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Ununnilium: So, we Cross Over this with Simoun. Giant robots powered by heterosexuality vs. giant robots powered by lesbianism! Who will win!?

BT The P: The viewer!

Looney Toons: The guys who power their giant robots with Ho Yay, and who stay out of the conflict.

Ununnilium: So Gundam Wing, then. ``

Dentaku: I removed this: "***If your talking about the relationship between Misty and Meia, this troper thinks Misty just saw Meia as a female version of a BigBrotherMentor. Not to mention there is enough of an age difference to make it strange." No, the lesbian pair in this case is Jura and Barnette.

Uldihaa: I'm pretty sure the example cited for the the Sci-fi Writers have No Sense of Scale is wrong. B.C. states that the ship has been transported to 'another nebula', not another galaxy. And since it's never stated how many light years it is back, nor what the Nirvana's 'cruising speed' is, 270 days could be reasonable.

• Zalis: It's more like "Fansubbers have no sense of scale." The old fansub release gives the line as "another galaxy," while the official DVD translation has "another nebula." So because the example was based on a misunderstanding, I'm axing it. The trope wasn't averted, because it was never present in the first place.

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Pavlov: Removed all the natter about VCRs:

• Partially justified (not to mention Lampshaded) by the backstory Part of the Nirvana is a piece of the original colony ship from Earth; it's then perfectly reasonable for the Nirvana to have a player for a tape that the ship had left Earth with
  • ...even though, by the time the show was made, videotapes were all but extinct in Japan??
  • Tell that to Exabyte users - especially considering what Exabytes are used for currently :)