History Anime / ArgentoSoma

* GambitRoulette: [[strike:Mr. X]][[spoiler:Gen. Lawrence]] danced through the GambitPileup in the finale with the nothing worse to wear than a limp and a walking stick, but everything ended ''his'' way -- and, to the everyone's surprise, that way was the ''best''.

* DealWiththeDevil: Soma's deal with Mr. X to get into FUNERAL. Down to the [[TemptingApple apple motif]] ([[spoiler:Which Soma later adopts himself]]).

%%%%* DarkSkinnedBlond

%%%%%* NiceHat: Hattie, of course.

* RecycledINSPACE: A reinterpretation of the story of FrankensteinsMonster set [[AC:TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture]] and [[AC:with mecha!]]
** {{Lampshaded}} by Ryu Soma himself in the Bandai dub when he commented on how the experiment reminded him of Dr. Frankenstein and the monster itself.
** It's also basically a remake of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Eva]], but with ''normal people'' instead of those neurotic wrecks.

* TransformingMecha: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; part of the reason why the [=SARGs=] can do this is so that the public won't be alarmed by their humanoid forms and mistake them for, say, the aliens that FUNERAL is fighting.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Soma feels this towards Frank, the 'Giant Alien Robot'. Amusingly enough, at one point, Frank is in danger, and Soma is desperate to get close enough to finish him off. His teammates, however, interpret this is him trying to rescue Frank, and join in, ultimately succeeding in the 'rescue'.

* BadassGrandpa

* BigFriendlyDog: Walton.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: "ROCK ON".
* DarkSkinnedBlond

* FauxlosophicNarration

* FunWithAcronyms: FUNERAL and MORGUE.

* HumongousMecha

* InsufferableGenius: Takuto.
* ItsPersonal
* JerkAss: (Soma, certainly - but even before his StartOfDarkness, Takuto hardly treated his girlfriend well.
** Well, from all the snark that was tossed between them, they were definitely in the MasochismTango.
* {{Kaiju}}: The aliens of the series.
* LightningCanDoAnything
* MoralityPet: The little girl that reminds Soma of his deceased girlfriend is probably the only thing stopping him from JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
** Hattie and Frank are sort of a compound MoralityPet.
* NiceHat: Hattie, of course.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Soma feels this towards Frank, the 'Giant Alien Robot'.
** Amusingly enough, at one point, Frank is in danger, and Soma is desperate to get close enough to finish him off. His teammates, however, interpret this is him trying to rescue Frank, and join in, ultimately succeeding in the 'rescue'.
* OracularUrchin: Harriet 'Hattie' Bartholomew.
* OurElvesAreBetter / OurFairiesAreDifferent: Hattie refers to Frank as "Yôsei-kun," translated in Bandai's R1 release as "Mr. Elf," although "yôsei" can also be translated as "fairy." Hattie's grandfather also makes wood carvings of elves and fairies he claims to have seen.

* SociopathicHero / VillainProtagonist: Soma is definitely the former, and sometimes borders on the latter at the peak of his obsession.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Ooh, booy, where to start...
* TeamMom: Major Lana Ines, the CO of FUNERAL.

* ThatManIsDead: How Soma feels about Takuto, who he refers to as "some jerk I used to know."

* TookALevelInBadass: From a calm and peaceful scientific type to a brash and confrontational AcePilot. Also notable for ''not'' explaining it ''at all''.
** There is a short scene in episode 1 when we learn Takuto once applied to be an astronaut/pilot. Presumably he had some training.

* TwistEnding: The aliens are...not what one might expect.
* TwoFaced: Soma.

''Argento Soma'' originally aired with 25 episodes, and was followed by the OVA "Alone and By Myself".

* DealWiththeDevil: Soma's deal with Mr. X to get into FUNERAL.
** Down to the [[HowDoYouLikeThemApples apple motif]] ([[spoiler:Which Soma later adopts himself]]).

* HowDoYouLikeThemApples: Mr. X likes to toss an apple when he tries to make an impression. [[spoiler: Later Soma adopts the same habit, though [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience his apple is green, not red]].]]

''Argento Soma'' origially aired with 25 episodes, and was followed by the OVA "Alone and By Myself".

* ThatManIsDead: How Soma feels about Takuto, who he refers to as "some jerk I used to know."
* TeamMom: Major Lana Ines, the CO of FUNERAL.

ArgentoSoma origially aired with 25 episodes, and was followed by the OVA "Alone and By Myself".

!!''ArgentoSoma'' has examples of:

* TakeThat: See above.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Frank, the giant alien[[hottip:*:Not really.]] robot.

* HeroicSociopath / VillainProtagonist: Soma is definitely the former, and sometimes borders on the latter at the peak of his obsession.

** It's also basically a remake of [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Eva]], but with ''normal people'' instead of those neurotic wrecks.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Frank punches an alien so hard its head ''flies into space'', leaving a hole in some clouds on the way.

* HeyItsThatVoice
** Mr. X is voiced by [[RurouniKenshin Kenshin]].
** Captain Heartland is [[CowboyBebop Jet Black.]]
** [[Creator/CrispinFreeman Dan Simmons]] is [[{{Slayers}} Zelgadis]], [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Togusa]], [[EurekaSeven Holland]], [[IrresponsibleCaptainTylor Tylor]], [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[LastExile Alex]], [[Anime/CodeGeass Jeremiah]]...
** [[LaraJillMiller Sue Harris]] is [[SCryEd Scheris]] and [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex a Tachikoma]].

* MagnificentBastard: Mr X, AKA [[spoiler: General Lawrence]].

* NeedsMoreLove: It's a great show (in a calm, understated sort of way) that hardly anyone has seen or remember.

** [[CrispinFreeman Dan Simmons]] is [[{{Slayers}} Zelgadis]], [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Togusa]], [[EurekaSeven Holland]], [[IrresponsibleCaptainTylor Tylor]], [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[LastExile Alex]], [[Anime/CodeGeass Jeremiah]]...

* RecycledINSPACE: A reinterpretation of the story of [=~Frankenstein's Monster~=] set [[AC:TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture]] and [[AC:with mecha!]]

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]

''ArgentoSoma'' has examples of:

* FluffyTheTerrible: Frank, the giant alien[[hottp:*:Not really.]] robot.

* XanatosRoulette: [[strike:Mr. X]][[spoiler:Gen. Lawrence]] danced through the GambitPileup in the finale with the nothing worse to wear than a limp and a walking stick, but everything ended ''his'' way -- and, to the everyone's surprise, that way was the ''best''.

** [[CrispinFreeman Dan Simmons]] is [[{{Slayers}} Zelgadis]], [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Togusa]], [[EurekaSeven Holland]], [[IrresponsibleCaptainTylor Tylor]], [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], [[LastExile Alex]], [[CodeGeass Jeremiah]]...