History Anime / VoltesV

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Boazanian Flagships, Zeltan/Zoltan and Shugoshin Godol, all of them equiped with formidable weapons and even DeflectorShields.

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Boazanian Flagships, Zeltan and Sugoshin Godor, all of them equiped with formidable weapons and even DeflectorShields.

* HeroStoleMyBike: After escaping the secret lab, Peof. Hamaguchi and Gen. Oka borrow a ''nearby logging truck'' to get back safely.

* ItCanThink: The third Beast Kmight, Bonzarus, is capable of speech, like Gardo and Giron. He also proved too fast to allow the Volt Machines to Volt in, but ingenuity from Kenichi and Ippei involving reflecting missiles gave them the opportunity to do so. However, he was also too overconfident in himself to not retreat once Voltes V was formed.

Considerably DarkerAndEdgier than ''Combattler V'', ''Voltes V'' chronicles the Voltes Team and Big Falcon's defense of Earth from the invading Boazanian Empire, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Beast Knights]] by [[{{Robeast}} Beast Fighter]], as well as a simmering civil war within planet Boazan itself, long under the brutal caste-system rule of Emperor Zambajil, between the horned elite and the hornless commoners.

* AbandonedLaboratory: Episode 12 features one of these used by Prof. Hamaguchi, Gen. Oka, and Profs. Gou around 7 or 8 years ago for researching anti-Boazanian weapons. The former two pay a visit in order to gather data on installing Ultramarcons on all the Volt Machines. The Boazanians back on their home planet discover it too after torturing the information out of Prof. Gou (which is itself suspect), and Prince Heinel himself leads the expedition to the lab, eventually capturing the humans. Hamaguchi and Gen. Oka manage to bot only escape, but have the lab self-destruct, forcing the Boazanians to retreat as well.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Horned Boazanian nobilities act like this on the majority, dressing in fancy clothes, uncaring of the plight of the suffering, are {{Dirty Coward}}s and generally are irredeemable bastards. There's only a few exceptions, such as Rozalia, [=LaGour=]'s first wife, who loved him genuinely despite [[spoiler:him revealing that he's actually hornless.]]

* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The Beast Fighters or Juushi (獣士) are really earth animals that the Boazanians turned into giant robots. At least the ones after the first couple of episodes.

* {{BFS}}: [[{{Kiai}} "TEN KUU KEN!"]] (or "LASER SWORD!" in the Philippine English dub.) Plus points goes to this BFS for being able to hide its blade into {{Hammerspace}}. Its hilt, however, is collapsible. It also doesn't actually have to be unsheathed in order to be used, as when Kenichi commanded its blade to emerge to get out of a Beast Fighter spinning Voltes V around in its arms, and was vital in getting another Beast Fighter off from pinning the mecha.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Gou brothers reunite with their father [=LaGour=]/Kentarou and the Boazanian civil war ends in victory for the rebels who, aided by the Voltes Team, overthrow the imperial government, indirectly stopping its own invasion of Earth which was largely driven by the search to kill [=LaGour=], the rightful heir to the Boazanian throne usurped by his jealous cousin Zambajil, who ironically dies not at the hands of either the Voltes Team or the rebels, but by his own enforcer Heinel, furious at having been tricked into attempting to kill his own father and younger half-brothers (respectively, [=LaGour=] and the Gou brothers) before being thrown under the bus in a vain attempt at bargaining for his life. Unfortunately, a lot of the Voltes Team's allies had to die beforehand (including the Gou brothers' mother Mitsuyo, Professor Hamaguchi, and Megumi's father General Oka), Heinel sacrifices himself to save Kenichi from the rubble, and [=LaGour=] chooses to stay behind in Boazan instead of joining his remaining sons to Earth so he can help rebuild Boazanian society, though it's implied that with the space-warp technology they used to travel to Boazan in the last arc, travel between Earth and Boazan wouldn't take long and the Voltes team can visit their father in the now peaceful Boazan anytime]].

* CombiningMecha: Voltes V is a combining mecha with its own stock footage combination scene and everything. Its inability to combine thanks to a Beast Fighter's special apparatus also becomes a plot point later on.

* DirtyCoward: Emperor Zambajil [[spoiler:kicked his older brother and legitimate heir, [=LaGour=], out of the throne for simply being a hornless nobleman]], held Boazan in an iron grip with a FantasticCasteSystem, and [[spoiler:manipulated [=LaGour's=] first son Heinel into becoming his pawn]], yet he's quick to bail out once [[spoiler:the Voltes Team finally reach Boazan, the hornless Boazanians are turning the tide of the civil war in their favor, and Heinel discovers his true heritage]]. It's worth noting that the {{Big Bad}}s of the other Romantics, for all their [[ObviouslyEvil vileness]], have ''[[NobleDemon at least]]'' [[VillainousValor some dignity]].

* FantasticCasteSystem: Born on Boazan and got horns sticking out? No? Then prepare for a life of pariah-esque slavery supporting the planet's thriving galactic tourism industry. [[spoiler:Or exile beyond the ruling class's clutches, as in [=LaGour=]/Kentarou Gou's case. Surprisingly, there was a time that both the horned and hornless ones coexisted in peace. But all of the sudden, even before the likes of Zu Zambajil was born, suddenly the caste system got applied and that became the status quo when [=LaGour=] was born.]])
* FantasticRacism: One of the few SuperRobot shows of the [=70s=] that deal with this. In Boazan, the hornless people are oppressed and treated as slaved by the nobility with horns, and [[spoiler: [=LaGour=] suffers this after Zu Zambajil exposed his hornless nature mid-coronation and was thrown to prison camps to suffer under labor by whip.]]

* FusionDance: The Beast Fighters in Episode 5 merge into one. While they do give Voltes V a harder time, when they eventually get beaten back, it means that once the FinishingMove is delivered, they both go down at once.
* GodzillaThreshold: In response to the Volt In Sequence getting disrupted, Prof. Hamaguchi is forced to resort to the Ultramarcon, an auxiliary Super Electromagnetic Generator designed by Prof. Gou, to get around the Beast Fighter's special weapon. However, the risk is that it's never been tested, and could risk killing the pilots. And once it is used, it ends up destroyed from overload.

* IslandBase: In Episode 19, Zuhl had a secret one even from Heinel where he held Kentaro in order to try probing his mind for secrets to defeat Voltes V. Daijirou ends up finding this base when he went AWOL in search of his father. This base is inadvertently destroyed when the Voltes Team end up luring the Beast Fighter they were up against away from the city and towards it (thankfully, all named characters escaped before then, but Zuhl still managed to keep Kentaro in his clutches).
* ItCanThink: The third Beast Fighter, Bonzarus, is capable of speech, like Gardo and Giron. He also proved too fast to allow the Volt Machines to Volt in, but ingenuity from Kenichi and Ippei involving reflecting missiles gave them the opportunity to do so. However, he was also too overconfident in himself to not retreat once Voltes V was formed.

* LightningCanDoAnything: It charges up the "Tenkuu Ken" to allow Voltes V to do his FinishingMove, the "V-no-Ji-Giri", for one thing. Voltes can also summon enough of it to form the "Choudenji Ball" that electrocutes the Armored Beast Fighter and softens their hard maxingal metal enough to allow his sword to cut through, for another thing.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:[=LaGour=]/Kentarou is Prince Heinel's father from his deceased first (horned Boazanian) wife]].

* MonsterOfTheWeek: The {{Kaiju}}/Juushi/Beast Knights/Beast Fighters of the Boazans appear weekly or per episode. Sometimes, they come in pairs like in the case of Daiga and Neegu or Namazungo and Gamenza. Some of them appear multiple episodes if they're particularly tough or use a special upgrade.

* NobleDemon: While Boazanian nobilities are mostly evil assholes, the named soldiers/warriors are mostly this. There are several Boazanian soldiers that showed honor in their own way, even including [[TheBrute Jangal]], while Heinel's experience in war and insistence to prove himself granted him some sense of honor. Taken further, [[spoiler:it was mostly horned Boazanian soldiers/generals like General Dange or Doir that have a chance to have had enough of the whole FantasticCasteSystem's cruelty and eventually break off their horns and become a DefectorFromDecadence.]]

* RealRobotGenre: Ironically, despite being a SuperRobotGenre show, it shows some elements of this as Voltes V is repaired and maintained by Camp Big Falcon's facilities and large number of support personnel and MissionControl staff after every battle against a Beast Fighter.

* {{Robeast}}: The Beast Fighters are this as the vanguard of the Boazanian forces.
** In the original run, the Boazanians were already using the term Beast Fighter for their MonsterOfTheWeek.

** Beast Fighter Garus is a {{Robeast}} wolf that literally [[KickTheDog kicks the dog]].
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: All this time, Zambajil has been plotting, scheming, and sabotaging Heinel at every turn in the hope that he'd get killed for fear of being killed by him. All this despite Heinel treating him with nothing but respect. This then leads to Heinel killing him in the end, just as he'd feared.

* TheStarscream: Zuhl. He fails, though, and gets executed for it.

** Arguably subverted, since several Beast Fighters manage to interrupt their formation before they can properly transform. Once the sequence from the title starts playing, though, it's usually rare for them to pull it off.
* UndeadTaxExemption: [=LaGour=] was able to forge a new life on Earth as Kentarou Gou as a well-respected professor, creator of Voltes V and father of his three sons. Although it helps that he has connections with his wife Mitsuyo and his friends Professor Hamaguchi and General Oka in the government.

* VillainousBSOD: Heinel went through these [[spoiler:when he found out [=LaGour=]/Kentarou Gou was his real father, the Gou brothers were his younger half-brothers, Zambajil is just an usurping bastard, [[DrivenToSuicide and one could only guess what happened next]]]].

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: In one episode the Boazanians are gobsmacked to find out Earth people have the capacity to love; which was part of their FantasticRacism. They burst out laughing when Zuhl informs them that yes, humans ''do'' love each other.

* ZorroMark: Voltes always finishes off a Beast Fighter by slicing a giant V into it with its sword.

[[caption-width-right:350: Top left: [[AlienPrince Prince Heinel]]\\
From left to right: [[CombiningMecha Voltes V]] and the Voltes team ([[CoolBigSis Megumi]], [[TheLeader Kenichi]], [[TheBigGuy Daijirou]], [[TheLancer Ippei]] and [[TheSmartGuy Hiyoshi]])]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Upper left: [[AlienPrince Prince Heinel]]; From left to right, the Voltes team: [[CombiningMecha Voltes V]] (the robot), [[ThePollyanna Megumi]], [[TheLeader Kenichi]], [[TheBigGuy Daijirou]], [[TheLancer Ippei]] and [[TheSmartGuy Hiyoshi]]]]

It has an official [[SequelSeries sequel]] [[Manga/VictoryFive manga]], which is a source of BrokenBase amongst the fandom. Also, expect it to show up frequently in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series.

Considerably DarkerAndEdgier than ''Combattler V'', ''Voltes V'' chronicles the Voltes Team and Camp Big Falcon's defense of Earth from the invading Boazanian Empire, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Beast Fighter]] by [[{{Robeast}} Beast Fighter]], as well as a simmering civil war within planet Boazan itself, long under the brutal caste-system rule of Emperor Zu Zambajil, between the horned elite and the hornless commoners.

It has an official [[SequelSeries sequel]] [[Manga/VictoryFive manga]], which is a source of BrokenBase amongst the fandom.

* AGlassInTheHand: Prince Heinel at the beginning of Episode 10 as he ruminates on the need to discover the secret of Super Electromagnetic energy to counter Votles V. He crushes it just as the episode card appears.
** This happens again in Episode 16 after their Beast Fighter is defeated yet again. His hand is seen bleeding after this, and Katherine tries to staunch it before Heinel tells her off.

* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler: Heinel]] continues to fight the Voltes team in the last episode, even though it is obvious his side is about to lose. The only reason for doing so is that he is a noble.

* RobotMe: In Episode 15, a version of [[spoiler:Kentaro Gou]] is sent by the Boazanian Emperor to deal with Voltes V. Interestingly, Prince Heinel wasn't aware of this nature and assumed that [[spoiler:Prof. Gou was turning on his children]]. He is offended, like Kenichi and Hiyoshi after TheReveal, that the emperor made a fool out of him once he found out.
** In Episode 21, Zuhl tries to do a long con on Prof. Gou involving android versions of the Voltes Team and Prof. Sakonji so that he can unwittingly create another Voltes V. Unfortunately for him, Gou wised up to this after "Sakonji" was unable to properly keep up the charade, [[spoiler:and because their "Voltes V" during his "rescue operation" had escape pods, which he '''did not''' implement]].

* {{BFS}}: [[{{Kiai}} "TEN KUU KEN!"]] (or "LASER SWORD!" in the Philippine English dub.) Plus points goes to this BFS for being able to hide its blade into {{Hammerspace}}. Its hilt, however, is collapsible. It also doesn't actually have to be unsheathed in order to be used, as when Kenichi commanded its blade to emerge to get out of a Beast Fighter spinning Voltes V around in its arms.

%% In Episode 19, during his temporary reunion with Daijrou, Kentaro passes him a secret message in cloth and blood reading L3045 Log 98221. It's up to Big Falcon to decode this in Episode 20.

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* RobotMe: In Episode 15, a version of [[spoiler:Kentaro Gou]] is sent by the Boazanian Emperor to deal with Voltes V. Interestingly, Prince Heinel wasn't aware of this nature and assumed that [[spoiler:Prof. Gou was turning on his children]]. He is offended, like Kenichi and Hiyoshi after TheReveal, that the emperor made a fool out of him.

''Voltes V'' (formally, 超電磁マシーン ボルテスV or ''Choudenji (Super Electromagnetic) Machine Voltes Five'') is the second of Tadao Nagahama's ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'' of SuperRobot series, premiering in 1977. It was preceded by ''Anime/CombattlerV'' and followed by ''{{Anime/Daimos}}''. As with its predecessor ''Anime/CombattlerV'', the "V" is for the CombiningMecha's five constituents, [[FiveManBand their five pilots]], and the traditional V for Victory.

* RobotMe: In Episode 15, a version of [[spoiler:Kentaro Gou]] is sent by the Boazanian Emperor to deal with Voltes V. Interestingly, Prince Heinel wasn't aware of this nature and assumed that [[spoiler:Prof. Gou was turning on his children]]. As such, he is offended like Kenichi and Hiyoshi during the reveal, and that the emperor made a fool out of him.

* VoiceChangeling: In Episode 13, Zuhl presents a voice modulating device he intends to use against the Voltes V pilots by pretending to be Professor Go. He even demonstrates ti earlier by having Jangal speak through it, and come off with Katherine's voice, to her shock.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: In one episode the Boazanians are gobsmacked to find out Earth people have the capacity to love; which was part of their FantasticRacism.

Has a [[Manga/VictoryFive sequel manga]].

* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The Beast Fighters or Juushin are really earth animals that the Boazanians turned into giant robots. At least the ones after the first couple of episodes.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: The {{Kaiju}}/Juushin/Beast Knights/Beast Fighters of the Boazans appear weekly or per episode. Sometimes, they come in pairs like in the case of Daiga and Neegu or Namazungo and Gamenza. Some of them appear multiple episodes if they're particularly tough or use a special upgrade.

* TractorBeam: The Skull Ships have these for transporting people. Prof. Hamaguchi is abducted by one in Episode 13 while protecting Steve from it.

* ItCanThink: The third Beast Fighter, Bonzarus, is capable of speech, and is the only one known to do so. He also proved too fast to allow the Volt Machines to Volt in, but ingenuity from Kenichi and Ippei involving reflecting missiles gave them the opportunity to do so. However, he was also too overconfident in himself to not retreat once Voltes V was formed.