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Unbeknownst even to herself, Kaname possesses special knowledge that numerous organizations would like dearly to control for their own means. As such, Sōsuke is assigned to infiltrate her high school in order to protect her while pretending to be an ordinary student, and without her knowing that she's in danger. Sōsuke, unfortunately, has no social experience outside his military life, having been literally raised as a soldier, and thus has no idea how to properly act in civilian life.

''Full Metal Panic!'' originally debuted as a series of [[Light Novels]] in Japan, books with interspersed illustrations. The series proved so popular that it was adapted first as a serialized manga in ''Newtype'' magazine, and later as an anime by Gonzo Animation. Two more series, ''Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu'', and ''Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid'' were made by Kyoto Animation. While the original and ''Second Raid'' are both more serious action stories, ''Fumoffu'' is much [[Lighter and Softer]], in that it focuses on Sōsuke's misadventures in school.

 

 

 

'''The principal cast includes:'''

* Kaname, a [[Tsundere]] whose status as one of the mysterious Whispered is the driving force of the original plot.

* Tessa, young captain of Mithril's aquatic base of operations, the ''Tuatha De Danaan'', and the other corner of the [[Love Triangle]] with Kaname and Sōsuke.

* Kurz Weber, [[Handsome Lech]] and [[Friendly Sniper|crack shot with a sniper rifle]].

* Andrei Kalinin, tactical officer for the TDD and the closest thing Sōsuke has to a [[Cool Old Guy|father figure]].

Intelligent and with a definite look at putting [[Real Robot|realism]] into [[Humongous Mecha]], ''FMP!'' nonetheless is also charming, funny, and at times, touching. Certainly worth a look by most anime fans.

 

 

Feel free to check out and contribute to the [[Full Metal Panic!/Characters|Character Sheet]].

** {{spoiler|And is actually a plot point. According to both Leonard and Tessa, the experiment at Yamsk-11 made it possible for information to travel back in time and into the "whispered", which ended up history from that point forward.}}

* [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]]: The Lambda Driver, though most characters who have it are awesome enough without having to use it.

* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: Kaname.

* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Gauron's "I LOVE YOU KASHIM!" Sōsuke was NOT amused.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: Gauron pulls one off at the end of the first season. {{spoiler|He attacks a chemical weapons dump, knowing Mithril will come to stop him; when they do, he surrenders, claiming his AS overheated. He and his AS are taken into custody on board the Tuatha de Danaan - which turns out to have been his objective all along so that he can take over the ship, although he's foiled in this by the main cast (and also fails to [[Taking You with Me|die taking Sousuke with him by self-destructing his mech]], which was his backup objective).}}

* [[Beach Episode]]

* [[Become a Real Boy]]: This happens to Al, Sousuke's support AI. Through out the series, Al develops human-like traits like making jokes, using sarcasm, annoying Sousuke by playing BGM during battles, and making decisions based on "gut feeling" rather than calculations. This cumulates in the penultimate chapter of the series right before Merida Island was hit by a nuclear strike, Al asks Sousuke "I want to try something, but first I want to ask. Am I human, or machine?" and Sousuke responds with "...decide it for yourself. People... do that." This in turn saves both Sousuke and Al by allowing Al to activate the lambda driver on his own without a human catalyst.

* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: Tessa likes to sneak into Sousuke's bed during Fumoffu, to the point where Mao handcuffs her to prevent it.

** [[Hilarity Ensues]] when the two meet in ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', which results in Sōsuke taking Heero on as a [[Sempai-Kohai|Sempai]] in order to try and become less awkward in non-combat situations.

** [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Admiral Jerry Borda]], according to [[Word of God]], is an expy of former US Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jerome Boorda.

* [[Extended Disarming]] - See [[Hammerspace]] below.

* [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]: {{spoiler|The end of the Rising Wind in the Homeland arc.}}

* [[For Massive Damage]]: The Behemoth's lambda driver is located in its ass, and when sousuke destroys it the [[Square-Cube Law|machine tore itself apart under its own weight]]

** It was not the lambda driver in the mecha's ass, but the cooling system. Lambda driver is actually who-knows-where and looks like internals of a washing machine.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Tessa

* [[Genre Savvy]] / [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Kaname, ''especially'' in the books, watches entirely too many action movies for her own good. Sometimes it's beneficial, usually it's not ("Please! I know captains are tough old bastards like Sean Connery. [[Bridge Bunny|You're one of those people who read telegrams or something]].")

* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: In "Fumoffu," complete with the antics of Kurz Weber, {{spoiler|where he desperately attempts to peep within the girl's bathhouses.}} Although his plans are foiled each time by Sōsuke.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Gauron towards Sōsuke. Overlaps with [[Foe Yay]].

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: With hair! (The hair's used for cooling)

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Sōsuke's -- mostly in ''Fumoffu'', but it pops up briefly in ''The Second Raid'' as well.

** Also the OVA episode, "A Relatively Leisurely Day in the Life of a Fleet Captain", taking place shortly after the events of ''The Second Raid''

* [[Likes Older Women]]

* [[Longing Look]]

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Sousuke ''specifically'' tries not to get too attached to anyone. Unfortunately, being a [[Magnetic Hero]], people just keep flocking to him. Gauron later tells Sousuke the opposite of this trope - that being a loner is actually a ''good'' thing, and being surrounded by friends weakens him. Of course, he might also have other [[Green-Eyed Monster|more shallow reasons]] for telling him that...

* [[Mundangerous]]: Anything that Kaname is holding becomes dangerous when used on Sōsuke.

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Depending on how you look at it, this could be considered Gauron's intention when he orders the Chinese twins to kill Kaname.

* [[Nails on a Blackboard]]: Kaname uses this to calm a mass panic instantly. {{spoiler|The mass panic is the result of class 4 being informed that they were infected with a lethal bacteria and they were all going to die. They try to escape as a result and only Kaname's badass factor allows her to invoke this trope to a successful conclusion.}}

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Hard to interpret [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/full_metal_panic/c030/12.html this] any other way. Comes complete with [[Double Entendre|double entendres]].

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Gauron, and Gates in the <s>second</s> third season.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Gates

* [[The Quiet One]]: Sōsuke

* [[Raised by Dudes]]: Sousuke

* [[Shotacon]]: Gauron's been a creepy [[Stalker with a Crush]] towards Sōsuke since the latter was twelve. Yeah.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Mardukas is a [[Monty Python]] fan, as mentioned in the [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] entry; since they couldn't use these references in the anime, they settle for a more subtle [[Shout-Out]] when, in a parody of the ''[[Psycho]]'' shower scene, the attacker wields a banana.

** In a later episode in which Shinji goes into [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|SEED mode]].

** In the first episode, the teacher searches Kaname's schoolbag and sees a copy of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish|So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]''.

* [[Too Soon]]: The name of Sōsuke Sagara's "home" country (Afghanistan) was changed in the anime and translation to a fictional country (Helmajistan).

** The ''Fumoffu'' season also had two episodes cut out due to sensitive content, following a [[Real Life]] kidnapping case in Japan shortly before it was set to be aired.

* [[Trigger Happy]]: Gauron, who has to be restrained from shooting people he ''shouldn't''. And Sōsuke, although he mitigates it by mostly using rubber bullets while he's at school or on outings with Kaname and her friends. Sōsuke's trigger-happy tendencies are also significantly more pronounced in the ''Full Metal Panic: Overload'' manga, where he's actually ''more'' trigger-happy than Gauron. ( [[Up to Eleven|Yes, it's actually possible]].)

** In ''Overload'' Sousuke is literally ''addicted'' to guns and starts experiencing ''withdrawal symptoms'' after Kaname forbids him to fire a gun for a day.

** Well, it's not like Sousuke doesn't deserve it anyway.

** It is entirely possible that being a tsundere is not a natural part of her personality. Sousuke is an extremely frustrating person, after all.

* [[Twice Shy]]: Sousuke and Kaname's relationship. Which is also the reason why they haven't even kissed in the entire series (yes, even in the 10 novels thusfar). The most intimate they've gotten has been holding hands.

* [[Twincest]]: Yu Fan and Yu Lan

* [[Young Entrepreneur]]: Sōsuke tries to patent and sell his Bonta-Kun combat suit entirely for the technological advantage it provides, without realizing its outward appearance was preventing sales. He actually succeeded in selling a few of them to the FBI, the Miami police and a local Yakuza gang.

** The fact that Sousuke had enough money and contacts to do that implies that he's probably been moonlighting in the weapons business for a while.

 

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