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* HilariousInHindsight: In the pilot episode, Cobra is voiced by Creator/MichaelBell, who would later go on to voice minor characters in [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank a popular video game franchise that not only has a similar space opera setting to Cobra, but also features a badass protagonist, assisted by an android, going from planet to planet, kicking the asses of other aliens with powerful alien weapons]].

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* HilariousInHindsight: In the pilot episode, Cobra is voiced by Creator/MichaelBell, who Creator/MichaelBell. It's probably no coincidence that he would later go on be hired to voice minor characters several supporting characters, and even antagonists, in [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank a the popular video game franchise that ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series, which not only has a similar space opera setting to Cobra, but also features a badass protagonist, assisted by an android, no less, going from planet to planet, kicking the asses of other aliens with powerful alien weapons]].weapons.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the pilot episode, Cobra is voiced by Creator/MichaelBell, who would later go on to voice minor characters in [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank a popular video game franchise that not only has a similar space opera setting, also features a badass protagonist, assisted by an android, going from planet to planet, kicking the asses of other aliens]].

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* HilariousInHindsight: In the pilot episode, Cobra is voiced by Creator/MichaelBell, who would later go on to voice minor characters in [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank a popular video game franchise that not only has a similar space opera setting, setting to Cobra, but also features a badass protagonist, assisted by an android, going from planet to planet, kicking the asses of other aliens]].aliens with powerful alien weapons]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the pilot episode, Cobra is voiced by Creator/MichaelBell, who would later go on to voice minor characters in [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank a popular video game franchise that not only has a similar space opera setting, also features a badass protagonist, assisted by an android, going from planet to planet, kicking the asses of other aliens]].
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** ''Cobra the Shooting'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation 1 is a third-person action game that better fits the series, but even then, it doesn't play very well either, due to its awkward camera system and sluggish controls.

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** ''Cobra the Shooting'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation Platform/PlayStation 1 is a third-person action game that better fits the series, but even then, it doesn't play very well either, due to its awkward camera system and sluggish controls.
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* HarsherInHindsight: A downright spooky example. In the "Hell Crusaders" saga, Cobra is shot in the chest with a time bomb bullet set to explode on a September 8. After two decades fighting cancer, Buichi Terasawa himself died on ''September 8'' of 2023 due to heart failure.

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* HarsherInHindsight: A downright spooky example. In the "Hell Crusaders" saga, Cobra is shot in the chest with a time bomb bullet set to explode on a September 8. After two decades fighting cancer, Buichi Terasawa himself died on ''September 8'' '''September 8''' of 2023 due to heart failure.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the "Hell Crusaders" saga, Cobra is shot in the chest with a time bomb bullet set to explode on a September 8. After two decades fighting cancer, Buichi Terasawa himself died on September 8 of 2023 due to heart failure.

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* HarsherInHindsight: A downright spooky example. In the "Hell Crusaders" saga, Cobra is shot in the chest with a time bomb bullet set to explode on a September 8. After two decades fighting cancer, Buichi Terasawa himself died on September 8 ''September 8'' of 2023 due to heart failure.
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* EvilIsSexy: Nearly every female character in the series is attractive and virtually naked, but it doesn't take long to notice how it had more of a focus on Cobra fighting [[DropDeadGorgeous and killing]] the hottest femme fatales in the galaxy than on romance with the [[GirlOfTheWeek episodic "Bond Girls"]]. From the nameless duo of cyborg executioners and Sandra early on to Papillon and Ursula towards the end of the original manga, they were often more memorable than any of the male antagonists other than the iconic Crystal Bowie.
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** ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'' crossed with ''[[Creator/PhilipKDick We Can Remember It for You Wholesale]]''/''Film/TotalRecall1990''.
** Ivevei Upatkoon of the ''EX'' online magazine said it was like ''Franchise/JamesBond'' and ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'', which are in fact two of the major inspirations behind the series.
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** ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'' crossed with ''[[Creator/PhilipKDick We Can Remember It for You Wholesale]]''/''Film/TotalRecall''.

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** ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'' crossed with ''[[Creator/PhilipKDick We Can Remember It for You Wholesale]]''/''Film/TotalRecall''.Wholesale]]''/''Film/TotalRecall1990''.
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** Same in the Swedish dub were the voice of Cobra is done by Tomas Bolme, who is perhaps best known for voicing {{Franchise/Tintin}}. A far cry from a hard-drinking, cigar-chomping, womanizing {{Anti Hero}} like Cobra.
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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The lightgun arcade game based on the Royal sisters storyline is pretty good and fits the series well, but it would be hard to screw it up when it is basically a ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' clone.

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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The lightgun arcade game based on the Royal sisters storyline is pretty good and fits the series well, but it would be hard to screw it up when it well. It is basically a ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' clone.spinoff after all.
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** You don't know? [[note]] A meme format of a comic with Cobra coolly answering a question. It's commonly used with online games with a character stating that after server maintenance ends, [[HereWeGoAgain (another) maintenance begins.]][[/note]]

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** You don't know? [[note]] A [[note]]A meme format taken from the final volume of a comic with the original manga, where Cobra coolly answering a question.cooly answers the question "What happens when night falls?" with "You don't know? [[MathematiciansAnswer The sun rises]]". It's commonly used with online games with a character stating that after server maintenance ends, [[HereWeGoAgain (another) maintenance begins.]][[/note]]

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** ''Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie'': [[RoboticPsychopath Crystal Bowie]] (also known as [[AdaptationalNameChange Necron]] in the Manga UK dub, and [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Crystal Boy]] in the Streamline dub) of the SpacePirate Guild, Cobra's ArchEnemy, is a massive being made of crystal who desires the power of the world of Myrus. Brainwashing one of the three princesses of Myrus, Catherine, into loving him, Crystal Bowie has her murder her own sister Jane and later hunts down the third sister Dominique, killing her comrades before killing her as well. Using Catherine to unlock Myrus, Crystal Bowie reveals he plans to use its powers to blow up the entire Seventh Galaxy, killing all there as a warning to the rest of the galaxy to never defy the Pirate Guild.

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** ''Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie'': [[RoboticPsychopath Crystal Bowie]] (also known as [[AdaptationalNameChange Necron]] in the Manga UK dub, and [[SpellMyNameWithAnS [[InconsistentSpelling Crystal Boy]] in the Streamline dub) of the SpacePirate Guild, Cobra's ArchEnemy, is a massive being made of crystal who desires the power of the world of Myrus. Brainwashing one of the three princesses of Myrus, Catherine, into loving him, Crystal Bowie has her murder her own sister Jane and later hunts down the third sister Dominique, killing her comrades before killing her as well. Using Catherine to unlock Myrus, Crystal Bowie reveals he plans to use its powers to blow up the entire Seventh Galaxy, killing all there as a warning to the rest of the galaxy to never defy the Pirate Guild.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the "Hell Crusaders" saga, Cobra is shot in the chest with a time bomb bullet set to explode on a September 8. After two decades fighting cancer, Buichi Terasawa himself died on September 8 of 2023 due to heart failure.

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* EvilIsSexy: Nearly every female character in the series is attractive and virtually naked, but it doesn't take long to notice how it had more of a focus on Cobra fighting [[DropDeadGorgeous and killing]] the hottest femme fatales in the galaxy than on romance with the [[GirlOfTheWeek episodic "Bond Girls"]]. They were often more memorable than any of the male antagonists other than the iconic Crystal Bowie.

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* EvilIsSexy: Nearly every female character in the series is attractive and virtually naked, but it doesn't take long to notice how it had more of a focus on Cobra fighting [[DropDeadGorgeous and killing]] the hottest femme fatales in the galaxy than on romance with the [[GirlOfTheWeek episodic "Bond Girls"]]. They From the nameless duo of cyborg executioners and Sandra early on to Papillon and Ursula towards the end of the original manga, they were often more memorable than any of the male antagonists other than the iconic Crystal Bowie.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Lady is almost killed by a bomb during Lord Salamander's arc and spends a few volumes out of commission. You'd expect her to have some kind of dramatic comeback, but she just returns in such an uncerimonious way in the Extradimensional Race arc that it's almost funny. And she isn't even really involved in that scenario either, as Cobra gets lost into alternate dimensions for most of it.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: In the original manga, Jane appears to be a competent ActionGirl bounty hunter but she [[FauxActionGirl barely does anything]] before she is brainwashed and killed off, while in the anime she lasts a while longer but is killed anyway in a failed revenge attempt against Crystal Bowie. She is replaced with SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Dominique, who appears in a few more chapters only to also get killed -- offscreen at that. At least the anime spares her life.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: In the original manga, Jane appears to be a competent ActionGirl bounty hunter but she [[FauxActionGirl barely does anything]] before she is brainwashed and killed off, while in the anime she lasts a while longer but is killed anyway in a failed revenge attempt against Crystal Bowie. She is replaced with SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Dominique, who appears in a few more chapters only to also get killed -- offscreen at that. At least the anime spares her life.Dominique's life, and the manga ended up following on it by introducing a second SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute named Secret Sanders who may or may not be an amnesiac Dominique.
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* EscapistCharacter: Cobra fits the mold to a T.
* EvilIsSexy: Nearly every female character in the series is attractive and virtually naked, but it doesn't take long to notice how it had more of a focus on Cobra fighting [[DropDeadGorgeous and killing]] the hottest femme fatales in the galaxy than on romance with the [[GirlOfTheWeek episodic "Bond Girls"]].

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* EscapistCharacter: Being a mashup of heroes like James Bond and Han Solo who is a tough-as-nails killer, galactical adventurer and ladies' man, Cobra fits the mold to a T.
* EvilIsSexy: Nearly every female character in the series is attractive and virtually naked, but it doesn't take long to notice how it had more of a focus on Cobra fighting [[DropDeadGorgeous and killing]] the hottest femme fatales in the galaxy than on romance with the [[GirlOfTheWeek episodic "Bond Girls"]]. They were often more memorable than any of the male antagonists other than the iconic Crystal Bowie.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: In the original manga, Jane appears to be a competent ActionGirl bounty hunter but she [[FauxActionGirl barely does anything]] before she is brainwashed and killed off, while in the anime she lasts a while longer but is killed anyway in a failed revenge attempt against Crystal Bowie. She is replaced with SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Dominique, who appears in a few more chapters only to also get killed -- offscreen at that. At least the anime spares her life.

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* EvilIsSexy: Nearly every female character in the series is attractive and virtually naked, but it doesn't take long to notice how it had more of a focus on Cobra fighting [[DropDeadGorgeous and killing]] the hottest femme fatales in the galaxy than on romance with the [[GirlOfTheWeek episodic "Bond Girls"]].



* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler:Rock Knight]] in the Sega CD game gets this a lot. Many fans have declared FanonDiscontinuity on his death. This includes the boys at ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'', who shouted cries of "NOT CANON" instantly after the death scene in question.
* MemeticBadass: Rock Knight in the Sega CD game.

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* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler:Rock Knight]] Rock Knight in the Sega CD game gets this a lot. Many fans have declared FanonDiscontinuity on his death. This includes the boys at ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'', who shouted cries of "NOT CANON" instantly after the death scene in question.
* MemeticBadass: Rock Knight in the Sega CD game.game is a minor character who does nothing of note until he's killed by Hammerbolt Joe near the end of the game, but he was hyped up in a Retsupurae video and the meme stuck. In the original manga, he's just a minor villain who also gets very easily killed by Cobra.



** Ivevei Upatkoon of the ''EX'' online magazine said it was like ''Franchise/JamesBond'' and ''Film/{{Barbarella}}''.

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** Ivevei Upatkoon of the ''EX'' online magazine said it was like ''Franchise/JamesBond'' and ''Film/{{Barbarella}}''.''Film/{{Barbarella}}'', which are in fact two of the major inspirations behind the series.

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