History Literature / ZetsubouRobo

** The battle between Edward Delgado and the Bellafaun Corvette is also a shout out to the fight between Godzilla and the Super-X from ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla''

* {{Shout Out}}: To Bubblegum Crisis, courtesy of Priss McNichol, who is named after Priss Asagir and Leon McNichol. She also has an affinity for motorcycles and brown hair.

* {{Heel Face Turn}}: Doridan Mosk, sort of. he was already sick of fighting ''before'' he changed sides. Empreror Grishnak's death just finally gave him an excuse to do so, really. A more intersting example would be Emperor Lutwai, who only does so after Hiromi catches him in her mech's hand and practically threatens to kill him if he doesn't agree to sign a cease-fire and a peace treaty.

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.

While the story itself is mostly about Hiromi Callahan, a colonist whose family is mostly eliminated by the Bellafaun during their attack on Concordia, other characters share just as much page time, including the other members of Cobra Squadron and even many of the antagonists, including Emperor Jheld Grishnak and Doridan Mosk. The majority of the story itself takes place over a period of eight years, with two major time skips and one minor one at the epilogue. The fourth chapter itself is mainly exposition that details the events during the seven year time skip between the Bellafaun's attack on Concordia and their latest incursion into human territory.

* {{Fantastic Racism}}: The Bellafaun towards anyone who ''isn't'' a Bellafaun.

* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}: Sergeant Jennifer Mulcahy, after her nearly everyone on her team has been wiped out inside of Empress Kulam's Royal Carrier. Horatio Newman also counts as well, as he gives Harrison and Serizawa enough time to escape the carrier before it explodes, although it's implied that he wanted to die after his screw-up on New Olympia destroyed any chances of a peace treaty.

* {{Dwindling Party}}: Cobra Squadron. Two members of the team are already dead by the time the squad itself is introduced properly in the fifth chapter, which takes place after a seven year time skip.
* {{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 Drophsip, alongside the less frequently mentioned Quetzalcoatlus Heavy Dropship.

* {{Heroic BSOD}}: Happens many times, especially to Hiromi, who just can't catch a break as seh 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.

While the story itself is mostly about Hiromi Callahan, a colonist whose family is mostly eliminated by the Bellafaun during their attack on Concordia, other characters share just as much page time, including the other members of Cobra Squadron and even many of the antagonists, including Emperor Jheld Grishnak and Doridan Mosk.

The main character of the story is Hiromi Callahan, who becomes a mech pilot after her home planet is assaulted by the Bellafaun.

* {{Fantastic Racism}}: The Bellafaun towards anyone who "isn't" a Bellafaun.

* {{Fantastic Racism}}: The Bellafaun.

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

* {{Everything's 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 Drophsip, alongside the less frequently mentioned Quetzalcoatlus Heavy Dropship.

* {{Real Robot}}: The book is an example of this, as the main mecha featured in it, the Deinonychus Battle Mech and the Bellafaun Archangel, are machines that need repairs after every battle, and are capable of breaking down and malfunctioning if not taken care of properly. The human mecha, the Deinonychus, also have dedicated maintenance teams, much like real life maintenance teams for regular military vehicles such as tanks and helicopters.

* {{ButNotTooForeign}}: Hiromi Callahan.

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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.