Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Difference between revisions

* [[Ninja Maid]]: The android maids at the mansion in ''¥ € $'' also serve as security. They have hidden weapons built into their arms and are programmed to respond to threats.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The ''Stand Alone Complex'' video game is subject to this. Particularly because, like the anime, it assumes that [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] and subjects the player to some serious [[Trial and Error Gameplay]] (such as the first level, where the only real way to gauge if a distance is short enough to not get sniped is to attempt it), a control scheme comparable to Halo with no in-game learning curve (the tutorial is off of the main menu, and the first level assumes you've completely memorized and mastered every single aspect), frequent checkpoints but very infrequent save points, and all while other characters will talk at the bottom of the screen about very important things in the level and plot that won't be repeated if you happened to miss it because you were busy trying not to die. It doesn't help that the dialogue itself assumes not only once again that [[Viewers Are Geniuses]], but that their full attention is dedicated to listening.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Eka Turkuro (a girl kidnapped by a terrorist group who becomes a member of it) is clearly based on the infamous case of Patty Hearst. There is even a shot of her holding a gun which is similar to a famous photo of Hearst.

* [[No Communities Were Harmed]]: Niihama is visually based on Hong Kong, although viewers may mistake it for Tokyo as well.

* [[People Jars]]: When Motoko and Batou discover the cache of replacement bodies that Marcelo has stored in a warehouse.

* [[Perp Sweating]]: Attempted with the Laughing Man suspects, but it doesn't work because they're either fanatically devoted to his cause or have [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]].

** He also does it in ''NOT EQUAL'' when fighting the Human Liberation Front.

* [[Plot Tailored to the Party]]: Nobody's ever totally useless, but some episodes manage to make use of everyone of note in Section 9. In ''TESTATION'', for example: The Major and Batou follow an out of control automated tank on the freeway, supported by Tachikomas; Togusa uses his police skills to politely interview, then interrogate, the person most likely to have sabotaged the tank; Aramaki puts the pressure upon the tank's production company's corporate heads to get them to cough up its secret weaknesses; Saito tries snipes the tank with a mounted anti-tank rifle, but is foiled by its defenses, and Ishikawa gets to deliver the coup de grâce with a corporate-supplied glue-bazooka. (Pazu and Boma are still third-stringers, unfortunately, but they get their fair share of action as well.)

* [[Save Sat]]: In the final episode, {{spoiler|the Tachikomas ram the satellite containing their [[A Is]] into a nuclear missile to save the lives of Section 9 as well as 40,000 refugees and soldiers, all while singing a happy children's song that celebrates the importance of life, showing that they understood the concept of death, and weren't afraid to die for a good cause.}}

* [[Say My Name]]: Batou, after {{spoiler|the Major is shot in the head}}: "MOTOKOOOOOOO!". When {{spoiler|she gets better}}, the other Section 9 operatives [[Crowning Moment of Funny|mock him for it.]]

** At the beginning of ''ERASER'', the Major does it when she and Aramaki burst into the operating room to see {{spoiler|Togusa, who's been shot}}.

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Sano has them.