History MazingerZ / TropesSToU

** In ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' there was a good amount of teasing between Duke and Hikaru. Many scenes featured them together, sometimes at night, invoking the ire of Hikaru's OverprotectiveDad who threatened with hanging Duke with his bare hands if he gets closer to his daughter (NotHyperbole). And in the ''UFO Robo Grendizer versus Great Mazinger'' feature, Goro teases his big sister and Duke are in love.

** And then you have all times Sayaka got jealousy when a girl (even if she was non-human!) got close to Kouji: Minerva, Misato, Erika...

* SmallNameBigEgo: Boss thinks he is the smartest and biggest badass ever, the best biker around and a real ladies man, and people would ''pay'' for the chance to attend his birthday party (not joke. In episode 20 He ''tried'' to have his classmates paying for tickets. And he was shocked when all girls ran away from him screaming). Everyone else knows he is the ButtMonkey. Hence, when Kouji showed up, showing he was a real badass, and [[BadassBiker a better biker]] and [[TroubledButCute getting all girls -especially Sayaka- crazy over him right away]], Boss understandably was not happy, and he constantly tried to showing Kouji up with very little success. He went so far to build his own -goofy-looking- HumongousMecha using metal scraps and junk from a rubbish dump, and claimed it would replace Mazinger-Z itself. Tip: It did not.

* TheStarscream: Two Dr. Hell's servants fit the trope: Viscount Pygman and Archduke Gorgon. The former disobeyed orders the whole time and finally betrayed his creator, [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs taking over the Institute]] on his own and refusing handed over the control of it to Hell (He earns brownie points, though, for being the only Dr. Hell's henchmen showed some spine in front of Gorgon). The later allied himself with Hell but spend the whole time insulting and scorning Hell and his henchmen, undermining his authority and scheming to overthrow Hell at the first chance. [[spoiler:He was sucessful]]. Gorgon subverted the trope slightly since he was not planning replacing Hell with himself but with [[spoiler:[[Anime/GreatMazinger the Emperor of Darkness]].]]

* TheUnfought: The Emperor of Darkness was the GreaterScopeVillain from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and BigBad from ''Anime/GreatMazinger''. The second series ended up with the heroes [[spoiler:killing his CoDragons and annihilating a large part of his army,]] but they never fought him. Outside of an episode of one of the manga versions of ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' and the ''Videogame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' he has never been fought (and in ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' he is not even mentioned).

* UglyGuyHotWife: In episode 89 we meet [[spoiler:an impersonator of]] Kouji and Shiro's mother. In episode 92 we meet Kouji and Shiro's [[spoiler:supposedly]] late father. His wife was definitely beautiful. He... not so much. Although maybe he was more handsome when he was younger [[spoiler:and he was not a cyborg.]]
* UnbrokenVigil: Sayaka to Kouji in episode 52, as he was hospitalized after being badly wounded in a battle (she was also feeling guilty, since they had got a fight before -they bicker constantly, but this time it was ''serious''- and she had refused backing in battle). And Kouji to his little brother Shiro in ''Mazinger-Z versus Great General of Darkness'' when he fell into coma after a ceiling crumbled onto him.

* UnexplainedRecovery: At the second-to-last episode, [[spoiler:the CoolAirship where Dr. Hell was escaping got blown up.]] Whatever got left from him after that explosion surely sank in the ocean. Nonetheless he showed up again in the last season of ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', his body grafted into a HumongousMecha. One eyepatch covering his left eye was the only mark of the ordeal he had endured. Little explanation was given other than an statement of BigBad and PhysicalGod Emperor of Darkness had relived him and turned into one of his Warrior Monsters (and high commander of his army). It can may be worth mentioning many Mazinger-Z characters returned in the last episodes from the sequel, so maybe ExecutiveMeddling was involved.

** Dr. Hell was infamous by fitting any sort of weapons on any place of the body of his [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beasts]]. Examples include Zaila (whose fingers fired missiles and whose horns were really drills), Brighton-J2 (those horns on its head? They are missiles), the ninja siblings Blazas S1 and S2 (missile launchers located on their shoulders and stomache), Solaris-S1 (its belt shoots a solar beam), Kajimofu-T7 (its palms shot beams and it had a missile launcher above its head), Gumbina-M5 (CombatTentacles instead of eyes)...

* UseYourHead: Kouji -who is a full-blown CombatPragmatist- has no qualms uisng that tactic when he is fighting with Mazinger-Z. It should be justified, since he is using his {{Humongous Mecha}}'s head to ram the enemy instead of his own, but it is not, because Mazinger-Z's cockpit sits on the head of the giant robot.

** Again in that universe, Boss kissed an unconscious and bedridden Sayaka before leaving for a seemingly unwinnable battle, telling that all he could make for the girl he loved was dying like an hero.

* StayInTheKitchen: A good part of the SlapSlapKiss comes from Koji saying this and Sayaka flipping the middle finger at him. Or better said, giving him an ArmorPiercingSlap.

** A good, specific example is Yuri, BrattyHalfPint Sayaka's cousin: Let's go over the facts, Yuri. You are a disabled, little IllGirl can't run or move quickly because you need a wheelchair. You know there is a giant robot in the city, rolling over buildings AND people. Kouji has gone out to stop it after telling you very clearly you must stay in home because you are safer. Still do you insist on leaving the home and go to where the giant robots are fighting because you have a crush on Kouji and you want to see him? Okay, you can leave. After all, what can possibly go wrong?

* {{Troperiffic}}: If there's a SuperRobot trope, it's in here or in its sequels. If there's a RealRobot trope, it's probably in here too. And you can expect them all to be turned UpToEleven. And everything associated with HotBlood is in these series. But what else do you expect from THE SuperRobot show.

** It turns out that, when two HumongousMecha duel in a city, NoEndorHolocaust does not happens. Actually, buildings crumble down and cacht fire, and people dies. And the survivors tend to blame to whoever they can get their hands on. Including the heroes.

** In episode 48 Boss cajoles Prof. Yumi assistants in building him a giant robot with scraps. He wanted a mecha was more powerful than Mazinger-Z itself. What he got instead was a {{Deconstruction}} of the HumongousMecha: Boss Borot is goofy-looking, slow, clumsy, heavy, breaks easily, if it falls over it takes ages to stand up again, it lacks awesome weapons (Boss asked if it would have a RocketPunch and Prof. Moremori's reply was along the lines of "Are you out of your mind? It is too fragile. The fist would shatter upon impact."), and it is largely useless to anything other than cannon fodder. This is the consequence of the Boss Borot being built without the exceedingly strong Chogokin Z Alloy and the Photon Power energy systems.

** Sayaka / Boss: Early on Boss was ''very'' infatuated with Sayaka who was totally smitten with Kouji. However, Sayaka's reaction during one of the finalr arcs of the manga suggests ''maybe'' Boss had one chance... but he did not take it. So he cared no longer or he valued his friendship with Kouji too for trying anything with Sayaka.

* SayMyName: "NO! KOUJIIIIIII!!!" "Sayaka... SAYAKA!!!!!!!!!" Kouji and Sayaka often yelled each other's name [[BattleCouple when one of them was in danger]]... or when they were pissed off at each other... [[BelligerentSexualTension which happened often]] since they were the prototype for the TakahashiCouple.