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* [[100% Completion]]: Beating the game with a character and unlocking all eight of each character's intro animations unlocks the encyclopedias for that character. Getting this for each and every character, including Ihadurca herself, and you get an audio drama where [[Painting the Fourth Wall|all the characters fight over who's the real main character]].
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Every character is a homage to an anime genre or character archetype.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The game includes an encyclopedia in the main menu, and it explains '''everything'''. Want to know what kind of a throw a character uses, and what style it's from? It's in there. Want to know what the name, range, and accuracy of Danzaiver!'s satellite beam cannon? It's in there. Want to know about a piece of a character's costume, that isn't visible on the model, but provides an in-game function? That's in there too! With BACKSTORY FOR IT!
* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Played both straight and averted at the same time. Really, no one wearing armor is any more protected than anyone else, however, those wearing armor can only keep up with the rest because of their armor. Thankfully, it's [[Power Armor]], but still...
* [[Asskicking Pose]]: Delivered before every single one of his battles by, you guessed it; Danzaiver!.
* [[Badass]]: It'd be easier to list the parts in the game that DON'T include heaping helpings of this.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Aside from their [[Power Armor]], Danzaiver! and Gally really are just normal humans, unlike the rest of the cast, who sport supernatural powers.
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** Danzaiver! pulls this off with his ultra-attack, by adding an extra battery to the Danzaiblade, doubling the handle length and the sword's blade.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: From the poorly-synced speech lines to the literalist translation, much [[Narm]] abounds, ranging from Danzaiver! telling Ruri to [[Innocent Innuendo|"withdraw, quickly!"]] to [[Culture Clash|Kakurine thinking Alty is her big brother]].
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Gally, Midori and Danzaiver!.
** See [[In the Name of the Moon]] for an example of Danzaiver!'s usual fare.
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Ihadurca plays this straight by being the most powerful character in the game. Slightly subverted with Erel who's pretty balanced.
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* [[Combo Breaker]]: Hitting your opponent with anything will disrupt them from attacking and cancel whatever special attack they may have been using. Keep up the hits and you can juggle an opponent with temporary stuns long enough to hit them with a death attack.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Ihadurca's [[Yin-Yang Bomb|Bendis-Meltis]]. Prime candidate for [[That One Attack]], it can break any attack you throw at her, including attacks that would normally break any other enemy attack, and hit you if you're on the other side of it. It actually carries over to the playable Ihadurca as well.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Midori, Setsuna, Erel.
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: Grapple attacks usually involve getting your opponent utterly at your mercy long enough to deliver a super powerful attack. Also, many characters have a cutscene attack for one of their three basic special moves.
* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Midori, naturally.
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* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Yes, yes they did. Ihadurca is apparently a fragment of a goddess, nevertheless, she's still dangerous enough to threaten whole dimensions. Certain items and even one of the characters are also connected to the original goddess. It's [[All There in the Manual]] after all.
* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: Poor, poor Gally...
* [[Doomed by Canon]]: {{spoiler|Kakurine only truly dies in her own ending
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Linedwell gets killed by Shahal, only for somebody else to pick it up and start the whole thing over again
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Al. His third unlockable outfit runs with this by putting him in what is essentially a schoolgirl uniform.
** Ihadurca, who appears as female in the I-Praseru universe, but is more androgynous in a general sense.
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* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Linedwell, Erel, Al and Danzaiver! are pretty easy to damage and fairly quick on their feet.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Midori and Erel.
* [[Henshin Hero]]: Sho
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: In Danzaiver!'s route, Midori knocks him away from Kakurine's sneak-attack, nearly biting it in the process. She gets better.
* [[Homage]]: Danzaiver!, pretty much as a clear homage to the [[Metal Heroes]]' [[Space Sheriff Gavan|first]] [[Space Sheriff Sharivan|three]] [[Space Sheriff Shaider|shows]].
* [[Hong Kong Dub]]: Try playing as Keiya. Every other match, watch his mouth move for the several seconds between finishing his pre-battle speech and his [[Asskicking Pose]] as the camera dramatically sweeps and zooms. The game in general is pretty lax about [[Mouth Flaps]]; Keiya's just the most regular offender.
** This pretty much happens to everybody ''but'' Danzaiver! (who is the only character without a moving mouth sprite), while Danzaiver! himself continues swinging his arms around emphatically long after he's stopped speaking.
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** Midori too. Heck, in Danzaiver!'s storyline his fight with her is titled 'Attacking the challenger, Fiery fist! -Entry of a hot-blooded fighter, Midori-'
*** The weird thing is, when Danzaiver! and Midori face off, the [[Hot-Blooded]]-ness is toned down quite a bit.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: A number of characters have named weapons and armor, like Danzaiver!'s Danzaiblade, Setsuna's Klau Solas, Kakurine's Void, and Ihadurca's Vanalgando, to name a few.
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Linedwell to Erel in his storyline. Heavily implied that he rapes her after their fight. Erel's boyfriend Al is rightfully [[This Is Unforgivable!|pissed off]] due to the events that happened earlier. Sadly, it doesn't work out too well for Al in the end.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Nobody impales people like Lindwell.
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** What probably happened to {{spoiler|Linedwell}} in {{spoiler|Kakurine}}'s story mode.
* [[Kill Sat]]: Danzaiver! when he calls for some long range support fire from Seingreed. It's one of the coolest looking moves in the game.
** Gets pretty ridiculous when {{spoiler|Danzaiver! fights the remote control Tactical Frame (i.e. himself), controlled by Ruri... who ''also'' controls Seingreed
* [[Lady of War]]: Setsuna.
* [[Large Ham]]: Most characters count. As Paul Eiding put it in a comment on an ''Evil Zone'' [[Retsupurae]]:
{{quote|'''Paul Eiding''': I remember them wanting it to be 'over the top'... and they got it.}}
* [[Laser Blade]]: Danzaiver!. Also, Erel Plowse has a mystical version, and Gally 'Vanish' Gregman has a laser edged BFS.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Gally 'Vanish' Gregman loves this trope, his super invokes this trope.
* [[Magical Girl]]: Setsuna and Kakurine are homages to this, the latter being more of a [[Dark Magical Girl]].
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*** Actually, some of them recover slightly faster than others. It's worth noting that if Midori misses with some of her moves, she's vulnerable for more than a couple of seconds, while characters like Al recover almost instantly.
* [[Mirror Match]]: Everyone has one. Generally around the 2nd or 3rd to last match in their storyline, except for Ihadurca, who has hers right away. Also comes with some rather clever reasons for the match-up.
** Danzaiver: {{spoiler|fighting a remote-controlled spare tactical frame}}.
** Kakurine: {{spoiler|fighting her own self-doubt, quite possibly in her head}}.
** Setsuna: {{spoiler|fights an illusion created by Karin}}.
** Keiya: {{spoiler|fights a clone of himself created by Kakurine}}.
** Gally: {{spoiler|also fights a clone of himself created by Kakurine}}.
** Erel: {{spoiler|fights a copy of herself created by her malfunctioning magical armor; extra points for that armor being created by (wait for it) Kakurine}}.
** Al: {{spoiler|fights his mentor}}.
** Ihadurca: {{spoiler|fights the last line of defense on the Evil Zone, namely a copy of herself}}.
* [[Missile Lock On]]: Gally's [[Macross Missile Massacre|super]] uses this before he fires.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Kakurine. She appears in the guise of a harmless little miko girl, only to annihilate the poor soul. Heck, show her to anybody who doesn't know anything about Evil Zone and you'll most likely get a [[Squee|"D'aww, kawaiiiiii!!!!"]] reaction. Then tell them that she's basically [[That One Boss]] and watch their jaw hit the floor.
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{{quote|Danzaiver!: "Ihadulca!"
Ihadulca: "What? Who's there?"
Danzaiver!: "Ght! This sensation... Gillaclava, is it?"
* [[Older Than They Look]]: The [[All There in the Manual|in-game encyclopedia]] states that Alty is 21, but he has a kid's voice and looks about half as old as his girlfriend Erel. In fact, a number of characters that were younger in the Japanese version are said to be 21 in the English version.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: The reason everybody fights in the tournament is for the right to face Ihadurca themselves for whatever reason. [[Take Your Time|Never mind that she's about to break out of her cage anyway...]]
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* [[Power Armor]]: Danzaiver!'s "Tactical Frame", Gally (more armor than powered), Erel's Nephilm (who has a mystical version).
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Erel can make an exact duplicate of herself, that is completely solid. Think about it.
* [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]]: Midori.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Ihadulca
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Midori for sure.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Ruri and Yuri, the former being hot-blooded, and the latter being calm and collected.
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* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Ihadulca is very clearly this, though the seal isn't as tight as it should be.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Midori has a throw where she grabs an opponent across their front, and slams them back-first into the ground, while yelling [[Dwayne Johnson|'Rock Bottom!']].
* [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]]: Pretty much every special move ever. For instance, getting [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|impaled]] can do anything from medium-grapple damage, to a finishing move, to a finishing move on your ''opponent'', depending on who does it and how. The worst offender by far is the Seingblaze attack from Danzaiver!'s personal satellite. Arguably one of the most epic cases of [[Boom! Headshot!]] in a video game... and they just stand back up again with a little bit of health missing.
* [[SNK Boss]]: Ihadurca, so very much. She has incredibly cheap attacks (see [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]
* [[Some Dexterity Required]]: Unusually subverted for a fighting game. There is only one attack button, one guard button, and the directional pad. The direction you press on the directional pad while attacking determines what kind of attack you'll get, thus eliminating the need to memorize an arcane series of button-presses and ensuring that every character will generally play like every other character. Granted, hitting some of the combos does take a bit of getting used to, but once you figure it out, you can basically play as any character you want without having to learn too much.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: 'Ihadurca', pronounced in-game as 'Ihadulca'. Danzaiver!
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Midori, Ihadurca, Erel. The first two wear skimpy clothing (allowing for butt shots from Midori and [[Absolute Cleavage]] from Ihadurca) and Erel wears a skin-tight suit that if using the right color scheme looks a bit like her skin, so it looks like she's fighting naked.
** Also, Erel's Japanese design has no leggings on her bikini-style suit. Buttshots better than Midori, in fact.
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