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** Capella gets her left arm melted into a stump after her fight with Salamander. She gets better.
** Kashu [[spoiler: almost loses half of his torso along with his arm in his attempts to appeal to a brainwashed Nechla's conscience.]] [[Determinator He trucks along without attending to his injuries to continue trying.]]
** Capella gets her left arm melted into a stump after her fight with Salamander. She gets better.
** Kashu [[spoiler: almost loses half of his torso along with his arm in his attempts to appeal to a brainwashed Nechla's conscience.]] [[Determinator He trucks along without attending to his injuries to continue trying.]]
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* BigEater: Birdy's appetite has no limits. Aside from her, many of the Federation investigators taking shelter in Tsutomu's house scarf down all his fridge leftovers.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Between the time skip, the rat acting as a mouthpiece for the identity of Kidel Forte talking to Tsutomu before the time skip died of old age. A new one fills in for him.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Megius is the focal protagonist of the Memories of a Marionette arc (chapters 121 - 142), which depicts his role in Birdy's childhood up to the tragic Central Tower attacks.
* BenevolentBoss: Megius to Birdy. He cares for her well-being, has nothing against Altans, and it's noted any other commanding officer would have fired her long ago for her reckless way of working.
* TheBusCameBack:
** Capella reappears on comms to Birdy after recovering from her injuries to Salamander, following [[spoiler: Hikawa's death.]]
** After being reassigned from his job as Birdy's commander, Megius reappears after the time skip as a desk jockey, using Skelezzo as a mouthpiece to deliver messages to Birdy he otherwise couldn't send from his new position.
** Capella reappears on comms to Birdy after recovering from her injuries to Salamander, following [[spoiler: Hikawa's death.]]
** After being reassigned from his job as Birdy's commander, Megius reappears after the time skip as a desk jockey, using Skelezzo as a mouthpiece to deliver messages to Birdy he otherwise couldn't send from his new position.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Not long after Hikawa's death, it's revealed Capella used her connections in internal affairs to relocate Megius, rendering Birdy her defacto subordinate on Earth.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Not long after Hikawa's death, it's revealed Capella used her connections in internal affairs to relocate Megius, rendering Birdy her defacto subordinate on Earth.
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* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler: Megius asks this of Revi in the epilogue of the manga, saying he implicitly must have known the damage fromdestroying the Sanctum Sanctorum. Revi still justifes herself, stating she has freed the universe and now it is up to humanity to make good use of free will.]]
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* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Inquiring on the true origins of the Federation or the galaxy at large amounts to a death sentence, as Maxwell Peridan and Revi discovered.
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Inquiring on the true origins of the Federation or the galaxy at large amounts to a death sentence, as Maxwell Peridan and Revi discovered.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: To Noah's credit, he does handle his end with remarkable grace. When the Arita ship's mainframe is about to shut down forever, he realizes how wrong he was and wishes the best for his future descendants and the destinies they make for themselves.
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* AmbitionIsEvil:
** Ackerman of the US Pentagon, who plots to exploit the looking alien crisis to expand America's influence on the world stage. Closely conspiring with him is Tsubaki, the JSDF minister that replaced the ousted Shigenobu.
** Hikawa is driven by a selfish desire [[ANaziByAnyOtherName to return Japan to its imperalistic ways]] and resume war against China.
** Koreie Noah of Alta, who had set an initiative for descendants of the Arita family to reclaim Alta, unfairly taking away the freedom of many youths.
** Ackerman of the US Pentagon, who plots to exploit the looking alien crisis to expand America's influence on the world stage. Closely conspiring with him is Tsubaki, the JSDF minister that replaced the ousted Shigenobu.
** Hikawa is driven by a selfish desire [[ANaziByAnyOtherName to return Japan to its imperalistic ways]] and resume war against China.
** Koreie Noah of Alta, who had set an initiative for descendants of the Arita family to reclaim Alta, unfairly taking away the freedom of many youths.
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* ButThouMust: Koreie's projection to Momiji after she decides to subvert her destiny. When she fully tells him off, he decides to kill her and Birdy.
* ButThouMust: Koreie's projection to Momiji after she decides to subvert her destiny. When she fully tells him off, he decides to kill her and Birdy.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Years after the manga ended publication, Masami Yuki has been occasionally willing to answer questions regarding unresolved or lingering plot points. A notable one is mentioning after the Federation effectively migrated to Earth's orbit, the Arita family had no reason to hide anymore with the newfound peace and subsequent dismantling of the Altan Refugee Network.
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* ArcherArchetype: Momiji was already a skilled archer before inheriting alien weaponry, and the new high-tech bow she retrieves from the dormant alien ship under her inn does nothing to slow her down.
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* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler: After discovering the destiny laid out for all descendants of the Arita family, Momiji becomes enraged and is determined to never let herself or future descendants bear that tragic burden any longer. With Birdy, she destroys the Arita spaceship, making sure the Aritas from then on aren't shackled by their ancestor's legacy.]]
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* ImmortalitySeeker: MadScienist Agata Juuzou's whole motive for helping Agni out. To a lesser degree, while immortality isn't exactly what he's seeking, Altoros gained physical immortality through the Marionette body provided by Revi.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Revi and Gomez, but especially the latter, whose enigma is at the center of a mystery Birdy actively tries to uncover. [[spoiler: Both are good people despite their means of achieving their goals, albeit much less so in the case of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Revi.]]]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Irma, the manager of the Altan Refugee Network and an information broker. She makes it crystal clear she doesn't want anything to do with official Federation business; when Birdy prys her too much, she makes a thinly veiled, grave threat against her to back off.
* BitchSlap: Hikawa gives a vicious one of these to Lee for failing him in recapturing Chigira.
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** Towa is taken aback by his mother's cruel intentions for Birdy and helps her escape from her clutches.
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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Revi among Altans during her tenure as head of Ministry of Science. Even after her fall from grace, she is viewed as a LivingLegend that inspires hope for the downtrodden.
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* DamselInDistress: Hazumi unwittingly takes a part-time job offer as a volunteer at Hikawa Chemistry, spurring Birdy and Tsutomu to her rescue.
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Tuto, Birdy's Marker, who dies in the opening chapters against Geega. Birdy is admonished for letting it happen.
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* BigSisterBully: Downplayed with Hazumi. She likes to tease and wrestle Tsutomu, but is concerned for his well-being and makes sure he studies well.
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* BigGood: On Tsutomu's end is Keisuke Muroto, an eccentric reporter who serves as Birdy and Tsutomu's main man for leads on suspicious activities on Earth in regards to aliens and Revi's mysterious cult. Following the time skip, he is Tsutomu's part-time boss and provides leads on Agni. On Birdy's end is commissioner Megius, her initial boss and surrogate father. Megius is fully supportive of Birdy and one of the few Federation agents that isn't corrupt, eventually opening his own covert investigation into the sinister workings of the Sanctum Sanctorum.
* EveryoneHasStandads: As obsessed as Muroto is with prying Tsutomu for more information on Birdy, he becomes very worried for his safety after seeing firsthand what Agni is like, and implores him to stop working for him (to no avail).
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Ironically, even into the very end, Murto doesn't discover Tsutomu's secret when his high school friends are all in on it.
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* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: Shyamalan and Robert's reckless research in Yggdrasil caused a pinhole accelator to fly off the handle, swallowing Earth with a black hole. This would create the DeathWorld that is the star El Kazan, where the Sanctum Sanctorum and first Altan were founded on.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** Undine!Sayaka's rampage of the hospital holding Sayaka herself.
** Birdy and Tsutomu's destruction of the Agni research facility after learning of how much it's just hurt their loved ones.
** Undine!Sayaka's rampage of the hospital holding Sayaka herself.
** Birdy and Tsutomu's destruction of the Agni research facility after learning of how much it's just hurt their loved ones.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Undine!Sayaka grows to love Tsutomu from its time with him, and as Sayaka regains consciousness, it states it wishes things could have gone differently.
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** Gnome, who just defeated Undine!Sayaka without hassle, is one-shot by the reforged Oni now serving Agata.
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* MustMakeAmends:
** Due to Sayaka's inner guilt for being the basis for the Marionettes, Undine!Sayaka feels the only way it can make amends is by destroying every last trace of Agni. This includes Sayaka.
** Gomez [[spoiler: has always planned to turn himself and Revi in if they achieve their goals, citing they must mmake amends for their vast crimes. This is what happens by the epilogue.]]
** Due to Sayaka's inner guilt for being the basis for the Marionettes, Undine!Sayaka feels the only way it can make amends is by destroying every last trace of Agni. This includes Sayaka.
** Gomez [[spoiler: has always planned to turn himself and Revi in if they achieve their goals, citing they must mmake amends for their vast crimes. This is what happens by the epilogue.]]
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** Undine!Sayaka feels the only way it can amend for its (Sayaka's) role in creating weapons for war is to kill Sayaka's comatose self and take it with her to the grave.
** [[spoiler: Nechla implores, if not outright begs, Birdy to kill her after she murders Kashu.]]
** While Revi does have an endgoal, one has to wonder if she desires to die based on some demonstrations of blatant disregard for her own safety. [[spoiler: Gomez surmises that Revi fully plans on dying in her eventual confrontation with the Sanctum Sanctorum, but he will never see to it that she doesn't pay for her crimes with in court.]]
** Undine!Sayaka feels the only way it can amend for its (Sayaka's) role in creating weapons for war is to kill Sayaka's comatose self and take it with her to the grave.
** [[spoiler: Nechla implores, if not outright begs, Birdy to kill her after she murders Kashu.]]
** While Revi does have an endgoal, one has to wonder if she desires to die based on some demonstrations of blatant disregard for her own safety. [[spoiler: Gomez surmises that Revi fully plans on dying in her eventual confrontation with the Sanctum Sanctorum, but he will never see to it that she doesn't pay for her crimes with in court.]]
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* AxCrazy:
** Bacillus, a parastic alien in uneasy league with Revi, who grows more insane with each body he steals due to the excessive memory overflow. He eventually completely loses it.
** Shogo Hikawa, a MadScientist affiliate of Revi's at the center of her plans, is almost bestial in nature despite being human.
** Capella Titus and Neith Washgam, kindred spirits in their love of torture, destruction, and being part of the exceedingly corrupt army division of the Federation.
** An utterly tragic example in [[spoiler: Nechla after her mind is almost fully overtaken by the Sanctum Sanctorum.]]
** Bacillus, a parastic alien in uneasy league with Revi, who grows more insane with each body he steals due to the excessive memory overflow. He eventually completely loses it.
** Shogo Hikawa, a MadScientist affiliate of Revi's at the center of her plans, is almost bestial in nature despite being human.
** Capella Titus and Neith Washgam, kindred spirits in their love of torture, destruction, and being part of the exceedingly corrupt army division of the Federation.
** An utterly tragic example in [[spoiler: Nechla after her mind is almost fully overtaken by the Sanctum Sanctorum.]]
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Even as the president of his own company, Hikawa is hated and feared by all his employees. Apart from some halfassed reassurances to keep them in line, Hikawa does nothing to make them feel better. Unsurprisingly, the remnants of his staff are much happier under Agni after the time skip.
** [[spoiler: The Shyamalan of the parallel world is noted to be viewed unfavorably in his own company and out.]]
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Sayaka's parents used her as the basis (guinea pig) for their neuroscience research, specifically implanting a human conscience into a robot for A.I. development, which later extended to militaristic purposes; the creation of autonomous killing machines that would become the Marionettes we see in the story is founded on the Nakasugi's work. This research was restarted when PMI took over and her father died, though they do try to pull her back in, voluntarily or not.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Even as the president of his own company, Hikawa is hated and feared by all his employees. Apart from some halfassed reassurances to keep them in line, Hikawa does nothing to make them feel better. Unsurprisingly, the remnants of his staff are much happier under Agni after the time skip.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Sayaka's parents used her as the basis (guinea pig) for their neuroscience research, specifically implanting a human conscience into a robot for A.I. development, which later extended to militaristic purposes; the creation of autonomous killing machines that would become the Marionettes we see in the story is founded on the Nakasugi's work. This research was restarted when PMI took over and her father died, though they do try to pull her back in, voluntarily or not.]]
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* ButNowIMustGo: Chigira [[spoiler: chooses to leave his friends and old life behind to follow Gomez, and by extension Christella Revi, having found a new place to be after Hikawa's death.]] Ryota is left in anguish over being unable to do anything to make him reconsider.
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** Chigira [[spoiler: chooses to leave his friends and old life behind to follow Gomez, and by extension Christella Revi, having found a new place to be after Hikawa's death.]] Ryota is left in anguish over being unable to do anything to make himreconsider.reconsider.
** Sayaka chooses to leave for the countryside with her mother after she regains consciousness from her accident. She later returns to Japan at Revi's calling, for very good reason.
* CanonImmigrant: Kinzel Hower, Mace, Sayaka Nakasugi, and Satyajit Shyamalan are all imported from the other Birdy the Mighty continuities. Shogo Hikawa, who is a direct {{Expy}} of Seichiro Hikawa of the OVA, is [[spoiler: later revealed to be Seichiro himself posing as his non-existent grandson.]]
** Chigira [[spoiler: chooses to leave his friends and old life behind to follow Gomez, and by extension Christella Revi, having found a new place to be after Hikawa's death.]] Ryota is left in anguish over being unable to do anything to make him
** Sayaka chooses to leave for the countryside with her mother after she regains consciousness from her accident. She later returns to Japan at Revi's calling, for very good reason.
* CanonImmigrant: Kinzel Hower, Mace, Sayaka Nakasugi, and Satyajit Shyamalan are all imported from the other Birdy the Mighty continuities. Shogo Hikawa, who is a direct {{Expy}} of Seichiro Hikawa of the OVA, is [[spoiler: later revealed to be Seichiro himself posing as his non-existent grandson.]]
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* ChildProdigy: Sayaka is this in the fields of neuroscience and android development. For this reason, Agni seeks to pull her back in for work. [[spoiler: in the AlternateUniverse where she joined with Shyamalan, [[ApocalypseMaiden her stolen work ended that universe.]]]]
* CoolBigSis: To Hinako, who looks up to her as a kindred spirit. Made darker considering they both lost their fathers to Agni.
* CoolBigSis: To Hinako, who looks up to her as a kindred spirit. Made darker considering they both lost their fathers to Agni.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: As Sayaka tells Tsutomu over a heart to heart, being a wealthy Ojou her life was set on rails her parents established. After her father's company was taken over, she had no idea what to do now that her life of comfort was effectively over. She settles with looking for a career path to hone her talents in order to help humanity.
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* FatalFlaw: Sayaka's submissive and clumsy nature might seem endearing to her friends, especially Hayamiya, but it's played very seriously when it's revealed this aspect of her is [[spoiler: what let Robert and Shyamalan push her around in the other world. This led to the end of that world when they seized her research from her and she was left with no power to stop them.]]
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* Meganekko: Sayaka wears large square glasses, although she isn't impaired enough to always need them.
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* NoSocialSkills: As a result of a privileged, sheltered life, Sayaka is extremely awkward in social situations, with no sense of fashion and a personality that comes off as ditzy. Natsumi and Tsutomu find it endearing, though.
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* ApocalypticLog: Maxwell Peridan's forbidden book, the contents of which drive the second half of the manga forward, fueling Revi's alliance with the Empire remnant for a means of unlocking it. [[spoiler: In it is a portable library of documents and books written by [[WhamShot Sayaka Nakasugi]] detailing her career path under PMI and the fall of mankind in another universe.]]
* AttemptedRape: Sayaka was threatened by a gang of delinquents with this between the timeskip, and Tsutomu intervened with Birdy's strength. This is how they met.
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** Revi and effectively Gomez piece together what's going on with the Sanctum Sanctorum and the origins of the star systems long before unsealing Peridan's forbidden book.
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** Revi and effectively Gomez [[spoiler: piece together what's going on with the Sanctum Sanctorum and the origins of the star systems long before unsealing Peridan's forbidden book.]]
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* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Sayaka gives one to Tsutomu in the manga's closing chapters.]]
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* ButNowIMustGo: Chigira [[spoiler: chooses to leave his friends and old life behind to follow Gomez, and by extension Christella Revi, having found a new place to be after Hikawa's death.]] Ryota is left in anguish over being unable to do anything to make him reconsider.]]
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* ButNowIMustGo: Chigira [[spoiler: chooses to leave his friends and old life behind to follow Gomez, and by extension Christella Revi, having found a new place to be after Hikawa's death.]] Ryota is left in anguish over being unable to do anything to make him reconsider.]]
