History Anime / GallForce

* ThemeNaming: After the AnimalThemeNaming of ''Eternal Story'', later installments of the franchise use different themes -- weapons (Shildy and Spea) in ''Destruction'', MusicalThemeNaming (Melody, Score, Fortin and Soundy) in ''Rhea'', and RockThemeNaming (Crys, Marble, Garnet, etc.) in ''New Era''.

* WorldOfActionGirls: In the first OVAs this is justified by the Solnoids being a OneGenderRace. Later entries just end up with the survivors in focus being mostly female.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Pony, the only crew member able to communicate with the OX-11 mainframe, but a ShrinkingViolet with her cremates.

* DramaticSpaceDrifting: Gall Force had many scenes, particularly a corpse of an unlucky crew in a space suit in the vacuum of a sealed-off area, but the most iconic being [[spoiler: the aftermath of Luffy's Heroic Sacrifice where she was left drifting in space. At least before she was revived thanks to being in stasis inside her own suit.]]

* VasquezAlwaysDies: ZigZaggedTrope: Rabby is a very sensitive woman who is panicking or enraged about something every time she's in combat throughout ''Eternal Story'' (until the final battle, that is), while Lufy is a veteran warrior and BoisterousBruiser and buys it in the first major battle of the film... only to be found cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the second film and serve as the protagonist for the remainder of the trilogy [[spoiler:(and when she buys it is because all of the Solnoid race buys it).]]

* VasquezAlwaysDies: ZigZaggedTrope: Rabby is a very sensitive woman who is panicking or enraged about something every time she's in combat throughout ''Eternal Story'' (until the final battle, that is), while Lufy is a veteran warrior and BoisterousBruiser and buys it in the first major battle of the film... only to be found cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the second film and serve as the protagonist for the remainder of the trilogy [[spoiler:(and when she buys it is because ''[[KillThemAll all of the Solnoid race]]'' buys it).]]

The series saw a revival in 1996 with ''Gall Force:The Revolution'' -- an attempted ContinuityReboot of the franchise that replaced the Paranoids with a perpetual civil war between factions of Solnoids, and a group of rebels trying to bring that war to an end. Despite [[NamesToKnowInAnime an all-star cast of voice actresses]], the series was quickly forgotten, and is [[NoExportForYou the only part of the franchise not released in English]].

* ThemeNaming: After the AnimalThemeNaming of ''Eternal Story'', later installments of the franchise use different themes -- weapons (Shildy and Spea) in ''Destruction'', music (Melody, Score, Fortin and Soundy) in ''Rhea'', and RockThemeNaming (Crys, Marble, Garnet, etc.) in ''New Era''.

* TenLittleMurderVictims: Most prominent in ''Eternal Story'', we're introduced to a small pool of survivors which slowly gets whittled down over the course of the movie. (This is {{lampshaded}} by the title of the SuperDeformed parody version of ''Eternal Story,'' ''Ten Little Gall Force''.

* TenLittleMurderVictims: Most prominent in ''Eternal Story'', we're introduced to a small pool of survivors which slowly gets whittled down over the course of the movie. (This is {{lampshaded]] by the title of the SuperDeformed parody version of ''Eternal Story,'' ''Ten Little Gall Force''.

%%* RockThemeNaming: In ''New Era''.

* TenLittleMurderVictims: Most prominent in ''Eternal Story'', we're introduced to a small pool of survivors which slowly gets whittled down over the course of the movie.

The series saw a revival in 1996 with ''Gall Force:The Revolution'' -- an attempted ContinuityReboot of the franchise that replaced the Paranoids with a perpetual civil war between factions of Solnoids, and a group of rebels trying to bring that war to an end. Despite [[NamesToKnowInAnime an all-star cast of seiyuu]], the series was quickly forgotten, and is [[NoExportForYou the only part of the franchise not released in English]].

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: At the end of ''Eternal Story'', Rabby and Patty know they can't possibly hold off both the Paranoid fleet and the Solnoid special forces for long, so they put Rumy and the new lifeform/Patty's son into the Blossom's escape pod, and have it shoot off to Terra while they overload Chaos' planetary terraforming network. Their enemies all perish in the resulting volcanic backlash, while Rumy and the new lifeform live on to start the human race.

* DetonationMoon: Downplayed at the climax of ''Eternal Story'', which [[spoiler:the once-terraformed Moon of Earth scorched into the wasteland we know now as a side-effect of the climactic battle].]

%%* HumongousMecha: The Paranoid "dynamech", among others.

* KillSat: The {{BFG}} of Kill Sats, it orbits a ''sun''. The sun it's supposed to ''kill''. The development of this weapon scares both sides of the Solnoid-Paranoid war into trying to TakeAThirdOption.

%%* {{Cyborg}}: [[TheBigGuy Norton]] from Rhea/Earth Chapter.
%%* DreamSequence: In the escape ship.

%%* SpaceIsNoisy

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[invoked]] While Rabby is horrified that [[spoiler:thousands of Solnoids were killed in order to create a New Life Form, it's pointed out that both sides had been fighting for centuries and were on the verge of wiping each other out]].

%%* BigEater: Rumy

%%* BloodKnight: Lufy
%%* BoisterousBruiser: Lufy
%%* BrattyHalfPint: Rumy

%%* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Eluza, Patty.
%%* FasterThanLightTravel: Via a jump drive.

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: At the end of ''Eternal Story'', Rabby and Patty know they can't possibly hold off both the Paranoid fleet and the Solnoid special forces for long, so they put Rumy and the new lifeform/Patty's son into the Blossom's escape pod, and have it shoot off to Terra while they overload Chaos' planetary terraforming network

%%* HappyEndingOverride: New Era.

%%* {{OVA}}
%%* PoweredArmor: Used by Lufy.
%%* TheRealRemingtonSteele: [[spoiler:Catty Nebulart]]

%%* ReTool: ''Rhea Gall Force''/''Earth Chapter'', ''New Era''.
%%* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler:Catty]]
%%* RobotBuddy: TOIL and AIL.

%%* StarKilling

%%* TenLittleMurderVictims
%%* TokenMiniMoe: Rumy

%%* WorldOfActionGirls: Justified by being a OneGenderRace.
%%* WrenchWench: Pony
%%* YouAreInCommandNow: Eluza

%%* ContinuityReboot: ''Gall Force: The Revolution''

%%* EarthAllAlong
%%* EarthIsABattlefield: Actually, [[spoiler:the moon]].

%%* FlingALightIntoTheFuture

%%* HalfHumanHybrid: Well, half-''humanoid''.

%%* HumanAliens: The Solnoids.

%%* OneGenderRace: The Solnoids.

%%* AmazonBrigade