History Anime / ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Chirico's characterization and voice in Episode 1 are completely unlike the stoic, determined veteran we see from the rest of the franchise, acting easily flustered and even crying out from surprise multiple times. His lines were completely rewritten when the events of Episode 1 were adapted in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ Super Robot Wars Z2]]''.

* FauxActionGirl: Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Fyana, despite her being really tough in the first arc, she quickly descends into a DamselInDistress. Later remedied somewhat, fighting alongside Chirico, but her dependance of Jijirium radiation often leaves her incapacitated.]]

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Appears in the [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ Z]], [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOE OE]], [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT T]], and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDD DD]] incarnations of VideoGame/SuperRobotWars.

[[caption-width-right:350:''WarIsHell. [[{{Mook}} Especially if you're the cannon fodder.]]'']]

* GirlInABox: Fyana, although she stays in the box for a while after Chirico opens it.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Kanjelman. He might be pretty old but for a regular human he's very agile and strong.

* RealityWarper: Abnormal Survivors. [[spoiler:several are speculated to be these, but only Chirico seems to truly incarnate the often insane survival skills seen mainly in Roots of Ambition, Pailsen Files and the last episode of Shining Heresy]].
** To be more specific, it's believed (or at least Pailsen thinks so) that Abnormal Survivors subtly influence given probabilities of things happening around them, causing lethal situations to become non-lethal or even harmless.

* OffModel: Episode 29 of the original series had some very sloppily drawn scenes of Chirico and Fyana. There's also a shot memetically known as "Chirico is dead"/"dead Chirico" due to the questionable quality of how his unconscious body was drawn.
** The scientist twins occasionally have their uniform colors swapped, and episode 32 even had a scene where they spoke in each others' voices for a brief dialogue exchange.

%% * Berserk Button: It's probably not a good idea to play the Red Shoulder march anywhere within the earshot of Chirico.
%%* BigBrother Mentor: To some extent, Gotho

* BerserkButton: It's probably not a good idea to play the Red Shoulder march anywhere within the earshot of Chirico.
%%* BigBrotherMentor: To some extent, Gotho

* LightningBruiser: The Strike Dog and Rabidlydog in TV series. They're heavy-class [=ATs=] like [[MightyGlacier Standing Tortoises]], but have better performance than [[JackOfAllStats Scopedogs]]. The Strike Dog [[AwesomeButImpractical suffers from short operational time]], but the Rabidlydog fixed that. ''The Last Red Shoulder'' added the Bloodsucker and ''Big Battle'' added the Ecrevisse to this trope. It's worthy to note that while Chirico could stand up against the Strike Dog and Bloodsuckers with just a [[WeaponOfChoice modified Scopedog]], he needed a [[FragileSpeedster Light Scopedog]] to keep up with the Ecrevisse.

* MoralityChain: Coconna, to Chirico and company.

* {{Expy}}: The Scopedog is modeled after {{mook}}s of ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise, Zakus.

* ReiAyanamiExpy: Not just one, but two, both of whom predate the trope's namesake: Chirico and [[spoiler:Fanya]].

* {{Transhuman}}: The PS's arguably [[{{Expy}} inspired]] [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'s Cyber-Newtypes

''Armored Trooper VOTOMS'' is a 52-episode {{anime}} series that ran on Creator/TVTokyo from April 1, 1983 to March 23, 1984, directed by Ryosuke Takahashi. It is divided up into four separate arcs, each one with their own unique mood and setting. Several additional VOTOMS {{OVA}}s have been created, such as the ''Pailsen Files'', set before the events of the main series, and the ''Heretic Saints[=/=]Shining Heresy'', set 32 years after the events of the series, as well as several other [[ShortFilm one-shot [=OVAs=]]] detailing the life of Chirico Cuvie, the series protagonist and others. A spinoff, ''Armor Hunter Mellowlink'', was also created; it is set in the same universe as VOTOMS, but involves an entirely different cast of characters.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Chirico has blue hair, along with a few other minor characters. Most of the other major characters have normal hair colors.

* BigBrotherMentor: To some extent, Gotho

* ShirtlessScene: Chirico gets a ''lot'' of these.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Chirico Cuvie.
** TheLancer: Vanilla.
** TheBigGuy: Shako.
** TheSmartGuy: Gotho.
** TheChick: Coconna.
** TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler:Fyana]].

** Played straighter than any show should be allowed to with Mellowlink. He's basically the Golgo 13 of the VOTOMS universe.
* BavarianFireDrill: Subverted. Captain Rochina tries to do one near the end of the series: [[spoiler: telling the soldiers from the Society that he has to enter the Wiseman Chamber as an order from Killy. He fails.]]

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Appears in the [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ Z]], [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOE OE]], [[SuperRobotWarsT T]], and [[SuperRobotWarsDD DD]] incarnations of VideoGame/SuperRobotWars.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Appears in VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: Z II: Hakai-hen, Sasei-hen, Z III: Jigoku-hen, Tengoku-hen, and T.

%%* ArcBreak

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname - The official names for various AT's are never revealed. Some are only known by their Battling ringname like the Purple Bear (a scout variant of Scopedog) or Strong Bacchus (heavy armored Scopedog), while the Balarant Union's AT's are known by Gilgamesh's silly English codenames (e.g. the Fatty), with the sole exception being the Ecrevisse (French for "crayfish").

[[caption-width-right:350: ''“WarIsHell. [[Mook Especially if you're the cannon fodder.]]''']]

* ConspicuousCG: The Pailsen Files, although not as JustForFun/{{egregious}} as some other CG adaptations of older anime it's still cheap looking enough to set off some fans who preferred the conventional animation of the older [=OVAs=].
** While it does indeed stand out when compared to the rest of the show's animation, at the same time the CG itself has some quite fluid animation for the Armored Troopers, especially in servo and joint manipulation.

''Armored Trooper VOTOMS'' is a 52-episode {{anime}} series that ran on Creator/TVTokyo from April 1, 1983 to March 23, 1984, directed by Ryosuke Takahashi. It is divided up into four separate arcs, each one with their own unique mood and setting. Several additional VOTOMS {{OVA}}s have been created, such as the ''Pailsen Files'', set before the events of the main series, and the ''Heretic Saints[=/=]Shining Heresy'', set 32 years after the events of the series, as well as several other [[ShortAnimeMovie one-shot [=OVAs=]]] detailing the life of Chirico Cuvie, the series protagonist and others. A spinoff, ''Armor Hunter Mellowlink'', was also created; it is set in the same universe as VOTOMS, but involves an entirely different cast of characters.

* ShortAnimeMovie: Over the years many {{OVA}}s have been released, expanding the storyline and character details and filling in some of the loose threads of the series.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Appear in VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: Z II: Hakai-hen, Sasei-hen, and Z III: Jigoku-hen.

* InsistantTerminology: Taking a page from Asimov; despite Wiseman's true form being [[spoiler:a Quaintian Overman who uploaded his consciousness into a massive supercomputer mainframe]] and Chirico's origin [[spoiler: as a Overman (an evolved human with perfect reflexes and survival instinct)]], the majority of the galaxy still declare such beings as either [[spoiler:'God', or 'Children of God'.]]