Death By Falling Over (Subverted. The kids thought that Ushiro accidentally killed him by pushing him off Zearth's shoulder, but Waku was already dead)
Posthumous Narration: It's presumably Waku's voice that we hear in the opening of epsiode 1 where said voice talks about the game as if it's already happened.
The Woobie: It's hard not to feel bad for her when she's describing how she behaved well so people would approve of her, even in the face of unprovoked bullying.
Groin Attack (During her fight, she gets Zearth to kick the enemy robot like this)
Knife Nut (After being "broken", in the manga she carries a knife for self-defense. She uses it to kill Kako, and before dying she gives it to Kirie. Who uses it to injure Hatagai.)
Good Is Dumb: Her family in the manga Subverted, however, as it is eventually IMPLIED that the would-be car thief was merely trying to return a favor.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog (He wants his heart to be harvested and given to Nagi after he dies. However, Nagi dies during his battle. Whoops.)
Not in the manga, fortunately.
Maki Ano
Birth Death Juxtaposition (Her battle happens at the same time as the birth of her baby brother. She manages to witness it right before passing away, even getting to hug the baby and pass away smiling.)
Achilles in His Tent (In the anime, after surviving his first duel by pretty much driving the other pilot to suicide, he seriously ponders to not return. When he sees that his family and specially his mother is doing well, though, Kirie comes back to the fight, wins his duel, unmasks Youko and then dies.)
Beware the Nice Ones, manga only: Kirie stabs Hatagai in the stomach after he offers him to teach him his way of life
Disappeared Dad (in the anime, Congressman Komoda gets killed off.)
Elegant Classical Musician: Is an accomplished piano player Turns out to be a plot point in the manga, where she wins without fighting via luring her rival into her last recital.
She dies in her father's arms in the manga, but not smiling.
Freak Out (After the aforementioned incident with Youko, Koyemshi punishes the girl by choosing her as the next pilot. Understandably, she shuts down. And then she gets better)
Caught with Your Pants Down (By Koyemshi, in the manga. It wasn't anything sexual, mind you! Just her indulging into her Idol's fantasies.)
Idol Singer (What she wanted to be, at least in the manga.)
Out of Focus (In the anime. She didn't received as much attention as other pilots during her episode, which focused a great deal of time on the media exploits regarding Zearth. Her TWO crowning moments of awesome were also missing on the adaptation.)
Plucky Girl (Specially in the manga, where she continues fighting even after having her legs burned off)
Ship Tease (Her interactions with Kanji in the anime can be seen as this, to a degree)
Stepford Smiler ( In the anime, when her dad is caught in an affair and her Hot Mom goes Lady Drunk mode, Anko hides her distress at both this and her position as the next pilot. She acts happy and sweet, but when she and her friend Kanji are alone, she cries in his arms.)
Taking the Bullet (In the manga, she pushes Machi out of the way of corrosive substance that an enemy robot injected into the cockpit. Because of it, she got her legs burned off.)
Becoming the Mask (She was raised in our Earth, comes to truly love our world and, in the anime, she sacrifices herself for us. Her crush on Ushiro helps a bit, too.)
Not Funny Anymore (In the manga, Machi says the kids might have assassins sent after them, which causes a pretty funny effect on the kids. She's shot to death some episodes later, and Koyemshi has to kill her to ease her suffer.)
Spanner in the Works (in the anime, upon Ushiro's request she out-gambits and kills Koyemshi, undoing his cruel manipulations on him and Kana and forcing her way into the contract.)
Vomit Indiscretion Shot ( in the manga, during his battle. He's in an Heroic BSOD because of the stress and throws up on his lap, so he has to put on a custom uniform.)
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds (In the manga, AND HOLY SHIT HOW! And for worse, it's not our world he's trying to single-handedly destroy - he has to kill every single inhabitant of the other Earth if he wants to save ours. And he does.
Yakuza Prince (In the anime, then subverted. His father Ichiro was a Yakuza heir, but after he was killed by his enemies, his mom Miko (later, Misumi Tanaka) gave Ushiro away to her cousin so he'd have a normal life.)
Nay Theist: Manga only— Koyemshi believes that it's better to think of the mecha battles as natural phenomena and God as a yet-undiscovered law of physics, because "it's better that way" ... Probably because the idea that God might be behind the pruning is not a comfortable thought.
Pet the Dog: Koyemshi can appear nearly sympathetic in the manga, when he displays some signs of care for Machi.
Robot Buddy: Subverted—Koyemshi doesn't always tell the kids things they really ought to know.
Sadistic Choice (His treatment of Kana and Jun by the end of the anime, when he tries to manipulate Kana into becoming a pilot and threatening her with forcing Ushiro to do so if she hesitates. Ushiro, however, had asked Youko for help behind his back, and she out-gambits and kills him)
Stern Teacher (In the manga he retakes his human form, becomes the new Kokopelli and goes to another Earth with Zearth. When he recruits the new pilots, he straightforwardly tells them that they'll die after piloting (unlike Garaku/Kokopelli, who couldn't bring himself to do so), but then he adds that he will be the first pilot and show them how to do it right, which triggers the Redemption Equals Death mentioned above.)
Shoot the Dog (has to put a mortally injured Youko out of her misery in the manga, which lets him show a slightly softer side.)
Trickster Mentor: Subverted in the anime; Koyemshi is such a Jerkass that he torments the children simply because he enjoys seeing them suffer.
Moral Event Horizon (Everything he did to Chizu. In the manga, he sets her to be gangraped by his friends and doesn't give a shit when she gets pregnant because of that. In the anime, he takes pictures of their sex activities and posts them to the internet. )
Spell My Name with an S (He is Morihiro Hatagai in the manga, but Hiroyuki Hatagai in the anime.)
Sasami
Tate
Akira Tokosumi
Adults Are Useless (Averted in the anime, where he works with other adults (Komo's dad, Kanji's mom, etc.) to find out what is going on and try saving the kids. In the manga he still tries to support Anko as much as he can.)
Spell My Name with an S (He is Kouichi Komoda in the anime, and Tomoe Komoda in the manga. Those two versions could be considered separate characters altogether, as their character designs are different as well: Kouichi looks quite younger than Tomoe, to start.)
Ichiko Honda
Go Through Me (Attempting to snap Chizuru out of her Roaring Rampage of Revenge, she stands between Zearth's arm and Hatagai and tells her little sister to kill her instead, dumping the blame on herself. Chizu stops, but Ichiko can't save her from dying.)
