Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Difference between revisions

 

Interesting Fact: Captain Tylor's first and second name ([[Punny Name|Justy Ueki]]) is a pun on the words 'Just wake', as in "Just Wake Tylor." "Just Lucky" can be derived as well; seems appropriate.

 

* [[Abandoned By the Cavalry]]: Yamamoto in Episode 22.

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] or just regular stupidity? [[Epileptic Tree|Who knows]]?

** No, really. This trope is invoked and the tree is actively cultivated by the characters themselves. {{spoiler|Summed up nicely by one of the final scenes, where Tylor clumsy tosses a dart behind his back, only to have it hit a dead bullseye.}}

* [[Bait and Switch]]: Inverted in the final episode -- it looks like a relatively serious ending {{spoiler|with the captain leaving,and most of his crew assigned to a brand-new,state-of-the-art cruiser}}, until they pull... '''it'''... off. You will ''not'' see it coming.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Harumi}}

* [[Guile Hero]]: Weather or not you believe him to be a [[Magnificent Bastard]], you have to admit he's got a bit of a silver tongue.

* [[Hello Nurse]]: Harumi. Pretty much the entire crew fakes sick just to be treated by her.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Tylor, surprisingly enough; you'd think he'd be immune to such a thing, but after {{spoiler|Admiral Hanner's death}}, he goes on autopilot for a little while, utterly disinterested in (and walking out on) a ceremony in his honor. It takes him a while to snap out of it, at which point {{spoiler|he decides to leave the UPSF. [[Ten Minute Retirement|It doesn't stick.]]}}

* [[Hockey Mask and Chainsaw]]: One of the marines, named Jason.

* [[Human Aliens]]: The Raalgon. Different biochemistry is alluded to, but humans and raalgon can eat the same things and the idea of {{spoiler|Azalyn being pregnant via Tylor}} is not ruled out immediately.

* [[Hyperspeed Escape]]: Subverted. The Soyokaze's engine's barely work well enough to hyperjump normally, much less in a pinch.

* [[Idiot Houdini]]: Tylor. Maybe.

** Does that factor in Harumi? Frame-step through the eyecatch. It reveals her age to be THREE.

** Not really {{spoiler|considering she IS an android.}}

** {{spoiler|To be precise, the first time was in the first episode, where he ''only got into the army/space navy'' because the testing AI ''fell in love'' with him!}}

** And he did ''both'' without trying or meaning to. Maybe.

* [[Invincible Incompetent]]: Nobody can decide if Tylor is an example of this trope, or if he's just that good but prefers to ''[[Obfuscating Stupidity|look]]'' like it.

* [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]]: Episode 19 - The [[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Meat Circus]] has nothing on Tylor's subconscious.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Every major character or group has one.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: "''As steady as a mountain. We stay... a mountain neither runs nor hides.''"

* [[Military Brat]]: Yamamoto remarks that he was raised in a strict military household.

* [[The Mole]]: Harumi. Though, this is known by the viewers -- and likely Tylor -- by the midpoint of her introductory episode.

* [[Negative Space Wedgie]]

* [[Number Two]]: Yamamoto

* [[One Sided Arm Wrestling]]: Yuriko vs Andressen

* [[Organic Technology]]: The Raalgons are based around this.

* [[Peek a Boo Corpse]]: In a haunted house episode... IN SPACE!

* [[Played for Laughs]]: So many [[Space Opera]] tropes.

* [[Show Some Leg]]: Used in Episode 2.

* [[Silent Conversation]]: At various points later in the series {{spoiler|such as Harumi to Tylor as he is being kidnapped, or Tylor to Yuriko after he resigns.}}

* [[Soldiers At the Rear]]: Tylor joined the military to get a cushy day job in the Pension Office. It doesn't go as planned.

* [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]]: Tylor does this to an enemy captain, [[Idiot Houdini|Completely By ACCIDENT!]] Or was it?

* [[Ten Minute Retirement]]: {{spoiler|Tylor, after Admiral Hanner's death}}. Goes hand-in-hand with the [[Bait and Switch]] ending, when we're led to believe {{spoiler|Yamamoto's reunited the rest of the crew aboard the ''Aso'', until he steps out of the way}}....

* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]: In the second episode in a rooftop garden where Yamamoto is practicing kendo shirtless for his vacation.

* [[Tsundere]]: Yuriko and arguably {{spoiler|Harumi once she starts to figure out what all those emotion things are}}.

** Yuriko is a rare example of a Tsundere whose behavior is due to environment rather than nature or issues; being as much the [[Straight Man]] (well, [[Gender Flip|Straight Woman]]) as Yamamoto, yet lacking his reluctance to physically assault a superior officer, it's only natural she acts the way she does around an irritating, flirtatious goofball like Tylor. She's debatably the ''healthier'' one of the two - Yamamoto essentially ends up an addict to tranquilizers and something called a "neuro-cleanser".

*** All of the above come from one fabulous episode. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It has to be seen to be believed.]]

* [[What a Piece of Junk]]: The ''Soyokaze''

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Ru Baraba Dom

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Yamamoto, like most of the UPSF staff, has the right mindset for a [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]] tale of Japanese-style militarism -- and then Tylor makes them look like idiots.