History Anime / Daimos

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone ==> DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Richter had the realization of the former in the last episode and drove him to the latter, but not before saving the lives of everybody in the Barmians' space station first.]]

** Daimos pulled this off [[OlderThanTheyThink nearly a full decade before]] the first Franchise/StreetFighter game came out.

* ShoutOut: To ''Voltes V''. Daimos's [[KillItWithIce "Freezer Storm"]] and [[KillItWithFire "Fire Blizzard"]] upgrades used to weaken the armor of the [[RoBeasts Mecha Soldiers]] are reminiscent of how Voltes V's "Choudenji Ball" upgrade weakens the [[FantasyMetal maxingal armor]] of the Beast Fighters.

%% * StarCrossedLovers: Kazuya and Erika.
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* AerithAndBob: Seen in the ''Starbirds'' adaptation because of some of the choices made. Some of the characters kept their original names (Erika and Nana), some of them, human and alien, had them changed to Western names (Richter becomes Roderick, Kyoushiro becomes Duncan). And Kazuya, not that weird a name, becomes ''Kelly Hunter''.

* BerserkButton: Kazuya is a good, nice, peaceful boy, but... Threatening his beloved Erika? Bad idea. Killing children in front of him? VERY bad idea. Getting people executed for no reason other than you are a racist nutjob? ASTOUNDINGLY bad idea. [[spoiler:Miwa]] found out about that the hard -and very painful- way.

* AntiVillain: All of the Barmian antagonists except for Olban and his lackey, Geroiya.

* CompilationMovie: One titled ''Starbirds: The Movie'' was produced by 3-B Productions (the people who did [[Anime/MazingerZ Tranzor Z]]. It features a whole new round of {{Dub Name Change}}s (Kazuya becomes Kelly, Kyoshiro becomes ''Duncan'') and {{Dub Induced Plot Hole}}s (natural when cutting a 44 episode series down to a 72 minute movie), but is overall fairly coherent. It's actually speculated to be in the PublicDomain, as it's popped up as a dollar store DVD release more than once.

''Daimos'' tells the story of Earth being invaded by a race of {{Winged Humanoid}}s called the [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Brahmins/Balmians]], all due to failed peace negotiations that took a great toll on both sides. The Earth is outmatched, but they have hope in form of the MotionCaptureMecha Daimos, piloted by the Karate champ Kazuya Ryuuzaki. But problems arise when Kazuya himself meets a mysterious girl named Erika, and falls in love... and later finds out that she is the Princess of the Brahmins, and the sister of the head of the invaders, Prince Richter, to boot.

* AlienInvasion: The Brahmins had no intention of invading Earth and wanted negotiating a peaceful settlement. However, the death by poisoning of their Emperor and the belief of Terrans had assassinated him changed that.
* AliensAreBastards: Averted. Although someone who will be not mentioned -coughMiwacough- was convinced of it, Brahmins are not different than humans and most of them are decent people; unfortunately the actual mastermind of the war/invasion, Olban, ''is'' a bastard. It overall shows that humans and aliens aren't so different, they have their own equal share of good people and bastards.

* AntiVillain: All of the Brahmin antagonists except for Olban and his lackey, Georiya.

* BeardOfEvil: In this series, if you have facial hair, then you would be considered an irredeemable bad guy. Olban's nice, thick beard and Miwa's pointy mustache are good example for this, whereas cleanly shaved faces signify either good guys or morally grey. There are exactly one inversion for each types in this though, Prof. Izumi also has a beard, but he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, whereas Georiya is cleanly shaved, but he's Olban's #1 lackey and equally evil.

* BigApplesauce: The first episode opens with Brahmins blowing up New York, complete with the newly constructed World Trade Center twin towers.

** [[spoiler:Earth and Brahmin make peace, Kazuya and Erika reunite, but Richter [[strike:died in a HeroicSacrifice]] [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]].]]
** Not to mention the lives of so many Humans and Brahmins were needlessly lost in a war neither side wanted.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Very much implied at one episode when Erika was shown a machine that allows her to think of happy thoughts and reduce her stress with her Brahmin friend Cindy, and Erika's first suspicious response is if it's a machine that will drill up teachings that HumansAreBastards and should die (it's not) to her brain. This gives the implication that many Brahmin soldiers (especially those under Olban) were practically indoctrinated to hate humans, making them very fanatic or at best REALLY fearful against humans.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Brahmins have Western names, Ancient Egyptian or Greco-Roman culture and their religion looks Christian.

* McNinja: Brahmin assassins.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone ==> DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Richter had the realization of the former in the last episode and drove him to the latter, but not before saving the lives of everybody in the Brahmins' space station first.]]
* MyNaymeIs: the Italian dub, as opposed to most others, avoids DubNameChange, but a lot of names is pronounced differently, if not weirdly: for example, Richter becomes "Richiter", Georiya is pronounced either "Gero" or "Guerroyer" and Balbas is "Valbas".
* TheNeidermeyer: Miwa Sakimori is this, and a GeneralRipper. He mostly hides behind his soldiers, or Daimos itself from danger. And when opportunity presents, he'll show his extreme racist tendencies by shooting actually harmless Brahmins. And all that's in his mind is... well, you guessed it, promotions. And even amongst humans themselves, Miwa categorizes them to 'useful people' (those who can help his war effort), or 'useless people' (people that can count as acceptable sacrifices in war not worth moutning... ''like innocent people'')

* ObviouslyEvil: One look at Georiya (Grovil in the Filipino dub) and you just knew he had something to do with the death of the previous Brahmin emperor and Kazuya's father.

* PetTheDog: In the earlier episode, even Miwa proved to be able to do this in his own dickish way. When Kyoshiro failed to save Erika from falling from a cliff (she survives because of being a Brahmin), he proceeded to take away all of the accusations he had about Kazuya being a possible Brahmin spy, personally got him out of the containment and genuinely expressed his condolences that Erika was KIA. While he did say insensitive things afterwards, he wasn't acting like a dick like usual. Take note that this was the only time Miwa acted decent. Afterwards, it's a series of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope for [[GeneralRipper him.]]

* PrincessProtagonist: Downplayed. Erika is the princess of her people, but she's the {{Deuteragonist}}, the audience's go-to main character when it comes to the non-human race (Brahmins).

* SpannerInTheWorks: Olban's plan for world domination started to unravel when it was overheard by Himley, Balbas' little brother, who was about to report about the cruelty of Georiya towards Anti-Olban peace movements, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which was ordered by Olban in the first place.]]

** Raiza is the hot and sensual seductress, using her body charms to get what she wants.

* UnderwaterBase: Brahmins HomeBase on Earth was located on the bottom of the ocean.

* WingedHumanoid: The whole Brahmin race.

* RapunzelHair: You've got to wonder how Richter could fly around without getting his hair stuck into something mid-flight. Even the girls' hair lengths are more manageable in comparison.

* RecycledInSpace: To a certain extent, it's basically Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet '''IN SPACE!'''

* VariableLengthChain

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Several Brahmin have blusih or greenish hair.

* EvilLaugh: Olban. In the English dub, he laughs at Daimos for being unable to penetrate his space station's shields.

Just like its predecessor ''Voltes V'', ''Daimos'' features alien enemies that turn out to be NotSoDifferent, though it still follows the MonsterOfTheWeek formula.

* AliensAreBastards: Averted. Although someone who will be not mentioned -coughMiwacough- was convinced of it, Brahmins are not different than humans and most of them are decent people; unfortunately the actual mastermind of the war/invasion, Olban, ''is'' a bastard. It overall shows that humans and aliens are NotSoDifferent, they have their own equal share of good people and bastards.

* GoodWingsEvilWings: The Baam-Seijin had functional, angel-like, white wings sprouting from their backs. Their wings don't represent their alignment at all, though, they were not portrayed like being inherently good or evil, but like NotSoDifferent than humans (AlwaysChaoticEvil was completely averted).

* NotSoDifferent: There are bad humans and good humans, as well as bad Brahmins and good Brahmins.

* InfantImmortality: This trope is averted as soon as the SECOND episode. A kid spends a short while egging Kazuya and Erika on to kiss. Later, when the enemy attacks, an explosion destroys the greenhouse had gone into. Kazuya and Erika bolt to the place and find him lying between the rubble. The kid opens his eyes and asks Kazuya if he "got lucky" before dying as Kazuya is holding him in arms.

* AliensAreBastards: Averted. Although someone who will be not mentioned -coughMiwacough- was convinced of it, Brahmins are not different than humans and most of them are decent people; unfortunately the actual mastermind of the war/invasion, Olban, ''is'' a bastard. It overall shows that humans and aliens are NotSoDifferent.

* PrincessProtagonist: Erika is the princess of her people.

[[caption-width-right:250:Kazuya and Erika with Daimos in the background]]

Just like its predecessor ''Voltes V'', ''Daimos'' features alien enemies that turn out to be NotSoDifferent, though it still follows the Monster Of The Week formula.

* BeardOfEvil: In this series, if you have facial hair, then you would be considered an irredeemable bad guy. Olban's nice, thick beard and Miwa's pointy pustache are good example for this, whereas cleanly shaved faces signify either good guys or morally grey. There are exactly one inversion for each types in this though, Prof. Izumi also has a beard, but he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, whereas Georiya is cleanly shaved, but he's Olban's #1 lackey and equally evil.

* BeardOfEvil: In this series, if you have facial hair, then you would be considered an irredeemable bad guy. Olban's nice, thick beard and Miwa's pointy pustache are good example for this, whereas cleanly shaved faces signify either good guys or morally grey. There are inversions in this though, whereas Prof. Izumi also has a beard, but he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, whereas Georiya is cleanly shaved, but he's Olban's #1 lackey and equally evil.

* BeardOfEvil: Olban has a nice, thick one.

* AliensAreBastards: Averted. Although someone who will be not mentioned -coughMiwacough- was convinced of it, Brahmins are not different than humans and most of them are decent people.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Erika is the princess of her people.

* CompilationMovie: One titled ''Starbirds: The Movie'' was produced by 3-B Productions (the people who did [[Anime/MazingerZ Tranzor Z]]. It features a whole new round of {{Dub Name Change}}s (Kazuya becomes Kelly, Kyoshiro becomes ''Duncan'') and {{Dub Induced Plot Hole}}s (natural when cutting a 44 episode series down to a 72 minute movie), but is overall fairly coherent. Actually speculated to be in the PublicDomain.