History Anime / GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplexSolidStateSociety

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Motoko's car gets crushed by a SpiderTank, so she casually helps herself to Batou's expensive sports car while he feebly protests. And she's not even his superior officer any more, having left Section 9.

* TheScrappy: In-universe, Section 9 acknowledges that while the Uchikomas are suppose to be technologically superior to the Tachikomas they replaced, their AI's weren't capable of advanced development. They just acted like robots with a flat monotone voice, much to the expressed dislike by the members of Section 9. They were eventually.. well, scrapped. [[spoiler: With a little help from the Major, The Tachikomas are brought back and reinstated.]] The {{Omake}} even expresses how the Uchikomas just want to be loved, but are incapable of experiencing or understanding it.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Batou and Motoko, which is once again explored briefly in a very faint MaybeEverAfter in the end of Solid State Society. [[spoiler: Batou puts his arm around her and she doesn't throw him into the pool.]] Yes, that's the closest their romantic and sexual tension ever comes to going anywhere.

* DeadAllAlong: [[The original Puppeteer who created the abduction program, Tateaki Koshiki, died two years before the start of the movie.]]

* MilkmanConspiracy: The titular Solid State Society consists of [[spoiler:childless bedridden elderly who want to save society by helping the Puppeteer to kidnapping children from their abusive parents. By leaving all their assets to the children after their family histories have been rewritten, the children have a chance at a true future, and and the elderly's assets are not automatically forfeited to the state upon their death due to having no heirs]].

* EyepatchOfPower:
** Raj Puhto from the collapsed Seok Republic has a Hawkeye built into his right eye, the same satellite sniping system that Saito uses.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Someone uses a construction mecha as a SpiderTank to attack Motoko, who doesn't have a weapon heavy enough to damage it. However the man driving it ends up breaking his own neck as he's thrown around in the cockpit during the battle.

* BittersweetEnding: In ''Solid State Society'', [[spoiler:the Puppeteer has been killed, Munei's brainwashing program is revealed and shut down, and the Major reunites with Section 9, but the children who were abducted are returned to their homes, where they must again face their abusive parents, or spend years waiting for their cases to percolate through the judicial system.]]

* CoolCar: Continues in Solid State Society where Aramaki is driven around in the Infiniti Kuraza concept car from the 2005 Detroit Auto Show while Togusa drives the Nissan Sport Concept from the 2005 New York International Auto Show, both of which were done as part of a ProductPlacement deal with Nissan.

* EnemyWithout: In "Solid State Society" Section 9 is worried that The Puppeteer they're chasing is actually Motoko, who's retired from Section 9. [[spoiler:When Motoko tracks down the Puppeteer and asks WhatTheHellAreYou because the BigBad appears to share her amoral determination and cyber skills, she's shocked to find it's a cyber-personality of herself evolved from her subconscious interacting with the Net.]]

** In Solid State Society, Raj Puhto from the collapsed Seok Republic has one.
* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: Paz says this to a {{Mook}} in ''Solid State Society'' in response to his WhoAreYou. He clearly enjoys every second of it.
* ImprovisedWeapon: In ''Solid State Society'' someone uses a construction mecha as a SpiderTank to attack Motoko, who doesn't have a weapon heavy enough to damage it. However the man driving it ends up breaking his own neck as he's thrown around in the cockpit during the battle.
* JapaneseDelinquents: The Uchikomas in the ''Solid State Society'' omake turn themselves into spiked-bat wielding delinquents because they know they don't fit into society.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The project of the Puppeteer in ''Solid State Society'' involves taking children (of parents classified as abusive) and wiping the parent's memories so they never knew they existed.
* MilkmanConspiracy: The titular Society consists mostly of [[spoiler:elderly people with no children]] who want to impact the society by participating in kidnapping and brainwashing of abused children and leaving all their assets to them after their family histories have been rewritten, thus hoping to save them, [[spoiler:and to prevent their assets from going to the state after dying with no heirs]].

* QualityOverQuantity: A dilemma that Section 9 has to deal with based in the first two sections. Section 9 has expanded its rank with new recruits and a full-time tac team tom complement its manpower.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: The Puppeteer hacks Togusa's cyberbrain after he doesn't have Section 9 stop the investigation, explains the process of the abductions and leaves him two options, let them take his daughter or kill himself.]]

* TheScrappy: In-universe, Section 9 acknowledges that while the Uchikomas are suppose to be technologically superior [[spoiler: to the Tachikomas they replaced]], their AI's weren't capable of advanced development. They just acted like robots with a flat monotone voice, much to the expressed dislike by the members of Section 9. They were eventually.. well, scrapped. [[spoiler: With a little help from the Major, The Tachikomas are brought back and reinstated.]] The SSS {{Omake}} even expresses how the Uchikomas just want to be loved, but are incapable of experiencing or understanding it.
* SuicideByAssassin: The enemy sniper got the intel on his target's location [[spoiler: from his target.]]
* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:Solid State Society is the codename of an AI system meant to ''take'' young children from troubled homes and place them under senior citizens who are being taken care under the Noble Rot Senior Citizen program.]]

* AdultFear:
** The project of the Puppeteer in ''Solid State Society'' involves taking children (of parents classified as abusive) and wiping the parent's memories so they never knew they existed.
** [[spoiler: And then it happens to Togusa and becomes even more nightmarish when it ''forces'' him to personally deliver his daughter to it.]]

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!!''Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex -- Solid State Society'' contains examples of the following tropes:

''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society'' is a [=OVA=] continuation of ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd GIG'', which was released in Japan on September 1, 2006 with a budget of ¥360 million. It was released in Japan via SKY [=PerfecTV!=], with a release in North America in 2007. A stereoscopic 3D version was released from Japan in 2011.

The [=OVA=] centers on Public Security Section 9 trying to cope with a rash case of suicides and terrorist cases concerning ex-officials from the collapsed Seok Republic in the year 2034, two years after the end of 2nd GIG. The Major aka Motoko Kusanagi has tendered her resignation, making Togusa the second commander of Section 9. In the wake of restructuring, Section 9 has expanded with new recruits and a [[SWATTeam full-time tac team]] to help in raids.

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!! ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex - Solid State Society'' OVA contains examples of the following tropes:

** The project of the Puppeteer in ''Solid State Society'' involves taking children (of parents classified as abusive) and wiping the parents memories so they never knew they existed.

It's followed by Anime/GhostInTheShellSAC2045.

''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society'' is a [=OVA=] continuation of ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd GIG'', which was released in Japan on September 1, 2006 with a budget of ¥360 million. It was released in Japan via SKY [=PerfecTV!=], with a release in North America in 2007.

* CoolCar: Continues in Solid State Society where Aramaki is driven around in the Infiniti Kuraza concept car from the 2005 Detroit Auto Show while Togusa drives the Nissan Sport Concept from the 2005 New York International Auto SHow, which are done as a ProductPlacement deal with Nissan.

* CoolCar: Continues in Solid State Society where Aramaki is driven around in the Infiniti Kuraza concept car from the 2005 Detroit Auto Show, which is done as a ProductPlacement deal with Infiniti.