History YMMV / Appleseed

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome

** The 2004 film had practically an AllStarCast when it came to the world of electronic music, with notable contributors such as Boom Boom Satellites, Paul Oakenfold, and Basement Jaxx.

** 2004 film: [[FantasticRacism Colonel Hades]] is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] inspecting an army of Landmates he commissioned for a terrorist attack he soon executes against Bioroid life extension facilities in a thorough attempt at [[FinalSolution genocide]]. When he learns of the Appleseed, which would render those facilities moot, Hades intercepts the ESWAT team sent by Athena on a secret mission to retrieve it and massacres the team save for Deunan and Briareos, who escape the bloodbath, as well as a single Regular Army mole who shared his feelings towards Bioroids. When Briareos reveals to the Regular Army that the Elders were using them for their own genocidal means, Hades tries to kill him and Deunan over General Uranus's objections. A genocidal racist [[RevengeByProxy whose hatred of Bioroids was ultimately a means to nurse prior grievances against Deunan's father]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe stroke his own ego]], Hades shows himself to be the most personal menace Deunan ever had to deal with during her ESWAT career in any continuity.

** 2004 film: [[FantasticRacism Colonel Hades]] is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] inspecting an army of Landmates he commissioned for a terrorist attack he soon executes against Bioroid life extension facilities in a thorough attempt at [[FinalSolution genocide]]. When he learns of the Appleseed, which would make those facilities moot, Hades intercepts the ESWAT team sent by Athena on a secret mission to retrieve it and massacres the team save for Deunan and Briareos, who escape the bloodbath, as well as a single Regular Army mole who shared his feelings towards Bioroids. When Briareos reveals to the Regular Army that the Elders were using them for their own genocidal means, Hades tries to kill him and Deunan over General Uranus's objections. A genocidal racist [[RevengeByProxy whose hatred of Bioroids was ultimately a means to nurse prior grievances against Deunan's father]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe stroke his own ego]], Hades shows himself to be the most personal menace Deunan ever had to deal with during her ESWAT career in any continuity.

* CompleteMonster:
** 1988 {{OVA}}: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist A.J. Sebastian]] is the terrorist head of the Human Liberation Union. A {{cyborg}} with [[FantasticRacism an undying hatred for bioroids]] and a lengthy conviction history, Sebastian is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] assisting his squad in holding several bioroid families hostage, [[CopKiller killing a cop]] tasked to guard him. Partnering with the cop Charon, Sebastian ultimately plots to deactivate the Gaia computer controlling Olympus's power, just so he can activate the Multipede Cannon and use it to destroy the city. Killing anybody who stands in his way, Sebastian, despite his claims of desiring freedom for humans, is willing to kill both bioroid and human alike during his eventual Multipede destruction spree, ultimately caring more about the carnage.

* MagnificentBastard:
** ''Book 3: The Scales of Prometheus'': [[CatGirl Artemis Alpeia]] is a feral bioroid who, despite her savage brutality, displays quick thinking skills and acrobatic agility. Escaping from Olympus and hiding in New York, where she ate humans and dogs to survive, Artemis escapes ESWAT once they capture her, and makes a daring getaway, even [[EyeScream shooting Briareos in the eye]] to stall him. Found afterwards residing in a jungle on the outskirts of Olympus, Artemis installed traps everywhere to protect herself from ESWAT members out to get her, killing one of them herself with a [[PoisonedWeapons poison arrow]]. Although apprehended by ESWAT, Artemis is allowed to live in Olympus thanks to her all-important coding, happily residing with Hitomi and even giving birth to triplets of her own.
** 1988 OVA: [[FallenHero Charon Mautholos]] is a cop haunted by the death of his wife Fleia. After witnessing Fleia commit suicide thanks to feeling confined within Olympus’s utopian grip, Charon is taken in by a group of bioroid interrogators and hooked up to a mind reading machine against his will. Feeling violated and enraged towards Olympus as a result, Charon partners with terrorist A.J. Sebastian to destroy the city in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuine effort to ensure humanity's freedom]]. Using his position and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good reputation]] within the force to allow Sebastian to get away with his crimes, when the plan requires Charon to kidnap the bioroid Hitomi in order to shut down the Gaia supercomputer, Charon does so effortlessly, even killing the cops trailing him in one fell swoop. Charon ultimately dies ensuring Hitomi properly makes it to the last computer terminal, [[DefiantToTheEnd using his final breath]] to trick her into deactivating Gaia and ensuring Olympus's destruction.
** Anime movie duology:
*** 2004 film: [[WellIntentionedExtremist The Council of Elders]] are a faction of seven old men running Olympus who take orders from the supercomputer Gaia. In truth, the Elders have deactivated Gaia to accomplish their plans of [[SterilityPlague spreading human sterilization]] so that humanity can die out for the greater good, and despite their life support being tied to Gaia, they're willing to die for the sake of their plan. Needing the Appleseed in order for bioroids to become the world’s dominant race, the Elders murder Dr. Gilliam Knute for hiding it from them, while manipulating her daughter Deunan into locating it. Seeking to spread the D-Tank sterilization virus, the Elders allow the city's racist army to commence their bioroid genocide campaign in order to [[GaiasVengeance anger Gaia enough]] to justify unleashing the virus. Once Prime Minister Athena shuts their plan down, the Elders activate the city’s mobile defense mechas to unleash the virus themselves.
*** ''Ex Machina'' (2007): [[MadScientist Dr. Richard F. Kestner]] is a scientist who wants to [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill wipe out free will]] and unify every mind under his control in order to create the perfect utopia. Previously a member of the Poseidon Halcon Laboratories who discovered the key to mind control, after his partner Professor Xander was killed by Poseidon to cease the project, an enraged Kestner would [[ReplacementGoldfish revive Xander]] as the main AI for the Halcon mainframe. Using nanomachines to take control of several Poseidon cyborgs into launching terrorist attacks as a way to destroy the company’s business, Kestner would instigate an attack at a peace summit in order to get every world leader to reroute their satellites over Olympus. Planting a virus in the satellite's backup system that would allow him to control it to his liking, Kestner implants nanomachines in an injured Briareos, using him to cause the satellite’s system to crash and swap with the backup system. Ultimately using the satellites to [[AssimilationPlot control everybody wearing a Connexus]] into starting a massive riot to cull out non-conformers, after Kestner explains his plan to Briareos, he [[SpitefulSuicide commits suicide]] so that the incoming ESWAT will arrest Briareos again.
** ''XIII'':
*** [[AntiVillain Dhianeira "Deia" Cides]], daughter of Poseidon's prime minister, is Hitomi's friend and a helpful bioroid researcher. In truth an anti-bioroid terrorist, Deia seeks the downfall of Olympus and Poseidon for [[BestServedCold killing her husband Alcides and her unborn child]]. Looking to sabotage the Ark Project by killing all ten chosen bioroid subjects for sharing the same DNA as Alcides, Deia succeeds in killing them all through either clever manipulation, tactical destruction, or by [[FalseFriend putting on a trustworthy demeanor]]. Deia later kidnaps Deunan and wires her heartrate to a bomb set to destroy Olympus, all as a way to see if her teammates value her as a person or an asset to be tossed away. Eventually realizing that she herself is being used by the Poseidon government after they crowned her Goodwill Ambassador, Deia is able to kill those manipulating her and eventually commit suicide to escape Poseidon's command, but not before [[HeelRealization seeing the error of her anti-bioroid ways]].
*** "The Cretan Bull": [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Erinyes]] is a mysterious apparition who seeks revenge on those who destroyed her once peaceful village. Having been the first one used for a bio-weapon experiment by a cabal of corrupt politicians, Erinyes’s spirit would infect them with their own virus that turns them into blood thirsty zombies. Allowing everyone else in the facility to become infected, including her new friend Deunan, once Erinyes's revenge has been completed, she decides to commit suicide after finding herself [[HeWhoFightsMonsters stooping to her enemies' level]], but not before parting Deunan with words of wisdom. Though the politicians are cured, Erinyes's actions spark interest in her daughter, Eumenides, to expose the politicians of their corruption.
** ''Alpha'' (2014): [[AffablyEvil Two Horns]] is an eccentric, cybernetic crime boss who's [[DeadpanSnarker always ready with a wisecrack]] even in the face of danger. Having gotten Deunan and Briareos into enough debt to work for him, while even attempting to have them killed during their final job, Two Horns survives an assassination attempt by his old partner Talos, seeking afterwards to get back at Deunan and Briareos for bailing on him. [[EnemyMine Partnering with Deunan and Briareos]] because he grew tired of Talos humiliating him, Two Horns saves the two's lives when they're cornered by Talos’s army, even providing Deunan with an exo-suit. Getting Deunan inside Talos's activated war machine and thus assisting in its destruction, Two Horns thanks Deunan and Briareos by giving them an improved exo-suit, while letting them off scott free in the process.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The 2004 film had practically an AllStarCast when it came to the world of electronic music, with notable contributors such as Boom Boom Satellites, Paul Oakenfold, and Basement Jaxx.

* {{Narm}}: ''Ex Machina'' has lots of mildly narm scenes and dialog lines. Arguably it applies to the whole plot, as all the problems are really the result of TooDumbToLive by both the main characters and the government.

* LesYay: Although there is little even in terms of {{Subtext}} to back it up, there are scenes both in the OVA and in the first movie hinting at a mutual attraction between Deunan and Hitomi. (For example, Hitomi asking Deunan what it's like to be in love). Not so much in the manga, with Deunan explicitly saying she's "not into that" when Hitomi drunkenly {{Glomp}}s her in the shower.