History Anime / Megazone23

* ChaseScene
* CityInABottle
* CombatTentacles

* CoolBike: The Garlands
** Though on the whole they're not actually very good bikes. They can go very fast, but it's all brute thrust [[MasterOfNone and they're extremely bulky and unmaneuverable due carrying all their robot parts around with them]], unlike the aforementioned Hargans. Amusingly demonstrated by Shogo causing several traffic accidents as he tries to drive it the same way as a normal bike.
** In Megazone 23 Part 3, something that is notable is that all the scenes involving Eiji and his team, who are all using Garlands with their conversion modules locked out, have them travelling along curiously empty and wide streets.
* CyberPunk

* DistressedDamsel
* DownerEnding: To Part 1 -- [[spoiler:after StormingTheCastle, Shogo is soundly defeated by B.D., who decides that he's NotWorthKilling - or thinks he's dead but doesn't even care enough to check.]]

* GenerationShip

* GovernmentConspiracy

* IKnowMortalKombat: Intentionally done by the Orange corporation in ''Part III''.

* TheMasquerade

* TransformingMecha

* Played fairly straight with Eve, except in Part II when she's reprogrammed as a propaganda tool, wearing solely an unflattering military uniform.

* RobotGirl: Implied with Eve Tokimatsuri. [[Spoiler: Eve is just a normal teenage girl... who went into hypersleep for over a millenia.]]

* PhlebotinumRebel: Shogo Yahagi and the Bahamut.

* RobotGirl

* EvilDiva: Arguably, Eve.

* TimeSkip: Between Parts 2 and 3.

** A prominent billboard that appears in the first bike chase scene in Part I has "Creator/DavidBowie" written on it.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Shogo became Bishop Won Dai]]

The original American distributions of ''Megazone 23'' were anything but impressive. It was briefly released in North America by Harmony Gold as ''{{Robotech}} the Movie''. Carl Macek crudely spliced in footage from ''{{Robotech}}'' to force a linkage between the two shows, and of course the [[{{Macekre}} usual Macek dub script]] was conjured up out of nothing to replace the original dialogue. Macek and Harmony Gold also produced a dub of ''Part 2'' (with a different cast and set of character names), which was only released in Japan as an aid for teaching English. (It also used footage of the alternate ending for ''Part 1'' that was produced for the Robotech movie as a prologue). Creator/StreamlinePictures later produced a straight dub of Part 1 with the same cast as the International Part 2 (but Japanese character names), but couldn't release Parts 2 and 3 due to their financial problems and inevitable shutdown. Later, Creator/MangaEntertainment released an un-butchered version of Part 3 for the UK on VHS, but the result, reportedly, was still horrendous.

** RetGone: Eve's hair color changed to be exclusively platinum blond in Part III, ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' and Aoi Garland, despite the latter two portrayals being set in Parts 1 and 2. This is even retconned within the series when [[spoiler:The original Megazone 23's Eve is visited by the real Eve and Eiji]], and even they have platinum blond hair!

* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: Appears in ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars D|estiny}}''.
** FixFic: This version follows the plot of Parts I and II (putting the "Trash" gang [[PutOnABus On A Bus]]), until Eve sends the entire Megazone to another dimension to keep ADAM from destroying everything.

** The ''WesternAnimation/SilverHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'' pinball machines in ''Part II''[[note]]In reference to other shows {{AIC}}, ''Megazone'''s animation studio, was also working on at that time[[/note]].

** The ''WesternAnimation/SilverHawks'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' pinball machines in ''Part II''[[note]]In reference to other shows {{AIC}}, ''Megazone'''s animation studio, was also working on at that time[[/note]].

** In Part II, albums by Jeff Beck and Van Halen's (specifically 1984) can be seen as Yui's old room is destroyed.

* CombiningMecha: The Hargans, similar to the original MobileSuitGundam's Core Fighter, are formed from an ordinary-looking motorbike docking with a set of limbs carried in a transport truck.

** The passenger in the cab Shogo cuts off is wearing a hat that looks like it came straight off the head of a ''DrSlump'' cast member.

** Most obvious between Parts I([[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Haruhiko Mikimoto]]'s character designs) and II ([[{{Anime/Kite}} Yasuomi]] [[Anime/MezzoForte Umetsu]]'s), which feature the same characters, but with mostly more natural hair colours.

** Most obvious between Parts I([[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Haruhiko Mikimoto]]'s character designs) and II ([[{{Anime/Kite}} Yasuomi]] [[MezzoForte Umetsu]]'s), which feature the same characters, but with mostly more natural hair colours.

** This is because ''Part II'' is the work of [[{{Anime/Kite}} Yasuomi]] [[MezzoForte Umetsu]] and Ichiro [[MacrossMissileMassacre Itano]].

Released somewhere around 1986, ''Megazone 23'' is historically signficant for being one of the very first {{OVA}}s and also was one of the first anime to extensively interweave music with the plot. The story itself was a mindbender at the time, and is a forerunner of such later American works as ''Film/TheMatrix'' and ''Film/DarkCity''. Since then, the plot twists and the character types have become standard in anime, almost cliche in some instances, but as a certified classic it is still worth seeing.

** A prominent billboard that appears in the first bike chase scene has "Creator/DavidBowie" written on it.

* {{Defictionalization}}: So now [[VirtualCelebrity Virtual Idols]] like Eve [[{{Vocaloid}} actually exist]], huh?
** And they DO have naturally greenish tinted hair.

* GratuitousEnglish: the video game "Hard On"

* BloodierAndGorier[=/=]HotterAndSexier: While the first OVA was hardly kid friendly, featuring its fair share of nudity and some scenes of gore, the second OVA absolutely '''demolished''' the first in those areas. The second OVA was filled to the brim with graphic depictions of extreme gore and bloodshed that would make QuentinTarantino orgasm, and speaking of orgasms, the women in the second OVA were so sexed up that one couldn't go a full five minutes without a slipped nipple. And that isn't even getting into Yui and Shogo's completely-gratuitous sex scene and the sequence of Yui and the female gang members in the shower.

** Mai's dufflebag? Branded with a ''Dagger of Kamui'' logo.

** In the computer we have a line writted: {{Godzilla}}

** In the computer we have a line writted: Godzilla
** In The accident crash we see [[Series/KamenRider an White Suzuki and a pilot with an red scarf]].