History Anime / LastExile

* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Seventeenth Birthday]]: For Dio.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Delphine seems a little too interested in Dio.

* ByronicHero: Alex Rowe
* TheCaligula: Delphine

* CloningBlues: ''Travelers from the Hourglass'' reveals that the Earth Guild replenishes its numbers via cloning. However they've hit the limit of reproductive cloning due to degraded DNA telomeres.
* CloudCuckoolander: Dio

* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler: Alex.]]
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The Guild falls partly under this trope.

* DirtyCoward: Captain Knowles.

* DoABarrelRoll: The Immelmann turn among others.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter

* EnforcedColdWar

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange

* Expy: Alex Row is ''clearly'' an homage to Captain Harlock.

** Lucciola does have a mind of his own, however--and often uses it to keep Dio alive and out of trouble.

* FacialMarkings: All members of the Guild.

* FingerLickinEvil: See above.

* GirlInTheTower: Sophia, briefly.

* IdiotBall: A few, but when Mullin starts getting wistful for his "glory days" as a cannon-fodder rifleman, ''every'' viewer is required by law to perform a FacePalm and quietly tell him to take his Website/{{Darwin Award|s}} and get out of here...
** Redeemed, somewhat, by TheAlliance's plan to convert their musketeers from CannonFodder to an elite assault force in order to capture their Claudia units from the guild.

* InitiationCeremony:
** According to WordOfGod, Mullin being stripped naked and roughed up a bit by the Silvana's crew is a standard hazing ritual they put all new members through.
** The Rite of Covenant, of the horrific type.

* JigsawPuzzlePlot

* TheLastTitle: The title.

* MacrossMissileMassacre

* ManipulativeBitch: Delphine, IN SPADES!

* MysteriousWaif: Alvis.

* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: the ''Silvana'' was assembled with [[spoiler:experimental Guild machinery by a group of renegades who fled the Guild with stolen technology]]. Being that the source of its technology will never want to part with any more of it, it will always be a one-off - any plans or backups would be useless without the hardware to build another. For the next experimental vessels [[spoiler:capable of going against the Guild]] its creators instead employ vastly-improved [[spoiler:non-Guild]] technology and come up with completely different designs.
* NoSell: During the duel, the Goliath [[spoiler:shoots before the signal is given]] and actually hits the Silvana. Not only is no actual damage dealt - nobody on board is so much as slightly bothered that the enemy has hit them. Sophia is almost giddy when she proposes using an experimental weapon, and throughout the event captain Alex is utterly ''bored''. During the series the Silvana similarly shrugs off attacks by other vessels, only suffering actual damage at the hands of the Guild [[spoiler:which makes sense since it effectively ''is'' a Guild ship]] or concentrated attacks by several new and experimental capital ships.

* OhCrap: Dio has that look when his sister shows up at Sophia's crowning ceremony.

* PimpedOutDress: The upper class ladies.
* PrettyInMink: Alvis's cape with the white fur hood and puff balls.
* PreviouslyOn: Cold openings with a recap of the previous episode are common.

* {{Retcon}}: See the DistantFinale entry above.
* {{Retirony}}
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Alex Row.

* SayMyName: Dio casually calls Claus by name - finally, after it had always been "Immelmann" - when [[spoiler: they are searching a seemingly abandoned Silvana together - just before he is taken away by the Guild.]]

* UnwantedHarem: Many females on the ship, from the {{Shorttank}} to the {{Tsundere}} Bruiser, seem to have a thing for main man Claus.
** [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Not to mention the (male) mechanic and... Dio]].

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Mullin Shetland]] and, according to an [[WordOfGod interview with the creators in the supplemental artbook]], [[spoiler: Dio Eraclea.]]

* WorldShapes [[spoiler: Prester is shaped like an hourglass, which also happens to be the Guild's emblem. It appears that it's also a hollow world and the events take place inside it - presumably "gravity" is produced by the hourglass spinning rapidly.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Delphine is evil through and through and does many terrible things, but the turning point is when she [[murders Lucciola in cold blood basically just because she knows that Dio loves him]]. Once that happens, there's no way the viewers will accept anything less than her being taken out.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The narration on the episode title cards.
** Except, oddly, that many of the character names are pronounced incorrectly or at least differently from how they're pronounced in the series. (For example, "Del-feen" rather than "Del-fee-neh.")
*** For Promotion Sophia, her name is said "So-FI-uh" with the I pronounced as it is in the word "lie."
*** "Kay-sling Lucciola."

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Sophia
* BadassLongcoat: Alex's mantle.

* BareYourMidriff: Lavie

[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-01/gonzo-lists-last-exile-fam-the-silver-wing-for-2011 A sequel series]] titled ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing'', is a Fall2011Anime.

* OutofCharacterMoment: Mullin gets one in "Sunadokei no Tabibito". In the manga, when everyone is wondering why [[spoiler: Claus hasn't come back yet from meeting Tatiana, he says that Claus is such a sly dog and that he doesn't think he will be coming back that night, saying that something must have happened between them in the desert,]] he does this ''in front'' of Lavie, and after she walks away, he thinks he did nothing wrong, since she was "smiling". To put things into perspective, in the anime, when the crew of Silvana where going on about how "something" must have happened [[spoiler: between Claus and Tatiana while they were stranded in the desert, he tells them to stop making assumptions like that, Since he felt sorry for Lavie,]] this conversation happens in the gym...

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* UpToEleven: Delivery jobs are ranked with a certain number of stars based on the estimated difficulty of the assignment. Hand-delivering a message to a fleet commander on his flagship during a battle is rated three stars. The mission to get Alvis to the Silvana is '''seven''' stars.

* {{Meganekko}}: Sophia.

* AllThereInTheManual: [[spoiler:Dio survives the final episode, as implied by his voice echoing through the ''Silvana'''s engine room, and by a lone page out of the ''Last Exile'' artbook that shows him reuniting with Claus, Lavie and Alvis on Earth]]. This is confirmed by the sequel series, ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing''.

** The [[spoiler:space colony Prester]] is shaped quite similar to the [[spoiler:PLANT colonies]] in Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED.

* SuperStrength: While the series showcased how members of the Guild are much more graceful and faster than the normal baseline human, ''Travelers from the Hourglass's'' Earth Guild reveals how a Guildsman is supernaturally strong as well, after one picks up Lavie with ''one arm'' and throws her bodily several feet from where she was seated in Claus' vanship [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/58851/last-exile-sunadokei-no-tabibito_ch3_by_mangawari/27]].

##* {{Auction}}

Naturally, the same forces that were pursuing the girl now turn their sights on Claus and Lavie, who find themselves at the center of a conflict that threatens to tear their world apart.

* {{Auction}}

* BigBad: Delphine Eraclea

** The Guild? A powerful, self-indulgent, 'neutral' force with complete control over the main mode of transport? [[Franchise/{{Dune}} I wonder where I've seen that before?]]

A manga on the series was also recently serialized in Newtype Ace. Entitled ''Sunadokei no Tabibito'' (literally ''Travelers from the Hourglass''), it serves as a bridge between ''Last Exile'' and its sequel, explaining what happened to the original cast and how they figure in the conflict engulfing the world in the new series.

A manga on the series was also recently serialized in Newtype Ace. Entitled ''Sunadokei no Tabibito'' (literally ''Travelers from the Hourglass''), it serves as a bridge between Anime/LastExile and its [[Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing sequel]], explaining what happened to the original cast and how they figure in the conflict engulfing the world in the new series.

!!''Anime/LastExile'' provides examples of:

* {{Odango Hair}}

** On this world warfare has strict rules and regulations, and is supposed to be refereed by the Guild. (Fleets can only out number each other by a certain percentage, no surprise attacks, after the musket duel an enemy is allowed to withdraw with their honor intact, etc.) It could have been that the original idea was that if the conflict could not be resolved peacefully, then you would have a duel in the sky, and after the musket men duel the opposing fleet is allowed to withdraw to reduce further loss of life and equipment. Since the Guild is run by a corrupt hedonist who wants to see the little people fight each other in senseless wars for her own entertainment...
** TruthInTelevision as warfare, particularly up to the 18th century or so, sometimes invoked this. Battles were somewhat methodical in their planning between sides before commencing. Since the generals and nobles were often hiding toward the back during such skirmishes, this left common conscripts facing one another head to head and causing both sides to lose large numbers as fodder.
** Played straight in the second half of the series once the Disith and Anatoray form TheAlliance in order to take out the Guild.