Line #207 Anime/BubblegumCrisis


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Left to right: [[PluckyGirl Linna Yamazaki]], [[TheCaptain Sylia Stingray]], [[TheLancer Priss Asagiri]], [[PlayfulHacker Nene Romanova]].]]
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4	->''"Or: 'What if Music/JoanJett and UsefulNotes/CocoChanel became New Wave terrorists?'"''
5	-->-- '''Shadowjack''', [=RPG.net=] forums, [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=485481 "Speaking of women sentai groups... Bubblegum Crisis"]]
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7	->''"Knight Sabers, sanjo!"''
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9	One of the groundbreaking anime series to come out of Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ''Bubblegum Crisis'' is a FilmNoir[=/=]{{Cyberpunk}} epic with superhero subtexts (especially ''ComicBook/IronMan''), heavily influenced by the films ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/TheTerminator'', and ''Film/StreetsOfFire''.
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11	In the early 2030s, the world economy (and some of its politics) is controlled by the {{megacorp}}oration GENOM, whose primary product is the ''boomer'' -- humanoid robots that can be manufactured for any purpose from cheap labor to prostitution to heavy combat. Opposing GENOM and its plots are the Knight Sabers -- four women in astoundingly advanced powered combat suits, led by Sylia Stingray, the daughter of the scientist who invented boomer technology and who was murdered by GENOM's agents when they stole it.
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13	The meaning of the title is obscure. Most commentators believe that it refers to the point in blowing a bubblegum bubble where it has equal chances of exploding all over your face or collapsing limply. The mid-21st-Century society depicted in the show appears to be approaching a similar crisis point. In what is certainly a coincidence, the [=OVA=] production roughly corresponds to the peak (and burst) of Japan's Bubble Economy (1988-1991).
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15	Originally plotted for 13 hour-long episodes, ''Bubblegum Crisis'' was forced by a mixture of budget issues and internal politics between the two studios producing the show to cease production with the 8th episode (which [[CutShort wasn't an ending at all]]). A 3-hour sequel series, ''Bubblegum Crash!'', is believed to be a compressed version of the plot of the remaining five episodes, but is generally considered to be inferior to the original.
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17	In 1990, a {{prequel}} series, ''AD Police Files'' was released, featuring CowboyCop Leon in his early days on the force, five years before the series.
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19	Creator/RTalsorianGames published ''Bubblegum Crisis Mega Tokyo 2033 The Roleplaying Game'' using their new ''Fuzion'' system in 1996. In addition to the game, the books contained a guide to the episodes and with unused sketches and notes on unused ideas.
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21	It was "reimagined" in 1998 as the TV series ''Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040'', but the result bears almost no resemblance to the earlier show. It kept the BroadStrokes of the premise and the hardsuit designs, but broadly changed the character designs and personalities, and went off in a different direction from the original series. This version began with Linna as an OfficeLady who moved to Tokyo to join her heroes, the [[ShroudedInMyth mysterious]] Knight Sabers.
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23	In 1999, a second AD Police series: ''AD Police: To Serve and Protect'', was released. A third {{OVA}} focusing on the AD Police, [[#Parasite_Dolls]]''Parasite Dolls'', was released in 2003. For a time there was talk of a sequel series, ''Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2041'' that ADV Films would have been more involved with in terms of production and story, but it never materialized. This project probably died when ADV went bankrupt and reorganized itself into Section 23 Films.
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25	In 2008, the company {{Creator/AIC}} announced that they'd signed an agreement to let a Singaporean studio begin production of a live-action version of ''Bubblegum Crisis'' -- which has ballooned into a coproduction between six countries (including Australia and China), planned for release in 2012. Fan reaction seemed to be skeptical (especially with the reported $30 million budget), yet hopeful -- especially with the possibility of another anime revival as a tie-in. However, the complete lack of news in over a decade since its announcement suggests the project entered DevelopmentHell, and has probably since been silently cancelled.
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27	The most recent installment in the franchise is a one-shot 2012 LightNovel, ''Bubblegum Crisis: Hard Metal Guardians'',[[note]]or "Carbide/Super Steel Guardian Angels,"[[/note]] which reimagines the story HighSchoolAU style.
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29	Additionally, Creator/AnimEigo ran a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madoverlord/bubblegum-crisis-ultimate-edition-blu-ray-set very successful]] Website/{{Kickstarter}} to fund a UsefulNotes/BluRay release of the original series. Both the original series and ''Tokyo 2040'' are available on Hulu.
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33	[[folder:Tropes Applying to Both Series]]
34	* ActionGirl: All the Knight Sabers, but mostly Priss and Linna.
35	** Jeena Malso in the ''A.D. Police Files'' prequel.
36	* AIIsACrapshoot: The rogue boomers in ''2040''; it's unclear whether most of the rampaging boomers in the original series were accidents or "field testing" by GENOM.
37	* AlternateContinuity: The OVA series, ''AD Police'' [=OVAs=] and ''Crash'' form one continuity, while ''2040'', ''AD Police'' TV and ''Parasite Dolls'' are a separate universe.
38	* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: A nuclear power plant going into melt down can't cause a nuclear explosion, unlike what's claimed in AD Police TV series episode #11.
39	* BodyguardBabes: Mason has a trio of Boomer {{Robot Girl}}s in the episode "Born To Kill", capable of performing GENOM's wet work off the clock, and going toe to toe with the Knight Sabers.
40	* BodyHorror: An important aspect of the OVA Boomers' design that was unfortunately absent from ''2040'''s Boomers.
41	* BottleEpisode: One episode of the ''AD Police'' TV series is set entirely inside a bar during a hostage standoff.
42	* TheBrigadier: Leon, sort of.
43	* ButNotTooForeign: Most of the characters have names (and appearances in some cases) that suggest they're of mixed ancestry, but they still all speak Japanese and are pretty obviously Japanese culturally. Part of this has to do with [[CyberPunk the show's genre]] and ''Japan's'' take on impending multiculturalism (well, for TheEighties at any rate).
44	* CampGay: Daley, apparently one of the earliest anime examples. On the other hand, ''2040''!Daley is more of a StraightGay.
45	* TheCaptain: Sylia.
46	* ColorCodedCharacters: Each Saber has a different colour that identifies than and, for 2 of them, carries over to their [[CoolBike Moto]][[TransformingMecha slave]] (Priss has a red Motoslave, and Nene has a pink one that was only seen once).
47	** Sylia, White/Bluish-white and Blue
48	** Priss, Blue and Red
49	** Linna, Green and Orange
50	** Nene, Purple and Pink, later Red and Pink after the MidSeasonUpgrade and in ''2040''.
51	* CombatStilettos: Both the Sabers' powered armor ''and'' their Motoslaves in robot / armor mode have these. God knows how the Sabers manage to do much more than ''walk'' in theirs, as they have the same basic design as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet_boots ballet boot.]] The shape of the hardsuit feet is not necessarily the position of the wearer's feet. The lack of an ankle probably strengthens the legs - one less point to break.
52	* CorporateConspiracy: Genom Corporation already has tremendous influence over the governments of the world — they just want to TakeOverTheWorld in the more traditional manner, using the Overmind Control System to take remote control over every ArtificialIntelligence on the planet.
53	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Everyone in GENOM.
54	* CowboyCop: Leon
55	** Even worse, his former colleague [[InconsistentSpelling Jeena Malso/Gina Marceau]].
56	* {{Cyberpunk}}: One of the defining anime examples, which takes heavy inspiration from one of the [[Film/BladeRunner big trope makers]].
57	** Interestingly, though, there are at least shades of PostCyberpunk throughout all of the various incarnations of the franchise. The Knight Sabers aren't dedicated to "the destruction of GENOM" (with the possible exception of Priss) but rather to the much broader ideal of peace and social justice. Also, even though they're often [[RedShirt rather ineffective]], the AD Police (as agents of the State) are not villainous at all, and the two major male characters who are AD Policemen are explicitly heroic (and Nene is a data analyst and part-time traffic cop for the ADPD, and she openly ''loves'' her job). And, generally speaking, the tone of the original OVA at least is pretty positive - the Sabers ''can'' make a positive impact on the world, GENOM ''can'' be stopped, etc.
58	** And it is [[AvertedTrope strangely dry]] [[CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain compared to]] other works influenced by ''Film/BladeRunner.''
59	* EccentricMillionaire: Sylia.
60	* EvilMinions: Various boomers.
61	* FiveManBandConcert: The Knight Sabers form a band in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agiIQciIuzI "Touchdown to Tomorrow"]]. They're also credited with a number of other songs associated with the franchise. Priss, TheLancer and protagonist, is the lead singer and the only one with an InUniverse musical career. Sylia, TheLeader and the BigGood, is the backing vocalist and plays the electric bass. Nene, TheSmartGirl, plays a multineck guitar. And Linna, TheBigGirl (in terms of abilities, not appearance), is on the drums.
62	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Priss is Choleric; Lina is Sanguine; Sylia is Phlegmatic; Nene is Melancholic, though rather more cheerful than most.
63	* FreeHandedPerformer: Priss is the lead singer for her band, [[ShoutOut The Replicants]], but does not play any instrument.
64	* FutureSpandex: The Knight Sabers, underneath their power suits, wear form-fitting outfits, aka innerwear. It's also justified, as it's explained that the outfits serve as a neural interface between the user and the suit.
65	** Before utilizing the suits, the girls wear body stocking suits called "measuring suits", which when used in training records their movements so that Sylvia can modify the hardsuits to their fighting styles.
66	* GratuitousEnglish: On signs all over. For instance, the "Lanjary" shop. And the songs.
67	* HandCannon: Leon's oversized [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver that is almost effective against Boomers]].
68	** And to really drive it home, this revolver can fire RPG rounds.
69	* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Boomers explode out of their human skin to show their robot form. One boomer is wearing a suit when he transitions and is still wearing the suit once he's a robot.
70	%% zce * InconsistentSpelling: Boomers vs. Voomers vs. Buma, anyone?
71	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: In the first part of Parasite Dolls, we have people [[spoiler:getting sexually stimulated by the sensorial input of boomers going berserk]] and, in a more moderate and benign note, the ADP policewomen using a helicopter's machinegun to hit the transmitter of aforementioned people without hitting them.
72	* LegFocus: WordOfGod (in this case, Creator/KenichiSonoda) says that the stripes on the legs of the hardsuits is specifically meant to invoke this.
73	* MeaningfulName: Boomers are ostensibly named after the economic boom they brought about by rebuilding Tokyo after the earthquake of 2025, but their name could also reflect the way combat models [[GameFace burst out of their skin]] before attacking.
74	* AMechByAnyOtherName: Hardsuits, motoroids, motoslaves, powered suits, battlemovers.
75	%%* MechaShow
76	* TheMenInBlack: Most of GENOM's Boomer MechaMooks have human disguises that fit this trope.
77	* MetaMecha: The Motoroids/Motoslaves, which [[TransformingMecha transform]] from {{Cool Bike}}s into exoskeletons for the hardsuits, and can also act on their own as robots.
78	* MidseasonUpgrade: To the hardsuits in both the original series and ''2040''. Especially [[HarsherInHindsight "funny"]] in the original - they spend all of Nene's DayInTheLimelight getting their suit upgrades and clearly preparing for a major confrontation narratively... and then the show ends!
79	* MotorcycleOnTheCoastRoad: How Priss and Sylvie hang out.
80	* MrFixit: [[strike:"Pops"]] Doc Raven; Nigel in ''2040''.
81	* MsFanservice: The Knight Sabers all take turns being in this in both versions.
82	* MultinationalTeam: If you count base ethnicity rather than actual citizenship. Specifically, Priss seems to be part-American, Sylia is at least part British or otherwise Western European (unless you consider the ''Grand Mal'' comic canon, in which her name is really Stengovich), Linna seems to be straight-up Japanese and Nene has some blatant Russian/Eastern European background, if the name didn't clue you in. See ButNotTooForeign above. In 2040 Priss, Linna and even Leon all appear to be of some mixed ancestry that is difficult to pin down.
83	* NeverTrustATitle: The title makes the series sound like a wacky slapstick comedy, but it is actually a gritty ''Film/BladeRunner''-esque cyberpunk series.
84	* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Archetypal example.
85	** Exception: Sylia's midriff-baring high-collared sleeveless blouse worn under a business suit has never been fashionable in the past, but as the years pass it's starting to look increasingly common for women to dress like this in the future.
86	* NoProductSafetyStandards: You'd think Boomers would be better to test in a lab than on the public.
87	* OneWingedAngel: The ''2040'' boomers do this when they go rogue, becoming distorted mockeries of their "normal" states (see the waitress boomer). The boomers in the original [=OVAs=] HulkingOut of their skin also qualifies.
88	* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture, along with TechnologyMarchesOn: Sylia's car has a full-colour fax machine, but cellphones seem quite rare (she does have one, though). Computer equipment in general seems bulky and antiquated by early 21st century standards. [[VideoPhone Video pay phones]] seem to be the usual method of communication (sometimes the video is a 3D hologram, though).
89	** Three words: Microsoft Excel 2040 (which looks less like Excel 2007 and more like Excel 2000.)
90	* PlayfulHacker: Nene.
91	* PoliceAreUseless: With three exceptions.
92	%%* PoweredArmor
93	* PromotionToParent: Sylia, with Mackie.
94	* RaceLift: The ''Hard Metal Guardians'' novel eliminates the MultinationalTeam aspect of previous BGC versions by giving all of the main characters Japanese surnames and black hair.
95	* RedshirtArmy: The AD Police, yes, but the ones in helicopters are specifically screwed.
96	* ResearchInc: GENOM does a lot of R&D and hardly any safety tests.
97	* RobotWar: Largo tries and fails to start one in episodes 5-6 of the OVA, One finally breaks out in the second half of ''2040''.
98	* {{Sentai}}: A team in brightly colored suits. Yeah.
99	* ShoutOut: To ''Film/StreetsOfFire'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/TopGun'', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Creator/MarvelComics, and others. Deserving special attention is the Miura/Miula factory in ''2040,'' which references AIC producer Toru Miura.
100	** AIC [[CreatorInJoke themselves]] get visual nods at places, most prominently on Priss's motorcycle helmets during the OVA. Creator/AnimalYa, who provided backgrounds to the original OVA, also inserted their own name into one of Episode 1's establishing shots.
101	** The Boomers' metallic skulls with glowing red eyes are reminiscent of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'''s endoskeleton, as well as the Beast from the film ''{{Film/Krull}}''. Its ability to shoot lasers from its mouth was inspired by the God Warrior from ''Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. In ''2040'', the nanotech-based second generation hardsuits resemble liquid metal in their initial state, like the T-1000 from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
102	** The weapons the AD Police carry are clearly the pulse rifles from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. The way Sylvie kills the last Doberman with WeaponizedExhaust is also a reference to the first ''Film/{{Alien}}'' movie.
103	** The police cars the AD Police use have a high-speed mode that transforms the car in a manner similar to K.I.T.T.'s "Super Pursuit Mode" in ''Series/KnightRider''.
104	** All of the episode titles for ''2040'' are [[MusicalThemeNaming the names of rock songs and/or albums]].
105	** The mere existence of ''Priss'' (and her backing band, the ''Replicants'') needs to be mentioned here. Especially since she first appears to us as a [[Film/BladeRunner wild-haired blonde]]. (The joke is that it's a wig.) Leon is also named after one of the replicants from ''Film/BladeRunner''.
106	** AD Police headquarters is a cylindrical building like the police headquarters in ''Film/BladeRunner'' as well.
107	** The CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase format used in "Priss and the Replicants" and "Vision and the Revengers" is a shout-out to ''Film/StreetsOfFire'''s Ellen Aim and the Attackers.
108	** The female head of GENOM security is named Madigan, a possible ShoutOut to actress Amy Madigan who had a supporting role in ''Film/StreetsOfFire''.
109	** BGC features a red-haired Romanova. [[ComicBook/IronMan A certain hardsuit-wearing hero]] features [[ComicBook/BlackWidow a red-haired Romanova]] as a secondary character. Hilariously, though, the two could not be more dissimilar otherwise (Nene is a PlayfulHacker who isn't that great at the physical violence while Black Widow is, well, a bigger ActionGirl than Priss).
110	** A neon sign in the background of the first episode reads "MZ 23". ''Anime/{{Megazone 23}}'' was AIC's previous project before starting BGC.
111	** The AD Police's Roadblock "truck" in ''Revenge Road'' is named Lulu Belle. [[spoiler:That's Bogart's tank in ''Film/Sahara1943''.]]
112	*** J.B. Gibson may have been named after Creator/MelGibson, since he was the star of ''Film/MadMax1''. Similarities between the title of this episode and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'' are definitely coincidental.
113	*** The "Highway Star" superbike is named after the Music/DeepPurple song. Its lyrics are also applicable to Gibson's storyline -- "Nobody gonna take my car", "Nobody gonna take my girl", "Nobody gonna take my head".
114	** On Linna's desk in ''2040'' is a picture of her wearing the uniform from ''Anime/BattleAthletes''.
115	** A street display screen in Episode 1 of the original series briefly shows an image of [[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}} Panthro]] before moving offscreen. (AIC had worked on animation for ''Thundercats''.)
116	** Music/MCHammer appears on another screen in Bubblegum Crash.
117	** The appearance of Sylia's building "[=Ladys633=]", especially its cylindrical tower, is based on the Shibuya 109 building in Tokyo.
118	** The hardsuits were partly inspired by the music video for "Go" by Music/{{Asia}}.
119	* {{Superhero}}: The ladies are a quartet of [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron (Wo)men]]. However, Sylia has more in common with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] than Tony Stark.
120	* ThoseTwoGuys: AD Police Officers Leon [=McNichol=] and Daley Wong. Nigel Kirkland and Mackie Stingray have a bit of this in 2040.
121	* TrickBomb: [[spoiler:In episode #6 of the AD Police TV series, it looked as if the bomb would go off and kill the hostages, Jose's wife and baby daughter, but the bomb was just a party popper-like fake (the bomb released confetti and a doll of the perp instead of a deadly explosion)... Until the secondary, real bombs went off, destroyed the building and killed Jose.]]
122	* UniverseCompendium: R. Talsorian's RPG sourcebooks serve this purpose, even if you don't use them to play the game.
123	* VillainDecay: At the end of ''Parasite Dolls'', [[spoiler:GENOM is completely destroyed by a terrorist bombing campaign]].
124	* WolverinePublicity: Priss hogs a lot of screen time, more so in the OVA than in 2040.
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128	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The cityscape sequence that introduces each episode of ''Bubblegum Crash!''.
129	* EightiesHair: So very much, from the boomer trio in the second episode to Priss' scene wig that looks like it's borrowed from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''.
130	* ActuallyADoombot: GENOM's CEO in the OVA is never found on-screen; it's always an android impersonator.
131	* AgeIsRelative: Believe it or not, but Linna is only a year older than Nene in the {{OVA}}s.
132	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The third OVA episode "Blow Up" starts with Mason sending a military-grade Boomer at Sylia's Silky Doll store -- and none of the Sabers are able to suit up in time to fight it.
133	* AnimationBump: The quality of the OVA's animation improved noticeably between "Moonlight Rambler" and "Red Eyes".
134	* ArmCannon, BreathWeapon, CombatTentacles, and ChestBlaster: Boomer weapon options. Knight Sabers may have Arm Cannons and/or the PowerFist. Sylia carries a BladeBelowTheShoulder. Linna's hardsuit has [[AbsurdlySharpBlade microfilament hair ribbons that cut through steel!]]
135	* ArmedLegs: Priss' PoweredArmor has ''contact-triggered explosives'' on top of both its feet. And rockets on both ankles. Attack sequence; 1). Jump. 2). Kick. 3). Activate rockets for ''rocket assisted kick''. 4). Explosives go off once {{Mecha Mook\|s}} receives kick to head. 5). Get dustpan to sweep up remains of mook.
136	* AttackItsWeakPoint: In the first OVA episode and the last episode of ''Crash'', the only way to stop fusion boomers is by destroying their original bodies inside the huge accumulation of matter they've assimilated.
137	* AutobotsRockOut: Quite a lot of the series carnage is set to rock tunes. Then there are the official videos for those songs. It could even be argued that the entire OVA series is a series of Music Videos with a bit of plot hung around them.
138	* AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: Priscilla Asagiri lives in a semi-truck trailer that has a clawfoot bathtub which is weirdly placed right next to a TV and right underneath a speaker which looks to be an [[ElectrifiedBathtub Electrical Hazard]].
139	* BathOfPoverty: Priss' has her bathtub clumped into the one room semi-truck trailer that she lives in alongside several unrelated furniture.
140	* BattleButler: Kou, to Reika, in OVA episode 7.
141	* BigBad: Several -- GENOM, Largo, Quincy; Galatea in ''2040''.
142	* BreakTheCutie: The second ''AD Police'' OVA is told from the viewpoint of an idealistic young policewoman who is trying to prove that the serial killer in the episode is human (both to the police and herself) while struggling with the decision to replace her right eye with an artificial one. [[spoiler:The episode ends with her going under the knife, narrating that this was the story of how she lost part of her humanity.]]
143	* TheCameo: At the beginning of the first episode of the OVA, when Priss is performing the opening song, none other than Umibozu from ''Manga/CityHunter'' can be seen in the audience. Interestingly, this is the first appearance of Umibozu, or any ''City Hunter'' character for that matter, in anime; The anime for ''City Hunter'' itself would not air for nearly six weeks after the release of the first ''Bubblegum Crisis'' OVA.
144	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In ''Bubblegum Crash!''...
145	** Priss starts using ''ore'' instead of ''watashi'' as a first person pronoun, which she hadn't done before[[note]]or at least not on a regular basis, although she did use it from time to time, such as in the last scene of ''Revenge Road''[[/note]] [[TheOtherDarrin her voice actress was replaced]]. Her animosity to the idea of Adama being a boomer who thinks exactly like a human is inexplicable considering her previous relationship with Sylvie.
146	** Nene TookALevelInBadass, right after OVA 8 gave her ADayInTheSpotlight episode that was all about how she didn't ''need'' to be a conventional badass.
147	* ChekhovsGun: In ep. 2 of the OVA, [[spoiler:Linna takes Irene's engagement ring after Boomers kill the young woman, as a memento to remember her friend.]] This comes into play later, in ep. 7, [[spoiler:when Linna gives this ring to Irene's sister, Reika, aka Vision, to convince her not to take up the leadership of the Hou Bang group and pursue further vengeance against GENOM]].
148	* CompressedHair: In the OVA, Priss and Nene are sometimes seen pinning their hair up before putting on their helmets, but not always.
149	* ContinuityNod: In Episode 8, Mackie infiltrates the base in a Battlesuit similar to the one from the OAV ''MADOX 01: Metal Skin Panic''. Per WordOfGod, the events of that OAV actually took place in the past.
150	* ContrivedCoincidence: Several. After Sylia mentions Sexaroids, Nene (who doesn't know Sylvie is one) wonders if they're as pretty as Sylvie. Priss spotting Anri and Largo is covered in SlowMotionPassBy. This is also how clues get picked up in the first two ''AD Police'' [=OVAs=].
151	* CoolBike: The Motoslaves.
152	** The Highway Star, a bike custom-built by Mackie and used by Priss to chase the Gryphon during the 4th OVA.
153	* CoolCar:
154	** In the [=OVAs=], Sylia drives a replica (according to the [[AllThereInTheManual artbooks]]) of a red 1954 Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing. Her ''2040'' counterpart has a Porsche 911, but it only appears in two episodes.
155	** The Gryphon that episode 4 of the OVA is centered on is also a very cool, highly customized vehicle. It just happens to be owned by someone completely insane.
156	* CoolCodeOfSource: It's typically music; track lists from the BGC OST, lyrics from the same, or sometimes from Madonna music. Very occasionally there will be some BASIC code.
157	* CulturalTranslation: When Sho's mom wanted him to make hamburger steak, he told her he already got a hamburger from Priss and would rather have curry (most likely with rice). In the dub, he wants a pizza.
158	* CutShort: With the originale OVA. The eighth episode is a MidseasonUpgrade episode which [[ADayInTheLimelight focuses on Nene]] and wasn't intended to be the end at all, but various factors made it the last produced episode of the first OVA series.
159	* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Discussed in the ''AD Police'' OVA, with two episodes revolving around cyborgs going insane, and other characters worrying about the consequences of having smaller artifical organs installed. It's also revealed in Episode 2 that anyone who replaces more than 70% of their body with implants is legally considered a "Boomeroid", meaning that the AD Police can terminate them with extreme prejudice if they step out of line.
160	** R. Talsorian's ''Bubblegum Crisis'' RPG books expand on the humanity-loss phenomenon: "Boomer Syndrome" has various causes, ranging from purely mental to actual mechanical malfunctions in the implants, and over time can cause such delightful side effects as phantom pain, mood swings, emotional disassociation and terrifying hallucinations. One of the worst, though, is [[BodyHorror "cybermorphosis"]], which occurs with implants that incorporate recycled Boomer tech: occasionally, the self-repair functions of the Boomer parts will reactivate, causing severe pain and disfigurement as the implant attempts to "fix" itself. This eventually happens to The Ripper in the ''AD Police'' OVA.
161	* DaChief: Chief Todou
162	* DarkerAndEdgier: The ''AD Police'' OVA series, set five years before the original ''BGC'' [=OVAs=], shows a grittier [=MegaTokyo=] with more pervasive crime and urban decay, more graphic sex and violence, and people with more obvious-looking cyberware.
163	* ADayInTheLimelight: What the eighth OVA episode amounts to, focusing on Nene and developing her character substantially. (This ends up being a weird capstone for the original OVA series, since [[ScrewedByTheNetwork the run wasn't supposed to end there]].) Linna also gets some focus in the second episode, but to a much lesser extent.
164	* DeusAngstMachina: The D.D. Battlemover. Everything about it is ridiculously contrived in order to [[spoiler:force Priss to kill Sylvie]]. (For specifics, see WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds on the character page.)
165	* DeusExMachina: OAV 6 "Red Eyes" has two notable examples -- the new Typhoon II Motorslave shows up with Priss's new hardsuit just in the nick of time to save Priss from Largo and his Hyperboomers, and the prototype MSX-01 Motorslave equipped with a surface-to-orbit anti-satellite laser cannon was never previously established.
166	* DieHardOnAnX: {{Lampshaded}} by Jeena in the ''AD Police'' manga when she finds herself trapped in a building being taken over by anti-corporate terrorists (the leader of whom happens to be one of her ex-boyfriends).
167	** In the eighth OVA, Nene is trapped in ADP headquarters when the episode's one-shot villain attacks [[BruceWayneHeldHostage to draw out the Knight Sabers]].
168	* DirtyOldMan: Dr. [=McLaren=].
169	* TheDragon: Brian J. Mason, Madigan, others.
170	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Or rather, a radio tower in [[spoiler:Adama]]'s case.
171	* DuelingHackers: In the eighth and final episode of the original series, Nene, the {{Hackette}} of the Knight Sabers, is caught in the middle of a DieHardOnAnX situation at A.D. Police headquarters caused by a disgruntled scientist and the hero hunter [[KillerRobot boomers]] he created -- one of which physically merges with the ADP's main server and takes control of the building. Once Nene's teammates come to the rescue, Nene has to battle the hacker boomer in order to [[LiveActionEscortMission escort the police chief's daughter to safety]], opening locked doors and overriding building defenses all the while. After the other boomers are defeated, Nene has to prevent the hacker boomer from self-destructing the headquarters building.
172	* EpicFail: Nene gets easily defeated in the hologram trainer at level 5, which is considered to not be difficult. Priss and Linna laugh their heads off that Nene wasn't able to clear that stage.
173	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Sylvie, Sylvie, Sylvie. Justified in-story by her background as a purpose-built sex slave.
174	* EvilTwin: A set of Boomers dolled up as fake Knight Sabers in one episode.
175	* FailedFutureForecast: In one episode, there's a danger that military boomer technology might get sold to the communists. Granted, especially given where the show is set this [[RedChina could still sort of work]], but it's very obvious which kind of "communist" they're talking about.
176	* FakeBand: Priss and the Replicants (and Sekiria, the ''2040'' version of her band), Vision and the Revengers. The OVA Knight Sabers sing as a group on some songs and are seen playing instruments in the "Asu e Touchdown" video, but they're not canonically supposed to be an in-universe band.
177	* FiveManBandConcert: The Knight Sabers form a band in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agiIQciIuzI "Touchdown to Tomorrow"]]. They're also credited with a number of other songs associated with the franchise. Priss, TheLancer and protagonist, is the lead singer and the only one with an InUniverse musical career. Sylia, TheLeader and the BigGood, is the backing vocalist and plays the bass. Nene, TheSmartGirl, plays a multineck guitar. And Linna, TheBigGirl (in terms of abilities, not appearance), is on the drums.
178	* FlippingTheBird: Done by Michaelson to provoke the Boomer Crusher battle robot.
179	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening credits for ''Moonlight Rambler'' show Priss and Sylia noticing a light in the night sky representing the ship Sylvie and Anri have escaped on, setting up that the next two episodes will be about them specifically. Priss because of her eventual bond with Sylvia, Sylia because [[spoiler:Largo is heavily implied to be Brian J. Mason.]]
180	* GameFace: While the Boomers from the [=OVAs=] were heavily derivative of Franchise/{{Terminator}}s, an important difference is that Terminators only lose their skin through injury, while Boomers intentionally have to burst out of their skin and expand their bodies when they go into combat.
181	* AGodAmI: Largo considers himself a Boomer God, complete with comparing his access to a KillSat as a BoltOfDivineRetribution.
182	* GoingCritical: A threat of such an incident is part of the plot of the final episode of Bubblegum Crash, "Meltdown". The title of this episode is also a ''SpoilerTitle''.
183	* GratuitousEnglish: Oh good ''lord'', absolutely infamous for ''this'' too. Almost ''none'' of the English in the show escapes without some kind of error. A lot of neophyte anime fans in TheEighties were introduced to the Engrish concept via this show. The very first scene has a sign advertising the band "PRISS AND THE REPRICANTS".
184	** A fair bit of it was so bad as to become [[MemeticMutation memetic]] in the days prior to widespread Internet access, particularly anything that showed up on Nene's computers. SYLIA WANTS YOU is just one example.
185	** [[https://imgur.com/G7M9F5R Password is in the wrong.]]
186	** [[https://imgur.com/JSsdID4 An accurate solntion.]]
187	* GroinAttack: Priss knees an uncooperative ADP crowd control trooper in the groin when he refuses to let her pass so that she could slap a boomer in Episode 2, "Born to Kill" of the original series.
188	* GunshipRescue: Mackie pilots a gunship, unofficially called the "Knight Wing", to rescue the other Sabers from their first battle with their {{Evil Knockoff}}s during OVA episode 6.
189	* HeroicSacrifice: [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome We didn't get to see it]], but [[spoiler:Kimble the boomer]] saved [[spoiler:Michaelson]] from an assassination attempt by [[spoiler:Sorime]]'s minions using a helicopter gunship at the expense of his [[spoiler:artificial]] life.
190	* HoneyTrap: Used on Dr. [=MacLaren=] [[spoiler:by Vision as part of her revenge for her parents and sister.]] Includes RoomDisservice by multiple parties.
191	* HotSpringsEpisode: There was a rejected script proposal for one of these. WordOfGod says that the script eventually [[RecycledScript resurfaced]] as an episode of one of director Hiroki Hayashi's later projects: ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''. [[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.bgcrisis/msg/3892b219f35e6ce4?hl=en This Usenet post attempts to reconstruct the original storyline.]]
192	* IdiotBall: Relating to DeusAngstMachina above, if Sylvie can hypnotize people with her eyes, why does she need to use the D.D. Battlemover to drain victims of their blood?
193	%%* IdolSinger: Vision [[spoiler:(AKA Reika Chang)]] in OAV 7.
194	* IntrepidReporter: Lisa Vanette, a young would-be photographer introduced in the last OVA episode. She talked her father, DaChief of the AD Police, into letting her visit in the hopes of getting her first scoop, and risks her life to get a very news-worthy photo of one of the Knight Sabers. [[spoiler:Lisa's photo of the ArcVillain for the episode being arrested gets published. She returns the incriminating photo and camera memory card to Nene at the end of the episode.]]
195	* ItsPersonal: It's extremely easy to make it this way for Priss, even when it was Linna's friend, and is the theme for most episodes of the OVA. Parodied with Lisa's vendetta against the Sabers for destroying her camera.
196	* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: There in some ways, given [[Film/BladeRunner the show's roots]], but oddly ''inverted'' in a sense: while the world does seem to be largely under the heel of various kinds of zaibatsu, nearly all of the top-level executives in the show are ''westerners'', implying that Western influence took over originally Japanese megacorps and made them their own.
197	* KillerRobot: To quote [[http://www.nabiki.com/mst Zoogz]], "GENOM assumes no responsibility for your domestic boomer going on a psychotic murder spree."
198	* KillSat: The first episode centers around a stolen KillSat controller, and KillSat strikes are important events in later episodes.
199	** Everyone has them, even some third-world countries and there are enough of then in the orbit to pull a [[Film/EscapeFromLA Code 666 on the whole planet like Snake Plissken did several times over.]] [[note]]In The movie, Snake did fire all {{EMP}}-satellites at once and switch off the whole planet. The satellites here could, if fired all at once, annihilate every corner of the planet several times over. Yes, nukes became obsolete.[[/note]]
200	* LighterAndSofter: [=MegaTokyo=] looks surprisingly clean and shiny in the eighth OVA episode, and more so in ''2040'' before the RobotWar.
201	** The eighth OVA also refreshingly bucks the trend of [[spoiler:having important one-shot characters be killed off.]]
202	* LipstickAndLoadMontage: Priss is seen doing this as part of the opening montage of the first episode, preparing to go on stage and sing the opening theme. Contrasted slightly with LockAndLoadMontage for other characters.
203	%%* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Linna, implied.
204	* MachineBlood: Most of the Boomers tended to bleed bright orange fluid when damaged, which is unusual for robotic enemies.
205	%%* MysteriousInformant: Fargo.
206	* NewNeoCity: The city of Tokyo was devastated in 2025 by the Second Great Kanto Earthquake (a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake this real-life earthquake]]), which split the city "geographically and culturally in two" as it was rebuilt into "Megalo City Tokyo", or "[=MegaTokyo=]" for short.
207	* NippleAndDimed: Briefly when Priss was changing into her battle attire in episode #2 and #3 (the same shot is recycled for both).
208	** [[FreezeFrameBonus Very briefly]] in episode #8 during Nene's shower scene.
209	** The boomer running amok in AD Police OVA #1.
210	** Also [[FreezeFrameBonus very briefly]] from Gina, the former girlfriend of Billy the cyborg, in mid-shag.
211	** Again [[FreezeFrameBonus very briefly]] one of the women getting sexually aroused by [[spoiler:the sensorial input of bommers going mad]] in the first part of Parasite Dolls.
212	** In the second part, it's a bare breast of a boomer in the background of the Branch cops talking to an owner of an illegal boomer factory.
213	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[DirtyOldMan Dr. [=McLaren=]]] looks suspiciously like [[MrAltDisney Walt Disney]], and the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat new AD Police chief]] in ''Crash'' is clearly based on George H.W. Bush.
214	* NoNameGiven: Sho's mother.
215	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat:
216	--> ''Largo has [[DisneyVillainDeath fallen, on fire, into a deep chasm, and exploded.]]''\
217	'''Nene:''' We did it! But... do you suppose he's dead?\
218	'''Linna:''' He's got to be. Nobody could survive a fall from this height.
219	* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: Downplayed. [[AllThereInTheManual As revealed in supplemental material]], and occasionally referenced in the series, the Knight Sabers have 11 rules:
220	## Do not divulge any information concerning this organisation.
221	## Do not act upon a personal grudge.
222	## Do not act without the mutual consent of all members.
223	## Do not secede from this organisation.
224	## Members are personally responsible for any damage done to the organisation's equipment unless that damage was unavoidable.
225	## Do not divulge any information concerning our clients.
226	## Do not gather information on your own. The task of intelligence gathering is to be distributed evenly among all the members.
227	## Keep in contact with the other members regularly.
228	## The members do not know each other outside of this organization.
229	## Do not get involved with a man.
230	## The penalty for violating any of the ten regulations listed above is death.
231	** This would certainly constitute an Obstructive Code of Conduct if followed strictly - however, almost all of the rules get broken, and rule 11 is never enforced. Ultimately, they seem to be ideals which have been rapidly modified in the face of reality.
232	*** Rule 1 is a tricky case - while several people know the identities of some or all of the members, nobody actually ''reveals'' anything.
233	*** Similarly, Priss has ''almost'' broken rule 2 several times, but the others always end up supporting her grudges.
234	*** However, Priss ''has'' broken rules 3 and 4, and how her personal duel with Largo and his Hyperboomers (which resulted in the destruction of her hardsuit and motorslave) relates to rule 5 is also a scary thought.
235	*** Linna, on the other hand, breaks rule 10 regularly. To say nothing of the ShipTease between Priss and Leon, and Nene and Mackie.
236	*** Everyone except Sylia has broken rule 8.
237	*** Rule 9 is flagrantly disregarded by all four members.
238	*** Rules 6 and 7 seem to have been followed, though (regarding 7, in OVA 1, Priss is doing what she's told... until she's chased by Boomers, then she's surviving).
239	* {{OC Stand In}}: Madigan, the female GENOM executive who appears in the Largo arc.
240	* TheOjou: Sylia and Reika.
241	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The 'vampire' stalking Megatokyo in one episode of the OVA is in fact an old-model Boomer that uses artificial blood in its internal systems. Who has a friend with a big leak or something. Also more or less a LesbianVampire.
242	** Ahem: LesbianVampire [[SexBot Sexaroid]], thank you very much.
243	* PaintballEpisode: The Sabers' introductory scene in OVA 4, "Revenge Road".
244	* PlotLeveling: Perhaps it was a mistake to introduce {{Kill Sat}}s and runaway {{Nanotechnology}} in the first episode, since these are the most powerful weapons that could realistically exist in this setting. Further into the franchise, the technology becomes increasingly cartoonish and superhero-like, such as the Boomers used by Dr. Miriam in OAV 8 and Largo in ''Crash'', and the upgraded hardsuits in ''Crash'' and ''2040''.
245	* RapeAndRevenge: In the fourth OVA, J.B. Gibson rebuilds his car into an instrument of revenge against the motorcycle gang who, it is implied, raped his girlfriend.
246	* RobotGirl: Sylvie, Anri, other [[{{Sexbot}} sexaroids]], plus Mason's bodyguards.
247	* RoboticReveal: The first OVA episode.
248	* SacrificialLamb: Guest characters frequently get killed in order to invoke ItsPersonal, including Cynthia, Irene, Sho's mother, all five of the Sexaroids, Dr. Yuri and Adama.
249	* SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: Sylvie and Anri.
250	* ShadowArchetype: The Largo-Sylia relationship.
251	* SlowMotionPassBy: Priss recognizes Anri as the driver of a car she [[ContrivedCoincidence just happens to pass by]] on her motorcycle.
252	* SoLastSeason: In an unusual example of this happening to a villain, Dr. Miriam builds customized Boomers to defeat the Knight Sabers' current hardsuits, only to find that they've already upgraded their hardsuits when he deploys them.
253	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: "This is the look of the true victor!" Said by both CorruptCorporateExecutive Brian J. Mason and [[spoiler:his "reincarnation", Largo. In the English dub, during Largo's confrontation with Leon, he calls Leon "little puppy," which he also called him as Mason.]]
254	* SoundtrackDissonance: The second original OVA closes out at a graveyard, with a wide shot of many gravestones and mourners... then immediately kicks in the upbeat '80s anime pop music. Both the shot and the music remains constant throughout the end credits. Not quite putting TheFunInFuneral, but...
255	* SpiderTank: The GD-42 mecha, piloted by Reika and Kou.
256	* StakingTheLovedOne: At the end of ''AD Police: To Serve and Protect''. [[spoiler:When Hans saw what happened when bio-voomer Liam got out of control, he asked Kenji to [[MercyKill kill]] him, if the same should happen to him, too. Unfortunately, he had to keep his promise in the next episode and kill him and the GENOM CEO who turned himself into a bio-voomer to escape his old age and illness.]]
257	* StockSoundEffects: As the two were made concurrently with one another with a similar crew. Sound effects from this series can also be heard in the animated ''[[Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture Captain Power]]'' training videos.
258	* {{Stripperific}}: Vision's [[FashionableAsymmetry stage outfit]], also the Knight Sabers' [[LatexSpaceSuit spandex thing]] worn under their power armour.
259	* SuperHeroOrigin: Given the above, the OVA is oddly notable for '''''avoiding''''' this; we never actually get around to seeing how the team got together, and the first episode is practically InMediasRes. At best we get some vague hints about Sylia's reasons for wanting to ''assemble'' the team in the first place, but how in the world Priss, [[PluckyGirl Linna]], [[PlayfulHacker Nene]] and [[TheCaptain Sylia]] all fell in together (when it seems highly improbable that they'd all meet by chance) is never even remotely explained. It seems like they were building toward addressing this in the original series (it would've been a logical segue from the team-building of OVA ep8), but, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork well...]]
260	** Even more interestingly, none of the "direct" sequels to the original OVA bother answering this ''either'', not even ''Crash!'' or ''AD Police''. The only part of the franchise that details anything like an origin for the team is ''[[BroadStrokes 2040]]''.
261	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2O1tqo7sRI The music video for "Touchdown to Tomorrow" ("Asu E TouchDown")]] in Hurricane Live shows a few glimpses of it. It makes Nene's recruitment clear enough (hey PlayfulHacker, that woman whose files you're in [[MemeticMutation WANTS YOU]]), but still leaves a lot of questions about the exact circumstances and motivations around Priss' and Linna's recruitment.
262	*** Worse, it counts as AllThereInTheManual, since Hurricane Live was a separate product and not widely distributed outside Japan until [=AnimEigo=]'s DVD collection was released.
263	* TookALevelInBadass: Nene in ''Crash''.
264	* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:The OVA had numerous hints at Sylia being this]].
265	** [[spoiler:Becomes a plot point in Adam Warren's comic book adaptation where we find out that Sylia's brain has been augmented by {{Nanomachines}}. [[WordOfGod Toshimichi Suzuki of Artmic]] has confirmed this to be the true, making this a case of AllThereInTheManual]].
266	* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: The Hou Bang from OVA episode 7, "Double Vision".
267	** [[MafiaPrincess Triad Princess]]: Reika Chang[[spoiler:, though Linna was able to convince her to give up being the Hou Bang leader at the end.]]
268	* TrojanAmbulance: In "Double Vision", Reika/Vision impersonates a call girl in order to poison a boomer designer so that she and her allies can kidnap him using a fake ambulance.
269	* UnexplainedRecovery: The [=OAVs=] never offer any explanation for how and when Mason transferred his mind into Largo, or how Largo got put into a life-support tank in ''Crash''.
270	* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The music videos for several songs mostly consist of these.
271	* WeCanRebuildHim: Billy from the ''A.D. Police'' episode "The Man Who Bites His Tongue", an ADP officer who gets picked as the test subject for the new Cyborg Unit of the force.
272	* WeHelpTheHelpless: The Knight Sabers usually take paying clients for mercenary and private detective work, but they'll fight Boomers for free if they're major threats to the AD Police and the city.
273	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kate Madigan is covered in the [[OneSceneWonder One Episode Wonder]] example on her character page.
274	** Why don't we see the Motoslaves after OVA 6? They would have come in handy fighting Reika's Genki battlemover.
275	* WhatSongWasThisAgain: Creator/AnimEigo produced English versions of every vocal song on the OVA soundtrack. Particularly infamous is their version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ4UV0WtoMc "Mr. Dandy"]].
276	* WholePlotReference: AD Police Files episode 3, The Man Who Bites His Tongue, is this for ''Film/RoboCop1987''. It's also a perfect example of doing this right; rather than simply feeding off the popularity of [=RoboCop=] and cribbing the plot, it is a much darker and more serious exploration of what would happen in that scenario.
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279	[[folder: Tokyo: 2040]]
280	* AcousticLicense: A great example in the ''Tokyo: 2040'' series episode "Minute by Minute". Priss and Leon have a quiet conversation together... ''while speeding down a highway on motorcycles''. No evidence of radios here, and in fact it's even crazier because Leon is wearing an open face helmet while Priss's helmet is totally enclosed, which would muffle her voice even if they were at a dead stop.
281	* AdaptationDyeJob: From the [=OVAs=] to ''2040''.
282	** Nene went from being a redhead to a blonde in ''2040''.
283	** Sylia became white-haired instead of a BrainyBrunette.
284	** Linna, Mackie, and Mason went from black hair to brown.
285	** Daley went from a redhead to having brown hair.
286	* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
287	** The Sylia of the [=OVAs=] is calm and collected, whereas the ''2040'' incarnation was more volatile and prone to outbursts. [[spoiler:Being a test subject from her father may be the cause of the ''2040'' Sylia's instability.]]
288	** As like with George Stacy in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', Leon, who was supportive of the Knight Sabers in the OVA series, started off in ''Tokyo 2040'' considering them dangerous vigilantes and thinks they make the AD Police look bad.
289	** Daley went from Not-full-on CampGay to StraightGay.
290	** The Priss of the [=OVAs=] pretty much wore her anger, annoyance and other assorted emotions on her sleeve while her ''2040'' incarnation is TheStoic - though still prone to shooting her mouth off when angry.
291	* AdaptationalBadass: While many people debate whether the original or new series is best, what they ''don't'' debate is that Linna [[TookALevelInBadass took twenty levels of badass]] in ''2040''. While in the original series she was a ditzy, materialistic and (to most of the series' plot) inconsequential character, in ''2040'' she's a much more down-to-earth girl with a strong personality and a hidden intolerance of authority. A big part of her character in the new series is how being a Knight Saber lets her cut loose and be more true to herself than she can be when in the civilian world. She has such a strong personality, she actually manages to impress ''Priss'', of all people, and when she joins the Knight Sabers she becomes their close-combat specialist, Priss's [[TheLancer Lancer]] and her full equal in combat ability.
292	** Nene also got a bit of a badass upgrade in ''2040'' - in the original OVA she was content to watch the action from the sidelines while working her hacker magic, and the few times she had to engage in physical combat usually ended badly for her, while in ''2040'' she's much more aggressive and usually handles herself better when in combat (though sometimes things still don't work out for her).
293	** Boomers are much stronger in ''2040'' as one rogue boomer can create enough trouble for the whole team, whereas they could take out scores of boomers in the original series. Boomers also need to be targeted in a specific area, their cores, in ''2040'' or otherwise they'll still function whereas any generalized amount of damage was enough to take them out in the original.
294	* AdaptationalJerkass: Nene is kind of a brat at the start of ''2040'', as opposed to the lovably goofy girl she was in the original. She gets better, though.
295	* AdaptationalSexuality: In the original OVA, Priss initially had little interest in Leon but showed increasing interest in Episode 6 "Red Eyes." In ''2040'', by contrast, she's {{Tsundere}} for Leon and doesn't appear to reciprocate Linna's affections (though Linna also liked at least one guy during the course of the show) while being infatuated with the soft spoken mechanic Nigel. Conversely, Linna and Nene's subtext (though in 2040 they were usually more like surrogate siblings until the series finale), and Sylia's ''textual'' bisexuality, were added in ''2040''.
296	* AdaptationalWimp:
297	** The ''2040'' version of Sylia is in a more MissionControl role, rarely going into the field, whereas the [=OVAs=] version of Sylia led the Knight Sabers into battle herself.
298	** Oddly enough, this happens to ''GENOM'': on the original OAV/2040 continuities it's such an unstoppable juggernaut that the Knight Sabers are locked into a shadow war where most of the time the best they can do is make sure that the company's excesses don't hurt innocents and the only threats that can do any damage to it are on the "mass destruction" level (Galatea's RobotWar on 2040, Largo needing to break out the KillSat [=WMD=]s for Quincy to even ''listen'' to him on "Red Eyes"), while an anarchist bombing campaign brings it to its knees in ''Parasite Dolls''.
299	** The Knights Sabers' armor are less advanced in the 2040 continuity as they have a time limit for operational time, whereas in the original there was no time limit.
300	* AgeIsRelative:
301	** Linna is only a year older than Priss - who is supposed to be ''nineteen years old''.
302	** In general a lot of characters both in the original and 2040 don't look their intended ages. Sylia is 23/24 but looks to be in her early 30s, the 2040 Leon looked to be early-to-mid 30s but was only 24, etc.
303	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: ''2040'' has a more full-scale invasion of the Sabers' base once [[spoiler:Galatea starts the RobotWar]].
304	* AscendedFanboy: The ''2040'' version of Linna came to Tokyo because she'd become a fan of the Sabers and wanted to join them; because of her encounter with Priss and other lucky breaks, she succeeded.
305	* AttackItsWeakPoint: In ''2040'', boomers can only be destroyed by attacking their core, a small red sphere embedded somewhere in their body. This serves to make Nene's combat role more understandable than in the [=OVAs=]: she uses her sensor equipment to locate the core.
306	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Happens at the end of ''2040'' episode 26, when [[spoiler:Nene and Linna are stranded nude on a desert island after their suits burn away upon re-entering the atmosphere]]. Most likely as a consequence of Japanese censorship laws which forbid explicit frontal nudity.
307	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:2040 ends with the world being saved, but Sylia is a mess while Nene and Linna are stranded on an uninhabited island while Priss is alone in a desert, all three with little to no chance of being rescued or surviving. Even worse is that all three ladies are ''completely naked'' because their hardsuits broke down into scrap metal, presumably from re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Whatever happens to them now remains a mystery.]]
308	* BreakTheCutie: Nene undergoes this in the 2040 episodes ''My Nation Underground'' and ''Woke Up With A Monster'' when her bratty arrogance finally comes back to bite her in the ass after she tries to play match maker between Priss and Leon, earning her a long overdue scolding from Sylia for endangering the team's secrecy, and then gets her ass handed to her in a boomer fight when she tries to rush in and beat the boomer by herself in a misguided attempt to prove herself. Probably more BreakTheHaughty in her case though.
309	* BroadStrokes: ''2040''. Provoked reactions of TheyChangedItNowItSucks from some fans of the [=OVAs=].
310	* CastingGag: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Priss is voiced by Rebeca Patiño, who also dubbed [[Film/StreetsOfFire Ellen Paige]], the same character from which Priss herself is based of.
311	* CrossPoppingVeins: Near the end of the ''2040'' series, Linna and Nene are riding behind Priss on her motorcycle; all three of them are wearing hardsuits. Linna and Nene get cross popping veins ''on their hardsuit helmets'', which then detach and float away on the wind.
312	* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to ''Classic'', this series is quite a bit darker and much more serious in terms of presentation. Rogue Boomers are more like horrifying mutated monsters as opposed to the rampaging robots of the original, while many of the newly interpreted characters have become either meaner or more sullen then they were in the original series. Priss' haircut is even a literal representation of this, as it goes from light brown and rounded in the original [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]] to dark brown and semi-spiky in here. The change in music also helps to show this as while ''Classic's'' OST was pretty upbeat and full of pop rock, ''2040's'' soundtrack is much more gloomy and serious, falling more along the lines of heavy metal.
313	* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: In ''2040'', Quincy is always shown sitting in a chair with life support equipment hooked up to him.
314	* DieHardOnAnX: The 2040 version of Nene gets to go through this along with DaChief and [[MauveShirt two random office workers]] when Galatea reanimates the Boomer wreckage stored at ADP headquarters into a [[ZombieApocalypse Zombie Robot Apocalypse]].
315	* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Two in ''2040''.
316	** Sylia is shown with mental instability, possibly as [[spoiler:a result of the creation of Boomer tech involving an experiment with her brain]].
317	** Quincy is depicted as a DarkLordOnLifeSupport.
318	* EarthquakeMachine: [[spoiler:What caused the earthquake that destroyed Tokyo in ''2040''[='=]s backstory. GENOM tried to keep runaway boomer technology are getting loose, deciding to employ the device to bury the lab, and causing the city to be rebuilt. However, this didn't destroy the technology as it later got loose.]]
319	* EnhanceButton: The last notable element of ''Film/BladeRunner'' that the original OVA didn't borrow shows up in episode 7 of ''2040'' instead.
320	* EvilTwin: Arguably, Galatea from ''2040''.
321	* GoingCommando: In ''2040'', the Knights Saber are at first commando in their plug suits. Later, they don't even get plugsuits and are naked under their upgraded power armor (which is now transparent in places). Lampshaded by Sylia when she tells Mackie that "he's in the girls' changing room" when they're discussing it, and a totally flustered Mackie runs away all red-faced.
322	* GuineaPigFamily: In ''Tokyo 2040'', [[spoiler:Professor Stingray created the Boomer prototypes Mackie and Galatea by implanting their cores inside a young Sylia's brain and letting them learn its structure. He created the cores by dissecting his wife's brain -- which is why it only worked with Sylia.]]
323	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''Tokyo 2040'' uses 1970s heavy metal/hard rock song titles as episode titles.
324	* JumpedAtTheCall: ''2040''!Linna
325	* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Priss gets a bit of this in 2040. Sylia also may not count in 2040.
326	* LovingAShadow: Priss's infatuation with Nigel in 2040. Sylia comes dangerously close to this herself until it becomes clear that Nigel does care for her on some level.
327	* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: A frequently-seen characteristic of rogue Boomers in ''2040''.
328	* MusicalThemeNaming: The ''2040'' episodes have titles taken from famous (or infamous) songs or albums including Music/JeffersonStarship's "''We Built This City''", Music/TheDoors' "''Light My Fire''", Music/{{Eagles}}' "''One of these Nights''", Music/PinkFloyd's "''Atom Heart Mother''" and Music/ThePolice's "''Walking on The Moon''".
329	* MythologyGag:
330	** Linna can be occasionally seen wearing a sweatband on her head just like she (nearly always) did in the original series.
331	* NamedByTheAdaptation: Quincy's surname was never revealed in the OVA, but ''2040'' give it as [[InconsistentSpelling "Rosenkroitz/Rosenkreuz"]].
332	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Particularly in ''2040'', the Boomers start out as mostly-believable humanoid cyborgs, only to degenerate into magical [[FusionDance fusing]] zombie ghost robots by the end.
333	* PinkMeansFeminine: Sylia humiliates Priss with this trope in 2040 episode ''My Nation Underground'' when the tomboyish biker loses a bet to her flighty boss, forcing her to be photographed wearing an ugly pink dress while Nene and Linna laugh at her and mock her.
334	** It made more sense in the original Japanese language version (where Priss wanted Nene kicked off the team for digging into her personal life) than in the English language version (which changed it to Priss wanting Nene removed from the team for her own safety).
335	*** Comes back to bite Sylia, Nene and Linna in the ass when Priss temporarily quits and refuses to help them due to Sylia lying to them and abusing their trust.
336	*** Incidentally, pink tends to be a prominent color in Nene's hardsuits and 2040 indicates that she and Linna both own and wear at least one set of pink underwear each.
337	* PluckyOfficeGirl: Linna's day job in ''2040''. In the [=OVAs=] she was an aerobics instructor (turned stockbroker in ''Crash'').
338	* RedHerring: In episode 9 there are numerous strange boomer disappearances in the underground before a rouge boomer finally appears, except it was not responsible, but rather some kind of weird experiment that makes short work of said boomer. The appearance of the rouge boomer was just a coincidence.
339	* SealedEvilInACan: Galatea.
340	* SpaceElevator: ''Tokyo 2040'' has a "skyhook" connecting Tokyo and an orbital power satellite play several important roles in the plot. GENOM is building a network of tunnels beneath Tokyo to store energy released by the satellite, which are put to other uses by [[spoiler:both Mason and Galatea]]. Sylia also tries to use the energy discharged by the skyhook to power a BFG so she can [[spoiler:try to fry Galatea while she's still [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed In A Can]]. (It doesn't work.)]] Before the end, [[spoiler:the Knight Sabers have to hitch a ride into orbit]].
341	* ThisIsUnforgivable: Played for laughs in ''2040''; Linna (over)reacts to Priss riding off after accidentally making Linna drop her lunch by shouting "'''Yurusan'''!" and running after her.
342	* TheTokyoFireball: A part of the backstory of the series is a massive earthquake destroying Tokyo, leveling the city and it being rebuilt by Boomers. In ''2040'', it's destroyed again because of [[spoiler:Galatea. In fact, in ''2040'', the earthquake was a man-made event to stop Galatea in the first place.]]
343	* UncannyValleyGirl: Boomers that are meant to resemble humans all have alabaster skin, unusual hair colours and unblinking eyes, which Linna's co-worker points out seems creepier than the more obvious mechas that do manual labour. This is a start contrast to the original series where the Boomers were based on Replicants and Terminators, meaning they could easily pass for humans.
344	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Towards the end of ''2040'' Daley Wong disappears after the ADP make one last stand and is never seen again, nor is his own fate ever established.
345	** In ''2040'', Mason's fate is left ambiguous. Did he die? Was he assimilated by Galatea? Is he somehow still alive inside her?
346	[[/folder]]

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