History Anime / HeroicAge

!!''HeroicAge'' provides examples of these tropes:

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[[caption-width:240:Age in his human and {{Kaiju}} forms]]

** And the names of virtually all the characters. Dhianeila was the name of Hercules' third wife (the one who got kidnapped by a centaur and accidentally ended up killing him). Iolaous was Hercules' [[HoYay sidekick]] at one point. The Argonaut was the name of the ship that Hercules traveled on once (for all of five minutes, due to the apparent death of Iolaous). Lernaea was the location of where Hercules fought the hydra, and Karcinos was the name of a crab sent by Hera to help the hydra double-team Hercules (the fact that Lernaea oftentimes turns into a hydra when it fights Belcross makes it ''really'' obvious). Meleager and Atalanta were two other heroes who travelled on the Argo (though unusually, in the original they were a pair of StarCrossedLovers, a prince and a RaisedByWolves [[hottip:*:Some stories say that a she-bear suckled and cared for Atalanta until hunters found and raised her.]] ActionGirl. UnfortunateImplications much?). Cerbius? Sounds a heck of a lot like Cerberus, the monster who was Hercules' final labor.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: It is ''hinted'' that each of the three main canon pairings[[hottip:*: Age/Dhianeila, Iolaous/Aneasha, and Yuty/Karkinos, if you were wondering]] resolve their respective tensions in the end, but it's really just too toned down to really be satisfying for the audience.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: The entire Silver Tribe is composed of this trope and WhiteHairedPrettyGirl.

Long ago, a race of beings known as the [[{{Precursors}} Golden Tribe]], sent out a telepathic message into the depths of space, to the other races, who were still young. "Come, from the planets you were born on, here into space and join us." Three races answered. The Golden Tribe called them the Silver Tribe (a race that would directly study under the precursors), the Bronze Tribe (a race of sentient insects) and the Heroic Tribe (a warlike race of {{Kaiju}}). The Heroic Tribe quickly annihilated themselves save for five individuals, who were subdued by the Golden Tribe, transformed into gemstones, and implanted into members of other Tribes.

** [[spoiler: Averted. Mobeedo later repaired it by the start of the last episode.]]

* SeriesMascot: Bee No Bee is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the ship's AI.

20% [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]], 30% ''[[LegendOfGalacticHeroes Galactic Heroes]]'', 25% ''{{Godzilla}}'', 200% ''[[DragonBall Dragon Ball]]''!!!

* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Of kinds. There are both subverted and straight examples. One would be the respective rise in raw power and commonness of psychic powers from the Iron Tribe (only sparse psychics) over Bronze (one may argue, but they still shoot lasers!) and Silver Tribes (enough examples, I think) to the Golden Tribe, which is even regarded as godlike by the Silver Tribe, which already is strong. The "nobleness" of the metal used to name the race clearly increases, too. One subversion is [[spoiler:that only a certain girl of the Iron Tribe, read humanity, could find meaning behind the Golden tribe's prophecies and open their gate for the Silver Tribe to use (Well... she certainly has [[HairOfGold Golden Hair]].]]

** [[spoiler: The two human princes as well. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Destroying Jupiter]], [[MoralEventHorizon slaughtering an entire planet]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman full of innocents]] [[CompleteMonster then celebrating it]], and what do they get in the end? They cheat death ''three times'' and become high ranking individuals using their sister's reputation to their own advantage!]]

* BloodKnight: Basically ''all'' members of the Heroic Tribe were like this. Prior to the start of the anime, the Heroic Tribe basically went into an all out civil war, annihilating star systems in their frenzy. By the time the Golden Tribe put a stop to it, only 5 members of the race remained. The people chosen to recieve their power, on the other hand, don't necessarily fit the type, especially not poor Mehitak.

* CoolShip: The ''Argonaut''. Also (we would assume) the Althaea, Meleagros' and Atalantes' personal ship and flagship of the human armada, would fit this trope but we don't get to see it in action that much, mostly due to the princes' [[TooDumbToLive apalling lack of intelligent strategy.]]

* GloryHound: Meleagros and Atalantes, whos main main motivation for fighting is personal glory, and are quite willing to throw away the lives of the men under them to achiei\ve it.

* {{HSQ}}: Just from the clip at the top of this page. [[spoiler: ''Holy shit they just turned Jupiter into a star!'']]

* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Of kinds. There are both subverted and straight examples. One would be the respective rise in raw power and commonness of psychic powers from the Iron Tribe (only sparse psychics) over Bronze (one may argue, but they still shoot lasers!) and Silver Tribes (enough examples, I think) to the Golden Tribe, which is even regarded as godlike by the Silver Tribe, which already is strong. The "nobleness" of the metal used to name the race clearly increases, too. One subversion is [[spoiler:that only a certain girl of the Iron Tribe, read humanity, could find meaning behind the Golden tribe's prophecies and unclose their gate for the Silver Tribe to use (Well... she certainly has [[HairOfGold Golden Hair]].]]

* RuleOfCool[=/=]RefugeInCool: A lot, the least of them is the SceneryPorn of constant nebulas in the background, the part where they [[spoiler:ignite Jupiter]], and the Nodos are basically gods.

** RaisedByWolves, oddly enough, is really averted. Age certainly lacks most of the skills and education most civilized people would consider valuable, but he was in fact raised by the Golden Tribe (essentially, gods). In fact, he acts as a sort of WaifProphet on occassion, by informing others about the bits of the future that the Golden Tribe foretold to him.

* PrincessCurls: Dhianeila, in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.

In the present day, The Silver Tribe has taken up the mantle of the Golden Tribe, but has dominated the Bronze Tribe and declared the Iron Tribe to be their enemies, driving them from the Earth. Battle-weary and on the run, Iron Tribe receives a new source of hope from their discovery of a Nodos -- young human boy named Age, who was raised by the Golden Tribe before they vanished and contains the fifth surviving Heroic Tribe member, Bellcross. This does not sit well with the Silver Tribe, who redouble their efforts to destroy the upstart Tribe of Iron. They too possess not only their own Nodos, but the other three as well, all bound to serve the Silver Tribe.

The story proceeds along parallel lines from this point, following Humanity's search for a new home and for peace, Age's crusade to protect his Human friends and the struggles of the Silver Tribe Nodos as they attempt to understand Age's resistance and their own place in the Golden Tribe's grand designs.

* AbsoluteCleavage - Prome O and Nilval Nephew. Prome's outfit seems to be wholly reliant on BarbieDollAnatomy to avoid showing anything inappropriate.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Near the end, all Nodos activate the secret gate [[spoiler: that the Golden tribe left through]]
* AntiVillain - The Four Nodos serving the Silver Tribe are very sympathetic.
* ApocalypseHow - Class X, several planets are [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed]] throughout the series, including [[spoiler:Jupiter]]
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace - And so can the Bronze Tribe and the Nodos. Silver Tribe members use Hedron Shields to contain a pocket of air, or elect not to ''physically'' appear in space, instead using a psychic projection.
* BatmanGambit - [[spoiler: The Golden Tribe's master plan involved the five Nodos battling each other at maximum power, an absolutely catastrophic event that was required to release enough of the right energies to open a portal to another galaxy, allowing the other remaining Tribes to pass through. To that end they assigned Nodos to the Silver and Iron Tribes and had them war with each other.]]
* BerserkMode - the anime's term is "mental chaos" (or "madness" or "frenzy," depending on [[LostInTranslation which translation you're watching]]). Basically, if a Heroic Tribe member goes berserk, they undergo a significant change in appearance (Bellcross grows a tail and becomes even more shark like in this form) as well as become significantly more powerful (which, given how strong they are ''to begin with'', is pretty frightening). Enough for Bellcross to start punching through the fabric of space itself.
* BeehiveBarrier - The "Hedron Shields", a multi-purpose tool developed by the Golden Tribe themselves. They function as weapons as well as defenses and can fire powerful psionic beams. And to top it all off, they can be used to repair and construct ships out of thin air!
* [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Nodos]] Bread and butter of nearly all fight scenes. Things look hopeless for the Iron Tribe until one Nodos or another arrives to turn the tide of the battle. [[BigDamnVillains Also happens with the Silver Tribe Nodos, once Age talks to them]].
* {{Bishonen}} - Ditto for most of the guys.
* BloodKnight - Basically ''all'' members of the Heroic Tribe were like this. Prior to the start of the anime, the Heroic Tribe basically went into an all out civil war, annihilating star systems in their frenzy. By the time the Golden Tribe put a stop to it, only 5 members of the race remained. The people chosen to recieve their power, on the other hand, don't necessarily fit the type, especially not poor Mehitaka.
* CameraAbuse - Episode 12 begins with showing the Silver and Bronze Tribe rolling out and one of the space insects apparently proceeds to eat the camera (and probably the camera team as well).
* ColonThree - While it never becomes too overt or silly, whenever one of the heroic female characters is really pleased with herself, her smile gets a little cat-like.
* CoolShip - The ''Argonaut''. Also (we would assume) the Althaea, Meleagros' and Atalantes' personal ship and flagship of the human armada, would fit this trope but we don't get to see it in action that much, mostly due to the princes' [[TooDumbToLive apalling lack of intelligent strategy.]]
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* EarthShatteringKaboom - [[spoiler:well, Jupiter-shattering anyway.]]
* EmotionlessGirl - Invoked by the entire Silver Tribe. Prome O transfers the emotions of her tribesmen to herself.

* {{Expy}} - The Bronze Tribe are awfully reminiscent of [[StarCraft the Zerg]], being InsectoidAliens with a HiveMind and some PsychicPowers, which [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace can survive in a vacuum]], employ [[LivingShip Living Ships]] and usually attack enemies with a ZergRush. In addition, you'll actually hear the Zerg larva sound effect used for Bronze warriors several times.
* [[spoiler:FailureIsTheOnlyOption - Erymanthos attempts an in-universe form of SaveScumming by using TimeTravel to kill Bellcross at the points in time when the latter was most vulnerable... only to learn the hard way that he was [[YouCantFightFate protected by destiny]]. [[SuperpowerMeltdown Then the accumulated temporal energy blew up...]]]]
** At another time she tries this same tactic to try to destroy the Argonaut. [[spoiler: She finds that doing so [[BerserkButton only increases Belcross's murderous rage,]] causing extreme devastation. She was then forced to go back again and stop herself from destroying the Argonaut.]]
* FormFittingWardrobe - Standard issue for the Tribe of Iron military, though [[FanService the women's uniforms]] are [[SensualSpandex more form-fitting than the men's,]] especially in the [[PaintedOnPants buttocks area,]] [[MaleGaze which we see plenty of.]] Dhianeila takes this trope UpToEleven; her ''entire outfit'' looks like it's painted on.
* FrickinLaserBeams / BeamSpam - Artemia's specialty. Each is said to have the ability to destroy a ''planet'' and he can fire them at a machinegun-like rate.

* GloryHound - Meleagros and Atalantes, whos main main motivation for fighting is personal glory, and are quite willing to throw away the lives of the men under them to achiei\ve it.
* HiveMind - Used by the Bronze Tribe
* HoldingOutForAHero - In addition to the tactics described below, the Iron Tribe princes' battle plan basically involves pointing Age at the enemy and releasing him. Then they holler for his help when they fail.
* HollywoodTactics - Used exclusively by the two ruling princes, Meleagros and Atalantes. Most of which are AttackAttackAttack. Granted, they ''are'' considered idiots in-universe.
* HumongousMecha - Used by the ''Argonaut's'' forces. Pilots with special abilities have AceCustom units that amplify those abilities to a mecha scale. While they are useful enough in dealing with lower level Bronze Tribe {{Mooks}}, Age is forced to deal with anything bigger.
* {{HSQ}} - Just from the clip at the top of this page: ''[[spoiler: Holy shit they just turned Jupiter into a star!]]''
* ImprovisedWeapon - The Silver Tribe go UpToEleven with this when they improvise a ''planet'' as a weapon. [[spoiler:After the human fleet ignites a fusion reaction in Jupiter's atmosphere with an [[ColonyDrop Io drop]], the Silver Tribe ships (along with a horde of Bronze soldiers) deploy their DeflectorShields as one immense barrier...and then push, compressing a big chunk of Jupiter's atmosphere, accelerating the fusion and turning ''the entire planet'' into a giant ''thermonuclear bomb.'']] The result is somewhat unpleasant for the human fleet.
* InsectoidAliens - The Bronze Tribe.
* {{Jerkass}} - The Silver Tribe and their allies, especially Rome Ro. This doesn't apply to the three Nodos who work for the Silver Tribe just because their own Tribes are being held hostage -- Lecty, Mehitak and Karkinos.
* {{Kaiju}} - The Heroic Tribe is basically comprised of this. Giant Space Monsters. One looks like an insect, another a shark, and a third has no mouth or eyes at all. Makes you wonder how they breed... Though judging from their mechanic sounds, they may not be entirely organic.
* KarmaHoudini - [[spoiler: Despite the fact that the Silver Tribe's quest to DestroyAllHumans was largely his fault, Rome Ro survives without major injury and receives no explicit punishment, although he is clearly no longer completely sane in the end.]]

* LaserBlade - The humans' [[HumongousMecha Organ Units]] actually have beam ''bayonets'', which is [[RuleOfCool pretty awesome]].
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority - Of kinds. There are both subverted and straight examples. One would be the respective rise in raw power and commonness of psychic powers from the Iron tribe (only sparse psychics) over Bronze (one may argue, but they still shoot lasers!) and Silver tribes (enough examples, I think) to the Golden Tribe, which is even regarded as godlike by the Silver tribe, which already is strong. The "nobleness" of the metal used to name the race clearly increases, too. One subversion is [[spoiler:that only a certain girl of the Iron tribe, read humanity, could find meaning behind the Golden tribe's prophecies and unclose their gate for the Silver tribe to use (Well... she certainly has [[HairOfGold Golden Hair]].]]
** Another example (in deep red) is every frenzied Hero Tribe member: Their aura becomes red, they grow way stronger, and sometimes, well... [[UpToEleven Episode 25]].

* LightningBruiser - All the Nodos qualify but Bellcross is the exemplar. He has the greatest physical strength and endurance when none of them are experiencing their UnstoppableRage and his flight speed is not to be underestimated either (though it is explicitly stated that Artemia, at least, is quicker).
* LoadBearingBoss - Each of the BronzeTribe's asteroid-like ships has a small creature at its core which apparently causes the whole ship to blow up when killed. This is apparently because it both controls the ship's movement and when killed makes it self-destruct. Not that this actually works against Bellcross in particular.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy - [[spoiler: Episode 22: Karkinos' death sends Yuti over the edge. Not only does Cerbius grow twenty times it's normal size (she was already in berserk mode prior to that), but she ended up making a '''solar system'''-sized black hole.]]
* MadeOfExplodium - Pretty much the entire human armada.
* MegatonPunch - Bellcross punches ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesomeMechaAnime BLACK HOLES]]''. Also the basic attack Bellcross will always use.

*** It was stated in that situation that Bellcross' only power, beyond his basic Kaiju body, is [[spoiler:''existence.'' Anything that tries to end his existence must directly compete against his power - and [[BoringInvincibleHero he is the strongest of the Nodos.]]]]
* MessianicArchetype - Age is acknowledged as this in universe: He was raised by the Golden Race, Prophesied as the one who will save mankind from destruction. He then proceeds to end the war tearing the galaxy by [[spoiler: sacrificing his live to open portal leading to "Heaven" and comes back after to live after four years.]]
* NeglectfulPrecursors - The Golden Tribe according to [[BigBad Rome Ro]], considering that the galaxy almost immediately tore itself to pieces after they left -- although it was hardly their fault. [[spoiler:The Silver Tribe avert becoming this in the end by passing everything they have to Humanity before leaving the galaxy to join the Golden Tribe.]]
* NonIndicativeFirstEpisode - which is mostly about Age's life alone before meeting the main characters.
* OnlySixFaces - The character designs were done by [[GundamSEED Hisashi Hirai]] and it shows, with the younger female characters being almost identical apart from their hair and height. There is a lot more variety than in his previous work, though.
* PersonOfMassDestruction - The Nodos.
* PrincessCurls - Dhianeila, in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
* TelepathicSpacemen - Most notably the Silver Tribe.
* PsychicPowers - Demonstrated by all the Tribes.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens - Rome Ro's primary motivation as the antagonist of the series is his anger at the Golden Tribe for "abandoning" the galaxy to conflict and destruction. So much for "emotionless".
* ReluctantMonster - Despite being host to a planet-destroying {{Kaiju}}, Mehitak is an extremely peaceable individual for whom Lekti and Karkinos go to great lengths to protect from battle. To top that off, he even refrains from consuming living things, eating only inorganic materials like metal. Considering the above and that he was ''forced'' into fighting (else the Silver Tribe will kill off his people), he's earned TheWoobie status.
* RapunzelHair: Yuti & Prome O take this to the extreme - their hair is longer than they are tall (despite, in Prome's case, said hair being tied back). In fact, long hair for men seems to be the fashion amongst members of the Silver Tribe.
** Of the other Nodos, Lekti is hardly likely to suffer from a cold neck.
* RuleOfCool / RefugeInCool: A lot,the least of them is the SceneryPorn of constant nebulas in the background, the part where they [[spoiler:ignite Jupiter]], and the Nodos are basically gods.
* SeriesMascot - Bi-Navi is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the ship's AI.
* ShoutOut - To GreekMythology. First off, the title itself. Secondly, the concept of a near-perfect "golden race", a less perfect "silver race", a [[{{Mook}} more violent "bronze race"]], and a plucky "iron race". Then there's the whole idea of the 12 Labors that [[strike:Hercules]] Age must fulfill.

* SnicketWarningLabel - '''Inverted.''' Skipping the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue will leave you with a BittersweetEnding instead of a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Definitely not advised.
* SpaceOpera -- Very much so.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS - the spellings of many names in the (licensed) subtitled versions differ from the spellings you'll see on this page, even though these spellings do match the spellings used in some fansubs.
* StalkerWithACrush - Iolaous is generally a pretty decent guy, but he does pay his sisters to smuggle him holographs of Dhianeila. Given the generally positive light in which he's portrayed, this may be a case of StalkingIsLove; the revelation of this habit of his seems to serve no other purpose than to establish his feelings for the princess. [[spoiler: He seems to have moved on to a (much healthier) relationship with Aneasha by the end of the series, though.]]
* StayingAlive - Lernaea's powers of decay also work the other way round, allowing him to regenerate from even the smallest fragments. [[spoiler: Karkinos eventually extends this power to Yuti, bringing her back to life after her Nodos form disintegrates.]]
* SuperpowerMeltdown - Heroic Tribe members who succumb to "mental chaos" will eventually be ripped apart by their own powers as they are fully focused on dealing out ever-increasing levels of destruction.
* TooDumbToLive - Meleagros and Atalantes, also far too dumb to ''stay dead.''
* TheAsteroidThicket - The Cemetery Belt, as well as the asteroid belt near the Bronze Tribe homeworld.
* TheOjou - Dhianeila
* TimeTravel - Erymanthos' specialty. Unlike the other Nodos, which actually transform their hosts' bodies, Lekti actually projects it to a desired point in time and controls its actions, though she is also capable of direct transformation.
* UnresolvedSexualTension - It is ''hinted'' that each of the three main canon pairings[[hottip:*: Age/Dhianeila, Iolaous/Aneasha, and Yuti/Karkinos, if you were wondering]] resolve their respective tensions in the end, but it's really just too toned down to really be satisfying for the audience.
* UpperClassTwit - Meleagros and Atalantes
* WalkingWasteland - Lernaea's corrosive gas can melt ships, asteroids, Bronze Tribe carapaces and even Nodos skin.
* WaveMotionGun - Used primarily by the Iron and Silver Tribes. Belcross' seldom-used mouth beam also counts, as do Artemia's energy beams. [[spoiler: And in the final episodes, the Argonaut fired its main gun, appropriately named the ''Star Blaster''. The firing mechanism is a clear homage to [[StarBlazers the original Wave Motion Gun.]]]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman / WhatMeasureIsANonCute / WhatMeasureIsAMook - When the human armada attacks the homeworld of the Bronze Tribe . The humans are horrified when they realize that they've essentially been ''carpet-bombing an alien mass nursery''.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue - The last third or so of the final episode shows the major cast members 4 years in the future. Skipping this epilogue is not advised...unless you would actually prefer a BittersweetEnding over a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy - The entire Silver Tribe is composed of this trope and WhiteHairedPrettyGirl.
* WildChild - Age. Lived his entire life on a ruined planet, has alien squids as playmates, and considers the AI of a dilapidated spaceship to be his mother (a function entirely beyond its processing power).

[[caption-width:240:Age in his human and {{Kaijuu}} forms]]

* {{Bishoujo}} - Pretty much all of the female characters.

[[caption-width:240:Age in his human and {{Kaiju}} forms]]

* ImprovisedWeapon - The Silver Tribe go BeyondTheImpossible with this when they improvise a ''planet'' as a weapon. [[spoiler:After the human fleet ignites a fusion reaction in Jupiter's atmosphere with an [[ColonyDrop Io drop]], the Silver Tribe ships (along with a horde of Bronze soldiers) deploy their DeflectorShields as one immense barrier...and then push, compressing a big chunk of Jupiter's atmosphere, accelerating the fusion and turning ''the entire planet'' into a giant ''thermonuclear bomb.'']] The result is somewhat unpleasant for the human fleet.

* AbsoluteCleavage - Prome O and Nilval Nephew. Prome's outfit seems to be wholly reliant on AnimeAnatomy to avoid showing anything inappropriate.

* DidNotDoTheResearch - Heroic Age [[YourMileageMayVary has potential]] to be a really fun show, but to appreciate it fully requires that viewers [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief forget anything they know about physics or astronomy]] and [[MST3KMantra ignore any discrepancies]] they may notice and remember that [[HumongousMecha Giant robots]] and [[DragonBall Super-Saiyan]] {{Kaiju}} are [[RuleOfCool awesome]]. And if you actually know enough about astrophysics to [[spoiler: have some idea of what would happen if Io collided with Jupiter]], then I'm really sorry.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman / WhatMeasureIsANonCute / WhatMeasureIsAMook - attempted (with [[YourMileageMayVary questionable]] [[BrokenAesop success]], [[AesopAmnesia given they go right back to slaughtering countless Bronze Tribe warriors in later episodes]][[hottip:*:Granted, there is a difference between killing warriors and killing children -- hence, YourMileageMayVary.]]) when the human armada attacks the homeworld of the Bronze Tribe . The humans are horrified when they realize that they've essentially been ''carpet-bombing an alien mass nursery''.

* {{Expy}} - The Bronze Tribe are awfully reminiscent of [[StarCraft the Zerg]], being InsectoidAliens with a HiveMind and some PsychicPowers, which [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace can survive in a vacuum]], employ [[LivingShip Living Ships]] and usually attack enemies with a ZergRush. In addition, you'll actually hear the Zerg larva sound effect used for Bronze warriors several times. Given, the Bronze Tribe doesn't appear to be a ChaoticEvil HordeOfAlienLocusts (they seem closer to TrueNeutral) but otherwise they're quite similar.

* DidNotDoTheResearch - Heroic Age [[YourMileageMayVary has potential]] to be a really fun show, but to appreciate it fully requires that viewers [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief forget anything they know about physics or astronomy]] & [[MST3KMantra ignore any discrepancies]] they may notice and remember that [[HumongousMecha Giant robots]] and [[DragonBall Super-Saiyan]] {{Kaiju}} are [[RuleOfCool awesome]]. And if you actually know enough about astrophysics to [[spoiler: have some idea of what would happen if Io collided with Jupiter]], then I'm really sorry.

This is what makes it really work as an Aesop, It is one thing to kill soldiers during a war, but its quite another to target civilians.