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* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Electra and Grandis appear to take turns filling this spot for Jean and Nadia.
* [[Cool Ship]]: Several.
* [[Cross
* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]
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* [[Evil Plan]]: Gargoyle wants to [[Take Over the World]] by reviving ancient Atlantean technology.
* [[Explosive Instrumentation]]
* [[Expy]]: [[The Captain|Captain Nemo]] is Captain Global from ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''. Anno worked on ''Macross'' and reused the design as a [[Shout
** Since the series and ''Evangelion'' shared character designers, a few faces are unmistakably similar. Most notable is Shiniji, whose imperceptively girly face is mostly due to being drawn more similar to ''Nadia'' than any of the male characters.
* [[Face Fault]]: Mostly in the [[Filler]].
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** Nadia runs around in her Circus Acrobat costume for most of the series, despite having a full wardrobe available to her. When she does change clothes, she wears sheets and cutoffs.
** Electra is that blonde in the pic up there. She's [[Gainaxing|quite bouncy]] in the show.
* [[False
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Much is made of Nadia being a circus acrobat, but she manages to remain useless most of the time. As the first episode demonstrated, [[Le Parkour]] skills are great if you're only saving yourself. Not so great when you've got an acrobatically disinclined [[Geek]] along for the ride.
* [[Filler]]: There is a long arc about 2/3 of the way through the series that involves the kids not doing much on an island then escaping and don't do much in Africa while the rest of the cast has adventures off screen. Their low quality simply earns them the polite title the [[Fan Nickname|Island Episodes]].
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* [[Flash Back]]: Most main characters get some exposition in this way. Over ''twenty minutes straight'' of [[The Movie]] is made up of flashbacks.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Nadia, though she's suspicious of most adults.
* [[Fully
* [[Furo Scene]]: Two with Nadia. The first one is shared with Electra and Marie and the second one (on a western bathtub) is with Grandis.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Two of them -- [[Geek|Jean]], the heroic and goodhearted main character, and Hanson, a member of the Grandis gang.
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* [[The Pollyanna]]: Jean is a shoe in for a inventor's competition which he ditches to save Nadia, and not only does his plane crash but he is perpertually on the run and in constant danger. And yet, through it all, he is cheerful and even enthusiastic about the technology from both sides in general. (Only exceptions is when he and Nadia exploring Gargoyle's base, and even reacting in horror to two deaths—one of an escaped fugitive, and another, a crew member.)
* [[Precursors]]
* [["Previously On..."]]
* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: Just about everything in Jules Verne's closet that wasn't nailed down. Plus the "Blue Water" from ''[[Beau Geste]]'' of all places.
* [[Puppet King]]: Emperor Neo. {{spoiler|quite litteraly}}
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** Could also qualify as a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]], although the island/Africa arc has plenty of such pointless scenes, hence the reason why it is criticized so harshly.
* [[Sand Bridge At Low Tide]]: The only way to access their escape pod during the unfortunate island arc. (Get the picture yet? SKIP THE ISLAND AND AFRICA ARCS!)
* [[Schizo
* [[Seeker Archetype]]
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: Jean install one on the cockpit of the plane it build, Nadia touches it {{spoiler|resulting in her and Marie's death. Though it was [[All Just a Dream|just a dream.]]}}
* [[Shadow Archetype]]
* [[Shout
** And, of course, multiple shout outs to Jules Verne's works that weren't directly used in the plot.
** The shout-outs in ''Secret of Blue Water'' are innumerable. You think you have found all of them but there's still more. There's an allusion to something outside of the story, often in [[Real Life]], like every five minutes. That's among the things that make the series great. It latches onto everything.
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