Tropes Used In The Franchise As A Whole/The Battle Story
- Good Bad Translation: Zoids Legacy, the only English GBA title. Every sentence in the game either comes out grammatically incorrect, uses an exceedingly weird word or is just plain nonsensical. This verges on the hilarious when Zan is shot down and he, verging on tears, declares "Can't hear Zoids". And then there's the lines like "Prince Gard, use me please!"
- Memetic Badass:
- Iguan in both the American and Japanese fandom.
- By expansion: Zillon, too.
Tropes Used In Fuzors
Tropes Used In Genesis
- Complete Monster: General Jiin is a cold, ambitious man with aspirations of godhood, ambitions he puts into motion by fatally poisoning his own father and destroying his own home city to assure his rule over the Digald Empire. Treating his own longtime associate Zairin as a pawn to advance his own social standing, Jiin gives him a Zoid called the Volcano with the promise that it will bring ruin to his enemies—while secretly using it to drain his life to fuel his own Zoid and smugly trying to kill Zairin when he learns of this, whilst admitting he always saw Zairin as a pawn. Eventually revealed to be using the souls of thousands of his own citizens to power up his fleet while they're fully conscious and aware of everything, Jiin eventually declares himself an absolute god and tries to take over the entire planet, with the promise that anyone who refuses to prostrate themselves before him will die, even wiping out entire cities to the cause before he's stopped by Ruuji.
- Fan-Preferred Couple: Ruuji x Kotona is surprisingly popular with the fandom.
Tropes Used In The UK Comic
- Complete Monster: Silverman, one of the survivors of the crashed spaceship Celeste who land on the deadly planet Zoidstar, was actually a treacherous android who engineered the crash and the resultant death of most onboard. Silverman mercilessly gunned down the one survivor who clued into his Robotic Reveal in time before he was seemingly destroyed by Heller. In actuality, Silverman used scrapped technology to rebuild himself in time for the Black Zoid arc, where Silverman, consumed by The Power of Hate, went on a killing spree. Silverman pledged to not only destroy everything on Zoidstar but specifically Heller, promising to make Heller watch as Silverman murdered his friends and family first.
- Nightmare Fuel: Holy shit, Silverman. The antagonist of the Black Zoid storyline was subject to a Robotic Reveal that launched Silverman from a cheesy 80s comic villain to a nightmare straight out of the
Terminator series, ultimately subject to a terrifying Villainous Breakdown where Silverman lurches after his arch-nemesis Heller even when the rest of his body has been nearly totally destroyed, fueled on nothing but his sheer hatred of Heller.
