History NightmareFuel / SpaceRunawayIdeon

* '''EVERYTHING''' about the Ideon. To put it this way, imagine piloting a mech that is more like an EldritchAbomination than a traditional mech, and it has the capability of leveling an entire universe. Now have it piloted a bunch of not mentally sound children. But that itself is not the creepiest aspect of Ideon:

** Though Ide supposedly keeps on protecting the denizens of Solo Ship, a grim realization appears that all Ide is protecting is Lou and Messiah, the unborn child of Bes and Karala. Because Ide sees them as pure souls that it can preserve as a proof that generation of civilization isn't completely hopeless, it will just leave others to their deaths which results in the anime's infamous DownerEnding. And you'll start to think about [[FridgeHorror how many times Ide has done this before...]]
** It also shows why things went as disastrously badly as they did in ''Be Invoked''. [[spoiler:Karala and her unborn son's murder at the hands of Harulu, ''with their father's approval'', is what ultimately leads Ide to decide humanity is beyond saving and Invoke their destruction.]]

* The infamous KillEmAll ending. During the climax, the last survivors of Solo and the Buff Clan both totally exhausted their manpower and strength, which results in Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' destroying each other in the final battle, and the subsequent explosion destroys the star system they're in and possibly a large chunk of the Milky Way.

* While the original series itself can be pretty gruesome in terms of how the characters die from one another (as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFPvqnzK9g here]]), ''Be Invoked'' delivers the horror in spades due to how their deaths [[CruelAndUnusualDeath are]] [[UpToEleven presented relentlessly]] and how the war between Ideon and the Buff Clan escalates [[FromBadToWorse rapidly]]. Let's list them properly, shall we?

In a span of 39 episodes and two films, ''Space Runaway Ideon'' proves to be among Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's darkest works, and probably some of the darkest anime series ever conceived. Due to the utterly terrifying situation that the characters have to face, it's not hard to see why considering that it's the main inspiration for Creator/HideakiAnno in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' alongside with ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' (which is also one of the darkest manga works ever conceived).

* Ideon itself. Oh dear God, ''Ideon''. To put it this way, imagine piloting a mech that is more like an EldritchAbomination than a traditional mech, and it has the capability of levelling an entire universe. Now have it piloted a bunch of not mentally sound children. But that itself is not the creepiest aspect of Ideon:

** As the story goes, it is told that Ide (the main consciousness behind Ideon) is a combination of souls of the past civilizations in the form of a somewhat intelligent battle mech. Sounds kinda majestic, isn't it? Later episodes revealed that Ide only collects "pure and untainted souls", which turns out to be souls of babies who has never grown into adults. And the characters eventually realized that Ideon resides as some sort of a guardian god of their universe that utterly despises war between the universe's denizens. Which leads to the next part...

In a span of 39 episodes and two films, ''Space Runaway Ideon'' proves to be among Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's darkest works, and probably some of the darkest anime series ever conceived. Due to the utterly terrifying situation that the characters have to face, it's not hard to see why considering that it's the main inspiration for Creator/HideakiAnno in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

** It also shows why things went as disastrously badly as they did in ''Be Invoked''. [[spoiler:Karala and her unborn son's murder at the hands of Harulu, ''with their father's approval'', is what ultimately leads Ide to decide humanity is beyond saving.]]

** Though Ide supposedly keeps on protecting the denizens of Solo Ship, a grim realization appears that all Ide is protecting is Lou and Messiah, the unborn child of Bes and Karala. Because Ide sees them as pure souls that it can preserve as a proof of that generation of civilization, it will just leave others to their deaths which results in the anime's infamous DownerEnding. And you'll start to think about [[FridgeHorror how many times Ide has done this before...]]
* As punishment for helping the Solo Ship's humans, the Buff Clan devastates Ajian with an orbital bombardment. The destruction wreaked upon its surface was so intense and demoralizing that when the Solo Ship returnes in a later episode, its survivors pulled a FaceHeelTurn under a deal brokered with the Buff Clan.

** After Ideon and the Solo Ship were hit by a comet (a result of the Buff Clan's trap), the enraged Ide retaliate immediately by effectively turning planet Earth, Earth's colonies, and Buff Clan's home planet into smithereens by showering them with a massive amount of meteors. Listening to the colonies' crying for help as their planets being bombarded really showcases the apocalyptic feel in Solo Ship's final battle against the Buff Clan.
** Karala's death. We didn't see the aftermath of her face got shot three times. But considering the state of her body and the fact that she is being pregnant at the time, would you really like to know how it's like? Even Cosmo can't bear to look at her corpse afterwards because of this exact reason.

* The infamous KillEmAll ending. During the climax, the last survivors of Solo and the Buff Clan both totally exhausted their manpower and strength, which results in Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' destroying each other in the final battle, and the subsequent explosion destroys the star system they're in, rather gruesomely.

* Homeworld of Ajian got destroyed by sub-light missiles. The destruction of that planet is as such that when Solo Ship comes there for the second time, its survivors pulled a FaceHeelTurn under a deal brokered by Buff Clan who wants Ideon in their possession.
* While the original series itself can be pretty gruesome in terms of how the characters die from one another (as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFPvqnzK9g here]]), ''Be Invoked'' delivers the horror in spades due to how their deaths [[CruelAndUnusualDeath are]] [[UpToEleven presented relentlessly]] and how the war between Ideon and Buff Clan escalates [[FromBadToWorse rapidly]]. Let's list them properly, shall we?

** After Ideon and Solo Ship were hit by a comet (a result of Buff Clan's trap), the enraged Ide retaliates immediately by effectively turning planet Earth, Earth's colonies, and Buff Clan's home planet into smithereens by showering them with a massive amount of meteors. Listening to the colonies' crying for help as their planets being bombarded really showcases the apocalyptic feel in Solo Ship's final battle against the Buff Clan.

* The infamous KillEmAll ending. During the climax, both Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' has both totally exhausted their manpower and strength, which results in Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' destroying each other in the final battle, and the subsequent explosion destroys the star system they're in, rather gruesomely.

[[caption-width-right:350: How the [[TheEmpire Buff Clan]] handles [[spoiler: TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry]]. Even worse? [[spoiler: She is ''pregnant'' at the time as well.]]]]

** As the story goes, it is told that Ide (the main consciousness behind Ideon) is a combination of souls of the past civilizations in the form of a somewhat intelligent battle mech. Sounds kinda majestic, isn't it? Later episodes revealed that Ide only collects "pure and untainted souls", which turns out to be [[spoiler: souls of babies who has never grown into adults]]. And the characters eventually realized that Ideon resides as some sort of a guardian god of their universe that utterly despises war between the universe's denizens. Which leads to the next part...
** Though Ide supposedly keeps on protecting the denizens of Solo Ship, a grim realization appears that all Ide is protecting is [[spoiler: Lou and Messiah, the unborn child of Bes and Karala.]] Because Ide seems them as pure souls that it can preserve as a proof of that generation of civilization, it will just leave others to their deaths which results in [[spoiler: the anime's infamous DownerEnding.]] And you'll start to think about [[spoiler: [[Main/FridgeHorror how many times Ide has done this before...]]]]
* [[spoiler: Homeworld of Ajian got destroyed by sub-light missiles.]] The destruction of that planet is as such that when Solo Ship comes there for the second time, its survivors pulled a Main/FaceHeelTurn under a deal brokered by Buff Clan who wants Ideon in their possession.

** Right in the frickin' intro, we have the reimagined death of [[spoiler: Kitty Kitten being ''beheaded'' by an explosion during the Buff Clan's attack in Ajian.]] Poor girl has it rough in the original series for being killed (by Daram Zuba's gunshot), and her horrific reimagined death in this intro is enough to awaken Cosmo's rage to fight the Buff Clan.

** [[spoiler: Karala]]'s death. We didn't see the aftermath of her face got shot three times. But considering the state of her body and the fact that [[spoiler: she is being pregnant]] at the time, would you really like to know how it's like? Even Cosmo can't bear to look at her corpse afterwards because of this exact reason.
** And the real crowning example of the list comes with [[spoiler: the death of Ashura who gets ''[[OffWithHisHead beheaded by a fucking rocket shell]]'' in the penultimate battle.]] Totally horrifying, certainly, but do we need to remind you as well that [[spoiler: she is only [[WouldHurtAChild 5 years old]] at the time?]]
* The infamous [[spoiler: KillEmAll]] ending. During the climax, both Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' has both totally exhausted their manpower and strength, which results in [[spoiler: Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' destroying each other in the final battle, and the subsequent explosion destroys the star system they're in, rather gruesomely.]]
** [[spoiler:Though it may count as a KarmicDeath for Ideon, the way it's vaporized along with Cosmo, Deck, Rapappa, Bes and the last survivors of the Solo Ship is both horrific and heartbreaking. Ideon's paint burns away, the Solo Ship is warped by the beam's heat, Bes' helmet breaks he screams as he's exposed to the vacuum, Deck tries to hold on and gets his right arm ripped off as he's blown away. Cosmo also loses his left arm, which expels a massive amount of blood that covers the whole screen before he and Ideon are vaporized, and ''Gando Rowa'' itself gets cleaved in two. Not even Doba's own ship, the ''Bairal Jin'', is spared from the destruction.]]

** [[spoiler:Though it may count as a KarmicDeath for Ideon, the way it's vaporized along with Cosmo, Deck, Rapappa and the last survivors of the Solo Ship is both horrific and heartbreaking. Ideon's paint burns away, the Solo Ship is warped by the beam's heat, Deck tries to hold on and gets his right arm ripped off as he's blown away. Cosmo also loses his left arm, which expels a massive amount of blood that covers the whole screen, and ''Gando Rowa'' itself gets cleaved in two. Not even Doba's own ship, the ''Bairal Jin'', is spared from the destruction.]]

* The infamous [[spoiler: KillEmAll]] ending. During the climax, both Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' has both totally exhausted their manpower and strength, which results in [[spoiler: Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' destroy each other in the final battle, creating a blast that kills everything in the universe, and rather gruesomely.]]

** [[spoiler:Though it may count as a KarmicDeath for Ideon, the way it's vaporized along with Cosmo, Deck, Rapappa and the last survivors of the Solo Ship is both horrific and heartbreaking. Ideon's paint goes first, Deck tries to hold on and gets his arm ripped off as he's obliterated. Cosmo also loses an arm, which expels a massive amount of blood that covers the whole screen, and ''Gando Rowa'' itself gets cleaved in two.]]

* The infamous [[spoiler: KillEmAll]] ending. During the climax, both Ideon and ''Gando Rowa'' has both totally exhausted their manpower and strength, which results in [[spoiler: Ideon and ''Ganda Rowa'' destroy each other in the final battle, creating a blast that kills everything in the universe, and rather gruesomely.]]

* The infamous [[spoiler: KillEmAll]] ending. During the climax, both Ideon and Ganda Rowa has both totally exhausted their manpower and strength, which results in [[spoiler: Ideon and Ganda Rowa being destroyed in the final battle against each other, creating a blast that kills everything in the universe, and rather gruesomely.]]

* While the original series itself can be pretty gruesome in terms of how the characters die from one another (as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFPvqnzK9g here]]), ''Be Invoked'' delivers the horror in spades due to how their deaths [[UpToEleven are presented relentlessly]] and how the war between Ideon and Buff Clan escalates [[FromBadToWorse rapidly]]. Let's list them properly, shall we?

** Though Ide supposedly keeps on protecting the denizens of Solo Ship, a grim realization appears that all Ide is protecting is [[spoiler: Lou and Messiah, the unborn child of Bes and Karala.]] Because Ide seems them as pure souls that it can preserve as a proof of that generation of civilization, it will just leave others to their deaths which results in [[spoiler: the anime's infamous DownerEnding.]]
* [[spoiler: Karala]]'s death. We didn't see the aftermath of her face got shot three times. But considering the state of her body and the fact that [[spoiler: she is being pregnant]] at the time, would you really like to know how it's like? Even Cosmo can't bear to look at her corpse afterwards because of this exact reason.

* The infamous [[spoiler: KillEmAll]] ending. During the climax, meteors strike both the Earth's of the Earth and Earth colonies and the Buff Clan Homeworld, rendering them all uninhabitable wastelands, and [[spoiler: Ideon and Ganda Rowa are destroyed in the final battle against each other, creating a blast that kills everything, and rather gruesomely.]]

* Ideon itself. Oh dear God, ''Ideon''. To put it this way, imagine piloting a mech that is more like an EldritchAbomination than a traditional mech, and it has the capability of levelling an entire universe. Now have it piloted a bunch of not mentally sound children. As the story goes, it is told that Ide (the main consciousness behind Ideon) is a combination of souls of the past civilizations in the form of a somewhat intelligent battle mech. Sounds kinda majestic, isn't it? But then, it is revealed that Ide only collects "pure and untainted souls", which turns out to be [[spoiler: souls of babies who has never grown into adults]].

* [[spoiler: Homeworld of Ajian got destroyed by sub-light missiles.]]

In a span of 39 episodes and two films, ''Space Runaway Ideon'' proves to be among Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's darkest works, and its not hard to see why considering that it's the main inspiration for ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

[[caption-width-right:350: How the [[TheEmpire Buff Clan]] handles [[spoiler: TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry]].]]

* Ideon itself. To put it this way, imagine piloting a mech that is more like an EldritchAbomination than a traditional mech, and it has the capability of leveling an entire universe. Now have it piloted a bunch of not mentally sound children.
* [[spoiler: Karala]]'s death. We didn't see the aftermath of her face got shot three times.

* [[spoiler: Homeworld of Ajian got destroyed by sub-light missiles]]

[[Boom, headshot!]]

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* The infamous [[spoiler: KillEmAll]] ending. During the climax, meteors strike both the Earth's of the Earth and Earth colonies and the Buff Clan Homeworld, rendering them all uninhabitable wastelands, and [[spoiler: Ideon and Ganda Rowa are destroyed in the final battle against each other, creating a blast that kills everything, and rather gruesomely.]]