Line #27 Anime/GallForce


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7	[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 All of this has happened before]]. [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 All of this will happen again]].'']]
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9	''Gall Force'' is a group of science fiction anime {{OAV}} series made starting in 1986 by the studio Artmic, with production by Youmex and AIC.
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11	The original series concerns a HopelessWar between the OneGenderRace of Solnoids (humanoid females) and the Paranoids, who are an amorphous race that usually inhabits [[MobileSuitHuman powered armor suits]]. The remaining crew of the Solnoid cruiser ''Star Leaf'' barely escape the destruction of their fleet in yet another hopeless battle, only to get caught up in a conspiracy that will have far reaching consequences for all concerned.
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13	The original story has two direct sequels, in which Lufy is rescued ten years after being stranded in space during the original. She joins up with another replica of Catty and her team, first to prevent the ongoing war from claiming Earth and the ''Star Leaf'''s legacy, and later in a last desperate attempt to bring everything to an end other than the mutual annihilation both sides seem to be seeking.
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15	Later, ''[[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Rhea]] Gall Force'' and its sequels, the ''Earth Chapter'' revisit the story on a post-apocalyptic Earth, thousands of years after the original series. The LostTechnology of the Solnoids and Paranoids have given birth to the "NME", techno-organic weapons trying to KillAllHumans, and the [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Spiritual Descendants]] of the original cast find themselves fighting for survival.
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17	The more obscure final entry in the original continuity is ''New Era'', which has humanity rebuild from the ashes of the Earth Chapter, only to fall into conflict with a race of {{Artificial Human}}s they created. But the legacy of the "NME" is still plotting to destroy everything, and the only hope of preserving any of humanity lies with Catty's newest incarnation.
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19	The series saw a revival in 1996 with ''Gall Force:The Revolution'' -- an attempted ContinuityReboot of the franchise that replaced the Paranoids with a perpetual civil war between factions of Solnoids, and a group of rebels trying to bring that war to an end. Despite [[SugarWiki/NamesToKnowInAnime an all-star cast of voice actresses]], the series was quickly forgotten, and is [[NoExportForYou the only part of the franchise not released in English]].
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22	!!Tropes:
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24	* AcePilot: Lufy, an "Attacker" with over 150 confirmed kills and a medallion to prove it.
25	* AdamAndEvePlot: Though barely hinted at by the original film's ending,[[spoiler: Rumy and the "new life form" become the progenitors of the Human Race]].
26	* AmazonBrigade: The Solnoids are a species consisting entirely of female soldiers.
27	* AncientAstronauts: Humans were seeded on Earth by the Solnoids and Paranoids. The Solnoids themselves have legends of having been seeded on their homeworld Marsus by a previous progenitor race.
28	** If you pay attention to the information on screens when Catty is talking about the Solnoids being seeded, you can see the ship that was used. It matches the ship used to escape to the Pleiades system in ''New Era''. So it's implied that it's a cycle (hence the first part being subtitled ''Eternal Story''.
29	* AnimalThemeNaming: Most of the Solnoids: Rabby (Rabbit), Lufy (Wolf), Catty (Cat), etc.
30	* ArtificialHuman: The "new life form" from the originals; The "Yumans" from ''New Era''.
31	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The text on the screens seems to have a lot of stylized Latin letters, some of which are written upside down.
32	* {{Autodoc}}: When Lufy is brought into the analysis station operated by Spea, they just move her into a chamber and press some buttons to restart her heart from a state of suspended animation. Spea mentions offhand that there are several injuries that may require organ replacement.
33	* BackFromTheDead: Lufy was rescued to appear in the first two sequels.
34	* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: Pony, the only crew member able to communicate with the OX-11 mainframe, but a ShrinkingViolet with her cremates.
35	* BigEater: Rumy; whenever she happens to be onscreen, she's usually eating something.
36	* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: [[spoiler: Norton near the end of Earth Chapter.]]
37	* BizarreAlienBiology:
38	** The "new life form" grows to adulthood within maybe 20 minutes.
39	** The Paranoids themselves are an exceptionally bizarre race, essentially morphing slime that, aboard their own ships, shapes itself around a robotic frame to move around more easily. They enter their attack ships by being sluiced off the frame and through tubes, literally being ''piped into'' their mecha.
40	* BloodKnight: Lufy, who holds the title of Attacker with those 150 kills, and at least in the first movie she's the most eager to go into battle and had literally said the line "shoot first, ask questions later".
41	* BoisterousBruiser: Lufy; despite the BloodKnight tendencies, she's generally the most gungho compared to all the other ladies.
42	* BrattyHalfPint: Rumy; she's the youngest of the Star Leaf crew and it shows, she's always whining or complaining about something.
43	* TheConstant: [[spoiler:Catty. After another of her model appears in the original series, ''Earth Chapter'' introduces another duplicate rebuilt by Earth humanity millenia later; this duplicate also appears in ''New Era''.]]
44	* ColorCodedCharacters
45	** Eluza- Red/Pink
46	** Rabby- Orange
47	** Rumy- Yellow
48	** Lufy- Green
49	** Patty- Blue
50	** Pony- Purple/Indigo
51	** Catty- Violet/Pink
52	* ContinuityReboot: ''Gall Force: The Revolution'', which replaces the Solnoid/Paranoid war with a Solnoid civil war, or at least that's what it seems like on the surface...
53	* {{Cyborg}}: [[TheBigGuy Norton]] from Rhea/Earth Chapter, who was [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt after suffering major injuries]] shortly before the RobotWar started.
54	* DetonationMoon: Downplayed at the climax of ''Eternal Story'', which [[spoiler:the once-terraformed Moon of Earth scorched into the wasteland we know now as a side-effect of the climactic battle]].
55	* DramaticSpaceDrifting: Gall Force had many scenes, particularly a corpse of an unlucky crew in a space suit in the vacuum of a sealed-off area, but the most iconic being [[spoiler: the aftermath of Luffy's Heroic Sacrifice where she was left drifting in space, cradled in the arm of the last Bronz-D. At least before she was revived thanks to being in stasis inside her own suit.]]
56	* DreamSequence: In the escape ship sequence of the first film, showing exactly how the "third race" plan works.
57	* DubInducedPlotHole:
58	** It's relatively minor, just a bit of a characterization goof: in the dub, Lufy is nicer to Pony before the spacewalk, saying "You'll live. Promise." This line doesn't exist in the sub, and it's Rabby who encourages the tech to go across the zipline.
59	** A major one in the Greek dub of the first OVA, as the Solnoids' lines [[spoiler:after the creation of the new life form imply they are fully aware of the human pregnancy process and outright call the new organism a baby]].
60	* {{Fanservice}}: Via {{Innocent Fanservice Girl}}s and {{Shower Scene}}s.
61	* EarthAllAlong: The planet Chaos is in orbit around another world, dubbed 'Terra' by the Solnoids. The stinger at the end of ''Eternal Story'' underlines where they actually were, eons ago.
62	* EarthShatteringKaboom: The events of ''Destruction'' cause [[spoiler:the creation of the Sol System's asteroid belt by blowing up the planet that used to stand in that orbit. Yes, you heard right]].
63	* EarthIsABattlefield: Related to the above; the final battle of ''Eternal Story'' happens on Chaos, which is actually [[spoiler: Earth's moon]].
64	* EternalRecurrence: If the subtitle of the first movie wasn't a clue, then the lookalikes in ''Rhea'' and beyond should be a better one. [[spoiler:''New Era'' just makes it {{Anvilicious}}.]]
65	* EverybodysDeadDave: The seven crewwomen of the original OVA are the sole survivors of the Star Leaf (plus one guest).
66	* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Eluza and Patty were candidates for the Paranoids' "contact point". To receive it they were jumped by what was essentially a giant slime monster which teleported said contact point into their wombs.
67	* FasterThanLightTravel: Via a jump drive that was fairly touchy about getting damaged. One of these drives overloading was the ultimate end of the Star Leaf.
68	* FireForgedFriends: By the end of their battle together defending the ''Star Leaf'', Rabby and Lufy are virtually the FanPreferredCouple.
69	* FlingALightIntoTheFuture:
70	** At the end of ''Eternal Story'', Rabby and Patty know they can't possibly hold off both the Paranoid fleet and the Solnoid special forces for long, so they put Rumy and the new lifeform/Patty's son into the Blossom's escape pod, and have it shoot off to Terra while they overload Chaos' planetary terraforming network. Their enemies all perish in the resulting volcanic backlash, while Rumy and the new lifeform live on to start the human race.
71	** At the end of ''Stardust War'', [[spoiler:Admiral Catty Nebulart launches a probe holding all of the Solnoids' knowledge as the apocalyptic final BlastOut is occurring]].
72	* GelatinousEncasement: Patty and Eluza end up with a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong when an alien slime monster captures them and zaps them with energy.
73	* GovernmentConspiracy: Between [[spoiler:the Solnoid and Paranoid leadership]]. The "Species Unification Plan".
74	* HalfHumanHybrid: The "new lifeform" in ''Eternal Story'' was an attempt to combine the two warring races to have a third to stand between them. Too bad it only resulted in what looked like a human male...
75	* HappyEndingOverride: New Era, where the EternalRecurrence that seemed to have finally ended simply started back up from the beginning.
76	* HopeSpot: ''Stardust War'', the finale of the original series. [[spoiler: Captain Nebulart reveals a newly terraformed planet Embryo to the remnants of the Solnoid and Paranoid fleets meeting for an apocalyptic battle, and broadcasts a final plea for both sides to put the meaningless battle behind them. The battle stops as both sides listen to the message. Then someone gets an itchy trigger finger, and an omnicidal BlastOut ensues.]]
77	* HumanAliens: The Solnoids, which are basically standard human females, just not from Earth.
78	* HumongousMecha: The Paranoids' giantic turtle-like "dynamech" that is sent to cause a Kaiju-style rampage at the climax of ''Eternal Story'', among others.
79	* IdenticalGrandson: The ''Rhea[=/=]Earth Chapter'' and ''New Era'' series have counterparts of the original cast, that are {{Hand Wave}}d by this trope.
80	* ItsAllJunk: Lufy throws her "Attacker" medal to the floor when Rabby accuses her of not caring about her fellow pilots who died while she earned it.
81	* KillSat: The "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast System Destroyer]]" that appears in ''Destruction'' is the {{BFG}} of Kill Sats, it orbits a ''sun''. The sun it's supposed to ''kill''. The development of this weapon scares both sides of the Solnoid-Paranoid war into trying to TakeAThirdOption.
82	* [[LoserSonOfLoserDad Loser Daughter of Loser Mad Scientist]]: Sandy Newman of the ''Rhea[=/=]Earth Chapter'' series (Rabby's reincarnation), the daughter of the scientist who discovered the ruins from ''Eternal Story'' and created the NME.
83	* MartyrWithoutACause: Arguably Lufy's motivation for her YouShallNotPass HeroicSacrifice in ''Eternal Story''.
84	* MechaMook: The Solnoid "cyborg soldiers" who appear starting in the second installment of the original series.
85	* OneGenderRace: The Solnoids, a race composed entirely of humanoid females. Their enemies, the Paranoids, could be considered an all male race at least judging by their voices.
86	* OneManArmy: ''Lufy''. To showcase, she manages a tremendous amount of Paranoid casualties on the first film while wearing a PoweredArmor that is essentially her star-fighter's ''EjectorSeat''.
87	* OppositeSexClone: The "new life form". This is actually a subversion: [[spoiler:the plan wasn't to make an OppositeSexClone, but to convert a Solnoid into a totally different species by fusing "contact point" into one. The point was removed before it could fuse with Patty.]]
88	* {{OVA}}: The entire series, though in the US they tended to be released as one long movie rather than in episodes.
89	* PoweredArmor: Used by Lufy, when her fighter is too damaged to continue fighting, she simply climbs into one of these that also serves as something of an escape pod.
90	* TheRealRemingtonSteele: Throughout the whole series, we meet several identical girls all named Catty. In ''Stardust War'' we meet the woman they're all based on, [[spoiler: Admiral Catty Nebulart]].
91	* TheRemake: ''Gall Force: The Revolution'', a 1996 {{Revival}} {{OVA}}.
92	* ReTool: ''Rhea Gall Force''/''Earth Chapter'', ''New Era'', which shifts the conflict to humans versus machines or humans versus artificial humans respectively.
93	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler:Catty]], who really can't be told apart from normal Solnoids, until she shows off the super strength that goes with being an android.
94	* RobotBuddy: TOIL and AIL, a pair of small boxy servicebots on the Star Leaf that serve mostly as comic relief, though they're surprisingly human in their distress over the thought of losing Pony.
95	* {{Roboteching}}: While one translation refers to what the ships are firing as missiles, and they're drawn that way at least once, the majority of the time the bendy-path weapons look and act more like ''lasers''.
96	* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Pony essentially dies just to satisfy her curiosity.]]
97	* ShoutOut: The second act of ''Eternal Story'' draws very heavily from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. As well, Score (Lufy's IdenticalGrandson[=/=]reincarnation) in ''Rhea'' borrows a tremendous amount from [[Film/{{Aliens}} Jeanette Vasquez]].
98	* SoleSurvivor: Seven people survived on the ''Star Leaf''. Only one of them made it to the end.
99	* SpaceIsNoisy: Lots and lots and ''lots'' of laser fire sounds and loud explosions in this series' space battles.
100	* StarKilling: The System Destroyer, which causes the star it's fired at to go supernova, wiping the surrounding star system from existence.
101	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Shildy, who replaced Rabby as Lufy's foil in the sequels to ''Eternal Story''.
102	%%* TheTeamWannabe: Mitty
103	* TenLittleMurderVictims: Most prominent in ''Eternal Story'', we're introduced to a small pool of survivors which slowly gets whittled down over the course of the movie. (This is {{lampshaded}} by the title of the SuperDeformed parody version of ''Eternal Story,'' ''Ten Little Gall Force''.)
104	* ThemeNaming: After the AnimalThemeNaming of ''Eternal Story'', later installments of the franchise use different themes -- ArmsAndArmorThemeNaming (Shildy and Spea) in ''Destruction'', MusicalThemeNaming (Melody, Score, Fortin and Soundy) in ''Rhea'', and RockThemeNaming (Crys, Marble, Garnet, etc.) in ''New Era''.
105	* TokenMiniMoe: Rumy; she's the youngest and the most cutesy of the Star Leaf crew.
106	* TransformingMecha: The hoverbikes that turn into humanoid robots.
107	%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Vjari from Earth Chapter.
108	* VasquezAlwaysDies: ZigZaggedTrope: Rabby is a very sensitive woman who is panicking or enraged about something every time she's in combat throughout ''Eternal Story'' (until the final battle, that is), while Lufy is a veteran warrior and BoisterousBruiser and buys it in the first major battle of the film... only to be found cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the second film and serve as the protagonist for the remainder of the trilogy [[spoiler:(and when she buys it is because ''[[EverybodyDiesEnding all]]'' of the Solnoid race buys it).]]
109	* VillainHasAPoint: [[invoked]] While Rabby is horrified that [[spoiler:thousands of Solnoids were killed in order to create a New Life Form, it's pointed out that both sides had been fighting for centuries and were on the verge of wiping each other out]].
110	* WarIsHell: The horrors and pointlessness of war aren't downplayed in this anime, where many characters began to doubt on the conflict as their friends and comrades were included in the death tolls. [[spoiler: In fact, Rabby decided to blow up the planet fought by both sides the end of Eternal Story due to these reasons]].
111	* WorldOfActionGirls: In the first [=OVAs=] this is justified by the Solnoids being a OneGenderRace. Later entries just end up with the survivors in focus being mostly female.
112	* WrenchWench: Pony is the lone surviving engineer on the Star Leaf, and gets along with the two robots and the ship AI better than she does the other Solnoids.
113	* YouAreInCommandNow: Eluza ends up in command of the Star Leaf, when the actual captain was killed in battle.

Context Anime / GallForce