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* CastingGag: Venessa Ibert (009-3) modeled after Francoise Arnoul/003 from ''Manga/Cyborg009'' and is voiced by Creator/SatsukiYukino, who previously voiced Francoise in the 2001 ''009'' anime.
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* ShoutOut: The last episode of the anime features ersatz versions of the [[Series/{{Space1999}} Eagle]] and the [[Series/{{UFO}} SHADO Mobile]] during Mylene's trip to the Moon.

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* ShoutOut: The last episode of the anime features ersatz versions of the [[Series/{{Space1999}} [[Series/Space1999 Eagle]] and the [[Series/{{UFO}} [[Series/UFO1970 SHADO Mobile]] during Mylene's trip to the Moon.
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''009-1'' (''Zero Zero Nine One'') is a spy-fi Main/{{Seinen}} manga series by famous manga artist Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. It was serialized in ''Weekly Manga Action'' from 1967 to 1970 and returned briefly in 1974. The original manga was named "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", a pun on [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] and a reference to the main character's occupation as a spy.

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''009-1'' (''Zero Zero Nine One'') is a spy-fi Main/{{Seinen}} manga series by famous manga artist Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. It was serialized in ''Weekly Manga Action'' from 1967 to 1970 and returned briefly in 1974. The original manga was named "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", [[GoroawaseNumber a pun on on]] [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] and a reference to the main character's occupation as a spy.
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* SpyFiction: "Dirty Martini" -- [[TechnicolorNinjas Technicolor Ninja]] [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot cyborg spy girls with miniskirts and machinegun breasts]], traveling the world and looking ''great'' doing it... while taking part in stories about betrayal, tragedy, and moral ambiguity, with no happy endings to be found.

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* SpyFiction: "Dirty Martini" -- [[TechnicolorNinjas Technicolor Ninja]] [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot cyborg spy girls with miniskirts and machinegun machine gun breasts]], traveling the world and looking ''great'' doing it... while taking part in stories about betrayal, tragedy, and moral ambiguity, with no happy endings to be found.



* TooDumbToLive: Once again, Egg the sniper. Despite his traditional one-shot killing method proving inneffectual against Mylene, he continues to play-act as if he's James Bond around her, despite the whole "gentleman assassin" thing not even being a part of his obsessive-compulsive shtick. He proceedes to give away all his killing secrets, give Mylene all the openings she could want to kill him effortlessly (she only doesn't to fully prove her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as detailed elsewhere), and even agrees to a battle tailored to give up his advantages and let her win. He never once considers that someone who's explicitly told him she doesn't give a crap about anything other than results and who thinks he's an idiot would lie to him about her own secrets.

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* TooDumbToLive: Once again, Egg the sniper. Despite his traditional one-shot killing method proving inneffectual ineffectual against Mylene, he continues to play-act as if he's James Bond around her, despite the whole "gentleman assassin" thing not even being a part of his obsessive-compulsive shtick. He proceedes proceeded to give away all his killing secrets, give Mylene all the openings she could want to kill him effortlessly (she only doesn't to fully prove her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as detailed elsewhere), and even agrees to a battle tailored to give up his advantages and let her win. He never once considers that someone who's explicitly told him she doesn't give a crap about anything other than results and who thinks he's an idiot would lie to him about her own secrets.

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* AmazonBrigade: Mylene and her teammates.

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* BrokenBird: Mylene herself, and more than one woman who shows up in her story.
* BusmansHoliday: In episode 5.

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* DaChief: Number Zero.

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* FrozenInTime: For the anime.

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* MsFanservice: Mylene

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* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: Pretty much the whole thing.
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* RetroUniverse: The series takes place 130 years after the start of the Cold War, but everything, even the sci-fi elements, still have a decidedly '60s feel to them. [[JustifiedTrope It's jutsified in that the source material was written in the late '60s/early '70s, and the original manga had the future taking place in the 1980s.]]

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* RetroUniverse: The series takes place 130 years after the start of the Cold War, but everything, even the sci-fi elements, still have a decidedly '60s feel to them. [[JustifiedTrope It's jutsified in that the source material was written in the late '60s/early '70s, and the original manga had the future taking place in the 1980s.]]
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* BreakingSpeech: Mylene delivers one to Egg the sniper about his "killing style" [[spoiler:just before she kills him.]]

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* CyanidePill: Mylene has one of these (apparently in a compartment in her mouth or a tooth, as there's no other place it could have come from). When captured, she tricks the one guard on duty into kissing her, [[MouthToMouthForceFeeding tongues the pill into]] ''[[MouthToMouthForceFeeding his]]'' [[[[MouthToMouthForceFeeding
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* CyanidePill: Mylene has one of these (apparently in a compartment in her mouth or a tooth, as there's no other place it could have come from). When captured, she tricks the one guard on duty into kissing her, [[MouthToMouthForceFeeding tongues the pill into]] ''[[MouthToMouthForceFeeding his]]'' [[[[MouthToMouthForceFeeding
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* CyanidePill: Mylene has one of these (apparently in a compartment in her mouth or a tooth, as there's no other place it could have come from). When captured, she tricks the one guard on duty into kissing her, tongues the pill into ''his'' mouth, and then unlocks her restraints and escapes once he's dead.

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* CyanidePill: Mylene has one of these (apparently in a compartment in her mouth or a tooth, as there's no other place it could have come from). When captured, she tricks the one guard on duty into kissing her, [[MouthToMouthForceFeeding tongues the pill into ''his'' mouth, into]] ''[[MouthToMouthForceFeeding his]]'' [[[[MouthToMouthForceFeeding
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and then unlocks her restraints and escapes once he's dead.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Although in all honesty it skirts the fine line between being Black and Black morality and would most likely be so if it weren't for the fact that the series explicitly states that even though all the characters the viewer sees are amoral, there ARE good people working in both their governments. Mylene herself doesn't seem to have much morality as she'll unquestionably take pretty much all assignments without batting an eye [[spoiler: including murdering children.]]

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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Although in all honesty it skirts the fine line between being Black and Black morality EvilVersusEvil and would most likely be so if it weren't for the fact that the series explicitly states that even though all the characters the viewer sees are amoral, there ARE good people working in both their governments. Mylene herself doesn't seem to have much morality as she'll unquestionably take pretty much all assignments without batting an eye [[spoiler: including murdering children.]]
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* GoKartingWithBowser: Mylene is being hunted by a highly skilled hitman who only works during the day, and refuses to fight her at night. So for several days they both try (and fail) to kill each other during the day, and act civil towards each other at night, even having drinks and going out on at least one dinner date. On the last night, [[spoiler:after another long day of trying to kill each other, Mylene even invites him to her room and has sex with him. She is eventually able to kill him in their next fight]].

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* GoKartingWithBowser: In episode 3, Mylene is being hunted by a highly skilled hitman who only works during the day, and refuses to fight her at night. So for several days they both try (and fail) to kill each other during the day, and act civil towards each other at night, even having drinks and going out on at least one dinner date. On the last night, [[spoiler:after another long day of trying to kill each other, Mylene even invites him to her room and has sex with him. She is eventually able to kill him in their next fight]].
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the original manga and the anime, as well as ''Flower Action'' drama, Mylene has medium-short hair. However in the 2013 film ''The End of the Beginning'', Mylene has [[LongHairisFeminine long hair]] sImilar to some action women in other Asian films, especially WuXia films.
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* RetroUniverse: The series takes place 130 years after the start of the Cold War, but everything, even the sci-fi elements, still have a decidedly '60s feel to them. {{Justified|Trope, of course, in that the source material was written in the late '60s/early '70s, and the original manga had the future taking place in the 1980s.

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* RetroUniverse: The series takes place 130 years after the start of the Cold War, but everything, even the sci-fi elements, still have a decidedly '60s feel to them. {{Justified|Trope, of course, [[JustifiedTrope It's jutsified in that the source material was written in the late '60s/early '70s, and the original manga had the future taking place in the 1980s.]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the original manga and the anime, as well as ''Flower Action'' drama, Mylene has medium-short hair. However in the 2013 film ''The End of the Beginning'', Mylene has [[LongHairisFeminine long hair]] sImilar to some action women in other Asian films.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the original manga and the anime, as well as ''Flower Action'' drama, Mylene has medium-short hair. However in the 2013 film ''The End of the Beginning'', Mylene has [[LongHairisFeminine long hair]] sImilar to some action women in other Asian films, especially WuXia films.
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A live action film based on the manga, titled ''009-1: The End of the Beginning'', was released in 2013.


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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the original manga and the anime, as well as ''Flower Action'' drama, Mylene has medium-short hair. However in the 2013 film ''The End of the Beginning'', Mylene has [[LongHairisFeminine long hair]] sImilar to some action women in other Asian films.

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''009-1'' (''Zero Zero Nine One'') is a spy-fi manga series by famous manga artist Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. It was adapted into an anime series first broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in Japan in October 2006. The original manga was named "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", a pun on [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] and a reference to the main character's occupation as a spy, and was serialized in Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974.

Its main story concerns Miléne Hoffman (Mirēnu Hofuman; "Mylene" in the English translation), a female cyborg with [[TorpedoTits machine gun breasts]] who works as a secret agent. Prior to the anime, it had been adapted into a live-action drama for Fuji TV in 1969 entitled "Flower Action 009ノ1".

Although it was also created by Ishinomori, and features similar themes, this seinen manga, despite the "00" name and the cybernetized protagonists, has no relation to his previous work ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'', a shōnen manga (although in the original manga, some of the cyborgs from Cyborg 009 actually do make a brief appearance as a group called "The Nine Group").

The dubbed version of the series can currently be watched for free on Funimation's [[http://www.funimation.com/009-1/episodes official video portal]].

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''009-1'' (''Zero Zero Nine One'') is a spy-fi Main/{{Seinen}} manga series by famous manga artist Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. It was adapted into an anime series first broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) serialized in Japan ''Weekly Manga Action'' from 1967 to 1970 and returned briefly in October 2006. 1974. The original manga was named "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", a pun on [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] and a reference to the main character's occupation as a spy, and was serialized in Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974.

spy.

Its main story concerns Miléne Hoffman (Mirēnu Hofuman; "Mylene" in the English translation), a female cyborg with [[TorpedoTits machine gun breasts]] who works as a secret agent. Prior to the anime, it had been adapted into a live-action drama for Fuji TV in 1969 entitled "Flower Action 009ノ1".

Although it was also created by Ishinomori, and features similar themes, this seinen manga, despite the "00" name themes and the cybernetized protagonists, a similar name, ''009-1'' has no relation to his previous work ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'', which is a shōnen manga (although in the original manga, some of the cyborgs from Cyborg 009 actually do make a brief appearance as a group called "The Nine Group").

The dubbed version of manga was adapted into a live-action drama for Fuji TV in 1969, entitled ''Flower Action 009ノ1'', and an anime series, broadcast on the series can currently be watched for free on Funimation's [[http://www.funimation.com/009-1/episodes official video portal]].
Creator/TokyoBroadcastingSystem (TBS) in October 2006. The anime was previously licensed by Creator/ADVFilms in 2007, before the rights were transferred to Creator/{{Funimation}} in 2008, prior to the former company shutting down.

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''009-1'' (''Zero Zero Nine One'') is a spy-fi manga series by famous manga artist Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. It was adapted into an anime series first broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in Japan in October 2006. The original manga was named "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", a pun on [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] and a reference to the main character's occupation as a spy, and was serialized in Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. It concerns Miléne Hoffman (Mirēnu Hofuman; "Mylene" in the English translation), a female cyborg with [[TorpedoTits machine gun breasts]] who works as a secret agent. Prior to the anime, it had been adapted into a live-action drama for Fuji TV in 1969 entitled "Flower Action 009ノ1".

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''009-1'' (''Zero Zero Nine One'') is a spy-fi manga series by famous manga artist Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. It was adapted into an anime series first broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in Japan in October 2006. The original manga was named "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", a pun on [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] and a reference to the main character's occupation as a spy, and was serialized in Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. It

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concerns Miléne Hoffman (Mirēnu Hofuman; "Mylene" in the English translation), a female cyborg with [[TorpedoTits machine gun breasts]] who works as a secret agent. Prior to the anime, it had been adapted into a live-action drama for Fuji TV in 1969 entitled "Flower Action 009ノ1".
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%%* GoKartingWithBowser* GoKartingWithBowser: Mylene is being hunted by a highly skilled hitman who only works during the day, and refuses to fight her at night. So for several days they both try (and fail) to kill each other during the day, and act civil towards each other at night, even having drinks and going out on at least one dinner date. On the last night, [[spoiler:after another long day of trying to kill each other, Mylene even invites him to her room and has sex with him. She is eventually able to kill him in their next fight]].



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* WhyAmITicking: In a DVD-exclusive episode, Mylene wakes up after having sex with a handsome dark-skinned musician and is told by him that he knows she's a spy, and that he has put a bomb inside her body and will detonate it if she tries anything.
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Though it turns out that the above man didn't actually put the bomb in ''her'', it was in ''his own head'', which blows up when he hit the detonator. Mylene, who had started to feel genuinely attracted to the guy before said revelation, cries and mourns him because she thought they would've been happy together.]]
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''009-1'' (''Zero Zero Nine One'') is a spy-fi manga series by famous manga artist Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. It was adapted into an anime series first broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in Japan in October 2006. The original manga was named "Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi", a pun on [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] and a reference to the main character's occupation as a spy, and was serialized in Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. It concerns Miléne Hoffman (Mirēnu Hofuman; "Mylene" in the English translation), a female cyborg with [[TorpedoTits machine gun breasts]] who works as a secret agent. Prior to the anime, it had been adapted into a live-action drama for Fuji TV in 1969 entitled "Flower Action 009ノ1".

Although it was also created by Ishinomori, and features similar themes, this seinen manga, despite the "00" name and the cybernetized protagonists, has no relation to his previous work ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'', a shōnen manga (although in the original manga, some of the cyborgs from Cyborg 009 actually do make a brief appearance as a group called "The Nine Group").

The dubbed version of the series can currently be watched for free on Funimation's [[http://www.funimation.com/009-1/episodes official video portal]].

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* ActionGirl: Mylene
* AdaptationDistillation: To the original manga. In particular, Mylene's fellow agents never really got much face time if at all in the original, except for 009-7, who was radically different (with resembling Mylene, as well as having the abilities that 009-3 has in the anime) and ''died'' in her first and only appearance.
* AllThereInTheManual: Mylene's teammates were all only profiled in a booklet that came with the Japanese DVD releases, which is the only source that gives further information on them.
* AmazonBrigade: Mylene and her teammates.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the anime. [[spoiler:When the smoke clears from the final story, Mylene and Zero are able to pass off her rebellion as a secret mission so she can avoid being punished as a traitor. There's still work for her to do.]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In the finale on the Moon, [[spoiler:9-1 and Loki]] are flying above the surface in a shuttle type craft, being chased by two other such craft. They first deploy a parachute, which is then cut loose after opening to block their enemy's view. Then, when the second craft continues chasing, the fuel tank is hit and they're forced to use ejector seats, with a specific mention of the Moon's lower gravity as a reason why they'll be able to avoid the shuttle tailing them. This works, and forces the chasing shuttle to crash - with the two characters parachuting to safety on the surface. The problem? Parachutes can't work on the Moon, because it has practically no atmosphere to speak of! One wonders how they could get the gravity right and still completely neglect that fact.
* TheBaroness: Rosa Klebb variation in the first anime episode; Mylene actually seduces her for info on her mission.
* BreakTheCutie: Mylene's backstory of orphanhood, abuse and secret agent missions.
* BreakingSpeech: Mylene delivers one to Egg the sniper about his "killing style" [[spoiler:just before she kills him.]]
-->'''Mylene:''' Killing isn't a style. ''It's just killing.'''
* BrokenBird: Mylene herself, and more than one woman who shows up in her story.
* BusmansHoliday: In episode 5.
* CensorSuds: When Mylene gets out of the bath in the 2nd episode.
* ChainmailBikini: Not the whole thing, but when Mylene gets captured, and her captors know about her... secret weapons, they'll usually slap a metal bra on her to keep her from using them.
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* CombatPragmatist: Mylene thinks Egg's habits are silly and pointless. [[spoiler: The way she beats him is notable. She reveals that her earrings allow her to track and dodge incoming bullets and takes them off. Egg in turn tells her that his eyes allow him to read her next move and agrees to fight their next duel at night. Mylene wins and reveals that [[{{ILied}} she lied]] -- her super sensitive hearing is built into her body.]]
* CyanidePill: Mylene has one of these (apparently in a compartment in her mouth or a tooth, as there's no other place it could have come from). When captured, she tricks the one guard on duty into kissing her, tongues the pill into ''his'' mouth, and then unlocks her restraints and escapes once he's dead.
* DaChief: Number Zero.
* DirtyCommunists: The UsefulNotes/ColdWar never ended in this world.
* DistaffCounterpart:
** Mylene's teammates have their abilities inspired from the cyborgs from the ''Cyborg 009'' manga, such as 009-4 having weaponry in her limbs like 004, and 009-7 having a shapeshifting ability like 007.
** There are even two twin girl agents (009-10 and 009-11) who have scarves patterned after the villainous Cyborg 0010+/0010- duo, implying that they may have electrical abilities. Unlike those twins, these two are on the heroic side and don't seem to have a problem with standing near each other.
* {{Expy}}:
** Agent 020/"Mars" bears a very uncanny resemblance to Jet Link from ''Cyborg 009'', except middle-aged and with a beard. He's even voiced by Keiichi Noda, who had voiced Jet in the 1979 anime. Taken further in the manga, where 020 is known as "Jet" instead of "Mars".
** As 009-1 and Cyborg 009 aren't intended to take place in the same universe, the manga's cameos of the "Nine Group" can be seen as this (as well as a ShoutOut).
* EyeScream: One unlucky soldier in the first episode takes stiletto heels to the eyes.
* FemmeFatale: Mylene, as one of the very rare protagonist examples. She uses her female charms as a weapon, aside of her ActionGirl skills.
* FrozenInTime: For the anime.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: Pretty much the whole thing.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Although in all honesty it skirts the fine line between being Black and Black morality and would most likely be so if it weren't for the fact that the series explicitly states that even though all the characters the viewer sees are amoral, there ARE good people working in both their governments. Mylene herself doesn't seem to have much morality as she'll unquestionably take pretty much all assignments without batting an eye [[spoiler: including murdering children.]]
* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: In the anime, it's just the "Eastern" and "Western" blocs.
* HoneyTrap: One would think that Mylene was specifically designed for doing things like this. It's entirely possible that she was.
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* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: The prologue to the last episode has a montage of Mylene's fellow agents, including a few who never managed to get an episode in the series (although viewers might recognize them from [[EvolvingCredits the silhouettes]] in the TeamShot from the opening credits). These characters also made a brief non-speaking cameo in a flashback in episode 8. The booklet that came with DVD 6 identifies them all, but also includes many details that didn't get to show up in the anime.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Loki is Mylene's younger brother, who was believed to have died with the rest of Mylene's family when they tried to defect to the Western Bloc.]]
* ModestyBedsheet: Which gets damaged more than once, thanks to her Machine gun boobs.
* MonochromaticEyes: Some character's eyes have no whites or pupils, and are just a solid mass of some eye color. Somewhat justified in that this is Ishinomori's style.
* MorphicResonance: The shapeshifter of the group is usually identified by her earrings, even when she's impersonating a man.
* MsFanservice: Mylene
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Loki in the last episode of the anime.]]
* OrphanageOfFear: Mylene was placed in a teenage girls' version of this, after her family died trying to escape the "Eastern Bloc".
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Reverse Explosion system [[spoiler: is powered by the PsychicLink between every mutant in the world.]]
* PureIsNotGood: At some point, 9-1 meets a young woman who she can only describe as "pure." Later, the woman tries to kill her when 9-1 tries to stop her from meeting up with enemy agents. [[spoiler: It turns out that the girl is actually an android made mostly out of very pure gold that the enemy agents were trying to smuggle out of the country.]]
* RetroUniverse: The series takes place 130 years after the start of the Cold War, but everything, even the sci-fi elements, still have a decidedly '60s feel to them. {{Justified|Trope, of course, in that the source material was written in the late '60s/early '70s, and the original manga had the future taking place in the 1980s.
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* RogueAgent: One episode involves Mylene tracking down her former mentor, who disappeared with information on a top secret Eastern Bloc weapon after having a change of heart about his mission. [[spoiler: Mylene herself goes rogue by the final episode to try and save the mutant children involved in experiments related to said weapon.]]
* ShoutOut: The last episode of the anime features ersatz versions of the [[Series/{{Space1999}} Eagle]] and the [[Series/{{UFO}} SHADO Mobile]] during Mylene's trip to the Moon.
* SpyFiction: "Dirty Martini" -- [[TechnicolorNinjas Technicolor Ninja]] [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot cyborg spy girls with miniskirts and machinegun breasts]], traveling the world and looking ''great'' doing it... while taking part in stories about betrayal, tragedy, and moral ambiguity, with no happy endings to be found.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The world political situation at the end of the anime is just about where it was at the beginning.
* TechnicalPacifist: Egg the sniper is a partial example. If he's contracted to kill someone, he'll do it, but for everybody else he goes the [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]] route. However, this isn't due to any kind of pacifist beliefs, instead just being one of his many arrogant quirks.
* TooDumbToLive: Once again, Egg the sniper. Despite his traditional one-shot killing method proving inneffectual against Mylene, he continues to play-act as if he's James Bond around her, despite the whole "gentleman assassin" thing not even being a part of his obsessive-compulsive shtick. He proceedes to give away all his killing secrets, give Mylene all the openings she could want to kill him effortlessly (she only doesn't to fully prove her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as detailed elsewhere), and even agrees to a battle tailored to give up his advantages and let her win. He never once considers that someone who's explicitly told him she doesn't give a crap about anything other than results and who thinks he's an idiot would lie to him about her own secrets.
* TorpedoTits: One of the parts of the show viewers are likely to know through PopculturalOsmosis. Mylene's modifications include breasts that fire "bio-bullets", which she frequently uses as a [[NothingUpMySleeve secret weapon]] when a seduction suddenly goes bad. (See ModestyBedsheet, above.)
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Dr. Green and Loki, trying to save the psychic mutant children that the Eastern Bloc experiments on and the Western Bloc exterminates, but at the same time using them as an unwitting psychic weapon to try and turn the Cold War into an actual war, wiping out both blocs so the mutants can take their place.]]
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