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Corrected incorrect Cute Robot Girl link to the real Robot Girl link. Added Full Conversion Cyborg trope, since Nuku-Nuku is defined as a biological brain in a cybernetic body.


* CatGirl: Played with; despite "Cat Girl" being in the title, Nuku Nuku doesn't have the typical [[LittleBitBeastly cat ears and tail]] of this trope, though she does have a fold-out set of robotic antennae on her head that vaguely resemble cat ears. However, each version of her is a [[RobotGirl cyborg]] with some kind of cat biology implanted in her that makes her act very catlike. In the OVA and fourteen ep TV series, she has a cat's brain. In ''Dash'', it's implied she has a cat's brain and its entire ''nervous system''. [[spoiler:Which would logically also apply to her "sister", Rei-Rei.]]

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* CatGirl: Played with; despite "Cat Girl" being in the title, Nuku Nuku doesn't have the typical [[LittleBitBeastly cat ears and tail]] of this trope, though she does have a fold-out set of robotic antennae on her head that vaguely resemble cat ears. However, each version of her is a [[RobotGirl cyborg]] FullConversionCyborg with some kind of cat biology implanted in her that makes her act very catlike. In the OVA and fourteen ep TV series, she has a cat's brain. In ''Dash'', it's implied she has a cat's brain and its entire ''nervous system''. [[spoiler:Which would logically also apply to her "sister", Rei-Rei.]]



** Regardless of version, Nuku-Nuku is a CuteRobotGirl who looks like a very attractive sixteen year old girl... but she's also outfitted with SuperStrength and martial arts abilities that allow her to make absolute ''mincemeat'' out of dedicated combat MiniMecha with seeming ease.
** In the OAV, rival CuteRobotGirl Eimi Yoshikawa looks like a cute girl, but is actually outfitted with the strength and integrated weaponry to battle Nuku-Nuku on relative ease.

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** Regardless of version, Nuku-Nuku is a CuteRobotGirl RobotGirl who looks like a very attractive sixteen year old girl... but she's also outfitted with SuperStrength and martial arts abilities that allow her to make absolute ''mincemeat'' out of dedicated combat MiniMecha with seeming ease.
** In the OAV, rival CuteRobotGirl RobotGirl Eimi Yoshikawa looks like a cute girl, but is actually outfitted with the strength and integrated weaponry to battle Nuku-Nuku on relative ease.


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* FullConversionCyborg: Nuku-Nuku is depicted as a cat's brain (and possibly some of its nervous system) that has been installed into a completely mechanical RobotGirl body. It's implied even some of her brain is actually cybernetic, which would explain how she's able to function with a human-level of cognizance.

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Added some OAV tropes, moved Akiko's career woman trope to the OAV (it's not true in the other incarnations as far as I know, fleshed out some ZCE entries.


* ''All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV'' / ''Bannou Bunka Nekomusume'' - A fourteen-episode TV series which features a LighterAndSofter tone, focusing more on slapstick comedy than action. ''TV'' famously changed the character dynamic, focusing less on the Natsume family and more on Nuku Nuku's misadventures as she attempts to adjust to the life of a high school girl while battling [[MonsterOfTheWeek regular robot attacks]] instigated by [[BigBad Hell Mishima]], a CorruptCorporateExecutive who takes over Akiko (downgraded to PunchClockVillain)'s position as the major antagonist.

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* ''All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV'' / ''Bannou Bunka Nekomusume'' - A fourteen-episode TV series which features a LighterAndSofter tone, focusing more on slapstick comedy than action. ''TV'' famously changed the character dynamic, focusing less on the Natsume family and more on Nuku Nuku's misadventures as she attempts to adjust to the life of a high school girl while battling [[MonsterOfTheWeek regular robot attacks]] instigated by [[BigBad Hell Mishima]], a CorruptCorporateExecutive who takes over Akiko (downgraded to PunchClockVillain)'s position Akiko'sposition as the major antagonist.
antagonist (with Akiko downgraded to PunchClockVillain) .



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%% * BeachEpisode: Once per series, at least.
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%% * ButtMonkey: Arisa and Kyouko in most incarnations. ''TV'' adds in badly battered teacher Yamagata-sensei.
%% * CallingYourAttacks: '''"MOTHER'S LOVE MISSILE!"''' '''"NUKU-NUKU PUNCH!"''' '''"NUKU-NUKU KICK!"'''
* CatGirl: Played with; despite "Cat Girl" being in the title, Nuku Nuku doesn't have the typical [[LittleBitBeastly cat ears and tail]] of this trope. However, each version of her is a [[RobotGirl cyborg]] with some kind of cat biology implanted in her that makes her act very catlike. In the OVA and fourteen ep TV series, she has a cat's brain. In ''Dash'', it's implied she, as well as [[spoiler:her sister Rei Rei]], each have a cat's brain and its entire ''nervous system''.
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%% * CuteBruiser: Nuku-Nuku in each and every version. The original also has fellow RobotGirl Eimi Yoshikawa. In Dash, Nuku Nuku goes from cute to outright boob-loaded, in addition to the change in hair and eye color.
%% * CuteLittleFangs: Nuku-Nuku
%% * {{Determinator}}: Nuku Nuku. Semi-lampshaded by Kyouko in the very first episode of the OVA.
%% --> * Nuku Nuku emerges from a pile of wreckage*
%% --> '''Kyouko''': What are you, the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''?!
%% --> '''Nuku Nuku''': No, I'm Natsume Nuku-Nuku! The fruit of Papa-san and Ryunosuke's love!

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AmusingInjuries: Characters are routinely subjected to massive physical violence; they're caught in explosions, hit by runaway mecha, crushed under rubble, and so forth. None of it ever actually leaves anything more than the need to wear some bandages for scene, and it's always played for laughs, even when it's the entirely normal characters getting abused and not the MadeOfIron androids.
* BeachEpisode: Once per series, Nuku-Nuku visits the beach at least.
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least once in all three incarnations, which naturally serves as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample an excuse to put the curvy cute catgirl gynoid into a skimpy bikini.
* BitingTheHandkerchief
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BitingTheHandkerchief: In the very first OAV, a distressed Akiko can be seen biting into a handkerchief to try and keep from crying in distress as she rewatches a video of her husband's explanation for why he took Ryunosuke and the gynoid body that became Nuku-Nuku and ran away.
* ButtMonkey: ButtMonkey:
**
Arisa and Kyouko Kyouko, Akiko's primary underlings, are put through the wringer in most incarnations. both the OAV and the TV continuities. They're constantly failing in their efforts to defeat Nuku-Nuku, which typically results in them painfully getting their butts handed to them, and then Akiko usually punishes them for failing. In the very first OAV, after nearly getting killed when Nuku-Nuku pulverizes the PoweredArmor and combat VTOL they fought her in, Akiko then blames the destruction of those ''very expensive'' pieces of tech on the two of them, despite having ordered them to use them in the first place without her grandfather's permission. In the 5th OAV, they're shown to be living in poverty, as Akiko has docked their pay and increased their working hours massively to cover for all the stuff that they've gotten wrecked in failed battles against Nuku-Nuku -- and then, for added insult, she orders them to stay away from Nuku-Nuku when she takes a job at a restaurant Akiko owns because she's making a big profit off of her presence. When they ignore her and seek revenge against Nuku-Nuku on their own initiative, they get beaten up by some nerds with a crush on Nuku-Nuku, then get beaten up, stuffed in a trashcan and rolled into a canal by the restaurant owner for trying to sabotage Nuku-Nuku, and then finally, they earn Akiko's full-blown wrath when she learns they not only disobeyed her, they destroyed the restaurant whilst doing so.
** Yamagata-sensei, Nuku-Nuku's classroom teacher in the
''TV'' adds article, similarly cops a lot of slapstick violence and comedic misfortune due to having the bad luck of trying to teach a class with a super-powered gynoid in badly battered teacher Yamagata-sensei.
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it who's being actively hunted by a crazy corporation.
* CallingYourAttacks: '''"MOTHER'S LOVE MISSILE!"''' '''"NUKU-NUKU PUNCH!"''' '''"NUKU-NUKU KICK!"'''
Being a light-hearted action-comedy from the 90s, characters will sometimes call out their attacks whilst trying to be dramatic. This only appears one time in the OAV, when Akiko shout's "Mother's Love Missile!" whilst firing missiles at Nuku-Nuku. But in the TV continuity, Nuku-Nuku likes to do this herself, shouting things like "Nuku-Nuku Punch!" and "Nuku-Nuki Kick!" when she makes her attacks.
* CatGirl: Played with; despite "Cat Girl" being in the title, Nuku Nuku doesn't have the typical [[LittleBitBeastly cat ears and tail]] of this trope.trope, though she does have a fold-out set of robotic antennae on her head that vaguely resemble cat ears. However, each version of her is a [[RobotGirl cyborg]] with some kind of cat biology implanted in her that makes her act very catlike. In the OVA and fourteen ep TV series, she has a cat's brain. In ''Dash'', it's implied she, as well as [[spoiler:her sister Rei Rei]], each have she has a cat's brain and its entire ''nervous system''.system''. [[spoiler:Which would logically also apply to her "sister", Rei-Rei.]]
* CrossPoppingVeins: When characters in the OAV or TV series get really mad, expect to see cross-shapes popping all over their forehead to express that fact.
* CuteBruiser:
** Regardless of version, Nuku-Nuku is a CuteRobotGirl who looks like a very attractive sixteen year old girl... but she's also outfitted with SuperStrength and martial arts abilities that allow her to make absolute ''mincemeat'' out of dedicated combat MiniMecha with seeming ease.
** In the OAV, rival CuteRobotGirl Eimi Yoshikawa looks like a cute girl, but is actually outfitted with the strength and integrated weaponry to battle Nuku-Nuku on relative ease.

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%% * CuteBruiser: Nuku-Nuku in each and every version. The original also has fellow RobotGirl Eimi Yoshikawa. In Dash, Nuku Nuku goes from cute to outright boob-loaded, in addition to the change in hair and eye color.
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* CuteLittleFangs: Nuku-Nuku
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Nuku-Nuku's most overtly cat-like feature is that the tip of one or both upper canines can be seen peeking out of the corner of her mouth whenever she smiles or has her mouth open. It just makes her look cute.
* {{Determinator}}: Nuku Nuku.Nuku will ''never'' give up, no matter the odds against her. It ''helps'' that she's a super-strong, super-fast battle gynoid, but even with those traits, she still will not '''stop''' to protect those she cares about. Semi-lampshaded by Kyouko in the very first episode of the OVA.
%% --> * Nuku Nuku emerges from a pile of wreckage*
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wreckage*
--> '''Kyouko''': What are you, the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''?!
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''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''?!
--> '''Nuku Nuku''': No, I'm Natsume Nuku-Nuku! The fruit of Papa-san and Ryunosuke's love!



%% * DumbMuscle: [[DumbIsGood Nuku-Nuku]] and Eimi again.

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%% * DumbMuscle: DumbMuscle:
** Nuku-Nuku has SuperStrength to the point she can throw cars around as if they were golfballs, but is generally portrayed as TheDitz --
[[DumbIsGood Nuku-Nuku]] incredibly sweet, but also very stupid]]. It's justified in that the core of her processor is a cat's brain, and even with the programming to uplift her to full sapience, she's still basically a young child in the body of a super-strong teenager.
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Eimi again.Yoshikawa is strong enough to fight on equal footing with Nuku-Nuku, but is even ''dumber'' than she is. When she first appears, she actually comes off as even ''more'' socially inept than Nuku-Nuku. [[spoiler:Then comes the grand reveal at the episode's end that after she decided she wanted to steal Nuku-Nuku's body for herself... she never figured out how to actually pull it off, she just ran off immediately intent on catching her precursor.]]



%% * GenkiGirl: Nuku-Nuku in all versions except ''Dash''.
%% * HeavySleeper: Kyusaku and Ryunosuke. Nuku Nuku at some points.
* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Akiko Natsume is the head of a powerful corporation. She is also estranged from her husband and her son. In one episode, she invites them, and Nuku Nuku, to her mansion to try and patch things up. Her effort at preparing a meal involves her believing that you wash rice with dish soap, and she burned the fish to inedibility.

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%% * GenkiGirl: Nuku-Nuku in all versions except ''Dash''.
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the OAV and TV continuities is a bubbly, chipper, near-perpetually happy bundle of energy (when she's not taking a catnap). It takes a ''lot'' for her to stop being happy and optimistic.
* HeavySleeper: Kyusaku and Ryunosuke. Nuku Nuku at some points.
* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Akiko Natsume
Ryunosuke is established to be a very heavy sleeper, to the head of a powerful corporation. She is also estranged from her husband and her son. In one episode, she invites them, and Nuku Nuku, to her mansion to try and patch things up. Her effort at preparing a meal point that in the OAV, Nuku-Nuku's morning routine involves her believing that you wash rice with dish soap, banging on a pot and shouting at him to make him wake up -- and he still won't wake until she burned the fish to inedibility. yanks off his bed covers.



%% * HumongousMecha: It would appear that Mishima Industries produces nothing but these.
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%% * HumongousMecha: It would appear that Mishima Industries produces nothing but these.
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Heavy Industry's business seems to primarily consist of churning out piloted war-machines, ranging from MiniMecha to full-blown massive ones, with the precise models varying depending on the continuity. They range in shape from conventional vehicles like the Poison One combat VTOL jet fighter to tracked, vaguely-humanoid tanks like the Golem 2000 to more abstract machines like the Armored Octopus, a MiniMecha resembling an armored sphere on two humanoid legs with multiple CombatTentacles.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademyImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Whenever anyone is firing a gun or launching missiles, expect them to hit anything ''except'' their actual target.



* MermaidingSwimsuit: In the second episode of the OAV, Kyusuke hands Nuku Nuku a bikini with additional gadgets and a monofin named the "Mermaid RX-24" that allows Nuku Nuku to swim (being a full body cyborg, she sinks like a stone otherwise). For further comedy, the TV version of the same scene has Kyusuke noticing that the swimsuit's floating devices are battery-powered and he had not charged them before giving them to Nuku Nuku, so she swam in the subsequent action scene purely because the swimsuit acted like a MagicFeather.



%% * NoblewomansLaugh: Akiko (All versions), Chieko (''TV'')

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%% * NoblewomansLaugh: Akiko (All versions), NoblewomansLaugh:
** Fitting her characterization as an {{Ojou}} in the OAV and Dash continuity, Akiko's laugh is a high-pitched "oh-oh-oh!" sound when she does laugh. She even laughs this way in the TV continuity, where she's more of a blue-collar minion type.
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Chieko (''TV'')in the TV continuity, having taken Akiko's place as the {{Ojou}} RichBitch, naturally has the iconic NoblewomansLaugh to cement what an arrogant, stuck-up snob she is.



%% * {{Ojou}}: Akiko in all incarnations except ''TV''. Said series instead gives this role to RichBitch Chieko.

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%% * {{Ojou}}: {{Ojou}}:
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Akiko is a wealthy heiress and a high-ranking manager in all incarnations except ''TV''. Said series instead gives this role to Mishima Heavy Industries in the OAV and Dash continuities. She conducts herself as a haughty, arrogant heiress, complete with a NoblewomansLaugh. Averted in the TV continuity, where she's an inventor and underling like her husband Kyusaku.
** The TV continuity has newcomer Chieko, a
RichBitch Chieko.who thinks herself the greatest thing since chopsticks.



** Zigzagged with Akiko in the OAV continuity. She's technically the boss of Mishima Heavy Industries (though she actually reports to her own grandfather, who's the head of the company), and in the first episode she orders her underlings Arisa and Kyouko to capture Nuku-Nuku and bring her Ryunosuke by whatever it takes. However, her reason for doing this is because she wants the return of the NK-1124 gynoid ''she'' funded and ''her'' son Ryunosuke, whom Kyusaku technically stole and kidnapped. In the 2nd OAV, she actually turns out to have ''not'' planned to order her underlings to arrange for Ryunosuke to get injured during his trip to the beach after making a "deal" with Kyusaku that if Ryunosuke got hurt on said trip, he would return to Akiko. In the third OAV, she agrees to try and take the role of a traditional housewife in exchange for Kyusaku moving back into her family home with Ryunosuke and Nuku-Nuku, and genuinely does give it her best to live up to it until she realizes Kyusaku basically tricked her. Finally, she's a complete non-antagonist for the last three OAVs; she's trying to stop the rogue runaway gynoid Eimi in #4, orders Arisa and Kyouko to leave Nuku-Nuku alone at her new job in #5, and actually needs to be ''saved'' from a fault KillSat in #6.



%% ** Arisa and Kyouko are this in every incarnation.

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%% ** Arisa and Kyouko are this in every incarnation.incarnation, being literally just [[OfficeLady Office Ladies]] who do whatever their boss tells them, whether that's pushing paper or flying around the city in a MiniMecha and attacking Nuku-Nuku.



%% * RobotGirl: Eimi in the OVA, the other NK-series Androids in ''Dash'' aside from Nuku Nuku herself and [[spoiler: her sister Rei Rei]], who are cyborgs, instead.
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%% * SmallGirlBigGun: Arisa lives for this trope, but Eimi tops her at it by dragging a ''[[GatlingGood minigun]]'' around in order to give Nuku-Nuku a special "Christmas Present" in the final OVA episode.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Nuku-Nuku can handle water just fine, but she can't swim because her robot body is too heavy to float and she sinks in any large body of water. She is eventually [[MechaExpansionPack upgraded]] to get around this.

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%% * RobotGirl: Eimi in A feature of every incarnation of the OVA, series is the other presence of robots designed to look like cute teenage girls. Nuku-Nuku is, of course, the iconic example. She's technically a {{cyborg}}, in that she has a cat's brain integrated into her body somehow (presumably part of her processor), but the bulk of her body is mechanical and designed to look like a cute human 16-year-old. The DASH continuity has an entire line of NK-series Androids gynoids, all built to resemble beautiful busty young girls. [[spoiler:Nuku-Nukue even has a "sister" called Rei-Rei.]] The OAV has Eimi Yoshikawa, a gynoid called the SNK-98 created by a scientist in ''Dash'' aside the image of his dead granddaughter.
* {{Roofhopping}}: Thanks to her SuperStrength and feline agility, Nuku-Nuku is [[InASingleBound able to make incredible leaps]], so she often travels quickly around urban environments by leaping
from Nuku Nuku herself rooftop to rooftop.
* RuleOfCool: The designs of the various mecha,
and [[spoiler: her sister Rei Rei]], who the scenarios that Nuku-Nuku gets into, are cyborgs, instead.
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justified by just how cool they look.
* {{Roofhopping}}
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RuleOfFunny: Pretty much ''anything'' that happens in the series is justified by it being good for a laugh. Why design a robot that looks like a cute girl and give it the strength to run faster than the speed of sound or kick a tank like a soccer ball? Because it's funny!
* SmallGirlBigGun: Arisa lives for this trope, is an average-sized woman who is typically seen hauling around huge guns, ranging from simple two-handed assault and sniper rifles to heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and futuristic energy blasters, but Eimi (who looks like a 16-year-old) tops her at it by dragging a ''[[GatlingGood minigun]]'' around in order to give Nuku-Nuku a special "Christmas Present" in the final OVA episode.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Nuku-Nuku can handle water just fine, but she can't swim because her robot body is too heavy to float and she sinks in any large body of water. She is eventually [[MechaExpansionPack upgraded]] to get around this. The OAV does imply she can actually ''drown'' if she spends too long submerged, as she's shown desperately trying to conserve air.



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%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Recurring OfficeLady underlings Arisa and Kyouko.
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Kyouko; Arisa is a hot-headed, violence-loving action-junky, whilst Kyouko is calmer and usually more sensible and reserved, but often ends up being dragged into chaos by Arisa.
* WordSaladTitleWordSaladTitle: "All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku-Nuku" makes absolutely ''no'' sense when you stop and think about it, and it means pretty much nothing descriptive, but it sure is catchy!



%% * BigFancyHouse: Akiko lives in one of these, and so does the rest of the clan in the one episode that Akiko tries to go straight.

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%% * BigFancyHouse: Akiko lives in one of these, and so does the rest of the clan in the one episode that Akiko tries to go straight.straight.
* BullyingADragon: Arisa and Kyouko in OAV #5, after having had their asses ''repeatedly'' kicked by Nuku-Nuku and directly ''ordered'' to leave her alone whilst she's working at a restaurant owned by Akiko, decide to seek revenge by first humiliating her, then trying to get her fired, and then finally by just shooting up the place. It goes about as well as all the other times they fought her.



%% * CrossCounter: What eventually ends Nuku-Nuku and Eimi's brawl during episode 4... Until they get right back up and start going at it again.

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%% * CrossCounter: What eventually ends Nuku-Nuku and Eimi's brawl during episode 4...4 is when they go for a punch, only to catch each other right in the face at the same time, knocking them both to the ground simultaneously... Until they get right back up and start going at it again.



%% * ExactTimeToFailure: See EnemyMine.
%% * GrandTheftMe: "Eimi wants your body, Nuku Nuku"... and not in the ''fun'' way, either.
* GroinAttack: Nuku-Nuku breifly pressing Eimi's groin with her foot during their "Rematch" in the fourth episode.
* InstantFanClub: Nuku-Nuku gains one when she starts working at a family restaurant.

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%% * ExactTimeToFailure: See EnemyMine.
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During the 6th OAV, everybody is struggling desperately to deactivate the malfunctioning KillSat, which has become set to fire at Akiko Natsume exactly at the stroke of midnight. Thus, the rush to deactivate it before the deadline.
* GrandTheftMe: "Eimi wants your The plot of the 4th is that [=MHI=] gynoid SNK-98, better known as Eimi Yoshikawa, is intent on finding some way to upload herself into Nuku-Nuku's body, Nuku Nuku"... and not in the ''fun'' way, either.
as her own body has a fatal flaw where she will explode if she overheats too badly.
* GroinAttack: Nuku-Nuku breifly can briefly be seen pressing Eimi's groin with her foot during their "Rematch" "rematch" in the fourth episode.
* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Akiko Natsume is the head of a powerful corporation. She is also estranged from her husband and her son, and is shown to have no idea how to perform basic household tasks. In one episode, she invites them, and Nuku Nuku, to her mansion to try and patch things up. Her effort at preparing a meal involves her believing that you wash rice with dish soap, and she burned the fish to inedibility.
* InstantFanClub: Nuku-Nuku gains one when she starts working at a family restaurant.restaurant in the fifth OAV.



* MermaidingSwimsuit: In the second episode of the OAV, Kyusuke hands Nuku Nuku a bikini with additional gadgets and a monofin named the "Mermaid RX-24" that allows Nuku Nuku to swim (being a full body cyborg, she sinks like a stone otherwise). For further comedy, the TV version of the same scene has Kyusuke noticing that the swimsuit's floating devices are battery-powered and he had not charged them before giving them to Nuku Nuku, so she swam in the subsequent action scene purely because the swimsuit acted like a MagicFeather.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Arisa and Kyouko become exasperated at how a "bimbo" like Nuku-Nuku catches so much attention and they, being "strong and intelligent" are ignored.

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* MermaidingSwimsuit: In the second episode of the OAV, Kyusuke hands Nuku Nuku a bikini with additional gadgets and a monofin named the "Mermaid RX-24" that allows Nuku Nuku to swim (being a full body cyborg, she sinks like a stone otherwise). For further comedy, the TV version of the same scene has Kyusuke noticing that the swimsuit's floating devices are battery-powered and he had not charged them before giving them to Nuku Nuku, so she swam in the subsequent action scene purely because the swimsuit acted like a MagicFeather.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Invoked in the 5th OAV, when Arisa and Kyouko become exasperated at how a "bimbo" like Nuku-Nuku catches so much attention and they, being "strong and intelligent" are ignored.ignored. Subverted in that it's not their "strength and intelligence" that chases off men, so much as their stupidity and impulsive violence.



%% * QuirkyHousehold: The Mishima mansion when Nuku, Kyusaku, and Ryunosuke go to live there for a short period in the third episode.
%% * RedEyesTakeWarning: Eimi's.
%% * TheRival: Eimi.
%% * TheScream: Akiko does this when she realises she has been duped by Kyusaku into letting him and Ryunosuke move back in, provided she does all the "motherly duties" like cooking and cleaning - even though that means she has no more time with her son than when they were separated.

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%% * QuirkyHousehold: The Mishima mansion when Nuku, Kyusaku, and Ryunosuke go to live there for a short period in the third episode.
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episode. It's an enormous, palatial estate hiding all kinds of hidden techno-gadgetry, like hidden doors and a small army of robots, and so big that Kyusaku is able to set up a fascimile of a traditional middle-class Japanese dining room inside one of the room whilst barely taking up a tenth of the space. As for the quirky, the family consists of the elderly Mr. Mishima, who thinks playing "shoot-em-up" with real combat robots is a good way to bond with his great-grandson; eccentric heiress Akiko, MadScientist Kyusaku, OnlySaneMan Ryunosuke, and hyper-active cat-brained gynoid Nuku-Nuku.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Eimi's.
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Eimi's crimson eyes subtly give away that she's a rival gynoid with sinister plans when she debuts.
* TheRival: Eimi.
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Eimi is obsessed with defeating Nuku-Nuku, largely in hopes that she can then steal Nuku-Nuku's body for her own.
* TheScream: Towards the climax of the 3rd OAV, Akiko does this when she realises realizes she has been duped by Kyusaku into letting when she agreed to let him and Ryunosuke move back in, provided she does all the "motherly duties" like cooking and cleaning - even though that -- as a letter from one of her underlings points out, this means she has no more time with her son than when they were separated.separated, because she's so busy. She promptly lets out a scream of rage and horror that can be heard all across the massive estate, before she dives into the [[MiniMecha Golem 2000]] and tries to hunt Kyusaku down.



%% * SkinshipGrope: Eimi while sizing up Nuku-Nuku for her GrandTheftMe.

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%% * SkinshipGrope: Eimi while sizing up In the 4th OAV, after inviting Nuku-Nuku to a public bath, Eimi gets right up close to Nuku-Nuku and starts groping her, complimenting her on things like the quality of her skin and the size of her bosom. It takes a darker twist with TheReveal that Eimi actually plans to [[GrandTheftMe switch bodies with Nuku-Nuku]] and she was looking for Nuku-Nuku's power switch so she could turn her GrandTheftMe.off.



%% * SmokingIsCool: Kyusaku's rarely seen without a drag in his mouth.
* StabTheSalad: One episode opens on darkness, a pounding heartbeat, a flash of light across a knife blade followed by a gush of blood and Akiko screaming... only to reveal it's Akiko grossed out by a fish on her chopping board as she tries to prepare dinner.

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%% * SmokingIsCool: Kyusaku's Kyusaku, the "cool" father-figure of both Ryunosuke and Nuku-Nuku, is rarely seen without a drag cigarette in his mouth.
* StabTheSalad: One episode The 3rd OAV opens on darkness, a pounding heartbeat, a flash of light across a knife blade followed by a gush of blood and Akiko screaming... only to reveal it's Akiko grossed out by a live fish on her chopping board as she tries to prepare dinner.


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* TooDumbToLive: Arisa and Kyouko are introduced in the 5th OAV with massive pay cuts and overwork to try and recompense Mishima Heavy Industries for all the damage they've caused in their failed fights against Nuku-Nuku. When they discover Nuku-Nuku has a part-time job at a local restaurant owned by [=MHI=] and report this to their boss Akiko, she '''orders''' them to leave Nuku-Nuku alone, as she's making them a lot of money. They promptly ignore her, try to get Nuku-Nuku fired, and end up shooting up the place in yet another failed attack. Guess what happen when Akiko finds out about them blatantly ignoring her orders and destroying a very profitable business venue in the process?


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* AdaptationalCurves: In ''Dash'', Nuku Nuku goes from cute to outright boob-loaded, in addition to the change in hair and eye color.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Even though Nuku Nuku is a android with the mind of a cat, she often partake in human action that should be impossible like eating, blushing, and getting drunk on catnip.

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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Even though Nuku Nuku is a an android with the mind of a cat, she often partake partakes in human action actions that should be impossible like eating, blushing, and getting drunk on catnip.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Even though Nuku Nuku is a android with the mind of a cat, she often partake in human action that should be impossible like eating, blushing, and getting drunk on catnip.
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* MermaidingSwimsuit: In the second episode of the OAV, Kyusuke hands Nuku Nuku a bikini with additional gadgets and a monofin named the "Mermaid RX-24" that allows Nuku Nuku to swim (being a full body cyborg, she sinks like a stone otherwise). For further comedy, the TV version of the same scene has Kyusuke noticing that the swimsuit's floating devices are battery-powered and he had not charged them before giving them to Nuku Nuku, so she swam in the subsequent action scene purely because the swimsuit acted like a MagicFeather.
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* PeekABangs: Kyusaku's. They cover both eyes in ''OVA'', and one eye in ''TV'' and ''Dash''.

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Hell Mishima and Kyusaku seem to think that they're in a dramatic toku show when they're really in a slapstick comedy. Made doubly hilarious when you see Dash, where their ideas about Nuku Nuku, at least, ARE SPOT ON!

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Hell Mishima and Kyusaku seem to think that they're in a dramatic toku show when they're really in a slapstick comedy. Made doubly hilarious when you see Dash, where their ideas about Nuku Nuku, at least, ARE SPOT ON!'''''are spot on!'''''



* CallBack: To one of Nuku Nuku TV's jokes. The supposed design for Nuku Nuku in the FakeOutOpening IS Nuku Nuku in Dash!

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* CallBack: To one of Nuku Nuku TV's jokes. The supposed design for Nuku Nuku in the FakeOutOpening IS Nuku Nuku in Dash!Dash, with the only difference being hair colour, in that the original Nuku has reddish-pink hair, and Dash!Nuku has light green hair.
* {{Fanservice}}: The whole purpose of Dash seems to be to make the series they kept referencing in the TV series.
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%% * {{Gainaxing}}: ''Especially'' in ''Dash''.

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* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture:
** Nuku-Nuku can handle water just fine, but she can't swim because her robot body is too heavy to float and she sinks in any large body of water. She is eventually [[MechaExpansionPack upgraded]] to get around this.
** Surprisingly one of the tropes played straight in ''TV''. The very first MonsterOfTheWeek is a HumongousMecha washing machine whose waterproofing failed and caused it to go on a rampage after it shorted out.

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* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture:
** Nuku-Nuku can handle water just fine, but she can't swim because her robot body is too heavy to float and she sinks in any large body of water. She is eventually [[MechaExpansionPack upgraded]] to get around this.
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NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: Surprisingly, one of the tropes played straight in ''TV''. The very first MonsterOfTheWeek is a HumongousMecha washing machine whose waterproofing failed and caused it to go on a rampage after it shorted out.



* SuperDrowningSkills: Nuku-Nuku can handle water just fine, but she can't swim because her robot body is too heavy to float and she sinks in any large body of water. She is eventually [[MechaExpansionPack upgraded]] to get around this.
%% * TheSweatDrop: Used in all series, but called attention to {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the TV series when Nuku-Nuku asks Kyusaku why she can do this, but is unable to sweat in the "normal" way.



%% * TheSweatDrop: Used in all series, but called attention to {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the TV series when Nuku-Nuku asks Kyusaku why she can do this, but is unable to sweat in the "normal" way.

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[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lt/nuku.jpg]][[caption-width-right:250:''The heartwarming story of [[ABoyAndHisX a Boy and his cat]]...'' ''...and a major Military Equipment Manufacturer.'']]



->'''''Boy #1:''' What's your favorite food?\\

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->'''''Boy
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#1:''' What's your favorite food?\\



'''Nuku-Nuku:''' Sitting in the sun.''

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'''Nuku-Nuku:''' Sitting in the sun.''
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%% * FilkSong: Pretty much anything thought up by Eiichi Ikenami. Though the words are always different, it's always the same tune.



** Eiichi breaks out into a FilkSong. "Lalalala...~"

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** Eiichi breaks out into a FilkSong.Filk Song. "Lalalala...~"
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* HighPoweredCareerWoman: Akiko Natsume is the head of a powerful corporation. She is also estranged from her husband and her son. In one episode, she invites them, and Nuku Nuku, to her mansion to try and patch things up. Her effort at preparing a meal involves her believing that you wash rice with dish soap, and she burned the fish to inedibility.
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%% * DateCrepe: In episode 3.
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: In their high school days, perpetually broke mad scientist Kyusaku and corporate heir Hell Mishima competed for Akiko's hand with ridiculous robot battles. She ultimately split the difference, marrying Kyusaku and working for Mishima.

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