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'''Muv-Luv Extra'''

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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Played straight and inverted - Takeru hits Sumika just as much as she hits him, but it's [[Played for Laughs]] on both sides.

* [[Ace Custom]]: Meiya's purple Type-00R ''Takemikazuchi'' TSF in ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'', {{spoiler|which was originally the personal TSF of her twin sister the Shogun, and given to Meiya as a gift}}. The sidestory ''Total Eclipse'' focuses on a multinational team of pilots testing out custom TSF models. However the concept of having TSFs reserved to individual pilots was ridiculed in ''Unlimited'', with the reasoning that pilots have to be able to use any TSF on hand during emergencies.

** Also see [[Vehicular Theme Naming]] below.

* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: In the upcoming fandisk ''Kimi ga Nozomu Muv-Luv'' ("The Muv-Luv You Wished For"), between Takeru and Takayuki of ''[[Kimi ga Nozomu Eien]]''. This results in Takayuki (in Takeru's body) living the carefree life of ''Extra'', while Takeru (in Takayuki's body) is stuck trying to manage the heavy drama of ''[[Rumbling Hearts]]''.

* [[Gallows Humor]]: Survivors of two orbital drops (operations with survival rates of 20% on the average) are called "chicken divers" (due to them "chickening out" of death), while those who die on a drop are called "fried chickens".

* [[Gender Is No Object]]: Takeru is the only man in a six-person unit. Justified in that {{spoiler|the men were the first to go out and fight and die against the BETA, and as such, most soldiers are now female}}.

* [[Hero Secret Service]]: The true purpose of the VFA-01 Valkyries {{spoiler|was to escort the 00-Unit and her Susano'o mobile fortress into battle and protect her}}. The trope was played with {{spoiler|as Takeru (the main character) was initially among the escorts}}, but later played straight {{spoiler|when he assumed piloting duties (in tandem with Sumika and Kasumi) for the Susano'o Type-4}}.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: The original trilogy has, among others, [[Soichiro Hoshi|Kira]] [[Gundam Seed|Yamato]], [[Masayo Kurata|Rakshata]] [[Code Geass|Chawla]], [[Minami Hokuto|Akiha]] [[Melty Blood|Tohno]], [[Tetsu Inada|Lu]] [[Dynasty Warriors|Bu]], [[Yuu Asakawa|Ri]][[Fate/stay night|der]], [[Shizuka Ito|Hinagiku]] [[Hayate the Combat Butler|Katsura]], [[Kumiko Watanabe|Katejina]] [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Loos]] and [[Norio Wakamoto|Charles]] [[Code Geass|zi Britannia]]. The side stories add, among others, [[Daisuke Ono|Battler]] [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Ushiromiya]], [[Mai Nakahara|Rena]] [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Ryuugu]], [[Hitomi Nabatame|Bazett Fraga]] [[Fate/stay night|McRemitz]], [[Tomokazu Sugita|Ky]][[Suzumiya Haruhi|on]] and [[Mamiko Noto|Kotomi]] [[Clannad|Ichinose]]. Sumika also shares a voice with [[Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.|Miyako Miyamura.]]

* {{spoiler|[[I Am a Humanitarian]]}}: {{spoiler|''The Day After'': In the aftermath of the mass G-Bombing and the sinking of Eurasia beneath the waves, Canada and France (whose has relocated to the former) went to war with the US. Hibiki's squad found that the besieged defenders they were sent to relieve had resorted to cannibalism in their desperation.}}

* [[I Choose to Stay]]: {{spoiler|Takeru has a chance at the end of ''Unlimited'' to join the colonists on the last shuttle. He says no. "I will protect this beautiful world."}}

* [[Shounen]]: The manga adaptation of ''Unlimited'', which ran in ''Dengeki Daioh''. The original visual novels are, of course, anything '''but''' shounen.

* [[Shout-Out]]: ''Muv-Luv'' has at least three general sources:

** '''Science Fiction Literature.''' Several chapters in ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'' are named after {{spoiler|plot-relevant}} sci-fi novels or short stories (most notably Arthur C. Clarke's ''The Songs of Distant Earth'', which gave its name to ''Unlimited'''s last chapter and ED). In addition, several plot points in ''Alternative'' owe their origin to ''[[Starship Troopers]]'', per [[Word of God]].

** '''Video Games.''' From (among others) [[Virtual On]] (Valgern-On), [[Tekken]] (Dokken), [[Fire Emblem]] (the strategy RPG Takeru lends to Chizuru), and [[Metal Gear Solid]] (the game Takeru lends to Ayamine, in addition to a line from Takeru where he says he's not a member of "SOCKSHOUND").

* {{spoiler|[[Shrine to the Fallen]]}}: {{spoiler|In ''Alternative'', a short beam of iron was erected on the spot Marimo fell as a memorial to her. It was later moved to the foot of one of the cherry trees in front of the base, and turned into a memorial for all the fallen Valkyries (Marimo with her "children") together.}}

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: {{spoiler|The twins Meiya and Yuuhi (the Shogun) were supposed to be this (see [[Meaningful Name]] above).}} Subverted in that they turn out to have exactly the same personality and can understand each other's feelings ''perfectly'' {{spoiler|despite being separated mere days after birth and never meeting each other since}}.

* [[Silent Scapegoat]]: {{spoiler|Ayamine's nurse mother in ''Extra'', who chose to take the blame for Dr. Sagiri's malpractice. Mirrored in ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'' by Ayamine's father, a general who was imprisoned and disgraced for prioritizing the safety of noncombatants during a battle.}}

* [[Sole Survivor]]: The ''Unlimited / Alternative'' side-story ''Atonement'' reveals that {{spoiler|Marimo was this of her squad}}. {{spoiler|Kasumi becomes this of [[Kill'Em All|Operation Cherry Blossom after Sumika dies and Takeru ceases to exist.]]}}

* [[True Companions]]: Takeru's friends in ''Extra'', Squadron 207/A-01 Valkyries in ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative''. The trope was invoked by the commanding officer of the Valkyries, who recounted that she joined the army out of a desire to protect the one she loved, but ended up caring more for her teammates instead.

* [[The Unfought]] / [[The Unseen]]: {{spoiler|Takeru and the rest of Squad 207 never actually fight or encounter the BETA during all of ''Unlimited'', except offscreen during the ending.}} When they finally {{spoiler|show up for real halfway through ''Alternative'', the onscreen body count goes through the roof.}}

* [[Unobtainium]]: Element Gray in ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'', which is ''never'' found outside ''BETA hives'', and even then only in small amounts. Unlike in [[Minovsky Physics|other settings]] its properties are too little-understood to be widely-used, is tricky to use, and highly-toxic to boot.

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: In ''Extra''. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''Unlimited'', where Takeru is pretty much the only guy that his teammates know that is in the same age group as them.

** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Alternatively,]] your standard wacky [[Dating Sim]] high on [[Starship Troopers]] and {{spoiler|[[Yoshiyuki Tomino|"Kill 'em All" Tomino]]}}.

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: During the combat exam, it looks like the squad has finally made it to the target point, {{spoiler|when a gun battery suddenly attacks the helicopter supposed to pick them up, requiring the team to take a whole day just to get to the next point and disabling the battery.}}

* [[Zerg Rush]]: On any battlefield the BETA outnumber human forces ''at least'' 20 to 1 (inside hives the ratio is at least ''100 to 1''), and have perfect [[One-Hit Kill]] extreme-range attackers. {{spoiler|It got far worse later on when the BETA started using tactics in addition to sheer numbers and Laser types.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Zombie Apocalypse]]}}: {{spoiler|The ''Venator'' BETA strain is created by recycling protein of humans.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Attempted Rape]]}}:{{spoiler|Takeru, suffering PTSD from seeing Marimo brutally killed in front of him, and having been injected with several different chemicals, on Meiya. In an [[Continuity Nod|echo]] of what Mitsuki did in ''[[Kimi ga Nozomu Eien]]'' she offers her body to Takeru in the hope of preventing him from going off the deep end; Takeru then runs away out of intense guilt and shame.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Backup Twin]]}}: {{spoiler|Meiya}}

* {{spoiler|[[Blue and Orange Morality]]}}: {{spoiler|The reason humans are incapable of making peace with the BETA is because they are essentially organic mining machines created by super advanced silicon-based alien life forms and are pre-programmed to not acknowledge any carbon-based life forms (including themselves) as living creatures, just resources to be recycled and processed.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Body Horror]]}}: {{spoiler|Meiya at the end of ''Alternative'' was infected by the BETA Superior, an excruciatingly painful process. Takeru is forced to pull the trigger on her and the Superior before the process was completed, upon her begging.}}

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