History Anime / BurnUp

* EvilCounterpart: The "New Warriors". Two superpowered women who gave the Warriors a hard time. While they completed missions quicker, they left great damage and a body count. [[spoiler:Turns out they were illegally experimented on by the Police in collaboration with the underground organizations: given drugs for strength and their combat techniques from data on Rio and Maya]].

* {{Gainaxing}}: Creator/ADVFilms had a "Jiggle Meter" as a special feature for the ''Excess'' [=DVDs=], keeping track of each of the four heroines' jiggles.

* RareGuns: The original OVA is the only fictional appearance of the Steyr ACR experimental flechette rifle.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: ''Scramble''!Lilika

%% This doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: ''Don't'' damage Remi's gear. "Lead enema", anyone?
%%zce* BigBad Friend: [[spoiler:The Commander]] in ''Scramble''.

* BerserkButton: ''Don't'' damage Remi's gear. "Lead enema", anyone?
%%zce* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:The Commander]] in ''Scramble''.

* [[spoiler:BigBadFriend]]: [[spoiler:The Commander]] in ''Scramble''.

* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Lilika in ''Scramble''. Even a little gets her plastered and accentuated her clumsiness and LesYay, below.

* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: The Commander from ''Scramble''

* [[spoiler:GovernmentConspiracy]]

* PlayfulHacker: ''W[=/=]Excess''!Lilica

* SuperpoweredRobotMeterMaids

The latest installment, ''Burn Up Scramble'' was released in North America by Creator/{{Geneon}} USA, who also co-produced the show along with their main office in Japan.

* Creator/RieKugimiya: Voices ''Scramble''!Maya. [[PlayingAgainstType Goes against type]] because she's no {{Tsundere}}, much less a ShanaClone, but a LittleMissSnarker.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Chisato from ''W''; the audience learns that she's Rio's best friend just in time for her to be [[StuffedInTheFridge killed by the villains of the two-parter.]]

** ''Burn Up Excess'''s opening is sung by Mami Kingetsu [[note]] mistranslated as Mami Kanezuki on ADV's DVD's [[/note]], who voices Maki

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Rio is shown to wear childish underwear in both Excess and Scramble.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] It's averted in every other entry of the series, but for some reason ''Excess'' plays this trope straight and has it on full display. [[note]] And this is despite the fact that ''Excess'' originally aired in Japan exclusively on satellite TV ([=DirecTV=] Japan to be specific which has looser restrictions. [[/note]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] It's averted in every other entry of the series, but for some reason ''Excess'' plays this trope straight and has it on full display. [[note]] And this is despite the fact that ''Excess'' originally aired in Japan exclusively on satellite TV (Creator/DirecTV Japan to be specific which has looser restrictions. [[/note]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] It's averted in every other entry of the series, but for some reason ''Excess'' plays this trope straight and has it on full display. [[note]] And this is despite the fact that ''Excess'' originally aired Japan exclusively on satellite TV which has looser restrictions. [[/note]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[ZigZagTrope Zig-Zagged]] It's averted in every other entry of the series, but for some reason ''Excess'' plays this trope straight and has it on full display. [[note]] And this is despite the fact that ''Excess'' originally aired Japan exclusively on satellite TV which has looser restrictions. [[/note]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted in every entry of the series with the sole exception of ''Excess'' which has this trope in full display [[note]] And this is despite the fact that ''Excess'' originally aired Japan exclusively on satellite TV which has looser restrictions. [[/note]]

* Goofy Print Underwear: Rio is shown to wear childish underwear in both Excess and Scramble.

** ''Burn Up Scramble'''s ending is sung by Creator/MegumiToyoguchi, Creator/RieKugimiya and Creator/MamikoNoto who voice Rio, Maya and Lilica respectively

All four series were produced by Creator/{{AIC}} between 1991 (the original) and 2004 (''Scramble''). Creator/ADVFilms actually helped co-produce the two middle entries in the franchise, ''Burn Up W'' and ''Burn Up Excess''[[note]]the latter also with Creator/MagicBus[[/note]], after the success of their release of the original one-shot {{OVA}}. The latest installment, ''Burn Up Scramble'' was released in North America by Creator/{{Geneon}} USA.

* DarkActionGirl: Ruby, TheDragon and TheHeavy from ''Excess''

* [[spoiler:BigBadFriend]]: [[spoiler:The Commander]] in ''Scramble''

* DarkActionGirl: Ruby

* {{Gainaxing}}: Creator/ADVFilms had a "Jiggle Meter" as a special feature.

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: ''Scramble''!Lilika, the "objects" being Rio and Maya

* MarsNeedsWomen: Henry, towards Rio.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness

* ScaryShinyGlasses: ''Excess''!Maki, though she's a good guy

* SeriousBusiness: In the first ep of W, one of the Terrorists' demands is that a manager for a baseball team publicly Prostrate himself and apologize for their lackluster season
* ShootTheBullet: At the end of ''Scramble''

* ShowerScene

* TankGoodness: Rio has to escort a robotic AI hovertank in ''Excess''; it turns out to be controlled by a KillSat.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Chisato

* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Lilika in ''Scramble''. Even a little gets her plastered and accentuated her {{dojikko}} and LesYay, below.

* {{Dojikko}}: Lilika in ''Scramble''.