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* RestartTheWorld: [[spoiler: This is the true motivation of Harlock. Although he's led his crew to believe that resetting the "Genesis Clock" would simply rejuvenate the dying worlds in the setting somehow, it's revealed his plan is to simply destroy everything and everyone to start over. Although Yama[[note]][[DubNameChange Logan]][[/note]] is able to persuade him there's still hope, Harlock and Yama both keep the trigger for the Genesis Clock bombs at the end of the movie, just in case.]]
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* OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair: The [[SpacePirate Arcadia Crew]] is made up entirely of humans, except for Miime, an alien from Planet Jura. She is a cute humanoid [[TokenHeroicOrc alien]] woman with long, stringy, purple hair. Though even without that, you'd be able to tell she's the token alien with her glowing yellow eyes, grey skin, and lack of mouth.
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* OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair: The [[SpacePirate Arcadia Crew]] Miime has [[https://tokinowa.fandom.com/wiki/Miime_(Film)?so=search&file=Miime.jpg green hair]] and is made up entirely of humans, except for Miime, an the only alien amongst Harlock, Logan, Kei, and Yullian. The film changes some particulars from Planet Jura. She is a cute humanoid [[TokenHeroicOrc alien]] woman with long, stringy, purple hair. Though even without that, you'd be able to tell she's the token alien with original anime, [[AdaptationDyeJob changing her glowing yellow eyes, grey skin, hair colour from purple]][[note]](It could be a reference to how in the original anime, she was an {{Expy}} of Princess Lemuria from ''Anime/{{Raideen}}'', who also has green hair)[[/note]] and lack of mouth.[[AdaptationSpeciesChange her species from Juran to Nibelung]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not present in the English dub, but random background chatter in the original states that Ezra had his promising political career destroyed by institutionalized prejudice against the disabled. His futuristic wheelchair seems specially designed to both provide maximum mobility and to be humiliating. There ''is'' a JustForPun line in the English dub that hints this, though the guy was immediately told DudeNotFunny by another.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not present in the English dub, but random background chatter in the original states that Ezra had his promising political career destroyed by institutionalized prejudice against the disabled. His futuristic wheelchair seems specially designed to both provide maximum mobility and to be humiliating. There ''is'' a JustForPun line in the English dub that hints this, though the guy was immediately told DudeNotFunny by another.
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Based on the anime ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'', the movie ''[[MarketBasedTitle Harlock: Space Pirate]]'' is an all-CGI reboot of the franchise, which was released in English in 2014. It was originally released in 2013 as ''Space Pirate Captain Harlock'' in Japan (宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック, ''Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku'').
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Based on the anime ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'', and manga series ''Manga/CaptainHarlock'', the movie ''[[MarketBasedTitle Harlock: Space Pirate]]'' is an all-CGI reboot of the franchise, which was released in English in 2014. It was originally released in 2013 as ''Space Pirate Captain Harlock'' in Japan (宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック, ''Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku'').
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** And finally, [[spoiler: Nami acts as The Mole and gives the pirates the tactical advantage, all from her life support pod.]]
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* {{Pun}}: Yama reveals the truth about what the Gaia Sanction has been up to via a 'pirate broadcast'.
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* WeHaveReserves: The Gaia Sanction open fire with the Jovian Accelerator regardless of their own forces being in the way.
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* ConvenientMisfire: The first couple of shots by the Jupiter Accellerator misses because [[PointlessDoomsdayDevice it hasn't been fired for a hundred years]].
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* ConvenientMisfire: The first couple of shots by the Jupiter Accellerator misses [[WaveMotionGun Jovian Accelerator]] miss because [[PointlessDoomsdayDevice it hasn't been fired for a hundred years]].
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* BoardingParty: The ''Arcadia'' crew in PoweredArmor swing across to the patrol ship [[SchizoTech on ropes]]. Later when the ''Orpheus'' fires grapples into their ship and they're boarded by Gaia Coalition troops, Yullian gripes: "That's ''our'' M.O.!"
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* BoardingParty: The ''Arcadia'' crew in PoweredArmor swing across to the patrol ship [[SchizoTech on ropes]]. Later when the ''Orpheus'' fires grapples anchor cables into their ship and they're boarded by Gaia Coalition troops, Yullian gripes: "That's "Those copycat bastards; that's ''our'' M.O.!"
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* BoardingParty: The ''Arcadia'' crew in PoweredArmor swing across to the patrol ship [[SchizoTech on ropes]]. Later when the ''Orpheus'' fires grapples into their ship and they're boarded by Gaia Coalition troops, Yullian gripes: "That's ''our'' M.O.!"
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* HopeSproutsEternal: [[spoiler:Yama brings back a flower from the ruined surface of the Earth, to convince Harlock and the others that the Earth is repairing itself and therefore still worth fighting for.]]
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* ComingInHot: Yama when landing his shuttle on the Earth, and the ''Arcadia'' is initially seen as a long black oily cloud boiling through the atmosphere due to its dark matter engine.
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* WalkThePlank
** Yama and four others climb to the top of a mesa to where the Arcadia has landed, looking to join its crew. They are made to stand on the edge of the loading ramp on flaps sticking out over the abyss. Those who don't correctly answer the question: "Why do we sail?" have their flap dropped from under them. Two give the wrong answer, one is so nervous he stumbles and falls to his death on his own, and Yama gives the right answer right when the flap is dropped, only to be grabbed by Kei.
** Lampshaded when Ezra tells Harlock he's going to be sentenced to electrocution, but smirkingly suggests he might prefer to walk the plank instead.
** Yama and four others climb to the top of a mesa to where the Arcadia has landed, looking to join its crew. They are made to stand on the edge of the loading ramp on flaps sticking out over the abyss. Those who don't correctly answer the question: "Why do we sail?" have their flap dropped from under them. Two give the wrong answer, one is so nervous he stumbles and falls to his death on his own, and Yama gives the right answer right when the flap is dropped, only to be grabbed by Kei.
** Lampshaded when Ezra tells Harlock he's going to be sentenced to electrocution, but smirkingly suggests he might prefer to walk the plank instead.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Traditionally, Harlock has gotten darker with every incarnation, and this is no exception.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: All Gaia Coalition ships are silvery white and their cannons shoot light blue blasts, while the Arcadia is completely black and shoots yellow blasts.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Traditionally, Harlock has gotten darker with every incarnation, and this is no exception.
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* RemakeCameo: In the French dub, Creator/RichardDarbois is the narrator for the prologue. Darbois previously voiced Harlock himself in the 1978 series, ''Harlock Saga'', and ''Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey''.
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** The French adaptation, on the other hand, kept the Japanese names for them, but used for Harlock the name the character is known under in France since the '80s: Albator.
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* DubNameChange: The U.S. market release changes several character names, most significantly Yama (Logan in the adaptation). Yattaran also gets renamed Yullian.
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** The U.S. market release changes several character names, most significantly Yama (Logan in the adaptation). Yattaran also gets renamedYullian.Yullian.
** The French adaptation, on the other hand, kept the Japanese names for them, but used for Harlock the name the character is known under in France since the '80s: Albator.
** The U.S. market release changes several character names, most significantly Yama (Logan in the adaptation). Yattaran also gets renamed
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* PerpetualMotionMachine: The Dark Matter Engine for the ''Arcadia''. An alien technology that gifts the ship the ability to never refuel, rearm or repair.
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* FakeKillScare: Done when the crew informs a group of would-be recruits that they have room for only one, and everybody else gets a dropped off a plank several hundred feet into the ground below. When the ''Arcadia'' flies off, the audience is shown that they were above SoftWater, instead.
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* CollapsibleHelmet: The space pirates' hardsuit have helmets that retracts in the armor; Kei and Yataran's uses them for their first face reveal to the audience.
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Based on the anime ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'', the movie ''[[MarketBasedTitle Harlock: Space Pirate]]'' is an all-CGI reboot of the franchise, which was released in English in 2014. It was originally released in 2013 as ''Space Pirate Captain Harlock'' in Japan (宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック, ''Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku'').
Far in the future... or perhaps the past... humanity has spread to the stars. Due to an inability to terraform worlds and a lack of any truly viable alternatives, the species eventually turns back to Earth to re-settle. But there is no way the planet can support five hundred billion souls, and the Homecoming War is fought over who deserves the right to return. The Gaia Coalition eventually rises out of the ashes, as a government that unites the people around the idea that Earth should remain a pristine sanctuary, with no humans sullying her.
A hundred years later, humanity is dying, as the worlds they live on were never designed to support human life. Plants can never gain purchase in the ground for long, and food is running out. The only one who seems to be doing anything is Captain Harlock, the immortal pirate aboard his ghost ship ''Arcadia''. Yama ([[DubNameChange Logan in the official English adaptations]]), a young man secretly in the employ of the Gaia Coalition, manages to earn a spot on the ship, where he learns that both the ship and the captain are immortal due to the dark matter engine, a gift from the alien girl who still operates it.
Furthermore, Harlock has a plan to fix everything. By detonating one hundred bombs on one hundred precise points throughout the galaxy, he can reset the Genesis Clock, turning back time and starting over. Of course, the people in power aren't particularly interested in that plan...
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!!''Harlock: Space Pirate'' provides examples of:
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Dark Matter can do basically anything, but is almost impossible to control.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: Earth ''isn't'' the pristine sanctuary the Gaia Coalition claims it to be. That's a hologram projected over the planet. Earth is a scarred and ravaged nightmare, torn apart by dark matter.]]
* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The movie cuts out with the crippled ''Arcadia'' preparing it's run to try and punch through the Coalition fleet and escape. After the mauling it had taken earlier, it's barely repaired enough to be spaceworthy, but the crew don't really seem concerned.]]
* BookEnds: The narrator from the beginning of the movie makes another one in the end.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Traditionally, Harlock has gotten darker with every incarnation, and this is no exception.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Yama (Logan) betrays the Gaia Fleet after hearing Harlock's plan for a "new beginning", then betrays the ''Arcadia'' crew once he finds out Harlock had destroyed Earth and planned to end everything, only to then betray the Gaia Fleet once again after finding flowers in the middle of the dark matter-ravaged Earth]].
* CollapsibleHelmet: The space pirates' hardsuit have helmets that retracts in the armor; Kei and Yataran's uses them for their first face reveal to the audience.
* DubNameChange: The U.S. market release changes several character names, most significantly Yama (Logan in the adaptation). Yattaran also gets renamed Yullian.
* EyepatchOfPower: Harlock lost his eye and his best friend before becoming a space pirate. [[spoiler: Yama/Logan takes it up along with the sword at the end.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Kei's zero-gee shower scene.
* FlyingDutchman: Harlock is an immortal captain who can't leave his ghostly ship without losing his power, having to keep sailing space.
* GhostShip: The ''Arcadia'' can apparently disappear faster than any sort of FTL travel should allow; can summon a dark cloud around it, including in space, and can regenerate itself down to its tattered Jolly Roger flag.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:Harlock tried to create a barrier around Earth with dark matter so that no human could set foot on it again. But dark matter is unpredictable by nature, and instead ravaged the planet entirely, robbing its ability to sustain life.]]
* HandicappedBadass:
** Harlock's fighting skills aren't diminished by having only one eye.
** Ezra is an admiral of the Gaia Corporation fleet and kicks Yama/Logan's ass in zero G.
** And finally, [[spoiler: Nami acts as The Mole and gives the pirates the tactical advantage, all from her life support pod.]]
* {{Immortality}}: It's not quite clear how strong Harlock is, but he doesn't age, takes at least a few bullets to the chest without stopping, and survives a drop from low atmosphere without difficulty.
* InvincibleHero: Until the events of the film happen the ''Arcadia'' and Harlock have built themselves a reputation as uttely impossible to defeat, [[spoiler:and in order for the ''Arcadia'' to get as busted as it gets it still involves it being affected with all sorts of epic situations and being attacked with massive fleets. The fact Harlock is pretty much a HumanoidAbomination justifies this.]]
* MythologyGag: At one point Yama/Logan goes looking for Harlock and finds him in the ''Arcadia's'' engine room, whispering to the main computer. In previous incarnations, Harlock's best friend Tochiro uploaded his consciousness into the ''Arcadia'''s main computer upon his death. [[spoiler:Ezra's explanation of Harlock's backstory claims that Tochiro/Toshiro was cursed to live as part of the ''Arcadia'' after the Dark Matter Engine accident that destroyed the EarthThatWas.]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:It's implied at the end that Yama/Logan will take up the name and role of Harlock, though whether or not Harlock is dying or simply mortal now is ambiguous.]]
* PirateParrot: Er, Pirate Gray Thing that flies into a wall and help Harlock look dramatic; Tori-san is still part of the ''Arcadia'''s crew in this adaptation.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not present in the English dub, but random background chatter in the original states that Ezra had his promising political career destroyed by institutionalized prejudice against the disabled. His futuristic wheelchair seems specially designed to both provide maximum mobility and to be humiliating. There ''is'' a JustForPun line in the English dub that hints this, though the guy was immediately told DudeNotFunny by another.
-->"If he had legs, he could run for cardinal."
* PoweredArmor: The pirates use "hardsuits" for boarding enemy vessels that [[SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear look like futuristic hard-shell diving suits]]. Kei, on the other hand, uses a fanservicey custom hardsuit that's almost indistinguishable from the normal space suits used by the ''Arcadia'' crew. [[HypocriticalHumor She yells at Yama/Logan when he wears a normal suit during the first raid, which drives the discrepancy home]].
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: Not Harlock, but [[spoiler:Miime is bound to the ''Arcadia'', and lives as long as its captain does. It doesn't actually matter who that captain is]].
* RammingAlwaysWorks:
** Since the ''Arcadia'' is virtually indestructible, the crew sometimes finds that the best way past an enemy ship is to simply plow right into them.
** Reversed at the end, when [[spoiler:Ezra commands his personal flagship to ram the ''Arcadia'' and push it so the Earth's not in the line of fire of the Coalition's WaveMotionGun.]]
* ResetButton: Harlock's goal is to set a series of explosion throughout the universe to trigger a space-time distortion that could rewind time, giving humanity a second chance to do things right for Earth. [[spoiler:In reality, the detonations would ''destroy'' the universe, making way for a potential new universe to take its place.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: To highlight this adaptations [[DarkerAndEdgier dark tone]], Tochiro isn't even in here. [[spoiler: He was killed in the flashback sequence. He's still with the crew however, as his soul merged with the ''Arcadia'', reshaping it into her current form.]]
* SpaceElves: Miime is a pretty textbook case, being an ancient pointy-eared creature with bizarre powers.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Harlock. After his plan to shield the EarthThatWas permanently backfires horribly, it turns out that what he means by "resetting time" with the Genesis Clock is literally destroying the universe so a new one can be born.]]
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Based on the anime ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'', the movie ''[[MarketBasedTitle Harlock: Space Pirate]]'' is an all-CGI reboot of the franchise, which was released in English in 2014. It was originally released in 2013 as ''Space Pirate Captain Harlock'' in Japan (宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック, ''Uchū Kaizoku Kyaputen Hārokku'').
Far in the future... or perhaps the past... humanity has spread to the stars. Due to an inability to terraform worlds and a lack of any truly viable alternatives, the species eventually turns back to Earth to re-settle. But there is no way the planet can support five hundred billion souls, and the Homecoming War is fought over who deserves the right to return. The Gaia Coalition eventually rises out of the ashes, as a government that unites the people around the idea that Earth should remain a pristine sanctuary, with no humans sullying her.
A hundred years later, humanity is dying, as the worlds they live on were never designed to support human life. Plants can never gain purchase in the ground for long, and food is running out. The only one who seems to be doing anything is Captain Harlock, the immortal pirate aboard his ghost ship ''Arcadia''. Yama ([[DubNameChange Logan in the official English adaptations]]), a young man secretly in the employ of the Gaia Coalition, manages to earn a spot on the ship, where he learns that both the ship and the captain are immortal due to the dark matter engine, a gift from the alien girl who still operates it.
Furthermore, Harlock has a plan to fix everything. By detonating one hundred bombs on one hundred precise points throughout the galaxy, he can reset the Genesis Clock, turning back time and starting over. Of course, the people in power aren't particularly interested in that plan...
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!!''Harlock: Space Pirate'' provides examples of:
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Dark Matter can do basically anything, but is almost impossible to control.
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: Earth ''isn't'' the pristine sanctuary the Gaia Coalition claims it to be. That's a hologram projected over the planet. Earth is a scarred and ravaged nightmare, torn apart by dark matter.]]
* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The movie cuts out with the crippled ''Arcadia'' preparing it's run to try and punch through the Coalition fleet and escape. After the mauling it had taken earlier, it's barely repaired enough to be spaceworthy, but the crew don't really seem concerned.]]
* BookEnds: The narrator from the beginning of the movie makes another one in the end.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Traditionally, Harlock has gotten darker with every incarnation, and this is no exception.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Yama (Logan) betrays the Gaia Fleet after hearing Harlock's plan for a "new beginning", then betrays the ''Arcadia'' crew once he finds out Harlock had destroyed Earth and planned to end everything, only to then betray the Gaia Fleet once again after finding flowers in the middle of the dark matter-ravaged Earth]].
* CollapsibleHelmet: The space pirates' hardsuit have helmets that retracts in the armor; Kei and Yataran's uses them for their first face reveal to the audience.
* DubNameChange: The U.S. market release changes several character names, most significantly Yama (Logan in the adaptation). Yattaran also gets renamed Yullian.
* EyepatchOfPower: Harlock lost his eye and his best friend before becoming a space pirate. [[spoiler: Yama/Logan takes it up along with the sword at the end.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Kei's zero-gee shower scene.
* FlyingDutchman: Harlock is an immortal captain who can't leave his ghostly ship without losing his power, having to keep sailing space.
* GhostShip: The ''Arcadia'' can apparently disappear faster than any sort of FTL travel should allow; can summon a dark cloud around it, including in space, and can regenerate itself down to its tattered Jolly Roger flag.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:Harlock tried to create a barrier around Earth with dark matter so that no human could set foot on it again. But dark matter is unpredictable by nature, and instead ravaged the planet entirely, robbing its ability to sustain life.]]
* HandicappedBadass:
** Harlock's fighting skills aren't diminished by having only one eye.
** Ezra is an admiral of the Gaia Corporation fleet and kicks Yama/Logan's ass in zero G.
** And finally, [[spoiler: Nami acts as The Mole and gives the pirates the tactical advantage, all from her life support pod.]]
* {{Immortality}}: It's not quite clear how strong Harlock is, but he doesn't age, takes at least a few bullets to the chest without stopping, and survives a drop from low atmosphere without difficulty.
* InvincibleHero: Until the events of the film happen the ''Arcadia'' and Harlock have built themselves a reputation as uttely impossible to defeat, [[spoiler:and in order for the ''Arcadia'' to get as busted as it gets it still involves it being affected with all sorts of epic situations and being attacked with massive fleets. The fact Harlock is pretty much a HumanoidAbomination justifies this.]]
* MythologyGag: At one point Yama/Logan goes looking for Harlock and finds him in the ''Arcadia's'' engine room, whispering to the main computer. In previous incarnations, Harlock's best friend Tochiro uploaded his consciousness into the ''Arcadia'''s main computer upon his death. [[spoiler:Ezra's explanation of Harlock's backstory claims that Tochiro/Toshiro was cursed to live as part of the ''Arcadia'' after the Dark Matter Engine accident that destroyed the EarthThatWas.]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:It's implied at the end that Yama/Logan will take up the name and role of Harlock, though whether or not Harlock is dying or simply mortal now is ambiguous.]]
* PirateParrot: Er, Pirate Gray Thing that flies into a wall and help Harlock look dramatic; Tori-san is still part of the ''Arcadia'''s crew in this adaptation.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not present in the English dub, but random background chatter in the original states that Ezra had his promising political career destroyed by institutionalized prejudice against the disabled. His futuristic wheelchair seems specially designed to both provide maximum mobility and to be humiliating. There ''is'' a JustForPun line in the English dub that hints this, though the guy was immediately told DudeNotFunny by another.
-->"If he had legs, he could run for cardinal."
* PoweredArmor: The pirates use "hardsuits" for boarding enemy vessels that [[SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear look like futuristic hard-shell diving suits]]. Kei, on the other hand, uses a fanservicey custom hardsuit that's almost indistinguishable from the normal space suits used by the ''Arcadia'' crew. [[HypocriticalHumor She yells at Yama/Logan when he wears a normal suit during the first raid, which drives the discrepancy home]].
* PurposeDrivenImmortality: Not Harlock, but [[spoiler:Miime is bound to the ''Arcadia'', and lives as long as its captain does. It doesn't actually matter who that captain is]].
* RammingAlwaysWorks:
** Since the ''Arcadia'' is virtually indestructible, the crew sometimes finds that the best way past an enemy ship is to simply plow right into them.
** Reversed at the end, when [[spoiler:Ezra commands his personal flagship to ram the ''Arcadia'' and push it so the Earth's not in the line of fire of the Coalition's WaveMotionGun.]]
* ResetButton: Harlock's goal is to set a series of explosion throughout the universe to trigger a space-time distortion that could rewind time, giving humanity a second chance to do things right for Earth. [[spoiler:In reality, the detonations would ''destroy'' the universe, making way for a potential new universe to take its place.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: To highlight this adaptations [[DarkerAndEdgier dark tone]], Tochiro isn't even in here. [[spoiler: He was killed in the flashback sequence. He's still with the crew however, as his soul merged with the ''Arcadia'', reshaping it into her current form.]]
* SpaceElves: Miime is a pretty textbook case, being an ancient pointy-eared creature with bizarre powers.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Harlock. After his plan to shield the EarthThatWas permanently backfires horribly, it turns out that what he means by "resetting time" with the Genesis Clock is literally destroying the universe so a new one can be born.]]
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