Astro Fighter Sunred: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''This is the story of the battle between good and evil which takes place in the city of Kawasaki.''}}

 

 

That's how the story would be. Sunred is a bit of a jerk who wears his mask at all times. While mooching off of his girlfriend Kayoko, he deals with Florsheim on a daily basis, just not as you'd expect. He's on (grudgingly) friendly terms with the leader, General Vamp, and helps him move into a new house, clean his place, and occasionally meet to fight as heroes and villains do.

** Weather Three vs. anyone.

** {{spoiler|Florsheim vs. Devil Eye Army}}

* [[Cuteness Proximity]] -- Almost anyone when they get near the Animal Soldiers. Special mention goes to Reiji, a stuffed dog who's the intersection of this and the [[Casanova]] as the best selling host of a club.

** Usacots gets the brunt of this. More than one of his attempts to kill Sunred have been interrupted by ''girls squee-ing over him''.

* [[Cyborg]] -- Parodied (of course) when Florsheim's scientist create a hideous Monster-Machine Fusion Cyborg by combining a horrible moth monster with... A piece of water pipe. Red is notably unimpressed.

* [[Deathbringer the Adorable]] -- Hellwolf, the newest member of the Animal Soldiers, who's as cute as Usa and the rest. [[Subverted]] in that he actually is [[One-Winged Angel|terrifying]] under the full moon. But [[Weaksauce Weakness|the moon has to be fully out]]. A cloudy night (which is when Vamp schedules the fight) [[Double Subverted|renders him powerless]].

* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]] -- The motif of the Weather Three. There's Sunred (fire), Blue (water) and Yellow (electricity). The power set is standard, but the way they use it is unusual. For example, Sunred considers using a ''lighter'' to be adequate enough for "fire" powers, Blue uses a water hose, and Yellow uses a stun gun.

* [[Floating Advice Reminder]]

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] -- [[Gentle Giant]] Jargo the Berserker. He also speaks in [[Gratuitous English]].

** About that "berserker" thing: it turns out his vicious reputation is actually due to confusion with a different monster called Jango.

* [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]

* [[Good Is Not Nice]] -- Despite being a hero, Sunred is a bit of a jerk. The other heroes seen to have the same problem (one group from Hokkaido decided to wipe out their entire villain group on a drunken bender).

** This is subverted half way through the first season when Sunred convinces the new villain Devil Eye that in order to become his new archenemy he has to kill his first archenemy: Vamp of Florsheim. When Kayoko learns of this, she is quick to think that Vamp and the rest of Florsheim are in danger until {{spoiler|Sunred reveals that Florsheim isn't weak; he's just much too strong for them. Cue to Armor Tiger thoroughly kicking Devil Eye and his minions' asses [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|while Vamp berates them about their manners]].}}

* [[Hero Antagonist]] -- Sunred. For a certain level of 'hero'.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: The only big names in the series are Kurumi Mamiya ([[Hamtaro]]) as Usacots, Hidekatsu Shibata ([[Fullmetal Alchemist|Führer King Bradley]]) as General Hengel, and Louis Yamada LIII and Higuchi-kun (a French-themed [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|manzai duo]] called Hige Danshaku<ref>Baron Beard</ref>) as General Vamp and Mook #1. Yamada is now the bungling professor in ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]]''.

* [[How Did That Get in There?]]? -- P-chan, when trying to show a video of Hellwolf's powers, ends up showing a "[[Porn Stash|Birds Gone Wild]]" video instead. Usa calls him out on this, and he quickly changes it.

* [[The Idiot From Osaka]] -- Weather Yellow. Supposedly. He, like his comrades, is not above dirty fighting.

* [[In the Back]] -- An independent monster during season 1 reminisces about how it delivered its [[One-Hit Kill]] attack to Sunred's back while he was obliviously fishing by the riverside. {{spoiler|It only managed to tear Sunred's shirt and knock him into the river. This made Sunred very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move -- The poor monster got PTSD from Sunred's retaliation.}}

* [[Ineffectual Death Threat]] -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAujonWr1Q&t=00m34s "Omae-tachi! Kolo-chu!"] ("Kolo-chu" is an extremely cutesy-sounding mispronunciation of the word "korosu", which means "to kill")

** Geddon, a monster who retired from Florsheim to raise strawberries, eventually married the daughter of the strawberry farmer he worked for.

* [[Irony]] -- This show's bread and butter, given that the Evil Organization is much more 'heroic' than the "Ally of Justice" who's supposed to save the world from them. One episode showcases this: Florsheim are having a riverside picnic when a boy upstream falls into the river and their Shark monster immediately leaps into the river and saves the boy. Sunred and Kayoko note how this is not terribly 'evil' of them. Sunred, feeling somewhat envious of Florsheim getting press coverage for this, ends up in the middle of a bank robbery. However, he gets too distracted trying to think of when it would be the most dramatic time to intervene, and a [[Heroic Bystander]] ends up saving everyone instead (Sunred ''did'' covertly disarm the robber and save the day, but nobody notices it). Vamp and Kayoko note how this is not terribly 'heroic' of him.

* [[Jerkass]] -- Sunred, back in the day. A flashback shows him chasing down a Florsheim monster who hides in a tree to escape him. Sunred starts kicking and shaking the tree to coax it to come down, before producing a lighter and threatening to burn the tree down. Then the monster comes down. Then Sunred beats the hell out of it.

** Antkiller is also a noted dick.

* [[Killer Robot]] -- In one episode, a deathbot is shipped to Vamp in the form of a model kit. He has no idea how to construct the thing, and goes to Sunred for help. After initially refusing to help his "enemy", Sunred ends up completing it. Then it explodes because one of Vamp's minions is too dumb to realize that he has one of the robot's crucial parts.

{{quote|'''Sunred:''' ''I'm not going to stop until I've defeated a robot I built myself!''}}

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Sex jokes and the fact that Sunred is always pestering Kayoko for sex are downplayed in the anime, to downright non-existant. Also even with slapstick humor, Sunred often deals some brutal beatings against Florsheim's lackeys in the manga, with them coming out bloody disfigured, in the anime the beatings aren't that severe.

* [[Minion with an F In Evil]] -- Not many of the monsters are actually ''evil''. They're just trying to make a living. Some of them are even perfectly happy in non-[[Take Over the World]] fields of work.

* [[Mooks]] -- Florsheim does have two Combat Goons who are regular characters. They appear to be regular guys doing their jobs, and, despite being Mooks, generally suffer less damage than the monsters.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]] -- The first time Sunred and Hengel meet, Hengel steadfastly refuses to get Sunred's name right, calling him "Red Moon", "Red Mask" and "Star Red", among others.

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]] -- Sunred. In the few occasions where a monster ''does'' get a hit in (usually by sneak attacks), the attacks do nothing apart from making Sunred angry.

* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: Sunred to Kayoko in the first 3 manga Volumes before she started to get inexplicably hotter; even when she was average (''at best'') in looks, Sunred was constantly trying to get in her pants like she was the hottest chick in town.

* [[Parental Abandonment]] -- Sunred's parents are dead, and he has no recollection of when; in thruth he has no remembrance of his childhood at all or his origins, he knows he is 27 years old but not his birthday, Sunred just counts the years.

* [[Poke the Poodle]] -- The Animal Soldiers once come up with a great plan -- to steal all of Sunred's water. It doesn't work very well.

* [[Pose of Supplication]] -- Vamp and Florsheim tend to do this whenever Sunred defeats them in battle, sitting still and listening to him lecture them.

* [[Progressively Prettier]]: Kayoko's beauty evolution in the manga also coincides with her character and importance growth within the series; in the begining her role wasn't clearly defined, only that Sunred lived off her was, but other characteristics such as working at an insurance firm, being on friendly terms with Vamp, getting more recurring appearances, all of this only came when Kayoko was stabilished as Sunred's pretty and independant girlfriend.

* [[Punch Clock Hero]] -- Sunred.

* [[Take Over the World]] -- Florsheim's ultimate goal. Vamp considers the first step towards achieving it to be eliminating Sunred.

* [[Talking to Himself]] -- In the anime. Sunred, Kayoko, Vamp and Hengel are the only ones who have unique voice actors, with the remaining Florsheim monsters and background characters sharing a handful of voice actors. This trope naturally ensues.

* [[Those Two Guys]] -- Vamp's "Combat Goons", #1 and #2, Florsheim's only [[Mooks]]. Also Khamenman and Medallion, two Florsheim monsters almost never seen apart, and Godom and Sodorrah.

* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]] -- Weather Yellow, even by the standards of his fellow Sentai colleagues. He's a lot nicer when he's ''not'' fighting, but Red usually doesn't bring foreign objects or stun guns to fights. Nowadays, anyway.

* [[Tsundere]] -- Sunred, towards his girlfriend Kayoko. And somewhat against Florsheim too, given that he's rude and abrasive against them on one hand and on the other shows up to help clean an unwanted monster out of their attic.

** When she hears about a Florsheim shark monster saving a kid from drowning, Kayoko explicitly compares it to "that 'tsundere' thing".

* [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]] -- Florsheim's members are the viewpoint characters for the most part.

* [[Villains Out Shopping]] -- Whether Florsheim is evil or not, a lot of time is spent on them doing the most mundane of activities. One episode details a frog monster who, the narration says, can kill an elephant with the venom he shoots. All of his screentime is spent cruising ramen restaurants and writing on his blog.

** This eventually turns into a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when he brings Vamp and the Mooks to one of his favorite ramen restaurants and after the others say that they don't like how the ramen tastes, one of the Mooks points out that this restaurant was given high points by the blogger and that {{spoiler|everyone on the Internet thinks he has horrible taste in ramen}}.

* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]] -- Kayoko towards Sunred. She's the household's breadwinner, owns their apartment, and is in no way afraid of Sunred or outright criticising him.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]? -- General Hengel, a leader of a branch of Florsheim, takes even the most mundane tasks on with an incredible seriousness.