Warhammer 40000 Trouble



"In the GRIM DARKNESS of the 41st Millennium, there's only WAR. In the NOBLE BRIGHTNESS of the 21st Century, there's only LOVE ADVENTURE. Someone Just had to mess up with that..."

- Author, regarding his fic

A Crossover Fan Fiction between Warhammer 40 K and To Love Ru, written by ZeroXSEED with the assistance of Jomlos, Warhammer 40000 Trouble is a War Fic set in the To Love Ru universe where a Negative Space Wedgie resulted in an Alien Invasion. Naturally, all the characters from the anime are forced to fight for their very survival.

Can be found here.

Extra Fanart, for additional heresy.

Tropes Covered in the story
"Rito: I'm 17 and I'm a CAPTAIN OF ELITE COMBAT DIVISION! I'VE FIGHTING ORKS AFTER BREAKFAST AND KILLED MORE ORKS THAN AVERAGE PERSON IN YOUR FLEET!! THE ORKS DEFINITELY UP TO SOMETHING!"
 * Ace Pilot: for the Humongous Mecha,  for the gunship.
 * Absurdly Sharp Blade:
 * Oshizu's (and thus all Eldar's) sword was justifiably one molecule thick; the Power Sword creates a matter-dismembering field, Rin's katana vibrates to create metal-melting heat and is made of Unobtanium.
 * While unable to create a Clean Cut, the Chainsword is just as sharp.
 * Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male: Averted at one serious time. Sousuke is highly traumatized by the abuse inflicted on him after the girls walking naked with him inside onsen FIRST
 * Accidental Marriage:
 * Due to the custom, Warriors/Knights in Devilukean saw Friendly Sparring as a Euphemism for love confession/engagement (though not to the extent of marriage).
 * Same sex Warriors/Knights couples may happen as a normal confession
 * Action Girl: Pretty much every single female character who survives.
 * Adam and Eve Plot: Yuu and Akiho invokes this, but while there are way more than two people alive (about 500 million survivors actually), everyone agreed to various extents.
 * After Action Report: after a battle or at the end of a chapter.
 * Anachronic Order:
 * Going back and forth in every chapter, but largely linear, except for the first chapter REALLY shown the middle section of the war to retrieve Honshu.
 * Which is EPIC
 * After the End
 * Always Someone Better: Risa invokes this on Aya, and says that she doesn't even deserve to protect Haruna. Risa obviously lying, but man that hurts...
 * Amazon Brigade: Sisters Of Battle/Adepta Sororitas
 * And Now for Someone Completely Different: Chapter 4 changed the focus to...lesser character in a COMPLETELY different place with.
 * Arc Words: Humanity
 * Armor Is Useless:
 * Averted, while the infamous Flak jacket T-shirt is useless, Carapace and Powered Armor are NOT.
 * Played straight with Rito vs Takumi, . As in Real Life, kevlar vest not diminish the kinetic impact, only held the bullet and shrapnel outside.
 * Art Evolution:
 * Again, Mythology Gag. Rito notices that Mayoi Neko Overrun girls looks younger and shorter than To Love Ru girls despite they're exactly at the same age.
 * Even Yami-chan is taller than Chise.
 * Ascended Extra: many of them, particularly those who lacked real background in Canon. For example, Ren is the main character.
 * Ascended Fanboy: and Narm
 * A-Team Firing: Orks
 * Attack! Attack! Attack!: Ork's default strategy...When desperate, Tenjouin Brigades did this with Attack Drone.
 * Badass:
 * Where to begin?
 * Back-to-Back Badasses:
 * Badass Abnormal: Lala, Zastin, and Yami, since they are Human Alien, also because the first two is alien with natural Super Strength and later one is an alien with Nanomachines. Space Marine, of course. All the human member of Tenjouin Brigade, much lesser extent, already undergo special treatment like above.
 * Badass Normal: Takumi and the rest of Mayoi Neko Overrun cast had nothing but their natural agility, Mega Neko, and down-to-earth Mini-Mecha.
 * Badass Biker: Rito, Yui, and Space Marine Scout on the first chapter. Later with Rough Riders
 * Handicapped Badass:, after losing both his legs and with the replacements not working yet, resorts to a Humongous Mecha.
 * Heartbroken Badass:
 * Badass Boast: Space Marines are into this, but especially this one:

"Saruyama: When you see the SPARTAN, it's because they allows you, when you're NOT seeing them, it's incoming attack."
 * Battle Couple: The SPARTAN members suspect are this. Inevitably, SPARTAN themselves composed of male and female in roughly same number. Exception of Rito, Yui, Saruyama, and ESPECIALLY Peke, they're Battle Couple in any sense.
 * , their 30-days journey basically summed as Lonely Together > Adventure Couple > Unresolved Sexual Tension
 * , certainly not Played for Laughs like above pairing. She discard her own feeling and he softly reject person liked him genuinely, if there's a real reason, it's nothing but.
 * Battleship Raid: SPARTAN doing this once.
 * Berserk Button/ Restraining Bolt: Komm Susser Todd, don't even SING that near Sister of Battle. Oh, they did. Except it's sister themselves whose sing it...while slaughtering cultist alhought there's VERY SIGNIFICANT difference of number.
 * Deadly Upgrade: Guaranteed to sent into comatose after the fight...it can't be few hours to full week.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: All three main character (Rito, Takumi, and Sousuke), while Rito arguably the scariest, Sousuke is the most dangerous, EVER.
 * And PAST Rito are scarier than PRESENT Rito (WTF?)
 * Big Book of War: Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K Codex, It Makes Sense in Context.
 * Big Breasts, Big Deal: Booby Trio is a good example, Yui is Type 2/ Resentment (and nobody dare to bring the issue directly), Saki is Type 4/ Vanity (although rather mild case), and Lala is rather obvious Type 5/ Ignorance (for what she is).
 * Big Damn Cats: Stray Cats' KITTEN CAVALRY!
 * Big Badass Wolf: Maron, yes, that Maron (See Rule of Cool below)
 * Big Damn Heroes: Especially Space Marine
 * Big Damn Guns: Space Marine IN SPADES, Saruyama said that earth-made Heavy weapons are stripped to naked form so that Guardsmen can use it, they're still 50 pounds
 * Big Eater: considering each Space Marine eat 16000 kilo Calories (8 times average men) a day...
 * And that IS average diet (aka healthy diet) when they're not in a war. To a lesser extent, each member of brigades consumed up to 12000 Kilo Calories a day during their training regime and reduced to around 5000 during their service.
 * Bling of War: While Sororitas and NARM played this straight, Guardsmen played this a bit. Their Armor are green-white and no golden marks of sorts (according to author, like this one), in the dark or inside woods they can pass easily as camouflage, while during formal ceremony, they're still fancy enough to shown of.
 * SPARTAN version also coupled with Photoreactive Electroplating for more stealth.


 * Boobs of Steel: Chise mocked that the Brigade girls only proud of their bust size, turn's out she's WRONG. Inverted the way they accomplished their task
 * Yami looks like a 14-year Badass Lolita, second strongest and most durable fighter amongst the cast.
 * Rin is very tall but only fourth largest, yet also most skilled and experienced fighter so far, and could go toe-to-toe with Yami.
 * Lala has second largest and even stronger than Yami but lacked the skill.
 * Saki has the largest breast among the Power Trio, but a lesser Mario than Yui.
 * Akiho has same size as Lala but due to her age, Bio Augmentation only 75% as effective (thus physically weaker than younger cast)

"Rito: Amerika-jin wa ningenia no yoonae hoka noium reesues o atsukaue kotoi ga dekinais
 * Bunny Ears Captain:
 * Canis Latinicus: Aside from the Division naming (W 40 K tradition), can't forget this exchange

Saruyama: (whisper) What the hell, that's not even Japanese to begin with!

Rito: Yes, it is, proper form; YOU RACIST AMERICAN BASTARD!!!"

"Sergeant Gunner: Why yes, our new president is MICHAEL FUCKING WILSON, now this is AMERICAN TIME!"
 * Canon Immigrant: Takumi and his Unwanted Harem from Mayoi Neko Overrun has a Big Damn CATS moment! Then Futagami (from an One-Shot Futagami Double) shown up kicking Daemon Horde in Tokyo Tower...
 * Character Development
 * Rito: Nice Guy >
 * Haruna: Yamato Nadeshiko >
 * Lala: Innocent Fanservice Girl >
 * Saki: Alpha Bitch >
 * Yui: Tsundere >
 * Ren: Jerkass Deadpan Snarker >
 * NARM would be a general example, after they're rising too high and proud, they're got their ass kicked by Asian girls, for them being Eagle Land type 2 it's twice fold of humilation that not only they're racist but they follows the general rule of Double Standard. After then they're became Eagle Land type 1, just as heroic and patriotic as real Space Marine (minus the extra organ and body size plus selective Xenophobia).


 * The Captain: Rito and, among other captain, only these two that didn't have any kind of actual military experience, at first.
 * Catch Phrase: FOR THE EMPHRAA!!
 * FOR AMERICA!!
 * This (insert Trope here) IS NOT expected from Motemitsu-senpai.
 * SPARTAN WILL LIVE! OUR ENEMIES SHALL BE DAMNED, IN HELL!
 * SAY HELLO TO MAH (insert BFG name here)
 * Child Soldier: And most of them are Super Soldier
 * and IN AMERICA as well.
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Dealing with orks' latent-but-subconscious Psychic Power. When they going WAAAGH! their weapon increased in effectiveness (sometimes exponentially). Inversely, a very religious place where people gathered and PRAYING decrease Ork's power.
 * Cloning Blues: It's complicated and can be described as: There are three Rito(s). PRESENT Rito (of the SPARTAN, very Badass), PAST Rito (just after confession), and RIKO. Past Rito owns nothing about things after the armageddon (and still a very Original Flavor Butt Monkey), and Riko has painful Fake Memory and identity crisis. The Warp did it
 * Colony Drop: not a destructive example.
 * Combat Uninterruptus: SPARTAN vs Pretty Marines simulation combat, it's get so fierce that when Daemonspawn shown up, they STEAMROLLED in the middle!
 * Command and Conquer Economy: The Reason Tenjouin brigade exist and survive is because of shitload of Colony Drop, lead to Easy Logistics below.
 * Conservation of Ninjutsu: lampshaded, depending on situation, but usually played straight.
 * Crazy Prepared: Tenjouin Family bought entire HOKKAIDO few weeks before invasion, and to a lesser extent:
 * Principal secretly build area 72 under Sainan High.
 * And Chise bought Area 51 by her new-year allowance.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: Rito vs Takumi, a rare Kick the Dog moment for the redhead. Takumi recklessly head out to seek for Nozomi, and Rito tried to stop him. When Takumi lose control and attack him for getting in the way, Rito ended it with three stroke from his rifle butt, despite Takumi wearing heavy kevlar armor at the time. They making up afterwards and found Nozomi...
 * Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: SLAYER bullet, in terms of material they are just a standard tungsten-cored lead rounds. However said core are imprinted with microscopic anti-daemon seal, and whether you are puny heretics or daemon prince, sufficient number of bullets from mundane Pistol/ Revolver (which are better), Shotgun (even better), or AntimaterialRifle, you're as good as dead.
 * And cause a Worf Effect on Chaos Space Marine too, where bullets struck on their armor will cause continuous damage, leading to small ruptures which get bigger, and finally result in a big crack. More bullets or larger bullets works better.
 * Destructo-Nookie: One time it was Played for Drama, but later they just humor exclusive
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty:, of all people, implied to be one, leading to an Ironic Nickname
 * Earth Is a Battlefield: It's not, it's hell.
 * Easy Logistics: Partially averted. Technology, material and chemical compounds for weapon, armor, and Vehicle construction and operation are sent from space on a regular basis (via Colony Drop). Food, on the other hand.
 * Enemy Mine: Straight example is Space Marine and Eldar, they assumed a truce until all the ORKS and CHAOS eradicated completely.
 * Fake Ultimate Hero: Rito admit himself as this, he's an elite. Too bad every single New Meat worship him, and Rito DOES know that his propaganda boost their morale.
 * Finger-Poke of Doom: Almost an Eye Scream if it's not a simulation battle, few member of Sororitas and female SPARTAN breaking through NARM optical suite with just two finger and tell them it's their weakest point.
 * Five Rounds Rapid: Subverted. Infantry weapon CONSTANTLY upgraded from a standard Bolt Pistol up to Disposable Rocket Launcher and personal Autocannon.
 * Food Pills/ Future Food Is Artificial: BRICKLOAF (official name and printed in all-caps on the wrapper), is a bar-shaped loaf made of condensed nutrition enough to cover 12-hour expended energy inside a continuous battle (or heavy training). The name comes from its ridiculous density (brick-sized piece weight LIKE A REAL BRICK), and being saturated with fiber, somewhat hard to chew. Subverted that it was available in 25 flavors!
 * Forceful Kiss
 * Friendly Sniper: Peke, Shape Shifter Super Powered Robot Meter Maid. And Motemitsu, Vindicare goddamn Assassin.
 * Geeky Turn On: Saruyama more....impressed about Nozomi's ability to repair his Dreadnought than her being skirtless at the time.
 * Saruyama just cannot catch a break, he admitted that Aya has very pretty eyes when she found out her eyes fixed after Bio Augmentation process.
 * Genre Savvy: knows whats happened and what CAN and WILL happens.
 * Running Gag: Any time Mythology Gag appears, Rito is the Meta Guy, Saruyama lampshade it, and Takumi will deliver MST3K Mantra.
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Several moment for heroes, notably:
 * Rito curb stomped Takumi due for him being a Leeroy Jenkins
 * Saki's mild Break the Cutie moment, when Chise going bratty and annoying, trying to bribes some Brigades, Saki Bright Slap and scold her:

"Rito: SPARTAN, just like the entire Brigades are formed in a way to avoid meaningless destruction and to test our chance to save this earth by our own hands. And we have Sentinels, Chimeras Siegfried, Leman Russes, BANEBLADES...and Titans as our backup. Sounds good right?"
 * The Glasses Gotta Go: As Bio Augmentation process also repaired eye flaws, this trope is expected. Played straight with Aya (according to Saruyama) and inverted with Mio, the latter claims (and acknowledged by others) that her glasses were one hell of a charm point.
 * Even more that, Mio is neither nerdy or stoic, she's a Moe type (She isn't a total saint however).
 * Goddamn Orks: Indeed
 * Good People Have Good Sex: This trope is used very often mostly involving Intimate Psychotherapy.
 * Grimdark: Warhammer 40 K
 * Heroic Sacrifice: unnamed Navigator.He reformed the Earth using godlike powers of the protagonist, effectivelly hit Reset Button loosed his Super Mode and closed The Warp Rift by erasing them from existance.
 * Hollywood Pudgy: Lampshaded via Rule of Funny. Mikado-style Bio Augmentation won't change the appearance of the test subject besides few inch height gain (ridiculously higher with those recently hits puberty) and at the worst, slightly formed muscle.
 * Holy Hand Grenade: Sousuke's Fusion Dance power only uber-effective against Ids (and Daemons, and CHAOS SPACE MARINE), so does Oshizu's Ki Attacks. They still powerful enough in a mundane fight (like against Orks), but far from Game Breaker.
 * Honor Before Reason: Averted to an extreme measure with SPARTAN Company, they're NOT encouraged to attack using melee method, and should retreat if overwhelmed, then attack again when they're far enough. Defensive Feint Trap is their BREAKFAST.
 * And then there's Chain Bayonet and Power Bayonet on chapter 3, encouraging them for doing Lasgun-Fu when cornered.
 * Ho Yay: in spades during Breather Episode:
 * SPARTAN vs SPECTRE, Rito and Ren's fight was...intense, see Combat Uninterruptus above
 * After that, Furo Scene, Yuu's affection to Sousuke is pure brotherly, but for the Estrogen Brigade, well...sn't take it well...
 * Huge Schoolgirl: When undergo Bio Augmentation, the subject will gain height by few inches (up to 8 inches actually). Notably, this is more of a problem with girls, Saki ESPECIALLY has a problem being 166 cm now (actually just slightly taller than Lala, but Lala is special). Yui is 171 cm and Rin is taller at 173 cm, they has no qualms about that. Note that these are just beyond normal height of Japanese girls and rather ordinary when they meet Eagle Land counterparts.
 * The tallest girl in the brigade however is 180 cm, and dating exceptionally tall guy too.
 * Identical Stranger: First time Sousuke met the heroes during Tokyo Tower shownoff, Rito, mistaken him for Yui Kotegawa (albeit they quickly realize he isn't). Later, everyone but two of them mistaken him for Yui's Sister.
 * [[media:WTFBBQ_Anti-ship_9094.JPG|Canon Proof]] (warning, use Anti Google in case of Flame War)
 * Implacable Man: Generally, NAMED Space Marine are this. But Rito(s) took it to "HOLY SHIT!" level.
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Oshizu, Aya, and Nozomi.
 * It Got Worse:
 * Ironic Nickname: MISS TUNDRA, THE TORMENTOR
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Saruyama and Run
 * Lady of War: HOLY FUCK! Saki went hammy inside battlefield but VERY graceful outside it. Aya is shy on all aspect, but still kick some ass. Haruna is always calm and gentle, even while being a Person of Mass Destruction. Oshizu is clumsy and somewhat dummy Yamato Nadeshiko which oddly known kenjutsu. Rin is polished by The Stoic Defrosting Ninja Maid tropes.
 * Large Ham: Space Marine's breakfast, To Love Ru cast are rather calm...except when they step on the battlefield anyway.
 * Saki is the Champion of Ham-chewing in female character roster. While Saruyama and Yuu CONSTANTLY HAMMY, Rito OUTHAMMED them when the time comes.
 * Rito can outhammed Orks, what will you expect? (see Loud of War)
 * La Résistance: Full of em, and always expys of something else.
 * Lensman Arms Race: Chapter 1 shown the Action Survivor using conventional firearm (which is useless) and high-explosive grenades. Chapter 3 depict War of small-sized TITANS.
 * Loud of War: during 'Tokyo Siege', the Orks are so numerous that WAAAAGH!! can be heard echoing allover the city. Rito's solution? Battle Cry with 130 dB Loudspeaker!
 * Meaningful Name: Also Awesome McCoolname for all teams, like SPARTAN, Canis Titanicus, Ritter Schild...
 * Me Love You Long Time: Played straight as soon as NARM ass-handed by female members of Brigades, NARM develop MASSIVE respect for them (and some of them also hit Love At First Punch), Saruyama notes most of them of them WORKS.
 * Albeit in Belligerent Sexual Tension variant.
 * Metaphorgotten: Anvilicious Broken Aesop as well

"Escort A: Stock market is a Battlefield, Sir!"
 * Mildly Military: Justified, as the Commissar, highest authority in Tenjouin Brigade is a former Businessman. Lower officers are those who had a taste with real military and they did the job. After modified, these Brigade members is taught by Space Marine with the most basic yet effective military skill, Company Captain is those with much better leadership skill, and below them are Elites (equal Lieutenant) and Squad Leaders (equal Sergeant).
 * EVEN MORE SO with NARM, they're what formed if crazed Fanboys get their own wonder artifact and gathers. Asskicking Equals Authority and no respect beyond that (until SPARTAN kickass them), Crazy Awesome, and Genre Savvy (strictly required).
 * Modern Major-General: Commissar (Ryuga) Tenjouin, as he explained in chapter 3 that all the Junior Officer deciding the strategy and tactics and not him, but he handles everything regarding the wargear production, supply network, and deployment. Then again, he's a businessman.

"Yuu: HEY YA ORKS, GOOD MORNING AND SAY HELLO TO MAH DEMOLISHER CANNON!!"
 * Inverted with Saibai, whose very competent when given a Squad (~10) or a Company (~100), and dangerously bad when it comes to ENTIRE DIVISION (>1000).
 * Morality Pet: To a lesser extent, Riko is this to Ren, stop him from being a full fledged Jerkass. While it's always going back and forth, Motemistu is the ONLY living person Rin ever shown emotions
 * Negative Space Wedgie: The Warp
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: During the war between Space Marine & Eldar Cruisers versus Orks battleship, a stray Cyclotron Torpedo explode above Eurasia, nice job making half of the Earth totally undefended.
 * Noodle Incident: When Gunship convoy ambushed by ork's Fighta-Bommer, launch a Slasher Smile, mentioned by captain Yuu.
 * One Head Taller: except that one Crack Pairing, invariably the male will be taller, almost everyone got their Love Triangle, and chances one of them is this (lampshaded, thanks to Saruyama). Rito, Ren, Saruyama, Motemitsu and Zastin as comparison.
 * Those who aren't completely OHT is Lala and Yui (For Rito), Aya (For Saruyama), Riko and Run (For Ren), and Saki (for Motemitsu).
 * And those who certainly OHT is Haruna (For Rito), Mio (For Saruyama), and Saki (For Zastin).
 * Platonic Life Partners: Rito and Saki
 * Saki offered Rito a a Night together in chapter 3 (Open radio channel, no less), he laughed and refused boldly!
 * The Power of Love: Mostly they win, sometimes not...
 * Power Perversion Potential: SPARTAN, and to the lesser extent, fellow brigades taking this to Refuge in Audacity territory.
 * Played for Drama: Everything that in the original story always Played for Laughs. From Rito's Made of Iron & Super Speed tendency despite being a Badass Normal, Lala's (un)natural Super Strength. And let's not forget about Berserker energy drink from first chapter, which treated as real Combat Drugs by Rito...
 * Which is GENUINE DANGEROUS for earth creatures, a Mythology Gag to Episode 3 and Chapter 10.
 * Psychic Power: All Orks (See Clap Your Hands If You Believe above) and all Eldar, Oshizu got one (and peak level one at that) from hundred of years experience as a ghost, Motemitsu's unlucky streak to girl is because he's a complete Blank (Rin is a Blank too, resulting a Cracktastic Battle Couple).
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Rito and Ren, color and Personality. Both are Hot-Blooded, both of them are aspiring leader, but one is a Nice Guy and one is a Jerk With a Heart of Gold.
 * Replicant Snatching: Ids, once completed and corrupted, will kill the original and replaced them in society.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Aya went BALLISTIC when Risa humilated her in an almost-lethal live combat, and keep conscious in an EXTENDED crazy-ass 13G maneuver
 * Rule of Cool: And Bigger Is Better, for some reason mixing ork fungus in pet food multiplies said pet's size and physical ability. Turns out that 'mutated' orkoid Fungus contain Hormones that increase pet's growth and metabolism until certain level. Cats and Dog + said Fungi = Pet Cavalry.
 * Satellite Character: In canon its Aya and Rin, whose their only EXISTENCE is around Saki, also Mio who revolves herself around Haruna. To a lesser extent Saki and Risa, both have distinctly different personality and Character Development among extras, and the first has a patented backstory herself. And don't even start on Ren & Run, actually this is expected from Motemitsu-Senpai.
 * See the Ascended Extra above, Rule of Drama Up to Eleven. Almost everyone was given RANDOM backstory (which oddly fitting the universe), apparently, Principal is a Cold War veteran just an example.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Money: While Saki grown out of it, Chise isn't, until Saki Bright Slap her and led to:
 * Screw the Money, I Have Rules: Delivered straight by Saki to Chise, led to Break the Cutie moment.
 * Situational Sexuality: See Battle Couple above, sometimes, Power of Love averted just that hard.
 * Squee: Sisters' reaction when Rito sing...this.
 * Summon Bigger Fish: entire story may be summed as this
 * Stay in The Kitchen: oddly this applies to UNDERAGE and half of the ADULTS regardless of gender (Competence Zone played too much?), Underages largely founded themselves well protected in the colony by a local defense forces composed half of the adults, while the latter half provides logistic support and such. Modified teens, boy or girl, going into the front line and treated as equal (Positive Discrimination really hit both gender).
 * Super Soldier: Generally all young members of the Brigades, while Space Marine is just that... Extreme, all the members has been modified to the peak of their body while remains a normal human.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: VERY ODD impression of Yui among the New Meat is that she's very cold and imposing, though this is reasonable. She's 170 cm tall, titled as best female guardsmen, and a Sergeant Rock. Those who known her better says she's less cooler than you can expect.
 * And Rin is a better example in this matter, but she lacked follower for being a follower herself.
 * Tank Goodness: like this one that sum its up:


 * Techno Babble: Ascended Fanboy prone to this
 * Tenchi Solution: ALL Favors, preferably Rito alone has THREE kinds (Cloning Blues, be damned)
 * Funny thing that Takumi and his Unwanted Harem problem is UNRESOLVED in any sense, Motemitsu and Saruyama making fun of him mercilessly, only Rito cheer him up.
 * The Heartless: Ids, no matter if they're good or evil, are always chaotic.
 * The Lancer:
 * Tsundere: Several. There are Yui, Amane, and Fumino.
 * They Look Just Like Everyone Else: Tenjouin brigade specifically LIMIT the Bio Augmentation potential so that beyond increased height and theoretically overweight yet ideally lean body, it's rather hard to tell the difference between normal and Enhanced Teenagers.
 * Tokyo Is the Center of The Universe: In an inversion, Tokyo is so symbolic that some factions marked Tokyo as 'Final battlegrounds'.
 * Took Several Level In Badass: No choice
 * Took a Level In Jerkass: EVERYONE.
 * Training From Hell: Implied during first Time Skip
 * Specifically, first Seven day of the Bio Augmentation are total Nightmare Fuel/ Nausea Fuel. After that things are getting lighter, with the recruits are taught to handle the weapons and vehicles properly with few hours field training session a day. The actual training begin on the second week is the hellish one....
 * Unfortunate Implication:
 * Unkempt Beauty: Yui, Rin, Haruna and Aya. The first and second is like 'Have no time for that', the third and fourth not discard make-up, they just very modest about that.
 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: Rito
 * And then they run with it, the heck of a ship indeed.
 * Sousuke and Amane...let's just say it was resolved in G-rated way.
 * The War Sequence: Often.
 * Weak but Skilled:.
 * We Have Reserves: Attack Drone, plenty of them!
 * At one time, a dying Red Shirt invoke this as Self Depreciation so that his commander won't retreat (that area they guarding are vital to human defense network by the way).
 * Wham! Episode: Several times.
 * Flashback session, during the Alien Invasion
 * When PRC gets bombed each carrying 8 sub-munitions yielding 8 Megatons.]]
 * The Worf Effect: Played Straight and Subverted with orks.If humans fight them properly they can win with ease. Otherwise they are very strong.
 * World Half Empty: When (Possessed) Prototype Marines said that the Earth is dead, cue Saruyama doing Dynamic Entry:
 * Zerg Rush: Orks, and . Subverted by Guardsmen that they relies on number, but without decent strategy they'll steamrolled by Orks.
 * Zerg Rush: Orks, and . Subverted by Guardsmen that they relies on number, but without decent strategy they'll steamrolled by Orks.