History Film / SpaceBattleshipYamato

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Invoked by Susumu to Captain Okita when he endangers the ''Yamato'' to rescue Yuki. Although Susumu gets thrown into the brig for his heroics, Okita did plan a daring HyperspeedEscape to save Susumu and Yuki instead of abandoning both of them. Subverted later: [[spoiler:despite promising to save Ando when he's stranded on the third bridge, Susumu is forced to order Yuki to destroy it along with a suicide-bomb Gamilas fighter about to destroy the ship]].

* AttackItsWeakPoint: ''Yamato'' targets a Gamilas ship's warp drive with her main guns (with Yuki getting close enough with her fighter to paint the target). It turns out, blowing up a ship's charged warp drive [[DivideByZero causes it to implode]]. And then explode. [[SplashDamage Very violently.]]

** [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters And many others...]]

* GoOutWithASmile: Fatally wounded by [[MultipleGunshotDeath multiple Gamilas blasts]], [[spoiler:Shirō]] puts on a smile as he presses down on a detonator.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Yuki. She feels that Susumu has skipped out on the worst of the fighting the EDF has faced after he left the service, and reacts angrily when the rest of the squadron welcomes him warmly.

After studying the device, the EDF finds schematics for a [[WaveMotionGun powerful engine and weapon]], and proceed to build a ship around it, which Okita requests to take on a mission to find Iscandar, in order to retrieve an anti-radiation device to save the Earth. His request is approved, and a call for volunteers goes out, taking on surviving EDF officers, retired veterans, and civilians with spacer experience, including one Susumu Kodai, who has it in for Captain Okita after learning how his brother Mamoru died. The question becomes whether this new ship, built from the remains of a WorldWarII battleship, will succeed in finding Iskandar and returning to Earth with the anti-radiation device in time to save her.

* WaveMotionGun: [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato Yes.]] This is based on the TropeNamer, after all. The crew recognizes that after the first shot, the Gamilas will [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy learn to expect it and try to counter it.]]

* CanonImmigrant: Mamoru Kodai's sacrifice is taken from a {{Woosleyism}} in the Star Blazers dub of the original series.

* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:As Susumu makes his suicide run on the final Gamilas spaceship, he sees his dead comrades as smiling spectres, akin to golden versions of ''Star Wars'' Force ghosts.]]

* DwindlingParty: The crew as a whole, taking casualties as the ship gets damaged over the course of the film, but especially during the [[spoiler: expedition to Gamilas.]] By the end of the film, there are only [[spoiler: 12 survivors out of the entire crew.]]

* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies]]

-->'''Okita''': I will relieve you of the burden of choice.

* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Iskandar and Garmillas are both the same planet.]]

After studying the device, the EDF finds schematics for a [[WaveMotionGun powerful engine and weapon]], and proceed to build a ship around it, which Okita requests to take on a mission to find Iscandar, in order to retrieve an anti-radiation device to save the Earth. His request is approved, and a call for volunteers goes out, taking on surviving EDF officers, retired veterans, and civilians with spacer experience, including one Susumu Kodai, who has it in for Captain Okita after learning how his brother Mamoru died. The question becomes whether this new ship, built from the remains of a WorldWarII battleship, will succeed in finding Iskandar and returning to Earth with the anti-radiation device in time to save her, [[spoiler: especially since there is absolutely no evidence that such a device exists.]]

** MacGuffinGirl: Yuki [[spoiler: after she is possessed by Iskandar.]]

* YouKilledMyFather: Susumu Kodai holds Captain Okita personally responsible for his brother's death.

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* AirstrikeImpossible: During the attack on [[spoiler:Iscandar]], ''Yamato'' dives into the atmosphere while launching fighters in a very ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined''-like fashion, complete with jumping out before she hits the ground. The fighters proceed to fly through a cave system.

* CompositeCharacter: As a sort of MythologyGag, Yuki takes on Starsha's role when [[spoiler: Iskandar possesses her to communicate with Susumu and his men.]]

* ThatsAnOrder: After Susumu refuses Okita's offer [[spoiler: to take his place as Captain due to Okita's failing health]], Okita decides to just announce it anyways.