History Literature / ZetsubouRobo

* {{Authority Equals Asskicking}}: Sergeant Jennifer Mulcahy. She's a Marine sergeant for a reason.

* {{Action Girl}}: Priss [=McNichol=], Hiromi Callahan, and Carmen Rockwell.

* {{Everythings Better With Dinosaurs}}: Played with. While there are no real dinosaurs featured in the book itself, significant pieces of equipment in the human military, including mechs and dropships, are named after various prehistoric organisms, and not just dinosaurs. The main human mecha is called the Deinonychus Combat Mech, and the main dropship type used in the story is called the Pteranodon Dropship, alongside the less frequently mentioned Quetzalcoatlus Heavy Dropship.

** The section titled "The End of New Olympia" is a reference to ''[[Anime/NeonGensisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]''.

** The section titled "The End of New Olympia" is a reference to ''Anime/TheEndOfEvangelion''.

Zetsubou Robo is an American science fiction novel published in 2013 and written by Jared Bradley.

Zetsubou Robo begins in the year 2486 when humanity, which has colonized a significant portion of the Milky Way Galaxy, makes first contact with an alien race known as the Bellafaun. Things quickly go downhill for humanity from there, as the Bellafaun are highly xenophobic and racist, decalring that humanity has two choices: become slaves for the Bellafaun, or go extinct. Humanity chooses to fight the Bellafaun, and so an eight year war begins. The main protagonist of the story is Hiromi Callahan, a colonist whose family is almost completely wiped out during the Bellafaun attack on her home planet of Concordia. After hitching a ride on a military ship carrying refugees, Hiromi is left with her surviving relatives on the colony of New Olympia, and soon joins the military as a mech pilot, in order to get revenge against the Bellafaun. The squadron she is assigned to is known as Cobra Squadron, which is lead by Captain Leonard Harrison.

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* {{Authority Equals Asskicking}}: Sergeant Jennifer Mulcahy. She's a sergeant in the Marines for a reason.

* {{Authority Equals Asskicking}}: Commander, and later Captain, Shirley Clayton.

* {{Dark Action Girl}}: Gehrian Skell, and to a much more horrific and cruel extent, Limero Grishnak.

* {{But Not Too Foreign}}: Hiromi Callahan, sort of. Her sister, Satsuki Callahan, is a much better example, as Hiromi is technically 100 percent Japanese in terms of ethnicity, while Satsuki is actually the product of a mixed-race marriage. Hiromi was apparently conceived during a one-night-stand that her mother had shortly before she married Arthur Callahan.
* {{Complete Monster}}: Limero Grishnak and her father, Jheld Grishnak, especially after he reveals the ceremony that his daughter performed on Concordia to Doridan Mosk, who is absolutely horrified by the description. He even agrees that Limero deserved to die after hearing about her actions.

* {{Heroic BSOD}}: Happens many times, especially to Hiromi, who just can't catch a break as she has at least three over the course of the story. The two most notable ones for her are after her mother and Satsuki are killed and after she finds her father's desecrated corpse, and the third being after Elliot Carver's {{heroic sacrifice}}. Elliot Carver has one too, after Carmen is killed. He doesn't ever truly recover from it.

* {{A Father To His men}}: Leonard Harrison and Doridan Mosk are both leaders with a desire to keep the men and women under their command alive, although Mosk has much greater success at this than Harrison, since most of the people under ''his'' command are safe inside the ship that he commands. That being said, the crew of his ship are fiercely loyal to him ''precisely'' because he does his best to keep them alive.