No Tendo/Trivia

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Trivia about No Tendo includes:

  • Rouge Angles of Satin: Not a lot, but they're there. "Jadeite" is consistently called "Jedite", for instance.
  • Series Continuity Error: For the first half of the story or so, Ranma and Hotaru's ages tend to vary. Sometimes Ranma is 14 and sometimes 15; sometimes Hotaru is 12 and sometimes 14. By the back half of the story, the authors seem to have finally settled on 15 and 14 respectively.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Souichi Tomoe wanted his SG team to be called "Q Division" or "SG-Double 0".
    • When the SG-X team shuts down the hostile computer on the factory planet, there's a bit of "Daisy, Daisy" involved.
    • "Mercury Ally Special Attack! 'Book 'em Danno!'"
    • Coupled with The Cameo when Gomer Pyle appears in Sam's "Sailor Scientist" nightmare.
    • Planet THX-1138, also in Sam's nightmare.
    • Rabbit Fire appears at one point, as Hotaru, Shion and others struggle to explain it to KOS-MOS.
    • Maybourne's first powered armor prototype goes by the acronym SAMAS.
    • Sailor Pluto is at one point shown to be watching Mahou Sensei Negima. (Or maybe the short-lived Live Action Adaptation, Negima!!)
    • Kanuka Clancy shows up as an escort when Keiichi and Belldandy visit Japan.
    • Senator Kinsey tries to get help in his bid to take over Stargate Command from Congresswoman Bobbi Latham.
    • The MADDOX (sic) power armor line.
    • Maybourne shouts out "Form blazing sword!" during an early power armor test and is disappointed when he learns it's not yet an option.
    • Jadeite Jedite is shown watching Bewitched.
    • Queen Beryl is shown watching Gilligan's Island.
    • The robot copy of Janet Frasier explicitly steals some schtick from Chobits as a way of avoiding the unpleasant effects of the "Frankenstein complex".
    • When one of the Robot Dogs tears off his leg, Kunzite vows, "I'll get you -- and your little dog, too!"
    • Boris and Natasha appear several times as Russian agents reporting to "Fearless Leader", the first time as crew on a "fishing trawler" observing the attack on the Dark Kingdom.
    • During the assault on the Dark Kingdom a pair of yoma, one looking like a duck and the other like a rabbit, do the "Duck season! Rabbit season!" exchange from Rabbit Fire, ending with "Dark general season!" when Kunzite breaks in.
    • Maybourne quotes Hannibal from The A-Team ("I love it when a plan comes together") when he learns of yoma surrenders during the assault on the Dark Kingdom.
    • To Star Trek: The Original Series when Sam says, "it's a salt shaker" upon being shown an advanced hand-held medical scanner. (Dr. McCoy's scanner props were "futuristic"-looking salt shakers bought to dress a set, but were repurposed when the production team realized they were so futuristic no one would recognize them as salt shakers.)
    • Another generation of power armor after the MADDOX is called the Glitter Boy.
    • "Operation Weed Removal", which is explicitly derived from the line from The Shadow, "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit!"
    • Just before Ami gets her own Senshi-enhanced aerospacecraft, Pluto muses that she wouldn't go "star trekking across the universe" -- a repeated line from the 1987 song "Star Trekkin'", by The Firm.
    • On her first flight with her transformed bomber, Venus sings Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride". It eventually becomes her Signature Song.
    • Mention is made of the altar of Tamachan on Pararakelse Island.
    • A helper robot design is called a "peebo".
    • There is a Metal Gear VR shooting gallery at a theme park near Tokyo.
    • A Colonel Hastings briefly appears at one point.
    • The first few robots and related tech from the factory planet all get Raideen as part of their names.
    • Sailor Neptune spots a Robot Dog dressed like a World War I flying ace on a military base.
    • Erin Smiley, daughter of George Smiley, makes an appearance. Apparently her father and General Hammond are old friends.
    • Two of Heru'ur's Jaffa are named B'igs and Wed'j.
    • While in chaos' realm, Ranma begins learning the principles of kanka.
    • Wrist-based com units begin proliferating through the militaries, and pick up the nickname "tracies".
    • A small robot is referred to as "Artie Deco".
    • Sailor Pluto knocks out Paris Spears with a guitar to the head, which makes a satisfying "kabong!" sound.
    • Heru'ur's Jaffa get caught up in watching Baywatch at one point.
    • A Captain Tsubasa shows up at one point, but it's unclear if he has anything at all to do with the manga/anime character.
    • In a discussion between Rei Hino and Melissa Mao, the line "make you think the wrong thing" and the paraphrase "You're the boom young babes" from the "Sailor Moon" verse of "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies are used.
    • The sole spacecraft the Diamond Kingdom manages to deploy in the battle against Heru'ur is a converted Winnebago.
    • "We ain't in Gou'aldland any more."
    • Yomiko Readman and Nenene Sumiregawa from R.O.D the TV appear briefly.
    • As do Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins of Gunsmith Cats.
    • And Fiasse Crystela from Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～.
    • And Airman Third Class Axel Higgs, who appears to be acquiring much the same kind of reputation as his counterpart from Girl Genius.
    • Unable to field their own force in space after the battle with Heru'ur, the Diamond Kingdom settles for authorizing a Privateer instead -- Bangladesh Dupree.
    • The BBC hires one of the robot dogs as a consultant for Doctor Who.
    • An unnamed sheriff from Mt. Airy, North Carolina might be Andy Taylor -- and much more than he appears.
    • Natsuko Oogami -- granddaughter of Sakura Taisen‍'‍s Ichiro Oogami -- makes an appearance.
    • At one point, Hotaru and Minako are playing Magic: The Gathering -- badly. A observer asks if they actually know how to play.
    • Sakura Kusanago from Street Fighter makes a brief appearance.
    • Thanks to a snarky comment from Senator Kinsey, the "Europa Town" diplomatic station being built in orbit around Jupiter gets renamed to Babylon Station.
    • Refugee yoma left over after the fall of the Dark Kingdom find themselves pursued by Twilight and other vampire fangirls, demanding that they drain them.
    • Jindai High School from Full Metal Panic! gets a mention.
    • "Gotta catch'em all!", uttered by Happosai as he begins his panty thieving anew upon his release. Later, a scientist deliberately models a device used to catch Senbei on a pokeball.
    • A JSDF officer describes reports of Happosai as an "alien Oompah-Loompah".
    • Justy Ueki Tylor shows up as a messenger dispatched with a former military man's pension arrangements -- and stumbles into a robbery when he makes the delivery.
    • Q from James Bond shows up.
    • An In-Universe shout-out with Unfortunate Implications acknowledged by the characters discussing it: the Kobayashi Maru, a Japanese spacecraft financed by the town of Kobayashi.
  • Shout-Out Theme Naming:
    • All the soldiers and specialists deployed by Stargate Command to the planet they call "Refuge" are named after science fiction and fantasy writers. Some even have appropriate character traits -- Specialist Tolkien is a linguist, and Corporal Le Guin is a falconer who owns a sparrowhawk.
    • Some of the former slaves rescued from Apophis have names clearly lifted from SF/Fantasy works, such as G'kar and C'id.
    • The crew of the British ship the Hood are all named for cast and characters from Doctor Who
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