Canaan: Difference between revisions

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* [[A Cup Angst]]: Yunyun, who stuffs rolls and meatbuns (and in the final episode ''watermelons'') down her shirt to make herself look bigger.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Alphard Alshaya and Minoru Minorikawa.

* [[All Part of the Show]]: In the first episode, multiple people are shot and killed (or die horribly from the Ua Virus), and everyone thinks it's just part of the festival. Maria's partner Mino, however, attests that it's [[Somebody ~~Elses~~ Problem|something else]].

* [[All Part of the Show]]: In the first episode, multiple people are shot and killed (or die horribly from the Ua Virus), and everyone thinks it's just part of the festival. Maria's partner Mino, however, attests that it's [[Somebody Else's Problem|something else]].

* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Hakko}} does this after Liang Qi tricks her into using {{spoiler|her voice on Santana.}} He was already dying and requested that the last words he heard are "I love you."

** {{spoiler|Cummings to Liang Qi}} seconds before he shoots her. Mind you, she was dying anyway.

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* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Alphard's favorite accessory

* [[Badass Normal]]: Some characters take awesome risks. Mino {{spoiler|first tries to run into the virus infected area... not even eight SWAT men can force him to move, he also risks being killed in a precision airstrike trying to save Maria and delivers a [[Cooldown Hug]] to Hakko even whilst she's shooting at him}}. Cummings {{spoiler|twice risks getting shot for real by Liang and Alphard herself}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Bait and Switch Lesbians]] / [[Romantic Two Girl Friendship]]: After all the heightened emotions, almost-declarations of love and subtext between them, Canaan and Maria choose to separate because their lifestyles are too different--and they don't even once contact each other again.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Bait and Switch Lesbians]] / [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: After all the heightened emotions, almost-declarations of love and subtext between them, Canaan and Maria choose to separate because their lifestyles are too different--and they don't even once contact each other again.}}

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Alphard and Yunyun are fond of this.

* [[Bathing Beauty]]: Liang Qi is the craziest one ever.

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* [[The Cutie]]: Maria, oh so very much.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Alphard, Liang Qi

* [[Dark Skinned Blond]]: Canaan is a mild version, closer to a [[White Haired Pretty Girl]] than anything. {{spoiler|And it's later revealed that this is not natural, since exposure to the Ua virus causes dark hair to turn white ''if'' one carries the synesthesia gene complex}}

* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: Canaan is a mild version, closer to a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] than anything. {{spoiler|And it's later revealed that this is not natural, since exposure to the Ua virus causes dark hair to turn white ''if'' one carries the synesthesia gene complex}}

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Canaan with Shan in the last two episodes

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Hakko crosses it after accidentally killing Santana when she thought she was delivering a [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] to Liang Qi.}}

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Hakko crosses it after accidentally killing Santana when she thought she was delivering a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Liang Qi.}}

** [[Death By Despair]]: {{spoiler|Hakko, refusing to leave the collapsing building, seems to have decided to just die next to Santana's corpse}}.

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Maria

* [[Dodge the Bullet]]: One of Canaan's powers, which becomes prevalent in the last episode.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]: Liang Qi: "She's going to pull my tongue out; slowly and slowly, she's going to cut my neck open, then reach into the wound and churn my insides!"

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Liang Qi: "She's going to pull my tongue out; slowly and slowly, she's going to cut my neck open, then reach into the wound and churn my insides!"

** When Mino, sitting on a park bench, is thinking of the previous night when he first met Hakko (in her rather revealing [[Catgirl]] costume), a jet from the fountain suddenly shoots into the air. When she appears later on in the same scene and comes to sit down next to him, a whole ''bunch'' of jets go off.

* [[Dragon Lady]]: Liang Qi's choice of dress and sadism gives her elements of this trope, along with [[The Baroness]].

* [[The Driver]]: The [[Ensemble Darkhorse|taxi]] [[Crazy Awesome|driver]].

* [[Eagle Land]]: A mildly done flavour 2, but the United States is given a rather unflattering depiction in Canaan; They have a bombastic bozo for a President, a corrupt crook for a Vice President, are shamlessly neoconservative, and the CIA collude with a terrorist/private security organisation in the development of biological weapons, using Chinese villagers as test subjects.

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Alphard. Besides the obvious example in Liang Qi, she sets the hearts of both the male and female party guests in episode 4 aflutter when she passes by them in her [[Pimped Out Dress|sexy evening gown]].

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Alphard. Besides the obvious example in Liang Qi, she sets the hearts of both the male and female party guests in episode 4 aflutter when she passes by them in her [[Pimped-Out Dress|sexy evening gown]].

* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: Canaan is referred to as "Synesthesia Girl".

* [[Fan Disservice]]: A [[Squick|Squicky]] Twofer from episode 11.

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** Later played straight in a rather [[Squick|f'ed up]] [[Tear Jerker|and tragic]] manner.

* [[Furo Scene]]: Liang Qi has upwards of half a dozen.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself Man]]: Done by Maria of all people {{spoiler|who delivers a punch combo to Yunyun's face when she's being fatalistic regarding her condition.}}

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Done by Maria of all people {{spoiler|who delivers a punch combo to Yunyun's face when she's being fatalistic regarding her condition.}}

* [[Girls With Guns]]

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Canaan's Synesthesia abilities induce this (whether it's literal or for the audience's benefit is not established).

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* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Liang Qi is always attempting to kill Canaan because she believes that Canaan 'changed' her beloved "Nee-sama".

* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Liang Qi's stomach-churningly vicious beating of Maria.

* [[Non Action Guy]]: Minoru

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Minoru

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: {{spoiler|Maria's dad}}, though his "death" was revealed to be but a sly trick by the Snakes to make US bomb their own president.

** {{spoiler|Maria's later exploding train ride}}. Not much explanation is given, although Yunyun appears to have a major hand in it.

** Finally, {{spoiler|Alphard}} survives falling off a train trestle, as seen in the epilogue.

* [[The Obi Wan]]: Syam to Canaan.

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Syam to Canaan.

* [[One Hero Hold the Weaksauce]]: Canaan's power doesn't come with a corresponding weakness unlike the rest of the Borners.

* [[One Scene Wonder]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsIBJhPIvI CHINESE STYLE. '''HIGH TENSION!''']

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsIBJhPIvI CHINESE STYLE. '''HIGH TENSION!''']

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Alphard towards Canaan. She even delivers a speech to that effect to Canaan in episode 9.

* [[Onee Sama]]: Liang Qi refers and relates to Alphard this way.

* [[Onee-Sama]]: Liang Qi refers and relates to Alphard this way.

* [[Orgasmic Combat]]: Holy shit, Liang Qi.

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Yunyun.

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* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Daedala Corporation. But they aren't entirely a PMC considering that {{spoiler|most of its personnel, if not all, are Snake terrorists.}}

* [[Product Placement]]: That red detonator Liang Qi uses in episode 6 looks suspiciously like a red Wiimote Nunchuk; the aforementioned airsoft pistols Liang Qi uses to torment Cummings.

* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Liang Qi is obsessed with her "[[Onee Sama|nee-sama]]". They are not biological sisters, though, as Liang is Chinese, while Alphard is a Middle-Easterner.

* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Liang Qi is obsessed with her "[[Onee-Sama|nee-sama]]". They are not biological sisters, though, as Liang is Chinese, while Alphard is a Middle-Easterner.

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Liang Qi's usual facial expression.

* [[Qipao]]: Liang Qi's favorite attire.

* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Subverted ''hard'' and played straight at the same time in episode 10. {{spoiler|Hakko tries twice to kill Liang Qi with one of these, only to have Liang Qi troll her on both accounts and then deliver her own Reason You Suck Speech right back at Hakko each time. To add insult to injury, Hakko finds to her dismay that she accidentally killed Santana with her second speech, which Liang Qi all too gleefully informs her of during ''her'' second Speech}}.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Subverted ''hard'' and played straight at the same time in episode 10. {{spoiler|Hakko tries twice to kill Liang Qi with one of these, only to have Liang Qi troll her on both accounts and then deliver her own Reason You Suck Speech right back at Hakko each time. To add insult to injury, Hakko finds to her dismay that she accidentally killed Santana with her second speech, which Liang Qi all too gleefully informs her of during ''her'' second Speech}}.

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: Canaan

* [[Red String of Fate]]: Used to play "Cat's Cradle".

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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Alphard's humming in the first episode.

** China Kibun de High Tension plays during a life-or-death chase scene, in which the taxi Maria is in is being pursued by an insane old man with an Uzi.

* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: Canaan and Alphard's mentor, Siam/Syam/Cham, suffers from this. Judging by the envelope Alphard carries, Siam seems to be the correct spelling.

* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Canaan and Alphard's mentor, Siam/Syam/Cham, suffers from this. Judging by the envelope Alphard carries, Siam seems to be the correct spelling.

* [[Stereotypes of Chinese People]]: Well, it does take place in Shanghai.

* [[The Stoic]]: Alphard and Syam

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** The Delta Force commandos in the 11th Episode. Averted in the North American release as the lines were removed.

* [[Take My Hand]]: This is how Canaan and Alphard's ultimate duel ends, but Alphard ''really'' doesn't want to be rescued by her... {{spoiler|She survives, nonetheless.}}

* [[Twelve Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]

* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Liang Qi's assistant Cummings eventually starts ''enjoying'' her constant abuse.

** Liang Qi herself would appear to be getting very excited when Alphard is beating her down in episode 11.

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* [[Where It All Began]]: The train (possibly the same train, but at least the same make) was both the setting for the beginning of Canaan and Alphard's feud ({{spoiler|when Alphard killed Syam}}) and their climactic duel.

** The airport that {{spoiler|Alphard}} is sitting in during the epilogue would seem to be the same one from the last scene in 428.

* [[White Haired Pretty Girl]]: Canaan, leaning towards the "death symbolism" subtype. Subverted: At first, there's nothing to suggest she's not an ordinary, naturally white-haired anime girl. Then we find out that {{spoiler|it turned white as a side effect of her exposure to the Ua virus}}.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Canaan, leaning towards the "death symbolism" subtype. Subverted: At first, there's nothing to suggest she's not an ordinary, naturally white-haired anime girl. Then we find out that {{spoiler|it turned white as a side effect of her exposure to the Ua virus}}.

** Horrifyingly subverted when {{spoiler|Liang Qi tries to give herself synesthesia}}. Her hair turns white... {{spoiler|but then she turns anything but pretty herself, and suffers a truly horrible death.}}

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs]]: Yunyun, lampshaded by Minoru and Maria, and then explained in episode 5 {{spoiler|as she is spying on them as per Liang Qi's orders.}} Could also be a reference to the potential after effects of China's economic growth spurt as Yunyun mentions that many in the slums take up several part-time jobs to make ends meet.

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Yunyun, lampshaded by Minoru and Maria, and then explained in episode 5 {{spoiler|as she is spying on them as per Liang Qi's orders.}} Could also be a reference to the potential after effects of China's economic growth spurt as Yunyun mentions that many in the slums take up several part-time jobs to make ends meet.

* [[Yandere|Yan-Fucking-Dere:]] Liang-Qi.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Alphard with regard to Liang Qi. Liang Qi with regard to Yunyun.}}