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* [[Fallen Hero]]: {{spoiler|Oskar von Reuenthal.}} Particularly tragic, since he did not rebel against {{spoiler|Reinhard}} out of genuine malice or ambition, but because he was framed and was too proud to accept punishment for a crime he did not commit. His death is arguably the most senseless and undeserved in the entire series.
** Ambition and pride had a lot to do with it, though. This had been brewing in him ever since {{spoiler|Reinhard challenged him after Kircheis' death}}.
** In the backstory, Rudolf von Goldenbaum especially for the Alliance. Given how he went from renowned hero and popular figure to the infamous autocrat who forged the Empire.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: Most main characters. See trope page for examples.
* [[Fan Service]]: The sexual kind is almost completely absent, though episode 89 shows quite a lot of Fräulein Mariendorf.
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** To be fair, they were completely cornered and the PKC had stun batons and intent to kill, so they were for all intents and purposes completely defenseless. And come on, everyone should remember Greenhill's CMOA when she {{spoiler|singlehandedly infiltrates the building where the Alliance government is keeping Yang prisoner and blows the brains out of his would-be assassin right in the nick of time.}}
** Also, note this anime is not like many others where girls can defy the laws of physics, defeat men twice their size, or defeat a mob of people, unarmed and single-handedly. The Rosenritter, even if they are the best of the best, does get absurd at times though, winning battles where they are outnumbered with few to no casualties. Lt. Greenhill is handy enough with a gun but she had never actually directly killed a person or been in many real direct confrontations until the breakout incident.
* [[The Federation]]: The Galactic Federation started off like this before degenerating into a bloated, decadent mess, from which Rudolf von Goldenbaum forged the Empire. The Free Planets Alliance, seeing itself as a successor to the defunct Galactic Federation, also fits the bill.
* [[Feudal Future]]: The Empire. Justified, since its founder specifically modelled it on Prussia (with a dash of the [[Nazi Germany|the Third Reich]]). Reinhard's reforms means that it ceases to be this, however.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Bittenfeld and Katerose. Averted with Kircheis and Eisenach.
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* [[Off-Model]]: The art style changes noticeably between seasons and even within them. One strange example of this is how [[Dark-Skinned Blond|Elfriede looks noticeably tanned]] in her final appearance when she seemed to have very fair skin earlier.
* [[Old Friend]]: Kircheis runs into an old friend from school while visiting his old hometown. Said friend is studying literature in university and is worried about being conscripted into the military and used as cannon fodder. {{spoiler|The narrator reveals that six months later Kircheis learned that this friend has been arrested for anti-war activism, and that when after two more years had passed and Kircheis had gained more power he attempted to have his friend released only to discover that he had perished from malnutrition in a forced labour camp}}.
* [[One Sided Battle]]: Averted. Many of the larger pitched battles are brutal stalemates with millions of casualties on each side, no matter who wins in the end. The camera frequently switches to the gory deaths of mooks from both sides to highlight the horrific human suffering caused by war. These scenes tend to be filler for the narrator's [[Author Tract|author tracts]]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted in episode 22: after Marquis Littenheim blasts through his own men to cover a retreat, the only two survivors left on the bridge on one of the ships - a cabin boy and severely wounded officer - find out that they are both named Konrad.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Utterly subverted, despite futuristic medicine technology.
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