Bodacious Space Pirates: Difference between revisions

* [[BFG]]: Ririka's gun range practice with Marika

* [[BFS]]: Warships employed by the Galactic Empire and its vassal-states, the ''Corback''-class destroyers and ''Talbot''-class battleships, tend to resemble gigantic blades with engines stuck on the end. It seems to be an intimidation method

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The climax of Episode 21 has a bunch of these turn up in a row. First {{spoiler|an aircraft looking to kill Marika appears and attacks the racers indiscriminately as they don't know which dingy is hers, she saves everyone by identifying herself while Chiaki leads the racers away. ''Then'' the race organiser appears in a dingy almost identical to Marika's, she gets shot down but the ''Bentenmaru'' drops into the atmosphere and puts the ship between Marika and her would be assassins and pick her up. ''Then'' just as the crew realises they can't manuver well enough to take out the aircraft [[Badass Adorable|Ai]] returns in her dingy to help them use the wind to shoot down the enemy.}}

* [[Boarding Party]]: ''Bentenmaru'' deploys something that looks out of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean (Film)|Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' for their normal jobs on liners. The Ghost Ship arc also shows that the same boarding party is ''quite'' competent at actual boarding operations a naval vessel would undertake.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Misa, the school nurse/medic aboard the ''Bentenmaru''. In episode 8, after arriving at the airport, both Marika and Gruier have a physically exhausted look on their faces. A short flashback then shows that they were screaming the entire drive there due to Misa driving really fast.

* [[The Empire]]: The Galactic Empire, the most powerful faction in the series. Surprisingly, despite being an expansionist force that conquer other star systems, the Empire is rather benevolent to the planets they ruled, allowing them the right to self-rule and have their own defense force in exchange those planets swear allegiance to the Empire and their forces becoming a part of the Empire's forces. {{spoiler|The Empire was the reason the War of Independence ended because their fleets were ten times bigger and overwhelm both the Federation and Alliance fleets.}}

* [[Evolving Credits]]: The ending for episode 9 is different from the previous episodes.

** Episode 14's end credits reflects the modifications Mami makes to Marika's pirate uniform. In addition, the Serenity princesses are also shown walking alongside Marika, Chiaki, and Mami.

*** As if that wasn't enough, Gruier's little sister Grunhilde, who greatly resembles her, starts wearing the exact same haristyle when she later joins the same middle school.

**** This was probably intended as a reference to ''Sailor Moon'''s 20th anniversary.

* [[Food Porn]]: Marika's chocolate parfait. Ririka's cooking also gets some inordinate attention. Episode 9: the melon.

* [[Funny Afro]]: Show, the agent at the insurance company.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Chiaki really objects to Marika or Mami adding [[Japanese Honorifics|-chan]] to her name. It doesn't stop them from doing it constantly.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The series uses the English word "sailing" in place of "episode".

* [[Large Ham]]: Show, the guy at the insurance company. Kenjo Kurihara comes close, and Chiaki lapses into this during Pirate raids.

** Kane does this when he shows back up at school as their coach in episode 20. To the point that Marika wonders why he's speaking in a normal tone at the end when he's simply piloting the Bentenmaru

** {{spoiler|Grunhilde later in episode 13}}

* [[Nice Hat]]: Marika has one when she's wearing her pirate outfit, and Ai Hoshimiya wears one with a hint of cat ears on hers.

** Chiaki does this as well in the beginning of episode 10, in a very [[Large Ham]] type fashion while filling in for Marika.

** Jenny does it in episode 17, but it isn't very convincing.

** That scene makes more sense when you realize that Japanese history contains many pirates, but Japan never had any equivalent of privateers.

* [[Oh Crap]]: The regular crew of the Bentenmaru, confined in a hospital under quarantine, has that look/attitude as they hurriedly scramble to come up with an impromptu manual for the Girls Yacht club for the ship after Marika decides to use them in episode 15 for a pirate raid.

* [[Odango Hair]]: Gruier and Grunhilde after being enrolled in Hakuho Academy

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Marika before she is recruited as a pirate.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Inverted, as Ririka apparently left Gonzaemon herself, probably wishing a quieter life for Marika.

* [[Pirate Girl]]: Marika {{spoiler|and Chiaki.}}

* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Hugh & Dolittle Interstellar Trading Company has its own fleet of naval warships. It's worth noting that presently, Lloyds of London is preparing its own small escort fleet, and the East India Company had its own private navy.

* [[Punch Clock Hero]]: In a literal version of this, Misa refuses to allow Marika or Gruier to stay on the bridge for longer than 8 hours a day due to child labor laws.

** In episode 19, it gets more blatant from Gruier.

{{quote| '''Gruier''': "We are bounded by fate, destined to meet one another in this vast universe."}}

** Marika making a certain shout when she is surprised, best transcribed as "'''!!!'''"

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: {{spoiler|Jenny and Lynn. They actually kiss in episode 17, and cue the girls' cute [[Squee]].}}

** The ''real'' reason is that Marika's friend Jenny {{spoiler|is in deep trouble, needs help, and can't wait.}} You '''don't''' turn your back on your friends.

* [[Shout Out]]:

** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armalite Armalite], the company that designed the M16 and M4, makes the beam gun Marika uses.

** The first passenger liner that Marika pirated was named the "''Princess Apricot''", obviously a reference to "[[Super Mario Bros (Franchise)|Princess Peach]]".

*** "Princess Apricot" is also a character from the Wii game ''[[Little Kings Story (Video Game)|Little Kings Story]]''.

** In the third major arc of the show, we encounter the hospital ship ''Ben Casey'', named after the eponymous main character in a famous '60s medical drama.

** Also, before they were sidelined by the quarantine, ''Bentenmaru'' was supposed to raid the liner ''Queen Esmeralda'', a shout out to an OVA continuing the Harlock Saga.

* [[Space Pirates]]: The main premise of the series.

* [[Space Fighter]]: {{spoiler|Jenny}} grabs one, and later transfers its registration to Marika.

** Justified since Mami never goes into space and Chiaki is most likely doing jobs with the Barbossa.

* [[Squee]]: The Marika's class girls' reaction when [[Ace Pilot|Kane]] [[Biseinen|McDougal]] shows up as a substitute teacher and Chiaki Kurihara as a [[New Transfer Student]].

* [[Unusual User Interface]]: The [[Holographic Terminal|Holographic Terminals]] are par for the course, but some controls are based on a row of mixing desk faders.

* [[Uterine Replicator]]: {{spoiler|This is essentially how the entire Serenity Royal Family is born, from one aboard the Serenity Ghost Ship.}}

* [[Wham Episode]]: Episode 22. {{spoiler|Any semblance of a [[Slice of Life]] show about [[Space Pirate|Space Pirates]] is blown away, along with the ''Big Catch'''s fighters - who, incidentally, give us our first confirmed onscreen deaths.}}

* [[Wham Line]]: Episode 16.

{{quote| '''Lynn:''' {{spoiler|I wish to kidnap the former president of the Hakuoh Academy Yacht Club, Jenny Dolittle.}}}}

* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: Several character designs were [http://i.imgur.com/lbaMF.jpg heavily altered] between the novels and the animated series.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: [http://starchild.fm/post/en/325/Chiaki+Kurihara.html Chiaki] in her school uniform, [http://starchild.fm/post/en/326/Mami+Endo.html Mami] and [http://starchild.fm/post/en/324/Marika+Kato.html Marika] in their maid outfits.