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1	* AlasPoorScrappy: The very obnoxious, [[ChewToy if amusing]], [[spoiler:Admiral Munetake]] gets a surprisingly moving death scene when his time finally comes.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening, "YOU GET TO BURNING". The [[ShowWithinAShow Gekiganger 3]] theme, "Let's Go Gekiganger 3" is also pretty epic. Then there's "Three Angels", the theme for Ryoko, Hikaru, and Izumi, and "Black Serena" from the Movie.
3	* BizarroEpisode: Episode 21, which unlike any other episode in the series is told in non-chronological order, partakes in psychoanalysis of the characters, and features several sequences in a surreal "memory room" where the characters observe each other's repressed memories as Mahjong tiles. In other words, it's the ''Creator/QuentinTarantino'' episode.
4	* CargoShip: Seiya went head over heels with glee at the sight of the Aestivalis piloted by Nagare Akatsuki.
5	* CompleteMonster: ''Prince of Darkness'': [[MadScientist Professor Yamazaki]] is the lead scientist of [[TheRemnant the Martian Successors]], soldiers of the Jovian Federation that refuse to accept the surrender of their nation. Send to study the Bosom Jump teleportation, Yamazaki [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on the protagonists Akito Tenkawa and Captain Yurika Misumaru because of their special nature, leaving Akito as a broken man without senses and putting Yurika into a permanent coma where she would be constantly bombarded with happy memories to farm her energy for the Martian Successors' plan to take over the Amaterasu Colony and destroy it, uncaring about their civilian population. Yamazaki also shows [[VillainousCrush his fascination]] towards Yurika, ordering her to be left naked until [[EvenEvilHasStandards other scientists]] stopped him after considering that to be sexual harassment.
6	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ruri. She's a secondary character with a couple of focus episodes, but the combination of being a DeadpanSnarker and TokenMiniMoe caused her popularity to skyrocket (and said focus episodes highlights Ruri's nicer side, and having a good dynamic with Akito as opposed to his other more chaotic relations), enduring long after the series had actually ended. Because of this, a time-skipped Ruri got promoted to Main Protagonist in the movie, a move that was met with mixed reception because the two traits that made her stand out had to be toned back: she couldn't be as sarcastic when she's the main heroine, and she was too old to be considered the TokenMiniMoe any more.
7	** Don't forget [[HotBlooded Gai Daigoji]], for being hilarious and engaging. No joke--many people end up dropping ''Nadesico'' [[spoiler: after Gai gets killed off]], and the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series likes to increase his role [[spoiler:by letting you save him or at least giving him a much more dignified death]].
8	* FanNickname:
9	** The Akito Tenkawa Appreciation Society: the nickname for Akito's ever-growing UnwantedHarem.
10	* FanonDiscontinuity: Some people would like to forget TheMovie ever existed.
11	** Oddly enough, this is mostly averted in Mexico and Latin America, on the grounds the movie [[SequelFirst debuted first before the TV series]]. It also helps the [[SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing dub is really good, especially Ruri's Mexican VA]].
12	* GeniusBonus: The Black Sarena from the movie is named after the chocolate lily, whose flower language is "curse" and "love". Considering its pilot, it's a really, really fitting name.
13	* HilariousInHindsight:
14	** In the credits of the dub, Ruri's voice actress is listed simply as "[[Manga/DeathNote Kira]]".
15	** Aso HeartwarmingInHindsight, Creator/OmiMinami (Ruri) eventually married her co-star Creator/YujiUeda (Akito). "[[ImageSong I Want to be Your Number One]]" is a wish made true.
16	** After all the references to ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', the Nadesico finally fought alongside its [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 2012 remake]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV''. They are even paired up in the game's regular cover art as a VisualPun on YamatoNadeshiko.
17	* TheScrappy: Sadaki for being a whiny, self-important control freak who always gets in the way when the crew's trying to do the right thing. [[spoiler: [[AlasPoorScrappy Still]]...]]
18	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
19	** Akito on two occasions. When he tells Yurika of how his family was killed the day she and her father left Mars, he threatens to kill her if he finds out her father had anything to do with it. Never mind that Yurika would have been six years old when it happened and obviously uninvolved, his reasoning is entirely based on RevengeByProxy. Then later, after Gai is killed, Akito claims everyone else is being selfish for not mourning him and going about their business as if hadn't happened. What Akito fails to realize is that he and the rest of the Nadesico are in the middle of a war where death can come at any moment and they can't afford to waste time and energy moping over those who are already lost.
20	** Yurika for causing the cave-in that killed the Mars colonists. Though Inez tells her not to feel responsible as the colonists knew they were living on borrowed time anyway, it doesn't change the fact that her act of impulsive jealousy resulted in innocent people dying.
21	** Seiya for being a CasanovaWannabe despite being married with a son. If he was so unhappy being married, then he should have just filed for divorce.
22	* ValuesResonance:
23	** Many of the anime tropes parodied in the series are still relevant, and in some cases still overused, twenty years later.
24	** The true motives of [[spoiler:the Jovian Federation]] came about as the result of a poor interpretation of Gekiganger 3 into [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity a message]] that was never intended. With the rise of social media and (sometimes intentional) misreadings of various shows, books and games on the rise, the issue around educating people in proper media literacy has become more relevant than ever.
25	* {{Wangst}}: A lot of what Akito says falls into this. Especially since he has the same dub VA as Shinji Ikari.
26	* TheWoobie: Jun Aoi, at least, if you listen to his fangirls...
27	* {{Woolseyism}}: Several of the jokes are made much funnier by being delivered by the English language cast who had just done Evangelion. "You mean episode 26 wasn't the last episode?" is funny. Hearing Spike (Shinji) Spencer say it is hilarious. The Directors openly state that some parts were decided upon [[ActorAllusion due to links with other ADV shows]]. Akito (Creator/SpikeSpencer - Shinji in Eva) and Ryoko's (Creator/TiffanyGrant - Asuka in the same show) roles are the prime examples.
28	** Also a few other Woolseyisms, mostly to make sense of [[PungeonMaster Izumi's]] lines.
29	** The Mexican Spanish dub of the TV series pull this many times: The most notorious example is when Gai insults Akito since he's a cook: When in the Japanese version, he's simply call him a cook, in the Mexican Spanish dub he insults Akito by calling him ''Fritanguero''. In Mexico, a ''Fritanguero'' is someone who sells traditional Mexican food (fritangas) on the streets, but it's also a offensive slang for a cook who only sells ''junk food'' on the streets[[note]]More accurately, tacos, quesadillas, potato chips, French fries, pico de gallo, nachos, etc.[[/note]] and it's also one of the biggest [[BerserkButton insults]] you can say against a Mexican cook. Obviously, Akito is offended by this.[[note]]Curiously enough, there's a similar tradition in Japan, except replace the aforementioned dishes with ramen, udon and similar stuff.[[/note]]

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