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* CharClone: Kurtz, the leader of the Hound combat motorcycle corps, cheerfully admits most of his men are as expendable as his machines to his superiors. However, Kurtz eagerly manipulates rebellious protagonist Hiro to remain under his command by hook or by crook, because of the talent he sees in the youth. Beyond that, Kurtz is blond, wears either glasses or keeps his helmet's visor down, said to be gay, and voiced by Char Aznable's VA Shuichi Ikeda himself!

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* CharClone: {{Expy}}: Of Char Aznable. Kurtz, the leader of the Hound combat motorcycle corps, cheerfully admits most of his men are as expendable as his machines to his superiors. However, Kurtz eagerly manipulates rebellious protagonist Hiro to remain under his command by hook or by crook, because of the talent he sees in the youth. Beyond that, Kurtz is blond, wears either glasses or keeps his helmet's visor down, said to be gay, and voiced by Char Aznable's VA Shuichi Ikeda himself!
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* IntrepidReporter: Sue, one of the main viewpoint characters. In the anime adaptation, she's fresh off the newest shuttle from Earth in order to write a story about the ColdWar on Venus, only to get more than she hoped for.

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* IntrepidReporter: Sue, one of the main viewpoint characters. In the anime adaptation, she's fresh off the newest shuttle from Earth in order to write a story about the ColdWar SpaceColdWar on Venus, only to get more than she hoped for.

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''The Venus Wars'' (ヴイナス戦記 Vinasu Senki) is a Japanese {{manga}} series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. It was serialized in the Gakken magazine Nora Comics from 1987 to 1990. In 1989, ''The Venus Wars'' was adapted into an {{anime}} film directed by Yasuhiko, co-written by Yuichi Sasamoto and Yasuhiko, and produced by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Visual]], Gakken, and Shochiku.

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''The Venus Wars'' (ヴイナス戦記 Vinasu Senki) is a Japanese {{manga}} series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. It was serialized in the Gakken magazine Nora Comics from 1987 to 1990. In 1989, ''The Venus Wars'' was adapted into an {{anime}} film directed by Yasuhiko, co-written by Yuichi Sasamoto and Yasuhiko, and produced by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment [[Creator/{{Bandai}} Bandai Visual]], Gakken, and Shochiku.
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**Donner is Gihren Zabi with long hair.
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* {{Bishonen}}: Hiro, Kurtz

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* ShesGotLegs: Sue



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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Miranda to Hiro as her EstablishingCharacterMoment in the manga and then again to Sue in the movie.

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* CharClone: Blond, military, glasses-wearing, said to be gay, and voiced by Ikeda himself!

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* CharClone: Blond, military, glasses-wearing, Kurtz, the leader of the Hound combat motorcycle corps, cheerfully admits most of his men are as expendable as his machines to his superiors. However, Kurtz eagerly manipulates rebellious protagonist Hiro to remain under his command by hook or by crook, because of the talent he sees in the youth. Beyond that, Kurtz is blond, wears either glasses or keeps his helmet's visor down, said to be gay, and voiced by Char Aznable's VA Shuichi Ikeda himself!



* DayOfTheJackboot: Ishtar's invasion of the Aphrodian capital and its aftermath. Most of the second act of the film shows Hiro, Maggie, and the other Killer Commandos trying to keep their heads down during the invaders' increasingly draconian occupation until they're inevitably forced to fight back.



* IntrepidReporter: Sue
* JapaneseDelinquents: Members of the Killer Commandos team.

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* IntrepidReporter: Sue
Sue, one of the main viewpoint characters. In the anime adaptation, she's fresh off the newest shuttle from Earth in order to write a story about the ColdWar on Venus, only to get more than she hoped for.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Members Except for Maggie, members of the Killer Commandos team.team are mainly from the wrong side of the tracks. Hiro in particular is a [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority rebel without a cause]] in the anime even before the DayOfTheJackboot.



* MediumBlending: Some of the Venusian landscape we see is actually live action footage.
* MonowheelMayhem: In the anime movie.

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* MediumBlending: Some of the Venusian landscape we see in the anime is actually tinted live action footage, with animated bikes and tanks overlaid on the footage.
* MonowheelMayhem: In the anime movie.movie, where the Hound battle bikes are reimagined as single wheel motorcycles.



* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Hiro to Kurtz which Kurtz was counting on.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Happens to Sue.

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* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Hiro to Kurtz Kurtz, which Kurtz was counting on.
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* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Happens to Sue.Sue [[spoiler:when she attempts to assassinate the Ishtar commander Donner after arranging an interview with him.]]



* LaResistance: The Commandos form a small one and Kurtz's Freedom Force
* ReportingNames: Ishtar's giant tanks are officially named Admiral A-1, but Aphrodians invariably refer to them as "Tako" (Octopus). The official name is never mentioned in the OVA, and in the manga it's mentioned outside of captions exactly ''once'', during Rado's coup in the second part of the manga (cut from the animated adaptation).

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* LaResistance: The Commandos form a small one and before being recruited by Kurtz's Freedom Force
Force.
* ReportingNames: Ishtar's giant tanks are officially named Admiral A-1, but Aphrodians invariably refer to them as "Tako" (Octopus). The official name is never mentioned in the OVA, anime, and in the manga it's mentioned outside of captions exactly ''once'', during Rado's coup in the second part of the manga (cut from the animated adaptation).



* TrueCompanions: The Commandos make an odd sort but they prove to be this since they always back each other up.

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* TrueCompanions: The Commandos make an odd sort sort, but they prove to be this since they always back each other up.



* WhiteHairBlackHeart: General Donner

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* WhiteHairBlackHeart: General DonnerDonner, the handsome yet sadistic commander of the invading Ishtar forces.

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** In the manga, the Hound battle bikes mass ''one tonne''. For obvious reasons the rider needs to have great arm strength to steer them, with the training being aimed in large part to increase said strength and the stamina (plus handling the rocket boosters).

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** In the manga, the Hound battle bikes mass ''one tonne''. For obvious reasons the rider needs to have great arm strength to steer them, with the training being aimed in large part to increase said strength and the stamina (plus handling the rocket boosters).



* BadassBiker: Miranda



* BikerBabe: Miranda



* CharClone: Blond, military, glasses wearing, said to be gay, and voiced by Ikeda himself!

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* CharClone: Blond, military, glasses wearing, glasses-wearing, said to be gay, and voiced by Ikeda himself!



* DemotedToExtra: Lieutenant Helen Macluth doens't appear in the movie.

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* DemotedToExtra: Lieutenant Helen Macluth doens't doesn't appear in the movie.

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The manga was translated into English by Creator/DarkHorseComics in the early 1990s. The anime was localized in the United Kingdom and the United States by the Central Park Media subsidiary Creator/MangaEntertainment, gaining recognition when it aired in heavy rotation on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] "Saturday Anime" movie block in the late 1990s. The film was relicensed in 2012 by Creator/DiscotekMedia, who re-released the movie on DVD and Blu-ray, but their rights have since lapsed; it is currently licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, as of 2020.

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The manga was translated into English by Creator/DarkHorseComics in the early 1990s. The anime was localized in the United Kingdom by Creator/MangaEntertainment and the United States by the Central Park Media subsidiary Creator/MangaEntertainment, Creator/CentralParkMedia, gaining recognition when it aired in heavy rotation on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] "Saturday Anime" movie block in the late 1990s. The film was relicensed in 2012 by Creator/DiscotekMedia, who re-released the movie on DVD and Blu-ray, but their rights have since lapsed; it is currently licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, as of 2020.
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* TechnicallyATransport: In the manga Aphrodia starts supplementing its bikes with civilian pick-up trucks equipped with anti-aircraft guns and heavier anti-tank weapons after the bikes' success in the initial Ishtar attack on their capital. [[RealityEnsues The anti-tank variant is easily destroyed in combat due not having the manouverability that made the Hounds effective to begin with]], while the anti-aircraft is wiped out to a vehicle by an air raid during the final battle due being caught completely by surprise but [[CurbStompCushion managed to take out many attackers un the process]].

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* TechnicallyATransport: In the manga Aphrodia starts supplementing its bikes with civilian pick-up trucks equipped with anti-aircraft guns and heavier anti-tank weapons after the bikes' success in the initial Ishtar attack on their capital. [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The anti-tank variant is easily destroyed in combat due not having the manouverability that made the Hounds effective to begin with]], while the anti-aircraft is wiped out to a vehicle by an air raid during the final battle due being caught completely by surprise but [[CurbStompCushion managed to take out many attackers un the process]].
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* LipLock: A particularly bad one in the English dub, as Jack exclaims "I said, 'Let's chill OOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUT!'"
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* CharClone: Blond, military, glasses wearing, said to be gay, and voiced by Ikeda himself!
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* TheFundamentalist: The MESADA in the manga is a religious movement that, after Aphrodia's near fall in the initial Ishtar attack, takes over the ineffective government and imposes {{Political Officer}}s whose main job is to impose the new government's ideology and interfere with military decisions. It's heavily implied that they're responsible for Aphrodia's defeat, as the political officers wasted much of their military force in reckless attacks before the career officers managed to wrestle back control and come close to destroy Ishtar's 2nd Army Corps.
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* TechnicallyATransport: In the manga Aphrodia starts supplementing its bikes with civilian pick-up trucks equipped with anti-aircraft guns and heavier anti-tank weapons after the bikes' success in the initial Ishtar attack on their capital. [[RealityEnsues The anti-tank variant is easily destroyed in combat due not having the manouverability that made the Hounds effective to begin with]], while the anti-aircraft is wiped out to a vehicle by an air raid during the final battle due being caught completely by surprise but [[CurbStompCushion managed to take out many attackers un the process]].

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* BadassBiker: Hiro, Miranda, Kurtz

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* BadassBiker: Hiro, Miranda, Kurtzand Kurtz, as the best among the Hound riders, but to ride them one has to be badass enough to handle them even before training, with different reasons between manga and OVA:
** In the manga, the Hound battle bikes mass ''one tonne''. For obvious reasons the rider needs to have great arm strength to steer them, with the training being aimed in large part to increase said strength and the stamina (plus handling the rocket boosters).
** In the OVA they're monowheels, with the rider needing great skill not to get toppled.
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* ZettaiRyouiki: Sue is Type B.
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The manga was translated into English by Creator/DarkHorseComics in the early 1990s. The anime was localized in the United Kingdom and the United States by the Central Park Media subsidiary Creator/MangaEntertainment, gaining recognition when it aired in heavy rotation on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] "Saturday Anime" movie block in the late 1990s. The film was licensed by Creator/DiscotekMedia, who re-released the movie on DVD and Blu-ray, but their rights have since lapsed; it is now licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, as of 2020.

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The manga was translated into English by Creator/DarkHorseComics in the early 1990s. The anime was localized in the United Kingdom and the United States by the Central Park Media subsidiary Creator/MangaEntertainment, gaining recognition when it aired in heavy rotation on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] "Saturday Anime" movie block in the late 1990s. The film was licensed relicensed in 2012 by Creator/DiscotekMedia, who re-released the movie on DVD and Blu-ray, but their rights have since lapsed; it is now currently licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, as of 2020.
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The manga was translated into English by Creator/DarkHorseComics in the early 1990s. The anime was localized in the United Kingdom and the United States by the Central Park Media subsidiary Creator/MangaEntertainment, gaining recognition when it aired in heavy rotation on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] "Saturday Anime" movie block in the late 1990s. The film is currently licensed by Creator/DiscotekMedia, who've re-released the movie on DVD.

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The manga was translated into English by Creator/DarkHorseComics in the early 1990s. The anime was localized in the United Kingdom and the United States by the Central Park Media subsidiary Creator/MangaEntertainment, gaining recognition when it aired in heavy rotation on the [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] "Saturday Anime" movie block in the late 1990s. The film is currently was licensed by Creator/DiscotekMedia, who've who re-released the movie on DVD.
DVD and Blu-ray, but their rights have since lapsed; it is now licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, as of 2020.
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** The Octopus tank in the OVA is much tougher than in the manga, having more weapons and surviving attacks that would have destroyed the manga original.

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** The Octopus tank in the Manga is a fairly tough heavy twin-barreled tank, while the version in the OVA is much tougher than in a rolling fortress at least three times the manga, having size with several more weapons and capable of surviving attacks that would have destroyed the manga original.
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** The Admiral A-1 ([[ReportingNames the "Octopus" to Aphrodia), Ishtar's main tank, is presented as this, as it ''1-meter thick armor'' needs a 150mm gun to be penetrated (and Aphrodia doesn't have vehicles with such a large gun) and has an overwhelming armament of a 160mm main gun, a coaxial 220mm missile launcher, and a 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch for the small fries, and carries a squad of soldiers. [[SubvertedTrope Then Aphrodia's soldiers start to target the troops' hatch and the oxygen tanks of the NBC protection]]...

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** The Admiral A-1 ([[ReportingNames the "Octopus" to Aphrodia), Aphrodia]]), Ishtar's main tank, is presented as this, as it ''1-meter thick armor'' needs a 150mm gun to be penetrated (and Aphrodia doesn't have vehicles with such a large gun) and has an overwhelming armament of a 160mm main gun, a coaxial 220mm missile launcher, and a 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch for the small fries, and carries a squad of soldiers. [[SubvertedTrope Then Aphrodia's soldiers start to target the troops' hatch and the oxygen tanks of the NBC protection]]...
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* ReportingNames: Ishtar's giant tanks are officially named Admiral A-1, but Aphrodians invariably refer to them as "Tako" (Octopus). The official name is never mentioned in the OVA, and in the manga it's mentioned outside of captions exactly ''once'', during Rado's coup in the second part of the manga (cut from the animated adaptation).

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* GunshipRescue: Villainous version in the manga: in the Battle of Route 1 the remnants of Aphrodia's army have decapitated and decimated Ishtar's 2nd Army Corps and are about to finish it off when attack choppers from the 1st Army Corps, led by Rado (the main villain of the second part of the manga), decimate the Hounds and their carriers, allowing the 2nd Army Corps to rally and overpower the Aphrodians through the sheer power of their Octopus tanks.



** The Octopus, Ishtar's main tank, is presented as this, as it ''1-meter thick armor'' needs a 150mm gun to be penetrated (and Aphrodia doesn't have vehicles with such a large gun) and has an overwhelming armament of a 160mm main gun, a coaxial 220mm missile launcher, and a 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch for the small fries, and carries a squad of soldiers. [[SubvertedTrope Then Aphrodia's soldiers start to target the troops' hatch and the oxygen tanks of the NBC protection]]...

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** The Octopus, Admiral A-1 ([[ReportingNames the "Octopus" to Aphrodia), Ishtar's main tank, is presented as this, as it ''1-meter thick armor'' needs a 150mm gun to be penetrated (and Aphrodia doesn't have vehicles with such a large gun) and has an overwhelming armament of a 160mm main gun, a coaxial 220mm missile launcher, and a 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch for the small fries, and carries a squad of soldiers. [[SubvertedTrope Then Aphrodia's soldiers start to target the troops' hatch and the oxygen tanks of the NBC protection]]...

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* AdaptationalBadass: The Octopus tank in the OVA is much tougher than in the manga, having more weapons and surviving attacks that would have destroyed the manga original. In the same vein, Aphrodia's war bikes in the manga carried conventional 80mm rifles and anti-tank rockets, but their animated counterparts were equipped with railguns.

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* AdaptationalBadass: Three:
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The Octopus tank in the OVA is much tougher than in the manga, having more weapons and surviving attacks that would have destroyed the manga original. In the same vein, original.
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Aphrodia's war bikes in the manga carried conventional 80mm rifles and anti-tank rockets, but their animated counterparts were equipped with railguns.railguns.
** Aphrodia's army: in the manga it's eventually defeated, leading to Ishtar winning the war, but in the OVA it wins. {{Justified}} by the manga version facing a full scale invasion and the [[TheFundamentalist Mesada]] coup forcing on the various units [[TheCommissar political commissars]] that force suicidal charges and waste Aphrodia's combat potential (it's implied that the Battle of Route 1, fought after the professional Aphrodian officers managed to take control back, would have ended in a complete victory if more forces had survived the early defeats, especially as it was an extremely close thing).

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* CoolBike: The battle bikes but especially the monobikes from the movie.

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* CoolBike: The battle bikes but especially bikes, in different flavors depending on the media:
** In the manga, they're simply large bikes... Massing a ''tonne'', and armed with 80mm rifles and missile launchers.
** In the OVA they're
monobikes from the movie.with ''railguns''.

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** The OVA version fully qualifies: aside for many just ignoring everything the Aphrodians throw at them during the assault on Io, the one attacked by the Killer Commandos is hit with half a dozen anti-tank missiles and [[RammingAlwaysWorks a humongous truck]] [[StuffBlowingUp full of high-powered fuel]] and [[spoiler:''doesn't suffer any visible damage]]'', much to the shock of the attackers and ''its own crew'' (after the truck exploded, the tank stopped moving and firing for a few seconds before they started moving)]], and is only destroyed by repeated attacks from [[spoiler:a ''building-sized scraper'']]. It takes ''railguns'' to reliably defeat these monsters... And even then, the sheer size allows them to take multiple hits before being destroyed.

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** The OVA version fully qualifies: aside for many just ignoring everything the Aphrodians throw at them during the assault on Io, the one attacked by the Killer Commandos is hit with half a dozen anti-tank missiles and [[RammingAlwaysWorks a humongous truck]] [[StuffBlowingUp full of high-powered fuel]] and [[spoiler:''doesn't suffer any visible damage]]'', much to the shock of the attackers and ''its own crew'' (after the [[spoiler:the truck exploded, exploded]], the tank stopped moving and firing for a few seconds before they started moving)]], moving), and is only destroyed by repeated attacks from [[spoiler:a ''building-sized scraper'']]. It takes ''railguns'' to reliably defeat these monsters... And even then, the sheer size allows them to take multiple hits before being destroyed.

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* TheJuggernaut: The Octopus, Ishtar's main tank, is presented as this, as it ''1-meter thick armor'' needs a 150mm gun to be penetrated (and Aphrodia doesn't have vehicles with such a large gun) and has an overwhelming armament of a 160mm main gun, a coaxial 220mm missile launcher, and a 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch for the small fries, and carries a squad of soldiers. [[SubvertedTrope Then Aphrodia's soldiers start to target the troops' hatch and the oxygen tanks of the NBC protection]]...

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* TheJuggernaut: TheJuggernaut:
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The Octopus, Ishtar's main tank, is presented as this, as it ''1-meter thick armor'' needs a 150mm gun to be penetrated (and Aphrodia doesn't have vehicles with such a large gun) and has an overwhelming armament of a 160mm main gun, a coaxial 220mm missile launcher, and a 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch for the small fries, and carries a squad of soldiers. [[SubvertedTrope Then Aphrodia's soldiers start to target the troops' hatch and the oxygen tanks of the NBC protection]]...

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