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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Yunyun. It is even [[Lampshaded]] by Maria and Mino from episodes 2-5 as they wonder who the hell she is.
* [[Child Soldier]]: Canaan's background. Alphard's, too. {{spoiler|Trained by the same man, no less.}}
* [[Close
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Maria. As Yunyun put it: "I've just found the Eighth Wonder of the World."
** Yunyun herself isn't far behind Maria ...
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* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: [[Playing With a Trope|A zig-zaggy, blurry, sort-of-inverted example]]. In the final episode, {{spoiler|Alphard shoots her own arm off, but it's not really to save her life, it's to get rid of what's left of Siam. She does survive, though.}}
* [[Les Yay]]: Canaan and Maria. They flirt a lot, indeed. At one point, Maria even {{spoiler|delivers lines that can easily be interpreted as a confession of love.}}
* [[Location Theme Naming]]: [
** Syam may refer the region now known as Syria.
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: {{spoiler|In some cases exposure to the Ua virus results in dark hair turning white. This is known to have happened to Canaan, Liang Qi and at least one other girl who was an attempt to make a second Canaan.}}
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* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: {{spoiler|Poor Hakko just can't let go of Santana after he dies}}.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Liang Qi is always attempting to kill Canaan because she believes that Canaan 'changed' her beloved "Nee-sama".
* [[No
* [[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.
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** Finally, {{spoiler|Alphard}} survives falling off a train trestle, as seen in the epilogue.
* [[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!''']
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Alphard towards Canaan. She even delivers a speech to that effect to Canaan in episode 9.
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* [[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}}.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Canaan
* [[Red String of Fate]]: Used to play "Cat's Cradle".
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Maria attempts to replay her first meeting with Canaan by getting in trouble.
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* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Canaan's shirt.
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]]: Only demonstrated in episode one, Liang Qi is the '''BEST SECRETARY EVER!''' [[Ax Crazy|All]] [[Yandere|other]] [[Complete Monster|things]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|considered.]]
* [[Shout
* [[Shower Scene]]: Alphard gets a vaguely plot-important scene where we first see that she has the same tattoo as Canaan.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: other then the of glaring errors with the stealth bomber the creators clearly spent some time researching everything from US military uniforms through Chinese railroads to the local cuisine of Xinjiang province.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Cummings has to kill Liang Qi after her attempt to give herself Synesthesia...really, really doesn't end well.}}
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Canaan.
* [[Single
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Liang Qi, again.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Alphard's humming in the first episode.
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** Liang Qi herself would appear to be getting very excited when Alphard is beating her down in episode 11.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Canaan and those sugar candy stick things she's often shown munching on.
* [[Triang Relations]]: Alphard, Liang Qi and Cummings are in a Type 5, since Cummings loves Liang Qi, who [[Single
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Liang Qi.
* [[The Virus]]: Obviously.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Maria Osawa, bearing a too-close-for-comfort name of [
* [[Vaporware]]: The announced three theatrical releases have yet to appear.
* [[War for Fun And Profit]]: Alphard helps all countries go to war with each other and takes money from everybody; and she also helps countries go to peace (since peace also results in rearmamenting and sales opportunities).
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Yunyun is a Borner mutant... with two appendices.
* [[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.
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