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Amazingly, [[Crazy Enough to Work|it works]].
 
Oh and don't pay any attention to the synopsis above, or let the art style and [[Kid Hero]] [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not for Kids?|fool you into thinking this is a kids' series]] in the vein of ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' or ''[[MASK]]''. ''Giant Robo'''s plot starts off slow and deceptively [[ClicheCliché Storm|cliché-ridden]], with a blatant [[Mad Scientist]] and [[McGuffin]] driving the first half of the plot, and then we get the [[Wham Episode]], rewriting the entire premise, beating the snot out of the good guys and resulting in several major characters getting [[Killed Off for Real]]. It's not the first, or even the most dramatic.
 
A new anime, ''GR: Giant Robo'', premiered in 2007 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original manga; however, it was not related to the OVA series, and many fans considered it a disappointment.
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* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: The last act of the first OVA episode.
* [[Arc Words]]: "Beautiful Night!", "Can happiness be achieved without sacrifice?"
* [[Anti -Villain]]: Hanzui the Evil Messiah, leader of the Magnificent Ten. Never actually does anything evil, proves extremely honourable and is a great deal nicer than most of the good guys.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Murasame repeatedly, a few others as well. '''Alberto the Shockwave'''... {{spoiler|BWA HA HA HA HA HA - best twist ever.}}
* [[Badass]]: A lot of the cast, but Alberto the Shockwave practically takes this to Memetic levels when, in [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]], he battles one of the Angels from [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] to a standstill whilst on foot.
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* [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: Daisaku was forced to take command of Giant Robo when his father and Murasame were mortally wounded trying to escape (and Murasame wouldn't heal in time.)
* [[Fan Fiction]]: A popular ''review and synopsis'' of the nonexistent [[Grand Finale]] fooled a lot of people. In its defense it would have indeed made a kickass episode.
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: The five members assembled at the BF HQ and eventually {{spoiler|oppose Genya and Komei.}}
** [[The Big Bad]]: Hanzui who seems to be in charge unless Komei is given instructions from BF himself.
** [[The Dragon]]: Zangetsu.
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* [[Hot Amazon]]: Youshi
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: In the main OVA, Robo and the Big Fire robots are of the more old-school, "vaguely sentient yet highly suggestible and obedient" variety, while the Ginrei Robo and neo Tetsujin-28 are more modern, directly piloted versions.
* [[I Cannot Self -Terminate]]: Murasame Kenji.
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Somewhat averted - it doesn't get significant screen time, but pretty much everybody who's around is shocked and aghast when it is revealed that {{spoiler|Giant Robo is ''nuclear powered''}}. This is ultimately the reason {{spoiler|Robo is able to fight against Genya in the first place, because he isn't powered by Shizuma drives.}}
* [[Implacable Man]]: The [[The Voiceless|silent]], [[The Faceless|armored]] Ko-Enshaku fills this role for the bad guys, enigmatically surviving everything thrown at him before turning up unharmed the next episode. The good guys on the other hand have Murasame, whose tendency to survive getting gaping holes blown through him becomes almost comical as the series goes on.
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* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: Cervantes points a gun at Daisaku, despite the fact he can generate enough heat from his hands to melt a thick steel door.
* [[Line in The Sand]] -- Subverted. Our hero (recovering from a [[Heroic BSOD]]) never crosses the line, but the ''battle'' crosses it from the other direction. And the "line" is a crevice deeper than he is tall.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Ginrei is revealed to be {{spoiler|Von Vogler's daughter, and Genya's sister.}}
* [[The Kid With the Remote Control]]: Subverted, slightly. Robo has its own will {{spoiler|apparently that of Dr. Kusama}} and usually only follows the general gist of the commands.
** Example from the last episode, at the Monster Sphere: "Shoot, Robo!" *Robo fires everything it has, plus one of its booster rockets*
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* [[More Dakka]]: Giant Robo carries enough firepower to wipe a couple of cities off the map.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Zangetsu, who has a five second role yet still manages to prove a fan favourite due to his very nice hat. And he might be [[Epileptic Trees|the main character's father.]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Averted! {{spoiler|Just barely, though.}} In the final episode you find out that {{spoiler|the Shizuma drives were actually creating a poisonous gas that would have destroyed all life on earth}} within days of the events that make up the series. The anti-drive {{spoiler|was actually created in order to eliminate this threat before it destroyed all known life.}} All of the "normal" drives {{spoiler|would have reactivated once all of the anti-drives had been activated.}} At the last minute, {{spoiler|despite the heroes' efforts}} all of the {{spoiler|anti-drives}} were activated, thus {{spoiler|saving the world.}}
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: {{spoiler|It turns out that when the three anti-drives are together they fixed the 2% problem or else they all would have exploded.}}
* [[Ninja]]: "Mask the Red" of Big Fire's Magnificent Ten.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Everyone, especially as everything goes to hell. The dialogue of the final episode consists of nothing but EPIC SPEECH!
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** [[Cross Dresser]]: Somehow, "Ginrei the Mighty" comes up with an excuse to have all the Experts wearing Ginrei's trademark Chinese mini-dress. Also, the first Ginrei OVA has Murasame [[Latex Perfection|completely]] disguised as Ginrei for most of the episode.
** [[Evil Twin]]
** [[Fem BotFemBot]]: The "Ginrei Robo".
** [[Go Karting With Bowser]]: The Experts and the BF organization drinking together in "Ginrei the Mighty".
** [[Mood Whiplash]]: The third episode is completely serious
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* [[Shout Out]]: The subtitle of the OVA series is a shout out to the classic film ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''.
** GR-2 sure seems like an antagonist Mazinger. Over sized lower jaw and rocket fists. One of the robos to appear several times in the opening appears to be an evil Getter 1.
* [[Sound -Coded for Your Convenience]]: Robo has a certain "growl" in lieu of a voice. "Crush them, Robo!" "'''GROWL'''"
* [[Super Robot]]/[[Real Robot]]: The robots stray the line. On the one hand they're clearly very powerful and can sometimes pull weapons out of no where, like Robo's bazooka gun. On the other hand the robots clearly need a lot of maintenance. On top of that the fights are actually quite short and even a single hit can take a lot of the fight of the enemy. Take the complex snake-train robot being paralyzed after one hit in the first OVA. Though in [[SR Ws]] Robo has been strictly a super robot.
* [[Super Robot Wars]]: [[Super Robot Wars Alpha|Alpha]] and [[Super Robot Wars 64|64]].
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* [[Calling Your Attacks]]
* [[Compilation Movie]]: Several episodes of the American import were edited together into the movie "Voyage Into Space".
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy]]: Hardcore Toei enthusiasts may recognize Mitsuo Ando who plays Dr. Over, as Gill-Hakasei from Kikaider and Black Cross Fuhrer from [[Himitsu Sentai Goranger]] among other things.
** And Hideo Murota is famous for being a regular in yakuza movies.
* [[Monster of the Week]]
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