History YMMV / SpaceAdventureCobra

** ''Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie'': [[RoboticPsychopath Crystal Bowie]] 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.

** ''Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie'': [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Crystal Bowie/Crystal Boy]] 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.

** ''Cobra The Shooting'' is a third-person action game that better fits the series, but it doesn't play very well either.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Pretty much the entire SpaceOpera-ish soundtrack of the 1982 anime, scored by Kentarõ Haneda. The other animated adaptations certainly have good bits as well.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: If [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zt9DvZ-zHA the music for the series]] has a familiar feeling, it's because it's composed by the legendary Japanese jazz musician Yuji Ono, who composed the music for another legendary anime: ''Anime/LupinIII''.

* AwesomeMusic: Pretty much the entire SpaceOpera-ish soundtrack of the 1982 anime, scored by Kentarõ Haneda. The other animated adaptations certainly have good bits as well.

** [[BigBad Lord Salamander]], as leader of the SpacePirate guild, is responsible for a great deal of the atrocities they regularly commit across the galaxy, while also hosting violent underground {{blood sport}}s. Desiring to rule over the galaxy, Salamander turns a peaceful religion into a fanatic death {{cult}}, while having 12,000 planets launch statues of their goddess into orbit, unaware that they are rigged weapons that will bombard the worlds until they submit to Salamander's rule. Murdering his followers to avoid sharing power, Salamander is barely stopped by Cobra and spitefully attempts to destroy Earth to deny Cobra satisfaction at his victory. His true identity makes things worse, as Salamander is a psychic project for [[spoiler:the crippled body of Adolf Hitler, hungering for conquest after 3000 years]].

* AwesomeMusic: Pretty much the entire SpaceOpera-ish soundtrack of the 1982 anime, scored by Kentarõ Haneda. The other animated adaptations certainly have good bits as well.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** The show doesn't care much about scientific accuracy, as it is more Space Fantasy than hard SF. Going by the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness, it's soft enough to pour it in a cup and drink it.
** After that he's in a fight with the Guild pirate Sandra, who's using a powerful lightning gun against him. How does Cobra defend himself? He rips out a bunch of iron bars and hurls them directly into the lightning bolts, because IRON ABSORBS ELECTRICITY! Sorry Cobra, it doesn't...

* 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.

** A game based on the Royal sisters storyline was released for the Sega CD, and is generally regarded by those who've played it to be pretty bad, with Cobra as a DesignatedHero through most of it and every other decision tree having ButThouMust pouring out of it. It was the subject of a seven hour MST by WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}.
** Inverted if you're talking about the more recent lightgun game, based on the same storyline, although Your Mileage May Vary since its gameplay is damn-near identical to ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis''.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Lord Salamander]], as leader of the pirate guild/space mafia, is responsible for a great deal of the atrocities they regularly commit across the galaxy, while also hosting violent underground {{blood sport}}s. Desiring to rule over the galaxy, Salamander turns a peaceful religion into a fanatic death {{cult}}, while having 12,000 planets launch statues of their goddess into orbit, unaware that they are rigged weapons that will bombard the worlds until they submit to Salamander's rule. Murdering his followers to avoid sharing power, Salamander is barely stopped by Cobra and spitefully attempts to destroy Earth to deny Cobra satisfaction at his victory. His true identity makes things worse, as Salamander is a psychic project for [[spoiler:the crippled body of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, hungering for conquest after 3000 years]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: The show doesn't care much about scientific accuracy, as it is more Space Fantasy than hard SF. Going by the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness, it's soft enough to pour it in a cup and drink it.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: French love ''Space Adventure Cobra'' and for good reasons -- it was one of the only anime who was not victim of GagDub during the '80s.

** A game based on the Royal sisters storyline was released for the Sega CD, and is generally regarded by those who've played it to be pretty bad, with Cobra as a DesignatedHero through most of it and every other decision tree having ButThouMust pouring out of it. It was the subject of a seven hour MST by {{WebVideo/Retsupurae}}.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Lord Salamander]], as leader of the pirate guild, is responsible for a great deal of the atrocities they regularly commit across the galaxy, while also hosting violent underground {{blood sport}}s. Desiring to rule over the galaxy, Salamander turns a peaceful religion into a fanatic death {{cult}}, while having 12,000 planets launch statues of their goddess into orbit, unaware that they are rigged weapons that will bombard the worlds until they submit to Salamander's rule. Murdering his followers to avoid sharing power, Salamander is barely stopped by Cobra and spitefully attempts to destroy Earth to deny Cobra satisfaction at his victory. His true identity makes things worse, as Salamander is a psychic project for [[spoiler:the crippled body of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, hungering for conquest after 3000 years]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: The show doesn't care much about scientific accuracy, as it is more Space Fantasy than hard SF. Goign by the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness, it's soft enough to pour it in a cup and drink it.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The show doesn't care much about scientific accuracy, as it is more Space Fantasy than hard SF.

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

** When Cobra tries to combine the tattoos of the Royal sisters it turns up as a black blotch. So he tries again this time by time illuminating each of the tattoos with one of the 3 primary colours -- red, blue and GREEN!!! Er... green isn't a primary colour, yellow and blue make green.
*** Pretty sure the primary colors in light physics actually are red, blue and green, but...

* CriticalResearchFailure: The show doesn't care much about scientific accuracy, as it is more SpaceFantasy than hard SF.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Rock Knight and Parrot Grass, courtesy of WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: French love ''Space Adventure Cobra'' and for good reasons, it was one of the only anime who was not victim of GagDub during the 80's.
* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler: Rock Knight]] in the Sega CD game gets this a lot. Many fans have declared FanonDiscontinuity on [[spoiler: his]] death. This includes the boys at {{WebVideo/Retsupurae}}, who shouted cries of "NOT CANON" instantly after the death scene in question.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: French love ''Space Adventure Cobra''.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Franchise/StarWars'' meets ''Franchise/LupinIII''.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: If [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zt9DvZ-zHA the music for the series]] has a familiar feeling, it's because it's composed by the legendary Japanese jazz musician Yuji Ono, who composed the music for another legendary anime: ''[[Music/LupinIII Lupin the 3rd]]''.

* AlternateContinuity: The 1982 movie that came before the Anime Series, there are several major changes to the plot involving the Royal Sisters who have been changed from the triplets of a notorious pirate who tattooed the location of a deadly super weapon on their backs to them being Alien Triplets from an artificial planet [[spoiler:who are destined (or at least one of them) to become queen and change the route of the planet.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Crystal Boy; Cobra himself too.

* AlternateContinuity: The 1982 movie that came before the Anime Series, there are several major changes to the plot involving the Royal Sisters who have been changed from the triplets of a notorious pirate who tattooed the location of a deadly super weapon on their backs to them being Alien Triplets from an artificial planet [[spoiler: Who are destined (Or at least one of them) to become queen of the planet and change the route of the planet.]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: If [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zt9DvZ-zHA the music for the series]] has a familiar feeling, it's because it's composed by the legendary Japanese jazz musician Yuji Ono, who composed the music for another legendary anime: ''[[Music/LupinIII Lupin The 3rd]]''.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Rock Knight and Parrot Grass, courtesy of {{WebVideo/Retsupurae}}.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff French Love]] ''[[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Space Adventure Cobra]]''

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames

** Inverted if you're talking about the more recent lightgun game, based on the same storyline, although Your Mileage May Vary since its gameplay is damn-near identical to ''TimeCrisis''.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite the violence, skimpy-dressed women, and occasional nudity, the original manga was published in ShonenJump.
* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/StarWars'' meets ''Franchise/LupinIII''.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: At least one in every plot arc. Remake OVA increases amount to at least one per episode.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See above.