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{{quote|''The Ultimate Marriage Between Man, Woman And Machine''|'''Show tagline'''}}
Flash forward
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* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: Anna, {{spoiler|after learning that Goh still has some feelings for
* [[Adventure Rebuff]]: [[Token
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''Godannar'' is a love letter to old-school [[Super Robot]] shows and to the [[Ultra Series]] tokusatsu, and it's an absolute treat to any fan of either genre. The Super Robot side is well repented: from it's catchy theme songs (the first one sung by [[Akira Kushida]], the second one's sung by [[JAM Project|Ichiro Mizuki]] and [[Mitsuko Horie]]) to its wholehearted embrace of cliches ([[Calling Your Attacks]], [[Transforming Mecha|robots "hulking out" into more powerful forms]], [[Combining Mecha]]) and similar; the Ultra side has its monster designs and even behaviors call back to the old school Toku. That the monsters all explode when hit with the heroes' finisher just adds to the feel. As a result, this show is just one huge ball of awesome.
▲* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: Anna, {{spoiler|after learning that Goh still has some feelings for Milla}}.
▲* [[Adventure Rebuff]]: [[Token Mini-Moe]] Lou Roux is never let into battle due to the dangers. {{spoiler|She rebels on her own eventually}}.
▲* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''Godannar'' is a love letter to old-school [[Super Robot]] shows and to the [[Ultra Series]] tokusatsu, and it's an absolute treat to any fan of either genre. The Super Robot side is well repented: from it's catchy theme songs (the first one sung by [[Akira Kushida]], the second one's sung by [[JAM Project|Ichiro Mizuki]] and [[Mitsuko Horie]]) to its wholehearted embrace of cliches ([[Calling Your Attacks]], [[Transforming Mecha|robots "hulking out" into more powerful forms]], [[Combining Mecha]]) and similar; the Ultra side has its monster designs and even behaviors call back to the old school Toku. That the monsters all explode when hit with the heroes' finisher just adds to the feel. As a result, this show is just one huge ball of awesome.
* [[Alien Invasion]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Lou's surname is never mentioned or shown during the series. Likewise, you'd never guess the Valentine siblings aren't blood-
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: The Goddiner, China's super robot, has a pair of huge tonfas that can be turned into even bigger axes... and into a pair of kusarigama... and can be joined together to form [[This Is a Drill|a drill]]. Yes, Goddiner RULES. [[Demoted to Extra|And yet it never makes it to]] ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''.
* [[Baby Got Back]]: Most women besides Lou, with Shizuru having such a fat ass that it famously ''gets stuck'' almost every time she enters her Core Gunner.
* [[Back
* [[Bait and Switch Credits]]: {{spoiler|Specifically, the first ending, which gives the impression that Anna's going to die, as are lots of other people, and doom and despair will ensue. The "Lake of Blood" doesn't help things, either, or the fact the song's called ''Trench Coffin''!}}
* [[Battle Couple]]: Damn near all the characters.
* [[BFS]]: Ken's "Gainer" wields one. Its partner, "Celeblader", {{spoiler|transforms into an even bigger sword for Ken to use}}
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* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: ''HEAAAARRTT BREAKEEERRR!!! SOULLLL BREAKERRRRR!!!!''.
* [[Combination Attack]]: ''GODANNAR TRIPLE DRIVE!!!''.
* [[Combining Mecha]]: Every country's [[Super Robot Genre|Super Robot]] has to be formed by combining two units
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Damn near ''every'' tech in the Dannar Base.
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Subverted; the Godannar may be the most powerful robot on the good guys' side, but it can't do ''everything''. Its component units, Dannar and Neo
* [[Catch Phrase]]: In the dub, Shizuru gave us "Who the hell do you think I am?", ''[[Older Than You Think|way before]]'' [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]])
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
** Both the Dannar and Neo
** When {{spoiler|Shizuru}} is doing her farewell speech, she says women aren't what they seem; they may be tough on the surface, but they're nice and soft on the inside. Cue a shot of the inside of the [[Monster of the Week|monster's mouth]], which is meaty and wet and... let's just say a drill wouldn't look out of place inside it. She also destroys said mouth by shooting it with a nice, long, phallic cannon.
** The official DVD promo points out the
* [[Ecchi]]: Nothing too explicit, but the series ''is'' famous for its naughty humor.
* [[The Engineer]]: The maintenance crew, obviously.
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** [[Yuri|Lesbians?]] Check!
** Massively megalogigantic [[Gainaxing|ultrabouncing]] mammaries, [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|even on the robots?]] Check!
*** [[Hourglass Hottie|And the hips]] and booty to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|back]] it up? Check!
** [[Brains and Bondage|An intelligent woman who keeps her co-pilot as a submissive slave?]] Check!
** [[Freud Was Right|Phallic symbols]] [[Gag Penis|out the wazoo?]] Check!
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** [[Impossibly Low Neckline|All]] [[Underboobs|possible]] [[Victoria's Secret Compartment|forms]] [[Absolute Cleavage|of cleavage?]] Check!
** [[Hot Amazon|TOUGH chicks?]] Check!
** [[Good
** [[Hot Springs Episode|Completely random hot springs on a tropical island?]] Double check!
* [[Gainaxing]]:
* [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]]: Ingeniously subverted: the Dannar has airbags that deploy specifically for this purpose.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: They never explain where and why the Mimetic Beasts come to Earth...
* [[Going Commando]]: When wearing the pilot suits. Also, it seems that none of the female characters wear bras.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Knight.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Goh gets sorta traumatized at one point in the show to the point he can't pilot, and he
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Ken.
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: A massive subversion for [[Mecha]]: {{spoiler|the more hotblooded a guy is, especially a pilot, the more they're likely to succumb to the Insania Virus and enter "[[Berserk Button|Rabid Syndrome]]". The only exception are perverted or submissive men...or Tetsuya Kouji}}.
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* [[Instant Armor]]: A borderline use in the Mimetic Beasts, who can rapidly construct bodies for themselves out of whatever materials happen to be handy, including people.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: When Goh ran off to fight the Mimetic Beasts, Anna's first impulse was to jump in a mech and run right after him.
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: Goh.
* [[Latex Space Suit]]:
** Also, the crew of Cosmo Base. And ''the engineers of Dannar Base.'' '''''And the medical staff.''''' The members of [[Mission Control]] put these on as well before the final battle, with the two [[Bridge Bunnies]] [[Lampshade Hanging|thinking they'd never have to wear the tight things.]]
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Lou takes herself more seriously than most of the other characters.
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Episode 17.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Goh has three women going after him: Anna, Shizuru and {{spoiler|
* [[Male Gaze]]: Without it, this series would not exist. Period.
** Oh, Shizuru. Camera focus goes to her lovely butt. [http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r277/Robo-Demon/4c26eafa8f76a1301f35f747b953142382a.gif Her butt is so big]{{dead link}} ''it gets her stuck'' while entering her mecha.
* [[Manly Tears]]: Plenty, given it's a friggin [[Super Robot]] show.
* [[Married to the Job]]: Protagonist Goh Saruwatari is married to Anna Aoi, daughter of his boss Dr. Kiriko Aoi, who is also now his mother-in-law.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Goh is a [[Salaryman]], Anna is a schoolgirl.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Okusaer" is taken from the word "okusa", which means "wife" in Japan. "Dannar" is taken from "danna", meaning "husband". {{spoiler|"Godannar" is a combination of Project "God" and "Anna"}}.
* [[Mistress and Servant Boy]]: Ekaterina and Kukrachyov, the pilots of Valspinner, which actually used the combination command "Slave On". It even became a plot point of how submissive and "unmanly" Kukrachyov is when {{spoiler|the male pilots one after the other flip out from the virus.}} Just to drive the point home, {{spoiler|Shadow, one of America's lesbian pilots, is the only girl affected by it because she's the "manly" one of the two girls.}}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Nearly any notable female would count, but the trope champion of Godannar is undoubtedly Shizuru. Oh god, Shizuru!
* [[Multinational Team]]: Other than Japan, there's Russia, USA, Britain and China.
* [[Name's the Same]]: The Goddiner pilots' names are really the Japanese names of [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Meng Huo and Zhu Rong]].
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Ken's "Blade Gainer". A giant super robot ninja with a cape and earrings and a skyscraper-sized sword, with a GIANT ROBOT CROW perched on its shoulder. Piloted by Ken, whose voice is the same as [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Colonel Roy Mustang]] and [[Final Fantasy VII|Rufus Shinra]], with [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to the [[Daimos|Double Blizzard]] from its blade. [[Rule of Cool|Yeah]]
** ''[[Super Robot Wars K]]'' takes it a step further, by making it a something of an expy of [[Gun X Sword|Van]], who just happens to be in the same game. It even has the ring jingling...
▲* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Ken's "Blade Gainer". A giant super robot ninja with a cape and earrings and a skyscraper-sized sword, with a GIANT ROBOT CROW perched on its shoulder. Piloted by Ken, whose voice is the same as [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Colonel Roy Mustang]] and [[Final Fantasy VII|Rufus Shinra]], with [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to the [[Daimos|Double Blizzard]] from its blade. [[Rule of Cool|Yeah]].<br /><br />''[[Super Robot Wars K]]'' takes it a step further, by making it a something of an expy of [[Gun X Sword|Van]], who just happens to be in the same game. It even has the ring jingling...
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Kouji, shot down near dead many times, but his response is always "I'm not dead...".
* [[Odd Couple]]: Goh and Anna: a man at work with a high school girl that hasn't even graduated. Some [[May-December Romance]], huh?
* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: Shizuru, after {{spoiler|she "dies" at the end of season one. Sadly, it ends up just a [[Framing Device]] for a [[Recap Episode]]}}.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Lou for much of season two.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: There's not much else to say when a woman's massive breasts start jiggling because the cellphone she has in her cleavage is set on vibrate.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Goh and Anna.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Lou and Ken.
* [[Robeast]]: The Mimetic Beasts.
* [[Running Gag]]:
** "I'm not dead..."
** Also Morimoto's "[[Cannot Spit It Out|Will you m-...m-...m-..."]] to Hayashi.
* [[Shoo the Dog]]:
* [[Stock Footage]]: Any Dannar/Neo-Okusaer launching sequence or any [[Combining Mecha]] sequence.
* [[Stripperific]]: All female pilots...even Lou.
▲* [[Training From Hell]]:
** Right after Anna debuts in piloting, she's subjected to this.
** Lou also goes through one when being trained to pilot by {{spoiler|Ken}}, set to a [[Training Montage]], to boot.
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* [[Vapor Wear]]: Not one female on the show wears a bra.
* [[The Tease]]: Shizuru does this Kouji with glee, which does nothing to squelch his ginormous crush on her. It's implied that since Shinobu like her too, she does this purposely get them to fight over her for the lulz.
* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: [[Book Ends|Kiriko in the first episode and Shizuru in the final episode]] keep their cellphones in their cleavage. Shizuru [[Fan Service|keeps hers on vibrate]].
* [[The Virus]]: Insania Virus.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: {{spoiler|Lou and Ken}} are shown doing this. It even looks like it's pulled out of [[Fist of the North Star]]; perhaps a [[Shout-Out]]?
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* [[Wrench Wench]]: All female technicians in the Dannar Base.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Getter Robo]]'' meets ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]''.
* [[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant]]: A conversation in the first episode between Anna and her mother reveals this had taken place off-screen regarding Anna's by this time very visibly pregnant cat. Mew.
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