Appleseed: Difference between revisions

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* [[Ambiguously Evil]]: [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|Yoshino]], the unctuous Posiedon delegate, and her equally sinister entourage in ''Ex Machina''. {{spoiler|It turns out that [[Good All Along|they're actually trying to hunt down the BigBad, and only too happy to lend our protagonists a hand]].}}

* [[Anti Gravity]]: The Hermes System.

* [[Anti Mutiny]]: In the manga, Athena launches one of these against the Elders once they propose to expand bioroid behavior modification to humanity (sterilization in the movie). Gaia gets the same idea about bioroids in general.

* [[Anti-Mutiny]]: In the manga, Athena launches one of these against the Elders once they propose to expand bioroid behavior modification to humanity (sterilization in the movie). Gaia gets the same idea about bioroids in general.

* [[Artificial Human]]: Bioroids.

* [[Badass Army]]: ESWAT and Olympus Police in general are extremely competent; Deunan and Briareos are just exceptional cogs in an excellent machine.

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* [[BFG]]: Briareos in Volume 4 uses a gun that resembles a sawn-off M1 ''Main Battle Tank'' cannon.

* [[Blade Run]]: Deunan vs. that construction mecha in ''Ex Machina''.

* [[Bloodstained Glass Windows]] The opening sequence of ''Ex Machina'', in fine [[John Woo]] tradition.

* [[Bloodstained-Glass Windows]] The opening sequence of ''Ex Machina'', in fine [[John Woo]] tradition.

* [[Bullet Time]]: Used extensively in the movies, especially ''Ex Machina''.

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Averted, Deunan once spells out her ancestry for Hitomi and there is a lot of variety (she's mixed-race African on her mother's side), but no Japanese. Shirow has mentioned that she won the genetic lottery as far as physical skills go, which is why her employers and colleagues put up with her eccentricities.

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* [[Hero-Tracking Failure]]: Occurs at the start of the first movie, and receives a brief [[Call Back]] in the opening fight of ''Ex Machina''.

* [[The High Queen]]: Athena.

* [[How Do You Like Them Apples]]: [[Self Explanatory]].

* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: [[Self Explanatory]].

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Who else? Deunan and Briareos.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: A 13-foot tall death machine appears in volume 4 of the manga, but is taken apart by just two veteran landmate pilots.

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* [[Mega Corp]]: Poseidon in ''Ex Machina.''.

** They seem to be [[One Nation Under Copyright]], to boot.

* [[Meganekko]]: Chiffon, the [[Dark-Skinned Blond]] who befriended Deunan, was part of the human insurgency and [[Boom Headshot|killed brutally]] by Deunan unknowingly in the manga's first volume.

* [[Meganekko]]: Chiffon, the [[Dark-Skinned Blond]] who befriended Deunan, was part of the human insurgency and [[Boom! Headshot!|killed brutally]] by Deunan unknowingly in the manga's first volume.

** Unknowingly? Chiffon flat-out recognized Deunan and called her name, and Deunan knew exactly who she just gunned down. This is, also, after Chiffon and company shot the hell out of Briareos too, so you can kind of forgive Deunan for plugging her "friend" like that.

* [[Mini Mecha]]: Landmates (kinda).

* [[Mini-Mecha]]: Landmates (kinda).

* [[Motion Capture Mecha]]: Landmates.

* [[More Dakka]] Spider Gun Platforms in the manga and OAV, Mobile Fortresses in the first movie.

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* [[Orphaned Series]]: The manga.

* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: {{spoiler|Hitomi}}.

* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]]: In ''Ex Machina'', Briareos would likely have found unearthing the movie's central conspiracy much easier if the lingering nanite poisoning they used to temporarily take him over hadn't compelled him to take the most stupid, pointless, and needlessly violent actions possible whenever his adrenaline levels spiked. {{spoiler|Luckily for him, there's a treatment.}}

* [[Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity]]: In ''Ex Machina'', Briareos would likely have found unearthing the movie's central conspiracy much easier if the lingering nanite poisoning they used to temporarily take him over hadn't compelled him to take the most stupid, pointless, and needlessly violent actions possible whenever his adrenaline levels spiked. {{spoiler|Luckily for him, there's a treatment.}}

* [[Powered Armor]]: Protectors, Landmates (kinda).

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "You son of a bitch... ''[[Double Agent|you betrayed us!]]''"

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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Athena tries to get Deunan killed at the start of the film; however, in truth she didn't know Deunan's role in what was going on at the time, and when the Regular Army comes close to committing genocide she sends her, along with the rest of Kudo's ESWAT unit, on a mission to retrieve the Appleseed (which can save the Bioroid race and was long thought destroyed by Dr. Gilliam until an Elder revealed its existence at an emergency meeting called by Athena to discuss the implications of a terrorist attack on the Bioroid day care center).

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Possibly; it's been theorized that {{spoiler|the Elders, realizing that Deunan's determination to preserve the future of humanity came from possibly a purer motive than they had, had entered the last letter of the Mobile Fortress password with the last of their strength, allowing Deunan to save humanity with the push of a button.}}

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: In ''Ex Machina'', a cyborg's eyes turning red is your cue to run away very, very fast.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: In ''Ex Machina'', a cyborg's eyes turning red is your cue to run away very, very fast.

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Kestner's [[System Shock|SHODAN]]-esque cyborg replica of his dead project leader}} is a particularly creepy example.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: In the original manga, Briareos was black before becoming a full-body cyborg.