Macross Missile Massacre: Difference between revisions

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A tactic wherein a military vehicle or craft—often a [[Humongous Mecha]]—launches a massive salvo of missiles at a target, often more missiles than the craft should be able to hold. The missiles often follow [[Roboteching|artistic curving trajectories]] for no apparent reason, though strategically it may simply make them more difficult to dodge (or intercept, if there's any [[Point Defenseless|usable]] point defence). Occasionally, this is explained in [[Space Opera]] as the effect a ship's energy/force/gravity field has on the missiles. In some cases, this is justified by having the missile silos oriented up (or down) to allow for more surface area-and, in turn, more missiles.

* While not technically a complete Macross Missile Massacre, the ending battle in OVA 5 of the air combat series ''[[Sentou Yousei Yukikaze]]'' resembles a pseudo 3M, as every surviving aircraft is remotely taken over by the Yukikaze AI and salvo fires all of their remaining missiles simultaneously. The result is several hundred to several thousand full-sized Air to Air missiles blanketing the horizon. Called a pseudo 3M because all those missiles really were needed and because all of the aircraft carried a finite and generally realistic number of missiles individually.

* Kaoruko from ''[[Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge]]'' often does this with her [[Powered Armor]], which has four missile launchers (two on her legs, two on her arms) that fire like this.

** In ''Nanoha'', if any character (particularly shown: Fate and Chrono) using an attack with "... Shift", you can expect massive missile rain.

** We thought Fate had reached the epitome of this with Photon Lancer, Phalanx Shift. Then Reinforce turned it against her: Photon Lancer, ''Genocide'' Shift.