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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Boo, Kazam, and Lala Ru.}}

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Elamba. He is so desperate to get his hands on the [[MacGuffin]] that he's willing to shoot {{spoiler|Sis}} and let {{spoiler|her}} die slowly. When the village doctor wants to tend to the wound, he refuses and shoots the doctor after he invokes this trope.

** [[Rachael Lillis]] (aka Misty from ''[[Pokémon]]'') as Boo and Sis. The fact that the warm and motherly Sis sounds exactly like Jessie from Team Rocket is more than a little nightmare inducing.

** [[Lisa Ortiz]] ([[Slayers|Lina Inverse]]) as ''Lala Ru'', [[Playing Against Type|of all people]].

* [[Important Haircut]]: Sara, after {{spoiler|murdering a soldier to escape from Hellywood}}.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Not even. No one is safe, no matter the age.

* [[Interrogated for Nothing]]: Happens to Shu over the course of several episodes. {{spoiler|He's only released from the torture regimen when Hamdo has one of his lucid periods and realizes that maybe the boy doesn't really know anything.}}

* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Sara, after {{spoiler|she found out she was pregnant from being raped}}, tried to drown herself. Shu interrupting her only made her hurry.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Lala Ru. [[Word of God]] says {{spoiler|she's a metaphor for any natural resource that humans greedily consume or exploit during a time of warfare without taking into consideration the longterm effects said greed will have on the planet and future generations}}. It's not uncommon for fans to perceive her as the spirit of the dying planet, or even water itself. Technically speaking, either would be a correct interpretation.

* [[Necessarily Evil]]: most of the [[Child Soldiers]] as well as Abelia. They know that all of the killing and kidnapping is evil, but just want to get the fighting over with and go home. Hamdo, being a [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]], made sure that'll never happen by {{spoiler|destroying every village he "recruited" from afterward.}}

* [[Not So Harmless]]: Hamdo is presented as so utterly insane, childlike, and paranoid that it's initially difficult to take him very seriously. Fast forward to the episode where assassins break into Hellywood. Hamdo unloads six rounds from a semi-automatic into a single assassin's body within the span of about two seconds. [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Holy shit.]]

** [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Overkill much?]]

* [[Rei Ayanami Expy]]: Lala-Ru

* [[Right-Hand-Cat]]: Subverted. King Hamdo kills his cat in a fit of rage during the second episode, and when Shu sees it, it takes a while for him to realize it's dead. Arguably also a [[Squick]] moment.

* [[Rival Turned Evil]]: Tabool to Nabuca, {{spoiler|culminating in the latter's death}}.

* [[Rock of Limitless Water]]: Lala-Ru's pendant is sought after for its ability to produce large amounts of water.