Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Difference between revisions

* [[Ace Custom]] - Considering how simply designed an average AT is, it isn't a surprise that quite a lot of individual mods exist. Most notably, there are the Turbo Custom, Red Shoulder and Burglary Dog derivatives of the regular Scopedog made and used by Chirico. Subverted in that they break as easy as normal [[A Mech By Any Other Name|ATs]] and the difference is usually a bunch of extra guns strapped to it.

* [[Alien Sky]] - The planet Sunsa

* [[Arc Break]]

* [[Badass Normal]] - Chirico {{spoiler|Subverted, because the last story arc reveals Chirico to be superhuman}}

* [[Crapsack World]] - Melkia seems to have deteriorated into this following the Gilgamesh-Balarant conflict, if Uoodo and the Kunmen region are anything to go by.

* [[Determinator]] - Chirico, Yipsilon and multiple other characters. Though Mellowlink tops all of them.

** The first scene of the Pailsen Files is D-Day, plain and simple. The show doesn't even ''try'' to be subtle with it.

*** Lampshaded by the fansubbers by having inserting on-screen during the eyecatch "was it me, or was that whole scene just D-Day with robots?"

* [[Morality Chain]] - Coconna, to Chirico and company.

* [[The Neidermeyer]] - Capt. Kan Yu of the Assemble EX-10 mercenaries. {{spoiler|While he actually is a fairly proficient soldier and AT pilot, he sucks as a team leader. He is short-tempered, refuses to listen to anything his subordinates say that isn't obsequious agreement, guns down civilians at the slightest provocation (real or imagined - half the time, the civvies die simply for breathing), and has compromised at least one covert op simply to show what big balls he has. Then, there's the little fact that he despises Chirico yet keeps getting his ass saved by him, which just adds fuel to the fire of his hate...}}

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]] - The official names for various AT's are never revealed. Some are only known by their Battling ringname like the Purple Bear (a scout variant of Scopedog) or Strong Bacchus (heavy armored Scopedog), while the Balarant Union's AT's are known by Gilgamesh's silly English codenames (e.g. the Fatty), with the sole exception being the Ecrevisse (French for "crayfish").

* [[The Power of Friendship]] - Gotho, Vanilla, and Coconna are somehow always there to save Chirico whether he wants their help or not. Early on Coconna had to somehow force Gotho and Vanilla to come along and help rather than leave Chirico to die.

* [[The Power of Hate]] - What drives Mellowlink in his quest for [[Revenge]].

** To be more specific, it's believed (or at least Pailsen thinks so) that Abnormal Survivors subtly influence given probabilities of things happening around them, causing lethal situations to become non-lethal or even harmless.

* [[Real Robot]] - One of the early pioneers of this genre. Armored Troopers are mass-produced, have a very basic design, have limited ammunition, require refueling, and are basically bipedal tanks.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Chirico gets a ''lot'' of these.

* [[Short Anime Movie]] - Over the years many [[OVA|OVAs]] have been released, expanding the storyline and character details and filling in some of the loose threads of the series. With no lack in efforts to sub the latest releases, the series holy grail that is Shining Heresy finally had subtitles released via a combined effort of the /m/ board in 2010.

* [[Used Future]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Kan Yu suffers this after losing his position as the commander of Chirico's special team in a secret mission.}}

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] - Fyana.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] - Chirico has blue hair, along with a few other minor characters. Most of the other major characters have normal hair colors.