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* [[Baka]]: Takeru is called one ''many'' times by many people, especially by Sumika, Chizuru, and Meiya.
* [[Battle Harem]]: Takeru's in ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'', Yuuya's in ''Total Eclipse'', Hibiki's in ''The Day After''. Theodor's women comrades in ''Schwarzesmarken'' may also count, but the series doesn't seem to focus on harem antics.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: [[Virtual On|Valgern-On]], [[Game Boy|Gameguy]], etc. Not to mention the defense companies named in side materials: [
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: The all-ages versions of the trilogy censor the H-scenes. {{spoiler|They also censor some of the [[Gorn]] over which fans raised an outcry.}} The upcoming [[Visual Novel]] adaptation of ''Total Eclipse'' is expected by fans to be all-ages from the start, due to having [[Mai Nakahara|several]] [[Mamiko Noto|voice actors]] who do not do eroge roles.
** Voice actors who do not do eroge have voiced characters in eroges numerous times before, as long as the characters that they voice are not involved in any eroge scenes. However, considering that the voice actors for virtually all of the characters are non-eroge, ''Total Eclipse'' is pretty much guaranteed to be non-eroge.
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{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Gen. Radhabinod''': ''We will carve into our hearts the noble deeds of those who are not permitted to reveal even their names.''}}}}
* [[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 (Anime)|Chawla]], [[Minami Hokuto|Akiha]] [[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Tohno]], [[Tetsu Inada|Lu]] [[Dynasty Warriors|Bu]], [[Yuu Asakawa|Ri]][[Fate Stay Night|der]], [[Shizuka Ito|Hinagiku]] [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Katsura]], [[Kumiko Watanabe|Katejina]] [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|Loos]] and [[Norio Wakamoto|Charles]] [[Code Geass (Anime)|zi Britannia]]. The side stories add, among others, [[Daisuke Ono|Battler]] [[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Ushiromiya]], [[Mai Nakahara|Rena]] [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Ryuugu]], [[Hitomi Nabatame|Bazett Fraga]] [[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|McRemitz]], [[Tomokazu Sugita|Ky]][[Suzumiya Haruhi|on]] and [[Mamiko Noto|Kotomi]] [[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Ichinose]]. Sumika also shares a voice with [[Ef a Fairy Tale of The Two|Miyako Miyamura.]]
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The "Tactical Surface Fighters" in ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'' are [[Real Robot|Real Robots]]. {{spoiler|The Type-2 and Type-4 Susano'o units technically are, as well, but veer close to the [[Super Robot]] borderline.}}
* {{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."}}
** This bounces back and forth repeatedly throughout ''Alternative''. {{spoiler|Initially in ''Alternative'' he helps develop a machine that would send him back to his original ''Extra'' world and demonstrates extreme joy at the possibility of going home. HOWEVER, Takeru decides to remain in the ''Alternative'' world to ensure Alternative IV's success... until he suffers PTSD and flees back to the ''Extra'' world. In the end, he goes back to the ''Alternative'' world and stays after completing Alternative IV... until forces outside his control force him to return AGAIN.}}
*** That last part is debatable depending on your interpretation of the ending of ''Alternative''. {{spoiler|Considering the way Takeru and Sumika were interacting, it's likely that this version of Takeru is yet another AU version, and the "composite" Takeru who came into existence in the ''Alternative'' timeline simply [[Ret
* [[Intended Audience Reaction]]: ''Extra'' is really meant to be painfully generic. If it wasn't, the overall premise of dropping a generic harem protagonist into a battlefield would not work. Similarly, negative reactions to the characters in the first part are also setup, such as [[Idiot Hero|Takeru's]] [[Hot
* [[Interrupted Cooldown Hug]]: In ''Alternative'', {{spoiler|a Shogun-disguised Meiya was on the brink of convincing Sagiri to stand down and peacefully end the coup d'etat, when an American TSF had to start shooting out of nowhere. Thanks a bunch, CIA.}}
* [[Intimate Healing]]: In order to keep Takeru warm after he's suffering from the after-effects of snake venom {{spoiler|(Which turns out to just be a cold.)}}, Mikoto sleeps on top of Takeru naked. {{spoiler|In the manga adaptation, the snake turned out to be poisonous.}}
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'''Takeru:''' Gyahahahahaha!! do you even know what you're saying!?<br />
'''Sumika:''' Shut uuup! [[Verbal Backspace|Apologize to me too]]!! }}
* [[
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Sumika in Meiya and Chizuru's Routes in ''Extra''. She tries this in her own route, but, being her route, Takeru has other ideas.
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Being a tribute to a whole range of works, much of trilogy's OST is this. For example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3h_Opxwbw4 "The End of Regret"] sounds very similar to the Takashi Kako song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAg2nosbbsM "Is Paris Burning?"].
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* [[Multiple Endings]]: In ''Extra'' and ''Unlimited'' only. ''Alternative'' is strictly linear, the few decisions you get to make not having any plot effect. {{spoiler|The nature of the multiple routes is a major plot point.}}
* [[Murphy's Law]]: {{spoiler|When you "hope of humanity" crashes on its second shot, your mechanic dies at the 'insert command' option, your acting squad leader finds out her bomb was dismantled just as she escaped, your girlfriend's continued life is reliant on the reactor that you failed to save, your own life is dependent on her survival, and when your final victory is dampened by all of you allies dying, you killing one of your [[Love Interest|love interests]] in an [[Mercy Kill|act of mercy]], and discovering that your victory amounted to nothing in the face of 10^37 (or 10000000000000000000000000000000000000) BETA in the universe; it's no longer: "if it can go wrong it ''will''," it's: "it's ''already'' gone wrong," and "'''[[It Got Worse|it got worse.]]'''"}}
* [[New Game
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|In ''Alternative'', Takeru's choice not to get Squadron 207 personally involved in the evacuation of the villagers from the eruption of Mt. Tengen (unlike what they did in ''Unlimited'') was the indirect trigger for Sagiri's coup d'etat, which claimed the life of Chizuru's father the Prime Minister.}}
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The ''Rumbling Angel'' card game included in the ''Muv Luv Supplement'' fandisk (known as "that card game from hell") and the two [[Turn Based Strategy]] games included with the fandisks ''Altered Fable'' and ''Haruko Maniax'' (infamously known as "Get Raped By BETA: The Game" and "Get Raped By BETA: The Game 2".
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* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Takeru's goal in ''Alternative''.
* [[Shounen]]: The manga adaptation of ''Unlimited'', which ran in ''Dengeki Daioh''. The original visual novels are, of course, anything '''but''' shounen.
* [[Shout
** '''Mecha and Tokusatsu Series.''' ''[[Muv Luv]]'' and its prequel ''Akane Maniax'' has a ton of shout-outs to these. A partial list includes ''[[Tekkaman (Anime)|Tekkaman]]'', ''[[Ultraman]]'', ''[[Getter Robo]]'', ''[[Grendizer]]'', ''[[Brave Raideen]]'', ''[[Chars Counterattack|Char's Counterattack]]'' (see [[Colony Drop]] above), and ''[[Gundam 0083]]''.
** '''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]].
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* [[Suck Out the Poison]]: Mikoto has to do this to Takeru when he gets bit by a poisonous snake during a combat exam. {{spoiler|In the game, it turns out the snake wasn't poisonous; in the manga adaptation, the snake was.}}
* [[Suicide Mission]]: In the standard Japanese and UN Army tactical doctrine, once the orbital diver squads break through a hive monument into the interior, they are essentially cut off from reinforcements and additional supplies against a [[Zerg Rush]] of enemies in their home territory. {{spoiler|Takeru and his squad go off on this when they were ordered to invade the Original Hive, [[Kill'Em All|with predictable results]].}}
* [[Super
* [[Super Prototype]]: {{spoiler|The Susano'o units in ''Alternative'', which were the only ones big enough to carry the prototype [[Deflector Shields]] and [[Wave Motion Gun]]. They require in turn another [[Super Prototype]] to even operate at all - the 00-Unit.}}
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: {{spoiler|Marimo after losing her squadmates to a surprise BETA attack, as her backstory reveals.}}
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* {{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|[[Bittersweet Ending]]}}: {{spoiler|Alternative IV is successful, and Takeru has bought humanity three more decades of survival... at the price of the lives of his lover and closest friends<ref> all of whom were his lovers in alternate worlds</ref>, one of whom he had to [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|personally pull the trigger on]]. Takeru himself becomes [[Ret
* {{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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* {{spoiler|[[For Want of a Nail]]}}: {{spoiler|Alternative V went into action because the ''Unlimited'' world never created gaming systems. Yuuko thus never played some RPG that showed her that her theory was flawed and thus had no stimulation to fix her theory or even realize it was wrong. End result? The Earth was doomed because Yuuko never played 'some crappy RPG.' ''Alternative'' really gets going when Takeru tells her that ''Extra'' Yuuko said that ''Unlimited''/''Alternative'' Yuuko's theory was flawed.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Gorn]]}}: Several scenes in ''Alternative''. {{spoiler|Marimo's death seems to be the most infamous and memetic in the English-speaking fandom. The [[Gorn]] was so graphic that many Japanese fans complained about it, causing age to create a gore-censoring patch.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out
* {{spoiler|[[Groundhog Day Loop]]}}: {{spoiler|''Unlimited'' repeated itself an unknown but large number of times before Takeru happened to retain some memory of what had happened. Every time he died in that world, the world reset back to October 22nd.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Gut Punch]]}}: {{spoiler|HEADCHOMP is but the beginning. [[Memetic Mutation|Can't spell 'rage' without 'age']], indeed.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Human Resources]]}}: {{spoiler|The BETA can recycle their own, as well as humans, into more of them. The Soldier-class ''[[Extreme Omnivore|Venator]]'' [[Body Horror|strain]] is made by recyclng humans.}}
* {{spoiler|[[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]}}: {{spoiler|Meiya at the climax of ''Alternative''.}}
* '''{{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]}}''': {{spoiler|'''All'''<ref>except two if you consider Kasumi and Yuuko as main characters</ref> of the main cast, as well as the majority of the supporting cast, are dead by the end of Operation Cherry Blossom and its aftermath, many of them via [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Of the three immediate survivors of the operation, Sumika dies due to [[No Ontological Inertia]] and Takeru [[Ret
* {{spoiler|[[Kill the Ones You Love]]}}: {{spoiler|Takeru blows up Meiya along with the BETA Superior with the Susano'o's particle cannon at the end of the Original Hive mission.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]}}: {{spoiler|Marimo in ''Alternative'', brutally killed by a soldier-class BETA while trying to cheer Takeru out of depression. Also Captain Isumi and First Lieutenants Suzumiya and Hayase.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[No Ontological Inertia]]}}: {{spoiler|Sumika in ''Alternative''. Her 00-Unit body needed the hive reactor of the Yokohama Base for sustenance, which she lost after said base's defense. Also Takeru, as ''Sumika'' was the one sustaining his existence in both ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative''; he ceases to exist shortly after Sumika dies.}}
* {{spoiler|[[No Romantic Resolution]]}}: {{spoiler|The romance plot ends up like this: Takeru is an amalgamation of all of the possible endings of ''Extra'' who then went through an unknown number of ''Unlimited'' loops until he had at some point been in a relationship with everyone. In ''Alternative'' he ends up in a relationship with Sumika, but this is basically retconned out of existence when Takeru 'returns' to the world of ''Extra'' thus leaving him single again, only now with more love interests than ever. In essence, Takeru dated everyone and in the end no one.}}
* {{spoiler|[[One
* {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Hostage]]}}: {{spoiler|A rare instance where the hostage begs for it: At the end of ''Alternative'', Meiya's TSF has been captured by the BETA Superior and is being held in front of Takeru, leaving him unable to fire Susano'o's [[Wave Motion Gun]] at the Superior. [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|Meiya, who was under excruciating pain from the BETA infecting her, begs him to fire]]; Takeru is forced to pull the trigger in a [[Tear Jerker]] moment.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Silicon Based Life]]}}: {{spoiler|Takeru later finds out that the Creators of the BETA are silicon-based life-forms.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Someone to Remember Him By]]}}: {{spoiler|The True End of each heroine's route in ''Unlimited''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You With Me]]}}: {{spoiler|VFA-01 commander Michiru Isumi starts off with wiping out the Sadogashima Hive, along with the entire island, in self-destructing in the Susano'o Type-2. [[Kimi ga Nozomu Eien|Acting commander Mitsuki Hayase]] soon follows suit in taking out the Yokohama hive reactor to stop the BETA assault on the UN base aboveground. ''Alternative'' caps it off with the final mission in the Original Hive, where Chizuru and Ayamine choose to self-destruct after fighting to the end, taking out a large number of BETA with them.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Greatest Story Never Told]]}}: {{spoiler|1=Not the deeds of the Valkyries, whose names were released post-Operation Cherry Blossom, with one exception. All of ''Takeru'''s achievements will never be revealed due to ceasing to exist and being [[Ret
* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]}}: {{spoiler|In ''Unlimited''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Last Dance]]}}: Operation Cherry Blossom was one for {{spoiler|Sumika, who had previously lost the hive reactor which was sustaining her life. She managed to hold on for long enough to see the success of the operation.}}
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