Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: Difference between revisions

** In Electra's flashback during episode 22.

** Also done very effectively in Episode 35, where merely 3/4 of the exploration of the ruins of Tartessos are entirely in black and {{color|white|white}}, with only the {{color|blue|blue}} light from Nadia's [[MacGuffin|Blue Water]] being the sole source of color.

* [[Babies Ever After]]: The title character (Nadia, married to Jean), the narrator ( {{spoiler|Sanson}} of the [[Terrible Trio]], married to a much younger lady {{spoiler|[[She's All Grown Up|the now grown-up Marie]] }} ), and the most "complex" character ( {{spoiler|Electra}}). Hanson, the other half of the team, has kids but we don't see them (or his wife for that matter). Grandis (the boss of the trio), notably is still single, and loving it.

* [[Bad Boss]]: Other than the usual [[You Have Failed Me]], Gargoyle will shoot his own [[Mook]] to convince Nadia that he would shoot Marie.

* [[Big Bad]]: Gargoyle

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Often with the Nautilus, pulling the gang to safety in the nick of time. Subverted later, where help arrives just a minute too late {{spoiler|in Tartessos}}.

* [[Blue With Shock]]

* [[Blush Sticker]]: Jean

* [[Cool Ship]]: Several.

* [[Cross Dressing Voices]]: Averted in the dub: the three lead roles are played by actual kid actors instead of adult females.

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]

* [[Death By Irony]]: {{spoiler|Electra is electrocuted (although she did not die). Jean, the boy that loves to fly, falls (he gets better). Finally, the Atlantean-supremacist [[Big Bad|Gargoyle]] dies while discovering his true nature -- he is a human adopted by the real Atlanteans, and he never found out before entering an energy field that turns non-Atlanteans to a pillar of salt. Oops.}}

* [[Dream Sequence]]

* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: Most of the female cast at one point or another. This ''is'' a [[Studio Gainax]] production!

** Electra does the same when she finally learns that Nemo actually ''does'' care about her, and tries to shoot herself. Nemo talks her out of such behavior.

* [[Dropped Glasses]]: Minor subversion: the glasses are repaired almost immediately to demonstrate the technological capabilities of the Nautilus.

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: [[Big Bad|Gargoyle]] used to be this, before pulling off a (mostly) successful coup and moving on to better things.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Nemo and [[Big Bad|Gargoyle]] are always going on about their vague but important past.

* [[Lightning Glare]]

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: See [[Fan Service]] above...

* [[Lost Curls]]: In early production art, one later version of Nadia has textured hair which the designers admitted they liked, but found it difficult to animate.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: About the sole reason Jean is following Nadia from the beginning.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: The primary form of Sub-to-Sub combat.

* [[Magic From Technology]]

* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Garygoyle's suite is immaculate red and worthy for the dinner party he invites sponsors too. The only flaw is his mask and KKK style hat.

* [[Meaningful Name]]:

* [[Musical Episode]]: Episode 34, at the end of the [[Filler]] arc, using [[Image Song|Image Songs]] strung around an plot of Jean trying to express his feelings for Nadia through song. The English dub cast actually sang their own versions of the songs in this episode.

* [[Mysterious Antarctica]]: Nemo's base is here. Also the [[World Tree]].

* [[Narrator]]: Later revealed as a slightly older Marie.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Gargoyle

* [[Narrator All Along]]: As above.

* [[Not Good With People]]: Nadia. Having spent fourteen years of her life in a circus with a cruel, unloving ringmaster, she dislikes grownups with a vengeance. As such, she does not know how to interact with people. Nemo is also like this when it comes to children, although he does gradually warm up to them.

* [[Not So Different]]: When Jean and Hanson stop fighting over the blue water, they realize they're more mecha geeks and simultaneously [[Squee]] over the Nautilus.

** This is made especially explicit in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4tjjXxC7-w their Omake Theater feature].

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: All the couples in the series who successfully end up together.

* [[Romantic False Lead]]: A villager from the Africa arc who recognizes the Blue Water. {{spoiler|It turns out that he's already engaged.}} [[Ass Pull|This arc is both out of step with the rest of the show and frankly, doesn't make sense]], since {{spoiler|Nadia admitted that Jean was important to her in the previous episode. The motivations behind her subsequent behavior in Africa is not at all clear.}} Unsurprisingly, [[Canon Dis Continuity|Episode 35 promptly disregards this two-episode sidestory]].

** 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.

* [[Schizo Tech]]: One of the more infamous examples is an 80's-looking telephone on board the Nautilus (in 1889), which is supposed to {{spoiler|be thousands of years old}}.

* [[Seeker Archetype]]

* [[Shadow Archetype]]

* [[Shout Out]]: To ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'', ''[[Film/Gamera|Gamera]]'', ''[[Tarzan]]'', ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]'', ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' and [[Gun Buster|others]].

* [[Trap Door]]: Basically one of [[Big Bad|Gargoyle's]] trademarks.

* [[Tsundere]] (Type A-1): Nadia (she gradually gets better, however, [[Fanon Discontinuity|if you don't count her actions in the filler arc.]])

* [[Underboobs]] Nadia inadvertently reveals hers while adjusting her top. Naturally, [[Accidental Pervert|Poor Jean can't help but look.]]

* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: The Tower of Babel, located in several places in the show: Gargoyle's base, Tartessos, and, ultimately, Red Noah.

** Marie when she witnesses Nadia lay into Jean (unfairly and undeservedly) in episode 10. (Nadia eventually apologizes to him for that.)

** When Nemo shoots a Neo Atlantean to save her from being shot, Nadia accuses him of "murdering in cold blood". From that point on, she stubbornly determines to despise him... despite Jean's attempts to reason with her that she would have died if Nemo didn't act.

*** In episode 20, Nadia misunderstands Jean accepting a reprimand from Nemo (for nearly endangering the ''Nautilus'' with yet another failed invention). She makes the situation even worse by laying into Nemo.

* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Not played entirely straight with {{spoiler|Electra and Nemo. [[Squick|Nemo thought of her as a daughter for thirteen years before they get together, and apparently never though of her as anything else until after the destruction of the Nautilus.]]}}

** Played more straight however with {{spoiler|Marie (age 4 in the main story) and Sanson (Age 27).}}