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* ActionGirl: Sayaka was among the first action-geared ladies in Japanese anime
* ActionHoggingOpening: The openings of the trilogy feature more action (featuring the titular HumongousMecha tearing its way through an army of enemies), and a better animation than an average episode of their series, especially Grendizer's.
* ActionHoggingOpening: The openings of the trilogy feature more action (featuring the titular HumongousMecha tearing its way through an army of enemies), and a better animation than an average episode of their series, especially Grendizer's.
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* ActionGirl: Sayaka was among the first action-geared ladies in Japanese anime
* ActionHoggingOpening: The openings of the trilogy feature more action (featuring the titular HumongousMecha tearing its way through an army of enemies), anda better animation than an average episode of their series, especially Grendizer's.
* ActionHoggingOpening: The openings of the trilogy feature more action (featuring the titular HumongousMecha tearing its way through an army of enemies), and
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* AdultsAreUseless: The series plays with the trope, but adverts it. The most powerful weapon in the world is handed over to a teenager, and Dr. Hell and his servants (who are all adults) are unable to defeat a bunch of teenagers... but neither Kouji nor Sayaka nor Shiro (nor Boss and his gang) would have been capable of protecting humankind and defeating Dr. Hell if they had not been supported by plenty of adults. All workers in the Institute (starting with Prof. Yumi, who was a good scientist and strategist) were fully competent and without them Mazinger Z would not have gotten the frequent upgrades, repairs and maintenance it needed.
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* AdultsAreUseless: The series plays with the trope, but adverts averts it. The most powerful weapon in the world is handed over to a teenager, and Dr. Hell and his servants (who are all adults) are unable to defeat a bunch of teenagers... but neither Kouji nor Sayaka nor Shiro (nor Sayaka, Shiro, or Boss and his gang) gang would have been capable of protecting humankind and defeating Dr. Hell if they had not been supported by plenty of adults. All workers in the Institute (starting with Prof. Yumi, who was a good scientist and strategist) were fully competent and without them Mazinger Z would not have gotten the frequent upgrades, repairs and maintenance it needed.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Many supplementary materials (such like the ''Mazinbible'' book) have been released, providing with additional information and backstory about the series and the worlds where they happen, their characters, blueprints of mechas and bases...
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* AllThereInTheManual: Many supplementary materials (such like as the ''Mazinbible'' book) have been released, providing with additional information and backstory backstories about the series and the worlds where they happen, their characters, blueprints of mechas and bases...
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: At one of the last episodes Sayaka [[spoiler:[[PietaPlagiarism holding a wounded Kouji in her arms]] and thinking he was dead, cried out that she loved him.]] Then she [[spoiler:found out he was just pretending to be dead, and she decided to kill him for real.]]
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: At one Near the end of the last episodes series Sayaka [[spoiler:[[PietaPlagiarism holding a wounded Kouji in her arms]] and thinking he was dead, cried out that she loved him.]] Then she [[spoiler:found out he was just pretending to be dead, and she decided to kill him for real.]]
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* AnimeThemeSong: Titled simply ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0W9OzkIAQE Mazinger-Z]]'' and sung by IchiroMizuki, it is one of the most famous anime songs ever. The "It is the SuperRobot Mazinger-Z" line is the TropeNamer for both the SuperRobot trope and the SuperRobotGenre. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVeUXRSkyu4 Spanish]] dub made their own version -fondly remembered by Spanish fans to this day- and there at least are two English versions: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttjtdA2P0eE this]] sung by IchiroMizuki too, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK3g-d5BO1M and the rarest]], made by Creator/IsaoSasaki for the Hawaii dub.
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* AnimeThemeSong: Titled simply ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0W9OzkIAQE Mazinger-Z]]'' and sung by the late IchiroMizuki, it is one of the most famous anime songs ever. The "It is the SuperRobot Mazinger-Z" line is the TropeNamer for both the SuperRobot trope and the SuperRobotGenre. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVeUXRSkyu4 Spanish]] dub made their own version -fondly remembered by Spanish fans to this day- and there at least are two English versions: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttjtdA2P0eE this]] sung by IchiroMizuki too, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK3g-d5BO1M and the rarest]], made by Creator/IsaoSasaki for the Hawaii dub.
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* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Prof. Kabuto was this to Dr. Hell. Hell had ALWAYS felt upstaged by Yuuzo Kabuto since they were in the same college and his rival was more popular, a bigger genius and was loved by the woman Hell was in love with. When Mazinger-Z destroyed his first Mechanical Beasts, Hell had a break-down because he knew Kabuto had managed to create a HumongousMecha could beat anything he could build.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Mazinger-Z is powered with Koushi Ryoku (Photon Atomic) energy. When it runs out, Mazinger ceases functioning. It was discovered by Dr. Kabuto (ironically, in the Creator/GosakuOta episodes, it was stated he was already investigating it back in college, and one of his classmates helped him by correcting his calculations. Name of that classmate? Hell). It is repeatedly stated and shown in the series Photon energy must be used in conjunction with a body made from Japanium, or the HumongousMecha is less effective: either the weapons are too powerful and overload the computer and damage the armor, or the robot is sturdy but its weapons are weak.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Mazinger-Z is powered with Koushi Ryoku (Photon Atomic) energy. When it runs out, Mazinger ceases functioning. It was discovered by Dr. Kabuto (ironically, in the Creator/GosakuOta episodes, it was stated he was already investigating it back in college, and one of his classmates helped him by correcting his calculations. Name of that classmate? Hell). It is repeatedly stated and shown in the series Photon energy must be used in conjunction with a body made from Japanium, or the HumongousMecha is less effective: either the weapons are too powerful and overload the computer and damage the armor, or the robot is sturdy but its weapons are weak.
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* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Prof. Kabuto was this to Dr. Hell. Hell had ALWAYS felt upstaged by Yuuzo Juuzo Kabuto since they were in the same college and his rival was more popular, a bigger genius and was loved by the woman Hell was in love with. When Mazinger-Z destroyed his first Mechanical Beasts, Hell had a break-down because he knew Kabuto had managed to create a HumongousMecha could beat anything he could build.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Mazinger-Z is powered with Koushi Ryoku(Photon Atomic) (or Photon) energy. When it runs out, Mazinger ceases functioning.to function. It was discovered by Dr. Kabuto (ironically, in the Creator/GosakuOta episodes, it was stated he was already investigating it back in college, and one of his classmates helped him by correcting his calculations. Name of that classmate? Hell). It is repeatedly stated and shown in the series Photon energy must be used in conjunction with a body made from Japanium, or the HumongousMecha is less effective: either the weapons are too powerful and overload the computer and damage the armor, or the robot is sturdy but its weapons are weak.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Mazinger-Z is powered with Koushi Ryoku
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* AsskickingPose: Mazinger-Z's asskicking pose was pretty simple: upon activation, the robot flexed its arms over its head. Most likely it is a ShoutOut to ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}'', which did the same thing. ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'', on the other hand, did not have one.
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* AsskickingPose: Mazinger-Z's asskicking pose was pretty simple: upon activation, the robot it flexed its arms over its head. Most likely it is a ShoutOut to ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}'', which did the same thing. ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'', on the other hand, did not have one.
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*** In the "Mazinger-Z vs Great General of Darkness", Kouji was sword-dueling against a clearly superior Warbeast which had pinned Mazinger-Z to the ground and was trying to run its sword through it. Kouji shot Mazinger's drill missiles and managed to hit one of its eyes. The Warbeast crumbled down due to the missiles boring into its head and exploding. Double ouch.
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*** In the "Mazinger-Z vs Great General of Darkness", Darkness" movie, Kouji was sword-dueling against a clearly superior Warbeast which had pinned Mazinger-Z to the ground and was trying to run its sword through it. Kouji shot Mazinger's drill missiles and managed to hit one of its eyes. The Warbeast crumbled down due to the missiles boring into its head and exploding. Double ouch.
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* BackStab: In the Creator/GosakuOta manga continuity, DragonWithAnAgenda Archduke Gorgon [[spoiler:murdered BigBad Dr. Hell]] by stabbing him from behind with one sword when he was distracted. Afterwards he pulled his sword from the body, said "So long, old madman" and left him lying -and bleeding- on the ground, laughing all the way as he left.
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* BackStab: In the Creator/GosakuOta manga continuity, DragonWithAnAgenda Archduke Gorgon [[spoiler:murdered BigBad Dr. Hell]] by stabbing him from behind with one a sword when he was distracted. Afterwards he pulled his sword from the body, said "So long, old madman" and left him lying -and bleeding- on the ground, laughing all the way as he left.
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* BadMoonRising: In ''Grendizer'', the Moon becoming red was a sign the [[AlienInvasion Alliance Vegan]] was getting ready for another attack; the main characters eventually learnt to watch for that. One of the manga versions penned by Creator/GosakuOta reinforced that: in the first pages a red ''skull'' appeared on the Moon's surface (a sign of the Vegans had come) and Duke felt upset when he saw it, and wondered if that was a bad omen.
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* BadMoonRising: In ''Grendizer'', the Moon becoming red was a sign the [[AlienInvasion Alliance Vegan]] was getting ready for another attack; the main characters eventually learnt to watch for that. One of the manga versions penned by Creator/GosakuOta reinforced that: in the first pages a red ''skull'' appeared on the Moon's surface (a sign of the Vegans had come) and Duke felt upset when he saw it, and wondered if that was a bad omen.
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** In one Crossover movie between ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Manga/GetterRobo'', he played bait to lure a monster to a deserted island.
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** In one a Crossover movie between ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Manga/GetterRobo'', he played the bait to lure a monster to a deserted island.
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* BeneathTheEarth: Not surprisingly, Mazinger Z introduced this trope in HumongousMecha anime. The Mykene were a civilization lived and thrived in the Greek island of Bardos millennia ago, using [[HumongousMecha mechanical giants]] [[ChestBlaster blast fire from their chests]] to protecting their land from invaders. An earthquake destroyed their island and forced them to seek shelter underground. They lived below Earth for millennia, building their cities in networks of subterranean tunnels and caverns and grafting their bodies into HumongousMecha to survive.
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* BeneathTheEarth: Not surprisingly, Unsurprisingly, Mazinger Z introduced this trope in HumongousMecha anime. The Mykene were a civilization lived and thrived in the Greek island of Bardos millennia ago, using [[HumongousMecha mechanical giants]] [[ChestBlaster blast fire from their chests]] to protecting protect their land from invaders. An earthquake destroyed their island and forced them to seek shelter underground. They lived below Earth for millennia, building their cities in networks of subterranean tunnels and caverns and grafting their bodies into HumongousMecha to survive.
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%%* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: This actually happens to [[spoiler:Boss,]] of all people, in ''Anime/ShinMazingerZero''.
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%%* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: This actually happens to [[spoiler:Boss,]] of all people, in ''Anime/ShinMazingerZero''.''Manga/ShinMazingerZero''.
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Subverted in an episode. Baron Ashura hijacked a plane and threatened Professor Yumi with killing all passengers if he didn't hand over the plans for the Jet Scrander. Yumi protested that was theft and blackmail. Ashura languidly replied: "''Of course'' it is. What else did you expect from me?"
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Subverted in an episode. Baron Ashura hijacked a plane and threatened Professor Yumi with killing all passengers if he didn't hand over the plans for the Jet Scrander. Yumi protested that was theft and blackmail. Ashura languidly blatantly replied: "''Of course'' it is. What else did you expect from me?"
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* BoundAndGagged: In episode 27, Sayaka was captured by Baron Ashura, and she got gagged and tied to a supporting beam to prevent her from escaping.
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* BoundAndGagged: In episode 27, Sayaka was captured by Baron Ashura, and she got was gagged and tied to a supporting beam to prevent her from escaping.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Kouji, being a tactless IdiotHero, finds himself in the receiving end of these rather often.
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* AdultsAreUseless: The series plays with the trope, but subverts it. The most powerful weapon in the world is handed over to a teenager, and Dr. Hell and his servants (who are all adults) are unable to defeat a bunch of teenagers... but neither Kouji nor Sayaka nor Shiro (nor Boss and his gang) would have been capable of protecting humankind and defeating Dr. Hell if they had not been supported by plenty of adults. All workers in the Institute (starting with Prof. Yumi, who was a good scientist and strategist) were fully competent and without them Mazinger Z would not have gotten the frequent upgrades, repairs and maintenance it needed.
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* AdultsAreUseless: The series plays with the trope, but subverts adverts it. The most powerful weapon in the world is handed over to a teenager, and Dr. Hell and his servants (who are all adults) are unable to defeat a bunch of teenagers... but neither Kouji nor Sayaka nor Shiro (nor Boss and his gang) would have been capable of protecting humankind and defeating Dr. Hell if they had not been supported by plenty of adults. All workers in the Institute (starting with Prof. Yumi, who was a good scientist and strategist) were fully competent and without them Mazinger Z would not have gotten the frequent upgrades, repairs and maintenance it needed.
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* AlternateUniverse: There are a bunch of Mazinger-related series... and nearly each one of them is set in a different universe with alternate versions of the characters or with completely different characters and themes.
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* AnAxeToGrind: A few Mechanical Beasts used axes. In the ''Mazinger vs Manga/{{Devilman}}'' film, the first Beast showed up used a double-headed, throwing axe. And in the ''Mazinger-Z vs Great General of Darkness'' film Juuma-- one of the CoDragons of [[DragonInChief Ankoku Daishogun]]-- wielded one (and nearly skewers Mazinger's head and Kouji with it).
