History Anime / Genocyber

* PinkMist: A child is shot in the head with a helicopter minigun in the series' absolute most infamous scene. It essentially vaporizes everything above his upper lip.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the manga, Elaine is a friendly, spirited young girl. In the anime, she's a mute girl with no social skills and a childlike mind.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Elaine's animal-like mindset and inability to speak has been compared to autism, though it's never made clear what her disorder is.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the manga, Elaine is a friendly, spirited young girl. In the anime, she's a mute girl with no social skills and a childlike

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the manga, Elaine is a friendly, spirited young girl. In the anime, she's a mute girl with no social skills and a childlike mind.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Professor Kenneth Reed was a kindhearted man in the manga who cared deeply for his 2 daughters. In the anime, however, he is the complete opposite.

* BodyHorror: A lot of it shows up, but the freaky way in which the two cyborg guns-for-hire re-morph their bodies to take on the Genocyber has to get top billings. The third episode takes it UpToEleven with an ''entire goddamn aircraft carrier and its crew being fused into a giant fleshy abomination''.

* AbusiveParents: Professor Richards is the adopted version of this. He took in Elaine and Diana after murdering their parents and turned them into his experiments, even frequently hitting and torturing Diana if she becomes too rebellious for his liking.

* AxCrazy: A lot of characters. From Dr. Richards’ disturbed SlasherSmile as he and his goons slaughter a hospital, to even Elaine herself butchering millions.

* [[FacelessGoons Faceless]] MechaMooks: Faceless and mecha, yes, but the mook part is played with. In the manga, they're very talkative and other than one [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown beating the living crap out of Diana]], their badassery is something of an InformedAbility. However, in the anime, we're given a close-up view of the handiwork of about 20: a hospital hallway absolutely covered in horribly mutilated corpses and body parts, followed by them horribly torturing the only witness. The most recognizable corpse is a nurse, whose head slowly detaches itself and falls off to the right, tendons visibly and audibly just snapping as it does so.

** Dr. Richards is a vicious and abusive man to his two adopted daughters.

* SlasherSmile: Dr. Richards has an absolutely chilling one while slaughtering the hospital with his goons.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Once the two sisters come together to form Genocyber, ''nothing'' is left standing. A relatively minor scuffle between it and two cyborg mobsters [[spoiler:completely obliterates the entirety of Hong Kong]].

* CyberPunk: Interestingly enough, this is one of the few anime that actually sticks to the CyberPunk mold. Most so-called cyberpunk anime is actually PostCyberPunk.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Elaine. Her unstable psyche and tremendous power make her a danger to everyone in the world including the very few people who care for her. The first episode has her attempting to escape the twisted role thst Professor Kenneth Reed forced on her only to fail due to circumstances that force her to become Genocyber.

* AnimationBump: While the animation in general is of very high quality, the moment when the Genocyber tears one of the robots clean in two from first person is done in noticeable higher quality.

* BlindSeer: Mel, from the fourth and fifth episodes, tries to obtain money by fortune telling with her amazing psychic powers.
* BodyHorror: A lot of it shows up, but the freaky way in which the two cyborg guns-for-hire remorph their bodies to take on the Genocyber has to get top billings. Episode three takes it UpToEleven with an ''entire goddamn aircraft carrier and its crew being fused into a giant fleshy abomination''.

* CoolPlane: The F-40 fighters used by the ''Alexandria'' whose name [[FreezeFrameBonus is briefly flashed]] [[spoiler:during the Vajranoid's assimilation of the ''Alexandria'']] and appears frequently in the background and the Su-47-esque F-30 used by the Vajranoid during its test run.
* CoolShip: The ''Alexandria'', an absolutely ''massive'' American supercarrier that is more of a militarized floating city. Forms the backdrop and setting for episodes two and three.

* SanitySlippage: Myra unfortunately undergoes this in the third episode, being [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven to madness]] from all the horrible events she has witnessed.

* ThrowawayCountry: Hong Kong gets vapourized at the end of the OVA's first episode. And near the end of the series most of the American west coast also gets wiped out.

* UnskilledButStrong: Elaine has tremendous power, but her ability to control it with finesse is hindered by her limited mindset. She simply reacts on instinct, unwitting of the chaos she causes as a consequence.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Elaine. Her unstable psyche and tremedous power makes her a danger to everyone in the world including the very few people who care for her. The first episode has her attempting to escape the twisted role thst Professor Kenneth Reed forced on her only to fail due to circumstances that force her to become Genocyber.

* CoolPlane: The F-40 fighters used by the ''Alexandria'' and the Su-47-esque F-30 used by the Vajranoid during its test run.
* CoolShip: The ''Alexandria'', an absolutely ''massive'' American supercarrier. Forms the backdrop and setting for episodes two and three.

** The second episode begins with children being disintegrated by a helicopter minigun. The death of Myra's child during Elaine's battle in the first episode also influences most of her and Elaine's interactions.

* SanitySlippage: Myra unfortunately undergoes this in the third episode, being [[GoMadFromRevelation driven to madness]] from all the horrible events she has witnessed.

* BodyHorror: A lot of it shows up, but the freaky way in which the two cyborg guns-for-hire remorph their bodies to take on the Genocyber has to get top billings.

CoolPlane: The F-40 fighters used by the ''Alexandria'' and the Su-47-esque F-30 used by the Vajranoid during its test run.

** The second episode begins with children being disintegrated by a helicopter minigun.

* MeatMoss: The aftermath of the aforementioned Aircraft Carrier.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Elaine's unstable and animalistic psyche and her tremedous psyche and her vast Vajra makes for a very dangerous combination that has her lashes out against an opponent with overwhelming force regardless of the collateral damage. In the first episode alone, [[spoiler: She unwittingly kills her only friend by causing an explosion due to her anger at the cyborgs taking him hostage, killing one of the cyborgs by ramming him into a flying plane filled with innocent civilians and her grief-filled sorrow towards her friend's death makes her generate a vast explosion that wipes out Hong Kong without a trace.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Elaine.

* InfantImmortality: Averted multiple times.
** In the first episode, Elaine's friend gets murdered as an incentive for her to come back and form the Genocyber.
** The second episode begins with children being disintegrated by a helicopter minigun.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the manga, Elaine is a friendly, but spirited young girl. While in the anime, she's a mute girl with no social skills with a child-like mind.

The OVA was adapted from an unfinished manga by Tony Takezaki, the adaptation being specifically some of the first episode's plot. The plot of the OVA differs significantly from the manga. Reading it reduces the MindScrew levels a fair bit.

* AmbiguousInnocence: It's doubtful that Elaine really understands what she's doing whenever she goes on the rampage, but that doesn't make her any less dangerous.

!!Genocyber contains examples of these tropes:

* AdaptationalVillainy: Professor Kenneth Reed was a kindhearted man in the manga who cared deeply for his 2 daughters. In the anime, however, he is the complete opposite.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Elaine's animal-like mindset and inability to speak has been compared to Autism, though it's never made clear what Elaine's disorder is.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: In the manga, Elaine was a normal girl and had a normal adult mind and was able to speak, unlike in the anime, where she not only has the mind of an animal but is also mute.

* {{Dystopia}}: While already dystopic due to most of the story being set in a cyberpunk society, come episode 4 of the the OVA that switches to a full blown dystopia [[spoiler:created as a result of Elaine's self-proclaimed war against humanity.]]

* {{Gorn}}: The OVA contains such [[SarcasmMode delightful]] sights as the aforementioned hospital scene and a scene of children being shredded by helicopter miniguns.

* PainfulTransformation: The creation of the Genocyber, supposedly. We see it from within her psyche, and get glimpses of [[spoiler: Diana's head on a fully robotic body]] afterwards, while her screams for [[spoiler: the EnergyBeing Elaine to get out of her head]] play in the background.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Once the two sisters come together to form Genocyber, ''nothing'' is left standing. A relatively minor scuffle between it and two cyborg mobsters [[spoiler: completely obliterates the entirety of Hong Kong.]]

* PsychicPowers: Called "Vajra", but the idea is the same. It's more akin to the "vectors" from Manga/ElfenLied, in function if not in form.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Professor Kenneth Reed was a kind-hearted man in the manga who cared deeply for his 2 daughters. In the anime, however, he is the complete opposite.

* {{Gorn}}: The OVA contains such [[SarcasmMode delightful]] sights as the aforementioned hospital scene and a scene of children being shredded by helicopter miniguns; the former is legitimately horrific, whereas the latter could be considered {{Narm}}.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Elaine was a normal girl and had a normal adult mind and was able to speak, unlike in the anime, where she not only has the mind of an animal but is also mute.

* GroinAttack: While Elaine is getting groped by one of the teenagers, the other two strip the boy down and get their hands on his genitalia. In the original, his small moans imply they are only groping him, but in the dub, he keeps screaming horrifically in pain, indicating they are ''squeezing'' them.