Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Characters

Captain Bruno J. Global

 * A Father to His Men - He is shown to care deeply about the people under his command.
 * Dirty Old Man - The bridge crew gets a few good snarks in as Global seems to be enjoying himself a little too much while judging the Miss Macross contest.
 * The Captain - Technically he is either (depending on the ambiguous Japanese term) a Brigadier General or a Rear Admiral.
 * Running Gag - "No smoking on the bridge!"
 * Team Dad

Claudia LaSalle

 * Beta Couple - With Roy. She offers quite a bit of romantic advice to Hikaru and Misa.
 * Black Best Friend - to Misa.
 * Bridge Bunny
 * Cool Big Sis - She acts like this often to Misa, commisserating with Misa over tea (or more alcoholic substances) later in the series, as the love triangle begins to close.
 * Noriko Ohara
 * Token Minority - She's black and way too dark to be Ambiguously Brown.
 * She wears Jheri Curls, for god's sake! Of course she's black!
 * On the other hand, the cast is pretty diverse, so it's hard to call her token minority. For the record, both Hikaru and Misa are Japanese, while Minmay and Kaifun are Chinese. It's just that Japanese artists traditionally do not distinguish between Asian and Caucasian features, so it's somewhat difficult to notice.
 * If anything she's an aversion - Japan has never had any social pressure for artificial racial diversity, and her being black has no real impact on the plot. If we had some race tropes equivalent of Invisible to Gaydar, that would probably apply.

Hayao Kakizaki

 * The Big Guy
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him (In the movie, where he is unceremoniously killed off after Tempting Fate.)
 * Shipper on Deck (Ships Hikaru/Misa)
 * Leeroy Jenkins
 * Leeroy Jenkins

Hikaru Ichijo

 * Ace Pilot
 * Actual Pacifist - Subverted: In the episode Boobytrap, Hikaru calls Roy a murderer after Roy boasts of his kill tally, but a few moments later it's implied that this is him venting his anger over Roy breaking his promise to return to the air circus. Hikary soon joins the UN Spacy with what appear to be few moral qualms, mostly to impress Lynn Minmay.
 * Anime Hair
 * Eighties Hair, the series being released in 1983. Though most of the cast is guilty.
 * Badass in Distress
 * Captain Crash - Has a tendency to trash his machines. This is even lampshaded in the episode Phantasm where even his own coma delirium mocks him for his repeated pancaking of vehicles.
 * Love Triangle - To the point that when Max asked him for an advice about Millia, he mused that he wished his romantic problems were so simple.
 * Otaku - While not one himself, his use of the over-polite honorific version of "you" early in the series is thought now to be the origin of the term.
 * The Other Darrin - Due to the death of his original seiyuu, Arihiro Hase, in 1996, in all subsequent appearances, he is voiced by Kenji Nojima.
 * Vic Mignogna

Lynn Kaifun

 * Hirotaka Suzuoki
 * Jerkass
 * Martial Pacifist: A pacifist who knows kung-fu, but only uses defensive moves.
 * Soapbox Sadie
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky

Lynn Minmay

 * Anime Chinese Girl
 * Break the Cutie
 * Damsel in Distress - Many times.
 * Heroic BSOD - In The Movie
 * Idol Singer - And HOW!
 * Glamorous Wartime Singer
 * Naive Everygirl
 * Princess Curls
 * Self Made Girl - In the TV series she starts as a waitress in her aunt and uncle's restaurant, then becomes the most famous singer in the world universe.
 * Spoiled Sweet
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Maximillian Jenius

 * Ace Pilot - He's the best pilot in the show. This is acknowledged in games that have pilot stats; Max typically has high stats and occasionally special bonuses on top of it. In Macross Ace/Ultimate Frontier, Max (both younger and older version of him) has the highest (initial) stats out of any pilot in any Macross era except his "Vitality" stat.
 * Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden uses a different way to put this trope. Overall, Max stats is worse than Fokker, however he and Millia are the only Macross pilots that posess the Awakening seishin, signifying their ace pilot status.
 * Beta Couple - With Millia.
 * Chris Patton
 * Covert Pervert - What was he focusing on while fighting Millia at an arcade game? Her measurements.
 * Hot Dad - And he stays that way, even decades later.
 * I Know Mortal Kombat: He defeated Millia (again) at an arcade.
 * Megane
 * Shipper on Deck (another Hikaru/Misa shipper)
 * Show Hayami
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Misa Hayase

 * Bridge Bunny
 * Broken Bird
 * Mika Doi
 * Monica Rial
 * Kuudere and Tsundere
 * Oba-san - Joked about early on.
 * Oba-san - Joked about early on.

Roy Focker

 * Ace Pilot
 * Akira Kamiya
 * Talking to Himself (With Ryouma Nagare, Sanshiro Tsuwabaki, Kazuya Ryuuzaki and Akira Hibiki in the Super Robot Wars Alpha series. Better yet, it's possible to put all but one of them (The squad limit is 4 mecha) into the same squad in Alpha 3.)
 * Big Brother Mentor - To Hikaru
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer - Actually a toned-down Truth in Television version of this trope, particularly in the movie, where he actually shows up to rescue Hikaru and Minmay blind drunk and still proceeds to kick Zentraedi backside. In the TV show, Claudia mentions how once Roy shot down five enemy fighters with a raging hangover.
 * Dark-Skinned Blond
 * Drowning My Sorrows - Before he met Claudia. Reasons for this are revealed in Macross Zero.
 * Handsome Lech
 * Secretly Dying: How did he not get blood all over Claudia's couch?

Vanessa/Kim/Shammy

 * Bridge Bunny - The originals!
 * Hiromi Tsuru - Kim
 * Meganekko/Nerd Glasses - Vanessa
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl - Kim and Shammy

Zentradi

 * Applying to all: Spell My Name with an "S" - Their names were intentionally chosen to be difficult to pronounce with the Japanese phoneme set, so any romanization of those names is approximate at best.

Britai/Breetai Kridanik

 * Badass: In the smackdown mentioned below, He destroyed a Valkyrie with his bare hands. Better yet, he also survived having said Transforming Mecha Blow-up in his face.
 * Britai Can Breathe In Space - after being sucked out of his flagship into hard vacuum, Britai seems able to walk on the ship's exterior with no problems and re-enters the ship in time to lay a smackdown to Hikaru and the rest of the pilots.
 * Cool Old Guy: Especially old by human standards.
 * Eyepatch of Power: Metal eye patch of power.
 * Heel Face Turn - No small thanks to having the longest exposure to Protoculture/the heroes.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure

Exsedol/Exedore Folmo

 * The Comically Serious
 * Dark-Skinned Redhead - Original incarnation-only (would later be retconned for the below)
 * My Brain Is Big - His DYRL incarnation (which became the basis for his subsequent appearences).
 * Justified in the later series by saying that he was suffering brain cancer from the repeated micro/macronization processes and so had to change his form drastically for some reason.
 * Shorter Means Smarter - One of the smaller Zentradi characters and serves as advisor/historian.

Golg Boddole Zer/Golg Bodolza

 * Big Bad
 * - His solution to dealing with the "miclones".
 * Hollywood Cyborg (He is nothing more then a cyborg computer in the movie)
 * Large and In Charge (easily the largest Zentradi seen on the show)

Quamzin/Kamjin Kravshera

 * Bad Boss ("Ally Killer" isn't there for jokes.)
 * Blood Knight
 * The Brute
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: He may be called Ally Killer, he may be the Brute, his very first appearance on the show reveals he had bet on how many ships of Breetai's fleet he'd ram by folding out too near, but he's a very competent commander and a very good pilot.
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder (Any guesses as to why he's known as "Kamjin the Ally Killer"?)
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Jerkass
 * Leeroy Jenkins
 * The Masochism Tango (with Lap Lamiz)
 * Smug Snake

Warera/Rori/Konda

 * Punny Name: Warera-Rori-Konda = Warera Lolicon da! = "We are pedophiles!"
 * Big, Thin, Short Trio - Warera, Konda, and Rori, respectively
 * Bishonen - Konda, somewhat Depending on the Artist

Moruk Lap Lamiz

 * Alliterative Name
 * Lady of War
 * The Masochism Tango - with Kamjin
 * Tsundere
 * Tsundere

Millia Fallyna

 * Ace Pilot
 * Battle Couple - with Max.
 * Best Her to Bed Her
 * Beta Couple
 * Capulet Counterpart - Even more so in the movie.
 * Crazy Awesome: In the movie
 * Green Eyes
 * Green Haired Space Babe
 * High Heel Face Turn
 * Hot Amazon
 * Hot Mom - Like Max, she stays that way, even decades later. Even more amazing when you consider that, by 7s time, she's given birth 7' times.
 * I Know Mortal Kombat - She was defeated by Max at an arcade...after winning three CASES of coins from the machine.
 * Luci Christian
 * Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training - She can operate planes and mecha just fine. Cooking? Not so much.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

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