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''The Silver Wing'' is historically significant as the first ever animated TV series in history to be broadcast specifically to take advantage of home-3D-television technology (invented by SONY) on network TV. ''Silver Wing'' is simulcast on the same day on both Japan and Asia on Animax Asia.

 

* [[Ace Custom]]: The Silvius.

* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: The empress of the Ades Federation is a little girl.

* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: Again, the Silvius.

* [[Big Bad]]: Luscinia Hafez

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: ''Silvius'' in episode 17. The Silvana and the Anatoray-Disith fleet for the Alliance forces in episode 20.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The use of the Greek alphabet makes its return in ''Fam''... with hilarious results for those who can actually read the 'letters' shown in the show. Case in point: [http://i.imgur.com/BlGIP.jpg\].

** It's also a bit painful, though, considering that it's clear whoever was typing simply changed their keyboard layout to Greek and typed as if it was English, without realizing that Greek letters don't directly correspond to Roman letters (especially not Roman letters as used in English).

* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Fam is not afraid to insult people not matter how rude it is... even when it's by light signals and to her Captain ''and'' to the child empress Sara.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Dio has a tendency to yell out the names of the aerial maneuvers he performs.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Some phrases are repeated often enough to be considered one, like the Adesians' "Gloria Augusta!", or the Sky Pirates' "Good tailwinds!" and "Those birdbrains!".

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: While starting much lighter than its prequel, the series ended in a [[Crapsack World]] of basically same level of [[Grimdark]].

* [[Chess Motifs]]: Continuing the original series, the episode titles are chess terms and occurrences, and describe the strategic actions of the episode.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dio (again).

* [[Combat Tentacles]]: The defensive systems of the Exiles make their return here, to deadly effect.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Numerous. The first episode alone features the Birthday Song, a recitation of Exile's Mysterium, and the appearance of the eponymous spaceship. Then there are the returning characters, like Dio, Tatiana, Alister, Claus, and Lavie.

* [[Cool Airship]]: Every single ship.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The Ades Federation pretty much steamrolls any enemy fleet they come across with little effort, and in the event they do run into serious resistance, they can simply summon an Exile to do the work for them.

** For the latter they need a Key (and their Mysteriums); as of the start of the series they knew of only one, Liliana, although their enemies do not necessarily know this.

** The opening song begins with the three leading girls standing [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|casually naked]] in the Grand Lake, any possible explicit anatomy tastefully obscured by Gisel's schematic book and clouds of white swan feathers; the result conveying an adorable and pure innocence found in church-paintings rather than lustful pornography (the [[FUNimation]]/Animax Asia/Niconico simulcast zoomed this in to head & shoulder modesty shots).

** Invoked and Parodied with Millia's Meido outfit in episode 5. She attempts to use this to her advantage. Hilarity ensues.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The Exiles and the Natives do not get along. ''At all''.

* [[The Federation]]: The Ades Federation, which interestingly is ruled by an Empress. Federated monarchies aren't all that rare even in [[Real Life]]. And Ades Federation really ''is'' a federation of various nations, both Exiles' and Natives', united under a single monarch. Which exist in an [[We ARE Struggling Together!|uneasy peace]] due to the aforementioned [[Fantastic Racism]] and lot of hardly forgotten mutual grievances. The infamous purge instigated by Luscinia was apparently caused mainly by these tensions.

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Inevitable with Murata as character designer, but Millia in particular - she doesn't even take them out to sleep.

* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: {{spoiler|Liliana's}} death is made final when {{spoiler|Millia inherits her ability to control Turan's Exile.}}

* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Episode 12 (though only for a small part of the episode)

* [[Important Haircut]]: {{spoiler|Millia in episode 3.}}

* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: {{spoiler|The list of characters and voice cast, which were revealed before the first episode aired, revealed that Dio Eraclea is still alive after the original series. He also shows up in the opening and in the first episode.}}

* [[Lost Technology]]: Anything Exile-related can be seen as this way, as the tech can no longer be replicated since the world has a ''much'' lower technological level than how it was six hundred years prior.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Anatoray-Disith's Exile, the eponymous Last Exile, is both the last ship made in the Exile Project (and as such the most advanced), and the last Exile ship to return with its people to Earth.

* [[Nice Hat]]: In a surprising departure from the previous series (where only Delphine wore anything of note), many characters sport impressive headwear this time around, such as the princesses of Turan and the generals of Ades.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Dian's attempted assassination of Luscinia not only fails, but she accidentally kills Liliana in the process and most likely derailed the peace both sides had just agreed to.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: Episode 8: Tatiana smiles. The crew of the Sylvius has this reaction.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: [[Kana Hanazawa]] replaces Anna Shiraki as the voice of Alvis.

* [[Recap Episode]]: Episode 9.5 and 15.5, the latter of which counts as one for the [[Last Exile|previous series]].

* [[Royal Brat]]: Millia. Quickly overcome, though, as she shoulders the responsibility of single-handedly being an entire government-in-exile.

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The Silvius is considered a ghost ship by many people, and there are stories that it singlehandedly destroyed an entire Ades fleet.

* [[Sky Pirate]]: Fam, Giselle and their crew.

** In-series, even if Milia can understand Glacian/Russian, it seems rather unlikely that she would be able to properly translate all of the names of parts that Fam and Giselle needed from Dian.

** The only one speaking good Russian is Viola, whose voice actress ''is'' natively Russian. The rest deliver a rough phonetic approximation of their lines in that way you get when they're not sure which words to stress and end up stressing none at all and sounding like a damaged robot that's trying to speak.

* [[Theme Naming]]:

** Millia and Liliana's middle names, Cutrettola and Merlo, mean Wagtail and Blackbird in Italian.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Fam and Giselle.

* [[Translation Style Choices]]: A rather bizarre one over the Glacias Rocket fighters nickname. The fansubs and [[Nico Nico]] subs translate and calls them "The Winged Priestesses" but the Animax Asia subs translate and calls them "The Winged Witches". The thing is the former translated from the Japanese subs when the characters spoke Russian but latter's broadcast didn't have the Japanese subs as they translated from the Russian dub.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: What Luscinia seems to believe.

* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: In a setting that features fleets of flying battleships carrying enough ordinance to flatten a good-sized modern city, Exile technology is seen as this. This is ironic, when one considers their original purpose.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Ades Federation has a reason for conquering other nations. Their Empress wants to see the lands stolen by the immigrants of Exiles returned to its original inhabitants and the only way to do that is to destroy those nations' armies and force them to surrender. Their ultimate goal is ironically world peace, which they see as requiring a single world government (namely, theirs).

 

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