History Anime / VoltesV

Because of [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff its popularity in the]] UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, a live-action series adaptation entitled ''Series/VoltesVLegacy'' is produced by Creator/GMANetwork and Riot Inc. Post Production under the supervision of Creator/{{Toei|Company}} with a Philippine-wide release on May 8, 2023.[[note]]This will use the English names used in the Philippine English dub.[[/note]] Any ''Legacy''-related tropes need to be placed on that page.

Please keep tropes related to the characters.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Only because the Choudenji Tops and the Choudenji Strings that launch them don't quite fit under KillerYoYo.
* 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 Knight 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).

* 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 Knight and softens their hard maxingal metal enough to allow his sword to cut through, for another thing.

* RobotMe: In Episode 15, a version of [[spoiler:Kentaro Gō]] 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. Gō 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 the truth.

* TelescopingRobot: Its belt was in reality two whips, its midsection stored a spinning top, the ornament on its chest hid its sword's blade...

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as one MonsterOfTheWeek was designed to neutralize Voltes V's super-electro-magnetic shielding during its transformation.

* VillainEpisode: Several episodes gave Heinel more screentime than the Voltes Team and actually developed him further as a character. This is one of the unique points of the series during its airing time, where the antagonist was shown to be more than a cackling villain that thinks on how to defeat the heroes, having his own dreams and honor (and outwitting other things aside of the Voltes Team), all while not wholly taking away the fact that he's supposed to be the antagonist.  Although, it actually does take away the fact that he meant to be the actual MainCharacter of Anime/VoltesV

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: This happens a ''lot'' to Prof. Gō. It's one of the devices that keep the story running.
* ZorroMark: Voltes always finishes off the Beast Knights by slicing a giant V into them with its sword.

* The90s: WordOfGod is that ''Voltes V'' takes place in 1995.

[[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]]).]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Gō brothers reunite with their father Gohl/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 Gohl, 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, Gohl and the Gō 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 Gō brothers' mother Mitsuyo, Professor Hamaguchi, and Megumi's father General Oka), Heinel sacrifices himself to save Kenichi from the rubble, and Gohl 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]].

** Another sign of this is when it appeared together with ''Anime/CombattlerV'' in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series. Compare [[Anime/CombattlerV Hyouma]] who has a more daredevil, carefree attitude and a bit of [[IdiotHero idiocy]] with [[TheLancer his second-in-command, Juzo]] [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] at him at times, while Kenichi tends to put more emphasis at the serious danger and intensity of the combat for his friends.

** And the closing theme tune talks about how the Gō brothers [[spoiler:are searching for their missing father]]. Subverted, as it's really about the actual MainCharacter, Prince Heinel, meeting his missing father for the very first time, and this is made especially clear when you properly pay attention to some of the lyrics of the ending song such as the line of why couldn't the baby bird meet his father's shadow at all and also asking if he was going to cry before ultimately choosing not to do so due to him being a man and pressing on. The animators drop the ball on that one and animate the three Go brothers running towards their father instead.
* FinishingMove:
** Voltes V summons the [[RetractableWeapon retractable]] [[{{BFS}} "Tenkuu Ken" (Sword of Heaven)]], has it absorb lightning like a lightning rod, and uses its super-charged ultra-electromagnetic blade to slice the MonsterOfTheWeek apart with the [[ZorroMark "V-no-Ji-Giri" (V-Slash or V-Mark-Slash)]]. Cue [[EverythingMakesAMushroom mushroom cloud explosion]] and Voltes posing against a shining V in the end.
** A MidSeasonUpgrade later, and Voltes V now blasts the [[EnergyBall "Choudenji Ball"]] at the Armored [[{{Robeast}} Beast Knight]] first to soften its hard outer shell before slashing it with the "V-no-Ji-Giri".

** [[spoiler: A pack of wolves attempted to attack Ippei's homeless family. Since Ippei was a child and his father was sick, his mother, the only able-bodied member of the family, sacrificed herself by using gunpowder to kill herself and the wolves for their safety]].

* VillainEpisode: Several episodes gave Heinel more screentime than the Voltes Team and actually developed him further as a character. This is one of the unique points of the series during its airing time, where the antagonist was shown to be more than a cackling villain that thinks on how to defeat the heroes, having his own dreams and honor (and outwitting other things aside of the Voltes Team), all while not wholly taking away the fact that he's supposed to be the antagonist. Although, it actually does take away the fact that he meant to be the actual MainCharacter of Anime/VoltesV

* VillainEpisode: Several episodes gave Heinel more screentime than the Voltes Team and actually developed him further as a character. This is one of the unique points of the series during its airing time, where the antagonist was shown to be more than a cackling villain that thinks on how to defeat the heroes, having his own dreams and honor (and outwitting other things aside of the Voltes Team), all while not wholly taking away the fact that he's supposed to be the antagonist. Although, it actually takes away the fact that he meant to be the actual MainCharacter of Anime/VoltesV

* DoubleInLawMarriage: Narrowly avoided, and a non-marriage example: [[spoiler: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/VoltesV Concept art]] shows that [[CuteMonsterGirl Katherine]] was to have a little sister named Marlene, who would fall in love with Kenichi after defecting from the Boazanian's side. Katherine also has a crush on [[{{tsundere}} Heinel]]. Given TheReveal later that Heinel and Kenichi are paternal half-brothers and that Kentaro Go and Prince Gohl are the same person, this trope would have been fulfilled had Marlene not been cut out in the final version.]]

** And the closing theme tune talks about how the Gō brothers [[spoiler:are searching for their missing father]].

* VillainEpisode: Several episodes gave Heinel more screentime than the Voltes Team and actually developed him further as a character. This is one of the unique points of the series during its airing time, where the antagonist was shown to be more than a cackling villain that thinks on how to defeat the heroes, having his own dreams and honor (and outwitting other things aside of the Voltes Team), all while not wholly taking away the fact that he's supposed to be the antagonist.

* KillItWithFire: Grand Fire is a flame thrower hidden behind Voltes V's "belt buckle".

* GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy: When Heinel pilots Galgo and comes close to his NearVillainVictory by draining the robot of its energy, Hamaguchi browses through it's blueprints (provided by the traitors in Heinel's castle), and orders the Voltes team to do this trope. Kenichi does so, and Galgo is no longer able to function. As Heinel tries to regain his control, he accidentally bites the saucer of the very traitor that sold him out, and he dies when it explodes

* ColorCodedCharacters: Kenichi wears [[color:red:red]], Ippei wears [[color:blue:blue]], and Megumi wears [[color:gold:yellow]] with [[color:magenta:pink accents]]. The other two members of the Voltes Team wear [[color:green:green]].

* HomeBase: Big Falcon, which is basically {{Mission Control}} set up on a [[IslandBase bird-shaped island]]. It turns out [[spoiler:that the whole island is actually part of a [[TheBattlestar gigantic]], bird-shaped CoolStarship in disguise, capable of traveling space warps to bring the fight onto Boazan's doorsteps]].
* HumiliationConga: Let's see... Heinel was [[spoiler:betrayed by the emperor he loyally served, his subordinates are killed, finds out he was pitted against his father and brothers, and finally dies]]. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, serves him right]].

* {{Acrofatic}}:
** Daijirou Gō. Justified, he's a martial artist judoka.
** General Oka. Justified, he's from a clan of {{ninja}}s after all.
** On the villains' side, there's Heinel's general Jangal. Also justified, his size makes him intimidating and he's more of a [[LightningBruiser barrel-chested]] general instead of unhealthy and lazy.
* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Boazanian Flagships, Zeltan/Zartan/Zoltan and Shugoshin Godol, all of them equiped with formidable weapons and even DeflectorShields.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Boazanians are able to banter with Terrans just fine.

* 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, La Gohl's first wife, who loved him genuinely despite [[spoiler:him revealing that he's actually hornless.]]

* DisappearedDad: Kentaro Gō left his sons when they were young [[spoiler: [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou in order to save the slaves in planet Boazan]]]].

* FingerFirearms: Voltes V's Finger Missiles are ostensibly missiles with launchers that extend like Voltes V's fingers, hence the English dub name. In the original series, they're instead known as Gatling Missiles.

* ItCanThink: The third Beast Knight, 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.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Zambajil had been manipulating his nephew Heinel into committing atrocities on Earth. Guess who kills him in the end?]]

* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Heinel's]] is a noticeable case. If she were around, then [[spoiler:Heinel would've learned much earlier that he and the Gō brothers share the same father]].

* NobleDemon: While the vast majority of Boazanian nobles are evil assholes, the named soldiers/warriors are mostly this. There are several Boazanian soldiers that show honor in their own way, even [[TheBrute Jangal]], while Heinel's experience in war and insistence to prove himself granted him some sense of honor. Taken further, [[spoiler: General Dange was a Horned Boazanian who had enough of the whole FantasticCasteSystem's cruelty. He broke off his horns and became a DefectorFromDecadence.]]

* RedshirtArmy: Big Falcon personnel suffers this as they take heavy casualties whenever the base is under attack.

* StellarName: In the Italian dub, Prince Heinel's name is changed to Prince Sirius.

* UndeadTaxExemption: [[spoiler:La Gohl was able to forge a new life on Earth as Kentarou Gō 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. ]]

* WeaponsOfTheirTrade: Ippei, being an ex-cowboy, has a whip.
* WorthyOpponent: Prince Heinel; played for all its tragic worth. To a lesser extent, the Boazanian giant Gilligan/Giron.

* ArmCannon: "Voltes Bazooka", which flips a hand down to protrude a scaled-up revolver from the forearm.

* BarelyChangedDubName: In Italy and Greece, the anime is known as ''Vultus 5''.
* BattleTops: The "Choudenji Goma" (Ultra-Electromagnetic Top) attack. It's always paired with the "Choudenji String" (Ultra-Electromagnetic Whip). It works by having Voltes V's twin magnetized belts wrap themselves around spiky magnetic tops that they then hurl or fling at the enemy like oversized shuriken or rotor blades. The tops are sharp enough to lop off limbs, in fact.
* {{BFG}}: The "Voltes Bazooka" is probably the largest arm cannon weapon Voltes V has in its arsenal. Had the toy maker [[MerchandiseDriven Popy]] got more creative control, this would've become Voltes V's FinishingMove instead of the "Tenkuu Ken". The shift from gun to sword was a change dictated by Creator/{{Sunrise}} and [[Creator/ToeiAnimation Toei]].
* {{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 Knight spinning Voltes V around in its arms, and was vital in getting another Beast Knight off from pinning the mecha.

* CallingYourAttacks: Half of Voltes's weaponry works like this.
* CatchPhrase: "LET'S... VOLT... IN!!!"

* ChestBlaster: Voltes Laser and Choudenji Wave. Further down is the Grand Fire. ([[DoubleEntendre No, not THAT further down.]])

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

* 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 La Gohl/Kentarou Gō'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 La Gohl 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: La Gohl suffers this after Zu Zambajil exposed his hornless nature mid-coronation and was thrown to prison camps to suffer under labor by whip.]]
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Boazanian Empire is based on UsefulNotes/{{France}}.

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: The Gō brothers. Their father is a Boazanian noble who defected.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: Gatling Missiles, Voltes Bazooka and Chain Knuckles are too big to have all been stored in Voltes V's arms.

* HornedHumanoid: The Boazan nobles.
* HumanAliens: The only real difference is that the privileged of the Boazanians have horns.

* LeaderFormsTheHead: Kenichi Gō pilots the Volt Cruiser, the head of the mecha.

* MissingMom:
** [[spoiler: Heinel's]] is a noticeable case. If she were around, then [[spoiler:Heinel would've learned much earlier that he and the Gō brothers share the same father]].

* NonActionBigBad: Emperor Zambajil just let his minions do all the fighting for him.

* OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair: [[spoiler:Kentaro Go has purple hair. He [[DisappearedDad went missing]] after warning the Earthlings of the [[AlienInvasion invasion of the Boazanians]]. As the series goes on, his true identity unravels to the surprise of many: he's a Boazanian himself. Even his own children are shocked to find this out. Kentaro (real name: Gohl) was born as the Crown Prince of Boazan, but he was disgusted at the Boazanian practice of enslaving those without horns. Gohl was also born without horns in spite of his RoyalBlood (he wore prosthetics) and hoped that when he ascended to the throne, he'd bring change to the land. After his secret was found out, he was enslaved and then forced to flee the planet after he attempted to overthrow the FantasticCasteSystem one too many times. The upper-class Boazanians who benefited from slavery saw his actions as "betrayal" and [[UnPerson UnPersoned]] his name from all their records.]]

* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler: General Oka]] dies in the same episode when he decides to retire.
* {{Robeast}}: The Beast Knights are this as the vanguard of the Boazanian forces.

* SchizoTech: The Boazanians managed to develop sub-lightspeed spaceship drives but were unable to apply the technology elsewhere, hence the use of Battle Beasts and atomic/nuclear conventional weaponry. They also retain their medieval culture, pimped-out dresses, and a FantasticCasteSystem that'd make slavery look humane.
* SpectacularSpinning: The "spin-fly" technique.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is the Emperor Zu's last name supposed to be Zambajil, Zambojil or Zambujil? Maybe even [[UsefulNotes/PatronSaints Sanbasil]]?
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Zuhl. He fails, though, and gets executed for it.]]
* StellarName: In the Italian dub, Prince Heinel's name is changed to Prince Sirius.[[note]]Sirius is the brightest star in the Earthern night sky[[/note]]

* UndeadTaxExemption: La Gohl was able to forge a new life on Earth as Kentarou Gō 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.

* IfItSwimsItFlies: Volt Frigate, the machine forms the legs of Voltes V, also is able to fly and swim.

* AllThereInTheManual: The Literature/RomanRoboAnimeClimaxSelection has got you covered.

* OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair: [[spoiler:Kentaro Go has purple hair. He [[DisappearedDad went missing]] after warning the Earthlings of the [[AlienInvasion invasion of the Boazanians]]. As the series goes on, his true identity unravels to the surprise of many: he's a Boazanian himself. Even his own children are shocked to find this out. Kentaro (real name: Gohl) was born as the Crown Prince of Boazan, but he was disgusted at the Boazanian practice of enslaving those without horns. Gohl was also born without horns in spite of his RoyalBlood (he wore prosthetics) and hoped that when he ascended to the throne, he'd bring change to the land. After his secret was found out, he was enslaved and then forced to flee the planet after he attempted to overthrow the FantasticCasteSystem one too many times. The upper-class Boazanians who benefited from slavery saw his actions as "betrayal" and [[UnPerson UnPersoned]] his name from all their records. He's secretly alive and working with LaResistance to help Voltes V defeat the Boazanian Empire.]]

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Several dubs

* 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 not only escape, but have the lab self-destruct, forcing the Boazanians to retreat as well.

** Daijirou Gou. Justified, he's a martial artist judoka.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Gou brothers reunite with their father Gohl/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 Gohl, 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, Gohl 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 Gohl 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]].

* DisappearedDad: Kentaro Gou left his sons when they were young [[spoiler: [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou in order to save the slaves in planet Boazan]]]].

** And the closing theme tune talks about how the Go brothers [[spoiler:are searching for their missing father]].
* 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 La Gohl/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 La Gohl was born.]])

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Boazanian Empire is based on France.

* 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 Knight'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.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: The Gou brothers. Their father is a Boazanian noble who defected.]]

* HeroStoleMyBike: After escaping the secret lab, Prof. Hamaguchi and Gen. Oka borrow a ''nearby logging truck'' to get back safely. At least Hamaguchi yells at them to bill it in his name before leaving.
* HomeBase: Camp Big Falcon, which is basically {{Mission Control}} set up on a [[IslandBase bird-shaped island]]. It turns out [[spoiler:that the whole island is actually part of a [[TheBattlestar gigantic]], bird-shaped CoolStarship in disguise, capable of traveling space warps to bring the fight onto Boazan's doorsteps]].

* LeaderFormsTheHead: Kenichi Gou pilots the Volt Cruiser, the head of the mecha.

** [[spoiler: Heinel's]] is a noticeable case. If she were around, then [[spoiler:Heinel would've learned much earlier that he and the Gou brothers share the same father]].

* MysteriousProtector: They were being helped by someone flying in a jet shaped like a hawk (in the Philippines, it was instead referred to as a "Mechanical Eagle") in later episodes. [[spoiler:It's a friend of Prof. Gou, General Dange, 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 Knight.
* RedshirtArmy: Camp Big Falcon personnel suffers this as they take heavy casualties whenever the base is under attack.
* 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 the truth.
** 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 and didn't notice a discrepancy the real deal would've spotted immediately, [[spoiler:and because their "Voltes V" during his "rescue operation" had escape pods, which he '''did not''' implement as it would make its pilots too dependent on being able to run from battle]].

* SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee: In episode 20, Professor Sakonji tells the Voltes Team that he can't authorize a mission to find the missing Kentaro Gou, saying that the odds of their current lead being a trap are too great... and then steps out to use the restroom, specifically declaring that he'll probably take a while. The team naturally launches without him, while a very much not-on-the-toilet Sakonji secretly watches and says to himself that he has no right to stop them.

* UndeadTaxExemption: La Gohl 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 La Gohl/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]]]].
* 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 it by having Jangal speak through it, and come off with Katherine's voice, to her shock.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: This happens a ''lot'' to Prof. Gou. It's one of the devices that keep the story running.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Italian opening of ''Voltes V'', ''Chicho e Coca'', was sang by Loriana Lana and Daniele Viri.