Irresponsible Captain Tylor/YMMV
- Badass Decay: Yamamoto. In the second episode he's the leader of the forces assigned to the hostage situation, firmly in control of himself. Things go Tylor's way during the hostage situation, ridiculing him. As such he gets assigned to the Soyokaze and thus becomes rather pathetic in his efforts to control Tylor.
- Yet, he also Took a Level In Badass when he took command after Tylor got captured by the Raalgon, deciding to just warp directly in front of the Raalgon flagship and start blasting.
- Tylor pokes his Berserk Button...
- Yet, he also Took a Level In Badass when he took command after Tylor got captured by the Raalgon, deciding to just warp directly in front of the Raalgon flagship and start blasting.
- Crazy Awesome: Tylor is one of the trope's best examples. No one's clear on whether he's a lucky fool masquerading as a genius, a genius using people's opinions of him as a fool to become a Chessmaster, A Magnificent Bastard, or a lunatic whose irrational approach manages to somehow always work.
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: The events that have been building all series come to a head in episode 23. It's a tense moment, everyone is poised to act on Tylor's command... then the William Tell Overture starts up. What happens next proves, if nothing else, that Tylor has balls of frickin' titanium.
- Crowning Moment of Funny:
- Among the many, the person who translated the dub mentions in the translation notes that his favorite is Tylor playing virtual Whack-A-Mole in a burning room (which his hammering set on fire in the first place.)
- Dom and Shia Has's... expressions after hearing that their Empress wants to see her Paco-Paco again...
- Tylor making the aptitude test AI Self-aware, getting it to "cum", breaking it's "heart", and overloading it's mainframe in the space of five minutes. Completely by accident. Maybe.
- Crowning Music of Awesome:
- The music which plays right after Azalyn's Bizarre Alien Biology announcement.
- The William Tell Overture plays during the most epic game of chicken ever in episode 23.
- Suppe's Charge of the Light Cavalry during Operation: Rescue Yuriko in the final episode.
- Family-Unfriendly Aesop: Ignore all your responsibilities and do whatever you want all the time and things will turn out for the best. Still, just like Tylor himself, there may be more depth to this philosophy than there initially seems.
- Specifically, one interpretation is that Tylor deliberately let them do what they want, get in over their heads, and only be saved by his apparent foolishness by giving a time bomb in a box to the Raalgons they had surrendered to.
- It's worth noting that "Do what you want" was the one order the crew wasn't capable of disobeying.
- Fridge Logic: If the Ralgons kill all their prisoners, why do they bother taking them?
- Nobody ever said that the Raalgons kill their prisoners immediately, or before interrogating them.
- Magnificent Bastard: Tylor -- maybe. Dom did refer to him as a "Magnificent Fool".
- Considering he's in the side of the heroes, I'd say he's a Guile Hero. Still magnificent.
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