History Anime / Macross7

* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: While the series follows the Macross tradition of calling nukes "Reaction Weapons", the ''Dynamite 7'' OVA actually averts this with the pirates firing something that is clearly labeled as a nuclear warhead.

* AnimeThemeSong

* BeamOWar

* ContinuityNod

* {{Honorifics}}

* LighterAndSofter

** Basara. On top of fan girls, he's got BikerBabe Rex, the Flower Girl, Sivil and Mylene. Encore has him attract Cholore, Emilia and [[UpToEleven an entire Zentradi fleet]].

* BettyAndVeronica: Gamlin as the Betty and Basara as the Veronica.

** Basara. On top of fan girls, he's got BikerBabe Rex, the Flower Girl, Sivil, Mylene and Mylene's older sister.

** In SuperRobotWars, Basara/Sivil and Mylene/Gamlin are the accepted pairings...

** Subverted in SuperRobotWars, where Sivil doesn't leave, and instead is portrayed as a key member of Sound Force.

* CallForward: Chiba Music Units go by a completely different name when they're brought up again in the following two anime... Fold Resonance Factor.

** {{Defictionalization}}: Fire Bomber's songs are done by an actual J-Pop group, and Basara Nekki's seiyuu happily does covers. [[JAMProject Admittedly, he is experienced with that kind of thing...]]

* FantasticArousal: ANY time Sivil hears a recording of Basara's singing, she can't stay within a few feet of him without going from arousal all the way towards near-orgasm.

* HeroicResolve: Basara in the finale [[spoiler: '''I'M GONNA MOVE IT TODAY. THE MOUNTAIN. THE GALAXY. ''LISTEN TO MY SONG!!!!''''']]

** Not to mention the fact that he absolutely refuses to let anything, and I mean anything, stop his singing. Someone's trying to punch him? He keeps singing. Someone is actually using him as a punching bag? He keeps singing. He gets ordered to do something else? He keeps singing.

* LivingMacGuffin: Bassara is the key to the Protodeviln's plan for an infinite source of energy and food.

* LoveTriangle: Basara, Mylene, and Gamlin are at the center of a LoveDodecahedron.

* NoNameGiven: The "Flower Girl" who always turns up around Basara, never has any lines, and, aside from the last episode, never actually succeeds in getting her bouquets to him.

* RoboSpeak: Vending machines.

* SneezeCut

* StockFootage: One of the ''big'' criticisms of the show - many battles, particularly in the show's first half, have mostly the same recycled scenes ''in the same order''. The second half gets ''somewhat'' better about this, but it's still there.

* TheAbridgedSeries: ''WebVideo/MacrossAbridged'' has one of Macross 7

* AcePilot : Max and Millia are former Aces from the original series. Gamlin is stated to be one, and Basara counts, in fact Max himself stated that Basara is pretty good, although not as good as himself in the past.
* ActionHoggingOpening: Provided by Creator/Studio4C

* ArcNumber: 7

* AutobotsRockOut

* BigBrotherInstinct: Basara shows this towards Mylene several time throughout the story.
** To the point that if someone attacks her, he'll break away from being an ActualPacifist and punch whoever attacked her. Of course, afterwards he'll yell at her for having made him attack someone, showing how much he hates violence.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Protodeviln aren't really evil, They just view other lifeforms as food sources.

** 2 of their daughters show up in the series, and a family photo shows the other ''five''.
** ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'' [[ShowWithinAShow is literally a movie in-canon]]. Some people claim the movie is just a movie and has no historical value despite the fact that the aforementioned two are veterans of the incident.
*** The movie (or in-universe movie) is about the events from the original Macross series, in which both Max & Milia served in, (their marriage being one of the other culture shocks); so, that wouldn't affect either interpretation.

* CuteLittleFangs: Gavil, Sivil

* FacialMarkings
* FakeBand

* FirstKiss

* GrandFinale

* HairColors

* HumongousMecha

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Japanese Vampire]]: 　Sivil fits this the most.

* JerkassHasAPoint: For everything that's said about him above, it doesn't change that ''he's right''. Singing is the answer to their problem.
* {{Kaiju}}: Gabil

* LifeEnergy: Spiritia

* LoveTriangle: At the center of a LoveDodecahedron.

* MacrossMissileMassacre

* MathematiciansAnswer: Basara angrily asks Ray why his Valkyrie is armed with missiles. "Because they fit." (i.e. they were missiles intended to be fired by a Valkyrie)

* MotorcycleOnTheCoastRoad: ...IN SPACE
* MyBrainIsBig: Exedore's new design.

* NonHumanSidekick

* OurVampiresAreDifferent

** It causes orgasms in Protodeviln and heck, saves the entire universe from having its LifeEnergy sucked out
* PuppeteerParasite

* RealRobot

* RetCon: The designs from ''Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' have mostly replaced the original ones.

* SittingOnTheRoof

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil
* SpaceIsAnOcean

* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell Protodeviln With An Iln]]

** A low budget, coupled with the fact that they had to stretch the story out over 50 episodes when it would have done much better as a standard 26 episode series, made for a lot of recycled footage and slow pacing. ''Macross [=FB7=]'' does a pretty good job of trimming a lot of fat from the series, and shows what could have been if they'd have made a ''Macross 7'' movie in the vein of ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'' and the two ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' movies.

* TechnicalPacifist

* TransformingMecha
* {{Tsundere}}: Mylene

* UnusualUserInterface: Basara's Valkyrie ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_fighter variable fighter]]) is piloted by a guitar.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Interestingly, this show answers one. Remember the Supervision Army, that ancient enemy of the Zentraedi from the original series that we never see and the Macross was one of their ships? Macross 7 explains that they were Zentraedi that had been brainwashed by the Protodeviln.
* XMeetsY: ''Dynamite 7'' can be summed up as ''Moby Dick'' meets ''Macross''.

** The big reason the show takes so much flak for this is that the entire rest of the ''Macross'' franchise - the [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross original]], ''7''[='s=] immediate contemporary ''Anime/MacrossPlus'', and ''every'' subsequent series - uses its '''lack''' of stock footage as something of a point of pride. Even ''SDF Macross'', for how small its budget was, was very good about obscuring its use of stock footage and making sure things felt fresh. ''[=M7=]'''s blatant footage reuse felt like something of a betrayal in comparison - not helped at all by the fact that it was literally airing in tandem with the release of ''Plus'', and the inevitable comparisons.

** The big reason the show takes so much flak for this is that the rest of the ''Macross'' franchise - from the [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross original]], to ''7''[='s=] immediate contemporary ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' and every subsequent series - uses its '''lack''' of stock footage as something of a point of pride. Even ''SDF Macross'', for how small its budget was, was very good about obscuring its use of stock footage and making sure things felt fresh. ''[=M7=]'''s blatant footage reuse felt like something of a betrayal in comparison - not helped at all by the fact that it was literally airing in tandem with the release of ''Plus'', and the inevitable comparisons.

** The big reason the show takes so much flak for this is that the rest of the ''Macross'' franchise - the [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross original]], ''7''[='s=] immediate contemporary ''Anime/MacrossPlus'', and every subsequent series - uses its '''lack''' of stock footage as something of a point of pride. Even ''SDF Macross'', for how small its budget was, was very good about obscuring its use of stock footage and making sure things felt fresh. ''[=M7=]'''s blatant footage reuse felt like something of a betrayal in comparison - not helped at all by the fact that it was literally airing in tandem with the release of ''Plus'', and the inevitable comparisons.

** The big reason the show takes so much flak for this is that ''Macross 7's'' franchise - from its [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross predecessor]], to its [[Anime/MacrossPlus contemporary]], to [[Anime/MacrossZero its]] [[Anime/MacrossFrontier successors]] - uses "'''lack''' of stock footage" as something of a point of pride. Even ''SDF Macross'', for how small its budget was, was very good about obscuring its use of stock footage and making sure things felt fresh. ''[=M7=]'''s blatant footage reuse felt like something of a betrayal in comparison - not helped at all by the fact that it was literally airing in tandem with the release of ''Plus'', and the inevitable comparisons.
** A low budget, coupled with the fact that they had to stretch the story out over 50 episodes when it would have done much better as a standard 26 episode series, made for a lot of recycled footage and slow pacing. Macross FB7 does a pretty good job of trimming a lot of fat from the series, and shows what could have been if they'd have made a Macross 7 movie in the vein of SDF Macross DYRL and the two Macross Frontier movies.

* WalkingTheEarth: Implied with Basara as seen in the opening and ending of ''Dynamite 7'' where after Fire Bomber's final concert, he travelled across the galaxy, still singing songs. The ''FB7'' crossover movie revealed that the ''Frontier'' characters were unaware of the band's disbandment until they received videotapes from Gavil regarding the fate of the 7th fleet.

* CoolShip: (a rock-and-roll band is equipped with customized versions of the most advanced mecha available)
* CoolOldGuy: (Max Jenius. Milia may also qualify. Meltlandi must age like fine wine.)

The second full series of the ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise and sequel to ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''. It's about a rock and roll band living on [[ColonyShip a flying city in space]] who fight [[OurVampiresAreDifferent evil space vampires]] using ThePowerOfRock and TransformingMecha that are [[UnusualUserInterface controlled]] with [[RuleOfCool guitars]].

The second full series of the ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise and sequel to ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''. It's about a rock and roll band living on [[ColonyShip a flying city in space]] who fight [[OurVampiresAreDifferent evil space vampires]] using ThePowerOfRock and TransformingMecha [[RuleOfCool controlled with guitars]].

[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, really]].

The second full series of the ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise and sequel to ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''. It's about a rock and roll band who fight [[OurVampiresAreDifferent evil space vampires]] using ThePowerOfRock and TransformingMecha [[RuleOfCool controlled with guitars]].

The show prominently features an outstanding soundtrack from a real J-Rock band ("Hummingbird") hired to double as the fictional band "Fire Bomber." Very popular in Japan, though controversial among hard core HumongousMecha fans. [[NoExportForYou Unlikely to appear any time soon in North America]], because it's ''Macross'' and several companies can all get involved in any English releases.