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* [[Emperor Scientist]]: Hosuke pretty blatantly desired to become one, believing that the strength of his intellect - and his robot - meant he deserved the position. {{spoiler|Hoichi ends up dicking him over on this on ''multiple'' spectacular levels in the final act.}}
* [[Everything Is an iPod In The Future]]: Most of the robots and other gadgets are based on modern technological aesthetics. It's particularly interesting in that aside from the unusual shapes of some of their robots and the obvious flying saucers, most of the Riofaldians' technology doesn't look particularly "alien" at all.
* [[Fan Service]]: Right up there with ''[[Agent Aika (Anime)|Agent Aika]]'' and ''[[Godannar]]''!
* [[Freud Was Right]]: [http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-5&page_nr=11 Ummm...]
** Which get a ''lot'' funnier later.
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* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Hoichi takes some time to learn how to use his power suit and his robot properly. The former is [[Crowning Moment of Funny|comedic]]. The latter is [[Squick|terrifying]], ''even for him''.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: [http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-6&page_nr=14 Boy is it ever.] It was up there as a possibly for "biggest in the ''medium'' for a while until ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' managed to snag ''that'' perch...
** Well... [[Gun BusterGunbuster|Gunbuster's]] still slightly bigger(250m to Exaxxion's 200). And by the time this manga came out, [[Getter Robo|Getter Emperor]] was already around.
* [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]: Hoichi thinks the human race should develop its own technology, so he's a bit disappointed when he finds out all Hosuke did was reverse engineer the Riofaldians' tech.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Hugely averted, as Hoichi discovers when he tries to save a young girl in chapter 11, only to find out it was only the upper half of the girl. Then he quickly discovers that the caravan nearby was full of dead children and women.
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* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Hilariously, Isaka does this to ''Akane'' by accident in the first chapter. Given what happens in the scene on the whole, it's hard to tell if her [[Luminescent Blush]] is from [[Les Yay|embarrassment]] or ''[[Unlucky Childhood Friend|anger]]''.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The "Ho" in Hoichi uses the Kanji for gun or cannon, and Akane sometimes refers to him by the pet name "Ho" (or "Gun" in the Dark Horse English version).
* [[Mecha -Mooks]]: The Riofaldians use plenty of robot goons, though there are plenty of ordinary flesh and blood ones, too.
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: The 'Hero Project' is a PR plan designed to gain support for Hoichi by having one of Isaka's copies take his form and heal people, including Riofaldian troops. The fact that his healing seems almost magical (it's actually super-advanced nanomachines) only increases the effect.
* [[Monumental Damage]]: Poor, poor Mount Fuji...
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*** And it has an ultra-rare ''justification'' for [[Humongous Mecha]]; how else are you going to field giant gravity and inertia manipulating systems with multi-petajoule power requirements? Having them walk around rather than fly saves energy and permits precision usage of otherwise-nuclear kinetic force. Exaxxion is able to ''punch through an enemy robot's chest and rip out its fusion reactor.'' It's stated that the impact was the equivalent of a multi-megaton bomb, focused into an area the width of a car.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: the pilot tries a [[We Can Rule Together]]-[http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-30&page_nr=27 type] [http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-30&page_nr=28 speech]. [http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-30&page_nr=29 This happens].
* [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: {{spoiler|Hoichi, who somehow manages to fuck up ''everybody's plans'' at every turn through a combination of [[Bigger Stick|superior firepower]], [[Hot-Blooded]]-ness, and at least ''trying'' to be an actual hero.}}
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: The aliens. Are they supposed to be Riofaldians, or Leopoldians? The former is what the Dark Horse version went for, but the latter is preferred by some fans due to [[wikipedia:Leopold II of Belgium|the possible reference to King Leopold of Belgium]], the infamous conqueror, colonizer and exploiter of the Congo, [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|which seems rather apropos to our villains]].
* [[Squick]]: Early in the manga, a Terminal Drone saves Kin'ba from an assault from another teacher... {{spoiler|by cleaving that teacher in two through the waist. Right in front of her. Needless to say, she does not take it ''particularly'' well.}} Poor Hoichi finding the entire situation squicky as hell is also part of the ''[[Deconstruction|point]]''.
* [[The Starscream]]: Shes'ka eventually {{spoiler|wants to capture Exaxxion so he can go home and stage a coup. His cronies in the occupational government feel the same, but as it turns out, they don't particularily care whether Shes'ka's the one leading it or not}}.
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* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Akane. Her and Hoichi's first night together somehow manages to be funny, squicky and heartwarming all at once.}}
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Hoichi ends up thinking of himself as this for a while, and a large part of the story is dedicated to whether or not people see him as this or [[The Hero]], straight up.
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save Thethe World]]: Averted so hard as to be ''profound''. From the instant he dons the Gunner Glove, Hoichi is doomed to a life that varies between furtive hiding and absurd violence. The Riofaldians would kill him in seconds if he tried to live a normal life (and nearly ''do'', at one point). {{spoiler|The one and only time he can return to school for any length of time is under deep, deep cover in volume 5.}}
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in Thethe Future]]: Definitely averted. Hosuke and the Riofaldians are constantly cooking up new phoney videos to make each other look bad. Not that there's a shortage of real ones that do it, too. If the story were told from the perspective of a civilian on the sidelines it would get [[Mind Screw]]-ingly difficult to tell what was real or not very quickly.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: The Riofaldian government do not give the ''slightest damn'' about their own people, even ones who were just fighting against Hoichi. If they can kill millions of their own people to stop Exaxxion, they'll do it without a second thought.
* [[What the Hell, Townspeople?|What The Hell Students]]: Murata calls out his fellow students for throwing rocks at Miss Kin'ba when they're being held captive by the Riofaldians, pointing out that they treat ''their own people'' the same way they treat humans and they'd wouldn't think twice of killing her along with them.
** To be fair, Murata is actually in love with Miss Kin'ba {{spoiler|he actually marries her in the end}} so hes far from unbiased, let alone realistic to fact that the situation hes was in would have gotten him executed were it not for Hoichi rescuing everyone.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: The name Exaxxion is a [[Super Robot]]-y name Hosuke made up from the XXX markings on its chassis. This is apparently the Riofaldian symbol for antimatter. The last letter of their alphabet just happens to look like an X and has similar connotations to the greek letter Omega.
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