Astro Fighter Sunred: Difference between revisions

* [[Amusing Injuries]] -- In the anime, Sunred's beatdowns usually result in this.

* [[Antagonist in Mourning]] -- Vamp goes through this on a more personal level. Sunred's not dead, he's just angry at them, ridding Vamp of the dynamic he's used to. Which is, oddly, him being angry and lecturing them.

* [[Audience Shift]] -- The manga is explicitly [[Seinen]]. The anime was made [[Lighter and Softer]] and ended up completely kid-friendly (without really losing much of the subversive humour of the original), and ran on the Japanese KIDS channel in an evening timeslot.

* [[Bad Bad Acting]] -- Florsheim's attempt at a 'hostage' taking, complete with delivering their demands to Sunred via video tape. "Mister X" (Vamp with a paper bag on his head) reads his lines incredibly flat, and the "hostage" (who is seen happily playing video games) has to be prompted to utter a very unconvincing "help, save me.".

* [[Dirty Old Man]] -- Hengel is a proud pervert.

* [[Do-Anything Robot]] -- Is there anything P-chan can't do?

* [[Emergency Impersonation]] -- Sunred once receives the suit of Sakyun, a fellow toku hero, back from the laundromat. So he decides to put it on and impersonate his friend. Sunred-as-Sakyun then goes off to fight Florsheim for the hell of it. Curiously, this is the closest Sunred ever gets to acting like an actual toku hero, and he's not even in his own outfit.

* [[Evil Old Folks]] -- Vamp. [[Harmless Villain|For a certain level of 'evil']].

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

* [[Friendly Enemy]] -- Vamp and Sunred are on very good terms with each other.

* [[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).

* [[Harmless Villain]] -- The entirety of Florsheim, with Vamp as the crowning example. Considering that Vamp has said they're lucky to have such an honest archenemy like Sunred, the odds of him actually being truly mean are very, very low.

** 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'.

* [[Hook Hand]]: General Hengel has a variation, his left hand being a huge pair of scissors. The difficulty in performing a lot of everyday tasks is highlighted a couple times.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Mundane Fantastic]] -- Nobody sees the presence of evil organizations, monsters or masked heroes of justice as being too out of the ordinary.

* [[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.

* [[Real Place Background]] -- While the art style the show uses isn't normally associated with this trope, everything in the opening, and almost everything in the show itself, is a real location in the Mizonokuchi area where the show takes place. The ED of episode 34, in fact, is "lip synched" by various real life people from the Takatsu, Kawasaki, Ward Office and other Kawasaki locations.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]] -- Twice, for a [[Special Edition Title]], a real song has been used. The first season had a polyphonic ringtone version of the incredibly popular (at the time) song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nn6nWIhENM "Shuchishin"], by the [[Mr. Fanservice|idol group of the same name]], when Vamp had it as his ringtone. The second season used the Kawasaki city anthem [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7tqUm8q7s "Suki desu, Kawasaki, Ai no Machi"] in an episode where the song was annoying one of Florsheim's monsters.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] -- All of the Animal Soldiers

* [[Sanity Ball]] -- Sunred and Kayoko compete about it. Sunred is the straight man in sketches involving himself and Florsheim, while Kayoko is the straight man in sketches involving herself and Sunred (whether or not Vamp and Florsheim are involved).

* [[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.