History Anime / GridmanUniverse

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: A series of them happen in quick succession as Yuta reawakens Gridman. The scene pans out to show it's on a ''real life Junk'', as someone puts down a bag while stood before it. They're then revealed to be ''Akane Shinjo'', who then declares "Now it's my turn..." and holds out her hand, splitting her fingers before declaring, in English, "Instance Domination", her eyes flashing purple, revealing ''how'' Akane entered the Computer World in the first place...]]

Like both ‘’SSSS.GRIDMAN’’ and ‘’SSSS.DYNAZENON’’, voice dramas would provide details about what happens after the film’s ending.

** [[spoiler: Another series happened shortly before, right after the second battle against Domgiran. First, a ''second'' Gridknight suddenly shows up and stabs Gridman in the back. This not only causes Gridman to disappear, but also the DYNɅZENON cast, the Neon Genesis Junior High Students and Anti and "The 2nd". The scene then cuts back to Yuta and Yomogi meeting the "ghosts" that Yuta kept seeing throughout the movie and they turn out to be Anti and Anosillus the 2nd ''in their child forms from SSSS.Gridman'', explaining where the second Gridknight came from. All this hints at the true nature of both the universe merger as well as the DYNɅZENON universe before Anti and Anosillus properly explain it.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: As the BigBad claims to know everything Gridman and company are able to do [[spoiler:as he spent most of the movie parasiting the Gridman Universe]], the heroes have to obtain create something new to defeat him. They do just that, with Goldburn transforming into Big Goldburn [[spoiler:with Akane's help]], enabling the new Rogue Kaiser Gridman, while Gridknight warps the Powered Zenon into a new form to become Full Powered Gridknight.

* AdaptationExpansion: The novelization adds a couple more scenes, such as having Yume and Chise tell Rikka about their adventures and having Yuta recount what exactly happened after he woke up at the end of GRIDMAN, as well as expanding on various characters' inner thoughts during important scenes. The final battle is also expanded, having the Assist Weapons appear individually at first to perform their combinations with Gridman as well as having Dynazenon split up into its components so the Gauma Team can also perform their combination attacks alongside them.

** Later still, when Yuta agrees to sacrifice himself to revive a downed Gridman, Rikka semi-bitterly mutters, “Why didn't he even hesitate...?”

** As the film progresses, allies show up when Gridman is on the ropes, including DynaRex early on and Knight and the 2nd partway through.

** The background music that plays while the heroes are working on the school festival is lifted from ‘’Series/DenkouChoujinGridman’’, where it played during similar “non-kaiju-related, simple everyday life” activities Naoto, Yuka and Ippei would engage in.

** Utsumi meanwhile acts as an HonestAdvisor, pointing out to Yuta he probably missed his chance to confess, but encouraging him anyway. He also gets a bit of teasing in, but is quick to apologise if he goes too far.

* BigDamnKiss: Invoked in the first drama. After Yuta and Rikka have their "fight", Yume suggests they kiss and make up, emphasis on the "kiss". She and Yomogi start clapping and chanting, "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" to Yuta and Rikka's embarrassed protests.

** In the first drama, Yuta had carefully researched and planned an onsen date he thought Rikka would enjoy. In one of ‘’SSSS.GRIDMAN’’ Voice Dramas where he and Akane were a couple, she noted that Yuta was doing his best to keep her happy. Yuta’s increasing worry and panic that he somehow upset Rikka is also similar to how he reacted when Akane acted upset, desperately trying to figure out what he did wrong and how to make amends.
** Yume and Yomogi being very big on the importance of communication in a relationship hearkens back to the ‘’SSSS.DYNAZENON’’ compilation movie voice drama, where Koyomi overhears them having a fight over Yomogi not letting Yume know he was hanging out with some of his female friends.

** In the third drama, Rikka notes that “the 2nd”’s description of Yuta as a “singularity” makes sense, since in a world created by Akane to love Akane, Yuta still fell in love with Rikka instead. The final episode of ‘’SSSS.GRIDMAN’’ heavily implied Rikka had already strongly suspected this, but as at the time she wasn’t sure how she felt about Yuta in return (especially since the “Yuta” in that show was actually Gridman possessing Yuta’s body), she kept it to herself.

* TheGadfly: Yume really enjoys teasing Rikka and Yuta to get a rise out of them. Her penchant for making up fantastical explanations for things to mess with people also return when she makes up the STBS on the spot to explain why Yuta has duplicated

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The movie's promotional video has Gridman stating that the balance of Yuta's world is crumbling away, with Borr outright calling it "the end of the world."

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: A series of them happen in quick succession as Yuta reawakens Gridman. The scene pans out to show it's on a ''real life Junk'', as someone puts down a bag while stood before it. They're then revealed to be ''Akane Shinjo'', who then declares "Now it's my turn..." and holds out her hand, splitting her fingers before declaring, in English, "Instance Domination", her eyes flashing purple, revealing ''how'' Akane entered the Computer World in the first place...]]

** Later still, when Yuta agrees to sacrifice himself to revive a downed Gridman, Rikka semi-bitterly mutters, “At least hesitate a little...!”

* CostumeEvolution: The various promotional material shows the 3 members of the Gridman Alliance, as well as the 4 remaining members of the Gauma Team, in outfits that mostly appear modified from their originals.