet'' (and asking Eris to call him first when the world will need to know).

* ShoutOut: To just about every HumongousMecha anime out there. A particularly notable example is this first episode exchange.

* StellarName: Hokuto means "North Star". Ginga means "Galaxy". Not to mention [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega Vega]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair Altair]]...

* ThisIsADrill: The Unicorn Drill data weapon.
* ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts: At the start of the series, the Galfer send in [[BigDumbObject Rasenjo]] with its enormous cargo of Galfer Soldiers, some Heavy Machines, and three Professional Machines that would have likely overwhelmed Dendoh early on. They only send a few at a time because their main goal is to recover the Data Weapons, and when it comes to take Rasenjo on with its regiment depleted it's a long and hard battle. Then they send in a small special operation force of Professional Machines to steal them back. When that fails, they mobilize their full force... Consisting of [[spoiler:''thousand of Rasenjos with their own regiments of Mechanical Beasts'']]. Thus the final battle being [[StormingTheCastle GEAR attacking the Galfer home planet]] to take out Emperor Galfer and thus [[KeystoneArmy shut down all the Galfer]] before [[spoiler:the Rasenjos]] get into weapon range of Earth.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Altair with Ogre. Before their arrival, Dendoh had little problem with the Galfer. Then Altair shows up with Ogre, [[CurbStompBattle kicks Dendoh's ass with little problem]] and {{No Sell}}s their best attack at the time.

* WhipItGood: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Viper Whip]] data weapon and Vega.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Emperor Galfa threatens to [[FoodChainOfEvil feed Rasenjo's main underlings to his pet Lagowe]] as punishment for their failures (and it's implied that the very act of sending Lagowe to fool around inside Rasenjo and on Earth is a potentially lethal punishment, as the monster is liable to eat them just because), but he never gets around doing it due to Lagowe and the underlings getting killed by Dendoh.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Zero wanted to pull this on the Chips when he first saw them, though Subaru stopped him. [[spoiler:This might have foreshadowed Zero's attempt to do the same on Subaru.]]

** Altair actually has two layers of this [[spoiler:At first he only knows his life working for the villains, then his memory and personality is somewhat restored and he remembers Vega and bits of his past life but still believes in serving Galfa because his memories have also been altered. He becomes a more respectful opponent, especially since he learned his rival is actually his nephew but is still an antagonist. It's only after this second layer is broken that he truly returns to his senses. Altair implies Hokuto too will forget himself entirely if they don't rescue him soon enough when he's also taken and given false memories.]]

* GottaCatchEmAll: The Data Weapons

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Altair, Subaru, and the Chips]]

* HotBlooded: Both the boys, but especially Ginga
* HumanAlien: [[spoiler: Altair and Vega]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter / EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: Altair
* KillItWithFire: The Dragon Flare data weapon

* MaskPower: Altair and Vega
* {{Mons}}: The data weapons behave like this

* OlderAndWiser: The stillborn second season would have had the original cast acting as mentors to a team of kids piloting Dendoh-based mecha

* PaperThinDisguise: Subverted by Vega, who wears a wig and contacts in addition to the traditional mecha anime mask

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Altea/Althea/Altair, Galfa is also sometimes spelled Gulfer

* ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts: At the start of the series the Galfer send in [[BigDumbObject Rasenjo]] with its enormous cargo of Galfer Soldiers, some Heavy Machines, and three Professional Machines that would have likely overwhelmed Dendoh early on and only sends a few at a time because their main goal is to recover the Data Weapons, and when it comes to take on it with its complement depleted it's a long and hard battle. Then they send in a small special operation force of Professional Machines to steal them back. When that fails, they mobilize their full force... Consisting of [[spoiler:''thousand of Rasenjos with their own complements of Mechanical Beasts'']]. Thus the final battle being [[StormingTheCastle GEAR attacking the Galfer home planet]] to take out Emperor Galfer and thus [[KeystoneArmy shut down all the Galfer]] before [[spoiler:the Rasenjos]] get into weapon range of Earth.
* TimeMaster: The special skill for the Gatling Boar data special.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Emperor Galfa threaten to [[FoodChainOfEvil feed Rasenjo's main underlings to his pet Lagowe]] as punishment for their failures (and it's implied that the very act of sending Lagowe to fool around inside Rasenjo and on Earth is a potentially lethal punishment, as the monster is liable to eat them just because), but he never gets around doing it due Lagowe and the underlings getting killed by Dendoh.

* ThisIsADrill: The Unicorn Drill data weapon

''GEAR Fighter Dendoh'' is a 38-episode SuperRobot {{anime}} directed and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa, [[CreatorCouple a husband and wife team]] more (in)famous in America for ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', along with Yasuko Kobayashi of {{Toku}} fame.

* NoExportForYou: This article brought to you by fansubs, Hong Kong bootleg subs, and a half-translated copy of ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars R|eversal}}''
** There is a fansub in the works based off the Italian version.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some key elements in the show were supposed to be for {{Sunrise}}'s next [[Anime/BraveSeries Brave show]] after Anime/GaoGaiGar, ''Brave Saint Baan Gaan'', But since the show didn't materialize, said elements came to fruition in this show.
** It also incorporates a lot of unused elements from ''Project Z'', a proposed third ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' show, most notably the two protagonists are patterned after Mamoru and Kaidou. The nonsensical idea of two kids being forced to pilot a MotionCaptureMecha together was originally a somewhat more understandable result of the two protagonists having to use their alien powers to fuel the new human-built Gaogaigar's Hell and Heaven attack in the absence of a G-Stone, as the last one was trapped on the other side of the galaxy with Gai and Galleon at the end of ''FINAL''.

* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsReversal R]] and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsMX MX]].

This show provides examples of:

* StockFootage: Tons. Taken together with [[MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]], it seems to be a staple of Mitsuo Fukuda's directorial style.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some key elements in the show were supposed to be for {{Sunrise}}'s next [[Anime/BraveSeries Brave show]] after GaoGaiGar, ''Brave Saint Baan Gaan'', But since the show didn't materialize, said elements came to fruition in this show.
** It also incorporates a lot of unused elements from ''Project Z'', a proposed third ''GaoGaiGar'' show, most notably the two protagonists are patterned after Mamoru and Kaidou. The nonsensical idea of two kids being forced to pilot a MotionCaptureMecha together was originally a somewhat more understandable result of the two protagonists having to use their alien powers to fuel the new human-built Gaogaigar's Hell and Heaven attack in the absence of a G-Stone, as the last one was trapped on the other side of the galaxy with Gai and Galleon at the end of ''FINAL''.