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[[File:19467-1220749031291_large.jpg|frame|[[Ear Worm|King! King! King Gainer!]]]]
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A large population of one dome wants to go to Yapan, and so in preparation hire Exodus specialist Gain Bijou. As part of his plan, Gain gets captured, meeting expert gamer "King Gainer" Sanga (the latter being arrested during class due to the two having similar names). Together they escape prison and find the Overman that Gainer names after his gamer title. They also kidnap Ana Medaiyu, the daughter of the dome's leader, Duke Medaiyu. Ana turns out to be a willing hostage, going with them to see the outside world along with her tutor Lioubov Smettana. As whole parts of the dome's city are pulled by huge Silhouette Mammoths, Gainer finds out that his friend Sara and teacher Mamado are a part of the Exodus, and he must protect them as they go to Yapan.
Sent to stop the Exodus are the members of Siberian Railroad (first lead by lovers Yassaba Jin and Adette Kistler) and later London IMA's Saint Reagan, represented by Asuham Boone. While the Siberian goons are simply doing their jobs, Asuham has a personal grudge against Gain, who left his sister heartbroken years before.
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* [[Ace Pilot]]:
* [[Adult Child]]:
** Yasaba is a milder one. He ''can'' be competent and composed at times, but is prone to crying fits.
* [[After the End]]:
* [[A Mech by Any Other Name]]:
* [[An Ice Person]]:
* [[Angst]]:
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]:
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: Attack of the {{spoiler|Overman-sized Overdevil-controlled Gainer}}!
* [[Badass]]:
** [[Little Miss Badass]]:
* [[Base on Wheels]]:
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]:
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]:
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]:
* [[The Casanova]]:
* [[Chainsaw Good]]:
* [[Char Clone]]:
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]:
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The King Gainer is an Overman sitting in Wulgusk's museum that was seemingly hijacked simply to assist in facilitating the Exodus. But later, it turns out that {{spoiler|it's part of the Overdevil family of Overmen, and can utilize Overfreeze, the Overdevil's primary power}}.
** The Overman arm on Gain's Gotchko also counts. At first it just seems like an in-field modification to give Gain an advantage without actually having an Overman. Turns out, it {{spoiler|used to be attached to Brunhilda, Early Meeya's Overman, and can utilize Brunhilda's gravity and light powers, making it key in defeating the Overdevil later on}}.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: In the first episode, the audience is introduced to Cynthia Lane, Gainer's online rival and friend. It isn't until much later in the series that the audience learns that she's {{spoiler|the Siberian Railway's ace pilot}}.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]:
* [[Dancing Theme]]:
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]:
** Subverted in how completely and utterly useless and incompetent they usually are despite this, Jaboli even
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]:
* [[Dirty Coward]]:
{{quote|If I don't fight, I can't lose.}}
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: The King Gainer starts using '''two''' Chain Guns starting in episode 24.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]:
* [[Everybody Lives]]:
** Which is quite amazing once you realize [[Kill'Em All|who the director is]].
* [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]]
* [[Expy]]:
▲* [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]]- (Gainer, being pressured to multi-task, fights off a horde of Overmen {{spoiler|controlled by the Overdevil}} in real-life and several enemies in his video games. AT THE SAME TIME.)
**
▲* [[Expy]] (Sorta, many can consider the love triangle between Gainer, Cynthia and Sara to be a more developed form of the Jiron, Elchie, Rag triangle from Xabungle)
** Sara has red hair, pilots a grunt mech alongside the hero, and is {{spoiler|the hero's love interest}}. She and [[Turn A Gundam
▲** Infact the whole SERIES can be considered Xabungle in Siberia, not that this is bad mind you
* [[Fan Nickname]] the Gainer's multiple tubes attached at the back of its head are enough for many people to call it the Dreadlock Mech. (In-universe, it's called "the Overman with hair.")▼
▲** Sara has red hair, pilots a grunt mech alongside the hero, and is {{spoiler|the hero's love interest}}. She and [[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Sochie Heim]] should get together sometime.
* [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]]: Gainer uses King Gainer's hand to shield Adette at least once.
▲* [[Fan Nickname]] the Gainer's multiple tubes attached at the back of its head are enough for many people to call it the Dreadlock Mech.
▲* [[Girlish Pigtails]] (Cynthia, of the "immaturity" type.)
* [[Gonk]]:
▲* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] (Gain takes on all comers in boxing matches during episode 4.)
▲** And, later, gets the living piss <s> kicked</s> punched out of him by Asuham.
▲* [[Gonk]] (A surprising number of secondary characters.)
▲* [[The Gunslinger]] (Gain)
** [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Sara is on the cheer team in the sports festival episode. We later see that Gainer's photo of Sara is of her in that squad.
▲* [[Heel Face Turn]] (Adette, Yassaba)
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Asuham can best be described as
▲* [[Heroes Want Redheads]] (And Gainer wants Sara.)
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]:
▲* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Asuham can best be described as inbetween [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Zechs Merquise]] and [[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Gym Ghingnham]].
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]:
▲* [[High-Speed Missile Dodge]] (King Gainer vs. Blackmail in episode 5)
** Only Gainer is a ''[[Last Starfighter
▲* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] (One of King Gainer's abilities. Y'know it's Chainsaw-Sword Gun? It can fit in King Gainer's pocket. Must be seen to be believed.)
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]:
▲* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]] (Gainer and Cynthia learned how to pilot by playing video games, and both improve by playing them)
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]:
▲** Only Gainer is a Last Starfighter, videogame jockey cum ace pilot. Cynthia has been trained and experienced real combat from childhood. Likewise, Gainer's progress and skill have a lot more to do with the series' completely unexplained mystic abilities (Oversense) and the fact that he pilots what is arguably the most versatile and powerfu Overman on the planet.
▲* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] (Gain. Justified in that he's a trained sniper with a lot of experience under his belt.)
▲* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]] (Hughes Gouli is a ninja in a futuristic mecha series set in Siberia)
** The model-only Overman XAN, which appeared in the SRW Z Special Disc, is essentially a Black-colored Ninja version of King Gainer.
* [[Jerkass]]: Kejinan of the [[Terrible Trio]].
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Adette, easily. In the first episode after her [[Heel Face Turn]], she steals her students' food ... then replaces it.
* [[Karma Houdini]]:
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Asuham. The guy makes [[Code Geass|Lelouch Lamperouge]] look like an [[Aloof Big Brother]]!
** Also deconstructed in that Asuham's obsession is the cause of much distress and even danger for everybody around him.
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* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Most notably Adette's suit
* [[Master of the Mixed Message]] (Sara Kodama, we're looking at you!)
* [[May-December Romance]]:
* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]:
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]:
* [[Meganekko]]:
* [[Motive Decay]]:
**
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Adette, when she's shown in her skin-tight uniform.
▲** Even more to the point, Asuham's whole "for my sister's honor" thing is very obviously an excuse to cover for his crippling inferiority complex and jealousy of Gain's skills, freedom, etc. This is hammered home when his sister shows up at the end and reveals to the audience that she got over Gain ages ago. Finding out how useless he is in the grand scheme of things, and how pathetic affairs of the world have gotten (as well as the general loopiness of the series and atmosphere) kinda has him go more and more off the deep-end as the series progresses, from a somewhat suave Char-esque expy to a raving lunatic and omnicidal, Freudian-Excuse driven maniac.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]:
** Reinforced in the next episode, when she realizes why her pilot-school classmates stopped showing up for class.
▲* [[My God, What Have I Done?]] (Cynthia's freakout when she finds out that [[This Is Reality]] and that smacking around King Gainer causes Gainer himself to actually get hurt.)
* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?|Oh God, Did He Just Hear That?]]:
:This gets played for greater laughs in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', where Gainer is joined by
* [["On the Next Episode of..." Catchphrase]]: "Overheat!" {{spoiler|Doubles as [[Foreshadowing]].}}
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Gainer and Cynthia. In the manga, Gainer and Sara are this as well. For now.
* [[The Power of Love]]: ({{spoiler|How Adette breaks Gauli free from his [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashing]]}},
** It's not really the 'power of love' in {{spoiler|Adette and Gauli's}} case, such as 'the power of a really hot chick kissing and coming on to you'. The power of lust,
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]:
* [[Real Robot]]:
* [[Rebellious Princess]]:
* [[Red Baron]] (Gain's nickname of the "Black Southern Cross", Gainer and Cynthia's online titles ("King" and "Queen", respectively).)▼
▲* [[Shapeshifting]] (The primary gimmick of the Dominators)
* [[Smug Snake]]:
▲* [[Shipper on Deck]] (Ana, for Gainer and Sara. Possibly Cynthia as well.)
▲* [[
▲* [[Smug Snake]] (Kashmir, {{spoiler|which makes his end by Gain's signature "Black Southern Cross" ''very'' satisfying}})
* [[Super Robot]]:
* [[Super Robot Wars]]:
* [[Terrible Trio]]:
* [[Time Stands Still]]:
* [[Weak but Skilled]]:
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]:
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]:
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** This is kind of extended to the entire leadership of the Yapan's Ceiling Exodus, specifically the
** The Overdevil also pulls one of these on many of the main cast members whilst possessing/assimilating Gainer in the last episodes, pointing out many of their flaws, "sins", and "crimes" (some accurate, some made up to act as psychological attacks) using their friend's face to weaken their resolve and play up their guilt.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Gainer disguises himself as
* [[You All Meet in a Cell]]: Well, Gain and Gainer meet in a cell. Gain's there because of the plan he's running; Gainer's there because [[Mistaken Identity|his name sounds like Gain's]].
* [[Younger Than They Look]]:
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