History Anime / GenesisClimberMospeada

* BlueBlood: Mars Base has "Three Families and Four Conglomerates" with the Ismeia family being the leading family and Gate being one such member. They have influence over the Mars Base's government due to their hold over majority of Mars' mineral resources.

* DangerousDeserter: Some survivors of First Earth Recapture Mission--a disastrous campaign that occured 3 years before the series' present time--turned to banditry, which affected the village that Gate visited, due to being stranded without support and morale to continue their mission.

* HeroicSacrifice: Entire crew of ''Thunderchild'' ended up managing to drop the titular Breakers team on Earth despite being on the brink of destruction.

** Every Jetson was sentenced to CryoPrison for 300 years but released after 20 years, which resulted in her appearance as 26 years old despite being in her 40s in actual years. The same may also apply to Gate as her cybernetics and possibly synthetic skin would make her younger.
** Necessary is a psychic who remained in a child-like body due to experiments for psychic programs. Her biography also omits her age and implied that she may have been the oldest of the main characters since these programs have been running for at least a century before the series' present time.

* JapaneseRanguage: Of the type commonly seen in 80's anime - loads of SpellMyNameWithAnS, soft drink trucks labeled "Right Cora"...

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** The English release deliberately used different spellings for the characters and races whose names weren't changed.
** On the other hand, some were just transliteration convention differences (Inbit vs Invid - 'b' and 'v' sounds used the same character, and Mint "Ra-bu-ru" just as easily becomes "[=LaBelle=]", as per the [=McKinney=] novelilzations, as it does "Rubble") or errors (the terminal 'to' and 'do' are the same character, except for the easy to miss notation on the latter, which also goes for Stig (a proper Swedish name) vs Stick Bernard, another very common error).

''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA'' is an {{anime}} {{science fiction}} series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma (and featuring a score by a pre-Ghibli Music/JoeHisaishi) . The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan. MOSPEADA stands for '''M'''ilitary '''O'''peration '''S'''oldier '''P'''rotection '''E'''mergency '''A'''viation '''D'''ive '''A'''rmor, one of the transformable [[PowerArmor motorcycle-armors]] the series features. The other primary mecha featured in the show is the three-form [[TransformingMecha transformable fighter]] called the Armo-Fighter AFC-01 Legioss, which is somewhat similar in design to the VF-1 Valkyrie variable fighter from ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' and is the element that really inspired the show's inclusion into ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''.

%%* MacrossMissileMassacre: Stig's preferred method to down enemy mooks.

* MultiEthnicName: This tends to occur thanks to the series' setting in the Americas and Mars Base' multi-ethnic population, with Shinobu Takeuchi standing out as the only Japanese-named character of the series.

* HopelessWar: Mars Base had already lost resources to two failed missions by the time of the series that [[spoiler: the high command intend to use Anubis Missle to [[EarthShatteringKaboom Refless Point along with a large chunk of Earth]] as the back-up plan in case of Third attempt's failure. As many of them were members of Mars independence movement, they have little regard for their homeworld and even plan to recolonize the devastated planet as a paybak]].

%%* {{Bishonen}}: Yellow who crossdresses.

** Necessary is a psychic who remained in a child-like body due to experiments for psychic programs and would have been the oldest of the team since such programs had been done for at most a century before the series' present time.
* [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordswoman]]: Every is armed with a katana-esque blade, which was used to cut down two bandits in the second chapter.
* SergeantRock: Eagle's rank as a Sergeant was complimented with his two-decades worth of military experience and current service as a heavy weapons specialist for the Breaker team.

* AcePilot: Houquet et Rose ("Rook Bartley"), Stig Bernard ("Scott Bernard"), Ray ("Rand"), and Yellow Belmont ("Lancer") are quite skilled as pilots, who managed to knock out entire patrols during their voyage towards Refless Point.

* AdventureTowns: Quite a few. Some in what appears to have once been South America. They also make their way across America visiting what used to be Denver and Manhattan.
* AerithAndBob: The main characters have odd-ball naming with real-world naming (like Stig Bernard, Jim Lunk, Aisha, and Rand) alongside with object name (Yellow Belmont and Mint) and one that is basically a French translation of a term (Houqet Et Rose).

* AlienInvasion: Entire premise involved Earth being invaded by Inbits thirty years before the present timeline with the colonies on other planets of the solar system mounting a liberation campaign.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Motorcycle gangs are found terrorizing towns across Invid-Earth. [[spoiler: Hoquet used to be a member of Blue Angels, who were actually benign variant until Red Snakes forced them to disband out of fear]].

* ApocalypseHow: After Inbit invasion, Earth's status has been sliding between Class 2 Planetary Societal Collapse and Class 1 Societal Disruption due to Inbit-collaborating settlements living in relative comfort with modern technology while the more rural areas--which tend hold anti-Inbit sentiments and hide surviving Mars Base soldiers--living on scraps. By contrast, Mars and other solar system colonies already had constructed well-maintained habitation and infrastructure to support three liberation attempts on Earth.

* AttractiveBentGender: Yellow who crossdresses.
* BadassBiker: Almost every main characters--particularly Stig, Yellow, Houquet, and Ray--and Mars Base soldiers rode motorcycles (many of which can transform into PoweredArmor) as means of transportation.

* BeachEpisode: Episode 16 had the team landed on an abandoned resort island due to an ambush that led to Hoquet's wounds and her fighter's damages. [[spoiler: It turned out to be a blessing by the end when they took a derelict warship to North America.]]

* BigBulkyBomb: [[spoiler: As the final liberation fleet began to take heavy casualties, they began to deploy a massive bomb that would devastate Refless Point along with large portions of the planet. Thankfully, Refless had already been convinced of their own errors and erased the bomb as she teleported to another planet along with her followers.]]

** RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler: Though Bernard only found out his deeds, Johnathan's HeroicSacrifice allowed him to be a heroic figure to him.]]

* ColonizedSolarSystem: The Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are mentioned as being inhabited by the time the series opens. Mars is developed enough to launch two Earth Recapture Expeditions, while the Moon and Jupiter cooperate with them on a Third at the end of the series.

* CowardlyLion: Jim Austin. (“Lunk”), [[spoiler: his characterization was the result of his regret for leaving a wounded friend behind after Inbit overwhelmed his former squad]].

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Everyone but Ray are shown to have this to varying degrees. It could also be argued that anyone that survived the Inbit invasion of Earth along with two disastrous reclamation campaigns qualifies.
** Stig/Scott lost his love, Marlene, in the first episode that didn't help much with his FantasticRacism against Inbits, whom he blames them for every tragedy ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]).
** Yellow/Lancer, like Stig, was one of the few survivors from the first Mars Liberation campaigns and [[spoiler: had to leave the first love of his life--a young woman who saved him from Inbits and villagers--due to his fear of dragging her into his fight against Inbits]].

** Jim/Lunk was part of the same campaign as Yellow, though only joined to support his large family, [[spoiler: but [[MyGreatestFailure his abandonment of his mortally wounded friend to Inbits]] haunted him throughout his life]].
** Mint's life before her orphaned status wasn't idealistic since [[WhenYouComingHomeDad her parents were too busy that her cat was the only one available to celebrate her birthdays]].

* EverybodysDeadDave: Episode 1 ends with Stig Bernard was the only survivor of his unit in an ill-fated assault, one of the deaths being his fiancée [[TheLostLenore Marlene]]. Though there were few pockets of survivors from both the first and second invasion who made it on the planet.
* FallenHero: Colonel Wolfe, [[spoiler: though gave his life in destroying the Inbit patrol when he suffered a HeelRealization from seeing Stig's plight along with Ray/Rand's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before hand]].

* GoingNative: [[spoiler: Solzie/Sera is more sympathetic towards humans after she met Yellow Belmont. This can be seen with her disdain for Corg's attempt at punitive measures towards them in New York, which she was given authority over the city. This became a turning point for her HeelFaceTurn.]]
* GreenAesop: [[spoiler: Refless viewed humanity as a threat due to both their [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters "Shadow" (malignant nature)]] and polluted nature of Earth before her arrival allowed her to clean the planet. However, Aisha and Stig's group countered her argument with the fact that 1. [[HumansAreFlawed Aisha's positive experience with her group showed their "Light" (benign nature) along with "Shadow"]] 2. the entire war with humanity was the result of CycleOfRevenge that Inbit unintentionally caused by their violent arrival. As a result, Refless was convinced to leave Earth as she had a feeling that humanity is capable of goodness despite their tendency towards violence.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Stig has one that lasted for almost an entire episode after witnessing the destruction of the ship crewed by his fiancee along with almost everyone of his units.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: A squad of old soldiers rammed their ship into an Inbit relay tower to destroy it.]]

* HotWings: When [[spoiler: The Inbit leave Earth]], they take the form of a huge Phoenix.

* JerkassHasAPoint:
** The town's selling out stranded soldiers to the Inbits may seem cowardly; however, their reason for doing so seems legitimate since many towns were wiped out by Inbits even for being in proximity to the surviving soldiers.
** Unfortunately, this hasn't come to mind when Stig called out The old soldiers--veterans of ill-fated First Recapture Mission--were called out for their cowardice and robbery of a local town without regards to the small size of their group in an environment where people would have sold them out.
* LandmarkOfLore: The Statue Of Liberty when they pass through the Big Apple.

* MultiEthnicName: This tends to occur thanks to the series' setting in the Americas and Mars Base' multi-ethnic population with Shinobu Takeuchi standing out as the only Japanese-named character of the series.

** Stig in first episode is awed (and fear) at rain and accompanying lightning strike due to being one of many descendants who only knew Earth from their refugee parents.
** Episode 19 has Ray, Hoquet, Mint, and Aisha enjoying groceries (especially sweets and luncheon meat) in an Underground City that was [[spoiler: abandoned due to Inbit attack on the area]].

* TheNeidermeyer: Shinobu/Sue Graham's [[TheDeterminator focus on her recon mission]] (More so with her Robotech counterpart as an officer on scouting duties instead of her original's IntrepidReporter), which already cost her entire team except for herself, tend to put her at odds with Stig's group to the point of letting Ray use the Synchro Cannon just to see the weapon's capability without regards to his safety. [[spoiler: She later suffer a HeelRealization after she was fatally wounded by an explosion from one of Inbit fighters]].

* NonIndicativeFirstEpisode: It presents an entire series' worth of cast members during a space battle, only to kill all but one of them in the destruction of their battleship. The survivor, Stig Bernard, is left to picks his way through a ScavengerWorld, meeting the real cast one by one.
* ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: It turned out that Inbits are more interested in studying and perfecting their own biology rather than any ill wills towards humankind. As they lack any emotional reaction of humans, they unintentionally caused a war with humans by lack of diplomatic contacts and aggressive responses towards them that sparked bloodshed between the two races. Once many of them assimilated with Earth's ecology, Aisha and eventually Solzie began to side with humans and convinced Refless to leave Earth as their actions are harming Earth from their attempt to evolve. Once Refless was shown of her errors, she and any Inbits who wished to leave the Earth ascended to another planet but not before erasing their bombardment missiles and cleaning up the Earth.]]
* PointDefenseless: Majority of ships sent from Mars Base and [[spoiler: Jupiter Base]] lack anti-fighter defenses, save for [[TransformingMecha Legioss]] escorts, which led to the former's CurbStompBattle in the first episode and [[spoiler: the latter's near defeat from attrition]] by Inbit's ZergRush tactics.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler: A group of old soldiers crashed their ramshackle ship into the tower once they were overwhelmed by the Inbit fighters. Since the ship remained intact but its escape pods and detaching systems were already worn out, the head of the group blew up the ship with themselves instead.]]
* RealRobot: The EasyLogistics is avoided in Mospeada, which the main group had to scavenge HBT fuel (Protoculture in Robotech) and stop for maintenance along with shutting down vehicles powered by them to avoid Inbits' detection.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Johnathan]] dies in battle after he had his HeelFaceTurn and was saving the main characters.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: The whole point of the series. Any Inbit that saw the error of their treatment of humans underwent a HeelFaceTurn eventually, while those that did ''not'' defect became progressively more genocidal in attempting to wipe out the human resistance.

* UngratefulTownsfolk: Many towns in Mospeada--especially the one from "The City By The Lake" episode--tend to be indifferent or hostile towards the Resistance and surviving Mars Base soldiers. Though this has to do with their resentment against Mars Base for seemingly abandoning them and Inbit's tendency to leave them alone so long as there aren't armed rebellion or utilize HBT fuel heavily.

* UnwillingRoboticization: [[spoiler:Rainy Boy, a murderer who targets straggling soldiers from First and Second Earth Liberation Fleet, was augmented by Inbits forcefully and promised to be changed back to normal once he kill 100 of them.]]

* VillainWorld: Inbit's conquest of Earth for three decades had caused entire humanity to become fragmented. While the towns and cities that were neutral towards the Inbit maintained some modernity, rural settlements and small cities are often at the mercy of motorcycle-riding bandits who would also target stragglers from Earth Liberation campaigns.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: The general in charge of Third Liberation Fleet is forced to launch missiles loaded with warhead to destroy a large chunk of Earth if not an entire planet as they began to take casualties. As they were not informed that Inbit was misguided, this came close to NiceJobBreakingItHero had it not for Refless' AscendedToHigherPlane vaporizing the payloads.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: The antagonist of the 21st episode, Rainy Boy, was a human who was experimented and [[UnwillingRoboticizasion forcefully converted into a]] {{Cyborg}}, which brought him pain to the point of accepting Inbits' deal to kill 100 soldiers in exchange for the return of his organic body parts.]].

** Simmons is a major example as he was essentially android body with human mind after his death in First Earth Recapture Mission.

** Necessary is a psychic who remained in a child-like body due to experiments for psychic program, which had been conducted for at most a century that her true age might as well as be the oldest of the team.

* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: In this case, the authoritarian nature of Mars Base's government caused discontent on Jupiter and possibly other colonies. This resentment was shown in the main series through Colonel Johnathan's service records in the flashback of his ceremony, but Genesis Breaker expanded upon that part on Every's involvement with Jupiter rebel group known as "Woodpecker". This was also an issue in a story set moments before Inbit Invasion since the Earth-based government was dealing with Mars Independence movement [[spoiler: who would later become the foundation for Mars Base's military with many of the officers having zero remorse on going through with using large warheads that would devastate large portions of Earth]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: The general in charge of Third Liberation Fleet is forced to launch missiles loaded with warhead to destroy large chunk fo Earth if not an entire planet as they began to take casualties. As they were not informed that Inbit were misguided, this came close to NiceJobBreakingItHero had it not for Refless' AscendedToHigherPlane vaporizing the payloads.]]

* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: In this case, the authoritarian nature of Mars Base's government caused discontent on Jupiter and possibly other colonies. This resentment was shown in the main series through Colonel Johnathan's service records in the flashback of his ceremony, but Genesis Breaker expanded upon that part on Every's involvement with Jupiter rebel group known as "Woodpecker". This was also an issue in a story set moments before Inbit Invasion since the Earth-based government was dealing with Mars Independence movement.