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11	''Martian Successor Nadesico'' is a sprawling SpaceOpera with a subversive sense of humor about its own genre.
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13	Several centuries in the future, Earth is at war with a mysterious alien species dubbed the "Jovian Lizards", who use immense [[PortalNetwork hyperspatial gateways]] to instantly deploy [[MechaMooks remote-controlled troops]] from Jupiter. The war is going badly for Earth when a private defense contractor, the Nergal Corporation, decides to cut out the middleman and field its own battleship, the ''Nadesico''. In addition to being the most powerful and advanced battleship that Nergal has ever produced, they hire the top civilian operatives in each field to be its crew, who turn out to be a ragtag bunch of [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny-Eared Lawyers]].
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15	Akito Tenkawa is a capable but [[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] cook who cannot remember how he got from Mars to Earth after the Jovians conquered the Martian colonies. He winds up joining the crew of the ''Nadesico'' by accident, and although he just wants to work in the galley, he demonstrates a remarkable talent for piloting HumongousMecha and is repeatedly called upon to defend the ship. Meanwhile, he has to deal with the unwanted romance advances of his childhood sweetheart Yurika Misumaru (the ''Nadesico''[='s=] GeniusDitz of a captain) and an UnwantedHarem of almost every other woman and girl aboard.
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17	While it revels in being a classic "space war with giant robots" story, it also parodies the genre both overtly and subtly. One of its most famous devices is ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'', a classic 1970s-style SuperRobot anime ShowWithinAShow. Although ''G3'' seems at first only a device for cheap laughs, it slowly becomes not only a sly GreekChorus on the events of the plot but also a major element of the story in and of itself.
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19	It was popular enough to receive a movie called ''Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness'', a DarkerAndEdgier sequel that takes place three years after the end of the TV series. The movie was criticized for the jarring tone shift towards angsty drama, unpopular changes to characterization and a number of unexplained plot points that were actually introduced in ''Nadesico: The Blank of Three Years'', a UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn game that takes place between the TV series and movie but was [[NoExportForYou unreleased outside of Japan]] (and even in Japan, it was released a month ''after'' the movie, and didn't really see enough circulation to justify making it required reading for it, compared to just ''how'' popular the TV series was). The movie is widely regarded as a FranchiseKiller for those reasons.
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21	Originally licensed by Creator/ADVFilms, it was re-released by Creator/NozomiEntertainment in 2017.
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23	!!This show provides examples of:
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25	%%* ActionGirl: The female Aestivalis pilots.
26	* ActorAllusion: In the English dub Gai is voiced by Brett Weaver, who also played [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Roy Focker]] and was scheduled to play [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] before ADV lost the license.
27	* AffectionateParody: Of giant robot anime, anime in general, and anime fandom. Frequently overlaps with IndecisiveParody, though.
28	* AllegianceAffirmation: The crew of the Nadesico have fled the ship, and are being hunted by the military and Nergal. But they have a plan to retake the ship. They stage a strike on the dock where the Nadesico is waiting. Nergal Chairman Akatsuki points out to Erina Wan that the crew won't get far, as they have the master key. The crew board the ship, to find Goat Hoary there. He looks at them, and reaches into his coat (the audience is meant to think he is drawing a gun). Cut to Akatsuki laughing, saying he never even saw it coming, as he thought Hoary was just another "yes-man", holding up a note that Hoary had left saying that he had taken the master key, He had decided to stand with the Nadesico crew rather than with Nergal.
29	* AllThereInTheManual : If you want to understand TheMovie in one go-around, or have any sort of satisfactory conclusion to the series, you're going to need to find a copy of some tie-in video games. [[http://www.clabo.net/classic/nadesico/blank3.html Synopsis of the game can be found here.]]
30	** Also shows up in-story when Akito uses his knowledge of obscure bits of the ''Gekigangar V'' manga that were never animated to defeat a security program based on ''Gekigangar 3''.
31	* AmazonBrigade: Both the bridge crew and the pilots as of episode 3 are ''almost'' this.
32	* AmbiguousSituation: Whether Yurika [[spoiler:always had her IFS implant, revealed in the final episode, or just received it right then as part of her plan to try and sacrifice herself. It doesn't help that she always wears gloves and that most pilots' implants don't ''always'' show on their hands.]]
33	* AnachronicOrder: Episode 21's chronology jumps all over the the place. Thankfully we're given a timeline of roughly the order the sequence happened, although it can be confusing when seeing it for the first time.
34	* AntiEscapismAesop: A SpaceWhaleAesop version of it, preaching about the evils of becoming obsessed with Anime in general (and SuperRobot shows in specific), with [[spoiler: The Jovians]] as the Space Whale.
35	* ArmedFarces: The ''Nadesico's'' crew is made up of people with no kind of military training or discipline--the few who do act military really stick out--and are recruited from voice actors, chefs, and corporate secretaries. But the actual Federation military isn't much better, with admirals prone to tantrums and tangents.
36	* ArtShift: The ''Gekiganger III'' segments are done in a 1970s art style, with [[StylisticSuck deliberately stilted]] LimitedAnimation.
37	* AscendedFanboy: Several characters are this to some degree, but the most obvious are Gai Daigoji, and [[spoiler:the Jovian colonists]].
38	* AuthorityInNameOnly: Yurika's role as captain is ''intended'' to be this, as Ruri explains to her when she asks what makes a good modern captain. She averts it, though, to the point that Nergal eventually tries to replace her due to concerns over her pro-peace sentiments.
39	* BackFromTheDead: Lampshaded and played for laughs when [[spoiler:Gai Daigoji]] randomly pops up in the mid-season ClipShow to [[spoiler:gush about how awesome the Aestivalis are]].
40	%%* BarrierWarrior: "''Gekigan Flaaaaaaare!''"
41	%%* BeachEpisode: Episode 10.
42	* BeamSpam: The Cosmos fires ''seven'' of the Nadesico's [[WaveMotionGun Gravity Blast Cannons]].
43	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In episode 10, Akito watches an episode of Gekiganger where one of the female enemy soldiers suffers amnesia and lives with one of the main characters for a while. Among the things she does is cook for him. Akito then wishes that he could meet a girl like that, and sure enough, does later that episode. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she turns out to be a bit crazy.]]
44	* BigDamnHeroes: Several of the characters have at least one of these.
45	* BrandX: Seiya's USS Enterprise model in episode 12 is from some TV show called Start-Rek.
46	* BridgeBunnies: Megumi, Ruri, and Minato.
47	* BringMyBrownPants: Hilariously paired with MassOhCrap and RudelyHangingUp in Episode 8's English dub:
48	--> '''Admiral''': You're just lucky that none of us were in the direct path of the blast so there weren't any casualties. As it is, we'll be shipping Nergal a bill for the 2066 jockey shorts that were ruined! Second Fleet out!
49	%%* BunnyEarsLawyer:
50	%%** The crew of the Nadesico. The captain crosses the line into GeniusDitz, who actually wears a bunny suit in one episode.
51	%%** Taken literally with Goat Hoary.
52	* CallingYourAttacks: Akito and others calling ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' attack names while piloting [[RealRobot mecha]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in an early episode when Akito asks Gai if they really ''need'' to do this and Gai, [[AscendedFanboy being the way he is]], responds "Of course!"
53	* CastingGag: In the English dub, Creator/SpikeSpencer voiced Akito Tenkawa. Meanwhile, Creator/TiffanyGrant voiced Ryoko Subaru. This is not the first time Spencer and Grant played pilots who have a hard time trying to confess their feelings for each other, as they previously played Shinji and Asuka in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
54	* ChasteHero: The Jovians as shown are all male warriors who put women on a pedestal and are frightened by the idea of sex or even romance.
55	** Akito plays this straight for most of the series; more often than not his thoughts are preoccupied with his love of cooking and ''Gekigengar'', his ambivalence about fighting, and his trauma over his childhood and [[spoiler: Gai's death]], even while beautiful women are fighting for his attention (which makes him visibly uncomfortable).
56	* ChefOfIron: Akito cooks as well as he flies.
57	* ChickMagnet: Akito, much to his lament. The male crew members often [[LampshadeHanging wonder how he attracts them while they don't seem to get any action.]]
58	%%* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 13.
59	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: At least one person on each side.
60	* {{Chuunibyou}}: Jiro Yamada (or as he calls himself, "Gai Daigoji")[[note]]"Jiro Yamada" is about as unremarkable a name as "Mark Jones" - completely bland without the 'everyman' cachet of a "John Smith".[[/note]] is a HotBlooded RealRobot pilot who thinks he's in a SuperRobot series, [[CallingYourAttacks shouting out the names of attacks]] from his favorite anime while in combat. He also serves as something of an inspiration to the rest of the cast, even those who claim to find his behaviour annoying.
61	* ClingyJealousGirl: Akito attracts at least three of these, one actually [[{{Yandere}} homicidal]].
62	** Yurika gets really jealous when she sees or hears about Akito being alone with any woman other than her.
63	** This trope ends up causing Ryoko to save an otherwise incapacitated Akito from a crazy lady who seemed to be getting a little too friendly with him.
64	** Megumi displays this early on, especially when it came to Yurika.
65	** Yukina is this way towards her brother Tsukumo too.
66	* ClipShow: Episode 14, using the odd recursive ShowWithinAShow device of the Gekiganger characters watching ''Nadesico'' and lamenting [[LampshadeHanging it's just a clip show]]. Inverted again at the end when Yurika is shown watching them watching her and wondering how any of this is possible.
67	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Izumi.
68	* ColonCancer: Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture -- Prince of Darkness
69	* ColonizedSolarSystem: Settlements on the Moon and Mars are seen, [[spoiler: and the Jovians are descended from a previous generation of colonists exiled after an unsuccessful uprising.]]
70	* ComedicHero: Akito. He is a competent pilot, but he's reluctant to absurdity and
71	* ConspiracyRedemption: Nergal Corporation is involved in the cover-up [[spoiler:of the Jovian's true identity and the history of their exile]] so that they can continue profiting off the war. The ''Nadesico's'' crew rejects this, even their bureaucratic liason Mr. Prospector, and try to make peace.
72	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The Nadesico is a starship example, able to wipe out swaths of Jovian weapons with its [[BigFreakingGun Gravity Blast Cannon]] The Aestivalis squadron also manages to fend off large numbers of enemies. Averted when the Nadesico first arrives on Mars, only to find out they're heavily outgunned and outnumbered, and barely make their escape.
73	** In one episode, they manage to destroy several manned ships of greater cost than the Nadesico by firing missiles from the Aestivalis units. One has to wonder what the ships are made out of.
74	* CoolShip: The titular battleship.
75	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Nergal's higher-ups. Erina is the most prominent example. [[spoiler:Until Akatsuki reveals his true colors, anyway.]]
76	* {{Cosplay}}: Among other things, [[spoiler:the Jovians]] wear ''Gekiganger 3'' cosplay as uniforms.
77	* CracksInTheIcyFacade: Ruri Hoshino is a ReiAyanamiExpy with a blank expression, a biting wit, and a penchant for referring to everyone around her as "baka/idiots". When they're retaking the ship from the UEF in an early episode, Megumi notes the first crack in Ruri's icy exterior, saying, "Did I just see you smile?" Ruri notes that it's a possibility, adding herself to the mix when she says, "I guess we're ''all'' idiots, here."
78	* CrazyWorkplace: ''Nadesico'' is a quirky privateer vessel, crewed by "extreme personalities".
79	** Captain Yurika Misumaru is a tactical genius who is more interested in rekindling a romance with her childhood friend, Akito.
80	** Jun Aoi is her long suffering second in command, who wants her to notice him, to no avail.
81	** Akito Tenkawa is a fry-cook turned giant-robot pilot, trying to find out why his parents were murdered on Mars while enjoying his favorite series, [[ShowWithinAShow Gekigengar III]].
82	** Ruri Hoshino is a genetically modified DeadpanSnarker child who operates the ship's computer while wondering why she's surrounded by idiots.
83	** Seiya Uribitake is a skilled, but unlicensed, mechanic who is also a womanizer.
84	** Inez Fressange is a "dried out walking encyclopedia" who takes great offense if someone other than her tries to give explanations. She also designed the Nadesico.
85	** Megumi Reinhard is a voice-actor turned communications officer, and in the middle of a LoveTriangle vying against the captain for Akito's affections.
86	** Haruka Minato is a former secretary turned navigator, who has made some [[AbsoluteCleavage modifications]] to her uniform.
87	** Prospector is the man who hand picked this crew, and is constantly arguing with them about the terms of their contracts (such as the [[NoHuggingNoKissing non-fraternization clause]].
88	* CrewOfOne: The One-Man One-Ship project from TheMovie.
89	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Yurika, in spades.
90	* CrystalBallScheduling: Akito sure seems to watch a lot of Gekiganger episodes that have events that coincidentally happen to them in that very episode.
91	** Justified in some cases, as we later learn that [[spoiler:the Jovians are the ultimate Gekiganger fanboys, basing not only their military and fashion around the show, but their ''entire culture, including their religion''.]]
92	* CutShort: There were meant to be three movies.
93	* DarkerAndEdgier: TheMovie, which appears to have been a mistake, since it allegedly killed the franchise.
94	* ADayInTheLimeLight:
95	** Episode 18 focuses on Ruri and her past.
96	** 19 is mostly about Ryoko.
97	* DeclarationOfProtection:
98	** Akito says this almost word for word in episode 22 regarding Yukina.
99	** Jun tries to do this in episode 12, but slams into a Jovian robot right as soon as he exits the Nadesico, and not only gets himself injured, but also heavily damages the Aestivalis he was piloting.
100	* DeconstructiveParody
101	* DeconstructorFleet: The Nadesico is the ''flagship'' of this fleet.
102	** GenreDeconstruction: Of SpaceOpera and RealRobot, especially to Yamato and Gundam. [[spoiler: Later, to the BlackAndWhiteMorality of 70's and 80's SuperRobot Anime.]]
103	* DeflectorShields: Distortion Fields.
104	* DevastatingRemark: Played for laughs ''twice'' in one episode.
105	** In the first instance, Yurika asks what it means to be the captain, and Ruri launches into a lengthy explanation of trends and traits in captains which Megumi sums up by saying "It's saying it doesn't matter who the Captain is." Yurika runs off crying. Ruri calls Megumi out on her cruelty.
106	** In the second instance Yurika asks if all she's good for is performing funeral services for dead crew. Megumi, who had recently gotten into a relationship with Akito, [[LoveTriangle whom Megumi knew the Captain was infatuated with]], says that she might also be called on to perform weddings. Repeat Yurika running away crying loudly, and Ruri reaffirming that Megumi is truly cruel.
107	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Yurika sings the ending song in episode 19.
108	* DirtyOldMan: Yurika's father has an... unusual obsession... with his daughter's maturation into a woman. Seiya Uribatake is just generally obsessed with young women, at least until he reunites with his wife.
109	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Admiral Fukube. He turns out to have survived and reappears in the last episode.]]
110	* DisposableWoman: Itsuki Kazama, who was {{Tele Frag}}ged on her very first mission presumably just to give Akito SurvivorGuilt about his replacement. [[spoiler:Subverted later in the franchise; the game and movie show that she survived and was just sent to the future.]]
111	* DontExplainTheJoke: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted of course.]] Many of Izumi's puns need to be explained due to their reliance of wordplay, especially in the dub.
112	* DoomedUpgrade: The X-Tivales can't hold itself together and Uribatake wrote it off as a failed experiment himself. [[spoiler:It explodes when Admiral Munetake flips out and hijacks it in an attempt to make up for his misdeeds]].
113	* DrowningMySorrows: After [[spoiler:Tsukumo is killed, Minato is briefly seen in her room surrounded by empty bottles]].
114	* DynamicEntry: Hikaru does one in episode 22 to help save Akito.
115	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
116	* EnemyMine: In episode 10, Megumi and Yurika are at odds over Akito, but finding that he's been kidnapped by a third woman with ill intentions spurs them to team up to get him back.
117	* EngineeredPublicConfession: Twice.
118	* EscapedFromHell: In the ShowWithinAShow ''Gekiganger III'', Jou suddenly appears from Hell in the final episode, piloting Gekiganger III and giving Gekiganger V a Gekigan Blade to perform a final attack to destroy all evil. Akito officially makes this the worst episode of the bunch and drives home the fact that using the series (any series) as a basis for life is pretty dumb.
119	* [[{{Expy}} Expies]]: Dozens of them.
120	* FanService: Viewers are encouraged to watch the next episode with promises of this.
121	** Pretty much the entire point of episode 19.
122	* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Akito was just trying to escape, but ends up being an AccidentalHero.
123	* TheFederation: Mildly averted, in that the UEAF seems to have little influence on the Nergal-owned Nadesico and its crew for the first half of the series. [[spoiler:Although the characters get drafted in the second half, they don't become any more militaristic or patriotic.]]
124	* FeministFantasy: Zig-zagged. While the main character is a male, and the show swerves between deconstructing and engaging in traditional anime gender tropes, the ship's captain and the overwhelming majority of its crew are women, and a heavy emphasis is placed on things like a smoke-filled room of men on earth freaking out when they realize Yurika (who, as Ruri bluntly tells her, was selected as a figurehead as part of a cultural shift that put women in charge of ships without giving them any actual power) is smarter and has stronger political opinions than they expected. And the ultimate villains are [[spoiler:an overtly misogynistic society of right-wing male supremicists who base their gender roles on traditional anime.]]
125	* FestivalEpisode: A ''Gekigangar'' convention. On board the ship.
126	* FistPump: Jun introducing Yurika's singing.
127	* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: The Nadesico had the Gravity Cannon, which was sandwiched between two forward protrusions. It later gets a MidSeasonUpgrade.
128	* FreezeFrameBonus:
129	** Episode 17 has one, right after [[spoiler:Yurika breaks Uribatake's figure]].
130	** Almost all of the displays on the Nadesico contain them, probably because the ship's computer, Omoikane, is itself a BunnyEarsLawyer. Highlights include the apologetic "it's too bad, but you're out of bullets!" on the Aestivalis' display, or the emoticons used as bullet points on one of the damage reports.
131	** Akito's Aestivalis helpfully informs him he's 'LOST' when he's fighting in the blizzard in episode 9.
132	** When Ruri is asking the ship to display a history of warfare, its summary of the Lunar war mentions [[spoiler:that the section of the Lunar government that was forced out and fled into space was the far right, explaining the rigidly militaristic and traditionalist nature of the Jovians, a well as their regressive views on gender roles.]]
133	* FriendlyEnemy: Yukina doesn't seem to be a very effective assassin, passing out and being rescued by her target in the bath, who then tells her how lucky and special she is to him for coming out to their ship. The talk of hope for an end to the fighting by several crew members also confuses her, since she believed that all Earthlings were AlwaysChaoticEvil.
134	* FriendOrFoe: In episode 12, the Nadesico fires on both Jovian and UEAF ships during one battle. At first it confuses everyone as to why the ship did that, but it turns out that the Nadesico has a learning computer, and still retains information that the UEAF is considered hostile. The UEAF attempts to reprogram it, but Ruri disagrees, since formatting the computer would cause it to lose valuable combat data it acquired when they went to Mars. So she [[TakeAThirdOption decides to reprogram it herself]] with the help of Akito and Seiya to allow the Nadesico to retain its information, while simultaneously erasing the UEAF forces as hostile.
135	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The entire purpose of [[ShowWithinAShow Gekiganger 3]].
136	* TheFunInFuneral: Episode 5 has Yurika having to carry out funerals for crewmembers of the Nadesico and residents of a space colony destroyed in a Jovian attack. She gets dragged around by Jun while having to dress up accordingly for every religion to carry out the ceremonies properly.
137	* GeniusDitz: Yurika.
138	* GenkiGirl: Yurika. Hikaru borders on this frequently.
139	* TheGlassesGottaGo: Uribatake tries to comment that Hikaru looks much cuter without her glasses. Hikaru says that's been cliche for hundreds of years and not even doujinshi would use that line nowadays.
140	* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Admiral Misumaru]], despite serving as an obstacle at the beginning, wants nothing to do with [[spoiler:Nergal's conspiracy]]. There was something entertaining about [[spoiler:him hitting ManipulativeBastard Akatsuki with a pan.]]
141	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Admiral Munetake was [[LockedOutOfTheLoop never told]] about a dark secret regarding the Jovians. In episode 16, he learns about it from Ms. Won, along with the rest of the Nadesico crew thanks to Ruri's hacking the camera in the Admiral's room. [[spoiler: They learn the Jovians weren't actually aliens, but humans banished from the Earth and Moon due to threat to secede from Earth's control. In the next episode, he also learns he's going to be demoted, so he tries to get Seiya to complete his prototype Aestivalis to use as a trump card, but the mechanic tells him it can't be done due to design flaws and power limitations, and attempting to fire the cannon would destroy the mecha. Finally, Akito confronts him about what really happened to Gai Daigoji in episode 3. Although he seems to flatly deny any involvement in Gai's death the FlashBack reveals he was the one who shot Gai, and probably did feel guilty about shooting him]]. The culmination of these events causes Munetake to finally lose his sanity [[spoiler:and he kills himself by stealing Seiya's Aestivalis and attempting to shoot the Cosmos, a ship preparing to dock with the Nadesico, and thus blowing himself up in the process.]]
142	* TheGovernment: The UEAF fills this role.
143	* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler: Practically ''the whole series''.]]
144	* GratuitousEnglish: In the [[ThemeTune epic opening]]. The title is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrU76ecOsE4 You Get to Burning!]]". (Yes, that's really the title.)
145	** The third episode has the Supreme Commander of the [[OneWorldOrder United Earth Forces]] deliver a speech about the ''Nadesico'''s rebellion in English, only to be interrupted by a transmission from Yurika, who briefly engages in some TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier before asking in English to have the [[DeflectorShield Big Barrier]] lowered so the ''Nadesico'' can leave. (The Supreme Commander [[BilingualBackfire reveals he knows Japanese]], and keeps speaking it for the rest of the scene.) It serves no purpose to the plot to have either the Supreme Commander's speech or Yurika's request in English, although it does add subtext to the United Earth Forces overriding the [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce Far Eastern Command]] to attack the rogue ship.
146	* GreenEyedMonster: While Akito hates dealing with his UnwantedHarem, several of the male characters just wish they had that "problem". They sometimes make it a point to tell him that when they can.
147	* HandsomeLech: Nagare Akatsuki.
148	* HaveWeMet: Spoken by Yurika to Akito in the first episode. Akito denies it until he remembers that they knew each other as kids.
149	* HeroicBSOD: Happens a few times. The first instance of it happens after [[spoiler:Gai's death]], which results in Akito sitting in his room watching the same ''Gekiganger'' episode over and over.
150	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Jun attempts one]] in the third episode. It's lampshaded and subverted to hell.
151	** [[DeconstructedTrope Subverted to deconstruction]] in the seventh episode by Akito's reaction when Admiral Fukube attempts YouShallNotPass.
152	*** In the manga adaptation, [[spoiler:Gai]] manages to pull this off, when he rushes out with a fever to save Akito, who had the wrong frame equipped to his Aestivalis. He manages to save Akito's life, but becomes dizzy and is unable to evade a fatal shot. Later on, [[spoiler:after Akito loses the head of his Aestivalis, it is replaced with the one off of Gai's.]]
153	* HeroOfAnotherStory: ([[spoiler:Itsuki "Seelie" Kazama, the replacement pilot from the Christmas episode,]] is a major character and possible love interest in the spinoff game ''Blank of Three Years''.)
154	* HiddenDepths: Virtually every named character on the show is shown to possess these at some point, even the seeming comic relief characters.
155	* HighSchoolAU: Parodied, [[DeconstructorFleet like everything else]], by the "Early 21st Century High School" virtual reality program in the Nadesico's recreation room.
156	* HolographicTerminal: ''Everywhere''. Characters abuse them and deliberately pop up a communication window ''right'' in front of someone without warning.
157	* HonorBeforeReason: When its first discovered that the Jovians [[spoiler: are humans]], Akito doesn't let that little fact bother him in trying to destroy Tsukumo, despite Megumi and Minato's protests.
158	* HotBlooded: Gai Daigoji, and it's a major theme of ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}''
159	** Akito is like this a lot as well.
160	* HotbloodedSideburns: Gai Daigoji, who else? And at least one cast member from Gekiganger 3, who appears on occasion to have them glued to his cheeks.
161	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler: The main motivation behind why the Jovians are attacking. To be more precise, the Jovians were descendents of colonists from the Moon a hundred years prior to the start of the series. From the Jovian perspective, their people just wanted to be autonomous from the Earth government, but were defeated during an uprising and banished. They first fled to Mars, but then Earth sent several nukes onto their colonies there, forcing them to go even further, first towards the asteroid fields, then Jupiter where they found a factory capable of making lots of robots. And since then, they've been plotting their revenge against Earth's atrocities.]]
162	* HumongousMecha: Especially the ones the Jovians use later, which make the Aestivalis look tiny by comparison.
163	* HypocriticalHumour: "If only the humans appreciated life as we do, I would not have to kill so many of them." Man, the Jovians are wearing irony blinkers the size of the moon.
164	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The Japanese episode titles were all references to cliche phrases or words in Anime, or Science Fiction in general, that were relevant to the episode: for instance, the second episode's title could be translated "Leave 'The Blue Earth' to Me", while episode 8 was "A Lukewarm 'ColdEquation'", as a shout out to [[Literature/TheColdEquations the original short story]].
165	* InconsistentSpelling: The ShowWithinAShow is variously spelled as ''Anime/Gekiganger3'' or ''Gekigang''a''r 3''.
166	* IndecisiveParody: On the one hand, it's a WorldOfHam that thrives on utter absurdity and there's no way such a military force could behave this way. On the other, there's a lot of MoodWhiplash and very serious deaths.
167	* JumpedAtTheCall: Gai Daigoji, who arrived three days early and broke his leg, making him a rare example of a HotBlooded shonen anime character who jumped at the call but failed to stick the landing due to WrongGenreSavvy.
168	* KarmaHoudini: Kusakabe gets away with his crimes in the end of the series.
169	* KidAppealCharacter: Hisagon in ''The Prince of Darkness'', due to his most innocent and {{Mascot}}-like appearance.
170	* KinkyRolePlaying: Megumi asks Akito to join her in the ships {{Holodeck}}, where she has loaded a program for a high-school setting. She also conveniently tweaked the settings to make sure she had an impractically short skirt, and then attempted to engage in a bit of role-play, clearly hoping to lead to this trope. Akito, however, isn't up for it and tries to stave off her efforts in character by saying they're both too young.
171	* KnightOfCerebus: The titular ''Prince of Darkness'' in the movie. [[spoiler:Who turns out to be Akito after being horribly tortured and basically turned into Batman In Space. Quite possibly the poster boy for the unpopular characterisation changes in that movie]].
172	* KnightTemplar: The Jovians act like this at times. Especially [[spoiler:Genichiro Tsukuomi, who kills his best friend Tsukumo for trying to peacefully negotiate with the "evil" Earthlings]].
173	* LampshadeHanging: Any mecha tropes that don't get [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], [[JustifiedTrope justified]] or [[{{Deconstruction}} outright deconstructed]] get this treatment.
174	* LargeHam:
175	** Gai Daigoji. GAI'S. SUPER. UPPER!!!
176	** Yurika fits this trope from time to time, particularly when dealing with Akito.
177	* LatexSpaceSuit: The Aestivalis pilot suits. Conveniently color-coded for gender, too!
178	* LethalChef: Yurika and Megumi (and probably Ryoko) nearly kill Akito trying to impress him with their cooking, the real [[strike:tragedy]] joke being that Akito himself is a restaurant-quality chef. How bad are they? Jun needs medical attention after trying the leftovers in the kitchen, and the frying pan that Yurika used to cook the meal is declared a biological hazard and is sent off to be incinerated!
179	* MacrossMissileMassacre: A standard attack of the unmanned Jovian drones. The Nadesico also uses one during episode 20 against a pursuing Jovian ship.
180	* MaleGaze: Not as gratuitous as later shows, but sometimes there's unnecessary focus on butts out of nowhere.
181	* ManlyTears: Gai is especially prone to these [[spoiler:and his death is prone to invoking them]], but they're often sported by Akito or Uribatake as well. Also the king of Peaceland.
182	* MechaExpansionPack:
183	** The Aestivalis themselves are basically modular units, with the main cockpit unit attached to whatever specialized frame they need.
184	** The Y-Unit for the Nadesico.
185	* MechaMooks: The vast majority of the Jovian invasion fleet are unmanned units.
186	* {{Megacorp}}: Nergal. So powerful, in fact, that they're able to construct their own warship, the [[CoolShip Nadesico]], able to hold its own against the UEAF. Also counts as an {{NGO}}.
187	* MeleeATrois: UEAF vs. Nergal vs. the Jovians.
188	* MildlyMilitary: Justified in the Nadesico's case as they're a corporation and not the actual military. Even after the ship and crew are drafted into the UEAF, they still show no signs of military bearing or professionalism.
189	* MissionControl: Various characters on the bridge often take this role for the Aestivalis missions.
190	* MistakenForCheating: Seiya and Hikaru in episode 17. They were in fact just sharing their common interest in figurines and model robots. Seiya does seem to start falling in love with her later in the episode, but Hikaru stops him before it goes any further than that.
191	* MondegreenGag: In episode 20, Yurika is singing the opening song, and mis-sings the lyric "yume no kakera sa" as "yume no Takeda-san". She even gets called on it InUniverse.
192	** In the dub she sings the line "the days you spend running after your dreams make up part of your dreams" as "part of your drapes".
193	* MoodWhiplash: The series turns it into an art form.
194	* TheMovie: Meant to be a GrandFinale, the planned trilogy was CutShort.
195	* MsExposition: Inez Fressange. Lampshaded, of course; as the series goes on, she mentions that she seems to exist to provide exposition and will even sense when someone else is doing it and show up to assist.
196	* MyGirlIsNotASlut: When Hikaru is turning down Uribatake, she mentions that she used to have a live-in boyfriend. This shocks him, though he tries to play it off by saying she's a modern girl.
197	* {{Nanomachines}}: Used to terraform Mars. Also allows the Aestivalis pilots to, well, pilot, and Ruri to interface with Omoikane.
198	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In episode 9, while on a stealth rescue mission, the Nadesico is flying low through some bad weather to avoid detection by the Jovians. All is going well until Yurika overhears that Megumi is with Akito. She [[ClingyJealousGirl begins to overthink it]], and then inadvertently presses a button which fires off their gravity blast cannon, which gives away their position.
199	* NoFourthWall: Here and there.
200	--> "Who are you talking to?" "The fourth wall!"
201	* NoNameGiven: During production, female Aestivalis pilot Itsuki Kazama was unnamed, so she was referred to in-series as "Newbie" and "Seelie" (by Ryoko both times).
202	* NoSexAllowed: Nergal company policy -- after all, the Nadesico doesn't have a daycare centre. The crew seem to ignore said policy towards the end of the series.
203	* OnlySaneMan: Ruri seems to be the only one who doesn't seem to overreact to every little bit of gossip, battle updates, or news. Often makes [[LittleMissSnarker snarky comments]] about how idiotic the crew is.
204	* OracularUrchin: Ruri. Lapis does this a bit in TheMovie.
205	* OtakuSurrogate: In addition to all the just-plain-{{Otaku}}, you have Hikaru Amano, who is also a YaoiFangirl as well.
206	-->'''Hikaru''' (upon seeing Akito and Nagare Akatsuki shaking hands): "This gives me [[SlashFic an idea]] for my next {{doujinshi}}".
207	* PacifismBreakingPoint: With the realization that the "Jovian Lizards" were not only human beings, but also fans of [[ShowWithinAShow Gekigengar III]], Yurika, Akito, and the others thought that they could extend an olive branch to the Jovians. This was further aided by the fact that Tsukomo Shiratori, an emissary of the Jovians, was friendly, cordial, and "[[{{Pun}} jovial]]". They arranged a meeting with the Jovian High Command, where the Jovians revealed a series of "Non-negotiable" and unreasonable terms, demanding concessions from Earth while making none of their own. Shiratori protests, saying that he has come to realize that Earthlings are not evil, and love Gekigengar as well, and that the message of the show is that there is only one true righteous path. The Jovian commander agrees, but not in the way Shiratori expects, and the Jovian commander has him shot as a traitor. The members of the Earth delegation escape back to the Nadesico, where Yurika gives an order to fire the [[WaveMotionGun PT Cannon]]. Ruri, asks if she's sure, knowing that at this point, firing the cannon would be an irrevocable act of war, and an admission that peace wouldn't be possible. [[spoiler:Ultimatley subverted in the finale, as just as both sides are mounting for war, the Nadesico swipes an ancient relic that made the boson jumping and chulip gates possible, and send it as far away as they can, or, as Ruri puts it, "Earth and Jupiter won't be able to do much but glare at each other for awhile"]].
208	* PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler:Akito]] takes a page from [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Lieutenant Quattro's]] book in TheMovie. It lasts all of fifteen minutes, or rather, two minutes of actual screentime.)
209	* PassingTheTorch: Akito does this with Ruri in the ''Prince of Darkness'' film, giving her a recipe he created, [[spoiler: since he can no longer taste things due to the experiments done on him prior to the film.]]
210	* {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s: [[spoiler: The Jovians]].
211	* PercussiveMaintenance: When Yukina attempts to contact her brother in episode 22, she seems to have trouble until Ruri kicks the machine a couple of times.
212	** Subverted in the episode to "fix" Omoikane. It's suggested that they just whack it, and Inez points out that the ship's AI is not a 20th century television (since at the time this aired, all tv's still functioned that way)
213	* PerkyFemaleMinion: Inverted by Yurika -- ''she's'' the one in charge.
214	* PervertDad: Yurika's father, Admiral Misumaru, likes to brag about how hot his daughter is.
215	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Yurika towards Akito during times where he either seems to be leaving the ship, or spending too much time with another woman. Later Erina says this towards him while also crying.
216	%%* PungeonMaster: Izumi.
217	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The natural result of putting a together a crew of the most skilled individuals with no regard for "minor character flaws."
218	* RealMenWearPink: Akito's Aestivalis is a bright magenta.
219	* RealRobot: The Aestivalis are pretty powerful, but they're just a small portion of the overall military, and they're smaller than most mecha. Some of the characters ''think'' they're in a SuperRobot anime; unfortunately for them, they're wrong, and reality ensues. Lampshaded by Ruri in one of the episode lead-ins, where she says "I thought this was supposed to be a real robot anime?"
220	* RecapEpisode: In which the characters of Nadesico watch the characters of Gekigangar III ''watch a Nadesico episode'' and try to figure out the ramifications of such a [[TimeParadox paradox]].
221	* RedBaron: After a certain point, Yurika is officially known to the Jovians as "the Daring Man of Action"... much to her chagrin.
222	* RedShirtArmy: The UAEF seems to be easily defeated by the Jovians most of the time. When the Nadesico makes its appearance, they can't even stop one ship from escaping Earth, although to be fair, the Jovians do attack in multiple areas at the same time, forcing them to divert their troops.
223	* ReformationAcknowledgement: Admiral Fukube was responsible for causing the Chulip to crash on Akito's colony, which he only learned well into their mission on Mars. Akito is outraged, and assualts him. When they're faced by an overwhelming force of Jovian forces, and the ship too damaged to fight back, the Admiral uses a UEF ship to force the Nadesico into an open Chulip, then puts his ship between the Nadesico and the Jovians, saying he hopes it makes up for his past mistakes. Akito angrily rejects it at the time. [[spoiler: Then it turns out many months later that the Admiral survived and was taken as a prisoner of war. Given how Akito reacts to his survival, it seems he'd learned to forgive him in the intervening time.]]
224	* TheReveal: Episode 22 has one, [[spoiler: where Nagare Akatsuki reveals himself to be the chairman of Nergal, after pulling out the Nadesico's master key to prevent Yurika from firing a warning shot at the Earth fleet. Up until that point he seemed to be just another pilot.]]
225	* RocketPunch: The ground-type Aestivalis is one of the few {{Real Robot}}s to use this, and they justify it by the rocket-propelled fist being attached to a wire.
226	* RomanticPlotTumor: Akito and Yurika's relationship tends to fall into this at times, even lampshaded in universe.
227	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Gai Daigoji, although he lasts until the second episode. He's even shot by his own side.]] Also, Joe Umitsubame in ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' -- his death scene foreshadows that of the aforementioned character in the same episode, even though it occurs in the penultimate episode of ''Gekiganger 3''.
228	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: In one episode, Yurika vocalizes to her salutes.
229	* SelectiveObliviousness: Yurika, with regards to Akito's feelings for her... possibly done strategically.
230	* SeriousBusiness: Gekiganger 3 is taken very, ''very'' seriously by its fans. [[spoiler:So much so that Tsukumo saying it's just a cartoon is taken as "proof" that he's a traitor.]]
231	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Akito seems to repeatedly say this to Yurika, although she doesn't believe him.
232	* {{Shoryuken}}: [[LargeHam Gai!]] [[CallingYourAttacks Super!]] [[GratuitousEnglish Uppaaaaaaaaaaah!]]
233	* ShoutOut: Everything from classic science fiction to Iron Chef to having a whole major character based on Music/MegumiHayashibara.
234	** The name of the ship, "Nadesico", is an ironic reference to the Yamato of ''Anime/UchuuSenkanYamato'' by way of the common Japanese phrase "YamatoNadeshiko" ("Nadeshiko" is an alternate transliteration of "Nadesico"). Worth pointing out, the manga actually ''calls'' the Nadesico with Y-Unit "Yamato Nadesico".
235	** The Japanese title ''Kidou Senkan Nadesico'', or ''Mobile Battleship Nadesico'' is a reference to ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''.
236	** In episode 5, the very first 'reliable-looking elderly man' shown in Ruri's presentation of what makes a good captain... is Yamato's Captain Okita, with a slightly different uniform.
237	** The entire 19th episode is a massive and blatant shout out to/affectionate parody of ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''.
238	** Inez Fressange's name is quite similar to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ines_de_la_Fressange Inès de la Fressange]].
239	** From the dub: [[Film/ANewHope "That thing's not a space station - it's a moon!"]]
240	** When Akito first reunites with Yurika at the beginning of the show, he says that he will kill her and she takes this as him saying that he loves her. This is a reference to ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', where Heero says these lines to Relena during the time of their first meeting, even if he was fully intent on killing her.
241	** One of the model boxes in Seiya Uribatake's room in Episode 12 is the [[Franchise/StarTrek USS Enterprise]].
242	** The episode "Fight Silent, Fight Deep", is based on the movie ''Film/RunSilentRunDeep'', and also includes shout outs to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Balance of Terror", which took inspiration from the same source.
243	** Nergal's logo looks a lot like NERV's from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
244	** In one interview, the director described the show as "''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor'', with a war thrown in out of ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' and a lot of bits left over from ''Anime/GetterRobo''."
245	** Episode 8's Japanese title, ''The Lukewarm "Cold Equation"'', references Literature/TheColdEquations, with the plot being a WholePlotReference to the story that focuses on Akito having to decide who should be ThrownOutTheAirlock of his mecha to let the remaining people survive.
246	* ShowWithinAShow: ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}!''
247	** For the RecapEpisode it was a show within a show within a show ''within a show '''within a show'''.''
248	** There was another, less prominent ShowWithinAShow called [[MagicalGirl Magical Princess Natural Lychee]].
249	* SmarmyHost: In one episode, the various female characters on the show participate in a fashion show to be the captain for a day, with Jun and Nagare acting in the role of commentators. The latter fits into this role like a glove.
250	* SoLastSeason: The Nadesico's Gravity Blast Cannon, as of about the sixth episode. Possibly a record.
251	* SomberBackstoryRevelation: When the crew begin seeing ghosts, we learn the sad truth about Izumi, that her bad puns and lousy jokes are a coping mechanism for the fact that she has lost two fiances over the years, one to disease, and one to the war. For once, Izumi is not laughing as she tries to embrace the illusion of her late fiance, saying that she's ready to join him.
252	* SpaceNavy: The UEAF for Earth, while the Jovians also field one, largely unmanned due to their [[spoiler: smaller population and [[MookMaker space factory]]]].
253	%%* SpaceOpera
254	* SpiderSense: Inez can sense when any other character attempts to deliver exposition.
255	%%* TheSpock: Ruri.
256	* SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler:Neither Gai nor Itsuki appears in the opening. They're killed off quickly.]]
257	* SubmersibleSpaceship: The ''Nadesico'' can submerge, as in the first episode it launches from a concealed submarine hangar.
258	* StayInTheKitchen: While Earth is definitely an equal opportunity employer, the Jovians are...less egalitarian.
259	** Inverted on the Nadesico -- Akito desperately wishes to stay in the kitchen himself and let the girls do all the robot fighting.
260	* StepfordSmiler: A particularly tear-jerking sequence reveals that the HurricaneOfPuns Izumi constantly spews are a coping mechanism for her grief -- one that isn't really working.
261	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: A particularly large-scale example -- early in the show we meet Gai Daigoji, who has modeled himself after ''Gekiganger III'', and think he's crazy. Then [[spoiler:we meet the Jovians, who have modeled their entire ''civilization'' after the same show.]]
262	* SuperDeformed: Tenkawa and Ruri are represented as SuperDeformed versions of themselves when they interface with the Nadesico's computer in episode 12.
263	** There's also a chibi Gekiganger doll that first appears in episode 6 and will occasionally pop up again after that.
264	* SuperPrototype: The ''Nadesico'' is sometimes treated like this, but the reasons are a lot more realistic: the later ships built to match it befall accidents or are otherwise felled for understandable reasons and would otherwise be just as good. One late-series example has a new ship targeted and sunk specifically because the Jovians already know what the ''Nadesico'' can do, but don't want to risk this new one pulling any improvements out (or splitting their focus between the two ships and being double-teamed).
265	* SurroundedByIdiots: Ruri's CatchPhrase. The Jovians aren't exactly the sharpest mecha-sized knives in the arsenal compared to their leader, either.
266	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Happens a lot with the DeconstructorFleet this show is flying. The most famous example is the episode three twist: [[spoiler:anime characters might go out heroically on the battlefield like Gai wanted, but in real life, people can die pointlessly with little warning.]]
267	* TakeAThirdOption: Subverted as hard as possible. [[spoiler:Yurika has to choose between raising the Distortion Field (which would kill all the Martian colonists that the Nadesico came to rescue) or allow the Nadesico to be blown to scrap by the Jovians. She throws out numerous Third Options, only for them all to be summarily dismissed by the crew due to time constraints or other impracticalities. At the last second, she is forced to give the order to raise the Field, killing all the colonists except for Inez Fressange, who was already on board.]]
268	* TakeThat: The English dub has Creator/SpikeSpencer, at that point well-known as the voice of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] ("I mustn't run away") deliver the line in the first episode, "What's wrong with running away!?"
269	* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: Boson Jumping. The Jovians can do it with ease, but require a distortion field in order to actively make it work. If you don't, any cavities in the ship/mech you're inside will get crushed and sent back out the way it came. [[spoiler:And that's not even getting into the fact that you're not just instantly moving around in space, but in ''time''. [[TimeTravel Jump too far and too often, and you could end up accidentally time travelling.]]]]
270	* TaughtToHate: {{Discussed}} when Megumi leaves the ship and returns to her acting career. She points out, rather disgustedly, that the villains of the current show she's working on now have a villain called the "Jovan" and it's obvious that they're meant to be a stand-in for the "Jovians", and laments that they're teaching kids to hate the Jovians on sight.
271	* ThemeNaming: The Nadesico and the Earth Forces ships are all named after flowers, including the ND-002 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_%28plant%29 Cosmos]] which uses the English name.
272	* ThereAreNoTherapists: There is one, actually... but you'd have to be ''really'' crazy to go to Inez Fressange for counseling. And the counseling is a one-time, throwaway bit anyway.
273	%%* TokenMiniMoe: Ruri.
274	%%* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Akito]] in TheMovie
275	%%* TragicHero: As above.
276	* {{Tsundere}}: Ryoko Subaru is a classic example. Yukina Shiratori pretty much drops the ''tsuntsun'' once [[spoiler:she stops wanting to kill Minako]]. Akito might count as a male example, especially where Yurika's concerned.
277	* UnbuiltTrope: Aqua from episode 10 is a {{yandere}} from before they became as popular as they are today. She still looks unassuming and proves to be dangerous and irrational, but her obsession is with her own image and the ideal of tragedy, not with Akito himself, who's just a setpiece for a tragic story in her mind.
278	* UniversalGroupReaction: When all the members of Akito's UnwantedHarem, all of whom have proven to be {{Lethal Chef}}s, start chasing the poor lad around the ship trying to offer him their latest culinary creations, the rest of the male crew shout in unison, "If you don't want them, give them to us! We're available!"
279	* UnusualUserInterface: The Image Feedback System, via {{nanomachines}}.
280	* TheUnwantedHarem: Akito hates having so many girls vying for his attention. He'd rather be left to cook in peace.
281	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The anime company which created the ShowWithinAShow Gekigander had no idea their [[spoiler:children's media about good overcoming evil would become the core reliquary of a planet-sized theocratic dictatorship which would declare war on two other planets]]. The dictators would probably have chosen something equally stupid if it furthered their control, but [[spoiler:the BlackAndWhiteMorality written throughout the show]] certainly helped indoctrinate the [[spoiler:schoolboy/schoolgirl-themed]] soldiers.
282	* VomitDiscretionShot: After Yurika is [[spoiler: forced to order the ship's Distortion Field to be raised on the ground, the field collapses the cavern below, killing all but one of the surviving Martian colonists]], she suddenly claps her hand over her mouth, as if trying to keep something down. The next shot is her leaning over a sink.
283	* VirtualTrainingSimulation: The Aestivalis pilots have one for practicing combat in their mecha, and in episode 9 Megumi uses a simulator room with Akito during a date.
284	* WarriorPoet: Kinda. Warrior Chef, anyway.
285	* WaveMotionGun: The Nadesico's Gravity Blast Cannon. Later, its upgrade, the Y-Unit's reality-warping Phase Transition Cannon.
286	** The Cosmos manages to BeamSpam the first version.
287	** The PT cannon folds space in on itself. It's only effective once in the series, but it rips an entire enemy fleet to shreds in an instant.
288	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Gai Daigoji dies in the third episode]].
289	* WhamEpisode:
290	** Episode 3, which is the first real instance of MoodWhiplash. Up to this point, the {{Ascended Fanboy}}s of the crew have been treating their situation like they were in a SuperRobot anime, and the show generally focused on the goofy and eccentric personalities of the cast. Unfortunately, those fanboys are WrongGenreSavvy: they're actually in a RealRobot show, and the undignified and anticlimactic death of [[spoiler:Gai Daigoji]] underlines it.
291	** Episode 6, where Yurika is forced to make an extremely difficult choice for the first time. She could attempt to attack the massive Jovian fleet, which would prove rather pointless as they can't use their WaveMotionGun in an atmosphere repeatedly and the Jovians can [[WeHaveReserves continually bring reinforcements.]] Or they could use their gravity distortion field to generate a shield to protect the ship, but doing so would damage the ground the ship is currently over, and would collapse the ceiling on the underground shelters and kill all of the people residing inside. [[spoiler: She ultimately chooses to save the ship at the cost of the colonists, which in the long run was a better choice, as dying there probably would have spelled doom for the colonists anyway.]]
292	** Episode 15, where Akito [[spoiler: learns that the Jovians aren't lizards at all when he sees a human inside one of the Jovian mecha. Both Megumi and Minato also aid in helping a different Jovian soldier to escape captivity from the Nadesico.]]
293	** And in episode 16, everyone aboard the Nadesico learns [[spoiler: that the Jovians are in fact humans from the Moon who were banished by Earth for attempting insurrection and trying to break free from Earth's control. Many are upset due to this revelation, because when they signed up, they thought the Jovians really were hostile aliens.]]
294	* WhamLine: Nagare Akatsuki delivers one in episode 22, [[spoiler: when he reveals himself to be the chairman for Nergal.]]
295	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Jovian Lizards are really [[spoiler:a lost human colony]] but the Earth government (and Nergal) distribute false propaganda so that the Earthlings believe that Jovians are [[spoiler:monster lizards.]] Once the ''Nadesico'' crew discovers the truth, they are reluctant to fight the Jovians.
296	* WorkingWithTheEx: Minato and Hori, after they break up. Yurika finds them extremely awkward to be around if they're in the same room.
297	* WorthyOpponent: The Jovians end up considering the ''Nadesico'' to be this.
298	* TheWorfBarrage: The ''Nadesico'' often delivers this to prove that the new Jovian ship or weapon is going to be a challenge to overcome. Sometimes the Federation fleet does this too just before the ''Nadesico'' shows up to save the day.
299	* WorldOfPun: The show has a ''lot'' of puns. Izumi Maki, in particularly, uses so many puns that she barely speaks at all without a translator's note appearing.
300	* WrongGenreSavvy: Most of the [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fanboys]] seem to think they're in an idealistic SuperRobot show, rather than a RealRobot series where AnyoneCanDie, etc. It helps with the MoodWhiplash.
301	* {{Yandere}}: Akito runs into one in episode 10. It takes a [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous]] Ryoko to rescue him.
302	* ZenSlap: Played for laughs. The Nadesico has a meditation room, with robots that monitor the brainwaves of those using it. If their brainwaves indicate that they are distracted or thinking of "Worldly Passions", the robots strike the patrons with bamboo rods, telling them, "Worldly passions are bad."
303	* ZergRush: [[spoiler: Due to their smaller population]], the Jovians have to rely largely on unmanned drones for attacking. Interestingly, the humans seem to have trouble fighting against them early on, but later in the series the Nadesico's crew seem more competent in destroying them.
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Context Anime / MartianSuccessorNadesico