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Either way, things will get [[Mind Screw|weird.]]
Pandy (a woman with a red ring around her right eye) and Retro (a man with a TV for a head) awaken on Earth with no clothes on and no memory of their pasts. After a brief crime spree through the streets of Tokyo, the duo end up incarcerated in the titular lunar prison facility. After they discover Dead Leaves serves a dual purpose -- as a top-secret cloning facility -- and all of the prisoners are "cloned genetic garbage", the imprisoned lovebirds orchestrate a mass prison break.
Did we mention the sex scene, the prisoner with [[This Is a Drill|a drill]] for a [[Gag Penis|penis,]] the insane warden, and the strange children's story?
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* [[Animesque]]: ''Dead Leaves'' inverts this trope; the design aesthetic seems inspired by American underground comics.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Guards and inmates alike end up slaughtered by various means -- and they don't come back. At the end of the OVA, the amount of survivors from the prison break Pandy and Retro orchestrate numbers in the ''low single digits''.
* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: Pandy and Retro name each other in this way upon waking up.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Pandy and Retro both receive life sentences for "tresspassing, theft, violence, assault, illegal possession of firearms, and having a really crappy attitude."
* [[Author Appeal]]: The character designer (and director) also worked on ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''; take a look at Chinko Drill's... "equipment."
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** He later uses his drill as a weapon to attack 777 as an actual Groin Attack.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Used as mere cannon fodder during the initial car chase.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Triple 6 and Triple 7.
{{quote|'''666''': "I wouldn't use those crappy bullets to ''scratch my ass!''"}}
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: Actually a children's story, but close enough.
* [[Large Ham]]: Retro, oh so much in the dub, especially when he fights.
{{quote|'''Retro''': "DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE VIOLENT!"
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* [[Pregnant Badass]]: Pandy, through most of the movie.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: A twofer: not only are the English voices of Pandy and Retro married in real life, but [[Amanda Winn-Lee|Pandy's voice actress]] became pregnant with their first child while working on the movie.
* [[Redshirt Army]]: Pretty much the prison's entire population, guards and inmates alike.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The original script plays out as an action movie with small pockets of comedy here and there. The dub of the OVA, however, borders on [[Gag Dub]] -- while keeping the original script as intact as possible.
* [[Right Through His Pants]]: Pandy and Retro have sex while wearing the prison's standard outfit (best described as an overgrown straitjacket).
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* [[Rule of Cool]]
* [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]: Triple-Six turns his arms into [[Blade Below the Shoulder|swords]], while Triple-Seven's body turns into guns.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Arguably, the Drill Penis is a nod to [[Tetsuo:
** Dub-only example: "[[Back to The Future|Let's make like a tree and get the hell out of here!]]"
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' arguably serves as one to ''Dead Leaves''.
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