History Anime / MDGeist

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Krauser at the end has one so hammy that most actors wishes to have his level of overacting.]]

* YouMonster: Golem, the leader of the first gang Geist encounters, says "You bastard!" after Geist stabs him in the head.

* HeroAntagonist: Colonel Krutz. He's demonstrated as a courageous soldier [[AFatherToHisMen concerned about his subordinates]]. He wants to stop Earth government's secret planet-destroying doomsday weapon, and opposed the usage of MDS from the beginning. The only questionable action he does is to sic the Final Terminator on Geist, but that is also understandable as Geist is himself a monster [[spoiler: and he ends up dooming all life on Jerra after killing Krutz]]. Though the prequel comic reveals [[spoiler:that Krutz ''really'' earned his death at Geist's hands, having [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy driven Geist to utter misanthropy]] ''before'' having him sealed in the cryo-satellite]].

* WorfHadTheFlu: Lampshaded by Eagle after he captures Geist. The cyborg remarks to himself that he only won that fight because Geist was exhausted after a recent fight with the Death Force.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Vaiya, Eagle, and other survivors managed to escape the massacre, with the Death Force defeated and both Geist and Krauser dead or missing.]]

* CrapsackWorld: The planet is locked in civil war between the Regular Army, and the rebelling Nexrum ([[LawEnforcementInc Corporate forces]]). A very large part of the population is already dead from all the fighting that has been going on. [[spoiler:In the sequel the Death Force rampages through the planet, leaving only one human stronghold left.]] The opening text to the first OVA also states that "there is no peace and wars rage" across the human settlements in space.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Earth military builds a secret army of unstoppable robots programmed to kill every living being indiscriminately (including themselves) as a doomsday weapon. At the same time, they create a class of nigh-invulnerable super soldiers who are all homicidally (or megalomaniacally) insane. In the end, these two things combine to doom all life on Jerra.

* MadeOfIron: Geist. He just looks like a regular human being, but can survive explosions, stabbings, and getting shot in the forehead, among other things. He also might be able to regenerate tissue damage.

* SequentialBoss: The Brain Palace's final guardian goes through three different forms as the fight progresses.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Applies to Vaiya, [[spoiler: until Geist leaves her to die in the end.]]

** MD Krauser also counts. He has good intentions and wants to protect his people. However, he has a huge ego problem and a messiah complex.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Krauser. Even though he rescued all those people and kept them safe from the Death Force, the plot implies he's just a narcissistic tyrant who only rescued them so he could be worshipped like a messiacal figure. It's also implied his people work under hard labour. All the same, he takes it ''very'' personally when Geist goes on a murderous rampage among his adoring populace, implying he cares about them on ''some'' level.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Vaiya, Eagle, and other survivors managed to escape the massacre, with the "MD"s dead or possibly missing.]]

* {{Cyborg}}: Eagle.

* TheDreaded: The MD soldiers, as explained by Krutz. He describes them as [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]] who are both unstable and unstoppable, and he's not kidding on either count.
* DrivenToMadness: All the MDS (arguably with the exception of Krauser) have gone completely insane very fast, as they were created to only kill and execute orders.

* HeroAntagonist: Colonel Krutz. He's demonstrated as a courageous soldier concerned about his subordinates. He also isn't too fond of the Earth government's secret planet-destroying doomsday weapon, and opposes the usage of MDS from the beginning. The only questionable action he does is to sic the Final Terminator on Geist, and gets his skull crushed by Geist for his efforts. Though the prequel comic reveals [[spoiler:that he ''really'' had that coming, having [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy driven Geist to utter misanthropy]] ''before'' having him sealed in the cryo-satellite]].

* HumongousMecha

* RocketPunch: The final boss' third form does this.

* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Very, very serious, despite the horrible acting.

* WorldOfHam: It's probably easier to name characters who ''don[='=]t'' ham it up at least once in this OVA.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: MD Krauser may have good intentions (more or less), but he's no less arrogant or merciless than MD Geist.

* AllThereInTheManual: Promotional material like the ''Sokihei M.D. Geist: Complete Collection Record'' go a bit further into the first OVA's backstory and world building. Such as revealing Geist's time in the military academy involved a hushed up incident of him slaughtering his comrades, as they had reckoned with him, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the type of hair gel Geist uses.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: Promotional material like the ''Sokihei M.D. Geist: Complete Collection Record'' go a bit further into the first OVA's backstory and world building. Such as revealing [[spoiler: Geist's time in the military academy involved a hushed up incident of him slaughtering his comrades, as they had reckoned with him,]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the type of hair gel Geist uses.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: The ''Sokihei M.D. Geist: Complete Collection Record'' promotional goes a bit further into the first OVA's backstory and world. Such as revealing [[spoiler: Geist's time in the military academy involved a hushed up incident of him slaughtering his comrades, as they had reckoned with him, and was probably the incident that got him locked up on the satellite by Krutz]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the type of hair gel Geist uses.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: The ''Sokihei M.D. Geist: Complete Collection Record'' promotional material goes a bit further into the first OVA's backstory and world. Such as revealing [[spoiler: Geist's time in the military academy involved a hushed up incident of him slaughtering his comrades, as they had reckoned with him, and was probably the incident that got him locked up on the satellite by Krutz]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the type of hair gel Geist uses.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: The ''Sokihei M.D. Geist: Complete Collection Record'' promotional material goes a bit further into the first OVA's backstory and world. Such as revealing [[spoiler: Geist's time in the military academy involved a hushed up incident of him slaughtering his comrades, as they had reckoned with him, and was probably the incident that got him locked up on the satellite by Krutz.]]

* RatedMForManly

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Military building an army of unstoppable robots programmed to kill every living being indiscriminately, including themselves. Unsurprisingly, it backfires horribly.

* TheDreaded: MD Geist stands for "Most Dangerous Geist" and he "fought so extraordinarily ferocious that he was regarded as dangerous and imprisoned on a satellite."

* BadassBaritone: The late Jason Beck gives Geist a ridiculously deep voice in the dubbed version.

[=MD Geist=] was an experimental SuperSoldier known as an MDS (Most Dangerous Soldier) locked away in suspended animation on a satellite hovering over the planet Jerra. After making his escape, Geist is involved in a few violent skirmishes in which he slaughters everyone who has attacked him in a spectacular, over-the-top fashion, before being recruited by a group of Commandos and asked to go with those commandos to Brain Palace to prevent the Death from being released.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Krauser. Even though he rescued all those people and kept them safe from the Death Force, the plot implies he's just a narcissistic tyrant who only rescued them so he could be worshipped like a messiacal figure. It's also implied his people work under hard labour. However, it remains unclear whether he genuinely has good intentions or not.

* OffModel: The series is quite possibly the poster child of anime for this. A non-exhaustive list includes strange lighting, objects (or characters) teleporting or disappearing, limbs moving in strange ways, multiple coloring errors on one object, drawing errors, and ''[[spoiler: Krutz's]] corpse levitating in the air for a second.''

[=MD Geist=] was an experimental SuperSoldier known as an MDS (Most Dangerous Soldier) locked away in suspended animation on a satellite hovering over the planet Jerra. After making his escape, Geist is involved in a few violent skirmishes in which he slaughters everyone who has attacked him in a spectacular, over-the-top fashion, before being recruited by a group of Commandos and asked to go with those commandos to Brain Palace to prevent the Death from being released. [[spoiler: Once the mission has been completed, Geist decides that he will release the Death Force himself upon the hapless citizens of Jerra.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxHgVBpKNEo DENJARASU!]] [[GratuitousEnglish MOSUTO DENJARASU!]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic MOYASE HONOO NO BAIORENSU!]][[note]]Dangerous! Most Dangerous! Burning raging fire of violence![[/note]]]]

* CrapsackWorld: The planet is locked in civil war between the Regular Army, and the rebelling Nexrum ([[LawEnforcementInc Corporate forces]]). A very large part of the population is already dead from all the fighting that has been going on. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven in the sequel where the Death Force rampages through the planet, leaving only one human stronghold left.]] The opening text to the first OVA also states that "there is no peace and wars rage" across the human settlements in space.

* OffModel: The series is quite possibly the poster child of anime for this.
** A non-exhaustive list includes strange lighting, objects (or characters) teleporting or disappearing, limbs moving in strange ways, multiple coloring errors on one object, drawing errors, and ''[[spoiler: Krutz's]] corpse levitating in the air for a second.''

* AwesomeMcCoolname: MD Geist. ''Most Dangerous Geist''.

* KnifeNut: Geist loves bladed weapons, as does one of Vaiya's henchmen.