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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.
[[Full Metal|Should not be confused with]] ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' or even ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'' - no matter what Sōsuke thinks. ''Definitely'' should not be confused with ''[[Strawberry Panic
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** Happens to Mardukas in episode 8 of Fumoffu. He accidentally opens a door to a girl's locker room, then excuses himself immediately, but a rumor of a pervert running around the school causes Sousuke to apprehend him. [[Hilarity Ensues]] after Sousuke realizes who it is, and the mission Mardukas has for him, which adds more difficulty to a sleep-deprived Sousuke.
* [[Action Survivor]]: Kaname is one at times, particularly when she got the jump on an assassin with nothing but a taser and a bathrobe.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: The English dub created one by casting [[Spike Spencer]], the English voice of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion
** In ''Fumoffu'', Kaname muses that she'd like to install a device in Sousuke's brain that would let her zap him whenever he did something embarassing. Kaname's voice actress, Satsuki Yukino, also voiced Kagome from ''[[
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: ''The Second Raid'' mostly adapts the 5th novel, ''End of Day by Day'', significantly expanding the smaller plot of the traitor in the novel, and doing sufficient justice to the story... and changing the male chinese twin assassins to girls, for added fanservice and emotional impact when they die.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: When pulling Sousuke out of the water near the end of episode 8 in Season 1, Kaname thinks he's going to kiss her, so she closes her eyes and puckers up. Then the next scene occurs, and Sousuke is merely getting excess water off his clothing, while Kaname is still in a kissing mode. She later angrily storms off when he thinks her red face is from sickness.
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* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Most noticeably in the first anime's opening.
** Averted in ''The Second Raid'' with Yu Fan and Yu Lan.
* [[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
* [[Beach Episode]]
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Although she's actually pretty cute normally, [http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read/Full-Metal-Panic-Overload/senfgurke2/25/15 THIS] is apparently what Kyoko looks like with her glasses off and her hair let out of its braids.
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* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Sōsuke, on Kaname obviously.
** This becomes an important plot point in The Second Raid, and leads to Sosuke's [[Heroic BSOD]] later on.
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: Referenced in episode 6 as part of a whole reference to [[Butch Cassidy and
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: At least regarding the relative athletic and combat skills of Mao, Kaname, and Tessa.
* [[Boot Camp Episode]]: In ''Fumoffu'', the protagonist organizes a boot camp on two occasions, playing the [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] in it.
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Kalinin
* [[Cool Ship]]: The Tuatha De Danaan, of course.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Sōsuke has certainly studied in the ''[[
** Among many other things.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Sōsuke. In one episode, he's even shown having a biochemical suit handy.
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In the novel, it mentioned the existence of the Canadian SAS as if it did still exist in the 90s. This is not true as it disbanded after the end of World War II. JTF-2 is one of the special forces created in the 90s, which has capabilities similar to the modern British (and Australian/New Zealand) SAS.
** This could arguably be justified, as the series is an [[Alternate Timeline]], although it apparently deviates from [[The Eighties]]. Perhaps in-universe circumstances spurred its reformation rather than replacement.
* [[Die Hard
* [[Disposable Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|Arguably, Nami.}}
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Sousuke. Duh.
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* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Tessa, when she visits Sōsuke's class in an episode of ''Fumoffu''. ("She's so cute!")
** Also applies to some of the female fans of the show, expressing the same sentiment ("She's so cute!" indeed.)
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Sōsuke. Along with being a total [[Chick Magnet]], he has Gauron as a crazed [[Stalker
* [[Evil Gloating]]: A lot of the villains like to do this, notably Gauron.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Gauron has a sense of humor... except it's a [[Dead Baby Comedy|really horrible one]]. [[Lampshaded]] and made fun of in [[The Abridged Series]].
** [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Gauron and Gates.
* [[Expy]]: Sōsuke is generally viewed as one for [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
** [[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.
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* [[Handsome Lech]]: Kurz
* [[Hero Stole My Bike]]: In ''Fumoffu'' Kaname and Sōsuke steal a bike in order to get back to school in time for their test. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when a crazy policewoman tries to pull them over, leading to a [[Chase Scene]] that results in her crashing her squad car. Which then explodes.
* [[Hero
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: You can consider Amalgam {{spoiler|considering its establishment.}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Sōsuke spends a substantial portion of ''The Second Raid'' in the throes of one.
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Kaname often instills this in Sousuke, such as his first fight in the Arbalest, against the Behemoth, and later during the end of Second Raid.
* [[Hey, Catch!]]: Sōsuke does one with a grenade in Fumoffu to beat one of the karate team members.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: If you've watched the ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** If you're a [[Gundam]] fan, this show can get even more amusing, seeing as Sōsuke is [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam
** Heh, in the dub, looks like [[Azumanga Daioh
* [[Hey, You]]: Gauron tends to call certain people by overly familiar names, and when they express discomfort and anger, it [[Jerkass|only fuels him to do it more]].
* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]: Sōsuke uses this one on the head of the Amateur Karate club while he's distracted by flirting with Kaname. Not that he's jealous or anything, he just needed to defeat the guy so they would leave and let the club house be demolished like the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] wanted.
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* [[Improbable Age]]: Sōsuke; Tessa
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Kaname use of second base to knock out Sōsuke comes to mind.
* [[In Love
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: It's alluded to in ''TSR'' and ''End of Day by Day'' - Mithril's Intelligence Division and Operations Division don't really see eye to eye on a lot of things.
** More humorously, Mao reveals that when she [[Runaway Bride|ditched her wedding to join the Marines]], the recruiters kept trying to talk her out of it... until they learned her old man was a USAF Colonel. "Okay, sign here."
* [[Intimidation Demonstration]]: In the ''Fumoffu'' episode, ''"Summer Illusion of Steel"'', Sameshima the cook runs up to Sōsuke with a knife in each hand, and starts twirling them around. He then switches over to rapidly slicing them through the air while stating his reputation as "Sammy the Slasher". It pays homage to ''[[
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: {{spoiler|The Chernobyl accident [[Mind Screw|happened in our world regardless]]. In the [[Alternate History]], it happened years earlier thanks to the accident at Yamsk-11.}}
* [[Iron Butt Monkey]]: Sgt Sosuke Sagara.
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* [[Last-Name Basis]]
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Kaname has a crazy laugh that she gives whenever she's lying about something -- such as the possibility of being attracted to that nutcase Sōsuke. Or that his latest bone-headed antic bothers her in the least. [[Tsundere|Be afraid. Be very afraid.]]
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: ''[[
* [[Left Hanging]]: Many important plot points, such as the origin of the Whispered and Black Technology, have been left unanswered by the end of ''The Second Raid''; however, they are answered in the source novel material.
* [[Les Yay]] (Mao has actually groped Tessa's breasts and spends an inordinate amount of time with her, often while inebriated, naked, and in a sexually charged mood.)
** Also, Yu Fan and Yu Lan are first shown onscreen sharing a very intimate shower scene...
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Kalinin's late wife's special Borscht recipe requires on-the-second stirring, PH balance testing, Cocao powder, and Miso Paste. In the manga, Sousuke tries cooking rice in a rice cooker. Over a fire. Indoors.
** Of course, Kalinin seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that his wife intentionally made terrible food as her "revenge" for his being [[Married to
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: ''Fumoffu''
** 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]]
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]: Mandalay Pictures has announced they have acquired the rights. See [[WTH? Casting Agency]] below...
* [[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...
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* [[Magic From Technology]]: The Lambda Driver allows [[Humongous Mecha]] to pull off distinctly magical feats, such as throwing around [[Kamehame Hadoken|blasts of destructive energy]] and casually defying the laws of physics to allow a grossly oversized mech to move. Oh yeah, and it runs on the strong emotions of the pilot.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: In ''Fumoffu'' and ''The Second Raid'', most definitely ''not'' present in the first series, coincidentally the only Gonzo-produced one.
* [[Married to
** This actually becomes a major plot point in ''The Second Raid''.
* [[Mascot
* [[Mass Super-Empowering Event]]: 24 December 1981 (or 1984 in the anime), 1150 GMT.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: {{spoiler|1=Gail McAllen.}} He gets a kiss {{spoiler|then a few episodes later he dies}}.
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* [[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.
* [[Musical Pastiche]]: One of the [http://www.esnips.com/doc/3a4b4866-e8f4-42c3-9da0-a669cbd08570/Tokkou-Yoraou pieces of background music] is a knockoff of ''[[
* [[Nails
* [[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]].
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Sōsuke, as well as Tessa for all of two episodes.
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{{quote| '''Sousuke''' (yelling at the laptop as a "Game Over" appears): Wait a minute, if you cut off the negotiations from one side, it will become a war. Accept the negotiations! I'll listen to anything you have to say. We should compromise a little bit.<br />
'''Sousuke''' (looks around): Where did Chidori and the others go? }}
* [[Oddly
* {{spoiler|[[Official Couple]]}}: {{spoiler|Well, duh. But they've finally gotten together as of the last volume}}
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Kaname
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** Sōsuke, after being a nigh-perfect [[Stoic]] for the entire first season, is {{spoiler|subjected to a [[Not So Different]] [[Hannibal Lecture]] by Gauron, [[Shut UP, Hannibal|beats him up]]}} and drops this line in his first real display of emotion:
{{quote| '''Sōsuke''': "Kashim!... Kashim!?! We're not friends!! '''YOU SHITHEAD!!'''}}
* [[Prisoner Exchange]]: Sousuke has to make the decision of trading his hostage for either [[Love Interest|Kaname]] or Tessa. He picks Tessa, knowing that Kaname can protect herself just fine, and her [[Action Girl]] instincts means that she'll [[Spanner in
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Kaname's increasingly paranoid and extreme precautions in episode 9 of ''The Second Raid'' are ''entirely justified''.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Gauron, and Gates in the <s>second</s> third season.
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* [[Questioning Title]]: ''Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu''
* [[The Quiet One]]: Sōsuke
* [[Raised
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: In the second manga series, ''Sigma''.
* [[Real Robot]]: Played "straight" with the Arm Slaves. The ones without Lambda Drivers anyway.
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** One scene in Fumoffu stands out as pure [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] and [[Fan Service]]. Sōsuke has just gone 4 days without sleeping due to schoolwork and his job and driven over the edge. Before passing out, he ponders on why he has to suffer like this. For ''no reason at all'', during the internal monologue, it shows a [[media:Sousuke_FANSERVICE.jpg|picture of Sousuke shirtless in a pose that would have any of his admirers absolutely screaming]].
*** The reason for the odd position was most likely because Sousuke (subconsciously) associated Tessa's behaviour with torture (well, emotionally, it sort of was). The stripping and tying upside down is a common procedure of putting the tortured person in a position of vulnerability before any sort of pain is involved. Honestly, it's a classic scene in all books that depict war and/or espionage.
* [[Shotacon]]: Gauron's been a creepy [[Stalker
* [[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 ''[[
** In the English dub, whole quotes from a certain [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] from ''Full Metal Jacket'' are used for the Rugby team's [[Training From Hell]]. Even without that, near the end of their training, the Rugby team members started talking extremely... affectionately to Rugby balls that they were cleaning.
** In a later episode in which Shinji goes into [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
** In the first episode, the teacher searches Kaname's schoolbag and sees a copy of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
** The OAV that comes after The Second Raid features an [[Affectionate Parody]] mashup of ''[[Future Boy Conan]]'' and ''[[Detective Conan]]'' called ''Future Detective Boy Conan'', depicting a famous scene from ''Future Boy Conan'' with the addition of glasses and a bow tie. The video box cover is also seen, and is a parody of the cover of ''Future Boy Conan''—Jimsy from ''Future Boy Conan'' is given the face of ''[[Detective Conan]]'''s Mouri Kogoro.
** Two major shout-outs to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' in ''Always Stand By Me (Part 2)'': {{spoiler|Sophia/Chidori wearing a Rei-style plugsuit, and Al ''stopping an incoming nuke'' with an AT Field.}}
** In episode 11 of ''Fumoffu'', the enraged model club member refers to the woman who insulted him as a [[Gundam|Perfect Grade]] bitch.
** Captain Sailor of the U.S.S Pasadena is shown [[The Caine Mutiny|shaking three ball bearings.]] And one of his superior officers refers to him as [[Moby Dick|Ahab.]]
** The Pacific Chrysalis events has several shout-outs to [[
** One of the Yakuza in episode 10 mentions [[Osamu Tezuka|Osamu Tezuka's]] manga, [[Ambassador Magma]], when Kaname says she summons Bonta-kun by blowing her whistle three times. The picture of Magma's spaceship and yakuza's voice were censored due to "copyright reasons."
** In episode 6, Kaname compares Sousuke and Kurz to [[Butch Cassidy and
** Reading the novels, it becomes apparent that Gatoh is a [[Tom Clancy]] fan: Kalinin's wife dies in the same manner as Marko Ramius' wife, prompting his defection; the three USN submarines that appear in FMP also made appearances in Clancy's books.
** Bonta-kun is an obvious [[Shout-Out]] to Gonta-kun, the mascot of the classic children's educational show [[wikipedia:Dekirukana|Dekirukana]].
** The [[Filler]] episode "Is Narashino Burning?" (episode 14 of the first anime) has a lot of ''[[Gundam]]'' references. The head of the [[Opposing Sports Team|Nerima Red Dragons]] is a nod to [[Gundam|Char Aznable]]<ref>Note his fondness for red, [[Chars Counterattack|swept-back blond hair]], [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
*** Furthermore, the box for the Arm Slave model kit in this episode resembles a combination of the boxes for Bandai's EX Model<ref>A large blue stripe surrounded on both sides by thin white stripes</ref> and High Grade Universal Century<ref>Horizontal layout, illustration of the mecha on the left side</ref> lines. It's even said to be made by Banpresto, a division of Bandai (though one that usually makes video games like ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'').
* [[Shown Their Work]]: the effects of the [[Square-Cube Law]] on giant robots is shown in full effect {{spoiler|when Sousuke destroys the lambda driver of the Behemoth.}}
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* [[The Spartan Way]]: Sōsuke became an assassin at age eight, then became a terrorist at age eleven...
** He also subjects the School Rugby team to this method. It gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when Kaname asks where he got the idea for such a brutal training method, at which point he produces a training book written by Melissa Mao. Let's just say, she's something of an expert on this.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Square-Cube Law]]: The [[Applied Phlebotinum]] Driver is the only thing keeping the massive Behemoth mech from collapsing under its own weight.
* [[Squee]]: This is basically the captain's response when Sousuke calls her Tessa for the first time.
* [[Stairs Are Faster]]: In a hurry to get up to Sousuke's apartment to retrieve her homework, Kaname first goes to the elevator, presses the button, and waits for a few seconds -- then screams in frustration and runs for the stairs.
* [[Stalker
** And Leonard to Kaname.
* [[Stalking Is Love]]: Kaname is actually ridiculously happy when she interprets Sōsuke's following her around as him being a [[Stalker
** Leonard also seems to believe in this trope.
* [[The Stoic]]: Sōsuke
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* [[Super Robot Wars]]: ''[[Super Robot Wars Judgment|J]]'' and ''[[Super Robot Wars W|W]]''.
** For real humor, in the authors' notes section for one novel Gotoh said that when he sent info on the ARX-8 Laevatein (Sōsuke's final [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]) to the mechanical designer, he included a list of requirements put in terms of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', including: MAP weapon, Air terrain ranking of A, Movement of at least 6, Attack power 5000-plus by default, and 4 item slots.
** [[Another
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Sōsuke's ''very'' specific description of how he's a completely normal person who doesn't have anything to do with the military during his outing with Mizuki and her friends.
** Sousuke when he first starts to follow Kaname around, even when he suddenly rushes out of a moving train after Kaname tries to lose him.
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* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]: Ms Yoko Wakana from ''Fumoffu''.
* [[Talkative Loon]]: Gates, who tends to scream around and playact for long, ''long'' periods of time. Gauron, as well - especially considering that one word from [[The Quiet One|Sousuke]] can prompt him to ramble on and on nonstop.
* [[Take Off Your Clothes]]: In the last episode of ''Fumoffu'', after a seemingly deadly virus spread to the school, Sōsuke drags Kaname to the infirmary and asks her to take off her clothes. Kaname reacts all flustered, believing he [[You Don't Want to Die
* [[Tanks for Nothing]]: Tanks are never a match for Armslaves.
** Actually, it's specified in the books that they are more powerful than the [[A Ses]], unless there is a Lambda Driver involved.
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* [[Wishful Projection]]: Kurtz Webber sees Kaname Chidori's picture; upon seeing the real thing he assumes she must be an angel, until Kaname chews her friend out for a horrible blind date and begins loudly yelling, causing Kurtz to become very disappointed.
* [[Yakuza]]
* [[You Don't Want to Die
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Kaname, just look at her.
** She's actually an interesting case in that her hair is explicitly stated as being black in the novels, even though the cover art for those novels shows her with blue hair. When the first season was produced, the animators chose to go with the blue hair, but selected a relatively dark shade. This was changed to a lighter shade of blue in the second season. The new, lighter shade may be part of the reason some fans have had difficulty accepting that black is her 'real' hair colour.
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