History Fridge / MacrossFrontier

* The second ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' movie has this. [[spoiler: After Sheryl falls into coma after watching Alto disappear, Ranka heals her - just like in the series. It is then stated that "Sheryl will wake up when Alto comes back - just like in the series. But there is [[ForWantOfANail one crucial difference]] Alto '''won't''' come back in the movie verse - and thus Sheryl will never wake up. By saving Sheryl, Ranka [[NiceJobBreakingItHero just condemned her to lifelong coma]]. How is That? Now there is of course a possibility that Sheryl will just wake up on her own, but the prospect of transforming a death into a FateWorseThanDeath is definitely there.]]

* Ranka Lee is hailed as the Super Dimension Literature/{{Cinderella}}, but there are even more [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess]] parallels throughout.

* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' gave me a moment when I pondered Mikhail going for the head of Brera's [[CoolPlane Variable]] [[SpaceFighter Fighter]] in Episode 9. At first, this made no sense, because the head unit of a Variable Fighter only contains sensors and a near useless laser, and the former is only really used in Battroid mode when the cockpit is retracted and covered in armor when transforming into Battroid mode. The trick is, the pilot need only transform into Fighter or GERWALK mode to enable the pilot to use his own vision, as TheHero does in ''Anime/MacrossZero'' to great effect after he loses his own fighter's head. Meanwhile, the cockpit is actually contained inside the center of mass, which is actually the easier target ''anyway'', so it didn't make sense for him to aim for the head. After I thought about it a little more, I realized that they weren't trying to kill Brera, ''they were trying to capture him''. When Mikhail goes for the shot, Alto has Brera tied up in hand-to-hand sumo mecha style, and I realized that with so many intermingled moving parts that part of the reason for the sumo wrestling was to prevent the other from transforming out of Battroid mode, as well as keep them stationary. Thus, if Brera's head got shot off, he'd be completely blind in his current transformation mode, and unable to transform into a different one because Alto was all over him. With a connected shot, Alto would have easily had the upper hand and could have disabled Brera's fighter with a few well-placed point barrier punches.
* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' has Ranka Lee being hailed as the Super Dimension Literature/{{Cinderella}}, but there are even more [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess]] parallels throughout.

*** Actually, this troper seems to recall that the prince ''heard'' Rapunzel before he saw her and that's why he stumbled across her tower.

* As of the last movie, [[spoiler: Sheryl]] is the apparent relationship winner, though there might have been subtle hints all along there is one that called out to me; [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY0SA1Oj_AY&feature=related Triangler Fight On Stage!]] who is the one who sings the line ''Like how we are friends but you don't love me''? [[spoiler: it wasn't Sheryl]]

* In the GrandFinale, Ranka comments that the Vajra speak/think with their stomachs. Since this troper is a singer and took lessons, she realizes the connection: to sing "properly" and project your voice, you sing from your diaphragm. Where is it located? ''In your stomach!'' Thus the fact the Vajra only really notice when Ranka sings or is very loud makes a lot of sense!

** In the second movie, Sheryl has a couple of performances where she crossdresses, and cuts a [[AttractiveBentGender dashing]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} figure]] doing so. This seems to be a hint that she's perfect for [[DudeLooksLikeALady Alto]], especially since one of her costumes looks quite princely.

* Near the end of Ranka's performance of "Niji Iro Kuma Kuma", the camera closes up to Sheryl in the audience as a holographic Ranks gives her a teddy bear. At that point, Ranka is singing the words "the feeling of a little girl will persevere". While the lyrics seem to be referring to Ranka, the creators are actually subtly hinting at the fact that [[spoiler: Sheryl as a child was [[PrecociousCrush inspired by]] a performance by Alto]]. Driven home during the scene where Alto finally realizes this, and Ranka is singing this exact song.

** [[spoiler: Go back and watch the end-credits sequence again. The supposedly comatose Sheryl is mouthing the words to the song at the end, and her earring is glowing. She's already waking up. It's not like Alto died anyway, the Vajra Queen space-folded away before the attack hit. He just has to find a way back to the planet. Once the Queen gets Battle Frontier out of her gut, he can fly back on that or something.]]