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** The numbering of one Buster Machine and mankind's current predicament imply the little known [[Cut Short|manga sequel]] to Gunbuster is canon. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the [[Word of God|creators]]. {{spoiler|The manga featured three new Buster Machines, bringing the number before Nono to 6. They battled an enemy [[Cosmic Horror|more than scary]] enough to drain mankind's resources and/or frighten it into curling up in its solar system.}}
* [[Creepy Twins]] -- The Serpentine Twins.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] -- Nono is happy, friendly and goofy most of the time. When she ''stops'' being happy, friendly and goofy, {{spoiler|property values on [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Titan]] start falling in a hurry. }}
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] -- {{spoiler|Episode 4, when the Variable Gravity Well awakens and mops the floor with the assembled Topless and their Buster Machines}}...and then again when {{spoiler|Nono merely uses it to punctuate her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|speech]]}}
* [[Dark
* [[Distant Finale]] -- Ten years later. There's a moment of realization about halfway through that may be the series's finest moment.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] -- Occurs at the end of Episode 4.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]] -- Everybody who isn't Nono has at least one.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] -- {{spoiler|Nono sacrifices her life to get rid of the black hole created by the climactic battle.}}
* [[Hey
* [[Hourglass Plot]] -- Their attitudes don't shift much, but {{spoiler|Nono goes from minor curiosity allowed to tag along with Fraternity to humanity's one hope for survival as Lal'C goes from being the most elite of the elite to ''a girl with a disease''}}
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] -- Nicola and lal'c.
* [[Humongous Mecha]] -- Puts Gunbuster to ''shame''.
* [[Idiot Hair]] -- Nono has an ''epic'' ahoge. (It only gets more so when she's in {{spoiler|Buster Machine 7 mode}}.)
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* {{spoiler|[[Legendary in The Sequel]]: The mystery behind the term "Nonoriri" is that it is an homage to Noriko from [[Gun Buster]].}}
* [[Look What I Can Do Now]] -- {{spoiler|Nono as Buster Machine No. 7}}.
* [[Lost in Translation]] -- Like [[Spell My Name With an "S"]] below, several jokes and references to the original got lost. This might border on a [[Blind Idiot Translation|bad translation]].
* [[Lost Technology]] -- Warp technology was purposefully suppressed thousands of years before, when humanity stopped trying to explore the galaxy. Then, of course, there's {{spoiler|Nono}}.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]
* [[More Dakka]] -- One of the Topless Buster Machines has that as a basic weapon
* [[Meaningful Name]] -- Nono, which has the same root as her ambition, "Nonoriri." It also sounds a bit like {{spoiler|[[Seven Is Nana|Nana]]}}.
** Also a [[Line
** The Topless struggling with running out of time are named after watches. {{spoiler|''Casio'', Captain ''Hattori Seiko'', Nicola ''Vacheron Constantin'', ''Jaeger [[Le Coultre]]'', and ''Piaget''.}} The luxury brands also point to their higher social status.
* [[Onee
* [[The Power of Friendship]] -- The eventual resolution to the series.
* [[Ramming Always Works]] -- They try to pull this off with {{spoiler|''the planet Earth''}}.
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* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] [[Robot Girl|Girl]] - Nono, who doesn't display a single remotely "robotic" characteristic until the end of Episode 4.
** [[Fridge Logic|On the other hand]] she [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|can breathe in space]] and [[Convection Schmonvection|not suffer burns]] from a rocket blasting off. Then there's the mechanical light in her eyes when she {{spoiler|unknowingly commands the first monster to take her out to space.}}
* [[Romantic Two
* [[Rose
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The backgrounds tend to be scenic, detailed, brightly colored, or some combination of these.
* [[Self
* [[Shout Out]] -- Gainax loves to self reference.
** Dix-Neuf's old war wounds parallel the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Eva-01]]'s major injuries. {{spoiler|Spike through the right eye going out the back of the head from Sachiel, lost left arm complete with grafted replacement from Zeruel. While not an injury Dix-Neuf replaces his Collapsing Generator by tearing it out of another and absorbing it into himself, like an S2 Organ.}}
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*** The first episode features Nono's clothes getting caught on a [[Humongous Mecha]] and dragged into the middle of a giant robot fight due to it. The same thing happens to Naota in FLCL's first episode, but he doesn't get dragged into orbit.
* [[Space Opera]]
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]] -- Oh, lordy. Most of the Topless, and Lal'C is worst of all.
* [[Super Prototype]] -- Each Buster Machine is unique and powerful, but {{spoiler|Buster Machine 7}} stands out as the oldest and most powerful in this series. The previous model [[Cut Short|lost in series mythos]] may have been even stronger.
* [[Super Robot]] -- Buster Machines are now semi-mass-produced, and No. 7's final form is an extreme instance of this trope.
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