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* [[A Day in The Limelight]]: Almost the whole series due to the large main cast. The episodes are chronical but can stand on their own; there is an overarching plot, but it only gets visible around the second half of the series starts.

* [[All in The Manual]]: It exists as an official manga. Apart from data about the main characters, it had story chapters that fleshed out the characters of the Scotland Yard Brave Police who didn't have more than one or two short cameos in the show. {{spoiler|The manga also revealed that Kagero was alive, addressed in its own story.}} Unfortunately the manga is quite rare and wasn't [[No Export for You|sold outside of Japan.]]

* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|Episode 40. Twice!}}

* [[BFG]]: Gunmax in his Max Cannon mode.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: The whole Brave Police team towards Yuuta.

* [[Call Back]]: {{spoiler|Due to his sentience, Deckerd is the only one not affected by the Gaizonite's [[Technopath]] powers when it appears for the first time. Later, after being upgraded, it brainwashes him.}}

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Uncommon in this show (everyone uses a standardized revolver, maybe a personal weapon or two), and even then it's mostly the combined forms that do it.

** Shadowmaru explains Yuuta in the same episode that although they are sentient and can feel, their purpose is to protect humans even at the costs of their own lives.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Neuva Fahrzeug killed Victim O'Rand, put a copy of his brain into a Super-A.I chip, then put the chip into an android disguised as human. He made Victim forget he had shot him and programmed him to do after his bidding unwittingly.}}

* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Mechs controlled by Gaizonite get their optics turned red (although it isn't technically mind control initially, as in its first appearance it can only control electric systems and by extension basic A.I.s).

* [[Monster of the Week]]

* [[Police Are Useless]]: The Brave Police exist because the Metropolitan Police Department got tired of being this trope - and over-corrected for it by a long shot - but the regular, human cops are more than capable of handling 'normal' crimes.

* [[Punny Name]]: Each of the robots of the main cast has one, intentional.

** The designers of the Brave Police didn't intend sentient robots, and didn't even think it was possible they could gain sentience. This makes Deckerd one of the few examples who is this trope by accident regarding the "Ridiculously Human Personality" part of the equation.

** Justified on two levels. 1) The Project 'Brave Police' was supposed to introduce advanced robots working with human police officers and interacting with the normal populace. It makes sense to design them humanoid to enhance general acceptance. 2) Deckerd's original A.I. enabled him to understand human speech, interact on a basic level with people and work in crime investigations. Adding his humanoid body and human face and the interactions with Yuuta, it's clear why his emotions are human or very human-like at the least.

* [[Running Gag]]: Saejima's imagine spots, combined with his internal [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]. Or when he dresses in one of his silly costumes, like the pink overall.

* [[Secret Government Warehouse]]: Deckerd was built in one. Yuuta found it by accident when he fell down a hidden vent and landed in the underground laboratory. The warehouse or rather the basement is an important setting in several episodes after the debut.

** Episode 2's villain, Noriyasu Kato, is based on Yasunori Kato, the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''Teito Monogatari.''

** {{spoiler|The [[The Pied Piper of Hamelin|Hameln Project]]; the mind-control signal that affects Super-A.I.s is sent out the fortress' figurehead's mouth, evoking the image of a siren.}}