History Anime / MDGeist

* VitoryIsBoring: A possible reason why [[Geist unleashed the Death Force, to make more battle for himself and remain occupied.]]

* BlackAndGrayMorality: It's not really made clear whether or not [[spoiler: Geist]] releases the Death Force because of the way he was programmed, or because it would offer him a more "exciting" battlefield.
* BloodKnight: Geist, to the point he would rather [[spoiler:unleash the Death Force he was sent to stop rather than [[VictoryIsBoring complete the mission and sit without any "thrilling" battles.]]]]

* DieLaughing: [[spoiler: Colonel Krutz.]]

** Iy suddenly becomes somehow fitting if you consider it to represent [[spoiler:Geist's views on the events.]]

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* BloodKnight: Geist, to the point he would rather [[spoiler:unleash the Death Force he was sent to stop rather than [[VictoryIsBoring complete the mission and sit without any "thrilling" battles.]]

* BloodKnight: Geist.

* {{Jerkass}}: Geist is a '''dick.'''

There were also two {{OEL Manga}}s written partly by Koichi Ohata himself. The first one was a vastly [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] adaptation of the first OVA while ''Ground Zero'' was a {{Prequel}}, showing Geist's very first assignement and why he was locked away on a satellite.

!!{{MD Geist}} contains examples of the following tropes:

* ArtEvolution: The art style in {{MD Geist}} is completely different from the art style of {{MD Geist}} II, which is not surprising considering the sequel came 10 years after the original. The Director's Cut of the first OVA also fixes a lot of the animation errors.

* {{AwesomePersonelCarrier}}/{{BaseOnWheels}}: Colonel Krutz has one.

* RuleOfCool: MD Geist isn't so much a "story" as more of a showcase of HumongousMecha, StuffBlowingUp, Geist being a [[Badass]] and cool music.

* Fanservice: Not only does Vaiya appear topless once, but Geist also appears naked. And then there's ''all the mecha designs''.

* {{AwesomePersonalCarrier}}/{{BaseOnWheels}}: Colonel Krutz has one.

* {{AwesomePersonalCarrier}}/{{BaseOnWheels=}: Colonel Krutz has one.

* AwesomePersonalCarrier/BaseOnWheels: Colonel Krutz has one.

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler: End of OVA 1. "The game's not over yet. It's just beginning."]]

* After The End: During a conversation between the Nexrum Commander and Krauser, it is revealed that the Earth is waiting to reclaim and repopulate the planet. In other words - the humans on the planet are left to their own devices.

* HeroAntagonist: Colonel Krutz. He's demonstrated as a courageous soldier concerned about his subordinates. He also isn't too fond of the Earth government's secret planet-destroying doomsday weapon, and opposes the usage of MDS from the beginning. The only questionable action he does is to sic the Death Force mechas on Geist, and gets his skull crushed by Geist for his efforts.

* CharClone: Geist really looks like Quattro Bajeena from Zeta Gundam.

* SoundtrackDissonance: In the Director's Cut of the first OVA most of the battle scenes have cool but really unfitting music. Especially in the final battle. Then ther are the tracks "Violence of the Flame" that plays right after the screen fading to black with alarm sirens wailing loudly and a character screaming in terror. And after that, "Merciless Soldier". While the lyrics make themathically sense for both songs, you'd think that these tracks would be used to celebrate the protagonist for defeating some gigantic menace and making everything alright, not for [[spoiler: condemning an entire planet's biological life to death and mentally breaking a female character.]]
** To be fair, while the music for the second half of the final battle really fits with the original OVA...it's not very exciting for a final battle. Violence of the Flame fits for a final battle and is kind of ironic since it sounds like a very heroic theme.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: No one really knows what exactly should Crutes/Krutes/Krutz/Kurtz be called. Also Vaiya's name is actually Paiya. Nexrum has been written as Negstrom in the prequel comic. Geist's name according to his dogtags is "Most Dangerous Soldier-02 Geist", but the opening scene calls him "Most Dangerous Geist" as does the full title of the OVA ("Demon-garbed Soldier Most Dangerous Geist"), and then Crutes/Krutes/Krutz/Kurtz comes in and calls him just "MDS".
* SuperSoldier

* VillainProtagonist: Geist is either this or a SociopathicHero. You can make a case for MD Krauser in the sequel too; he's the designated villain, but at least he's "less evil" than Geist and there are points where the OVA suggests "shifting protagonistism" onto him..
* WellIntentionedExtremist: MD Krauser has good intentions (more or less) but he's still not much better than MD Geist, if at all.

* ObviouslyEvil: The Death Force swarm robots look like demons, devils, gargoyles, robotic knights, and some other evil looking things.
* OffModel: The series is quite possibly the poster child Anime for this.
** A non-exhaustive list includes strange lighting, objects (or characters) teleporting or disappearing, limbs moving in strange ways, multiple coloring errors on one object, drawing errors, and '''one of the dead characters' corpse levitating in the air for a second.'''[[note]]said corpse belonged to Krutz[[/note]].
** The generally horrendous animation is one of the things that ''made'' MD Geist infamous. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2008-10-02/buried-garbage-m.d-geist Even the animators who worked on it are said to have hated working on it]].
* OnlySaneMan: In the sequel, MD Krauser claims he is this saying that he was the only MDS who could control himself because only he had normal judgment. He contrasts himself to Geist whom he claims was "an absolute failure and an insane beast incapable of controlling himself." Then again, he tends to show violent outbursts as he happened to be explaining all this while grabbing a guy's face. [[UnreliableNarrator Not to mention, he seems to be a nutcase on a power trip.]] Plus, [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy given the nihilist nature of this short 2-part OVA series...]] (Although, this is due to the fact that Geist is trying to find his way back to the Regular/Government-Backed military, as he was previously programmed to do so, and ironically, in contrast, she follows HIM around after he meets up with the Army).

* PoweredArmor: Worn by Jerran soldiers, and a black one is donned by Geist after he acquires it from a dead soldier. In the sequel, they can fly and Krauser wears a white colored armor. It seems that all MDS' initially had one.

* RobotWar: Triggered ''[[MoralEventHorizon intentionally]]'' by Geist. (In order to accomplish the final directive of the Regular Army's protocol, if President Ryan were to get assassinated by Nexrum/Corporate Forces. This also feeds into his blood-lust, as he is programmed by nature to continue fighting. Also note that he does this after he kills Krutz, in defense, as Krutz attempts to kill him , after throwing a Religious rant and activating the Final Boss. With Krutz dead, the only form of "authority" that Geist could follow as a pre-programmed soldier is to activate the Death Force, as the Protocol would then be the only "high ranking" power at hand/in the vicinity).

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Extremely cynical to the point of being nihilistic, which a few people find appealing.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Very, very serious, despite the [[{{Narm}} horrible acting]]; some people feel it should have taken itself less seriously whereas others prefer its extremely high level of seriousness.

* AGodAmI: This happens in the sequel where the antagonist/VillainProtagonist MD Krauser displays extraordinary combat abilities when fighting the Death Force wearing angel-like armor. He is looked up to as a savior of humanity and is thus worshiped like a god. In his own words: "In their eyes it is certainly true. I have become a god incarnate..."* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Applies to Vaiya, [[spoiler: until he leaves her to die in the end.]]

* EvilIsVisceral: The second form of the final boss is introduced with a lot of strange fluids. It also pulsates and breathes in an organic manner.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/NorioWakamoto is Geist himself in the 1986 version. He got [[TheOtherDarrin darrin'd]] later by Kazuhiro Nakata, who would reprise the role in Death Force.
** Speaking of Death Force, Vaiya is portrayed by none other than.....''[[RikaFukami Sailor Venus]]''.
** One more from Death Force, the late, great, Creator/KanetoShiozawa is the voice of MD Krauser.

* [[ShootTheShaggyDog Mutilate The Shaggy Dog's Owners With The Shaggy Dog, Then Shoot The Shaggy Dog And Walk Away Into The Sunset]]: Occurs as Geist activates the Regular Army's doomsday weapon, Death Force, then proceeds to dismantle it. However, this was done strategically in order to kill off all yor an Nexrum/Corporate forces, which occurs successfully, as Geist also manages to kill Krauser + destroy the last Nexrum stronghold, regardless of the fact that it is the last Human stronghold. Note that during a conversation between the Nexrum Commander and Krauser, it is mentioned that the Earth is waiting to re-claim and populate the planet, in other words, the humans on the planet are left to their own devices. This would essentially imply that Geist is fighting for the Earth/Regular Army, as can be seen from both the Mangas/Comics and the actual OVA. The whole thing doesn't make much sense really if you think about it though, because we've seen that Death Force robots being controlled by Earth forces, however apparently that doesn't apply to the swarm itself. It is also quite an inefficient battle plan to deploy a certain weapon to kill your enemies and then deploy another weapon against that previously deployed weapon to destroy it, so why the Earth forces don't make their move towards Jerra after Death Force gets released, no one can say.
** In the first OVA Geist did directly fight for the Regular Army, though he ended up killing an officer.

* MadeOfPlasticine: A lot of people, especially in the Director's Cut version of the 1986 OVA and in Death Force. Particularly visible in the original OVA when Geist or Crutes grab people's faces and then the faces turn into red jelly with the eyes popping out. That's some scary Power Suit power.

* [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]]: [[spoiler: Done twice in the sequel. Once after Krauser throws Geist off a building, and after the credits, only Geist's helmet is shown.]]

[=MD Geist=] was an experimental SuperSoldier known as an MDS (Most Dangerous Soldier) locked away in suspended animation on a satellite hovering over the planet Jerra. After making his escape, Geist is involved in a few violent skirmishes in which he slaughters everyone who has attacked him in a spectacular, over-the-top fashion, before being recruited by a group of Commandos and asked to go with those commandos to Brain Palace to prevent the Death Force from being released. [[spoiler: Once the mission has been completed, Geist decides that he will release the Death Force himself upon the hapless citizens of Jerra.]]

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Applies to Vaiya, [[spoiler: until he leaves her to die in the end.]]

* DrivenToMadness: All the MDS' (arguably with the exception of Krauser) have gone completely insane very fast. This is what creating a living being who lives only to kill and follow orders without any other adherence to anything apparently causes.
* EvilIsVisceral: The final boss' second form is introduced with a lot of strange fluids, and pulsates and breathes in an organic manner.

* ExactWords: In the ''Ground Zero'' comic, an angry marine goads Geist into fighting him by saying "I also order you to rip off both my arms and make me spit blood!". Geist, being programmed to be LiteralMinded, proceeds to do exactly just that.
* EyePop: Literal examples where people's eyes pop out of their sockets when their skulls are crushed by power armor soldiers.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: While he definitely never was a "good guy", Geist's decision to wipe out the entire human and animal population of Jerra by re-activating the just deactivated Death Force swarm in order to create strong enemies for himself to fight against definitely qualifies, especially since it seems like he randomly decided on doing it at the final minutes of the OVA.]]

* GainaxEnding: Maybe not totally nonsensical, but certainly bizarre unless you watch the second OVA.
* AGodAmI: This happens in the sequel where the antagonist/[[VillainProtagonist villain protagonist]] MD Krauser displays extraordinary combat abilities when fighting the Death Force wearing angel-like armor. He is looked up to as a savior of humanity and is thus worshiped like a god. In his own words: "In their eyes it is certainly true. I have become a god incarnate..."

* GratuitousEnglish: In the tracks "Violence of the Flame" ("DENJARAS! MOST DENJARAS!", "IS DA ONLY CRAYZEE GAAAME, IS DA ONLY FOOLISH GAAAME") and "Merciless Soldier" ("CAN STOP! HE JUST A SOULJA!", "WHEL A YOU", "WHO A YOU"). Also Geist is always called "Misutaa" Geist by most characters for some reason.
* HeroAntagonist: Colonel Krutz, from what we're shown he's a courageous soldier concerned about his subordinates and isn't too fond of the Earth government's secret planet annihilating doomsday weapon, and opposed the usage of MDS' from the beginning. The only questionable action he does is to set Death Force mechas on Geist, and gets his skull crushed by Geist after he deals with them.

** Speaking of Death Force, Vaiya is portrayed by none other than.....''[[RikaFukami Sailor Venus]]''. Hard to believe huh?

* [[spoiler: InfantImmortality]]: Averted in the second OVA. [[spoiler: This causes a HeroicBSOD from Krauser.]]

* KnifeNut: Geist loves bladed weapons. Also one of Vaiya's henchmen.

* [[ShootTheShaggyDog Mutilate The Shaggy Dog's Owners With The Shaggy Dog, Then Shoot The Shaggy Dog And Walk Away Into The Sunset]]: (Occurs as Geist activates the Regular Army's doomsday weapon, Death Force, then proceeds to dismantling it, however this was done strategically in order to kill off all or any Nexrum/Corporate forces, which occurs successfully, as Geist also manages to kill Krauser + destroy the last Nexrum stronghold, regardless of the fact that it is the last Human stronghold. Note that during a conversation between the Nexrum Commander and Krauser, it is mentioned that the Earth is waiting to re-claim and populate the planet, in other words, the humans on the planet are left to their own devices. This would essentially imply that Geist is fighting for the Earth/Regular Army, as can be seen from both the Mangas/Comics and the actual OVA). The whole thing doesn't make much sense really if you think about it though, because we've seen that Death Force robots being controlled by Earth forces, however apparently that doesn't apply to the swarm itself. It is also quite an inefficient battle plan to deploy a certain weapon to kill your enemies and then deploy another weapon against that previously deployed weapon to destroy it, so why the Earth forces don't make their move towards Jerra after Death Force gets released, no one can say.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Applies to Vaiya. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for her, Geist turns out to be literally bad.]]

* ArmorIsUseless: While the powered armor Geist wears is obviously useful, other characters seem to not benefit that much from them, like the Fightech Commandos. Also all power armor have strange helmets, which mostly leave the character's eyes or part of the face in the open. Power Armor soldiers also do not have any sort of visors or targeting indicators.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: MD Geist "had the supemundane fighting ability by virtue of specific biological 'clonning' technology."
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In the world of MD Geist, blood is over affected by gravity.
* BadAss: Like it or not, Geist and Krauser are huge bad asses. Also Colonel Krutz from the first OVA.
* BadassBaritone: The late Jason Beck gives Geist a ridiculous(ly awesome) deep voice in the dubbed version.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]: The first OVA.
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: Weirdly enough. [[spoiler: Vaiya, Eagle, and other survivors managed to escape the massacre, with the "MD"s dead or possibly missing.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler: It's not really made clear whether or not Geist releases the Death Force because of the way he was programmed, or because it would offer him a more "exciting" battlefield.]]
* BloodKnight: Geist

* CrapsackWorld: The planet is locked in civil war between the Regular Army, and the rebelling Nexrum (Corporate forces aka "Wall-Street types", but in Space). A very large part of the population is already dead from all the fighting that has been going on. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven in the sequel where the Death Force rampages through the planet, leaving only one human stronghold left.]] The opening text to the first OVA also states that "there is no peace and wars rage" accross the human settlements in space.
* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]]: [[spoiler: End of OVA 1. "The game's not over yet. It's just beginning."]]
* {{Cyborg}}: Eagle
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Averted with the Death Force robots' small beam weapons as the tiny holes they cause are instantly fatal.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: One of the intro texts informs us that MD Geist, i.e. Most Dangerous Soldier Geist, was regarded as ''dangerous'' by his superiors. Apparently this wasn't what the Earth forces intended for the MDS' to be, because they imprisoned him inside a satellite for that reason.

** Might count for PointlessDoomsdayDevice because it would be more convenient for the machines to target armed forces that are not part of the Earth loyalists, in that way Nexrum could be wiped out without the planet's resident population being completely obliterated alongside all kinds of infrastructure, which would cut down on the subsequent work needed to destroy the Death Force after their mission completion by extra-planetary Earth forces and the need to rebuild the entire ecosystem and infrastructure all over, and to repopulate the planet.

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[[caption-width:200:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxHgVBpKNEo DENJARASU!]] [[GratuitousEnglish MOSUTO DENJARASU!]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome MOYASE! HONOO NO BAIORENSU!]]]]

** The generally horrendous animation is one of the things that ''made'' MD Geist infamous. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2008-10-02/buried-garbage-m.d-geist Even the animators who worked on it are said to have hated it]].

* HeyItsThatVoice!: NorioWakamoto is Geist himself in the 1986 version. He got [[TheOtherDarrin darrin'd]] later by Kazuhiro Nakata, who would reprise the role in Death Force.

** One more from Death Force, the late, great, KanetoShiozawa is the voice of MD Krauser.

* AGodAmI - This happens in the sequel where the antagonist/[[VillainProtagonist villain protagonist]] MD Krauser displays extraordinary combat abilities when fighting the Death Force wearing angel-like armor. He is looked up to as a savior of humanity and is thus worshiped like a god. In his own words: "In their eyes it is certainly true. I have become a god incarnate..."
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys - Applies to Vaiya. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for her, Geist turns out to be literally bad.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited - Vaiya tries to seduce Geist in bed during the first {{OVA}}, but he pushes her out of bed, rejecting her under no uncertain terms. "Get out of here; I'm done with you now". She still continues to follow him during the {{OVA}} trying to spark up conversations with him, [[spoiler: until he releases the Death Force and indifferently tells her that "the game is not over yet".]]
* AntiHero - Geist either fits into Type IV or Type V (or he might just be a villain). MD Krauser in the sequel.
* ArmorIsUseless - While the powered armor Geist wears is obviously useful, other characters seem to not benefit that much from them, like the Fightech Commandos. Also all power armor have strange helmets, which mostly leave the character's eyes or part of the face in the open. Power Armor soldiers also do not have any sort of visors or targeting indicators.
* ArtEvolution - The art style in {{MD Geist}} is completely different from the art style of {{MD Geist}} II, which is not surprising considering the sequel came 10 years after the original. The Director's Cut of the first OVA also fixes a lot of the animation errors.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics - In the world of MD Geist, blood is over affected by gravity.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology - MD Geist "had the supemundane fighting ability by virtue of specific biological 'clonning' technology."

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]] - Weirdly enough. [[spoiler: Vaiya, Eagle, and other survivors managed to escape the massacre, with the "MD"s dead or possibly missing.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality - [[spoiler: It's not really made clear whether or not Geist releases the Death Force because of the way he was programmed, or because it would offer him a more "exciting" battlefield.]]
* BloodKnight - Geist
* CharClone - Geist really looks like Quattro Bajeena from Zeta Gundam.
* {{Cyborg}} - Eagle
* CrapsackWorld - The planet is locked in civil war between the Regular Army, and the rebelling Nexrum (Corporate forces aka "Wall-Street types", but in Space). A very large part of the population is already dead from all the fighting that has been going on. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven in the sequel where the Death Force rampages through the planet, leaving only one human stronghold left.]] The opening text to the first OVA also states that "there is no peace and wars rage" accross the human settlements in space.
* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]] - [[spoiler: End of OVA 1. "The game's not over yet. It's just beginning."]]
* DeathOfAThousandCuts - Averted with the Death Force robots' small beam weapons as the tiny holes they cause are instantly fatal.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment - One of the intro texts informs us that MD Geist, ie Most Dangerous Soldier Geist, was regarded as ''dangerous'' by his superiors. Apparently this wasn't what the Earth forces intended for the MDS' to be, because they imprisoned him inside a satellite for that reason.
* DieLaughing - [[spoiler: Colonel Krutz.]]
* DoomsdayDevice - the "Death Force", a self-replicating killer robot swarm that kills all organic life it encounters.

* DrivenToMadness - All the MDS' (arguably with the exception of Krauser) have gone completely insane very fast. This is what creating a living being who lives only to kill and follow orders without any other adherence to anything apparently causes.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - The Most Dangerous Soldiers. They are ''dangerous''.

* EyePop - literal examples where people's eyes pop out of their sockets when their skulls are crushed by power armor soldiers.
* FaceHeelTurn - [[spoiler: While he definitely never was a "good guy", Geist's decision to wipe out the entire human and animal population of Jerra by re-activating the just deactivated Death Force swarm in order to create strong enemies for himself to fight against definitely qualifies, especially since it seems like he randomly decided on doing it at the final minutes of the OVA.]]

* GainaxEnding - Maybe not totally nonsensical, but certainly bizarre unless you watch the second OVA.
* {{Gorn}} - Plenty of it in both {{OVA}}s, though in the first one the gore is a washed out orange hue.
* GratuitousEnglish - In the tracks "Violence of the Flame" ("DENJARAS! MOST DENJARAS!", "IS DA ONLY CRAYZEE GAAAME, IS DA ONLY FOOLISH GAAAME") and "Merciless Soldier" ("CAN STOP! HE JUST A SOULJA!", "WHEL A YOU", "WHO A YOU"). Also Geist is always called "Misutaa" Geist by most characters for some reason.
* HeroAntagonist - Colonel Krutz, from what we're shown he's a courageous soldier concerned about his subordinates and isn't too fond of the Earth government's secret planet annihilating doomsday weapon, and opposed the usage of MDS' from the beginning. The only questionable action he does is to set Death Force mechas on Geist, and gets his skull crushed by Geist after he deals with them.
* HongKongDub - The English dub. Also comes with overacting.

* [[spoiler: InfantImmortality]] - Averted in the second OVA. [[spoiler: This causes a HeroicBSOD from Krauser.]]
* {{Jerkass}} - Geist is a '''dick.'''
* KnifeNut - Geist loves bladed weapons. Also one of Vaiya's henchmen.

* [[ShootTheShaggyDog Mutilate The Shaggy Dog's Owners With The Shaggy Dog, Then Shoot The Shaggy Dog And Walk Away Into The Sunset]] (Occurs as Geist activates the Regular Army's doomsday weapon, Death Force, then proceeds to dismantling it, however this was done strategically in order to kill off all or any Nexrum/Corporate forces, which occurs successfully, as Geist also manages to kill Krauser + destroy the last Nexrum stronghold, regardless of the fact that it is the last Human stronghold. Note that during a conversation between the Nexrum Commander and Krauser, it is mentioned that the Earth is waiting to re-claim and populate the planet, in other words, the humans on the planet are left to their own devices. This would essentially imply that Geist is fighting for the Earth/Regular Army, as can be seen from both the Mangas/Comics and the actual OVA). The whole thing doesn't make much sense really if you think about it though, because we've seen that Death Force robots being controlled by Earth forces, however apparently that doesn't apply to the swarm itself. It is also quite an inefficient battle plan to deploy a certain weapon to kill your enemies and then deploy another weapon against that previously deployed weapon to destroy it, so why the Earth forces don't make their move towards Jerra after Death Force gets released, no one can say.

* MadeOfIron - Geist. He just looks like a regular human being, but can survive explosions, stabbings, and getting shot in the forehead, among other things. He also might be able to regenerate tissue damage.
* MadeOfPlasticine - A lot of people, especially in the Director's Cut version of the 1986 OVA and in Death Force. Particularly visible in the original OVA when Geist or Crutes grab people's faces and then the faces turn into red jelly with the eyes popping out. That's some scary Power Suit power.
* NakedOnArrival - Geist.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - "MD" stands for "Most Dangerous" and the self-replicating robot swarm is named Death Force.
* [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]] - [[spoiler: Done twice in the sequel. Once after Krauser throws Geist off a building, and after the credits, only Geist's helmet is shown.]]
* HeyItsThatVoice!- NorioWakamoto is Geist himself in the 1986 version. He got [[TheOtherDarrin darrin'd]] later by Kazuhiro Nakata, who would reprise the role in Death Force.
** Speaking of Death Force, Vaiya is portrayed by none other than.....''[[RikaFukami Sailor Venus]]''. Hard to believe huh?
** One more from Death Force, the late, great, KanetoShiozawa is the voice of MD Krauser.
* ObviouslyEvil - The Death Force swarm robots look like demons, devils, gargoyles, robotic knights, and some other evil looking things.
* OffModel - The series is quite possibly the poster child Anime for this.

* OnlySaneMan - In the sequel, MD Krauser claims he is this saying that he was the only MDS who could control himself because only he had normal judgment. He contrasts himself to Geist whom he claims was "an absolute failure and an insane beast incapable of controlling himself." Then again, he tends to show violent outbursts as he happened to be explaining all this while grabbing a guy's face. [[UnreliableNarrator Not to mention, he seems to be a nutcase on a power trip.]] Plus, [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy given the nihilist nature of this short 2-part OVA series...]] (Although, this is due to the fact that Geist is trying to find his way back to the Regular/Government-Backed military, as he was previously programmed to do so, and ironically, in contrast, she follows HIM around after he meets up with the Army).
* OverlyLongName - Colonel Crutes Ovild Folgain Shtrime.
* PoweredArmor - Worn by Jerran soldiers, and a black one is donned by Geist after he acquires it from a dead soldier. In the sequel, they can fly and Krauser wears a white colored armor. It seems that all MDS' initially had one.

* RobotWar - Triggered ''[[MoralEventHorizon intentionally]]'' by Geist. (In order to accomplish the final directive of the Regular Army's protocol, if President Ryan were to get assassinated by Nexrum/Corporate Forces. This also feeds into his blood-lust, as he is programmed by nature to continue fighting. Also note that he does this after he kills Krutz, in defense, as Krutz attempts to kill him , after throwing a Religious rant and activating the Final Boss. With Krutz dead, the only form of "authority" that Geist could follow as a pre-programmed soldier is to activate the Death Force, as the Protocol would then be the only "high ranking" power at hand/in the vicinity).
* RocketPunch - The final boss' third form does this.
* SlasherSmile - Geist has a tendency to do this.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Extremely cynical to the point of being nihilistic, which a few people find appealing.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness - Very, very serious, despite the [[{{Narm}} horrible acting]]; some people feel it should have taken itself less seriously whereas others prefer its extremely high level of seriousness.
* SoundtrackDissonance - In the Director's Cut of the first OVA most of the battle scenes have cool but really unfitting music. Especially in the final battle. Then ther are the tracks "Violence of the Flame" that plays right after the screen fading to black with alarm sirens wailing loudly and a character screaming in terror. And after that, "Merciless Soldier". While the lyrics make themathically sense for both songs, you'd think that these tracks would be used to celebrate the protagonist for defeating some gigantic menace and making everything alright, not for [[spoiler: condemning an entire planet's biological life to death and mentally breaking a female character.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS - No one really knows what exactly should Crutes/Krutes/Krutz/Kurtz be called. Also Vaiya's name is actually Paiya. Nexrum has been written as Negstrom in the prequel comic. Geist's name according to his dogtags is "Most Dangerous Soldier-02 Geist", but the opening scene calls him "Most Dangerous Geist" as does the full title of the OVA ("Demon-garbed Soldier Most Dangerous Geist"), and then Crutes/Krutes/Krutz/Kurtz comes in and calls him just "MDS".

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]] - The first OVA.
* TheDreaded - MD Geist stands for "Most Dangerous Geist" and he "fought so extraordinarily ferocious that he was regarded as dangerous and imprisoned on a satellite."
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - Geist kills a mecha pilot stabbing him in the head with a knife ''that has a hand grenade attached to its handle'' while inverse hanging from the top of the cockpit.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia - Vaiya experiences this during the sequel to some extent. She has horrific flashbacks of Geist and is incredibly frightened by them, but is unable to decipher coherently what they mean.
* VillainProtagonist - Geist is either this or a SociopathicHero. You can make a case for MD Krauser in the sequel too; he's the designated villain, but at least he's "less evil" than Geist and there are points where the OVA suggests "shifting protagonistism" onto him..

* OffModel - The series is quite possibly the poster child Anime for this Trope.
** A non-exhaustive list includes strange lighting, objects (or characters) teleporting or disappearing, limbs moving in strange ways, multiple coloring errors on one object, drawing errors, and '''one of the dead characters' corpse levitating in the air for a second.''' The generally horrendous animation is one of the things that made MD Geist infamous.