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** It's not hard to find yourself comparing Romary to [[Franchise/SpiderMan Mary-Jane Watson]].

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** It's not hard to find yourself comparing Romary to [[Franchise/SpiderMan [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Mary-Jane Watson]].
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Three Amigos is a disambiguation


* ThreeAmigos: Flit, Emily, and Dique. Asemu, Romary, and Zeheart are strongly implied to have been this during their last years of school, with the photo montage in the second ED.
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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Most of the English text seen is this.
** Moreover, [[spoiler:Lu's diary about her future memories not only has beautiful sketches, it also contains entries written in grammatically perfect English.]] Here is [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VBHADApy-OQ/T_Aa5D6_TNI/AAAAAAACx-Y/08IM2Vqpkh4/s1600/111.jpg a heartwarming entry.]]
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''Mobile Suit Gundam AGE'' is another part of the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise, which began airing in October 2011 as part of Sunrise's [[Fall2011Anime Fall 2011]] lineup. This one revolves around three generations of pilots, namely Flit Asuno, his son Asemu, and the latter's son, Kio. A manga, several models, a card game, and a video game are among the merchandise for this incarnation.

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''Mobile Suit Gundam AGE'' is another part of the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise, which began airing in October 2011 as part of Sunrise's [[Fall2011Anime Fall 2011]] 2011 lineup. This one revolves around three generations of pilots, namely Flit Asuno, his son Asemu, and the latter's son, Kio. A manga, several models, a card game, and a video game are among the merchandise for this incarnation.

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* BlessedWithSuck: The X-Rounder, the series' version of the franchise's "SuperSoldier with physic powers" works by literally ''dumbing down the brain'' to be more aggressive in combat in exchange for the rationality to make proper decisions. In short, it ''literally'' gives you the IdiotBall.



* DownerEnding: The final episode of the First Generation. [[spoiler:Despite destroying the Space Fortress Ambat, Grodek gets sentenced to twenty-five years for committing mutiny and the Earth Federation covers up the evidence of the crew's findings about Vagan. Millais, Woolf, and Adams are all shell-shocked from finding out that the UE were people all along while the Earth Federation reveals genocidal motivations by renaming the first battles against Vagan as the War of Bat Extermination, and also showing they haven't learned a damned thing since the year they abandoned the Mars colonists. Moreover, Yurin's death instills an everlasting hatred for the Vagans in Flit while Emily overhears him grieving over his inability to save anyone. Most importantly, however, Sir Ezelcant's forces are alive and well as they prepare for the next step of the war against Earth Federation.]]

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The final episode of the First Generation. [[spoiler:Despite destroying the Space Fortress Ambat, Grodek gets sentenced to twenty-five years for committing mutiny and the Earth Federation covers up the evidence of the crew's findings about Vagan. Millais, Woolf, and Adams are all shell-shocked from finding out that the UE were people all along while the Earth Federation reveals genocidal motivations by renaming the first battles against Vagan as the War of Bat Extermination, and also showing they haven't learned a damned thing since the year they abandoned the Mars colonists. Moreover, Yurin's death instills an everlasting hatred for the Vagans in Flit while Emily overhears him grieving over his inability to save anyone. Most importantly, however, Sir Ezelcant's forces are alive and well as they prepare for the next step of the war against Earth Federation.]]



* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Yurin's death caused Flit to do this. From age fourteen well into his sixties, his hatred for the Vagan is so strong that his main goal in life is to exterminate all of them. His words.]]

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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope:
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[[spoiler:Yurin's death caused Flit to do this. From age fourteen well into his sixties, his hatred for the Vagan is so strong that his main goal in life is to exterminate all of them. His words.]]



* JustEatGilligan: If the Vagan had simply returned to Earth on Second Moon immediately instead of being terrorists by destroying civilian colonies, there wouldn't be much of a war with their superior technology, Earth lacking their Gundam technology and the element of surprise.



* PuppyLove <- -> StarCrossedLovers: Kio Asuno (Earth) and Lu Anon (Vagan) from the Third Generation, both of whom are only 13 years old when they meet. [[spoiler:Sadly, it doesn't make them exempt from ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'s'' LoveHurts tradition, as seen by Lu's heartbreaking death in Episode 38.]]

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* PuppyLove <- -> StarCrossedLovers: PuppyLove: Overlapping with StarCrossedLovers. Kio Asuno (Earth) and Lu Anon (Vagan) from the Third Generation, both of whom are only 13 years old when they meet. [[spoiler:Sadly, it doesn't make them exempt from ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'s'' LoveHurts tradition, as seen by Lu's heartbreaking death in Episode 38.]]
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** Kio ends up with a Vagan as a potential love interest, and as a result sees them as people first and foremost and tries to end the war.

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** Kio ends up with living a week in Vagan territory, getting to know Vagans living as a potential love interest, Vagans rather than pretending to be Earthers, and as a result sees them as people first and foremost and tries to end the war.

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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Surprisingly averted in a Gundam series. Even though Flit wasn't intended to be the pilot of the Gundam AGE-1, he built the suit and knows how to use it. In the second generation, Flit gives Asemu the [=AGE=] device for his birthday and Vargas leads him right to the Gundam when he needs it. He'd also been a hobbyist pilot of lesser mobile suits for years at that point. Likewise, in the third generation, the first thing Kio thinks of to repel the Vagan is to the find the Gundam, and Flit brings it straight to him.

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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Surprisingly averted in a Gundam series. Even though Flit wasn't intended to be the pilot of the Gundam AGE-1, he built the suit and knows how to use it. In the second generation, Flit gives Asemu the [=AGE=] device for his birthday and Vargas leads him right to the Gundam when he needs it. He'd also been a hobbyist pilot of lesser mobile suits for years at that point. Likewise, in the third generation, the first thing Kio thinks of to repel the Vagan is to the find the Gundam, Gundam (which Flit had been secretly training him to pilot for years through a simulator game), and Flit brings it straight to him.



* FireForgedFriends: Flit and Woolf.



* FireForgedFriends: Flit and Woolf.



* ForeverWar: The war against Vagan lasts seventy years and three generations. That said, it's implied that the intensity of the war fluctuates considerably, with the three generation arcs being when the severity of the war spikes.



* MilitariesAreUseless: The Federation Navy is so ineffective in the First Generation that Grodek has to literally pirate the ''Diva'' to get them to even ''attempt'' to save the population of a colony that is in imminent danger of being lost with all hands, and then takes the crew on a long-term mutiny so he can actively prosecute the war. They improve in later generations, as the main characters are officially connected to them now.

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The Federation Navy is so ineffective in the First Generation that Grodek has to literally pirate the ''Diva'' to get them to even ''attempt'' to save the population of a colony that is in imminent danger of being lost with all hands, and then takes the crew on a long-term mutiny so he can actively prosecute the war. They improve in later generations, as the main characters are officially connected to them now.now.
** Given how easily the Vagans can smuggle sleeper agents and their mobile suits into Earth territory - to the point of sneaking an entire ''batallion'' of suits into Olivernotes at the start of Generation 3 - Federation Military Intelligence is pretty much useless across the board.


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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Despite the AGE System being the only real tech advantage the Federation has against the Vagan, in seventy years of fighting, they only have one AGE Builder, which can only take in combat data from one source at a time, which stays permanently parked on a warship that gets progressively more obsolete as the series goes on.


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* TookALevelInJerkass: Flit gets nastier and more obsessed with crushing the Vagan with every Generation.
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* FacelessMooks: Zigzagged through the generations, which influences the Asuno pilots and the way they see the Vagan.
** Flit's arc mainly has the UE as machines that show up out of nowhere, trash everything, and then leave. Between that and his first encounter with a Vagan soldier being an AxCrazy ChildSoldier who kidnaps his love interest, turns her into a war machine component, and gets her killed for giggles, and he is unable to see the Vagan as people.
** Asemu knew his primary rival personally and had considered him a close friend for years before learning he was Vagan. As such, while he considers them the enemy, he can still see them as people.
** Kio ends up with a Vagan as a potential love interest, and as a result sees them as people first and foremost and tries to end the war.
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* DownerEnding: The final episode of the First Generation. [[spoiler:Despite destroying the Space Fortress Ambat, Grodek gets sentenced to fifteen years for committing mutiny and the Earth Federation covers up the evidence of the crew's findings about Vagan. Millais, Woolf, and Adams are all shell-shocked from finding out that the UE were people all along while the Earth Federation reveals genocidal motivations by renaming the first battles against Vagan as the War of Bat Extermination, and also showing they haven't learned a damned thing since the year they abandoned the Mars colonists. Moreover, Yurin's death instills an everlasting hatred for the Vagans in Flit while Emily overhears him grieving over his inability to save anyone. Most importantly, however, Sir Ezelcant's forces are alive and well as they prepare for the next step of the war against Earth Federation.]]

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* DownerEnding: The final episode of the First Generation. [[spoiler:Despite destroying the Space Fortress Ambat, Grodek gets sentenced to fifteen twenty-five years for committing mutiny and the Earth Federation covers up the evidence of the crew's findings about Vagan. Millais, Woolf, and Adams are all shell-shocked from finding out that the UE were people all along while the Earth Federation reveals genocidal motivations by renaming the first battles against Vagan as the War of Bat Extermination, and also showing they haven't learned a damned thing since the year they abandoned the Mars colonists. Moreover, Yurin's death instills an everlasting hatred for the Vagans in Flit while Emily overhears him grieving over his inability to save anyone. Most importantly, however, Sir Ezelcant's forces are alive and well as they prepare for the next step of the war against Earth Federation.]]

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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The second attempt to arrest Grodek involves waiting for the ''Diva'' to leave port and then ordering him to stand down or else be blown away by three other battleships. This despite the fact that given the geometry, any missed shots will ''hit a neutral space colony''. Nobody calls out the Federation official as being insane for setting up a shot without checking his backstop.



* DownerEnding: The final episode of the First Generation. [[spoiler:Despite destroying the Space Fortress Ambat, Grodek gets sentenced to life for committing treason and the Earth Federation covers up the evidence of the crew's findings about Vagan. Millais, Woolf, and Adams are all shell-shocked from finding out that the UE were people all along while the Earth Federation reveals genocidal motivations by renaming the first battles against Vagan as the War of Bat Extermination, and also showing they haven't learned a damned thing since the year they abandoned the Mars colonists. Moreover, Yurin's death instills an everlasting hatred for the Vagans in Flit while Emily overhears him grieving over his inability to save anyone. Most importantly, however, Sir Ezelcant's forces are alive and well as they prepare for the next step of the war against Earth Federation.]]
** In ''Memory of Eden'' [[spoiler: If you consider Zeheart as a VillainProtagonist from this OVA and [[AllThereInTheManual they didn't get the Eden]], except the tombstomb is on Earth with the name from Fram Nara]].

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* DownerEnding: The final episode of the First Generation. [[spoiler:Despite destroying the Space Fortress Ambat, Grodek gets sentenced to life fifteen years for committing treason mutiny and the Earth Federation covers up the evidence of the crew's findings about Vagan. Millais, Woolf, and Adams are all shell-shocked from finding out that the UE were people all along while the Earth Federation reveals genocidal motivations by renaming the first battles against Vagan as the War of Bat Extermination, and also showing they haven't learned a damned thing since the year they abandoned the Mars colonists. Moreover, Yurin's death instills an everlasting hatred for the Vagans in Flit while Emily overhears him grieving over his inability to save anyone. Most importantly, however, Sir Ezelcant's forces are alive and well as they prepare for the next step of the war against Earth Federation.]]
** In ''Memory of Eden'' [[spoiler: If you consider Zeheart as a VillainProtagonist from this OVA and [[AllThereInTheManual they didn't get the Eden]], except the tombstomb tombstone is on Earth with the name from Fram Nara]].



* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Surprisingly averted in a Gundam series. Even though Flit wasn't intended to be the pilot of the Gundam AGE-1, he built the suit and knows how to use it. In the second generation, Flit gives Asemu the [=AGE=] device for his birthday and Vargas leads him right to the Gundam when he needs it. Likewise, in the third generation, the first thing Kio thinks of to repel the Vagan is to the find the Gundam, and Flit brings it straight to him.

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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Surprisingly averted in a Gundam series. Even though Flit wasn't intended to be the pilot of the Gundam AGE-1, he built the suit and knows how to use it. In the second generation, Flit gives Asemu the [=AGE=] device for his birthday and Vargas leads him right to the Gundam when he needs it. He'd also been a hobbyist pilot of lesser mobile suits for years at that point. Likewise, in the third generation, the first thing Kio thinks of to repel the Vagan is to the find the Gundam, and Flit brings it straight to him.



* MilitariesAreUseless: The Federation Navy is so ineffective in the First Generation that Grodek has to literally pirate the ''Diva'' to get them to even ''attempt'' to save the population of a colony that is in imminent danger of being lost with all hands, and then takes the crew on a long-term mutiny so he can actively prosecute the war.

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* MilitariesAreUseless: The Federation Navy is so ineffective in the First Generation that Grodek has to literally pirate the ''Diva'' to get them to even ''attempt'' to save the population of a colony that is in imminent danger of being lost with all hands, and then takes the crew on a long-term mutiny so he can actively prosecute the war. They improve in later generations, as the main characters are officially connected to them now.
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* InstantExpert: The AGE system may be able to make the perfect weapon/suit mod for any scenario, but no explanation is given for how the pilots are able to come up with a piloting style to effectively use something they'd never seen before on the spot, or even figure out what all the features they use in said style are. The weapons don't exactly come with a manual, and they generally are first deployed in situations where there wouldn't be time to read one anyway.


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* YesMan: Don Boyage is always accompanied by two guys whose primary duty appears to be shouting "Yes! The Don is Right!" in unison whenever he makes a pronouncement.
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** Zigzagged with Don Boyage's Heroic Sacrifice. It fails to do any damage to the enemy ship, but the sheer badassery he displays in his final charge succeeds in rallying troops that were on the verge of routing.

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** Zigzagged with Don Boyage's Heroic Sacrifice.HeroicSacrifice. It fails to do any damage to the enemy ship, but the sheer badassery he displays in his final charge succeeds in rallying troops that were on the verge of routing.
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* MilitariesAreUseless: The Federation Navy is so ineffective in the First Generation that Grodek has to literally pirate the ''Diva'' to get them to even ''attempt'' to save the population of a colony that is in imminent danger of being lost with all hands, and then takes the crew on a long-term mutiny so he can actively prosecute the war.


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** Zigzagged with Don Boyage's Heroic Sacrifice. It fails to do any damage to the enemy ship, but the sheer badassery he displays in his final charge succeeds in rallying troops that were on the verge of routing.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: The AGE System uses evolutionary design techniques to make the perfect weapon for any situation. While evolutionary design can be used in engineering IRL, it generally isn't for a reason - the whole principle of evolution is to try a bunch of random stuff, see what approaches the desired effect, and then use the best solution as the start point for another round of random experimentation, and so on until a solution is found. The net result of such a design is generally a BlackBox that is virtually impossible to understand, let alone repair or maintain. Yet the results of the AGE System are generally streamlined perfected systems instead of kludged together designs that somehow work but no human would ever build that way on purpose.
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** Generation 3: Deymon Large, [[spoiler: [[CoolBigSis Shanalua Mullen]], Glat Otto, [[IllGirl Lu Anon]], [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Girard Spriggan]], Godom Tyneham, Seric Abis, Deen Anon, Fram Nara, Zanald Beihart, Zeheart Galette, Obright Lorain, all of the Diva's MauveShirt pilots]] and some Bisidian {{Red Shirt}}s.

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** Generation 3: Deymon Large, [[spoiler: [[CoolBigSis Shanalua Mullen]], Glat Otto, [[IllGirl Lu Anon]], Anon, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Girard Spriggan]], Godom Tyneham, Seric Abis, Deen Anon, Fram Nara, Zanald Beihart, Zeheart Galette, Obright Lorain, all of the Diva's MauveShirt pilots]] and some Bisidian {{Red Shirt}}s.

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* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: The AGE-1's DODS Rifle fires a beam that spins, increasing its penetrating power.


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* SpectacularSpinning: The AGE-1's DODS Rifle fires a beam that spins, increasing its penetrating power.
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** The Gundam AGE-FX, full stop. It is specifically mentioned to have been built to be as fast as possible and armed with a multitude of extremely quick [[AttackDrone C-Funnels]]. It's also armed with the Stangle Rifle, which has two firing modes and the weakest of which is on par with the Gundam AGE-3's [=SigMaxiss=] Rifle. Not to mention Gundam AGE-FX is extremely durable. Taken UpToEleven with [[SuperMode FX Burst Mode]], it managed to reflect Xamdrag cannon.

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** The Gundam AGE-FX, full stop. It is specifically mentioned to have been built to be as fast as possible and armed with a multitude of extremely quick [[AttackDrone C-Funnels]]. It's also armed with the Stangle Rifle, which has two firing modes and the weakest of which is on par with the Gundam AGE-3's [=SigMaxiss=] Rifle. Not to mention Gundam AGE-FX is extremely durable. Taken UpToEleven with [[SuperMode FX Burst Mode]], it Mode]] managed to reflect Xamdrag cannon.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: Many characters get killed off in the series, but the third generation in particular is rather heavy on the character deaths, especially episodes 47-48. To elaborate, [[spoiler:''every'' Vagan soldier with a name is dead at the end of 48--save for an ArtificialHuman who hasn't arrived on the battlefield yet--along with the entirety of the ''Diva's'' mobile suit squadron]].
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Adult Fear is now a disambig, and this is misuse which boils down to "listing all the scary stuff without context"


* AdultFear: Lots.
** Generation 1: [[spoiler:Alzack Birmings is forced to watch as his adopted daughter is taken at gunpoint by enemies of the state.]]
** Generation 2: Sending your child off into a war.
** Generation 3: [[spoiler:Having your son/grandson be abducted by your enemy. Watching your child die of an incurable disease. Having your spouse go missing-in-action.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: In the show, the Mars colonization project failed due to the dangers from Mars's magnetic field. Mars does not have a magnetic field, which is the actual danger involved in potential exploration and colonization; the magnetic field around Earth is why life hasn't been scoured away by radiation from the Sun and other cosmic sources.


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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: In the show, the Mars colonization project failed due to the dangers from Mars's magnetic field. Mars does not have a magnetic field, which is the actual danger involved in potential exploration and colonization; the magnetic field around Earth is why life hasn't been scoured away by radiation from the Sun and other cosmic sources.
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* UnfortunateNames:
** From Wootbit Gunhale to Natola Einus, Generation 3 is a ''major'' offender.
** There are the Vagan names as well. It's hard to take Desil and Zeheart's last names seriously when their last names are desserts.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[NotSoDifferent Both Flit and Ezelcant]] can be considered these. Ezelcant is willing to do anything to take Earth for the Vagan, while Flit is certain the only way to protect Earth is the complete extermination of all Vagan.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[NotSoDifferent Both Flit and Ezelcant]] Ezelcant can be considered these. Ezelcant is willing to do anything to take Earth for the Vagan, while Flit is certain the only way to protect Earth is the complete extermination of all Vagan.
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* FreudianTrio: [[KillThemAll Flit]] (id), Asemu (ego), [[MartialPacifist Kio]] (superego).

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* FreudianTrio: [[KillThemAll Flit]] Flit (id), Asemu (ego), [[MartialPacifist Kio]] (superego).
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: In the show, the Mars colonization project failed due to the dangers from Mars's magnetic field. Mars does not have a magnetic field, which is the actual danger involved in potential exploration and colonization; the magnetic field around Earth is why life hasn't been scoured away by radiation from the Sun and other cosmic sources.

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* FreudianTrio: [[KillThemAll Flit]] (id), Asemu (ego), [[MartialPacifist Kio]] (superego).



* PowerTrio: [[KillThemAll Flit]] (id), Asemu (ego), [[MartialPacifist Kio]] (superego).
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Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons is now a disambig, and this example lacked context to move elsewhere.


* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Even though they're not literal dragons, the Gafran, Baqto and Danazine have dragon-like flight modes.
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One Hundred And Eight is now Mystical 108, any examples must now have to do with its religious/mythical significance.


* OneHundredAndEight: A.G. 108 is the year Flit's mother dies. It's also the same year that Desil is born.

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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: [[spoiler:Happened during Episode 14 after Flit lost it when Yurin dies in the hands of Desil.]]
-->'''Flit:''' Desil....Why did you.....[[spoiler:Why did Yurin have to die?]]
-->'''Desil:''' There was no reason! It just means I've lost one of my playthings!
-->'''Flit:''' Lives...'''''ARE NOT TOYS!!!'''''[[spoiler: ((Cue an MS-sized ExtremeMeleeRevenge by Flit on Desil))]]

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